FH Mini 147 - Mental Health Day

[0:00] Hey, everyone, and welcome to The Flophouse.

[0:05] I'm Dan McCoy.

[0:06] Well, I'm Stuart Wellington.

[0:08] I'm Ellie Kaelin, not quite ready for how goofy that Stuart Wellington name is.

[0:20] This, of course, is The Flophouse podcast.

[0:23] Now, it sure is.

[0:25] Every other week, we, of course, I don't know why I keep saying, of course, as if you all

[0:29] know, I mean, probably, probably you do if you're listening.

[0:33] We watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.

[0:36] But then in the alternate weeks, we have what we call The Flophouse Mini, which is a more

[0:40] freestyle thing led by one of us.

[0:44] And there's an alternate universe where we host The Glop House, where we're just glorifying

[0:49] the interstellar conqueror, Glop, who has taken control of Earth.

[0:53] And we are just trying to stay on his good side so we don't get put into the Floreglizer,

[0:57] of course, the worst punishment of all.

[0:59] Yeah.

[1:00] Mm hmm.

[1:01] How are you aware of what's going on in this alternate universe?

[1:03] You know, I have a pen pal there.

[1:05] OK.

[1:06] I don't know.

[1:07] I'm part of the cult that believes that being put inside the Floreglizer is the ultimate

[1:11] form of worship of Glorp.

[1:13] But that's it.

[1:14] Yeah.

[1:15] That's very popular.

[1:16] That's not how any of that is pronounced.

[1:17] But you did a great.

[1:18] But it's true that the perspective does exist.

[1:21] Yeah.

[1:22] So this is the thing I just made up.

[1:24] That's not how that's the correct way of saying it, but this is my mini and I'm well,

[1:31] I'll just I'll just roll right into it.

[1:33] I'll say this.

[1:34] Dan, don't be apologetic about the mini.

[1:35] We haven't even heard yet.

[1:37] Yeah.

[1:38] Well, maybe when you hear things have been pretty bad in the world recently, like maybe

[1:43] when you hear it, there's a lot of shit on it, a lot of shitty movies.

[1:45] What about shit in movies?

[1:47] Let's talk about defecate in onscreen.

[1:49] This is not a good idea.

[1:52] Let's get fecal with it.

[1:56] No, things have been pretty bad in this in in this game entitled Girls on Filth.

[2:03] And then you play the Duran Duran song Girls on Film, but you've added the word filth and

[2:06] filth.

[2:09] Things have been pretty bad in the world lately.

[2:12] I don't think I'm breaking new ground and pointing this out.

[2:16] So I wanted to take this mini to do a little mental health check in with my friends.

[2:23] Dangerous thing to suggest.

[2:26] I do want to say that while I'm being a little silly by making this the premise of our mini

[2:30] and I hope that we will have some laughs like we always do.

[2:32] I'm in no way making fun of the idea of a mental health check in or anyone struggling.

[2:37] I take mental health seriously.

[2:39] I hope that hearing us talk will be helpful and make people feel less alone.

[2:45] And if anyone, of course, is really wrestling with sadness about the world, reach out to

[2:49] loved ones.

[2:51] But just, you know, just because I think it's easily misunderstood that, you know, I'm taking

[2:56] this lightly, but I'm not trying to do that.

[2:59] I've got a few questions here.

[3:01] And while there will be some comedy, I hope there'll be truth.

[3:05] It'll be nice to go through them together.

[3:07] I found these 10 suggested check in questions online at Mental Health America.

[3:13] And so number one.

[3:14] Wait, Dan, I just want to double check.

[3:16] I suddenly surged with hope.

[3:19] These are check in questions, or could they be chicken questions?

[3:22] Hmm.

[3:23] Because I'd love to make them into a chicken question.

[3:26] I think that one of them probably might involve chicken.

[3:30] Oh, that sounds great.

[3:32] What is Camilla?

[3:35] I know this one.

[3:36] I know.

[3:37] No.

[3:38] The first question is, how are you feeling today?

[3:39] The queen consort of England?

[3:41] I think.

[3:42] Yeah.

[3:43] She's right.

[3:44] And Gonzo's, though, there is the king consort, right?

[3:49] I'm king consort.

[3:52] I'm going to rampage through New York.

[3:56] Or we could talk about the promise consort, Radon, of course.

[3:59] But we'll talk about him.

[4:00] Don't even know.

[4:01] Don't even know.

[4:02] Yeah.

[4:03] Rodan.

[4:04] I'm familiar with both the sculptor and the monster.

[4:05] Yeah.

[4:06] Mm hmm.

[4:07] Question number one.

[4:08] How are you?

[4:09] It might have been the same.

[4:10] But how did he sculpt with those little hands, little claws on his wings?

[4:12] That's why he's so good.

[4:13] Yeah.

[4:14] I've told the story before.

[4:15] Right.

[4:16] About when I was a kid, I loved that movie, Rodan.

[4:18] And the one time I wanted my parents to get it for me from the video store, as they usually

[4:22] did.

[4:23] And it was not in stock.

[4:24] And so my dad brought me back and said, Condorman, the movie about the guy who's trying to be

[4:28] a superhero.

[4:29] Because he's like, well, it's about a flying thing.

[4:31] And it did not scratch the same itch as Rodan.

[4:34] How did you like Rodan to perdition?

[4:37] I thought it was a little too grim.

[4:40] OK.

[4:41] A little too gray.

[4:42] Need a little bit of bright colors.

[4:43] You know, there were very few, very few characters that were eaten by giant bugs.

[4:47] So, you know, that was a problem.

[4:48] Yeah.

[4:49] But that Conrad Hall cinematography.

[4:50] Mwah!

[4:51] Oh, beautiful.

[4:52] Chef's kiss.

[4:53] Oh, yeah.

[4:54] Question number one.

[4:56] Captain Cook.

[4:57] I'll jump in on some of these.

[5:01] How are you feeling today, really, physically and mentally?

[5:04] How are you feeling today, really?

[5:08] Well, physically, I twisted my ankle two days ago, stepping in a pothole because I couldn't

[5:15] go directly to the street when I parked because there was a wall of snow and that I was on

[5:21] my way to the gym already and I was doing an upper body day.

