Ep.288 – Misheard Lyrics (Part 3)

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Podcast with Blake Mosley and James Cox. Hey, everybody. Welcome to When Words Fail Music Speaks, where we fight depression with the power of music. I am commonly referred to as the loudest guy in the room, but only when I am playing the drums. I am your endless source of useless music knowledge. Blake mosley aka Brosley aka emo Beemo. And who do I have here with me today?

And then there is me. I'm amanda dolan. I may not know the name of the song, the artist, or the album. Unlike the others here, specifically Blake, he knows them all. But chances are I will sing along loudly, proudly and poorly. Just ask my kids. He'll also tell you that I'm not a regular mom. I'm a traveling mom this week.

A lot of traveling. You told me before we started recording that's.

Yeah, I went to Colorado. Drove there with two I mean, no, we had a great time. It's a beautiful drive. The way there was great. The way home, it was snowing for part of the drive, and I have a Subaru, and so when I drive my Subaru, it's great. But my mother had gifted me a Toyota Camry for my 16 year old.

Right.

Not as great on the snow as my all wheel drive Subaru.

True.

But we made it home safe and then yeah, but it just became a wild evening.

Yeah. That's Thanksgiving for you, though, right? Unexpected. You never know. All the things you're anticipating, some relaxation. It usually doesn't work that way.

No, it never does. How was your Thanksgiving?

It was great. I got sick. I'm recovering from that, which is why my voice is kind of shot right now. And you're probably going to hear me cough a lot, but, yeah, it kind of sucks because the day of you get that taste of sick in your mouth. Right. But I didn't let that stop me from eating everything in sight, so it was good. It was more relaxing this year than it has been in the past, so that was great. Didn't do a lot of traveling. Everybody's right here in town, but, yeah, it was good. Other than just being sick, that part sucks. But getting over it. My voice is starting to come back a little bit. You should have heard me last night. It was.

Mean. It would have been awesome. Yeah, I've got that. Know where I was? In Colorado? Up in Collins. It's it's basically a desert. Like, the air is so and like, my skin was dry my hair was just like I didn't have like it was wild. And so I feel like I'm still kind of getting back that normal level of moisture happening.

Yeah.

But I wasn't sick. Just I'm glad you're better. You're feeling better.

Getting better. There's been a lot of tea, a lot of sepricol, little tablets or whatever.

Yeah. Are those the ones that numb you?

Yes. They numb your throat. I accidentally swallowed one whole and I didn't mean to and I was like so does that mean, like, my insides are going to be numb? That's going to be fun. But no, a lot of those. A lot of tea. I'm not one to go to the doctor, like when I'm sick every time. So I just kind of like I'll just fight through it and I'm good. Coming back. Voice is coming back. And now we're doing this.

Yes. So we're here and James, I'm like as you. I know, yeah. Oh, wait, maybe nobody else. So James isn't know. I've recorded with James alone and I've recorded by myself.

Right.

And I've recorded with you and James.

Yes.

But we have never recorded just the two of us.

Two of us. Just the two of us. So this is going to be fun. I can't wait to do this. Yeah. James is not with us because we're still in the week of Thanksgiving as the time of recording this. So James is actually in my neck of the woods visiting his parents. So he's not able to record with us today. But we're going to do it. We're going to do it without him. Whatever.

Yeah, we are. It's going to be awesome.

Here you go, buddy. So, yeah, James is enjoying his time off with family and we are doing this. And I'm excited because we haven't done misheard lyrics since you've been on the show. No, but that is one specifically requested that we do.

I did because I doing it today. So my favorite misheard lyric of all time is not one that's common. It's one that my daughter had when she was like four or five and that song Monsters by Rihanna and Eminem. There is a line like, hang on something the monsters inside of my head. And then it says, holding my breath. And my daughter would sing holding my bread. She would be like, holding my bread. And it was like, that's how much my four year old loves carbs. Like she's singing that's right. Not holding my breath. Holding my bread.

