Episode 59: Explaining 9/11 to Gen Becca

Christine and Sarah (Joined by Becca) return with another engaging episode of 'The Mental Funny Bone,' blending humor and serious discussions on mental health and current events. The conversation takes a passionate and political turn, addressing violence in society before tackling September 11th memories and its impact on their lives and security awareness. They weave humorous anecdotes about their experiences at restaurants and conferences, including a surprising absence of fried mushrooms. As they discuss their upcoming meditation retreat, they share laughs over anticipated discomforts, reinforcing the blend of humor and mindfulness. They wrap up by sharing their love for books from a recent Barnes and Noble outing, setting the stage for their next read, 'The Burnout Society.' Through personal stories and playful banter, the girls remind listeners of the importance of connection and laughter in facing life's challenges.

How to find mental health help when you're struggling. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
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Transcript

Chris 0:11

Hello and welcome to The Mental Funny Bone. This is a podcast where we talk about, uh, mental health and comedy. And if I met you last week at SCDM. Oh no, it was a different conference. If I met you last week at the Viva Summit, welcome, and I hope you laugh at this as much as you did my presentation that was supposed to be serious. Um, in this podcast we talk about mental health related issues, and a lot of the time my sister and I talk about, uh, stuff that happened to us while we're growing up. And, uh, we are joined as always in spirit and in heart and faith by our friend Becca, the intern. So that's the, that's the lineup. I'm Christine, I'm Sarah. Becca, you speak now. Becca. Becca, you're allowed to talk now. Remember? I, I

Becca 1:03

keep

Chris 1:03

forgetting it. And I'm Becca.

Sarah 1:05

Good job. There we go. Good job. There we go. Good job. Good job. So

Chris 1:08

that's has introduced.

Sarah 1:10

I'm busting in. I'm busting in. I am saying, I'm gonna say one thing and then we're gonna let it go. And then we're gonna talk about whatever Christine tells us to talk about. Awesome. Okay. I'm gonna get political for one second. It's not okay to fucking kill people. It's really not okay to kill people. I have already said I was never a fan of Charlie Kirk, but he's a human being. He dad, a husband, and it's not okay to fucking kill people. It's also not okay to just blame one person or one side of the thing. And it's not just a a right problem, it's not just a left problem. We've all turned into fucking terrible people, and all of these things should be condemned. Regardless of what your political beliefs are, you should not have to worry about getting shot in a crowd nor when you go to fucking school, nor when you're in the crowd watching somebody, nor never, it shouldn't happen. This shouldn't, this is not okay on any fucking side. Stop fucking killing each other. And when somebody kills the someone kills somebody, let's not just talk about the one side of things. Uh, let's all come together and stop fucking killing fucking people. Okay? Especially our fucking kids. Let's give'em a chance. Fuck sake. Okay, moving on. Okay. I feel better now.

Chris 2:31

I'm glad. Welcome to our mental health podcast about being better people. First we, it's like, it's like Army Bootcamp. First we bring you down and then we build you back up. Mm-hmm. So September is suicide awareness month. I don't know if you guys need that. It's also September

Sarah 2:45

11th.

Chris 2:46

Oh my goodness. What? What an epic day in history. So let's try this on Becca. What were you doing on September 11th? Were you on your way to work?

Becca 3:00

Were you born? Have a proper answer. No, I was not. I didn't think so. I was a part of the nine 11 baby boom, though. That's an interesting you go. Interesting thing that I, I'm

Chris 3:09

gonna throw up.

Becca 3:10

Found out about? Yeah.

Sarah 3:14

Oh, wow.

Chris 3:15

Gross. Those are my friends you're talking about. Ew. Take, take

Sarah 3:19

that and stick it in your fucking pocket.

Chris 3:23

Look at my cat. Look at my cat. I mean, did

Sarah 3:24

you?

Chris 3:25

Hey.

Sarah 3:26

I didn't get any coffee. I, my morning is fucked.

Becca 3:30

It's all right. Hey, that's okay. That's okay. It's Thursday. It's Thursday. We're so close. We're so close.

Chris 3:36

Mm-hmm. Nearly there kids. Nearly there. So, um, Becca wasn't born on nine 11 and I'm kind of curious, like, Becca, when you hear us talk about where we were and like how profoundly this changed, not just our lives'cause it changed the shit outta my life. A lot, but it changed the way we get on planes, the way we interact with other people. We were nice to each other for four months straight. We were united behind a very specific issue. If only on the surface we could all agree on one thing. We did not like it when people came to where we live and started killing us. We were not big fans of that at all. Toby Keith wrote a bunch of songs like Alan Jackson wrote a song. Every time I hear it, I cry. Like we, we wore little American flag pins regardless of our political party. It was, I, Sarah learned what sniping was. It was a whole, it was a whole thing. It was a whole thing. So like for us, it was like a fundamental part of our development, but. What do you think about when, when we're like, oh, we should have like a moment of silent or nine 11, are you like, well, that is a lot of focus on one single event.

Becca 5:00

I mean, I understand it though. I had to review footage this year when I was in school. We were told to go look for different news footage and I got onto, sorry, hurricane, like I think it was Hurricane Katrina. That was 2005, 2006, seven. Yeah, around that area. I wanna

Sarah 5:19

say 2005.'cause I think it was just 20 years, right? I think

Chris 5:22

so. 2005.'cause I had just had a baby and I was watching it horrified on my couch.

Becca 5:28

Yeah. Because Max is,'cause Max was born in 2005. My brother for anybody. Um, but I remember watching that footage and then it just slowly turned into like, Columbine footage. I got into nine 11 footage. That was crazy. I got into nine 11 footage at the end of class and I was like, I don't even know what I would do with myself. I don't even know, like, what am I supposed to do when I, if that's happening in the world, where am I supposed to go? I, ooh, it's, it, it, it made me sick to my stomach for sure, and I absolutely understand, you know, honoring nine 11 and everything like that. But it's scary. If you're our friend Jeanie,

Chris 6:06

you go to the Beantown Pub and stay there for eight hours drinking the entire time. Yeah.

Sarah 6:11

Yeah. It was a

Chris 6:12

strategy. Sarah, where were you? Were you in school? Well, you were here, you were in pa, right?

Sarah 6:17

Yeah, I was, uh, I was, I was getting ready for work. Daddy had just retired or like not too long. So he was at home and mommy was at the bookstore and I was getting ready for school. And even 24 years later, I do the same shit in the morning. And I was watching Good Morning America as I was getting ready. So yeah, the first plane hit and they broke in on Good Morning America about it. And then we all watched the second plane hit and like

Chris 6:42

when, when did, I can remember running

Sarah 6:44

out from my room, like as I was getting ready and daddy was out in the living room. You could audibly hear both of us like react. And I ran out and I was like, what in the fuck is happening? And he was like, this is, this is, this was not an accident anymore. It was not an accident anymore. Like, and then I drove to work, I think I started work at like 10 ish. So I think that was right around, I think I walked in and they had it on the TV in the bookstore. And that was just when the first tower fell. Like around 10 ish and right before the Somerset plane or right after the Somerset plane. But I remember being in the car listening to it on the radio, and I forget what newscaster it was, but it's, it literally makes my body physically react because he, I think the plane went down in Somerset and I think that's what he was coming on to talk about. And he was like, we are officially under attack, and that's where you go. And then I walked in, watched the tower, collapse, and then that's all we did. Like nobody did anything. Like everybody just, Rosie was trying to get ahold of Billy because he was in York and in New York nobody could get ahold of anybody.'cause there was one cell phone tower at the time. Yeah, it was, it was, yeah. That's what, and that's what, just what you did for days. Like you just, we kind of all stumbled through life for a few days and then you started watching footage of it. And you were watching people jump and it was just horrific. Horrific.

