In this episode, we tune into ‘A Guy’s Perspective’ and dive deep into the realm of men’s mental health. Our hosts courageously tackle difficult discussions about the stereotypes that suppress open emotional expression. We explore how these affect physical health, relationships, and the ability to seek necessary help. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on common coping mechanisms and are provided with insights into the significant impact lifestyle choices have on mental wellbeing. Hear firsthand accounts from fathers navigating the pressures of parenting, as well as the spiritual and practical strategies they utilize to adapt and thrive.
SPEAKER 10 :
I can’t hide myself I don’t expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it’s like to be a man It’s a lonely road And they don’t care about what you know It’s not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
SPEAKER 09 :
Being a man is what you make it. You can’t always live up to expectations. You try to please everybody while you struggle, so you fake it and end up out of balance, compromising situations as a good man.
SPEAKER 08 :
welcome to a guy’s perspective where they discuss real life topics that men today are dealing with whether married single parent or just single we invite you to call in to this live program with your comments and questions and here they are shout out everybody it’s uh guys perspective we got our group out here with the exception of two two of our jams yeah we’re missing the reno he’s out in cali what’s up bud yeah
SPEAKER 04 :
Chi Townsend Cali?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, he’s still working out there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, okay. And then we got the trash can.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m sorry. The trash can.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m just playing. Truth man. Truth man. I thought he was talking about Brock.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, Brock is the trash can.
SPEAKER 1 :
Who’s the trash can?
SPEAKER 03 :
He ain’t here until this week, so.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah, he can’t defend himself, man. That’s why we really get him.
SPEAKER 03 :
So the truth.
SPEAKER 13 :
Let’s give a shout-out to Brock. Broke down on the road.
SPEAKER 06 :
Broke. Broke down. Give a shout-out to Broke. Broke Brock. Hey, buddy, get your truck fixed, man. Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
So check it out. I have a guest. I have my daughter in the studio. She wants to chime in. She can’t. But if she don’t, just don’t tell all her secrets. You know how it goes. So, you know, being a dad is tough. It’s not easy being a parent and all that. So next weekend… is Faja’s Day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Faja Day. Yeah, you thought about being a parent. It’s a parent that we got to talk about.
SPEAKER 04 :
So that’s why we’re dealing with mental health today. Right, right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mental health starts when you have kids.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or it declines when you have kids. Yeah. Probably.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s an experiment. Hey, everybody call in 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. We’re actually looking for you guys to chime in. You guys really are our audience and you are what makes us. So if you guys got things you want to say, you know, feel free to jump on in and criticize us, critique us or love us or hate us. Just give us a call.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I thought you were going to say just give us a dollar.
SPEAKER 04 :
Give us a dollar, please. One rib. I know you can afford one rib out there, any of you old peeps.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, it is Mental Health Month.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. In fact, it’s Men’s Mental Health Month.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. My daughter told me. Yeah, it is. Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
Men’s Mental Health Month. I didn’t even know they had a month.
SPEAKER 11 :
Last month was like mental health awareness and suicide prevention month. So this month is now men’s mental health because it’s not very known. I guess you could say a lot of people just have men in a closet and be like, oh, you’re fine. You don’t have mental health.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes. Yes. Thank you. True words. Yeah, absolutely. Why do you think that’s the case? Pride. Why do you think men’s health is just thrown into the closet?
SPEAKER 11 :
Um, it’s the stereotype of men have to be strong and they have to provide for family and that they need to always be okay. And nothing like nothing will affect them, but everyone’s human. Everyone has feelings.
SPEAKER 13 :
So that is so true. Like maybe you’re, you’re scared to tell somebody that you’re going through this or whatever the circumstance may be, because you’ve got to be that protector provider type guy. And you look weak when you were coming out to somebody saying these type of things. That’s awesome.
SPEAKER 06 :
That really is. That’s so on point. We’re going to change this to a girl’s perspective.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, that is so true.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the thing is, it is hard for guys to even articulate that stuff because we just press on. We just keep going.
SPEAKER 04 :
We do. And sometimes we do it to the point of collapse where, you know, it affects our physical health, too. Would you say?
SPEAKER 13 :
Do you think that has a lot to do with men not wanting to go to the hospital? Oh, absolutely. Because my mom, my mom, my aunt, you know, they’re always getting checked. They got, you know. Doctor appointments, you know, months in advance for cancer this, cancer that. And men just, you know, hold it off and hold it off and hold it off. And, you know, my friend just died because of that. Because it was too late. You waited too long to go to the hospital and found out you were sick.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. I totally agree with that because the only time I ever go to the hospital is when I’m almost dying.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, serious. Myself included. I don’t go to the doctors at all, man. It’s not because it’s a conspiracy or I fear them or anything like that, but I do believe that I don’t want things to go unchecked, but I don’t have anything that I really need to check.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, the check engine light doesn’t seem to be on, so why bother, right? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
If I got a hurt leg, I’m going to walk through it, and then soon enough I’m feeling better.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, the old saying, walk it off. Walk it off. Right? I think that’s what happens with the men’s health, though, when you think about it. If something happens to you, you know, let’s just be real. You know, I’ve been grieving for, you know, the last few months. Lost a lot of weight, you know, but I don’t have a lot of people come out and ask me how I’m doing. But do you really want to hear how I’m doing? Not really, right? I mean, let’s just be real.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s valid. That’s valid. Do people really want to hear? Yeah. Because how does it not come off whiny for a guy to talk about their problems, either mental, physical, emotional, financial, spiritual? It all sounds, sadly, whiny.