In the spirit of thanksgiving. Holding my bread. Yes. I've got another one that I just came across this week because of Thanksgiving. I'm sure it was more popular, but I saw it on TikTok. I didn't include it in this list, but the first one, we're going to cover, it's by the same artist. But it's a Taylor Swift song and honestly, I'm such a Swiftie and I can't remember what the song is, but something about. I'm not sure what the real lyric is, but something creeping up on me. But the misheard lyrics is eleven turkeys creeping up on me, or something like that. And I've seen the memes and people photoshopping Taylor Swift's head over like, turkeys, turkeys.

Oh, that's awesome.

It's great. But yeah, that's one that we'll have to include the next time because I sound like an idiot. I don't have it in front of me right now, but it was funny. But yeah, I think we got a good list here. I came across this on Yardbarker.com. It's an article written by Amy McCarthy with the list and some of them that were on the list we had already covered before. So let's get over those and chose some that we hadn't covered yet. But I'm excited Amanda's going to play some clips for us so we can kind of hear what people may or may not be hearing in some of these songs. But yeah, I love doing this. This is so fun to kind of poke around and make fun of some of these songs. And they're all great songs. I love every single one of these songs.

I do, too. And it's funny, too, how even sometimes people hear different lyrics in the same lyric. Right?

Right.

I don't know. Our brains work in mysterious ways.

Great. I love it.

You said already, like this first song is by Taylor Swift.

Yes. So this popular track from Taylor Swift's 2014 album 1989, which, by the way, was recently rereleased Taylor's version, and it's great. It's about the media's obsession with her love life and had some fans thinking that it was about folks who were really into Starbucks. So much so the actual lyric has got a long list of ex lovers. They'll tell you I'm insane. Swift Sings But instead of hearing long list of ex lovers, fans heard Lonely Starbucks lovers. Chaos ensued. And I never heard it. Right?

I didn't either. But then once somebody well, see, once somebody said that to me, they pointed it out, I was like, okay, I can kind of hear it. Okay.

Let'S hear what?

She in my hand. I can make the bad guys good for a weekend so it's going to be forever or it's going to go down in pain. You can tell me when it's over it's a high with words of pain gobbers they'll tell you I'm insane.

Okay, I don't hear it.

I don't hear it.

I don't know. I've tried.

You guys just disrespect Taylor Swift in a way that's just unacceptable.

That's it. Come on.

Maybe that's where the chaos ensued because it's people like me that hear it and it's like, yeah, right. What's wrong with you guys? Right?

So that's the two of us. We're the problem.

We're the problem. It's because I'm a swifty man. Just let me live.

Let me live. Exactly. I mean, I have a signed copy of Taylor's Lover album on my both.

Yeah, we're on the same we're all right. Well, I don't hear it. It's not me. You don't hear it? Apparently the rest of the world hears it, so that's their problem. But we'll move on.

Yeah.

I digress this next one. This is a fun one. I remember the first time I ever heard this song was on, like, an old PlayStation One MLB baseball game that I used to play.

Really?

And they would have some songs playing in between the innings, kind of when they did the highlights, they'd have an like, it was playing over the crowd. So anyway, I actually discovered a lot of music through that and other various video games throughout the years. But yeah. Louie Louie by the kingsman. I have no idea what any of the lyrics are. Never have, never cared to know. Because when I hear it, I just sing knocking it back all day.

Exactly.

It generally takes a whole lot for a song to end up being investigated by the FBI because its lyrics are so difficult to understand. But that is exactly what happened with Louis Louis, according to Snopes. So take that for what it's worth.

Yeah.

The agency initiated a multi year investigation into the song after a group of parents complained that it contained salacious lyrics. In reality, it was just a bunch of kids making dirty jokes, so I believe that, too. But I don't know. I never thought it was troublesome in any way.

