The Mental Funny Bone

Episode 51: Weirdly Broken Sports Statues

• Gaster Girls • Season 6 • Episode 2

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Christine and Sarah are back with another engaging episode of 'The Mental Funny Bone,' where they blend mental wellness with laughter. This week, they dive into distinguished fan mail, recount hilarious Botox adventures, and explore their latest habit hurdles. The heart of the episode uncovers the fascinating process of choosing a new Pope following the recent Papal death. They also share personal stories that highlight the power of aligning actions with values, and the transformative journey of translating thoughts into reality. With sharp humor and thoughtful discussion, this episode underscores that navigating life's challenges is easier with a sprinkle of comedy and a good dose of perspective.

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Sarah:

Welcome to The Mental Funny Bone, a podcast where mental health meets humor, heart, and a healthy dose of laughter where we talk about the tough stuff, laugh at the, awkward stuff, and remind you and ourselves that it's okay to not be okay. Settle in, take a breath, and let's normalize the mess. One ridiculous story and real conversation at a time. I'm Sarah,

Chris:

and I'm Christine, and neither of us are mental health professionals, but you should get yourself to a mental health professional. It does make a world of difference. Shoot, I have a mental health professional appointment tomorrow. Excellent.

Sarah:

Oh, fantastic. And check out, the links in our, show notes and, or if you need to from your cellular telephone down. Nine, eight, eight. Reach out for help. people like it when you reach out for help. If it's not an emergency and you just wanna chat with us, feel free to send us an email at Gas your girls@gmail.com.

Chris:

We're always happy. We're always happy to, to take the feedback. I got a super excited, got a feedback text today. Oh, I got some feedback too. But you go first. So my friend Elaine sent me a text first. Bless you. She sent me a text yesterday to let me know that the Pope had passed.

Sarah:

Yeah. We can't talk about it yet. You gotta leave it right there and then we'll get, Pope has gotta have its own segment this week. Its own segment. Got it. Okay. We're still in fan mail, so keep going.

Chris:

But then she must have listened to a couple of, episodes and she's you need a new job.

Sarah:

Oh,

Chris:

yeah. I'm like, just to let you guys know I'm fine. I am a whiny cry baby. In case it wasn't clear, I'm a whiny cry baby.

Sarah:

No, that's not nice. That's not what you should be doing. You should not be putting yourself down. What you should be doing is say that you're working through it and doing what you need to do, which would be, find a new job or just finish the project you were working on. So that's cool.

Chris:

great project over. I don't know, Sarah, if you've noticed any difference between last week and this week, but Yeah, if that whole thing

Sarah:

happens again, we're

Chris:

gonna break up. You can't break up with me. We're blood. I could, right? You can't. you can't. I feel like I can. you can just, you'll be shitty to me. I can totally picture it like, like this aura of disappointment about you.

Sarah:

It'll be fantastic. So much better than actually breaking up.

Chris:

Just bring me around and be like,

Sarah:

can't even, I can't even, okay.

Chris:

All right. That's it. That's my, that's what, that's my fa mail also. I think I need more Botox. I haven't done it in a while and I think I'm gonna go back and get some more. Yeah.

Sarah:

I don't really see that much of a, I don't really see the difference the Botox makes. That's because you look at my soul. Exactly. Like I really like people tell me and I'm like, wow. Yeah, everything looks real smooth, but I feel like it looked smooth before. I don't know. Again, like the people looking at you, do not see what But if the Botox makes you feel better and you can afford it, go for it. Get your face all needled up. Don't do anything with your lips though. Please don't do anything with your lips. I, that's all I ask.

Chris:

They want, my lips are so small that they wouldn't even be able to find where to put the, like they're just,

Sarah:

they're like, we can can't, but then they would find them and then they would turn out like, what is the commercial that now has Jason Bateman in it? shit, nevermind. We're gonna go ahead and go right past it. He ends up with big puff, puffy lips? No, he ends up with big puffy lips in the commercial.

Chris:

Is it for Botox?

Sarah:

No. Is it for fillers? No, I think it's for insurance. I dunno.

Chris:

Is he turning into his parents

Sarah:

when you call for Batman and you get Bait Man, and then he gets chained up by Poison Ivy, I think. And then he, she kisses him. And then at one point, I've never actually watched the whole thing happen. It sounds like you've watched the commercial a couple of times. I've listened to it. Okay. And yeah, so it ends with him. Realizing that she's poison ivy and he, his lips are also won. Be like, that makes sense Anyway. Okay. Alright. So I heard from a few people and nothing like Major or earth chattering, but I still wanna mention a few people. Shannon was super excited to listen to Moisture then an Oyster and hear her herself mentioned. So nice. She sent me a text and said, ah, you've mentioned me in the podcast. I just listened to Moisture than an oyster. Then, stop saying it. Another one. Shannon's husband is now also listening. And, he reached out to me about, I think it was yesterday. He listened to the last two episodes and he asked what happened with the sound quality on the last one? I was like, oh, that was the Sam interview. And I feel like I didn't think it was bad at the time, and I still don't think it was that bad. But when we have guests on, we're gonna need to figure out, I think the headphones and the microphone make a difference.

Chris:

Yes, the headphone do. Yes. The headphones and the microphone make a big difference. So guests will need headphones. At the very least.

Sarah:

I feel like we're not gonna require that. want them to show I'm gonna be a

Chris:

stickler.

Sarah:

I'm gonna

Chris:

be a stickler

Sarah:

just so Chad will be happy. There you go, Chad. see, it's what happens. It's what happens when you give us feedback. We, you, we take action. No, we ignore you.

We say, you know what? we're gonna do whatever our interview person does'cause We're, because we're happy to have them. Generally just excited. Other people wanna hang out with us.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. okay. Next I heard from Lori and her husband Bobby. They're both listening now, and Lori said, I love your podcast voice. And I said, it's about time that manly smoker esque voice paid off. God dammit. She said, I love your smoker's voice, so Yay Lori. Keep listening. Bobby, keep listening too. There's more I wanted to say there, but I'm not. So the next one we heard from Rick in the email. I'm assuming you haven't looked at the email in 10 weeks. but Rick sent us an email with some logos in it. Stop it. And there's one, there's a bunch of'em. and there's one that says The mental Funny Bone. It's supposed to be hard. Did we talk about this tagline already? No. Okay. we might have. I could,

but

Sarah:

I feel like

that's it, man. That's it. I want a T-shirt.

Chris:

I've never wanted a t-shirt. More than I want a t-shirt that says it's supposed to be hard.

