May 7, 2024 • 19 mins
Today we go full fat into the American Dream, Anxiety and Meds. Specifically: how much it costs, how to relax into it and who's taking what. Should be fun.
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(00:10):
I've already made a huge mistake thismorning. I put myself in like behind
already because remember yesterday the first thingI was like, oh, I need
new theme music. And I don'tknow if you've ever been around me when
I've decided to try and pick musicout. It's exhausting and thorough and ninety
five percent of the time leads tonothing. I'll just listen and listen and
(00:33):
listen, start to cut one ofthem up, piece it together with another
one, and then just drop thewhole thing altogether. Because I look up
and it's ten thirty and I startedthis at eight forty five. Happy Tuesday,
Welcome to the What month is thisMay? The May seventh edition of
(00:55):
the Girly Show, in this yearof Our Lord, and apparently late night
Storms twenty twenty four? Anybody awakelast night? Or was that just me?
I was paranoid. Here is theresponsibility, and there's not much,
so I'm not trying to claim whata tough job I've got, but there
are some things that I feel extraresponsible for and should because there aren't many
(01:21):
of them. One of them,though, and probably the biggest one,
is our mandate to the community,and it's too pronged, at least the
way that I view it. Numberone, to make sure if there is
vital information that the public needs toknow New Blue, I need to puke
(01:44):
out whether danger whatever, that informationgets on the air quickly. The other
is informing the public of ways tohelp in the community, and we do
that a bunch of different ways,public affairs events, you know that kind
(02:06):
of thing. Last night it wasthe former. It was storms rolling through
the area between midnight and three am, and I had an alarm set on
my phone to wake me up everycouple minutes just to make sure, Okay,
are there warnings? Is like abig warning. Is it just a
thunderstorm or is it a tornado?And then last night it was a very
(02:28):
hazy, tough judgment call. Theyweren't sure if it was a tornado maybe
in northern western Green County kind ofout there, dear lacash area. They
weren't shirt. They put out atornado warning just in case, But I
don't know what time was that,like one am. It's all a blur
at this point, and at thatpoint I just have to gauge. We
have a switch that we can throwwhere we take all of our stations and
(02:50):
put them on our TV friends atColor ten they went wall to wall,
so for a wall to wall broadcast, we could just take their audio.
In fact, at iHeartRadio we getit about a minute before it goes on
TV, which is really cool.They have their delay. We have no
such delay. We just take itright out of the studio and that's awesome.
Unable to play that for everybody.We just boot out all the commercials,
(03:12):
all the music, and just here'sall the info from people who know
better than us. We've done ittwice in the last month, and last
night might have been the third time. But I made the call to just
let the warnings take care of themselves, monitor it, and if something really
did pop up and they confirm,really confirmed, then you know whatever.
(03:34):
So that's how it went last nightfor a few hours. So yeah,
this morning, not surprising that I'measily distracted and now running very much behind
on this day. Hope yours hasstarted off better than mine. Not saying
it's bad, it honestly it invigoratesme. And I'm not saying that I
want bad storms or anything, butit just feels good to be useful.
(03:58):
Does that make sense? A lotof this is yeah, yuck. A
lot of this is just h here'sthe thing, and then, you know
whatever. I don't take it lightly. If I can make somebody smile or
make somebody feel better, even ifjust a little, that's awesome. What
an amazing thing to be able todo for somebody. There is zero feedback.
(04:21):
Rarely do we hear anybody, oh, thanks for doing this or whatever.
And look, don't expect thanks whenyou get a thankless job. This
is not a job that you peoplewill be like, oh my gosh,
I can't believe you played that song. I can't believe you said that.
That was awesome. This is beautifulfor people like me who just want to
say the thing once and then moveon with their lives. I don't need
(04:43):
the recognition or acknowledgment for it.But at the same time, it does
get a little repetitive, you know, And so to feel like you're doing
something that really matters sometimes like reallyin by all metrics matters, fels good.
