Emotional Tapestry and the Power of Empathy: From Patio Laughs to Inner Child Wisdom

Ever wondered how the fabric of our emotions weaves together the story of who we are? Daniel and I, Jordan, invite you on a heartfelt journey into the kaleidoscope of human feelings that shape our everyday interactions. We kick things off by chuckling over patio renovations and swiftly navigate to the deeper realms of personal challenges, the art of empathy, and how honoring our inner child can illuminate our path forward.

Strap in for a roller coaster of tales where resilience takes center stage, interlaced with laughter and a candid acknowledgment of its shadowy twin. From battle scars earned in the fight against illness to the unconditional love that binds a family, we traverse the poignant milestones of growing up. Remember that time with the unexpected nipple ring reveal? We're revisiting those quirky moments and the indelible impact of our early family dynamics on the characters we've become.

As we wrap up, prepare to peel back the layers on the role of constructive criticism in nurturing growth and fostering supportive tribes. Sure, I might have flipped burgers at Wendy's, but those days taught me valuable lessons about the power of encouragement. And hey, don't miss out as we tease next week's plans for an Enneagram personality test reveal and address our unfulfilled vision board ambitions. Join us, fully clothed and with an appropriate dash of humor, for your weekly dose of reflection and entertainment—see you next Thursday!

Transcript

Daniel Lawson
Host
00:00
Good morning everybody. I'm Daniel and I'm Jordan and we're. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
00:05
Daniel and Jordan. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
00:32
Welcome back to the show the greatest one you've seen all day, the greatest one you've listened to this morning since you know this one comes out pretty early and the greatest one you will see the rest of 2024. Good morning Jordan. Good morning Daniel. How are you today? I'm good, buddy. I just like mixing it up, you know, just throwing a little pizzazz curveball High energy. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
00:45
Do you think I would? Do you wish that I was a little more high energy with you, Just a little bit? Yeah, I wish I could. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
00:50
You know, but it's it's. It's a little positive with a little negative, and the low testosterone that's what makes the uh the atomic bomb. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
01:02
What makes the atomic bomb Like a positive and a negative? Are you asking a chemistry question right now? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
01:05
I thought it was science. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
01:08
Chemistry is science. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
01:11
Hey, we're close, man. What a week it's been bro. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
01:16
Yeah, what have you been up to this week? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
01:18
This week just finishing up stuff around the house. I know I felt like I've said that the past two weeks but literally I think we're kind of coming out of everything's just tidying up and almost done with the patio. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
01:29
The house looks amazing. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
01:30
Thanks, man, I appreciate it. The patio, the studio, a couple things I need to have done in here, but nothing, you know nothing that's going to stop the process of filming or anything like that. Yeah, also, I've faced a couple of like personal challenges this week too. Okay, also, I've faced a couple of like personal challenges this week too. Okay, just just stuff, and it's kind of hard to explain because I've always understood that, like people are people and people just do different things what do you mean by people? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
01:55
are people exactly so like? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
01:57
just like it sounds uh, people are people okay one equals one, you know people all have different emotions and people all have different the ways they do stuff and say stuff and express themselves. So I guess what I mean when I say people are people is pretty much everybody's different, you know, because not one person is the same. I don't think Right. So I've understood that this week everybody's just different. They think differently or they may say stuff they don't mean. And just understanding emotion and not just my emotion, but maybe their emotion, recognizing it and just understanding that, you know, it is what it is. 

02:43
I guess, kind of say, I guess, looking at it and understanding that this person feels a certain way and guess what, that's okay, I'm not going to be here to like say what I need to say to make you know, unless I need to make them feel better if it's one of those emotions. But if, say, someone feels a certain way towards me, I'm recognizing that, I'm understanding that. But am I doing anything bad? Am I doing anything wrong? No, you know. So I'm just going to keep doing key. I know it sounds kind of selfish, but I'm going to just keep doing what I'm doing. You know what I mean. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
03:16
Well, I think I talked to my mom this week. We were talking more just like how everybody is. Uh, you're really just your inner child and everyone's trying to resolve inner child issues, and sometimes things like someone can come off as a douchebag, but sometimes it's them and their own issues that we, as humans, we end up developing because of how we were raised or how society has been or however, and those things are more complicated than we like to make that story in our head be and so people are people. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
03:51
We are reactive, we are caught up in the moment, we're caught up in the story of me. Yeah, and that's caught up in the story of me. I'm glad you said that, because a lot of people I didn't coin that term by- the way, just to let you know. I don't even know what that means. I've heard it from something else. I didn't come up with that. I just want to clarify, but no. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
04:06
Yeah, what did you say? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
04:14
The story of me. Yeah, the story of me. I think that is very powerful and very strong and at some point I think we were all focused on that story of me. You know what I mean. But I guess when you because I've had a ton of self-growth in the past three months, six months a year you know from self-education, hanging around great people like yourself doing some you know, personal growth, like personal assessments and just, I guess, growing up. 

