Health and Wellness Show 09-16-2023

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Episode Transcript

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the Health of While on show,Aaron Plot is going to be stopping by
from Massage Mechanics, the benefits ofmassages as we age, and yes,

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I'm including me and that in thatgroup, and there are many, so
we'll discuss some of those. MikeBrown from Molly Made, who is a
Bulldog fan, is gonna stop byand talk to us about the importance of
keeping a clean place, especially nowthat that thing is making a resurgence,

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that whole COVID thing. We'll discussall that, but first we start with
my friend Jim Snell from the lawoffice of James Snell, who steps up
to the microphone. Right now,morn buddy, sir, all right,
man, living the dream. You'rea you're a Clemson fan, right,
yes, yes, why, yes, yes, okay. Oh. And
I was gonna say, so,I we cook off at eight eight against

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the little sisters of the four.I am you know, I am apprehensive,
as as I should be. Butyou got what Florida Atlantic. Yeah,
and after that grueling matchup with Charlestonthe Southern last weekend, and you
know, and of course obviously theespecially the first half. You know,
we came, we came around.That was tight. Yeah, I was

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surprised to see a half time scoreand and of course we the one thing
I know, and I've been youknow, watching college football for however many
decades now, you know, theteam at the at the first game of
the season is a different team thanby the time you get to nine or
ten. And I was gonna sayDuke. That's that was a good Duke
team. But not take anything awayfrom them, but still a you know,

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reminded me of uh maybe going backto uh well, certainly the Tommy
Bouton era. You know, Iremember, I remember, I remember being
on the hill. It's probably nineteenninety out the check maybe ninety nine ninety
eight. I'm standing on the hilland we got to eat what was it,
thirty six to six by Maryland.I mean, I just remember stuff

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like that, you know, sobrought back memories. You start to remember
the good stuff and youmber like thenational championships. Come on, that was
fantastic. Danny Ford signed my gamehat. So my father, my late
father in law played the quarterback atClemson. Really okay back in the fifties.
Yeah, okay, yeah, BigThursday. Yeah yeah, I wish
i'd bring that back. That'd becool. It would be that'd be cool.

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It would be so uh football today, Yes, big weekend here now,
Jim, you bring somebody here toto join us this morning? Madeline,
Yes, good morning. Pulled outmicrophone right over there to you,
just like I said, dental drillgo. How are you, madam?
Nice to see you. Good,good nice meet you, and I understand

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you're one of the new additions overthe loss of James snow correct. Yes,
yeah, I started working a coupleof weeks ago and hopefully, pending
bar results will come on as anassociate. Oh the ball are yes,
Now, when did you take that? When did you wrap that up?
I took it the last Tuesday,Wednesday of July. Oh so this has
just been recent. Yeah. Yeah, and then we wait until the end

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of October four results. What yep, it's a long wait. What all
the essays are hand graded, soyeah, and then you have a whole
day of multiple choice so those arehopefully done by now, but the essays
are what takes the longest. Yeah, okay, so that has to be
once you get through that, that'sgonna be like, yeah, you wait

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for a couple of months. I'mtrying not to think about it until I
keep telling myself until October first,so and then and then we'll start getting
again. Yeah yeah, well yeah, a couple of weeks away from October
first. Yeah, so trying toenjoy my last couple of weeks. How
was that experience? I mean,let me ask you, this was it

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what you thought it would be.I think the exam itself was you study
for I studied for about ten weeksfrom the end of law school graduation until
the end or till the end ofJuly. So there's a lot of practice
exams. They tell you exactly whatthe structure of the exam it's going to
be, so the only thing that'sleft to question is what topics are actually

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going to be tested. So thestructure was what I expected. South Carolina
did a great job of keeping itorganized. You moved quickly getting into the
convention center, getting into your seat. So I heard a lot of horror
stories of other states where it wasclustered and there was a lot going on,
but South Carolina was smooth and thetwo days went a lot quicker than

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the ten weeks of studying. So, oh, is it two day thing?
Yes? Two days, six hourseach day. So yeah, is
this one of these things that thebuild up to it, the anticipation,
the dread and all that. Obviouslyyou go through all that the work so
that it's kind of like football,Right, you're pratice hard all weeks.