So as much as I want tobe like, oh man, last
(05:03):
nights up every fifteen minutes, it'skind of a treat. Not for my
wife, who I mean that alarmgoes. I should have just slept downstairs,
truthfully, next to all the equipmentand stuff here. Regardless, I'm
excited about today. We're gonna findout how much it costs to live the
American dream? Also define it?What is actually the American dream? Does
(05:30):
it line up with what you've alwaysthought it should be? Also, we're
going to get the top ten mostprescribed medicines in America. So bad news,
blood pressure, big pharma. It'sstarready came for you, truthfully,
And we'll go through some relaxing activitiesthat might be making you actually more anxious
than relaxed. There's another story inhere about Emily Blunt. I don't care
(05:54):
for her face, so I'm notgoing to do it. It's about like
how she this will be a bigpop thing. Emily Blunt confesses on The
Stern Show that sometimes there were issueskissed at co Star and she felt like
kind of throwing up afterwards. Whatco Star is it? Let's all speculate
wildly. She's had to kiss likeMatt Damon and Tom Cruise and Ryan Gosling.
(06:18):
Ooh gross, come on, I'mnot running with that today. I'm
excited. Tonight is my daughter's soreproject. Sore is what the City of
Republic school System calls its advanced classes. I guess I truthfully, I don't
(06:38):
know what they're doing in there.I don't know what they've done all year.
It's very loose. You teach whatyou want to teach, you learn
how you want to learn, andthen at the end of the year we're
going to show off these projects thatthey've chosen. And my daughter, if
you remember, threw us a curveball on choosing day. On subject choosing
day for her big projects, shewent in with three ideas. I don't
(06:58):
remember what they were. One ofthem were bass fish, but that's the
one she ended up choosing that day. And honest to God, I've never
loved anyone more than my daughter.When she kept in the truck after I
picked her up from school and waslike, Dad, guess what I picked
for my topic? Bass? AndI was like, Eh, so much
(07:18):
so tonight she's been working on itfor a few weeks now. She's made
a pressy, which is like aPowerPoint presentation but cooler because it sounds the
neat name, as well as atrifold board. We made a skeleton of
half inch PVC pipe and used itto not only create a stable base for
(07:42):
the trifold, but also hang fishinglures down via fishing line over the top
of it. We're going to lightthat part up and then on the trifold
itself, information about like bass fish, what their insigns look like, what
a swim bladder does, you know, how they react to barometric pressure,
what you can use to catch ahere's some close up examples of what they
look like. You know, it'sreally really cool. So we're gonna show
(08:05):
that oft tonight at this middle schoolgymnasium. It just hit me how many
people have a traumatic It might beoverstating how many people have a bad memory
inside a junior high gymnasium. Iwonder. I wonder if walking back in
there, a lot of parents willfeel something other than pride for their child
(08:28):
and big smarty pants. Nest minehappened in junior high. On the football
field. We were playing a gameof not Capture the Flag flag football.
First ever co ed pe class.You know. We joined up with the
girls and playing flag football. Therewere three flags, two on each side,
(08:50):
one in the back, and Igot my front flag pulled. Yep.
Move on from that. So howmuch does it cost to live the
American dream. I immediately was like, well, what are we calling the
American dream? Now? We've talkeda lot on here about how maybe unattainable
(09:13):
things have become. Is the Americandream still like white picket fence, house,
married, a couple of kids,turns out, go banking rates?
And USA today? Are the publishersdefined the American dream as yes, being
buried, raising two kids, owninga home, a single car. I
would have said two and at leastone pet. Yeah, So in twenty
(09:39):
nine of the fifty states, theseother obviously like states like ours, like
Missouri, about one hundred and fiftythousand dollars a year, three point four
million over a lifetime. Back,boy, what I want to know and
won't spend the time to look atbecause it would take a lot of I
(10:01):
think, combining numbers from external sources, and I wouldn't be sure if I
could, you know, trust allof them. How much was it twenty
years ago? Like, let's goback to the year two thousand and four
when I was, you know,right in the middle of college. It
didn't feel like it does now.I was an adult ISHU then, you
(10:28):
know, and I remember that wasaround the time my parents sold the house
that I grew up in in Californiaand moved downsized to a smaller house and
ended up making a ridiculous amount ofmoney because they bought that house in like
nineteen eighty eight eighty nine held onto it for almost thirty years, twenty
(10:48):
years. Excuse me, and CaliforniaSan Diego real estate being what it is
like, it just far exceeds therest of the country. Then they turned
around and bought this smaller place andalmost doubled their money there when they sold
it a couple of years later.So to me, it was like right
around two three four and they justtook off twenty years ago. What do
(11:09):
you think it was to live theAmerican dream? I feel like one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year islow. How big a house are we
talking here? Enough to fit twokids? Really? A single car?
