The Mental Funny Bone

Episode 30: I Appreciate Your Porn Mustache

• Gaster Girls • Season 3 • Episode 5

Share episode

Fan Mail Goes Here!!

Join Sarah and Chris on 'The Mental Funny Bone' as they embark on a journey from hearty laughter to heartfelt moments. They share non-expert mishaps in psychology, amusing misadventures involving UK-English mix-ups, and fond high school memories. The podcast also touches on the hosts' mental health struggles, recounting personal experiences with eating disorders and therapy. They reflect on meditation challenges, guided by insights from Dan Harris's '10% Happier,' and share dreams of a relaxing 'she shed.' With spontaneous humor, nostalgic banter, and inspiring mindfulness discussions, this episode offers a perfect blend of entertainment and introspection.

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!!

Additional Resources (Sports Related):
https://globalsportmatters.com/health/2020/12/04/mental-health-resources-2/

Sarah:

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Mental Funny Bone, Becoming the Gaster Girls. I'm Sarah. Woo!

Chris:

and, here we are again, and we didn't ruin the intro for,

Sarah:

you say we, you meant me,

Chris:

I meant I, I didn't ruin the intro by starting us off, using a swear word or, just forgetting that I had, kicked the show off. and then, and then ruining it. So I'm opening up our planner so I can look at our plan for 4 episodes ago.

Sarah:

Oh, okay. That's awesome. I email.

Chris:

oh, just to, just to remind everybody, we have no expertise in psychology. or mental health or brains. I, in fact, was

Sarah:

have an ex, you have expertise in brains. Oh, no, you're talking about,

Chris:

I have a brain. Um, I have a degree in statistics, which doesn't qualify me to tell you how to take care of, your, life in any way, shape, or form.

Sarah:

no. I have a degree in business. Yeah. Nope. No expertise. We know nothing.

Chris:

And yet here we are.

Sarah:

And you're still listening. Not sure what it says about you.

Chris:

guys, come on. if you're here for the comedy, I approve.

Sarah:

Got it.

Chris:

alright, so here's the thing about today. I realized that I can only sit in my office chair for a consecutive five hours before one of my, old aching joints starts to really hurt.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. I can do just a couple hours myself.

Chris:

Yeah, so today it's my knee. And I'll show you that knee on camera right there.

Sarah:

Oh, there it is. Look at that little tiny knee.

Chris:

Yeah, she's a bit, she's a bit sore.

Sarah:

sad.

Chris:

one thing that I want to mention, maybe when we do, maybe, maybe do catch up, I talked to my therapist about my eating disorder and I have, updates there. And I got feedback at work about my eating disorder.

Sarah:

don't we go ahead and get into things then, so we can get to that.

Chris:

okay. shall we talk about fan mail?'cause that's our first order of business.

Sarah:

Do it.

Chris:

my friend, from high school, Sarah b Sarah, k now because she went ahead and got married, right after high school. Crazy. so Sarah and I sat next to each other in science class and because it's been so long. Since I've talked to her or been in that science class. I can't remember if it was eighth grade or 10th grade. It was, it was definitely not freshman year, but it might've been freshman year. It might've been freshman biology where we,

Sarah:

We, we were taught, so were you cutting up frogs in this class?

Chris:

I can't remember if we were cutting up frogs cause I wasn't, it was an easy class and I wasn't paying a lot of attention, but I want to think that. That this was freshman biology where the smart kids got to get on a bus in the junior high or we got to go to the high school and have a Freshman biology at the high school and then we took a bus back to the junior high after pretty sure

Sarah:

I thought I had biology in, like eighth grade. I

Chris:

We had life sciences. They didn't call it biology. Anyway, i'm sure somebody That we had mrs. Adams. Her daughter was, was in my friend group and, I remember she was the teacher and I also remember that I didn't have to pay very much attention in the class. I think mostly cause Sarah did our labs and so shout out to her for doing the labs. I am just gonna, I'm gonna look at her email just real quick and make sure that I get everything right,

Sarah:

shout out even more to her just for listening and sending an email.

Chris:

right. If you guys want us to talk about you and how we know you, it's a good way. Um, our friend Sarah is, she's expressing a little bit of anxiety because she's flying for the first time since 2019. And I got to say, wow.

Sarah:

I'm assuming that she's probably flying home by now. What day did she send this?

Chris:

for, she's going to be there for four days and she sent this on Monday.

Sarah:

Okay. So she's still hanging

Chris:

there. She's still there. She's at a, she's at a fancy place, with a bunch of fancy executives doing fancy executive job stuff.

Sarah:

Xanax for the ride home. Xanax.

Chris:

my advice. In small talk, I recommend finding two or three funny, relatable stories and just telling them on repeat. One of my go tos when I first started, traveling was to, in showing up where I had to like make small talk and conversation was to tell people my funny story about the differences between, UK English and, American English. So we were, I'll tell you guys that story just to entertain. so Sarah, something like this. so I was in the UK for, For a big business meeting, big sales thing we were doing, and I was talking about how I was going to dress up for this important meeting and I was going to wear a skirt and not pants. So I said this multiple times, I'm wearing a skirt and not pants to many people and they kept calling more people into the room. for me to say that I was going to wear a skirt and not pants. And then they finally revealed the big joke, which was that pants in the UK are underwear,

Sarah:

Oh, so you're gonna wear a skirt and no underwears. yes.

Chris:

right? So that was, pants like I was talking about are apparently called trousers.

Sarah:

Trousers.

Chris:

And then I can't think of anything once you say trousers other than trouser snakes. So it's just what comes to

Sarah:

would you think of trouser snakes?

Chris:

It's just what comes to

Sarah:

Is that even a snake? What? Really?

Chris:

Yeah.

Sarah:

I think of like old men.

Chris:

Trousers.

Sarah:

their trousers.

Chris:

Great. You got your hands in your pocket. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But I think, having a, having a funny anecdote that, generally comes up while you're traveling about traveling is probably a good one. I'm also fond of telling the story where our, our dad's friend Freddy gets locked out of his hotel room while nude. That's a good one.

