RHLSTP with Richard Herring Happy Now
Dec 25, 2025
Richard Herring dives deep into the hilarious chaos of fatherhood. He contrasts the magical expectations of childbirth with the reality of a traumatic delivery. With candid humor, he explores parental anxiety, imagining all sorts of worst-case scenarios. There’s a funny reflection on the bittersweet nature of pure infant happiness and how it can be painful for parents. Richard also discusses the balance between career ambitions and personal contentment, all while navigating the challenges of being an older dad. It's a wild ride filled with laughter and introspection!
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Chaotic, Vomitous Birth Experience
- Richard Herring describes his daughter's birth as horrific, starting with him covered in cat feces and his wife in severe pain for many hours.
- He details vivid, grotesque moments in the delivery and his shock at the visceral reality of birth.
Parenting Triggers Catastrophic Thoughts
- Richard recounts intrusive parental fears that imagine worst-case scenarios while carrying or walking with his baby in a pram.
- He uses absurd examples like a stalactite of frozen urine falling from a plane to illustrate constant catastrophic thoughts.
Apricot Stone Panic And Existential Fear
- Richard recounts nearly choking on an apricot stone and panicking about leaving his daughter fatherless in an embarrassing death.
- He describes irrational steps like Googling animals that eat apricot stones and imagining an apricot tree growing inside him.