In this episode, we talk about panic attacks and how to deal with them. We also talk about how to handle panic attacks in the car and how you can deal with panic attacks on the road and in your car. We talk about the difference between anxiety and panic attacks, and how panic attacks can be caused by stress and anxiety. We also discuss how to manage panic attacks when you're in the middle of a rush hour traffic jam and you start to feel like you're not going to make it. And we talk a little bit about how you should deal with it if it happens to you. We hope you enjoy this episode and that it helps you deal with your own panic attacks! If you have a panic attack, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255-TALKING (8255) or visit a local emergency room, or call your local police department and report your panic attack. if you're having a bad day, call the Crisis Text Me! to 741741, and we'll get you a trained professional counselor to come and help you. Thanks for listening and support you! Thank you so much for listening to this podcast, we really appreciate it! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What is panic attack? 6:30 - How do you cope? 7:15 - What do you feel about your panic attacks? 8:20 - What can you do about it? 9:00 | How can you cope with anxiety? 11:40 - What are you going to do? 12:00 13: What can I do to cope with it better? 15:30 | How do I know I m going to survive it better than that? 16:30 17:40 | What s the worst thing I ve ever felt panic attacks like? 18:40 19:00 // What do I do when I m worried about my dog has something in my eye? 21: Is it okay? 22:15 | How much do I feel like I m scared of my dog can I trust my dog? 23:00 / 16:00 + 17: What s it matter? 24:30 // How can I know that I m not enough? 25:40 // Is it going to be okay 26:00 & 27:00 Can I get out of my head?
00:00:52.000The fear, and they claim that the fear is releasing ego, which what they mean by ego is like you have this beautiful studio and you have a career and a wife and kids, I guess.
00:01:08.000And it's like letting – it's like you can't be attached to it.
00:03:42.000So I get on the 101. People who don't know the 101, well, you should just kill yourself because the 101 is a main ornery and you should know about it.
00:04:11.000And for some reason, I think because I'm overtired and I wanted to get here, this is the first time I've done your podcast, I just started feeling an anxiety about, oh, fuck, I'm going to be...
00:04:55.000And the sun is blaring in through my side window, and I'm feeling a little, ah, fuck, there's nowhere, there's nowhere, I can't get off, I can't, you know what I mean?
00:06:43.000And the problem is with intelligent people is that you're overwhelmed with possibilities.
00:06:47.000You're thinking about all the actual variables that are in play.
00:06:50.000Whereas dumb people just fucking stumble into walls where they're talking on their phone and, you know, they like texting and walking out into traffic.
00:08:42.000Yeah, I mean, I think it the idea that these it's great if someone is like, you know, New York Times, Time Magazine, respected journalism, someone who you can go to where you really want to know what the fuck is happening in Syria.
00:09:04.000But once you get past that, you're doing a lot of the shows you're dealing with it, whether it's CNN or any of the Fox News, you're dealing with opinions.
00:09:12.000In your opinion, is just as valid as Shepard Smith's.
00:12:34.000I want to do more of this on stage, but talking to an audience about, hey, I've only done it once, and it went okay, but it was like, hey, you ever go on Facebook?
00:14:46.000But here's the thing, is that you get sucked in, because the way the guy on the internet, and this is what happens on the internet a lot, the way the guy who said improv sucks, that's how he framed it.
00:15:51.000I think that there's nothing wrong with having opinions on things, but people don't like that your opinions are different than theirs and they get mad at you.
00:15:59.000Some people get mad at you if you like a certain kind of music.
00:16:38.000I mean, this is not new, but that's how he operates, right?
00:16:42.000Right, but he's very manipulative in the fact that he's very praising of some people, you know?
00:16:48.000Like, doing an amazing job, beautiful job.
00:16:50.000Like, the other day, he was talking about these firefighters, and he had all these firefighters behind him, and he was talking about what a great job they're doing as firefighters, and it's just like this weird speech, and now you're gonna go see each other on TV, and like, you know, I don't think they get enough credit, and It's a very interesting method that he uses.