Sarah:

You should also share the one where he farted in the elevator.

Chris:

also good. I don't share that one mostly because I can't remember it while I'm traveling,

Sarah:

Such a good one.

Chris:

but there you go. so Sarah, that is my advice, just to have a couple pocket stories so that when things go quiet and you're like, so do you like trains or? that you have, you have something to fill your time. Do you like, do you like weather?

Sarah:

I like clouds.

Chris:

Bunnies are cute, right?

Sarah:

Squirrel.

Chris:

that. I also find that asking a question like what, so what books are you reading? Very helpful. Takes the focus off you, lets them yammer away. You don't even have to pay attention to the answer because then you just follow up with another question.

Sarah:

Question, question.

Chris:

so there you go. That is, that's how I do it. Um, Sarah says that our podcast hits home on many different levels, because, we're super funny and she grew up the same place we grew up. I will say that Sarah was also the person I would rent videos off of at the Giant Eagle, paydays, paydays, the one that used to be like a bowling alley or an ice skating rink. Like it had giant tall ceilings, if I remember correctly.

Sarah:

giant.

Chris:

This is the place where our mom would take us grocery shopping before we were allowed to stay home by ourselves. So I have many a memory.

Sarah:

Do you remember the grocery cart that flipped up? was there a time where they, we put the grocery cart at the end of the thing and just opened the thing and just, Do you know what I speak of?

Chris:

like the front of the cart was like a little gate. This?

Sarah:

but even, yeah. So I just thought of two different things because I remember like the whole cart thing, flipped up. Maybe I'm making that up, but I also remember like the end of it, you would lift it up and pull it down. Like you would just put it at the end of the, like there wasn't a belt.

Chris:

oh, I see what you're saying. I

Sarah:

do you know what I speak of? I feel like I need to Google historical shopping carts,

Chris:

so

Sarah:

classic shopping carts.

Chris:

I wish you guys, I wish you guys could see the YouTube video. Cause now I'm just going to stare at the camera and be like, so in case anyone is curious, attention deficit disorder has a symptom where you tunnel down into, ridiculous things like historical grocery carts.

Sarah:

Found it. I don't have ADD. Wait, found it. I found

Chris:

right. Cause this is what

Sarah:

80s fold up shopping cart.

Chris:

This is, I'm not even going to Google it cause this is not what we're here for today.

Sarah:

That's fine. I'm going to take a picture and send it to you.

Chris:

and, but because Sarah grew up the same place that, that we did, she's also friends with Jackie and Ed. So I think if nothing else, this podcast has helped me reconnect with people I knew in high school.

Sarah:

Yay.

Chris:

out of it, it's just that I can go back to Elizabeth forward now and be like, Hey, did we know each other when I was in high school? Cause I bet we did.

Sarah:

You can be in one of the gangs now.

Chris:

Yeah. Yeah. I could do that easily. probably not going to, but I could, so Sarah,

Sarah:

gang.

Chris:

you were in a gang, you,

Sarah:

I was not in a gang. no gangs.

Chris:

I beg to differ because I think we got a, we got an email from Heather Schaefer, Heather Kyle, used to be Heather Kyle, and, she filled us in on the tic tacking, tic tacking details. And,

Sarah:

she?

Chris:

yeah, she refers to it.

Sarah:

get the email.

Chris:

It's on Messenger, Facebook Messenger, because we told her to, any way you can get us that

Sarah:

Okay. Yeah.

Chris:

So

Sarah:

do

Chris:

lash out, don't lash out.

Sarah:

I'm not, I'm just saying I didn't see it

Chris:

She says that the Blaine Hill gang did this every night in October,

Sarah:

every night. Did she ex, did she explain how you get the corn off the cob.

Chris:

I'm gonna, I'm gonna just open up Facebook, open up the Facebooks and, and see what her message says, because I saw it come through and I was, super excited. the Blaine Hill gang did this nightly in October. she doesn't tell us the mechanics, she's simply bragging that she knows them. Heather,

Sarah:

It's on Blaine Hill Kids. That's what it is. I could tell. I could tell just from that one time I met her. I knew it. I knew she was a tic tac er.

Chris:

In a gang. In a gang. so there you go. Sarah, Thank you so much for reaching out. And Sarah does say that, she really likes what we're doing and trying to normalize the fact that, everyone at some point feels like their brain doesn't work like normal, and I think the more I understand brains and therapy and all of this, that I'm really going to be hard pressed to find somebody who's normal, the people that I think were our normal, every time we talk about something, I'm like, Oh yeah. You aren't normal either.

Sarah:

No. No.

Chris:

Oh, and, not necessarily fan mail related, but we are putting out a new episode of Bare Bones Banter on Friday. you guys can look forward to that if I get my shit together today. So, still a bit debatable.

Sarah:

I was gonna say, did you send that?

Chris:

No, I didn't.

Sarah:

Oh, got you both covered on the mechanics of tic tac ing. You know the Blaine Oh, okay. I see it now.

Chris:

That's it. so Sarah, thank you. we really appreciate the fan mail and that's why we talk about every email that we get for 15 minutes.

Sarah:

Yep.

Chris:

We like to hear from you guys. It makes me happy. I'm trying to think of other feedback or places, that the podcast came up this week. And, I got nothing. it was a pretty crazy weekend for me. I was in San Diego.

Sarah:

Yeah, I don't have anything.

Chris:

no more fan mail, because then we'll just move up, move on to the weekly catch up corner.

Sarah:

Yeah, that sounds good.

Chris:

Not like the Heinz catch up, the regular catch up.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

I don't even know what happened last week, because it feels like 800 years ago.

Sarah:

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Chris:

how was your week? did you do the playoff soccer game? Because I know last week we were talking about playoff soccer games. How was that?

