The Mental Funny Bone

Episode 58: When Gastermania Runs Wild

• Gaster Girls • Season 6 • Episode 11

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Christine and Sarah welcome listeners to 'The Mental Funny Bone,' diving into their usual blend of comedy and mental health insights. The episode is packed with personal updates including Sarah's excitement over a 'game-changing' meditation pillow, Christine's ADHD struggles and coping mechanisms, and the hilarious 'Gaster Story' of Christine’s childhood obsession with studio wrestling. They also share heartfelt moments about parenting challenges and lessons learned from high school and college soccer experiences. Between laughs and serious discussions, they explore themes of resilience, the need for better ADHD management, and the intricacies of starting a mindset coaching business. A whirlwind episode filled with humor, nostalgia, and honest reflections.

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Chris:

Hello. Welcome to the Mental Funny Bone, a comedy mental health podcast where we touch on various topics related to mental health and we try to make you laugh, uh, despite the tears.

Sarah:

I'm Christine, I'm Sarah. And sometimes we don't talk about anything, but just the two of us, right? Um, and a lot of the time that lands in the mental health realm of things.

Chris:

Right. Um, it frequently does. Uh, it will today for sure. Um, so here's, here's our lineup. Uh, we will tell the people what it is too. Uh, first we're gonna do a little catch up corner. Okay. Because, uh, you and I haven't talked in over 24 hours, so there's stuff for us to catch up on. Yeah. Um, we're gonna talk a little bit about growing up Gaster and what it was like to have an older sister, uh, who was really into studio wrestling. So that's gonna be our gaster story of the week. Yes. Uh, and then we're gonna, I like

Sarah:

this. I like this.

Chris:

We're gonna invite you guys to join us on some of our adventures this fall. So we're gonna talk about the, uh, out of darkness walk. Um, and I think that might be the only thing we're doing this fall,'cause we're both pretty busy. Um, oh, we're going on a meditation retreat, which I can't stop talking about.

Sarah:

Um, and then, yeah, and I got a new pillow for my ass, so I'm super excited to talk about the Ass pillow

Chris:

Game changer is what I'm hearing about the meditation pillow. Um, and then we're gonna get into some mental health stuff, because we're gonna talk about A DHD and how it's fucking with me these days. What? Yeah. I can't, I can't stop. Won't stop. I'm

Sarah:

not sure why you thought, I'm not sure why you thought that was like a needed to mention in the lineup for things. I feel like that's just what it revolves around.

Chris:

Oh, no. Oh, no. I did some research this week and, uh, uh, we're gonna mention my good friend. Oh, good. Mel Robbins, if you remember our, our friend Mel. We're gonna let them Good, good. Punish it. Um, we're gonna talk about some coping mechanisms that I've developed over the past eight weeks and, uh, we're gonna talk about how I continue to be unmedicated, mostly because I have a DHD. It's very unfair. Um, and then we're gonna, we're gonna, I like these

Sarah:

cause these are all things I'm gonna argue with you about.

Chris:

I can't, I can't wait. I can't wait. Um, I, I did also put this in here so that not only you but our listeners would kind of hold me accountable too. Um, we're gonna talk about the role of adrenaline in A DHD and how I've gotten more tattoos in the past eight weeks than, than I have in the, the previous four years. Um, and then we're gonna tell each other goodbye, uh, at the end. And we're gonna say, I love you and hang up. That is, uh, that's what we're going to do today. So there we go. Might I add any, anything? Well, yeah, I suppose so. It's, it's half your podcast. Oh, oh. First off, before we go any further, it's just

Sarah:

a therapy session. Really,

Chris:

honestly. Honestly, why, why pay? Why pay when I can just do this? Mm-hmm.

Sarah:

Um,

Chris:

we also have to mention, uh, Becca, the intern who is, uh, who's taken a little time off, uh, and she's in Nashville, so when she comes back, I want a full report because Nashville is the best place on the planet, in my opinion. Sometimes I, not on a Saturday, kind of like Aruba,

Sarah:

but Nashville's like kind of cool during the day. Nashville's really cool day is the way to go. I feel like there's, like, for Nashville, there's like age planning, like right, depending on how old you are, that determines when your prime time is in Nashville and in our age range, it's from noon. To five to two Sunday afternoon. No, actually 9:00 AM Right? 9:00 AM because you gotta go get some breakfast, then you drink all day and go to various bars that are playing wonderful music, right? And then you get dinner and go to bed at six.

Chris:

I, I think it's a perfect plan and you're less likely to run into a bachelorette party during this time. And you can line dance poorly. And no one really judges that because poor line dancing is the only line dancing. But I am interested to hear what, uh, the younger generation does in Nashville, because I'm sure Becca is gonna come back with, you know, a different report, which will be nice to hear.

Sarah:

They do, uh, they wake up at, at three o'clock, we're winding down our day. Thank, and they're getting up and going to breakfast. It all works. It really all works. It's like, um, you know, the mention of wrestling, it's like tag team wrestling. Like, hey, kids, old folks tagging out, have fun. Get on that, get on that guys. That's, that's what it's, yeah. Like,

Chris:

Hey, we gotta

Sarah:

reach. I feel rock far, probably. There's lots more shots.

Chris:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That doesn't,

Sarah:

there's more shots. There's more. Um, well, the length, the length of. Of time, like a shift. Like we are, we are, we're out longer. Our shift is longer because we are not, well, I know it depends on who you're with.

Chris:

I don't know. I don't know. It's, it's also if I'm doing

Sarah:

shots, I'm going to sleep, but I'm not doing shots. So our, our length of time is a little more sustainable. A little longer while they're heading out and doing shots at 5:00 PM Why? No, thank you. I dunno. Yeah. And they're probably throwing up on themselves by like eight, and then the third shift comes in at eight. And those, we, that's a whole different, that's a, that's been a, a part of the world. I'm not sure I've ever been involved in.

Chris:

I don't, I

Sarah:

don't, I definitely have been.

Chris:

No, I haven't, I haven't. Like the, there, the, the kids that come out at like 3:00 AM they've been pre-gaming since like 1130. But different places like

Sarah:

you do remember when we went to San Diego? Nope, that didn't happen. Okay. Yeah, that didn't happen. I bought a lot of, I bought a lot of pucker after that.

Chris:

I still have it a hundred percent lot. There's 30-year-old. Yeah. You can make all sorts of different martinis.

Sarah:

Yeah. There's all sorts of different flavored pucker that you can make martinis out of, but they're not real martinis. No. Like I, if I'm drinking martini these days, I'm drinking the older folk martini, which would be the dirty martini.