Becca 8:11

How old were you guys when nine 11 occurred?

Sarah 8:15

I was 20, 22, 23.

Becca 8:18

28. 22, okay.

Sarah 8:20

Yeah. And if you were 28? I was 23 then. Yeah.

Becca 8:23

Well,

Chris 8:23

cause I was, I was 27. You were 20? Yeah, because I got divorced the next year. That's awesome. Yeah. So not saying because of nine 11, but it certainly didn't help.

Becca 8:35

It certainly didn't help as, as

Chris 8:37

crazy. I mean, you figure out how short life is and you figure out that, you know, maybe, maybe I shouldn't ruin everything for both, uh, both of us. Because I, there was one thing that I recently read

Sarah 8:49

though, like, there's a lot of stories about, you know, people who survived because of certain things that happened that morning. They didn't wake up on time. They Right. Were caught up in traffic. They were taking their kid to kindergarten. They were like the canner Fitzgerald guy, like the, one of the. Big wigs there, their whole company died and he wasn't there'cause he was taking his kid to kindergarten. You know, like all of these stories like that. And they're all really sad and I can't imagine survivor's guilt that happens with that. But the one thing to take out of that is when you're on your way somewhere and somebody's going 25 in front of you and you're like, listen motherfucker, I got places to be. They might have saved your life.

Chris 9:30

I'm trying to get to the twin towers. You ask

Sarah 9:33

Yeah. Like there's like how many of those stories? Yeah. Like, so when you get frustrated and then you're running behind and you're, things aren't going totally right. Maybe you're actually right where you need to be.

Chris 9:45

That is such a good, that is such a good philosophy. So I was in, I was in Arizona, so I'm three hours behind, like all this stuff is happening at what, like 9 30, 10 o'clock? Here. It's six or seven. I got up. Well, here's the thing, like I didn't watch the news in the morning. Just like I don't watch the news now. Like I got ready for work, I got ready for work, and I popped in a cd. Becca, we used to have these round things that had music on them called CDs, and I had, well, I had a five disc changer in my car.'cause of course I did. I'm success

Sarah 10:23

changer in my trunk. Go ahead.

Chris 10:26

Trunk. So I'm just bebopping into work, you know, listening to some music and I got into the building into our office and it's like 7:00 AM our time. So right around the same time Sarah's getting to work in Pennsylvania. Um, I. In the, the tower, just the second plane had already hit. So we knew this wasn't an accident already. Like I walked into it not knowing it was an accident. I knew that this shit was bad and they had closed down shit in Chicago. They're like, there's a plane headed for the Pentagon. Then that plane crashed in Somerset and I was like, wait, how fucking close is Somerset to where I live? Because it's still not super good at geography. On the phone with our dad. I just wanna be there with you guys. And I had like a full day of work, but we had one teeny little, like black and white TV where we could watch all this stuff happening. And I was supposed to teach a class for residents and I was like, you guys can come over and hang out in my library. But we're not, I'm not teaching anything. I'm just, I don't think, think about how horrific this is, but you can come over and take a nap if y'all need to. And I just, I just can't get over how. I can't describe accurately how much we all came together the next day. Yeah, the reactions were kind of different and like there were senators standing outside the. The Capitol building. Everyone was like this, this shall not stand. You cannot come here and kill people that we love. We can kill them, obviously. Yeah, that's

Sarah 12:01

apparently, that's okay. Safe. We can

Chris 12:02

kill them. But you guys can't like at all. No, thanks. The place where I worked, this is never happens. Different groups got together and we were like, we have to do something. And uh, you know, we we're like, we can, uh. My, my little research department was pretty into biological weapons at that time. And, um, what would happen if we weaponized anthrax? So we were kind of looking at that stuff. So we, we went to Washington DC to see John McCain and that's where I met Sarah. And, and my dad came down to DC to pick me up'cause I was gonna go back to Pittsburgh, um, to visit. It was the. That's where we found, uh, that's where we found snipers on the roof of the, of the White House. It was crazy. Yeah. That's when

Sarah 12:47

like,'cause that shit wasn't normal before. That wasn't normal. Having snipers on, I mean, there may, they may have been there but weren't Visible. Visible, but you could definitely see them and that the one good thing if it. I mean, whatever. But was that trip, that was probably one of the most amazing trips I've ever had to be in Washington, DC a month after nine 11 and everything was like a ghost town. Um,

Chris 13:18

Becca, you been, have you been to DC just to visit? Like I've always just wanted to go. It's a big, it's a big city, right? There's people everywhere. The streets are packed. People are going to and fro hither and yon, if you will. There was nobody after dark, like after people went to work, everybody went home, everybody went, the bars were empty, the restaurants were empty. Like if you didn't have to be in the city, you just weren't. It was wild. It looked like, it looked like Pittsburgh at nine o'clock at night. Like there was just nobody there.

Sarah 13:53

But it was great. Your company was awesome. They got us a, a driver and he drove us around to every monument that we wanted to, and there was nobody else around us. And we could take our time and walk through every monument and follow at a safe distance behind Daddy as we walked through the Vietnam monument and watched his shoulders go like this,

Chris 14:14

fucking crushing. Let him and him like, get himself together at the end. Just let him

Sarah 14:18

go. Horrible. Yeah.

Chris 14:21

That

Sarah 14:21

was a good trip. Horrible trip. That was a good trip. And, uh, oh my God. I wanted to make out with the snipers. I was trying to figure out like how I, I could get ahold of them.

Becca 14:30

That's real.

Sarah 14:32

Right. And then we got the fuck outta Dodge the next day.'cause uh, we attacked Afghanistan. Right, right. We were like, we gotta go. In fact, I think that night, like there was, there was rumblings about it. I believe that maybe, did I make up the fact that you got a call from somebody? It was like, don't drink the water. We got rumblings. Something was happening. You got a signal

Becca 14:51

chat? Um, yeah.

Sarah 14:53

There was a pigeon that came by and told us that we should get out. I didn't even have my cell phone turned on, I don't think. I was like, I don't mind leaving like right now. Right. I think we were at the Occidental Eating Dinner and I was like personally being, being the huge puss of the group and per I'm fine just packing up the car at 10 o'clock at night and leaving, and daddy was like, no. No, I'm enjoying this time with my girls. I'm not gonna let these people ruin this.

Becca 15:19

These people's were launching an attack on Afghanistan. It's a little bit bigger gonna these people. Oh, that's, so maybe it wasn't, maybe he didn't

Sarah 15:26

say these people. But I mean, I'm not gonna let this chase us, us out of here.

