From Fat To Fit: Amazing Weight Loss Transformations With Russ

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of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living Podcast.

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I have my friend, Russ, who has another podcast.

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He's going to tell you a little bit about that.

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And he went through a big weight loss journey.

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And welcome, Russ. Thank you. Thank you. So,

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yeah, I am one half of the podcast called Nick

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and Russ Don't Know Anything Podcast. I'm Russ.

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We have been podcasting probably, I think our

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first day was like June 20th of this year. We

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decided to do it out of COVID boredom, but also

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COVID creation. We were bored and we... we're

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tired of not being creative really. So we, we,

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we did a podcast and our podcast is a, it's kind

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of a variety podcast. We, we, we do cover a lot

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of politics and current events, but we also talk

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about like a film and we interview a lot of people

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from all walks of life. We've had lawyers on,

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we've had politicians on other podcasters on,

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we've had writers and producers and directors

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and actors and actresses. We kind of cover the

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whole gamut. So that's pretty much what the Nick

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and Russ show does. My question is, was there

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any famous actors on there? Oh, yeah. I'm not

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sure if you're familiar with Friends or with

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Breaking Bad or with Seinfeld, but we had Larry

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Hankin on. I know Seinfeld. I know Friends. yeah

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he and friends he played um oh my gosh i can't

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think of the name of the person he played the

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grumpy neighbor above that came down always and

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complained that they were making too much noise

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yeah oh you'll have to you'll have to excuse

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me sometimes my little guy uh my three -year

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-old likes to pop in and uh and so anyway he's

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uh you gotta go no no no you gotta go and uh

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go in the other room with that okay buddy all

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right thank you he wanted to play his flute yes

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thank you uh so uh yeah he came on jack o 'halloran

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came on he was a he would played um uh nod in

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uh um not in uh superman movies like you know

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you had general zod and then you had the guy

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who was silent he played that guy we've had comedian

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uh blair erskine on she uh if you ever saw she

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does these videos these really funny viral videos

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and where she Pretends to be other people like

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that are kind of making themselves famous by

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saying really stupid stuff on the Internet, like,

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you know, senators and things like that are saying

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horrible things. And she pretends to be like

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their wife or their kids or whatever. And it's

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a really good comedy. Let's see who else we had

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on. We had this really great actress that is

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up and coming. Her name's Shannon Wilson on.

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We've had some directors and some writers. How

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do you get to know all these people? Jeez. Uh,

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just by networking, by getting to know other

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podcasters and getting to know other people and,

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um, and, you know, you know, getting to know

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the right people actually. Uh, so, you know,

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sometimes you, you know, you gotta be careful

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with who you get to know and things like that.

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Uh, and, um, you know, and so you, you feel people

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out and, and you go from there and, uh, you know,

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and then you, you, if you are friends with a

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podcaster. and you ask them uh hey uh how do

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you can i can you hook me up with that person

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uh sometimes i can sometimes i can't you know

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like just depends um and you know you can network

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that way too so I got to stay in touch with you.

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Yeah, I mean, if I come across anybody that,

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like, I always ask the person that I interviewed,

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if one of my podcasting friends wants to see

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if they can get them on the show, I will first

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go to the celebrity, or after that, I'll go to

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the celebrity and be like, hey, do you mind if

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I give your information to them? Because if they

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don't, then, you know, I can't do that. I can't

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give their information. But if they're okay with

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it, then I will give their information to the

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other podcasters or make the connection and let

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them. go from there so so uh how many uh years

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have you been uh i mean so you said you started

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uh the podcast at the beginning of this year

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uh actually june in the summer yeah we uh my

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friend nick i have known him he's the other person

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in in our podcast i'd known him since i was 2017

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and uh we came together because we were in a

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weight loss program And we were basically like

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there's only like five guys in this whole weight

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loss program. And and you went and you met in

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different places to have meetings. And him and

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I were typically always in the same meetings.

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And it was sometimes just him and I as the guys.

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And we just became friends. We like we had the

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same sense of humor and we we started chatting

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and we we lost all the weight that we wanted

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to like for me. the most I ever weighed was like

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500 pounds. But then when I started the program,

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I was like at 445, but I still was dealing with

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a lot of stuff. I had a lot of weight or health

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issues. And the reason why, and I couldn't do

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the stuff that I needed to do to lose weight.

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Like my brain just wouldn't do it. Like I was

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just, I don't know. I would say like, I would

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wake up and be like, all right, today I'm going

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to. to do this to lose weight and i wouldn't

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know it like maybe i'd start off doing okay in

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the day and then at the end of the day i would

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have eaten all this crap and my doctors had told

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me if i didn't get you know it under control

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that uh i wouldn't be around for my kids and

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uh i was like okay i gotta do something like

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Podcast link in the show notes. Now let's get

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back to the show. I can't, I can't like orphan

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my kids. They're not orphaned. They still have

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my wife, but I can't let them go without dad.

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And so like I had remembered this one student

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because I teach and this one student had. told

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me years and years ago. It was a former student.

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And they told me about a weight loss program

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they had been on. And I decided that, hey, maybe

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I should contact them. Maybe some kind of higher

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power. You know, I'm a semi -religious person.

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And I was like, I think the universe, whatever

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you want to call it, whatever you want, you know,

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it was telling me to contact this person because

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I was like at my wits end. I couldn't figure

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out why I couldn't get this under control. And

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so anyway. They were like, come to this meeting.