Sarah:

we lost, three to two, but we really lost three to one because one of our goals was scored by the other team. Like it was a really rough one too. It wasn't like it just bounced off of him at a wrong angle. He was passing it back. Yeah. And it was the first goal of the game

Chris:

Oh,

Sarah:

and everybody was cheering and I was just standing there in shock and heartbreak. I was like, I don't, I can't even.

Chris:

you guys can't cheer.

Sarah:

cheer. Oh my God. And then I, all I could think was, I, we have to score five more goals to make sure that this kid doesn't think that this is his fault. Oh my God. and it turns out they played better than us anyway, and they scored three goals. So it's fine. We scored another goal. We played well, we played okay. our last two games that we played really well and had that team showed up. I think that we would have continued on, but, yeah, it was an up and down season for us. So there we are. Yeah. Tonight as we speak, Moon is playing someone. Who are they playing? Hampton. They're playing Hampton. excited to see the result of that. I wanted to go watch it, but that didn't work out.

Chris:

Oh

Sarah:

the result, but I'm fine with that because parents are fucking crazy, and I'm, I was actually glad that our season, and I shouldn't say that's terrible, but I'm just done. I'm done with the parents. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done.

Chris:

yeah, get it. I get it. I think David's hollering hello, but I'm not sure because I have my headphones on. So the good news is I'll be able to edit that out.

Sarah:

Okay. Good. Good.

Chris:

so in San Diego, I ran into an old friend of mine from college and we were talking about the podcast and she was talking about how she went to, Oh, now I forget which, school she went to, but we played them in, high school soccer. So she's probably a year younger than me, two years younger than me. Makes her two years older than you. and she remembers the fact that we did not care much about the technical aspects of the game, but that we would kill you. she's I think I remember the one girl wearing a leather jacket standing behind the bus smoking, while in full uniform before coming onto the field. I was like, yeah, she was

Sarah:

Cause Rick Z was at our game. Yeah. Rick Z was at our game and I don't, I forget how we started talking about it, but I think that I mentioned how your team was like rugby players.

Chris:

prefer to think of them as misdirected youth.

Sarah:

That's also what they call rugby players.

Chris:

Oh, also, not to belabor my reels fascination, but in a delightful, Turn of events. Somehow every third or fourth reel is, international rugby teams.

Sarah:

Oh, wow.

Chris:

Right, And I very much appreciate international rugby. The thighs. The

Sarah:

was just going to say that's a lot. That's a lot of quad. It's a lot of quad going on there.

Chris:

Is the quad the front one or the back one? Hamstring is the back

Sarah:

Ham Hammy's in the back. The quad is the front.

Chris:

right? Can never keep it straight.

Sarah:

a lot of it. A lot of it.

Chris:

I don't care if it's the front or the back. These guys have muscles on the sides that I didn't even know were things and the connection point between the thigh, like where the hip flexors are, for some reason this one guy had his shorts all hiked up and I was like

Sarah:

the groin?

Chris:

no, not the inside part, like the outside part, like on the front of the

Sarah:

Okay.

Chris:

There's a muscle there. And I was like, who, I don't think I've ever seen or, dated anyone who had that muscle.

Sarah:

Interesting.

Chris:

Yeah. Um, it, it appears to be a sport, full of,

Sarah:

Excuse me.

Chris:

just dynamic personalities, everyone's got a porn mustache. I don't know.

Sarah:

Yeah, I feel like that's everybody who's under the age of 30 these

Chris:

That's how I tell the young ones. I'm like, Oh, I appreciate your porn mustache. You must be 24.

Sarah:

they have some ridiculous facial hair thing that's going on.

Chris:

So what are you doing?

Sarah:

Yeah,

Chris:

I can tell people of our generation cause they just have the one little, tuft of hair below the bottom lip.

Sarah:

Oh, yeah?

Chris:

sometimes, do you remember, Fred Durst? He was in a band. We don't know him. That's the band. We didn't go to high school with him.

Sarah:

Oh yeah. Good old Freddy.

Chris:

He was in Mrs. Masick's class.

Sarah:

Sheesh.

Chris:

Oddly enough, good friends with Ray Vittori.

Sarah:

Now I have Olympus gets on my head.

Chris:

Break shit, I believe is what it's called. so yeah. Face tonight. Yeah, good tune. Good tune.

Sarah:

Yes.

Chris:

yeah, so that's my update about the rugby playing reels, and if you can get that in your algorithm, highly recommend. it's just a good way to learn the mechanics of the game and, have a greater

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

looks like. Très bien.

Sarah:

Awesome. I like it.

Chris:

in other news, I was at the zoo. And I saw a polar bear paw,

Sarah:

Just the paw.

Chris:

just the paw, he was sleeping on a rock, he was hidden behind

Sarah:

but he was attached to it. Okay, that's

Chris:

yeah, no, the whole polar bear was there, but all you could see was the

Sarah:

big paw. I bet it looked like so much, cuddly.

Chris:

It looked like a rock and he looked real, I don't know that they brush him or they like give him a bath too often, but he looked like his whole, his whole look like a rock. Like he just looked like dirty. dirty fur, still loved

Sarah:

like that. I don't like that for him.

Chris:

in the Uber on the way to the zoo, David and I were talking to our, Uber driver and we got him to agree to help us kidnap an otter.

Sarah:

Oh, that's good.

Chris:

Yeah. the only problem with that plan is that I did not see any of the otters. They were all busy. They had apparently someone, I believe the Uber driver tipped them

Sarah:

Told them. Yeah.

Chris:

Tipped off the otters. The otters hid from me. All day.

Sarah:

Bastards.

Chris:

All day. I did see a panda though, so you don't see a panda every day.

Sarah:

did you see monkey wieners?

Chris:

no, the monkeys were exceedingly well behaved.

Sarah:

Oh, wow. Interesting. That's disappointing.

Chris:

I know, right?

Sarah:

Normally they're just swinging around with their wieners, flapping around.

Chris:

I will tell you that we couldn't stand in front of any of the monkey exhibits for very long because David's we got to move because they could throw their poop this far.

