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July 6, 2025 55 mins

In this honest and uplifting episode, Common Sense Gurl and Noah unpack why we can be our own worst critics—and how to break that habit. Inspired by Seneca’s wisdom on simple living, they explore the balance between self-discipline and self-compassion.

Noah shares a powerful realization: striving for perfection was killing his joy. A shift toward celebrating small wins changed everything. The conversation touches on how social media fuels unrealistic standards, and how embracing individual learning styles—because “every brain is a snowflake”—can lead to better understanding and connection.

From time-travel dreams to civil rights reflections, the hosts bring warmth, insight, and humor. They wrap with a metaphor of growth as sculpting: removing what we’re not to uncover who we truly are.

Tune in to learn, laugh, and be a little kinder to yourself.


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Speaker 1 (00:02):
welcome to the green onions podcast.
This is a podcast where wethrow out a little nonsense a
whole lot of sense and a wholelot of laughter.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am common sense and I am, you're just common sense
in general uh, common sense girlcommon sense girl, and I am
noah wow, you had a slow moment,noah.
No, you confused me.
I was like who am I, Noah?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
How you doing, anna, good good.
Oh yeah, welcome listeners forlistening to us as well.
We're glad you guys are here.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, this is a brunch, a brunch day.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, yes, and we're having um a non-alcoholic mimosa
.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, a mocktail, as the kids call it.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
As the kids call it, he acts like he's 105.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, ginger beer would make it better.
Ginger beer makes anythingbetter like flavor wise.
I feel like Limes and gingerbeer.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
So you just throw it in there, just anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Ginger beer, ginger beer.
Yeah, how many times can I sayginger beer in the first minute
of this episode?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
You say at least four times.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Enough.
Yeah, I think we're done.
Let's move on.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, everything's great.
Life is great.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, it could be worse, right.
Yeah, and with the mocktailsand stuff, with the after hours
show that we're gonna be rollingout here pretty soon.
We're gonna like be adding newstuff behind a little bit of a
paywall, but it'll be like usmaking cocktails, mocktails,
that kind of thing.
So we're excited to get that,yeah, rolling out.

(01:50):
Not to plug at the beginning ofthe episode, but no, not at all
, just listen you know, today Idon't think we plug at all.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
So I feel like no, maybe we should start at some
point well, yes, I, yes, I mean,we can.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Maybe like out in public guerrilla marketing.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Literally.
Noah has a new album out.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, you listened to it.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, I did.
I do remember you.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
What'd you think?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
It was good.
Good Did anyone else listen toit?
We hope so.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, a lot of people did Go to his page.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know the link should be there.
It's on see, that's the onething, music wise, I don't like
I just plugged it in and hedon't even have it on the damn
page.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
No, I got it.
It's on my instagram.
Next some music on the littlelink tree thing.
But that's the crazy thing.
Is anybody like I see out inpublic?
I will more than likely tellthem about this before I even
mention I make music.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
You need to mention all of it.
I mention all of it, shoot.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
No, but growing up here it's like people plug
themselves way too much.
It's sickening.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
So what?
Some of them go somewhere else,so you probably should plug
yourself in it's like thesplendor of people, it's like
artificial sweetness.
Yeah that's what I was thinking, splendor.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I try to be genuine about it that's nice that was
the point of that project thegenuineness.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
So the podcast was genuine, the music you're like
well.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
No, the music.
That was the point of thatmusic.
Like the album that I put out,it was more like me trying to.
I kind of view it as like apassage of time and like how
it's a nice way to think aboutthe passage of time or process
the passage of time I think Iwas having the conversation with

(03:54):
my dad about it where it's notsuper performative.
For me it's very like it's how,like art in general, like draw,
people do a multitude of things.
For me it's fun to like workout the thoughts and like me
growing through that, if thatmakes sense would you ever disc?

(04:22):
Yes, I actually have Jack.
Now that he's back, there'sgoing to be a music video that's
going to come out for theproject.
It's just in the works rightnow.
I'm excited about it.
It's going to be like a liveshow vibe Black and white, kind

(04:43):
of retro-y.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
So check it out people, no plug yeah and I'm
making a chuck roast.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well, I gotta put it in the crock pot after we get
off this podcast not sidetrack.
Segue and I'm making a chuckroast well, the bear came out I
don't know what it is.
Sopranos I got to season fiveof sopranos in like two weeks
and, uh, all I was making waspasta.
Like that was it.

