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Episode 53: BJJ - It's Not an Extra J

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In this episode of 'The Mental Funny Bone,' our hosts dive into a laughter-filled discussion on everything from jiu jitsu classes to heartwarming soccer highlights. As they tackle a whirlwind of topics, including the challenges of balancing personal growth, team sports anecdotes, and crafting a mantra for self-improvement, they remind us that resilience and humor go hand in hand. Whether it's recounting the hilarious mishaps of starting jiu jitsu or the unexpected triumphs on the soccer field, this episode blends genuinely funny moments with heartfelt insights on navigating life’s ups and downs with a smile.

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Sarah:

Welcome to The Mental Funny Bone, a podcast where mental health meets humor and heart and a healthy dose of laughter. I'm not doing the whole thing'cause I already screwed it up. So welcome to the Mental Funny Bone.

Chris:

Here

Sarah:

we are, we're gonna talk about funny shit. Today is we're going a little off script that would make it sound like we actually have a script sometimes, but we actually don't ever,

Chris:

we have a general outline. Yeah, sometimes

Sarah:

today, I actually have probably a better outline for today's episode than I have for any other episode we've done. But today we're gonna do a catchup episode because we haven't been able to record a normal episode for a while. Um, may kind of got away from us.

Chris:

Where did it go?

Sarah:

Um, we did two interviews, which were two fantastic interviews. I love them so much, but we don't wanna give you two interviews in a row. So we need to, we need to throw just normal at you, but we also haven't recorded in so long, so we have a bunch of shit we wanna talk about. So that's all we're gonna do today. We're not focusing on the book, we're not doing that. We're focusing on us and what we have been doing. And that's

Chris:

it. That's amazing. Are you going to, are you gonna start because I feel unprepared. Do you want

Sarah:

me to start? I don't know. I feel like we should talk about Naked Cats again. I feel like that was wasted while we weren't recording.

Chris:

So, well actually, I'll just start, but I'm not gonna start with Naked Cats. I'm gonna start with Juujitsu because my brain went from naked Cats and talking about Facebook reels to, what was the last episode we recorded where we didn't talk, we didn't do an interview. Um, and I was like, was it something about the Pope? And then it was like JD Vance. I. Yeah. The pope, the statues. Yeah. The, um, how JD Vance killed the Pope. I was like, was that it? I'm like, no. There was one after that. And then I thought about how the, we got a new Pope since then, and I thought that would take a little bit longer. Yeah. Have we, we have, we haven't talked about the, have we talked about the new Pope? I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so. But we got a new Pope and your mom, your mom, knowing how much we love the Pope saga. Mm-hmm. Texted you first I think, and said We got a, we got a new Pope and when she didn't get an immediate response, then she texted me. Say she was calling,

Sarah:

she was calling, this wasn't even text, she called, this wasn't even text. Oh, these were messages. These were phone. Yeah. Oh, wow. Mm-hmm. Right. But in ion, we talk about this already, but I think that maybe it's just, I've told the story to so many other people, so let's just keep going. If you've heard it before, just there's a little button on whatever device you're on, I'm sure has a little, just skip, skip little circle and it has like a 25 in the center. Just hit that a few times. Yeah, you're fine. Okay. Go ahead.

Chris:

Plus, I'm pretty sure it wasn't that entertaining the last time we told it. Yeah. Yeah.

Sarah:

So we should tell it again.

Chris:

I, I think the last time, what, what did we talk about? We talked to, uh, did, had we gone to pick up Olivia yet? Did we do that pilgrimage? I think that we did. I think that was the last record.

The last record, record that we did, like record ding,

Sarah:

record

Chris:

ding.

Oh yeah.

Chris:

Then I do think

Sarah:

we talked about the Pope because that was happened the day after we drove home from Liv.

Chris:

Right.'cause Olivia was there and uh, your mom was trying to get

Sarah:

in touch with her too. Yeah. She ended up calling Olivia, who ended up answering to tell us that there was white smoke. Yes. This all sounds familiar now.

Chris:

Yes, a

Sarah:

hundred

Chris:

percent. Okay, good. I'm glad. Um, do you wanna tell us about Jiujitsu? Yes. Back to that story. One day while I was cleaning my own home. Which I don't, I don't do ever, but for some reason I needed to clean my own home anyway, I was cleaning and I decided that I needed to sit down and look up jujitsu places because my, my friend Jeanie, her husband does Jiujitsu. Yeah. And I was like, I gotta, I gotta check that out. I gotta check that out. I gotta, I gotta look at that. And as I was looking at it, I was like, I think this is something that I could still do at 50 ish. Yeah. Two-ish. And I was like, I wonder, you know, maybe that would be, maybe that would be something to kind of keep me occupied. It would be, it would be a way to like, you know, move away from focusing so much on work like I have been the past couple of months and a hobby outside of, uh, outside of the house where I have to go there. You know, something that I'm not really good at. Like, because you, you have mastered

Sarah:

yoga, so you needed to move on.

Chris:

Well, it's not a mastering the yoga, it's just being, it's being bored with the yoga. It's just being a DA and being like, I could still do yoga. I'm not cheating on yoga. Right. I'm not, but I could also try this jujitsu, because it seems, it seems fun and it, it, it turns out that they'll give you like a whole list of places you can go. There's one, you know, fairly close and on a whim because, uh, A DHD also, uh, struggles with impulse control. So I was like, oh, I'm just gonna email him right now because, you know, we've talked about how good I am at emailing people and in, so I just emailed the guy and I'm like, Hey, I'm kind of interested. I am, I'm way too old. I am way too slow. I'm not flexible. He was like, great, you sound perfect. Do you wanna try a class out tomorrow? And I was like, well, well now, now I'm kind of committed. Should have thought of that. Right? I'm like, I, well, I can't. Push out now and say, no, I don't, nevermind. That was just a procrastination tactic'cause I didn't wanna clean the toilet. Mm-hmm. So he's like, oh, I'm, it's, it'll be so exciting to have you in class. Here's the schedule. Just pick one of these. The, where there's one tomorrow, there's one Wednesday. So, um, so I went to the, the jujitsu. You know how, you know how when you're gonna do something for the first time and you're, it, it seems, it seems like a good idea, but you're by yourself now.

Mm-hmm.

Chris:

And, uh, and you have to go from the car to the place. Yeah. And, and then you're sitting in the car and you're thinking about all the reasons why, you know, perhaps this isn't a good idea. Yeah. Like, what if they're gonna laugh at me? What I'm, what I'm getting Right. Don't fit in here. Don't you have the

Sarah:

impulse, a DH, ADHD impulse at this point?'cause it could just

Chris:

impulse you right out of the car. Right, right. Where does that go? When, when the A DHD anxiety turns up?

Yeah, it

Chris:

just opens the door and lets it in. Come on in. Yeah. I'll be over here. Uh, yeah. I'll, when you guys are done, I'll come back. Stupid impulse. So, uh, like I walk in and, uh, the Travis, thank you Travis. I appreciate you greeting me. He's like, you must be Christine. I was like, is it because I look old? He was like, you're going need Agh. And I was like, A what? Now? Like, you know what Agh is, but you know, it, it still sounds stupid. Like I understand why we call it that, but why don't we just call it pajamas?

