Thank God for the Almost
0:20 Hey everybody, welcome to Chuck Yeats needs a job the podcast. Happy new year. Welcome to 2023 2022 good fucking riddance.
0:33 I just wanted a quick check in real quick. We'll start with the podcast officially next week bringing guests back on and the like, but I just kind of wanted to share something you know 2022 nothing
0:46 bad happened to me during the year In fact, I think mainly good stuff happened to me during the year, but I was just in a funk. I was kind of blue. I wasn't ready
1:00 to jump off a building depressed or anything but but definitely kind of blah And so I kind of rolled into the holiday season with that blah hanging over my head. I don't really know what it was. I
1:11 mean, I've had a lot of therapy in my life and pretty good at introspection. You know, it might be COVID brain fog. really convinced the Christmas of 2021 I had COVID. And this is a documented
1:24 long-term symptom of folks with COVID. So maybe it was that, maybe it was just blindness, maybe it was kind of the stress of some things hanging over my head. But whatever it was, it was just a
1:37 yucky year. So part of my goal for the holiday was to really wrap my head around it, figured out how to get out of the funk. And I went on this just amazing journey. And what really drove that
1:51 journey is, and I don't know if this was divine intervention. I don't know if this was just random playlists selection by Apple. But for some reason, I listened to the song Almost by Thomas Red
2:05 over and over. Going a three-hour walk, listened to Almost the whole time. Driving my car, listened to Almost, you know, working out, listened to Almost, listened to Almost before I go to
2:15 sleep. I literally listened to the song. 10 million times. And for you, those of you who haven't heard it, Thomas Rhett's basically singing about, thank God for the almost, almost lost my
2:27 license driving after two beers. And at kind of your first listening of the song, you think, okay, this is kind of chance, plays a role in life, all that. And after a while of listening to it,
2:40 I kind of got into a deeper meaning with it You know, he talks about almost, but at the same time, you gotta accept ownership for those almost. He gives a great line in there, almost didn't kiss
2:55 that girl that turned out to be my wife. Well, TR kissed Lauren, it wasn't fate, it wasn't chance that kissed him. So he took action to create the almost. And so that really helped in terms of
3:09 thinking through life and you do have to take ownership But then it got even more spiritual as I was listening to it. I don't want to go overly religious here because I truly believe everybody is
3:21 entitled to their own religion pray how you want to pray I'll pray how I want to pray or don't pray at all, but part of the message that came out was God puts things in your life, and you're
3:35 probably better off Trying to figure out why they're there instead of getting angry about it. Why did God put this here? What should I do? What is my purpose? Is this my path and so, you know, a
3:50 therapy I've had and I've had tons of it You know, it's don't get furious get curious and so it really Led to hey, there's a plan here There's somebody out looking for you Chuck and be curious about
4:03 it and figure it out. And so anyway, I went on this amazing self-explanation Self-examination self-realization tour and I'll spare you the details of all of it. I'll be sharing it the year on the
4:19 podcast some I'm sure. They all kind of started with a glass of champagne in the American Express lounge at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Christmas Eve and wound up me doing BDE this morning. It
4:33 was a wildtail, canceled flights, Uber rides, church, too much champagne It's a wonderful life. Chinese food, Charlie Robison, a trip down to see Roger Krieger, crushing some Shinerbock beer
4:52 eating a water burger in a Selena jersey and three prescriptions of antibiotics. So anyway, it was a wild time. I
4:59 learned a lot. I learned a lot about myself and I think I'm in a much better place. And so I just wanted to check in because this year's podcast is going to be great. I'm going to do a few things.
5:10 One, I'm going to try to bring you the best energy talk I can. I'm really gonna pull on my network to try to get you some big name guests to come on. Maybe people that you've always wanted to hear
5:22 from, but haven't, so I'm gonna do that. The other thing I wanna do on the podcast this year is share some personal stuff with you. Don't mean to get weird or creepy or all vulnerable on you, but
5:34 at the end of the day, I don't think I've been able to love romantically since my divorce. I mean, it was devastating as most divorces are, and I just haven't been able to engage. And to all the
5:49 women watching this that I dated, you were right, sorry about that. But anyway, a lot
5:55 of that journey, a lot of that trip
5:59 I went on was spent thinking about that. How do I get over that? How do I get my mind right? I've used every excuse in the book, not to engage, you know, unrequited love Oh, not my type.
6:14 whatever. But this year I decided I'm really going to work on that. And so I'm going to share some of that evolution with you. I'm not sure exactly the form it'll take. We've got a working title
6:25 for an arc on the podcast called Chuck Yates Needs a Life. And of course, be what you've come to expect a little bit of humor, some seriousness, and all that. But I think if I want to be the
6:38 person that I want to be, I need to share it with you guys. And so hopefully you'll find it enjoying or you'll fast forward and hope that I get pickering on next week. Anyway, happy 2023. Thank
6:51 you guys for all the support. Love you. We'll see you next week.