SPEAKER 13 :
But I think it could be hard to want to hear somebody’s problems because you’re having your own problems. Yes. It’s like, oh, man, I don’t want to hear you. I’m struggling over here myself. You know, I’m having the same kind of issues over here. So it’s hard to want to hear what you have to say.
SPEAKER 06 :
But that’s the key part of being like a human being, man, is being able to empathize or sympathize with somebody going through something that you yourself have endured or encountered. So we need to be open to one another.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, another thing to consider, too, is that when I was younger, I used to always think that, you know, this person. Yeah, I think we judge each other, too. Sometimes. Harsh, right? It’s like, oh, those guys. I can’t believe those guys whining about this. But, you know, lifestyle changes affect people in so many different ways that, you know, everybody who does have an issue or whatever or is going through a problem. I mean, it’s easy to dismiss it and just literally say, walk it off. And I think we do that as men.
SPEAKER 06 :
We’re taught that basically, you know, stereotype, stereotype and, and, uh, um, societal. It’s created by society.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. I also feel like not even just I feel like everybody has a problem with being closed minded and not being open to what other people are going through. They’re like, well, I’m going through this, but they don’t think about other people. They don’t put themselves in their shoes and they don’t have any empathy. And I feel like, OK, some women, I think they get a little bit too much and like they don’t think about what guys go through like guys. I mean, I’ve heard that guys can’t even go to the gym without girls going up to them and being like, oh, you’re looking at me, you’re doing this, this, this, this, this. I don’t think women put themselves in men’s shoes and they don’t think, well, what I say, doesn’t that affect them?
SPEAKER 06 :
We can be affected. Totally. Men can be affected.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. I mean, we we’d put up a good wall. I mean, I totally think we do. You just you know, if you really want to know how I’m doing, you know, you really don’t want to know how I’m doing at times. Right. Right. So I think Robin Williams was a classic example of someone that was fighting desperately, you know, depression. But how did he cope? I mean, he he was just someone that joked around all the time. I mean, there are songs that have been made, you know, Smokey Robinson.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it’s like tears of the clown, right? And always be in the life of the party. And so that’s a facade. It’s what people put up in place of the depression or the sadness that they have because they have no one they can turn to about their issues.
SPEAKER 13 :
But I think a lot of men’s problems could be with the avoidance of the Lord in their life also. Like how many problems are coming mentally because you aren’t going to the one you need to go to for help.
SPEAKER 06 :
Isn’t it biblical, bro? It’s supposed to be there’s God and man, then the woman.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, think about this too, though. The Bible does say that we should be able to go to each other, and we should be able to support each other. We should be able to laugh with each other when something great happens. We should be able to mourn with each other when a person’s mourning. I mean, I think that’s a lost art from 2,000 years ago or so, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, text just doesn’t do it. Hey, man, you’re going to be okay. That tow truck will come.
SPEAKER 04 :
Walk it off, talk. Walk it off. So, hey, guys, one more time, 303-477-5600. What we’re talking about today on A Guy’s Perspective. Mental health, right? It is mental health month.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the other tie-in was fathers, right? Because Father’s Day is coming up, and that pertains to men as well and their mental health. As a father, man, do you feel like it’s helped or hurt your mental health? Like seriously.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you know, I think like, you know, my daughter said, we put on a mental, I mean, we put on a facade and we tried to be the strong people and we fail. You know, parenting isn’t easy, whether you’re a father or a mother, really. Right. I mean, this just seems like the biggest experiment in life. Open to God that you don’t fail. Your children doesn’t die under your watch, you know, by something stupid at least.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
But is it mental? Yeah. You know, there’s days, you know, speaking from a dad’s point of view, there’s days I come home, you know, thinking about how I’m going to keep the finances flowing. Do I have enough jobs to keep things going? You know, is my health going to be, you know, adversely affected to where, you know, I might not. You know, what if I can’t basically do enough for my kids and my kids’ kids?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and I think being a parent could be really hard because no experience. So if this is the first time you’re parenting a kid, I mean, it evolves, right? So the kid’s a baby, and she’s crying all the time, right? So that kind of gets on your nerves all the time because the baby’s whining. But then before you know it, she gets older. She’s 13. Now she’s dealing with different situations. So now you’ve got to evolve. A parent being a parent, you went from being a parent to a young kid to a teenage.
SPEAKER 11 :
I feel like a lot of teenagers, I say because I’m a teenager, is that we forget that our parents, this is their first time parenting. This is not… And kids, too. But it’s like, this is their first time. It’s just like our first time living. It’s their first time living. And I think kids forget that my dad has feelings. He has his own problems that he needs to deal with. And I can’t be like, well, I hate you because you took my phone. You just got to also not forget that he’s human and that this is his first time. And he’s going to make mistakes just like I make mistakes.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is super mature. That really is. That is super mature.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and I think it’s hard because… When you were being parented, when you were a kid yourself and your dad disciplined you or your mom spanked you and you got older and you couldn’t stand that they did that to you, well, then now you aren’t doing the same thing to your kid, but you don’t understand the benefits that it had. You understand?
SPEAKER 06 :
I get what you’re saying. Well, like the pendulum will swing one way or the other. So the parent, if they spank you a lot, then you might not spank your child, not realizing why your child’s a screw-up because you didn’t spank them.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, because I’m a firm believer of spanking your kid. I don’t have to abuse your kid. But I think a lot of parents are spanking their kid for the wrong purposes.
SPEAKER 06 :
And what it comes down to be, at least for what I’ve learned, is it’s teaching them how to use their words to communicate about their emotions and what they’ve gone through. So if it comes to a spanking to catch the attention, then you must talk with them through that. Absolutely. Why and what happened and talk after it because words are very powerful and motivating and you have to empower them.
