Put Down the Pitchfork, Pick Up the Parmesan

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🍽️ Food isn’t just fuel—it’s fellowship, ritual, and garlic-laced gospel from Moncton
🏋️‍♂️ The gym is church now—where sweat drowns the static and trauma gets transformed
📓 Gratitude gets side-eyed—coping mechanisms get lovingly called out
👖 Husky jeans, teenage boobs, and the long road to body joy (yes, James goes there)
🔥 Radical empathy is the new resistance—spoiler: it’s not for the faint of heart
📢 Freedom of speech? Fine. But freedom from consequences? Not today, Satan.
🐝 Mind your beeswax or risk a righteous sting on the nose
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello, friends, So happy to have you here with me
today at Radical Joy. If you've been here before, hey,
welcome back. If this is your first time with me,
well I'm glad you're here. Each week, i'm here with
you talking to myself about things that weigh on my
mind and heart. Hoping if you're dealing with something similar,
we can adjust our perspectives as you listen. Hey, if
you're struggling with something that needs immediate attention, please know

(00:34):
that help was available just on nine eight eight nationwide
in the US to reach the Mental Health and Suicide
Crisis Hotline. All of us here at Cola Studios believe
that mental health is a vital part of our well being.
The more people I meet and the more places I go,
the more I realize how important it is to make

(00:54):
people aware of the fact that there is no shame
in enjoying the parts of our lives that are incredible.
It's time for some Radical Joy, and this week, the
three fingers pointing back at me are for my favorite weapons.
We deal with a lot in this day and age. Friends,
You know, I often start an episode or two per month.

(01:18):
Very similarly, we have a lot on our plates. Okay,
the world is in a very specific state at the moment.
I feel as though love, joy, generosity, empathy, these things
are in what I would call perhaps a limited supply,
which hurts my heart. Honestly, it breaks my guts, because

(01:40):
there's just really no reason for it. When you get
right down to brass tacks. All of these ideas that
I mentioned are things that can and though I hate
the word, should be used willy nilly, absolutely with wild
abandon because these are the kinds of things that will
continue to replenish the more you use them. And to

(02:03):
quote biblical reference to paraphace biblical reference, did you ever
remember the story whenever God's children were in the wilderness
and manna was sent from heaven and they were to
pick it up off the ground and make food and
cakes and these kinds of things with the manna. That

(02:26):
it was provided for their sustenance, though it was also
very clearly instructed that it was to be used. It
was not to be saved or stored. What it was
to be done was it was supposed to be taken
up off the ground or wherever you found it, wherever
it accumulated, made into whatever it is you were going
to make it and feed the children, meaning metaphorical feed

(02:50):
the followers of God in order to sustain them while
they were in the wilderness. When they attempted to save it,
it would spoil almost overnight. I want to feel as
though the love, the empathy, the grace, all these sorts
of things that we have in our lives are very
similar in idea to Mana. I want us to think

(03:13):
of these things as something that we need to use
every day. As soon as it replenishes. I want us
to find a way to distribute it generously, copiously among
the people that are most needing. Needing is a word
that I wasn't exactly sure. I wanted to say needful,
but then it's needful. Is that really? The word needy

(03:35):
makes me feel uncomfortable. It gives me a little bit
of an ick whenever I think about it, because whenever
I think needy, I think of whenever we used to
have sock and toy drives for the needy when I
was younger coming up. What I want to think is
that everyone, and I mean everyone has need in their life,

(04:00):
even if you're a Jeff Bezos or an Elon Musk.
Now I'm not saying they're necessarily my favorite people on
the list right now. Don't get it twisted. What I
am saying is that literally everyone, regardless of socioeconomic standing
or appearance, everyone has a need in their lives. Is
it your responsibility fulfill that need? Not? Particularly if you

(04:23):
see a need in someone's life and you are what
you would consider uniquely qualified to help them with that,
perhaps give it a thought or two. I highly encourage it.
I think it is a wonderful thing to be able
to see that in someone. I think that different needs
being filled by different people take a different tax on

(04:45):
each individual depending on what they have to offer in spades,
everyone has a set of gifts and skills that are
useful whenever it comes to talking about situations like this.
So what I would like to do is say, if
you see a need and it would cost so little
to help someone fill their cups so much, ponder it.