Chris:

Right. There's a lot of olive juice and very little vermouth. Mm-hmm. Like I don't even think vermouth was an ingredient in these martinis. We were drinking at the martini branch, like it was just pucker and vodka. We're just mixing that shit together. Yeah. I remember going to the early internet and looking up the rules for shipping alcohol because I was gonna send you martini ingredient unquote martini ingredients to your home

Sarah:

with

Chris:

shake

Sarah:

shaker. And the, the early, uh, internet was like, uh, that's not a martini.

Chris:

The early internet said, what do I look like? The post office ship? What you want? It's gonna be heavy, right? Like your barrier is that it's heavy and expensive. Not that the US Post Office won't take it. Oh my God. There are tears in my eyes, um, cry crying about the, the fruit martini. Um, and I think that was a way that we incorporated fruit into our diet. Like it wasn't just, it wasn't just a drink, it was a, it was a food group. I'm like, Aw, well no, we're good. We had great martinis. We're fine. We can And milk, apparently. Yeah.'cause we were into the white Russians. That's when you follow a five minute,

Sarah:

you follow a night of drinking vodka and pucker with a loaded white Russian. Oh. So that's milk and vodka. And I, I'm pretty sure I'm lactose intolerant.

Chris:

How, how did, I don't even know how. Yeah. Yeah. That is a, that is a level. That's third shift. That's third shift. That's definitely not us anymore. We're, we're leading the pack. We're open in the bar. I'm like, Hey, it smells nice like bleach in here. Like, is that Fabuloso? It smells delicious. So clean. I appreciate it much. Fabulous.

Sarah:

Alright. Uh, this is making my stomach turn,

Chris:

honestly, like just thinking about it. Um, I will say that the last time I was in Nashville, I ended up the night at like 10 30, which is crazy on whatever the street is Broadway. And I was eating a vendor hotdog at 11 o'clock and I thought it was so cool. That also is making my stomach hurt right now.

Sarah:

Yeah. We ended the night with dry. Our late night I think was like 10, 10 30, um, right. And it ended with gyros, right? Like sometimes it ended with gyros and a vendor T-shirt that said drunk cigs don't count. Perfect.

Chris:

Per so appropriate the vendor T-shirts. Mm-hmm. Priceless. Priceless. Alright. Um, or

Sarah:

street vendor, whatever the fuck.

Chris:

Whatever. I, all of it. All of it. I'm here for it. Um, so, um, Travis Kelsey got engaged. I don't know if you

Sarah:

know Yeah. I love that. I love that. I think I heard something about it. Um, yeah, that's what I'm a big, I'm a big fan of the couple.

Chris:

Yeah. Like news this week is gonna be, I dig it completely. Uh, Swifty focused for me. Nothing else happens. Yeah. This week. Besides those two getting engaged, these two crazy kids.

Sarah:

And

Chris:

the fact, I feel like

Sarah:

this is the plan, just focusing on the good stuff.

Chris:

Right? Right. Yep. Um, that your gym teacher and your English teacher got married and I'm not sure which is, which is Taylor Swift, the gym teacher. Like that was the caption. Think your No, it's not Taylor's the English teacher. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. That makes more sense. Makes more sense. It makes more sense. Yeah.'cause he's an athlete and she's, she's a singer that dances a lot. Um, also the funniest and writes music, the funniest memes where just the Olivia's College had a meme where they put the two of them getting engaged in front of their little old main. And I was delighted by that one. I'm like, oh, that's so wholesome. And then I love that. And then it got, and then it got mean, like it got mean, and it got dark real quick. Like the one lady who said, uh, Travis Kelsey's about to read a prenup that's longer than any book he's ever read. And I was like.

Sarah:

It's

Chris:

funny.

Sarah:

Yeah. I mean, I don't think that's mean. I think that's valid. And I'm not sure if it's like, if you could look at it a couple ways, like, I mean, it could be a two page prenup and it's just talking shit on how much Travis Kelsey reads.

Chris:

I was like, that's, or you could look at it

Sarah:

as Taylor Swift is ridiculous in the best way possible and needs to have her future husband signed a sign, a prenup that says, yeah, motherfucker, what's mine is mine, which, and what? Yours is mine you, you get to keep, and that's all

Chris:

the, you get to keep all the rubber balls and I get to keep all the books in my library.

Sarah:

Yeah, I mean, I, I think they're gonna be all right. I think it'll be all right.

Chris:

Those, it'll be alright. I, I hope it works out for those two crazy kids. Super excited about that though.

Sarah:

Um, yeah, so I am, I'm, it makes me thankful like that and other bad shit that went on this week. It makes me very thankful that I am, uh, essentially off the socials again.

Chris:

No, I think it's, I think it's the right move. The, my socials are just for, uh, videos of otters, uh, French rugby players. Uh, and also for some reason they're throwing like a American lady rugby players in there too. And I'm not mad at it. I'm not like French boy rug rugby players, American girl rugby players. I'm it, I love it. I'm all for it. Um, like the American

Sarah:

Girl Dolls playing rugby?

Chris:

No, no, no. Like the, uh, like the girl who was on Dancing With the Stars, I, I, Iona, Iona, whoever, whoever that lady is, I like her. She is. Wears killer lipstick. I'm, I'm here for it. Yeah.

Sarah:

Yeah. I, um, so the reason I'm off the socials is actually part of my Sarah needs to focus more. Oh. Oh, this is so good. Stab at life. I love it. Uh, because I am easily sidetracked by, uh, videos of cats and shit. So that's really what started the, I have to delete these socials from my phone. Yeah. And if I want to do anything, I have to go onto the socials on my computer, which we all know is a pain in the ass. So I go onto socials to check messages and, uh, schedule some, some posts for my business. And that's it.

Chris:

Love it. Um, it, I, I'm having trouble giving up the Otter videos. If I'm honest, like the ones where like they're, they're complete, uh, fabrications, but where like a couple dos, an otter. These are coming up a lot. They're AI generated and I don't care. Yeah. Like Chad is doing a great job generating Otter content for me. Yeah. But, but I think I will eventually have to call a, call a halt, uh, to that. Yeah. Alright, so here's, here's the big thing that's happening, um, in my world today, I, I don't realize how close together events happen because they're on different months in my calendar. So I didn't realize that at the end of this weekend, it's September and like the first week of September, I have to give a big, uh, presentation at a conference. And I am subbing in for somebody that, that, that should be doing the presentation but can't right now. So. Um, everyone is comparing me with that person and that person always kills these things. And there's a lot of, there's a lot of things happening in my brain that are less than desirable at the moment, like, figuring out that that was next week, yesterday was challenging. I'm like, oh my God, I'm not ready. I can't do it. I, I have to, hopefully I break my leg this weekend so I don't have to go. And then I'm like, will you stop that? You are perfectly capable of being up on stage. You've done it four or five times in bigger settings with bigger groups of people. You are actually, uh, good at it. Shut up brain and prepare like you should and then get there and do it. So shut up brain. Yeah. Is, is a lot of what's going through my head today. So that's, that's my catch up for, for this week is that I have to do this big presentation. I'm half excited and half terrified. Um, the terrified part is, is actually a positive because I will over prepare for it now, and that'll, that'll be good when I get there. Um, so that's what, that's what I have going on. That's my catch up corner.

