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Irrational Irritability
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Matt and Lance restart the same podcast under a new name. Matt shows up to record the show in an actual state of irritiability and Lance is forced to confront him. It's a weird and maybe useless conversation. This inaugural episode is true to the name of the show.
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Personal Irritability Struggles
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Matt, I'm a POS because I have a short fuse about life circumstances that happen every day. Lance, I'm a piece of shit.
00:00:13
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I'll just fucking say it. ah Let's do both. Lance, I'm a POS because I am more and more consumed by irrational irritability. Letting things that I can't change frustrate me and ruin my demeanor every day. Wow, Matt. Way to jumpstart the new podcast with your POS statement. Lance, I'm a piece of shit. You know why? I'm a piece of shit because I am more and more consumed by irrational irritability, letting things that I can't change, that were always there and will always be there affect me and ruin my demeanor every fucking day.
00:01:05
Speaker
old school friends from nine to four. Start a podcast, could they feel it more? 29 listeners just ain't enough. Gonna go big if they
00:01:54
Speaker
Oh, I like it. Well done.
Everyday Annoyances and Gym Irritants
00:01:56
Speaker
Today, dude, we're going to talk about just that, right? Hence the intro that those day to day annoyances that we know are going to happen, they happen all the time and we cannot get over it. And there's something about our age that's going on. There's something about maybe our life circumstances that we'll explore. But before we get into all that, I just want to make some distinctions here because we're not talking about like annoyances.
00:02:21
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that mess with your life occasionally, but we're talking about day-to-day stuff that we know is gonna happen, that we expect to happen, that we still can't get over. So, annoyances are the guy with his junk hanging out, wants to have a conversation in the locker room, because I'm a, dude, I'm a towel, snug and tight guy. The guy that wants to sling it around and talk to me about the Broncos, he is ah he's he's annoying. I avoid that guy.
00:02:50
Speaker
Are you a slide the undies on under the towel guy? Most of the time or. Yeah, me too. Turn around and face the ah the locker and. Yeah, yeah, at least for me. Yeah. But sometimes <unk> you're kind of wet from the shower. And depending upon what kind of underwear you wear, it of gets stuck on the thighs. And so panic is pure panic. You just want to kind of bend down.
00:03:17
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and keep your junk away from others. so That's an annoyance, you're saying. That doesn't make you irritated. It's just like, oh, come on, dude. Yeah, that that guy that's super confident, he he's not changing my life. So we're not talking about things like that. Another thing that is super annoying to me is performers, you know guitar players that have that harmonica neck apparatus.
00:03:42
Speaker
Oh, you're folksy, aren't you? You're folksy. It's just a judgment that comes quickly of of like, um, why. You see that a lot these days. That seems like a, like a, I don't know, like a Tom Petty Dylan like type of. Yeah, it's from a bygone era and and it worked then it was okay then because it wasn't this, it wasn't the technology that we have today. But like, if I see that now, I'm sort of like, come on, bro.
00:04:08
Speaker
What's the, like what besides just trying to look cool, what's the deal is you can keep your hands free, I guess, so you can still play the guitar at the same time? Yeah, so you can strum and then blow blow the harmonica. But then when you go to sing, well let's say you have an intent song or a deep song, that thing around your neck just kind of ruins the vibe, as far as I'm concerned. So it's annoying, but it's not affecting my day-to-day life. Not like some of the things we'll talk about. Right.
00:04:34
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I guess the the things that are annoying, it's more like me judging other people. Like in a way, you're kind of judging the guy who's changing and wants to have a conversation with no underwear on. Like jim jim ah gym habits. I mean, I hate that. I left any sort of like weightlifting for years. I just don't like that scene. Like every every little thing bothers me.
00:04:57
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is I know I'm being somewhat irrational because it can't be like both sides of like old people in the gym bother me because you're like, dude, are you, you fucking taking a nap between sets? Like what you've been on the machine for 45 minutes, dude, like I'm good that you're here. You're 86. And i'm I'm glad you're getting your butterfly, butterfly reps in, but like, come on, dude. But then the meathead guy bothers me with the with the jug of water and talking about people's form and that.
00:05:26
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and the grunting and like, I can't take that guy either. What really bothers me is happened yesterday. Like middle-aged lady older than us was wearing the the weightlifting gloves. that that's like and I put that up there with fanny packs, this unattracted looks. It's like, ah what are you, fucking Lou Ferrigno, lady? Well, what if she's a massage therapist, bro? And she got to keep from getting calluses. Callus hand job is okay, ladies.
00:05:51
Speaker
So take the gloves off. Yeah. A little cuts. Yeah. You're not going to get your opportunity to get in the hand job because people are going to be like, you're unattractive wearing those weightlifting gloves. True. True. True. Man, you're a brilliant thinker, man.
Exploring Irritable Male Syndrome (IMS)
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Uh, I'm with you though. That environment altogether is just the worst. It's, I can't even think of something to compare it to, but it, it, it's just a very annoying, uh, overstimulating type of environment. The clanging of the weights.
00:06:20
Speaker
Yeah, a guy talking protein, dude. Dude, I had a, I don't know if this is a keeper, but we we reconnected with our friend Paul, the guy I went to college with, but I had another roommate, I don't know if you remember, his name was Chris, I won't say his last name, Jacked, like beyond belief, like he was doing everything, roids. He was doing like ketosis where he'd sent put his body into like a fat burning stage by eliminating carbs like a week at a time, make him fucking crazy. But the one day, I think we both had like some tuna or some shit, like cans of tuna.
00:06:50
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And I was like, Hey, look, but my tuna has more protein than yours. It's kind of busting his balls. But, but he was like, Matt, I like you. So I'm not going to fight with you right now. Like.
00:07:01
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He fucking went crazy. Really? He looked like the Incredible Hulk like where he just was like got this weird look in his eye like I'm about to bust this dude's ass Yeah, because of roid rage. I don't know bar. He takes his protein intake seriously You don't mess with it But it was like the ultimate meathead thing like he was literally fighting over something related to protein I was like, this is the pinnacle um So that was his irritant though someone criticizing his his tuna I was waiting for you to bring it back. It's funny, oh we're eight minutes in and everything you coached me up on is already out the window. Yeah, your tangent already, bro.