(05:06):
Ponder it now, then back to the topic at hand.
My favorite weapons. When I'm feeling particularly down in the mullygrubs,
what I like to do, instead of knee jerking into
something that makes me feel as though I am praising
myself just to make myself feel better, What I like

(05:28):
to do is ponder on the things that make me happy.
This is not a gratitude thing. Someone called me out
on this a little while back, and I appreciate it. It's
like when they ask me a pointy question sometimes I
answer with this, and she quoted it. She says, don't
give me this bullshit gratitude. Blah blah blah. She says,
tell me how you're really feeling, which is fair. I
do that, you know. It's one of those things where

(05:50):
I figure whenever things get bad, what I try to
do is flip the script, like I've talked with us
here a million times, finding a new perspective on something
I don't love, to find something about it that I
can love, in order to sort of like move the
focus from something unsavory to something I can actually enjoy.
Wildly helpful in my life whenever I get down into

(06:12):
a blue section of living not necessarily the best course
of action, Whenever your friends are trying to figure out
how they can help you, because it is in a
manner of speaking, a coping mechanism. And I know this
why because I have friends that pointed out I have
a journal that helps me figure these things out. And
whenever I sit in the other it's rough. Oh, let's

(06:36):
turn that off right quick. And I don't think that's
necessarily about I think sometimes you just got to get
through the day. However, whenever you have reached a point
where you can hang out and suss the things with

(06:57):
your favorite people with a moment of quiet in your
own journal or thoughts or however you choose to deal
with them, if you're so fortunate to have a professional
to help you navigate these feelings, wonderful. For me, it's
thinking about happy things. And I know this sounds so
elementary and tried. It's not my intention. What it is
is that I think about the things that it's not

(07:18):
just thinking about them, it's about really deep diving on
each one of them. James, what are some of your
favorite things? Well, let's get started. Coffee. I love it great,
that's so great. Like so do you know all these
people with their live laugh love signs up in their
kitchens like no, no, no, let me continue, thank you.
I love coffee for the fellowship that it invites. I

(07:43):
love coffee for the quality that you get to enjoy
in different parts of the world. I love it for
the amount of water that different places use, whether you're
doing the ristretto in Italy or you're doing a long
black in Australia. I love it for the fact that
I have never had a better cup of coffee than
a finer dining establishment in Vietnam. And there's a memory

(08:05):
that goes with it about dating an Italian skater who
if she's listening, she knows who she is. And that
moment in my life was one of those things. I
was just like, we both took the first sip at
the same time and looked to one another to make
sure the other tasted what the other was drinking. Do

(08:26):
you get it? Those are the things that make happy
meaning coffee into something ecstatic, joyful, shared connected. Right, it's
those kinds of things. We can't just stop at the
surface of the thing. We need to continue to dig
and go deeper into the levels of why and what.

(08:48):
Those memories are that continue to burn this beautiful fire
inside us that not only keeps us warm, but warms
others and shines a light for all of our paths. Okay, great,
wonderful start. Where do we go from here? Food? I
love to eat, well, yeah, everybody loves to eat. No,

(09:11):
not true, not everybody. Some people eat to fuel, some
people eat to enjoy. Some people eat to feel more
or feel less of whatever emotion it is they're experiencing.
I was one of those people. I had a very
unhealthy connection to food. Still do on occasion whenever my
feelings get extra extra intense, whether good or bad. Sometimes

(09:34):
it's either celebration because I want to eat because I
feel as though the situation calls for it, or I
am in a place where I don't feel confident, I
feel insecure, or whatever, and so I find something, usually
a sweet trait to enjoy, to fill that void in
me that I don't enjoy feeling. On the other side

