August 12, 2025 • 14 mins
One minute, everything felt normal — a perfect day. A walk, a laugh, the kind of easy moments you don’t overthink. And then… something shifted. Let me tell you more about it.
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(00:01):
The craziest thing happened today, and I want to tell you
about it. This is the way forward.
And you're listening to Better Moody.
I took the dogs on a gorgeous walk today.
That's not the crazy thing, right?
OK hear me out. It was perfect outside honestly
(00:22):
it was like a cool 7072.5° birdswere chirping.
It was like Snow White weather. Sun was shining just right and
was warm enough to make you feellike you know that that main
character energy like I was really had my own theme song and
everything. I was on a mission.
(00:43):
I was going to find a spot for them to run wild and free and
and that's true. I just feel like I needed to do
this for my dogs. I needed to give them that
freedom that I felt, you know, walking out into into their own
space. But the only places that I could
(01:03):
find because I wasn't going to venture off too far.
The only spots were the sports fields.
And this is I'm talking about onbase here and all of them.
I thought, well, maybe the grassisn't that nice.
It was just fenced, but there were these no dogs allowed signs
(01:23):
or pets not permitted on the sports field is what it said.
So I was like, alright, cool, cool, whatever.
So I headed back, circled around, headed back toward the
house and it turned on the hose.Little dog wasn't trying to have
any of it. Little dog is so like demure.
(01:43):
But that big dog man, he took toit and I was thinking, you know,
I'll just give him something to drink.
Little dog was trying to trying to sit off in the corner and big
dog was all in, in it. He was all in.
He was in attack mode and he thought like he could take it
out if water had a jugular. He found it and he was just
(02:05):
pouncing on it. And you know, it's like like a
cat with a laser. And he was, I move the hose, I
move, it's the water stream. And he'd go pounce.
And I was like this guy, I've never seen anything like it.
But if there was a a water Olympics, my doggie might win a
medal because he's especially lately, I need to go get him
(02:27):
neutered. He's full on Olympic doggie
mode. He's jumping, jumping the
tallest or the highest and running the fastest and he's
doing all the things. So anyway, after he got done
playing and I shot him, he didn't even care.
I was just shooting him with thehose, moving the hose.
(02:48):
He was chasing it. He was doing like low crawling.
It was great. He's like a little squirrel at a
point. But I went ahead and took him
walking a little bit further just to kind of let the sun hit
him and he could shake it off. So no way I was going to let him
inside the house like that. So I got home, made it back in
(03:10):
the house, and I was thinking, man, it's about nap time.
So I opened the door and it was just really quiet and I could
hear the neighbors. The walls were thin, the
(03:32):
apartment was small. I could hear the neighbors watch
whatever show they had blasting over there.
I was thinking, man, dinner's going to be cereal.
I'm just going to use one bowl that's less dishes to wash, not
cooking for anybody. I'm going to feed my fish.
(03:55):
Can't let the only living thing in my house rely on me and and
you know, that be a fail. So I went ahead and and did a
little tap, tap, tap, give, givethose little fish, those flakes,
(04:17):
that little food flakes. And I thought to myself, man, I
could stay out late tomorrow though.
I don't need an alarm clock. It's just me, no responsibility.
So I walked into the living roomand the the sound of the TV got
louder and I could hear The GoodWife was on and Alicia Florrick,
(04:48):
it was just to me, just her look, her poise, it's just
something to admire. So I sat down and I was watching
and I was thinking to myself, man, I need to update.
I need to update my Facebook. I need to throw up these
pictures that I took today. Better Moody is eating cereal
(05:12):
and watching The Good Wife. I picked up my little flip
phone. Beep boop beep boop.
The Nokia 1, the one that's a walkie-talkie.
Y'all know what I'm talking about?
And I was like, hmm, I was looking at my live feed on
(05:39):
my desktop computer and it was saying that.
Breaking news, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the
VMA's. That's crazy.
Took the mic from her. What?
Anyway, I might go out this weekend if the swine flu doesn't
(06:02):
shut the place down. It looks like that's on the
rise. Some new pandemic the the swine
flu. Who heard of a pandemic?
What the hell? What century are we in?
So the weird thing is lately I've been thinking about my ex
(06:24):
again and not not call him up. Let's see what's going on kind
of way, just, you know, just rehashing the good old days and
you know that ache that you get when you're alone.
And then the silence is loud. The silence be screaming even
(06:48):
though the TV's doing what it's doing.
It's just easier to fill it withsome serial couple DVD's, throw
them in, just let it talk instead of just, you know,
letting the eerie silence fill the room or listen to listen to
that series that keeps playing over and over again.
(07:13):
So OMGI was just so in my feelings.
Not really, no. Because see, then I woke up
always. I don't know if you figured it
out. I like try to do a little slip,
a little slip into, you know, back into history for you.
