meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Bert Show

If You're Drowning, Toxic Positivity Might Be The Lifeline You Need?!

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

News, Comedy, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Toxic positivity - the idea of being positive no matter WHAT - isn't generally a great idea...but it might just be the lifeline you need to pull yourself out of the bad luck muck.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The Bert show fried yourself and always being positive your sunshine your walking sunshine

0:05.7

But is it gotten to a point where it's toxic toxic? Toxic positivity and that's what people warn me about because I've been going through a streak of bad luck.

0:14.0

It, most recent events are I had a tree fall through my roof, five trees actually fell in the house.

0:20.0

Your upper lip is seven times the size is supposed to be. My upper lip is swollen this morning. the to see. I say it's four times now with seven. Yeah good.

0:33.2

Beginning of the show but it is they've come down to almost normal.

0:36.6

So the great flavored children's Sur tech is really working.

0:38.9

Yeah it is. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so it's all this kind of stuff and so I was like I had challenged myself to be

0:45.6

positive for a week because we had a terror reader in here and a mystic and she's all

0:50.9

like you get out what you know you get back what you put out into the universe and I was like well I'm in the doldrums right now so let me let me be positive and see if I can change things around it didn't work and people warn me of toxic positivity.

1:04.8

So I'm still going through some bad luck,

1:06.6

but what did work is now I'm not like super depressed about it.

1:11.0

And maybe it was a positive thinking. maybe it's the antidepressants I'm on, who knows? But the thing is, I have become really good at finding the silver lining in abysmal situations. And so if you have something going on not death okay not death or

1:26.5

terminal diagnosis but if you have a bad stuff going on in your life I will help you

1:30.9

find the toxic positivity spin.

1:32.8

So for instance, our car also got smashed by the tree

1:37.2

and it has been in the shop since April 29th.

1:39.9

Are you, it's still there?

1:41.4

Uh-huh, it's still there.

1:42.4

And every day, they're like, it's gonna be done It's still there and every day they're like it's going to

1:43.6

be done tomorrow and something else goes wrong with it. It was just in for a

1:46.6

cracked glass roof that was it. They broke parts on it now like the

1:51.8

the systems are going haywire and so it's on it, now like the systems are going haywire and so instead of being like,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bert Show, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Bert Show and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.