(09:58):
of this one, I would also like to say, is
this some of the the most important conversations and questions
I've ever been asked? Have it been over food? Enjoying
a homemade pardon me? Enjoying a handmade Caesar salad at
one of the finest restaurants I've ever had the joy
of patronizing. It's called the wind Jammer, and it's in Monkton,

(10:20):
It's in Canada, and this older gentleman by the name
of Frederic would take this enormous wooden bowl that was
hollowed out from the trunk of some gigantic tree, and
he would go through the painstaking process of crushing the
garlic and adding the oil, and then adding the sardines.
No wait, wait, wait, sorry, Anchovi's pardon me, yes, and

(10:42):
then he would add the parmesan cheese and that's what
he would make the dressing in the bottom, and then
he would go to the trouble of adding the greens
to make sure, and then he would toss all of
the things and he would continue to add pepper and spices,
and it would no lie take around four thready to
forty five minutes for him to make this beautiful appetizer.

(11:05):
It wasn't even the meal, Okay, it was literally just
this this ritual of watching this wonderful salad be made.
And my friends, when I tell you the incredible flavor
of that first bite, ay, it would clear sinuses right
the hell up, because there was so much garlic in

(11:25):
that sucker. Forget about it. Also, if you don't like anchovies,
well God bless your little cotton socks, because that is
unfortunate because you are missing out because when you add
it in there, it gives that little fuzzy fish flavor
just sends me to the flipping moon. Okay, what else
do we do when we eat? We share the important parts.
It slows everyone down. Hopefully we've left that one eyed,

(11:49):
flipping monster either in a pocket or honestly back at
the hotel or back in the car, so we don't
have to worry about dealing with the phone or being
distracted because we can really focus on one another and
what's going on in life. Spending so much time in
Europe has been enormous for that, because there is so
much more onus, placed on the connection, on the relationship,

(12:12):
on what's happening around the table, not just what's on it,
but who's at it. And I love it. It brings
me joy in my guts. That sends me to the moon.
It's not just the quality of the food, the delicious,
the sustaining strength that I get from ingesting it. It's

(12:34):
also the nourishment I get from the people who are
sitting across from me, beside me, that not only want
to share the good and important with me, but want
to hear the good and important that I have to
give to this community we've built around a table full
of food. Let's talk about the gym. That's one of

(12:54):
my happy places. It is for any number of reasons.
Number one, I deal with a lot of bonkers in
my head. Okay, if I can go to the gym
and work so hard that there is literally none of
that left, that all of those noisy thoughts are just
laid to rest for about thirty minutes while I am

(13:15):
killing myself with some of my favorite people. Tell me
how that is not the center of my joy. Okay,
Whenever I finish a particularly nasty workout, there is literally
nothing left to think about except how grateful I am
to be there in that moment with these people, on
this never ending journey of strenuous and just relentless improvement. Right,

(13:42):
we get to the end and we are gasping for air.
Every pore in my body is a wash with my
own perspiration, the product of the effort of what I
have just lived through barely in order to come out
on the other side bigger, better, stronger, small, purer. Because

(14:03):
the crud that was there before that had no bearing
on my life, that I gave such a humongous amount
of spotlight space and airtime too, is no longer even
remotely important. What is important is the fact that I
have just pushed myself past a boundary that only existed
because I thought it did, into what was waiting for

(14:26):
me on the other side that I prayed my whole
life to be able to do. We're gonna have a
lot of pause and play in today's episode, because if
I get just a little bit too carried away, which
is what I want, I'm gonna hit that pause button.
And then whenever I get myself a little bit back
under control so all of my words can be understood,
I'm ready to dive right back in. I'm not slowing

(14:48):
it down. I'm just making sure I drain the snot
tank before I come back to the microphone. Cool. Cool.
When I was a child, I was very heavy. Well,
pardon me, let's rewind that just a little bit more.
When I was a child, a little one, I was
sick all the time. I had strep throat every Christmas.