I think this works if it's aneleven thousands or eleven thousand, eleven hundred
square foot house, one garage,one used car probably eight to ten years
(11:33):
old, and two kids going topublic school, one pet that maybe gets
to check up a couple times ayear. Is that what you would call
the American dream kind of depressing.So how do we put this on the
air in twenty seconds? Because thatwas a lot. Maybe it's just that.
(11:54):
Maybe it's like, wow, threepoint four million dollars over a lifetime.
Where's the joke there? One hundredand fifty thousand dollars a year?
Is there a joke there? Twentynine states, including this one here in
Missouri. At least it's not California. That's an easy way out. That's
two hundred and thirty thousand dollars ayear. Maybe that's it. Let's do
(12:18):
the top tie, the top tie, top ten, boy stepping all over
myself today, the top ten mostprescribed medicines in America. This is not
entertaining. I don't think at all. There's a good chance though, because
the number one most prescribed medicine inAmerica has been prescribed now one hundred and
sixteen million times. That's total prescriptionslipotour that's number one, high cholesterol,
(12:46):
heart disease prevention. Odds are that'syour jam? I mean, just looking
at the numbers, I've never heardof the number two. This one is
a ninety one million per scripts metaformanmet foreman it's like a high blood sugar.
It's a diabetes thing. Well,that's why I don't have the diabetes.
(13:09):
Synthroid is number three. That's hyperthyroidism, zestril quebrilous. Maybe this is
the whole bit. Maybe it's justme mispronouncing all of these. Uh,
let's see if your medicine's on thelist, and then I just mispronounce all
of them. Just get the actualscientific name. Another high blood pressure medicine
(13:31):
there with zestril at number four,number five norvasque blood pressure, metroprololol true
lower's blood pressure. That's number six, abuterol. And this is the first
one that we have at our house. I will admit our son when he
was a baby baby and through theyears we've had to give him the breathing
(13:54):
treatments. That's the albuterol. It'slike a breathing steroid. And asthma,
I mean obviously asthma too. That'skind of the bigger one. Cozar Kozar
with like two a's there at theend. Another high blood pressure medicine that's
number eight a met prazol. Wegot this one prilo seconds for stomach acid
(14:16):
heartburn, and Gaba gabba Gabba PentinGray Lease, it's Caesar medicine. That's
number ten. That's nuts. Howmany of these, like half of these
are for high blood pressure? Howmany of these are caused by bad diet?
(14:39):
I wonder? I feel like alot of them. Nine out of
ten, maybe eight out of ten? Who if you ever needed a snapshot
of America, I feel like thisis a pretty decent list. I had
to copy the picture from Reddit.This is a dude. There's like one
(15:00):
one medicine on here, a hormonemedicine that probably has nothing to do with
diet. The rest of these like, yeah, it's all diet stuff.
Wow, all right, Well there'sAmerica for you. Every book does yours
make the list? And finally,the relaxing activities that might be making you
more anxious. I feel like theolder I've gotten, the more I kind
(15:24):
of understand this. If you wouldhave told me this ten years ago,
I would have been like this,binge watching TV making me more anxious.
But it turns out it can.In fact, it's in the same category
as shopping escapism. It might bemaking you more anxious because instead of binge
watching TV, there's a thing you'resupposed to be doing, and you're just
choosing not to. Same thing withshopping. Telling yourself to stop thinking your
(15:48):
bad thoughts is another one. Youmay think it's relaxing you. It's not
asking lots of people for their opinions, which I think hurts two different ways.