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You could have fun on Saturday,right, right, I mean it was
all was that build up, Imean, was it was it. Wow,
maybe it wasn't quite as bad asI thought it was going to be
because you were ready for it.Is this one of those things? Yeah,
the ten weeks I thought personally wasa lot worse than the two days,
and then the feeling of getting itdone was definitely worth the ten weeks
of studying. So yeah, yes, No. So for how long have

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you wanted to be an attorney?I actually didn't decide I wanted to go
to law school until about halfway throughcollege. So yes, which I feel
like is about fifty percent of peoplethat end up in law school. You
have the other fifty other people thathave wanted to be attorneys their entire life,
Right, So I was definitely alittle late to the game. But
was there a defining moment when yousaid, Hey, this is what I

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want to do? Was there adefining reason? Kind of both. So
I started working for a nonprofit myfreshman year of college that worked in family
court. That was kind of myfirst exposure to anything related to court.
Yeah, and that kind of justopened the door and I got super interested

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in family court and ended up goingto law school and my very first day
I took criminal law and fell inlove with it and kind of went that
path in law school for the nextthree years. So I did a big
switch. I thought I was goingto be family law attorney coming out of
law school, and after the firstday I was hooked on krim and but
yeah, that was how I kindof ended up in law school. So

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you want to be a this isyour goals to be a criminal defense attorney?
Yes, yeah, interesting? Whatwas it on that first day in
law school that Wow, this isit? I think the material it's really
interesting. I loved my professor.I actually kind of set myself up for
failure on the first day. Somy first day of law school was virtual
because I was writing COVID and somy air pods weren't working and I got

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cold called and I was so flustered. Yeah, I couldn't answer the question,
and so I felt awful. Soof course I emailed my professor afterwards
and I was like, I'm sosorry. I'll be prepared for the next
class. And so then every classafter that, it was just like an
automatic cold call on me. SoI had to know the material. I

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got to know the professor really well. So yeah, I think it was
a mix of the material, butalso the professor was great. You we
hear horror stories of law school.I mean it's just a total just a
total grind for three years. Iguess that's true. Yeah, I think
one l year, I feel likeyou kind of get adjusted to the workload

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and everything. I personally thought mysecond year was the hardest, but having
it virtual definitely was rough for thefirst year. And then that's no,
no, no, And that's whenwe were in full lockdown, so it
was like I couldn't leave the house, couldn't really go anywhere. So it's
just slaw school all the time.Much of my youngest son considered it too,

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and he's probably about your age,I guess, and you might have
been classmates. He decided to gothat around because his last year at Carolina
it was last semester. I guessit was all virtual and ye and what
a what a Travis deal that was. But we won't get into the politics
and that unless you want to,Jim. You know, you know,
as the as the h general election, you know comes one to focus next

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year, uh you know in presidentialYeah, you know a lot of people
think they're going to roll it backout. I know they're going to mask
mandates and lockdowns and everything else toget ready for the election. So we'll
see. We'll come on during themorning show next week and we can talk
all about that. Yes, I'vebeen talking about that too. Yeah,
we'll see. Well this is fascinating. So so now you just took the

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bar into July. Yes, right, Malon. Now, how long have
you been over with with Jim's officeThree and a half weeks? Okay,
so you're still learning a way aroundthe building. Oh yes, yep,
okay, all right, and whatwhat led you here to the law office

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of James Snow? Yeah? So, actually I'm from Columbus, Ohio.
I'm not I'm actually a Wolverine.I'm Michigan. Wait wait no, stop,
that can't be possible. Nobody wholives in Columbos, Ohio can be
at Michigan. Yeah. I wasborn and raised in an arbor and then
and then moved. Well I didn'tknow they never have, but I don't
even ever moved to Columbus or viceversa. I thought it was a rule

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against that. Oh yeah, wedefinitely live amongst the enemy, but uh
yeah, we learned how to workthrough it, don't They call in Columbus,
that Michigan, that state to thenorth. Yes they do, Okay,
yea. So I'm from Columbus.My parents are moving down here,
so I decided to take the barhere. And oh, so you didn't
attend law school here, No,I attended law school in Columbus, was

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yep. So I yeah, kindof moved here and started working all in
one week, and it's been abit of a whirlwind. But I'm sure
I just took a chance and appliedto a job posting that he had posted,
and I actually interviewed the day afterI took the bar, and yeah,
came down here, I started workingand just kind of got thrown into

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it. That's how I ended uphere. So when here you are three
and a half weeks later on theradio, Yep, just like you planned
it right, kind of how thethree weeks have been going. So Jen,
when somebody like Madeline comes in,I mean, obviously you don't hit
the ground running. I mean yougot to kind of ramp up to this
thing, right, I will tellyou she's or you're gonna throw it into

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the wolves here. But no,no, no, she's and I'm you
know, I'm you know, there'sa there's a lot to learn. First
of all, law school you reallydon't learn anything of lawyer like undergrad undergraduate
work. You know, it's thisis great in theory, but in real
life, yeah, it's it's it'sthat and and but but I'll tell you,
I mean, especially at the kindof practice we have, because we're

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doing a lot of criminal defense andwe do personal injury. We're helping like,
you know, regular people, kindof real people that didn't choose to
come into our world. You know, but nobody chooses to get in a
car wreck or nobody chooses, hey, I want to get arrested today,
right, And so a lot ofreally the skills you need to be successful,