Chris 15:30

Jumbo was like, we are, we are Denver strong. I think he might have coined the phrase that all these other cities stole after that Devs

Sarah 15:37

Denver strong, but yeah. But I'm not sure any of us slept. And I think that we left like at the crack ass of Dawn, four 30 in the

Chris 15:45

morning.

Sarah 15:46

Yeah.

Chris 15:46

We were like, all right. Wrap it up. We out pack it

Sarah 15:49

up. Gaster out.

Chris 15:53

There was the one guy that came over to our table and asked my dad if Sarah was Cameron Diaz.

Sarah 15:59

Yeah.

Chris 15:59

Woo. These are things actually stick

Sarah 16:02

that stick in my sister's crawl. I don't, is crawl the word? That's what I was say, but I don't know what your craw is and why. I'm not sure anything would stick in there. Is it the place on your body that gets irritated? I dunno.

Chris 16:17

Yes. But I was like, no, it's not Cameron Diaz. Get out of, get away from our table. Dumb ass. Don't be stupid. Stupid. Ooh. I was like, do you want a glass of Shiraz? It was when I was young enough to pretend that I liked wine.

Sarah 16:30

Yeah, we were definitely drinking wine and I That's, that was still in my, yeah. I love wine days.

Chris 16:37

Oh yeah. Wines ev. Everyone loves wine. It's great. No tastes like spoiled grapes. What the fuck? Why would you ruin grape juice disgust by fermenting it,

Sarah 16:45

right? Yes.

Becca 16:47

Why would you do that? Becca likes, Becca still

Sarah 16:49

likes wine.

Becca 16:52

I don't know how that happened. You'll

Sarah 16:53

recover and it's fine.

Becca 16:55

You'll figure it out. You'll, Hey, it's a phase you'll work out of it. It's okay.

Sarah 16:59

You know, I, I mean all the phases I went through that I felt, I had to pretend that I like things'cause they were cool, like hiking. I'm not sure I ever went hiking, but I know that I got hiking boots and gear and shit. Do you Or outdoors in general. I was like,

Becca 17:13

yeah, I love terrible being outside. My boyfriend brought up going to Hawking Hills, which is very nice and very exciting. But if you've not heard of Hawking Hills in Ohio, it's just nothing but outside.

Chris 17:26

Dunno. Mm-hmm. There's no,

Becca 17:28

there's no reason. So what do I do outside and how do I tell him that I don't know what to do outside? That's another part of the conversation. You just say, I'm

Sarah 17:36

not a very outdoorsy person. Like, and if you're interested in checking out the outdoors, I suggest it mean it looks, know you should do things that your partner wants to do, and then maybe if you don't like it, then you're like, yeah, it's not really. It's not something I'm gonna do often, like I wanna support you in your madness. But yeah.

Becca 17:54

Well, I'm excited for it. I'm just gonna be so embarrassed when we're hiking and it's five minutes and my face is bright red. Yeah. Sweaty. Immediately wet. Sorry. Sorry, I'm literally gonna slide through this hiking trail like,

Sarah 18:08

yeah, there's

Becca 18:09

no other way. You might love it. You

Sarah 18:10

might fall in love with it. Fake

Chris 18:11

an injury like the, just let's just compound the lie by faking an injury, telling another lie. That's usually the way to go. Sarah's a life coach. She might have better advice, but my advice is continue with the lie of liking the outdoors and then lie about an injury you have that prevents you from enjoying the outdoors.

Becca 18:29

Because I don't mind the outdoors. I've just, I've not been fishing, I've not been camping. I, I just don't know how to do it. I mean,

Sarah 18:38

that's my solid advice is to make sure that your boyfriend knows that you've never done any of this, but you're excited to check it out and, uh, check it out. You might actually totally dig it, and if not, I mean, it might, you might dig it for a little while and then be like, Nope, not my thing. Give it a go.

Becca 18:56

I need to, I need to. New

Sarah 18:57

things are good. Trying new things is a good thing.

Becca 19:01

Yes. Sorry, I don't know where that was going. I don't know why I mentioned that. I thought, I think I said

Sarah 19:05

something. Oh no.'cause I said one of the things I tried to like go yeahing to like, things go, yeah. Oh guys, 7:00

Becca 19:11

AM is really good for me. Why is, why my brain is, I

Chris 19:16

hope nobody looks at the YouTubes'cause there's sun on me.

Sarah 19:20

You're gonna get sunburned. I don't. Speaking of, there's your

Chris 19:24

sunburn

Becca 19:25

here. If I put it in the shadow, where's your bra? It's getting better. I don't have a bra on with this sweater. She doesn't have to wear bra.

Sarah 19:34

There are no bra laws. We burn brass.

Chris 19:37

It's

Becca 19:37

before 9:00 AM.

Sarah 19:40

Yeah, we burn bras, especially before nine. She's wearing,

Chris 19:43

wearing a shirt. Really? Yeah.

Becca 19:46

You're

Chris 19:46

welcome. Alright, so that was the introduction. I didn't realize it was gonna be nine 11 recap. Um, not on my agenda. Yeah.

Sarah 19:53

Shit is, yeah, shit is, it's a shitty news day all around. And, um, I bought a jeep. You bought a jeep today?

Chris 20:04

No, after nine 11. I was like, well, you did. You know what I, that was a deep, you know what

Sarah 20:07

stupid a Jeep.

Chris 20:12

Oh my god, it was so hot. Yeah. In Arizona, like the sun is just beating down on me. The air conditioning in this thing wouldn't work. There's no reason to have the lid on, so I never had the lid on. The seatbelt would get caught in the wind and just beat the shit outta me. Yeah.

Sarah 20:28

We took a trip to San Diego once from Arizona and drove in the Jeep with a top down. We got there like, I wish we had pictures. How did we not have pictures of two of us? We got, we didn't cameras on our phones fairly certain we were covered in dust. We were just covered in fucking dirt and our hair. We drove through the desert. Our hairs was literally, this is how we showed up at the fancy hotel that we couldn't afford. Covered in dirt wearing, right? Like this khaki cargo pants jamming into the Indigo Girls like bar. Oh, here the lesbians. Hey. Yeah. This is what it, yeah, yeah. Jam into the Indigo Girls.

Chris 21:16

Yeah. Oh my God. We look like two baby monkeys that had just wandered in off the street. Oh, it was terrible.

Becca 21:23

I'd love to think about baby monkeys right now.

Sarah 21:26

Baby

Becca 21:26

monkey. Hey, wherever you're listening, wherever you're listening, whether you're in your car, you're at, you know, this is your job break. Nice. You're on, you're on break. Think about little baby monkeys right now. That's very nice. I'm

Sarah 21:38

gonna send you two, uh, a little text here. About baby monkeys and it's my favorite. You have to look at it right now'cause it's might be my favorite is think in the world and then we'll talk about it.'cause it makes me smile like when I'm not having the greatest day. Oh

Becca 21:58

well no.

Sarah 21:59

Come on over here little buddy. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Come on over. Come on over you little baby monkey. Come on.

Chris 22:07

Come

Sarah 22:07

on over. Come on over.

Chris 22:08

Baby monkey. We're all struggling today. Hello?

Sarah 22:11

Oh, I love the baby monkeys. They're my favorite.

Chris 22:14

Um, alright, I would like to talk about my two trips to Boston and my,

Sarah 22:20

can I, um, um, can I mute myself and go get uh, coffee?