(05:12):
And now I'm watching the bearand the like the new season of
the bear.
We both were what we need to doa three.
I watched three episodes lastnight because I've tried to
catch up with y'all.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jerry's in the studio when he said y'all, I know that
sounded like so weird.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, no, yeah he's being our fill-in Jarvis Mavis
Mavis, mavis Jarvis.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Such old-timey memes.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Uh, urkel, uh, no, it's, but the chuck roast that I
make is like it makes me feellike I'm, because it's your
little roast, yeah, makes mefeel like I'm doing something,
yeah.
And I figured it out because mysister said like, taught me a
few tricks with it and you gotto like I add jalapeno juice

(06:17):
along with the pepperoncini, sojust a little bit of it, and
then I sear it before I put itin the crock pot with salt,
pepper, sugar, and then I put itin the crock pot.
So I'm excited.
And then it like all gets inthere.
I'm excited it's going to begood and I owe Jack like four

(06:39):
meals.
So I felt bad.
I like walked into the gym theother day and I was getting like
a massage.
So I felt bad.
I like walked into the gym theother day and I was getting like
a massage and I like walked outand I was talking to him and I
was like I feel like a badfriend.
I've promised you like fourmeals and I haven't followed
through on any of them.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you got a chuck roast.
You can do your pasta.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I got some mashed potatoes.
Yeah, oh, you meant like otherstuff.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, yeah, you own four meals.
That's just one meal rightthere.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Aw, dude, that chuck roast will last me until, For
him, end of the week.
Yeah, no, yeah, I don't.
What do you mean?
The pasta and the chuck roast?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, that's two meals you can make for him right
there.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
I can make a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Mm-hmm can make for him right there.
I can make a lot, but you haveto do it, yeah your bill keeps
getting higher and higher withjack.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh yeah, no, I'm buying him food on tuesday and
he's coming over after he getsoff work today, and that's why
one, one of one of the debts isgoing to be fulfilled tonight.
So my tab is my tab is going tobe slowly worked towards
getting paid off.
That's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is how you pay off debt.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, wait, are we excited about Superman?
I'm very excited about Superman, that's good.
Okay, I'm in.
I've seen the previews.
It looks really good.
I'm so in, it looks.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
So like I have not seen the previews Two, who's
playing Superman?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't think it matters.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
No, it does matter to me.
Yes, it does.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's not Cavill, it's not.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know it's not him.
He's over there Wanting to havebabies and stuff With some
Young little thing.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh, don't we all?
No, no, but it looks reallygood.
I'm really excited about it.
And uh, the main lois was in.
Are you looking it up?
Yeah, look it up, but lois wasin a show that me and my dad
watched called the marvelousmiss mazel.

(08:39):
Yes, and that show wasbrilliant and she's lois, so I'm
actually really excited for it.
I brought that up last night tosomebody and they were like I'm
more excited for how to Trainyour Dragon and I was like I'm
in, really, how to Train.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Your Damn Dragon.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, I would go to Burger King and get the how to
Train your Dragon meal and thensneak that into the movie.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
How come David?
His name is David Cornsweat.
How come he looks a little bitlike.
Cavill's.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Like brother yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm like we've got a type, but that's what we're
going for.
Bless his heart.
He graduated at Juilliard.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well, superman has like a very distinct look.
I feel like he does.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
He definitely has to have the dark hair.
That's definitely the thing.
He's not your typical blondehair, blue eyes no, I love.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Superman.
Superman growing up was my guy,but then they just butchered
his stuff so bad that, Like,what was the first man of Steel
was good when he gets stabbedwith the kryptonite.
I remember liking that movie in2010.
I really do talk about stufflike I'm old.

(09:55):
I was 10 years old when thatmovie came out, but I still
remember it.
My parents literally didn't letme watch that scene because
there was blood in it.
And then, uh, and then the zacksnyder one was just awful.
Well, not awful, it was justlike why did he kill somebody at
the end?
That pissed me off.
Superman doesn't kill.

(10:17):
All right, I think I'm gettingoff topic.
Let's start with the dailystuff.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I was calculating as you were talking, you were like,
yeah, I was 10 years old, andI'm like, whoo, wow, I was older
.
Yeah, yeah, he was 10.
What year See you go by years?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
2010.
I'm just going by ageseparation.
Yeah, Because it was October8th 1999.
8th 1999, so my social securitynumber is one.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
I'm like, I'm on my first, my first social security
check at that time, oh my goshall right, but anna has a
reading for us by the yes, thedaily stoic by ryan holiday and
stephen handsome man.
You know, y'all know we've beenreading out of this book or how
I like to call him handsome man.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
No, I'm kidding we'll .

Speaker 1 (11:14):
We'll edit that out no, we won't um like.
No, we won't that one.
No, no one's doing it yeah,that's the one you know.
So on this day, noself-flagellation needed.
Philosophy calls for simpleliving, but not for penance.

(11:35):
It's quite possible to besimple without being crude.
Seneca from morale letters,marcus's meditations are filled
with self-criticism, and so arethe writings of other Stoics.
It's important to remember,however, that that's as far as
it goes.
There was no self-flaglation,no pain penance, no self-esteem

(12:01):
issues from guilt orself-loathing, no self-esteem
issues from guilt orself-loathing.
You never hear them callthemselves worthless pieces of
crap, nor do they ever starve orcut themselves as punishment.
Their self-criticism isconstructive.
Laying into yourself, deprivingyourself, punishing yourself
that's self-flagellation, notself-improvement.

