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We're going to get going here with putting you in the hot seat. This is about you and maybe what your anger trigger will be. Okay. So I've got some questions for you to see what potentially gets you a little frustrated.
Okay. So this is from playbuzz.com if you're looking at it and it is titled What is Your Anger Trigger? Okay. So here are the questions.
Do you get easily annoyed? I don't really get angry. Yes, sometimes not really. I try to remain patient.
Yeah, I have a quick temper or it depends on my mood. It depends on my mood. Okay. Next question.
What calms you down? Something else listening to music. Something else that the tell me answer is just reading it. Listen to music is your second option.
Yelling, time, talking to someone working out watching TV or cleaning. Calms you down. Time, time. Okay.
Next question there. By the way, how often do you get angry? Now and then every few weeks, few times a week, almost every day, once a week or a few times a day. What was the first one?
Now and then? Yeah, no. No. No.
Question four. Where do you usually get angry? Restaurants or bars? In the car, on the street, at home, at the office or a different, another different category.
What do you usually get angry? Um, gosh, probably with two little children probably at home. Okay. Question five, when I get angry, I usually start to pace around, start to get sweaty, start to talk loudly, prefer to be alone or talk about it with someone else or they do give you another.
Whatever that can happen. I'm sorry. You repeat the question. Sure.
When I get angry, I usually start to pace around, start to get sweaty, start to talk loudly, prefer to be alone, talk about it with someone or other. Talk loudly. Talk loudly. Yeah.
Okay. Question six, do you like to get angry? No, I hate it. Sometimes or yes, I love it.
Uh, yeah. I know these last couple are a little, I guess, dream. So no. No.
Yeah. Okay. Question seven, do you usually accept another person's apology? It depends on the apology.
Yes, I always forgive. Depends on the act that hurt me. No, I don't forgive or I accept but never forget. I always forgive.
Yes. Okay. And finally, I get angry with myself when I lose control of my emotions. Is that true or false?
True. So it's calculating your results to find out what your trigger is. Your angry trigger is lazy people. What is the one thing that can drive you completely mad lazy people?
You are a very hard working person. You you have started from basically nothing to make something of yourself. You know, for a fact that every dream is possible. If you're willing to work hard for it, some people prefer to sit on their backsides all day and complain about their lives and you just can't listen to that.
It drives you mad. If you want your life to get better work on it. I, uh, what do you think? I think that's actually pretty accurate.
I mean, as a, as someone who works in the church and is a leader of a lot of people, I think that's, uh, that's probably pretty accurate in terms of people just not making an effort and something. Um, yeah, I'd say that's, uh, you know, that's probably more true than false. Yeah. Um, the kids, I think, uh, you know, I don't know that it's laziness.
It says it's just the choices they make. Sure. Um, uh, the kids are going to frustrate. Yeah, that's just going to be frustrating.
Yeah. Um, yeah. So mine, though, a little bit qualifying, uh, my anger trigger is slow drivers and I don't know the qualifier of slow. I'm not sure driving itself when people are weaving in and out and because I think it's, uh, I'm above the law and I can do whatever more so than the slow driver who's just right when whatever he or she needs to do.
But people who, uh, I mean, who doesn't get angry when they drive them? I know. But that's what it came up. I would like to meet somebody who's never gotten angry while driving.
I think it, it doesn't happen. I think you have to somehow, I don't know how, how you possibly would be able to set this up consistently. But I think you would have to be able to have extra time and music or a book on tape or something where you weren't really concentrating on driving. Yeah.
You just, you'll get there when you get there. Yeah. Most people are, I'm in the vehicle to get from A to B. Right.
And I'll do it as quickly as I can. Exactly. And that's why they're driving all over the place. Yeah.
Wait a minute. Well, I think a lot of the anger stems from, um, people feeling like they're the only competent driver, you know, and that somebody else doing something makes them automatically in top of them. And you don't, you're fine with yourself. You're so yourself as the incompetent water.
Yeah. Yeah. And if you're doing something wrong, you don't see yourself. I'm good.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody else.
Like everyone else is slow enough that I'm driving, you know, ridiculously fast. My anger trigger. All right. So listeners, we are bringing back a segment that we have done a few times.
