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The ZDoggMD Show

Dad's Birthday, Belief's Prison, and the Love That Holds It All

The ZDoggMD Show

ZDoggMD LLC

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On what would have been my father’s 86th birthday, I found myself reflecting not just on loss, but on the nature of belief itself—and how our attachments to ideas can become the very weapons that tear us apart. Originally from a conversation I had on Facebook live. Watch the video and read a summary here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One, two, three.

0:01.7

Just give it patience.

0:04.8

Yeah.

0:19.1

Yes.

0:26.3

Yes. It says live video is starting, so I'm going to assume it's true. What's up, everyone? Yes, it's Tuesday, like noon 22, Pacific Time, the year of our Lord 2025, September 16th. It is my late father's birthday, the second birthday, the second

0:35.9

birthday since his passing. So I'll call my mom a little bit. late father's birthday, the second birthday,

0:40.4

since his passing. So I'll call my mom a little later today.

0:44.3

It is interesting, you know, I've talked about his passing,

0:52.0

which was in 2024, in April.

0:56.5

And it was such, just so surprising the whole experience for how it felt here, you know?

1:04.3

Like, I think I was very lucky that we were able to, you know, connect on some level deeply before he passed and do all that work, especially

1:13.6

the code status stuff. So it wasn't as traumatic as it might have been. But yeah, I just,

1:20.0

as I read the date, I realized that. So, come on down, Albin Martinez. How are you?

1:28.3

Let's talk about all the deep stuff and the shallow stuff.

1:31.3

This political violence thing, you know, my main comment on that,

1:38.3

my mother and I were talking about this the other day, you know,

1:41.3

and she was getting very like, you know, I can't believe this and that sort of thing.

1:45.3

And hi, Bridget, my feeling was, of course, this is exactly what humans do when they hold beliefs and actually think they are true of any kind.

2:01.6

Because ultimately you can examine every single belief

2:05.1

and deconstruct it into dust, perspective, view.

2:09.7

It's fine to have beliefs, it's fine to hold them,

2:12.2

it's fine to even argue for them, advocate for them,

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