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I mean your people skills. Andshe's hit the ground running, so
I say that much. You know, obviously, yeah you got to learn.
You know, the legal stuff isactually easier than I think some of
the people are the soft skills.And there there there are lots of very
good lawyers who are great at legalanalysis, but just terrible with people like
oh that's great doctors that are horriblebedside manners, right right, right,

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and and and you know, andif and if you don't have that ability
to communicate effectively and sort of communicatewith with others. You were completely ineffective
as a lawyer. So I willtell you no, I am no,
she's she's she's actually way ahead ofthe game. Wow, okay, I
mean actually took it took me.It took me. Looking back, I

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mean in this about twenty years now, looking back, I can I can
sort of see, you know,my my progression, and she's starting off
in a much further position than Idid in that regard. And Madelinton asked
for a race. Do it onthe air right now, put him on
the spot. Now. So,so how do you see this playing out?

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I mean, now, the nextbig milestone for you after you get
your you know, your bar results, which you're going to pass with flying
colors, I could gets crossed.But but after that then so the next
big milestone is working with that firstclient obviously, but then that first court
day, right right? Are youready for all that? I think?

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So? Yeah. I think youdo the mock trials in law school and
all that I know, but butthis is the real McCoy now, right,
Yeah. I think the one thingI have learned from watching people in
practice versus in law school is there'snot the same, like there's not the

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drama and everything that you see onTV or Yeah, so it almost makes
it a little less stressful to seehow people get along in court and how
it's a little more casual than maybethey portray to the normal sure audience.
So yeah, we'll cross up bridgewhen you get to it. We welcome
to South Carolina. Thank you.It's a good to have you here and

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you'll learn a lot from this guy. Looking forward to close Jim Laws of
James Snell. Folks need your services, all right, give us the call.
It's eight zero three three five ninethree three zero one, or visit
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mechanics. Aaron, good morning,good morning. How are you? I
am well and hope you are too. I'm doing well, doing well.
I always wanted to ask you thisquestion, Aaron, because you have the
old joke about you go into youknow, some small town somewhere and there's
you walk in to get your haircut, and there's there's two people in there
cutting your hair, cutting hair.One of them is nicely quaffe other was

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already and which one do you pick? You picked the raddy one, right,
because he's cutting the other guy's hair. So that's right. When you,
as a massage therapist, need amassage, who gives you your massage?
Well, I actually have a fantasticgirl who works with me. Her
name is Lindsay. And even thoughshe has not been a massage therapist that

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long. She graduated about a yearand a half ago from her program.
She is an amazing therapist and shedoes most of my work. I have
a few other tools in my kitthroughout town, but she does the majority
of that, which is great,and I can tell my clients how great
she is. How often does amassage therapists get a massage? So really

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and honestly, we should do itevery week, just because of the wear
and tear on our bodies and everything. However, I'm being what it is,
and you know, of not havingtons and tons of it, especially
if you're a dizzy therapist. Sometimesit's easy to let that fall by the
wayside. So I'm lucky if Iget in at least once a month.

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But don't I just don't have thetime. But I mean, even a
fifteen minute sessions can get work wondersfor you can, absolutely absolutely, And
a lot of it is, youknow, just prioritizing. And I just
like most of the people who arelistening right now, you know, we
have a hard time prioritizing our ownself care. You know, we take

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care of everybody else, you know, and you put everything else ahead of
yourself and that's something that everyone does. So we're trying. It's a resolution.
I'm trying to get better. Yousound like my wife right now.
You talk about putting everybody's knees infront of their own. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, maybe that's just something thatwomen do a lot. You know,

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it's something women do a lot,but men do it too, you
know, Guys gets so, youknow, caught up in I've got to
work and provide for my families andthings like that. And you know,
a lot of it's funny because peoplewill say, like, oh, well,
you probably have mostly female clients,and that's just not true. I
would say probably it's either right athalf and half or I've got about sixty

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forty male clients. Really interesting,and let's again reiterate the folks that massage
is for a variety of things.For you know, for some people,
you're going to get a massage justbecause it feels good, it relaxes you
and all that, and you dothat. But you're a therapeutic massage practice.
Yeah, yes, we do alot more of the like clinical side

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of the massage where you know,if you have a specific issue, if
you have you know, neck pain, back pain, things like that,
if you have you know, scoliosisor stenosis in your spine, psiatic to
hold muscles, if you're you know, the weekend warrior who's going and hike
in forty miles on a Saturday,things like that. You know, you

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need to maintain that muscular share andeverything. But we also deal with a
very wide array of age ranges,you know, and there's this misconception out
there that massage is only for youknow, particular age types, which is
one hundred percent not true. Iam certified to work with brand new babies

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and things all the way up toend of life care, you know,
and there's a huge differentation in whatthat looks like for a bunch of different
people. So when you're young,and this includes you know, athletes and
teenagers and students and young adults andyou know up to people in their you