SPEAKER 04 :
You really do. And then, you know, you kind of made a comment about avoidance. And I think in behavior, a lot of us don’t like confrontation. Who likes that? And as a parent, you know, yeah, we’re here to parent. But when the end of the day, just like it goes with relationships, not really good practice. But sometimes we practice what’s known as being avoidant. You know, I don’t. Want to deal with this object matter right now. You know, and sometimes I don’t know. Sometimes as a dad, I think we we can try to justify things based on our pride and then forget that we were children, too. You know, and but the other thing on the, you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
turnaround sometimes you know kids don’t realize that we were also kids too well and some of us are still challenged in growing up in emotional maturity financial maturity so we’re still like eight years old with our money we’re still eight years old with our with our anger oh my goodness sometimes it shows your inner child is showing cut the mic
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, guys. So what do you think, Brian? 303-477-5600. We are a guy’s perspective and looking for you guys to chime on in.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I think a lot has to do with, you know, personally would be sleep. I mean, if you look at mental health, you know, the top three, the reasons are, you know, exercise, sleep, and diet. Yeah. Diet. Those are the top three to help your mental health. I mean, how much is diet playing a part in the problems that you have mentally? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
big time you know because i i eat horrible my my mental my mental state is you know not so great you know it’s funny you know it’s funny man is uh um like dietary is also effective of the financial health when you eat out all the time man it’s pretty expensive and so it makes my uh my financial health detrimental i got a question so most of the stresses that are in our life is it something that we bring on ourselves i mean what are your guys thoughts
SPEAKER 11 :
i personally have struggled with mental health i have for like a hot minute but it’s like it just depends on the situation like a lot of the times yeah some people do bring it upon themselves and they make it worse because they get in their head they spiral that is true they think my life is terrible this is happening to me i don’t want to fix it i’m going to sit and i’m going to rot and i’m not going to do anything to help myself And a lot of people tend to do that. They tend to be depressed and they don’t want to do anything because they don’t think that they’re worth it or that they can’t have any help.
SPEAKER 13 :
Do you think that’s because maybe they’re lonely? You know, if you’re lonely and you don’t think anybody cares about you before you know it, your mind’s wandering. Why do you belong on this earth?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that absolutely adds to the weight and the gravity of the spiral because you feel alone, not realizing that others are experiencing the very same thing.
SPEAKER 13 :
And yeah, you know what? I don’t think people understand is they might be in a bad situation right now. They might be horrible for them. They don’t know that it could change down the road.
SPEAKER 01 :
It doesn’t matter what situation you’re in.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it’s seasonal. Everything is seasonal. So you could be in the worst spot in your entire life, right? Not knowing that something great down the road could transpire.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, because I think about now that we’re talking about this, I thought about people that have committed suicide. Right. And I think how many people would would if you could go back and ask them, would they have regretted?
SPEAKER 06 :
the decision they made right right before so if they so if you would ask somebody who just committed suicide do you regret it of course they’re gonna say yes you could tie it all the way back to uh what andre was saying about um robin williams man i mean he got diagnosed i forgot what he got diagnosed with but um it led him into such a depression to make the decision to take his life which is funny because at the farm, I’m not saying funny, but what’s funny is like at the farm and with our animals and all this stuff, we can choose to euthanize them, right? When things are so bad and dire, but we don’t do that for ourselves as human beings. And, And that’s that’s another completely controversial subject matter. But but that, you know, it is for a moment and it is fleeting and it will pass. But then sometimes it’s just too, I don’t know, too great of pressure.
SPEAKER 04 :
It is. And I think sometimes we use the poor coping mechanism such as alcohol or drugs or sex.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sex.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Sex addiction. Gambling. Gambling. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And then a plethora of stuff.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s a downward spiral when you think about it. And then all of a sudden we’re trying to look up and trying to figure out how to get out of the situation that was created. Doesn’t mean that, you know, we should. beat ourselves up because of it. Because like, you know, everyone, like Amelia said, we’re only human and that’s what human happens, you know, in this life, loneliness, it’s going to happen, you know, no matter where you’re at, everybody at some point feels loneliness, but also I think turning it into a God perspective, which in my opinion, I’ve been lonely. You’re never alone, but sometimes we need that conversation to God. We need to be able to talk to God and And ask God, you know, I’ve been going through this, you know, and there is not, I mean, I can easily say in my life, I’ve, I’ve wished people would call in, in my loneliest times, like in a divorce, for instance, or, yeah, you know, things like that. But, you know, it doesn’t happen. So what do you do? You know, I,
SPEAKER 06 :
I venture to say that every one of us that are living and alive right now, that, you know, we’ve had those moments where feeling alone in our difficulty that we do, we call out to God, whether we call it God or not. We hope and we pray for something. And, you know, sure enough, there’s like sunshine and an opportunity and a friend calls or texts or whatever. Somebody rear-ends your car. And that changes the dynamic of the woes you have. It’s like, damn.