Sarah:

Oh, yeah. All right.

Chris:

so luckily we didn't get hit with any monkey feces.

Sarah:

Yes, I love the word feces.

Chris:

It's not one of my favorites. And we, I don't know if you can see on the back of my phone, but I did join, San Diego's, number one Steelers club.

Sarah:

Oh, good. That's good.

Chris:

Yeah, that's, we watched the game at a Steeler bar. And if, if any of you guys have done that, the level of enthusiasm at a non Pittsburgh Steeler bar, like a Steeler bar, that's not in Pittsburgh.

Sarah:

A remote stealer bar.

Chris:

you go. Exactly. Wow. these guys brought the energy. they had a DJ and he was spinning like Donnie Iris. They played that

Sarah:

He was just playing Renegade.

Chris:

We had to beg him. We had to beg him to play Renegade. Yeah.

Sarah:

been there. Play Renegade!

Chris:

And they had a special on a, a beer tower. So this was like 128 ounces of Bud Light.

Sarah:

it should be Iron City. Fail.

Chris:

can't get it. I talked to the, oddly enough, David befriended the, leader. of the club. no, not the leader of drink serving the leader of the San Diego, Steeler club. So he gave us free t shirts. David's like, where did you grow up? And he's Florida and David's what?

Sarah:

doesn't, why?

Chris:

He was like, oh, my relatives, grew up in Sharon, Pennsylvania. And I was like, Still, they played that polka song. Do you know the S I think we are the Pittsburgh Steelers, And David and I were clapping cause we had a couple of soda pops by then. And, no one knew the words except us.

Sarah:

Oh Wow, I mean

Chris:

we did clap in and yeah, there were, there was a nice mishmash of people. there was like a biker gang table. There

Sarah:

and your fucking gangs

Chris:

I'm just telling I'm just calling it. Like I see it. There was a biker gang table. there was a table of, young men who were dressed in overalls, plaid, stealer overalls with no shirts on,

Sarah:

Yeah, Jason Kelce style, yeah.

Chris:

right. And, and

Sarah:

I would have been hanging out with them.

Chris:

they didn't want to hang out with us. They were perfectly

Sarah:

out with me.

Chris:

now they were perfectly self contained in their little group and, they all had, hats on it that said play renegade.

Sarah:

Yeah, they would have been my favorite. They would not have wanted me to hang out with them and I would have been so pissed off about it. I would have been so mad

Chris:

You'd be like, guys,

Sarah:

I could see me getting stuck yeah, I would have got stuck on them.

Chris:

Delightful. There was a, there was also a group of young kids who had, obviously spent the last three days drinking

Sarah:

Oh, that's a good one. Thank you.

Chris:

and kept ordering

Sarah:

have a, I'll just have a plate of bacon.

Chris:

Right. the, sorry, the bar, had a special on pierogies. So you could order pierogies

Sarah:

course.

Chris:

and, a kielbasa sandwich, which I didn't get.

Sarah:

Thank

Chris:

I had to go to, I had to go to a work meeting the next day.

Sarah:

that would have been bad news.

Chris:

so that is my, that's my weekly catch up. I also then took a red eye, which I think is a great idea until I take the red eye.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't even, I haven't taken a red eye since I lived in Arizona. So what, 20 years? I'm not even, I don't, I have no clue how I would survive that right now. I wouldn't. I'd sleep for two days straight.

Chris:

Then everything hurts. You don't, I don't get home until noon because there's no direct flight. So it's not like the red eye, sorry. It's not like the red eye ends up in Pittsburgh. It ends up in Charlotte. And then I'm walking around looking like a cast member from, the walking dead.

Sarah:

yeah, that's bad. No, if you're doing a red eye, you gotta get, it's gotta be direct.

Chris:

it's a terrible, horrible idea. so I feel two days later I'm caught up on my sleep,

Sarah:

good,

Chris:

very successful weekend, very successful business shit happened. So we're gonna give, we're gonna give that a thumbs up.

Sarah:

good.

Chris:

coughing here in a minute.

Sarah:

Okay. All right. Saturday we went to a, a Halloween party. I will, I'll send you a picture of Noah. The Halloween party was at his brother, Danny's house. Danny's the youngest. So they're like, I wish I knew how old,

Chris:

30s?

Sarah:

sure. Early, very early thirties. They're young. They're young. and Noah dressed like Jack Burton from Big Trouble Little China.

Chris:

Kurt Russell?

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So can you guess how many people knew who he was?

Chris:

Nobody. They were like, Big Trouble in Little China? What, is that a political movie? Is that a documentary?

Sarah:

Yeah. I just sent you the picture of him. it's horrific and he's going to listen to this so he will hear it. It's, It's,

Chris:

Oh my god. Is that why he tried to FaceTime me on Saturday?

Sarah:

Yeah. Cause he was drunk and he wanted to tell you how not fun I was when I was sober because it was, it's Halloween around here and I'm assuming it's Halloween everywhere, but,

Chris:

just

Sarah:

they're doing some DUI checkpoints and whatnot. So I didn't want to drink. Yeah. Yeah. So he basically spent the whole time just walking around talking to people he didn't know who were much younger than him and trying to explain who he was. And then once he explained who he was, he would just. spout off lines, like all of a sudden because he told people who he was that they knew the lines from the movie.

Chris:

Could you imagine your dad going to a party in our teen years dressed

Sarah:

Yep.

Chris:

I don't know, I can't even think of a good movie from their generation. as James Dean from Rebel Without a Cause.

Sarah:

Yeah. So that was Saturday. turns out I don't really like being sober at parties. I did take a seat in the corner and just laugh at everyone. So that worked out well. hung out with aunt Kara.

Chris:

so I get in the Lyft on the way home from our dinner on Saturday night, and I see that Noah has called and FaceTimed me. And for, three seconds. I was like, Obviously my sister's dead. That's why Noah's calling me. And then I was like, no, he would have called twice. He would have at least left a message.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. I'm assuming that's why he was calling. Cause he wanted to complain about how I'm not, I wasn't being fun.