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know, mid fifties, you know, you're you're active, You're moving around
a lot. You may have sportsthat you do, you may have activities
and hobbies that you do that keepyou active. So you need to maintain
that muscle structure and you need tomake sure that everything's working together the way
that it should so that you're notin pain and you maintain that mobility and

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that functionality. However, when weget a little bit older than that,
as we start to age into thoseyears that they call our golden years,
I've had a lot of my clientsand helbies that they aren't so gold they're
actually really stiff and painful from them. But you know, those are times

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when you're you're kind of starting tonot necessarily slow down. I'm not saying
that our senior people are, youknow, not able to move around,
but it does get harder. Sometimesyour body's had you know, fifty five
fifty fifty five years of where andyou know it's time to start really focusing
on keeping that mobility and that flexibilityup and running and so and there.

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And I suppose it regardless of age, whether again you're an active young adult
or a teenager even or you're asenior. Yeah, we get to the
point where we feel like, okay, well this I'm I'm sore because I
just worked out or just engage insome strenuous activity, or I'm sore because
I'm old and right, you know, and so sometimes we just we just
deal with it and say it'll eitherpass or I'll just get used to it,

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but you don't have tom that's right. So you know, typically as
you know, you age, youbecome a little bit less active, and
what ends up happening is that yourmuscles tend to harden and they get tighter.
So one of the things massage doesis it it doesn't look it doesn't
look that way, but that's what'shappening. But it absolutely does happen,

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you know, and they're shortening alittle bit and everything, and even our
most active seniors are still having youknow, circulation is a big, big,
big part of massage when you arein your senior kind of age range,
mainly because you know, circulation getsdifficult as you age, you know,

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and as you are doing massages andthings, you're increasing so much blood
flow to the limbs, and ithelps improve so many things. It helps
improve your balance and your date.It helps to soften those muscles and kind
of relax them out. It helpsyour joint flexibility. You know, that's
one thing that we see so muchof with our seniors is our rightus really

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swollen, stiff and flamed joints.So we're helping with that joint mobility and
that production of you know, thosesynobial fluids that help those joints move.
You're also stimulating their nervous system.We've talked before about how massage releases all
those really great hormones, you know, those endorphins and the serotonin and the

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dopamine, but it's also stimulating neurotransmittersthat are beneficial for that regular functioning of
the nervous system. And then thereare some of those kind of pathologies that
you see much more frequently with peopleas a age, like Parkinson's, dementia,

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things like that, and massage hasbeen found to have a really,
really beneficial outcome for people with thoseparticular types of diseases. My father in
law suffered from dementia and in hislater years he had a therapist who would
come in about once every two weeksor so. Oh yeah, I mean

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it's amazing how much therapy can benefitnot just our younger generations, but our
seniors and everything. And and partof that too is that you know,
feeling of somebody caring and that feelingof comfort is that healthy, positive touch,

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and we even see that all theway up into hospice care. You
know, they are multiple therapists whowork within hospice centers and they are there
with people as they make their transitionfrom life into death. And that massage
looks very very different. That's notyou're you know, that's not somebody.
We aren't putting hospice patients on atable and things like that, but we're

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sitting with them and it can besomething as simple as holding their hand or
stroking their forehead. Just that touch, that comfort that you know somebody's here
and somebody's with you. You know, that makes such a huge positive impact
on seniors, especially now with COVIDand people being so isolated and they're at
home and they don't have they're relyingon technology to see their family and to

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see their friend, and they're they'rereally lacking in that positive, caring touch.
Yeah, that's one of the thingsthat this pandemic has shown us that
maybe we just didn't realize so muchbefore, is just that the lack of
fo human touch how important it is. We could talk and I mean,
you know, you've seen they've seenrocketing levels of depression and anxiety in not

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just our seniors, but in ourchildren and you know, adults like you
and I. But it's and it'sall from that isolation and from that lack
of touch. You figure, wearen't even hugging each other. We're not
shaking hands. You know, there'sno there's no pats on the back and
things like that. I mean,there's really there's such a huge lack of
touch. And you know, alot of people aren't comfortable coming in and

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getting a massage right now because ofCOVID, which is one hundred percent okay
and understandable. But I do encouragepeople, you know, the people in
your household, give them a bigold bear hug. You like, really
make an effort with the people inyour household to do as much contact as
you can, because it really isso wonderful for your mental clarity and healthy

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and as well as your physiological health, you know. And then they brought
that up. Aaron, let mejust ask you this. I mean,
are there simple things that you knowamongst household members? I guess you know
everybody is from time to time said, oh, you know, rub my
back on my neck, on myshoulders as i'm soreber there, And I
know there's certain things you've got tobe careful about doing. But are there's

