The Second Half of Life | "The Pool: Part Two" (402)

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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On today’s episode of That Was Us, we’re diving into Season 4, Episode 2: The Pool: Part Two. Flashbacks to a day at the pool show Jack and Rebecca struggling to keep their kids close as they grow older. In the present, the Big Three deal with their own set of challenges now that they're adults. Mandy, Chris, and Sterling talk about the crux of this episode, which leads to a discussion about entering the second half of life. That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Music by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith. ------------------------- Support Our Sponsors: - 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. - 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. - Restore your peace of mind with Harbor: the only baby monitor designed to never fail you. Use code TWU or go to https://harbor.co/twu for $50 off ------------------------- 🍋 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 01:14:49 Fan Segment 01:25:43 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 into season four, episode two, The Pool, Part Two.
0:13.9	Flashbacks to a day at the pool show Jack and Rebecca struggling to keep their kids close as they grow older.
0:19.5	And in the present, Kevin questions his career path while trying to stay sober. Randall and Beth learned to give their girls more independence, and Kate and Toby mask their pain in very different ways. What up, gang? Hey, hey, hey. Hello. How's everybody doing today? All I want to do, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom.
0:38.5	And a boom, boom, boom. Just shake the rough. Come on, God. As featured in episode. As featured in this episode. That's all I want to do. As feature. Yeah. Everybody loves a little wrecks in effect, but everybody does, including Kevin Pearson. Including Kevin Pearson. Not Randall. Not Randall.
0:53.0	Randall couldn't follow the lyrics.
0:54.9	Randall doesn't know who Arsenio Hall is.
0:58.2	Yeah. Including Kevin Pearson. Not Randall. Not Randall. Randall couldn't follow the lyrics.
0:54.9	Randall doesn't know who Arsenio Hall is.
0:58.1	Yeah.
0:58.6	And that's, I question his family for that.
1:01.7	Yeah.
1:02.1	Yeah.
1:02.9	My fault.
1:04.2	I take ownership of that.
1:05.6	Cultural cultural situations.
1:08.2	It's big.
1:09.1	It's big.
1:10.5	How are you guys doing, first of all?
1:13.0	Great. I'm so happy to be with you guys. I want to just say if you're on YouTube or watching
1:18.9	on Spotify, Chris Sullivan is bringing sexy. You are. Like, there's like a one, two, three, four
1:25.9	buttons. You know what I'm saying saying we got a deep plunging v
1:29.1	i told you i told you i've started losing weight and and i've started walking around the house
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