00:07:41
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Okay, did we distinguish between annoyances and day-to-day irritability? I don't think we quite did, because the gym could be a super irritating thing that you partake in on a frequent basis, so who knows? It doesn't really matter. Yeah, like ah I was watching, seeing a girl with a fanny pack on doesn't, it's not gonna ruin my life, but it's- No. It is birth control, as far as being able to get an erection anywhere close to a woman with a fanny pack on, right? Impossible.
00:08:08
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Yeah, back to rational irritability. Matt, what is it? What are we talking about specifically? I mean, in my case, it's like, I feel like i I'm, I'm getting like, I just, I guess it's like crankiness, but it, but it's coming through things you can't really control. Uh, and so you, you have this idea that maybe, maybe it's going to be different today, but it's not going to be different because because it's not going to change. And so you're letting these like uncontrollable things get under your skin.
00:08:38
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And I don't know if it's worse, you know, if you if you do a search and you start to research irritability and like male irritability, you find the same triggers of all the other health concerns, depression, diet, sleep, right? All that stress, life stress, all that kind of stuff leads to irritability. But it's like- Are you depressed? Do you feel depressed? um I don't know. I guess if you can't say no, then it's a yes, right? You can't say no, it's a yes.
00:09:07
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Have you heard of IMS? You know what IMS is? No. Irritable Male Syndrome. A curse between men ages 40 to 60. It's linked with low testosterone. Symptoms include anger, impatience, tension, depression, irritability. Yeah, dude. Maybe you got IMS. What do you do? What do I do?
00:09:31
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There's some controversy here because there are a ton of like clinics cropping up to get people to take to so testosterone. It's like become this insane thing. I would imagine like it's on the, it's big pommel radio advertisements and shit like that. Oh yeah. Joe Rogan, those types, all the people that want to stay jacked or want to like be very hyper masculine. So all these clinics have cropped up and Some doctors are like, dude, it's not low T. It's just the fact that you're aging. You've had some physical health deteriorations. So, you know, maybe you're more upset about your gut, Matt, that big gut you have, or maybe that you can't jump anymore. Just things like that as you age, you deteriorate. So maybe it's not low testosterone for you.
Irritability and Mental Health
00:10:18
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So what do you think? Do you have IMS or are you just falling apart?
00:10:22
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There's a little bit of like losing faith in humanity maybe that I need to get over. It doesn't really serve me. So so it's like you if you get to that state, you're kind of looking to be disappointed. So you're always gonna be disappointed if you wanna be. So that might be some sort of depression, might be like the realities of our current society that bother me a lot. And that feeds into stuff.
00:10:49
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But I think, I don't know, I might be depressed, but is there a term for like, you're you're you're essentially the the therapist, psychologist on the show. Is there a term for like situational depression or maybe even warranted depression, which might lead to a rational irritability, right? Because you're state of mind. Like, okay, I mean, just the simple thing, your dog dies, you're depressed for a week. that I'm referring to like stuff like that. Okay, that's probably a time where you're going to be depressed, right? But is that the word depressed?
00:11:20
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Well, I would imagine they just put something like episodic in front of it. Episodic, I don't know. I have no idea, but that makes sense to me. Yeah. So maybe you have that, you're just pissed off about ah your gut. Well, do you feel more irritable? Like I do your life or no? I do. I do. I don't know why. press No, I don't feel depressed. I guess I feel more lost at times. And so it, I lash out against, uh,
00:11:50
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that shit Dude, that's well said. I feel more like that than depressed. You know, you talk to me all the time. few There's only a few people that talk to me a lot. I wonder if they would see me as depressed, lost, or or none of the above. Maybe I'm masking it. I don't know.
00:12:06
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Yeah, but it's an age thing too, where you're trying to figure a lot of things out right now. yeah You're coming to terms with like this idea of career, maybe isn't as prominent as it once was, or the things that you clamored for early on that made sense, like getting your house dialed in and making it nice. None of that feels useful and good anymore. I don't know all the causes, dude, but I definitely know the things that I constantly am irritable about.
Transportation and Traffic Frustrations
00:12:33
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And they're pretty fucking funny.
00:12:35
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Only because I'm such a POS about him. Yeah. And some of these things, like if we start going through a list of of things, transportation related irritability, like traffic stuff or, or people being in your private space. I don't know if those things go away. If I've, if I, if I feel less lost, I don't know if I'm all of a sudden like super happy about those things, you know, like maybe.
00:13:00
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But maybe I'm like, you know what, it is, you know, I might get to appointments like it is what it is. So don't worry about it. Well, yeah, I don't think you ever be happy about being stuck in traffic and shit, but you probably can stomach it if you're feeling good about your life. So i've a I've changed my whole life around to like commute without a car as much as possible, as you know. I got scooters, I got an e-bike. I mean, I look like a little bitch out there, but- And a vagina. Yep, I got it. I got it. It's triangular. It's got a big hole. Sorry, female listeners.
00:13:34
Speaker
Yeah. steve I've mentioned before in the show, the vagina is actually much stronger and more fortified than what we're working with. So I apologize. You've got an extra set of sensitive testicles, I should say, Lance, with your e-bike. Yeah, I do. ah But I found myself in these journeys, which are much more fulfilling, I think, than driving a car, caught up in the same kind of irritable behavior. And if you've been on a bike path, you know there's some things that are going to happen all the time.
00:14:04
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You're gonna run into some dog walkers. You're gonna run into the hyper, the guy that's on his bike that his training regimen is more important than the entire world. And so he will pass you no matter how dangerous the curve up ahead. So you're gonna run into these things all the time. And like, I know that and I'm ready for him. And I'm doing something that I said is gonna make me feel better. And yet the dog leash lady with her fucking belt dog leash has the dog running 20 feet from her.
00:14:33
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all around a busy bike path, I can't deal with that B. I cannot deal with her. I'm not even going to, I'm not going to ring my bell. I'm going to just roll up on her aggressive. It's sad. It's sad. So maybe that's being lost. Maybe that's just getting old and angry. Maybe it's because my knee hurts. I don't really know, but I know those things are going to happen and I still stuck. Does this happen internally or do you confront the either Okay, Tour de France guy in a city park, take it easy or dog leash lady who's fucking dogs running back and forth and like, do you go, hey, take it easy with the dog? It was only when engaged do you do you fire this irritability of people.
00:15:15
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ah It's an internal irritability and in the most ridiculous part about it is ah when it's preemptive. So I'm sitting there going, oh shit, this motherfucker, this, oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Yep. Uh-huh. Have you ever had that?
