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uh, sit down. Relax, because you're here with TC Mason. Tune in for another episode of spying. Lemon, a chair's Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, Chairs. It's the first episode of the spiked eliminated podcast and I am so ecstatic. I'm so excited that this has finally come to pass. This has been a brainchild of mind since a year and 1/2 or so, but last year I started to Jack Tell my ideas, get my thoughts together, come together. Ah, come up with the structure of the show and all I could stuff. So I'm just so happy that we are finally at a place to make things happen. But before I go any further, I'm going to do a couple of housekeeping things. One who am I to what? ISS bike eliminate? What is this podcast going to be about? Three. What can you expect? What's gonna be the flow of the show expectations? All that good stuff. So to get started. My name is T. C. Mason. I'm your health and happiness strategists. If you had to like it me to somebody I would like in myself, too. A mix of Jada Pinkett, a mix of Tracy Ellis Ross with a dash of Tiffany had ish. I love people. I love group dynamics. I am especially interested in the things that make people flourish that take them to the next level. I'm also currently in a PhD program for psychology general psychology to actually explore that even further. The topic that I'm interested in is depression. How it affects people. Um, pretty much depression is a thing that you know, if you've ever seen Harry Potter, you've seen the episode where these black cloudy Dementors come over you and try to suck the life out of you. Depression is like that in depression and anxiety are to diagnosis that are just taking over the world and really just creating hammock. I mean, I have a lot of havoc in a lot of people's lives. So, um, a part of my mission is to help combat that situation with discovering I healthy interventions, healthy coping mechanisms that will really help people to increase their positive emotions and decrease those negative emotions and deal with situations. So that's a big piece of what I love to do. I also am a fitness instructor, so I teach fitness classes as I believe that's another tool to use for your mental health. Um, I also cure rate different activities and events to help people explore the things that bring them joy. I feel like a big piece of what's missing in adulthood is playing. I think we get so grown adopting become so complex that we forget the very things that actually brought us joy. And that's playing. And if we insert those things that it will help to balance off some of the stressors because you're gonna end up being stressed. At some point in your life, you're going to experience some grief, some loss, some something in your life. You keep living long enough. Something will happen for sure. And so I just want to teach people how to navigate through those things and continue to flourish in life. So that's a big piece of who I am. Eso what it's like eliminate What is Spike Limited? Because I love psychology and the club because I love so sure psychology, and I love the dynamic of just living and how people experience different things. I wanted to have a avenue where we could discuss different things and how they impact us in terms of one of mental health. Tip. So what I like about mental health in about human beings in general is that you can choose five people, give them, give them the same identical situation or experience, and you will come out with five completely different outcomes. Like everybody copes with things differently. Everybody has different tools, and so I'd like to discuss those things. But I also like to discuss how society in societal norms impact us. And sometimes we we just aren't even aware of how much we are impacted in how much things that have been perpetuated throughout our lives have infiltrated our belief systems have infiltrated how we parent, how we love how we friend Howie Netflix and chill all of that. And so I thought that this would be the perfect avenue to talk about everything everyday things and how it affects our mental health. So everyday things with a little mental health component. So that's the little spike up the spiked eliminate that we're adding that mental health component when we're talking about maybe social issues. Maybe we're talking about family issues. Maybe we're talking about work issues, church, all of that stuff, sexing sex, all that. We're gonna talk about all those things. So what can you expect from this show? You're gonna expect one that it will have some informative aspects, like not on Lee out. We're going to talk about situations. But we're also going to include scientific studies and experiments in a lot of data of what is being reported. And we're going to talk about those things in addition to just popular opinion in popular thoughts. I think that's very important. So and because, you know, as I said earlier, I am studying to be a psychology. So you're going to get those mental health pieces in the studies in how we can learn from them what we can extract from them. So you're so expect some educational components. Also expect fun. Expect some fun. We're gonna laughed. Expect for things not to be perfect. I'll repeat that again. Expect for things not to be perfect. I am a mother of six Children. 18 0 sorry. 23 18 17 16 15 and five. So you may hear pitter patter some feet running through here at some point, who knows? But I'm also an advocate of doing things imperfectly. I believe that perfection is a thing that can just stop you and keep you stagnant and keep you from moving. So I always like to encourage people to start with what you can do and you can perfect along the way, things can get better along the way. But if you wait until something is perfect, before you begin it, then chances are you won't get started. And that means that is a resource that other people won't be able to use because you're sitting on your gift. And I don't know about you all. But we need We need the gifts in here so you can expect education. You could expect laughter in. Fine. I do make noises to, uh and you could also expect for things not to be perfect. But this is theon tune ity for us to just have discourse about random things, everyday things and how they infiltrate our way of thinking, socializing, living in all that stuff. Are you ready? I hope so. The lemon has been dropped, so let's get into it. All right, So for our first episode, we are diving right in, and we are talking about cancer culture. So before we even get started, I think we got to define what cancel culture is. So just in case you've never heard of it, you know what we're talking about. So cancel culture is when people boycott you based upon your opinion based upon a certain behavior you've exhibited in the past action that you've done. Ah, based upon that they like you or dislike you. It's almost like you have gone to a protest. But you are the protest, and the people have the picket signs up about you saying, We don't want you, we don't want you, we don't want you. And so everything that you have contributed to society because of cancer culture is no longer valid or if it is valid, it is stained so badly that it's still canceled. Um, an example was when Bill Cosby, who had all of these allegations and found in cases of, you know, putting ah slipping things in people's drinks to have sex with them, et cetera, when all of that was going on, there was a piece of cancel culture where never his shows were playing like they had taken all of the shows out and if you know anything about The Cosby Show. The Cosby Show was so important to black culture