And, This is Escape From Alcatraz
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It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and Chelsea and her guests Elaine Welteroth and Caitlin Murray are here to talk about the importance of taking care of your mental health this month. Plus, why you should encourage your friend to go ahead and not be holding out for the right guy.
Transcript
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I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating.
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I collect my roommate's toenails and fingernails.
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Those were some callers from my call-in podcast, Therapy Gecko.
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It's a show where I take phone calls from anonymous strangers as a fake gecko therapist
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and try to learn a little bit about their lives.
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I know that's a weird concept, but I promise it's very interesting.
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Check it out for yourself by searching for Therapy Gecko on the iHeartRadio app,
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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast,
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and I'm excited for my next episode with Khloe Kardashian.
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God, I've been through so many things that at this point I would rather not feel
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than feel because feeling is too much for me to handle.
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No one understands how it's, I'm not just a TV show.
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Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app,
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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler.
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I think you should encourage your friend to go ahead
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and not be holding out for any man to have her babies.
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She could be waiting another 10 years before she finds the right guy.
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Connie didn't meet her right guy until you were what, 50, Connie?
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I kept thinking, oh, I'm going to meet the guy, I'm going to meet the guy, I'm going to meet the guy.
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I finally was like, what am I waiting for? And I did it. And I'm just so glad that I did.
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Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that we
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rarely ask ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month, and on the psychology of
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your 20s, we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk about. Prepare
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for our conversations to go deep. I spent the majority of my teenage years and my 20s just feeling
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absolutely terrified. I had a panic attack on a conference call. Knowing that she had six months
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to live, I was no longer pretending that this was my best friend. So this Mental Health Awareness
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Month, take that extra bit of care of your well-being. Listen to the psychology of your 20s
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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hi, it's Emily Tisch-Sussman, host of the podcast She Pivots. In honor of Mother's Day,
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we have some very special guests. I'm Elaine Welteroth. And I'm Caitlin Murray. Both women
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pivoted out of their careers after having their kids, proving that motherhood is just another
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chapter in our journey, not the end. Come on over to hear their full stories. You can listen to
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She Pivots on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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This is Gavin Newsom. And this is Escape from Alcatraz.
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Well, I want to thank everybody for leaving voice messages, calling into the show. And one of the
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things that lit up the voicemail line this week was Alcatraz. Yes, the rock. Escape from Alcatraz.
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Here we are. I can't even make, you cannot make this up. Here we are at the moment, this critical
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moment in American history. And here we are with a brand new distraction, distraction day in the
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United States of America. And so as a former mayor, it's not surprising. And yes, governor of the state
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of California, that those calls made their way to the inbox. Hi, my name is Sarah Cherveney.
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I am. I am a resident of San Luis Obispo, California. I've lived in California my whole life.
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I wanted to find out if our governor is going to react to Trump's claims to wanting to reopen Alcatraz.
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I'm like, at this point, you know, a lot of stuff he says, we're just like, what? But I don't know,
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he turned out of left field with so much crap. It's ridiculous. Okay. So yeah, response,
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please. That would be amazing. Thank you so much. First of all, I love, I love the question. I love
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the way you phrased the question. I love the way you laughed when you left that voicemail,
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because I think that's how all of us, I mean, the overwhelming majority of us responded to this.
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I responded quite formally, by the way, with a tweet that said this was just simply distraction
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day in Washington, D.C. It wasn't just reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison, but he also asked
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and called for, asked the Commerce Department and called for new tariffs on foreign-made films.
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So this is what Donald Trump does. He doesn't care if he's the heel or the hero, as long as he's the
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star and we're talking about him. And this is why it's so important that we sort of distill the essence
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of what Trump is actually communicating and what he's actually doing that has a real impact in our
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lives. So everybody's chasing this. It's totally understandable. I totally appreciate the question.
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And here I am responding to it because, heck, you know, I'm a fifth generation San Francisco.
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I'm a former mayor of San Francisco. So what would you expect? How could I not respond to this? I think
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I, by the way, may have commented to one reporter that a proposal has the form and substance of fog,
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meaning there is quite literally no there there. I'll remind you, speaking of no there there,
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there's no water, there's no operating sewer system. What is there is a dilapidated old prison that was
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designed in the 1930s, 1933, that Bobby Kennedy, not Jr., Bobby Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, the attorney
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general of the United States, announced in 1962 that he was going to shut down and did eventually
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shut down in 1963. But I think Donald Trump's mindset is maybe 1983. I'm making that up. But
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when The Rock came out and when Escape from Alcatraz, sort of iconic movies, and there's sort of an
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indelible sense of place that is attached to Alcatraz. It's evocative. Al Capone was there. Whitey
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Bulger was there. Machine Gun Kelly was there. But not many other people were there. I think it
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has a capacity of about 330, 336 cells. Anyone that's visited, and I've been there on multiple
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occasions, I imagine many people watching and listening have as well. It's corroded. You have
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all that saltwater intrusion. You've got a place that would quite literally, Doge, are you listening?