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I went to the meeting. That's the first night

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I went. I met Nick. I started off at, like I

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said, 445. It took me 16 months. I lost 255 pounds.

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I got so skinny that people thought I was dying

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of cancer. That's how bad it was. I gained some

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weight back up because the problem was I lost

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so much weight. I was actually uncomfortable

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walking, sitting and sleeping. Like my body just

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hurt so much because I had no more fat on my

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body. It was just skin and bones. And so I gained

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some weight back because it just, it got unbearable.

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So I gotten down to 189. And if you, I don't

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know if you've ever seen any of my Facebook pictures,

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but if anybody goes and if they're friends with

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me and they look, they'll see like sunken in

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face and all that stuff. So anyway, I gained

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up like. I think 40 pounds. No, I gained an additional

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30 and that's where I was comfortable at, but

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then COVID hit and I gained a little bit more

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because I'm not as active as I used to be. And

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I did all of this. And some people asked me what

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I did and I gave up flour and sugar because.

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It had all this addictive qualities. And so like

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no bread, no pizzas, no pastas and all this stuff.

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And you just basically meat and vegetables and

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fruits. And that's it. You know, and the drinks

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you're drinking is water or maybe some sparkling

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water. As long as it doesn't have. That's my

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little guy. Hey, hey, take this and go show mommy.

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OK. All right. Hold on one sec. Let me deal with

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this. Sorry about that. sorry about that no problem

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uh anyway okay so yeah so i gave it flour and

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sugar and then i'm you know i'm drinking you

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know water and um and uh herbal teas and i didn't

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do like you can sometimes do coffee but i don't

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like i'm not a coffee drinker and if you're going

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to drink milk it's got to be part of like your

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meal plan it can't be just like oh hey i have

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a glass of milk anyway so it's a lot of things

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and you also in this program you you know, weigh

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and measure your food. And you had like these

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times that you eat. So you, you're very strict

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on the way you're eating and you, you know, you

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give up fast food and you give up like going

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out to eat for a while. And, uh, it became, it

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becomes a lifestyle basically. And so I had to,

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I had to figure this out, you know, I had to,

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and, um, and the results were quick. Like I was

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like, I think the first five days I lost nine

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pounds. And you're just dropping weight quickly.

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And it was so funny. I was dropping weight so

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quickly that I didn't really go buy new clothes.

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I went to a thrift store because in a month I'd

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have to change my size again. And so I just decided

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I was going to just buy all my clothes from the

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thrift store. And so anyway, so Nick and I kind

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of left the program separate times and but we

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still kept up with each other. And we were always

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talking with each other about, you know, this

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and that and keep up and seeing how you're doing.

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Hey, are you still kind of doing the program?

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And and, you know, yeah, I'm staying away from

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flour and sugar. But, you know, I I might eat

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an extra thing of meat or something. And so then

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Nick got back on the program and. uh i didn't

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really and but we still became steady friends

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and then it got to the point where instead of

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talking to each other about the program we were

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talking about all the uh issues that were happening

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around the world and in our own you know backyard

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and things like that and then he was like, Hey,

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maybe we should write a book together. And first

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it was going to be a book about weight loss.

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And I was like, sure, that sounds good. And then

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he's like, let's do a blog instead. And I was

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like, okay, that's works for me. And he's like,

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let's do a podcast about weight loss. And I was

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like, okay, but I don't know how many times we

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could talk about weight loss. Like how many episodes

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we can get into it. Cause you know, unless we

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give recipes. And so then he's like, well, let's

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do a podcast where we talk about the other stuff

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and you know, all the world, you know, the things

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happening in the world in our country and politics

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and this and that. I was like, okay, yeah, it's

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fine. I'll, I'll do whatever I'm along with this

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ride. And, and I remember our first episode we

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recorded, it took us five days to actually record

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what we wanted to record. Cause we just, we kind

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of had no idea what we were doing in the beginning.

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And we just kind of did that whole baptism by

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fire. And, and then I edited it down to, I think

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it was like an hour and a half and we had like.

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10 hours worth of footage or something like that

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that i had to edit down and uh and then we just

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kind of got our rhythm going and we have a whole

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process now and and uh it doesn't take me like

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it would take me a long time to edit you know

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some stuff you know get get to where we liked

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it and uh and now you know we do live stuff we

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do live twice a week and we have like we do our

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tapings uh on saturday and sunday uh unless it's

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a bonus episode And our Saturday one goes out

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on Facebook and YouTube, and then it gets dropped

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right away or that day onto our podcast platforms.

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And then our Sunday, we kind of make that an

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exclusive for our Facebook and YouTube people.

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They get to see that first. And then on Wednesday,

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that episode gets dropped onto podcast platforms.

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And, you know, and then we do occasional bonus

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stuff like we did a parody of the Trump -Biden

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debate where I dressed up as Trump. Nick dressed

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up as Biden and, uh, we had it all scripted and,

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and, uh, it was a lot of fun. And then we had

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some people come on and talk about it and see

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what they thought about it. And, uh, and we're

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doing an, if, if they have another debate coming

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up, uh, I don't know when you're going to air

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this episode, but if they have another bait debate

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coming up, uh, we're going to do a recap afterwards.

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So, uh, Oh, there he is again. Sorry about that.

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He just, okay. uh if you want to report pause

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the recording right here quick yeah okay sorry

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about that again i apologize he uh he loves he

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loves being around me and and sometimes like

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that's why we do our podcast super early in the

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morning because if he wakes up that's pretty

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much the end of our podcast uh so anyway uh so

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yeah so we started our podcast and uh we had

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a lot of fun since and met some really cool people

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like yourself And we were just moving and grooving.

