Cadre Today

As long as we got each other we got the world sitting right in our hands Baby, you and me, we got to be. We'll hit the pause Right there. M. zobs. Luke, how's everybody doing? Matthew, nice to see you crew coming on into the house. A little Growing Pains theme song to kick you in today. I gotta tell you about a little show that I have coming up. Hey Luke. Hey Jules. Nice to see y'. All. I'm gonna tell you about a little show I have coming up where things like the Growing Pains theme song maybe making an appearance.

But first of all, how are you doing? I hope you're doing great, I really do. But if you're not doing great, know that that is a okay as well. For example, I was laying in bed last night ready to pass out and then I looked over and I saw my phone and it was buzzing. And I'm an old millennial. I don't pick up the phone. I don't talk on the phone very easily. Especially as an introvert who lives with a lot of. The idea of talking on the phone is just not an appetizing idea. But I saw it was Hamilton's vet.

Hamilton is my almost 11 year old dog and he's not doing that great. So I saw the vet calling late for me like 8:30 last night and was like, hey, here's, here's updates on Hamilton. And an hour later. How cool that a vet will call at 8:30 at night to go and talk with you about all this stuff. But I'll tell you, that was a really awful way to end a Monday and then to wake up and know that now there's a Tuesday. You may be in kind of a headspace where I am, where you're going. Yeah, I'm not doing that great.

And yet that's okay. Not pandering, not like, oh, it's okay, but like it's okay. Meaning you're still going to do some pretty amazing things today. You're still going to impact people that you don't even know you're going to impact. I mean, you may not believe me, but that's the nature of how this world works. It's the reason why at Cadre, we're not excluding who walks into this space. But we are like a good outward facing clique creating pathways and doorways for anybody and everybody to walk into this space with some shared expectations and how we see and respond to one another so we can truly show the world that there are many ways to be.

Well, I'm glad I'M here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. All month long in, in July, the, the thread, the idea, the philosophy, the dream of, of being free from stuff is woven into everything you're seeing here. So check out our new contributor today or type in a new word that's sitting on your head or your heart and see what comes up and who it connects you to. Good morning, Amar. Nice to see you. But always remember, I'm glad that I'm here and I'm glad that you're here.

I know what I know and I care about you. And with that Cadre today. So there's a wonderful human. His name's Jason, Jason Schomer. He's a comedian, just turned 51 years old. He was Louie Anderson, if you know the wonderful world famous Louie Anderson who's now passed on. He was Jason, was Louis opening act for a long time. So Jason has a similar spirit and energy and joy to him. Anyways, Jason and I did a show together with the one and only Miss Shannon Paul at Miss Shannon Paul's Comedy through the Chaos.

And we're like, ah, we should do something together. Anyways, Jason reached out last week, was like, hey, would you do the music for this show that I'm putting together? And it took me about negative seconds to say, of course. Because when someone creates an outward face and click a space where you can be a part of the thing that is special to them, I am a person who's going to say yes to that. Anyways, we sat down yesterday and he starts sharing his ideas for this show. And this show is going to look back at his 50th year.

He just turned 51. And as a Gen Xer, you know, he wasn't prepared for real life, but he was prepared for swarms of killer bees and for how to get out of quicksand and to stop, drop and roll if you're ever on fire. And all these things that we, that Gen Xers were prepared for didn't prepare them for things like grief or loss or being, you know, ghosted left by, left by, by friends and people. But the beauty of situational comedy television often brought those moments of how do we be human with one another.

So Jason, this wonderful comedian and storyteller is weaving together the things he was taught that did not serve with the real life that he has lived. He just went past the 20 year mark of his mother dying. Like where the heavy meets the funny and the light and the sweet and the, and the real and the unknown and the known. Here's the deal for today. I always talk about this idea of the outward facing click. What is a click? A group of people who have something in common that they want to protect so they don't let anybody else in.

But if they think for a moment the thing that they care about is something that they see value and power in. And I really believe that if for a moment they go, wow, would you want more people to be able to amplify and share and create sustainability of this thing you care about or less? People, they would say more, but there was a fear, there's a fight flight response of having to protect. Jason through a message. Invited me into him sharing stories about how hard and real life has been. Cause he saw that I could maybe amplify it in a different way.

And for Jason, that's a risk to let somebody in. And me being the affirmation within one moment of going, yes, how can I help you? How can I share in this thing? How can I fall in love with this, this, this pathway that you have fallen in love with. When you give other people the opportunity to do that, they end up loving the thing, respecting the thing maybe even more than you do. Cause they see through you the importance, the potential, the opportunity. So no matter where you are today, no matter what's going on, if you feel a little hungry for something, my invitation is to share something you care about with somebody else and see what happens.

I love me some situational comedy television. I love me some, some music and connection and storytelling. I love me some giving people breaks and realizing that if we think someone's life is as simple as the way that we perceive it, we're not doing enough work. And so no matter where you are today, no matter what's going on, I hope you have a good one and I'll see you to get our way maybe all the time.