Sarah:

Yeah. I feel like that's where we're gonna go. So Rick will be reaching out to you to give you some feedback on the logo. Loving it. There's nine pages of logo stuff. It's very fun. So you could check that out at your convenience. Christie. So excited. I don't know if I

Chris:

can not look

Sarah:

at it during the podcast. Easter, let's talk about the weekend.

Chris:

Oh yeah, let's talk about the weekend. let's talk about

Sarah:

Easter real quick. Do we need to talk about Easter, or do we just wanna go straight to Pope?

Chris:

We had ham, and then I had a, I'm escalating

Sarah:

a lot of ham. There's a lot of ham.

Chris:

I had a bad belly ache and I think it might have been kabai related. Have eaten a lot of kabai. I don't know. I haven't hit myself yet. Ooh. It was a close thing. It was a close thing, but in, in true me fashion, I went back into those leftovers and just ate them. Damn You did.

Sarah:

we're not quitters. I was like, it's obviously this food uhhuh, but you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna keep eating it. It's fine. But this food was really tasty. It only hurt. It only hurt for a little while. It's okay. I was only sweat through one pair of clothes. It's fine.

Chris:

Homer Simpson with that giant hogie where he eats so much rotten food that he hallucinates that. You have to look it up. Oh

Sarah:

God, I'm

Chris:

crying.

Sarah:

Anytime we can reference Homer Simpson makes me super happy.

Chris:

How did Owen enjoy his gift? He has a giant Homer Simpson t-shirt now.'cause I bought it for your dad and it doesn't fit him.'cause his round belly, he loved that though.

Sarah:

He loves the t-shirt. So we actually end up going to the driving range after you guys left'cause it was so nice and I wasn't quite ready to go to bed. I think Noah was, I think Noah was a little disappointed that I was like, let's go to the driving range. No, it's five o'clock. he held his wine. He was like, I can't drive. I was like, whoa, good thing I'm here. So yes, we went to the driving range and we were getting ready to leave. And Owen, I dunno what he was wearing, was he wearing that? Oh, if you ain't, if you ain't first, your last shirt righty. Bobby Ricky, Bobby shirt has a hole in it. Like he looks like trash. And I was like, Owen, you gotta ch change your fucking shirt. So what's he do?'cause he's brilliant and why would he go into his bedroom and find anything? He reaches into that bag that nutty brought up with t-shirts, throws on his ocean aisle T-shirts. And I was like, that pitch you really nicely. You look good. Okay, nice. And speaking of the driving range, that is how out of shape I am. Did you get winded? I hit 10, 10 balls. I do have a good swing, I'll tell you that. when I connect, what I mean, even if I don't connect, it looks good. But when I connect, it looks really good. But there are several times where I won't even hit the ball. But anyway, my upper body still hurts. That was Sunday, maybe 15 balls at the most. But yeah, it was, yeah, I was like, wow, I'm gonna be real sore. So yeah, I'm sore here. I'm sore here. It's sore. So

Chris:

I am enjoying our accountability texts so that we can avoid, yeah, we getting sore at the golfing range.

Sarah:

Yeah, we're getting back into that. it's time for change and consistency and so we woke up early this morning, texted each other, I put my workout pants on backwards. I didn't realize until I was walking on the treadmill and I was like, wow, these weird, and then I like wiped my hands down the back of my legs and felt the Under Armour emblem on the back. And I was like, Ooh, these are wrong, the wrong way.

Chris:

I did that thing where I sat in the parking lot of the yoga studio for five minutes working up the courage to go into the yoga studio.'cause you have to admit that you haven't been there in 10 years. And I have to be like, okay, no one cares. No no one gives a shit again. We go back Happy that you're there. Right there. I'm gonna go back to the tenant. The guiding light principle of our podcast is that nobody gives a shit.

Sarah:

Nobody gives a shit. Nope. Ze shit. There I was.

Chris:

Yep. Grabbing my little yoga mat and heading on it. My rear end is sore.

Sarah:

I feel like that's

Chris:

wait till tomorrow. It's

Sarah:

always sore like one or two days after. I.

Chris:

And because I am, bad at keeping a calendar sometimes I scheduled, this morning's yoga session like a week and a half ago. I was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. and then yesterday getting ready to find a place to take your mom to yoga someplace closer so we won't have to drive so far. Yeah, we're gonna go to California and go to yoga in California. But I signed up for a class there tonight, Ooh, fun. Yoga. Now I have two. Yoga. Yoga, so youre gonna double yoga.

Sarah:

I feel like that's two yoga

Chris:

classes. Is it? I don't know. I

Sarah:

think so. Yoga,

Chris:

the more breathing and focusing on my breath that I can do, the better off. I think. I'm gonna feel there. There got to be a point in the yoga, like 50 minutes into it where I was like, yes, this is awesome. Yeah. I was like, this is amazing. Now I remember why I do this. Yeah, I had a great date, to be honest.

Sarah:

Yeah, I feel like, sorry,

Chris:

Becca. Becca didn't have a good day. Yeah, sorry.

Sarah:

Becky had Becky.

Becky, and then I called her Becky and made it fucking worse. She's crying right now. You can't

Chris:

hear because we put her on mute, but dare She's crying there. There it

is. There it is. shut your whole stop calling her Becky.

Sarah:

Sorry, Becca. Becca had a shit day. I apologize. We had amazing days, but I had a great day. I need to get up 10 minutes, just 10 minutes earlier to make it all work exactly the way I want to. But it worked out like I ended up just being five minutes later than I wanted to sitting down at my desk. But I took my time, like I did not rush at all. And I think that's like the major difference. Like I've been getting up and getting on the treadmill, but I've been rushing through all of it, like doing 20 minutes instead of 30 minutes, doing five minutes of meditation instead of 10 minutes. So I did all the stuff. I did all the stuff this morning.

Chris:

You will be surprised to hear that I was pulling into the parking lot just as the nice lady was locking, was standing at the doorway. So then I needed my five minutes to get my shit together and she was like peeking out. She's are you gonna? And I was like, Hey Nikki. And she was like, oh, it's so nice to see you. And I was like, it's five 30.

Sarah:

Yeah, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. Get back. Get back into it. And like I said this morning, consistency, we just have to it. Consistency. Plus I like Noah was leaving this morning, he was like, you're gonna wake up the dog. Whatcha are you gonna do? Because normally I'd just let macho do his thing. I said, no, I'm waking up the dog. I'm done with my workup workout. I'm waking up the dog. We're gonna go for a little walk just down the driveway.'cause that's as far as his little legs can go. Or as far as I've trained him to go, you're done right buddy? Yeah. gotta go back. Gotta go back now. Meanwhile, he's we please go longer. no. Mommy's gonna work. No dogs like that. But yeah. So we're, it's gonna be a routine time for Macho too.