00:15:33
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snap back at you where the person like the person was that you assume the behavior than the person was actually like going to help you or something like I just want you to know you have a flat tire or they're super nice. Yeah, yeah, or something like that. Yeah. And then you feel like a total ass. What's this motherfucker? Why is he honking? Oh, my back doors open my dogs and ran out of the car.
00:15:53
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exactly yeah Exactly. So it's the preemptive. ah Sort of stereotyping them before they even do the act. Right. You're bracing for conflict when you don't need to. And in fact, these are things you've encountered many times. And you're in an environment you put yourself in that makes you feel better than the alternative for me, which is driving a car. So I don't know what it is, dude. It could be IMS. i Maybe I'm low T.
00:16:19
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking that like, because that kind of points back to maybe it is a physical thing. But the I think the more the question is like, do you need to fix it? If low T is part of life, do you need to fix it? Like, I think that I've done a ah lot of work trying to do all the things that people recommend some of the books you've recommended where it's really like intense exercise or get out in nature or stay away from your phone.
00:16:43
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All these things I do regularly, but I'm still susceptible to like just general crankiness with with society's flaws. And I'm like, well- Like what? you Like an example, like- What flaw? Well, transportation in so many different formats can cause you to just really lose faith in humanity, but but also it's something that's there every fucking day. Every day there's a traffic jam in every city in the world, including the one I live in.
00:17:13
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the goat to drop my kids off at their school and to pick them up is a clusterfuck and my daughter's been there for eight years. And it's never changing. But every day I roll in at like 2 to 05 because I got to be there around but like to get my son user on to 10 to 15.
00:17:28
Speaker
And I roll in there with all the hope in the world that I'm just going to roll through. and and And then as it happens, all the same thoughts come back to my head. I started because my kids are in a ah French immersion school. So you have these two cultures that come together that generally are like Costa Ricans and French love putting endless process in place that doesn't help or make a situation more efficient. It's a known fact.
00:17:51
Speaker
and But then I start thinking all this shit, here we go again, worst plan ever. I look at the security guard who's controlling who's going through and I start to criticize that for like what kind of decisions that person making. Every day in about 207, a fucking dump truck or some sort of semi rolls through the area that can't fit through, so it just stops all progress. And I'm like, oh, who's got to come through here? Who's got to like, I'm literally like, this guy should be calculating when they when some unrelated school to his life is letting kids out, he should be like, I'm not going to go through that that public road. I love to see you suffer though. That's great. Keep going, keep going. And then there's, and then I start to criticize the parents who like, there's a, there's kind of a loop that you can go around and just quickly drop your kids off or pick them up. But there's always parents that.
00:18:39
Speaker
You can park your car and then go do the fucking make out with your kids and hug them and act like they're going off to fucking Normandy to to like to war. Or you can just do the loop and throw them out of the car like you're fucking throwing a bowling ball. Get the fuck out of the car and see you later. If you're gonna get out of your car and hug them. In the loop, in the drop off. No getting out of the loop. You stay in your car, your kid ushers themselves out. Period. But people can't do it, dude.
00:19:09
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That happened up there because I've really pinned that on culture and culture like, like, in a really bad way. Like, I don't think it says as Mario with these kids and and any sort of affection shown to kids. i it irritates me Kids and old people, any affection, I'm like, Oh, here we go again.
00:19:27
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but uh but okay we both agree that that act is kind of it's kind of selfish in a way yeah yeah yeah it's very selfish not the dump truck guy i'm putting all this in the selfish like dump truck guy doesn't give a fuck about our schedule dump truck guy doesn't need to right his job is to get the dirt to a construction site or some matter whatever is he's doing and using the public road, that that's not mine. But that is an act of selfishness, where you're like, oh I'll just put my car here, throw the hazards on, and I lose this day in Valencia, and just act like I can do whatever the fuck I want, and everybody else's time is is not my problem. But all these things together, theyre they're gonna happen every day until my kid leaves the school.
00:20:09
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and so it's still irritating me day to day. But you're justified in the irritation, right? To some degree, but- I don't know. ah Should you be constantly doing this to yourself? Well, we kind of, we picked it apart and and we could and we could identify that the process is bad and some people are taking advantage of the process and that might be just file justifiable. But one, does it really affect me? Like it's an extra 45 seconds to watch these people hug their kids.
00:20:34
Speaker
and and whatever. but And the other thing is like the other stuff, the traffic jams and and the poor infrastructure related to it. First of all, if I don't like poor infrastructure, I should get out of the country because it's not going to change. to Third world. Probably every school has a little bit of this rush hour aspect where it sucks in the world and that's just in Costa Rica. and like But either way, it's not going to change and like it shouldn't it shouldn't ruin me for like two hours.
School Routines and Parental Stress
00:21:00
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But those are things where like even this even them a second of energy wasted on it it seems like what I would call a rational irritability where I'm just like irritated for a while. It serves no purpose. Because you're not you're not spinning about the guy grunting in the gym. You're you're kind of just like, oh, god, idiot. And then you move out. It might even be funny. you know Maybe it's because this one has pressure to it. you know It's got pressure, you gotta pick the kids up, you gotta drop them off, there's some actual time pressure. Maybe it has nothing to do with your IMS or your big gut, but it's more just the circumstance. like Yeah, i'm like I'm thinking the whole time, man, I haven't seen my penis in months. Wish I could get rid of my gut. Wow, I'm dropping my kids off at school.
00:21:44
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No, it's a very relatable, I think scenario for anybody that's been a parent. Back to my e-bike because it's really relatable or back to biking. I would love if you told me you were dropping your 16 year old off at school on your e-bike.
00:21:58
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just to like build his character. So all his friends were like, what what the fuck are you doing? Well, a guy i kind of idolized, ah his name is Mr. Money Mustache. He is a big financial independence guy, but he was doing that with this kid when he was younger, taking him on his bike, looking like a total dick. Writing about it too, talking about how he's passing all of these giant SUVs. Where was this? This isn't in US, I assume. Yeah, this is in Colorado. Yeah. Okay. Well, at least Colorado wasn't doing it in like,
00:22:27
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this kid was going to ronda santos is a elementary school or so he's like in some hotbed right oh right right fuck up yeah he's really i mean there'd be no sidewalks although colorado does have its places but yeah it does uh yeah so anyway i ride my bike a lot as i've explained to people but uh i just want to ask since you brought you want to interrupt yeah yeah you had yeah go ahead bro it's cool hes he was writing about it like it almost sounds like he's he was doing it in a way to like encourage the irritability Like to get people to be like, what a fucking loser. Like, do you feel that way a little bit? Like you're trying to wear that weight a little bit of ah up everyone going, look at that tool. And you're like, you kind of like that in a way. I mean, I i i am, I don't know that it's to stir up other people, but I definitely am carrying in my mind a sense of like me versus them. Right. Because there are some places when you're riding a bike where you're just like, it this doesn't make sense.