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So other than your doctor telling you that you

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might not be around for your son to grow up,

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what else motivated you to lose all the weight?

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Well, I guess myself, because, you know, I had

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done several different programs. There was one,

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there were some that were successful, but then

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like something would happen to me. Like I'd have

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some kind of crisis in my life and then I'd go

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back to the food and it all come back all the

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way it would come back. And this one, you know,

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even though I've gained some weight back, I haven't

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gained a super large amount of it because I'd

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still stay away from flour and sugar. And I didn't

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want to, I just. When I went to that meeting

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that night and they were saying all these things

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that were resonating with me, one of the things

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they said that stuck in my head was they used

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the term right -sized body. And I never been

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in my right size body. And I really wanted to

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see what that looked like and know how it felt.

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And there was all these little things that kept

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happening during the weight loss journey that

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kept me going on it. You know, when you're this

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big, when I was like nearly 500 pounds, even

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over 400 pounds, even over 350 pounds, you don't

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fit inside normal size chairs. And I remember

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like the first time I set my boss's office and

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I could like I could sit in his chair and not

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feel uncomfortable. And I was like, holy crap.

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I was like, what else am I going to experience?

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You know, you know, going being able to go into

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a store and buy clothes that, you know, or you

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don't have to go to a specialty store. You know,

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I used to always have to shop in the big and

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tall store because, you know, Walmart and whatever

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is not going to carry my size, you know, and

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because I went from like a 6X to a 1X. And, you

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know, and so it was like. you can buy one x's

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anywhere you can't buy six x's anywhere and you

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always pay like quadruple the amount like if

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you wore a superman shirt and and me being 500

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pounds wore superman shirt same one i'm gonna

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pay you like 50 60 dollars where you might pay

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20 dollars and it was just kind of that thing

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you know like but it was mainly because i had

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health issues And I didn't want to die. I didn't

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want to have these health issues affect me anymore

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because I was losing my vision. I didn't have

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diabetes, but I was on the cusp, the doctor said.

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And he's just like, you have all these health

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issues that are going to just snowball if you

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don't get this under control. Even if you didn't

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die, you'd still have all these things that happened

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to you. And I was having migraines and I was

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having all these things. And I was even having

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bad heartburn, like stuff that would keep me

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up all night. And it was horrible. By doing this,

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I got rid of all that. I wanted to see what I

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looked like not at 500 pounds. It's taken me

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a while to just get used to being under 250.

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Before, I never had been that way. I remember

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in seventh grade, we had to weigh. in front of

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everybody in gym class. And the doctor, I mean,

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and the coach was like, Russell, you weigh 200

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pounds. And like, everybody made fun of me for

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that. And I was like, I was, you know, the biggest

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kid basically. And so I had never weighed like,

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I mean, you know, seven in seventh grade, you

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know, I was, I was 200 pounds. I never got under

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200 pounds from that point on until like a year

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ago. Now I'm still, I'm over a little bit, 200

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pounds, because like I said, I gained some weight

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because I was very uncomfortable at 189. And

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so, yeah, so, but I did it all without, like,

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I just had to change, I just had to change the

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way I thought about food. And people ask, you

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know, did you do surgery? Did you do pills? No,

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it was all just eating the way I needed to eat.

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So, like, you know, no exercise, no, you know,

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I don't recommend no exercise. I try to do some

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now, but I want to do more. I want to, you know,

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I want to. get toned up and things like that

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i want to be a crazy fitness guy always get beach

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body on demand yeah i don't want the dad bod

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you know i want i want the uh i want the jason

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momoa bod or whatever however you say his name

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uh i want that bod but anyway um are we all yeah

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yeah exactly so and my wife would appreciate

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that bod too so but uh yeah so you know i just

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i know that if i ever go back to eating flour

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and sugar, it's just going to snowball and I'll

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go back up to the way I was. It'll probably be

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even harder for me to lose the weight because

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I'm not a spring chicken anymore. I'm in my 40s.

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As you get older, it's sometimes harder to lose

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weight. I'm doing pretty good. I don't cheat.

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I don't eat flour and sugar. Like I said, I sometimes

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have more meat or vegetables or fruit than I

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should. uh you know then because you know i weigh

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i try to weigh and measure my food for each meal

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but it is what it is uh so i definitely know

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what you mean by the uh about getting weighed

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in gym class i actually used to weigh i was 180

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uh back in i think like middle school high school

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-ish and uh And I ate a lot of unhealthy crap.

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And then my parents, it's not like my parents

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promoted unhealthy food or whatnot, but that's

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what I was into when I was a kid. One sweet thing,

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you want more. And so I got kind of hooked on

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that. And I was like, according to my doctor,

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I was right around. close to near obese for my

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age group back then. I don't remember what the

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cutoff number was to be official obese for my

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age group. I think it was like, I was like near

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the line of it, but I was never over it or I

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never even got to the line. But every time I

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went to the doctor, he just told me it's like,

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Oh, you know, I'd be like, thank you. And I was

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like, Captain Obvious, I appreciate it. I never

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said that to his face, but I was like, thanks

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for rubbing it in. Yeah, I used to have doctors

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tell me, can't you just not eat that extra piece?