Chris:

Yay. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. So

Sarah:

I like it. He should be exhausted.

Chris:

You know what helps us? I bet if we read a book called Atomic Habits, we would be better at building habits. Oh

Sarah:

God, it's amazing. It is. I think no number of books will ever make it just be easy. There's, it's just not, it's not gonna happen. Once again, we're gonna have to do this consistently over and over again. Maybe it will be a little bit easier because we at least are, can go back to that real quick and be like, oh yeah, that's what I should be doing. It's supposed to be hard. Yeah. And it is. It really fucking is sometimes. Alright, you wanna talk about the Pope? I would love to. I, here's what I was hoping I really wanted to get on this So Call with you excited and I wanted you to give me the rundown, I am really hoping that you came prepared. Let me pull up my notes, gimme the rundown of what is going on now. I know the Pope died. There you go. I do love it that he died the day after Easter. he did his last thing on Easter, and I feel like that's a very, I love that. I do love that. Yes. So I thought that was very,

Chris:

but trying to find my notes. I haven't

Sarah:

really, I've just listened to my peeps on Good Morning America. James Longman, he did some reporting and Michael Strahan, he's over there right now where, wherever they are, the v Michael Strahan is with the pope.

Chris:

He's at the back. Where is JD Vance right now?'cause I wanna talk about that.

Sarah:

Yes, I'm gonna, okay. I'm done talking. You talk. I might, when you bring up JD Vance again, I might have something to say, but go ahead.

Chris:

Did you, I, this is a bit. Besides the point, this is off topic. Did you see JD Vance break that sports statue or some people would call it the trophy. First of all, let's recognize the eu, what did

you call it? The sports? What Statue. Sports statue. It's almost as thing you've never played as board in your life, right? Like I wasn't an

Sarah:

athlete. hey, let's make fun of JD Vance, and then I'll say something like sports statue. In, in our defense, that's probably what he fucking calls it too. It's fine.

Chris:

they handed it to him and he tried to put it back together. did somebody? Yeah. And there was, is somebody fucking with him? if you guys haven't seen it, regardless of where your political affiliations, it's

Sarah:

freaking spectacular.

Chris:

it's amazing.

Sarah:

It's

Chris:

just funny to watch a grown man try to, try to act like you didn't break a trophy, this statue.

Sarah:

It's, yeah, it's amazing. And I, I don't know, just his reaction and everybody like stumbling around, right? And everyone's trying to help him. it's okay. It's all right. Mean they give it, like in some of their faces in the background, they're like, oh fuck.

Chris:

Like this guy

Sarah:

Jesus. And again, I say this fucking guy.

Chris:

dude, it's not like we worked really hard and dedicated our entire lives up until this point to get that. feel free to write now. Destroy it.

Becca's playing it right now. It's the best. Oh my God. God. It makes me so happy. Hilarious.

Sarah:

Okay. Alright. I'm gone crying. Oh, what? Okay. The Pope back to the Pope. The Pope. The Pope. Okay.

Chris:

what do they call the pope? The po Pontiff. He's a pontiff? Yeah. Okay. He's a pontiff. Okay. so if the Pope dies or he did. Or he can also resign and that kind of triggers the same process.'cause you'll remember, I thought you were gonna

say rise. You were gonna say it could rise. rise like Jesus. I was like, no, we're, no.

Chris:

that's why we have to have a new pope. Okay. Go ahead. It's a, and this process is called a, but this is great.

Sarah:

I'm sorry. I'm gonna interrupt you for the 80th time and I promise it won't be the last I This is great to hear. This is great to hear though.'cause I honestly today was thinking, what happens, if the Pope just gets too old, like can they step down? So Yeah, can they can.

Chris:

Okay. They can resign. okay. Yeah. The one guy was like, yeah, totally in. I wanna be Pope. Remember he was like Pope for four days and he was like, Ugh, I don't like it. Which one was, I don't remember. Benedict. Benedict, the XVII was gonna too Benedict the XVI. He was just

Sarah:

A

Chris:

little

Sarah:

bit,

Chris:

yeah.

Sarah:

Okay. Yeah.

Chris:

And then he resigned. And what that does is that it kicks off at Papal Conclave. A what? Papal. Papal Pap. Papal pap. Papal conclave. Yes. Okay. So that's the process by which they select the new Pope. when the Pope dies, there's a period of mourning called the ve. Mm-hmm. I went to Catholic school, NOIs, Novem, Dialis. There's nine days of mourning that happen. And, they start, making a lot of, phone calls and sending a bunch of text messages around to the, the guys who are in the running, like the popular cardinals. Yeah. And they're like, dude, we're picking a new leader. So if you wanna show up, can you grab a grab Carnival Carni Carnival, grab that other carnival. Yeah. Grab, just grab Jamie, grab the other guy to bring him with you. Don't nobody go near JD Vance. I knew he was, he seems a bit shady, like a very prominent brow and like dark eyes, but I didn't realize he was an assassin. So JD Vance visited with the Pope, and then he died the next day. So coincidence,

JD

Chris:

Vance, IV was there on Sunday. Yeah. And then he died.

Sarah:

The ruiner of all things, the ruiner of the sports statues and the pope stop calling it a sports statue. Why do you mock me? There's no way. There's actually no way I'm ever gonna call it anything else. I have to write it down to make sure that my brain will remember it.

Sports statue.

Sarah:

It's so funny.

Chris:

It's exactly what it is though. I mean it is, it really is. I think, so the conclave happens in the Sistine Chapel. You may remember the Sistine Chapel from, painted ceiling fame.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah.

Chris:

So Monticello, the turtles paint it Monticello is what I have in my notes, but I think it was Michelangelo.

Sarah:

Okay. That's why I thought it was a ninja turtle.

Chris:

It was, yeah. Michelangelo, he was the surfer guy, right? The surfer turtle. Yeah.

Sarah:

He, he could do a lot of flipping, so I feel like it's, he's just flipping all over the place and paint. Go on. It's not even fun. Did they all

Chris:

like pizza?

Sarah:

Oh yeah. I've always never listen listening to the pizza.

Chris:

So one of the key selection criteria is only Cardinals under the age of 80 can vote, and there's usually around 120 of them. So don't we have a cardinal in Pittsburgh? don't we have a, don't we have a cardinal? I feel like we do.

Sarah:

Ubic.

Chris:

Ubic. Or is that a bishop? Is he a cardinal? Is

Sarah:

a bishop and a cardinal the same thing? What's a bishop and Cardinal? No, they're different.

Chris:

They're different. You gotta get, I know you gotta get the promo. Bishops wear like white hats maybe. And cardinals wear red ones. I don't, the good thing about this is there will be no listeners that know more about this than I do.

