Ep 46: Change

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

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4.9 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of Monocycle is a real doozy. It's the first time in a long time that I stuck my head into that sound booth without a clear idea of what I would say once I was in there. Then words started pouring out, words I can't even recall having uttered. Did I listen to this episode several times over the course of the editing process? Yes. Obviously. Do I remember a single damn thing I said? No. I think my eyes have been staring a large computer screen too closely for so long that it is impacting my memory cells. Is that an unfounded excuse? Absolutely. Will I stop asking questions only to answer them immediately? Maybe. The bottom line is this: our theme of the month is Ch-Ch-Changes, but it's not a Man Repeller theme without a dash of irreverence (I can't believe I just wrote that in women's interest glossy type, but I'm not going to delete it because, you know, it happens to the best of us) so when we resolved we'd change, what we meant was exactly by staying the same. The point of this isn't to stump growth or improvement, to make you feel less like a good version of yourself. On the contrary, it's to cut yourself some slack! Just be, with a B. Let loose in that incredible mental way that doesn't require ordering an extra glass of wine. Tell yourself setbacks are okay, give yourself a high-ass fucking five when you do something you're proud of. Etc, etc. Or something like that. Just listen! Then meet me back here, I am literally waiting (I get comment alerts) and the last time I said that, I sat frozen for hours, EVEN DAYS!, waiting for you. So... Related Stories: Welcome to Ch-Ch-Changes Month on Man Repeller Monocycle: Episode 45, Resolutions Monocycle: Episode 37, Uterus Envy Logo by Kelly Shami - legsny.com/ Edited by Nicholas Quazzy Alexander

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Monocycle, a podcast by Manrepeller hosted by Leandra Medine.
0:10.2	It's been so long since I recorded the last episode, or I guess technically speaking, it's
0:17.3	been like 16 days, but my point was simply to say that I was going to talk about
0:21.8	Chich Changes Month in this episode. And then I was going to talk about another circumstance
0:27.5	or plague, depending on where you fall on the spectrum, called the difference between being in your
0:34.3	early 20s and your late 20s, but I'd really rather write that,
0:38.7	flesh it out in my head and then on paper, and then turn it into a podcast episode.
0:45.4	So instead today, you know what we're going to talk about?
0:50.7	Nothing.
0:53.7	We're not going to talk about resolutions. We're not going to talk about the fact that it's January.
0:58.0	Let's just call it a check-in. Maybe you can call a friend and just let them know how the last two or three weeks have been for you since we got back from the break.
1:06.0	You know, I was going to talk about how this year already feels like it's so much better than last year, but what's the point in comparing?
1:14.1	Like, I'm really trying to, like, let go of that.
1:17.8	This is an important concept for me.
1:20.8	I let myself be a certain way in one direction.
1:25.4	So for the sake of argument, let's say, I let myself believe in the
1:30.8	power of the universe in one direction, but then refuse to believe in it in the other. So like,
1:35.5	I could believe that the universe is going to crumble on me, which in which infers a sense of faith,
1:43.2	right?
1:49.7	But in respect to when things are going well and when things are good,
1:53.9	I just can't believe that things are going to be okay,
1:56.3	that the universe, quote-unquote, has my back.
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