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CTP (S3EFebSpecial4) Relationship Roller Coasters, Explained
Valentine's Week 2026 Special episode 2
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We map the fuzzy “roller coaster relationship” cliché to real rides—mild, wild, and everything between—and show how clearer language can change how we handle conflict. We argue that small disagreements are signs of thinking, not failure, and offer ways to keep the ride safe.
• unusual programming update for Valentine’s week
• the “roller coaster” metaphor unpacked with real coaster types
• why mild ups and downs signal healthy dynamics
• when intensity becomes instability and what to do
• conflict as proof of independent thought
• simple habits that smooth the track
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Transcript
00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D at the French.
00:13It's not, it's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:26Hey gang, a special brief setup interlude.
00:34I said I'd be doing two guest appearances a week for January, February, maybe even a March.
00:44But this week, Valentine's Week, I'm doing three weekday episodes.
00:51Two will be guests.
00:52I did D.H. Morris semi-relationship romance related episode that dropped Tuesday, February 10th.
01:04I am dropping this, a former video exclusive monologue, won't be a guest, so that's going to be different.
01:14But Thursday, February 12th, I will be repurposing an interview with Bob Moog for a third in this Valentine's Week.
01:27During the week, am I the ass game?
01:31And on Saturday, the 14th, a fourth in one week, the normal, traditional Saturday monologue.
01:41So, just wanted to explain what's going on.
01:45This is an odd, different week.
01:49And on with the rollercoaster, dealing with relationships, rollercoasters, the Lifekind video exclusive, dealing with relationships.
01:59Bob Moog tomorrow, oh, Friday the 13th.
02:04I just now realized that.
02:07Bob Moog having nothing to do with Friday the 13th, but a relationships game, am I the ass, that I
02:16encourage couples to play.
02:18So, rebroadcasting that.
02:20Let's get into the rollercoasters, the Lifekind, the former video exclusive play.
02:27I'm kind of sitting here chuckling a little.
02:31I'm watching TV, and I don't remember for the product.
02:37It wasn't really paying much attention.
02:40And it's only like maybe the third or fourth time I've seen it.
02:46Again, each time not really paying attention to the ad.
02:49But there's a couple and asked, what's the one word that describes your relationship?
02:58And the guy, I think it's the guy in the commercial, says rollercoaster.
03:05Well, hey, that could be a very good term.
03:11Is it like the little wildcat ride you could find at any traveling carnival?
03:19That pops up in the mall's parking lot?
03:24You know, very mild.
03:26Like Longfellow in my, oh, let me grab.
03:30I'm grabbing.
03:32My latest book came out January 1226.
03:37Complicated, Life and Living, fourth in the Life and Living series of books.
03:44Longfellow, for every life, a little rain, figurative and literal will fall.
03:52A rollercoaster.
03:55Is it mild?
03:57Like Cedar Point, if you've ever been there in Sandusky, Ohio.
04:02That's near me in Michigan.
04:04Again, I've been a long-time visitor to Cedar Point.
04:11Oh, pardon the background.
04:13Some lights coming in from the door and causing a little glare there.
04:17But anyway, back to the point.
04:19Cedar Point, I can't think of a coaster.
04:22You walk in the front gates over to the left.
04:26There's like a picnic area in around the back of the picnic area.
04:32Old, white, wooden coaster.
04:35Very mild.
04:36You only have the seat belt.
04:39No harness because it's not a massive structure.
04:43Wild and crazy.
04:45Just a few hills.
04:47And if you lift your hands up off the rail, you get a little airtime.
04:53Yeah, every relationship should be like that kind of rollercoaster.
04:59There's bound to be some ups and downs.
05:02There could, there should be some minor discrepancies in discussions and even minor arguments.
05:10That means you're alive.
05:12It means you're working.
05:14Because relationships are work.
05:17You need to work at them.
05:19It means you're doing well.
05:22Now, if by rollercoaster you mean the beast at Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio, well, then you got issues.
05:36Then it's a rough marriage.
05:39It's a rough go.
05:41The beast, world-renowned wooden coaster, Kings Island.
05:46I've been there many times, too.
05:49I used to be a member of ACE, American Coaster Enthusiast Club.
05:54And back when I was married, we were part of the group.
05:59And we'd go to various parks around wherever.
06:04And as part of the club, we'd get access into the park before it opened to get in line for
06:11a coaster before it officially opens.
06:14So we're right there.
06:15We'd get a jump like Kings Island, go to the beast, be able to ride that.
06:20And then while people are still piling in the park, you're off.
06:25You're done with your ride already and off to another coaster getting in line for that before that line gets
06:32very long.
06:33At any rate, that's a side thing.
06:36But, yeah, rollercoaster.
06:38What kind?
06:38A mile one?
06:40That's great.
06:40That's wonderful.
06:41You're doing good.
06:42The beast?
06:43That's a whole lot.
06:44Or America's Six Flags America and California.
06:51I can't think of the big Fire and Ice.
06:57I think they have dual steel track ones.
07:01That's a bit, you know.
07:04Or is it like the Maverick Top Gun one?
07:12That's like Iron Dragon at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.
07:18It's really just a dangling, mild coaster.
07:21They call it a coaster.
07:23It isn't even a coaster.
07:24It's more like a cable car ride.
07:26You know, where you're in the gondola and you go over the ground and you land at the other.
07:32Those are pretty mild.
07:34You dangle a bit.
07:35You sway a bit.
07:37But you're in a car.
07:38Those are mild.
07:39Well, at any rate, I just wanted to come and laugh with you about that commercial and put it in
07:48perspective and reality.
07:50Indeed, life is complicated at times.
07:54You know, things aren't always going to go perfect.
07:57If you never argue, chances are one of you is a sheeple in that relationship because it's not normal for
08:05two people.
08:06Even identical twins have their own minds, their own personality.
08:13They don't agree all the time.
08:15A spouse doesn't normally agree all the time.
08:18Brothers and sisters don't always agree all the time.
08:22Aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas, kids and adults.
08:27It's not normal to be supposedly in sync with another human 100%.
08:36You're not a thinker then.
08:39You're a sheeple.
08:41You're just adopting and assuming someone else's persona if you never have any disagreement.
08:50Anyway, that's all I wanted to mention.
08:53I laughed again because that commercial came on and I thought about their roller coaster.
08:59Yeah, well, what kind, right?
09:02It's like the difference between a surface street out front of your house 25 miles an hour or the autobahn
09:11trying to go along with traffic zooming past at 150 miles an hour.
09:17One is far more complicated than the other.
09:21Thank you all.
09:23Take care.
09:24God bless.
09:26Love you all.
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10:00Love you all.
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