(12:24):
No need to be hard on yourself.
Hold yourself to a higherstandard, but not an impossible
one, and forgive yourself if andwhen you slip up.
I think that is somethingnowadays people have a hard time
doing is forgiving themselvesor not being so hard on

(12:47):
themselves.
Yeah, um, they hold themselvesto a standard, and I don't even
want to say it's their standard.
I think it's the standard ofwhat they think society wants
you to be at huh, I, yeah, Iagree with that because I think
that's why we have so manysuicides and self-harming that

(13:09):
is happening now.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not saying it didn't happen back in my day,
which my day is in the 80s, butI'm just saying it's very, very
prevalent now yeah, I thinkpeople I've talked to too um in
because I I hang out with like,or I look up and want to hang
out with older people.

(13:30):
It's just and I think, well,it's just like it's more the
conversation's more fruitful, um, but the main difference or
parallel I've seen is that, likethe introduction of the
internet, it, it's like we gotan impossible standard in our
pocket all the time that, uh, Ithink mentally we're.

(13:55):
I know studies are going tocome out in like 20 years or the
studies have probably alreadycome out, they just haven't
researched it further.
It's just like it like mentallyanxiety wise.
It's probably awful for you.
My, even on phone calls with myfamily, they'll be like you
gotta, like you're 25, like beeasier on yourself.

(14:16):
You don't have to be this likelive up to this impossible
standard all the time.
I think playing sports too, Ijust have this gear where I feel
like I need to be going all thetime, which is weird being not
having to play a sport.

(14:37):
That gear just doesn'tdisappear.
But how do I make that gearlike put it towards something
different, positive, and growfrom it?
Yeah, yeah, because I've beenhaving to try to not be as hard

(14:59):
on myself.
It's.
I don't know what about you.
Have you been?
Has that been a practice foryou as of late?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Mine isn't.
So You're kind of God's gift toEarth, though.
So I don't know.
I don't know if it's me beinghard on myself, but I am holding
myself to a higher standard, Ithink.
From my time from moving fromliving at home being spoiled to

(15:30):
being the adult world, the pasthundred years, I think I fall
back on some of my standards ofmyself and I think that's where
I'm at this year and goingforward, and some people can't
handle that yeah, I think a lotof it's anything in moderation,

(15:51):
right.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
So there is like this kind of like psychotic level of
thinking well, not psychotic,but like Kobe, for example, or
like people that are successful,successful in any facet of
their life, like you hear themtalk, and there's there's
moments where people are like,yep, they're crazy, they're

(16:12):
crazy, but they keep doing itanyway until the work pays off
to where it's like it might havebeen crazy, but everybody has
their own path.
I think that's been somethingI've been noticing too.
We had somebody go to train thetrainer, which is like a work

(16:33):
thing, and he figured out he wasan auditory learner, so he
doesn't learn by seeing it.
And that's the weirdest thingto me that, yeah, everybody's
brain is just like, oh, we don'tknow if, like anybody you talk
to, I I've been having topractice like losing what I know

(16:59):
so that I can figure out.
But how do I relate to them?
Because their brain's not mybrain and our pathways aren't
the same, right, and how do Iconnect with this person in the
most genuine way that thatperson will get?
Because if it's somebody cooland I want to get to know them,

(17:21):
it's like you do want to putthat effort in.
But it's just like an extra.
Like like there's auditory,visual and, I think, kinetic or
something like that.
No, there's like a third one.
But it was cool because, yeah,even training him, I was like
that makes so much sense.
I had no idea.

(17:42):
Like usually people are morehands-on and I trained him and
when he said auditory, I waslike in my head a light bulb
went off.
I was like, yeah, he did onlyget it when I would like, step
by step, explain it to him.
You know what I mean?
Like he didn't, he didn'tbenefit from me showing it to
him.
Yeah, which was cool, but Ithink-wise, I think it's so

(18:06):
interesting.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I agree, and.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I also don't think people have enough respect for,
like, everybody's brain being asnowflake.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, everybody thinks.
Everybody should think the same.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Exactly and that's not accurate.
That's not a world I want tolive in.
No, because I don't wanteverybody that's not the game of
sims I'm loading into when Iget on xbox.
I am playing gta but yeah, doyou?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
do you believe animals have emotions?
Yes, very much so I definitelydo, because I think that's what
my cat they're so cute, oh mygosh, I mean, that's what.
My cat went away.
I told her she couldn't come tomy bedroom and she just she,
left that same night.
She was like bump this no, Ifor the.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
For the audio listeners I'm showing anna a
picture of the.
My sister has the cutest littledash hound named millie, and my
dad has a little dash and nameduh, alfie and they're finally
getting along because he's alittle bit of a um, he's a

(19:23):
little older and Millie's justlike a little rougher around the
ears.
But I'm showing her a picturethat my dad sent me yesterday.
They're finally warming up toeach other.
They're so cute.
No, I love.
And those dogs have the mostemotion I think I've ever seen

(19:44):
in animals.
So yeah, of course they do.
Those dogs have the mostemotion I think I've ever seen
in animals, so yeah of coursethey do Awesome.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
So, noah, well, let's not die, yeah, let's not die.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Wrong pipe.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Because, like I said, do not save anybody the first
30 seconds I need to go inchicken little mode.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Wait, do I have a question for you?
Am I up?
I don't know.
Here, talk a little bit, I needto.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, I was going to ask you what are your plans for
this week, Like, but if you'rechoking to death, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm good, I just have this can of liquid death.
Well, no, actually dang it now.
They're not gonna sponsor usbecause we just gave them a free
plug.
No, um, my plans for the week,uh, I don't know I've been doing
.
Oh, it's july 4th, that's whyI'm off.