00:23:23
Speaker
You're crossing major streets and you're doing stuff like that. It's like, ah, this isn't cool. This probably isn't safe. This is annoying other people. I'm definitely thinking other people hate me. And again, I'll just say like, this is a thing that I've done because it gives me more joy than driving a car, but I'm still convinced things are working against me. Like the wind, especially the wind. This is the most fucking stupid thing I do, which is I believe that the wind is a headwind no matter which direction I'm going.
00:23:51
Speaker
to the extent that I actually researched it. Can wind change in 20-minute increments? and In fact, I guess it can. It can blow from all sorts of different directions. But I am convinced that if I'm heading out one way, southwest, and coming back the other, northeast, the headwind, is it's like it's following me in a way that just makes me want to suffer. Carl, that was a windy place, too. Sometimes, yeah.
00:24:15
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Well, it comes back to like- Wow. That's all you got for me? No, no, I just was. That's all you got? No empathy? It's cause- Fucking Colorado's windy. It's like the year you're like, I can't believe it's windy.
00:24:28
Speaker
in a place that it's always windy, right? It's like, that's sort of- But why is it blowing directly at me? Why is it in impeding my momentum is the problem. It's always impeding my momentum. It's not, but I think it is. That's irrational. I think it almost every time I go out. To respect the question, why are you riding a bike? Why don't you just be a pussy and get in the car?
00:24:50
Speaker
I got the same thing, like, ah Costa Rica's just all hills, and i and I'm like, when i I used to run, I used to be like, how is it that I always have to go uphill to get back to my house? Like, there's gotta be, at some point, it's gotta be downhill. Otherwise, I would end up on the moon if it was all uphill. It's like, I would always be like, AFG, dude, or AGF, always getting fucked. Like, I always gotta go uphill. It's the same with the wind. Why is the wind always in my face?
00:25:18
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That probably is like ah unjustifiable. is this a guy Is this a guy thing? I don't know. I mean, I do know women that are kind of like, it's okay. Well, cause my wife, like I'm flabbergasted that there's traffic on I-70 whenever I go into the mountains and she's just like, what do you expect? Yeah. And I'm more like, whoa.
00:25:40
Speaker
And I imagine a lot of other guys that are driving up the hill at the same time are are feeling that way and the women are all ah simultaneous like, what do you expect? That's the way it is.
00:25:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's a big topic there, though, like I-70 traffic, but it's always, I get into this, really? At this time, there's still traffic? Like, I can't accept it if it's like, I, but the I-70, just you three in the morning, it's traffic, right? It's like, it's not going to change. Well, let's not stick on that because it's boring. But let's go. Here's some recommendations for people with IMS or suspected irritable male syndrome.
00:26:16
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I just wanna get this out, because we wanna endeavor to help some people here. We wanna help people like our friend Paul who are suffering with low testosterone. ah So you wanna talk about what's, ah number one, this is from Blue Moon Senior Counseling, which is a random website that I researched because, you know. I've heard good things about it. Yeah, yeah, me too, me too, buddy. ah You wanna communicate your issues before they escalate, Matt?
00:26:45
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And you want to focus on issues and not the person. So, you know, like I might in the bike path, instead I might say something like bike paths are busy.
Managing Irritability through Communication
00:26:55
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It can be frustrating at times and not, oh, there's a dog leash B with their fucking belt dog leash. And you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not losing my mind on her specifically. So it's on you. That's what I don't like about it. So it's on you. Yeah. Well, and the next person doesn't have to change. No, they don't have to change. Yeah.
00:27:13
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you have to have you have to accept. um Then you can practice mindfulness and our old friend exercise is good. Blue Moon Senior Counseling recommends to talk to a therapist and they actually have a link to their therapist. So how so so if you want to pay money to them, ah which I imagine is why they wrote the article. So interesting stuff. More broadly, I'm wondering, do you think like Americans or humans are more angry now?
00:27:43
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Is there something going on in society? Is there like, it's like too much tech, extra triggers, extra responsibilities. You know, you used to be on a farm, you know, you knew what you're supposed to do every day, which is, you know, grow that food, store that food, have some kids, whatever. It's so much more complex now. Is this why people are more angry? What's going on, Matt?
Digital Age and Public Irritability
00:28:04
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um Well, they definitely people have ways to communicate it now more openly, which is everyone thinks a good thing, but I don't think so.
00:28:12
Speaker
i don't I don't know. i hate to I hate to even answer that because that just gets me off on like the deterioration of society. and and You know what I mean? like I would say yes, but I don't know if anger is the right word. It's just like people are people are generally not becoming better people.
00:28:28
Speaker
Yeah. i like You've heard of improv, the whole concept of yes and. And so when your co-host feeds you a question, right he drops in a question that we've planned. right You've prepared to answer and you go, h I don't know. That's a pretty complex question. I don't think I want to answer that. yeah That's frustrating, Matt. I don't remember planning our people angry and more angry now. Oh, see? See? so So this is what keeps us in the dumps.
00:28:58
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Fucking A, I don't know, dude. I'm irritated right now. I'm a POS, we'll struggle, okay? I need your you on point, bro, on point. Okay, let me ask again, bro. Is America more angry now?
00:29:13
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Dude, I'm trying to, I feel like irritated now, not because of you or the show, but I just feel like today, as an example of where I'm a little crankier, and I'm trying to retrace my steps of why, and and and then,
00:29:28
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layer that into your question of is America more angry? Okay, right hit me. So, ah I don't know. No, you don't want to say it because you're afraid you're gonna out somebody just fucking let it rip. Exactly. This is POS, bro. This is POS. Not Not for being gay, dude, but just, you know, name them on this podcast. I mean, this is going to reach a lot of people. So we want to be careful.
00:29:57
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But yeah, go ahead now. I stayed up too late, first of all. I probably should have slept more last night. Okay, and why did you stay up too late? I don't know. I did have some caffeine a little later than I showed up. Okay. All right. And then, ah i I don't know, I don't think people are, I don't think people are angry enough. I just think people are like more,
00:30:19
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disengaged because they they're so fucking occupied with with digital technology that when they're out in public, they're acting different. And that's causing more irritability because people are just like acting different in public.