04:42
You know what I mean. I felt like I've really grew up a lot in the past year and so when you see other people in this mindset it's like, oh one, I understand it because I was there, but it's really nothing I can do or change or say to pull that person out of it. It's they're going to have to recognize that amongst themselves at some point, and hopefully sooner rather than later, and then they grow out of that. You know what I mean. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
05:09
And sadly, some people don't, and a lot of times I think a lot of people think less of people like that. But life's hard. It's easy to be caught in the waves of it and in some forms we're very privileged people that life is good enough for us to have time to take, to set back and to be introspective, instead of life being so rough that you're just trying to survive. Yeah, it's just. A sad. Reality of life is that you get caught up in the story of yourself and what's going on in your life, that you never pull out and zoom out and look at the bigger picture of we're all going through it, in just different forms. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
05:45
Yeah, yeah. Well, I know, we started that off a little, a little deep. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
05:50
Well, this week my grandfather has been. He's gone downhill quite a bit, and so Kami went and sat with my mom while I was at work the other day and I came in and they told me that they were talking about. When I was two years old, I would walk up and hop in my mom's lap and unbutton her shirt and get her tits out. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
06:09
Wow, that sounds like me at 33. Not with your mom, of course, and I never quit baby, Not with my mom. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
06:20
That's interesting. No, yeah, so they've been bonding. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
06:22
What was the? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
06:22
purpose. Were you like drinking or? You were just into it Full grown boy. I just I tasted good. I guess I don't know you had good taste at such a young age. Yeah, what does Kenny say? Kenny says that, oh, it means something about me. What do you think it means when it happens, when you nurse too long? What does that make you A pussy, a boobs guy, instead of an ass man? Yeah, you're definitely into boobs. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
06:49
Or they're into you. Catch my drift, they're into your mouth. Yeah, nice but yeah, I think it just makes you more loving, more loving Of boobs. Would, you consider yourself a more mommy's boy or a daddy's boy? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
07:05
That is a good question, Mom. I mean, I and I are extremely close. Mom and I are very similar. Yeah, probably my mommy's boy. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
07:14
I think that's me too. You know your dad's there to like kick you down and pick you up. 

07:18
Yeah and just be that you know inspiration, I feel like, but in the times of needs, or it's like I know I could always call mom. You know inspiration, I feel like, but in the times of needs, or it's like if I know, I could always call mom. You know what I mean, Probably why I'm the meanest to her, and it probably has something to do with us breastfeeding at such a. You breastfed long too. I don't think I did. I think I did a little nibbling. Mom didn't like that, Not when I did it. She may like that, but not when I did it you know? 

07:45
yeah, I'm sure she didn't and for some reason I've carried on that nibbling today, in this day and age, not me. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
07:53
I don't like the aggression. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
07:55
I like it to be very there's sometimes where I get that nipple in there and I just want to bite it off sorry, mom, I do agree. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
08:04
I know exactly that feeling. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
08:06
I feel like I got a little raisin in my mouth and I just need to pop that raisin, yeah. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
08:18
Not sure what that means, but I know exactly what that means. I don't know, I could see it happening though. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
08:25
Do you like nipple rings? So I first saw my. This is a pretty funny story, actually. I first saw my first set of nipple rings at the skating rink when I was like 12 years old. The boys in the girls bathroom were down the same hallway and you had to, like, obviously, turn left or turn right to go to the designated spot to use the bathroom. Well, this girl, girl, she was like I got to go to the bathroom. I was like, okay, we'll skate up there with you. So we skated there, and then which is gross you could skate in the bathroom, and when you take your skates to the counter, they always spray the insides. They don't do. 