Chris 22:25

Yes. I don't know why, why? I dunno why I'm asking

Sarah 22:26

you. How about I'm just gonna mute myself and go get coffee. I could still hear you guys though, so don't talk shit. It's my permission,

Chris 22:32

right? I can't wait until you're off camera. Do you see your hair though? Come on. What is she doing? Oh, there she is. There she is again. Oh, oh. Down. Quick back. Doubling

Becca 22:43

back.

Chris 22:45

Was she stuck?

Becca 22:48

I, anyway, I think she was, I think she's popping in for a second to be like, Hey,

Chris 22:52

you don't fucking talk about me. Um, so Becca, I went to, I went to a conference in Boston last week. So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I was in Boston and I had dinner with, um, I had dinner with Elaine c uh, friend of the pod. We often get fewer mail from Elaine. So, hi Elaine. So good to see you. And Elaine and I had a lovely conversation at this, one of my favorite restaurants in, in Boston called Lolita's. It's like a Mexican basement, like it's dark, it's, there's like all kinds of like red. It's red, red, it's black, it's dark. I look great there. Like if I, if I ever have to impress somebody, I'm gonna take them to Lolita'cause I look amazing. Like it's, you can't, you can barely see me. I'm so tiny, I get lost.

Becca 23:38

Beautiful.

Chris 23:40

But we were outside and it's right by the, it's right by the river. And um, I thought, look how cute, like little squirrels from running past the restaurant. It's so adorable. It's so naturey. And then I looked closer and I was like, those are rats. Those are rats. There's rats here. Elaine, there's rats.

Becca 24:01

No.

Chris 24:02

Rats. And they're like, and then like as, as it got darker, like these, they, they're, uh, evening rats. But as it got darker, like the closer to the restaurant, the rats were coming and I was like, I, we have to leave. We have to be done eating. We can't, like, Elaine has her feet up on the little bench where she's sitting and I'm like, I gotta pick up my purse.'cause when these rats is gonna run away with it and then I won't have a purse. So that was like. And then like we take a picture and we send it to our other friend Elaine. And um. That's Elaine. K. There's two Elaine's. Like what are the odds? There's two Elaine's in a company.

Becca 24:40

I was just about to ask and be like, wow, how crazy.

Chris 24:43

Like Christine's, there's like a, there's a butt ton of them all the time. Like, you're gonna be, you're gonna be known by your last name or some derivative of Christine. Like it's just a given. But Elaine, no. So Elaine c and I take a selfie and we send it to Elaine Kay. And she's like, oh, you're gonna miss us by a week. Penny and I are gonna be in town next week. And I was like, now Elaine, Elaine, c Elaine, Kay. And Penny and I all worked for this little company that made little, uh, deaf babies here. It best work ever. Um, and she was like, you got, you should come back. Canals. You should come back.'cause there was already Christine, so it was canals. You should come back. And I was like, oh, that's nice. And then I start, that's so gross. Sarah's interrupting my story by showing us off camera and just holding it up to the her camera. Soft baked, nutty buddy cream pies. For those of you who are not watching on the YouTubes, she's disappeared again anyway, so I was like, you know, I could do that. I have plenty of airline points and hotel points. I could come back and have dinner like it's a quick flight. Um, it's free and I certainly should make the time to see my old friends. It's not like, you know, so I, I, I, I had maybe a cocktail that night and I was like texting with them and I'm like, yeah, no, you guys, I'm gonna come back. Where are you staying? Like, where are you staying? They're like, oh, we're staying here. And then I booked the hotel and I booked a flight. And Monday when I'm supposed to go back to Boston, I have a panic attack in the morning. Because obviously, obviously they were just being polite and they don't really want me to come back. Like it was just, they're, they're polite and they don't, they don't really, now, now I'm gonna be there, and now everything's gonna be awkward because they didn't really mean it. So I had to call Sarah and I was like, Hey, so they don't really want me to go there and now I have to go'cause I have a hotel room in a plane flight. And then it'll be weird when I get there. And Sarah being a reasonable human being, was like, please don't be stupid. And I was like, it's my coaching

Sarah 27:01

technique.

Chris 27:03

I will continue to be stupid. And then, you know, she was, she did do a nice job of coaching me through it. Of course not. And then I was like, you know what? Um. I, I am fine and people really enjoy spending time with me and I'm gonna continue acting as if people do wanna hang out with me.'cause I am kind of fun to, to be around and a decent human being and, and people like that about other people. And you know what, Becca, you know what? They were happy to see me.

Becca 27:34

Wish they were who wouldn't be happy to see you.

Chris 27:37

And it was, it was all of these people that we had done all these weird things with. We had to practice, uh, they had to practice on how to get the medicine into the kids' ears and you like cut a hole in the back of their head and dump it in there. So we had gone through that experience where they had shown me that. Using, um, using cadavers. So, and as they're doing that, like the one, uh, the one doctor who's, you know, very fancy, he's a brain surgeon or whatever, neurologist, I don't know what he is, but he is, he is obviously been to medical school and I haven't, so he is a little bit intimidating. He comes over to me. No it doesn't. No it doesn't. No it doesn't. But he's still intimidating. Right. And he, this was before I was all, uh, you know, all mature. All healed up from all of my past childhood trauma. So he, he comes over and he's like, Hey, if you need to step out of the room, you can. And I was like, really? Now I'll vomit in my own mouth and swallow it back down before I step out of this room. And then I got kind of dizzy.'cause of the smell I've heard. Anyway. Um, believe in yourself. People wanna hang out with you. That's the moral of the story. And don't, if anyone says, do you wanna watch the doctors practice this procedure? The answer is no. No, I don't. I don't.

Sarah 28:59

Nope. Are no's gonna me better? Are you? Nope. Okay. Get the fuck out. Okay. Even,

Chris 29:03

no, I'm gonna be back at the hotel nurse in this hangover. Thank you. Yeah.

Sarah 29:07

See, uh, see ya

Becca 29:09

show.

Sarah 29:10

Yes. All

Chris 29:11

good.

Sarah 29:12

I'm glad you gotta see your friends.

Chris 29:14

I know it was real nice. It was real nice. And uh, you know, because we all work in the same industry, they were like, you should stay for the conference. We can sneak you in. And I'm like, you guys, I don't think I should do that. Well,

Sarah 29:24

that's like the ultimate nerd thing, sneaking into the NERD conference. Don't worry. I was

Becca 29:31

We'll sneak you into the, we'll sneak you into the convention.

Sarah 29:34

We'll sneak you another NERD conference.

Chris 29:36

It was like back in the day when I was with the band, everyone else was, we'll get you a

Sarah 29:41

lanyard. Right. We'll put pins on it so it looks legit. Yeah. We'll get, get you some flare.

Chris 29:46

My God. Right, right. So instead of sneaking into clubs these days, I'm sneaking into rare disease conferences.

Sarah 29:54

It, I mean, it's, that's how it's develop, it's life development or what's mm-hmm. What's the progression? It's the way it goes. It's just, it's just how it is.