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And I was like, I don't know if you know what

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it is like to be me. Like, no, I can't. Like,

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if I could, we wouldn't be here. exactly yeah

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yeah and uh i had you know i had doctor i actually

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my doctor before i lost all my weight said you

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are morbidly obese that's the term he used and

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i was like oh that's even scarier so uh and so

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yeah but i did have a great doc like the doctor

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that i have now i finally found you know sometimes

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you you have doctors that just are uh not really

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nice guys like they just you know I finally found

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a doctor that really seemed to generally care

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about me. I just wasn't a number for him. I even

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had a neurologist because I have a neurological

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disorder. The neurologist I had before, he was

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just a horrible bedside manner. He just kept

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saying, why can't you get your weight under control

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and all this other stuff? Then I fired him and

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found this other guy, and this guy was great.

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terrible bedside manner uh i'm not gonna name

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any names but right right but that might have

00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.680
that might have helped me later on but uh but

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but uh like i kid you not uh so i'm in this appointment

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i had like i needed to get my hearing tested

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too and like because i had a terrible uh I always

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had terrible ears and I had nine ear surgeries

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on my right ear. And so when I had my hearing

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tested, they wanted to test to see how loud I

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can withstand noise in my ear. And I was like,

00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.759
that sounds like a torture method. You want to

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:21.019
send that to the FBI or CIA? Right. I was like,

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that doesn't sound like a legitimate test. And

00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:25.259
he's like, well, we're the doctors. And I was

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like, yeah, I didn't say you were the best doctors

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in the world. And so after that appointment,

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my ears started ringing nonstop. And somehow

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I developed tinnitus or tinnitus of however you

00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.160
pronounce it. And my parents both said to me,

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I was like, oh, I doubt that's how you got tinnitus.

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And he's like, you were having it last year.

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I was like. I don't think I was having it last

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year. I had it right after the appointment. I

00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:57.660
was like, now I have these hearing aids in just

00:25:57.660 --> 00:26:02.559
to block it. Right. Yeah, I know. I had this

00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:06.500
one surgery that I did. They wanted to check

00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:09.880
my brain because of my neurological disorder.

00:26:10.059 --> 00:26:12.099
So they sent a camera up through my leg, through

00:26:12.099 --> 00:26:16.839
the main artery. And they thought. that they

00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.039
had drugged me up enough that I wouldn't feel

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it. And I felt every bit of it. Like I could

00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:23.980
feel them scraping around in my brain as they

00:26:23.980 --> 00:26:26.980
were moving this camera around inside. And I

00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:29.140
was like screaming in pain. And the doctor was

00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:30.799
like, what's wrong? And this is a different doctor.

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This is, they sent me to this guy, right? And

00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:35.799
I was like, I could feel you inside my brain.

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And he's like, no, there's no way. I'm like,

00:26:37.859 --> 00:26:39.440
I could tell you exactly where you're at right

00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:41.980
now. You're right behind my right eye. And like

00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:46.049
in midway, he's like, oh. yeah, we are like the

00:26:46.049 --> 00:26:47.390
way you should be feeling that. And I'm like,

00:26:47.430 --> 00:26:50.589
I am. And it really hurts. And he's like, all

00:26:50.589 --> 00:26:52.349
right, well, we'll stop moving it and we'll shoot

00:26:52.349 --> 00:26:54.509
you up some more. And then they shot me up some

00:26:54.509 --> 00:26:56.150
more and I still felt it. Cause I had, I told

00:26:56.150 --> 00:26:57.849
them, I was like, I have a very high tolerance

00:26:57.849 --> 00:27:00.750
for pain medication and all this stuff that you'd

00:27:00.750 --> 00:27:03.009
give me. I'm going to feel things. I have my

00:27:03.009 --> 00:27:04.910
whole life. Anytime like I've had any kind of

00:27:04.910 --> 00:27:07.509
like dental surgery or whatever, and they've

00:27:07.509 --> 00:27:09.529
shot me up for something or, you know, minor

00:27:09.529 --> 00:27:12.750
little outpatient surgery. I've, you know, uh,

00:27:13.180 --> 00:27:15.900
felt it. And I've told people this, but anyway,

00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:19.000
for that, for, for months after that, I felt

00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.339
this scraping of inside my brain. And like, it

00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:25.700
felt like if you take a, I guess a razor blade

00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:28.279
and scrape a rusty nail, that's what it felt

00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:30.440
and sounded like. So it was driving me crazy

00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:32.700
for, for months after I had that procedure done.

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:34.980
And they were like, we might have to do it again.

00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:38.000
I was like, no, no, you're not. You got to find

00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.619
a different, different way to figure out what's

00:27:40.619 --> 00:27:42.200
going on up there, but we're not doing that.

00:27:44.149 --> 00:27:48.069
i definitely know what you mean because after

00:27:48.069 --> 00:27:53.410
that appointment i was literally i i even told

00:27:53.410 --> 00:27:57.569
uh i even went on social media and i was like

00:27:57.569 --> 00:27:59.309
i thought going to the doctor was supposed to

00:27:59.309 --> 00:28:01.869
make you feel better and i was like and i was

00:28:01.869 --> 00:28:08.829
like i left with two ringing ears And I made

00:28:08.829 --> 00:28:12.369
that publicly aware to my followers on social

00:28:12.369 --> 00:28:18.509
media. And I don't have a boatload of evidence

00:28:18.509 --> 00:28:22.509
to back this up, but I bet you I probably could

00:28:22.509 --> 00:28:25.869
dig if I wanted to, but I haven't really been

00:28:25.869 --> 00:28:27.950
interested in doing it because I have a bunch

00:28:27.950 --> 00:28:34.509
of schoolwork and everything. When I was looking

00:28:34.509 --> 00:28:38.710
at reviews of The Doctor, it seems like all those

00:28:38.710 --> 00:28:42.190
reviews that were left were fake because there

00:28:42.190 --> 00:28:47.130
was no name. And they were all around the same

00:28:47.130 --> 00:28:49.930
time of each other, too. Back -to -back days,

00:28:50.170 --> 00:28:54.849
multiple times in one day. A lot of them were

00:28:54.849 --> 00:29:01.319
all five -star reviews. You know, even if it

00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:03.940
wasn't like a real name, at least put like, okay,