Sarah:

Isn't gee clarified butter too? Yes. Okay.

Chris:

More

Sarah:

delicious than what this guy handed me. I knew it sounded familiar for something else.

Chris:

So he's like, we have, we have extras here, and he hands me, he hands me the marshal arts pajamas. Yeah. In a belt and he is like, Hey, the women's changing room is in the back. And I can already tell like there are no rooms back there except for like a closet. Yeah, there's like a closet. It's the women's changing room. It is stacked. You remember the

Sarah:

women's changing room at the TaeKwonDo studio in Arizona? Right. Okay.

Chris:

Not until I walked into this changing room. Right. And I'm like, right, this, that feels like a closet that doesn't actually have a door.

Yeah.

Chris:

This is, this is, yep. Yep. Here we are. Um, there's no lock. I'm hoping like, and then it occurs to me like there's no girls here. It smells so bad. There are no girls here ever. Like, it stinks, like, yeah. Sweat and boys and fear and aggression, all of it. Yes. So I put on, uh, I put on my thing and, uh, do you know how like, uh, ours from TaeKwonDo, they had like a little tie on the one side so you could at least like secure the one part?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. So the

Chris:

other part, no, no, these don't have that. You just, you, it's like a robe and then you gotta, then you gotta

Sarah:

tie the tie. Wait, so it doesn't even tie on the outside. Like your tie is literally your, your belt right. Is literally just holding it off. The

Chris:

only, the only thing keeping this, do you know what

Sarah:

would happen with that? Like, I mean, I can just see, just, it's all boob, it's all sports bra. Like, it gets better,

Chris:

it gets better. So they give me, they give me the smallest size that they have for grownups. Yeah.

Sarah:

So I put that on is probably very large on you because you're just a tiny little girl.

Chris:

Just a speck of dust. Can I get a kid extra? Sam, do you, do you guys have, like, do you, so you know, you, and then I have to tie the belt and the belt. Everything is big and the belt is like, I'm like, whew. Wrapping that thing around myself like 15 times. And then trying to remember right over left. Left over, right. Yeah. Something has to tuck under.'cause I have all this stuff. Um, and then, uh, I walk out and they're like, oh yeah, no, it's fine. It's fine. We'll, we'll, you know, you can tell us what you want and, uh, we'll order you one if you wanna stick with it. I want something that fits me. Thank you. I'm like, do you have anything like for kids? They, they're like, that ladies are kind of like a weird size. I was like, is it because of the boobs? Yeah. And he was like, I don't know anything about that. Okay. And I was like,

oh, okay. We're not gonna talk about the boob. All right, fair enough. Your boobs do not exist. We just ignore them.

Chris:

Right. I mean, not that everyone isn't grabbing them 15 minutes later, but Cool. All right. We won't talk about them anyway. So we start this warmup and, uh, no one tells me anything. No one, no one says, Hey, welcome to Jiujitsu. The purpose of Jiujitsu is to hurt the other person bad enough where they tap you and ask you to stop hurting them. I was like, no, no, no one mentions it. No one mentions it. And then we start, we start running fucking laps around.

Sarah:

That's the worst. That's the worst. Go ahead. This is great. This is great.

Chris:

It's much longer than I intended it to be. Mm-hmm. But we're running laps around the thing and um, for some reason they let me stand where I have to lead the lap running. And I am like, prancing, like the Pink Pony Club. Right. I'm wearing this thing that doesn't fit. My belt is not tied. Right. And like my heart is, is going so fast. Why,

why do they have you leading? Like, I have to say, it's,

Sarah:

I don't understand these places. I don't understand these places. Like, do the people, I guess the people who own them, like just don't have that anxiety bone. I don't like, they don't like, do you know it? They're the definition of not giving a fuck.

These are

Chris:

like the honey badgers of group activities. Yeah, they're, yeah. Like meanwhile, like they're right. I'm sweating

Chris (2):

hives.

Chris:

Hives like, and I'm doing what we do and I like, I'm like, Hey you guys, I'm gonna pull over and let the young kids go fuck idiots. Now I'm telling dad jokes, the insurance guy come out. Right? That's all I can hear in my head is that guy with that fucking mustache saying how I'm turning into my parents when like, everyone in this class is at least a decade younger than me. Do you remember Bruce who took TaeKwonDo classes with us? Yeah. He was like 90. Right? That's what I feel like. That's what I feel like.

He was the best all I could see. His cute, his face, I, he was the best punching. He just picked his leg. I loved it. He was fucking pass. Little bit, little bit. I mean, showed up to class

Chris:

all the time. Yeah. He loved it. Right. So now, now we have to do the warmup and I, my impulse control should have then the next day kind of led me to maybe look something up on Jiujitsu. Yeah.'cause they're like, because tossed around words. And when I first went to CrossFit, I did a significant amount of research on CrossFit. So I knew the words. They're like, all right, forward roles. And I was like, okay, forward roles. And I like put my little hands down.

Chris (2):

I would do a, like, I could see a little

Chris:

gymnastics again. I'm first, I don't know how it, why like I pulled over and I'm looking around like maybe someone will be like, do you need help? Do you know what you're doing? Right. No, they just let me go and I'm like, and I flop over like a fish and land on my back. And then I look over at the, at the 10-year-old boy next to me, and he is got his shoulder tucked and he, and he, he does his flip and he jumps up like he's ready to fight fucking Spider-Man. And I'm laying there on my back like a turtle. Like a turtle. All right. So we get through, we get through warmups and it now, now we have to, now we have to do, now we have to do things. And this motherfucker asks for a volunteer, right? Like I, there are Why would you volunteer? I didn't. Okay. I didn't, I swear I did not. And like, but I'm like looking down and, um, yeah, not paying attention. And then the next thing I hear is this wham. Wham. I was like, what is happening? I guess the, and no one tells you, but there's, there's, get that dick outta your mouth. You saw me put it in. There's a certain way that you're supposed to fall, but no one told me how you're supposed to fall. No. You like, you're, you're supposed to like, uh, prevent a concussion. So, you know, like, wanna tuck your head and then you wanna like, slam with your hands. Okay. Like, I don't know why, because it just feels dramatic. Mm-hmm. Like, why don't, like, am I just making noise to let people know to get out of the way? Or was this whole sport founded by a bunch of like Korean drama queens? I don't, I don't know. Brazilian drama queens, whatever.

Chris (2):

Is that what Jisu Jisu is?

Chris:

It's BJ J is how you, uh, is how you abbreviate it. Needs. And once again, I can't Are you choking on that penis? Oh my God, you are. Spit it out. Spit it out. Right. B jj, nobody

needs an extra tray. I was like, I can, this actually, we could end the podcast right now'cause this is, we're good. Fucking freaking hilarious, honestly, like, but what is BJJ stand for? Brazilian

Chris:

Jiujitsu also Juujitsu. Whenever you say it, Noah. Noah

is checking on me to make sure I'm okay. Yeah, I just, that's choked on a dick. Choked on a gummy dick. On a bj,

Chris (2):

no, not on a bj, a gummy Dick BJJ was mentioned and then she choked on a dick. She

Sarah:

said b jj. And that I choked on the gummy penis.

