A Show about Nothing... Well, Sorta.

Surviving Empathy

On this episode I use the old sitcom Seinfeld, "a show about nothing," to make the comparison between that show and how I was raised. First, this episode being kinda "about nothing," in that, we just wanted this episode to be about all our problems and grievances, in order to keep this episode organic and unrehearsed. But I also compare the old Seinfeld sitcom to how I was raised, in that, the main characters were notoriously known for talking about people in private without their knowledge, and how that was considered "a bad thing" in retrospect. But was it? I compare the show to how when I was a child, my mom and her best friend would talk about the absurd people they would meet and see while out on the town on a Friday night. The point being, there's a discernable difference between talking behind someone's back to be mean or cruel, and simply talking to make light or get things off our chest. This episode then takes an unexpected but revealing turn when Rebecca gets upset while we're recording, and I had to stop the show to attend to her. Afterwards, we return to the show to get people to see that we're all just real regular people dealing with real life problems, that having a podcast and being a public figure doesn't make us immune to the rigors of the world's hardships, dysfunctions, and inherent unfairness out there. The through line and point of this episode being that we all struggle, and that at some point, just because we try to be above the influence, we're all susceptible of being hurt and discouraged by that big bad world out there. We often play it off and put on a brave face, but at the end of the day, we all want to be valued for who we are, validated for the good people we're trying to be, and appreciated for our hard work and efforts. That when all is said and done, there is little difference between us all as people, other than the way we choose to give up or try harder, the ways in which we choose to react and how we choose to deal with life's universal hardships and difficulties. At what point is our hurt and pain our own fault or the fault of the world, and where do we draw the line in blaming our problems on some external tormentor and placing the blame, at least in part, on ourselves for not trying to heal and get better?

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