Chris 30:04

So I would like to, I would like to give those guys a bit of a shout out. Thanks guys. It was really nice to see you. I saw it like I was the surprise guest. Love, um, love that. This is much, they were excited about me being there. I was the surprise guest at the cocktail hour and we were so, we were all so excited to see each other that we ended up not eating dinner, and I had the DoorDash food to the hotel.

Becca 30:31

Aw

Chris 30:32

and I, so for dinner I had three spicy margaritas.

Becca 30:37

That's awesome. That's

Chris 30:37

valid. That's okay. Don't, I don't recommend.'cause then by the time I got, and then I drank, I drank them so slow these days that by the time I got back to the hotel, I was sober and hungover and hungry. Yeah.

Sarah 30:50

Sometimes I feel like same. Same night, same day. Hangovers are worse.

Chris 30:54

It was. It was brutal. But I did watch Stephen Colbert for a little while, so I mean, it all works out. It all works out. It was his 10th anniversary episode. He says, you know, you get for a 10th anniversary here at NBC. Canceled

Sarah 31:08

the boot. The boot. See ya.

Chris 31:09

Oh, alright. So it's conference season again and I have a picture of those big blue balls again. Those of you, long time listeners will remember. Yeah. The first time I went to this particular conference, there were giant blow up blue balls. So they recycle the blue balls? Yeah, they've come, they bring'em out every year. Apparently they bring'em back.

Sarah 31:29

It's the Blue Ball Conference. That's really what they need to call it from now on. Welcome to the Blue Ball Conference. Everybody and every guy in the audience goes.

Chris 31:39

Um, and it took me a while to find them.'cause I thought they, they had hidden them like they were in inside the, uh, they weren't in the exhibition hall, but they were near the, um, the conference rooms.

Sarah 31:51

I thought maybe they just, they were just smaller blue walls.

Chris 31:55

No, no, no. They were still giant. Uh, giant. But I thought maybe they took them away because somebody heard the podcast and heard me say,

Becca 32:04

and then it was like

Chris 32:06

tens and tens of listeners being the change we wanna see in the world. No more blue balls.

Sarah 32:16

Oh, fucking blue balls.

Becca 32:19

Man. I hate getting blue balls.

Sarah 32:21

I mean,

Becca 32:23

where Becca?

Chris 32:26

Okay.

Sarah 32:26

The balls suck, I hear. I don't know.

Chris 32:30

I don't know. Anyway, moving on. Moving on to our, our next topic. So you have to tell me the name of the book that we're, that we're reading next, because I gotta read a book.

Sarah 32:42

The Burnout. I just had it on that, on that Post-it notes that I threw. Was that

Becca 32:47

what was on the Post-it note?

Sarah 32:49

Yeah. Fuck God dammit. It was a pink one

Becca 32:52

I finally read along this time.

Sarah 32:54

Yeah. The burn. Was it Burnout Society? I sent you a text. I sent you a text with it.

Chris 33:00

Yes. Yes. By B, young Chohan.

Sarah 33:03

Yeah. B um, I I want to mention a few things though before we get into that. Number one A FSP out of the Darkness Walk on Saturday. A shout out to our friends at March 4th that we saw them woo woo. They had their own. Their own tent, their own table. And I think every time, for the time that we spent over there, there were people over there gathering information. I hope that, I hope they got some donations and it was nice to see them sharing Tanner story and all of the good that they are doing with their, their crocs and crew necks. With what hospital? Is it

Chris 33:38

UPMC? No, Western psych. Western Psych,

Sarah 33:43

which

Chris 33:43

is I think a part of UPMC.

Sarah 33:45

Anyway, they're doing really, really awesome work and uh, it was nice to walk around down there. It's a shitty thing to see all the people there that have lost people that are, are walking for people. But it's nice to see that a crowd gets together and does something for good. Shout out to match, match, match folk with what? Shout out to, to March 4th. Jackie and Ed, we love you guys. Good. We were glad that we got to see you after the walk. We went to fat heads. Which I kept calling, I was telling someone about this last night. I kept calling it Nick's fat city and I was like, no, that's old. Nope, there's not there anymore. You

Becca 34:21

brewery,

Sarah 34:23

what's that? Nick's

Becca 34:24

fat, the Fathead Brewery,

Sarah 34:27

the Fat Fathead. It's in the south side. So, and somebody was like, you were at the south

Chris 34:31

side, Becca. This is a, this is a restaurant. What? I'm so confused. I used to try to get in here when I was under 21 because. It was just like the coolest place. Okay. I was

Becca 34:42

gonna say,'cause I was like, I know that there's like a fatheads like brewery, so I didn't know if this was like Yeah. A restaurant

Sarah 34:48

or if this was It's the same thing. It's, it's Fatheads beer. I mean, it's all their beer, right? Don't they have they have a brewery. The Bumblebee. But,

Chris 34:58

but this is,

Sarah 35:00

it's the restaurant back in the day in the south side.

Chris 35:02

Back in the day, um, you, you didn't have to have like a separate brewery. Like you could have a brewery, but this was like a place where you could go and eat a shit ton of fried food. Yeah. And they had a really pretty like glass window in the front. And if you were, if you wanted to see and be seen on the south side back when, like nine, 11 days, like that's where, that's where you would go and hang out. Like they would have, and it was a super tiny little place and you would pack. Pack in there and I think someone let me in the back door. And that's how I got in there when I was 20.

Sarah 35:34

Yeah. This is back in the day when you can get away with shit. We went there at noon Saturday. That's first Saturday. Somebody was like, uh, you were in the south side.'cause apparently it's not great there anymore. And I was like, yeah, it was still daylight. It was like breakfast hour. So we get in there and Christine orders. The bumble berry or whatever the beer is that we like there. And the, the waitress, cute little college waitress, she said, uh, I need to scan your id. And Christine went and I was just

Chris 36:01

at an athletic activity, so I didn't have my, I had my credit card'cause that's usually how I get the beer. I have gray hair, like no one is mistaking me.

Sarah 36:14

She didn't care. No. Or

Chris 36:15

I was like, are you kidding me? And my, um, I blinked a lot. I, and she was like, yeah. And she didn't even apolo she wasn't even apologetic about it. She was like, no, no. She was like, listen,

Sarah 36:25

we got busted by the LCB. I'm not allowed to do, like I've, she was, she was very good at her job.'cause I would've been like, okay, I'll, I'll get, I'll get it for you. I would've felt bad, but she was, she was like, no, we, we. I'm not allowed. I have to scan your id. I like, obviously you're older than 21, but I just can't do it. Noah did not have his license either. Uh, the only only person that Pepsi had a license was me And immediately one of my friends I was telling about it last night was like, so did you like get beer and then just share it with him? I was like, yeah,'cause one beer for the three of us at noon. Perfect. That's like, we'll just, that's take sips out of it. Like, yeah, that's all we needed. I was like, I think that we had that intention when I got the beer and like Right. Sissy took a couple sips out of it, but we're like, goody two shoes too. So I was like, hurry, hurry. Before she comes back. Don't let her see you.

Chris 37:15

Yeah. Like she was gonna kick us out.