(15:09):
My tonsils and adenoids were constantly swollen and inflamed, making
me sicker and sicker and sicker. I was a wormy
little kid. I was so little, so skinny. I'll never forget.
An older cousin of mine came to the house one
time and he took both of his hands and could
literally circle my waist. And I don't even remember how
old it was, but it was probably an age where

(15:31):
a person his age should not be able to put
two hands around my waist and get all the way around.
And I remember him saying something to the fact that
I was wormy and that if I didn't start eating more,
I was gonna die. And I lost my ever loving mind. Okay, like,
you can't tell a child that young that mortality is
on the table if they don't start eating, right, so

(15:53):
I did. Now was that the only thing that played
into me being a heavier child? Later, of course, not
went to the had my tonsils and adenoids removed, and
all of a sudden, all of the things that kept
me from being a husky youth were removed. My health
got much better, I got significantly thicker, and then it

(16:14):
came into the to the place where I had boobs
as a young man, not not not preferable. If we
can get right down to brass tags, I had to
wear the husky jeans. If any of y'all remember those
from a certain era, you would probably be able to
remember that wranglers forget about it. There was no way

(16:38):
you were gonna squeeze this three pound sausage into that
two pound casing not gonna happen, and it broke my heart.
You know, these are things that you focus on so
hard whenever you're a kid, because everybody else is doing it,
and you weren't to the point where you wanted to
be something different or someone different. All you wanted to
be was like everybody else. Right. Little did I know

(17:00):
that that would set me on a path that eventually
I just have to be well, I can't be like
everybody else because I'm just not made like that, And
that was literal. Eventually you got to be figured it,
which was wonderful, but that was very much the literal thing.
I am not made like a normal eleven to fourteen
year old, especially a young man. I had hips, I

(17:23):
had boobs, it was embarrassing. I had fat jiggle on
the inside of my thighs and it was terrible. I'll
still remember the day that Dad pinched the inside of
that and said some pretty harsh things to me, trying
to get me on a healthier path for my own
well being. I say all this to say this that
because of that rough stuff, let me just go ahead

(17:46):
and say it. Because of that trauma in my childhood. Now,
whenever I prioritize things in my life, these are the
important things. Not only do they make me better, they
make me happy. It isn't just the fact that I'm
working to be better and stronger and leaner and just
what I always wanted to be in the person that

(18:07):
I am. It's also the fact that if I don't
get rid of that extra energy, if I don't get
rid of that effort that just vibrates inside every cell
of my person, It's like the manna. I have to
get rid of it so I can make more. I
have to get rid of it to be better and
stronger for myself and for those who show up to

(18:30):
work with me, so we can all rise on the
tide we make. We sail our boats in the same sea,
and we expect to reach a certain level before we
are finished in the job that we came to do.
The same thing goes for our goodwill, our empathy, our
love for one another, our need for connection. We need

(18:53):
to reach out with that and just dump it on folks. Okay,
not really nilly occasional willing nilliness is fine. I need
us to be intentional with this. And when I say us,
I'm talking me, me, me, me, me, and anybody else
who wants to come along, because I'm having trouble with
that right now. I want to find more people who

(19:17):
are willing to share this with me, because I feel
as though right now we're having a really hard time
trying to find more people like that. We have made
so many teens and we've gotten so mad at one another.
Guilty me talking to myself here. This is not an
accusatory tone. This is a we us, hey, y'all kind

(19:38):
of situation. I need to find a way past that.
I need to find a way past that. There are
people with beliefs and support systems in place that are
encouraging cruelty, hatefulness and that sort of thing. And I
know they're not stupid. I know they're not. They can
be wilfully ignorant one hundred percent yes on that. And

(19:59):
if that hurts your fear, will God bless your little heart.
I don't know what to tell you, because if it
hurts your feelings, chances are I'm talking to you now.
This means that no love is lost. It means my
frustration for you has reached a boiling point. You are
welcome at this house anytime you lay your hateful and
your cruel and your stupidity aside. That has no room

(20:21):
or place here. What does have a place here is empathy.
Being able to put yourself in the shoes of others
to understand that we have a responsibility to take care
of one another. Taxes be damned. Whatever it is you
think other people do or do not deserve, may go
burn in a fire for all I care. I will
set it myself so that you may throw it in

(20:42):
there what people deserve in your estimation. If you are
operating from a place of a lack of empathy or
hate or cruelty, I do not give too hoots about
if you have come here to try to be a
better person and realize that we are all connected in
this grand community on the face of this earth. Fantastic.
I got a seat for you right here next to me.

