Finding Purpose | "Unhinged" (403) with special guest Tim Jo

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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On today’s episode of That Was Us, we’re diving into Season 4, Episode 3: Unhinged. As Uncle Nicky faces the fallout of his actions, Kevin steps in to help and crosses paths with Cassidy. Meanwhile, Randall launches his open-door policy, Kate meets her neighbor Gregory, and Malik opens up to Deja about his daughter. On the pod, Mandy, Chris, and Sterling talk to a surprise guest after ringing them up on a whim AND Tim Jo, AKA Jae-Won, joins to chat about his time on the show! That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Music by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith. ------------------------- Support Our Sponsors: - Keep it classic and cozy this fall with long-lasting staples from Quince. Go to https://www.quince.com/twu for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. - BAU, Artist at War opens only in theaters, for a limited run beginning September 26th. Go to https://www.baumovie.com/ to watch the trailer, read about Josef’s real-life journey, and find showtimes near you. You can also sign your organization up for group screenings. - To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to https://NakedWines.com/TWU and use code TWU for both the code AND PASSWORD. - Brought to you by Bombas, One Clothing Item Purchased = One Clothing Item DonatedHead over to https://bombas.com/ and use code TWU for 20% off your first purchase. ------------------------- 🍋 About the Show: The stars of This Is Us, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, and Chris Sullivan, dive back into the world of the Pearsons, reliving each episode and all the life lessons that came with it. Together, they dig in and dig deep, have the tough conversations, bring in very special and familiar guests, share never-before-heard behind-the-scenes moments, and feature listeners in highly anticipated fan segments. Join your favorite family back in the living room to examine our past, cherish our present, and look to the future with new episodes of That Was Us every Tuesday. ------------------------- 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:32 Discussion 01:11:48 Interview 01:30:52 Outro ------------------------- Executive Producers: Natalie Holysz, Rob Holysz & Jeph Porter Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Video Editor: Todd Hughlett Mix & Master: Jason Richards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of that was us. We're diving in the season for episode three, Unhinged.
0:17.0	Nikki struggles to stay on track after a setback, and Kevin continues to seek purpose in his life.
0:24.0	Meanwhile, Randall faces new challenges as city councilman and Kate and Toby adjust the life in their new home.
0:32.6	What's going on, gang?
0:33.7	Hey, hey, hey, hey.
0:34.2	How we doing?
0:34.6	Hello, 403. Here we are. We're just going to keep it moving.
0:37.9	Dive in right into season four.
0:39.7	Absolutely. Unhinged, Mandy just was commenting that like, that's like a different title
0:46.0	name for us. Yeah. Right? Yeah. It's in reference to something directly. Yes.
0:51.5	And we'll discuss it once we get to the episode. But what storyline shall we begin with?
0:57.0	Should we start with Nikki because he's kind of how the episode opens? Yeah, yeah. Go for it, man. He is drinking. He is not in a good way. No. He sees that Kevin has left a note with a bunch of meetings that are happening at the VA. You see him sort of decide to take the initiative.
1:14.5	He goes down to the VA.
1:16.5	He starts opening up to his counselor, therapist in sort of these individual sessions.
1:25.3	And he starts to open up and he's like, yeah, I, I hate this room. That's sort of his,
1:32.0	yeah. His way of, I guess, like cutting the ice, right? Bringing the ice. What else happens?
1:37.6	It's a montage of sorts. And we see. He's not drinking right away, right? Like he, it starts out,
1:43.3	he's freshly sober, and then he goes and then
1:47.3	he starts drinking again after his he finds a therapist that he likes yeah right i don't know i wrote he's
1:54.6	drinking and not i'm wondering he's drinking at the beginning he starts he starts his his road to therapy
2:00.4	he connects with a therapist.
2:01.9	And then the therapist says, I'm leaving.
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