Chris (2):

Because they taste good.

Chris:

Oh my God. This

is, this is so funny. So funny. Listen, and nothing I have in my script for the day is

Sarah:

even like, nothing I have is funny. So,

Chris (2):

hey. Okay, so what does B JJ stand for again? Brazilian Juujitsu. The juj, it's two js, that's the second J. Okay. Juujitsu jujitsu. So it's, it's two js. Okay. B-J-J-B-H

Chris:

aj. Right. Um, so again, no, there's no, there's no like note card to tell you anything. Um, so this guy falls, he's wham and I'm like, I don't. Can I, maybe I can opt out of the falling down part. And then the instructor is giving you, uh, we're doing drills, right? So he's telling you how to, how to get somebody to submit and that he starts out on his back, like picture it. He's on his back and he puts his legs up in the air. And then the other guy like, wiggles up in there and then he closes his legs around this other guy and I'm like, I, you know, I'm so thankful I didn't go with you. Can you imagine? No, no. We would've been a disaster.'cause I was like, I don't know about all this

and I'm nervous. Just say, wiggles up in there again.

Chris:

He does. He's like, he just wiggles up in there so their hips are touching. And I'm like, you won't, we're not allowed to talk about how my boobs don't fit in this pajama top, but you are. Touching wieners with that guy. You were at the ballet. It's so weird. I mean, alright, so that is, that's called something like the, the one of these is a guard. And I, I can't remember because every time I go to look it up, I'm like, and then he wiggled up in there and locked his legs. So this guy, this guy is like, all right, well I'm gonna grab a, and I am used to TaeKwonDo, like, I wanna move quick and stay away from you and I just wanna bump you on the chest and get a point. Yeah. This guy is like, well, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna manage the space between us, and if you can manage the space between the two of you, then you can win. So he latches onto this guy's pajama top, and now it is abundantly clear why we don't bother tying these things because it, because he just, he latches onto that and like, pulls this guy and this guy's like a, a pretty, pretty good at Jiujitsu himself. So he like throws himself like, and now I don't see what's happening anymore because these two are just. Wrestling. And then Chad, Chad, I love Chad's, the, the other coach. And Chad's like, all right, well, we're gonna put him in the shoulder of justice. I said, you stop it right now. You stop making things up. Are you guys making fun of me?

Is that what this is? Is this a prank? Is this a prank? All new people have to go through? Is this, are you fucking with me? That's what's happening. I, I was

Chris:

like, are you guys fucking with me? Is shoulder justice a thing? Like you can tell me like I'm gonna, any of this gonna good spirited about it.

Is any of this a thing? Like is I feel like everything is a joke. Right? Right. Hilarious.

Chris:

Hilarious. So we do the shoulder a justice, and I guess, and this is when finally somebody explained something to me, he is like, yeah, what you're trying to do is cut off the blood supply to the brain. I was like, what? I. He was like, yeah, you wanna get your thumb, take your thumb and put it right on their carotid artery and then do the same thing on the other side. I was like,

Sarah:

no, no, no, it's

Chris:

okay. And then when someone does that to you and you feel funny, tap out. I was like, no, I'm gonna tap out right now. I'm tapping. I don't like it. I tap.

Sarah:

I don't like it. Don't like it. So like they come at you and I'm tapping.

Chris:

Oh,

oh.

Chris:

You stay over there. So now, uh, we do, we do the drills and I'm terrible at it. And then we're gonna, we're gonna roll. I was like, what is this? So sparring in Juujitsu is rolling. We're rolling. Like, someone will come up to you and be like, would you like to roll? And I was like, I like, let's roll. Right? I, I just see you guys rolling around like panda bears, right? Right. Yes. This is exactly what it looks like when I do it. It looks like one of those pill bugs. Like I just fold up and. That's what, that's what it looks like now. Everyone else, like the boys are like throwing their legs up over top of people. And I'm, and I'm like, well, I have, I have both dinosaur arms and dinosaur legs. Like I am not, I don't know how long your arms are, but mine, I am not gonna be able to do that ever. Like, unless you're stretching them at some point. Cool. So it turns out there's one, one other middle aged, well young. Okay. There's one other 20-year-old girl, Angie, and she's married to Chad, so she's been doing Jiujitsu for, uh, ever and a day. Yeah. But Angie and I have the same kind of a DHD. Yeah. So we spend a lot of time giggling. Yeah. Which is sort of the saving grace and thank God. And then Angie will forget that I don't know what I'm doing. And like wham Yeah. Whi me to the, to the carpet. Um, which is fun. And I'm like, okay, well how did you do that? And she's like, I don't remember.

Yeah. That's, that's like Chad

Chris:

will, like, Chad will go like, he's like, all right, it's the shoulder destiny and then the arms shrug of paradise and the left chicken wing of death. I'm like, I don't who left chicken wing death. I don't. You guys are, you're definitely making shit up. I don't know. And my brain at that point of the day, will hold one thing, not even one thing. And he is like, all right, shoulder, arm goes here. And then I forget what this arm does. So I am constantly like looking around the class while holding onto Angie's shoulder. Yeah. Like that, like, like a, like we're dancing and she's like, I don't remember what to do. I'm like, you've been doing alright. That's okay. But she'll call Chad over and then Chad will go through it with us real fast and then he'll leave again. And I'm like, can you call him again?

Sarah:

I still don't understand. Can

Chris:

you, can you get him to come back? Show him your boobs? I feel like you're showing boobs anyway. It doesn't matter. Oh my God, yes. There's nothing but belly hanging out everywhere. Anyways, Angie and I spar for a little while and she's like, oh, you can roll with Paisley Paisley. Paisley's 12. Yeah, Paisley's 12. Um, her dad, Tim also takes classes. Mm-hmm. So I don't know anything at all at this point other than Shoulder of Destiny, which I'm never gonna be able to do because it takes more than this. So Paisley on the other hand, competes. And she is a higher, she's a higher belt than, yeah, of course. So Paisley comes over and grabs me by the shirt and then pulls me down to the ground immediately onto my knees, and then does a flip where she puts her legs around my neck. Oh. And then I had just have to immediately tap out. And then Tim, her dad is like, put up a little bit more fight than that. She's 12. She still sleeps with a nightlight. And I was like, Tim, I sleep with a nightlight. So that's that. And then that was like the end of, uh, that was the end of that class. And the point of this whole story is there's a couple old guys and I'm talking to the old guys and I'm like, hi, I am Chris.'cause at this point, Paisley has tossed me to the ground. I've shown everyone my boobs, everyone knows I'm an idiot who will joke around. And uh, so now I feel okay. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, hey, this is Mike. This is Mark. I was like, oh, like Apostles. And the one guy's like, there's no mark, there's no Mike Apostle. And I was like, huh, interesting. And he's like, that's funny. And Tim, who has wild a DH, like actually nobody in this class doesn't have a DH adhd. Yeah. I offered to pass out Ritalin the other day. Yeah. I was like, could I get, you guys are making me crazy. Tim says, oh, that's funny.'cause that's Father Mike. I was like, you are fucking with me again. Shoulder a destiny Father Mike. I'm like, come on guys. That's enough of the initiation. Yeah. Enough enough. No, no. Father Mike is actually, he's like, no, I'm actually a Catholic priest. And I was like, nice. Oh, congratulations on the Pope. Right. Uh, I hear he got a new boss. Yeah. There's no mic apostle.