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.019
Sarah S. And it's like a Sarah B. And it's like

00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:15.980
a Sam T or something. There are so many ads these

00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:18.740
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00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:59.390
notes. Now let's get back to the show. Like it's

00:29:59.390 --> 00:30:02.910
real. Right. I was like, I think this is pretty

00:30:02.910 --> 00:30:09.250
illegal to post reviews on your own site. And

00:30:09.250 --> 00:30:13.289
again, I don't have any proof, but when I looked

00:30:13.289 --> 00:30:16.069
at the old reviews, it's like something doesn't

00:30:16.069 --> 00:30:18.589
quite add up right here. And it's like there's

00:30:18.589 --> 00:30:22.589
multiple ones in one day, and there's a few of

00:30:22.589 --> 00:30:26.410
them, and none of them have names. Right, right.

00:30:26.970 --> 00:30:29.970
It doesn't make me feel comfortable now. Yeah,

00:30:30.029 --> 00:30:33.250
I actually, the really great neurologist I found,

00:30:33.329 --> 00:30:36.369
I did find him from excellent reviews, but everybody,

00:30:36.609 --> 00:30:38.690
it seemed legit because like my wife was like,

00:30:38.750 --> 00:30:40.269
why don't you just look at the reviews? Because

00:30:40.269 --> 00:30:41.930
I was trying to search for new neurologists.

00:30:42.109 --> 00:30:44.589
And I didn't, I kind of didn't really pay attention

00:30:44.589 --> 00:30:46.509
to reviews before because I didn't really put

00:30:46.509 --> 00:30:51.769
much importance into them. But no, they, some

00:30:51.769 --> 00:30:53.710
of them can really help you. So like, because

00:30:53.710 --> 00:30:55.529
I didn't, I should have read the reviews for

00:30:55.529 --> 00:30:59.069
the. previous guy uh and i didn't and they were

00:30:59.069 --> 00:31:01.789
not great and then uh i just was like he was

00:31:01.789 --> 00:31:03.710
just really close by so i decided to go to him

00:31:03.710 --> 00:31:07.329
this other guy was i had to travel you know i

00:31:07.329 --> 00:31:10.190
think 45 minutes but i was like i will because

00:31:10.190 --> 00:31:13.069
everybody and it was and i went to look at everybody's

00:31:13.069 --> 00:31:14.569
profile and all that stuff and everybody had

00:31:14.569 --> 00:31:17.150
legit and everybody had great reviews for him

00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:19.230
and right when i walked in like he was just amazing

00:31:19.230 --> 00:31:24.230
uh and so uh but yeah like you know reviews can

00:31:24.230 --> 00:31:26.859
be both Both good and bad. You can find a lot

00:31:26.859 --> 00:31:28.119
of fake stuff. And you can find a lot of great

00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:29.940
stuff too. Especially when you're looking for

00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:35.240
products as well. Exactly. It's like. I was looking

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.640
at this one. I was looking at some websites.

00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:43.559
For like. I was looking for some PS4 games. And

00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:47.119
I was thinking. You may get the new Manning game.

00:31:47.539 --> 00:31:52.200
Well. All these game companies. Are reviewing

00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:59.190
it. I think it was like. like 70 % out of 100%.

00:31:59.190 --> 00:32:02.849
And I was like, oh, that sounds decent. That

00:32:02.849 --> 00:32:06.569
sounds good. And then when you dig further into

00:32:06.569 --> 00:32:12.250
other reviewers who actually play the game, they

00:32:12.250 --> 00:32:16.670
gave it like a 40 % out of 100. And I was like,

00:32:16.789 --> 00:32:20.150
it sucks. It's made by EA. And EA is the worst

00:32:20.150 --> 00:32:22.529
company in the world. And they only have, what,

00:32:22.589 --> 00:32:25.680
I think 20 of those awards. uh as it was company

00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:32.079
uh and uh so i was like well i don't think i'm

00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:37.839
gonna buy another game yeah i uh i i quit playing

00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:39.579
video games actually i got really too addicted

00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:43.119
in that when i had my kids my wife was like you

00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:45.200
got to give up video games and i was like fine

00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:49.390
you know because like I would come home, play

00:32:49.390 --> 00:32:51.009
with the kids and stuff like that. When they

00:32:51.009 --> 00:32:53.190
went to bed, I'd stay up really late and play

00:32:53.190 --> 00:32:55.990
video games. She's like, I'm tired of hearing

00:32:55.990 --> 00:32:58.329
zombies attack at 2 o 'clock in the morning.