00:30:35
Speaker
Oh, wow. that's a That is enlightening. It's going to get worse. Physical interaction is going to get worse. No, I don't. Do you think people are angry? I don't think so. Yeah, I do. You talk it you talk to people about like the 70s and 80s. Everyone thinks that their parents and their dad was the fucking angry, abusive, alcoholic, and like and they didn't even know them.
00:30:54
Speaker
you know like they they're like i know i didn't i don't know anything about my dad uses walk around pissed off all the time and i don't see that behavior is much well i don't know man but i think people are more angry in general and and there's some things we can explore matt to see to prove that i'm right basically.
00:31:11
Speaker
we could We could explore those things example because I planned them in the podcast, right? I planned for it, right? Right, buddy? ah Anyway, i'm I'm busting your balls, Matt. I like, though, your point about you don't think people are angry, you just think that they're different. And I like that. I just i also think it's i can't it's hard for me to answer it because i'm in it's definitely a different There's a different thing going on down here than the US. Well, let's drop the combo for a second. Let's get into it. What's going on with you? You stayed up too late. You don't want to do POS. maybe Maybe POS has some obligation to it that you're a little aggravated by. I'm definitely prodding you, basically calling you calling you out for being unprepared. i'm not I have the show notes here. I got them at two places. But what's ah what's ah getting at you, man?
00:32:03
Speaker
um Excessive hot sauce branding Lance that's what's by it's like take it easy everybody when you fucking 45 chili peppers on the label Hell if you eat this you will literally go to hell. Okay, that's what's bothering me. right It's like enough with the hot sauce, dude.
00:32:23
Speaker
That's, just that's, that feels honest. Okay. Feels honest. there There's no, ah no honesty. That should be an interview. I mean, this feels like an intervention. I mean, you somebody share, if somebody shares something with me on, from Instagram, I i get highly irritated and start to be like, fucking God, society's crumbling.
00:32:47
Speaker
Honestly, God. Really? And that happened last night? I'm trying to get to the bottom of why you're grumpy today, but I don't think you know. So we can gloss over it and move on. But just looking out for you, I'm being a good friend, buddy. I don't know what you want
Parenting Post-Divorce Challenges
00:33:04
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to say. Just say you don't want to say. I think it's your ex. I don't want to say. I think it's your ex. I don't know, though. No? Yeah, maybe.
00:33:14
Speaker
Um, there's, there's, I'll say there's a little bit of like, um, the constant, it's never going to end like the planning of our new life with kids. Uh, there could be sources of irritability. I can't, I can't say here on October 9th, there was.
00:33:31
Speaker
Things have been going pretty well as far as the planning and making sure we're both super super involved in our kids' lives and just the the planning of it. I'm sure anyone who's like separate or divorced with kids probably can relate to this where you're just constantly like planning drop-offs and who's going where and all this stuff. It's the same as like in a relationship where you're together, you still got that, right? Just doing this or that. But every little part of it has the potential to be like an an offensive move, so to speak.
00:34:01
Speaker
Or, you know, I'll be like, well, maybe I should take the kids on their next vacation because you've done some stuff with them. Right. And so I was like, is that an attack? Competition. Yeah. It's like, whoa. And you immediately are like, well, you fucking did this. So maybe that was a little bit of that lately. And like I said, it's not even like anything bad happened. It's just, I'm just like, ah, this is the way it's going to be. Everything is going to be like,
00:34:26
Speaker
every kid vacation might be like, well, I want to take them somewhere. I want to take them somewhere. and then You got to work it out. You got to be like ah an adult about it. Yeah, you got to be like kind of giving. I feel you and and like So stuff like that happened probably this morning, probably. There's a weight to all those conversations. And honestly, quite quite honestly, like the tasks associated with kids, they're they're not, not many of them are super fun, right? Get them, buy them this, take them here, get them there, plan this, make sure that this happens. It's an extra layer to everything. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I i understand.
00:35:06
Speaker
and And you're, it always happens, right? For like right before we hit record. Yeah. Yeah. But these are whatever your son wants to play with his friend on the day. He's going to hang out with you. He, they should probably do it at our house. This is nothing, nothing, no sort of attack or anything, you know, good communication, but just that heaviness of it's like, ah, yeah, everything has to be worked out like that. Right. Yeah. So you're, you're feeling that every day. What are you going to do?
00:35:33
Speaker
what What are we going to do in the next vacation? Can I take them somewhere or, but if there's any hint to like, can I take them somewhere because you did this? It triggers some stuff where I'm like, well, if, if, if, for example, like they, they would, they spend my kids spend more time with, with their mom, which is good, but they they just do, but I spend a lot of time with them. But like, if like the stats would be like, they sleep there more, right. And and they're like, that's more of their home, my opinion. Yeah. But, but like.
00:36:04
Speaker
Anything, any sort of thing, it's like, hey, I want to do something with them because you did this with them. My immediate defense reaction is, well, you get to spend more time than fucking live with them. You did this and I don't want to get in that mindset, but that's like an ear. I don't know if that's irrational. Cause I feel like you could say, well, you kind of had your family, like family dichotomy taken away from you, but it's something that just triggers this mood and I'll be in it for the next like 24 hours and then anything else. And then on top of that, somebody sends me an Instagram thing and I'm like, look at our fucking,
00:36:35
Speaker
deteriorating society, somebody sitting at work fucking looking at stupid shit on Instagram. Like, so that triggers all the other shit. And then that triggers the traffic irritates me more. Yeah. And the the lot the thing that like I can't answer your question about are people more angry with a witty fucking funny I used to be a comic answer.
00:36:51
Speaker
Gets me farther in the hole and I spiral down and down Uh, that's relatable though, dude, because you got some circumstances in life that are challenging You got your answer motherfucker. It took a while bro. Do that to pull that shit out like and it lets see edit edit. Yep, like froid There's not an event where I i should be in attack mode. I I don't want to be like well this she did this or he did this Little things like that can irritate you quickly. Maybe if you're already susceptible, maybe if you already have low low T count or you're, whatever, you're tired or you're depressed, those little things
Societal Irritability and Complexity
00:37:25
Speaker
are are worse. And I think that's where I'm at. right This is a long answer, but that's where I feel like I'm at. So I don't know if that's depression, if that's testosterone, if that's too much blood going to my crazy big.