I mean, there could be, I feel like there should be. There's Archangel Saint Michael. Right. We went to his school. I was like, there's a mic somewhere.

Chris:

Yeah. In,

Sarah:

in the Bible.

Chris:

And then, uh, they were, they were telling me that this other guy is the old guy. And I was like, great. How old are you? 48, 4.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. But you'll go back like you, you are, yeah. You're like a juujitsu person. Now,

Chris:

I don't know that I'm ever gonna be a Juujitsu person, but I will go back and I think it'll be fun once I figure out what I'm doing there.

Yeah.

Chris:

Right. Like, and so the second time I'm like, Hey, it, I don't wanna, I don't wanna interrupt anyone's flow, but can you just tell me what I'm supposed to be doing? And Chad's like, yeah, get, get past my guard. I was like, how?

Sarah:

Yeah. This is what I don't like. I don't understand why like, you just get thrown in. Like, shouldn't there? I don't. I,

Chris:

it's, and then, then there was another new guy who showed up yesterday and I was like, thank God, someone who's newer than me, this guy, it was his first jujitsu class, but he must have wrestled in high school. Yeah. So he is definitely just, uh, just in it to win it. And I am still afraid of hurting Paisley, so I don't like this guy. Like, he's like gouging Chad in the eyes. Yeah. I think that's where like the whole

Sarah:

cutting off the blood to the brain, I think that's where I would've checked out.

Chris:

Well, and no one will do it to me because Angie won't, Angie won't risk getting hurt and, uh, Paisley's 12. So she would rather just wrestle her dad. She's like, I'm gonna go partner up with my dad. I'm like, seems like a better idea. Cool. Yeah. How much do you pay for this? It's really cheap. Okay. I paid$10 for three, uh, three classes. Oh, that's great. Yeah. But I also had to buy the pajamas. It's not like, do you remember when we bought our, uh, pajamas at TaeKwonDo? Mm-hmm. And they were like, the patch goes here. Yeah, these go up the sleeve, but only here. Yeah. And it has to be within a nine. There were measurements. Yeah. They were like, what do you want on it? I was like, what? Pink

glitter.

Chris:

I was like, do you have any with unicorns?

Sarah:

I would like rainbows and glitter, please. That would make me happy. Maybe throw a butterfly on there.

Chris:

And then Father Mike is standing next to me and he's like, yeah, I bought my own embroidery machine. I was like, what did you put on yours? And he's like, devil's. I was like, well. Alright, cool. And he, I was like, well, I'm gonna see, and he showed me his amor machine and I was like, I meant the devils, but cool. Yeah. There it is. Yeah.

Sarah:

Wow. Wow.

Chris:

Right. And uh, Chad's like, here's this one is a snake. There's no rules about what I can have on my, I feel like this is much

Sarah:

better. Like, I, I like this, I like that part of it.

Chris:

It is wild. I'm like, so what should I get, get, do you take a marker to it? They don't give a shit. Like, it doesn't matter. Like one kid showed up in like a blue one and the other kids got like a black one with red shit on it. I got a black one with black on it.'cause I, you know, eventually I'm gonna have like rainbows and mm-hmm. Like flowers and stuff online. I want you to bedazzle it. My god.

Sarah:

With

Chris:

little rhinestones

Sarah:

on it. Yeah. I'm gonna buy a bedazzler just so we can bedazzle your ghee.

Chris:

Listen, you also would've been so proud of me because it took me all three lessons before I mentioned that I already had a black belt and something else. Wow. I'm very proud of you for that. And even then I knew, I mean, nobody cared.

Sarah:

Yeah, that's good. Nobody cared. I. I'm just proud of you for going'cause I wouldn't, I wouldn't have done it. Like everything you've just said, especially at the beginning, it hurts. Why am I first? Yeah, no.

Chris:

And laying there on my back like a turtle.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

And everything I do is completely wrong and makes it worse for me than before. Chad was like, get get past my guard. And I was like, well, quit moving. Why would you tell me to get past your legs and then wiggle around like that? He is like, no, no, no. You wanna immobilize my legs? And he's like, you get down. So he grabs my one foot and pins my other foot with it. So now I can't move my feet. And he is like, all right, sit up. And then I go to sit up and he grabs my shirt and pulls it down and he is like, alright, really? He's like, let me just get you into side hustle or whatever it is. I'm tired, I'm gonna, right. That is the other thing, like, I like for the, for the first time yesterday, like I felt like I knew enough where I could like actually try to really roll and I made it, uh, two minutes and 30 seconds and I was like, I have to lay. I give up. I'm gonna tap out because I, I'm gonna die

Sarah:

tired.

Chris:

I came home and I was shaking'cause I hadn't eaten enough. Like, oh yeah. I was like, this the fuck is happening. You're just rolling around on the ground.

Sarah:

Yeah. That takes, I mean,

Chris:

think it's like a real sport though.

Sarah:

There

Chris:

you go. There's a half an hour that we'll have to have Becca cut down. You wanna just start again? I think it,

Sarah:

I think it's mostly gold. I think that's wonderful. I choked on a dip for Christ's sake.

Chris:

But yeah, I mean, it is a, it is, it is wild. And I have, I have no idea what I'm doing. Um, I'm having a ton of fun and every time I walk in I'm like, I don't belong here. I don't belong here. I don't belong here. I don't belong here. Don't belong here. And you still do. Like, that's the big thing. And I'm like, fuck that. I, I'm gonna, I belong anywhere Like the second time. Right. The second time was the worst.'cause I'd already, like, I'd already used up my, I'm new here.

Yeah. And

Chris:

as I was walking in, I'm like, you know what? Fuck these motherfuckers. I belong here. Right. I'm gonna walk in this door as if I am the baddest bitch that ever walked in here. And then I am gonna be funny as hell and everyone is gonna freaking love me. Yeah.

Sarah:

And then you open the door.

Chris:

And then I was like, why does it smell so bad? My God. What stinks. Did someone leave their sweaty gee,

Sarah:

like under a radiator? It smells like at the deck hockey game when the whole team runs past you at the same time.

Chris:

Well,

Sarah:

like, we're even outdoors. Oh my Lord,

Chris:

look what is like, do you guys know? It smells like I came out of the ladies' dressing room and I was like, do you guys know how bad it smells in here?

Sarah:

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Chris:

They were like, yeah, we can't do anything about it. That's just the way we smell. And I was like, I brush my teeth before I come here.'cause I don't want, you know, I'm gonna be close to you. I don't, I dunno. Crazy. All right, well, there, there you go. That's what, that's what I have going on. Just that I like it. I like the Jiji too. Just that and, uh, AI for A DHD, so I won't ruin it. Uh, but there's a book out there called AI for A DHD and I used the shit out of it today and probably did. Four things I'd been putting off for five months.