08:59
What the fuck is on the bottom of those. That's a good point. That's disgusting that's a good point buddy, and but anyway she's like hey, have you ever seen nipple rings? And of course, of course not. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
09:09
I'm 12 oh, she showed you purposely. Yeah, she showed me purposely. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
09:12
Cool, yeah, that's way cooler than accidentally and uh, and so that was the first time uh, some chick purposely showed me her breasts. The second time was on the bus. I think I was in, uh, seventh or eighth grade. This girl I will keep her name discreet because I know exactly who she is you tell me later and you know who you are and uh, anyway, she's like daniel, and she was like laying in the seat down and she pulled it out and she said don't tell anybody. And of course I'm like I won't. I told everybody the next day. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
09:43
He's telling everybody again now. I was like I'll show her. I told everybody the next day, You're telling everybody again now. I was like I'll show her tits. It was the coolest day of my life. Yeah, yeah, one of them. Back then too. Like kids grow up now I'm sure they've seen tits at what. Six, seven, young age, young age I mean. Social media is around now so Stuff pops up on my feed. Don't know how or why, but it's there. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
10:11
maybe it just recognizes me that it knows what I like, but it's there in front of my face. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
10:12
It took me forever to see a real pair, really forever high school, I'm pretty sure. So why, why? What was the reason about the breast? Encountered breast, unbuttoning story of yours the mom and katie have been talking about me nursing too long nursing too long. Specifically, they talk. What do you feel like it means? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
10:25
for someone who's been there and done that. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
10:28
I don't know, I think. I think it is let's hear it the mama's boy thing. For sure, I think I like to be nurtured and babied, you know. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
10:40
Yeah, I think you'd like to be told what to do. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
10:42
I think you do like that. I do like it a little bit. I think it's good for me. Actually I don't my mind. Just I can't do it all up there myself. I just need someone to organize, I gotcha. I think that's the good side for the creative but the awful side for responsibilities. I mean, you did kill the squirrel. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
10:59
I did Exactly. You did kill the squirrel, yeah Well besides. So what's going on with your granddad? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
11:06
So granddad, he's 93. He's had poor health for the past several years and he recently had a stroke and he's been having heart attacks too this week. So he started off. He's been in hospice now and so they're keeping him comfortable, which is good, because the past few years he's struggled with health things and he hasn't gotten a whole lot of pain med help. So he's been miserable. He's just been pushing through, and at that age pushing through is pretty miserable, trust me. He lets us know and so he's more comfortable now. But you know, like when the morphine starts, that kind of the breathing gets taken away a little bit more because they're more relaxed and things like that. So he's not fighting as much, but he does seem like he's going. Yeah, so we think this week he might go. 

11:56
But I'll be honest I've said that a couple of times over the past several years A lot of years, and I've said this about several grandparents that generation of people, yeah, and I've said this about several grandparents that generation of people. They just keep going Relentless. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
12:09
They are relentless, relentless. I would say the same because my papaw I think he was like 93 when he passed only because he fell and broke his hip, only that. I mean, he didn't die on like impact or anything, but like he did pass shortly after, like a month to the day, he did pass. Okay, sorry, that's your grandpa Great guy, but yeah, I mean he didn't die on impact. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
12:39
Okay, but which? Actually, you know what. I'll go ahead and do this here. The word of the week this week is resiliency. And that was because I saw my grandfather going through all of this and even still fighting death, and one could argue in a good or bad way for that, but I look at the way his health has been. I would have been dead years ago. 

13:05
You said fuck this Take me now, yeah, in my 70s, but you know, I really do think I was thinking about on this, like generation is. You know he was in World War II, his grandparents, I don't know, they were Native Americans or something, whatever, the things he's seen and gone through. That generation of people can just, they just know how to nut up and I think about, like my generation of people, I don't know how long we're going to live Because we're not that healthy of people and we don't have a whole lot of fight in us either. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
13:40
Yeah, and just like stuff has changed, like food, for example, it's over producedced, over processed on top of that because we have to keep up with population. So, like back then, there wasn't as many people on the earth as there is today. Yeah, you know, and a lot of people that was. They were like farm fed, they harvested their own food, they killed their own cow, you know. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
14:01
So well, that's what was I mean. Right now, it's like money's the only thing that's valuable. Then it was like you could have your own farm and you had value, oh yeah. Like things were worth the rest of your life, which I guess you could still technically do that today, sort of, except we're too dumb. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
14:16
Yeah, or it's going to get bought out by the government and get commercialized, right, oh yeah. We see your land, we'll buy your land. We're going to put these cows in here. We're going to just pump them full of, you know, dicks. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
14:28
Yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
14:29
Pump them full of something you know, some great preservatives, steroids and beef, these things up and just overproduce, and then you're cutting down on quality of product. Are we eating cows? I don't know. Yeah, the nutrients issue you should be eating a little cow mixed with a little bit of goat. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
14:47
And I've said it before, I think that my father's cancer was because of processed food. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
14:52
Really I think so. You think Because he ate a lot of it. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
14:55
Pretty darn healthy person. Everywhere else he didn't eat great, but he didn't like he wasn't like overly eating, stuffing his face. But you know, dad, he was cheap, and cheap in America means you're eating a lot of processed food, so personally I don't even know. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
15:10
I mean it is a good way to control population. Yeah, To be honest, I mean, people lived so long back then. Well, we had this talk. You know what I mean? Like cavemen probably didn't, because they were killed by the. What are those big things with the tusks? Sabertooth tigers. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
15:27
Sabertooth or the mammoths. Do you know? They're bringing back the mammoth, they're bringing it back. What do you mean? They are doing something. They got an embryo or something and they are bringing it back to life. I'm quitting, I'm dead serious, dude. Mammoths are coming back and the dodo bird. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
15:45
That's a big bird, that's a giant running bird. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
15:48
That's why I thought so too yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
15:49
Yeah, the dodo was. I think it was in the Croods. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
15:55
Isn't that a dodo bird? I haven't seen the Croods. Probably, though, that's what makes sense. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
15:58
Yeah, the dodo bird was there. Dodo bird was there, but it's a fast bird. It's a fast bird and it's a large bird, almost kind of like the ostrich. Yes. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
16:07
A fuzzy red, a round head and a beak. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
16:12
Well, it's a bird, so it's probably got a beak. It's kind of in the same family as Jordan or the Large bird. It's either in that family or the ostrich family. Okay, something similar. Okay, so what was today's word of the week? 