[5:24] So I'm like, I'm just going to do it anyway.

[5:26] But then I could feel the adrenaline wearing off and my ankle started to swell on my high

[5:30] top.

[5:31] So I'm like, fuck this.

[5:32] And since it's my birthday month, I've been like working out a little bit more than normal

[5:36] because, you know, I'm trying to present to yourself.

[5:39] Yeah, I'm trying to find some way to stem the inevitable oncoming tide of time.

[5:46] And so let's see.

[5:48] So that makes me so I've had to skip some of my workouts this weekend, but I should

[5:52] be OK.

[5:53] It's starting to feel better.

[5:54] I took it easy.

[5:55] I listen to my body.

[5:56] But I don't know.

[5:57] I'm so I'm feeling a little depressed, probably a little more than normal.

[6:01] Also, yesterday was Valentine's Day, and I feel like that kind of those holidays I find

[6:06] always a little bit depressing.

[6:08] I think I associate them with a feeling that I should have with a lot of big holidays.

[6:14] I feel like I've been sold a feeling that I should experience or aspire to that I don't

[6:20] quite reach.

[6:21] And I feel the holiday is somewhat alienating, alien, doing good, can't complain, OK, no,

[6:30] just kidding.

[6:31] I have my ups and downs this this this weekend when we're recording this, I happen to be

[6:36] in a in a better place than I have been at other times.

[6:39] So, yeah, so it could be worse.

[6:41] I mean, my job requires me to sit in front of a computer for long periods of time.

[6:46] And so I can feel my body turning into a into like an amorphous blob.

[6:50] But at the same time, my younger son is forcing me to get on the trampoline with him a lot.

[6:54] And so that's been giving me some activity.

[6:56] So that's good.

[6:57] Yeah.

[6:58] You start doing some like tramp tricks.

[6:59] I do tramp tricks.

[7:00] I trick tramps like hobos will come by and say, oh, I'll give you a pie if you paint

[7:05] my fence.

[7:06] And then and then when they when they come to get the pie, I'll just lock the door and

[7:08] I say, sorry, thanks for painting my fence.

[7:11] Yeah.

[7:12] Yeah.

[7:13] But you give them you give them you give them a book of stamps and you're like, here, here's

[7:19] some tramp stamps.

[7:20] You go, ha, ha, ha.

[7:21] That's my little joke.

[7:22] And then you close the door.

[7:23] Then I close the door.

[7:24] And so they'll they'll write me and man lives here on the post.

[7:26] But it's just a joke.

[7:27] You can erase that.

[7:28] Yeah.

[7:29] It's hobo code.

[7:30] Yeah.

[7:31] It's hobo code.

[7:32] Actually, it's the whole bro code, which is like the hobo code, but for this, you know,

[7:36] so it's like monster energy drink available here.

[7:38] Yeah.

[7:39] But I got you know, you got it.

[7:40] You got bros before hobos.

[7:41] That's just the way it goes.

[7:42] You know, you got to.

[7:43] And me, my physical and mental, I think, are tied in together.

[7:48] I woke up very tired today and just had a hard time getting going.

[7:53] And I I was not for that reason looking forward to doing the podcast just because it was a

[7:58] thing to do.

[7:59] I was in the mood where, like, I don't want to do a thing.

[8:03] And but now, as always, once I see you guys, it cheers me up.

[8:08] You know, I'm doing OK.

[8:11] On Friday, I had just like I had to go out to do a bunch of like I had to go to a doctor's

[8:17] appointment.

[8:18] I had to go right.

[8:19] I had to meet someone.

[8:20] And like just being out in the world filled me with rage, like in a like senseless way

[8:24] where I was just like mad at people that, you know, were just living their lives.

[8:27] Dan, you're going to make such a great elderly shut in someday.

[8:31] Yeah, it's just going to it's going to feel so natural.

[8:33] It's going to feel so good. Yeah.

[8:36] Hey, number two, what's taking up most of your headspace right now?

[8:40] Work on my part, and I feel conflicted by that because I am very busy with work and

[8:47] I've been working a lot of late nights, and it means that I often have to figure out how

[8:52] to balance time with my family, with time trying to get the work I have done.

[8:57] But at the same time, I feel guilty about feeling unhappy about that because so many

[9:01] of my friends and colleagues are out of work right now.

[9:04] And it certainly feels churlish to complain about having something that provides a

[9:08] regular income when so many people I know are not fortunate enough to be in that

[9:12] situation. So I have the worst of both worlds, which is the stress of one thing and the

[9:17] guilt of having that stress.

[9:19] But I'm trying to be less emotionally connected to my work in some ways.

[9:24] I think that's been helping me somewhat, but it still takes up far more of my mental

[9:28] space than I'd like it to be.

[9:29] And then the rest is just assorted family things, fear of the world that we live in,

[9:34] that kind of stuff, you know, dread.

[9:36] Mm hmm. Yeah, that's the cool dread.

[9:37] Who's judge jury and executioner?

[9:39] Like the bad dread. Yeah, he is pretty cool.

[9:41] Yeah. The bad dread, which I guess will be judge death.

[9:44] Yeah. Judge death.

[9:45] Yeah. Not judge doom, though.

[9:47] He's cool. Oh, no, he's great.

[9:49] Yeah. He's finally because, you know, he's finally getting rid of those damn tunes so we

[9:53] can build that freeway.

[9:55] I hate to take the streetcar for a nickel.

[9:58] I tell you guys, he's also.

[10:00] I know, it's crazy, right?

[10:02] No, no, but he's one of the good ones.

[10:04] I thought he just had an eye infection.

[10:06] Yeah, turned his eyes into daggers.

[10:08] That represents the sharp pain of the infection, yeah.

[10:13] Yeah, so what's been taking up most of my head space?

[10:16] Just Warhammer stuff.

[10:18] I'm like, which guy's the best battler guy?

[10:23] Now, I would say one of the things is,

[10:27] one of the things as a small business owner,

[10:30] I don't really have a...

[10:32] No, you're a business owner of normal size.

[10:34] You're not a small man.

[10:35] Oh, thank you.