Sarah:

Yay.

Chris:

And it justs kind. That's what

Sarah:

it's about.

Chris:

It just kind of pushed me through the beginning part of it. And there you go.

Chris (2):

There you go. So it was awesome.

Sarah:

So, so check it out. It's on Amazon, by Lindsay Sch like cola, but with an S. Alright. Um, what do you got your turn? I'm done talking. I don't have anything'cause I don't, it's'cause I'm not,'cause my shit's actually serious and I'm not sure the last time like I was serious about anything

Chris:

before. I know this is kind of role reversal.'cause the last time I was sort of whimsical and, and you were serious was like a long, long time ago I think. Yeah. Before we go Octane, MMA in Monongahela, if anyone is interested in doing jiujitsu, they're nice, they're friendly. Honestly, I, I kid around a lot about how no one told me how to do anything, but every time I stood around and looked like I need to help somebody was like, tuck your shoulder, tuck your head and flip over.

Sarah:

Talk

Chris:

flip, talk flip. They're like, don't do that. Don't do that. Stretch your back out. Everyone's just very nice. And I think that I offended the old guys'cause I was like, everyone here looks so young. I'm so old. And they were like, yeah, well, we're just old people. And I was like, no, I don't mean you.

No,

Chris:

I don't. Sir, I am older than you by a decade.

Sir, sir.

Chris:

Father?

Sarah:

Um, I do. So we should probably do a little shout out for our fan mail. I can't remember the last time we did that. Kim sent us some pictures. Mill Bishops and the Oland Mills. The Oland Mills pictures are my God. Unbelievable. Have you seen the

Chris:

ones from Jamie Rudder? No. Did she send them? She might have just texted them to me because I was like, why are you and your sister dressed like your mom? Yeah, it's yeah. Uhhuh, right?

Sarah:

Is that a blazer? Rudder? Right. So, uh, so we had that and then Rudy sent us some, some feedback. Yeah. He, he wanted to let us know. They're definitely gummy dicks. Good. We got'em. I got'em. I got'em. I actually had them. I don't know how you forget about having gummy dicks, but, but whatever. And he wants to know if we've ever seen the movie Bad Parents. I have not.

Chris:

I don't think so. I on Netflix, I think this was in my Disney, my Disney era. Oh, kitty. Yikes. Sorry. Cat knock and shout over. I think it

Sarah:

might be on Netflix. I might have to check it out. Okay. Next. Shout out to Zol and design for their May Mental Health Month social media posting, the Mental Health Awareness Month Zen with Zol and Designs where they featured us. So that was super cool. So thanks Rick and uh, Julia who put it together. You guys are awesome. And I also reached out to our friend all the way across the country. Misty. Misty. I haven't heard from her. We haven't heard from her in a while. I'm not sure. But Misty reached out to us last. Summer to let us know that, my God, that we helped get her into counseling or into therapy. And it was, it's an email that made both of us cry. That was wonderful. Anyway, so I reached out to her to see how she was doing and, and she's still doing therapy. She's doing the hard things that everybody should be doing. That's awesome. But she also shared with us pictures of her grand baby Margot. So cute. And Margot is an awesome name, and I love the name. And she's just so cute. And the picture has the, you know, the baby hands up by the head slipping. Oh, I surrender. So, yay. And she said she's still listening. She's a little bit behind. But aren't we all right? We all are. Okay. So onto me, um, I bought, well, I bought a little coach training thing that I've been working on. I think I mentioned that already in the last episode maybe. Um, but I also joined a group that Mark Manson has recently started, uh, with his new podcast called Solved And what it is, this is awesome. It's called Mark Manson's Momentum Program. I don't know if it's called that. It's called Momentum. I think that sounds better than Mark Manson's Momentum Program. I think I got, I got fancy here. Anyway, I like,

maybe you should send that idea to him and be like, Hey, better name. No, I don't like it. It's, I like momentum. I like

Sarah:

momentum. But basically he formed this, uh, because he, to get past the fluff of all the self-care and all the self-help stuff. Okay. And actually put together a group of people who want to make changes and make those changes. Small wins day by day. So every month he takes, um, a subject and every day he and his team will post on it and every month has a workbook. You know, I love a good workbook. Hate it so much every month. I mean, you don't have to use the workbook. No, no. But every month and you have a little, uh, what's it called? Assignment. And you have to make a post under, like, it's kind of like facebooky kind of thing, but not really. Oh

yeah. Yeah.

Sarah:

I mean, you answer it there and then other people read your post and give you feedback or say that they love it or just give it a little heart or a little clap and it goes on like that. So was it was shock you, it was values. So we worked on my God. I worked on identifying values and I worked really hard on it, and I, I love it so much. I've identified some values, but I want, I don't want them to be in the order that they're in. So I have work to do because your values can change, because you can change your values because the way I live more so goes with the value of connection and enjoyment at the top. So I just, that makes sense. Wanna have fun?

Chris:

I wanna be connected to people and make them laugh. That's me.

Sarah:

Yeah. So I would like to change it around. And um, also in the top five was purpose, empathy, and growth. But what I, that's good. I want growth to be the first one. I want that to be the, the thing that I'm living by and focusing on right now and purpose to have an impact.'cause that's really what I, I've been trying to do. That's why I started working with Michelle and, uh, trying to identify. You know, what I, what I should do in life, um, because I, I also wanna start a little side hustle, but we'll get to that. But back to values. I want to share a story that was told on the podcast. So the podcast is Mark Manson, and Drew Bernie, I think is his name. Uh, he's Mark Manson's producer research, like, um, he's this dude. Yeah, he's, he's Mark Sky, and they're fantastic. And I, I love just listening to them. The podcast is actually four plus hours, but he has it broken down for the momentum stuff. But if you wanna listen to it, you can listen to it for four hours, if's a long time. Like it's time. I get antsy when we hit like an hour. So some of the stuff I thought was really cool. Um, and I, I know that we've talked about it before, but not to the depths that. Like I actually had to work on it and we focused a lot on how you need to gonna be trade offs in your values, and you have to decide what you want to trade for the value that you want. And then we talked about how it's really insightful, like, and then, yeah, obvious. So I wanna change, so I wanna change my values. So that's how we change. That's one way that we change them is that, or I wanna change the order of my values. I wanna change the importance of my values. So in order to get growth up to the top, I'm gonna have to. Pull back on enjoyment. Now, it doesn't mean you neglect it. It's about balance. It's about balancing. Right. But, so maybe instead of playing my farm game every night, so I quit my farm game. Yeah. I mean, how

Chris:

will, how will, how will the internet people get wheat? Right. I'm proud of you. Seriously.

Sarah:

So, yeah. So I gave up my farm game so I could put more time towards my growth. So it's about balance and figuring out what you want to give up for the value that you really wanna highlight in your life. So the other thing I really liked was talking about just because someone doesn't share your values, excuse me, doesn't mean their values are wrong. Which is something that's really hard for me, it's,

Chris:

that one's really funny for me because it's such an, it's such an A DHD characteristic. Like ARS are just hard judgers all the time. Yeah. But I'm not like, it's the thing that makes me think, well, maybe I don't have a d. See, but I think

Sarah:

that's the thing. Like you don't have to have all of the things. Right. That's what I've been thinking about lately.