because that was the not the first time, but one of the first times that black people were seen in a positive light like he was a doctor. The mom was a lawyer. It was a cohesive family. Ah, it was promoting good family values, et cetera. Where you know, there's always been this other side portrayed about black people, you know, living in the ghetto, you know, coming from a single family and all of that. So when they have and they were just like, Oh, we want to get rid of Cosby or what have you, But this stuff consistently happens. So you've seen that? What? Cosby. You saw that with Janet Jackson? Uh, she had done the Super Bowl. I'm not sure what Super Bowl it was. I'm not really into, ah, football and all that like that. But she had done to Super Bowl with Justin Timberlake, and there was a piece of the routine where her, uh, the little there was, like a nipple tassels on, or they said it was some type of malfunction over. Have you but anyway and looked as though it was a part of a routine and the piece came off and from that, people were just I rate, like just trying to cancel her out of the culture or what have you? I don't think it was more so African Americans trying to cancel her, but it worked. It was other people trying to cancel her from being relevant. Um, you have that You had Chris Brown in the Rihanna situation, and you also had the Chris sent Michelle Ah, situation where she had sung for an event. I think it was like Trump's in normal celebrations and she had some for that even. And people were just like you crazy is you crazy? Is your crazy for room? And they were just like, Okay, you're no longer relevant. So those are examples of how cancel culture can truly affect people's lives, especially the individuals who is, you know, actually, the picket fence I mean, a picket sign is actually four. I'm pretty sure it devastates them, and it affects them. And it reminds me of I'm not sure if you guys have ever read the book The Scarlet Letter. How this person was found guilty of adultery and she had to walk around with this scarlet letter, Mom as a marking like you're forever march that this is something that you have done. And I wonder if canceled culture is like the scarlet Letter in that it forever marks you. Ah, for something that you've done, how that actually affects people's authenticity. You know what? In the age of social media, in the age of Twitter, in the age of Instagram, in age of Facebook, we know have people who will go back 10 years, eight years, uh, to the beginning of somebody's career when they probably weren't really fine tuning their Twitter posts or instagram posts and actually search for dirt or opinions that are not that were popular then, but but aren't popular now to use that to cancel people or start a mission to ignite cancel culture, Um, that people will do that now. And so I wonder how it affects, you know, the individual's mental health in terms of am I living in a world where I can be authentic, or do I have to double check and recheck everything I say? Everything. I think everything I feel that's presented out in the world to actually be accepted. Because if I don't go along with societal norms, if I don't go along with what is popular or if something is found, then I'm going to be canceled. And being canceled doesn't feel good. Nor does the work that I have done to get to this point. That doesn't feel good either. So they had me thinking about that. Um, there was another recent situation the Kevin Hart situation in terms of him, uh, going thio, um, host the Oscars. So that situation in somebody have found a comment that he had made on Twitter about being gay or not Liking gay people is something along those lines, and it started this whole mess Ah, phenomenon like, Oh, he shouldn't be hosting because of his opinion back then and again if we are using this type of mindset of If you say something, if you believe something that I don't necessarily believe with or it doesn't go what popular culture or how society has changed, then you're no longer relevant. How does that affect your thinking? How does that affect what you will do or what you won't do. It sounds like to me that it could create just this fear of being human, like this fear of being a human being. Um, I personally don't feel like cancel culture should exist simply because we are all human beings. And I don't know of one person who hasn't done something that they weren't proud of. Mike, can you name like, one person that they have live this life with? No mistakes? Uh, I can't think of one I can't name. Not a one person, maybe Jesus. Not a one person other than that who hasn't done something that they aren't proud of. You know, um and so if that is the case, if we all are human beings and we all have done things that aren't the best all the time should we even be in the mindset where where we are canceling people out? I don't know. I don't know. And then the cancellation part is based upon what premise like, who makes the rules that count for what is permissible for cancellation. Like, who's making these rules? Is it just based upon, uh, general opinion? Is there some type of cancellation? You know, Caucasus? Um, who's making these rules based upon what? So what I am here is if you grew up in a time period where homosexuality was not necessarily accepted and you express that But maybe you may have grown to actually accept homosexuality later. Oin, you should be penalized for how you were 12 years ago in comparison to how you are now. Like, how does that lead to growth? Or do we even want people to grow? Or are we okay with people growing? We want people to be a certain way. And when we don't find out, they're certain way then, okay? No, we want no part of you. Whatever you had to bring to the table is no longer relevant. Like, how does that work? How does that work? I'm interested in knowing that. I think these little things these little micro things that go on in social media and Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. They are slowly perpetuating this idea of You have to be on all the time. You have to be perfect all the time. You have to use a filter all the time. You have to say the right quote to make sure that it goes with the right picture. You have to make sure that what you say on Twitter is representative of societal norms instead of what you feel or what you believe. And if we're living in that type of society, then we're slowly morphing from actually being genuine people. So I like Thio. I like visuals. And so when I think about things like this, I look around. If I was looking to an audience, if I was to go into a grocery store, if I was going was to go into Starbucks or I was to go to any workplace, drive any car, how many people would you see without a scarlet letter? Now, I'm not saying these people are The people who have, you know, get were guilty of, uh, adult or anything. But I'm talking about the Scarlet Letter as something that you've done wrong and that you have it necessarily been proud of. How many people would you see in this world that would have something on their chest? I'll wait exactly so that's food for thought. So we're gonna come back in the next episode, and we're gonna talk about some gender difference says and so called church like who gets it? The worst isn't the man, is it? The woman isn't the teenager. Isn't the black man? Isn't the white woman Isn't the Latina? Is it the Asian? Like we're gonna talk about some gender differences, some cultural differences. Who gets it the worst. I hope you guys to an inn for episode, too, because it's about to get really, really will. Really? Really Will. Really? Really, Really. All right. See you next.