My Dad Chewbacca, Saving Totally Todd’s Life, and Invictus [06]

Welcome back to Cool Hand Dross — a candid, comical, and compassionate podcast about mental health, books, culture, and the stories we carry.In Episode 6, host Scott Drosselmeier weaves together panic attacks at 3:37am, Star Wars, Andor’s quiet rebellion, the poem Invictus, and a true childhood story about saving his brother’s life.For nearly two years, Scott lived with daily anxiety and predawn panic attacks. To protect his young son, he and his wife created a gentle lie: the noises in the hallway weren’t Dad, it was Chewbacca.From there, the episode becomes a meditation on endurance, identity, fatherhood, and unseen heroism — drawing parallels between Invictus, Cassian Andor’s moral awakening, and the invisible strength of people who quietly carry the weight for others.Resist and Multiply.#MentalHealth #PanicAttacks #AnxietyRecovery #StarWars #Andor #Invictus #Resilience #Fatherhood #HealingJourney #PodcastLife #Storytelling #CoolHandDros