16:27
Resiliency but that just goes to show you, with that mindset, if you have that resilient mindset, anything is possible. If you want to stay alive a little bit longer, just stay resilient. If you want to do better in life, stay resilient and just stay going towards that process and keep pushing towards your goal or to, to whatever that is. But if we that just shows you if we have that resiliency about us, anything is possible. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
16:56
And I think it's important to remember that, like everything you do is going to have struggle. Therefore, you have to have resiliency. Not all the great things aren't just easy going and it's all great all the way through. Things always get tough. There's always a moment where it feels you feel like giving up. There's always another moment where you'll feel like giving up, and then there's another moment you'll feel like giving up, and that's what resiliency is is, at those moments, saying I want to keep going. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
17:20
Right. And then you said people can argue with you know, kind of beating, death or overcoming that. You can argue good or bad. It could be great in a sense of like think of my aunt right now who's going through Hodgkin's lymphoma. It's like she has a freshman in high school, a freshman in college, child children, you know, and if death beats her they're left with you know, one with nobody and one with a dad, and then if she overcomes that, then think of it as like she's there, you know, and she don't wanna, she don't wanna give up, you know. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
18:01
Well, it's, yeah, it's nice. Because's nice? Because it that it makes you think of we develop a lot of resiliency when we have, like a responsibility to another person or a connection to somebody or something to hold us here. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
18:14
Yeah. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
18:14
And then it's like you know, I think of, like, like my grandfather's, watched most of the people he knew and loved pass away and obviously he still has us and mom, but still holding on through. All that is the amount of resiliency. It is pretty impressive but, like your aunt, I'm sure she gets all of her like strength from the fact that she has those loved ones to take care of. You know, like, and that's a powerful that can love, powerful connection to keep you resilient because, um, if you weren't, it'd be a sad oh yeah, sad existence. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
18:52
I think to make resilience work is to surround yourself with those people that want to see you overcome whatever it is you're overcoming too. I think that's what fuels the fire, as well as the person who are. You know, I don't want to leave my wife, I don't want to leave my kids here alone, so you're going to fight for that. But what's going to fuel that fight is the people. That's like you got this. I feel like to to kind of keep you in that right mindset, because right now she's going through so a little update with her. She's approved for the whole stem cell transplant and I guess they kind of brought her in this past week and was like, hey, this, this and this can happen. 

19:38
There's a 40-something percent chance that the stem cell transplant can just pretty much reverse everything and your liver may not accept it and everything's rejected and 47 or 40 something percent chance that there's death. So when you're told that, it's like it really like she's been really down this week. But I saw a message on, or I saw a comment on, her Facebook post. It was like those statistics are not her personal statistics. These are statistics from thousands and millions of people who probably have so many different underlying issues, different stages, different everything. And I think that comment kind of really pulled her out. She was like you know, thank you so much. I really needed this because it's not. It's not who she is is you know, she's been so positive through this whole thing, but that right there was like hey, you got a 47 chance of death. When you hear that, who wouldn't just be like oh shit yeah you know what I mean. 