(20:45):
I don't know.
I'm going to do something.
I'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Watch the fireworks.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
No, yeah, I do want to go out to New Orleans.
My sister's there right now.
My dad always gives me thedates, like yesterday, and I was
like you've been talking aboutthis for a month and a half and
every time you talk about it I'mlike, hey, send me the dates.
And then it's already happening.
And he's like, yep, here arethe dates.

(21:13):
And I'm like I can try tofigure this out, but my family's
a very last-minute-orientedchaos.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's why you should just plant yourself.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, you're right, I think I thrive under chaos.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Probably.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I don't want to, but I think.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
But that's the way life is, so you're fine.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
We're building baby soldiers.
That's what we're doing, yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
What about you?
Do you have plans for the week?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Work out, work out, work out.
That's what.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
I've been doing actually.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Work out Power.
Clean the home Because kids aregetting their new beds put up.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I've been finding some real solace in cleaning
actually.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't find solace in it, I just feel accomplished.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Do you feel accomplished?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, okay, I do that and I feel better.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Maybe I'm confusing that with solace.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Solace is going to the spa.
Solace is getting a hotel roomand unplugging.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
See, that shows the part of how I was raised.
It's like I like havingsomething to do.
That's where I find peace.
What was your biggest everwaste of money?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Probably all the damn shoes I used to buy and
magazines I used to invest in.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Wait, you invested in magazines.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, so my favorite magazines were like muscle and
fitness magazines and fitnessmagazines.
That was my jam.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
How do you invest in them?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
You just buy every single one of them.
And I save them and they havelike their little covers.
I bet that's cool, do you stillhave?

Speaker 3 (23:08):
them.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
No, my dad's house burned down, so between the
shoes and the magazine, they'regone um and I ain't gonna lie, I
wasn't even really concernedabout him in the beginning.
I was more concerned about allof it.
I was like you didn't savenothing now looking back wink
wink the magazines nudge, nudgelooking back at it, I'm okay,

(23:31):
I'll survive, it's oh yeah duh.
But when he first told me, Iwasn't like, oh my gosh, are you
okay?
It was like, oh my god, myshoes, oh my god my magazines,
oh my gosh.
And I had a small collection ofPlayboy because of the articles
that was in it and my mom wasjust like, hey, there's really

(23:53):
great articles in Playboy and itreally is my sister.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, they're cool.
I'm not just thinking like artstyle yes, I think like art
style too, it's cool.
And also I have been uh, how doI say this lightly?
Well, there's no way likerefraining from watching.

(24:19):
So in this like past year, Ihaven't been like participating
in watching things and it waslike a proponent in it was I
watched like something where itwas like back in the day when it
was all like magazines and thatkind of thing, um, which those

(24:41):
weren't great either, butmentally, uh, it was, um, it
wasn't as negative for youBecause there was still some
level of imagination to it.
But they figured out that withthe introduction of phones and

(25:05):
all that stuff and theaccessibility to it, that it's
made like it's just all not well, it is all negative effects
like on the mental.
And I mean, I'm not speakingfor everybody, I just figured
out that it was negative for me.
And that was the same thingabout, uh, like drinking or

(25:27):
smoking weed.
I don, I don't judge anybody, Iwas a big proponent of it.
I still do it like occasionally.
It's just like I don't judgeanybody on it, it's just to me.
It's like if it doesn't workfor me, I feel like people need
to respect that, like I'm notgoing to judge anybody and be
like I judge them because theydo said thing.

(25:48):
No, it's just like it doesn'twork for me in my brain and I
think people need to think aboutstuff more that way, because
everybody's different yes,that's what makes the world so
amazing in turn, or the marblein the washing machine.
That is that we're sitting onright now y'all sitting on well

(26:15):
you're on the earth.
Yeah, you think.
I'm on earth a UFO like thelike you levitate.
Me and Jerry would have a greatrest of the day after that.
We'd go frisbee golf and belike, well, nothing's real Right

(26:39):
.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well, we live in the Matrix.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yep, none of this makes sense.
I think we'd both be like weknew it and then just walk out
Right Been anybody else they'vebeen like.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
We knew it and then just walk out Right Been anybody
else they've been like.
I don't understand what's goingon, maybe like Chicken Little
losing their mind.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
I've seen worse.
I feel like.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
What event in the past or future would you like to
witness in person?