Chris:

All right, fun Bobby.

Sarah:

Or throw like Jack Burton quotes at you. I don't know.

Chris:

I wouldn't have liked either

Sarah:

you wouldn't have known.

Chris:

I'd have been like, I, the movie was on

Sarah:

I was

Chris:

I've seen it.

Sarah:

I was getting ready and he came in and was like trying to talk like Jack Burton, good old Jack Burton says or something like that. I was like, no, just stop. He said, that's mean and I was like, I know, but you need to save it. You need to save it for all the kids at the party. So yeah, that's So what we did Saturday,

Chris:

you dressed as?

Sarah:

after our game, that was after the loss, I was a scarecrow.

Chris:

Aww, so cute.

Sarah:

my scarecrow fingernails?

Chris:

oh, you have patchwork fingernails. Aww,

Sarah:

Yeah. It was very cute. It was something I had in my closet, so it worked out. It worked out well. so we did that then, yeah, Sunday, Owen had deck hockey game. He had soccer practice, his buddy, Michael S that,

Chris:

S. Yes.

Sarah:

yeah, he got in another fight and he's been suspended for 10 games. I think they have 10 games in a season maybe? So he's suspended for this season and next season, which is a year from now. So I'm not really sure. but Noah said the kid that he beat the shit out of was being a dick. I guess he didn't beat the shit. he knocked his helmet off. So yeah, he got into a fight at the game before two games before that, but that one, like I was there, so I witnessed it and the kid literally was like, what are you going to do about it? And he was like, I'll show you.

Chris:

Fuck around and find out, my friend.

Sarah:

And Michael does something with the weights because he's a strong dude.

Chris:

dude.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

does, he knows what a quad is.

Sarah:

yeah. so there's that. And, other than that, I'll go ahead and make everybody sad,

Chris:

Okay,

Sarah:

sorry, but if you live in the area, you heard about, a gentleman who was stabbed and killed on the Montour Trail on Monday, and, That gentleman lives down the street in the neighborhood from us and, he has left behind a wife and two girls. And the reason I really bring it up to our listeners, is because we're going to share in the show notes, some links, Christine, I said to, I sent them to you. There is a link, for GoFundMe page for his wife and the girls and also a mail train, which I think the mail train might be, We might have that all covered, but we're going to throw those up, if you have a, you have something to give. it would be nice to do that, support, Sarah and the girls and mostly wanted to give a shout out to Ryan and Shauna, our listeners,

Chris:

Oh, a fan mail fame. Great.

Sarah:

fan mail fame, Ryan and Shauna, they are very close friends with this family and, it's been a horrific ordeal. Just completely and totally senseless and tragic. So, just, I don't know. Shauna and Ryan, I want to give a shout out to you guys, because I want you guys to remember that you need to take care of yourselves, too. And I love the fact that you're going to support Sarah and those girls. To the end of the world and back and I love that. I love that you guys are so awesome And I want you to do that But I also want you to remember that you guys need to take care of yourselves, too. So love you guys and Shitty situation, but that's where we are

Chris:

You remember you have to put your oxygen mask on first before you help anyone next to you.

Sarah:

right yeah,

Chris:

All right, what else you got for Weekly Catch Up Corner?

Sarah:

that's it. Oh,

Chris:

I also am gonna, throw this out there that it is, it's Halloween and I am gonna watch every episode of the Halloween Baking Championship this

Sarah:

yes. Oh, I watched the last two.

Chris:

while Olivia and I are together in Raleigh. Olivia is playing two games, So, she plays Saturday and then she plays on Wednesday, so I'm going to go down for both of those games. And that should round out the, William Peace Pacers season.

Sarah:

Amen.

Chris:

big, big shout out to the Pacers for the 4 1 win last night. Way to

Sarah:

Nice.

Chris:

Way to go. roommate Mia scored, scored a goal, so

Sarah:

Oh, good.

Chris:

She's back from the injury. She's on fire. alright, so let's get, Let's get into the Growing Up Gaster story of the week.

Sarah:

What are we going with?

Chris:

I thought you had something, that wasn't necessarily us related. Something to do with Jared and

Sarah:

part. It's the, it's a lee part story. It's the, removal of the gallbladder.

Chris:

Ah.

Sarah:

me to share that one?

Chris:

I love it. Yes, please.

Sarah:

All right.

Chris:

we're gonna throw it in because we're eventually gonna run out of Gasters. There's only so much stuff that's happened to us.

Sarah:

Yeah. This is just a leap heart story. so we're getting into some friends of ours this weekend, Jared and Michelle. And, Jared had recently had emergency gallbladder surgery, and we were chatting about that. He's recovering. He's doing well. Yay. Jared. take this as a test to see if he listens. Pretty sure he doesn't. But Jared, if you do, gastergirls at gmail. com. Give us a shout out. Let us know you're listening. Pretty sure you don't even know we have a podcast. Michelle's the one who told me to put the story in it, so she knows we at least have a podcast. anyway, so Noah had his gallbladder removed approximately nine years ago. I think Owen was in first grade. I don't know. Doesn't matter. doesn't have a gallbladder. But we go in, and Owen was in elementary school, and Noah's in surgery for a bit longer than I had expected. like a lot longer and nobody's telling me anything. I have to leave the area to go call mommy and daddy to see if they can pick up Owen because I should, we should have been home by now. And then, Noah's boss called me and I was like, I did the, they're not telling me anything. He's not out yet. I don't know what's going on. I think he's dead. Blah, blah, blah. He's dead. They come out and they, They call me into the room where they tell you that your loved one has died.

Chris:

What?

Sarah:

Yeah. They call me into that little room and, the doctor walks in and I'm like, what's going on? It's it's okay. He's fine. I was like, okay. As long as he's alive. Okay. that's cool. He's yeah, just, it was a little bit rough. It took us a little bit longer. than we had expected. So I have a couple prescriptions here for you to take home for Noah. They're very important. You need to follow them word for word.