I didn't either. But as a parent, as a parent, I'm going to say this. There are a whole lot of parents that make life really difficult for all the other parents.

Yeah.

And this feels like one of those times sometimes. Just enjoy the thing for what it is and just be done with it.

They dropped the F bomb in this song. I had no idea people didn't do that back then. Just wasn't yeah, apparently. Apparently later on in the song, according to the lyrics that I just looked up on Spotify, let's see, licensed and what does it say? Licensed and provided by Music's Match. So, yeah, apparently a little bit further down into the song, and it must be in the background because it's in parentheses. But, yeah, apparently they dropped the F bomb. Wonder if the FBI figured that part out. Probably not.

Yeah, probably no, because surely they know.

Do it in its entirety and see if I can hear it.

Well, are we ready?

Yeah.

Did we say what they're going to listen? Yeah. Okay, let's do it.

All right.

Let's see. It's a good song. Makes you want to play bass.

Oh, no. Yeah, yeah. All, by the way, now I wake.

I would have never picked up on any of those lyrics but here's just a handful of what he is. So louie Louie oh, no you take me where you got to louie, Louie oh, baby take me where you got to go a fine little girl she waits for me. Me catch the ship across the sea. Me sailed that ship all alone. Me never think I'll make it mean would have picked up on none of that. But I don't think those are salacious.

So I heard it's like We've got to go.

Okay. Yeah, something like that, right?

Yeah, I think that's what I can go with it, but the rest is just I enjoy the right.

Well, it doesn't help that when songs were recorded back in the day, it wasn't the best means to record music. Right. Everything was supposed to be one take. There's no multiple takes and editing that happens, like, with a lot of these older songs. So depending on what it is, the microphone situation just obviously was not that great to begin with.

Right.

So even if the singer would have been singing very clearly, we probably still would have had trouble understanding. But it doesn't help that he's like, yeah, we have no idea. And if it's anything like the last band that we're going to cover today, there also could have been substances involved that help matters either. So it was the time.

It was, yes.

This next song is great. I love this song. I love this band. I grew to love this band more whenever I met my wife and then met my sister in law. She's a big Talking Heads fan and has gotten me into a lot of their songs. But yeah. Psycho killer by talking heads. We should have covered this on one of our Halloween episodes. It's great.

Halloween, yeah.

So because multiple lyrics in this 1977 talking lyric talking lyric, talking Head hit are in French, it perhaps it's not surprising that many listeners had no idea what the lyrics to Psycho Killer were and filled in their interpretations of phrases like, I don't know, do you speak French at all?

No, but I was trying to.

Maybe.

Yeah, sure, as far as I can get.

Wee. But yes, I love Talking Heads, but they were incredibly strange and did a lot of that stuff intentionally, I'm sure. But, yeah, there's a lot of French lyrics thrown into this great song. All right, we can take a listen. We'll see.

Yes. Okay, let's go.

Hang on, psycho killer.

Oh, wait, hang on. I'm going to back up just a little live wire.

Psycho killer cast to see better run away. Oh, psycho killer tesca safe. Better run, run away oh, yeah.

It okay. That fu f, right? I keep expecting it to be to finish with.

So I looked up what that phrase is like, the translation, and apparently it just translates to east.

Just east.

Just east. So psycho killer east. Because there's a question mark in the lyric. The question mark is in the lyrics, the official lyrics.

So, like, psycho killer, are you coming from the east?

See, I don't know.

So psycho killer, psycho killer in the east.

And that's just far just kind of spread out. Right. Just kind of slang far. But not the r. So faf far better. Right.

Okay. So psycho killer is in the east. Are you far, far away?

I guess so. I'm making up I don't know. We have to ask the talking hit. I'm sure they've been asked multiple.

I'm sure we can find an interview.

Because I was like, okay, well, if it's in French, then maybe we can just translate it and then we'll figure it out and everything will make a little bit more sense. But if it's just translated to East, I'm thrown for a loop. I don't know. I didn't take French. We didn't have that option where I went to school. I barely made it through Spanish, so I'm definitely not one to try to translate anything.