Sarah 37:18

Yeah. Oh. And then I was, as I'm looking in the menu, I'm like, wow, something seems different. Like I always remembered going into Fatheads and there being a very big menu with too many things on it and saying. There's too much shit on that. Like I can't decide. And um, all sissy talked about all morning was getting fried mushrooms. All she wanted was fried mushrooms and she ordered the fried mushrooms and they no longer have the fried mushrooms. No. And I was like, yeah. I was like, wasn't your menu larger? And she said, yeah, we just revamped the menu. We took everything off of it that has bread, egg.

Chris 37:57

I was like, what? Our reactions exactly.

Sarah 37:59

I was

Becca 37:59

like,

Sarah 37:59

what?

Becca 38:00

What the fuck? The relieved the cook for sure. Coming from that standpoint. Relieved, but also damn like fried mushrooms. Fuck

Sarah 38:10

and not so good. Like you bite the first one and it burns the fuck outta your mouth. Right? Because all that hot it shoots the mushroom juice. Mushroom juice.

Chris 38:16

Like right here. Like it's horrible,

Sarah 38:19

horrible. And you go, ha ha, ha. And then you take another bite.

Becca 38:25

Yeah. When you start breathing through your mouth, right, you have it on

Sarah 38:29

your

Chris 38:29

tongue.

Becca 38:29

That's my go-to.

Chris 38:30

Yeah, right.

Becca 38:31

I'm so hungry. That sounds delicious. Becca. They would

Chris 38:33

give you like a shit ton. There was a pile of them on your plate. I would go there for lunch and just get that and then take half of them home. Even back in the Christine's a slightly bigger person and can eat a lot more days, but, and they were like big mushrooms too. They're like not, it wasn't a one bite, it was like something you had to take two bites of. So you definitely get like mushrooms all over your face.

Sarah 38:54

Shit. All yeah.

Chris 38:55

Yeah, they don't serve. That's all I wanted.

Sarah 38:56

Anything. So if you're going to fathead to Fathead, make sure you have your license if you wanna drink beer and don't go there with the intention of just getting fried fruit. Fruit

Chris 39:06

fried fruit. I, I was so, I was like, this is, I was so drunk in that back corn. I'm like pointing to the place. I'm trying to explain to the girl I was so drunk back there in the nineties that I had to have help to the car that I then drove home. I mean.

Becca 39:24

Drive home.

Chris 39:27

Becca has choices. A different

Sarah 39:28

time, bad choice. That was okay back then. It was total, totally. It was a different, I mean it wasn't, wasn't really, but it was just, yeah. Where there was, and there were no Ubers. Nobody was coming. We had no apps on our phones to get somebody to come pick us up. Up.

Becca 39:41

No self-driving ones.

Sarah 39:42

No. We earned our DUIs. Thank you very much. You know we had

Becca 39:48

get that T-shirt.

Sarah 39:49

We need to get, uh, change or call our parents collect or Right. Get to the payphone. That's what we did, right? Yes.

Chris 40:00

I think like we got to the car, my little group of friends from college, and I think we did this. Rock, paper, scissors or what. What we also used to do is see who could get the key in the lock and if you could then you were probably okay to drop because

Sarah 40:16

you also had keys. Like there were these metal things. The key, you had like little teeth looking things on them. Yeah, my car has lot. You had a Oh, okay, so you're good, you're good.

Becca 40:25

Yeah. My car's a 2008. You guys were talking about CD holders. I was like, I got a six one Nice in in my car right now. So

Sarah 40:32

nice.

Chris 40:33

You gotta love this. Anyway. Yeah, so it was super bitter. Oh,

Becca 40:37

that's so funny.

Chris 40:38

All I wanted when we were debating like, should we go to Fathead? Should we go somewhere else? I'm like, let's go to Fathead. Yeah. We get mushrooms. I love mushrooms. No, no we cannot. They, they've taken all the fun out of everything. I mean's a good thing. They took the fun out of the DUIs.'cause that is generally dangerous. I mean that's not generally like for real danger.

Sarah 40:57

Yeah. So sorry, I was just making a lot of noise.

Chris 41:01

That's alright.

Sarah 41:03

So what

Chris 41:03

is it?

Sarah 41:04

Burnout Society. The Burnout. Society. Society,

Chris 41:06

yeah. It's a book from 2015. It's an older book.

Sarah 41:10

2002. Fuck. I hate that. That means older.

Chris 41:15

I was just an older book. Makes Why? Why does that mean older sad. Pre pandemic. It's pre pandemic. So is that what we wanna read? Yeah. I think we sad because, I mean, I have

Sarah 41:25

a list of books I want to read, so, but I thought this one would be good for you, Christine.

Chris 41:32

I don't, I don't.

Sarah 41:33

What you mean you will, once we start reading it?

Becca 41:36

Honestly, I'm excited. I feel like burnout is something that I've struggled with a lot and I just don't know how to deal with it. From creative burnout with films and writing and all that nonsense, I am to just like school like. Not having to go to school and seeing kids actively, like on school buses, losers, it's awesome. But I'm also like, wow, I really miss my friends that I really miss having something to do. So it sounds interesting. What's it about? Obviously, other than that, I

Sarah 42:09

am, uh, I'm ordering it right now. I am gonna place the order's. Our competitive

Chris 42:14

service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late modern individual rather than improving life multitasking, user-friendly technology and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. That's the first line. I'm fine. I feel great. I mean, I will tell you guys that I think

Becca 42:38

you feel really good and then we're gonna read the book and I think you and I are getting it lot closer,

Sarah 42:42

right? I'm super excited. All right. My order is placed. Book will be here tomorrow. I'm,

Chris 42:47

I, I also feel like I have to confess to you guys that we have to end at like eight 30 because my, it's my boss's boss sent me an email at 10 15 last night and I'm starting to feel anxious'cause I haven't responded to it yet.

Sarah 43:03

I, I have a meeting and I have to, well, I'm probably not even gonna go to that meeting'cause I have to go to the park and try to find my kid's wallet.

Chris 43:11

Amen. I mean, have to

Becca 43:13

make breakfast,

Chris 43:16

Becca. Soon you will be in the club where you're gonna be like, man, I gotta get dressed. I gotta put a bra on. I gotta leave the house.

Sarah 43:22

Yeah, I'm gonna drive through McDonald's when I go to the park.

Chris 43:26

That's nice. Get McDonald's

Sarah 43:27

hash browns. You know, I love a McDonald's hash brown McDonald's fried potatoes in any form are my favorite fried potatoes. I don't give a fuck what anybody says. Judge me all you want, want tell'em

Becca 43:40

judge me all you want. McDonald's hash brown,

Sarah 43:42

McDonald's fucking hash browns. Salt those up. Put some ketchup. They're so good and I get an extra one'cause I put half of one on my biscuit and then I eat a hash brown and half with just the salt and the ketchup. That's genius. So good. So good. Today I might put the whole hash brown on my sandwich, one on top, one on bottom. Smush it all together.

Becca 44:05

You know what? Maybe I'll go try that.

Sarah 44:08

That's my plan for the morning after. I can't find, I mean, my hope is that I find Owen's Wallet and I use money from his wallet to pay for my breakfast, but I don't, that's where this all came from. I don't, I don't think that's going to happen. I think that going to have to get him another work thing.'cause that's what's in his wallet. His work past his work thing, work, work,

Chris 44:31

um, you guys

Sarah 44:32

thing

Chris 44:34

I. Did I did. So I've been doing like beginner yoga, um, forever and ever, and I kicked it up to Intermediate Yoga last night. Yeah. How'd that go for you? I'm sore. Did you get an AS pad for your meditating? No, I haven't bought an AS pad. I'm gonna buy an AS pad and so I'm gonna buy the Burnout Society.