I don't know if you caught that,but Oh my God, no, Cap.
(07:37):
I was looking up all the slang from back in the day.
And then what? What do we see now?
And Oh my gosh, though, for real, I woke up.
I don't know if this has ever happened to you before, but what
happened, what had happened was I came back in and I fell
asleep, put the dogs up, took mybaby that I have and we got on
(08:01):
the couch and I fell asleep. Both of us did just passed out
that good kind of sleep too, where you're drooling and just
gargling spit, whatever. And it was so cozy.
The TV was going and if you put your TV on Amazon Prime, it'll
just keep on keeping on. Well, it started playing all
(08:21):
these oldies and one of them wasThe Good Wife.
I was like, man, this sounds so familiar.
I know I watched this show back in the day.
And for whatever reason, though,I just had this whole mental
just like the multiverse just slipped me back into the past.
(08:42):
And I woke up feeling like I wasactually in that time.
And so I was so disoriented because I was watching it.
And then you know how smell or sound will throw you back.
That's exactly what happened. But usually it's just like a
second or so. This was like a good minute.
And I was like, what the hell, man?
(09:04):
I had a whole new life to live. I mean, I just, I was looking in
the mirror. I was like, my curls look
curlier. The sleepy eyes that I had
weren't so sleepy. Yeah, I'm trying to say I was
younger without saying I was. I'm old, right?
(09:24):
Is it working? But anyway, yeah, I don't know
if you've ever experienced that.But this time, though, it was
very unsettling because I just could not make heads or tails of
it for, yeah, like a solid minute.
And I was like, Oh, no, no, no, no, we're not going to watch
any. Oh, I had to look it up online
too. By the way.
There's nothing, there's nothingwild about that.
(09:45):
That's very natural. Because I was like, here it is.
It's the beginning of the end. This is how it all starts.
But now perfectly normal, a sound can trigger it, a smell,
especially smells. And and you'll get that Deja vu,
that sense of Deja vu and, and your body's like subconscious,
(10:07):
we'll just throw you back. So it's kind of neat.
And I looked up, is there any way because I felt like time
travel, right? Is there any way to make that
moment last longer, like inception or something?
Was it inception? Yeah, like you just plug up and
(10:29):
go into a whole nother, a whole nother place.
But it's in your mind. That's another throwback, too.
Here we go. Inception with Leonardo
DiCaprio. That was good stuff.
OK, sidebar to the sidebar. Here we go.
I was the only one. I went to the theater to watch
(10:49):
Inception. And let me tell you, after I
watched that, I stood up. Like tears in my eyes, standing
ovation. Just me.
I think everybody else was just completely confused or maybe
they didn't get it. But I was like this, so this,
this was it. This is the one.
This one's going down in the annals of history as being a
classic. It was so creative.
(11:11):
But also, you know, we're here in the present day.
I was thinking if you did want to go back and relive a moment,
there's probably a better movie for an example for this.
But just slip into another space.
The reason why I thought of thatmovie was because in there they
build like a a, a a scene and they used the same texture carp.
(11:36):
Well, that was what gave it away.
The texture of the carpet wasn'tthe same, but they built the
scene to to lead the other person to believe when they were
under that it was very real and down to the furniture, the
scenes outside. And then they they they
commenced to anyway, you could watch the movie.
(11:57):
Damn it. I'm not trying to tell you the
movie, but yeah, they built thatwhole scene.
And my point is that you can potentially do that.
And if you were to put yourself in a state like, for example,
you're asleep and then you wake up, you can prolong that
feeling. Now, I mean, I don't know,
nobody has time to go and recreate scenes from their past
(12:18):
down to, you know, the texture and fiber of a a rug.
But I'm just saying if you had the money, I guess, and you
wanted to test this theory to see how long you could relive a
past emotional state or, you know, relive a moment,
Apparently it's doable and it's out there.
So yeah, man, I don't know if you've ever experienced that,
(12:41):
but it's very unsettling. And it's like time travel.
So I went from now way. I went way, way back and I
didn't even know who I was for aminute.
So nice to meet you. I didn't even exist back then.
(13:02):
Better. Moody wasn't even around, didn't
even didn't even take her first baby steps into out into the
world. I was just toddling about.
I was just an idea. That's what I was.
But I'm here and you're there. So that's just something that I
(13:26):
wanted to share. If there's ever a time when you
don't know who you are, feel free to come back and listen and
know that you are not alone, that this has happened to all of
us, to the best of us, This is the way forward.
(13:52):
And I'm your host. Better Moody.
If you've ever experienced anything like this, drop me your
weird, crazy, unmentionable story.
You can be anonymous if you wantto.
I want to hear it and I'll sharethe best 1.
