Suicide Prevention Sat - G.I.G.O.

All right, see, DJ, you are still there. Like I said, you are in charge of everything tonight because my phone is too little. All right, welcome to the suicide prevention bathroom edition of Suicide Prevention on Saturday. There is a concert going on outside my window, so this was the quietest place. So if it sounds like I'm in bathroom, I am, because back there, that's the shower. DJ was trying to get me to figure out something better, but this is what I got for y'all. Because this is how much I love you all. I had to find somewhere I could put my phone because, I don't know, I forgot my, my, uh, laptop. So imperfect action wins again. No perfect lighting, no perfect sound, but here I am. All right, so Guns and Barbecue says he's got the first thumbs up, and Fiona is actually early for once. Well, I think it's just you're not actually at a concert. I think that's what you meant to say. Since you're usually at concerts on the weekends. So, um, thanks for the thumbs up, guys. So, all right, uh, GIGO, right? G-I-G-O. So I said we're going to talk about— oh yeah, I'm sorry, intro thing of why do we have Suicide Prevention Saturday? Because as gun owners, 2 out of every 3 gun deaths you hear about are suicides. So if we really actually want to save lives— hey, G-Webs is here! Good afternoon, sir. Yes, it is in the afternoon on the West Coast there, and it's pretty darn dark here already. 2 out of every 3 gun deaths you hear about, so, are suicides. So if we want to save lives, we really need to talk about self, self-care, self-awareness, and healthcare. Healthcare, yeah, mental healthcare. There we go. Oh, wait a second. Ready? DJ, you're gonna save me if I get this wrong. All right, so I got Jen, who also is a competitor. I don't know if she's— you're not doing New England Regionals though, I think. And then Mike and Pam over on my Facebook side. And I have to— I gotta throw Mike under the bus a little bit. I put up a picture of a poster that was at the cottage we're at this week, and it said, "Sea Hag: A mermaid before she has her coffee." And he said, yes, that's my wife. And Pam's response was pretty funny because she just like pointed at him and made a mad face and it was just very cute. And G webs, yes, it's okay. It is evening here, but it's probably still very afternoon-ish there for you on the West Coast, right? West-ish. Anyway, not East Coast. That's what I got. As it is, I have a hard enough time figuring out where everybody is from. So I'm going to hide the comments and say, okay, that's up for DJ to take care of, because that's one of the reasons I have them here, so I can stay on target. So yes, I am here at a hotel because tomorrow I am shooting IDPA New England Regionals. And normally this is on my birthday weekend, which was last weekend, but this year it's this weekend. Um, so Anyway, I've spent many a year for my birthday at this event, so it's always fun to come back to. I went and looked at the stages. Um, they're mean. They're just straight up mean, some of them. There are— there's moving hard cover, which means there's this thing spinning in front of two targets you're supposed to shoot at, but it's spinning, and so you have to get between the thing that's spinning to hit the target you're at. There is this other evil thing where there's a window and there's a good target and a bad target, and it swings, and you have to make sure you hit the good target, not the bad target. Oh, and guess what? The way it swings, it actually rotates, and there's 4 targets: good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy. So it should be interesting. And those are just like the ones off the top of my head that I thought were really, really mean. But no, there's more. There's a flying target. There's actually 4 flying targets. So it'll be fun. So, GIGO, G-I-G-O. Back in the '90s when I was in college, long ago and far away for many of you, one of the, one of the classes I took was programming and they introduced us to GIGO and it's garbage in, garbage out. Because as programmers, what you type in with your little itty-bitty fingers, whatever you put in, the computer will spit out, because that's how programming works. And so if you do run command, which was a command back then because it was called BASIC, because it was very basic, um, if you had a typo, it would try to do what you told it to. But if it was, if there was a typo, it wouldn't actually be able to do what you told it to because you put garbage in and it was unable to actually spit garbage out. It would just do nothing. So what does it have to do with mental health? Oh, well, it is simply that there is so much garbage we can put in here on a regular basis, on social media, on the news, on the radio, whatever things you pay attention to. Books, even books, not as much. I think you tend to put them down if they seem like they're garbage. But, um, just being aware what gets put in gets processed and spit out. And if it's all garbage, then we spit out a lot of garbage. I have friends who I love dearly, but they just focus on what's the next virus, what's the next thing we're gonna get locked down for, this is coming, or the nuclear threat, or we're gonna crash and burn, uh, economically, all of these things. And it's like, yeah, all of those things are absolutely possible. However, if that's all you're focusing on and that's all that's getting in here, that's all that's going to come out. So you're going to talk about— it's all you think about, that's all you're going to do. The garbage in, garbage out thing I was thinking about this week simply for the fact that I do my best to try to make sure on a daily basis I have at least one good thought, and that one good thought can then help me build on a second good thought, and from there I can build another. But in order to do that, I'm going to put good stuff in here. Now, it could be reading a book, it could be doing meditation. Uh, pretty much every meditation teacher I've ever had says if you are too busy for 5 minutes of meditation, you need to take 10 minutes to meditate because you need that calmingness in your brain and that quietness. Because in theory, when you meditate, you take that breath in, you calm yourself, you try to acknowledge what's in here, right? It's like, okay, are there thoughts? I can see the lights, whatever. But You just acknowledge it and let it go. So meditation is one way. Now, in my classroom, I always say one size never fits all, because I know there are folks out there who say, oh, meditation's stupid, it never works. I'm like, okay, so you're not good at it, but that's okay, you can practice. However, you can also put other good stuff in there. Um, you know, a wide variety of people who watch this, so it's like, if you've ever heard of someone like Tony Robbins, Goggins, Jaco. Oh my goodness, who am I thinking of? Jordan Peterson. Mr. Rogers from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. There's so many different things. There's so many different people that you find enlightening or can make your mind grow. One of my favorites is Walter O'Brien because there was a fictional story loosely based on his life, and he was a genius, and it was sure fun. So here's the thing: put good stuff in. If you put good stuff in, then you get good stuff out. See how that GIGO thing works both ways? So the G can be garbage in, garbage out, or we can change it to good stuff in, good stuff out. And yeah, if we're gonna get all technical, it'd be GSI, GSO, but we're not gonna get technical because I'm not that technical girl. That's, that's what I'm saying tonight, at least. So that's kind of it. That's what I have for you on this Saturday evening. Um, garbage in, garbage out, or good stuff in and good stuff out. And are we always going to be one or the other? No, let's be real. Some days there's more garbage than we'd like to admit, and other days there's more good stuff. But I do find often we, you and I, have to work harder sometimes to look for the pretty things in our lives, to pay attention to the blessings that are there, to be aware of the fact that you're watching internet right now, whether it's on a computer, a phone, a tablet. You're a person of means, whether you feel broke or not has nothing to do with it, but you have the ability to hear me and see me— well, no, sorry, I don't know if Patriot in the Dark is out there, but you know, there's still a picture on your screen, so there is that. So anyway, that is my message for this evening: garbage in, garbage out, or good stuff in, good stuff out. Make sure you are feeding yourself something good. And Mr. DJ, on this lovely Saturday evening where I have to get up at 5 AM tomorrow, I'd like to go to bed now. You got anything for me?