Becca 44:56

May I show you guys something?

Chris 44:58

Yes. If you're gonna show us your iPad in, did you get an mask pad?

Becca 45:01

So I have these things called poofs. I thought something else was gonna, I thought that was

Sarah 45:05

something else.

Becca 45:06

Well, they are men's, a poofy pillow perfectly for your butt.

Sarah 45:11

Yeah, they have those. So those are the cute ones that I liked. But this one,

Becca 45:17

that's my evil. I think my evil eye is what it's called. I don't know. This one

Sarah 45:21

is butt shaved. It's. It is butt shave. It's crisscross applesauce shaped so you could sit on it and your feet can still be down here without your feet falling apart. Oh, and I decided I'm gonna write a book eventually. Yay. After putting together my course, I'm gonna write a book about being funny and meditating. Yes, MI Mindfulness with humor. Because you can still do mindful things without losing your humor and you could still do mindful things without being, um, serious.'cause I feel like that's one of the biggest misconceptions is that because we're funny and our brains are scattered, that we can't be serious and be mindful

Chris 46:07

and you don't meditation

Sarah 46:08

you to be all that serious. In fact, like a little bit of humor kind of makes it better'cause. The humor that I have in my brain voice. That bitch is funny. She's also an asshole, but she could be real funny. And sometimes the humor that the conversations I have with her actually, I'm like, oh, that's even more awareness, which is part of the mindfulness, which is all brings it together. So you could still be a funny asshole and still be mindful and do good things.

Chris 46:37

Yeah.

Sarah 46:38

Anyway, I'm eventually gonna write a book about it.

Chris 46:41

Becca, do you know that Sarah and I are going on a meditation retreat at the end of October?

Becca 46:46

Yes. I was gonna ask you guys when it was,'cause I remember when I was going through editing, I made a note and I was like, when is this retreat? I've heard so much about it. I have no clue when it is.

Sarah 46:57

I've tried to talk her out of it. I've tried to talk her into canceling it. So it's the

Becca 47:02

end of October. Yeah,

Sarah 47:03

Becca. We have to share bathrooms with people we don't know. I'm not gonna shower or shit all weekend.

Becca 47:08

I just got done with that.

Chris 47:11

For four years. It's gonna be so fun. Yeah. Sarah's like, do you think we could stay off campus? No.

Sarah 47:16

I tried to talk her into that. We can't. I was like, okay, well if you're not gonna cancel it, cancel it. Can we just stay in a hotel? So like when we leave the retreat, we could go drink and eat food That's not vegan

Chris 47:28

now.

Sarah 47:28

No. We're gonna eat, so we're going to eat, paste whatever kind of past they're serving us. You know what I think of? I think of the, what is it called? The the corn that you smash up. The corn maize. What? Why am I thinking? Is that what it's, we're gonna be

Chris 47:43

eating that. We're gonna be eating that list stuff. They tortillas out before they cook them.

Becca 47:50

That would be so good. We're

Chris 47:51

gonna be eating that. We're gonna be eating a shit ton of like barley. It's, yeah, there's like so many, there's gonna a lot of vegetables, there's lot that going on.

Becca 48:01

Well, is it like sweet now? To me there's like sweet potato, vegan, right? Not vegetarian.

Sarah 48:09

No vegan. I have no clue what the fuck it's gonna be. Okay, so you'll have, I don't think they're gonna have pizza with pepperoni though. That's, but

Becca 48:16

you'll have be sad cheese and egg.

Sarah 48:19

Yeah.

Becca 48:19

Dairy?

Sarah 48:20

I think so. No.

Becca 48:21

Okay. I say as it's like farm to table shit. You got dairy, so I think you'll be okay. I feel like dairy, you can't really substitute with anything. I,

Sarah 48:33

I mean, I think we'll be fine. We're going to be fine. We will be introduced to new things. We're

Chris 48:37

not gonna, we're not gonna wanna eat'cause it's gonna smell. We'll be in

Becca 48:41

to

Sarah 48:41

new things. It's gonna

Chris 48:44

smell so much like patchouli. We're not gonna wanna eat anyway. Yeah.

Sarah 48:48

I love patchouli though, so it's fine with me, but I chickies. Ugh,

Becca 48:52

me too.

Sarah 48:52

There's gonna be a lot of crunchy stuff. I'm not talking about food. I'm talking about people like there's gonna be crunchy people I could just tell and they're gonna wanna share a bathroom and they're not gonna care about their nakedness in front of me and it's gonna make me super uncomfortable. There's gonna be a lady there with flappy boobs that she does not give a fuck. She has been high since she was 16 and she is now 80 and she's walking around with. Big ass gray bush and floppy boobs. And I gonna run into her in the bathroom and I'm gonna go, whoa lady. Come on.

Chris 49:32

Come on. I just wanna learn to be a better person. Can you cover this isn't me. Then they'll expect me to give, sit on

Sarah 49:40

that ass pad and meditate. And that's all I'm gonna see when I close my eyes.

Chris 49:45

Bumblebee, bumblebee, bumblebee, gray Bush, bumblebee. Back pain. Back pain, back pain.

Sarah 49:52

That's the thing I'm most worried about is just falling asleep, number one, which is okay, snoring. But, um, I, I am not good. Like they talk about when you're meditating and sitting still like. To not move, like, not adjust because of whatever itch or pain you're having. Like to just work through that and lean into it and think and, and think about the pain you're having and why you're having, like, I'm having that pain.'cause I'm sitting with my legs crossed for too long and I'm 47 years old, so I'm gonna move them. Like that's, I'm not good. That's, that's, well, there's a lot about meditation I have not mastered whatsoever, but that's like one of the most major things is that when I get uncomfortable, I want to move. When I get uncomfortable, I'm 47 years old and I have the ability to make myself comfortable again, so I'm gonna do it. So, I don't know. That's one of the biggest, like I just, I will move all the time as I'm meditating and I feel like I'm gonna get kicked out. Kicked

Becca 50:53

out of what?

Sarah 50:55

Meditation school. Dan Harrison is gonna kick me out of meditation school. Mm-hmm.

Becca 51:02

cause I can't flunk meditation class

Sarah 51:04

without a fucking doubt. Mm-hmm. Meditation drop out. I'm gonna get sit there

Chris 51:09

very quietly and very still and watch her get kicked out.

Becca 51:13

Real.

Chris 51:13

It would be one of the joys

Sarah 51:14

of my life. It'll, it's gonna be one of the most uncomfortable weekends of my whole entire life.

Becca 51:20

You got this Guaranteed. Sarah. Sarah, I can handle it

Sarah 51:25

for sure. You guys, I will definitely cry.

Becca 51:27

I can't do this. I'm gonna call mommy and daddy. You think mommy will come pick me up?

Sarah 51:34

Literally every, every soccer camp I went to growing up, he was gonna pick me up. Yeah, no worries.