We had French as an option. We also had German as an option.

Right.

And for whatever reason, I chose German because that's super useful in the world.

Yes, it is. There's a lot of great German bands out there, so that actually would have been more beneficial to me than learning Spanish or French.

I will figure out the name of the band here in a minute, but there is I'm embarrassed to admit this. When I was in Eigth grade, it was a language like competition. You went and it was statewide, and you read things, and there was a singing one, and we sang a song called Kusen Verboten, which is kissing forbidden.

Okay.

And there was like a group of ten girls, and we were singing this song in German in front of judges. Who sings? I don't know. It was a weirder thing. And we made T shirts for it with lips because this was like solidly early 90s, so it was like puff paint. I don't think there were pictures anywhere. Thank goodness.

I wish there were. That'd be great.

There were decisions. Yeah.

I can tell you this. If James would have had the option to learn French or German, he would have gone with German, I'm sure, because one of his favorite bands is however you want to pronounce it, but he would have enjoyed that just so he could interpret their own lyrics.

That makes sense.

But that's not for me. I was not one for trying to learn a foreign language because I simply could not do it.

So here we know I spent a lot of time in Germany, fluent for a while. I've lost some of it. But now living in know there's so many Spanish speakers here.

Right.

And sure would be that would be beneficial.

Yeah, I would definitely think so. Well, cool. Let's move on to another great throwback band for everybody. Beast of Burden. What a great song. By the Rolling Stone. So let's see here. It might seem a little silly, but plenty of folks here. I'll never be. Your pizza burning. That actually speaks to me. It speaks very deeply.

Yeah.

I'll never be your pizza burning when Mick Jagger is actually singing I'll never be your beast of Burden in the course of this legendary Stones hit. Now, here is where I like to bring up when the name of the song is the misheard lyric, that's where I'm like, what's wrong with you all? Why did you all think that was what he was saying? It's the name of the song. And I know back in the day, there wasn't access to the Internet to quickly look up the lyrics and things like that, but if so many people thought that he was saying you know.

What I mean, I don't want to.

Be love that song, Beast of Burden, but isn't it funny how he says pizza burning? Like I'm like, no, you're just lazy. There's no excuse. You have no excuse, and I will not tolerate it. But let's take a listen and see if Beast of Burden sounds anything like pizza burning.

Okay, let's go.

Very curious.

Okay, wait, I've gotta I've gotta say that when I like, now that I've heard pizza burning, now that I heard that those might be I can hear it. Can you?

Okay, I'll admit I did hear it a little bit, and then it didn't help. So the actual lyric, I'll never be your beast of burden. My back is broad, but it's a hurting. I didn't hear back with the mindset. Sorry. My neighbors are honking their horns for some reason. Anyway, so my back is broad, but it's a hurting. I didn't hear back, I heard mouth. So now that I've heard pizza burning, my mouth is broad, but it's hurting. I don't know, it's a little bit more believable now. So I'm sorry, I need to apologize to the whole because I influenced or I didn't influence you to do that. I don't know. I misjudged how easy that lyric could have been switched around.

Yeah. And like I said, I had never heard it that before, but now I hear it, and I don't love that I hear it now.

Yeah, I'll give it to him. You know what world? I'll give it to you. How about that? This is your one free pass that you'll get from me. Everything else has been unacceptable. I will not stand for it. There's been so many that's, like, the lyric is the name of the song and you don't have an excuse. And they're newer songs.

But I will say, once you read that I heard it.

Yeah. So we'll give them that one. This next one makes me want to bury my head in the sand because I'm over it. At least I wasn't not over this version. I was over the Uncle Cracker cover of this song.

Oh, yes.

