Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Shmoopy.
This is part two of scuba diving because we originally wanted to talk about scuba diving. Why?
[00:00:12] Speaker B: It's our first ever part two.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we did.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: This is kind of a little obnoxious.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Well, also, you did tap into Kilimanjaro in part one. You didn't even say anything about that. There's so many stories. She moved. So many stories.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: So many stories. But scuba, the original concept was talking to people that are petrified of scuba diving.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Well, I think we wanted to talk about why people are so terrified to do certain things, which. And that's why we talked about skydiving. That's why we were talking about how. How is it that you surpass yourself? Because when you're terrified, you block and then you stay in fear, which is kind of like a metaphor for your life.
Maybe you don't change. Maybe you stick stuck in situations you don't want to. Right.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Cunnilingus.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Oh, cunnilingus.
You're scared of cunnilingus.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: I'm not, but I am. I think young persons take an adjustment.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: Anyway, off subject. That's great.
I love your cunningus. Okay. Yep.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Scuba.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Not a metaphor for cunnilingus.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: Going down.
It's a magical world. So, for example, right now we're what, four minute walk from the water?
[00:01:33] Speaker A: We are.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: If we had our gear.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: We'd go down, we would walk into the water, submerge, and be on a different planet.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: I think that's what. What? Well, first of all, I'm a fishy. I'm always like, I'm in the water all the time.
But my first time, when I went under and then understood the silence, I had never experienced silence and stillness like that.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: And that knowing that I didn't belong there and so I was an observer or visitor for a moment, felt so.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Sneaky, secretive, special and vulnerable.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: Yes, very.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: And that's what people fear, because you're vulnerable. You're in an environment that you have no control, ultimately have no control over.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Maybe that's more what we want to talk about is the fact that there is such strength and vulnerability.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: Right. You're 99.5 chance. You're not gonna have any issues whatsoever.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Sure. It's like taking a plane.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: I did have one time in Aussie where I ran out of air and they had.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: You did?
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And they trained us to buddy dive. Of course, we passed the regulator back and forth and SW only in 35ft of water.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Oh, that's not that bad.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: But I had to get to the shore And I wasn't gonna come to the surface with all my on and then swim on the top. So you just. I buddy, dove to the. To the shore with. Dude, we just alternated passing the regulator. No panic. Even though you'd think that would be a situation like. Oh my God.
[00:03:04] Speaker A: But you and I have that in common, don't you? Don't you think that if a panicked situation would arise, you and I would actually look. Well, that's what's happened to me in my life.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: Any kind of really urgent panic is. Situation, whatever. I actually might. HEARTBEAT lowers and I get into like emergency response mode where all my senses are heightened and I'm listening.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: The problem is.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:29] Speaker B: I don't know what the old saying is. I'm not going to be able to remember it offhand. But while you're remaining calm, whatever the line is, all those around you are losing theirs.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: So people are losing their shit. Yeah. Because what is it, 90% of the population is going to freak the F out.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: 95.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: Yeah. They're going to panic. So you're dealing not so much with yourself not panicking. You're having to convince others very quickly not to panic.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: But anyway, we diverge.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: We diverge from the water.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: So the whole part about being on a different planet, especially when you deep dive or. Oh my God, when you night dive, forget about it.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: I can't wait to do that. Can we go night diving? Please, Please, please, please, please, please.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: So paranoid. You want to talk about vulnerable?
[00:04:11] Speaker A: Yeah. You don't know where anything's coming from.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Nothing. So you're all you see is whatever is in the beam of light of the flashlight that you're holding. So you could be in 30ft and then just swims past. And I remember like a barracuda came and hit this guy's hand, charged his light, like zoomed at his light, and on the third time, he actually knocked the light out of the guy's hand. It was like, what the hell? And then octopus is mating and then just really crazy fish.
It's like they're trying to kill each other.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: Ooh, really?
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: How do they insert?
[00:04:45] Speaker B: They entangle and go crazy.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Do they?
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Yeah. So just it. But if you can get over it and you want to feel vulnerable and you want to have an out of body experience over and over again, go scuba diving. And how about us?
[00:05:00] Speaker A: How about us?
[00:05:01] Speaker B: Bye.