00:37:38
Speaker
Yeah, I got you. You don't have to say it. ah No, it sounds like the life circumstances, like there's a source to people's irritability and anger probably. And what I was going to say is I don't know that you're alone. I think more people are angry. And my personal thesis is that just enough.
00:37:55
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there's a um more complexity in society to help us get there. Let's just look at some stats here, because this is what we do now. This is what we do, people. Let's look at through, because we were talking about transportation, um through the eyes of road rage. In 2023, 92% people witnessed an act of road rage. That's crazy. That seems low. 92%, in which you think it should be 100? Oh, 92%. Sorry, I thought you said 22%. 92%. Okay, yeah. Clearly, you said 92%.
00:38:22
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ah Yeah, that seems low. I have it at 96, Lance. 12,610 injuries and 218 murders have it been attributed to road rage specifically. Can you imagine sitting and on death row going, I fucking showed him, huh? 66% of traffic fatalities are caused by aggressive driving and road rage behavior. Are you going to beep at me? huh Yeah, dude. So people are out of their minds. I'm guilty of it. And I get super like aggravated and aggressive and like, and ready to just be like, I'll get out of the car for this one. Something's going on in the transportation arena. I think you are not irrational. This is my conclusion. You're not irrational to be angry at some of those scenarios. And you're not alone, Matt. You're not alone.
00:39:13
Speaker
Do you separate like a rationality and irritability with anger? Because I kind of see that as like two different things. I will get angry though in a traffic situation, but but I gotta to get irritated first. Well, when we go we're drifting towards road rage, you mean, I think, and I pulled this up because I prepare, ah the national National Institute of Health defines poorly controlled anger as like the prevalence of like this inappropriate, intense yeah kind of crazy behavior. And they they estimate that 7.8% of the population has that.
00:39:49
Speaker
really decreased psychological functioning that makes them super angry. So I don't know if those are the people road raging or those are the people that are threatening people online or doing any of these kinds of things that we see today. And maybe that's all mental health related. I doubt that you're going to get to that place. I i don't see you despite having the fantasies ah getting out of your car and punching through someone's window and choking a woman or just doing something crazy like that. No, but would you? Yeah.
00:40:19
Speaker
Would I yell at somebody or or if someone's yelling at me like they're the ones in that state of mind when I slow down to to ah challenge that person? Right now, the answer in so some cases is yes. You're you're confronting people? Well, I'll be like, what do you need something? Oh, you'll do it. If someone's like, let me, you know, if someone's yelling at me from their car or something, I'll stop and be like, what can I do for you? What can I do for you, bro? Hey, what can I do for you?
00:40:43
Speaker
I've we've talked out there a little bit and stuff where like people are in your space or if you are like the dog lady who I believe I don't think you finished that story but she actually said something to you right like let let me know your comment or something. Do you engage in those situations or your the irritability take over? Are you like ah zen Zen master breathe?
00:41:03
Speaker
ah That lady's probably got something going on in her life. Yeah, not for something like where she tells me I should warn her that I'm gonna pass when she's got the dog running all over on 15, 20 foot leash. In case everyone forgot. Yeah, in case anyone forgot, she's got the leash that's 20 feet long. I just say I was gonna warn you but your dog like was running all over and and I'm not mean.
00:41:30
Speaker
I don't know what I'd do. I haven't had somebody be like super mean. right I'm not sure what I'd do. It depends on the mood. I think I'm more concerned with the internal thought that is coming so much about everything. I don't know why I'd be pissed on a hiking trail.
00:41:48
Speaker
Like because because there's an old person in front of me and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna fucking have to pass this fucking old piece of shit. yeah one move Oh God, look how fucking slow they're going up. I'm i'm coming up on them quick. Oh, great. I'm gonna have to warn them that I'm gonna pass. It's just like, why that internal thought, why is that so heavy for me? ah It's just like, you're gonna come up on people on a hiking trail. We're talking about one like right side ah right outside of Denver.
00:42:12
Speaker
You're going to come up on people on a hiking trail and old people like to hike in the day because they're not working. That's when you're hiking, by the way, right? Because you don't work. Also, I wanna scold myself.
Mindfulness vs. Daily Annoyances
00:42:25
Speaker
We wanna be that person eventually too, right? Yeah, absolutely. You just wanna scold your own thinking. You just wanna like, there's a war going on and you just wanna like, yep, uh-huh, yep, here's the situation buddy, yep, what? You don't understand the situation, you're not quite getting it, are you? And you just wanna like, belittle yourself. This is what's happening to me more often than it used to.
00:42:48
Speaker
did Do you have this, I mean, this is all great about what we're talking about, me with the school and the traffic and like, and you with the dog. It's more, it's more interesting how it bleeds into like real personal relationships. And definitely there's some irritability. I even think my, my wife would, would be one of her criticisms of me is like, she thought I was like pretty cranky for a while. We thought we talked about it, both of us, like how we, how we act and we were in like the workforce and stuff. We might've been more cranky around the house and irritable. I wonder like.
00:43:17
Speaker
what that looks like, because you can't experience yourself from from another viewpoint. But I wonder, like, have you have you come to any terms with that? Like, you're like, I know that it's okay if I'm in have this and shitty internal dialogue about the old guy on the on the path, but I'm trying to make sure I don't do that, like,
00:43:36
Speaker
I don't know, my wife, or because she did something, there she she parks too close to the middle in the garage, you know, stupid shit that happens in relationships. like are you Are you conscious of that now at all? More?
00:43:48
Speaker
ah I think I'm a little better, but I still do that stuff all the time. I still do it. Overreact about things that, again, I know she's gonna do or I know we're gonna, things we have to confront as a couple or with the kids. I was worse when I was working though, because like even now, i have it's so funny, because i like you read all these books, you're still gonna be the same person if you move to Costa Rica,
00:44:15
Speaker
Wherever you are, there you are. You gotta bring it with you. Yeah, you gotta bring it with you. It's true, right? Because I still am the same personality and stupid stuff still gets at me. I'm the guy that goes and I'm doing a sprint workout, which in and of itself, I should be patting myself on the back, right? And I'm out there working hard and I'm just patting myself on the back and yet I'm stuck on the fact that there's a noisy mower next to me.
00:44:39
Speaker
and I'm sitting there bitching at the guy mowing the lawn. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you gotta go around that tree seven times, buddy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. ah This is what I get caught up in and you know I'd love to be able to fix this stuff.
