The Mental Funny Bone

Episode 30: I Appreciate Your Porn Mustache

Gaster Girls Season 3 Episode 5

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

How to find mental health help when you're struggling.  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
https://washingtoncountyhumanservices.com/agencies/behavioral-health-developmental-services
https://www.alleghenycounty.us/Services/Human-Services-DHS/Publications/Resource-Guides
Apps -  Just search mental health where you get your apps.
EAP programs are a great place to look for help!!

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

you say we, you meant me,

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

And yet here we are.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Got it.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

sad.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Do it.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Okay. So she's still hanging

Chris

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

Sarah

Xanax for the ride home. Xanax.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Trousers.

Chris

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

Sarah

would you think of trouser snakes?

Chris

It's just what comes to

Sarah

Is that even a snake? What? Really?

Chris

Yeah.

Sarah

I think of like old men.

Chris

Trousers.

Sarah

their trousers.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Such a good one.

Chris

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

Sarah

I like clouds.

Chris

Bunnies are cute, right?

Sarah

Squirrel.

Chris

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

Sarah

Question, question.

Chris

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

Sarah

giant.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

oh, I see what you're saying. I

Sarah

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

Chris

so

Sarah

classic shopping carts.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

right. Cause this is what

Sarah

80s fold up shopping cart.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Yay.

Chris

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

Sarah

You can be in one of the gangs now.

Chris

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

Sarah

gang.

Chris

you were in a gang, you,

Sarah

I was not in a gang. no gangs.

Chris

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

Sarah

she?

Chris

yeah, she refers to it.

Sarah

get the email.

Chris

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

Sarah

Okay. Yeah.

Chris

So

Sarah

do

Chris

lash out, don't lash out.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

No. No.

Chris

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

Sarah

I was gonna say, did you send that?

Chris

No, I didn't.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Yep.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah, I don't have anything.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah, that sounds good.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

Oh,

Sarah

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

Chris

you guys can't cheer.

Sarah

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

Chris

Oh

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Okay. Good. Good.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

prefer to think of them as misdirected youth.

Sarah

That's also what they call rugby players.

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, wow.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

right? Can never keep it straight.

Sarah

a lot of it. A lot of it.

Chris

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

Sarah

the groin?

Chris

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

Sarah

Okay.

Chris

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

Sarah

Interesting.

Chris

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

Sarah

Excuse me.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

So what are you doing?

Sarah

Yeah,

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, yeah?

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh yeah. Good old Freddy.

Chris

He was in Mrs. Masick's class.

Sarah

Sheesh.

Chris

Oddly enough, good friends with Ray Vittori.

Sarah

Now I have Olympus gets on my head.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yes.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

looks like. Très bien.

Sarah

Awesome. I like it.

Chris

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

Sarah

Just the paw.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, that's good.

Chris

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

Sarah

Told them. Yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

Bastards.

Chris

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

Sarah

did you see monkey wieners?

Chris

no, the monkeys were exceedingly well behaved.

Sarah

Oh, wow. Interesting. That's disappointing.

Chris

I know, right?

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, yeah. All right.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yes, I love the word feces.

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, good. That's good.

Chris

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

Sarah

A remote stealer bar.

Chris

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

Sarah

He was just playing Renegade.

Chris

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

Sarah

been there. Play Renegade!

Chris

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

Sarah

it should be Iron City. Fail.

Chris

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

Sarah

doesn't, why?

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh Wow, I mean

Chris

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

Sarah

and your fucking gangs

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah, Jason Kelce style, yeah.

Chris

right. And, and

Sarah

I would have been hanging out with them.

Chris

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

Sarah

out with me.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

You'd be like, guys,

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

and kept ordering

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

course.

Chris

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

Sarah

Thank

Chris

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

Sarah

that would have been bad news.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

good,

Chris

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

Sarah

good.

Chris

coughing here in a minute.

Sarah

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

Chris

30s?

Sarah

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

Chris

Kurt Russell?