[10:36] Well, I've been trying to trim down L.A. for my birthday.

[10:43] But running a couple of businesses,

[10:45] I don't have a boss and I very rarely have,

[10:48] while I have a lot of things scheduled,

[10:50] I rarely have long periods of time.

[10:53] I don't usually work shifts places,

[10:55] so I'm usually not required to be in a space

[10:57] from one time to another time.

[11:00] So I have a lot of different things in my calendar

[11:02] that can all be shifted around,

[11:04] but they all still need to be done.

[11:07] And it takes a weird amount of time

[11:10] to keep all those balls in the air

[11:13] and to keep all those things in the forefront of my head.

[11:16] And I should be using a scheduling thing more often,

[11:19] but I find that that is a habit

[11:21] that I'm not very good at maintaining,

[11:23] even though I've done it consistently in the past,

[11:26] just not kind of since I've had

[11:28] a much more loose life schedule.

[11:31] So I find that a lot of my time is spent coordinating

[11:35] and also doing a lot of maintenance and support for my wife,

[11:39] who has been working extra hard

[11:41] since she has a even newer, more complicated business to run

[11:46] with Jiggle Studio, her gym,

[11:49] which is a completely new business for her,

[11:52] and it is requiring more energy in different ways

[11:56] than we were expecting

[11:58] because we are coming from a background of running bars.

[12:03] You know, you talk about the difficulty sometimes

[12:07] of being your own boss.

[12:09] Some of that goes into what's occupying my headspace.

[12:14] Because, look, I've had a boss and I've had no boss,

[12:18] and overall, I do think I would prefer no boss,

[12:22] but there's a beauty in having a boss

[12:24] who tells you what your priorities are,

[12:27] especially as someone who has a hard time

[12:29] organizing his priorities.

[12:31] And one thing that was occupying my headspace a lot

[12:34] was writing this comedy script I was trying to write.

[12:38] And in the absence of a boss,

[12:40] I actually asked Elliot to be my fake boss

[12:42] and to sign me a deadline.

[12:44] Which I did, and you met it just barely.

[12:47] It was a psychological process to trick myself

[12:49] into doing a thing I wanted to do.

[12:52] And now that that's out of my head,

[12:55] I signed up for this Flash screenwriting competition

[12:59] where you get...

[13:01] Not to make the next Flash movie, Elliot.

[13:03] I can see the idea formulating in your brain.

[13:06] No, it's like you get like a week

[13:10] to write the first script,

[13:13] and it's like a 10-page...

[13:14] It's like far short, you know,

[13:16] based on some randomized suggestions.

[13:19] And then if you are in the finalists or whatever,

[13:24] you go on to do scripts

[13:26] in a couple of shorter different spans of time.

[13:28] And it's just a thing.

[13:30] I don't think anything will come of it career-wise.

[13:33] It's a thing that Audrey saw that I signed up for

[13:36] for a challenge,

[13:39] just a thing to work a different muscle.

[13:42] So that's what's gonna come up.

[13:44] But right now, I'm just here with you guys.

[13:46] I'm present, man.

[13:48] Yeah, oh, that's nice.

[13:49] That's real nice.

[13:50] I'm all about working muscles.

[13:52] Now, your cat muscles?

[13:54] Is that what you're...

[13:55] Yeah, yeah, my cat muscles.

[13:57] I like working them.

[13:58] He doesn't always get along,

[14:00] and he doesn't take direction very well.

[14:02] Now, to call back,

[14:04] here's where Chicken may enter the chat.

[14:07] Who knows?

[14:08] The question is, what was your last full meal...

[14:10] Buck, buck, buck, buck.

[14:11] Oh, Chicken has entered the chat.

[14:13] What was your last full meal,

[14:14] and have you been drinking enough water?

[14:17] I'm sure I have not been drinking enough water.

[14:19] I know this because I recently experienced

[14:22] a very painful kidney stone

[14:24] that I did not enjoy at all.

[14:26] I don't...

[14:27] Oh, I usually hear they're, like, super fun.

[14:29] This one in particular, yeah,

[14:30] usually they're pretty great.

[14:31] It's like a little rollercoaster ride.

[14:32] But this one I give zero stars to.

[14:34] So I need to drink more water.

[14:35] I've been trying to, but not enough.

[14:37] I can tell from the dryness of my lips as I speak

[14:39] that I have not had enough water today.

[14:41] My last full meal, though,

[14:42] we're recording this the day after Valentine's Day.

[14:44] And, of course, my wife cooked one of our...

[14:48] my favorite thing for her to make,

[14:50] which is a roast chicken.

[14:52] And so that was my last one...

[14:53] There we go.

[14:54] ...was roast chicken.

[14:55] She does the best.

[14:56] My wife makes...

[14:57] She cooks...

[14:58] She roasts the best chicken that ever existed.

[14:59] And...

[15:00] Camille is pointing to herself

[15:01] on the television right now.

[15:03] Oh, exactly.

[15:04] Because the chicken was mentioned.

[15:06] Yeah.

[15:07] And that's great.

[15:08] That was the perfect thing,

[15:10] exactly what I wanted,

[15:11] exactly how she...

[15:12] One of the ways that she shows her love for me

[15:14] is by taking a chicken's corpse

[15:16] and just...

[15:17] and subjecting it to intense heat.

[15:19] Grizzly love language.

[15:21] Yeah, exactly.

[15:22] Stuart, what was your last meal?

[15:24] And have you been having enough water?

[15:26] I think I drink enough water.

[15:29] I do drink a lot of water.

[15:31] I probably drink too much coffee,

[15:33] but that's something else entirely.

[15:35] I...

[15:36] Let's see.

[15:37] I mean, we're recording this at, like...

[15:38] We start at noon.

[15:39] So my last full meal was breakfast.

[15:42] I had what I always have,

[15:44] what I make every day for myself,

[15:46] which is a big old mess of scrambled eggs

[15:48] with hot sauce,

[15:50] toast,

[15:52] sliced pineapple,

[15:54] and coffee with oat milk.

[15:57] Now, unless I'm getting my...

[15:59] Unless I'm getting my guesses wrong,

[16:01] those eggs probably came from a chicken.