Number one gives you way more informationthan you probably need to make a
decision. That's causing you to feelanxious. It also hurts people's feelings,
like if you come to me andask me for advice and I give it
(16:10):
to you, and then I findthat you've gone to nineteen other people,
I'm gonna be well, okay,then next time, don't ask me,
cause that's you not listening. You'renot fully comprehending what I'm trying to say.
And vice versa. I have acouple of people, maybe two,
I'll ask for advice on before Ido something. Case in point, I
(16:30):
have a contract that I was justoffered that is garbage, and so I've
written up my response to that contractand I don't want it to be mean.
It's not personal, right, it'sbusiness. And we've talked about this
before. People are gonna take careof people. You got to because business
ain't gonna take care of people.Business is gonna take care of business.
A couple of people I made readmy response and they're people who I listened
(16:55):
to what they had to say,their feedback on it, and made the
changes. But I wouldn't put thatin front of twenty people because then that's
twenty different that's going to just ruinit and hurt all their feelings at the
same time. Two's enough saying yesto additional tasks as an abstraction. Of
course, that's going to make youfeel more anxious. And how many people
do that? I think of thedata, right the serial dater who instead
(17:19):
of trying to work on the samething that keeps happening and all the relationships
they've had, maybe this next onewill be different because I could fix them
instead of me and number five justignoring the stress or trying to pretend that
it's not there. Turns out thatdoesn't work either. That is out of
all of these, easily the onethat I do the most. It's good
(17:45):
stuff today, A lot of it'salmost a little heavy. We're gonna have
to figure out maybe that Emily Bluntthing is worth doing just to get out
of the heaviness. Of these topicstoday. But I think they're interesting,
and I think even if the subjectmatter might be a little bit not you
know, regular butter, it ain'tlight or margarine. You know it's a
(18:07):
little heavy butter. It's delicious.People still want it, and we'll find
a way. We're not gonna belike so it sucks to be you.
Your life pretty much is lame.Remember that time and that junior high Jim.
You know we're gonna make a goodshow today, We're gonna make an
average show. It's gonna be fineregardless if you're here for it this afternoon.
(18:29):
You were here for this, andthat matters the most. It does.
I appreciate it, and I wouldlove if we got a chance to
do this tomorrow. Yeah, allright,
I've already made a huge mistake thismorning. I put myself in like behind
already because remember yesterday the first thingI was like, oh, I need
new theme music. And I don'tknow if you've ever been around me when
I've decided to try and pick musicout. It's exhausting and thorough and ninety
five percent of the time leads tonothing. I'll just listen and listen and
(00:33):
listen, start to cut one ofthem up, piece it together with another
one, and then just drop thewhole thing altogether. Because I look up
and it's ten thirty and I startedthis at eight forty five. Happy Tuesday,
Welcome to the What month is thisMay? The May seventh edition of
(00:55):
the Girly Show, in this yearof Our Lord, and apparently late night
Storms twenty twenty four? Anybody awakelast night? Or was that just me?
I was paranoid. Here is theresponsibility, and there's not much,
so I'm not trying to claim whata tough job I've got, but there
are some things that I feel extraresponsible for and should because there aren't many
(01:21):
of them. One of them,though, and probably the biggest one,
is our mandate to the community,and it's too pronged, at least the
way that I view it. Numberone, to make sure if there is
vital information that the public needs toknow New Blue, I need to puke
(01:44):
out whether danger whatever, that informationgets on the air quickly. The other
is informing the public of ways tohelp in the community, and we do
that a bunch of different ways,public affairs events, you know that kind
(02:06):
of thing. Last night it wasthe former. It was storms rolling through
the area between midnight and three am, and I had an alarm set on
my phone to wake me up everycouple minutes just to make sure, Okay,
are there warnings? Is like abig warning. Is it just a
thunderstorm or is it a tornado?And then last night it was a very
(02:28):
hazy, tough judgment call. Theyweren't sure if it was a tornado maybe
in northern western Green County kind ofout there, dear lacash area. They
weren't shirt. They put out atornado warning just in case, But I
don't know what time was that,like one am. It's all a blur
at this point, and at thatpoint I just have to gauge. We
have a switch that we can throwwhere we take all of our stations and
(02:50):
put them on our TV friends atColor ten they went wall to wall,
so for a wall to wall broadcast, we could just take their audio.
