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Life is Short with Justin Long

Mark Epstein

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Mark Epstein, M.D. (The Zen of Therapy), talks with Justin about how he found his way to the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy, his thoughts on the afterlife and how to calm your mind when you're behind the wheel. Plus he talks about what he learned from his mentor and spiritual leader, Ram Dass.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.2

I recently took a flight from Los Angeles to New York and on that flight there was a man sitting in front of me

0:18.6

I noticed that he wanted to get on early. You know, they call people with disabilities and children veterans service members as they should and

0:27.2

he kept trying to come on in and I kept seeing the woman at the gate to say to him, we're not ready for people who aren't service member. He clearly wasn't a service member or a child or someone with a disability.

0:37.6

He seemed kind of like Bantetta Shea. And he was sitting in front of me on the plane and I noticed the sweet flight attendant shout out Chris at JetBlue. He went to gently wake him up. I mean, it was like as gentle as I've seen.

0:48.9

It's like the way you'd wake up like a baby. Do it to me pretend not to sleep.

0:52.7

You're like, hey, your foods here. Oh, thank you very much. Okay, that's the normal reaction. Here's what the guy did.

0:59.7

What is going on? What are you doing? Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, your foods here. I've just wanted. Oh my God, you know what? No, I don't want it.

1:09.7

Okay, just put it down. You know, you woke me up in hysterics. You were hysterical. I'm hearing this whole thing. I took my headphones off because it was like fascinating.

1:18.7

Did you get involved? Well, a little bit because Chris later flight attendant said he was very nice when I went to the bathroom. He said, are you the guy? You know, and I said, yes, and I said, I got to tell you, you're so patient. He couldn't have done it better. I was thinking, what would I have done?

1:32.7

You know, how would I have gotten through this? It requires a level of patience. You might have had to meditate. I might have had to. I would have definitely had to. And I wonder if Chris does meditation.

1:42.7

But I want to say thanks to Chris and everyone at JetBlue. Other than that, it was a wonderful flight. I'm glad you made a pack. So am I. So we could do the show. That's the only reason. That's the only reason.

1:52.7

Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream. Oh, dude, you're listening to life short. And I am your host, Justin. I'm back on the ground.

2:05.7

Life could be a dream sweetheart. Dude, dude, dude, Shapo. Back on the East Coast East Coast and Connecticut. So excited for that with Christian, my brother. Hi.

2:18.7

We also on the East Coast. Yeah, well, in the same room. Yeah, same coast, same room. Yeah. It's same breathing the same air. You haven't had COVID yet.

2:27.7

Oh, since since the original G. I got so offended for a second. You did. Yeah, I was I was like one of the originals. Yeah, but but you haven't had any that later strains. No, no, because I am I'm very careful.

2:39.7

Why was careful? You get offended when people suggest that you weren't careful. No, because it's so hard to be as careful as you need to be. Well, Omicron careful requires like a bubble. I think you have to be in a bubble.

2:51.7

I haven't gotten it. I'm very careful. Yeah. Well, I think I also got an airplane. Anyway, where cares. Why do you ask me that? Well, I don't know. We're just saying we're breathing the same air.

3:00.7

Uh-oh, but we're in the East Coast. East Coast is beautiful. Remember you have to talk to the mic. Oh, yeah, I was looking at the window to see the beauty.

3:07.7

I'm going to shout out the East Coast. You could just position your microphone facing outside. You know, I can't because I need this chair, these creaky chairs. I needed to back up against the wall.

3:19.7

So it doesn't move. We've never got in the chair. Which is a theme. Yes.

3:24.7

Which hopefully people don't mind. We've only been doing this show for three years. Yeah, coming up on three years. Wow. Um, but over three years now. Yes. Again, who cares?

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