Sarah:

Excellent. Yeah. Am I supposed to do a catch up corner now?

Chris:

Yeah, it's your turn. It's a, what happens when I don't talk is that you talk, that's how this podcasting thing works.

Sarah:

Um. My, um, my ketchup corner involves, uh, not realizing, not remembering like how much goes into soccer high school soccer season and being like surprised by it. Um, so that and business shit. Um, so soccer high school, soccer's in full swing. Um, I'm having some rough ma parenting moments at, at the moment. Um, I had to call your mom and dad on the way home from the game last night and I had a tear in my eye. And, um, luckily your father and your mom are amazing and they made me laugh and the tear in my eye didn't actually drop, so that's cool. Oh, love. Um, and I pulled out some stellar mom moves after I picked up my kid who was not super happy and understandably so. Um. Quick update on that. He, he made the varsity team, just the varsity team. So he is not dual rostered, he is just on the varsity team, which was a huge win for him. He was really excited about it.'cause he is one of three that isn't a senior, that's four rostered on the varsity team. Um, so that's really cool. And his first game, he played really well. We got a lot, lot of great feedback from parents and yada yada, yada. And I'm probably the most critical of my kid. Like, I'm the first to be like, yeah buddy, you just, you know, you don't have it. But he did. Like, I feel like he's finally at a place where he's doing what he needs to be doing and, uh, he's doing a great job. And, um, since then, uh, yeah, to make the story quicker, um, he played a minute and a half in the game last night. And, which is fine. Um, regardless of what I think, um, you know, I'm not the coach and the coach makes decisions and that's fine. And the, the kids that are playing his position are good. So I get, you know, I'm not arguing like, it's fine if, if he's not earning a spot on the field. Okay. But, um, at least do a roster him and, and let him get touches on the ball in, in jv. Like, I don't, like that's Yeah. Kind of the thing that's, and there's other, there's, there's more stuff to it that I'm,

Chris:

yeah, yeah. You gotta, you gotta edit a little bit. You gotta edit a little bit. Yeah. Um, so

Sarah:

I don't, I don't think Tracy's end, so he's not super happy.

Chris:

Like, Olivia and I are still talking about, no, his high school soccer. I mean, but the, the, the mom moments that come out of that like. It's Liv and I spend a pretty significant amount of time this week talking about soccer, and she's playing college soccer, so I'm even more like hands off, right? Like I'm, I'm a spectator all the time, but she's still, she's still, you know, she's got things going on. She's, she's complaining. Like same, same stuff, right? But what, and what I, what I really tried to convey to her this week, I, is that you're, you're not gonna be a professional. Like you're, you have two more years of this, two more years. And when you're done the thing that you're going to take away from it, regardless of whether you start, whether you don't start, whether you play two minutes, whether you really enjoy everyone on the team and, and you're all kumbaya or, or you're not, you're going to take away the lessons that others don't get to learn. Like, you get to take away lessons that people learn when they start working in jobs. Like you have to get along, you have to do what's right for the bigger group. You have to make decisions that are like, you have to learn these lessons. You have the opportunity to learn these lessons now and get a jumpstart on, on these things compared to the other kids around you. Um, so, you know, just so you know, it doesn't end right ever, but I'm, yeah, I'm just always so thankful that they have sports to learn the lessons, right? Like, imagine, like, this is always what I go back to, that I learned so much by playing soccer and not because I was, you know, not because I was a fantastic athlete. I just learned how to get along with a group of people that didn't necessarily think of me as the, uh, as the center of their universe. So, I don't know. I am, I'm trying to be encouraging and, and just turning it into a story about myself. But

Sarah:

no, I, that's essentially, I mean, he got in the car, I let him lose his shit, right? And told him rightfully so. And I agree with everything that you're saying, but the thing is, uh, you can't really control it all. So we need to focus on what you can control. Are you gonna let it bring you down? Are you gonna let it take the progress that you made and turn it into shit? Or are you gonna let it drive you and make you better? And that's your choice. So I suggest you go with a ladder, but it's not always that easy. It's hard to do, but you're allowed to be mad for a little bit. And then we did, and then I went into coach mom, we got into the garage and I said, okay, we're gonna take three deep breaths and we're gonna leave it. We're gonna let it go, and we're gonna focus on what you can do going forward. What I can do is your mom going forward. So this is where we are. I love it. He rolled his eyes. I think he just watched me take three breaths and um, and then we got outta the car and he was like, you know what else? I don't fucking understand. And I was like, okay. So we didn't leave it. Okay. Well, fair enough. We tried, we tried. I mean, he doesn't have a, he's missing this. It's right. He doesn't have a fully front

Chris:

developed frontal cortex yet. You'll get there. I get it. Get I get it.

Sarah:

I get it. Yeah. Oh. So, uh, anyway, yeah. Um, and real, real quick, I just wanna talk about my business and then Yes, please. I think that's really all I've got to talk about. Um, so I'm pivoting, I am pivoting in the business. Um, yes, I launched my business fairly quickly, which was on purpose, uh, because I have a tendency to, um, delay things for perfection, and that's really just a procrastination tactic. So, um, based on all of the, the, the information I was getting and research I was doing, you just need to go. So I did it. I launched, I launched wanting to focus on young adults because I also got feedback on that, that that's a great idea and that it's needed and blah, blah, blah. Um, after doing a little bit of marketing and, and a little bit of, um, analysis on what I've been doing, um, turns out the people who believe that the young adults need the coaching and want the young adults to get the coaching are the parents of the young adults, not so much the young adults, which in hindsight makes perfect sense. Perfect.'cause again, yeah. They're just, they're just not aware of it yet. And, um, so while I would still, while I still think that they need the help, um, that's not really a great, uh, business model tactic to go for. Um, anyway, so I am also not liking the socials these days. Uh, so I enrolled in some marketing training that does not involve just, uh, your social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Um, so I'm going through that and that's what I'm focusing on. I'm writing a little blog on my page now, weekly. I also started publishing a, a weekly newsletter, uh, called The Mindset Drop, which is, um, super quick, easy read and that gives you three different tools each week, um, or a little mindset, re reset advice, uh, a little tool you can use. Um, and like I said, it's super easy. Read, get through it in probably two minutes, and it just gives you some things to focus on through the week. So, um, I'm focusing on the blog, the newsletter, and finishing up this marketing, uh, training and figuring out where I'm gonna go next. I'm also learning that maybe I'm also learning that in the world of, uh, life coaching, uh, which I'm gonna be focusing on mindset coaching mostly, um, in this realm of things, uh, the business of coaching, there are actually a shit ton, maybe not a shit ton, but a lot more coaching mo models than, or, uh, business models that I was aware of. So, one on, no, I love it. Coaching is not my only option, and it might, and it might not be the, uh, the strongest for me. So I'm evaluating how I want to run everything too. So more, more information to come, but it's all evolving, uh, and I will be transparent. I'm yet to make a dime.