In fact, at iHeartRadio we getit about a minute before it goes on
TV, which is really cool.They have their delay. We have no
such delay. We just take itright out of the studio and that's awesome.
Unable to play that for everybody.We just boot out all the commercials,
(03:12):
all the music, and just here'sall the info from people who know
better than us. We've done ittwice in the last month, and last
night might have been the third time. But I made the call to just
let the warnings take care of themselves, monitor it, and if something really
did pop up and they confirm,really confirmed, then you know whatever.
(03:34):
So that's how it went last nightfor a few hours. So yeah,
this morning, not surprising that I'measily distracted and now running very much behind
on this day. Hope yours hasstarted off better than mine. Not saying
it's bad, it honestly it invigoratesme. And I'm not saying that I
want bad storms or anything, butit just feels good to be useful.
(03:58):
Does that make sense? A lotof this is yeah, yuck. A
lot of this is just h here'sthe thing, and then, you know
whatever. I don't take it lightly. If I can make somebody smile or
make somebody feel better, even ifjust a little, that's awesome. What
an amazing thing to be able todo for somebody. There is zero feedback.
(04:21):
Rarely do we hear anybody, oh, thanks for doing this or whatever.
And look, don't expect thanks whenyou get a thankless job. This
is not a job that you peoplewill be like, oh my gosh,
I can't believe you played that song. I can't believe you said that.
That was awesome. This is beautifulfor people like me who just want to
say the thing once and then moveon with their lives. I don't need
(04:43):
the recognition or acknowledgment for it.But at the same time, it does
get a little repetitive, you know, And so to feel like you're doing
something that really matters sometimes like reallyin by all metrics matters, fels good.
So as much as I want tobe like, oh man, last
(05:03):
nights up every fifteen minutes, it'skind of a treat. Not for my
wife, who I mean that alarmgoes. I should have just slept downstairs,
truthfully, next to all the equipmentand stuff here. Regardless, I'm
excited about today. We're gonna findout how much it costs to live the
American dream? Also define it?What is actually the American dream? Does
(05:30):
it line up with what you've alwaysthought it should be? Also, we're
going to get the top ten mostprescribed medicines in America. So bad news,
blood pressure, big pharma. It'sstarready came for you, truthfully,
And we'll go through some relaxing activitiesthat might be making you actually more anxious
than relaxed. There's another story inhere about Emily Blunt. I don't care
(05:54):
for her face, so I'm notgoing to do it. It's about like
how she this will be a bigpop thing. Emily Blunt confesses on The
Stern Show that sometimes there were issueskissed at co Star and she felt like
kind of throwing up afterwards. Whatco Star is it? Let's all speculate
wildly. She's had to kiss likeMatt Damon and Tom Cruise and Ryan Gosling.
(06:18):
Ooh gross, come on, I'mnot running with that today. I'm
excited. Tonight is my daughter's soreproject. Sore is what the City of
Republic school System calls its advanced classes. I guess I truthfully, I don't
(06:38):
know what they're doing in there.I don't know what they've done all year.
It's very loose. You teach whatyou want to teach, you learn
how you want to learn, andthen at the end of the year we're
going to show off these projects thatthey've chosen. And my daughter, if
you remember, threw us a curveball on choosing day. On subject choosing
day for her big projects, shewent in with three ideas. I don't
(06:58):
remember what they were. One ofthem were bass fish, but that's the
one she ended up choosing that day. And honest to God, I've never
loved anyone more than my daughter.When she kept in the truck after I
picked her up from school and waslike, Dad, guess what I picked
for my topic? Bass? AndI was like, Eh, so much
(07:18):
so tonight she's been working on itfor a few weeks now. She's made
a pressy, which is like aPowerPoint presentation but cooler because it sounds the
neat name, as well as atrifold board. We made a skeleton of
half inch PVC pipe and used itto not only create a stable base for
(07:42):
the trifold, but also hang fishinglures down via fishing line over the top
of it. We're going to lightthat part up and then on the trifold
itself, information about like bass fish, what their insigns look like, what
a swim bladder does, you know, how they react to barometric pressure,
what you can use to catch ahere's some close up examples of what they
look like. You know, it'sreally really cool. So we're gonna show
(08:05):
that oft tonight at this middle schoolgymnasium. It just hit me how many
people have a traumatic It might beoverstating how many people have a bad memory
inside a junior high gymnasium. Iwonder. I wonder if walking back in
there, a lot of parents willfeel something other than pride for their child
(08:28):
and big smarty pants. Nest minehappened in junior high. On the football
field. We were playing a gameof not Capture the Flag flag football.