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Quite literally, costs hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Would be the
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most expensive federal prison in the system. It's completely unnecessary. And again, it's all
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intended to be a distraction. So we're focused on this and candidly, not focused on the real issue,
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which are these tariffs and the impact that's having and wrecking on our economy and how it's
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impacting small businesses. And that's impacting each and every one of you watching and listening
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in more ways on more days than anything else that Donald Trump is currently doing. And so
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that's why I think he did this. And I'll just close on this. Don't do this to San Francisco and
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California. And don't do this to tourism. It's one of the drivers of tourism in the United States.
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A million plus people, I think it's 1.2 million last year, came to Alcatraz and the island.
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I think the park service that runs it generates $60 million a year in revenue. Back to my Doge
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point, this would cost tens of millions of dollars. You have to bring people onto the island,
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the workforce and everything else. He specifically directed his Department of Justice and he directed
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Secretary Burgum to start to put together a plan of action on this. I mean, I pray that they're
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focused on other things and not focused on the folly of this latest distraction. And this is
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about zigging and zagging. In a couple of weeks, it'll be a couple of days, maybe a couple hours,
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maybe today, maybe as I speak, there is something out there that I'm not looking at. That's the next
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day's distraction. And this is what Donald Trump does better than anybody else gets us all talking
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about something so that we're not talking about something else. And so the critical thing from my
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humble perspective is we've got to focus on what really matters, what's essential. And again,
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issue right now for Donald Trump, that is hurting him more than any other issue. And there's a lot.
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And I'm not trying to stack up any sort of, well, I'm not trying to diminish the other issues,
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but it's the tariffs, the economy, your 401ks, what's happening in the markets, what's not happening
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as it relates to imports and what's not happening as it relates to the kind of certainty that people need
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small businesses need in order to make decisions. What may happen to your school supplies because
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they're not coming into the ports of entry. What may happen, my gosh, if it's just a few more months
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of these tariffs, particularly to China, what may happen as it relates to your Christmas toys
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that may not be on the shelves later in the year. And Donald Trump is under deep pressure
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on that issue. So I would expect to continue to try to relieve some of that pressure and that focus by
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bringing more of this nonsense to bear and getting us all to chase these stories. And I'll just close.
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Yeah, we had to chase it. I mean, my phone lit up with reporters, people calling me saying,
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is this real? Can this be true? What are your thoughts on it? Can you stop it? And the fact that
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there were real reporters in real concern, frankly, concerns me more than anything else,
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form and substance of fog. There's no there there. Focus on something else. By the way,
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the number of calls that I received, the number of voicemails and text messages from reputable reporters
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all across the country, from around the world, from other elected officials saying, help,
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what are we going to do? Can we stop this? And I told everybody, you got it. You cannot. I mean,
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you got to be kidding me. This is going nowhere. This is distraction day in the United States of
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America. Everybody don't worry about it. Don't panic. You're going to be on that island as a tourist
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I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. I collect
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my roommate's toenails and fingernails. Those were some callers from my call in podcast,
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Therapy Gecko. It's a show where I take phone calls from anonymous strangers as a fake gecko
00:10:54.140
therapist and try to learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept,
00:10:59.300
but I promise it's very interesting. Check it out for yourself by searching for Therapy Gecko on the
00:11:05.260
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:11:09.860
Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast,
00:11:13.460
and I'm excited for my next episode with Khloe Kardashian.
00:11:17.540
God, I've been through so many things that at this point, I would rather not feel than feel,
00:11:29.640
No one understands how it's I'm not just a TV show.
00:11:33.020
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app,
00:11:36.800
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:11:39.840
This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Connie Britton is here. I think you should
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encourage your friend to go ahead and not be holding out for any man to have her babies.
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She could be waiting another 10 years before she finds the right guy.
00:11:53.360
Connie didn't meet her right guy until you were, what, 50, Connie?
00:11:59.060
I kept thinking, oh, I'm going to meet the guy, I'm going to meet the guy, I'm going to meet the guy.
00:12:02.340
I finally was like, what am I waiting for? And I did it. And I'm just so glad that I did.
00:12:09.540
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:12:12.260
I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that we
00:12:20.520
rarely ask ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month, and on the psychology of
00:12:25.320
your 20s, we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk about. Prepare
00:12:33.100
I spent the majority of my teenage years and my 20s just feeling absolutely terrified.
00:12:41.100
Knowing that she had six months to live, I was no longer pretending that this was my best friend.
00:12:44.620
So this Mental Health Awareness Month, take that extra bit of care of your well-being.
00:12:48.400
Listen to the psychology of your 20s on the iHeartRadio app,
00:12:51.500
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:12:53.900
Hi, it's Emily Tish Sussman, host of the podcast, She Pivots. In honor of Mother's Day,
00:13:00.480
we have some very special guests. I'm Elaine Welteroth.
00:13:06.600
Both women pivoted out of their careers after having their kids,
00:13:10.300
proving that motherhood is just another chapter in our journey, not the end.
00:13:14.720
Come on over to hear their full stories. You can listen to She Pivots on the iHeartRadio app,
00:13:19.900
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.