Always Sunny Girl

Introduction and Birthday Celebrations

Brett: [00:00:00 ] Hey, it’s, it’s overtired. I’m so tired. Oh my God. Um, we all, all three of your favorite hosts are here today. We’ve got me, Brett Terpshire. We’ve got Christina Warren. Hey, Christina. And we have Jeff Severns Gunsell, who is. Fresh off of a birthday celebration. How’s it

Christina: Happy birthday, Jeff.

Jeff: Thank you. Thank you.

Reflections on Turning 50

Jeff: 50, 50, 50. The last day of the rest of my life.

Christina: You know, 50 is the new 40 is what they’re saying. So like,

Jeff: Yeah. I,

Christina: the start.

Jeff: it’s a weird number. I don’t, it’s a weird one. I was like saying to somebody, maybe I wrote this, that like, I feel like I, turning 20, turning 30 felt like skin in my teeth, like I barely made it, and, uh, 40 felt like inevitable and kind of, uh, disappointing, and, uh, and 50 feels [00:01:00 ] good, weirdly, just feels good, feels like, yeah, I made it, it feels like I made it, like, uh, it feels like a, not a finish line, but like, alright, cool, I made it this far, everything else is bonus.

Brett: I’ll turn 50 last year. I uh last year I started dating a 50 year old woman, which is weird because Or a 50 year old person. Sorry Um, which is weird because I still think of myself as like 25

Jeff: Did you just say last year you’ll turn 50?

Brett: last year last august. Yeah 50.

Jeff: My God, start over. I’m so tired. I, and I know you, you’ve been up beginning sleep. I got sleep and still I’m just hung over from not, I didn’t even drink at my party, but it was, we had it at a venue and, uh, and, and it was so much work getting ready, bringing everything over there. It wasn’t even that much stuff, but like, it was enough.

It was like a mini van load [00:02:00 ] and then like, get it. We had an hour for setup and then we did the party and then we had to break it down and. For some reason, maybe it’s cause I’m 50. That was exhausting. And I felt hung over the next morning despite not drinking at all.

Christina: No, I think that that’s fair. I think that’s fair. I think that that’s one of those things where it’s like, um, you’re totally like allowed to be, um, what was it going to say? Like tired and, and all that other stuff. Like, it’s just, just one of those things.

Jeff: Yeah. Yeah. And also it’s a tiring day.

Inauguration Day and Mental Health

Jeff: We don’t have to get into it, but it is inauguration day. Um, and we can. Probably

Christina: Yeah. And, and that, and, and that’s basically all we have to say about that.

Jeff: no, but it is, I do think it’s, it’s lending to a sense of, um, of malaise.

Christina: Oh, for, for sure. For sure. No, I, cause it was one of those things. So like, um, uh, I’ll get into it with, with, when we talk about mental health corner, but like, I’ve got like some stuff going on myself and, um, I, um, you know, it’s a, it’s technically like a [00:03:00 ] public holiday today because it is, um, Uh, Martin Luther King Day and so it was just like one of those like things where I’m just like, okay,

Brett: the, is the inauguration always on Martin Luther King Day?

Jeff: No,

Brett: Okay, that’s just such a fucked up coincidence then that we’re,

Christina: I mean, I’m sure it’s happened

Brett: inaugurating a racist on MLK Day.

Jeff: we’ve inaugurated our fair share

Christina: say, I was going to

Brett: on MLK Day? Come

Christina: Oh, I’m, I’m sure that that has also happened before. I

Jeff: On my birthday.

Christina: and yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Um, yeah, no, I mean, the irony is, is. Is right there. And then of course it’s happening like a week after two weeks after Jimmy Carter’s funeral and they had to have it indoors because of the, the cold or whatever.

And so like I made a comment that got way more viral than I expected it to be because the joke was in the comment, but I was like, you know, it’s kind of fitting that this is taking [00:04:00 ] place, you know, indoors because it feels really claustrophobic and like a funeral. And then everybody responds is, well, it is a funeral for democracy.

And I’m like, yes, that was the joke. Literally. Literally. That was the

Jeff: uh, I find, I find discussing it, for the most part, I’m not referring to this. I find if I am in a small group and somebody brings up the moment, I find it deeply unsatisfying to engage because it’s just like. I don’t know, I can’t even put my, my finger on it exactly, but it’s like somebody says something intensely obvious, and then everyone else shakes their head and we do need to vent and we do need to like, have some sense of sort of solidarity and community but there’s something about this moment that that’s not quite what it is, it’s like we’re all just Prepared, including myself to just like blurt out the, the last terrible thing we heard or thought about.

And it’s, it’s very exhausting right now. I was like, when you need that, when you need me for the resistance, call me. [00:05:00 ] Uh, but I don’t want to talk about it. Just assume I’m in.

Christina: Right. Right. No, but this was, this was just like a one off, like a knock on innocuous post that

Jeff: Well, you know, Christina, it is a funeral.

Christina: and I’m like, right, that was what I p