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simple things that you know even familymembers themselves can can help their you know,
their spouse or their parasically. Imean, I will tell you one
thing first off is the pressure doesnot have to be You do not have
to try and touch the front ofsomebody's body through the back of somebody's body.
My boyfriend is famous for that.I'll be like, oh, hey,

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can you can you just crass righthere for me, and he will
literally try and drill through the backof my body to the front of my
blabby and I'm just like, no, that's no. But the important thing
is the rhythm of what you're doing. So any type of if you're if
you're rubbing somebody's arm or leg orshoulders or neck or any or their back,

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the rhythm of it. You wantto make sure that it's paced very
you know, you just want tomake sure you're not going crazy all over
the place. You just want torhythmically do that. You want to maintain
the firmness or lightness of your touch. You don't want to start out real
light and then end up with anelbow and somebody. You know, you
just want to maintain that that firmnesslevel that you're using. I would say

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backs are probably the easiest thing todo. You can just kind of put
some lotion on there and just rub. But also, two feet are really
easy to do and hands. Peoplealways neglect hands, and we are doing
so much on our computers and onour tablets and our phones that hands and

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necks and shoulders are kind of thebastion of what we need to be focusing
on if we're doing stuff at home. I find myself as you're sitting here
with one hand rubbing the other one. It's one thing you can do for
yourself, really. And I willactually be posting some videos on Facebook and
things like that here coming up onthe Facebook page which is Massage Mechanics on

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Facebook and everything, and you canfind that in like that page and follow
those videos. So we'll definitely beposting those up in various different platforms and
they will be kind of showing,hey, here are some really simple things
that you can do at home withpeople you love or to yourself. You
know, you can massage your ownhands. You know, you can massage

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your own feet. It's not nearas fun, but it gets the job
done. It's kind of like whensomebody else makes the coffee. It's always
better, right, Yeah, that'sright exactly. It always is better.
But that's that's one of those thingstoo that it's just really important to do.
Stretching is also another thing that youcan do at home that's a fairly
simple thing to do. Get onYouTube and just tighten, you know,

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stretches for my shoulder and they're allthe dons and tons of videos and they'll
take a step by step through them. They're very simple to follow, you
know. And that's really beneficial too, because again, you're getting those muscles
moving, you're getting that circulatory flow, you know, getting outside and into
the sunshine. Yeah right, yeah, But I'm glad you brought the stretching

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up, because boy, we're allreally I've known a few people who are
like, you know, over stretchers, but I mean we're we're all really
bad about just something as simple asis just doing just that and not just
because you're getting ready to you know, use that muscle or something. I
mean, it's just a good happyto get into, isn't it. Stretching
before you go to bed at night, like ten minutes before you go to

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bed, just stretching out really well, like your whole body, just I
mean, basic simple yoga stretches orjust stretches that you've found on the internet
that you really like. That willincrease your ability to sleep, and it
will also increase your flexibility on wakingup, so when you get up out
of bed, you're not quite socreaky and stiff. Yeah. I do

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this all the time, because Imean, I really do. And I've
noticed if I don't stretch before Igo to sleep at night, I wake
up the next day and my wholebody like, I know, I didn't
stretch, you know, And Iget up and I stretch in the morning.
I drink a full glass of waterright when I get up, fully
an ounces, right, and thenI'm stretched before I do anything. Out

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how much water you drink in themorning, did you say eight ounces?
One cop Well, we know thebenefits of proper hydration at all. Right,
Well, that first thing in themorning, that cup of water helps
to activate your organs and everything,because when you sleep at night, your
body goes into repair mode and ituses a lot of energy and it uses

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a lot of that water that's inyour system, and so when you get
up in the morning. That's whya lot of times you're super thirsty when
you wake up in the morning,and so if you get up and you
drink that water, it's really settingyour body. It's kind of waking it
up, and it's setting it ona good path for the day, and
it kind of wakes up those organs. It gets everything moving and lubricated and
ready to get I've never heard.And it also helps with the viscosity of

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your blood first thing in the morningas well, because your blood tends to
thicken a little bit with less hydration. And typically we're sleeping for six to
eight hours with no water. Andjust because that coffee's got water in it
does not a substitute. No,that's not quite the same thing. I've
also heard that argument about beer thatit has water in it as well.
However, one thing is both arealso diuretic, so they're going to make

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held a well a show on oneh three point five FM and five sixty

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AMWVOC. And of course it's kindof good dad to kick off in.
Our best game Cock coverage is gettingin the way. At twelve thirty this
afternoon, Christopher Thompson of the team, we've gotten your open to kickoff.
We'll just about kickoffice at three thirtynine this afternoon on CBS Game Cocks and
the Bulldogs, as we welcome inour resident Bulldog fan, Mike Brown from
Molly Made Good morning, Gary,how are you, brother, good good

