Nora McInerny is an author, host of the podcast "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" & co-founder of "Hot Young Widows Club", a non-profit organization
REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal
Jon Bernthal
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Nora McInerny is host of “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” a podcast where she brings guests on to talk about their difficult and challenging life experiences in a candid and real way. Nora is also the author of "It's Okay to Laugh" and "No Happy Endings", co-founder of the "Hot Young Widows Club", and the founder of "Still Kickin", a non profit organization.
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| 0:00.0 | I do think we have the sacred responsibility to live fully in the face of our losses. |
| 0:05.1 | And like, living fully is not just like, yolo, let's like, go skydiving or something. |
| 0:09.1 | You know, it's like to live fully is to experience happiness again, to experience sorrow again. |
| 0:15.5 | If you are lucky, you will love deeply and you will risk that loss all over again. |
| 0:30.0 | Like, my kids definitely like, yeah, my kids really, I think they lean more to the physical abuse of their |
| 0:48.5 | dad. And it's bad. I mean, and they're really good at embarrassing me. We like to embarrass each |
| 0:53.9 | other. There's a lot of like, you know, nut shots, you know, when I'm in a conversation, |
| 0:58.3 | which I remember I hit my dad in the nuts like one time when I was little and he like beat the |
| 1:02.7 | snot out of me. And it was like one of those things. He's like, never hit a man there. And it was |
| 1:06.0 | like, I never forgot that. And I can't, I'm astounded by that my kids hit me in the nuts. And I've |
| 1:11.8 | like, you know, I've like given it to him back. And they just keep on doing that. But I listened to |
| 1:16.8 | this podcast called The Dad's Edge, you know, and it's, it's great. It's all about nut shots. |
| 1:21.8 | It's all about nuts. But it's, you know, it's just like helpful. It's a really, I want to talk |
| 1:27.0 | about this when we talk about your podcast. But it's just like, it's been enormously helpful for me. |
| 1:31.8 | It's just like tips on kind of just be more present, be more patient, you know, how to communicate |
| 1:38.0 | better with your with your wife and with your kids and just different tools. I love it. But like |
| 1:42.5 | the beginning of it, it's like, we are dads. We are sure. And I made the mistake of playing that |
| 1:48.0 | one time in front of my kids on a trip. It's like, dude, I cannot live it. We don't want to know |
| 1:54.8 | that you are secretly yearning to be a better father. Okay, we don't need to see that. |
| 1:59.8 | Right? But had anyone ever, literally ever communicate with you as a child? |
| 2:03.8 | Did anyone ask about your feelings? Dude, dude. But like, if my dad, my dad's like self, |
| 2:09.2 | my dad would literally, ah, fucking bullshit. I mean, like the idea of him like going and like |
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