First ever co ed pe class.You know. We joined up with the
girls and playing flag football. Therewere three flags, two on each side,
(08:50):
one in the back, and Igot my front flag pulled. Yep.
Move on from that. So howmuch does it cost to live the
American dream. I immediately was like, well, what are we calling the
American dream? Now? We've talkeda lot on here about how maybe unattainable
(09:13):
things have become. Is the Americandream still like white picket fence, house,
married, a couple of kids,turns out, go banking rates?
And USA today? Are the publishersdefined the American dream as yes, being
buried, raising two kids, owninga home, a single car. I
would have said two and at leastone pet. Yeah, So in twenty
(09:39):
nine of the fifty states, theseother obviously like states like ours, like
Missouri, about one hundred and fiftythousand dollars a year, three point four
million over a lifetime. Back,boy, what I want to know and
won't spend the time to look atbecause it would take a lot of I
(10:01):
think, combining numbers from external sources, and I wouldn't be sure if I
could, you know, trust allof them. How much was it twenty
years ago? Like, let's goback to the year two thousand and four
when I was, you know,right in the middle of college. It
didn't feel like it does now.I was an adult ISHU then, you
(10:28):
know, and I remember that wasaround the time my parents sold the house
that I grew up in in Californiaand moved downsized to a smaller house and
ended up making a ridiculous amount ofmoney because they bought that house in like
nineteen eighty eight eighty nine held onto it for almost thirty years, twenty
(10:48):
years. Excuse me, and CaliforniaSan Diego real estate being what it is
like, it just far exceeds therest of the country. Then they turned
around and bought this smaller place andalmost doubled their money there when they sold
it a couple of years later.So to me, it was like right
around two three four and they justtook off twenty years ago. What do
(11:09):
you think it was to live theAmerican dream? I feel like one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year islow. How big a house are we
talking here? Enough to fit twokids? Really? A single car?
I think this works if it's aneleven thousands or eleven thousand, eleven hundred
square foot house, one garage,one used car probably eight to ten years
(11:33):
old, and two kids going topublic school, one pet that maybe gets
to check up a couple times ayear. Is that what you would call
the American dream kind of depressing.So how do we put this on the
air in twenty seconds? Because thatwas a lot. Maybe it's just that.
(11:54):
Maybe it's like, wow, threepoint four million dollars over a lifetime.
Where's the joke there? One hundredand fifty thousand dollars a year?
Is there a joke there? Twentynine states, including this one here in
Missouri. At least it's not California. That's an easy way out. That's
two hundred and thirty thousand dollars ayear. Maybe that's it. Let's do
(12:18):
the top tie, the top tie, top ten, boy stepping all over
myself today, the top ten mostprescribed medicines in America. This is not
entertaining. I don't think at all. There's a good chance though, because
the number one most prescribed medicine inAmerica has been prescribed now one hundred and
sixteen million times. That's total prescriptionslipotour that's number one, high cholesterol,
(12:46):
heart disease prevention. Odds are that'syour jam? I mean, just looking
at the numbers, I've never heardof the number two. This one is
a ninety one million per scripts metaformanmet foreman it's like a high blood sugar.
It's a diabetes thing. Well,that's why I don't have the diabetes.