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
I think it's got to.
Let's just change that to pass,because what is going to be, oh
I guess, like, like bad.
One of my goals as a person isto go to every NBA stadium and
watch a game.
I've been to memphis,washington no, not washington,

(27:34):
cleveland, uh, atlanta butthat's one of my like in the
future.
I'm really excited.
I want to go, like, seebasketball games.
Um, and then the past.
I'm going to do a historicalevent and I got to think about

(27:55):
it because there's so many.
What about you?
Do you have a preface answer?

Speaker 1 (28:02):
So in the future I want to go to a Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I want to go to the Winter and the Summer Olympics
2028.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Green Onions trip outing.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
We're on NBC Reporting live, and then I also
want to go to WrestleMania.
Very cool.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yes, I can live without all to WrestleMania Very
cool.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yes, I can live without all the other kicks and
giggles.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I am not a wrestling person I am.
I made somebody so mad at workthe other day because they were
talking about it and I was likeI just kept comparing it to like
a Broadway musical, becausehe's very like hyper masculine,
like straight dude, and like Iwas like you know, it's very
hyper-masculine, straight dude.
And I was like you know, it'sjust kind of like Broadway,
right, they're just performing,it's just less clothes than on

(28:57):
Broadway.
And he was like no, it's not.
And I was like yeah, it isBrother.
No, I mean, I respect it alittle bit.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
But that he doesn't, he doesn't, um, but those,
that's something.
Those are my top things in thefuture um, okay, but a
historical event now.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Do you have that already?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
no, I gotta think about that because I'm like you
know what, honestly, I reallydon't.
You know what I would love tohave witnessed.
Yes, or been a part of, is thestruggle with segregation, like
in the 60s.
I think I could wrap my headmore around the black experience

(29:46):
a little bit.
Yes, I am black, but I have myexperience.
I would like to see how we getto this point because, as a
black person, we've made somestrides, but we haven't made a
lot of strides because a lot ofthings they don't look the same
as they looked in the 60s, butthey're the same now they look

(30:07):
different.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Packaged differently.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
And so.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I think that's super cool and interesting.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, I mean I don't want to get hosed down with the
water hose, but hey, if that'swhat we got to do so I can say I
witnessed it or was involved,then cool.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I would love that would be.
I would definitely, especiallyin that time, I would love to go
like on a march or somethinglike that, like the parades and
there's so many cool pictureswhere it's like that was like

(30:43):
the I have a Dream speech.
There's a bunch of white peoplethere too.
It just felt very, I think,unifying wise.
Unifying wise, it's somethingthat's like we need right now.
Oh, I'm not even need, I'm notgonna get super into politics.
It's just like um, there is,there are people out there that

(31:04):
want to be unified and it's justthe, the, the media attention
or the stuff is always thenegative stuff, and I think
that's frustrating to me,because there are people that
want to be unified and it'd bepositive and spread love and all
that stuff, but it's always thebad stuff that gets the most

(31:25):
publicized.
I think for me, uh, past wise Iwas thinking about this today, I
think the berlin, like 1936olympics, so right before um,
world war ii and uh, jesse owens, yeah, I would love to see him

(31:48):
win.
Uh, louis amperini was in thattoo.
He was long distance runner, Ithink.
And then the boys in the boat,the um, and what was the coolest
thing is like hitler had riggedthose olympics to make us lose,
but we still came at like one,gold and just.
And it was during the greatdepression.

(32:09):
So like, just to like.
I think that would be so cool Iwas.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I got the chance to go to that arena Um no way.
Yes, so my sister and I, whenwe were 12 and 13, went to
Germany, and that was one of ourthe boys the boys in the boat
was a book that my dad gave melike right out of high school.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
It was like a graduation gift and I just think
it's like one of the greateststories Because it's like rowing
used to be like the sportBecause it was easier to watch
and like other stuff wasn't.
Because it was easier to watchand other stuff wasn't.
But it was cool because thiskid was eight and it was during

(32:54):
the Great Depression.
So they worked in a log and itwas a really small town in
Seattle and his dad just gavehim up and by his bootstraps he
started logging.
He made it into college on hisown and he started a rowing team
like during the like notstarted, but he was in a rowing

(33:15):
team and that's how he got hiscollege paid for, because he was
so like the coach was likeyou're good at rowing and then
these like college kids that arefrom like great depression,
seattle, go go win the goldmedal against one of the worst
people ever.
It's awesome to me.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yes, what's up?

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yes, but that event and then probably more fun I
would have loved to see.
I'm thinking about music.

(33:57):
There's a lot of concerts Iwould have loved to see.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Woodstock, the original one Mine.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
That probably smelled so bad.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
It may have smelled so bad, but the music.
Come on.
There's Jimi Hendrix for cryingout loud.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, he apparently never showered.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
And I'm okay with that.
I want to hear and play.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
You need silent singing.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Sing blind and we will listen deaf.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
I'm sure back in that day it's a contact high that
you won't even notice the smell.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, yeah, you're right, I think I don't know.
I don't know what concerts Iwould like to see.
I think Woodstock would be cool, not the 1999 one.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
No, not that one.
That was a shit show.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, but yeah, I have a lot.
I would have loved to see StarWars opening night, like when
the first movie came out, andjust walk in line, go to like an
arcade and they you know what Imean just like stuff like I

