Hey Josh, This link is not related specifically to your podcast this week but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The data specific to Vermont’s population is troubling. Is it too dark/too soon to offer that perhaps this will reduce the numbers of cult Woke in Vermont? Yes, yes, that is veeerry dark. I don’t wish ill on anyone. I just have a macabre sense of humor. https://open.substack.com/pub/docbrown77/p/all-cause-mortality-check-in-hint?r=cn95d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Hi, Josh -- Great show yesterday (Sun June 25). Andrew Hartz's column: a strong, shocking piece of writing, an alarming insider report from 'woke' therapy. I devoured it, felt immediately impelled to send it to fellow passengers . . . oops, umm . . . to whom? . . . to the friends who back in 2021 switched to the Craven Junction branch line? Guess I'm starting to 'do enough' per T.C. Pearson's "Regiment"-- thanks for this week's two valuable new names to add to the pantheon of reason, much appreciated!
Great episode. I definitely related to your encounter with the Walking Dead Fast Food help. NYC and my borough Queens are diverse enough (in the actual sense of diverse) that I can usually avoid such encounters. I’ve noticed that in our local mom-and-pop restaurants the wait staff seems to be getting more engaged with their jobs and are being very conscious of customer service. A possible factor here in Queens is that most of the wait staff in these restaurants are college age kids from immigrant families from all over the world who have actually taught them to respect their elders and value hard work. It is genuinely inspiring!
I also appreciated your shout out to Andrew Hartz, particularly because he works in NY. As someone who has needed what therapy could offer from the time I was a teenager (I won’t bore you with the details of MY traumatic upbringing except to note that I am the child of Holocaust Survivors and just about every adult I knew early in life were from that experience) and I was very lucky to have found just the right therapists at the time I needed them. A few years ago when everyone around me was losing their minds to TDS, including my own spouse, and other difficult things were happening to my closest family, not to mention all the old friends who stopped talking to me because I was one of the few who did not have TDS, I went in search of a new therapist who could help me stay sane and grounded while everyone was freaking out and melting down around me. I’m a tough old bird at this point, but it was a tough time. The search for a therapist who would not be Woke took a long time and I had very little to go on. Finally, word of mouth led me to a local therapist, a woman younger than me but mature, and we clicked. I still see her semi-regularly for my sanity checks. She was invaluable in helping me develop new strategies for dealing with the madness around me and, at the same time, helping me feel more confident in standing up for my strongly held values. In fact, because she is almost a generation younger than me, I think I have taught her almost as much about certain things than she has taught me in how to handle the craziness.
But it sure was not easy finding her. I’m awfully glad to know that a new resource for non-woke therapy exists in my own city!
I have never read Saul Alinksky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’, but I am wondering how much it is License for Borderlines. A friend, who has read it, says lots. Might make a good podcast.
Terrific show, Josh! Had an experience this weekend not entirely unlike yours at Wendy’s. Went to Lowe’s to buy 20 ft. of indoor-outdoor carpet. The brand my better half and I wanted wasn’t available on the floor and apparently couldn’t be brought out from the stockroom because, “like, there’s a truck there, and I don’t know how long it will be there? And I couldn’t get the carpet down anyway. . .only the manager can do it and he’s not here??” (Yes, I had The Voice in my head while I typed that!)
So, we decided on something cheaper for the garage that was readily accessible and presumably within the employee’s skill set to cut. Nope. Got the carpet home, unraveled it, and the length was just under 19 ft. I had to drive back to the store to get a partial refund for the missing length of carpet. Needless to say, the husband and I were livid!
Hey Josh, This link is not related specifically to your podcast this week but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The data specific to Vermont’s population is troubling. Is it too dark/too soon to offer that perhaps this will reduce the numbers of cult Woke in Vermont? Yes, yes, that is veeerry dark. I don’t wish ill on anyone. I just have a macabre sense of humor. https://open.substack.com/pub/docbrown77/p/all-cause-mortality-check-in-hint?r=cn95d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Hi, Josh -- Great show yesterday (Sun June 25). Andrew Hartz's column: a strong, shocking piece of writing, an alarming insider report from 'woke' therapy. I devoured it, felt immediately impelled to send it to fellow passengers . . . oops, umm . . . to whom? . . . to the friends who back in 2021 switched to the Craven Junction branch line? Guess I'm starting to 'do enough' per T.C. Pearson's "Regiment"-- thanks for this week's two valuable new names to add to the pantheon of reason, much appreciated!
Great episode. I definitely related to your encounter with the Walking Dead Fast Food help. NYC and my borough Queens are diverse enough (in the actual sense of diverse) that I can usually avoid such encounters. I’ve noticed that in our local mom-and-pop restaurants the wait staff seems to be getting more engaged with their jobs and are being very conscious of customer service. A possible factor here in Queens is that most of the wait staff in these restaurants are college age kids from immigrant families from all over the world who have actually taught them to respect their elders and value hard work. It is genuinely inspiring!
I also appreciated your shout out to Andrew Hartz, particularly because he works in NY. As someone who has needed what therapy could offer from the time I was a teenager (I won’t bore you with the details of MY traumatic upbringing except to note that I am the child of Holocaust Survivors and just about every adult I knew early in life were from that experience) and I was very lucky to have found just the right therapists at the time I needed them. A few years ago when everyone around me was losing their minds to TDS, including my own spouse, and other difficult things were happening to my closest family, not to mention all the old friends who stopped talking to me because I was one of the few who did not have TDS, I went in search of a new therapist who could help me stay sane and grounded while everyone was freaking out and melting down around me. I’m a tough old bird at this point, but it was a tough time. The search for a therapist who would not be Woke took a long time and I had very little to go on. Finally, word of mouth led me to a local therapist, a woman younger than me but mature, and we clicked. I still see her semi-regularly for my sanity checks. She was invaluable in helping me develop new strategies for dealing with the madness around me and, at the same time, helping me feel more confident in standing up for my strongly held values. In fact, because she is almost a generation younger than me, I think I have taught her almost as much about certain things than she has taught me in how to handle the craziness.
But it sure was not easy finding her. I’m awfully glad to know that a new resource for non-woke therapy exists in my own city!
I have never read Saul Alinksky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’, but I am wondering how much it is License for Borderlines. A friend, who has read it, says lots. Might make a good podcast.
Terrific show, Josh! Had an experience this weekend not entirely unlike yours at Wendy’s. Went to Lowe’s to buy 20 ft. of indoor-outdoor carpet. The brand my better half and I wanted wasn’t available on the floor and apparently couldn’t be brought out from the stockroom because, “like, there’s a truck there, and I don’t know how long it will be there? And I couldn’t get the carpet down anyway. . .only the manager can do it and he’s not here??” (Yes, I had The Voice in my head while I typed that!)
So, we decided on something cheaper for the garage that was readily accessible and presumably within the employee’s skill set to cut. Nope. Got the carpet home, unraveled it, and the length was just under 19 ft. I had to drive back to the store to get a partial refund for the missing length of carpet. Needless to say, the husband and I were livid!