Sarah:

there might be, we might get a whole education on it after this. Not that anybody fucking emails us anymore, but, okay.

Chris:

So did you know that the papal ring gets destroyed? Like they take it off of his cold dead hands and they destroy it so that no one can, so there's no pope now? No one can pretend to be the pope. There's no like sub pope. There's no interim pope. the body lies in three coffins and I don't know if they like switch it out. Like I don't know what the process is there, but one is of Cyprus wood, one is of lead, and one is of Elmwood. I have no idea why, but I guess they switch him around, saw him. The one

Sarah:

he's in now, the one he's in now is a very simple wooden coffin. Maybe it's the cypress wood. Yeah, they said that's what he requested though. But I don't, maybe I wasn't listening. Maybe it was just his tombstone that they were talking about. He requested very simple with just one word on it that I believe is his name in Italian or something. I dunno. Anyway,

Chris:

what is it?

Sarah:

What

Chris:

his name in Italian is. It's a simple man, Francis.

Sarah:

Yeah. I don't know. No, it's something fancy, right? It was something fancy that Michael Strahan told me this morning.

Chris:

Michael Stray. Strahan. Pontificating about the pontiff.

Sarah:

Yeah. Makes me, he knows it all,

Chris:

makes me laugh. I love it. The Cardinals like when it's time for the conclave after the lying in state. They have a procession. So they have a little, Pope parade, to get into the Sistine Chapel and they do some chanting to invoke divine guidance so that God can help them pick the new Pope. And they have a master of ceremonies, a master of ceremonies. They have an mc, like one of the Cardinals is I'll do it. I did open mic, I can be the master of ceremonies. And then they all go in there and the master of ceremonies calls out everyone out in Latin. To make it official. And then they lock the doors from the outside and then none of them can leave until they picked a new pope. There you go. they take an oath of secrecy, which they, there's a whole oath they have to say to each other,'cause no one else is gonna hear it.'cause they're in there. Yeah. The ballots are handwritten and they have to disguise their handwriting. So it's completely anonymous. There're

Sarah:

okay.

Chris:

Can we back

Sarah:

up one second? Yeah,

Chris:

sure.

Sarah:

I would like to talk about the parade. I'm sorry. We're still back on the parade of the Pope Parade. I was trying to interrupt you and, but you wouldn't call me. and I didn't wanna speak out of turn. Oh.

Chris:

Because I'm not looking at, I'm not looking at the video. I'm looking at my notes. You'll have to

Sarah:

watch this on YouTube and me going like this. Sorry, now I'm looking at you take away, so if we could go back to the parade. It's the parade of the Cardinals. Yeah. Cardinal

Chris:

Parade. Yeah.

Sarah:

And they're 120 of them.

Chris:

Yes.

Sarah:

And they're probably between the ages of, I don't know. I don't know. Something in 80. Yeah. Are they all walking, is it a walking parade or are they gonna all be in those little class? no. You don't

Chris:

get the glass case until you're the pope.

Sarah:

Oh, okay. I imagine they're just wandering

Chris:

around in their robes. alphas did something similar when I was at Bethany College to pick their present. So

I think

Sarah:

it's a lot of, it's a lot of walking for those guys. It's a lot. And then disguising your handwriting. I also feel at that older age, it's no need. You're no need, fellas. Everybody's shaking. It doesn't shit's all over the place.

Chris:

And they have, like, when they vote, it's very prescriptive according to dogma. so they, their ballots are handwritten and every ballot has, a illegal, in some ponti I elect as Supreme Ponta. I had French, you had Latin,

Sarah:

which is super funny,

Chris:

right? Each ballot is folded twice. Folded twice, and, placed on a silver, small silver plate. I like that. And then dropped into a chalice, which I'm assuming doesn't have any liquid in it, because it would defeat the purpose. Yeah. After voting, the ballots are counted and then they're stitched together.

Sarah:

Oh, wow.

Chris:

So they, apparently they have someone in there in addition to a former standup comedian who's the master of ceremonies. They have a seamstress in there with them. Wait, who

Sarah:

could be, who do we think should be the master ceremonies?

Chris:

There's gotta be, there was one funny pope, like they were doing this, I forget if it was like before the guy resigned or after, but there was one, there was one cardinal that was just a, he was just a crack up, and I forget which one he was. I feel like it should be a

Sarah:

legit comedian, like Burt Reiser.

Chris:

no.

Sarah:

You can't, I feel like unleash him feel like should be, no, I feel like that would be, I feel like they would laugh at him. If anybody's gonna make that group laugh. It's gonna be Bert Nate. Nate

Chris:

Zi.

Sarah:

I'd like him too.

Chris:

he's so wholesome. Like I think the Cardinals would be like, yeah. Sad man. Yeah.

Sarah:

No, but yeah. But Burt would come in with the machine. We're coming with the shock factor. You wanna come with the machine?

Chris:

Yeah, absolutely. He could tell them about his children and their special means.

Sarah:

Absolutely. And sticking their fingers in the dog's butt.

Chris:

So that was our, that was ours first. So they stitch the ballots together and then they catch them on fire. And then. Special chemicals are added to the ballot fire that produce either black smoke or white smoke. So to get the black smoke, they burn damp straw with potassium nitrate and anthro. I don't know what anthro is and I don't know where you get potassium nitrate. do you go to your chem lab? Like on the way in, who's

Sarah:

pouring? do they have masks on to make sure?'cause I feel like nobody should be inhaling anything with names like that.

Chris:

They're God's chosen disciples. I don't think they're gonna need to wear masks. They're fine if you say so. Walked on water. Water to wine. I think he's not gonna let anything happen to these guys that, that wasn't the Cardinals. But under the protection of Jesus,

Sarah:

I don't think so.

Chris:

So proceed the white smoke says Yeah. What? look at us. we got the Pope. The black smoke says, no, we don't. No, we don't have the pope. They need two thirds of all of the cardinals to vote. I forgot the most intriguing thing about their oath of secrecy. That if they break it, if they break that oath, it can lead to automatic excommunication from the Catholic church. So I feel like that's not hard. Really. fuck

Sarah:

around and find out Cardinals. I feel like people fuck around and find out all the time. But when you said like you started ex cardinals, I thought it was, I thought it was ex, what's the word?

Chris:

Ex extradition. Extermination.

Sarah:

Executed. Executed. No, we don't ex I was like, wow. that is

Chris:

really, that is intense. so once they pick one of these guys, pick one of these guys, like the one who molested the least amount of boys maybe is the way to pick, I don't know. Not

Sarah:

nice. Not nice. Not went too far. You went too far.