(21:04):
It's probably a little closer than you may feel comfortable sitting.
That's okay. I want you to feel the warmth of
my body when you sit here. I want you to
feel the fire I burn for the love of this world,
because I'm sick of living in the cold. We were

(21:25):
not made for the cold and the dark and the isolation.
We were made for the warm and the bright and
the connected. And we continue to tug at those connections,
and honest to God, it takes so much more effort
to pull apart than it does to come together. And

(21:47):
for whatever reason, we have let this otherness, this idea
of dissimilarity separate us. Now, granted, if you look at
it on the outside, sure we all look very very different,
those of us who share a skin color, a language,
a cultural similarity, a background, a heritage, however it is

(22:09):
you want to call it. Even people that belong to
that section, we can look past the differences in appearance
because we share those things, those ties that bind. What
I'm asking from us now is that we look past
those ties to find others that could perhaps bridge a gap,

(22:29):
that can somehow find us a bond that we can
share that we will continue to build on and strengthen
the farther we go. Now, I'm preaching to me just
as much as I am to anybody else, because there's
folks in this world. The stuff that they say, the
audacity they have to say, the bullshit that they say,

(22:54):
boggles my mind. Like honest to God, if they were
in the room with me, it would not go well.
The least they would receive is a tongue lashing that
they would tell their grandchildren about. The most they received
would probably land me in the clink for an evening
or perhaps more. I'm out of patience for it. It

(23:16):
must be exhausting to continue to insist on being an
ass whole right, some people tell me they love it.
I love it. On occasion, I really enjoy it because
somebody crossed my path. And I promise you, if they're
in the wrong frame of mind and decide to spill
just a little bit on me, I will pay back

(23:37):
ten and I will have zero qualm about it, and
if I do, I'll make it better Later. I will
one hundred percent approach and apologize it. I don't know
how what the ratio is on that that it's guaranteed
I will, And if I feel I've overstepped, you can
bet that I'll approach it with more grace in the
future and hopefully we can be better friends or at

(23:58):
least better acquainted in the things to come. However, if
someone just insists on working way too hard, just to
make something appear as though it is right, good, true,
or just we're gonna have us to come to Jesus.
All right, I've already started. I have. Now this may

(24:20):
be petty, but I have friends in Blunt County, Alabama,
and some of the people that comment some of the
silliest shit on their posts, I read them for filth.
I try to be as respectful as possible. I do
not resort to name calling. I will one hundred percent
call out their terrible opinions for exactly what they are. Terrible,
Make no mistake, and please, please, please, I have no

(24:42):
problem with it. Do I feel terrible about it? No?
Do I feel great about it. Also, know what I
think is not holding people accountable for opinions that hurt others.
And I mean, by the hundreds or thousands or more,
those need to be called out. We've given enough time
and space to folks with shitty opinions. Time to take

(25:03):
that back. Absolutely not. That's a weapon, and that's not
one of my favorites. One of my favorites is making
sure people understand that if they are not responsible or
intelligent enough, yet not calling them stupid, I'm saying they
still got some learning to do. They need to be
more careful with the weapons they're wielding, and I'm gonna

(25:23):
smack them on the hand or I'm gonna take that
thing away until they learn to do better. Weapons belong
in the hands of everyone, because a weapon ain't nothing
but a tool. It just depends on the connotation that
you're using it with. Everyone needs tools to do better
for what it is they're doing. Okay, what I want
to say is, once you prove that you can use

(25:44):
this without hurting people who have no bearing on your happiness,
your life, your success, know nothing will discuss you getting
this back. If the idea of a person or group
of people drives you to cruelty or worse, it's time
for us to assess that. And it's time for those
of us with a little bit level of head. Yes