Chris:

Wait. So you're in the room where they tell you your relative has,

Sarah:

Yeah. I'm in the death room,

Chris:

and, but he's

Sarah:

but he's alive. He's okay. But we have very specific. Yeah. I'm still having a heart attack because I think he's dead. Yeah.

Chris:

and he's maimed, he's paralyzed, like something bad is still going on.

Sarah:

It was bad. We're still good. We're gonna have a lot of rehab to do. I don't know. Which saying that and then knowing the end of the story is really funny. but anyway, so He hands over the prescription and I'm like, I'll do whatever I'll do. That's fine. I'll do whatever. It's fine He hands over the prescription and I read it and it says Noah is to receive Daily blowjobs. That's what it says On the prescription pad. That's the prescription. Daily.

Chris:

daily,

Sarah:

Generic accepted.

Chris:

generic accepted,

Sarah:

Oh yeah. Refills. Endless.

Chris:

unlimited.

Sarah:

Yep. the doctor handed me this prescription. I went, fuck you.

Chris:

like,

Sarah:

I just, I looked at him and said, fuck you. I thought he was dead. I thought he was dead. And then I took a breath and laughed and I was like, fucking funny though, man. probably the funniest thing my husband's ever done.

Chris:

so did they concoct this prescription, before?

Sarah:

Prior. Yeah. This is Noah. 100%.

Chris:

did he say, hey, I'm gonna be, I would just like to take a really long nap, so if you could just keep her out there. That'd be great.

Sarah:

Yeah. no, they didn't concoct that. It really was a longer surgery. Like that whole thing was legit.

Chris:

Oh, I was like,

Sarah:

It did take a lot longer. No, that was, that

Chris:

that is elaborate.

Sarah:

no. They just concocted the prescription. the surgery was a little bit rough and it took a little bit longer than I expected. It was, he had a really bad gallbladder and it didn't want to come out. It really liked it in there. It's Oh, and nice and warm in here.

Chris:

I'm good.

Sarah:

it was just the prescription was. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris:

Nice. Excellent.

Sarah:

wow, that's, and it, when I started laughing, it was like, played. that's probably the funniest thing that he's ever done. That's actually hysterical. The doctor was like, Oh, thank God. When you first said, fuck you. I thought you were really mad. I was like, I was, but now I'm fine. this is, this shit's fucking hysterical and will be framed.

Chris:

right. Do you still have it? Is it framed?

Sarah:

No, I'm sure Noah does. I have no clue where it is. We're gonna put it in a shadow box.

Chris:

just in case he needs it.

Sarah:

Yeah, you could take it somewhere else. No, go ahead. See, go find somebody that'll fill that shit.

Chris:

Generic. my God, Mr. One Seven could probably take it to Waynesburg University's campus and see what would happen.

Sarah:

I bet they have a place that'll fill it there for sure.

Chris:

They have sororities at Waynesburg? I don't know.

Sarah:

Not a clue. Not a clue. So there you go. That's the Leigh Part story of the week.

Chris:

that is an amazing story. Here's what you do, doc. I could just picture the conversation at the beginning. hey, how do you feel about doing this? And the doctor's medical license?

Sarah:

He was like, I think that's fantastic.

Chris:

Who needs it?

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

Alright, let's get into, some mental health stuff. So I'll give you, the update. on me talking to the therapist about my eating disorder. And I will let you know that I am 10 pounds heavier than when I showed up at that lunch or dinner with Jackie and Ed and you, told me I look like a skeleton.

Sarah:

Yes. I like it. I like it.

Chris:

Yeah, I look, much more reasonable.

Sarah:

Yes.

Chris:

this, I still have these bones here, but they're supposed to be there. They're fine.

Sarah:

yeah. I

Chris:

bones. They hold, they hold the rest of everything together. Emily and I were talking about how I would have lost weight before, taking the drugs. And I told her I would have really knuckled down and counted the calories. I would have kept a very obsessive, food diary for about four days. And if I was really serious, I would have done it for maybe two or three weeks, and I would have lost three pounds,

Sarah:

I was just, that's the exact number I was gonna go with.

Chris:

right? I would have spent two or three weeks investing hours of time. I would have weighed myself probably not just once a day, but two or three times a

Sarah:

Every time you went to the bathroom.

Chris:

right? I'd have been like, come on. I would have been, angry and tired and felt like shit. for that three weeks and then I would have just given up and cried and

Sarah:

And went to McDonald's and got a penguin power pack and ate it all yourself.

Chris:

Yep. Yep.

Sarah:

just saying what I might have done.

Chris:

having done that, ten, twenty times throughout my life? Yes. This is exactly what would have happened. And it got so much worse, the older I got. Because you really, I really could not do anything to move the scale other than not fucking eating. And, so she and I talked a little bit about how unhealthy that is to, be the kind of person who has to obsessively write down every single thing that, that you're taking into your body and, how hard it is when you travel to tell a restaurant, Hey, could you give me a three ounce, piece of chicken breast? Don't let it touch any oil. Back there and also if you could just fill the plate with whatever vegetable you're preparing with nothing, but the vegetable Like you, you can't do it. we talked about how unhealthy that would have been to, to try to do it. And, we talked about how, now that I was at a nice, goal weight that it isn't a, it isn't a competition and it isn't a sport and you're not better at dieting if you weigh less and less. it isn't, you're not showing your competitiveness or your success by continuing to lose weight beyond the point at which you are healthy.

Sarah:

Right.

Chris:

So we talked about maybe I just don't need to weigh myself every day.

Sarah:

God, I'd never weigh myself.

Chris:

every day, Every day I get on the scale. I'm trying not to do it as, as much cause I don't really need to. Like I have a lot of clothes that fit. I have a lot of things that look nice on me. I don't have to, worry and stress out about walking around the zoo.

