00:24:45.360I feel like I'm having the urge for you to free me right now.
00:24:48.560Cause I'm like, yeah, you know, it's five o'clock and I already thought that I was going to get
00:24:52.020writing done today. I haven't, but I'm fine. I did, you know, I, I, I tidied up the house.
00:24:56.480I went grocery shopping. I went on a walk, you know, I'm, but I'm like defending the day in
00:25:01.540your inner corner, defending the day, but I'm like, it can still, thank God it's still bright
00:25:04.740out, but I can still do work. I can still like, I see your glow having turned the day around and
00:25:10.400I'm like, I can still emerge from my office victorious that I was productive. I can still,
00:25:15.600I can turn you around. You want to hear me do it? Yeah. OK, so you have to let go of the running start model. OK, you have to let go the feeling that that you have to have the runway, that you have to have the runway of a perfect morning to lead into the perfect productivity that you're looking to happen without with comfort. OK, this is huge. This is huge. Are you ready? And this is something that I learned in one sense from that book, The Van Gogh Blues, The Artist's Path Through Depression. OK. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:40.760it's like you know he he's talking about like not being too precious about you know your your
00:25:46.660creative path and oh these things have to be like this for me to write and he's like you need to be
00:25:50.500able and i think this is what he said this is at least how i remember you need to be like on a
00:25:53.620bench i don't know why i remember this way i could be wrong but i remember it as like you need to be
00:25:57.360like on a bench like eating a hot dog and there's like mustard on your fingers and like you still
00:26:02.280can get down to it and write the idea in your journal painting with the mustard painting with
00:26:06.980the journaling with the mustard you're saying just like with it stuck on your fingers not like
00:26:11.800yeah I have to get the mustard off my hand if you wait for the perfect conditions you'll be
00:26:14.580waiting forever of course yeah and the thrill and then also in another thing in that book how to
00:26:20.080write a screenplay in 28 days or something 21 days I think Vicki King book I read in high school
00:26:25.760you know she tells this story about having like diarrhea like being stuck on the toilet0.78
00:26:31.020knowing that she could use that as an excuse to like not get her writing done essentially
00:26:35.520anyone else would accept it but like and it's just you know because i was thinking about this
00:26:40.440the other day when i was working out i was thinking about like the whole like you're only
00:26:43.420cheating yourself and how that is never convincing or appealing when it says you're only cheating0.99
00:26:48.020yourself it's like there's something about it that feels like annoying it's like no fuck you0.99
00:26:52.800i'm winning because now i'm relaxing and i'm not doing the sit-up so it's not quite that yeah it0.96
00:26:56.880doesn't work but it was this so that phrasing is too loaded but it's like i lost the thread but
00:27:02.480the point is, what I have found is that there's a relief when you give up trying to make it
00:27:08.140pleasant. Oh, I needed to hear that. Yeah. Okay. Just it's such a fucking relief because you just
00:27:19.100go and every day I'm going to try to make it pleasant. It's never going to stop. Okay. That0.98
00:27:22.180instinct's never going to stop. I'm always going to be searching for ways to make it pain free.
00:27:25.940Okay. But if you just right now it's five. Okay. Yes. You had visions for how the day would unfold,
00:27:30.940blah blah blah okay and whatever if you did an hour of work you know on the task you don't want1.00
00:27:37.340to do yeah and you just sat down 10 minutes from now or when we get off okay just planted your ass0.99
00:27:43.380in a spot with a single you know cup of coffee whatever you need and did it yeah and and set0.98
00:27:48.020the timer try 20 minutes see how you feel i love you no no i have to be honest huge the hour as
00:27:54.940someone whose, you know, brain is absolutely atrophied from ADD and phone addiction and all
00:28:01.700of this only recently to differ. I see it. It's a glittering wonder still, but anyway, I'll let you
00:28:07.520continue. I love you. But, but I, but I only recently realized that even just an hour feels
00:28:14.100somehow doable that if I actually sit in the office and really do just works all day for an
00:28:18.820hour, I'm like flooded with euphoria and I feel like I can do anything. Oh, I once went from being
00:28:23.860literally on the floor i'm probably i don't know if i ever told this story on poop but i went from
00:28:28.360literally being on the floor yeah sobbing and depression yeah to up at my up at my desk upright
00:28:34.840in a spotless room i haven't reinvented time okay
00:28:38.800and some would tell the room was spotless that helps
00:28:43.680no i made it spotless that was the journey oh i'm sorry okay all right yes i got it so so from
00:28:51.520lying in a pile on the floor sobbing okay to up right up at a now clean desk um working my way
00:28:58.220through the problem of time and and you know one wonders was that did i go too high did i soar too
00:29:05.700high okay but i don't have i not talked about this on on on poog the the post-its i just said post