[16:04] Am I right?

[16:05] That's true.

[16:06] Probably.

[16:07] Probably.

[16:08] Yeah, he wasn't having quail's eggs this morning.

[16:10] No, you didn't go out to...

[16:12] Peacock eggs.

[16:13] ...and collect some platypus eggs

[16:14] and roast them up, yeah.

[16:16] Scramble them up.

[16:17] Yeah.

[16:18] I wonder what those taste like, platypus eggs.

[16:23] They're pretty small.

[16:24] I don't know that there's a lot in them.

[16:25] I'm going to look it up.

[16:26] While you talk, Dan,

[16:27] I'm going to look up platypus egg taste.

[16:28] Taste good?

[16:30] I had...

[16:32] They're described as having an oily,

[16:34] slightly salty taste,

[16:35] reminiscent of a mix between red herring and wild duck.

[16:38] Oh, okay.

[16:39] That's actually...

[16:40] Okay.

[16:41] Turned it around at the end there.

[16:42] Oh, they always contain an embryo.

[16:44] Oh, okay.

[16:45] That's a deal breaker, I think.

[16:47] Nah, I'm down.

[16:48] I'll try it.

[16:50] I had some leftovers of this,

[16:52] sort of a Middle Eastern spiced lentil,

[16:56] sort of mush that got put into some pitas and fried.

[16:59] It's more tasty than it sounds.

[17:01] And as to the water question,

[17:04] my doctor actually told me

[17:07] that some of the small things that have been bothering me

[17:09] might be just dehydration, electrolyte imbalance.

[17:14] And so I've just started getting some low-sodium electrolyte powder

[17:20] that I'm drinking with water.

[17:23] Why don't you just drink a bunch of Gatorade?

[17:25] I think the answer to your question is embedded in the question.

[17:29] Here's a question.

[17:34] In fact, it's question number four.

[17:35] How have you been sleeping?

[17:37] How have you been sleeping?

[17:39] I'm guessing, Emily, it doesn't sleep at all.

[17:41] I don't sleep as much as I would like.

[17:43] I don't sleep great.

[17:44] My children have a habit of...

[17:46] I live in a house of people who don't sleep well,

[17:48] and my children have a habit of getting up in the middle of the night

[17:50] just to tell us they're not sleeping well,

[17:52] and there's nothing we can do about it.

[17:54] But it does wake us up, so there's that.

[17:56] I usually get not enough sleep,

[17:58] and the sleep quality is not great.

[18:00] So I am constantly living on the edge of exhaustion,

[18:03] which is not wonderful, which is not a great way to live.

[18:06] No, it's not. I'll agree with you.

[18:09] I would say the only thing that really is making...

[18:12] Dan, is it time for me to segue into the ad for this mini?

[18:15] You can, I guess, if you want to,

[18:18] but we haven't fully answered this question as we go around.

[18:21] Let's finish it, because the ad is sleep-related,

[18:24] and it is the one saving grace.

[18:26] No, that's true.

[18:29] Stuart, how have you been sleeping?

[18:31] I've been sleeping okay.

[18:33] I pretty regularly have a low dosage weed gummy before bed,

[18:39] or a weed chocolate,

[18:41] and that helps me kind of drift off.

[18:44] And I guess it also helps that my wife has recently started

[18:49] muting her phone, turning notifications off or whatever,

[18:54] which is great.

[18:57] She has it set on do not disturb,

[18:59] so that if somebody calls twice, it'll actually go off,

[19:05] but otherwise it won't go off.

[19:08] And all of our staff know to call twice,

[19:11] because she was getting...

[19:13] The bar staff group chats would be like,

[19:16] somebody would find a fucking butt plug or something,

[19:18] and then everybody would be making jokes about the butt plug they found,

[19:21] and then that would just keep us up all night,

[19:24] because she'd stick the phone under her pillow,

[19:26] because she's listening to her book on tape while she drifts off to sleep,

[19:29] so the phone's right there.

[19:31] So it's like going bonkers and waking me up.

[19:34] And then the other thing is I've been getting stricter

[19:37] about locking my cat Muscles out of the bedroom,

[19:40] because starting at like 6 a.m., he climbs on my chest,

[19:43] and he hammers his face into my chin,

[19:45] and he meows until I get up to feed him.

[19:48] And then at 8 o'clock, after he's done eating,

[19:51] he'll do it again because I'm in the bed,

[19:54] and he wants me to get out of the bed so he can be in the bed.

[19:57] And it's just a real mess.

[20:00] I'm having a really, really bad sleep for a while.

[20:04] But I was getting these muscle aches from joint stress.

[20:10] But as I've had more yoga, stretching and building muscle

[20:16] at the same time, and as I've dropped a few pounds recently,

[20:20] my sleep's been getting better.

[20:23] Although my sleep window is shifting to old person window,

[20:28] like going to bed earlier and then being awake

[20:32] often as early as 5.30.

[20:35] That's crazy.

[20:37] Sometimes I'm, I usually make it to like seven.

[20:40] But I have taken to sort of enjoying being up and awake

[20:45] before the house is up and awake.

[20:47] I mean, it's just Audrey and the cats.

[20:49] But I get that time then to go out and read for a while,

[20:53] which starts my day off on a more peaceful note

[20:55] than otherwise, especially because I've like made it

[20:58] as hard as possible to read any social media.

[21:01] Because if I see anything online these days,

[21:03] it ruins my whole day, so.

[21:06] Yeah, first thing I do when I wake up,

[21:08] in addition to stretching,

[21:10] and I usually get up before Charlene does,

[21:12] I'll get up and I'll stretch and drink my green juice.

[21:14] And I'll do the New York Times crossword for the day.

[21:18] And then I'll share my score with the podcaster,

[21:20] Puzz Club group chat that we got going

[21:23] for the podcast nerds who are also doing

[21:25] the New York Times crossword.

[21:27] I am not the fastest in that group.

[21:30] But as Elliot teased before, let's take a brief ad break

[21:33] because one of the things that helps my mental health

[21:35] is knowing that I can pay my bills.

[21:37] So Elliot, I believe we have a sponsor.

[21:40] We do have a sponsor.