Chris:

It's cool. I'll get there. I'll figure it out. I gotta figure out where it's mean. It's a journey. It's a journey. It's

Sarah:

right. And one of the things, one of the lessons I listened to, I really liked,'cause I always feel bad. Like they're like, you know, what are you trying to get out of this? And I mean, I'll be honest, the first thing I'm gonna say is I, I would like to make a dime. Like I, I need to make a dime.'cause that's, it's kind of a driver around things. And just one dime. The one lady I was listening, the one lady I was listening to was like, let's, let's be real about it. We're in business. Yes, we want to help people and that's our purpose. And you know, we, we do all this values based digging into things and that's great and that's what drives us. But ultimately we start these things'cause we need to make money. And there's nothing wrong with saying that out loud and making the money makes it a lot easier to be able to fulfill your purpose in the end. And I was like, oh, oh yeah, that makes me feel less of a dick. So, okay. Alright. That, that was a very, that's that

Chris:

mind thing. That's kind of the interesting piece is that like, for, for a hot minute you were like, I should just be altruistic. And, and when get into this just for the, the common good and really, um, an important piece of like having your mind lined up is, is being able to say, nah, you know what, I, I wanna do that. That's an important driver behind it. But, you know, really I'd like to, I'd like to make the money, like to be able to, to support myself Yeah. Doing this thing that I, that I really enjoy. And that's why, that's why we get into business. And I wonder Yeah. Like, I always wonder like how, how hard that is for, uh, you know, girls to admit women. Like, I don't, I don't, yeah. And that's funny

Sarah:

it, the training that I'm doing is women based, is women in business based. Um, and it's kind of the, uh, what I really like about, well, there's a lot of values involved in it that are aligned with my beliefs and my systems and what I feel. Um, so that always helps. Um, but what I like about it, like the one girl's like, yeah, boss girl, boss babe. I mean, I'm just running my life. Like I, I don't know. I'm in business. I'm in business. Just like some bro would be a business like.

Chris:

Bo bro doesn't need to

Sarah:

be defined by, I'm a, I'm a

Chris:

boss bro. Yeah, I'm a badass bras bro. I've just doing bad ass bra. Just doing, I wish I had a badass bra. I just have the regular bras. Um, sorry. No, I, I mean I think that such an interesting like that, that that was the mindset shift, uh, like choosing, I, I, I choose, uh, because it lines up with my values to, to say that in reality what happens is I really wanna make money in, in, in this business because that's why I started a business. And that's why like, right, there's, there's part of it that, that makes me crazy. That makes me crazy. That, that would be, that, that would be a mind shift. Um, anyway, sorry. Like, like.

Sarah:

No, but it's true because you don't like, and you feel that, like you feel bad saying that. Like at least I do. Like, I feel like why do, what is your why? Why do you wanna do this? Well, I wanna make, I wanna, I wanna make everybody's lives better. And truly, that's what I wanna do. I wanna impact lives. I want people to have the experiences that I've had that have made my life better. But I literally cannot do that in the best manner possible without making any money.

Chris:

Right. And if you were starting a landscaping business, no one would be like, Hey, what's your why? Oh, because I want people to have, do you want green or grass manicured lawns? Yeah. It just, yeah. And there's, there's so much of I don't deserve, or I'm not good enough, or I'm not worthy of it. I think you and I were talking about it a couple weeks ago where, um, I was like, what, you know what? I could really use a mentor. Like, the thing that would stop me from getting a mentor before was that, oh, we'll get mentors are for people who are gonna be successful and you're just, you're just a mom who's trying to like feed her, uh, children. Like you're just a mom who's trying to contribute a little bit to the household. Like, no, like I am a fully, uh, uh, complete person who's working in a career and if a mentor would be helpful, why wouldn't I deserve that? Like, it's crazy. Yeah. Anyway, here's to, here's to all of us changing our, changing our mindsets, but I do love that you're, that you are like, not forcing something that doesn't feel right for your business anymore. Like that's also an important thing to be like, yeah, I don't need to do that. Yeah. I feel

Sarah:

like that's kind of where I was. I think that's exactly, I think that's spot on. That terminology, just forcing something to make it happen. Um, there's so much more to it and. You know, I, I didn't go into it thinking it was all gonna happen immediately. Like, am I a bit disappointed that I haven't made any money? Sure. Uh, but part of the process is learning where I fit and what's gonna work well for me and what I want to do. Um, and I think a huge part of that is realizing that there are things I have, there are changes that need to be made, and that's okay. That's part of the process. And like one of the ladies I was listening to earlier this week, she was like, I feel like, like we definitely need a different word for failure because we're not, like, that's not what it is. We're like, they were talking about their failed offers as coaches, you know, and the one, the one girl got her turn to speak and she was like, well, I was writing them down and I've, so far, I've come up with 35. 35 that I made zero zero. And this woman pulls in millions of dollars a year now, and she's been in business for five years. And she was like 34 0. And like the first 15 of those were when I just started five years ago. Like it's, it's what happens, but it's literally not failure, like every time. And she, I kind of connected with her the most because she said, you know, that first offer, like at the beginning it was trying to just force something to happen that wasn't right. Like she thought it might have been right. But she learned that it wasn't, and that it's not failure. So we keep, right, like we keep

Chris:

trying, like in, in, in my industry in particular, getting to the point of failing fast is the way you make long-term money. Like your Yeah. Your tiny little biotechs that can get to the point where they know that that isn't gonna work. Hey, this delivery mechanism for this particular thing isn't gonna work, so be done with it and go on to the next, like, failing fast is a way to drive things forward. Like how many, and that's

Sarah:

a great,

Chris:

and the,

Sarah:

I just wanna say that's something great, like, that's something that makes a lot of sense. Uh, which just literally you saying that because one of the things in my mind was, well, geez, I feel like I really didn't even give it that much of a chance. But I feel like why are you gonna continue to give something a chance where you've, you recognize it's, this isn't the way I should be going. Like then change, it's, it's okay. Like if there's zero proof that this is gonna result in anything, uh, this isn't, so I need to move on.