It's called Bad Karaoke or Mondegreens. So Mondegreen, if you don't know this, you're a recent listener or you've forgotten is a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from mishearing of a lyric or song. So that's your denotative, uh, definition. But really, we listen to song and we just sort of sing along and then we decided we thought, hey, you know what?
We're probably way off or as I was listening to this particular song, my choice for this evening, I thought, you know what? Those aren't even words. I'm just making things up. So we want you to play along a little bit, but both Keith and I have, uh, have brought a song.
And uh, how this works is we play that little clip about the 30 seconds or so. We share our Mondegreens and then kind of overlay them. And I kind of did mine a little, it is that. I found that I was actually the first line.
I was right. You were and I didn't know that. You didn't know that. I was singing it right, thinking that it couldn't possibly be that.
Sure. But then the rest of the first part of the song I have no idea what it was saying. So yeah, so that is just it'll be a lightning. Yeah, I was writing it down.
What am I really thinking here? And there was a whole line where it's just gibberish. So you want to go first? Sure.
I can totally do that. All right. So, um, I'm going to actually, I'm going to play it in the movie. We'll come back to it.
Okay. So, all right. So this is Common Eileen by Dexy's, Dexy's Midnight Runner. And just did a quick search on Dexy's Midnight Runner's.
Can't name any other songs. There are other popular one there. This is an English band. There are other big song with Geno.
Have you even heard that? No, I mean, this Common Eileen is just one of my favorites that it's to do. Oh, so it is so good. It is such a fun song.
It is so good. That's a great Mondegreens. I have no idea what the idea. Um, and I, I had to seriously pause, write it all down and look at what I was writing down.
So just the beginning, where they are coming up with this is beyond me because we can all do the parts that you know that were free and chorus what have you, right? But these stanzas. So I had poor our journey road. So sat upon the radio with a million hearts over.
Oh, another cry. This is where sang a la Wu Te. You're a crown. So crown.
Now I must feel more clever. All right. So let's talk about it. Very poetic, but I'm guessing that no, it starts off with poor old Johnny Ray.
There is no way you were thinking that but poor old journey road. I don't know. Um, sounded sat, sounded sat upon the radio. He moved a million hearts in mono.
So sat upon the radio with a million hearts over again. So it is it is radio. So so yes, I got that. He moved a million hearts in mono.
Okay. Um, so let's back it up a little. Again, poor poor old Johnny Ray. The radio.
He moved a million hearts in mono. Our mothers cried and sang along with who'd blame them. Now you're grown. So grown up.
So grown. Not your crown. So crown. It sounds like I must say more than ever.
I should have been able to do that, but I said now I must feel more clever. And then this is just to raw to our lure. Like that actually is what they have here and then they go into and we can sing just like our fathers. Come on, I lean.
Oh, I swear. At this moment. You mean everything. And then we're okay.
Yeah, maybe. All right. Not bad. That's not bad.
That's good. That's great. All right. You ready?
Yeah. I'm enjoying this. Okay. So that's that's what I'm going to play for you.
Okay. Any guesses? No. This goes on bad.
Yep. So let's try it again. Okay. Your word is mine.
Your bird is mine. Nope. Your. I got your.
I thought it was your, but now I'm looking at the lyrics. Yeah. I think they may have gotten wrong. But it's I think the correct line is your butt is mine.
Ah. On online they have it as her butt is mine. Okay. I'm pretty sure he says your butt is mine.
So I've been saying your butt is mine. Sure. And that's actually what it is. The rest of it I had no idea is including at the end he says come on.
But it sounds like he's like like it's like a sound. So listen to it. So so it's her butt. Your butt is mine going to tell you right.
Just show your face in broad daylight. I'm telling you on how I feel going to hurt your mind. Don't shoot to kill. Come on.
Come on. Lay it on me. All right. All right.
No way. Yes. Okay. Here it is.
I'm feeling you. I'm walking. I'm walking. I'm walking.
I'm going to shoot. Jump. Jump. Jump.
Jump. Jump. Jump. Jump.
Jump. I'm like jump. Jump. Jump.