[21:41] And I should mention, I mentioned that

[21:43] I have some sleep issues.

[21:45] My kids have trouble sleeping through the night off

[21:47] and they wake me up.

[21:48] And I don't get enough sleep

[21:49] just because I don't go to bed early enough.

[21:52] And I have to wake up early in the morning.

[21:54] But one thing that is not getting in the way of my sleep

[21:58] is my mattress.

[21:59] Why?

[22:00] Because I've got a Leesa mattress.

[22:02] That's right.

[22:02] I think I've told a little bit of the story

[22:03] of the Leesa mattress that we had before.

[22:05] It was brought, my kids both want it on their beds.

[22:09] And I said, no, eventually, no, I'm gonna use it.

[22:12] And I'll tell you what, it's a great mattress.

[22:14] And if I had the hours to actually sleep out

[22:17] the way I should, I would be sleeping in sleepful bliss,

[22:21] like floating on a cloud.

[22:22] Because sleeping on a Leesa mattress,

[22:24] it's like you're sleeping on a mattress

[22:25] that was designed exactly for you.

[22:28] It moves the way I move.

[22:30] It's like I have my own Jaeger partner

[22:33] or whatever they're called in the Pacific Rim.

[22:36] That's what they call them, yeah, Jaeger partners.

[22:37] It's like the mattress and I are merging and melting

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[23:32] It's a really solid mattress.

[23:34] And I mean that not in the way of physically

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[24:16] I'm very happy with it.

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[25:42] Now, back to the questions.

[25:45] Question five, this is, Stuart will enjoy this.

[25:48] Uh-oh.

[25:49] What have you been doing for exercise?

[25:51] Who's the strongest Warhammer battler?

[25:52] No, that's a complicated question.

[25:56] It's probably Rabootay Gulamon.

[25:59] Robert Guillaume, okay.

[26:00] I never know, when you're answering Warhammer stuff,

[26:02] I never know if you're just making it up

[26:03] off the top of your head or if it's real stuff.

[26:05] It might be Angron.

[26:08] No, the question is,

[26:09] what have you been doing for exercise?

[26:11] Oh, in my case, unfortunately, very little.

[26:14] Again, like I said, I have very little time to do it.

[26:16] So if there's a day where I can walk around the block twice,

[26:19] that's a solid day.

[26:21] And lately, like I said, my younger son

[26:23] has been making me go on the trampoline with him.

[26:25] That's been better for me,

[26:27] but I really need to get more exercise in.

[26:29] I bought a stationary bicycle.

[26:31] I was using that for a while.

[26:32] Then one of the pedals fell off

[26:33] and I have not been able to reattach it properly.

[26:35] And so that it really got in the way

[26:37] of my using it regularly.

[26:38] So I'm either gonna have to cut off one of my own legs

[26:41] to make it a little easier or find something else to do.

[26:44] Stuart, you seem like a guy who works out.

[26:46] What do you do?

[26:47] Oh yeah, I do sometimes.

[26:51] So for exercise, I obviously stretch

[26:53] for at least 30 minutes every morning and four days a week.

[26:57] 30 minutes of stretching?

[26:59] Yeah.

[27:00] That's a lot of stretching, wow.

[27:02] Okay, I mean, you should be doing that too.

[27:05] And I do, I go to the gym

[27:08] and do weight training four days a week.

[27:10] I do a upper lower split.

[27:13] So two days a week, I'm doing upper push pull,

[27:17] upper body exercises.

[27:18] The other two days I do lower body

[27:21] with some like compound core strengthening stuff.

[27:24] And then I also try up until my recent ankle injury,

[27:28] I was doing 30 minutes a day on the treadmill as well.

[27:31] Which also doubles as a good time for me to watch some TV

[27:35] because we have a treadmill in the bedroom

[27:36] and I can get through my stories while on the treadmill.

[27:41] And you know what went well with treadmill time?

[27:45] Heated rivalry, very propulsive.

[27:50] And I mentioned yoga, I do that twice a week for an hour.

[27:55] But I also just recently bought,

[27:57] I realized I needed some cardio exercise

[28:00] and I bought these ropeless jump rope things.

[28:04] Jump rope's fucking brutal.

[28:06] Well, I'm very easily influenced

[28:10] when it comes to things that might improve my life

[28:12] but would require me to have a lot of self discipline.

[28:15] So we'll see if I keep at it.

[28:17] But I think I read some article

[28:20] about how good jump roping was for you.

[28:22] But I live here in New York,

[28:25] there's not room within my house to jump rope really.

[28:30] Without hitting something.

[28:31] And if I went outside right now,

[28:34] I'd fall down on the ice.

[28:35] So what I got were these ropeless jump ropes

[28:38] that look like basically a Morningstar,

[28:41] like a Nerf Morningstar without spikes on it.

[28:43] It's pretty cool.

[28:44] Like there's one for each hand.

[28:46] Because the ball at the end of the short cord

[28:50] is to give it weight so it will swivel around

[28:52] in your hand like a jump rope.

[28:55] And so you use it like a jump rope

[28:56] but you're not jumping anything.

[28:57] You're sort of just imagining where the rope would be.

[29:01] As it swings around.

[29:03] I guess that makes like double dutch pretty easy.

[29:06] Yeah, I mean, it's all pretty easy.

[29:07] I did not fall over the rope once.

[29:09] You'd be proud of me.

[29:10] I mean, the fact that there's no rope

[29:12] only slightly decreases my being impressed at that.

[29:15] Years ago, I borrowed a jump rope from a friend

[29:18] and I was doing it in my kitchen

[29:21] because I had high ceilings.

[29:22] This was a much different apartment.

[29:24] But it also helped that I was on the ground floor.

[29:26] So I wasn't annoying the shit out of the person below me.

[29:30] Yeah, I specifically was like,

[29:32] okay, where can I do this where I am going to be quiet

[29:35] and I leap with the smallest amount of thumping.

[29:39] But anyway, so question six,

[29:41] what did you do today that made you feel good?

[29:45] I've recorded this podcast with you guys.

[29:47] Fuck you, Stormon, you bitch.

[29:52] In the game of friendship, I just won.