Well, I do. I want to give you a full roll call. They've been, uh, coming in a little bit early, and I hope that some of us will stay late for the last message here. But Guns and Barbecue was out there early. Fiona is out there, so is Gun Websites. We got Silvermine203, new face in the crowd. Crabby Turtle, know where he is. And let's see, Tara Smith. Yeah, those are all on the YouTube side. On the Facebook side, Jennifer Burney joined us, Michael Bellinger did as well, and so did David Moskowitz. Um, Vanessa Kitty is just recently in the room. So when you were talking about garbage in, garbage out, early '90s computers, yeah, I'm a veteran of computer labs. I was an assistant in one at university, at UNO for a couple of years. And so you go definitely and helping other people get through their garbage out, which kind of sometimes was not so pleasant. I didn't expect when I started that job that I was gonna have to deal with a lot of garbage coming into my office and wanting me to fix all their problems. Kind of thing. And it wasn't all of their problems. What I had, you know, at this point, the university was still transitioning into offering housing. And even though Omaha is a pretty good-sized town, historically, this is a state teacher's college. And so it was a commuter campus in the middle of town. And there were a lot of non-traditional students there, you might guess. And so a lot of people who are now my age, so many years, decades hence, right, were trying to figure out computers for many of them, many, many of them for the first time, and then lunchtime, 11th hour, wanting to just chuck the whole deal because their paper was due or their project was due or their program, like you were talking about, still didn't run. So I'd like to suggest to everybody, you know, take a tip from, you know, take a page from TJ's book, you know, persist past the garbage in and go get any garbage that came in, go get it out. I'm always, you know, trying to get people to be safe, have fun, and to rock. So, whatever your rock is, it's not necessarily the music. It's not me saying it and throwing up the horns and thinking about heavy metal. Rock is whatever, it's your jazz. That's another term that I use sometimes. The whole, "You be you, you do you, boo." Same kind of thing, except while you're being you, get that out, go get something good in. And Brooke, can you tell us what was for dinner tonight? Because I'm really curious. I'm hungry.