So you go on ahead and do that. Leave your story in the comments
(14:14):
and I will see you in the next episode.
I'm out.
The craziest thing happened today, and I want to tell you
about it. This is the way forward.
And you're listening to Better Moody.
I took the dogs on a gorgeous walk today.
That's not the crazy thing, right?
OK hear me out. It was perfect outside honestly
(00:22):
it was like a cool 7072.5° birdswere chirping.
It was like Snow White weather. Sun was shining just right and
was warm enough to make you feellike you know that that main
character energy like I was really had my own theme song and
everything. I was on a mission.
(00:43):
I was going to find a spot for them to run wild and free and
and that's true. I just feel like I needed to do
this for my dogs. I needed to give them that
freedom that I felt, you know, walking out into into their own
space. But the only places that I could
(01:03):
find because I wasn't going to venture off too far.
The only spots were the sports fields.
And this is I'm talking about onbase here and all of them.
I thought, well, maybe the grassisn't that nice.
It was just fenced, but there were these no dogs allowed signs
(01:23):
or pets not permitted on the sports field is what it said.
So I was like, alright, cool, cool, whatever.
So I headed back, circled around, headed back toward the
house and it turned on the hose.Little dog wasn't trying to have
any of it. Little dog is so like demure.
(01:43):
But that big dog man, he took toit and I was thinking, you know,
I'll just give him something to drink.
Little dog was trying to trying to sit off in the corner and big
dog was all in, in it. He was all in.
He was in attack mode and he thought like he could take it
out if water had a jugular. He found it and he was just
(02:05):
pouncing on it. And you know, it's like like a
cat with a laser. And he was, I move the hose, I
move, it's the water stream. And he'd go pounce.
And I was like this guy, I've never seen anything like it.
But if there was a a water Olympics, my doggie might win a
medal because he's especially lately, I need to go get him
(02:27):
neutered. He's full on Olympic doggie
mode. He's jumping, jumping the
tallest or the highest and running the fastest and he's
doing all the things. So anyway, after he got done
playing and I shot him, he didn't even care.
I was just shooting him with thehose, moving the hose.
(02:48):
He was chasing it. He was doing like low crawling.
It was great. He's like a little squirrel at a
point. But I went ahead and took him
walking a little bit further just to kind of let the sun hit
him and he could shake it off. So no way I was going to let him
inside the house like that. So I got home, made it back in
(03:10):
the house, and I was thinking, man, it's about nap time.
So I opened the door and it was just really quiet and I could
hear the neighbors. The walls were thin, the
(03:32):
apartment was small. I could hear the neighbors watch
whatever show they had blasting over there.
I was thinking, man, dinner's going to be cereal.
I'm just going to use one bowl that's less dishes to wash, not
cooking for anybody. I'm going to feed my fish.
(03:55):
Can't let the only living thing in my house rely on me and and
you know, that be a fail. So I went ahead and and did a
little tap, tap, tap, give, givethose little fish, those flakes,
(04:17):
that little food flakes. And I thought to myself, man, I
could stay out late tomorrow though.
I don't need an alarm clock. It's just me, no responsibility.
So I walked into the living roomand the the sound of the TV got
louder and I could hear The GoodWife was on and Alicia Florrick,
(04:48):
it was just to me, just her look, her poise, it's just
something to admire. So I sat down and I was watching
and I was thinking to myself, man, I need to update.
I need to update my Facebook. I need to throw up these
pictures that I took today. Better Moody is eating cereal
(05:12):
and watching The Good Wife. I picked up my little flip
phone. Beep boop beep boop.
The Nokia 1, the one that's a walkie-talkie.
Y'all know what I'm talking about?
And I was like, hmm, I was looking at my live feed on
(05:39):
my desktop computer and it was saying that.
Breaking news, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the
VMA's. That's crazy.
Took the mic from her. What?
Anyway, I might go out this weekend if the swine flu doesn't
(06:02):
shut the place down. It looks like that's on the
rise. Some new pandemic the the swine
flu. Who heard of a pandemic?
What the hell? What century are we in?
So the weird thing is lately I've been thinking about my ex
(06:24):
again and not not call him up. Let's see what's going on kind
of way, just, you know, just rehashing the good old days and
you know that ache that you get when you're alone.
And then the silence is loud. The silence be screaming even
(06:48):
though the TV's doing what it's doing.
It's just easier to fill it withsome serial couple DVD's, throw
them in, just let it talk instead of just, you know,
letting the eerie silence fill the room or listen to listen to
that series that keeps playing over and over again.
(07:13):
So OMGI was just so in my feelings.
Not really, no. Because see, then I woke up
always. I don't know if you figured it
out. I like try to do a little slip,
a little slip into, you know, back into history for you.
I don't know if you caught that,but Oh my God, no, Cap.