00:17:08.000Of course he's going to bestow praise on the firefighters.
00:17:27.000And meanwhile, he's saying something about John fucking McCain, who's a legitimate war hero who was captured and tortured by the Viet Cong.
00:17:36.000And he had the balls to say, I like people that have been...
00:17:39.000I mean, that's not respecting the military at all.
00:17:58.000But if Mike is a priest and it turns out what Mike really likes doing is smoking crack and blowing guys You know, you find out, you're like, oh, Jesus, Mike.
00:21:35.000And I think culturally, we're going through a weird kind of hell.
00:21:39.000And this kind of hell, it's avoidable.
00:21:41.000Look, you could just put that phone down and you could just go hiking, go with a good friend, bring your dog, go have a nice day, sit up there, you know, crack open a cold glass of water and look over at the landscape and go, man, it's fucking beautiful.
00:21:55.000And it does something to you when you look at beautiful things, right?
00:22:11.000You know, they did a study, I don't know if you've heard about this one, that just turning off the phone...
00:22:19.000Like, if you have the phone in the room with you and you turn it off, you think, okay, the phone's turned off, I'm cool.
00:22:25.000What the scientist said, it was a study, I'm not sure where the study was, but they said, no, no, no, you have to put the fucking phone out of, into another room.
00:22:35.000They said something about- What if someone wants to call you?
00:25:46.000Well, in a way, there's an argument, and this is the argument, that a guy like Trump is actually good in this situation because a guy who is too diplomatic and would allow...
00:27:04.000There's parts of the world that are just fucked.
00:27:06.000And if you're not the kind of person that is willing to do something to protect the rest of the people from getting involved in the kind of chaos that's in those parts of the world, that stuff can leak over.
00:27:21.000Bad people can come in to your neck of the woods and start treating where you live exactly how they treat Syria, exactly how they treat the Congo.
00:29:30.000What I'm saying is if you're living in the United States and you're living in a fairly peaceful place, you have to take into consideration that there are people out there like Kim Jong-un who do regularly kill their citizens, who regularly kills people who are Insubordinate who regularly kills anyone who thinks who would challenge him in any way and then he has nuclear powers and he is going to do something and it's entirely possible that he could launch a missile.
00:29:57.000It's entirely possible that he could do it in some sort of a suicide mission and then he could launch a nuclear strike on the United States in a suicide mission if he gets the capabilities.
00:30:06.000Some people It really depends entirely on how that's managed.
00:30:12.000But there are people that would manage that incorrectly, and he could get to the point where he has those nuclear capabilities, and he could launch and he could do something.
00:30:20.000That has to be taken into consideration.
00:31:04.000You know what I love watching documentaries is because it reminds me, holy fuck, yes, a lot of the same shit went down in 1960. You know what I mean?
00:31:59.000He shoots them when they try to leave.
00:32:01.000Like, this is a very, very bad thing to be seeing in 2017. That's entirely different than someone who's a Syrian refugee, who, you know, those people are fleeing for their lives, and obviously they're in Incredibly hostile environments and situations, but there are substantial parts of the world that welcome those people and want those people to have an opportunity to get away from what they're experiencing.
00:32:24.000You know, there's a lot of people in this country that argue for bringing them over here and helping those people.
00:32:28.000So I think our compassion is still there, but people don't want to be unsafe themselves.
00:32:34.000You know, I think we will eventually These boundaries will become more and more preposterous, these lines in the ground that we've drawn, where we've decided, like, this is, you know, we are Canada, and we are against you, America, and you're connected to us by the same dirt,
00:32:50.000like, we're tribes, and the tribes, we're tribe earth, okay?
00:32:54.000You know, and I think once we realize that, we'll be a lot better off, but then we're going to have to really understand the allocation of resources.
