Hello everyone and welcome to this weekʼs Naked Truth.
Trisha Hershberger here.
Before we jump into this weekʼs topic or maybe I should say before we pounce in to
this
weekʼs topic?
I donʼt know my fight lingo is bad.
Letʼs go ahead and thank our Naked
Army Vloggers from last week who gave a very wide variety of opinions on the friends
with benefits situation and we had a lot of first time Naked Army members join the
Naked Truth community so welcome to them.
If you want to check out their vlogs theyʼre
linked in the description below.
Thatʼs Chris, Kavaja, Renegade, Christopher, Erika,
Jeremy, Sky, Prescott & Kristen, David, Julia, Ryan, Lawrence, Jayms and Jenny.
Again
those are linked below if you want to check them out and thanks to all of those folks.
Especially welcome to those new guys and gals.
So this week this topic suggestion
comes from Ishmal Ark who said, “Naked Truth on fighting?
When do the claws come
out Trisha?”
And I thought I feel like this topic is not only fun because then we each get
to share personal stories if we have any personal stories that relate to that but also
because on a greater scale I feel like it relates to a lot of whatʼs going on politically
not
just in the US but in the world and you know when is it appropriate if ever to resort to
violence.
So for me I have been in two fights in my life and I felt very badass in one of
them and not very bad ass in the other.
And they were both when I was much younger.
So the first one took place probably when I was 8 or 9 and I was in the school cafeteria
I
was picked on a lot because I was about a foot and a half shorter then everybody else
my age.
I was the tiny one so this was about 3rd or 4th grade for me and I was standing
in the lunch line and one of the kids who always picked on me this kid named Bradley
and I wonʼt give his last name because Iʼm sure heʼs a very nice person now but he
always picked on me and he tripped me in the lunch line and my lunch money which I
was holding in my hand flew out everywhere and all the other kids laughed at me and it
was really embarrassing.
And I kind of had this moment where I blacked out and when I
came back to my hand really hurt and this kid Bradley who tripped me was crying and
holding onto the side of his face and needless to say did not pick on me anymore after
that.
But I thought, “Oh my goodness!
I must have in a fit of rage of my tiny self rage
must have walked up and just smacked him.”
But apparently it worked so I did not get in
trouble by the teachers even though I probably should of because Iʼm the one that hit
him but he did trip me first but whatever you know teachers are just like, “Break
it up
kids.”
I didnʼt get in trouble and he did stop picking on me so that was effective and then
a few years later I was camping with a friend of mine and there were these other kids at
like the campground playground they were guys and it was me and one of my
girlfriends.
And they were really picking on one of my girlfriends my girlfriend who was
there with me and it made me really upset.
So I decided that I was going to fight them
and now I had watched way too many movies and cartoons like Ninja Turtles where the
good guys always win and I thought well Iʼm defending my friendʼs honor so obviously
Iʼm going to win not thinking about the fact that I had absolutely zero experience fighting
or any kind of training and the fact that these kids were way taller than me and probably
older than me and you know I was this scrawny little thing.
So this was I donʼt know I
was maybe 11 or 12 at this point.
But I thought you know everything Iʼve seen on TV
tells me when a guy is being a jerk just kick him in the nuts.
So I assumed some kind of
fighting stance that I thought was an appropriate fighting stance Iʼm sure just looked
ridiculous and I tried to do my best roundhouse kick.
What was I thinking?
Into this kidʼs
groin area.
Anyway this kid who probably had a lot more experience fighting than I did
because he was being a jerk so he was probably a bully or whatever grabbed my foot
as it came around and twisted it so that I went from standing right side up on one foot
down kind of like face first into the ground and then those kids just laughed and me and
my friend and walked away.
Thank god that was the end of it because they really could
have kicked my butt.
But yeah that was not a great experience and again afterwards I
was like, “Iʼm not a dumb kid.
What was I thinking?
So stupid what was I thinking?”
But I
was so angry because they were making fun of my friend that I felt like I had to do
something and you know why I didnʼt think of another resolution to the issue I have
no
idea and thatʼs right what I went to.
You know now I think about that as an adult and it
does raise that larger question.
When is it appropriate to resort to physical violence or is
it ever appropriate?
And I think for me coming from and Irish Italian background I feel
like I have you know inherently that kind of anger trip wire happens a little bit faster
and
so especially when I was a kid and you know didnʼt really have as much self control it
was like, “Well here we go!”
And also I grew up on the East Coast where I feel like
physical violence and physical brawls are a lot more accepted at least in the areas
that I
grew up in than they are on the West Coast were I live now.
Like bar fights are 100%
not uncommon in the Philly area or the Boston area or any of the places that I knew
growing up and out here they are unheard of.
Nobody hits another person for fear of a
crazy lawsuit itʼs just not how people interact out here on the West Coast.
So Iʼm
curious to hear from the Naked Army members who live in other parts of the world if
thats more of an acceptable way for people to solve differences or not.
And itʼs been 11
years since Iʼve lived on the East Coast so I donʼt even know if thatʼs still the
case.
But
thatʼs the experience I had from my perspective and so now I feel like maybe itʼs
because of where I live now maybe itʼs because Iʼm a little older now but I feel like itʼs
better now to lose my temper.
Keep that Irish Italian temper in check and you know
behave in a more civilized matter when I have a dispute to resolve with somebody else.
And you know part of me feels like itʼs never okay to resort to violence.
Thereʼs always
another solution but I donʼt know it thatʼs too naive necessarily.
So you know now I think
that maybe as a last resort or in self defense and I do think itʼs important for people
to
study these things so that they have a means of self defense should it come to that and
Iʼm just not sure.
Like I said I think that this relates on a wider political scale from things
about civil unrest and riots here in the US to is it appropriate when is it appropriate
to go
to war or is there always another way to resolve that type of issue and these are always
things to think about.
Anyway Iʼm really excited to hear what you guys in the Naked
Army Community have to say about that and thatʼs my question to you.
When is it
appropriate to fight?
Or isnʼt it?
Please let me know in the comments section below or in
a Naked Truth Vlog of your very own.
Also I know that this is going up on a Thursday
and not a Wednesday and because Iʼve had a lot of stuff going on and Iʼm shooting
more shows now than I ever have before as well as some medical stuff thatʼs going on
itʼs been harder and harder for me to get these up on Wednesdays.
So I think moving
forward Iʼm going to move the Naked Truth to a Thursday morning show.
I know crazy
itʼs been years of Wednesday mornings.
What are you doing to me Trisha?
But weʼre
going to move it to Thursdays and see how that goes for everyone.
So in the future
expect that on Thursdays and then you can expect other tech and gaming videos on
Fridays and Saturdays and some other fun stuff.
I got a real cool bts of Kubo and the
Two Strings coming up soon.
Anyway lots of fun stuff in store for you guys.
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Iʼll talk to you next week.
Bye everyone.