(26:04):
I said it, and I count myself among them leveler head.
We will make sure you understand that you are using
that weapon irresponsibly and it won't be tolerated. You got
freedom speech all day long. Which you don't have is
freedom of consequences. Freedom of speech don't give you nothing
except the government's not supposed to incarcrate you for something
that you said or thought or did or protested Da

(26:26):
da da da dah. And we're seeing that is going
to hell in a handbasket faster than we could even
have imagined. So if you're gonna go ahead to jail
for something that you said, you might as well say
it all all right, and here's the fun part, say
what's on your heart. Understand Not everyone will greet it
with warm and fuzzies and yes please and amens. What

(26:48):
will happen is hopefully a very earnest, honest discussion. Probably
some conflict resolution been working on that too. Not a
happy place. Living here in the Netherlands has been different
for that, because conflict does arise. Is it rough? Is
it awful? Is it like one of those things that's insurmountable. No. However,
people around here are probably a lot more apt to

(27:10):
let you know that you have transgressed than folks would
back in the US. Maybe that's just my experience, I
don't know, but getting better at conflict resolution has been
a gift, and that is a weapon. This ain't a
war that we're fighting. It's not a battle. At the most,
I'd call it a skirmish. Right, These kind of things

(27:32):
are so important. They really really are. However, when you
look at the topics that we are driving to war,
it's the silliest shit. My gosh, it boggles the minds, Like, really,
this is why you're willing to die on the hill. Friend,
I'm gonna need you to get some perspective, because this
is crazy. You're never gonna meet a trans person in

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your whole life. That can happen to some people where
some people if they may never ever ever meet a transper. Ever,
so having such a strong opinion about something like that
is kind of asinine. And if you need me to
spell that, I can as I N I N E.
Don't get tricked. The double S is not in there.

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I looked. It sounds like it should be. It ain't
if it doesn't bother you, if it doesn't concern you,
if it ain't your body, if it ain't your problem,
if it ain't your circus, those ain't your monkeys, leave
it to the ring master, buy your ticket to another
attraction if this is not the show you choose to watch. Okay,

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if people mind bees wax, we won't have to worry
about these kind of things. If they continue to poke
their nose in my hive. They bout to get stung
on the end of that nose. Okay, favorite weapons. Happy. Yes,
I also need folks to know that happy is not
always rainbows, sunshine, lollipops, kitten cuddles. No, sometimes happy is

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going to the gym, getting beefy as hell, and you know,
kicking the shit out of folks who do not want
to mind their own business enough to refrain from cruelty. Now,
is that literal course not. I don't want to have
to go out there and do something like that. I'm
not a fighter. I'm a lover. I'm a comic. I'm
a funny guy. I was not made for fighting. Okay.

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What I was made to do is to be able
to talk to people, hopefully laugh, find common ground so
that whenever we move forward in something like this, I
don't have to worry about that. The thing that worries
me the most is that you reason, and you talk
and you love to a point where you are a
here's breath from getting on the same page, and somebody
resets because of Jesus, the Bible or Fox News. Let

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me tell you something, right now, those three things could
not be less related if they were from different planets
in different solar systems, all put into one house. Stop
it no knock it off. Anybody who thinks any of
this is good or Christian or whatever. You got to

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get your head out behind quarters. And this is me
using my favorite weapons to say it. I love you,
I do, but this silliness has got to stop. That's
all there is to it. Like I can love you
and still think you are an igno raimus. You don't
have to stay that way. It's not name calling that
is overcomeable. Once you get your head out, you butt,

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but you're gonna have to grease it up and pull
it out because she's pretty far up in there right now. Hey,
thank you for spending some time with me today. Thank
you for letting me get rambunctious. Thank you for letting
me get emotional. Thank you for letting me explore all
of this. It's so much emotion to deal with, and

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my heart goes out to all of us because it's
not the easiest thing to try to compartmentalize or sublimate
or try to figure out what you do with it
where you put it in order for it to be
constructive or at least not destructive. Right if this is
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