[29:56] Can I, I'm actually, I'm going to cheat slightly

[29:58] because I'm going to do.

[30:00] So on Friday, I had I was having a rough day.

[30:04] I, you know, I twisted my ankle and that kind of made me reevaluate

[30:10] what I was going to be spending my week to my weekend doing.

[30:13] And I had to spend a lot of my time like icing it or seated or keeping it elevated.

[30:20] And I did do my hobby stream, which was nice.

[30:22] But the thing that I had to make a point to,

[30:26] uh, you know, not only take a shower later that day, but also to, you know,

[30:32] like make sure I shave, do a full skincare routine, put on a mud mask,

[30:37] do all the things that are self-care elements that I know, uh, it went, you

[30:42] know, I don't know about you guys, but when I'm feeling down, it's really easy

[30:45] to fall in, like fall into a state of disrepair so that your exterior matches

[30:50] your interior and you're like scruffy and look like shit.

[30:54] And I'm like all that adulthood and I'm like, how can I, if I show myself the

[31:00] same level of care, maybe that will brighten my spirits a little bit.

[31:03] I think it helped a little.

[31:04] I guess that's, I guess I have that.

[31:06] Like, I don't, I don't do it to the same extent for me.

[31:09] It's like, you know, during lockdown, I, I, I showered and I put on actual clothes

[31:15] rather than, uh, you know, wandering around the house in my bed clothes because

[31:20] I knew that would make me feel better.

[31:22] Uh, whereas what made Audrey feel better is like, cool.

[31:26] A chance to wander around my house in my bed clothes all the time.

[31:29] So, you know, everyone in life is different.

[31:32] Uh, what did I do today?

[31:33] I, you know, I feel like between ADHD and having a lot of internal shame, I often

[31:43] feel like if I'm not getting all of the things I could do in a day done, that

[31:49] might be like helpful or like feel like work or chores or, you know, something

[31:55] that's, like, if I don't get to it all, I feel bad about myself for reasons

[32:01] that are entirely self-imposed.

[32:04] So this morning, what I did for myself was I was tired and I'm like, Hey, you

[32:07] know what, like nothing I have to do before taping is particularly important.

[32:12] I don't have to get to it right now.

[32:14] What I feel like is sitting around.

[32:17] So I did that and said, how do you feel about that?

[32:20] Elliot, Dan got to sit around.

[32:22] I mean, I certainly have been, I've been trying to do that more myself, to be

[32:25] honest, like they're my, my go-to feeling in my head, if I have any moment where

[32:29] I'm not actively doing something is to be like, well, what work can I be getting

[32:32] done right now?

[32:33] Yeah.

[32:33] And every now and then I go like, no, maybe I'll just read a couple pages of a

[32:37] book.

[32:37] That'll be good.

[32:38] I mean, I don't do it.

[32:38] Dan does was just literally just sit and stare into space drool falling out of my

[32:42] mouth.

[32:42] I mean, sit around was like, it just kind of a, like a general blanket term for,

[32:48] you're right.

[32:48] I'm sorry.

[32:48] But Dan, it's more like what, what Italian exploitation film can I watch right now?

[32:52] You know?

[32:53] Um, here's a question.

[32:54] What, what's something you could do today that would be good for you?

[32:59] Hmm.

[33:00] Hmm.

[33:00] Stopping these guys.

[33:02] Yeah, I don't know.

[33:03] Stump central.

[33:04] I mean, I'll say, I'll give you a little time and say that, like, I keep thinking

[33:08] like, Oh, I should, uh, get back to one of these books I'm reading.

[33:12] Cause I've taken, you know, I've, I've returned to reading in a big way after

[33:16] like, I think lockdown, uh, kind of screwed my head for a while and I couldn't

[33:22] concentrate on it.

[33:23] And now, uh, I've been tearing through the books and it's making me feel better to

[33:29] have like a single thing to concentrate on rather than being distracted by all the

[33:34] millions of things in life.

[33:36] I actually found that I started reading more when I accepted that I needed reading

[33:41] classes because I was like not enjoying reading cause it hurt or I like had

[33:46] trouble focusing on the words.

[33:48] I'm like, maybe it's just too dark in here or something.

[33:50] And then I realized, Oh no, I, I need reading classes.

[33:54] Um, I feel like in a, what I would like to do is get, do a little bit of shoveling in

[34:01] the backyard of the bar because, uh, it's finally, the snow's finally starting to

[34:07] And, uh, on Friday, uh, somebody had just, the back, the back door of the bar had

[34:13] been kind of like frozen shut.

[34:15] There's like a big block of snow and ice that had kind of formed there.

[34:19] And some guy just kind of shoved the door open, which knocked the closing device

[34:24] loose.

[34:25] And, uh, I feel like it's kind of treacherous back there and it will make me feel

[34:30] better to know that it's less treacherous.

[34:33] A big part of owning a bar is knowing that you have a thing that people are going to

[34:37] be inside and getting drunk in.

[34:39] And that at any one time, somebody could do something, could do the dumbest possible

[34:44] thing.

[34:45] And, uh, you would have to worry about it.

[34:47] And that's a, so there's always this like low level stress simmering.

[34:52] I think I should take a walk today.

[34:55] Yeah, do it.

[34:56] Yeah, let's do it.

[34:57] We'll see if I get to it.

[34:59] You know, give it a shot.

[35:00] And I'm walking in Memphis.

[35:02] No, no, no.

[35:03] He lives in L.A.

[35:04] Yeah, yeah.

[35:05] But I could walk in Memphis if I needed to.

[35:06] You're saying I can't.

[35:07] Yeah, but I'm not good enough to do whatever you dream of.

[35:10] You should get one of those VR headsets so you can go walk in and man.

[35:18] Why did you create this realistic VR?

[35:21] What was your impetus?

[35:25] I really want to go walking in Memphis.

[35:27] I believe Stewart, could you say it the right way?

[35:29] And I'm walking in Memphis.

[35:33] What's something you're looking forward to in the next few days?

[35:38] You guys got to have something.

[35:39] Come on.

[35:40] Yeah, I do.

[35:41] Looking forward to in the next few days.

[35:42] You guys are making me sad.