20:34
So now I think she's at the point to where she's kind of coming out of that sadness and understanding that percentage isn't based off of her. She's not part of that percentage yet. So you know she's she's back in fight mode. I feel like seeing that glimmer of hope. Yeah. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
20:50
It's, it's nice, it's powerful to have, just just being able to have I guess they call it like agency right Feeling the power that you have to control in some form. And so when you see like a glimmer of hope, like that, like a perspective, then you feel like, oh, I can change my perspective to have control over this a bit, and that maybe this other thing that I was told was just a different perspective and you can choose your perspective sometimes and become more resilient or become anything with a different perspective. No one perspective is right. It doesn't seem like, at least. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
21:21
Do you think having a resilience trait, like as one of your traits, is good or bad? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
21:29
I think it's always good, at least for yourself. I think we, some douchebags, can be really resilient, and that sucks yeah, that's true. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
21:36
Yeah, so there's two ways of looking at it. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
21:38
That's true, definitely yeah, I think evil and things like that are extremely resilient, yeah, ignorantly resilient, yeah, and you have to be extremely resilient yourself to endure that is true the goodness coming out the other side, yeah. Man God, you're fucking smart Well you know, or at least I think you are, I'll be dead before you. But don't take my word for it. You're more resilient than I am. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
22:02
I'm very resilient and it could get the best of me sometimes. You know when, when I, like I'm resilient on trying to change someone, you know what I mean. Like I know this, I know you're going down the wrong path and I'm trying to change your mindset, change your personality, trying to get you thinking outside the box a little bit I'm very resilient in that and then I become, I feel, a source or a sense of defeat because I can't pull you out of a certain thing. So being a little too resilient at times too can can kind of backfire at me. Right, and it has in the past. But, like I said this week, I've understood that like hey, people are people, everybody's different. Like I said this week, I've understood that like hey, people are people, everybody's different. I can say, and that's why a lot through life and you've told me this in the past it's like people have to go through these experiences and the ups and the downs and the emotions and figuring it out themselves at the end of the day. Yeah, you know. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
23:01
It only sticks if they figure it out themselves. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
23:03
Yeah, 100%. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
23:04
They might understand what you're saying in that moment, and then the next day they're right back in the pattern of their own lives. Yeah, they have to disrupt that pattern, they have to go down the, they have to put the puzzle pieces together. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
23:15
Yeah, and unfortunately it sucks sometimes because it's people that are so close to you and it's like what the fuck what I mean, but at the end of the day, you know, down the road they figure that out themselves and then it's you feel so like they when I say you, I mean them, but like you feel a sense of like humbleness come over you and it's like holy shit, I was a little shit, like I was, you know, and I just feel they have to go through that. Unfortunately, you have to let them go through that, and that's people with addiction too. 

23:46
You have to let them figure it out for themselves Like, hey, they know they're doing something wrong, they know they've just got out of jail, they know that they're addicted to this or that. But I can tell you and try to inspire you in such a way, but at the end of the day, it's up to you to make that decision. You're in control of your personal emotions. You're in control of your destiny. At that point, you know what I mean. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
24:13
Yeah, yeah, I think you're spot on with, just like you can't control other people. It's just, and you can't. You can't be a huge role model unless they look at you like that, right, but they have to make that choice, yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
24:29
And I didn't mean to cut you off. But, yes, you're exactly right, you can try to be that person, you can try to be that role model and that's okay. But you have to understand that if you don't change that person, you have to control your emotion, because there's so many people that get mad or upset. It's like you know. Think of it as a marriage. You're trying to save this marriage. You find out such and such is doing something bad and you're trying to change them and you're trying to change them. That's the problem. You're trying to change them. At the end of the day, they have to change their self. Just like an addict, you can say, hey, that's bad for you, you're throwing your life away, you're throwing your family away. They're not going to know unless they change it for themselves. You know what I mean. To think different or pull themselves out of addiction, pull their self out of a failing marriage, pull their self out of financial failure, pull their self out of being just unhappy. Yeah, you know. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
25:27
Yeah, I think you could say, like when people like I think of when I've been told my whole life things I'm doing wrong, I'm being brainless and mindless right, which is great that our slogan is mindless and brainless, because I feel like I've lived a lot of my life mindless and brainless and like, and then I came to a conclusion at one point like man, all the cliche sayings are all true. 

25:49
I've just always kind of ignored them or wasn't ready to hear that at the time, or all this. And I think of a lot of people who have gotten really frustrated with me trying to tell me things that I need to fix. And they were right. I wasn't ready to hear it, but they also, I think a lot of times people tend to looked at me as being dumb or something like that, because I didn't hear it in that time, because they were right and I was wrong, and then that's how they took it and it was just that I wasn't ready. 