00:29:12.240it yeah but no but i i love what you're saying and you've helped me this is something in our
00:29:16.280friendship that you've continually a theme that continues is you telling me to just like
00:29:20.840except that um things aren't easy i don't know that it's like i can't create the pleasurable
00:29:28.160experience i just love pleasure so much so do i though i don't want i don't want to be mistaken
00:29:32.400because i i spend all my time trying to avoid pain yeah yeah that's why i know this so well
00:29:37.580you know what i mean like i i make no mistake i give advice i struggle to follow the writing in
00:29:43.280the morning light and that's why because there was a time even on pook not so long ago that i
00:29:46.780was doing this like mornings right i was like it's all the morning and i was waking up in the
00:29:50.140morning light on my face writing. And that was glorious. And it doesn't mean I can't continue
00:29:54.180that again, but I can't abuse myself for having let go of that schedule. And I can still have
00:29:59.820a great evening. I already have a bath plan. My bath is going to be my treat after I work for an
00:30:07.420hour. God, if only there was a way to realize the work as the treat. Well, I realized I'm actually
00:30:16.060having a lot less dread historic like right now for whatever reason I'm having it's still so hard
00:30:21.500but I'm having so much less dread than I've had in the past toward doing this and guess what you
00:30:28.000can think in the bathtub which I realized the other day I was in the tub and I was like wait
00:30:32.940I can think about ideas in here you can choose what you're gonna think about yeah yeah it is
00:30:43.120frustrating when you can't write it down but yeah well I have a little I have a little notepad in
00:30:47.820our shower waterproof that sticks against the wall it's called I forget what it's called but
00:30:52.740it's the little tagline is no bad ideas down the drain genius I know simply genius it's a charmer0.98
00:31:00.620but you know I just I I pitch this this taskmaster shit at you because I berate myself with it0.96
00:31:06.800throughout the day so I don't want you to suffer at the very hands of but I actually mean there is0.97
00:31:11.260Cause I'm, I'm not one of these life's hot kid. I do believe, you know, so it's like,
00:31:16.600no, it's a deep relief. What you're saying is a deep relief. There's a way in where you can go
00:31:22.200like sometimes like, like the one thing that will get me past my own avoidance
00:31:26.700is like this kind of furious, uh, put upon kind of anger. Yeah. Well, I guess I'll just have to
00:31:34.120show them how it's done then or something. I don't know. I'm not really sure what it is,
00:31:37.780but it's like it's like I guess it's gonna fucking suck let's do it you know what I mean yes and then0.92
00:31:43.600like in I go with a kind of rage I mean this is this I guess how people get to do the rage I don't0.92
00:31:49.400know I don't know the answers aren't there and and every day we we are new you know I know it's true
00:31:57.340I mean that's that's the the revelations only last they're so brief well they're brief and
00:32:04.640there's i mean i hate to say it i hate what i'm about to say are you ready i hate it so much
00:32:08.280you know the revelations are great but they're not action okay i know and no no more what was
00:32:14.740my this is a while ago i was like no more epiphanies yeah no more epiphanies yeah because
00:32:19.000you and me we get we get ecstasy cling to the epiphany yeah we get ecstasy and epiphany and
00:32:25.800i mean and that's why i think you and me on the c bobs so revelatory meanwhile we were trying to
00:32:32.620have epiphanies during i mean not trying we were we were that's the thing when action takes over
00:32:38.200okay that's one thing the c bob those moments when you're trying to when a moment is so
00:32:43.380perversely spectacular that you're like trying to instantly it's like the epiphany has to
00:32:49.600that was a moment in my life that i'll remember forever and it was this moment of like i've never
00:32:54.220been more free i'm in the ocean with you i feel it was like it was a dream state it was utterly
00:33:01.300surreal it was like full integration it was psychotic and even as i'm barreling on the water
00:33:06.600i'm going and what does this i'm still trying to locate meaning and i know oh because it's too
00:33:12.700profound the imagery is too profound always i'm i'm always you know reaching for the pen inside
00:33:19.060of my um water vest or whatever you know inside of my flotation device it's it's and we were at
00:33:23.940each other screaming be like this is that right like we were like yeah but we weren't completely
00:33:28.420to our credit we were in the we were present we were present we stayed present i have to say
00:33:33.040like we were no we were absolutely present like we kept diving back under the water we couldn't
00:33:38.820we couldn't i actually could cry how much i want to go back well i just and then we become locked
00:33:43.620in you see like even we're even us we're fools okay because we become locked in on cbobs like
00:33:48.380literally the device itself i know okay the motorized unit i became convinced was the only
00:33:54.440pathway the revelation is what we need and this is how people yeah and this is how people chase
00:33:58.540you know chase things and that's that's fine we're we're found and it is what it is but the