Chris:

Mm. the newly elected agree to disagree. The newly elected, pope enters a side chamber, and it has a white vestments in all sizes. In case we get a fat pope or a skinny pope is a vestment of vest that's, it's close, it's a robe thing that they wear. The thing that he puts over, that he puts it over is like a red dress, I don't know. In all sizes, I think is the thing they key in on. Yeah. yeah, I like that. I like that little teeny pope. Like you could have a big pope,

Sarah:

you could a little pope. I would like to see the opposite. Like I would like to see the fat guy in a little coat, in a little, in a

Chris:

fat pope in a little robe. Yeah.

Sarah:

that's what I wanna see.

Chris:

My God. And the room where he dresses himself in his new, his fancy new outfit that is called The Room of Tears.

I feel

Chris:

The room of tears and it's because many popes have wept here, overwhelmed by the burden they're about to take on. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I will also remind you that throughout history, these were some of the blood, most blood thirsty motherfuckers ever. oh, okay. They're not, all of them cry because it's a burden.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

So it's the room of tears.

Sarah:

I don't know much about the history of the Pope Hood.

Chris:

It's

Sarah:

fascinating.

Chris:

I was Catholic for a little while. You grew up Catholic. That's doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. I was blonde for a little while, and then doesn't matter and matter. They make a big announcement and the new pope steps out. Gives a blessing. Says a few words. His first appearance, this is what Chad is telling me. His first appearance is both sacred and historic and is, watched by hundreds of millions of people like the Queen.

Sarah:

Absolutely. It's like almost as many people that watch Meghan and Harry's

Chris:

wedding. And that listen to this podcast. Since 2005, the bells of St. Peter's are rung to confirm a successful election in case the smoke is hard to tell if it's black or white. just a little bit of a confirmation so people don't go around like the one gender reveal party we went to. I was just

Sarah:

gonna say, this is reminding me of a bad gender reveal.

Chris:

I was like, is it a blue baby? Wait, it looks great. Why is it gray?

Sarah:

I don't understand. Are they just kidding? And they don't wanna know. So they just gave us the green bal. I don't get it.

Chris:

So there you go. That is the, that's the scuttlebutt over what's gonna happen here in a couple of days. Can you imagine getting locked in with a bunch of people trying to pick out like the next head cheerleader? No. Imagine any organization you've been in. No. And they take the four most popular people in the soccer mom booster club and they're like, you guys have to elect the next president. You can't come out until three of you. Agree. I could see how that would go.

Sarah:

We'd be done pretty quick.

Chris:

All right. Now I would threaten to beat people up. You, but they're cardinals. They can't do that. I guess B Blood thirsty motherfucker at the boosters meeting. Yeah. I don't know how your boosters meetings go.

Sarah:

Yeah, no, we just, somebody it's like volunteers for shit.

Chris:

Sometimes it's just like hot potato in those things though. Like I can't imagine even better than this, imagine the Delta Zetas. And like only the popular Delta Zetas get locked in a room and they have to pick the next president or

Sarah:

social, social, who would not be in that room? Me, I was not the most popular. Just in case you were wondering. I was in my pledge cla pledge class. I was the president. But it's only because I organized people because I can't stand an organization.

Chris:

Becca's mom and I both would've been in the room. We were

Sarah:

Right. Mostly

Chris:

due to boob

Sarah:

size. Yeah. You were also there for four whole years. Like I was there for a semester as a Delta Zeta and nobody even remembers me. It's fine.

Chris:

I forgot. I. That the pope has to pick a new name like his, he gets to change his name. Yeah. I knew that. One of the most fascinating parts is he just picks a kind,

Sarah:

kinda like Latin class or French class where you can pick your name. What was your name in Latin class? Couldn't tell you. Pela, which means girl? No, Anastasia. That's what it was. I was Christine. Yeah, in French.

Chris:

she didn't let me pick, like everyone else got to pick. She was like, oh, you should be Christine and I, because I am who I am. I'm like, yeah, I should. Okay now, because that's the right answer. Who else

Sarah:

gets to be someone different here? Why can't I?

Chris:

She's because you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna be upfront answering all the questions. So you're just Christine.

Sarah:

Okay. I don't like

Chris:

it. so there you go. that's the pope. I like it.

Sarah:

yeah, I guess that's what we'll be hearing about for the next month. Or do

Chris:

you wanna tell a very brief, a growing up Gaster story? What do you have in mind? do you remember when we went to St. Michael's Catholic School? Yes.

Sarah:

That was my last go round with Catholicism

Chris:

flirtation. With the Catholic church? Yes. And on. We would have to go to mass on maybe Wednesdays Friday, Fridays during Lent. We would go to stations of the cross. And I really, I love the stations of

Sarah:

the cross dug.

Chris:

I don't know why. Because I think like all the classes were shorter, so we couldn't do anything on Fridays because we had to go to stations of the cross, like right after lunch. I just

Sarah:

thought they were real cool and like the older class, it's got to be like the actors in them. I got to be the one that wipes his face. Who was that and what station? I don't remember. Eight Random. It's station eight, but his face is on the, his face is

Chris:

on the Mrs. Turrin Shroud. Shroud. Turrin. But he

Sarah:

knew was really artsy. I can't remember who it was. Shaner,

Chris:

Mrs. Shaer. Was she fourth gr fifth grade? Fourth grade.

Sarah:

Fourth grade, fourth grade. a rounder lady hair, like Yeah, exactly. White hair. Her, yeah. She was a very talented artist. She was, yes. She made his face on the cloth that I had to wipe him with. It was fun. I do love the stations lacrosse, and I think it's because it's artsy.

Chris:

Yeah. Yeah. it was a hoot. I liked it because we we got to change places. Like we got to be someplace different.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

I was like, this is fun. Look where we are. We're in church. And then we had to sit there in church and I was like, in these, they were like, oh,

Sarah:

this was fun while I was walking over to the church.

Chris:

Wow. Now that I'm sitting here,

Sarah:

the cross kind of, these are long, she's, now I

Chris:

know why we have to leave right after lunch going so long. Forever. Is it 12 of them? Are there 12 stations across?

Sarah:

I don't know. I can't even remember. I'm feeling bad about it. I was, I wanna go next year now.