[35:43] No, no, no.

[35:43] I got this.

[35:44] What's going on in life?

[35:46] On Thursday night, I think I'm going to a screening of American Cyborg Steel

[35:49] Warrior at the ridiculous.

[35:52] You got a ticket?

[35:53] I haven't gotten a ticket, but there were plenty of tickets left.

[35:55] Okay, cool.

[35:56] Because like that was actually one of the two things I was going to mention that

[35:59] there's a new ridiculous sublime, the series that we've talked about a lot

[36:03] here that happens at Nighthawk.

[36:06] And yeah, it's always a good time doing that on Thursday, going out to dinner

[36:11] with Audrey on Wednesday.

[36:14] That's what I got on the calendar that I'm going to go on next weekend.

[36:18] I'm going out with my wife to the theater and to dinner, so legitimate

[36:23] theater, not to a movie.

[36:25] Oh, wow.

[36:26] To a play.

[36:27] Not the burlicue?

[36:29] Burlesque.

[36:30] Not the what?

[36:30] Oh, yeah.

[36:31] No, we're going to the burly.

[36:32] Yeah, yeah, no.

[36:33] We did have a burlesque.

[36:35] We had a burlesque show at our bar Minnie's a couple of weeks ago to celebrate

[36:39] the end of Wet January, which was a promotion we did where we encouraged

[36:44] people to drink and they would get these little punch cards and they would get

[36:49] stickers every time they attended somebody's shift and spent a minimum

[36:53] amount of money, kind of like like the old book it event, where if you got

[36:59] enough stickers, you'd get like a personal pan pizza if you read enough

[37:01] books.

[37:01] Well, instead of reading books, you're getting drunk.

[37:04] And the winner.

[37:05] This sounds dangerous.

[37:07] Just as good for you, right?

[37:08] Yeah.

[37:09] And yeah, we we we auctioned off a we raffled off a Nintendo Switch two.

[37:17] It's pretty exciting.

[37:18] But to go along with the party, we were playing Guitar Hero at the bar while

[37:22] the Last Chance Dancers burlesque troupe would do burlesque dance and kind of

[37:27] mess with you trying to play Guitar Hero, which is pretty fun.

[37:31] It sounds fun.

[37:34] Number nine.

[37:36] That's something we could do together this week, even if we're apart.

[37:42] Well, Dan, you and I have been meaning to talk on the telephone.

[37:45] So let me do.

[37:45] Also, Dan, as mentioned, you sent me a script to read.

[37:50] So I'll read that and I'll give you notes on it.

[37:52] It'll be like we're together, you know, feel like we're together.

[37:55] And I'm telling you, you know, I won't like them initially, but I will resist my

[38:01] knee jerk defensive reaction because I'm aware of it and I will wait a while and

[38:08] I'll come around to the like, oh, these notes make sense.

[38:11] Well, hopefully you'll look at the note behind the note because there's because

[38:14] often in the past and I'm saying this not only in the in the in the tone of gentle

[38:18] ribbing, not as a grievance.

[38:20] There have been times in the past where you've sent me something and I give you

[38:22] notes and you're like, well, here's why I didn't do it that way.

[38:24] And I'm like, OK, cool.

[38:28] But but that'll feel like we're working together, which will be really nice.

[38:31] You know, like back in the old days.

[38:33] Exactly.

[38:34] When you were in the old country.

[38:35] Yeah.

[38:36] We never had the same office where you guys would share you in the same office

[38:41] or whatever.

[38:42] Worked in the same office building on the same project.

[38:45] And I was your supervisor.

[38:47] Boy, would you give me trouble?

[38:48] Oh, boy.

[38:49] Before that, you know, I say, find a way to take things to the office.

[38:53] It's not true.

[38:54] No, no. He was just he was known as a real hellraiser around the office.

[38:57] Oh, yeah.

[38:59] And then he would and then he would he would show people the thin line between

[39:02] pleasure and pain.

[39:04] And I stuck pins in my head.

[39:08] First step, first step for that.

[39:12] That's that's really the first step barrier that keeps a lot of people from

[39:15] becoming hellraisers is when they find out about the sticking the pins in your

[39:18] head. Yeah.

[39:19] Yeah. Any chance I could swap out the pins for CDs?

[39:23] No. One guy did that.

[39:24] It was OK.

[39:25] There will certainly be a podcast maintenance work I will need to do during

[39:30] the week. That'll be sort of like being with you guys might involve some

[39:34] texting. I might text you a picture that baffles you.

[39:40] That baffles me where I'm like, what is this?

[39:41] I don't really throw me for a loop.

[39:43] I feel like light is unfair.

[39:46] Yeah, I think I think this is a prophecy that's almost necessarily bound to

[39:50] come, especially since I'm in control of it.

[39:52] Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

[39:54] This is just continuing that hellraiser talk.

[39:55] Has there ever been an online quiz called Which Cenobite are you?

[39:58] We can find out if you're.

[40:00] I don't know, you Google it.

[40:02] I'm Lady Cenobite.

[40:03] Yeah.

[40:04] Um, Stuart, I'm just giving you space in case you have an answer.

[40:08] Oh, in case I came up with something I could do with my boys.

[40:11] Shh.

[40:12] I don't know, it's tough.

[40:13] Cenobite.

[40:14] I feel like a lot of our hangouts have been texting about movies or me saying how much

[40:21] Saturday Night Live sucks and Dan being like, I think it sucks too.

[40:25] And now it's like, what's Saturday Night Live?

[40:27] Here's a Buzzfeed quiz.

[40:29] Yeah, I'm not even aware that exists.

[40:31] Oh, there is one?

[40:32] What's that about you?

[40:33] All right.

[40:34] Which one are you, Dan?

[40:35] Well, I have to take the quiz.

[40:36] I haven't taken the quiz yet.

[40:37] It'll take a while.

[40:38] The funny thing is none of the questions are even pleasure or pain related.

[40:41] It's all like ice cream and other things.

[40:45] Yeah.

[40:46] Uh, no, he's taking it.

[40:47] He's taking it fast.

[40:48] Yeah.

[40:49] Yeah.

[40:50] He's hammering it.