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to see you. We're a Georgiagret so you have to be a Georgia
fan right somewhere. It's after manyyears of disappointment, we finally had a
couple of good ones. Wait aminute, you're gonna talked to a game
Cock fan about many years of disappointing. We can relate. Uh, I'm
want to make a prediction. Well, I think what's it? What's the

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spread? Now twenty five points.I think whatever it was the other day,
it was like twenty six or whatever. Twenty six. Yeah, okay,
you never know, Carolina. Carolinahas made some some disappointing upsets against
us. Well yeah, yeah,you know it seem by for a long
time that was always a close game. It was. Yeah, hadn't been
that way so much recently, butwe'll still say anyway, so we're all

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the here with it. At twelvethirty, I'll be in with David Presidioso
too to talk about inside the Carolinahuddle and also heads up programmed not on
that meantime, let's get back tothe program here and talk about your health
and your wellness and Mike, well, let's start off with this, by
the way, as a reminder forfolks about the special you're running right now.
Absolutely yeah, any new clients fiftydollars off their initial clean with Molly

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made just call us at eight ohthree seven three one one two one two
or visit our website at mollymade dotcom and we'll be happy to help you.
Just mention my name. It's theGary David Special app Molly MA.
Absolutely all right, So I neverdid nothing for you. Yeah, Now,
we talked a couple of weeks ago, and again we're still hearing the

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talk of you know, COVID rampingup here and there. We probably all
know somebody now that's had it,or maybe you've had it. Again,
not a serious problem we had duringthe pandemic, but again it's another reminder
about the seriousness of of keeping yourhome or your business as clean as they
can be. Absolutely, and maybeit's a question of you just don't have
time to do that, but typicallyeven for folks who do, you'd be

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surprised to understand that maybe what you'redoing is not all you need to do.
That's right, I think, youknow, some people think they're properly
cleaning their homes, you know,but they're really probably not just doing some
like dusting kind of just you know, doing some picking things up here and
there, maybe not changing their bedsheets on a regular basis. So any

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of those scenes can contribute to anunhealthy home. The not only the methods,
but the products and molly made thatyou use are different. We've talked
about that too. This is notoff the shelf consumer stuff you buy at
a grocery store or anywhere else.I mean, these are specialized products that

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go above and beyond when it comesto getting clean. Yeah, I think
last week we were talking about Ithink Gary where you were surprised is that
what we call the dwell time,that off the shelf type products literally have
to be wet on your surface foreverthirty minutes to kill there's bad viruses and
bacteria such as covid. Our productsare our hospital grade that kill those unwanted

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viruses and bacteria almost instantaneously in amatter of minutes, so that one one
thing alone could bring you a morehealthy lifestyle and home. So when you
see it on a label of acleaning product and that says kills or whatever
it is, that's not necessarily that'snot a lie, that's not a lood
now, But they don't tell youthat you got to leave it on there

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for a long right time exactly,and nobody does that. Nobody is impossible.
A couple of seconds, you wipeit off, you're done, Yeah,
and you feel like you've done agood job. But unfortunately you yeah,
you don't realize that you haven't.No, that's it's uh, it's
it's misleading. But you know,but nobody knows nobody knows now the services
you offer it, Molly made comingto variety of packages, right, Yeah,

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for example, and you and I'llbe talking about this off the air
here in the next couple of weeks. My parents will be selling their home
sometime this fall and only been infor thirty years, and as they've aged,
they haven't been well. I'll putit this way, Mike. They
had a lady who has supposedly camein every now and then and cleaned up.
I never saw any evidence of that. Yeah, I kept telling Mom,

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I really really, But for folkswho are getting ready to put a
home on the market, how youguys could come in right and in a
one time application and really get aplay speck and span. Absolutely, we
do one time cleans. We domove out cleans, move in cleans.
You know, especially if you're lookingat a security deposit back when there's move

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outs, or you know you've gotan obligation under your contract to sell the
home that you need a professionally cleanhome. We do those every day.
And then for folks who aren't sellingor moving in or moving out or what
have you, but you just wanta good clean environment. Even at that
you have multiple options you can justfrom Yeah, we can do a one

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time deep clean for you. Wealso do regular maintenance cleaning. We do
weekly, bi weekly and monthly servicecleaning also, and no contracts, so
we were not going to lock intoa long term contract. You know,
we want to work with you andcustomize your clean specifically to your needs.
So most common, i would sayamong all of our clients is every other

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week, and you know that's greatand if you ever need to change that,
if you have some guests coming in, or you know, you have
a special occasion, we can alwaysadjust for you. So you talk about
that deep clean, so what's theand that's that's that initial visit, right,
Yeah, so let's talk about thedifferences between what your folks are doing