Chris:

I would love to go to, anyway. Anyway. Anyway, so our gaster story of the week is about your mom, Nita, your mom? No, your mom. Your mom. nails off. it's about our mom. And, she would come to mass when we would have, children's mass and she would sit in the back and we would sing hymns. And for some reason, like one time she cried, I'm guessing she was just having a really bad, existential crisis because she had to raise the two of us. And she was married to Jumbo and she was like, it's, questioning, crying every day. All the, every decision she ever made. And she's and I'm free in the, in the daytime during the week to come to. Mass. Yeah. So that's probably why she was crying. But we looked over and like the girls in my class, the Jennifer's Jen Taral, Jen Craighead, Jen Neeson, they were like, oh, your mom's crying. Oh, it's so cute. And we were like, oh. And everyone made a little a fuss and we were like, look, she's crying because we're singing with such sweetly voices. no. and then she would come to Mass and we would sing, let all the little children come to me or whatever, children's mass hymns, we would sing. I don't, I, the church is creepy. it just is what, Jesus loves the children, so do the any, but Nita would cry. Not all churches are

Sarah:

creepy.

Chris:

Nita would cry, at these masses. And we were so delighted because we were such special sweet little angels in the fifth grade that we can make her cry. Why was she crying? And I don't seriously, I think it was because she had to raise the two of us and she was married to Jumbo and she was free in the middle of the day.

Sarah:

Mom, can you tell us why you were crying? We'd like to know. Yeah, you can tell

Chris:

us now. For real. I know, I don't remember.

Sarah:

Wasnt because have I was like paying attention. I don't remember.

Chris:

I'm gonna, I don't, maybe you shouldn't ask her. Maybe you don't wanna know the

Sarah:

answer. I do. I wanna know

Chris:

maybe if like strong-willed children were too much for her. she did a hell of a job. yeah, we turned out amazing. We're doing good things for everybody. Yeah. But vote on mom. Her mom was, she was like the homeroom mom, so she was there all the time. All the time. Like she participated in her and Gina

Sarah:

Asha.

Chris:

Her and Gina Asha participated in everything like Every party, they were handing out snacks. Every science fair, they were directing traffic, stationed to the cross. I got to go home with my mom afters. Maybe that's why I liked it so much. That was

Sarah:

the best part. That was the best

Chris:

part

Sarah:

of mommy doing everything is we got to leave. We didn't have to ride the bus.

Chris:

We didn't have to ride the bus. Amazing. Everything. Have to

Sarah:

just leave with mom. Yeah.

Chris:

Yeah. this is in the day when

Sarah:

you could've just walked out

Chris:

anyway. No one Right where I think we lost Isaac Wall the one time where he just walked away. He was at the playground. Yeah. That's what happens

Sarah:

when you have the playground across the street there.

Chris:

This is, miss Chilling, which she should. We tortured her. She was our third grade teacher.

Sarah:

Oh, I don't remember that.

Chris:

Yeah, she figured out she didn't wanna be teacher after she had us,

Sarah:

Oh, okay. Yeah. Sounds right. Yeah.

Chris:

Yep. Anyway, so that is, that's my really brief gastric story of the week. Shall we talk about the book? Shall we get into the book? Yeah.

Sarah:

So here's the thing. So I took some notes. I'm annoyed.

Chris:

Oh no. By this book?

Sarah:

Yeah. So I took some notes and I thought it might be entertaining if I just read the notes and every once in a while you could just explain things to me. Okay.'cause I think that's what's happening. I think I'm just Okay. I'm ready. I am. I'm not grasping. I'm too, I don't know what it is. I start here with, I need help with this book. I think what's screwing me up is the types of new environments I'm trying to create. Like one minute I'm thinking about how I will start to change my routine to work out every morning, get my shit together. So what does that look like in my mind? So I should be doing that? I don't, but I don't know. But after this chapter, I don't fucking know. Maybe I'm just too literal for this book. I feel like I can't understand, or I feel like if I can understand how meditating can help me, I should be able to understand this book. So I'm getting a little bit annoyed back to the types of environments. This is exactly what I typed, I'm reading it word for word. Okay.

Chris:

So is that what you typed? Like maybe once I figure out how to meditate, yeah.

Sarah:

No, I, no, what I meant there was, I didn't say, once I figure out how to meditate, I, what I wrote there was, I feel like if I can understand how to meditate, that I shouldn't have that much trouble understanding what's in this book. So anyway, I have my morning routine change and habits in my head, like how I'm gonna do that. And then he comes out with the examples of MLK and Gandhi, I'm obviously doing something wrong, right? so then I think I'm way off. But then maybe should I, instead of just talking about my morning routine, should I be thinking about what I wanna do when I grow up? Is that the bigger thing? what should I be focusing on?

Chris:

I think you're making, you're, making it a little derivative. Like you're like, okay, I just need to think differently about my current immediate environment and what you really need to think about when we're looking at atomic habits and we're talking about reframing your identity, we're talking about that as an environment. The space I live in isn't this one where I get up and I'm like, fuck, shit, I have 8,000 things to do. Like it's broader and more. Ethereal. I think like you're wanting it to be amazingly literal like you're wanting it to be. That's what I said I did. I am

Sarah:

just too literal. But I think, I just feel like, alright, let me continue on here for a second. So and then you can take over completely.'cause I'm fucked. You're fine. So that's pretty much the beginning. Yda, yada, yada, yada. So then I started going through like things I highlighted, so things I highlighted, the way you think directly affects your life. My note after this is no shit.

Chris:

Thank you. I'm

Sarah:

so glad I spent money on your book. Perfect. As you continually think about your problems, you will only create more of the same type of problems for yourself. Okay. So we're talking about dwelling on your problems like. I could buy into that. That makes sense there. I get the logic there. okay. And maybe you think about your problem so much because it was your thinking that created them in the first place. This is where I'm like, I don't like, I feel like maybe is the key word here. But the truer statement would be that you're responsible for how you react to your problems, not that you've thought them into existence. Yes,

Chris:

you are correct.

Sarah:

And that, I think that's what's getting on my nerves. And then if I go down a little bit further, in order to change, you must have your thoughts, you must have in your thoughts and idolize self a model you can emulate, which is different from and better than the you that exist today in your environment, body and time. So this is where the MLK and Gandhi references come in and that, and it makes sense to me like the, yeah. Where we're going there. It makes sense. And then, and external environments are the same. When you're continually thinking in the past and based on your memories, your thoughts determine your reality. And if you keep thinking the same shit, you're going to continue to produce the same reality. Okay. He said, so I, at this point, I'll stop because everything else I read, everything else I write is, you just said that in the last sentence, and then two sentences down, he says the same thing. And then he says the same thing. And then down here he says the same thing. So now I am annoyed to the point where I feel like I'm reading a contract, which I get annoyed with because I feel like lawyers just throw big words out there to make themselves feel smarter. Yeah. And that's what I feel like this guy's doing at this point. Like he's just saying the same shit in a different fancy ass way to make it sound different, but it's literally like this. I feel like the chapter could have been summed up in about two sentences.