SPEAKER 11 :
I feel like going back to what Andre said with God is that God, he puts you through hard things because he knows that you can handle it and he knows that you’re going to change even for the better, for the worse through this time and that there’s always something positive in the end. Something terrible will happen, but something beautiful will come out of it. You can’t rot in the pain and the suffering. You have to think like, hey, you know what? This is hard, but you know what? In the future, I’m going to be better. But you have to want the help. You can’t just be like, I need help, but then don’t do anything about it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, that’s really good. I want to piggyback off something she said about God knows that you can make it through it. So why does it feel like when you’re going through it, you feel like you can’t make it through it? I mean, doesn’t that? There’s been times I’ve felt that, yeah. Dude, I feel like, you know, it’s too much. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sometimes it just seems overwhelming, but when you look at it, it’s just a small part of our lifetime. You know, it’s just a moment in time. It’s a wrinkle in time, if you will, you know, where even this thing seems so magnanimous and our eyes, you know, that we think that it’s an obstacle that we can’t leap over or get through. And, but at the end of the day, it’s just, you know, life is so much greater and so much bigger than this problem. And You know, if you believe in God, then surely God is bigger than any problem. And I think when you go to a lot of mental health, we heavily rely on different things. You rely on different tactics, different methods, methodologies, like ruminating, like Amelia had mentioned. There’s a lot of people that ruminate, oh, I wish I would have said this instead of that. And it enters their mind through the whole day and night. Or if there is an argument, well, I wish I wouldn’t have done this and did that. But with that said, I wanted to at least go back because suicide is pretty prevalent. And the problem is we think we don’t have people to reach out. Reach out to your neighbors if they’re safe enough. Reach out to your friends, your family. But don’t be a lone island because that’s easy to become a lone island. And if you don’t have that type of person, then you can even text 988. It’s the lifeline. It’s for suicide prevention.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is nationwide? Nationwide.
SPEAKER 04 :
Text 988? Yeah, yeah. And then they’ll be able to at least talk you into what area you need for that time. Or if you have a pastor or an imam or something like that, you know, that you can trust. You know, I mean, we have people. It’s just trying to figure out who those people are, you know, who your support is really, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and I could speak on that because, you know, I’ve been suicidal myself. Now, is that because, you know, you feel like somebody wants to try to destroy your life? Or is that because of the pressure and so forth? But, you know, I’ve dealt with suicide myself. And I can truly tell you that it gets better after. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ve dealt with it, too. And I think sometimes it seems like hope has been abandoned when you’re at that state, you know, and that mindset. I will say that, you know, there’s a lot of things going on in my previous marriage where, you know, I was made to feel like an incompetent dad or an incompetent man. And, you know, when you start to feel devalued, Or if someone always makes you feel like you’re not valuable, sometimes you start to take it to heart. And the saddest thing about human life is that words are so powerful, so powerful that we can tell someone something.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, the power of life and death are in the tongue, and those that love it eat its fruit. So we can either preach and speak good into our life and others or bad, negativity. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Think of it as, like, toothpaste. When you say mean words, you squeeze all the toothpaste out of the, like, toothpaste? Whatever. And you can’t… And when those words are out, you can’t take them back. Because they’ve already set in. And you can’t squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube. And also, going back to what Brian said about suicide, it’s… It’s a very hard, touchy topic because some people, they think it’s the easier way out. They think that they can’t get through it. They think that their life is over and that they need to end it because that’s the easiest way.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s the easiest way. But not everyone thinks like that. Some people are like, I’ve given and I’ve given and I get nothing back and I think that it’s my end. But it’s like, it’s hard to navigate whether it is your quote-unquote time and when it’s not. It’s like, you just… also like with help it’s like if you know you need help and people are telling you you need help then you need to get help go to your like schedule a therapist right you can do one session if you don’t like it and you don’t have to stay with that therapist and there shouldn’t be any shame on that no we need to normalize being able to talk about things like this and that and that’s the problem is some things become taboo unnecessarily um so yeah that’s really good yeah
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, but how much do you think exercise would play a role in this whole situation?
SPEAKER 04 :
Huge role. Serotonin, all those things inside your mind. There’s a chemical response that basically rewards you. and gives you, for lack of a better word, a feeling of happiness. Serotonin. Yeah, the serotonin kicks in. That’s why some people go for a drug eye, you know, if there’s something that affects serotonin, like morphine or the opioids and whatnot, because that affects your serotonin levels. Some people utilize that and place dopamines to bring all those up, those feel-good things. But long term, you know, most people that are on any type of, in my opinion, most people on SSRIs or whatever, something that will, you know, change the brain chemistry and try to give you a little bit of a kickstart to get you in a better frame of mind. I think long term, the best thing you can do is to exercise because your body, your brain will reward you for that. So we’re approaching our halftime show.
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SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it’s like to be a man. It’s a lonely road. And they don’t care about what you know. It’s not about how you feel, but what you provide inside that home.
SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
I can’t hide myself I don’t expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it’s like to be a man It’s a lonely road And they don’t care about what you know It’s not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
SPEAKER 09 :
Being a man is what you make it. You can’t always live up to expectations. You try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it and end up out of balance compromising situations as a good man.
SPEAKER 08 :
Welcome to A Guy’s Perspective, where they discuss real life topics that men today are dealing with, whether married, single parent, or just single. We invite you to call into this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Welcome back to the part two of A Guy’s Perspective. We’re dealing with and speaking about mental health. I have a guest speaker today. She’s my daughter. She’s beautiful.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hi, my name’s Amelia.
SPEAKER 04 :
And who else do we have on the mic? I’m Andre.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I am truth, nothing but the truth. In the booth.
SPEAKER 06 :
And this is Jack Heine.
SPEAKER 13 :
Jack Heine, all right. Jack Heine?