00:34:31.000Parts of the world are already fucked, but going in them and rebuilding, going to impoverished parts of Ecuador and rebuilding that and try to make it so that these people have opportunities to advance their lives and take care of their families.
00:35:52.000Anytime you're in a situation where you have a dictatorship, you have a group or a person who's controlling the information that gets attributed to the people, and then the people are under the thumb of this person.
00:36:02.000And then when this person says something, that thing is the law.
00:36:05.000That is one of the scariest things about Trump.
00:36:07.000Is that what essentially Trump is doing is treating his word as law and saying that everyone else is fake news and they're all liars and everyone who opposes him, they cannot have a reasonable opposition of him.
00:36:46.000I think he knows and the people around him know that, dude, you cannot do that because I think you're going to fuck with the wrong people there.
00:36:57.000He still can fuck with the wrong people within this country.
00:36:59.000Well, he's already fucked with the wrong people.
00:37:01.000He's fucked with the intelligence community.
00:37:02.000I mean, he's fucked with the CIA and the FBI and they're all like, Jesus Christ, this guy.
00:37:56.000This is a person who had blown a fuse and was just going to do this for ISIS and was doing it publicly on Facebook, was reaching out to these people.
00:38:17.000I mean, there's a lot of dull minds out there.
00:38:20.000But anyway, the point is that the FBI thwarted this attack.
00:38:24.000The president hasn't said a goddamn word about it.
00:38:26.000He's praising these firefighters, doing an amazing job, amazing job, but he's not saying anything about the FBI. I wonder if it's because he wants everybody to think, hey, look, there's no terrorist activity going on in our country.
00:38:40.000No, he doesn't want to praise the FBI. Well, that's fucked up.
00:39:09.000There's all this good stuff is happening.
00:39:12.000The stock market is hitting record highs.
00:39:14.000What's hilarious about when they talk about the stock market hitting record highs, first of all, I think it's a fact that 50% of America is in poverty.
00:39:48.000And I think it also talks about benefits.
00:39:54.000And there was just an article, man, in the Washington Post, dude, about how people in their 70s are having to take full-time jobs because their pensions have been taking away.
00:40:05.000I mean, corporate America is taking away a lot.
00:40:10.000Well, Jamie was just talking about this yesterday, about how companies are selling you the same product, but now it has like a half an ounce less than it used to before, and the boxes are slightly smaller.
00:40:23.000I just bought two boxes of cereal yesterday, and they both say they're 12 ounces.
00:40:27.000One's 12 ounces and one's 12.1 ounces, but the boxes are not even close to the same size.
00:40:32.000Same cereal, it's Czech, so it's the same shape cereal and everything.
00:40:36.000Do you think that they're lying, or do you think that they've figured out a way to get 12 ounces in a smaller box?
00:40:41.000Because you know how you would open up cereal, and then there would be like a little air space, and then you'd get to the package, and then there'd be a little air in the package?
00:40:47.000Cereal might be a bad example, but Gatorade, for example, it's 28 ounces now.
00:40:52.000It used to be 32 ounces like three years ago.
00:40:55.000Well, that's a perfect example of taking just a little bit.
00:42:07.000Yeah, there's definitely a problem that we have with the system that's in place in terms of how corporations get treated as individuals.
00:42:18.000They're allowed to donate enormous sums of money now.
00:42:21.000And this is a fairly recent, within the last decade, way that the Their structure has changed.
00:42:30.000And then there's also the diffusion of responsibility inside the corporation.
00:42:33.000If you work for a big evil corporation, but you're a good guy, you're Eddie Peppertone, you're a good guy, you wave to your neighbor, you give money to charity, but meanwhile you're making toxic sludge that's killing people in the Philippines or wherever the fuck it is.
00:43:08.000Not only is it scary, it's an affront.
00:43:12.000It's like, no, no, don't take away our fucking land.
00:43:17.000Because to me, talking about circling back to the panic, I feel like...
