F*ck The Standard

F*ck The Standard is a no bullsh*t podcast for people who look “fine” but know they’ve been coasting on comfort, fear, distraction, and half truths. Hosted by Rob McCarthy, this show digs into discipline, identity, mental health, sobriety, family, emotional resilience, and the rebuild that happens when you finally take ownership. No gurus, no hype, just real conversations for blue-collar minds, parents, spouses, anyone tired of numbing out, avoiding the mirror and pretending they’re good.New Episodes Drop Every Friday!!

F*ck The Standard is a health podcast hosted by Rob McCarthy, with 30 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Rob McCarthy hosts F*ck The Standard, a health show with 30 episodes published.

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  Episode #29

  The Ones Who Lived: The Forgetten Side of 9/11

  Sep 18, 202658 minS2

  Craig Sotkovsky responded to the World Trade Center on 9-11. He came out of it with lung cancer, GERD, PTSD, and a government program that kicked him off healthcare over a paperwork technicality. He rebuilt his life in Mexico on $350 a month and wrote a book called Everybody Pays a Vig about the price everyone pays for the life they're avoiding. In this episode, Craig and Rob go after everything: the politicians who use 9-11 as a soundbite and ignore survivors the rest of the year, the pharmaceutical industry, parents who let a tablet raise their kids, and a culture that hands out reflection rooms and crayons instead of consequences. Two New York guys, zero filter, one hard truth after another. This is not a polished survivor story, it's the story about what surviving actually costs, and what you do with it after. Get Craig's Book, Everyone Pays a Vig: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732232415?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Get your copy of F*ck The Script: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB

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  Remembering 9/12

  Sep 11, 20267 min

  Every year we say never forget, and every year fewer and fewer of us remember what happened the day after. On September 12th, 2001, this country did something it hasn't done since. Nobody asked who you voted for before they helped you. Strangers gave blood, hugged each other, and asked one question: What can I do to help? Twenty five years later, I look at what we did with the time the victims never got. It's not another angry take, just the truth I see about where we've landed, and what it would take to get back. This one's not my usual energy, it's quieter, so give it the space it needs.

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  Episode #28

  You Don't Need Rescuing, with "The Music God" C.J. Plain

  Sep 11, 202643 minS2

  CJ Plain spent sixteen years driving truck while chasing a music career on the side. Then a half inch chain snapped on the side of a highway in Denver and caught him across the forehead hard enough to kill him. He survived. What came after nearly broke him anyway. He lost his income overnight, and he spent three years fighting a disability system that already had the paperwork proving his injury. His marriage ended in a way he never chose. He came out the other side raising his son alone. He is finishing a degree at fifty five and getting ready to drop a record he almost did not live long enough to make. In this conversation, CJ breaks down the accident in full detail and the three year fight for disability approval that followed. He also names the belief he had to unlearn to rebuild without waiting for someone else to save him: that you need a woman to be happy. "I don't need a woman. I want a woman. I don't have to have her." That is not a throwaway line, that is the whole episode. F*ck The Script, is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB .

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  Episode #27

  Men Don't Do Therapy: But it Saved His Life

  Sep 4, 202638 minS2

  His stepdad pulled him out of therapy as a kid because men don't do that. He carried that line for 20 years, through an abusive household, a marriage that mirrored it, a custody loss, and a drinking problem that started when he was 10. Willie Thornton doesn't tell the clean version. He tells you about the night he got in his car with nowhere to go and no reason not to keep driving. He tells you exactly what it cost him to believe silence was strength. And he tells you the difference between staying a victim and becoming a survivor, a distinction he didn't learn from a book, he learned it by almost not making it. This is not a redemption story with the hard parts sanded off. It's a guy admitting what he actually did wrong, what actually happened to him, and what actually changed. IN THIS EPISODE - Why "men don't do therapy" is one of the most damaging lines a kid can hear - The night he found the people who kept him alive - Rebuilding a relationship with his daughter after losing his older kids for a time - Why he refuses to call himself a victim of any of it Connect with Wille: Soul Impact: How Music Saves Us https://open.spotify.com/show/5y2cgcrU1ysYfDw8PVgAOM?si=8d57342f44ac41f5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/willie.thornton.384125 Get your copy of F*ck The Script on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB

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  Episode #26

  They're Telling Us the Truth: It's the Biggest Lie

  Aug 28, 202644 minS2

  They're telling us the truth. That's the biggest lie there is. Season two is back! Paul Simard is a death doula and a men's coach who spends his life sitting with grief, dying, and the lies men are taught to carry , starting with the idea that everything about death, and everything about being a man, has been safely outsourced to someone else. He tells the story of the day he missed his own daughter, doing the dishes while she told him what happened at school, and not understanding what he'd actually missed until seven years later. He breaks down the lie that your worth comes from your production. And he explains why he stopped chasing healing and started chasing something else entirely. IN THIS EPISODE - The lie behind male worth, and why production was never the measure- The dishwashing story that took seven years to land- Why rage might be the most useful thing men have been taught to suppress- What healing gets wrong, and why wholing works better This is part one. Part two is already on the way. Connect with Paul: www.paulsimard.co https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_simard_the_mythical_man www.thecanoe.co IG: https://www.instagram.com/living__wisdom/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/paul.sim.17 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-simard/ Get your copy of F*ck The Script: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB

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