You want to look at every serious problem in our society today, and I mean virtually every single one.

Maybe I'm overstating this by saying all of them.

But whether it's what fills our jails, what creates psychiatric illness, what creates homelessness,

homelessness, poverty, interpersonal chaos, you find childhood abuse

at the core of all of these things.

And we live in a world where trauma is transmitted generation from one to the next. Welcome. Welcome back to adult child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up

in a dysfunctional family and today we are diving deep with just some random dude. You've probably never heard of him before. I think his name is Dr Drew Pinsky. Yes, Dr Drew is gracing us all with his presence. I had the honor of being on his

podcast about a month ago, truly a surreal experience and yet again another surreal experience when I had the

pleasure of interviewing him yesterday. I know he's a super busy dude so just

very honored and grateful that he took some time to chat with me. Now he is

somebody that has contributed so much good to this world over the past several

decades but most importantly and I realize that I say that a lot but most importantly but most importantly I just want to emphasize that he is just a really solid human he's super kind he very authentic. What you see on TV or here on his

podcast. That is who he is. He's compassionate. He's hard working and he's

super, super smart. And today I think you'll get to see, you know, a different side of him. I tried to focus more on him as a person, rather than him as a doctor or television personality. And as you heard in the intro the disease of family

dysfunction and childhood trauma is something that he is very passionate about

so excited for you guys to hear my conversation with him.

But first, I just want to say that this is the 20th episode of Adult Child.

You guys, how the hell did we get here? How the hell have you

been listening to my voice for 20 episodes and all the things that I say on a rather frequent basis, including rather, I mentioned, but most importantly, I've noticed quite a few things that I say on a regular basis.

I seem to like to start sentences off with really long like ands or sos I seem to say but rather quite often all these weird annoying things I say on a regular

basis you're probably counting how many times I say them each episode just

know that I am too. Oh and the other one is I seem to start off

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