We are often so caught up what we have to do next to achieve our goals that we forget to feel good about all our accomplishments every day.  Even getting out of bed could be considered an accomplishment some days, but we often become so fixated on the next thing, we don't even take the time to appreciate how amazing we are for whatever things we accomplish throughout our lives.  This is your reminder, while you're listening to this episode take the time to think about how far you've come in your life and appreciate how amazing you are for getting to where you're at now.

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In this world of mass connection it seems so difficult to look anywhere without seeing something tragic happening in the world.  It's easy to even feel guilty for feeling happy.  While so many others suffer, how dare we even have a little bit of happiness in our lives, right?  WRONG.  This sounds like a crappy line from a cliché self help book, but it really is OK to allow yourself to be happy.  Instead of telling yourself, "I'll be happy when... xyz" tell yourself, "I'm happy because..." regardless of the reason you decide, even if it's something as silly as waffles.  "I'm happy because waffles."  So instead of worrying about fixing the world's imperfections, start with learning how to just be happy despite imperfection.

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Ahem.  Anyway.  WE'RE BACK B*TCHES!  After a long streak of life getting in the way, we return with this grand ole' episode about friendship, mostly from the viewpoint of male on male friendships because, well, that's our perspective.  There seems to be a surplus of men that call themselves lonely in today's world.  Maybe that's just because previous generations never admitted it, or maybe that's a signal of a real epidemic in our culture.  It seems like strong, male on male friendships are somewhat of a rarity anymore and well, we're here to *try* to talk about it.  This episode features our good FRIEND (yay), Toast.

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Ok so this title is purposefully misleading.  Sounds like some military drill line, but I'm actually talking about dating apps and the constant left and right swipes in the hopes of finding real happiness.  Too bad so many of those profiles can be so easily faked, or be bots (seriously, how does Tinder not have a Captcha yet?), or just generally misleading as people show off their "best selves" just like on all other social media.  Or those people that write things in their bio like, "I'm a bitch, deal with it" or that just scream F*CKBOI, showing off their worst selves and expecting others to deal with their lack of emotional stability.  Anyway, today we talk (read: bullshit) about dating in a modern world.

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In light of recent suicides of major public figures (Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain), we take this episode to discuss suicide and everything that goes along with it, especially with big public figures.  Not sure what else to say about this episode, it's pretty straightforward.

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In a special father's day episode (admittedly a few days late), Peter talks about his gratitude for his dad while Kody is out sick with mono.  Even as I type this, I can already hear Peter making a dick sucking joke XD.  Happy Belated Father's day to all the dads out there!

-Kody

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P.S. We'll do one for moms at some point too, honestly we didn't even think about incorporating these holidays into the podcast back in May.

We've already touched on this subject briefly in other episodes, but we wanted to delve into it further.  Learning how to accept others for their flaws can be a good first step to learning how to accept yourself for yours.  Bonus: Peter gets a little personal and Kody plays therapist.

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Holy shit we've made 20 of these things.  If you've listened to all 20, props to you, we appreciate the f*ck out of you.   Anyway, in this episode we discuss what it means to have self worth, self confidence, self esteem, etc. and what those words mean.  We're really not 100% sure ourselves, but hopefully our discussion will spur you on a path to find out what they mean to you.

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Today we welcome our first guest star!  Welcome, Travis, to TIFU!

In a time where our lives are filled to the brim with an infinite amount of shit that keeps us too busy to think, where do we find time to "find ourselves."  We're told we must know what we want to do with the rest of our lives by the time we are 18, but rarely do any of us actually succeed in doing that.  Self discovery is a life long journey of discovering what we are, what we are not, and how to love ourselves unconditionally.

Matthew McConaughey speech

Charlie Day speech

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It seems that the older we get the more urgent it feels to get the things we (think we) want.  As our lives feel like we have less and less time in them, our desire strengthens to have the things we want.  It's easy to forget that things that are worth having are worth waiting for, and things that come easy don't feel as valuable as things that we work for.  It can be especially difficult in a world where it's so easy to get something as simple as food at the snap of a finger.  Unfortunately it seems that while we're busy running around like crazed chickens trying to get everything we want, life tends to pass us by.  So let's make light of it and talk about Kody's run in with the POLEESE.

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