26:19
And I think, years later, as I as I I'm known for this with Kami and my friends I have epiphanies all the time of, like, really stupid, simple things that are normal, like not biting my fingernails, things like that. But the epiphany is is that I finally put the puzzle pieces together to actually use this as an actual way to change my life. It's not just someone telling me you shouldn't bite your fingernails and me listening, and then I just move on. It would be great if I worked that way, and I guess some people are that way and it's hard for them to accept that. People are like us, where we feel life out and then we put the puzzle pieces together as we put them together, and it doesn't connect and we can't make real change until we have put those things together. And I think so, like when I think of like trying to help other people. 

27:05
Sometimes, if it's like that situation, like how would you go about helping someone? Like cause you do still need to say something right, cause you still have to be like hey, but you say it out of concern, you say it simply, you don't make them feel like an idiot, you don't make them feel like that. And then you love them anyways afterwards. And I think that that is the key you love them anyways afterwards and you don't. You know, you know you don't control it, you don't always bring it up, you don't nag, because at some point when they mess up, they have to make the connection. I just messed up and did that again. I need to do that. I think it's where the starts. You put that little seed in their mind, where they've heard it before, and then, when it happens again, that little seed pops back in their mind like, oh yeah, that should have done it differently, and then they'll make another mistake again, and then slowly they stop making the mistake. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
27:52
I think it's important. You bring it up, that's for sure. Or just say, hey, try to inspire them, because at the end of the day, there's people out there that need some inspiration, because there's been many a times where I need some inspiration. So I go to YouTube and listen to a speech or something that I'm feeling and it kind of like it gets me thinking, because it's some things I've heard in the past from either a podcast or an individual. So it's important to be that person, that inspirational person or that person who can think outside the box. 

28:26
But you don't need to attack them with it, or you just you have to understand that people are people and they have to make that choice on their own and it just goes. It goes back to that that people are people, just because that's what it is. Everybody's different, everybody has a different mentality, everybody has a different mindset, everybody has different emotions and you have to control your emotions. And when you recognize that, when you understand that, it's like a weight lift off your chest, you know what I mean. And this past week I've understood that People are people and I heard something this morning it's like you're in control of your emotions and you have to understand those emotions, and those two together really changed my outlook this week, really. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
29:15
Yeah, and I guess another side of this thing popped up in my head of just like when you're helping someone, one thing it's my head of of. Of just like when you're helping someone, one thing it's like sometimes we we think of this as like things are people doing wrong, and I feel like that. That's a perspective that, as a person, that we need to work on ourselves, of people don't always need criticism. People sometimes just need to be pointed at what they're doing, right to where they can lean into what they're doing right in life, right to where they can lean into what they're doing right in life, and that's more positive way to help instead of, I think of right now the world is just full of criticism. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
29:47
It's full of constant. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
29:48
What are you doing wrong? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
29:50
That's what. That's what everybody thrives off of Thrives. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
29:53
Yeah and thrives on other people's wrong. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
29:55
It's not their own. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
29:57
Looking at what everyone else is doing wrong, that they are doing right, and I think a great way to inspire is to look at someone and look at what they did. And you could like, for example, like when I show our podcast, the way I tell people is like just give me a compliment first. Start with a compliment, tell me what I'm doing right. That way I know what to keep doing and not to worry about or to make to push lean further into. I know there's a lot wrong here. I know that there's things that we can do better here and there, but I'm not trying to make something perfect here. I'm just trying to make something good Right, and I think it's a great way to criticize people would be, through positive criticism, of telling them what they're doing right, what the way that, where they need to be headed that, yes, you are pointing in the right direction here. Go that way. If you want criticism on other stuff, ask me. Yeah, I'll tell you what I think is wrong. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
30:42
But yeah, that is the number one way to get people on your team too, especially with management. I was always taught and always exercise. This is. You know, when someone left, we did like a TTM in and a TTM out and it's pretty much talk to me Like let me know what I'm doing right, let me know what I'm doing that I need to improve on. So when people left I worked at Wendy's for many, many years when people left I would always say, hey, great job on fries today, everything I touched burnt my hand. Dude, that was nuts. You know, crazy Good job, keep it up. 