Chris:

You don't have to have every single one of'em, because your life would be a bit more challenging. Yeah. Lives a hard judger, like you're a hard judge, so

Sarah:

it's, it's hard to, to pull back sometimes and realize, oh, this person is acting that way because they value this more than I do. The Drew shared the story that I thought was really cool, and I'm probably gonna fuck it up, but I'm gonna try to, to, to do it a little bit of justice. Don't fuck it up. It's his, it's the taco truck story, which immediately I love. And it's, it's about how Drew almost got into a, uh, fist fight at the taco truck. So he and his girlfriend at the time go to the taco truck, they eat their order, their food, and they go sit at the picnic table. At the picnic table. There's also another gentleman and they start chatting with him. He's a real nice guy. He obviously has some mental disabilities and real sweet guy, and they just keep chatting with him and then eventually the guy asks them, do you have any spare money so I can get onto the bus? I spent my last bit of money on my taco stuff and didn't realize it, and they don't have any cash. So, okay, so the guy gets up and he goes up to the taco truck and he puts his hand in the tip jar because that was his last bit of money. He put his money in the tip jar and so he just wanted to get his his money back, but the guy who was ordering at the time didn't know that. So the guy who's ordering at the time and sees the guy come up and put his. Hand in the tip jar loses his fucking mind, like, starts screaming at this guy, screaming, cursing. So Drew gets up, he wants to help this other guy because he's, you know, they've built some sort of connection, right? So he goes over, he's like, come on buddy, let's just get outta here. We'll find you, we'll find you money. Like, not confronting the other guy, just trying to get him outta there. The other guy, the ordering guy goes in his pocket, grabs a couple bucks and throws it like hand, right in the, in the tip jar. Guy's face like an asshole and continues to yell at him. Drew loses his mind, starts screaming at him. So now they're screaming at each other. They're calling each other names, yelling at each other. The guy starts taking a stance, like he's gonna start to get physical. So Drew's like, all right, this is how it's gonna be, so let's go. I choose violence, my friend, come on. And Drew's girlfriend comes over and he is like, she was like, drew, just sit down. Like, sure, let's, so everything calms down, everything calms down. They end up chatting, shaking hands. The guy has money to get on the bus. Everything's,

Chris:

everything's fine.

Sarah:

So fine. But as Drew was thinking about it, this is one of those things like each person was reacting or acting on a, how did he put it? A value trigger. Oh, Drew's value that he, that he was focusing on the most was his carrying value, his help, his kindness. And helping this guy, the guy who blew his mind was focusing on his value of fairness and justice, not cheating. Yeah. Like that was, that's his value. And then Drew's girlfriend, she just wants peace. Like she just wants everybody to chill the fuck out.

Chris:

Right.

Sarah:

Right. It doesn't make like Yeah. The guy, the ordering guy, he definitely could have handled things different. I won't defend some, but you get the gist of it. Like it's, I mean, it's your

Chris:

value. Yeah. Like, and I just thought that was a really

Sarah:

interesting story.

Chris:

Ordering guy is just operating from his value. Right? Right. Like, you don't steal that money. Right. Period. End of story. That's my value. Yeah. Like maybe you only have one. Like I know a lot of people that only have the one value, like they're like, this is justice and this is the only thing that matters. Yeah. And if I can't tally up the score right, then you're doing it wrong.

Sarah:

Yeah. So I, those were the, the couple of things like the balancing of, of the values, the, you're gonna have to trade one off for the other. So the balancing and then just the how we act, we're acting on our values. And just because we have different values doesn't mean that, that somebody's wrong. They might act like an asshole. Okay. But I mean, you're, you're allowed. What, so there's a lot more, a lot more going on in momentum. I'm finding it. That's helpful. Extremely helpful. I'm doing my work every day digging into it. Not just, it's kind of like coaching with Michelle except for I don't have her right in my face. I think doing the coaching with Michelle first is helping me do this, but it's definitely the, you know, we talked about it, I think when we first started doing the podcast. Like I could read all these self-help books about, I don't do shit about them. So this is the action part. Like this is Mark Manson and his team making us do something. Yeah. So I like

that.

Sarah:

Yeah. I, I really, really love it.

Chris:

I also like the idea of it being a zero sum game.'cause that kind of makes sense to me in a way that maybe nothing else. Like, no, I, I don't recall this in any of the self-help books, the fact that you have a, you have a fixed profile and a fixed amount of time, space, and energy, right? Mm-hmm. And if you're paying attention and you're feeding these things over here, you're doing that because they're important to you for some reason. Right? And until you can swap. Something for something else, then you're always going to be in the same place. You're always gonna be repeating the same thing. Like for instance, uh, today was a lesson in sleep and how much I really like sleeping in the morning. And the reason I like sleeping in the morning is because I stayed up too late looking at AI for A DHD instead of actually doing AI for A DHD. So you'll get there, you'll get there.

Sarah:

Don't be too hard on yourself. It's crazy.

Chris:

Don't

Sarah:

be too

Chris:

hard. No, no, no. But, but now that, now that you've said that, like things like one of the little, one of the little ticks that has to fall in place fell in place for me. You can't continue to do the same shit. You have to figure out a way to determine what has to change. And one way to do that is as usual, your values. And I Exactly. It always comes back to the values. Figure them out.

Sarah:

Well, that's why, that's why I like this. And it's, it's, it's a daily thing. It's not something that you just, it just happens. Like it's a constant work and it's messy. It's difficult. And if it's not messy and difficult, you're probably not doing it. Right.

Chris:

Right. If

Sarah:

you're not a little uncomfortable,

Chris:

I think it's also

Sarah:

the trick. You're probably not doing it right. Like you really have to, to dig down and make yourself a little uncomfortable. Like, I mean, there's some other stuff that I'm not gonna talk about because. It made me feel bad, but yes, I shouldn't say made me feel bad. It made me uncomfortable and made me a little bit disappointed in myself. Like things that you learn and you don't realize. Um, so, so those things are brought to light and, um, and you share as much and as little as you want with people on the forum. And, uh, we actually, I'm working with another guy. We're putting together a little accountability group. There's like five of us that wanna be in the accountability group. Like one of his, one of this guy's big wins was putting himself out there and saying, I want an accountability partner. Does anybody wanna be my friend? And I said, oh my God, I wanna be your friend. I wanna be your friend. And so that's what, oh my God. So we're putting together a little accountability group, which is fun. So, yeah. And the, the other thing that has come out of that is I have developed a mantra and a decision filter.