(07:37):
I was looking up all the slang from back in the day.
And then what? What do we see now?
And Oh my gosh, though, for real, I woke up.
I don't know if this has ever happened to you before, but what
happened, what had happened was I came back in and I fell
asleep, put the dogs up, took mybaby that I have and we got on
(08:01):
the couch and I fell asleep. Both of us did just passed out
that good kind of sleep too, where you're drooling and just
gargling spit, whatever. And it was so cozy.
The TV was going and if you put your TV on Amazon Prime, it'll
just keep on keeping on. Well, it started playing all
(08:21):
these oldies and one of them wasThe Good Wife.
I was like, man, this sounds so familiar.
I know I watched this show back in the day.
And for whatever reason, though,I just had this whole mental
just like the multiverse just slipped me back into the past.
(08:42):
And I woke up feeling like I wasactually in that time.
And so I was so disoriented because I was watching it.
And then you know how smell or sound will throw you back.
That's exactly what happened. But usually it's just like a
second or so. This was like a good minute.
And I was like, what the hell, man?
(09:04):
I had a whole new life to live. I mean, I just, I was looking in
the mirror. I was like, my curls look
curlier. The sleepy eyes that I had
weren't so sleepy. Yeah, I'm trying to say I was
younger without saying I was. I'm old, right?
(09:24):
Is it working? But anyway, yeah, I don't know
if you've ever experienced that.But this time, though, it was
very unsettling because I just could not make heads or tails of
it for, yeah, like a solid minute.
And I was like, Oh, no, no, no, no, we're not going to watch
any. Oh, I had to look it up online
too. By the way.
There's nothing, there's nothingwild about that.
(09:45):
That's very natural. Because I was like, here it is.
It's the beginning of the end. This is how it all starts.
But now perfectly normal, a sound can trigger it, a smell,
especially smells. And and you'll get that Deja vu,
that sense of Deja vu and, and your body's like subconscious,
(10:07):
we'll just throw you back. So it's kind of neat.
And I looked up, is there any way because I felt like time
travel, right? Is there any way to make that
moment last longer, like inception or something?
Was it inception? Yeah, like you just plug up and
(10:29):
go into a whole nother, a whole nother place.
But it's in your mind. That's another throwback, too.
Here we go. Inception with Leonardo
DiCaprio. That was good stuff.
OK, sidebar to the sidebar. Here we go.
I was the only one. I went to the theater to watch
(10:49):
Inception. And let me tell you, after I
watched that, I stood up. Like tears in my eyes, standing
ovation. Just me.
I think everybody else was just completely confused or maybe
they didn't get it. But I was like this, so this,
this was it. This is the one.
This one's going down in the annals of history as being a
classic. It was so creative.
(11:11):
But also, you know, we're here in the present day.
I was thinking if you did want to go back and relive a moment,
there's probably a better movie for an example for this.
But just slip into another space.
The reason why I thought of thatmovie was because in there they
build like a a, a a scene and they used the same texture carp.
(11:36):
Well, that was what gave it away.
The texture of the carpet wasn'tthe same, but they built the
scene to to lead the other person to believe when they were
under that it was very real and down to the furniture, the
scenes outside. And then they they they
commenced to anyway, you could watch the movie.
(11:57):
Damn it. I'm not trying to tell you the
movie, but yeah, they built thatwhole scene.
And my point is that you can potentially do that.
And if you were to put yourself in a state like, for example,
you're asleep and then you wake up, you can prolong that
feeling. Now, I mean, I don't know,
nobody has time to go and recreate scenes from their past
(12:18):
down to, you know, the texture and fiber of a a rug.
But I'm just saying if you had the money, I guess, and you
wanted to test this theory to see how long you could relive a
past emotional state or, you know, relive a moment,
Apparently it's doable and it's out there.
So yeah, man, I don't know if you've ever experienced that,
(12:41):
but it's very unsettling. And it's like time travel.
So I went from now way. I went way, way back and I
didn't even know who I was for aminute.
So nice to meet you. I didn't even exist back then.
(13:02):
Better. Moody wasn't even around, didn't
even didn't even take her first baby steps into out into the
world. I was just toddling about.
I was just an idea. That's what I was.
But I'm here and you're there. So that's just something that I
(13:26):
wanted to share. If there's ever a time when you
don't know who you are, feel free to come back and listen and
know that you are not alone, that this has happened to all of
us, to the best of us, This is the way forward.
(13:52):
And I'm your host. Better Moody.
If you've ever experienced anything like this, drop me your
weird, crazy, unmentionable story.
You can be anonymous if you wantto.
I want to hear it and I'll sharethe best 1.
So you go on ahead and do that. Leave your story in the comments
(14:14):
and I will see you in the next episode.
I'm out.
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