Jump to the boy. I don't know that it was recording. Okay. Okay.
So all right. Yeah. So here. Wherever we are.
So I think we're just going to try when I pause the music it pause the recording. All right. Well, if this is repeated, this is repeated. So our pod fider tonight is from Hidden Brain an episode that was just a month ago, almost a month ago.
And I'm going to start with a question for you because they have this scenario and we'll actually back up because they have it about halfway through and they talk about it as a party, but putting you back in the hot seat. So you're having a little gathering at your house and someone comes over and purposefully sort of trashes it, breaks something of yours or window or your favorite Minnesota Twins mug. What do you do? Are you angry?
Are you happy to deal? What's your natural? Do you feel your natural response to that? If they did it on purpose, I mean, I'm mad, I mean, I may.
Yeah. And I may maybe I'm not going to yell, you know, but I think inside I'm probably seething, you know. Especially if it's your favorite Minnesota Twins mug. Yeah.
So do you punish them? No. I mean, this will get us into it, but punishment in that scenario isn't really like you want to pay and feel the I think it's it's trying to understand what's going on and I think that's that's usually what you know Why did you do that what's going on sure if it's an accident you're not as mad you're just upset Yeah, it's just trying to understand. I mean I'm gonna be I'm gonna be mad if there's yeah But I mean your intro was it's on purpose if I know it's on purpose Then I'm I'm seeking to understand but I'm probably needing to it's probably like a lot of like showing restraint and I like lose my cool Right, you know, yeah, but if it's you know like a belligerent like just being a total you know Jerk about it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be We're trying to figure out what's going on so Rebecca's there. It's your house into party and she she goes Yeah, and you're kind of like pointing in or like or she's saying No Keith. It's okay. It's just a glass or it's a friend again.
This is purposeful the person came in and yeah Well, and again, it's it's are we threatened. Yeah, are we is there a sense of us? They're safety concern, right? You know like there's all those yeah, yeah, I'm trying to figure out all right, so let's get into it Yeah, okay, so this episode starts with again not too long ago This is January 2019 you may have seen it as they were talking about it I did recall seeing I didn't know all of these details so the details listeners were are surrounding some marches that were at the National Mall area in Washington DC, and we had a Native American who happened to be there actually a numerous Native Americans who were there for And the indigenous peoples March okay, and that coincided unfortunately with another march on March for life, so this was about against abortion and This particular group that intermingled and got wrapped up with the Native Americans was some white students Specifically from a Catholic school in Kentucky.
They were visiting Washington DC and the clip someone gathered a clip of One individual one Native American in particular and a few students in particular and their face to face They're wearing make America great hats Staring one another down tomahawk chops some different things allegedly build the wall of chance for being shouted etc And it just goes on and on and on and on this episode starts with that and talks to one woman in particular Because this was a viral video and she was one of those people who went she was outraged And started tweeting and doing some things as well that just was fairly is pretty common today Yep, right. Yep, so did you before we go a little deeper on that? I mean do you recall that at all? I do okay Yes, and did you where were you within it because it's did you see that or where this goes is we find out that that clip wasn't really the whole Story because you're just getting the snippet.
I never heard the full story. Yeah, so it went out all over national media people were grabbing a hold of it People being super upset Because this confrontation was going on and build the wall and whatnot I don't know if it was at 24 hours later But it was at least the next day that the longer video a couple hours in fact was somehow released no build the wall No, it wasn't even really confrontational. It looked like it from this particular clip, but they were they were engaged There was no doubt about it. There was some pieces with the tomahawk chop and stuff that are super inappropriate, but It was totally different the details themselves would actually happen weren't accurate for how this was seen and most important about it is How it just spread people started to tweet it and retweet it and post it on Facebook and the anger of having viewed this it's crazy how little How little was actually true.