00:32:58.650 --> 00:33:01.450
I was like, all right. She actually started hiding

00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:05.079
my games from me. But then I just got really

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.599
super busy and I just play occasional casual

00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:10.779
games. If I have something on my phone, I might

00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:14.920
play it for a few minutes. I try to find those

00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:18.339
ones that make you wait to do something. You

00:33:18.339 --> 00:33:21.480
can't attack something for another whatever amount

00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:25.039
of time. What they want you to do is buy the

00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:27.519
stuff that will speed it up, but I'm not going

00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.920
to, so it causes me to wait. and then play the

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:35.359
game, and then it causes me to stop playing it,

00:33:35.420 --> 00:33:38.220
and then I pick up Backlip later. So I like some

00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:41.240
of those games, and I haven't even bought any

00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:44.579
new console since the PS3. I have a PS3, and

00:33:44.579 --> 00:33:47.960
that's it. All my friends, they're waiting to

00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:51.519
get the PS5s, and I'm like, I'm good. PS5s look

00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:58.880
ugly. The only time I thought about buying a

00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:02.000
system, One of my favorite games was Left 4 Dead.

00:34:02.220 --> 00:34:05.000
Actually, it's Left 4 Dead 2. I don't know if

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.400
you've ever played that. It's really fun. If

00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.340
you like zombie games, it was a really fun zombie

00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:12.440
game. It kind of reminded me of Zombieland. It

00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.780
was kind of humorous too, but there were some

00:34:15.780 --> 00:34:19.539
intense moments. There was a rumor that they

00:34:19.539 --> 00:34:21.880
were going to make it VR. The next one, the third

00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:23.900
one was going to be VR. I haven't followed up

00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:26.320
to see if this is true. This was years ago when

00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:28.519
the Xbox One was coming out. Because it's an

00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:31.960
Xbox game. And I was like, actually, if I find

00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:33.900
out that they did that, I would probably want

00:34:33.900 --> 00:34:36.000
to buy one because I think it would be really

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:41.860
fun in VR to kill zombies. Well, you never know

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:45.659
with the whole world going crazy and my alternative

00:34:45.659 --> 00:34:50.079
zombies. Yes. We never know this COVID thing

00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:54.289
might evolve. Yeah. Yes. I've always said that

00:34:54.289 --> 00:34:58.750
if the CDC and the Pentagon have a strategy for

00:34:58.750 --> 00:35:05.349
zombies, we should too. Yeah, exactly. And just

00:35:05.349 --> 00:35:12.670
to relate to you on the video games, I used to

00:35:12.670 --> 00:35:21.369
be addicted as well. I really absolutely hated...

00:35:21.739 --> 00:35:26.039
Going to public school. I just hate school in

00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:31.800
general. One of those two. I'm going to say both.

00:35:33.219 --> 00:35:39.019
Because I got bullied in school for a lot of

00:35:39.019 --> 00:35:41.199
different reasons. Have you ever heard of the

00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:45.000
show Jimmy Neutron? Yeah. Actually, it was made

00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.889
by a studio where I live. oh geez uh well they

00:35:49.889 --> 00:35:53.110
uh well the bullies made always fun of my i had

00:35:53.110 --> 00:35:56.989
a like a big head back when i was younger because

00:35:56.989 --> 00:36:00.329
like i didn't fully grow into my body yet or

00:36:00.329 --> 00:36:03.289
if i have i mean like probably the weight didn't

00:36:03.289 --> 00:36:05.989
help either but they made fun of they call me

00:36:05.989 --> 00:36:08.050
jimmy neutron because of the size of my head

00:36:08.050 --> 00:36:14.110
and like i am every time like really stupid to

00:36:14.110 --> 00:36:17.659
get offended by that and like now like looking

00:36:17.659 --> 00:36:21.420
back at it i was like well maybe uh it's not

00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:24.119
that offensive because it's like well i don't

00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:27.219
know if you froze or i froze oh really great

00:36:27.219 --> 00:36:30.619
yeah oh it's saying my internet is uh connection

00:36:30.619 --> 00:36:33.199
is hold on let me close some things out it's

00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:37.719
saying i am unstable yeah okay i guess i froze

00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:42.699
there for a minute uh so like when i uh uh so

00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:47.409
when i uh Well, so I used to be addicted to video

00:36:47.409 --> 00:36:53.670
games and I got bullied a lot during middle school

00:36:53.670 --> 00:36:57.409
and high school, elementary school. They used

00:36:57.409 --> 00:37:00.230
to call me Jimmy Neutron because I had a big,

00:37:00.250 --> 00:37:04.269
slightly bigger head than everyone else. And

00:37:04.269 --> 00:37:08.449
I know some people might say, well, how did you

00:37:08.449 --> 00:37:12.429
get offended at that name? And it's like, I was

00:37:12.429 --> 00:37:14.710
like, Jimmy Neutron was a smart genius and everything.

00:37:15.070 --> 00:37:17.530
And I was like, oh man, I shouldn't have took

00:37:17.530 --> 00:37:21.010
offense to it, but I didn't like getting called

00:37:21.010 --> 00:37:25.929
attention to. It doesn't matter what name they

00:37:25.929 --> 00:37:27.869
use, it's how they use it. Because I was bullied

00:37:27.869 --> 00:37:30.489
too. I was bullied a lot. And it's actually National

00:37:30.489 --> 00:37:33.469
Bully Prevention Month. And we talked about an

00:37:33.469 --> 00:37:37.510
episode that was personal to me. Because I'd

00:37:37.510 --> 00:37:40.159
been bullied. I guess from like fourth grade

00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:41.860
on or whatever, when I started putting on weight.

00:37:42.460 --> 00:37:44.719
And one of my biggest bullies was a cousin of

00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:46.820
mine. I'm not going to name his name. But anyway,

00:37:46.980 --> 00:37:50.400
it took me a long time to get over being bullied.