Chris:

Ooh,

Sarah:

tell me about it. Which is fantastic. So my mantra, I'm still, I still have to read it'cause I, my mantra was just born yesterday, but I super love it. Amen. And it is, I choose growth over comfort, alignment over impulse and the future. Me over the fleeting. Now I don't need it to be easy. I need it to be worth it. I love it. And so this the mantra, that's what I have to, like when I'm, when I need to get up in the morning and start my day.'cause that's when I'm at my best is the morning. If I just get the fuck outta bed, like I need to focus on my mantra. And it's, it's not, it's not gonna be easy, but you gotta do it. You have to choose the action over the emotion. Right? And then my decision filter is three questions I ask myself when someone says, do you wanna go to the bar? Yes, I does this feed my growth or just soothe me, right? Is it helping build future me or just killing me? And what am I trading it for? What am I trading for it? So, yeah. So maybe I say, yeah. I wanna go to the bar. And what am I trading for that? Well, I'm trading time on working on this thing that, that I'm trying to work on, that I'm getting serious about. So, but it makes you more conscious of what you're actually, that value that you're kind of trading off.

Chris:

Yeah, that's, it reminds me of when, when I was in graduate school. Do you remember when I was in graduate school? I do. And everybody else that we hung out with was already grownup jobs. Uhhuh. They already had grownup jobs and they had, if they weren't at work, they didn't have anything else to do. So they would, everyone would just hang out in the hot tub at the pool or, you know, on days off they would go, like there would be hiking involved. And for a, for a period of a couple of months, I pretended like I didn't have anything else going on. Yeah. But I had, I had graduate school, which it turns out was kind of fucking hard. Yeah. I was no longer the smartest person in the classroom, just by default. Yikes. And it, yeah, at some point I had to be like, okay, I cannot, if I, the price I'm gonna pay for going on this hike is then that I don't get to, I don't get to study until 10 o'clock at night and then I don't get to sleep. So consciously decide if you wanna go, uh, scurry up Camelback Mountain with a bunch of pharmacists or uh, uh, or if you want to, you know, go to bed like a normal person.

Sarah:

The, the great, going back to the values, like the awesome thing about them is you should constantly be reevaluating them because they're not set in stone. Right. They shouldn't be the same all the time. The values I had 10 years ago, that's another thing we did the one day was compare your values to 10 years ago, right? Like 10 years ago. I was just going back to work after staying home with Owen and I just wanted a job so we could buy shit. Like, I literally wanted nothing. Like I couldn't have cared less about anything, but just getting a real job. Again. That's it. Like, right. So they're constantly, they're constantly changing and you should always be reevaluating them. So just because right now I wanna focus more on growth and purpose doesn't mean that's how it's always going to be, obviously. So that brings up my next thing I wanna talk about. Yay. Because I started like, for real, not just talking about it, but I started putting together my business plan to get my personal development coaching business started.

Chris:

I love it.

Sarah:

And I've named it, it's gonna be pop, pop coaching, and that's plan over panic coaching. And I've decided on my niche, or is it niche, niche, niche, niche, niche, niche. What I'd like to do is I would like to work with young adults who, um, are recently getting out of school. And I think that I, I think I may have mentioned this before, you know, high school, four year college, grad school, whatever it is at that time in their life where they're like, oh fuck. Transition. Fuck, what did I do? Like, what am I supposed to do? Um, and there's pe I mean, that's great for some like you who know what you wanna do and get to do it. And that's fantastic. We just, we just fake it better than anybody else. But then there's me who, who was a, graduating with a, a business major and I had no direction, nothing. And I've lived with no direction pretty much. So that's what I want to do. I love this. And of course, my vibe. I want it to be real. I don't want it to be all fluffy and shit. Like, I want it to be very upfront and understanding that what we just talked about, it's going to take effort. You're gonna have to put the time in. And also, I really wanna focus on the fact that I'm not fixing anybody. There's nothing wrong with with you. The answers that you're looking for are actually in there somewhere already. You just need someone to help you dig them out. So, yeah. So I did my business plan today before we got on. Got on our, our recording. Um, I'm so

Chris:

happy for you. Yeah. So I am talking to a young lady tomorrow about her recently graduated. She wants to get into clinical research.

Mm-hmm.

Chris:

She's got a, a data analytics degree. Yeah. So maybe I, uh, maybe I send you your first customer.

Sarah:

So yeah, that's the way I wanna do it. I wanna do a little more, I'm gonna finish up like the, take a few more actual coaching classes, polish a little bit, which everything keeps telling me don't even like, fuck it. Like start, like just get started, get busy. So I get three beta customers who will get super, super cheap rates and then move on from there. So anyway, I'm working on it. I've gotten to the point where I, I have it, it's plan over panic and that's what it's about. So I'm making steps, I'm making progress, and I wouldn't have done any of that without momentum. That's awesome. That is,

Chris:

that is amazing. You can't recommend it enough.

Sarah:

I absolutely love it. It's a great little community. And the month of June is about procrastination.

Chris:

What? So I will email Lynn the

Sarah:

link to her interview a little bit later so it opens up. There was just one thing, like a little icebreaker and share the most outrageous or funniest thing that you've done to avoid doing something else. And just on Tuesday I was avoiding doing procedure updates'cause I hate them so badly. Hate them. Hate them. You know what I did? I pulled out all of my nail shit. Like the UV lamp? Yeah. Like all, all the, all the shit in my little, my grinder thing. And I fixed my thumb. If it was just one, it was just one singular fingernail that had a little chip in it. So I You fixed it though. All my shit out fixed. My thumb. Felt that bitch down fixed my thumb so I wouldn't have to do procedures.

I took up Juujitsu so I wouldn't have to clean the toilet. Exactly.

Sarah:

So it's, I'll share with you what I learned about procrastination.

Thank

Sarah:

you.

I might,

Sarah:

I might have to just sign up and do it with you. Yeah, I love it. And you get badges and shit like,'cause you know, oh, I love people love shit like that. And I, I have a, I'm on a, I think 16 day streak with getting on there and communicating.

Chris:

That's so fun. It reminds me of when I did Nerd Fitness. Nerd Fitness does that shit too. Like, you get badges and you go on a quest. I feel like I remember this, it's a, it's, it's right around the same time I was doing CrossFit. So I was really into all kinds of fitness shit. And then this one is like a nerd who got like strong in buff by tricking himself into, you know, walking to the Shire. Or walking to Mordo from the Shire. That's how we got in shape. Okay. Fun. Fun.

Sarah:

I have. All right. I have only one more thing. Do it. Lay it out for anyone who doesn't know already. We had a Memorial Day soccer tournament, so around this time last year, I was freaking out about Owen trying out for this team and they just played in their last tournament of the year. And I gotta tell you, these kids suck. Like it's not a great team. They're not great. They're not great. We get our asses handed to us. It's okay, it's fine. They're learning, they're having a good time. It's fine. Everything's fine. It's fine. So we trust me, we go to this tournament. The first, the first team we play, they're like our size. I'm like, ah, alright. We end up winning, I think three to one. Cool. The next team, I'm like, these dudes are in college.

Chris:

Were they bigger?