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when they're coming in to do thatfirst visit and that deep clean versus what
happens then in subsequent visits. Absolutely, so think of as the first deep
clean as we're coming in and getall that old dirt that's been building up.
Because when get the old dirt thenwent during the maintenance cleaning, we
can just get the new dirt,so it's a lot easier, So it's
a lot cheaper. Once we're ona maintenance schedule, the cost of us

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coming in to clean is a lotlower than those initial deep cleans. So
during that deep clean process, wespend a lot more time there and we
use what we call a top downcleaning process. So we're gonna stop at
the top, start at the topwhere those baseboards or the ceiling meat the
wall where the cobwebs build, andwork our way all the way down to
the baseboards and everything in between.So get your willing, your ceiling fans,

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get your blinds, your window sills, all the way down. Dust
everything with our microfiber hand wiped cloths, and then floors vacuum. Then we
use a three step microfiber mop processto disinfect sanitize all your floors and just
a little extra details around the kitchenand bathroom as well. Get the inside

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your ovens, your microwave. Youknow, those are the things that kind
of build up every time that we'vegot to address and everyone knows about.
You know, the dreaded soaps,gombe build up, maybe mold, mildew
in your bathrooms. You know,we got to get rid of all that
stuff so we can start with aclean slate for your maintenance. Simple as
that. So then when you comein on the on the maintenance visits,

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are you obviously yeah, you've you'vegotten rid of a lot of that dirt's
built up over the year. Soit's it's it's easier, it's quicker,
it's easier, and question just maintainthings. I get it. But are
you looking at the same things thenand the follow up visits or maybe okay,
we've we've kind of done that.It's taken care of, but you
kind of keep an eye on it. Maybe if you need to hit again
later on. How does that workexactly? So we're gonna eye everything,

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you know, if but we maynot need to do a handwipe on your
baseboards every visit. We may justneed to hit that maybe every every month.
Uh, it really depends on yourhouse and and you know, there
are a lot of variables. Youknow, do you have pets, do
you have a lot of children?Uh? To main see what that maintenance
program would you? Are you aslab? Are you a slab? You
know? Or you could be aneat freak. So all those different things

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come into into the equation. Butyes, we're never going to overlook something.
We're always going to make sure it'sup to speed during those maintenance cleans.
Mike Brown is the owner of MollyMade here in the Midlands, which
is this is fairly new business foryou. You took this business over one
year ago. One year ago,yes, sir, one year ago was

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I'm just just had a curiosity.I mean, what brought you to this
franchise. Everybody seemed to have areason for why. They Yeah, you're
a businessman, and you're a businessperson. I get it. But I
mean you look at the businesses outthere and there are certain things in the
try to say, Okay, Ilike that, it's a good model.
Well I've always liked to clean.This probably sounds like a cliche, but
I actually do. But I really, you know, I love my employees.

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I love, you know, enrichingtheir lives, making their lives better,
and I just I really just enjoythe business. I mean are customers
and we provide a great service,you know, give them time back for
the things that are important to theirlives. They have to worry about these
these unwanted chores of cleaning their house, and overall, I think we're just
contributing to the community and our employeesand customers I think we've touched on this

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before, but I know I've mentionedthis. Like my wife, for example,
I mean decades ago, we hada cleaning services, was thirty years
or more ago, and she wentit felt like she had to clean everything
up before they showed up. AndI thought, to wait a minute,
why are we paying somebody coming inclean if you're going to clean before they
get here. But a lot ofpeople are that way. Let me ask

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you this. Are there certain things, you know when a service like Molly
Made comes in, certain things thatthe homeowner or business owner can do ahead
of time, just to make surethat it's a smooth process. And time
is money. Right, That's agreat point. And yes, we still
have clients that'd like to clean upbefore we get there. One thing I

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would like to, you know,vice to the client. If I come
in and see a lot of clutter, just like one counter tops or tables,
you know, the more you canhelp us get get the surfaces clear,
that's the better job we can do. So you know, if you're
if you've spilled a thousand lego pieces, you know in the child's bedroom.

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I mean those kind of things canjust slow down the teams, you know,
picking things up just to make usmore efficient. It's just gonna be
better for everybody. So the whenwhen you come out, is it based
on an hour is an hourly basis? Is it a package deal? As
far as the prices concerned, how'sthat work? Your initial deep clean is
based on an hourly basis where wecan basically we can look at the square

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footage of your home and the basiclyhow how the state of your home is,
whether if it's extremely dirty clutter versuspretty clean. You know, we
can kind of get a pretty good, pretty good spent on how long it
would take us to do that clean. Want to get into a regular maintenance
cleaning. It's going to be basedon a lot of different variables from your

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the size of your home. Youknow, how many bathrooms, how many
bed rooms, you know, howmany hardwood floors, do we have pets
in the house. All those differentthings come into effect. But we you
know, we're always willing to customizethat price to fit a customer's budget.
For example, we have a lotof homes, large homes I'll say over

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five thousand square feet with a coupleof people in the house. They're like,
we don't even go upstairs, right, So we don't. We just
don't need you to clean all ofthis space. That's great, you're fine
with that. We're fine with that. We'll customize it to what space they
use. And if they have visitorscoming in or a special occasion, like
we said earlier, that's no problemeither. We can come in and hit
those when they need it. Butjust like I said, we don't.