00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.719
And I'm finally in a good place. And I wasn't

00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:59.059
perfect. I know I verbally bullied some people.

00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:01.179
And actually, I told my kids, you know, it's

00:38:01.179 --> 00:38:03.219
never too late to say sorry. So I went and found

00:38:03.219 --> 00:38:05.519
those people and apologized to them. And they

00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:08.539
said they appreciated it. Um, you know, and,

00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:12.099
uh, but like I never did anything physical, uh,

00:38:12.260 --> 00:38:38.659
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00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:02.880
let's get back to the show me i was i get physically

00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:06.460
beat up and uh and my my parents like didn't

00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:08.860
well my mom mainly raised me my dad he did a

00:39:08.860 --> 00:39:10.639
lot of working and so she was always telling

00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:12.880
me don't don't fight don't be in any fights you

00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.280
better not get in any fights and anyway so uh

00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:19.360
so yeah i just uh it was it was a really bad

00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:23.559
time for me and and uh and uh but you know like

00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:25.860
i said i got over it uh i mean i'm not gonna

00:39:25.860 --> 00:39:27.599
be anybody i'm not gonna be those guys those

00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:31.750
guys have never reached out to me uh and I doubt

00:39:31.750 --> 00:39:36.349
they ever will. I used to hate them, but I don't

00:39:36.349 --> 00:39:40.969
anymore. I guess I forgave them, but I'm not

00:39:40.969 --> 00:39:44.480
going to forget what happened. And I tell my

00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.639
kids, I was like, you know, we're not going to

00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:49.559
we don't tolerate bullying. And if you can and

00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:52.340
you can stop somebody from getting bullied, then

00:39:52.340 --> 00:39:55.579
do it. You know, and I put my kids in Kung Fu

00:39:55.579 --> 00:39:58.519
just so that they have the ability to defend

00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:00.400
themselves in case somebody does mess with them.

00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:05.059
Oh, that's good. And like I like how I got over

00:40:05.059 --> 00:40:10.920
my video game addiction, I found an app for.

00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:14.940
windows there was a free version as well it's

00:40:14.940 --> 00:40:19.500
called a cold turkey uh blocker and uh i actually

00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:23.780
got very friendly with the developer and uh like

00:40:23.780 --> 00:40:28.739
he um mikey he answered his name is felix and

00:40:28.739 --> 00:40:34.340
uh he's like uh uh like he made his uh program

00:40:34.340 --> 00:40:38.340
uh seems like by himself and and uh i really

00:40:38.340 --> 00:40:42.099
like the I really like this product because I

00:40:42.099 --> 00:40:46.980
can block. I'm actually playing an online game

00:40:46.980 --> 00:40:51.480
on my computer, and I set it up a way where I

00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:55.280
can block it Monday through Friday during the

00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:58.059
week where I'm busy podcasting and everything

00:40:58.059 --> 00:41:01.760
else and schoolwork. I have two computers for

00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:04.460
school. One is a Chromebook, but I can't do everything

00:41:04.460 --> 00:41:10.230
I can do on it. and my windows computer and so

00:41:10.230 --> 00:41:15.289
uh i block uh my online game monday through friday

00:41:15.289 --> 00:41:18.889
and then uh and then saturday i can't get to

00:41:18.889 --> 00:41:21.949
it i can't play until one o 'clock on saturday

00:41:21.949 --> 00:41:25.170
when everything else is done all my chores and

00:41:25.170 --> 00:41:30.510
everything else right sorry um and uh i was and

00:41:30.510 --> 00:41:34.369
so basically i could uh and then i used to i

00:41:34.369 --> 00:41:38.559
went from like playing from 90 plus hours a week

00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:43.739
then i was maybe 80. i i had a i i absolutely

00:41:43.739 --> 00:41:47.000
hated school so i used it as like just an escape

00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:50.179
of everything because it was like i don't like

00:41:50.179 --> 00:41:52.460
bullying it was like at least with games where

00:41:52.460 --> 00:41:56.119
i can filter out all the like bull crap in the

00:41:56.119 --> 00:42:00.300
game or or i can just like shoot zombies or whatnot

00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:06.280
and i use that to kind of hide so to speak and

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:11.869
um And so having a time limit. And so I went

00:42:11.869 --> 00:42:16.190
from like maybe 80 to 90 hours a week down to

00:42:16.190 --> 00:42:21.409
only 10. And so I know somebody say, well, 10

00:42:21.409 --> 00:42:23.849
hours is still a lot of time. It's like, well,

00:42:23.909 --> 00:42:28.110
you're spilling it up between five hours on Saturday

00:42:28.110 --> 00:42:32.949
and five hours on Sunday. And I'm getting up

00:42:32.949 --> 00:42:36.809
periodically throughout that time. It's not that

00:42:36.809 --> 00:42:40.849
terrible. I was playing like 90 plus hours a

00:42:40.849 --> 00:42:44.869
week. Right, right. I mean, and you got to look

00:42:44.869 --> 00:42:48.250
also how much people watch TV or binge Netflix.

00:42:49.090 --> 00:42:52.349
That's probably more than 10 hours. But it's

00:42:52.349 --> 00:42:54.170
good. I read a book when I was doing my grad

00:42:54.170 --> 00:42:57.530
studies. It's called Man Play Games. And it basically

00:42:57.530 --> 00:43:00.849
said that we have to set aside some play time.