31:16
But tomorrow I seen you salting, but it was a little too much, a little too heavy on the salt. Remember food cost. Just back the salt up a little bit, but damn, those things were hot. You know you're giving them that positive so they're leaving like hell. Yeah, I sold some hot fries today. Yeah, but then they're also knowing tomorrow when they come back, it's like all right, I could do what I'm doing. Yesterday I had them fries hot, but Daniel said a little less salt. You know you do that with everybody and you do that within in this situation and you're only going to get good out of it. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
31:50
Yeah, yeah, build a community, which is what we want to do, and have it all positive, everyone, everyone succeeding, everyone moving towards a better life, all that everything, yeah, so tell us what we're doing good today. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
32:03
I know we're good looking. We don't need to hear that we're begging for a compliment please, yeah, yeah, call it and tell us what we're doing right. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
32:11
What do you think about the glasses, Daniel? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
32:13
Oh, so when Jordan came here, I'm glad you brought that up, Because if they hadn't noticed yet which they probably hadn't, I'm glad you didn't. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
32:19
They did during the reading book sketch. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
32:21
I think so. But when he walked in, something looked different. I thought it was his shirt. So immediately the Waco Texas guy pops in my head, put some long hair on him and my man, jay, over here, looks like a cult leader. Okay, but they look great. I mean, we're trying to build a community here. They fit you. We are trying to build a community. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
32:43
And if you got a hot wife, you're welcome yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
32:46
But yeah, I think the glasses look great on you. You know you have the thicker black ones. Those look good. They're not fully circled, so they're not like so nerdy that screams like hey, I'm a nerd, but I got swag. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
33:03
Yeah, katie says you can see my eyes. Well, I don't have much eyebrows, but the old ones like. They're like goggles Right. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
33:09
Yeah. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
33:10
And now that you can see a little bit more of my eyes, you can almost see past those because they're my eyes. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
33:16
No, not past your eyes. You're not the lizard people. You can see past the glasses and you can see more of your face and your eyes. I agree with Kenny. I mean kind of get lost in them. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
33:27
Well, they're probably a keeper, so they probably have to get used to them, which means we might have to change the logo or something I don't know, but I'm going to be looking a little different here. There'll be some upgrades. 

33:35
I get a haircut this week from your boy, sweet shout out and Kenny, you tell me I think I need to start working out because, uh, we've noticed that we have a larger homosexual audience now on tiktok and she thinks that I should get in shape for those guys. I mean, you already look good for them. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
33:56
I think you're right, I appreciate it, you're right, yeah, you know they're calling me a girl. You're a twonk Like hey, girl, I'm a bit of a twink. What's a twink? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
34:05
What it sounds like A twig, just like a little thing Nailed it. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
34:12
When I hear twink, I think of twig. And what am I? You're a twonk, I'm a trunk. Yeah, exactly, I'm just a big fucking stable thing. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
34:21
You know, you got your twinks and your twonks. Yeah, a tree trunk, I think you nailed it yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
34:26
But yeah, I've been called a girl. They're like hey, girl, you've shit before. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
34:33
That's what they're calling me, yeah, they know you shit, before You've had diarrhea, you've had diarrhea girl. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
34:37
Girl, you've had diarrhea I love it. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
34:39
Yeah, I think it's awesome Because you have had diarrhea and you did lie on that. I've never done it before you do lie sometimes, but I feel like you believe your own lie. Is it a lie? They did the French fry thing on your podcast. That was a lie that Whitney remember. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
34:54
Oh yeah, that was not on purpose. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
34:56
That was not on purpose. No, that's what I'm saying. I think I don't realize I lie Does that mean I'm a compulsive liar. And then you have that thing where you're like I swear to God, I swear to God, that's what happened. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
35:07
Maybe I'm just trying to make myself believe that it happened, to make me feel better, right. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
35:14
That's a little compulsive. Well, is anything kind? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
35:16
of pissing you off this week, man, I tell you you're going to love this story. Okay, this is something that didn't make me want to do anything except kill myself. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
35:27
Okay. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
35:29
I'll help you if you need help. You ever had an itch back there on your rarid air. However, you say it In the crack In the crack Upper crack itch On the tailbone. I'm gonna be honest, I'm a vapor, you know, and this goes for anything. I feel like I've done this before, but I really noticed it this time, so I had a little itch. It was early in the morning so I slept. I shower every night, so I smell great when I go to bed, but I sweat a lot in the bed. I'm an excessive sweater. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
36:02
See. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
36:03
I'm an excessive sweater and you know, I'm sure sweat makes you stink a little bit. Oh, it does, and you could wash your ass all day, one day, all day, all day. You could just be in the shower scrubbing your ass all day long, but tomorrow it's still going to stink. Yeah, because I mean, think for shit as an example. You try to clean shit, it's still going to stink. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
36:29
Yeah, you have to get rid of it. Right, right, right. You know what I mean. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
36:33
So I go to work. I'm sitting here itching, scratching. I was like man top of that tailbone's itching. I scratch my vape sitting on the counter or my desk. I grab my vape, hit it and in that second I tasted every bit of ass that I just scratched. It was the most weird you ever had like a shit on a stick. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
37:00
Was it fruity. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
37:01
Yeah, because the vape was Not the scent. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
37:04
Oh, so it smelled like poopery, yeah, after you took a shit. Yeah, poopery smells great prior to the shit. It smells like shit with fruit after the shit. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
37:16
Yeah, You're not hiding. You ain't fooling me, bruh. You know what I mean. Yeah, it was the most, and you know now that I've recognized. So here's note to self don't scratch your ass and take a puff of the vape, because you're going to taste it. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
37:32
It's going to blow out. Fart, yeah, fart clouds, yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
37:34
In, in comes the uh, the vapors. Outcomes the green gas. That's just what happens. But I've done this before after cleaning, and I've noticed it Like I've cleaned my shower. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
37:44
You just got your ass. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
37:45
No, not after cleaning. I'm talking about cleaning a shower or something, or sinks like bleach Like. I was clean and then hit the vape and I would taste that bleach air. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
37:56
Are you sure it's not just like your hands close to your nose and you're smelling it while you hit it? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
38:04
I'm sure that has to do with it. Or did you rub your hands across the tip of it? No, no, no, no, no, I didn't just like. I wonder what this tastes like. Just rim my mouthpiece of my vape Residu-do as you say. Residu-do is the most disrupting thing I've done all week. I immediately messaged Jordan on Facebook and was like hey, note to self, don't scratch your ass and puff your vape. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
38:30
Because you will taste shit. Well, I'm sorry that happened to you, buddy. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
38:35
Yeah, not really did. It Didn't piss me off, just made me want to kill myself. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
38:38
Yeah, you're going to try it again, not kill myself? No, maybe you me want to kill myself? Yeah, you're going to try it again, or Not kill myself? No, maybe you should rub your balls and try it. That's not so bad. That sounds kind of good, because we found out that smells actually pretty enjoyable, pretty good, yeah, am I right, ben? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
38:52
Man, that's funny. Well, did we even? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
38:56
I guess we knocked it all out. Resilient. What did? 

