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Open the show today talking about Brady's appearance, Tom Brady's appearance of the Stephen Colbert show last night, which I found fascinating because of how weird the whole thing was.

I'm someone, if you've listened with any regularity to Felgren-Maz when I chime in or the weekend show I do with Chris Gasp, I'm someone who likes to read a little bit too much into things with professional athletes, their social media posts, why they do the things they do from a psychological standpoint. This is because I've spent a lot of time on a therapist coach in my 40 plus years.

So I'm doing the same thing here with this appearance because I think there's something,

or I thought that there was something very telling from Tom Brady and his unnatural amount

of smiling that he had in this interview that helps explain. This is really going deep into this.

I think it helps to me explain the deteriorating relationship that he has with Bill Belichick because Brady, for the entire duration in the interview, especially early, with Stephen Colbert was smiling to the point, Arcand, where it looked painful. And I was like, oh, is this because of Botox? Because I think it's safe to say maybe Brady's had a little bit of work done. We're posting up a photo of the appearance here. you could say that. Yeah. So nothing wrong with that. I mean, I think it's obvious, but yeah.

We got the pictures behind us here on the simulcast, but the whole thing was the whole time,

I'm just smiling, I'm talking, I'm talking, and I'm smiling, I'm smiling, and I'm talking. this wasn't some weird little behavioral quirk again as someone who has spent a lot of time in a therapist coach, the uncomfortable amount of smiling from Tom Brady, I believe, was on purpose. There's a theory that shrinks, and neurologists believe that that's as simple as forcing a fake smile can trick your brain. It's as simple as that. It can trick your brain. It can bring stress levels down and basically trick your brain into thinking you're happy all the time people that smile you smile you feel happy ah ah ah and i know this probably makes

me sound like more of a kook than i really am but the reason i this was the first thought

that i had last night watching this thing is someone who's gone through life with essentially

resting bitch face that's me looking like they're eternally bored because i normally am my own therapist years ago asked me to try this thing i did

this and i did and it kind of works to a point you walk around you're always smiling you look like

a escape mental patient right but you do feel happier but i stopped because it felt fake and i don't

want to be walking around like i looked like i was a mental patient more than I normally do. But the short time that I did do this, it did trick my brain into thinking I was a happier person. It did make me feel somewhat better. But it felt like I was pretty... Did it really? It made you feel better? It did. Like you felt better about yourself and about your life and everything else? Not my entire life, but I felt more uplifted. I didn't feel as I don't know, as nuts as I often do. Were you friendlier to people? Because I've gone out with you before. You're very outgoing. You talk to people and stuff like that. It's not like you're some recluse or whatever. Yeah, no, as I've gotten older, I've learned to be not so much of, I don't have as much anxiety in social situations that I did in my late 20s and early 30s, and this is when I was practicing this. So it did help me feel better. Yeah, absolutely. It did. But I also felt like I was pretending, like I was trying to avoid, and that I was trying to essentially have a safe space. And I hate that term because most of the people that want a safe space drive me crazy. I don't know how you would rate how or why you would want to raise your kids that way. But it's no way to go through life ultimately, pretending, to always smile and think that everything is okay. And this is what I think Tom Brady is practicing. I really believe this. If you put the pieces together with Tom Brady, some of the things that he said, if that Seth Wickersham piece is to be believed, and again, here's the chunk. This is what I immediately thought of when I saw him smiling like a nut last night. As his age increased, this from the Seth Wickersham ESPN piece, as his age increased, Brady has become an advocate of positive thinking. Belichick's negativity and cynicism have gotten old. Brady has told other Patriots players and staff, he feels he has accomplished enough that he shouldn't have to endure so much grief. Patriot staffers have noticed this year more than ever. He seems to volley between unwavering confidence and driving insecurity. Brady's noted a staff a few times this year, no matter how many game-changing throws he makes, Belichick hasn't awarded Impatriated the Week all year. Now, that last part I thought was kind of sensationalized like some other things in the piece, but I do think that Brady doesn't want to be around negative people. I think that Belichick's attitude and his gruffness and that he looks at Brady like he's just another piece. I think that drives him nuts. So he's kind of tricked his brain into being, no, everything's positive, everything's good. He's driving me nuts. I want no part of that. You couple this with the fact that Brady's aligned himself with the likes of Tony Robbins, who he did that appearance with here in Boston this summer, which was insane.

Who's also a big proponent of fake it to you make it and act as if and just go, you know,

this is one of the things that I've watched the Netflix special about Tony Robbins. I was just going to ask you about that. Oh, God. Wow, yeah. Oh, man, like you get to be a fly on the wall for one of those type of things, and it's all this kind of stuff.

It's like, yep, smile, you're going to feel better.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

And then you hear what Giselle B Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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