(35:11):
think that'd be cool, like thecomparison like go back in time
star wars opening night.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
And then the star wars opening night, like in our
day, like what is?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
the difference oh, I bet, like, bet, like movie
theater that's.
I think one of the mostfrustrating things about going
to the movies now Is it's notlike there's no like electricity
in the air anymore, like itused to be.
Like my family, like once aweek, would be like, okay, we're
going to watch a movie, and itwas like fun, and we used to get
like I always would get JuniorMints and like junior mints and

(35:49):
like that, that would be my onecandy and I'd sneak it in.
Uh, and it used to be like thisthing I just really looked
forward to.
And it's not like that anymore.
I don't think with likestreaming.
I think coven might have messedit up too a little bit, because
now, like they have all thoselike exclusivity deals where
they gotta like put the movieafter a week on a streaming
service and it's like what's thepoint of going to the movie
anymore?
We all got movie theater TVs inour house now.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, we're disgusting with ours.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Is it big?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, we got the big TV, but we got everything you
can think of.
I have no reason to go to atheater and be uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
What's your rocket money looking like?
Like, how much are you spendingon subscriptions?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
If you don't mind me asking Um, I'm trying to think
because we pay yearly for a lotof our subscriptions.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Oh, that's the way to go then.
Yeah, that's the way to go,because Netflix is always the
thing that's like bone in me,bone in me raw.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
We get our Hulu, our Peacock and our Paramount for
free through our phone.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Killer.
That's the way to go.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
But our Amazon and Apple we pay a yearly.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Is the.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Disney free too.
Oh yeah, the Disney too.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Well, I did see, with the bear rolling out, that
they're doing like the DisneyPlus and the Hulu combined.
And you get like four monthsfree for like three bucks or
something like that.
Yeah Well, four months for $3or something.
All right, hannah.
What do you think would be onthe menu at the only restaurant
in hell?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
in hell.
Well, I don't know about howthe devil feels, but it probably
might not be steak or snakesnake steak snake steak although
I really have had snake steakbefore and it really is good,

(37:45):
though I would not eat that butI doubt that it would be on the
menu.
I guess ice cream would not beon the menu, but I would love
for it to be on the menu in hellyou are not taking this funny
fire and brimstone.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I don't know.
You could actually have a lotof firewood pizza Like a fuego
talky, dipped, battered hot wing.
That just makes your Like.
When you're in the bathroomlater, it makes you wish you'd
never ate food.
Yeah, I mean mean you'realready in healthy, hopefully

(38:27):
we're never gonna know what theinside of that restaurant looks
like oh no, no, I'm good likeI'll avoid that.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
I try not to be a shady person and I try to be
good people, and it's where yourheart is, man home is where the
heart is yeah, yeah, you can goto church every day and pay
tithes, but if your heart's notin it, babe, you ain't going.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I think that, tying it back to one of our topics of
conversation, I think that'sbeen a reason I was really hard
on myself because, um, but itwas like this light bulb for me
when my dad was like you got tostop being so hard on yourself.

(39:10):
And there's this like standardin my head of like goodness
right, and I've always strivedto be a good person, but I had
this gear in my head where itwas like impossible for me to be
that good, and so I think thatwas a moment where I started

(39:30):
getting really depressed becauseI was like I'm not living up to
as good as I want to be, or Ikept saying potential, quote
unquote, which, honestly,everybody has different
potential and as much as like inthe earlier episodes preaching
about kaizen and the one percentbetter, I think, with my brain,
I wanted to be like four and itjust I never would get there

(39:54):
and it made me really depressedand now just being more content
with like the one and like myheart's always been in the right
place.
I don't do things likeintentionally to be bad.
Um, if I, if something happens,like I'll take accountability

(40:14):
for it, apologize, I own up toit, but I never do it
intentionally.
It's just like me being morecontent with the one percent
yeah has been like a good, solidpractice, because I had this
impossible standard in my headand, just like everybody is on a
different growth progression,you can't speed it up, you can't

(40:39):
rush it as much as I want torush it.
I think that's the thing thatleads me to feeling like garbage
, because it's like the universealways hip checks me a little
bit, like God's always like no,you're not better than this,
like you need to respect what'sgoing on here.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Right, I'm going to get you to where you need to be,
when the time is right, exactly.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
And I think trust, like I've just been praying a
lot more Exactly, and I thinktrust like I've just been
praying a lot more so, like, uh,and like trusting in the

(41:23):
process that I'm a tool and Ican't make anything happen, I
can just potentially facilitatethat's kind of a good spot to be
.
I don't know how people dealwith all the responsibility, I
would fall apart very fast.
I would fall apart very fast.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
I don't know either.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
I gotta give up some ownership.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
I try, I try.
I've been trying to give itback forever.
No one takes it.
I'm like damn.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Nobody.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Nobody takes it.
I'm like, can someone please?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
I'll take a little bit.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Where are we at Time, wise?
Are we running in?

Speaker 1 (42:10):
We're good time wise.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, do we have any?