Chris:

And the, the other like side effect consequence of being able to pivot and pivot quickly is that sometimes you get yourself in a situation where you have like an unintended, uh, you have an unintended surprise. So the way, uh, Pfizer makes their money is mostly Viagra. At, at some point they were, they came up with this Viagra, this blockbuster medication. Um. But it was an accident. Like that was a, like, that is a side effect of another medication that they were trying to, that they were trying to market. Like, they were like, oh no, um, bad this happening. Some guy was taking his

Sarah:

heart attack medicine and ended up with a boner.

Chris:

Like a lot of'em, they're like, oh my God, this causes bone. And they were like,

Sarah:

oh no.

Chris:

Hmm.

Sarah:

Oh no. What problem can I solve?

Chris:

Right. Right. I mean, it's, it's so interesting that like the evolution of that and the fact that like, you can write down 35 failures. Of course you can. You never did this before, so Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Write down your 35 failures. Figure the three that work and get after it.

Sarah:

Right. And it's the, it's just, uh, there, there's, there's more to it. But the place I am right now is I did have, I did invest a little bit of money to do what I've done so far. Um, and when I say a little, it was comparatively speaking to business investments, pretty small. But, um, but that's all I got. So now I gotta, I don't have any other choice. I, I gotta figure out what I, what I can do with, with what I have. And, oh,

Chris:

and I'll give you another, what is not inspiration to, to compare with, you know, gene therapies that make kids here. And, uh, boners, uh, Milton Hershey. Milton Hershey started his business. He didn't even know how to make fucking chocolate. Like yeah, he didn't know how to make chocolate. Like he hired a sales guy to sell the chocolate before he knew how to make chocolate. And he didn't have, like, yeah, he built a town based on maybe selling chocolate. So yeah,

Sarah:

I mean, I love that. I have, um, I have one more thing. It's not to this, I just have one more thing I wanna bring up. I, uh, was listening to a Mark Manson thing this morning, and I have a book. I know that we haven't been reading books, but I have a book that I would like to check out and that I think that would be perfect for you as well. It's called The Burnout Society by Bong. Chohan.

Chris:

I don't know, I don't know what you're talking about,

Sarah:

right?

Chris:

I don't know what you're talking about,

Sarah:

but yeah. I feel like it would be a good read for, for us. Oh, can you, um, all of that said that's enough, Sarah. Time. I think we can move on.

Chris:

All right, cool. Text me the name of the book'cause I really do wanna get back into doing, doing some, some reading on the podcast. Um, I can talk about my A DDH, adhd. I purchased a bunch of books recently too. I'm, I, I can talk about that all day, but we should probably talk about stuff that other people wanna talk about too. Alright. What are we doing next? Okay. Oh, the gastro story of the week. Um, alright, I'll, I'll start us off. Oh, shoot. Um, and then you can add color. So when I was Okay, probably 11, 10. So you were kindergarten ish? Um, I got, I got real into, uh, studio wrestling mostly.'cause one of my friends, uh, Regina b uh, was into it. And she was the coolest person that I knew. And if she said that, it was cool, then it was cool. And then I went to junior high and there were a bunch of boys that also liked, uh, uh, studio wrestling. So then I, then I, then I definitely, uh, found a place. I was like, other people like to talk about this too, and bonus, they're boys who are cute and sometimes smell good, so. I'm all in. Um, I mean, that's what I thought of. They definitely didn't

Sarah:

smell good. It was too

Chris:

high. So sometimes they did, sometimes and they smell like your car. They were wearing, they were wearing like a whole lot of polo, like a whole lot. And I don't know if you remember the smell of that, but like a moth to a flame. Yeah, I was like

Sarah:

the polo mixed with the, um, the, the Benetton perfume colors of Benetton. Is that what was Oh my god, yes. The name of the perfume. Do you remember the, like those two mixed together?

Chris:

A junior high dance. It makes my

Sarah:

stomach turn now.

Chris:

Junior high dance. Like, but at the time I was like, I would like to continue smelling you, uh, smell delicious. Um, right sniff, sniff. Not weird at all. Um, so, you know, on Saturdays in the afternoons after the cartoons rover, um, it would then flip over to, uh, wrestling. You could watch WWF. Um, and it was Hulk Hogan. It was the Iron Sheik. It was Jimmy Superfly ska who would jump off the top rope off the Turnbuckle. He would stand up there and he would super fly you. And we were doing that shit into the pool in the summer and Yep. Yeah. Then for some reason, I'm sure it's because I was interested in it, it exploded. So then you had like tag teams, like the British Bulldogs and Brett, the Hitman Heart and Jim the Anvil, Nightheart, and, um, your dad's favorite one, George, the Animal Seal, who would eat the Turnbuckle Yes. And the green tongue, like they fed him candy before and he would have like a green tongue and he would just walk around and, and I, there was always a good guy and a bad guy and that was very appealing to my sense of, uh, attention deficit order justice. So. Mm-hmm. I mean, it was, it was all, it was all just perfect. Just perfect.

Sarah:

Um. And you are correct. Do you watch, um, beyond the Ring or the dark side of the ring? N

Chris:

no.

Sarah:

These are things that you should start watching if you don't. I think one of them is on a and e and Noah watches them all the time and they are ridiculously interesting. Actually. The one on, um, uh, what does nuts, uh, the Kilt wearing Roddy Piper.

Chris:

Oh. He turned into an actor like he was in movies. Rowdy Roddy Piper. I came here to kick ass with chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum

Sarah:

and I'm outta bubblegum. Mm-hmm. He, um, that I highly suggest, I don't know if that's a dark side of the ring outside the dark side of the ring, I think it's called. I'll have,

Chris:

I loved

Sarah:

him. I highly, that was my favorite. There was a, there's a lot of them and they're all really good, but his was, was my favorite. He was one that was really, really good at separating his personal life and like, they interview his wife and his kids and it's really, um. Yeah. It, it was just, it was really good. Like, oh good. Oh good. They just, they, they seemed like a, a good family and whatnot. But I mean, a lot of it's fucked up. Like the shit you didn't see in that world, the shit you don't see in that world is fucked.

Chris:

I mean, I was into it to the point, and I don't know if you remember this, but I did a term paper on it in my gifted program. Like we had to do a research project. I mean, yeah. And my research project was the impact of studio wrestling, the history and impact of studio wrestling on modern society. So I was researching. And you didn't even have the

Sarah:

internets back then?

