Episode Transcript
Two Catchers Mits
Fawn: [00:00:00] Surprise. I have another one. Oh dear. Hello. Alright. Matt, has no idea what I'm going to say,
MATT: but you're wrong.
Fawn: Alright. I have a quote. I'm gonna read a quote to you.
MATT: Do I have to guess who said it?
Fawn: No. Oh no you don't. I'll tell you who said it. It was Maya Angelou.
Maya Angelou. here's the quote. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's MIT on both hands.
You need to be able to throw something back. You need to be able to throw something back. Can you break that down?
MATT: You gotta sometimes throw down,
Fawn: well, I know I was, I was going the martial arts route. Right, right,
MATT: right.
Fawn: But what do you think that really means? I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands.
You need to be able to throw something back. I mean, I can also think of it as far as finances, right? If you're, someone once told me, [00:01:00] if you're always like this clutching your dollar bills. Mm-hmm. Like clutching your money, your fist is closed. It's not open to give and receive. You're just clutching onto something so there's no flow.
But yeah, but like I just saw this quote today and I'm like, yeah. What does it mean to have a catcher's MIT on both hands. You're just wanting to receive, and we talked about this a few months ago about how I had this epiphany when we went somewhere. I'm like, oh my God, wherever we go, I think, like I'm always thinking, what can I get from this place?
What, oh, can I pick up some seashells? Can I get a, can I get some seashells from this beach? You know? Right, right. And I, and I caught myself. I'm like, what am I offering? Wherever we go. Like even if no one's around, what am I offering? Why am I always trying to take, because I got into that mode of like, right, survival.
I'm like tick, tick, [00:02:00] tick, tick, tick. And I'm sure I give anyway naturally, but in my mind I'm like shopping. That capitalistic, is it capitalism? Is that what's gotten me? I'm like, what do I need to collect? So anyway. Having one hand to throw something back
MATT: if, if you're in a baseball game or a softball game.
Yeah, absolutely. You don't want catchers, MITs on both hands. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. I mean, you can catch the, the pop, you know, the popup, what does it fly or popup, foul. If you catch it, then the other runner can start running and if you can't throw the ball, well then you kind of can't do anything about it, you know?
So it's about making sure you can, it's about not limiting yourself. It's about not seeing yourself in one dimension. You know? We are, we are miraculous [00:03:00] intelligent monkeys, if you will. We're like the, the thinking creature where the creature, you know, it's, it's more than just, we have thumbs. It's more than just we revere our ancestors.
It's more than, it's more than, it's more than, you know, we are so multifaceted, multi-dimension. You know, yesterday I, I, I took the kids and, well, it doesn't necessarily count, but from where we parked, we climbed a mountain. Rock on. And when we stood up there, we looked out on everything and it was like, we did this.
And now every time we drive past that spot, I can be like, of course I've done it eight times, but still I can be like, we did it. That's just one thing we've done. I mean, think about all the things that you've done in your life. From, you know, I learned how to go to the bathroom by myself to, you know, I can read, I can [00:04:00] write, I could write something right now, and if I preserved it properly and anybody cared in a thousand years, they would know exactly what I wrote.
That's magic. That's voodoo. That's like the mo, one of the most awesome things. That's just one thing, and everybody's like, oh, he can write nobody. Oh my God, it is a big deal, you know? And on and on and on. And maybe these are things, you know, most people, if not every person, you know, can do. But that doesn't make it any less remarkable, and it doesn't mean that there aren't points in time where you need to bust them out.
You always have to be prepared for that, and you always have to have, you know, think one, at least one move ahead because you're gonna catch that ball. And what are you gonna do with it? Oh, uh, I might need to throw it. So if you're not thinking a move ahead. Yeah, two catchers sounds great because of twice as likely to maybe catch a ball.[00:05:00]
Right. And, and, um, the pitcher's gonna be constantly throwing me balls, so yeah, it's a good idea to be as good of a, a. Person who catches as possible. So yeah, that's kind of what it means to me. Keep yourself limber always.
Fawn: Yeah.
MATT: You know, think a move ahead. I prefer, personally, I like to think 18 moves ahead, but then again, whenever we go anywhere, we've got 10,000 things in the car.
So maybe that's a little much.
Fawn: Well, I mean,
MATT: it might rain. Oh dear.
Fawn: Don't make fun of me Matt. I was making fun of me. No, I thought you were making fun of me. 'cause I'm always prepared with snacks and water and first aid and just in case I have, I love the
MATT: fact we have snacks. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Buckaroo.
Fawn: But he just said we have like a bunch of things in the car nobody's commenting on,
MATT: on not having.
Snack on having snacks,
Fawn: but like the, when you guys went, I'm like, Hey guys, take the, take the bug spray.
MATT: I
Fawn: [00:06:00] sprayed myself. And then you're, you are all like, oh god, mom. I did not say, oh mom, no, the kids did. But even you were like, I'll just spray here. And I was thinking to myself. I was watching you guys spray.
I'm like, this is not a perfume. You guys sprayed like a cloud and kind of walked through it. I'm like, that's not how you sprayed this. I pointed it right at myself. I'm a cush, cush kush. I was watching you guys. No, you didn't.
MATT: I did. No, I stank of what that stuff is. It's, it was all, first of all, all natural oils.
Yeah, but it's a, it was not a black licorice maybe in. Whatever. It's star. It's not, I don't even know. It's not des,
Fawn: it's something. It's all using natural anyways, plant-based oils.
MATT: Anyways. Trying to think. Move ahead anyway, but
Fawn: had I gone, I would've had that. I said take it with you and then you guys leave.
MATT: I thought, I thought, are you all was taking it? You
Fawn: all said the same
MATT: thing. I was through the door second. No, but you also
Fawn: complained. You complained like, oh God, here she goes again. Telling us something to take. [00:07:00] 'cause you know they, I had to fight to have the kids take a, a bottle of water and you're like, we're only going for just a little bit.
You know, I'm like, you're gonna need water. You're, you're climbing. How's hot? How did this turn
MATT: into Maya Angelou in two catchers mitts to me being so utterly wrong? Where did this go or where did this go? Off the rails, folks? I don't know. Stoicism
Fawn: not, not doing stoicism right on my part. Wow. I was trying to be right.
I'm right.
MATT: Hey, as long you're right. As you believe you're right.
Fawn: Yeah. I have no idea how we got here. Nevermind. All right. That's it, folks. Thanks for listening. Take your bug spray. .
MATT: Okay.
Fawn: Okay. Okay. Talk to you later. Be well.
