SHORTIE: Irrational Fears and The Public

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All right. So, um, we're here today to talk about irrational fears, okay. And, um, I I anticipate a lot of laughing because just thinking about my own If I say them out loud, I know how crazy they're gonna sound. Okay, So we actually just asked a couple of our friends to text us. They're They're irrational fears, isn't it?

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Okay, so these air hours, but also whether we're

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gonna talk about hours and then we're going to read our friends and we haven't read them. The text have come through. But we haven't looked at it because we want to be as surprised as everyone listening. It's okay. Sounds good. All right. So I'll start with one of mine. All right. So, um, I have this intense fear, um, of going up to my car, putting in the key and that there's someone laying underneath my car with, ah, box cutter. And they're they're gonna wait to unlock my car, but they're slicing my ankles like I mean, like slicing my ankles until I'm decapitated at the ankles, which is not decapitation, but you know what I mean. And then my torso and legs fall over. Feet are still there. They get in my car. I don't care if they take my car, but it's the man that slices ankles that I am afraid off. So you think Okay, let's just talk through this. Okay? So let's talk about let's talk about

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the guy who's doing the slashing. Okay? All right. So dude has got to get under your car. He

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works the most during the holiday

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season. Okay, so during the holiday season, your year for the one time a year You're at the mall? Yeah. You're at the mall and you've parked your car. Yes. And you're walking Thio. You know the elevator to get to level whatever one you want to go to. And dude sees you leave your car. And so at that point, does he roll? Does he

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slide under the car? He has one of those where they changed the got wheels on it. The

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hand X thinks he just

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read. I didn't wear this. I think his day job is a

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mechanic. Okay, so he brings that thing and it's standing somewhere where you can't see him. Correct. But where

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he waits at the mall, he wants it. Then looks for people who are vulnerable. Okay. And so is it. Really? So he lays,

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he lays on the roly thing. Yeah, and gets under your car. Does anybody semi? Obviously nobody sees him.

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No, that's why he gets away with that every year.

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Right? And so then you come back to your car after you've gone to the gap and, you know, eating lunch and you know, the Mac store, whatever it is. So you come back to your car and azure, like opening the door to put stuff like in your back seat. He started slashing, slashing your ankles. Yeah, so

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I'm afraid of that. Do you wear boots? Do you think Ben's gonna bounce? Like, maybe like, thigh high boots? And I haven't worn those things last week. But that's an idea. Is like, Maybe I need, like, really good boots, and maybe you need Maybe you need not

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even ankle hurt by high boots, but even like the ones that come up like mid calf. Okay, mid calf, leather, leather, mid calf boots. So when that guy starts slicing, you can start stomping.

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Okay, I think that we

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have figured out how to manage that fear. Now, if

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that guy happens

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to catch you, when you're we're in your high heels in your pantyhose,

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it's gonna be a bloody mess, right? So Well, here's gonna laser eye those. And in my 30 no more pantyhose, okay? And no,

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no, our high heels. No. Okay, so

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really, this guy doesn't

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even have a fighting chance. So we've just obliterated your irrational fear.

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I'm feeling better. Good. That's okay. So you do you have one that continues to come up in your life?

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Oh, my gosh, it is. It is the irrational fear, and I live it probably three times a day. So I have two dogs have two golden retrievers, and they're very, very friendly. They're very aggressive, like in a friendly way. They tug a lot like they're just big wild animals and I walked them a lot like I welcome several times a day and, you know, thanks to Amazon, Amazon prime and all that kind of stuff, it's like there's always a UPS truck or a FedEx guy or an Amazon prime thing or something coming up and down my road. And so my irrational fear is that I'm walking my dogs and they get really excited to see another human being the FedEx guy or the UPS guy or the Amazon prime guy in the tug and tugging tug in their collar snaps. Well, my goodness, they tug in their caller snaps, and

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then what happened? They get run over. Well, my guy,

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a massive truck, and the driver doesn't know what to do because they're scared to death. and don't know what they're responsible for him. What? They're not. And I'm sitting there with one injured dog or a dead dog. That's like,

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is that? I

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mean, it's what goes on in my

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head. Well, you're I don't think they're callers are gonna snap. Well, that doesn't. That doesn't help me feel any better. Well, you need to buy titanium caller I d'oh if I'm buying for double

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or if we do, like, if we did a double caller where we did like a titanium collar. But then, like a chain? Yeah. You know, like something that's just like a fail safe. You know, it's like, Okay, if that one collar breaks, then we know that we've got the chain. Even though the chain would hurt them, I'd rather than get a little neck ring and neck wringing, then a ah, being run over by the UPS truck. I have a better idea. Okay.

