Help Me Help You: Esau Becomes the Internet's Life Coach
The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Everyone needs a life coach sometimes and Esau is here to play the role. In today's episode, he answers the internet's questions about friendship, marriage, calling, AI, church, and, yes, the ethics of eating your kid's leftovers. Joined by Producer Mike and Holy Post Community Coordinator Emerson, the trio tackles everything from existential crises to the proper number of slices you're allowed to take from a pie. Whether you're wondering how to make friends as a tired parent or if your marriage is weird because you don't fight, Esau's got takes, and lots of them.
0:00 - Theme Song
2:10 - Are Leftovers Fair Game?
5:32 - A.I. and Writing Careers
9:50 - Adult Friendships
17:35 - A Marriage with No Fights?
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23:08 - Unfulfilling Job
35:18 - Is four "a few?"
37:45 - Church Disappointment
47:00 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Passion in my pockets where my pennies should be. |
| 0:10.0 | What they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free. |
| 0:13.0 | I've been becoming me. |
| 0:15.0 | See when Jesus taking the lead with purpose I bleed and riles like doing under the heat. |
| 0:19.0 | Defeat is never. |
| 0:20.0 | You can't reattach |
| 0:21.2 | with a sever what's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your treasure |
| 0:24.6 | when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better |
| 0:27.5 | welcome to the east side macaali podcast I'm your host Issa McCauley. Today we have kind of two guests because you all are regular and you work here. So I don't know if we really counsel the guest. So we have Mike, our producer. Hello. It's good to be here. And we have a special, special guest this week. Emerson, I like to call her Emerson the intern, even though she's not the intern. It just flows from the, from the mouth. If you say Emerson, the intern, but Emerson, I like to call her Emerson the intern, even though she's not the intern. It just flows |
| 0:54.5 | from the mouth if you say Emerson, the intern. But Emerson, what is your real job here at the Holy Post? |
| 1:00.6 | I am the community engagement coordinator. And this is, the reason she's here as community |
| 1:04.7 | engagement coordinator is because today I'm going to engage the community. |
| 1:10.0 | Perfect. We're going to have a periodic set of episodes that I'm at least calling, |
| 1:13.6 | Help Me Help You. |
| 1:15.6 | I know there's a lot of people out there who need life advice, |
| 1:19.6 | and for some reason they've chosen to ask me. |
| 1:21.6 | That was probably where this thing went wrong. |
| 1:23.6 | But we asked the people to email in any questions, And I want to let you know, I am not |
| 1:30.2 | Switzerland. I am not neutral. I got takes. You got takes and lots of them. So I'm going to fire |
| 1:35.3 | off these takes. You applaud these takes at your own peril. So I'm giving you the takes. It is up to |
| 1:43.3 | you to use the sermon to figure out whether or not these takes are fair, correct? Yeah. Like, Esau's not perfect in his advice. He doesn't have all the information. Yes. But he's going to do his best to give you some wisdom. Some wisdom on how to live. And hopefully to the people who are listening in also might get some wisdom as well, even if this isn't your question. So Emerson, kick us off with the first question. Some of them will be serious, some of them not |
| 2:04.8 | so serious. Give us a lighthearted one to get us started. Exactly. We'll start off light. |
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