So Uncle Cracker really ran it out. I was really tired of that song. But Drift Away, originally by Dobie, I'm assuming, is how you pronounce his name. I'm sorry, I should have looked that up beforehand. Dobie gray. I could say dobby for all or doobie. Wait there's potterheads or doobie doobie.

Gray.

I could go with dobby gray for all of us, potterheads. But I won't because I feel like the way that it spelled, it's probably doby. So we're just going to go with that anyway. Drift away by dobie gray. Considering the breezy beachy vibe of this dobie gray hit, it's perhaps not surprising that some fans heard give me the beach boys and free my soul instead of the actual lyrics. Give me the beat, boys and free my soul. That one, I will admit. I used to think that it was give me the beach boys.

I don't think I did. But let's listen.

We'll see.

Ain't it a shame? Give me the beat, boys and free my soul I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away, my soul I want to get lost in your rock and roll.

Okay, so let me tell you, the first one, I sounded more like beach, and the second one sounded more like beat.

Yes, I'll give them that because I used to think the same thing when I knew the song originally before uncle cracker did it. I definitely heard beach boys, too. So that one is actually I fall in that.

And it makes sense, right?

It does. Free my soul. Maybe he really likes beach boys. Maybe that is his relaxation.

I mean, who doesn't love the beach boys?

I do love, right?

Bermuda, Bahama, come my pretty mama.

I think, actually, on our other misheard lyrics oh, really? It might have been. If not, it definitely will be. But I remember that is one that comes up pretty frequently.

Notice that I can genuinely I couldn't tell you the name of the song. I'd have to sing it all the way through.

Right.

But here's what's ridiculous, is that I don't know the name of the song, but I can sing all of those lyrics. Yeah, that's a problem.

Well, let's move on to this next one. This one's great because I've heard so many different interpretations of what people think the lyrics are, but blue by Eiffel 65. So in fairness to those who had no clue what the heck eiffel 65 was singing on their one hit wonder, Blue, the lyrics here weren't actually words. It's certainly easy to hear daba d daba die as something completely different. So what I have heard, and probably the most common one for this one, is I'm blue, I'm in need of a guy. I'm in need of a guy and there's a few other ones, but that is the one that I hear the most lyrics or the most misheard lyrics for that one.

I don't think I ever even thought about the lyrics on this one. I don't understand them, so I'm just going to not try.

There's a bunch of them out there for this one. But, yes, I'm in need of a guy is what is the most common misheard lyric is for that one? So let's take a look.

Inside me.

I was the.

What'S funny is, okay, I hear, like, Aberdeen aberdee why?

Is like aberdeen.

Why?

That's what it really it could just be okay, so I watched a years ago, but I watched a Vice YouTube documentary about this song and how it became such a big hit almost 30 years ago now. It's hard to think about, oh, my God, I'm old.

Oh, stop it.

Every day I'm like, oh, my God, these songs. But, yeah, they talked about the writing process of that. I should have watched that again before we did this. But I don't know, maybe we can make a whole episode out of this one song one day. But it's very interesting because these guys are from Switzerland, I think. So typically, what happens when there is a especially back then, a Euro pop song that is getting written for American audiences. Sometimes the phrases don't translate as well because they don't speak fluent English. But they're writing songs that are meant to be popular all around the world. So generally what will happen is the song is written for American audiences that can then be used for global dominance.

Right?

Yeah. Coming up with some of these phrases, sometimes it's just gibberish, but depending on who's listening to it, it could be interpreted 1000 different ways.

Yes.

Anyway, what a great song it is, though.

Makes me want to dance.

Great pop dance hit man.

Yes.

Me out to the floor every time. All right, we've got two more for you. So this one I didn't know that this was a misheard lyric, but apparently it is. We will Rock You by queen So, no, Freddie Mercury isn't threatening to kick your cat in this 1977 anthem. Listen more closely to the lyrics and you'll realize he's referring to a young man kicking an actual can around. Although there's almost assuredly more lyrical depth there because it's Freddie Mercury. But yeah. So the misheard lyric, kicking your cat all over the place instead of kicking your can all over the place. I didn't know that that was Mr.