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Don't leave the house. Mmm. That's my goal. Don't want the dogs that, like when all these fears happen, this is where I hear

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it just makes you

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just don't leave the house. And that's why in the winter, I I'm in from like, four PM on. Yeah, well, I mean, that's fair. It isn't working for you. No. Well, all right. All right. So what are you looking at? Your phone? Yeah, We We had some

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friends text us some irrational fears. And, um, our friend and our lovely producer, Sarah Reed, sent this one. She said, fear of

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suffocation. And here's what's so funny about it. This includes drowning, sleeping with covers over my face, sharing air with someone or having a stuffed nose. Wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute. Was bearing air with someone basically like when she's on a southwest flight. She's Is that true? Oh, you You're afraid they're gonna take your air? Oh, she doesn't want people next to her sharing the air. So, like like you

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you doing like a deep dive down to the depths of the ocean in a little capsule. Not with another like the space shuttle like that. Okay,

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Okay, that I think that that's

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a really, really fair fear.

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I think it's rational except the sharing air with other people part that seems to be like something you may not be able to get away from. Well, if you think

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about it, like we're all within, like, the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere, and we're all sharing each other's air. So, like, what if it runs out? Okay, So here's Here's how we're gonna obliterate Sarah's irrational. Fear is we're not gonna put her in enclosed spaces with other people

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again. Stay home. Yeah, that seems to be the title of this podcast. The title of

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the many sodas. Stay home.

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Okay, so, um, I also received a text from a friend of ours, and, um, she said Okay, both of these air. So amazing. I have a fear of throwing myself off a cliff or a mountain or a bridge. So her irrational fear is something she would have to actually physically. Do you think she's afraid of herself? Afraid of? Okay, I'm going to break the sound. I am afraid of myself throwing myself off of high things like the matches. Trey's like she would have to go there and be like, I'm gonna get out of my Yeah, yeah, I'm going to stand on the bridge and I'm gonna jump off now. I'm gonna kill myself. Like I picture that is like like like somebody is really picking you up, but you're choosing Throw yourself off. So I think we need to check in on her because I'm not sure checking in your checking on your strong friends people. All right, So, uh, I have to read the 2nd 1 from the same friend. Okay, because it's even better. I am terrified. I'm going to shit my pants in public. Especially wait. Especially an elevator or a small space.

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Oh, so tough.

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Here's what I have seen those long as the elevator doesn't get stuck, you just get off and you're like, Oh, that was somebody else. And then you gotta deal with the changing ET cetera Here, Here's what I

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think because I happen to know this friend

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that thanks to you, if she's been in at least to my

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knowledge, to situations where someone has shit themselves in

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a small space and it is not, it is not going well. Well, I don't like that ever goes One situation. She was in a private plane that had no bathroom in one of the people, and it was on

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a mission trip. Okay, So, like, we're not talking about a private plane like, you know, a nice Lear jet like we're talking about, Like a puddle jumper in this woman on the plane due to being in 1/3 World country and eating in 1/3 world country. She

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shit herself and there's there was nowhere to go, like there was nowhere to go. And so everybody you I This is my new irrational. It's not even irrational. It actually happened. And have you ever put yourself? I've never I've never put my never happened. Haven't I mean, I've got a little, like skid Mark? Oh, my God.

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You know, But I've never, like, full on shit myself. No, I haven't

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in the in the same friend it hopes with her. When this happened, her mother was They were riding in the car together, and her mother

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had taken a, um, a laxative the night before. Unbeknownst to anybody in the car, never. Yes, she

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did. And so we all went to lunch together. And on the way home, her mother literally shit her pants in the car. And unlike then it kept coming. And so then, at one point, she wanted to get out of the car. She got out of the car and we were by a new construction site and she went and shit on the front door of this home, helpless being built. That's a really fear like our friend. That's not an irrational fear. I hate getting older again. Stay home and you won't have that problem. Right? Stay clique within 10 maybe

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20 feet of your toilet. Yeah, at all times. I think it's the Keep your

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dogs with you and keep your talks with teeth because they're going to get mutilated by the

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ups truck. Okay, so, um okay, so the one that I have from one of our friends says not having a bathroom readily available of similar. This includes road trips, airports, airplanes, meetings, et cetera, Meanings, meetings like So we're going to a meeting together, and she's got a go to the bathroom now. What does that mean? Does that mean poop? Does that mean menstrual cycle does that? Well,

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my blowup. Like what? I don't know what that means, but if you're in the middle

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of a meeting and you have any of those things

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occur, that's terrifying. Walk out.

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But the bathroom's not readily available is her fear.