Chris:

No.

Sarah:

Was there a lot of information in the public library?

Chris:

Well, I had to go to the library in junior high, and I have a vague memory of our librarian in junior high. And she had, uh, she had cross eyes. Yeah, if I like, I don't know why. Mm-hmm. And that might be just a dream. But I remember it was very hard to, I feel like

Sarah:

that makes sense. I feel like I remember that

Chris:

if, if she was talking to me or not, but she was always very helpful. And you know, she's just inundated with the, with the gifted kids who all have, you know, anxiety and wanna do this really well, even though it's just for our, you know, essentially our study hall that we all have together. Um, but we would all bring our, our, our topics and she's like, okay, what's your theory? And I was like, my what? No, I just wanna learn about it. She's like, no, no, you have to have a theory. Like essentially the librarian taught us, um. Yeah, what we, what we were doing. Um, but I was like, here's, here's mine. She was like, okay, well look up McCarthyism and look up like 1920s, look up 1930s, like do this. And I was like, oh, I get to learn all about history and Bruno San Martino. Right, right. And then I, you know, you, you pull up articles, something like 12, like deep into the research, deep into the research. Um, at the same time, I'm also watching it every Saturday and I'm, I'm collecting, I don't know if you, um, ever did this, but at the Giant Eagle, uh, where we would go grocery shopping, right there at the bottom of Wiggles Hill, um mm-hmm. They would, uh, there was a magazine, the pay section,

Sarah:

the days,

Chris:

the paydays, oh my God, I forgot it was called payday.

Sarah:

Do you remember

Chris:

the magazine section? Gee,

Sarah:

do you remember my obsession with new kids on the block? Do I remember the fucking magazine section? Are you kidding me, Sarah? You can't get 17 magazines today. We need to go get generic potato chips.

Chris:

We need, we need the black and white bulk purchase peanuts right now. We have to go,

Sarah:

yeah, Christine

Chris:

put this. There's no more Tiger Beat for you books down. I was like, well, if she, if she gets that, can I have two Stephen King books and a WWF magazine, so I can cut out the poster of Paul Hogan and put it on my wall? Like in WrestleMania. Also, the, the evolution of pay-per-view, like WrestleMania, I think was in Detroit, Michigan, WrestleMania one I'm talking about. Was in Detroit, Michigan at the Silver Dome maybe. Does that sound right? Silver Dome. Anyway, it, it held a lot of people and there were a lot of people gonna be there and Regina b and I kept lobbying to go, like, we thought that our dads were gonna be able to take us to Michigan to sit in a football stadium. Can you see that? To sit in a football stadium. Oh my God. I can only imagine Token. Our two fathers. Oh my God. No, they've been singing in the parking lot. I'm sorry,

Sarah:

I'm gonna have to correct you though. It might have been a different one because WrestleMania won was, uh, at Madison Square Garden.

Chris:

It, it makes sense. It makes sense. Like my, yeah, it might have been like WrestleMania two or WrestleMania three that was in, that was in cardiac Michigan. Look it up. Look it up while I tell the story. I'm look

Sarah:

them all up right now. I'm gonna look up all the locations. Okay, go ahead.

Chris:

But I think this is how we ended up going to our first live WWF event, uh, at the civic arena in Pittsburgh. Because that was like the compromise. Like no way the jumbo was gonna put us in the car and drive us to Michigan or wherever WrestleMania was. Oh fuck. Like, no way. Come on now.

Sarah:

No, we,

Chris:

we didn't have money to go roller skating at the same time, so there's no way. But we did scrape enough money together that the family, like four tickets to, uh, WrestleMania three. I

Sarah:

can wait. WrestleMania three was in Pontiac Silver Dome in Pontiac, Michigan. I knew it. Is that the one that you were thinking of? Yes. That's the one. That's 1980. That was 1987.

Chris:

Yeah. 14. Yeah. That makes perfect sense. 13.

Sarah:

Mm-hmm.

Chris:

I think probably'cause it was in the winter maybe. I don't know. Um, but does it say who the march, March 29th. Still cold. Um, so I hadn't turned 14 yet. I was 13. Um, does it say who the headline match was? Was it Hulk Hogan versus something else? And I can't remember. Hogan was a good guy or a bad guy.

Sarah:

Well, I could see the picture of it. Let me make sure I'm gonna, can you guess, can you guess Hulk Hogan against I can't guess. I

Chris:

can't, I can't remember. Um, uh, Mr. T, but I think I'm mixing Uping movies. Princess, the Andre, the

Sarah:

Giants, the main feud stemmed from Andre the Giants heel turn and betrayal of his friend, the WWF World Heavyweight Champion, Hulk Hogan. I don't, which began on an episode of Piper's Pit when WWF President Jack Toy Toy, yeah. Presented Hogan with a trophy for being the WW F World heavyweight champion. For three years, Andre Hogan's good friend, came out to con congratulate him, but Cryptically remarked three years to be a champion. It's a long time. A week later on an episode of Piper's Pit 20 Percented, Andre, with a visibly smaller trophy for being undefeated in the WWF. For 15 years, Hogan came out to congratulate Andre, but before the Giant could speak, Hogan ended up being the focal point of the interview. Annoyed by this, Andre stormed out during Hogan's congratulations speech. There's more to it. You get the, my God, a lot of it happened on Piper's pit, though.

Chris:

Oh, I like so many memories. I don't know why we haven't talked about this before, but it is so fundamental to, maybe this is, we should

Sarah:

switch, uh, we should switch our podcast from mental health to talking about ww f wrestling

Chris:

and not like modern times. Just, just, just going over Oh yeah. No episode of Piper's Pit.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. We're just talking about like late eighties. Right?

Chris:

Right. That's it, that's all. Maybe that's all I want. Just 1980s.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

That's all I want.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

Is is just that, just that very specific era. Um, so, uh, we weren't going to that like, no, we're not going, we're not going to that. In fact, I think on the same night, either WrestleMania one or this WrestleMania, we had a birthday party at, at, uh, showbiz Pizza for somebody at St. Michael's

Sarah:

Showbiz.

Chris:

Right. So just to put everyone in the right head space, I'm playing Cubert, me and Marty, uh, Marty, uh, Marty, who had a band, you know, you know the Marty I'm speaking of, um, left on board. Marty F. Marty F Yes. Uh, uh, I'm, I'm playing Cubert. Me and Marty f are playing Cubert at the same time. WrestleMania is happening just to, you know, kind of. Set the scene. Uh, so we we're not going to that, but Jumbo will take us to the civic arena. Like me, you, our family of four, uh, Gina B's, uh, family of three. We're all going, we're all going. We get all hyped up. Like there's outfits and there's a, a ton of hairspray applied to my hair. Hair. There might have even been actual shaving of the sides. Like it was a big deal. Big deal.