00:43:23.000These motherfuckers, these corporate greed, let's call it, and it's rapacious and it's endless, they're taking away our places where we get some serenity, where we fucking connect to nature.
00:45:09.000I remember telling my wife, hey, honey, it's only 101. They were beating me down to, like, sweetie, it's kind of nice, it's only 103 today.
00:45:53.000And if it's not today, within five years or ten years, as the technology improves, there would be a way to extract all of our needs from solar power.
00:46:02.000That's what I'm saying we should do instead of fucking opening up lands.
00:46:06.000The problem is there's so much money in that oil and we still rely on it so heavily right now.
00:46:11.000And they're not thinking about the future.
00:47:51.000Like, in Massachusetts, there was always a joke that like every two years a new comedian would come up with the same joke because it was so obvious.
00:49:15.000Okay, so it's one thing if you made a guy, like say if a guy robbed your house, right, and then he goes to jail, and then he makes 30 cents an hour, the state should pay him like what a normal working wage would be, like 25 bucks an hour or whatever it is for this job that this guy's doing,
00:50:55.000And one of the things that he was saying was that during the time of colonization where the Europeans were moving across America, some of them were kidnapped by these Native American tribes.
00:51:10.000And then when they were rescued by the soldiers, they resisted.
00:51:13.000A lot of them wanted to stay with the Native Americans.
00:51:16.000And some of a lot of them moved in with the tribes like some people like voluntarily Moved into tribes.
00:52:10.000But on top of that, then what's fueling that disconnection is This incredible technology where you're bombarded with information about everything and you're trying to make some fucking sense of it and your brain overloads and then the bigger picture almost is that there are people in power and there are people in power.
00:52:41.000I don't know if it's a conspiracy, but these people own everything.
00:52:47.000They fucking own just about everything.
00:52:56.000But I think that what you're saying about people being disconnected and being overwhelmed by all that stuff to think about, that's real.
00:53:03.000Because you're supposed to be thinking about your immediate area and what the threats are and your immediate environment and where your friends are.
00:53:21.000Because one of the cool things about the comedy store is we all go there and we see each other and it's, like, very, very friendly and supportive.
00:53:36.000You ever have a fucking thing where you're, like, flipping out about something, and then you make one phone call or see one friend, and the problem goes away?
00:53:45.000Especially if you, maybe you and a friend are in some sort of a disagreement, and you thought that they thought this thing, and they thought that you thought that thing, and you get to talking, especially if you meet each other, and your friend's like, no, I thought this, and you're like, ah.
00:54:10.000I don't know if people, I think when you're doing that online thing and you're spending your day online or even texting, like I have all these friends, I have text friends and that's, you know, but I don't see them.
00:54:43.000But I'm in the middle of doing my ads here, and I've got to fucking write this bit, and I've got to fucking go somewhere, and I've got to work out an hour.
00:55:15.000The worst thing they can do, you're locked up in a cement cage filled with murderers and rapists and criminals, and the worst they can do is to leave you alone.
00:56:44.000And I'm the type of guy – and again, it's my anxiety, like my tension in me.
00:56:48.000I wanted to go and go, can you please – and this is how I would say it too, which is why I never get anything done.
00:56:54.000I go, would you please turn off the fucking televisions?
00:56:59.000By the way, they didn't even have a fight on.
00:57:01.000They didn't even have a good game on because the games were over or something and it was just showing random dumb shit like – I don't know.
00:57:11.000One was a reality show where people were doing weird things.
01:01:46.000I'd be like, I would watch, you remember a guy named Oscar Bonavilla?
01:01:51.000He was just like this kind of wild brawler, but he was a big guy, and he'd fight guys like, I don't know if he changed his name yet, Cassius Clay.
01:03:35.000They didn't understand that the stiffening you up is just as you're, you know, getting sore, and that you have to recover from that, and that's how you get bigger and stronger.