00:44:51
Speaker
I'll have taken upon myself to do the dishes on behalf of the family. and Oh, another dish? Oh, okay. Okay, I got it. Another dish, huh? Here to work, family. Yeah, you' go to work stuff like that. it's a Look, it's an out level of immaturity I haven't figured out. I just haven't figured out how to... And there's all this shit too that just then I'll start railing on all this wise mind.
00:45:14
Speaker
Meditation stuff all these recommendations on how to stay loose and stay calm I just I think it's a core piece of my personality to call out things that are annoying and I don't know if I'll get around it Yeah, and i want the guy like the the people that are super zen and everything, it's like, that's just the way it is. everything like That doesn't seem authentic either to me. It's something about crankiness and that, for some reason, I find more authentic than somebody who's come to terms with everything. It's not just relatable, yeah. it's It's hard to connect with those people. But I would love to have little things not bother me more. like In relationships, in like anything could set me off. And I would love to not have that.
00:45:56
Speaker
And I don't know if that's gonna go away when I have my whole life figured out. But do you pay attention to when you're you you are in those moments? I would imagine you're actively engaged in stuff that you like. you know You mean like you're talking about the sprinting, you're like, that's a happy thing for you and somebody's ruining type situation.
00:46:15
Speaker
It's more of maybe the motivation. You're always gonna be faced with some sort of conflict, but I think on a day-to-day basis, if you you're not paying attention you feel like you have some control over your life and you're engaging in things um that are meaningful to you and don't feel like obligation or you haven't set some parameters, like the sprinting I'll set,
00:46:39
Speaker
this is The reason I get irritable probably is because I set
Personal Space and Public Etiquette
00:46:42
Speaker
these parameters. like I have to do 10 100s, 10 50s, and then I'm like all stressed about it. But we do that to ourselves. Or if you were to go surfing, he's like, I have to get up on three waves, and I have to be on my feet for six seconds, and you you know then you get stressed about situations. I don't know what it is, but there's something underlying this type of angry thinking. It can't just be like we're getting older. Dude, I have the sprints is a good one, but I have an issue with like people in my personal space, I think, but it's more like
00:47:19
Speaker
not like the close talker or people like that, but more like, I don't know. But you know, I have this stupid electric car, so a lot of times I'm in like a parking lot and somebody will put a a charging station way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere, like, and and always, someone will just come up and like park right next to my car, some million parking spaces and just sit there. And I'm just like, that fucking drives me crazy. Oh, when they're in the car and they're just sitting in there? Yeah.
00:47:43
Speaker
And I'm like, why are you parking right here? There's like, why would you do that? But it doesn't really affect me. So we're both in our cars, but it's just so weird. Do you think they're waiting for the charger? Well, you can tell if they have electric car because they have the same green license. No, they just want to.
00:47:57
Speaker
They wanna be by somebody. Yeah, i get maybe it's a security thing, like where but it's weird, dude. It's just- Yeah, that drives me crazy too. Like loitering around me fucking drives me crazy. And you'll find that like every parking lot here, every store has like a weird, sketchy security guard and then a few other employees that are just kind of like slacking off. They're always loitering around me. like It's like, what are you doing? you know like well Why are you here? It drives me crazy, but at the other side, it might just be a security guy doing his job.
00:48:27
Speaker
But they're always just kind of staying close to me. And I'm like, I feel like like ah s itz a Maybe I'm like, are these people? Why are they around here? but it's just so weird. Those little things irritate the fuck out of me. Tell me who's the dick in this situation. So my my wife was getting a medical procedure and I was waiting outside of the hospital clinic area. And I'm like, I'm doing a workout. I'm doing like lunges. Like in the hallway? No, this is outside, like outside out in the courtyard area. Doing pushups, I'm doing walking lunges, I'm doing squats, I'm doing dips, all this shit.
00:49:02
Speaker
So you look like a weirdo, right? Right. I'm probably the asshole in this situation. And so some guy comes into that courtyard area and does what a lot of people do in courtyards is just smoke. I'm not even going to imitate myself, but you know what was going on in my head and who's out of place there, right? Me like, yeah but I can't get over it. It's like, I'm doing the more healthy thing. I should have the right away. Right. um' but I'm bettering myself. That was funny.
00:49:29
Speaker
I think uh, that's a funny situation like if we had him on there if you like this clown that fucking works out in hospital courtyards office complex area Yeah, like who's in a smoking zone i'm doing like walking handstands. No, I wasn't doing that but Uh,
00:49:47
Speaker
I I don't know see those those weird things that's just being out in public there's going to be other people around and so It's, there's something about people like loitering around you or me that. Why, what do you mean loitering? Well, I just like someone just standing around close to you, like just kind of pacing around and. And what situation? Why are you here? Like, what are you doing? Like, why would they be, is this just you in a public place? Yeah. I mean, well, the, the car thing is, is, ah is the one example where I'm like charging my car, I'm seeing my car trying to, trying to do something else productive read or
00:50:22
Speaker
Whatever. There's always just people hanging out around my car. I'm like, I should just become a hobbit. then i And then nothing will bother me. So I stay, be more reclusive and stay inside. Like people stocking shelves around me is is is my latest thing where I feel like it's an attack on me. Like no matter when I'm in a grocery store, um I'm like, it's like someone's playing defense on me.
00:50:46
Speaker
I'm like, oh dude, they have every grocery store here in Costa Rica has like brand ambassadors for everything. So there's somebody in the store being like, hey, would you like to try this? Would you like, so you got, you walk into the store and like a hundred times you gotta say no. They're always in there. Play deny defense. Yeah. Around the clock. And I'm like, no, I don't need fucking.
00:51:06
Speaker
new tampons. What the fuck? Like, why you it's just like you got to every aisle. Hey, would you like to try? Hey, would you like to try? Hey, would you like it? So you're like, no, no, no, no, I hate that shit. Or anyone even asking me for help in a store drives me crazy. Hey, can I help you with something? Happened to me yesterday. I was trying to buy some my son like some these steaks. I was trying to buy steaks. This lady said, Hey, is there anything I can help you with?