Chris:

Yes. a hundred percent. this is a wordy motherfucking book. there are a lot of words. A lot of words. And then the words are repeated and then there's an example That kind of is what I'm thinking, but isn't really. Yeah. And then there's another example that's different from the fra. The, it's, it's a bit of a, it's a bit of a thing here is the important. point in this chapter, I think, you have to think greater than your environment. And that's what you mean, like it, am I Gandhi? Probably not. Am IMK? No. Am I a person who accepts the fact that they're a hundred pounds overweight and does nothing to fix that? Absolutely not. I am a person who could conceive of a reality where I wasn't a hundred pounds overweight. I thought that through, I took some action and I have created a new reality for myself. Do you know what I mean?

Sarah:

Yeah. And I think like my way of thinking of that, and maybe it's just how we express it again, back to the words, is that. It's your thoughts. What they're actually doing is they're motivating you. Like you have the good thoughts about the greater you and what you can be, and that's providing motivation and it's getting you to light a fire under your ass and do something about it. It's not, the thoughts themselves aren't making it happen, aren't actions. Maybe they are. That's really because if I thought, I don't feel like being a hundred pounds overweight anymore, so if I just keep thinking about it, those a hundred pounds will go away.

Chris:

I'm willing. No, I feel like the tapping into the quantum part of this is understanding that, even if I'm not taking a direct action on something, like even if I can conceive of a place where I am a, I'm a really good leader because I make leader type decisions and I understand what being a really great leader means. I don't have to, I don't have to go into every meeting and be like, okay, what would a good leader, what would a good leader do by thinking about not being a shitty leader? I am making the reality of being a good leader come into being. Do you know what I mean? I am moving the needle in some way without. It's like the hunger things, really doing anything. Yeah. You're increasing your odds. Like I, by thinking about what I want to be and by thinking about how my actions line up with my values, just like all of the other books. By understanding and keeping that single thread like we were talking about last week, when you're envisioning that single thread of what you wanna be by keeping that in mind, you are making subconscious decisions to get there and the more that you can open your mind to making those subconscious decisions and the less you need to rely on that pause we talk about all the time. Yeah. that's tapping into the quantum piece of it. Like the more you can So my kind of

Sarah:

being too literal, that's exactly what my problem is.

Chris:

Yeah. Yeah. if you think about, if you think about any skill that you have, right? Like you learned how to drive, you didn't do that until you were 16, but when you first did it, you were like, all right, don't wreck. Don't wreck. Don't wreck. Yeah. don't wreck. Stay in the lane. Okay? Settle movements with the wheel. And then three years later, you've got one foot out the window, you're smoking, eating a hamburger, amen. Pissing with the CDs, yeah. Because you looking in your rear view mirror and

Sarah:

thinking, did I go through that? Was I red? Was that red when I went, did I run over an animal where she, where, how did I get here?

Chris:

And it like, you became a driver because, and. That's, that makes sense. It's like a, an easy example where you didn't really have to put any effort into it. You didn't have to, you didn't have to keep your eye on the prize, so to speak. But if you can keep your eye on the prize, if you can focus on that one thread that you want to become reality out of all of the options that are out there, then you make decisions that are in tune with that. The longer, the more you focus on changing your brain, like meditation and the more you focus on, like when you're first driving, you're all, all like this, right? You're like a tiny little sphincter that is clinched up so tight. I was gonna say, is that my butt hole? That is your butt hole. you're so tight. You're like, okay, alright. Don't be a driver. And then, once you go through the process of learning and once you go through, some of the things that, that make you a driver, then you're able to relax and become a driver. And same thing if you wanna be an athlete, right? You're like, okay, I gotta concentrate on getting up every day at five 30. I gotta get up at five 30 until you're the person that gets up at five 30 until you're the person who like subconsciously chooses, good fruits instead of an emotional support bowl of candy.

Sarah:

Then that brings me to, so those are like the atomic habits. Like you're just, yeah, you're doing these things because you've done them, but doesn't he say in this chapter that's not what you should do?

Chris:

It's a mental rehearsal, is what you're going through, like you're going through.

Sarah:

Like when he says, we remained plugged into the past by following highly routine, unconscious set of automatic behaviors. And when he's talking about plugged into the past, he's not saying that's a positive thing.

Chris:

no. you wanna be plugged into the future. So it's choosing which thing to do by rote, which thing to do on autopilot. if I leave my brain right now on autopilot, I'm gonna sleep in until five minutes before my first meeting tomorrow and pop up outta bed. Like I'll do that by rote. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Where I want to get to? Yeah. I just think it's is, I don't

Sarah:

know.

Chris:

I think I,

Sarah:

I think it, you're, it just drives me nuts that you're saying, like you've said a thousand times in this chapter at. Basically, you're just living in the past. And that's why you can't make any changes because you're just living in the past and you've gotten into this because you're just a routine person. You're waking up and you roll over and you look at your partner and you know that's your husband. that's because that's what you've looked at every morning for the past 20 years, whatever. Or and that's not necessarily what you wanna do. But then in the same breath, that's what you wanna do. So it's just, you have to make the better choices of what you are going to plug yourself into.

Chris:

think about the, think about whether or not you want to, you wanna be connected to the past or whether or not you wanna be to be connected to a potential future.

Sarah:

And then it might be my problem is just, I think he's saying the same thing that Michael Dravet said. yeah. And the same thing that Mark Manson said, and I just like the way that Mark Manson and Michael Dravet said it better, right?

Chris:

Stop being the, because they didn't say

Sarah:

too many fancy words and throw a bunch of other words in there, fulfiller.

Chris:

But this is giving you a. Potential way to do it that isn't just do the habits. Let's see what we can do if we're using meditation as a tool to change where we're connecting inside of our brains, let's use meditation as a tool to help us, not focus on the past, but focus on where we wanna go. stop being the victim of your environment, which is exactly what every book has told us in the past, right? Yeah. Take responsibility and use the tools that you have, like meditation, like atomic habits, and however you can get yourself out of that rote dependency on the past. that's how you're going to move forward into the future. So it isn't so much about that's it. there's the period end of story. It's how do we do it and how do we tap into maybe that quantum piece of it? And how do we help our brains, get to the point where we're able to like unc unclench our asshole and not think about going to the gym every day and just go to the gym every day? I think that's where the meditation part comes in, where I'm not plugged into the past, I'm plugged into what I want and aligning my values with my actions. Where my value right now is I wanna be fit. I don't wanna be a lazy slug who gets outta breath when they walk up the stairs. that's my value, and I need to align my actions with that value. And I can't be like, oh, I have a bad knee. All right. figure a way around it. tap into what you have. That's what you were doing

Sarah:

last week when you were working a lot, huh?