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m going to call myself Dre Rizzle then. Dre Rizzle. Dre Rizzle.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hey, we were speaking before we got off about exercise and what it has to do with mental health. And, I mean… It boosts your esteem, which lowers depression.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re absolutely right. With working out?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes. Which boosts self-esteem, which lowers depression. So if you’re in a depressive state, I mean, isn’t suicide in a state of depression? Hey.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know what that is? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A body in motion stays in motion. Body at rest stays at rest. Truth. Oh, that is. That is truth. Don’t stay in that and sulk. Get out. Move. Do something.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I think people don’t really realize that you don’t want to exercise, right? You’re lethargic. Whatever you’re eating may bring you down, whatever the circumstances may be. But they don’t know. If you just go for a five-minute jog, just that start, a five-minute run every day. will lead to 10 minutes, and before you know it, you’re hooked on absolutely exercising, and before you know it, you’ve got a plan in motion.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, this is absolutely true. I remember when I got divorced. I mean, it was not an easy divorce. I know I bring that up. At the time, I was having my children just withheld for no reason at all, and that’s tough as a dad. So, you know, you really have these little, I always call them like legs on a chair. And sometimes those legs in life will be kicked out at, you know, one time or all times at once. You know, whether it’s financial, whether it’s family, you know, whether it’s business. But thank God, you know, I think at one point, you know, all of us have to rest on one thing, which is that God’s going to be the solid rock, you know, and that helped me out. So I’m not going to minimize the exercise because at the end of the day, I ran and ran. I was like Forrest Gump. I did start running. I mean, I was like doing miles. I’ve entered, you know, whatever races I could enter. I did mud runners, things like that. And that helped me out so much. Did Muay Thai, did the weight training, things like that. And now I’m just becoming like a fat slob, so.
SPEAKER 13 :
But think about the weight that you have on yourself when you’re lazy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
When you don’t want it.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s a double entendre there, bro. Right?
SPEAKER 13 :
I hate exercising. The weight you have on yourself when you don’t exercise. You know, when I first started, I absolutely hated it. But now I’m really enjoying it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right on. That’s good stuff. Well, I totally think, you know, for myself, I got to get back in it. So my daughter’s probably laughing at me because of how many times I’ve been like, oh, man, I’m getting fat. I need to go exercise. You know, the saddest part is, you know, I had something come up recently where I was told, well, you can’t exercise. You can just go for walks. You know, that’s only a temporary situation. But my goodness, when you’re told you can’t exercise, it’s amazing how defined that mind is. And it’s like, I want to exercise so bad, getting all these things done. Because it helped me, you know, it genuinely helped. I mean, it reframed how my life was. It reframed, you know, what I thought I was going through and how, you know, at some point I realized that, you know, I’m going to make it through this.
SPEAKER 11 :
you gotta be good to yourself i feel like with exercising a lot of people who want to start exercise they want to start that journey i feel like they sometimes tumble into like i want to i want to do this but then they just don’t do it and then they sulk on not doing that truth dude that is so true i feel like a lot of people are just like i i want to look like this i want to do xyz But I don’t do it, and then I soak on that I don’t do it. And I hate, like, not that I hate myself, but it’s like, you know what I’m saying? It’s like you soak and you be hard on yourself because you’re not doing it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Then it becomes a bad habit. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Cyclical.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, it just becomes, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and it happens to me all the time. Then the dopamine hit becomes like go and get ice cream to make yourself feel better. You’re kidding about that. Ice cream is so good, though. It is so good. As opposed to like you can make it a reward at the end of it to get the ice cream. But do you want to, though? But it is. It’s paralysis of the analysis. Some people think, oh, you know, I want to start golfing. Well, you don’t have to start by buying all of the equipment. Just buy. buy or rent some or borrow some yeah and i don’t think for any any type of sport is what i’m talking about is like if you’re going to get into martial arts you don’t have to buy all the equipment it’s not about the equipment it’s about showing up you just show up there you go just show up just show up but that’s just life in general though i mean that’s just one of the best things just showing up right whether you’re what do they say you know whether you feel good or not whether you’re tired or not you
SPEAKER 04 :
You just got to show up. Same thing happens at work, right? There’s days you don’t want to work, but at the end of the day, if you don’t work, you don’t make money. So eventually, you know, you got to just show up.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, that’s right. Just put on your tennis shoes, right? Open the door. Go outside. It’s hot out. It’s nice out. Beautiful out. Yes. I mean, just go hit the track. Run down the street. Run down the street and run back.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you could always make the run to Dairy Queen.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, I mean, it all starts with… Dude, if you started exercising five minutes a day… Because I don’t think people understand what exercise has to do with mental health.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s huge. You know what I used to do? I read this book by Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I think he wants people to go up to 100 sit-ups, push-ups, just body squats. And I used to do that. I used to just randomly drop to the floor and just do 100 push-ups, and my kids would just pile on me after the divorce because they lived with me after the divorce. And, man, I tell you what, it was so rewarding. I will say having children, kind of going sneak peek to Faj’s day, Or Father’s Day. It’s a beautiful thing having kiddos because, man, they make your life even that much more better. Yes, they really do.
SPEAKER 06 :
They make you stronger. If you’re doing push-ups by yourself, that’s one thing. But when the kids start getting on your back while you’re doing them push-ups.
SPEAKER 04 :
Resistance.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, resistance. 30 pounds here, 80 pounds there.
SPEAKER 04 :
They make you stronger physically and mentally. Yeah, they do. The resistance. No, I’m just kidding.
SPEAKER 06 :
I heard this brain buster, and it said, there is one last time where your parents picked you up and set you down, and they never picked you up again. Wow.
SPEAKER 11 :
I saw one of those one time, and I was like, I can’t even, like, it’s… It’s weird. You never think about it. You’re like, oh, this is my last time. You don’t think about it at all.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was riding on dad’s shoulders, and then all of a sudden he sat me down and never put me back up on his shoulders again.