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We're not going to lock you intoa contract, so we're able to customize
that visit when the customer needs it. I guess I could change over time.
Maybe the first you do the wholehouse, and then well we don't
want relead that part done anymore,so you can modify that as you go.
You know, we've seen recently,you know, with you know,
there's there's indications of maybe some youknow, hints of the economy switching,

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and we've had customers gone from weeklyservice to monthly service. That's fine too,
okay, I suspect I mean,I guess it's kind of logical to
assume that the bulk of your folkstime is spen in well two places or
depending on my bathrooms, you havekitchens and bathrooms, I guess, yeah,

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and our hardwood floors, really hardwoodloorstech extra time because remember we have
to do it three we're really goingever at three times because we're gonna do
a vacuum, then we're gonna doa wet microfiber mop, and then maybe
a dry mop. So there's alot more time involved in the hardwood floors.
Okay, okay, Yeah. Whenit comes to carpets, is it
just a vacuum? Is there's somethingelse you're doing there as well? Just

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vacuum? Just vacuum. Yeah,it's a Molly made and again it always
starts with that initial deep clean.So the process there's you call, you
go on the website, you'll comeout, you take a gander again as
you do you need what information doyou need from somebody when they first contacts

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you, are you're looking for squarefootage, how many rooms and such or
to help you kind of you know, but before you make that visit to
kind of get a ballpark out,what's gonna be involved? So we offer
everyone a free in home estimate.All come out to you visit your house.
You know, we'll take a look, we'll talk about your needs.
Are there any special requirements, anyspecial things you want to mention to us
and then we'll be able to giveyou a very accurate number right there.

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But then it probably about ten minutes, so free inhalme estimate take about ten
minutes, and we'll be able toexplain to you the whole process and what
the costs would be. Okay,what are the when you do that?
What are the questions of did youget most when you sit down with somebody
to give that estimate? I mean, is there a certain couple of things
that people are always asking you about. Well, I'd like to first to

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ask any new customer, you know, have you had a professional cleaning company
before? And most of the timethey they've either said yes or we've we've
had to get rid of them,we had to fire them, and instantly
now want to know why, youknow, what are those things that weren't
being done? So we can putthose in our notes and make sure that
our teams when they come out aregoing to that's their first priorities address those
issues. But I think you know, everyone has different questions. You know,

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some people their priority maybe the kitchen. You know, some people love
them that we've changed the linens inthe bids. We do that for you
I don't think people would expect thatthough I would have expected, right,
absolutely, but we do it.There's no extra charge for us to change
the sheets and linens on your bidfor you. So you know, everybody's
a little bit different, you know, but overall we do. You know,

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some requests like I had had acustomer last week with three large dogs
and there are learned about Paul printson the hardwood floors that kept seeing the
Paul prints. So we have toput make no to that to turn our
cleaning teams to make sure that wetry to find this Paul prints. Maybe
maybe it's three different angles. Wehave to look in the lighting to see

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the different Paul prints, right becauseat first glance maybe we didn't see them.
So little special requests like that arealways important. There's always Paul gloves
too, that's true. That's true. We should we should give those out,
make itake it easier. Absolutely right. There was one of the questions
I wanted to ask you and dogon him. My mind just didn't go

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blank. Well, n yeah,I think Gary, So you know,
I think you've asked before, youknow, what what are your most popular
what are your customers, what's thewhat's the most popular type or the most
common customer that we have. Ithink, you know, like you said,
your parents, I mean I thinkretirees, you know, people that
have said the hell with it.I'm just not going to be I'm not

(51:55):
going to spend time, or maybeI'm not physically able. Sure. You
know it's interesting. Last week wehad three new customers come on board that
we're all having knee surgery this one. So they're like, Mike, you
know, I'm going to be outfor at least a month with recoupering from
knee surgery, so I need ahouse cleaning company to come in, get
that deep clean, and then dosome regular maintenance while we recover, and

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most likely we'll just keep you onboard. So you know that that's become
a pretty popular I think the orthpegsurgeons are quite busy. All right,
now we'll get your card out andall these yeah orthpetic surgeons. Right,
that's all right, moname Mike Brand. Don't forget to ask about the Gary
David special and get fifty bucks off, right, that's right, just mentioned
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we'll take fifty dollars off if youmentioned Gary A best way to reach
a Mike You can either call us. It's at eight oh three seven three
one one two one two, oryou can visit our website at mollymaide dot

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