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Jerry is in the studio.
Y'all, hello, what is going on,I know?

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Welcome to saturday church it's been a very nice
like midday yes, and it's notraining right yet thank the lord
.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
So let me tell you really quick.
So yesterday it was sunny, hotas heck.
I drove into the office becausemy computer was jacked up so I
needed to get it fixed andwhatever, and spent half the day
there.
Then all of a sudden I hear itraining and it was just doing a
little drizzle drizzle, not much, and I was like, yeah, I'll be
fine.
Then it was like whoosh, and Iwas like, oh, I'm probably will

(43:09):
not be fine.
And then, when I was startingto pack up my stuff, then the
lights and everything went outand I'm sitting here on the
second floor by myself in thisbuilding and I'm like what?
Yes, it was scurry.
I says, what do I do ifsomebody comes and tries to
kidnap me?
But then, as when the lightsdid come back on and I decided

(43:31):
to really get my butt out thatdark ass building, I was, you
know, leaving and whatever.
Tell me why the sun decides,let me grace you with my
presence.
I'm like, where were you when Iwas in this building alone?

Speaker 2 (43:44):
yeah, no like just ridiculous so well, that was the
weather stays.
Isn't that perfect, though.
When you walk outside, the suncomes on.
When you're inside, it'sraining but do.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
But why couldn't the lights go out when I'm out of
the building in the car, or evenout the building like I don't
care that it was raining.
I care that I was in this darkass building oh yeah by myself I
hate being in buildings and itmakes the worst, like because I
have a little drive from theoffice to home.
I always have to take a pottybreak and you know darn good as

(44:18):
well, if my little cubicle areais dark, the bathroom is three
times as dark and I always feellike somebody's hiding in there.
Anyways, I check every stall.
I'll be like.
I'm like knocking on doors andeverything.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
So I always had a fear, uh, as a kid, that when I
sat on the toilet that somebodywas like gonna grab, like reach
up and like grab my shit, likewhoa see, I think going over,
that's the part that freaks meout.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
I'm just going to look up and they're just like,
hey, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah, no, I like literally my friends will get
mad.
I'll be like we'll be outsomeplace and I'll be like, all
right, I got to run home, I gotto shit.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
And they're like you have that, clench it absolutely.
It's a miracle I'm not touchingthat.
Yeah, I had a aside from work.
There's only a couple places.
I will use the bathroom,otherwise I can hold that mug.
I can hold for a long time yeahlike I'm like no, there's just
certain things we just not gonnado it depends for me no, I can
clench everything ever, eversince I stopped drinking a lot,
I've gotten there.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I'm like wow, having a functional immune system and
intestines.
It's kind of crazy.
It's like why was I doing thatfor so long anyway?
It's like the risk does notoutweigh the reward at all and
that's like literally likepeople I talk to at work where,

(45:52):
like, I like mention it I'm likeyeah, I hate to get graphic,
but it's nice to have normalpoops and they're like yeah,
honestly, normal poop gang I'mtelling you, I cleansed for two
weeks and I was like is thiswhat people go through every day
?

Speaker 1 (46:09):
they just don't use the bathroom, just feeling great
afterwards.
Yeah, man, I've been bloaty forall my life.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
No, like literally.
It was so funny because likethat was part of the january
thing, like for me, um, and itwas I don't know.
It was like it took me like twoweeks to be like why did I do
this for?
So long, like two weeks of notdoing it, to be like why I?
Don't know anything.

(46:37):
In moderation, in my opinion,you can cut up sometimes, but
you gotta know that you're gonna.
Your tummy is not gonna respectyou, right it's gonna be like
why did you do know that you'regonna?
Your tummy is not gonna respectyou.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Right, it's gonna be like why did you do this have?

Speaker 2 (46:49):
you seen the videos of the guy sitting at the table
and he like splits thecharacters up To where it's like
.
He's like the brain and it'sthe brain talking to the
intestines.
Oh, yes.
And then like it'll be likeMemorial Day weekend and then
like all the hot dogs aregetting thrown down From the sky
to the summit, he's like whyare you doing this to me?
And then the brain's like I'moff this week.

(47:11):
It's not, he doesn't know whathe's doing.
It's like it's a funny like.
And then the intestines arelike always covered in sweat on
a treadmill, like I think thoseare.
Those are funny videos.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Those are creative, our internal organs really go
through.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah no, and I'm like you.
You were talking about workingout and running with yami.
I've been really uh like on thesame page as like that, that
video.
It's like I've been reallytrying to uh respect my body and
figure out like I've beenworking not working out a lot,
but it's summertime, so I'vebeen swimming a lot and playing

(47:49):
basketball a lot and I feel likeI feel, especially with the
newfound understanding of how todo things in a healthier way
I'm feeling pretty good.
That's good like mind, body,soul, all the above, all the

(48:10):
above get that vitality invitiligo no, that's another
thing yeah, yeah that's not thecorrect thing to say he'd be
laying in his bed at night andcome up with the correct word.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
I'd be laying in his bed at night and come up with
the correct word I'd be likedamn it and I'll be wide awake
for two hours.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
How can I get that?
Word it's like that squidward,the, and then his eyes just are
like wide open and bloodshot.
I miss spongebob.
Is it on anything Out of allthe services you have?