I don't even know that. I don't feel like can is the word that I thought it was. But let's listen.

Yeah, let's see. I'm at a hockey game.

I know. Go, buddy.

You're a boy make a big noise playing in the street gonna be a big man someday you got mud on your face your big disgrace kicking your can all over the place singing we.

Will, we will rock you okay, so.

Kicking your can but people thought he was saying kicking your cat all over the I don't hear it.

I don't either, but I'm not sure that I would have, like I don't know that I consciously thought yeah, kicking your can.

That wasn't the lyrics that I thought was going to be misinterpreted when I found this article. But. Actually, I think he says both, but there's a part in there. You've got blood on your face.

Oh, mud, isn't it right? Got mud on your face.

I think he actually does say both of them in different verses. I think in one verse he says blood and then one he says mud. I could be wrong about that, but I think that's what's happening there. In fact, I'm going to look it up.

Yeah, I would believe that.

You've got mud on your face. Yes, he does say it. So in the next verse, he says blood in the next one. But that confused me for the longest time because I didn't know which one came first. So I'd be singing it and I'd say blood and it was supposed to be mud. And then I'd feel like an idiot.

Yes. Or when you come in too early in a song or wrong verse, it.

Yeah, because that happens with that one, too, because depending on what edit you're listening to, they chop out that like, clap, boom, boom, clap, and you might start singing buddy, and nobody else is doing it. And you're like oh, sorry. But, yeah, it's a great hockey song.

It is.

Anthem. Like, get all the people, boom, boom clapping.

You're having a good making those bleachers shake.

I love it.

Okay, I'm going to make you say the name of this one.

This last one's really fun. And both of us realized at the same time that the song is freaking 17 minutes long. And I'm sure that, once again, substances probably had a lot to do with that because there's not a lot of lyrics to the song. Like, if you look it up, there's a couple of lines at the most, but it is a 17 minutes song. In a godda, davida, is this last one here by Iron Butterfly? So it wasn't the listeners who misheard the words of Inagata Davida, but the band itself. After consuming a full gallon of wine, songwriter Doug Ingle and Ron Bushy came up with Inegata Davida instead of in the Garden of Eden, which is what it was supposed to be, the psychrock Classics actual intended lyrics. So, yes, it is supposed to be in the Garden of Eden, but it came out as.

Listen to it.

Great song. Just way too long, way too long.

SATA don't you know that I love you in a god of a feet of baby don't you know that I always bet.

Okay, so here's what confuses me about that, though. So even if the lyrics were supposed to be in the Garden of Eden, it still doesn't make sense unless it's written from the perspective of Adam, right. Adam talking to Eve and saying that he's always going to be true to her because we're the only two people on the face of the planet right now. I will always be true to you because you are the literally only other woman that exists.

Or is it like the Garden of Eden, which is this kind of perfect place. So when we are in this perfect place could be together. Yeah, could know. I mean, I don't know. They had a lot of wine there was right.

A full gallon of wine.

Okay, for those of you out there that don't know what a bottle of wine versus a gallon of wine is, I will let you in on a little. So an average bottle of wine is 750 ML.

Okay.

So then a gallon is about 2.2 liters.

Right.

So that sounds like we are looking at what close to hang on, this is math.

I'm going to look it up right now. How many milliliters? You said milliliters.

Yes. 750 ML is one bottle.

Is one bottle. Okay. So how many milliliters in a gallon? 3.2 785.4 ML.

So five, roughly five gallons.

Five bottles of water or of wine?

Of wine.

They probably needed some water.

Yeah, I hope they drank some water with that. But yeah, I mean, come on. I like wine, don't get me wrong. And my friends like wine. We like wine. Yeah, but five bottles with two people? That's a lot.

Good Lord.

Yes.

Wild. It's a little much, but again, it was the time, right?