Chris:

Yeah. Yeah. I was, I was tapping into the old rote way of how to get a little bit of satisfaction outta my life. this feels nice. This is like putting on a nice, Ooh, I didn't even think about that, but holy shit. if you want a good example, that's why I worked like that.'cause I get a little hit at dopamine when someone's look how hard you work. Look at you staying up all night. Aren't you a special pretty little princess where that's not, but then doesn't, isn't that like

Sarah:

you chose to change your value there for a little while? Yeah. inadvertently

Chris:

looking at aligning actions and values is, it's complicated, right? Like I was able to get away with it, get away with it in my. I'm like, no, I'm helping. I'm helping the team. This has to be done. It has to be done right. So I think on some level that I'm aligning my values with my actions, right? there's some little nugget for me to like n nibble on. I'm like, no. What I'm doing is perfectly valid, but really what I'm doing is just falling back into old behaviors because they're giving me the same little bit of dopamine that I would get, when I was doing that on the regular. Do you know what I mean? and then looking at your advice, looking at the therapist's advice, looking at your dad's advice, listening to David and Olivia. I'm like, yeah, this isn't. These actions don't align with my values. So make a change. Don't stop being the victim of your environment and figure a way forward through whatever it is that is causing this. You don't need to be the hero. No one gives a shit about you. Let turn it over to your team, delegate your author and get your shit lined up with you. get your actions lined up with your values.

Sarah:

So is that what's happened in the last week?

Chris:

Yeah. Were you

Sarah:

able to do that?

Chris:

Yeah, and that's what I was talking about when I understand that this isn't the, this isn't the way, to a healthy lifestyle. This isn't the way to be the person that I want to be, which is a chill, relaxed person who's able to address a crisis when it comes up. This is me just, gutting out the work and, Not being the, being smart about what we're doing. This is me just taking like the easy path and the one that, that's gonna get me a lot of kudos. and being able to recognize that and say, all right, that this isn't right. I can still do what we need to do, which is help the team. But the way to do that is to delegate, is to line up resources to make things work and put some things in place. And that just took a little bit of time. So now that you've done that You're feeling better.

Yeah.

Chris:

I feel amazing, I feel. But did you do or did you finish your project? the project's not technically over, we just got through like one of the hard parts. But some of the work that, that went into getting us over the hard part will, will lend itself to. turning that over to the team and doing things the right way. If we hadn't had that hurdle, if we hadn't had that deliverable, then then it would've been harder to mark a spot where we would, where I would turn it over. Do you know what I mean? But that deliverable made the line in the sand easier to draw for me and for the rest of the team. Hey, I'm gonna get us up to here. I'm gonna give you guys tools and then I'm out. I think that's where, is now

where,

Chris:

yeah. And I think that's a really good example of not being the victim of my environment. I could have continued saying, woe is me. This project is so hard. But instead I decided that I didn't like that I don't like not sleeping, I don't like, I like it in the way that everyone's oh, but I don't like that enough. that isn't my value. That's not gonna be my jam. I would rather have a nice, calm existence. And are you sleeping better? Yeah, like a fucking baby. There we go.

Sarah:

Good. Sleeping in like a baby is my favorite.

Chris:

yes. And I'm not, I am not constantly looking for the next hit of caffeine. So also good.

Oh, that's good. Yeah.

Chris:

Becca, just write that down. So I think that is an excellent illustration, even though I didn't plan to get into that, but lining up your actions with your values and being able to focus on who you want to be versus who you were in the past. that is a hundred percent what this chapter's about.

Sarah:

So it's about the same shit we read about before,

Chris:

but with the idea that there is the possibility that you're gonna be able to tap into some like subatomic process. So these are subatomic habits. Mic drop. We're done.

Sarah:

I feel like we talked about all of it. But we will keep going because like I said before, yeah. I wanna get to the end of this book. I wanna get to part three. And I just had a bad, weak reading,

Chris:

wrote love. Yeah. I think looking at, this is the beginning, begin to shape your inner world without relying on external validation. stop leaning on the past. Stop, looking for somebody to tell you that you're doing a good job, Christine.'cause no one really cares. stop being the victim and decide on a future. Focus on it. And don't be deterred. by doing the Don't be deterred. Don't be deterred. don't fall into the trap of wrapping that warm fuzzy robe around you because you've worn it for so long. Me too. Me too. if there was anything nicer than doing programming at three o'clock in the morning and being all blurry eyed and being able to like, ugh. Just stay it up all night again, fuzzy robe of comfort for me where I don't have to think too hard or delegate or, figure any hard problems out. I can just code pussy can just code

Sarah:

to tell everybody about it the next day.

Chris:

But it gigantic vagina. I am right. So do the hard thing again. It's supposed to be hard. Like it wasn't the easiest thing and it wasn't the quickest thing to be able to turn that work over. And I know everyone was frustrated and I was frustrated with myself that it took as long as it did. but

Sarah:

you got her done. It ended up being a great intertwining of things today, so it worked out well. Yeah. I think that's all so it benefited me, which is all I ever looked for.

Chris:

We talked about the Pope, we got, bonfires of, choices. Yeah. That,

there you go.

Chris:

Another big thing of this chapter is your personality creates your personal reality. if you, you are negative. If you are, and I'm not saying like Ted lasso over the top positive, what I am saying is think about being that person who looks forward, think about being the person that solves the problem. Think about being the person that is looking for something different. and if you can align that personality, if you can get those neurons firing at the same time, you're making good choices, then that's how you get to UNC Unclench your butt hole.

Sarah:

I love it. I love UNC Unclenching, my butthole there. And I love the fact that you're probably going to carry us through this whole book, but we do have a little bit of a break because next week we are going to be interviewing Lynn Harris, the first like real celebrity to be on the podcast.

Chris:

Great. We're big time. She's legit folks.

Sarah:

She's legit. She's a legit like real celebrity Googler. She has a fucking Wikipedia page. I don't know if I mentioned it last week. I'm gonna mention it until it, until it airs, until it drops, until we release it. Whatever. So that's what we get to do next week. Yay. Yay. I'm gonna keep reading because I love this book. Awesome. I think that's so funny'cause last week you really didn't love this book.

Chris:

No, I was annoyed. I was like this fucking whack job. But I can see how maybe taking another step in this journey is where we're supposed to go. I think it might have to do with me also being just a little bit more chill and getting some sleep. is that what you didn't let

Sarah:

them too? Because that may be because I was like. You really hated that one,

Chris:

and I don't think you really hated it.'cause it's all the same shit. it's all the same shit. Awesome. All right. I am going to, I'm gonna hang up because I'm, I gotta go to, I gotta go to yoga again.

Sarah:

Oh, that's right. Okay. Sounds good. Love you. Bye. Namaste. That too.

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