00:34:04.060being in the water with you diving under and over okay soaring bouncing along the simplicity of
00:34:11.860speeding the thing up I mean I even in my own you know way I mean I believe I mentioned this but my
00:34:17.760past life memories during that aren't that I don't necessarily believe are real but when I
00:34:21.520zipped under the water the ship yeah i heard myself and sort of captain's voice say um we
00:34:28.700didn't have a thing about bobs like this in my day yeah yeah like this would have been useful
00:34:33.560like fishing johnny out of the out of the depths you know the barracuda was in my dream the other
00:34:39.260night i just remember are you serious i almost sent you another picture of a barracuda for those
00:34:43.480who didn't listen to the episode we came across a barracuda and then later learned that we had
00:34:47.800been eerily close to having our faces lashed off by by a barracuda lashings last sustained
00:34:55.720lacerations from a barracuda sustained i just think like there's something about being lashed
00:35:06.020by something soft and that being violent like so not a tooth right not a not a barracuda's jaw right
00:35:12.620but like the the violence of being lashed by the tail of a fish for example yeah yeah it's funny
00:35:17.600the face sliced open by the tail of a fish yeah yeah just just just softness i've never had ocean
00:35:25.720plus speed equaling violence i've never had such an experience of the ocean as that and i have
00:35:31.000wait like if you were cut by the hem of a woman's skirt you know yeah as you shuffled by wait
00:35:36.560jacqueline i'm sure you talked about in the podcast but i just cannot remember did you talk about the
00:35:40.420shells i'm not sure because that's and by the way i just came across it again it's huge my shell is
00:35:46.000on my desk prominent display as like an ultra object to my subconscious and we were if if we
00:35:51.880did i don't care okay we're gonna tell it again we'll tell it quicker this time yeah we'll tell
00:35:55.120quicker but this is yeah if you've heard it just fast we're snorkeling together in the crystal
00:36:00.420clear waters crystal clear the sand is very clear i spot what looks like just the most classic sort
00:36:06.680of campbell soup if they had a sea-based variety noodle okay classic shell classic you expect the
00:36:13.880kind of conch type i guess yeah and down i go and i grab it describe the size though and even
00:36:22.100resting inside of it the size it's actually quite small it's only probably two inches yeah just for
00:36:27.200the perfect yeah um in case anyone's listening and uh and there's a tiny shell log through that
00:36:35.400but i i spot it i grab it and i show kate okay we surface every couple of moments we're at the
00:36:41.440surface bobbing yeah you know bobbing and i go look okay and i see kate kate recognize its beauty
00:36:47.560sort of in an in a just pure manner first and then i see you know i guess i don't know greed0.87
00:36:52.980ego lust um covet covetous energy i see the human come you know fly up within her animate within her
00:37:01.400and down she goes okay and i go what's going on okay and i know what's going on but i dive under
00:37:06.520to watch the show and kate is shopping kate is scouring the sand unharmonious lust just
00:37:16.540digging through the white sand there where's my shell where's my shell i must find it and find
00:37:21.940one as good and yes of course and i'm not kidding i pushed a fish out of the way there was this
00:37:26.860moment where i was like looking and there was like i i maybe i almost did i don't think my
00:37:31.780hand actually made contact with a fish but i yeah practically like like shoot away because i i
00:37:39.300wanted i need a token i became so overwhelmed because i attached so much meaning to this trip0.91
00:37:43.960to snorkeling to me snorkeling and i was like if i don't get one of these goddamn shells to take
00:37:48.200home and remind me of this experience then the experience will dissolve instantly right i found0.81
00:37:53.780a shell folks just kind of telling you found the shell and it does sit on my desk as a you know
00:37:57.980as a token to my lust i guess mine's sitting there and i almost sent a picture of it
00:38:03.000but there was this sort of moment of i mean i love moments where you and a friend there was
00:38:09.320something else about it too there was something else you know what i mean there's like a two
00:38:12.300there's something more about me shopping there's something else that happened
00:38:14.700was it like well was there a moment where you tried to shake it rattle it from my fist and
00:38:21.240into your own i may have a snatching problem it's an only child thing oh right like did i feel your
00:38:29.220hand was there a moment where excuse but did i grab it there was something else that happened
00:38:35.240that was outrageous i mean i just i saw your rabid you saw like lust and i thought and then
00:38:41.800i think the night came in again where i started to try to find you one myself so sweet yeah okay
00:38:47.480the night was gonna deliver oh my god jack i'm actually remembering how sweet you were about it
00:38:51.100Cause you were like, you'll find one, you'll find one.
00:38:52.520And I was like, yeah, I'm sure you were soothing me in this way.
01:04:29.460But the point that I'm trying to say is that my mother does is she does cottage cheese with like a chopped up mango or like some kind of fruit, right?