01:03:43.000Like, boxers today, if you look at, like, Anthony Joshua, who's the heavyweight champion of the world now...
01:04:02.000Yeah, because the conditioning methods that they have today are just so superior.
01:04:06.000They understand rest and recovery, and they monitor your heart rate, and they're monitoring lactic acid buildup and creatine in your blood.
01:04:18.000If they engage in that, some people still take it old school, but I just think they know more about what gets you in condition and high-intensity conditioning drills, high reps.
01:04:31.000But Rocky Marciano had something that you can't teach people.
01:05:27.000Well, here's something that I didn't realize until recently.
01:05:29.000My friend Steve Rinello was actually talking about this on a podcast.
01:05:32.000When we talk about factory farming and large-scale agriculture- I hate that stuff, by the way.
01:05:38.000When we talk about that, the reason why that all got instituted, the reason why we have those programs set in place in America was because of famine.
01:05:46.000Because people were worried about what happened to the Europeans during World War II. During World War I and World War II, it's estimated that millions of people starved to death in the world.
01:05:56.000And in the United States, after the war, they wanted to do something to make sure that that didn't happen over here.
01:06:03.000And one of the things they did was they started instituting subsidies for farmers to make sure, look, you're not making enough money, but we're going to give you money just so that we have all this food on reserve.
01:06:13.000So that everyone thinks about it as, oh, this is this evil thing that the government has done to keep us fat and stupid.
01:06:18.000No, it was originally put in place to prepare for the worst case scenario where we're at war again and we're short on food.
01:10:47.000When you say people who eat meat are more likely to have heart attacks, right?
01:10:51.000You're not saying what they eat the meat with.
01:10:53.000Are they eating a piece of grass-fed steak or are they eating a shitty cheeseburger on a bun that's filled with sugar, with fries, and that they have a syrupy soda with it?
01:11:04.000Dr. Rhonda Patrick was on this recently, and what she said is there is a direct correlation between consumption of saturated fats along with refined sugar.
01:11:13.000When you have refined sugar and saturated fats, it produces a lot of bad cholesterol.
01:11:18.000And this is one of the things that's been proven clinically to lead to heart attacks, clinically to lead to strokes and hardening of the arteries and The big thing is sugar.
01:11:31.000The big thing is sugar and carbohydrates.
01:15:43.000And I'm also specific about making it difficult, which is why I do it with a bow and arrow.
01:15:47.000I don't, you know, I mean, I've hunted animals with rifles and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
01:15:51.000But for me, I feel like if I really want to make this a more even arrangement and make it more difficult and make it more ethical, I use a bow and arrow.
01:16:13.000It's one of the things that once you get into the natural world and you really start understanding what's going on out there, you realize, like, no one gets out of this ride alive.
01:16:22.000Like, the elk that I killed, he had holes all over his body.
01:16:27.000All over his body when we were taking him apart, holes everywhere from other elk stabbing him.
01:16:33.000That's what you look up there all that shit those those elk antlers those real that's real that's the one that I shot in September okay that those things are designed to kill their elk they slash each other they clash and smash those horns together and it's all to fight over breeding and the most powerful ones with the biggest antlers are the ones that get to breed and one of the best ways to ensure the health of this This group of animals is once this animal
01:17:03.000has reached its breeding prime, that's the one you take out.
01:18:07.000You go to 1817, you couldn't avoid it.
01:18:10.000You go to a marketplace, you go to a farmer, you go to—I mean, everybody—and then also, there was no pesticides.
01:18:16.000The genetic manipulation of the food was nonexistent.
01:18:19.000It was—everything was as it is in a natural state or in a cultivated state, where, you know, you're splicing things and doing, like, normal things that people do to improve fruits and vegetables.
01:18:35.000Well, we've definitely gone away, you know, but that way that we've gone in the negative ways is terrible.
01:18:42.000But in the positive ways of things like golden rice, that's like allowed thousands, if not millions of people to not starve to death because it's rice that was infused with protein.