SPEAKER 04 :
Jeez. Talk about mental health, bro. All right, well, I’ll tell you what, if anybody wants to chime in, we are at 303-477-5600, KLZ 560 app. Also, if you miss anything, we and KLZ, we have Spotify, we have a few others. iTunes. iTunes, yeah. And YouTube. YouTube, you can catch us. We have a Facebook situation where we have some great people that chime in, and believe it or not, we actually do reply, so…
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes, indeed. Tell us. And the third thing that talked about mental health was sleep.
SPEAKER 06 :
None of us are getting good sleep. Good Lord. Who here is getting good sleep?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, think about every day something’s happening. If you pay attention to the news.
SPEAKER 06 :
My dog woke me up at 5 a.m. puking. I had to clean that up. See? Yeah. Being a faja. I see. I’m a furry father.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wait.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wait a second. Yeah, I’m a furry father.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t know if that’s the right term, but you know what? It’s okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m a doggy daddy.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 11 :
There you go. That sounds a little bit better.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know what? Speaking of dogs, wait, we got to stop this. So we actually had on our Facebook, we had a thing where if you submitted man’s best friend, your doggy, Any votes on that thing? I mean, that was supposed to be at the end of May because we’re looking for that Bo Nix jersey and that meal at Cinzetti’s, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Cinzetti’s, yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
I might be eating that. I don’t know. Are we allowed to be part of that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I think I put my dog on there. Didn’t you put your dog?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I didn’t put my dog on there.
SPEAKER 06 :
You should put somebody’s dog on there. Then you’ll just get the award.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do you think? What about your pups? Snickers?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I didn’t put her on there because she would have won.
SPEAKER 14 :
All righty then.
SPEAKER 13 :
My dog’s the coolest dog in town, bro. The coolest dog in town. All right. No, really. I got the coolest dog in town.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, I think our dog is also pretty cool. I don’t know. He’s pretty awesome. He’s pretty awesome.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Hey, does that count for parents that only have animals? Some would argue that their fur babies are…
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ll tell you what it’s not the same Jesus I’ll tell you what there is some there’s a big difference in my opinion because you know that fur baby doesn’t back talk to you yeah maybe it poops in the wrong area or whatever but it’s who do babies well
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ll tell you this. The thing with the fur babies is they never grow up and leave the house.
SPEAKER 04 :
True that. Well, hey, Brian never grew up and left the house. I’m sorry. He did grow up. Brian is a fur baby. Brian the fur baby? I’m sorry, man.
SPEAKER 11 :
Going back to, like, sleep because we kind of got off track, guys.
SPEAKER 04 :
For the dogs. Squirrel.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s okay. Dogs are great. We love dogs. But with sleep, okay, is it because you’re not getting sleep because you spiral and you have anxiety at night? Or is it because you just are addicted to your phone and you can’t get off your phone?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, that’s a good question. What about people that actually can’t sleep, that actually have a problem sleeping? Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know they make some medication for that, some meds to help you sleep, but I’m a little leery about some of that stuff. You know, I’ve heard the horror stories of, you know, someone cutting up things and they didn’t realize what they did, but I don’t know. I mean, I agree with, you know, what Amelia said and she, I think, you know, it’s been proven that when you can’t sleep, well, sometimes you have to shut that phone. I think it’s like 15 or 20 minutes prior to bedtime because there’s something about that blue light that just keeps your brain thinking that it’s still daytime and And it’s true. I’ve found the best thing that I’ve done lately. And that’s why I don’t always answer you guys when you guys text is I’ve shut my phone down and I plug it in and at around 7, 730, I’m done. And every once in a while, I’ll, you know, chime in here and there. But that’s helped me out tremendously. I’m sleeping so good now.
SPEAKER 06 :
So put the phone down.
SPEAKER 13 :
Put the phone down. And I think people have a hard time, you know, setting a set time of what time you’re going to bed every night. You get distracted. You’re watching a show. You’re on your phone. That’s the…
SPEAKER 04 :
What about social media? And I think social media actually has exasperated mental health, in my opinion, because there is a time where I want, you know, if you didn’t like my Facebook post, and you must not really be my friend, you know, it’s like, some people get like, really salty about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, then that gives you weird dreams.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, do we speak into dreams? Anyway, I had some great dreams. I should write a movie. I should write a script about it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Your dreams are a little wacky sometimes. You should hear my mom talk about it. Like when she’s telling us about his dreams, it’s so funny.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s like the game of telephone though. That’s like, cause he’ll tell it and then she’ll tell it. And there’ll be points that she, that were sticking to her.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And usually it’s more goofier when I tell it. And then it gets, you know, toned down a little bit when everyone else tells it. Because I got some crazy dreams. I can tell you this.
SPEAKER 06 :
I can tell you this. For anybody who wants to, like, try to memorize or to recall your dream, as soon as you wake up, start writing it down. Then you work that memory and then that habit. And soon enough, you’ll be able to recall your dreams.
