What About Bob?

If I can just judge this or make fun of this in another human being, that means I don't have it.

There's a movie called What About Bob that goes into this in depth.

Bob in the movie pretends like he's having a heart attack, pretends like he's having Tourette's syndrome.

And the psychiatrist says, you know, what the hell are you doing? And he says, well, if I can fake it, that means I don't have it.

And when he says, Donald, "And I'm Donald Duck," for no reason.

[laughs] Um, and then we watched What About Bob with Bill Murray, and I really enjoyed that movie.

That was great.

So yeah.

So Peter is outside the house of Cornelius quietly freaking out.

I don't know if you ever saw that movie, What About Bob? One of my favorite movies.

And the opening scene is simply Bob who has loads of phobias, loads of issues.

But here's the thing.

... which, of course, I'm in favor of 'cause of his Muppet connection there.

But I guess he did the scores for things like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and What About Bob? And, uh-

Little Shop of Horrors.

Yeah, the, uh, you know, the stuff that wasn't the musical numbers of Little Shop of Horrors-

And I'm going to have to really get into meal prepping and controlling my diet more.

that's one of the other things I'm coming back super conflicted by, like, for as much as I tried, you know, for as much as this was supposed to be a vacation, I feel like a lot of, you know, like, in What About Bob, it's like, take a vacation from your problems, I feel like I took a vacation, but my problems came along with me, like, I was never, never able to fully let go, and I almost wonder if part of it is because of all this kind of, like, fucking shitty, immature, high school-ish bullshit was going on, you know what I mean, like, and, and if somebody that usually is, like, a very big support system for me, um, and almost from the way she behaved, I almost wonder, I'm like, you know, when they start, when they say, not they, it's even, like, this is what is, like, a truth, people who are not on the same page as you people who are not going to be a positive force you're supposed to start distancing you know you're supposed to distance yourself from them because you don't want their to start pulling you down and polluting your atmosphere especially if you're someone who's been doing work for several years now to course correct and fix your life I mean the fact that like this trip wasn't cheap I almost wasn't able to go part of me has I would say I can't say a hundred percent that I don't have any regrets about going I'm glad I went but like You know, had I been able to see it through a crystal ball into the future that there was going to be this kind of awkward oddness, maybe it would have been worth saving the money and just going to my parents' place for a week and going to the beach every day.

It's still a little bit different.

Like my parents, if you want to go to the beach, you've got to get in the car and drive 15 minutes to get there.

He also appeared in two episodes of the original series, two criminal intents and one trial by jury.

He had minor roles in Sophie's Choice, What About Bob? and Dead Man Walking.

He also did some stage acting.

He died last summer.

It's about moving in that direction step by step.

One of my favorite movies, and it's an old one, so I may be dating myself, but it's What About Bob? And there's this neurotic little dude, and he's like, baby step, baby step to the door, baby step through the door.

And it's hilarious, but it is really actually quite apropos because so many times, and we're going through it, If we're not wanting to get stuck in it, we just got to baby step and just keep going and keep persevering.

Persevering through the overwhelm.