Sarah:

Mm hmm. Sometimes it's just I just want to know how much my poop weighs. So I'll weigh myself before I take a poop and then after I take a

Chris:

no, you don't do you

Sarah:

Maybe.

Chris:

you're such a weirdo.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

I think that and what I told her is the same thing that I told you guys the last time that just thinking about it and talking about the potential for me being, me being, having a bad relationship with food, probably means that I'm not going to have a bad relationship with food. there's

Sarah:

You're

Chris:

normal. Normal people get to eat McDonald's every once in a while, normal people get to have ice cream, and normal people don't beat themselves up because they had McDonald's or ice cream.

Sarah:

I could go for some McDonald's chicken nuggies.

Chris:

so good, like 20 of them and a giant basket of fries.

Sarah:

of fries,

Chris:

this is the unhealthy part, where I can't just have a chicken nugget and a couple of fries. I'm like, I would

Sarah:

I can now.

Chris:

I can,

Sarah:

I'd order 20. eat five of them. Yeah.

Chris:

for dinner tonight. Cause it was a busy day. I ordered a large pizza for me and David and cheese sticks and a salad. I was like, we should have some vegetables. I'm going to order a salad. What? What? When it showed up, David's are we getting company?

Sarah:

is it? Who is this for?

Chris:

we're leaving. Friday to go to Raleigh. if you want to rob our house, we're going to be in Raleigh

Sarah:

Yeah, I might

Chris:

all weekend.

Sarah:

Feed the cats while you're there.

Chris:

that is that. Yeah. If you guys could check on the cats and just send me a picture of them, that'd be great. I need to know they're okay. do break in. so I got some feedback from someone that I had worked with, like a year ago and hadn't seen until we got on a call today and she was like, Holy shit. Where did you go?

Sarah:

little bit less of you.

Chris:

a fourth grader.

Sarah:

yeah.

Chris:

So I am going, I'm going to stop telling people that I cheated because I definitely didn't cheat.

Sarah:

You didn't cheat.

Chris:

I am going to encourage people to, talk to your doctor about ways that you can participate in weight loss programs that are good and healthy and, thinking about all of the tools as ways to lose weight, and not that this one is cheating or that one is cheating. So I think we can, I think we can put a. a little bow on that box and Kind of put it over there with the recycling because it's

Sarah:

dump it out and put it over the empty place. Yeah.

Chris:

So that box

Sarah:

it for the next thing.

Chris:

is all dealt with I feel really good about it. So there you

Sarah:

Good.

Chris:

That is also my scary my scary revelation about me doing shit in therapy I also went into my therapy session last week thinking I wouldn't have anything to talk about

Sarah:

It's always how it goes. Always how it goes.

Chris:

She's that's our hour. I was like what?

Sarah:

Excuse me? No.

Chris:

Don't you talk to me like that?

Sarah:

No.

Chris:

No, so there you go. what do you got, mental health stuff? Or is it just 10 percent happier now?

Sarah:

No, I've been meditating.

Chris:

how's it going? It's hard, huh? Yeah, it's hard.

Sarah:

Yeah, it's really fucking hard. It's we've said that we've said that we're going to continue to say it I will say it over and over again. It's really stupid hard really stupid hard, but I think i'm grasping it a little bit better now. So it's a little bit better I'm, actually doing a peloton program So 10 minutes a day, and I'm laying down, I'm not sitting, which I might be breaking a rule, but I've been told there's no rules. because sitting, I feel like, is, it just doesn't, I'm supposed to be relaxed and calm, but Then I'm trying to stand up straight and then stretch and breathe and it just doesn't, then I'm all worried that I'm sitting wrong. So if I just go like a jellyfish and lay down, I find that works best for me.

Chris:

Great. I don't think there are any rules.

Sarah:

there's definitely not. I am getting Look, how could, how can I say it? Like I'm doing it for 10 minutes. I don't really feel like I'm getting, 10 minutes of a solid meditation out of it, but I don't, I'm still trying to figure out what solid meditation is. but I can tell you when I open my eyes, it's going to sound real fucking weird. But for the last two days, it's happened. I've opened my eyes and been like, Oh wow. I don't even know how to explain the wow. But it's just like I open my eyes and it's a whole, it's a whole body feeling and it's a whole body feeling and there's a nice breath that goes with it and I don't open my eyes and go, Oh God, I have to go back to fucking hell of life. Like it's, yeah, I don't know how to explain it. nothing earth shattering or anything like that, but it's a feeling, it's a feeling and it's a calm, very. awesome feeling thus far. So the past two days I've had that eye opening, coming back to reality in a much calmer state. So I'm doing something. My favorite line that I read from Dan Harris this week is, about meditation. And the point is not to achieve some sort of perfection. It's to show up. And do the practice. And over time, interesting things might happen.

Chris:

Yes. I think that's what we talked about pretty extensively last week. Last, bleh.

Sarah:

Last week.

Chris:

week, right? You just have to put in, same thing with exercising, right? you don't, Nobody comes along and says, hey, good job, your blood pressure is a lot lower. nobody comes along and says, oh my god, look at the size of your bicep right now. Look how,

Sarah:

not magic.

Chris:

no, it's not any different than it was at the beginning of the workout, but you did the workout in the hopes that continuing to be consistent about doing the workout will yield you the results that you want. I think meditation is the same thing. Like you're not going to, you're not going to, and I think you're going to have a different varying degrees of success depending on the day. Like today I sat down for 140 seconds and that's about it. That's what I

Sarah:

There you go. Yeah. There was 140 seconds. That's

Chris:

I was like, no, this isn't happening today.

Sarah:

I haven't done it yet today, so I'll be meditating right before I go to bed, which I feel like is a good idea.

Chris:

Yeah. I think, Oh, it may be

Sarah:

and there's different types of meditation. So I've done breathing and

Chris:

To do body scan. I like the body

Sarah:

body scan is what I did yesterday. Today, tonight will be, I think visualizations, I think.

Chris:

Ooh. I visualize the shit out of things. before my meeting on Monday.