Becca 51:42

It's really hot. It's really hot

Sarah 51:45

and I don't wanna run anymore. Mm-hmm. I don't wanna meditate. I don't wanna meditate, and everything's really quiet and I just wanna fart. That's the other thing, like what it's gonna be like, oh man, fuck. There's so many things like, but this is why we have to do it. This is why we have to do it, because making ourselves uncomfortable is how we grow.

Chris 52:11

This is true. This is true. Hate hate that. Plus hate it. Right, right, right. Exactly. Now we're gonna learn about burnout. So hey, welcome back. I feel like maybe we took, uh, we took summer break from from meeting. Yeah, kind of.

Sarah 52:25

We just kind of, oh,

Chris 52:26

oh my gosh. I'm looking at my agenda and I did forget to tell you guys about one thing that I did. Tell us, tell us, tell us. Since the last time we talked, I took myself, uh, I took myself to Barnes and Noble. I mean, I made a day out of it at Barnes and Park. Why aren't we reading one of those books? Because they have titles Like My Ex Is The Antichrist and How to Solve Your Own Murder. Um, the Murderer also, I don't know if you guys, if we were talking about this when I read them, but the Thursday Night Murder Club, um, great book by Richard Osman. Fantastic. Yeah. Fantastic series of books about old people mm-hmm. Who are in a home in like a retirement village, not a home. And they, it's Netflix, they solve. Yes, yes. And I've had it chewed up, but like, I can't get to the couch before eight o'clock and I can't start watching it before eight o'clock'cause that would mean I would have to stay. Okay. It's okay.

Sarah 53:29

Like I, I fell asleep for a little bit through it. So that's kind of like. And I wasn't hungover or anything, but it was pretty good. I'd like to read the series. I'd like to read the books.

Chris 53:42

The book was excellent. Excellent. Is it,

Sarah 53:44

is it a series of books or is there just the one? It's three.

Chris 53:47

I think there's three or four. There's three definitely three books. Like great character development. Maybe that's why I like it too much.'cause I read all four and the characters just get more developed each book and I'm like,

Sarah 53:58

yeah. Oh, I'll have to do that after I read, let me see. There's four here that I'm yet to crack, and then I just bought that fifth one.

Chris 54:08

I had at one point in time, eight books on my little table.

Sarah 54:13

I

Chris 54:13

know you were taking pictures of them and sending them to me.

Sarah 54:15

Eight. You were

Becca 54:16

reading eight books at once?

Chris 54:18

No. Well, I was, I, I had gone, I had wandered through and I had picked up eight books and then I brought them back to my table and I was like. I think even I can't read eight books at one time. Crazy. Yeah.

Sarah 54:33

It's a lot to bottom. I can read

Chris 54:34

three at one time. I'm reading the Mindy Kaling book. She's hilarious.

Sarah 54:38

So funny. God, I love her.

Chris 54:41

Love that one.

Sarah 54:43

Did you read anything about my IBS?

Chris 54:46

I didn't. I didn't find anything about your IBS at the, at the Barnes and Noble, but that place smells. It's got a very distinctive smell. Starbucks coffee and uh, printed words paper and so it's so good. And just they had DVDs there. They have a section of DVDs and I was like, what are you doing? Barn de Noble. I did also come home with a, with a puzzle

Sarah 55:17

in love, a puzzle. I got a new puzzle board'cause you know I have all the time puzzle board to do fucking puzzles. Right. This one like folds up, like it's this felt thing. You can, it, uh, it sits on an angle so you don't have to break back, punch over the whole time. And then it has a fold over thing that you could fold it over and carry it out and not lose your puzzles everywhere. And it has the little pockets to hold your puzzle pieces as you separate them. It's, I got on a Mac bid for$4. Nice,

Chris 55:46

nice.

Sarah 55:47

Very entire excited about it even though I don't have a second to build a fucking puzzle.

Becca 55:51

Mac, I have an entire puzzle table. Sorry. Go ahead. What's that, Becca? No, all I was saying was Mac bids, um, supported my whole Yeah. And filled my whole college house. So, and now you may as it should tenure. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you

Chris 56:06

as it should. No, no. I have a whole puzzle table that's got all my Legos and stuff on it. Yeah. I need to get more involved. Those are gonna end up in my She shed. I love a she my pipe dream of a she shed. You could do it, of a

Sarah 56:21

she shed. Shed.

Chris 56:24

It's gonna have a pink fur carpet, please. Becky can come over play. Becky, you play your cards right? You can live in the She shed

Sarah 56:30

Becca's little baby, tiny house.

Chris 56:33

Yay.

Becca 56:35

You gotta take care of the cats though. No, not creatures. I hate animals. God, that's sounds so convincing. Awful.

Chris 56:45

That's right. Terrible. Right, right. But speaking of, I found speaking almost, actually,

Becca 56:50

I just heard my dog.

Chris 56:52

Going to the Barnes and Noble was on, what was the holiday? Not Memorial Day, but what's the other one? Labor Day. So this was on Labor Day and I just hung out all day. Whoa. For four hours. Hi puppy.

Becca 57:06

Yeah. I'm trying to get him up.

Chris 57:08

Nope. Yeah, the invisible dog. Hi. Hey buddy There.

Becca 57:13

He's,

Chris 57:16

Hey. Is that Scooby? It's SC. How's your seizures? Are you feeling better? Heck yeah. Feeling like a, you feeling like a normal dog now? Yes. Tell them I sleep all the time. Same buddy. Same. It seems like a good life. Yeah. Sleeping.

Becca 57:34

I love sleeping. Yeah, he's chilling. But no, I did not mean to interrupt you.

Chris 57:38

No, I mean, it was good for my soul. Hanging around, visiting with old friends like Agatha Christie and Stephen King and looking at Anne RA's books. I was like, I should buy the whole Mayfair Witch series. They made that into a TV show. I need that. So then I had those three books and I was like, put them down, put them down, put them down. Stop it. You don't stop

Sarah 57:59

it.

Chris 58:00

That would've made 12. I'm like, I nobody needs a dozen books. I bought so many that they gave me a bag to put them in. Not a, not a paper bag. Like a tote bag. Yes.

Becca 58:11

Good tote too. I have my Barnes and Noble tote bag. I bought that for like 99 cents or like a dollar 99. And I said, so nice. It's my little outing. My little people know where I'm going when I have my bag.

Chris 58:26

I ordered, I ordered myself a vanilla latte and she was like, oh, your membership expired yesterday. Do you wanna renew it? And I'm like, yes, I do.

Sarah 58:34

Absolutely.

Chris 58:35

That is a$43 coffee now. Thank you.

Sarah 58:37

Yes, the best It is perfect,

Chris 58:39

but what a great day. What a great day. I came home and I smelled my books.

Becca 58:43

I'm gonna go smell my books actually. That's incredible. I'm gonna smell my books and I'm gonna try that. McDonald hack.

Chris 58:49

Yep. I'm gonna go pee too.

Becca 58:51

I'm gonna oven age well.

Sarah 58:53

Enjoy smelling. Enjoy smelling books. I will enjoy my time at the park. I don't even know what, where to look. Good luck soldiers. And my Mickey D's.

Chris 59:01

Off I go. All right, thanks guys. Alright, love you. Bye. Love you, bye.