2016-02 The Month of Honesty Question Mark

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I said in the last episode how I was thinking about doing an episode every day in February just to sort of, like, make up for the the dearth, the lack in January. And, all of a sudden all of a sudden this morning, realized or actually now it's this afternoon. I started setting up the file this morning, but just now getting to record this, that it's already February, so I have to do an episode today if I'm gonna do that. So here's the ground rules as it was last time. Generally, Monday to Friday, we're trying to record an episode every Monday to Friday during the month, possibly on weekends, but that'd be a bonus episode as they say in the business.

And 2016 seems to be the year of maybe some honesty and some forthrightness. I don't know. We'll see where this all goes exactly. And, often when I record these, Sue and I, my wife were talk my wife and I were talking last night about this. And, like, often when I record these, I'm sort of worried that or thinking that someone in real life might listen.

When in actuality, very few people in my daily life, especially, like, family and close friends in real life, whatever that means, like, people I don't know outside of the Internet, people who I've known before Internet, pre Internet friends, as they might say. I don't know. Kyle, I think, calls it meat in meat space, real world. Anyways, because people from the Internet are still real, and they're still my friends, I think, or they they say they are. Anyways, whoever you are that are out there listening, most of you aren't people I know in real life.

And you might folks from real life might pop in and visit and listen to an occasional episode. But if they're if they are listening, they're very quiet about it and don't ever talk to me about it in real life or in when I see them in person. And and so I really shouldn't be that worried that someone's gonna listen. And then, and it's not even that I wanna share stories about people around me in my real life, but I could do a bit more of that probably. I tend to sort of hold back a bit and probably limit myself in terms of what I say and what I share both about myself personally and those around me.

And that probably inhibits a bit of how well, the show sounds and how it feels kind of as as folks are listening because you can probably you know, you can sense that somebody's not sharing everything. They're just kinda, like, being a bit cagey about what they're talking about. And even though I record this and then publish it afterwards and so I could totally have control over what actually gets published, I often find myself sort of just doing that exact thing, being a bit cagey, not really wanting to reveal everything. I'm really thinking about something because of that fear of somebody coming back at me for something, which is kinda ridiculous because there's nothing all that controversial or or, intense that I'm really sharing and stuff. I I don't think.

I don't plan to. But, and and Sue was saying, like, she's often if anything, she's more frustrated listening when she knows that I'm holding back on stuff as opposed to, like, you know, that, the other alternative would be that I'm revealing too much insider information about our family or personal life or whatever, things like that. So, this all kind of came out of a discussion we had after just kinda trying out the first episode of, a show on Netflix sort of documentary ish kind of show called Chelsea Does, which is by a comedian who's Chelsea Handler, and she's a bit of, you know, a bit of, like, the sort of shock, oh my goodness, she says whatever's on her mind kind of thing. And the first episode is a little little bit weird just about marriage and stuff, and it feels a bit self serving. I mean, it's named after herself, so she can obviously do what she wants with her documentary thing.

But, but, yeah, it it's, just impressive, I guess, to me in in this day and age of of people doing interviews and not really pushing back on what somebody, the interviewee, is saying. You know, you don't really hear, a lot of sort of that back and forth. It's kinda just generally a lot of the shows and stuff is, you know, they're there to promote their book or their movie or whatever, and you don't really hear they're kinda, like, using the talking points they're supposed to use and stuff. And anyways, in this interview, you know, if somebody said something really weird or or that she didn't really agree with, she would kinda you could see him make a face or push back and things like that. So, that's sort of where this all kinda came from.

And this idea of sharing, talking, and just in general living even a little more honestly, I think. I don't consider myself, like, to I don't try to hide myself or, but I definitely do, like, protect my my emotions and my thoughts and my opinions even from getting out there because I'm worried, you know, somebody's gonna stomp on them and and someone horror of horrors might disagree with something I say, you know. And, and, of course, that would crush me like a child, and I would have to take my ball and go home. So and also possibly, all this came out of watching finally getting to watch Inside Out too because my family had seen it earlier in December, but I missed going with them for reasons, probably work. And then now it's just actually on Netflix in Canada.

So Canadian Netflix, maybe it's in The US too. I don't know. But Canadian Netflix anyways has Inside Out, so you can watch it as much as you want. It's definitely worth watching a great movie, especially even with kids or people to talk about emotions and things like that and how your mind and body and and emotions all work together and how that can affect you and who's in sort of the driver seat of your your brain if it's yeah, anger or fear and things like that and just kind of help start at least a few interesting discussions with our kids about some of those kinds of ideas, and, and hopefully, we'll continue. So, anyways, that's it for this episode of Daily ish.

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