(13:09):
Synthroid is number three. That's hyperthyroidism, zestril quebrilous. Maybe this is
the whole bit. Maybe it's justme mispronouncing all of these. Uh,
let's see if your medicine's on thelist, and then I just mispronounce all
of them. Just get the actualscientific name. Another high blood pressure medicine
(13:31):
there with zestril at number four,number five norvasque blood pressure, metroprololol true
lower's blood pressure. That's number six, abuterol. And this is the first
one that we have at our house. I will admit our son when he
was a baby baby and through theyears we've had to give him the breathing
(13:54):
treatments. That's the albuterol. It'slike a breathing steroid. And asthma,
I mean obviously asthma too. That'skind of the bigger one. Cozar Kozar
with like two a's there at theend. Another high blood pressure medicine that's
number eight a met prazol. Wegot this one prilo seconds for stomach acid
(14:16):
heartburn, and Gaba gabba Gabba PentinGray Lease, it's Caesar medicine. That's
number ten. That's nuts. Howmany of these, like half of these
are for high blood pressure? Howmany of these are caused by bad diet?
(14:39):
I wonder? I feel like alot of them. Nine out of
ten, maybe eight out of ten? Who if you ever needed a snapshot
of America, I feel like thisis a pretty decent list. I had
to copy the picture from Reddit.This is a dude. There's like one
(15:00):
one medicine on here, a hormonemedicine that probably has nothing to do with
diet. The rest of these like, yeah, it's all diet stuff.
Wow, all right, Well there'sAmerica for you. Every book does yours
make the list? And finally,the relaxing activities that might be making you
more anxious. I feel like theolder I've gotten, the more I kind
(15:24):
of understand this. If you wouldhave told me this ten years ago,
I would have been like this,binge watching TV making me more anxious.
But it turns out it can.In fact, it's in the same category
as shopping escapism. It might bemaking you more anxious because instead of binge
watching TV, there's a thing you'resupposed to be doing, and you're just
choosing not to. Same thing withshopping. Telling yourself to stop thinking your
(15:48):
bad thoughts is another one. Youmay think it's relaxing you. It's not
asking lots of people for their opinions, which I think hurts two different ways.
Number one gives you way more informationthan you probably need to make a
decision. That's causing you to feelanxious. It also hurts people's feelings,
like if you come to me andask me for advice and I give it
(16:10):
to you, and then I findthat you've gone to nineteen other people,
I'm gonna be well, okay,then next time, don't ask me,
cause that's you not listening. You'renot fully comprehending what I'm trying to say.
And vice versa. I have acouple of people, maybe two,
I'll ask for advice on before Ido something. Case in point, I
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have a contract that I was justoffered that is garbage, and so I've
written up my response to that contractand I don't want it to be mean.
It's not personal, right, it'sbusiness. And we've talked about this
before. People are gonna take careof people. You got to because business
ain't gonna take care of people.Business is gonna take care of business.
A couple of people I made readmy response and they're people who I listened
(16:55):
to what they had to say,their feedback on it, and made the
changes. But I wouldn't put thatin front of twenty people because then that's
twenty different that's going to just ruinit and hurt all their feelings at the
same time. Two's enough saying yesto additional tasks as an abstraction. Of
course, that's going to make youfeel more anxious. And how many people
do that? I think of thedata, right the serial dater who instead
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of trying to work on the samething that keeps happening and all the relationships
they've had, maybe this next onewill be different because I could fix them
instead of me and number five justignoring the stress or trying to pretend that
it's not there. Turns out thatdoesn't work either. That is out of
all of these, easily the onethat I do the most. It's good
(17:45):
stuff today, A lot of it'salmost a little heavy. We're gonna have
to figure out maybe that Emily Bluntthing is worth doing just to get out
of the heaviness. Of these topicstoday. But I think they're interesting,
and I think even if the subjectmatter might be a little bit not you
know, regular butter, it ain'tlight or margarine. You know it's a
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little heavy butter. It's delicious.People still want it, and we'll find
a way. We're not gonna belike so it sucks to be you.
Your life pretty much is lame.Remember that time and that junior high Jim.
You know we're gonna make a goodshow today, We're gonna make an
average show. It's gonna be fineregardless if you're here for it this afternoon.
(18:29):
You were here for this, andthat matters the most. It does.
I appreciate it, and I wouldlove if we got a chance to
do this tomorrow. Yeah, allright,
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