SPEAKER 04 :
God, man, I want to talk about my two dreams I had last night. Oh, man. It was Yin and Yang? Yin and Yang. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
I kind of want to go back to the social media about how it affects mental health. And there was a debate about it, about whether anybody should have social media or not, because of how bad it affects people. How bad… I mean, I’m just going to go off of what girls… Like, let’s say you’re in a relationship, right? Yeah. Body image. Yeah. Extremely. You see everyone else. They have nice body, et cetera, et cetera. They look good. And then some girls look at themselves and you’re like, hey, I don’t look like that. And then you spiral and spiral and spiral. And that’s not healthy. Yeah. I feel like it’s worse for teenage girls more than guys, but I’m not 100% sure. I think you’re right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t know because I have an older brother, but it’s not like he scrolls on Instagram. He’s like, oh, you see this guy? He’s so jacked. My brother does not care. He could care less.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, but one thing that you said that women should really realize is even the most beautiful women in the world have self-image problems. I mean, think about that for one second. If you think you have self-image problems… think about the women that are the most beautiful in the world that are still getting botox that are still getting um they’ll be they’ll be a dime and they’ll be with like a a very terrible guy no no no they’re still going to plastic surgery and doing different procedures to themselves when they got famous just the way they were They made it famous just being who she was, but yet they still didn’t like their image. They still added lips. They still added bigger breasts. They still added this, that, and the other.
SPEAKER 04 :
And you know the crazy thing, too, is that I used to do a lot of work for a pretty prominent coach and his wife. And I remember what I was told is that most of the times when they’re going to the salon or whatever, you know, the wife… that they will talk them down out of how beautiful they really are naturally. They’ll say, oh, who did your hair? My God, what happened to your makeup? You know, who in the world? But, you know, let’s just be real. You’re right, Amelia. I mean, body image is huge. And I also think men deal with that too.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, I mean, I well, I wanted to say the one thing that is kind of parallel to men having to deal with like so women deal with body image. Men have to deal with their their station in the world, like the money that they make in their position. And so that’s the flex in a lot of times. That’s the comparison. And so a man feels inadequate or worthless if he cannot provide.
SPEAKER 04 :
absolutely and that’s a hard thing too when a person loses their job or whatever the case is i mean to me like i said it’s one of those you know legs on a chair or a table when that gets knocked out sometimes a man will fill out of order yeah you know especially as we start to age too you know i mean at some point there’s a time where you know i would prefer you know to be looked upon as a protector for my own family friends etc And for a long time, that’s the way I was viewed. I’m noticing as I’ve aged, you know, lower muscle mass, you know, I’m starting to let things kind of go here and there. And it has affected me, you know. But, you know, I don’t know what you guys think. Just…
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I mean, on that same topic, though, of men having that insecurity and women having that insecurity, I think what’s important is people need to have grace on themselves and have grace on others. What is it? Judge not, lest you be judged. And to what measure you judge, you will be judged. Maybe that’s a bit of that turnaround that comes back on us. When we’re harsh on other people, True. It’s a reflection of and us projecting our harshness on ourselves.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. You know, there is so much Bible in just the way we deal with things in life. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Love your neighbor as yourself. Absolutely. So love yourself well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Truth. You do have to love yourself. But that’s still hard to do. It is hard at times, right? I mean, what do you guys say? How about you?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah. I get ice cream every day. I love me. What about you?
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, Amelia?
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, self-love, it’s hard, because, like, going back to the body, like, it’s hard, because some people don’t love their bodies, they want their bodies to be, look a certain way, and you want to feel confident, and some people really struggle with that. I tend to go on a roller coaster with it, some days I love myself, and some days they’re not greater than the others, so it’s, like, It’s just a very, very fun roller coaster.
SPEAKER 13 :
But that’s typical. That is totally typical of feeling great about yourself one day and not feeling so great about yourself the next day.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is totally typical. Let me challenge you and the listeners on this. Do you love your mother any less or your sister or your brother or your child any less when you have peaks and valleys in your love? Love is steady. It’s always there. But you might not like them that day. Sure. You might like them better another day. And same for self. So the point I’m trying to make is that, you know, love doesn’t always have to reflect as, you know, just shiny, happy, wonderful. Sometimes love is the difficult thing that we deal with.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. And sometimes love actually encompasses difficulties, too. Yeah. If I can know that something or someone has hurt me or maybe even shamed, you know, and I think that affects us, too. It’s like sometimes if we feel shame, that can affect our mental, you know, what we’ve done. Right. And the problem is, is we’ve got to still know that we’re human and we still got to love us. Self-love. Right. Right. And I think that also is another factor in what people deal with, too, when we’re dealing with mental health. You know, if I’ve made this mistake, you know, I don’t want everybody knowing my mistake. But sometimes, unfortunately, life happens and then other people start to gain knowledge of it. But does that make you a bad individual? Not at all. You know, it’s just sometimes shame does so much to us. And that’s where we need to be set free from that shame. Yeah, I’ve done some bad things in my life. I have, you know, and I feel sorry, you know, that I did. But, you know, and it’s shameful, you know, at times. And sometimes shame still bugs me. But, you know, that’s the amazing thing that, you know, going to a biblical perspective that Jesus did at the cross is he took all that shame, you know, on himself. Everything that we’ve done, you know, against others or to ourselves, that’s something that was also nailed on that cross. I don’t know, you know, I love, I know we have to have a spiritual and a physical connection, a spiritual connection with God, but we also have to have, you know, like you said, self-love. If I can’t love my neighbor, you know, then how in the world am I going to love myself, right? Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. It’s like, you have to love yourself before you try and to have relationship, like, you like relationship with another you have to love yourself because if you don’t love yourself and you put all your energy into that person like let’s say i have a boyfriend right and i put all my love into him i put all of my energy i put all my time and effort and i don’t care about myself or how i love myself it’s not going to end well because then when that person leaves what
SPEAKER 06 :
They become your identity.