00:43:00.929 --> 00:43:02.650
It doesn't matter what you do as long as it's

00:43:02.650 --> 00:43:05.179
not work. something that you enjoy to do because

00:43:05.179 --> 00:43:08.880
it refreshes our brain and replenishes our body

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:13.139
and helps us go forth and, and, you know, do

00:43:13.139 --> 00:43:15.559
the week, you know, do the work. Cause if you

00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:17.840
don't play, you'll, you'll just become miserable.

00:43:18.539 --> 00:43:22.480
Yeah. It sounds like my, it sounds like a lot

00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.889
of people. and uh during quarantine they're just

00:43:25.889 --> 00:43:28.409
working working working and yeah and i was like

00:43:28.409 --> 00:43:31.929
yeah i know that feeling too i used to be on

00:43:31.929 --> 00:43:34.110
wordpress and everything and i was working 90

00:43:34.110 --> 00:43:36.869
plus hours well there seems to be a pattern here

00:43:36.869 --> 00:43:40.530
uh 90 plus hours a week when i was on wordpress

00:43:40.530 --> 00:43:48.190
back in 2017 to 2018 um that was not fun right

00:43:48.190 --> 00:43:52.659
right my eyes look like was blood red Just because

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:56.639
I was like, I'm tired. They're like, Jimmy, did

00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:58.760
you fix what's your problem on your website?

00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:03.099
I think so. I don't know. And then all of a sudden

00:44:03.099 --> 00:44:05.699
the next day I woke up and was like, no, the

00:44:05.699 --> 00:44:08.820
problem still persists, but I stayed up until

00:44:08.820 --> 00:44:11.840
3 o 'clock in the morning anyway because I thought

00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:15.219
I fixed it. But now I'm at the square space,

00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.940
so now I don't have to do any of that crap. And

00:44:19.940 --> 00:44:21.460
no, that was not a promotion for Squarespace.

00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:28.019
So before we wrap up, where can people find you?

00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:30.880
Oh, okay. So if you want to check out our podcast,

00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:34.280
you can always go to our website. It's nickandrust

00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.320
.com. It should have all our links there. YouTube,

00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:41.000
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. We just started

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:47.380
doing TikTok. That's pretty new for us. Any social

00:44:47.380 --> 00:44:52.099
media is at Real Nick and Russ. So Twitter, Instagram,

00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:54.820
Facebook, YouTube, all of them. If you just do

00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:56.699
that search, Real Nick and Russ, you'll find

00:44:56.699 --> 00:45:02.219
us. That's good to know. And let's stay in touch.

00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:05.659
Oh, yeah. Well, you're coming on our show in

00:45:05.659 --> 00:45:10.099
less than a month, I believe. Yeah. It's on November

00:45:10.099 --> 00:45:12.920
29th. something like that i had to go back and

00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:15.739
look uh i i used to memorize the schedule but

00:45:15.739 --> 00:45:18.500
it's been so much it's hard to memorize it sometime

00:45:18.500 --> 00:45:21.219
in november i know we're having you in yeah i

00:45:21.219 --> 00:45:23.719
i definitely know what you mean and like i uh

00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.820
i have it in my calendar but i just like i i

00:45:27.820 --> 00:45:31.039
have honestly i've noticed that about a lot of

00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:36.519
myself too because uh i there's a few times where

00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:39.440
i forgot to send people my guest podcast form

00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:43.719
and everything is like oh gee it's like a i even

00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:48.579
changed the url of my uh of my social profiles

00:45:48.579 --> 00:45:52.280
just to brand myself and you know what they say

00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:55.000
what you do on one platform you have to do on

00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.699
another and you have your links on facebook to

00:45:58.699 --> 00:46:01.179
advertise them well i noticed that some of my

00:46:01.179 --> 00:46:04.320
links were not correct there and it's like i

00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.780
did a really great job of keeping stuff up to

00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:11.980
date I went on social media to admit that. I

00:46:11.980 --> 00:46:16.679
did a tremendous job. I understand completely.

00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:20.840
If we could hire interns to do all the stuff

00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:22.699
that I need to do and just tell me where I need

00:46:22.699 --> 00:46:27.900
to be, that'd be great. Yeah. I think I just

00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:32.659
need to clone myself like 800 times. But somebody

00:46:32.659 --> 00:46:39.230
told me that if you clone yourself, they won't

00:46:39.230 --> 00:46:42.349
all have your abilities. It would just be part

00:46:42.349 --> 00:46:45.750
of them. And it's like, well, he doesn't have

00:46:45.750 --> 00:46:50.849
to talk. I was like, I just need him to do stuff.

00:46:50.989 --> 00:46:53.510
He's like, but it might not function. Okay, I

00:46:53.510 --> 00:46:57.409
need a robot then. There you go. If you can make

00:46:57.409 --> 00:46:59.570
your own robots, can you make a robot for me?

00:47:00.889 --> 00:47:04.769
Right. A digital one maybe? Or a physical one?

00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:08.179
A few billion dollars. They're getting close.

00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:14.679
We'll see. I welcome our robot overlords. Well,

00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:16.599
just as long as they don't take over the world

00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:19.659
like Terminator. Well, they can take over the

00:47:19.659 --> 00:47:23.940
world. Just don't kill us. That's true. Maybe

00:47:23.940 --> 00:47:25.519
they'll make it a better place. I don't know.

00:47:27.300 --> 00:47:29.820
Maybe make it a better Terminator movie, too.

00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:37.619
Yeah. We'll see. Maybe. Well, let's stay in touch.

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