The Psych Guy!!! (Vol.3, 1982)

Content note: there is mention of sexual assault (r*pe) as well as food and dieting talk

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I find out that in the 80s you really had to just sit by the phone waiting for a guy to ring... 

We start this episode off by unpacking how we felt recording Episode 8 last week. Mum explains how she felt so exposed and vulnerable and how she worries that reading her diary out to me will make me see her differently... that I'll see her as a loser. 

I reassure her that my concept of her has been formed by all the amazing parenting moments from my childhood to now and that words on a page won’t change that, but I understand her misgivings. All the way through this project I've been very clear that it’s not worth it if Mum isn’t comfortable.

So, we discuss a new process moving forward. Mum is going to skim ahead to prepare herself and if there are sections, she feels won’t add value to the episode we won’t read them out verbatim but she’ll summarise and we’ll still discuss so don’t worry nothing will be missed. 

But onto the fun things! We read about Mum being sick with laryngitis, her long and VERY detailed dreams- at times featuring Duran Duran, other times Mums is transformed into a Victorian boy on a farm .

But most importantly we have the Psychology Wine and Cheese night!!!

Contact is made with Hot Psych Guy as he works the door of the mixer and there is some very titillating banter over the change he gives Mum- did you know that we used to have $1 and $2 notes??

We also chat about the lack of answering machines in the 80s (hence having to wait by the phone), the time in second year Uni when I had a brief folly of wanting to change from my Arts degree into Medicine despite barely knowing my times tables and never taking a Chem subject, John Cleese and the new Fawlty Towers reboot- which led to a discussion on cancel culture, Mum going to something called the War Ball, Mum buying a tunic just like Chrissy Amphlett and Mum valiantly plodding on with reading The Castle: ‘I seem to be getting nowhere...’ 

As always, press play for therapy part entertainment, oversharing guaranteed...

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