SPEAKER 11 :
They become, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you can’t allow that. No, that’s good. We do that in all capacities. We do that with money. We do that with a pet. We do that with jobs. We do that with other significance of others. And we pedestalize them. When we put those things up, when we put things and people on a pedestal, then we are dashed when we are without them.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Yeah. And I want to piggyback on something you said, Andre, about shame and having shame after the mistakes you made. I don’t think too many people are allowing their mistakes to the mistakes you’re making is to be a way of you to help yourself the next time you make the same mistake or change from the mistakes you’re making.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, and that’s the biggest thing, too, is knowing that we’re human, right? I mean, I might make that same mistake five or six times, but a biblical answer truly is, you know, a man can fall down seven times, but he gets right back up, and that’s what makes him righteous. And not self-righteous, you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Character building.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and truth be told, that’s another biblical concept when you think about it. Anytime you have any type of conflict in your life, it’s actually trials.
SPEAKER 06 :
What are they made to do? Well, it’s when you have perseverance. Perseverance leads to character and character hope. So there’s a sequence to follow to push through the difficulty.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. So God is good all the time. All the time. All the time.
SPEAKER 06 :
All the time. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
I feel like with like kind of going back to like loving yourself, I got advice from my lovely therapist. She was telling me that like you have to be like, well, I’m whole. I’m good. Right. And you need to be worth my time and energy. If you’re not worth my time and energy, then get out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. I agree with that. That’s like renting headspace. Some people rent your headspace to where they’ve gotten in your head so bad.
SPEAKER 06 :
Rent free.
SPEAKER 04 :
Rent free. Rent free.
SPEAKER 06 :
People have Biden in their head rent free.
SPEAKER 04 :
Who?
SPEAKER 06 :
Biden.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, you mean Joe? Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
So like Republicans might have Biden living rent free in their head.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And Trump. And Trump.
SPEAKER 06 :
And people have Trump living rent free. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. So I didn’t have to go.
SPEAKER 06 :
I didn’t have to swing politically.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, no, it was kind of, you know, it’s funny you brought that up because my goodness, I’m looking at, you know, this is a squirrel moment, but looking at Elon and Trump just going at each other, I’m just like, oh my goodness. It’s just like a little cat fight. You know, how embarrassing, man. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Very embarrassing. But I would like to urge our listeners to let us live in their brain rent-free. Absolutely. Guys’ perspective. Let us be there. Actually, no. We are accepting donations.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. Yeah, we actually are accepting donations. We love your sponsorships. If you love us, hate us, just, hey, donate. We’re the new kids on the block.
SPEAKER 06 :
Donate. We’re the new kids on the block here. We’re trying to…
SPEAKER 04 :
uh yeah oh wait right wait is that the new kids backstreet boys are oh yeah all right oh man come on be real so help me i don’t listen to those bands yeah i don’t think i’ve ever heard one song oh this guy’s shaming me guys discussion hey but we spoke we speak real topics you know to real people and i think that’s what separates us is you know we do all struggle with something going on in our life but it’s okay that’s just humanity right humanity struggles But with that said, there’s always hope, guys. I mean, we hit on suicide, suicide prevention. We hit on shame, just the things that afflict us in this life. But at the end of the day, self-love, all those things tend to persevere. I think the best thing we can do in this life is to make sure that we can provide that love toward others that feel unlovable.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
just being a good person and like being able to have empathy because some people don’t have empathy which i find is very interesting but you know what hey you know what actually on my job things in avid they tell me that i would be a really good therapist all righty then anywho that was kind of off topic oh that’s great that’s right on topic you’d be the therapist
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m with you. I’d love that.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’d be awesome. And I think that you’re very astute and knowledgeable for your age. Absolutely. Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
She’s only 10.
SPEAKER 06 :
You dropped some real truth balls. No, I’m just kidding.
SPEAKER 1 :
10?
SPEAKER 11 :
I was like, you’re only 10?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I’m playing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Bull boy? Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. You’re a little quiet over there, Truth. What’s up?
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, I was just thinking about, you know, the past mistakes that we have made, how many men are not, you know, stepping back, looking at it, thinking about it, saying, why did I make this mistake? Why did I make this mistake? And then progressing forward. We don’t take a step back. Look at why we made these mistakes. What are we going to do different so we don’t make the same mistakes? And then continuing forward.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s such a good statement. You’re right, Brian. We always need to look at self first because that’s the one thing that we can change. We can’t change others.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I love that. Sometimes you do need to take a step back to move forward. Sometimes past is a good teacher.
SPEAKER 05 :
I take two steps forward. I take two steps back.
SPEAKER 04 :
Two steps back.
SPEAKER 05 :
We come together because opposites attract.
SPEAKER 13 :
Do you want to hear the truth? All right, let’s hear it, buddy. We got one minute, truth. I don’t want to hear you sing ever again.
SPEAKER 04 :
He’s pretty good. Nah, you guys just don’t want to hear me sing.
SPEAKER 11 :
I liked it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was digging it, man. Come on. No, I’m serious.
SPEAKER 11 :
We should all do a karaoke night. Elvis?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, karaoke birthday. Our karaoke birthday was the bomb.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that was fun. I love karaoke, guys.
SPEAKER 06 :
Listeners should all come to Andre’s house and have a karaoke party.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sure enough. Show up. Just bring food. Hey, guys, with that said, we’re running low on time. I appreciate you guys visiting us and a guy’s perspective. We’ll see you next weekend.
SPEAKER 10 :
I just hope I can explain What it’s like to be a man It’s a lonely road And they don’t care about what you know It’s not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
SPEAKER 09 :
Being a man is what you make it. You can’t always live up to expectations. You try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it and end up out of balance compromising situations as a good man.
SPEAKER 07 :
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