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

just

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Yep.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

All right, fun Bobby.

Sarah

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

Chris

I wouldn't have liked either

Sarah

you wouldn't have known.

Chris

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

Sarah

I was

Chris

I've seen it.

Sarah

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

Chris

you dressed as?

Sarah

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

Chris

Aww, so cute.

Sarah

my scarecrow fingernails?

Chris

oh, you have patchwork fingernails. Aww,

Sarah

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

Chris

S. Yes.

Sarah

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

Chris

Fuck around and find out, my friend.

Sarah

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

Chris

dude.

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

does, he knows what a quad is.

Sarah

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

Chris

Okay,

Sarah

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

Chris

Oh, a fan mail fame. Great.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

right yeah,

Chris

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

Sarah

that's it. Oh,

Chris

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

Sarah

yes. Oh, I watched the last two.

Chris

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

Sarah

Amen.

Chris

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

Sarah

Nice.

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, good.

Chris

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

Sarah

What are we going with?

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

Ah.

Sarah

me to share that one?

Chris

I love it. Yes, please.

Sarah

All right.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

What?

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah. I'm in the death room,

Chris

and, but he's

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

daily,

Sarah

Generic accepted.

Chris

generic accepted,

Sarah

Oh yeah. Refills. Endless.

Chris

unlimited.

Sarah

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

Chris

like,

Sarah

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

Chris

so did they concoct this prescription, before?

Sarah

Prior. Yeah. This is Noah. 100%.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

Oh, I was like,

Sarah

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

Chris

that is elaborate.

Sarah

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

Chris

I'm good.

Sarah

it was just the prescription was. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris

Nice. Excellent.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

just in case he needs it.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

He was like, I think that's fantastic.

Chris

Who needs it?

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yes. I like it. I like it.

Chris

Yeah, I look, much more reasonable.

Sarah

Yes.

Chris

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

Sarah

yeah. I

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Every time you went to the bathroom.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

Yep. Yep.

Sarah

just saying what I might have done.

Chris

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

Sarah

Right.

Chris

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

Sarah

God, I'd never weigh myself.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

no, you don't do you

Sarah

Maybe.

Chris

you're such a weirdo.

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

You're

Chris

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

Sarah

I could go for some McDonald's chicken nuggies.

Chris

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

Sarah

of fries,

Chris

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

Sarah

I can now.

Chris

I can,

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

is it? Who is this for?

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah, I might

Chris

all weekend.

Sarah

Feed the cats while you're there.

Chris

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

Sarah

little bit less of you.

Chris

a fourth grader.

Sarah

yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

You didn't cheat.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

So that box

Sarah

it for the next thing.

Chris

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

Sarah

Good.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Excuse me? No.

Chris

Don't you talk to me like that?

Sarah

No.

Chris

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

Sarah

No, I've been meditating.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Last week.

Chris

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

Sarah

not magic.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

Yeah. I think, Oh, it may be

Sarah

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

Chris

To do body scan. I like the body

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

right,

Sarah

what I envision.

Chris

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

Sarah

Falling water.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, I love it.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

That's a nice

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah,

Chris

and my

Sarah

I love it. Is it Amish built?

Chris

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

Sarah

Yep.

Chris

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

Sarah

okay,

Chris

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

Sarah

that, I love

Chris

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

Sarah

yeah,

Chris

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

Sarah

your meditation chat.

Chris

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

Sarah

I like

Chris

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

Sarah

I

Chris

In my meditation space.

Sarah

I cannot wait.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

Yeah.

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

I end up with a little mini boner this week.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

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

Chris

oh, never mind then. Fuck you.

Sarah

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

Chris

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

Sarah

Oh, yeah. Yeah, the teats.

Chris

The teets. That's exactly what I

Sarah

it. The second neighborhood.

Chris

Olivia and those teets.

Sarah

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

Chris

Yes. I love it.

Sarah

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

Chris

All right. Love you.

Sarah

Love you. Bye.

Chris

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