It was.

It was the time. Like, if you're not on psychedelics, then you weren't were you even living right? L-I-V-E-N man. Yeah, I think it's a great song. Again, way too long. 17 minutes is way too long for that. But if I was one who partook in a lot of substances, then maybe that would be perfect for me. Maybe just chill out and listen to the Iron Butterfly.

Awesome.

There we go. We did it. We did one all by.

Yes, we did. We are so awesome.

You guys have one, too. Like, if you guys have misheard lyrics that you want to send us for future episodes, we would love to include those because this is something we'll be doing for a while.

They're always fun. Do you have a mental health minute for us?

I do. Excuse me. And this is kind of off the cuff because as some of you may have noticed, I have not been I think the last episode I did with you guys was the pet cemetery one.

Yeah.

I'm not going anywhere, by the way. I'm not out. I'm not bowing out by any means. I have simply just not had the time. And one thing I talk about constantly that I have a hard time actually living up to is especially if you live a very busy lifestyle, whether it be work or other extracurricular activities, please take a just I mean, if it's no more than 30 minutes out of your day to do something for you. It helps so much. Right.

Yes.

Whatever that looks like. So I don't have a lot of hobbies because I don't have a lot of time for Hobies. But some of the things that I enjoy doing, I'm trying to read more. So if I can just take and 30 minutes is not a lot of time, but it's enough time for you to feel like, hey, I got to do something today that I like to do rather than something I had to do, whether I had to work today, I had to go to the DMV today.

And Moms and or parents, whatever out there, I'm not going to just clean out. Moms here. Parents getting to go to the grocery store alone to do your regular grocery shopping, usually kids are with you. That is not self care. Like taking care of yourself time. You are still like, somebody still has to go buy the food. That does not count. Sure, it makes it a little faster, and then maybe you have some time for some of that quiet, doing something for yourself. But yeah, doesn't count.

I think you find something that you like to do. Reading, painting Legos plants, play video games, planting, whatever. I would love for it to be more, but even 30 minutes is enough to make you feel like, I got to do something today that benefited me, that was for me, and I think that's something that we all could work on, but especially me. I'm trying my hardest. So with that being said, all those things that I've been missing out on for at least the past month because of and I mean, we're at a busy time of the year, too. Thanksgiving just passed. Christmas is on the way. There's just a lot going on. It's a lot of get togethers that's coming up, and it's stressful. Please take this time to do something for yourself. I think you owe it to yourself.

To do that and your family as well, and your friends, because when you do those things, you show up, right? So if you feel guilty taking time for yourself, think of it. No, I am taking care of myself so that I don't get mad at the people in my life and get all snippy right there.

My wife would absolutely love for me to take a little bit of time for myself so that I'm not a Debbie Downer. I'm not the type of person that takes out my aggression on her if somebody else has made me mad.

But you can just be grumpy.

Yeah, but I do get down and I get in a funk and it's hard to pull myself. I don't want to do anything. I want to just shut down. I'm thinking about how much little free time that I have, how much time I have, a little bit of time that I have with her, and I turn into a Debbie Downer. And I know that's not pleasant to be around either. So yes, more than just benefiting for myself, I think it benefits everyone else around you, especially those who are with you. Twenty four seven. Just do that, man. Something small, whatever it is, whatever you like to do, dedicate that time. Just try your best. I'm trying my best. I'm right here with you.

That's all you can do, is trying your best.

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Awesome. And then my other podcast is The Mental Society, which is all about how mental health and society meet. I have taken a little break from that for my mental health and I am coming back on December 1. So like, not that long from now, so just be ready. Things are changing there and I'm super excited about that.

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No, I think that is it.

All right, awesome. Well, everybody get ready for Christmas because it's a coming. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we look forward to bringing you some Christmas things down in the pipeline for December work. All right, well, thanks again for listening, everybody. And always remember, when words fail, music speaks. Bye.