Sarah:

Yes. During the warmup I was like, wow, we're fucked. This is gonna be a blood bath. Was there Coach British? No, but he was some sort of something he, he was the best coach ever. He was my favorite thing. And we'll get to him later. Well, we'll get to him. He was an awesome coach. Like his kids started complaining about shit and he was like, no, and whatever his accent is, he's tiny little guy older with white hair and he, it's when the coach has any accent. Yeah, it doesn't have to be British. He had his cute little accent and he was yelling, the kids were yelling at the ref. He's like, that's not what we do. That's not, we play, we play. It was amazing. Anyway, so like, yeah, we're getting our asses kicked. The first half, they totally outplayed us. They hit. The crossbar maybe four times. Aw. Like insane. So it gets to, and when I say they, the other team right, hits the crossbar. So it gets to halftime at zero zero. I was like, well I, that in of itself is a fucking miracle. We're gonna call this one a win. So I'm cool. Like I, the second half is about to go bad though. Our kids came out and like, we did not get blown away. That second half our kids played with them and kept up with them and they didn't

give up and they ended up scoring a goal like, wait, the other team didn't score. So Correct. Your team won. Well, let me tell you how we scored the goal real quick.

Chris:

Is this the video you sent us? No, no.

Sarah:

This is the next game. Great. We score behind a penalty kick because our, our smallest player Finn was in and he was in the box and the other. The defender guy was coming at him as though Finn is the same size as he is. Oh. Expecting to hit a person the same size that he is. That is not what happened. And Finn went flying. I've been there. Yeah. And so we got, we got a penalty kick and that's

Chris:

how we won that game. I love it so much. And my heart of hearts.

Sarah:

Yeah. So it turns out we won. Okay. And then we got beat the next morning. So we had four teams in our bracket. We ended up going three in one. The last game we had was the exact same as this, the one I just talked about. Bigger outplayed, the first half, yada, yada yada. Our kids come out the second half, they're, they're playing their asses off. I think that team hit the crossbar once or twice. My God. Stop it. And um, they have, they have a pretty shitty goal kick that goes right to my child on the 25 yard line. And he decides,'cause he's, he's tired, he's not gonna run with it or anything. He just gives it a little touch and basically gives it a Hail Mary. I mean, he, he's not gonna tell you it's a Hail Mary. He's gonna tell you he, that's exactly what he tried to do. It's exactly what he wanted to do. Yeah. And scores. And there's two minutes left in the game. So we beat this team, which is amazing. We go to the finals or championship and we're playing the same team that we beat via penalty kick. It's the coach.

Chris:

Yeah, the accented coach. It's

Sarah:

a great coach. Yeah. Our favorite coach. Everyone. Everyone's in college. Everyone flunked. Yeah. It's amazing. I, I should add, and this might be boring and that's fine, I'm gonna add it anyway. There were three other FC games before ours, and each one of them ended in penalty kicks with, oh my God. Our. Club losing. Oh. So we were the last game of the day, and I 100, ex 100% expected these boys to be coming out like guns a blazing, wanting to pay us back for getting that bullshit win the day before. Like, we're fucked. We're fucked. It's gonna be, it's gonna be embarrassing

Chris:

again. Again. Coach with an accent. Bigger kids now they're pissed. Yeah. Yeah. You would think. You would think.

Sarah:

No. They hit the crossbar twice. One of them, well, they hit the crossbar and then the sidebar, I don't know what, but the one that hit the sidebar hit like on the inside of the sidebar and just bounced right to our goalie motherfucker. Like if you're shooting that, you're like,

yeah, I,

Sarah:

I looked at Noah like, oh my God. Um, and we go into overtime and honestly, in this game, our boys played, they played well. I mean, they, they played as hard as they could and they didn't give up. And that's what I kept saying, like, that's what won the weekend is just their grit, that they didn't give up at all. And in the first five minute overtime, they scored a goal and held them off for the second five minute overtime and ended up being the champions. That's amazing. I love it. Let's go fc. Yeah, so it was really fun. Owen loved it. And the goal that Owen scored, it was like for the, maybe the first time I felt like what it was like to be mommy and daddy because I was. Right before he scored, I was getting like, like nervous and so I had to get up and I started pacing the stands and Noah's just sitting there watching and he scores the goal and I almost like fall down. Like I'm hands up screaming, like almost fall down the stands. I look over and Noah is doing the proud Papa. Arms crossed jumbo master.

I love it.

Sarah:

It was fantastic. So it was a great weekend and I just wanted to share that because these boys, I was so proud of them for not giving up and just continuing to give it their all.

Chris:

See, this is the, this is the trick. Like we can be, we can be all angsty. And I've seen on Facebook, like all of the, uh, you know, here's the tryout schedule for this competitive team. Yeah. It's time and here's the tryout schedule, like, and the amount of anxiety I had. Yeah. Two years after, this isn't an issue for me anymore. Like three, four years after we were actually trying, five years after we're actually trying out for a team. Yeah. Like the P-T-S-D-I had just looking at all these tryout schedules and then still, because I'm me, I'm like lining up the dates and I'm like, these motherfuckers, they have theirs one week later. Yeah. Oh. And these two have'em on the same day. So you have to pick.

Sarah:

Yeah. It's very, it's very strategic and dumb I think. I don't know. But FC does some, like, I think most players do that. Like Owen already has his offer for next year.

Yeah.

Sarah:

Like they do an early tryout with the boys in the spring. So, and in fact their tryout is next Friday and Owen can't go'cause he is getting his wisdom teeth out.

Chris:

Right. And there's like, so we don't even have

Sarah:

to go through it.

Chris:

I have to plan the vacation around when soccer tryouts are, it's. Totally a bizarre thing. Yeah. But you know, at the end, your, your kid's gonna find a team where they fit in and they're having a good time and it's not so over the top. Crazy. Yeah. And like the, the lessons that those kids are gonna take out of that are so much more than, uh, than, you know, you gotta be the best guy on the team when you're eight. Yeah, for sure. Do you know what I mean? For sure. Like, I love it. I, it's why we play sports. In fact, I was having a conversation again with somebody I work with. What's up Booker? Um, about the, the difference between people who played team sports when they were growing up and people who didn't and how they navigate the workplace. Yeah. Like wildly different approaches for these two groups of people. And not that one is better than the other one, of course. No, but, but just a different

Sarah:

approach.

Chris:

But you can tell like, like-minded people work well together. Mm-hmm. It's crazy. But, but yeah, I mean, that's the good stuff that comes outta sports. And you just have to keep, you just have to keep your parent crazy in check, and you have to keep their kids crazy in check and hope for the best.

Sarah:

Yeah. One of the games before us, there was a dad who was just Wow. And there was some karma that happened. Yeah. And it's, it was sad. And then like, talking about values, I was like, oh, I feel so bad for the goalies. And this wasn't even in a penalty kick. This was something else. I was like, I feel so bad for the goalie. Noah was like, why? I was like, because I fucking empathy. Right.

I

Sarah:

feel so bad.

He's like, oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. I felt bad for him too. I don't know if he thought like, I felt bad. Like he scraped his knee. Like, like is he's

Sarah:

not hurt. God haven't help us. Anyway, I think we could wrap it up. Um, I hope so. Good. I think we have plenty, plenty for Becca to edit. All right, let's sign off. Okay. You hit the button. Hold on. Okay. Love you. Bye. Love you. Bye.

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