00:51:29
Speaker
but to piss me off so much. right Like you can't seek out help if you need it. You know, with the places where you do need help, almost always need help, the big ah home improvement stores. No one's around for matters. You're clearly looking around, you're spinning, you're literally spinning around and some guy just like passes you. I shouldn't be upset them for offering me help. No, no, I just think you're a dick. I think we've concluded. But you but you get irritated at that stuff too is is what,
00:51:57
Speaker
That's how I'm justifying myself. Yeah. Part of me wonders, is this like a thinking exercise that we like to do? Or is this actually just like a, an anger issue? You consider yourself like a shy because I think some of someone's just my shyness and then communicating Spanish makes it worse.
00:52:12
Speaker
where I'm like, oh, great, I'm meant to talk to somebody and i' gonna have to talk to somebody. three hundred times And And these people that are constantly, it's like, I can't, how is this fucking guy? I only need, I came to store for five things and they're stocking the shelf in the area of all five things, like aisle to aisle. I'm like, is this the matrix? It's like, how how is this happening? But then, but part of it's like the anxiety, like, and I gotta reach over this guy or ask him, like, can I move? I gotta talk to this guy.
00:52:40
Speaker
And then I got to go deny the lady who's trying to sell me like pretzel chips. you know like It's a real hassle. But it's not. It's the point. But it is a real hassle because you expect something better.
Cultural Norms and Irritability
00:52:53
Speaker
yeah It's an irritant. But personal space irritants are yeah are like some weird thing. you know I had no idea they did that in Costa Rica. That is super annoying. I'd be losing my shit if somebody was asking me to try stuff.
00:53:07
Speaker
Yeah. It's not like the Costco shit where there's like a sample thing. It's like every product. They don't harass you. Sometimes they do, but not really. Yeah. They're not, it's not necessarily like, I shouldn't say the harassing, but it, but it is like,
00:53:20
Speaker
like five times, you're in the store, you're gonna have to say no, no. Do you want no? Do you? No. No. Oh, God. No, thank you. No, thank you. Yeah, so it is annoying. Yeah. But I don't think people care because they're accustomed to it. So people are just like. Just don't answer. Just don't answer. Maybe that's the ticket, bro.
00:53:40
Speaker
then that probably they're they're nice okay yeah yeah well i think uh i think we're stuck buddy because i don't i think i'm going to continue to be annoyed by these things i don't know if i'm ever going to get better is that why we have a podcast so i think that's probably good I would like to get better about extrapolating it out into all these other things. Like I mentioned that i when I, the thing with the the school thing comes out into this form where I'm like, these cultures suck, right? And it's like, it's not the fucking culture. there's ah There's a high school in Denver right now that's having ah an issue with parking. right it's not ah It's not the culture.
00:54:16
Speaker
That's good. I have a hard time watching NFL games now because I have it in my head that it's like this crazy right wing event because there's fucking F-16s flying over the stadium as some country star is playing. Just the noise all the time. Yeah, and I'm like, where am I going with this? It's the same with people sharing Instagram stuff with me where I'm like, deterioration of society. I just get into this state where it's like, and I would like to stop that.
00:54:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good, like good people that I trust, like friends with, or I'm like, but i I immediately go, ah, I take, I just take it way too far. Like I think the irritation is not going to go away. Like the in itself, the act of the guy smoking around you, I do him pushups is actually an irritant. It is annoying. Yeah, it is. Cause you're breathing it. but you Yeah. But you might've got it to this whole place of like this fucking smoker and he's this X fits into this box where I already put him in and and like, I got to stop doing that.
00:55:13
Speaker
Yeah, and then I went through this whole thing too, because he was super skinny and I was like, oh, maybe he has cancer, but he's still dealing with his addiction. And I don't know, it was... Yeah, I guess if you're trying to get better, I will too. I think I'll maybe try to catch my thoughts, dude, a little sooner. Oh, because I do want
Family Dynamics and External Triggers
00:55:30
Speaker
to mention this. I know we're tight on time, because we both got so much to do. Yeah. yeah But, but the you know, what I was trying to express earlier about these things of playing with my kids, because um it's not just that, like, um I will let, like,
00:55:43
Speaker
If my, you know, we, and some of these things we've talked about, but like my kid has a bad basketball game. My, I felt my daughter was half-assing a soccer game, or I don't know if I've really gone detail on air in our, in seniors, but one of my income streams is some like betting and like a bad bet will make me super irritable and cranky.
00:56:04
Speaker
And so I'm letting other things carrying another is my life and making me like a cranky person that used to be like the office dichotomy where like a vendor who sucked or something would like ruin me for it like it make me real cranky, you know, like dealing and I that's what I'd like to stop is like letting these things bleed into other areas of life. and Right? Like so maybe the pact is like keep him somewhere. Yeah, you made a bad bet and you don't have a job.
00:56:29
Speaker
So that's too bad or alright your son had a bad game and told the rep the fuck himself but it's not gonna ruin your time with your daughter or ruin the rest of your day or You had a hard conversation with with the your kids mom about what you're gonna do on the vacation But it doesn't mean that your podcast has to suck or it doesn't mean that but it ja suck I know well that that's all I can try to do like I don't I don't think I'm gonna stop being irritated.
Acceptance of Irritability in Life
00:56:54
Speaker
Yeah, I just think it's acceptance, probably. And that's probably the hardest I thing we all have. What do you mean, though? Acceptance of this is your life? Yeah, this is what's happening. Oh, but acceptance of my crankiness or my situation?
00:57:09
Speaker
of Circumstances so like you're in your parent of and watching your kid play sports. There's going to be conflict They're going to make mistakes those things are all going to happen and so accepting that and accepting them For whatever they maybe they were sick that day and instead of getting into your own personal rant and then letting that connect to some other thing about broader society and so forth so on very easy to kind of continue down that path of ah things suck and I think that's what you're talking about
00:57:41
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But do you ever get into like, ah, thank gosh, just join them. Just shower myself and Instagram and modern everything. Just go all in on all the stuff that like. No, I've not, never. Never. I'm not going to go in on that stuff.
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Well, is there anything like that that irritates you that you think, I might be overacting about this. I should probably just, I mean, your examples are more like physical. So it's hard for me to think you should, you should start smoking. Well, yeah maybe I don't need a towel in the locker room anymore. I just let it fly. That's probably it, bro. Get a prosthetic 18 inch D and scare the fuck out of people. Just intimidate. Yeah.
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You check the Bronco game out while you're just fucking tripod-ing it there in the in the locker room.
00:58:41
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Old school friends from 9 to 4 Start a podcast, could they feel it more? 29 listeners just ain't enough Gonna go big if they
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