Welcome to today's episode. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button

so that you never miss another podcast episode. Today I'm going to be talking about cussing.

Believe it or not, we're going to talk about that. And I want to talk about it because

I think it's super important for people to really think about the act of cussing in

how it relates to our programming. So, you know, the thing about it is, and the reason

why I want to talk about this, because I am going to, you know, I cuss all the time if

I'm honest with you. I don't cuss in the podcast very often, but the reason why is just

because people have reached out to me and said, hey, listen, you know, I love listening

to your podcast with my kids. And I love that. And I want to tell you this, that there's

over 600 episodes that I don't cuss at all in. And those will be up forever. You can

always listen to those. So, if you get to the point where you're like, man, I don't want

cussing to happen. I don't want to listen to cussing when I'm in the, the episode,

or listen to listening when I'm in the car with my children. No worries. Completely

understand. I understand that completely. You can go back and listen to any of the 600

episodes where there's no cussing at all. But I felt like there was, there was a part

of my authenticity that was not coming out. You know, if I can't, if I stop myself,

which you've heard me do, you've heard me stop myself in the middle of about to say

something. And I say this frickin thing, you know, there's a part of me that has to hold

back and not my full expression myself is coming through. But then also I have to stop

myself in flow of what I'm talking about to then think about not offending other people.

And that's what I really want to talk about is the act of being offended by words and

the act of of being programmed to be offended by other things, not just words, but other

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