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Well, though, don't go to meetings where they don't have bathrooms or stay. Stay home. Stay home. Okay, so I have one More like I'd like to bring. I have several, but I have a major major fear of, um, people knocking on my door. And I just have this conversation with my sister because we were trying to track it back because I was like I said, You know how I feel about people not here on the door. And she was like, Oh, my gosh. And she was like, laughing. And it's true dramatic for me. If anyone knocks on door rings a doorbell, I run to this day, I run and we figured it out. We think it's because when we were young, my my mom let us adopt this feral cat that was in the neighborhood and we were two poured a deposit. So any time the doorbell rang, it could be Leone A who was our landlord, Lord. Okay. And Leone A was no joke, like there was, like, rumors that she liked did 100 sit ups before she went to bed like she was like in her seventies or eighties. So she we were not a lot of break her rules and So any time the door rang, doorbell rang. Or someone not. It was fine. The cat and hide. And so I am not kidding to this day when someone knocks on my door again. Could be Amazon prime. Could be anyone. I panic and I won't go to the door. Well, and it was interesting. I was

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just with you yesterday at your own home, and you had ordered food from, you know, Postmates or their delivery dudes or something like that. And about 30 minutes later, someone knocked on your door and you

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go, Oh, God, Who is it? I said, Cat, someone's at my door and I don't know who it is. And I was so isn't at the food that you ordered and I go, But you literally like you went

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to into a state of panic.

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It freaks me out because I I don't know. Okay, And here here's one

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of mine. I really am fascinated with airplanes. I love airplanes. You know, my dad was in the military. I had grew up with a love for military jets and boats and stuff like that. And, um, I've always lived in some sort of flight path of an airport in most people go Oh, that's a terrible thing. Well,

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I don't think it's

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a terrible thing. I really like seeing the planes I like knowing the different directions of the runways. I'm kind of a nerd of track flights that I'm not even on and and things like that and

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one of my

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irrational fears. Like whenever I see a plane in the air, it's not just sometimes it's every time I see a plane in the air, I'm like, What if it blew up? Yeah, yeah, like what if it blew up in what? Like what? What I What would I do? You know, because if I'm watching it and it's, you know, eight miles away from a visibility standpoint, like there's nothing I can do to affect anything. Even if I was right underneath it, there's nothing I could do, right? But like,

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why is that a thing that we think that I'm curious? Have you ever thought that before 9 11? Or if, like those images, have any point reflection? Because, yeah, I have ideas around that as well, Like I have a fear of I have a fear of planes crashing not of me being in it, but me being on

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the ground, Uh and I think that's related. Thio. I mean, and that's something that for our generation, like those of us that, you know, remember that that's huge. I mean, that's that's like and I don't want to minimize PTSD because PTSD is a huge thing, and I don't wanna discredit it all, but it's like that's something that none of us in our our age range or demographic like we will never forget that I don't know. So I think that has to be related. Yeah, it must. It must.

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Okay, so I have a very irrational okay, I have a major fear of garbage disposals. Okay, let me ask you before you tell me anything else have you seen the

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movie? And there's a movie that I think, if at least for me, would have instilled that fear where there's a bad guy on one side of the kitchen counter and he's got the daughter of, like, the good guy who's on the other side of the kitchen counter, and he's threatening to put her hand down Barbara, and he acts like he's doing it. But he has like this lake just cause everybody has a rib eye steak laying around like he's got a stake. And so he turns the thing on and throws the stake in it. And so

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the good guy thinks that he's shoved his daughters and down in the garbage disposal. And so the good guys like No, no, no, no. Have you seen this man? You know what kind of movies are you watching? I thought it was

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actually quite brilliant of the criminal.

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Oh, my gosh. That's what I'm afraid of. Literally, Really. I promise you, if I have anyone at my house and they try and operate the garbage disposal, I lose my mind. Really? Because I believe that people forget they've turned it on and the water is going, and there's a lot just happening. And I am so afraid they're gonna be like, who they're gonna reach out in there. Sure, there's not a fork in here. And the reality is I cannot handle if your risk comes up and there is a ripped up rib eye on the end of it, and you're waving it around like I'm out like I'm not even playing. I'm not even gonna call 911 I have told you not to use the garbage disposal. And I'm asking you, not thio especially. I have a rule in my house that if you're gonna have a beverage at my house, if you've been drinking, you cannot operate garbage disposal. Okay, I think that's fair. Or use small axes. Yeah, and I think a large one. Really any. The rule

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in my house is no power tools.

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Wait, is that thing? It's a thing. Because I've got you

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know, I've got a circular saw and I've got a table. Saul and I got a

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jaw. You get writable, though. Danger it Well, but, I mean,

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I was built some beautiful desks and stuff out of it, So it

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is dangerous. You're right. It just put your garbage disposal in the shed with that. Really shouldn't without that stuff. It just have a big sign that

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says use at your own

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