Sarah:

You've never shaved the side of your head. Shuffle on top. Yes, I did.

Chris:

Yes I did. Just a teeny like No, you didn't this much. Yes I did. Yes I did. Right here. Right here. I remember. No, that's a

Sarah:

mullet. You're confusing yourself. That was when you got your haircut into a mullet. Quit trying to, uh, to frame it as though you were getting a cool shaved side head. Think, no, I You got your haircut into the style of a mullet. Shut up, Sarah. Just keeping it real. Fine,

Chris:

fine, fine. Maybe I had a mullet. Maybe I did. Maybe I did. But I feel like 13. I was definitely doing something with a perm. Like there was definitely a perm happening. Permed, mullet. Fair.

Sarah:

Fuck. Yeah. Serious. I mean,'cause that's what it is. The mullet. You're just cutting this real short.

Chris:

Right? So like, just right above my ear, just like a, a centimeter. You say centimeter. And then I was able to slick that back and everything else would puff around. Not in a, not in a cool chip way. Yeah. That's terrible. But more of like a Laura Brannigan, uh, kind of way.

Sarah:

Anyway, this episode is just making my stomach turn over and over and over again.

Chris:

Well, I think on the way back from, this is where we stopped at the Denny's. In West Mifflin. Like we, we made it a night, right? Like, and we stopped at the Denny's in West Mifflin, and you had a elementary school meltdown because the people, uh, would not cut your, uh, kitty cat breakfast into the right shapes. It did not, it did not look like a kitty cat. And you were

Sarah:

pissed. Mm-hmm. No. Pissed 100 fucking percent. When you put something on the menu and you advertise it as a kitty cat, and there's a picture of it that looks like a fucking kitty cat, and the toasts are the little ears, and the bacon is the whiskers. You put that shit on the plate looking like a fucking kitty cat. I am 47 years old and I still stand behind this meltdown'cause that's fucking ridiculous. You were like not

Chris:

eating this. I

Sarah:

mean, you, it doesn't look like a fucking cat. And your par, your parents were, I mean, let's be real. I wasn't eating any of that shit anyway. I might've taken a bite of the toast in the bacon maybe, but I wasn't eating any of that shit on my plate. Pancakes. It's not even meatloaf. Nope. I just curious. I just wanted to see the fucking cat

Chris:

at 11 o'clock on a Friday at the Denny's. You were like, can I speak to this chef?

Sarah:

Please?

Chris:

Can the chef come out and explain his logic for the plating here? Because it is wrong. It is what we like to call.

Sarah:

And then he sat hilarious in my eggs.

Chris:

Right, right. It's a good thing you didn't eat it, even if it came, when it came back out, because your mom was like, excuse

Sarah:

me. Yeah.

Chris:

Your me little mother who wouldn't even order pizza mm-hmm. Was like, excuse me. Um, I don't wanna be a pain. Excuse me. Pardon me. I'm just a

Sarah:

bird. My huge pain.

Chris:

She's, she, I don't know if you can see there are tears happening and why we can't have it. We can't have it. She's almost 10, but we can't have it. She's eight. We're not gonna be able to, the ride home will be intolerable. So if you could just make that look like a cat off you go.

Sarah:

Mm-hmm.

Chris:

Compliments otherwise to the chef. So

Sarah:

yeah,

Chris:

that, that is my gastro story of the week. My never ending love of, of studio wrestling and the British Bulldogs, because that was my team like, and um, Gina and I divided the British Bulldogs and like one was slightly more good looking, so she took the slightly, uh, more good looking bulldog and I had, I was like, oh, well he's got, he's got excellent personality, so obviously he's

Sarah:

nuts.

Chris:

Uh, that one's mine. Yeah.

Sarah:

Huh. Yeah, I mean, I bet that one read books and shit.

Chris:

Sure he did. Sure he did.

Sarah:

He has a country estate personality. It's exactly what Davy Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid.

Chris:

Uh, Davy Boy Smith, I think is the one that, uh, uh, that Gina got. I got the Dynamite Kids. That makes sense.

Sarah:

Um, divided them, you know,

Chris:

I'm looking at them right now and I don't, I'm not sure either. Like, I don't really see a lot of the, either of them is, is really good looking. Um, Gina's never ending love though was, um, Brett the Hitman heart, but I wasn't gonna take George. Like I had standards. Like I'm not gonna, like the Anvil is not gonna be my guy. I, I don't care. He's, he was also old enough to be my Papp at that point, I think. Yeah. He was like a holdover from the 1930s. He wrestled with Bruno and Martinez.

Sarah:

Um, yeah. Also if, and that's Vince McMahon who makes my stomach turn. Like that's another turning. Yeah,

Chris:

we're not, I thought we were only talking about happy stuff. Also, um, if you guys, sorry,

Sarah:

sorry.

Chris:

Into studio wrestling. Um, and you can correct anything that I've said here, uh, you know, beyond my fact checker. Uh, feel free to, uh, drop us a line at, uh, gastro girls@gmail.com. There we go. There's the plug for the email. Hi, can I

Sarah:

share,

Chris:

send it to me. I'll, I wanna share screen. Put it on screen. How do you do that? Oh, it's share. It's right next to the phone button. Don't hit the phone button. That's for later. Yeah.

Sarah:

Um, hold on. Let me know when you can see it. Oh my god, I can see it. Okay. So look, this is my favorite part. Hold on. Uh, where'd it go? Where'd it go? Here we go. What is that? Oh, no. What. What, what is that? What? No. Why is that? The picture that's there,

Chris:

is he the only one someone had? This must be his mom. She's like, this is my favorite picture. Does he have breaks?

Sarah:

So, sorry, everybody. If you're, if you're, what if, if you're not on the YouTubes, you're gonna have to, wow. You guys gotta get to the I don't YouTubes. Holy, holy moly.

Chris:

Yes. Yeah, that was, I think that was, and mine was the other one. Oh no. Oh, honestly, uh, it's all right. I know, I know it's an audio medium, but check out.

Sarah:

Okay. My whole weekend. I do have bad news for you though.

Chris:

What? You have to go.