Daniel Lawson
Host
38:59
you do this week though. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
39:01
Just, mainly just. You spent a lot of time with your granddaddy, grandpa, yeah, I've been over there with my granddaddy, so honestly, that's most of what I've done. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
39:09
Yeah, yeah, well cool man, I'm glad we talked about resiliency. I think it's important. Just be careful with it because sometimes it can get you in trouble. You, because sometimes it can get you in trouble. You just have to understand However you're using it. Just understand your emotions. I think if you understand your emotions, the rest is easy. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
39:27
Being resilient is good when it's for good things, so use it for good things. Be resilient like watching our show every week, resiliently watching our stuff, making sure the money is coming into our pockets. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
39:40
Yes, and be resilient on washing your hands before you puff your vape. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
39:45
Or not, if it's at your thing, yeah. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
39:47
Just don't use the bath and body soap, because you're going to taste it. Well, everybody, that's it for this week. Just be sure and tune in with us next week, you know, because we talk about some pretty funny stuff. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
39:59
Oh, and we're going to do the Enneagram next week. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
40:01
I know, I said this last week too. Sorry Dan, what's that? 

Jordan Hunter
Host
40:04
The Enneagram is like the personality test thing, so we'll find out like which personality type, you are Right, and we'll kind of we'll compare. Maybe you can take it and then I'll go over your results for you and maybe you can like look at my results and we'll tell each other about each other or something like that. That would be kind of a fun little thing to do. That would be fun. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
40:21
Yeah, we'll do that. He's lied to you twice. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
40:26
And I'm the compulsive one we still don't have a vision board either. No, not at all. We haven't done anything. We've told y'all we would do. Not at all. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
40:32
But you're still here. You're still here, love you. But hey, seriously, if you got anything out of this episode, send it to somebody, because we, you know, we do cut up and we do like to have fun, but at the end of the day, I think we have a good sense of knowing a little bit what we're talking about, just because we've experienced certain things that we're going through, or we've learned that lesson along the way, and we're not telling you how to live your life at all. We're not experts, lord knows. I'm not. I mean, I'm puffing shit vapes. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
41:01
Okay. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
41:02
I'm not an expert, but I've been through things and I've learned a couple lessons, and I'm just telling you what's helped me. At the end of the day, like I said, it's up to you whether you want to do something with it or not, but at the end of the day, too, I'm here to love you and I'm here to entertain, and that's what we're doing. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
41:18
And I'm here to entertain and that's what we're doing. Yep, take what you want, leave what you want, yeah, and always remember. 

Daniel Lawson
Host
41:24
I'm Daniel, I'm Jordan and we're Daniel and Jordan, your male entertainment for every Thursday. 

Jordan Hunter
Host
41:33
Clothed Later, bro Peace.