Sarah:

Yeah, I'm, I like the visualizations. I like, I just like the fact that I have finally learned that it's not about emptying your brain of everything. It's about taking the thoughts that you have, processing them, checking in with your body and how your body reacts to those thoughts and then going on to the next one.

Chris:

right,

Sarah:

what I envision.

Chris:

here is the thought that, that popped in to my brain while I was meditating, maybe yesterday. So I can hear the cat fountain while I'm meditating. And, it's like calm, relaxing water fountain noise. and what I started thinking about was maybe we should build a waterfall for the kitties, like in the living room. what's the Frank Lloyd Wright, property

Sarah:

Falling water.

Chris:

falling water, right? falling water style. Like we just have a waterfall for the kitties. And then I noodled on that for about. a minute of my meditation before I was like, hey,

Sarah:

I think it's a good idea. And you can use that for your own meditating too, is to sit behind the waterfall. Cause that's something that Dan Harris talks about is being behind the waterfall. Like you're behind your thoughts.

Chris:

I was like, all that's a good one Write that down in things I thought about while meditating. I know this doesn't belong in mental health, but maybe it does my she shed Is getting delivered tomorrow.

Sarah:

I'm super excited. So where's this she shed going?

Chris:

it is going halfway, where the shed is that looks down on the swimming pool. it's going next to that. So I have a nice view of the vista, farms and, fall and

Sarah:

will be so excited that there's a view of a Vista that's what you have, he'll be so proud of you.

Chris:

It's got a little porch so I can sit on the porch and watch the vista. It's got like a little gravel driveway, not for cars or anything, but eventually for the golf cart I'm going to have to go from one door to the other door

Sarah:

Oh, I love it.

Chris:

and I have to get a new cat carrier because the cats are going to have to come up and work in the she shed with me.

Sarah:

So the she shed is going to become your actual office.

Chris:

Yeah, actually my house. I mean, it is, it's, 12 feet by 24 feet and, I need about,

Sarah:

That's a nice

Chris:

three feet from my office. So it's also gonna be my, yoga studio

Sarah:

Yeah,

Chris:

and my

Sarah:

I love it. Is it Amish built?

Chris:

I don't know because, because we lucked into, this she shed purchase, in that David has been looking on Facebook Marketplace, men in their fifties. Are likely to do, hiking up the cargo shorts, sliding into those white, New Balance tennis shoes.

Sarah:

Yep.

Chris:

Looking in Facebook marketplace for things for his wife. and this, this shed is already put together. It's already insulated. It's already got the right kind of windows. so essentially we just have to pay a dude to move it from where it is to, to our place. so I got twice the she shed I wanted, for half the price. And I don't know how David does that shit all the time. He has so much patience. it comes to looking at things on Facebook market, like

Sarah:

okay,

Chris:

not with people, but he, maybe it's not patience. Maybe it's more of a focus. Like he will just focus on, exactly what needs to happen until he, he finds one selling what he wants for cheap. I will tell you that I had to answer the question, Hey, do you think this is a scam? 814 times. Yes.

Sarah:

that, I love

Chris:

My answer is always yes. Hey, do you think this is a scam? Absolutely. Hey, this guy friended me and then, posted a picture of Olivia. I'm like, unfriend him, block him, and report him, please.

Sarah:

yeah,

Chris:

so yeah, she shed and I think that fits into mental health because that'll be,

Sarah:

your meditation chat.

Chris:

my own little space. It's got, it's gonna have a little, pellet stove fireplace in there.

Sarah:

I like

Chris:

you're welcome to come up and hang out with my fluffy pink and gold pillows.

Sarah:

I

Chris:

In my meditation space.

Sarah:

I cannot wait.

Chris:

It's going to be amazing. We'll have sleepover parties.

Sarah:

It's going to be a bigger than your apartment behind mommy and daddy's.

Chris:

It is, it's actually bigger than my first apartment.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

The one I had in, not my first one. the one I had in Scottsdale

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

done that, like the butt of the camel. That apartment. Yeah, it'll be, it's definitely bigger than that camel ass apartment. I think that was the name of the complex.

Sarah:

What road do you live on? Camel ass. Yeah.

Chris:

ass estates. I'm in building F. All right. Dan Harris and 10 percent happier. what are we on? 6th and happier. Oh, I'm from the Midwest now.

Sarah:

I did not, I only got into chapter six. I didn't get all the way through even chapter six. but he's, this is where he's talking about going to the retreat.

Chris:

Oh, this was my favorite chapter. This was my favorite chapter because I was like, how?

Sarah:

No. So what I propose that you actually read it again. And we talk about it next week. Okay.

Chris:

think that sounds like a plan. I will be podcasting from the road again next week. So

Sarah:

Okay. Perfect. and I think, we're at like an hour now.

Chris:

I end up with a little mini boner this week.

Sarah:

That's what I said. Anyway, it was gonna be a little mini boner. It's been a week. It's been a

Chris:

Happy Halloween, because we won't see, we won't, we won't do one of these podcasts before Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween.

Sarah:

actually next Thursday is Halloween. So we should be releasing the episode after this

Chris:

oh, never mind then. Fuck you.

Sarah:

So fuck your Halloween. We'll get to that when we get to it.

Chris:

I am, I think for next week's story I would like to talk about how we would take the children trick or treating around your neighborhood.

Sarah:

Oh, yeah. Yeah, the teats.

Chris:

The teets. That's exactly what I

Sarah:

it. The second neighborhood.

Chris:

Olivia and those teets.

Sarah:

That was a good one. I like that. Yes. yes, we will talk. We'll have Halloween stories.

Chris:

Yes. I love it.

Sarah:

All right. Excellent. Let's wrap it up for today.

Chris:

All right. Love you.

Sarah:

Love you. Bye.

Chris:

Love you. Bye. I can't find the button. There it is

People on this episode

Head Shot

Christine Kanalis

Host
Head Shot

Sarah Leibhart

Host