Sarah:

I know. Okay. Well we're, we've been recording for 56 minutes and, um,

Chris:

alright. Uh, real, real quick. A DHD update and then, and then we'll wrap up. Um, okay. So I made an appointment to see a new psychiatrist and I was surprised because this one would take online appointments and I was like, that is so much more convenient for me. Right. Um, that seems great. Love it. Uh, but then I, I go to the appointment, I get all excited about the appointment and I'm like, oh yes, fantastic. Um, this is gonna work out great. I get on there and she's like, hi, what are we seeing you for today? And I'm like, oh no. Oh no. She doesn't know. She doesn't know. So I go over the whole, you know, diagnosis of the A DHD and how like the Vyvanse is the thing that keeps me, uh, alive. And uh, she's like, oh, well we don't, uh, we don't manage the schedule, uh, whatever. We don't manage the controlled substances. And I was like, again, I feel like a drug addict. Sorry. Yeah. I'm like, yeah. Well I think we can probably just end the call'cause there's no point in me telling you, uh, everything that's happening with me for you to just give me like some. Worksheets to do, because that will, that will not be, that will not be enough. Um, and she was like, oh, I'm very sorry. Um, do you wanna talk about anything else? And I was like, Nope, not really. And then I feel like even more of a dry Yeah. I'd like to talk about how

Sarah:

fucking annoyed I am.

Chris:

Right? Like, I could have made an appointment for, uh, this time because again, you gotta wait for the appointment, right? It's not like they have like, the next day Anyway, so I was just so irritated by that. Um, so I started looking up, uh, resources for Attention Deficit Disorder online. Like, you know, whatever I could use to kind of get me through, in addition to having Chad manage my schedule and what I've, what I've really, really enjoyed the past couple weeks is recording my meetings and having an ai, uh, summarize them. It's been a,

Sarah:

yeah.

Chris:

Godsend. As long as everyone agrees to me recording it, then I am, then I, I can do that and I can have the summary there and I can put in action items and I can put them where they, where they need to be. It's been really helpful and that's, that's what I got. I am, I am, I have made another appointment at an actual in-person place, but again, I can't do that either I'm out of town or they're not available until the middle of October, so that is six weeks away. So then, um, yeah, I will just do the best that I can. So if I'm a

Sarah:

firm believer of medication, I love the medication and, um, coping strategies as well. Right. So, um. In 2025, the amount of information that you can find for coping with a DH adhd Yes. Simply via the interwebs is, it's pretty amazing. Amazing.

Chris:

My, my girl Mel Robbins has a, has a podcast and I was ready to hate it. Like she's got like three or four episodes just on a DHD'cause she, uh, herself, uh, suffers from a DH ADHD and takes the medicine for it. And like I was ready to be, as does Mark

Sarah:

Manson. Well, I don't, mark, go ahead. Sorry. I was ready

Chris:

to be angry with her because, you know, my, in general, I mm-hmm. Like her, it's something about her tone, but she does have really, really good advice and really good resources. So I was kind of using

Sarah:

those and yeah, I mean. She hasn't gotten to the point where she is like being an asshole. Like, I mean, or being terrible at what she does. Like she obviously deserves to where she to be, where she is. Um, but yes, mark Manson has the A DHD. I don't believe that he takes medication anymore. He did try medication at one point, but it made him, um, not himself and he didn't like it. So, um. He's, if you can find any, mark Manson, a DHD resources. I mean, I highly suggest

Chris:

there's a, there's a couple of books that's just me and a couple of like, strategies. And I do love the idea of leveraging AI to kind of keep me on task. Like, like give me, yeah, give me, um, give me just a couple of things to focus on. And that is something that, that the AI is good at. He's like, here's the things that have to get done today. Cool. Yeah. Thank you.

Sarah:

Thank you. And speaking of things that have to get done today, did you drop my romper off at Mommy and Daddy's? I did. I did yesterday

Chris:

and it's so cute. You're gonna love it.

Sarah:

I'm so excited. You're gonna love it. Let's get my romper.

Chris:

Alright, so that is my, that is my, uh, mental health, uh, portion of it is that I continue. Um, I continue to struggle with the way that we approach, uh, how these, uh, how these things are managed and availability and if we could just get more, uh, psychiatrists or nurse practitioners or people, if we could just look at these things in maybe a slightly different way, uh, that would be so helpful. I have no idea how to affect that change, but I think talking about it's probably the first place. So here, I'm,

Sarah:

that's it. And I would like to use this as a place where I can say, you now know this, even though it's not how we want it to be, you know that this is how it is. Yes. So now you need to take this as a little nudge that you need to move your focus on planning, getting your medication. Right. A little bit higher on your list to make sure that you don't get yourself into these positions again, this is where we learn and, uh, adjust, adapt. Yep.

Chris:

Yeah. Uh, Olivia and I had that same conversation'cause she, um, she also takes the same medication however she is in North Carolina and, uh, you can't send a prescription to North Carolina. So her prescriber is N pa. I have to pick up her prescription in Pennsylvania and then I have to FedEx it to her. So I had to overnight it, uh, because you also can't get it early and. Yeah, just because it is a, um, controlled substance, which stinks. So she and I have to do a lot of planning and coordination. She and I have to do a lot of coordination. And that's the lesson, is that Yeah, I got it. I have a reminder to get it exactly 30 days. And then she has got a reminder that whenever she shakes it and it feels later, that she's gotta tell me right away, like, I'm, I'm running out so that I can do the things that have to happen. So yes, we're learning a lot. You have

Sarah:

to wait for her to shake it and determine or can, you can't, no. Can't you just like, that's the fail. Do it

Chris:

like that's the backup. Like, because we are the way that we are, we need, we need two plans at least. So the first plan is I look at that reminder, I order the medication. If that didn't happen, she shakes it and she's like, shit, there's only four in here.'cause that's when it sounds different. And she sends me a text and says, Hey, did you order it? And I'm like, yes I did. It'll be there Thursday. Hopefully. That's the way it goes. Great. Hitting the button.

Sarah:

Yeah, I did. Yeah. The fuck, I'm five minutes away. I'm not still at home, I promise. I love you and

Chris:

And still we rise still. We rise.

Sarah:

Yes. I'm sorry that I have to go. I'm sorry that I have to cut us short. I'm sorry that I took a more time than I expected at the beginning talking about my business.

Chris:

No, no, I love it. I have to pee real bad anyway, so I'm kind of excited.

Sarah:

Okay. Alright. Alright, awesome. Well enjoy the rest of your weekend at the cabin and I can't wait to hear about it. I'm sure it will be wonderful. Oh my God. The way. So you've been like really fuzzy this whole time and the way you were just leaning. I thought you fell off your stool. I did not. I did not. I kind of wish you had because I feel like that would've been really funny. I mean, I don't you to hurt yourself or anything, but anyway. Alright, love you. Alright, love you.

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