Hi I'm Bryan and I'm the main host of the show! Along with my wonderful, beautiful wife and co-host Rebecca. Formerly Chef Bry Comedy, we used to be 5-star rated podcast Surviving Empathy. After 141 episodes spanning several years, having discussed everything under the sun, we were at a natural stopping point. Then, with mom's cancer diagnosis, we decided to finish the show and take some time off to do some deep life contemplation and reflection. Now we're back!

We rebranded things a little bit, adding the YouTube channel and video portion of the show as a companion to our usual audio podcast which streams everywhere, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, and more. You can also watch our videos at https:://www.youtube.com/@bryarpatchmedia. Liking and subscribing hurts no one and helps immensely, so thank you!

We're still all about spreading kindness and good cheer, and promoting robust mind, body, and soul nourishment and healing. Now more experienced, we also try to bring our unique mix of humor, earnestness, irreverence, and meta thinking in an educational way.

The show has always been about honoring real life working class people like you and me, celebrating those unsung working class heroes. We recognize the monstrous amount of responsibilities, stress, hardship, and nonsense average folks have to contend with without much recognition or reward. But we stay the course and do what it takes to survive in order to eventually SUR-THRIVE! Demanding a better quality of life than what's given, we all require catharsis, comfort, clarity, purpose, and hope in this bittersweet mediocre workaday life. We're all about cultivating the right mindset and attitudes for quality sustainable living. Just like you, we're just trying to get ahead and to live the best life we can while we can!

We tackle today's current events, pop-culture, old-school movies and nostalgia, and all things #spookylife #nerdlife! As well as hot takes and analysis about our culture and times today from a positive slant, always from the point of view of, how does this affect us regular people and how might we process it in a healthy way?

Our guilty pleasure is the paranormal, cryptids, UFOs, extraterrestrials, and all things mysterious and weird. As skeptics and secular humanists, we analyze things from a scientifically grounded rationalist perspective. Hopeful soft believers, we try to discern the truest nature of the universe and our place in it through a science meets spiritual approach.

Self-described empaths, we offer advice and support for empaths, sensitives, introverts, misanthropes, and those who've always felt just a little bit different than the herd. We want to learn all there is about what it means to be "energetically sensitive," and what's truly going on in the world and universe at large through a meta lens. Always straight shooters, we continually seek to help and inspire, to uplift and make people laugh, while dispatching society's haters and trolls! We're the perfect chilling while doing other things podcast!

As an Army vet, voice artist, chef, comic, writer, and former EMT, I'm just trying to do my part in making this world feel like a good kind place, preserving dignity and integrity, offering hope and common sense solutions. Good folks are everywhere, these unsung heroes doing their best, while low quality people get all the attention; the squeaky wheel gets the grease! But life's just too short to suffer fools. Life's so much better when we can value integrity, decency, rationalism, and normalcy. Sure we get snarky sometimes, but always with a light-hearted and fun sensibility. Life's at its best when we can laugh through adversity and enjoy life to its fullest! Be bold but be kind! Welcome to the Bryar Patch, where humor meets heart.

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