What do you mean, what was for dinner tonight? Tonight? Well, it was, it was a burger because there's, you know, there's a restaurant, a hotel, you know, dining room downstairs. And we just came off of, uh, Beach Week, so I've had seafood up to here. So I was excited for a piece of cow. Oh, it's right on. Hi, She Live Moo.

There he is. He comes into the room sometimes and says hello. Yeah, well, you know, a burger in a pinch will do. And man, you had to say that you were up to, what is it, you know, 5-foot-something worth of seafood. That's a lot. And man, I'm telling you, one of these days, one of these days, Brooke, I'm on my way.

I know. Well, I was telling my husband how you're all jealous of our seaboard that, you know, we get to go play in the ocean. But Paul, I got to say hi to Paul because he was giving me a shout out. Over on Flight Society this evening because I was out there stalking him as well. Um, I think that finishes everybody that we talked to. You did say Vanessa Kitty was out there, right?

Um, yes ma'am, I did. And speaking of mentions, I made mention of you, this program, this channel on Chris from the 740s chat, which is still going on. Um, you know, modest apologies for any kind of quarking sort of deal. This is a— this was a pop-up chat and he's been away for a while, but I was able not just to spread this good word. I want to encourage everybody else out to spread that good word. And that good word is coming here on Saturday nights if you can, in the replay if you can't, passing it on to somebody. If you don't see a smile, make one sort of deal. I'm like, I'm really up on that these days. I don't know what exactly it is in me, but I feel some decent energy and I'm trying to make sure that I get it out there in return.

It is definitely one of the easier things in life to do that doesn't cost anything. And it's one of those things, actually, when I worked at Disney, One of the training tips they said was, you know, if someone's coming up to you and for the 500th time they're like, hey, where's the bathroom? And you're literally standing under the sign that says restroom, you just simply smile and say, oh yes, ma'am, it's right here. And in your head, if you've got this big smile on your face, they don't know that you're thinking, what an idiot. So the, the smile definitely helps. Um, uh, no, G, barbecue, no, it's 5, 5, 5 AM, 5:30, something like that. I gotta be on the range at what time? 7 AM for, uh, uh, what the heck is it called? I gotta be there for 7 AM because of equipment check, and then we start shooting at 9. And Friday night they didn't get done till 7:30 PM because it was crappy weather and it was all staff shooting. And I do not know what time they got done today, so y'all keep your fingers crossed that I am home before midnight tomorrow. So that's my thought.

And I've got a question because it's about like— because of the competition stuff, did you do your check down for tomorrow already? Did you go through the bag? Did you make sure that everything came with you and you're not going to have to find somebody that's got a bag last minute?

Dude, I'm already loading mags in the clock in, in here so that I'm ready to go in the morning. Oh wait, wait, because I could take you with me. Hold on, I don't know how to switch this around, so this will probably be really bad, but I'm also— oh wait, no, that's not going to work either. Um, I don't know how to do this. All right, so I've got—

oh, you got your gear?

It's out there. And then because if I could turn this around, it'd be a lot easier, but I can't figure it out. So anyway, that's my bag. I'm getting everything all together when I'm done with you guys. Sorry if this is too Blair Witch Project-like. Um, I don't know how to switch this around so I could show you for real.

This is a slice of life moment, and we're glad to be here. And we'll be back again next Saturday, right? Right on. And hopefully you'll be, uh, telling us about, you know, some glorious, uh, times and, uh, groupings and a good experience with everything. And man, if I was there, I'd be going out and listening to the concert outside your poolside door, damn it.

Well, to be fair, it's actually a magic show, so there's lots of yelling and hoo-ha and cheers and all of that sort of stuff.

So right on, good energy.

All right, yes, it'll be fun. It's going till 10 o'clock tonight, so I figure I got 45 minutes to finish packing everything up.

And before we, uh, walk out the door, look at the, uh, Mike White is out there saying hello to everyone, and I need to say hello to him. Mike White, 2AFC. Out there in the room.

All right. Oh, and 'cause Paul is here, I suppose I should also let y'all know that next Friday on Flight Society Podcast at 8:00 PM Eastern, I will be on there for Training Tip Friday. And he and I already discussed, we're probably gonna talk about dry fire. And since I'm coming off a month of dry fire, y'all should check that out too. All right, I'm gonna keep carrying this the wrong way. So that's it. DJ, you're in control of the buttons.

Rock on. Be safe, have fun, carry your guns, and rock everybody. Good night.