[40:51] You know, like the faster you do it, you know, the more it's like, yeah.

[40:54] Yeah.

[40:55] The more accurate.

[40:56] The more true, more.

[40:57] Yeah, certainly.

[40:58] You're not trying to game the system.

[40:59] You're just going with what you're.

[41:01] You can't overthink it.

[41:02] You know, you can't overthink it.

[41:03] Oh, if I answer this, is it going to make me seem like more of a more of a.

[41:06] A butterball.

[41:07] Yeah.

[41:08] Or a butterball.

[41:09] Or yeah.

[41:10] Or that doctor from part two.

[41:11] I got a butterball.

[41:12] Well, you know.

[41:13] Actually.

[41:14] Yeah.

[41:15] I mean, that's.

[41:16] It says you are gluttonous, not for simple pleasures such as food or drink, but for

[41:22] pain and punishment.

[41:23] There are no limits to the amount of suffering you can endure or inflict.

[41:26] Yeah.

[41:28] Yeah.

[41:29] OK.

[41:30] And finally, the final question in my check in many.

[41:31] What are you grateful for right now?

[41:32] Many.

[41:33] Yeah.

[41:34] Your chicken.

[41:35] Many.

[41:36] Yeah.

[41:37] Chicken minis are just nuggets.

[41:38] Yeah.

[41:39] What am I grateful for right now?

[41:40] Yeah.

[41:41] I've got a lot to be grateful for.

[41:42] I have a wonderful family.

[41:43] I love them very much.

[41:44] I am grateful that I have a I have work that allows me to support them.

[41:45] I'm grateful that that work is doing the work for me.

[41:46] I'm grateful.

[41:56] I'm grateful that that work is doing the kind of craft that I want to be doing, which is

[41:59] writing and especially joke writing.

[42:02] I'm grateful that as terrible as modern times are, that I, by virtue of so many different

[42:11] advantages that I have from before my birth to now and the just the random choices and

[42:16] ways that life can go, that I live in a in a space that has a certain protective shell

[42:22] around it where I am not receiving the worst of the things that are happening in the world

[42:27] right now.

[42:28] Although that makes me feel guilty for not for being unaffected in a real physical reality

[42:35] sense and only an emotional sense by those things.

[42:37] But I'm quite a lot to be grateful for.

[42:40] All the time I think to myself, I don't have to take it for granted that I will go to sleep

[42:43] under a roof tonight.

[42:45] I don't have to take it for granted that when I'm hungry, I can eat something that my children

[42:48] will be, you know, as healthy as modern science can make them.

[42:52] You know, so I have a lot to be grateful for, especially compared to so many others and

[42:57] to my ancestors who could not take those things necessarily for granted so much of the time.

[43:01] So I have a lot to be grateful for pretty much everything, you know.

[43:04] Well, Elliot Witt, like crazy macro vision on that crazy big picture.

[43:09] I'm going to go simpler while there's many big picture things, obviously, that I'm grateful

[43:15] for.

[43:16] I think immediately I'm grateful for comfortable sweatshirts and soup and a nice piece of bread.

[43:25] So except for the sweatshirts, you would be pretty happy being living in like 17th century

[43:28] France.

[43:29] Yeah, man, that's such a I apologize, it's like an old man.

[43:35] Yeah.

[43:36] Yeah, it's fine.

[43:37] Yeah.

[43:38] I'm turning 46 this month, guys.

[43:40] That's an old man.

[43:41] Answer time.

[43:42] Yeah.

[43:43] I mean, I guess I'll go wide to like, you know, like for all.

[43:47] Any of these things could change at any moment because that's the uncertain world we live

[43:51] in.

[43:52] I have a roof over my head.

[43:54] I do not want for the basics of survival.

[43:59] I have a loving wife and two affectionate cats.

[44:03] And I get to work with my friends who mostly don't get mad at me.

[44:09] And when they do have an incentive to make up with me, that's true.

[44:14] Financial incentive for making up with you.

[44:16] Yeah, no, but that's the I've been had a number of different occasions recently to be reached

[44:23] out to by people who who feel that this podcast in particular does something for them that

[44:30] they need, you know, makes it makes a difference in their existence and just in making it even

[44:35] if it's just making it a little more bearable.

[44:37] And I feel very grateful that this thing that we do that is dumb and is fun to do, that

[44:42] it is at least slightly helpful for other people as well.

[44:46] You know, so I think that's that's a thing to be grateful to.

[44:48] We could easily be doing this in a way that is hurtful to other people or in a way that

[44:51] nobody gives a shit.

[44:52] Several other podcasts.

[44:53] Wow.

[44:54] Many, many other podcasts.

[44:55] Yeah.

[44:56] So that's a thing, too.

[44:57] I'm grateful that we've been we've been doing this for a long time.

[45:00] I mentioned to someone recently, like, oh, yeah, you do a podcast, right?

[45:02] I'm like, yeah, yeah.

[45:03] We've been doing it for about 18 years now.

[45:04] And they went, what?

[45:05] They flipped out of the frame.

[45:07] Yeah, exactly.

[45:08] All I saw was the soles of their feet.

[45:10] Yeah.

[45:12] Well, that's the end of this mini, guys.

[45:14] Thank you for taking this trip.

[45:16] I thought it was going to be real dumb and a real waste of my time.

[45:19] It turned out to be really affirming and really wonderful.

[45:22] So thank you for doing it.

[45:23] Thank you for doing it.

[45:24] Great.

[45:25] No, I'm just kidding.

[45:26] I did not think that.

[45:27] Hey, it's a mini, so let's keep the end of the show mini-sized as well.

[45:32] Thank you to our network, Maximum Fun.

[45:34] Go to MaximumFun.org for other shows.

[45:36] Thank you to our producer, Alex Smith.

[45:39] He goes by the name HowlDotty for his own creative enterprises.

[45:43] Look him up.

[45:44] I have been Dan McCoy.

[45:46] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[45:48] And I'm grateful to be Elliot Kalin.

[45:51] Or am I?

[45:52] Yeah, I guess so.

[45:53] Yeah.

[45:54] Maximum Fun.

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FH Mini 147 - Mental Health Day

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