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, because Our little heifers watch it every
blue moon.
What is it?
Nick Jr?
Nick King, nick Knight.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
It's on Paramount.
I'm watching it.
I gotta watch the bear andSpongebob.
That's, I think, a wellbalanced diet Of television.
I think a well-balanced diet oftelevision.
Yeah, I could I think thatCreator guy passed away quite a
few years ago.
The guy who does the Voice,stephen Hilton.
Or for Spongebob, the Voice forSpongebob?
Yeah, the Spongebob guy thatdid the Voice, no, I think he's

(49:19):
still alive, is he?
Yeah, because they did thekids' Super Bowl, I think.
Let me check Voice the guy whocreated it.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
I was about to say Rick and Morty, one of them
dudes died.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Yeah, Tom Kenny's still alive.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Dude that I do think, like with all the clips on uh,
instagram and stuff, it's allSpongebob for me and I honestly
think Spongebob has the greatestmovie of all time, like the one
in 2004 with the maybe.
It's just a me thing Of alltime.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Like the one in 2004 with the Maybe it's just a me
thing, you mean for that genre,or you mean Just an animated
movie.
Okay, okay, I was like I needyou to really break it down,
because I'm like, like, TV toanimate?

Speaker 2 (50:16):
No, I don't know.
It's one of the funniest, likewhen David Hasselhoff comes out.
Because we're men, we can doanything.
Because that 2004 movie is justbrilliant.
I remember being a kid justwatching it back to back to back
to back to back.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I loved it Back to back to back.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Oh the thunder.
I don't know if is this goingto catch that at all.
I don't know.
I doubt it.
I shouldn't have said nothing.
All the summer storms arerolling in.
It's one of my favorite.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
It makes me want to talk like this and say the
melancholy breeze rolled in onthe western front as the clouds
got dark.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Are you having a Yellowstone moment?

Speaker 2 (51:07):
No, yeah, whenever it's hot in the summer, I think
about talking like that.
A guy like that just startsnarrating my whole thought
process.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Is that Sam Elliott?

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Yeah, that's who I can think of.
He's the guy with the big whitemustache.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yes, the guy in Big Lebowski.
For that one part he has thebest voice ever.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, that's one of my favorite movies, the night.
The night fell doom on a.
The night fell doom on a brightLED screen.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Something, something.
Do you want me to wrap it up,anna?
Yeah, all right, so I got thereading for today.
The closure reading is from theBook of Awakening by Mark Nepo.
And today, let us get situated.

(52:06):
Today is All that.
We Are Not.
Discernment is a process ofletting go of what we are not.
By Father Thomas Keating.
I can easily over-identify,with my emotions and roles
becoming what I feel I am angry,I am divorced, I am depressed,

(52:29):
I am a failure.
I am nothing but my confusionand my sadness.
No matter how we feel in anyone moment, we are not just our
feelings, our roles, our traumas, our prescription of values or
our obligations.
Here I got you, brother, ourprescription of values or

(52:55):
obligations or ambitions.
It is so easy to defineourselves by the moment of
struggle we are wrestling with.
It is a very human way to beconsumed by what moves through
us.
In contrast, I often think ofhow Michelangelo sculpted, how
he saw the sculpture waiting,already complete, in the uncut
stone.

(53:15):
He would often say that his jobwas to carve away the excess,
freeing the thing of beauty justwaiting to be released.
It helps me think of aspiritual, uh, it helps me think
of spiritual discernment.
In this way, facing ourselves,overcoming the meaning in our
heart, experiences the entirework of consciousness speaks to

(53:37):
the process by which we sculptaway the excess.
That's good all that we are notfinding and releasing the
gesture of soul that is alreadywaiting complete within us.
Self-actualization is theprocess applied to our life on
earth.
The many ways we suffer, bothinwardly and outwardly, are the

(53:59):
chisels of God freeing the thingof beauty that we have carried
within since birth.
I like that.
I like that, I love that.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
So y'all meditate on that for the week.
I love it.
We thank y'all for tuning in.
Welcome to the jungle If youguys are new to the podcast
click like and subscribe.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Like subscribe.
And share with we do this a lotand we promise we'll have video
content and never do, but weare genuinely going to do it,
working on it.
It's a very, very it's a lotsooner than people think and we
got just.
We won't keep saying it everytime, but keep an eye out.

(54:46):
We're going to keep doing thisbecause we love doing this.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
This is one of my favorite things to do.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Yeah, this is therapy .

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Yeah, and then if you want to listen to people kind
of go crazy a little bit, checkout the After Hours show, which
might be sooner than later.
Yes, yes, we'll get that outthere for y'all.
Well, thank you everybody forlistening.
If you've made it this far,anna, you got anything else to
say?

Speaker 1 (55:15):
No, you guys have a great week and, yeah, be good.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Be good.
Be better than good.
Alright, signing off.
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