Yes That's the part that blew me away was the they talked about When this reporter watched the full length of the video how much was actually happening I still have a hard time with the expression of the of the the youth in question sure the reporter seems to give him a lot of a Lot of wiggle room and saying that oh, you know, he looks nervous and I'm not a hundred percent sold on that Smirk on his face that's but again at when told in regards to the way I first saw it Maybe it's just I can't unsee the smart, right? You know, and that's so I'm I'm willing to just open it up to a different perspective But I don't know her it wasn't a complete like slam dunk no explanation right for well There were some things that weren't appropriate and why they were there and and this Native American went He's the one who actually went and approached the voice it wasn't as if they were stopping him. Yeah, that part was really Blocking yeah, yeah, and he's the one who's banging on his drum and doing fairly typical Native American chance and movements and different things like that And they became a part of it. Yeah, that part was interesting where again You assume that these kids are blocking his path, but in fact, it's the other way around right?
It's locking the kids is right and I thought that was Alright, so let's layer it even more because so it continues with this individual writes an article Okay, and puts it out there. She actually she was just she wasn't writing for a Major newspaper at the time, but I believe submitted it the Atlantic. Well, this is this is who Rush Limbaugh says that she was Right before so she just written more or less a little bit more than a letter to the editor So to speak with something like that to process her anger and frustration because she was taking it back Then whoa I had it wrong so she says you know what I need to get more information I need to pause I shouldn't have added to the flyer Okay, so she she puts that out there and then it takes off even more because then they talk about Rush Limbaugh in particular where he is Doing exactly what he's ramming on her about just like yeah Why won't these people stop get all the facts before you move forward? And he says someone from the Atlantic and she wasn't from the Atlantic Yeah, and the hypocrisy and his outrage and anger so now he's angry Yeah, and other people are angry with his anger about hers Yeah, and it just yeah, it's the snap snap judgments and again, that's part of why these shows are so Frustrating is that they're just they're jumping so quickly, you know Yes, and I got it they got to just be so fast to to beat somebody else to the punch You know and they're just and they're not they're not taking the time to figure out the situation No, they're they're looking at it without going into and gathering more details.
You're looking at it and not thinking Wait a minute. What is there another possibility? Could in this case the video could the could have been that the man died in the way rather than the other way around? I mean those those other pieces about speculation never really entered the mind And I think apart here that was really fascinating to me was even when she talks about even when people were given the information and knew the facts What they truly were or at least as close as you could possibly be they had it so I don't know ingrained or imprinted in their mind That it was hard for them to let that go and accept the truth I think the majority of it is because of the mega hats.
Hmm. I'm I'm curious to take away the hats and What it's then it then it becomes more punk kid true, but that hat is so divisive in our country, you know There was just a you know that the national was just visited the White House this last week And Kurt Suzuki one of the national's players is wearing a mega hat, you know, and and it's just it that is the trigger Yeah, you know and and I have no idea if these if these kids were like we're like super like into the hats Or they just were like kind of like you go to New York I love New York and you throw I knew you like like where they were like super hardcore or not But I think it's those hats interesting, you know that that makes up people's minds like these are you know arrogant Trump supporters and and they're up to no good whereas you know her take is you know, maybe not right So it's that it is those snap judgments and we're very visual This is not only a picture about a whole video even though it was brief in nature So in this podcast they give some background not necessarily about what you're referring to but to the idea of anger and punishment and outrage Where long ago in societies groups they were smaller right and punishment actually did keep people in line So there there was this that when someone did something wrong punishment would happen and people would be If you will almost in line to give out the punishment They knew one another they'd see each other again like I know you and therefore this is I'm gonna smack your hand or whatever I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna show you and I would find pleasure in that. This is my brain finds pleasure in that They go so far to talk about research that even if You they talk about it where the transgressor wouldn't be told about what was going to happen But it's me having the satisfaction I guess is what I was finding fascinating as well that if I can punish you without seeing you Good to go. I'm gonna I'm gonna easily be able to do it because in this case It's about me and me being able to you know, you can't do it that way and therefore Right and back in the day that punishment it actually really worked well now as things have changed Their comments were it doesn't make a lot of changes even happen what it allows to have happened is I get more of the like-minded Individuals will jump on and they will retweet they will do likes and those things But if I'm really trying to make anything change, I'm not gonna change your behavior, right?