01:18:52.000There's a bunch of different things that we've done to ensure the shelf life of food, to get the food to hungry people, because these foods can last longer.
01:19:01.000Tomatoes, they look kind of fucked up now because they're hard, but these also can stay on the shelves for a lot longer.
01:19:08.000And this goes back to what we're talking about post-World War II. People were terrified of scarcity.
01:19:14.000They were terrified of famine and they were terrified of the idea of going back to war again and not having a stockpile of food and resources.
01:19:25.000It's all bad when you go down the food aisle and most of this shit has sugar in it and simple refined carbohydrates and it's killing people and giving people cancer.
01:20:35.000That's one of the reasons why you're so funny.
01:20:38.000I gotta fucking change that other part of me.
01:20:41.000And you know, it's so funny because we're having this conversation and what happens to me is I'll be driving home going, well, that's fucking it.
01:20:55.000Yeah, a fucking Rogan, you know, he just hammered home what I already know about, you know, it's got it, the sugar's gotta go, the processed carbs gotta go.
01:22:44.000Like, to me, what pot did, it was like, I'm going to CVS and If I smoke, it's gonna be a fun fucking trip because there's weirdos at CVS. Especially in Silver Lake.
01:23:02.000But what happened was that I felt like I wasn't doing my creative work.
01:23:08.000Like what happened was the weed was taking me totally, again I'm a child, like taking me totally into this, I just want to pleasure myself the whole day and I couldn't buckle down and do work.
01:23:41.000I was going to say about this Sober October thing, I knew that I couldn't do any of this thing, and I knew that I had to do 15 90-minute yoga sessions in this month.
01:23:49.000We had a rule, and we're also accountable to each other, so we all knew that we had to get this done.
01:23:56.000Community and and you know and talking shit to each other on text messages all the time You know like we were constantly fucking with each other and having a good time.
01:24:04.000I mean it was really fun It was really fun, but it was also very educational but knowing that I have these requirements so I give myself requirements I write down things Every day?
01:24:45.000I do also, for food, I do intermittent fasting.
01:24:48.000This is my rule, where I only eat for 10 hours a day.
01:24:51.000So for 14 hours a day, I don't eat at all.
01:24:54.000So whatever that cutoff is, so say if I eat my last meal, my last bite of food is at 8 p.m., I don't eat until 10 o'clock in the morning the next day.
01:25:50.000But you're also the guy where if there's a group of people sitting around and they're all a bunch of fucking suits and they're all boring people, I'm going to gravitate immediately to you because you and I are going to talk real.
01:26:02.000We're going to be silly and you're going to say some fucked up shit that I'm going to laugh at and we're going to be slapping each other in the back.
01:27:28.000It's like you don't want people to get fucked over and you rightly realize that a lot of this Materialism and this fucking corporate bullshit is pointless if like you said at the beginning of this podcast We are all going to die and we need to face that and stop just collecting shit and instead work on having a great experience in the moment because this moment is That you have right now.
01:27:50.000This is all you ever have is the moment.
01:27:53.000You can plan to make that moment better in the future with more discipline and more structure and more happiness and even more like scheduling community events and scheduling things.
01:29:06.000And he spends a lot of his time right now doing these corporate seminars and explaining to people the importance of leadership and discipline and that.
01:29:41.000Yeah, watch a boxing match or some television show that I enjoy.
01:29:45.000I can enjoy it, where I don't have anxiety.
01:29:48.000I have fucking anxiety if I don't get things done.
01:29:51.000Yeah, I think that's, you know, it's funny because, you know, I started the podcast talking about anxiety, and I'm thinking it's all about community and disconnection.
01:29:59.000And for me, it may be this just amorphous kind of daze I have instead of fucking, you know, going, okay, I'm going to do this, this, and this.
01:30:10.000To give me a little structure, that would probably alleviate a bunch of anxiety.