No way and Wonder okay, I'm gonna put a tweet out there and I'm gonna say some things Am I trying to actually make some positive impact or am I just going to get a bunch of people who are going to again? Share my beliefs and continue to keep that going well when you it just we've become such a you know faceless like The confrontations now are just so different and they I think would be completely different if you were looking at the person Yeah, you know four feet away like we are right now In the face and I just I'm convinced there's maybe one percent of the population would actually say the thing that they wrote sure Yes, that person. Yeah when they're in this space They've mentioned even to the physical nature of it like I have to decide with that punishment because there could be a retribution Physically you could reach out and then it's macular is like you shouldn't be doing that and then you slug me I'm like well, maybe I don't want to do that. There's no physical We're not going to see each other as you mentioned as well as I don't have to worry about you can be half a world The way and I can put that on there and I don't get to see your face and what's going to go on and people are going to join in with me Right, so they mentioned the best way to get this do it It's the loaded language is Using words like curse and hate and war greed punish destroy evil diabolical all those things within your tweet Or posting those are going to get some some reaction from other people they will jump aboard and All of a sudden it's just going to start to take off you can even phrase it is Can you believe and then you you just say can you believe that they want to shut this person out or change this or do that?
And like and then here they go the threads just keep going on and on and on and it's not it's not enough to be angry That outrage has to grow so again now. I'm angry about your anger about whatever the thing is I'm three four times removed from it even I didn't even know about it and you're thinking yeah I'm here to save the world. I'm gonna let everyone know and I'm gonna make that change and we need to go after this person Yep, there it goes And and we see we see instance after instance this one in January we see popular celebrities politicians Where something is taken from their examples were our own Al Franken Kathy Griffin and they talked about Kevin Hart and how he was gonna Host the Oscars and then some comment was twisted and turned about him being racist and then boom there it all went There's a movie that's coming out that I think will be really interesting along the same lines called Richard Jule Okay, oh you're right about the Olympics. I think yes This is gonna be a we'll have to see that and comment because I that whole thing was exactly this like people made up their minds media Investigation and all of that and and just ruin the guy's life.
Yeah, you know I saw that you're doing the right totally ruin his life And then you know this is before social media exactly and then you go and you like read up on the actual case and I mean They they don't I'm not spoiling anything. No, it's I mean, it's you know He was innocent but there was enough there that people latched on to that What's kind of like that movie doubt he ever saw that? You know that there's there's just this like you know, and then you yeah, you just let it you let it go But because I had that that yeah, I can't right it's still I don't even know like I doubt my doubt Right, and so it does end with some positives it talks about like all of this that we're referring to they talk about it as an echo chamber We're just things just keep going on and on and on and on and it leads to then I didn't I didn't have time to check this they called it slack slacktivism It's where people then aren't really going to be involved anymore because well why bother things aren't going to change if we're really trying to change This isn't the way to go about doing it But they did talk about if we're trying to limit some of our anger and our own outrageous Limit those check-ins to and what you're posting and who is looking at it? Post positive things you change your language.
We're like, okay. Let that part go again Maybe I thrive differently so my triggers aren't there talk about refocusing your emotional energy Instead of spending it there because you're not really involved in that March or those things that are happening the protest She should she suggested actually go out and do something pickup garbage volunteer do some things that are actually action oriented That will make you feel a little bit better about it Because we think about well, this is how I'm keeping up on the news and she actually said maybe you don't at least not in this capacity Right check your news sources and multiple perspectives. Mm-hmm. Yeah Yeah, chances are if something's firing you up online and creating some kind of reaction, you know, that should be your Cute to step away.
Yeah You know like am I gonna really feel better if I engage in this chances are you're not no But again, your brain is wanting that your brain is craving to be part of the mob mentality right Yeah, I've heard from more people that basically quit Facebook because they didn't know how to stop themselves Yeah, and then so then it became all or nothing and they're like I can't I can't even do this and it's like well You can just change your behavior. Yeah, you don't need to you know condemn Facebook altogether and just you know There might be a way that you can just interact with the software differently Well, we want you to interact with us if you'd like to send us a positive to At hashtag Godfather podcast or a fodder time or again fodder heads We enjoy that if you want to dig deeper into this episode again It was hidden brain screaming into the void we love your ears We love that you spend some time with us every couple weeks and we invite you to come back and do it again real soon