Health and Wellness Show 09-23-2023

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Episode Transcript

(00:17):
Good morning, yeah, my friends, and welcome in to the Health and
Wellness Show on one of three pointfive FM and five sixty am w VOC.
I'm Gary David and coming up we'regonna talk about repetitive stress injuries and
how Aaron Plott of Massage Mechanics canhelp you with therapeutic massage. Matt lyons
we buy from Carefree boat Club ata Leigh Murray with a great deal on
initiation fees to talk about, butwe get things started this morning with Bridget

(00:40):
Channel from the Health there who joinsus in studio today. Bridget, good
morning, gar It's good to beback. Always good to have you in
studio. By the way, Igotta tell you we we had the executive
chef service to this passway. Wonderful. That is all I have eaten?
Which which which custom meal track?Did you we did the steak? Okay,
there's a bunch of different ones youcan pick from. We do we

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cooked chicken all the time anyway,Yeah, we'll go with steak because we're
always doing chicken. Got you cando Mexican. I mean there's a whole
long Molly and all all the greatfood. Did you try the Philly cheese
steak burritos. That's the first thingis, uh, my wife tried one
first. I had to run outand we got done and do some work
out in the studio at the house, and I came back in and she

(01:26):
said, Okay, you've got tohave one of these. It wasn't the
right time of the night to beeating one, I can tell you that,
but I did it anyway. Andit's fabulous. Doesn't taste healthy?
Does it almost seems too good tobe true? Well, I looked at
I said, this is a wheat, right, I know, because fighting
things that tastes good, that's thekey. That's the key. That's that's
part of the the the IP servicethat you want to know. And we

(01:48):
talked, we talked in a weekabout the healthy will cook for you and
shot for you. That's right.We got a whole team that will surround
you for ninety days and make sureyou can't fail. We'll cook for you,
shop with you. We have physicaltherapist, we have licensed counselors for
behavioral health. But our best qualificationis we used to be overweight too,
and we know the struggle is real. So and that's kind of what I

(02:09):
want to talk today since I'm thelast segment to kind of wrap up this
health and Wellness day. There areso many programs out there, and you
know, the first question people askus is, you know, why have
I failed at so many programs inthe past, and is this Health Dare
challenge gonna be just another failure?Well, and you encourage people to be

(02:30):
skeptical. Yes, absolutely, wesay do it skeptical. We give you
a thirty day money back guarantee,and we say, look, if you
are not happy, if you haven'treversed your high risk symptoms of type two
diabetes, high blood pressure, highcholesterol, sleep apnea, obesity IBS,
which is something nobody talks about.If people have not had results, we
refund their money. So you shouldbe skeptical because ninety day programs are a

(02:53):
dime a dozen out there. Youknow, you download them off the internet.
So so you have to understand whyhours is different if you're going to
come and do the Health Dare.But when people come into our office,
they are a little bit gun shy, already, a little bit skeptical already,
not only of us, but ofthemselves. You know, they wonder

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if they have what it takes.They want to know, you know,
how much does it cost? Youknow, it's not cheap, you know,
it's it's it's an investment in yourself. But they also want to know
what do I have to do?You know, and am I going to
fail at this? And it's funny, Gary, because we're born self motivated,
you know, we push out ofthe womb into the light. You

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know, if you think about ababy crushing its bones, you know,
coming out of its mother, it'slike pretty intense experience. If I was
a baby, i'd kind of likewant to retreat back into that nice soft
womb, you know. But thebabies push forward. You know, look
at a two year old. They'refailing forward. They're trying to walk,
they're running into walls and jumping intopools, and they're kind of on a
suicide mission. What happened to us? You've got two boys, you know

(04:00):
a little yeah. So the thingis, you know, you look at
these clients that when they were two, they were full of life and excitement
and motivation, and now that they'rethirty two, they've got a big,
you know, belly, they're restingtheir plate on. You know, they've
got diabetes, they've got sleep ATNAand they're exhausted all the time, and

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it almost seems like they're in aplace of utter hopelessness. Hit that wall,
don't you? Yeah? Oh absolutely. I was two hundred and fifteen
pounds and I remember being so depressed, so anxious, and having no motivation
at all. So what we dois we specialize in helping people restore their
motivation. And sometimes you can't doit by yourself. Sometimes you need to

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kick start, you know, becausewe're born excited and motivated, but negative
experiences words, events, they candamage our self confidence and kind of steal
our desire to motivate ourselves, whetherit's weight loss or success or you know,
your marriage or what have you.This is again you push if if

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you ever ever to talk about it. I mean, one of the key
tenants to the health there is whatyou call vitam in hell, yes,
yes, which is the most importanthuman nutrient, which is love. You
know, our clients come in again, they're skeptical, another ninety eight program.
You know, they're frustrated, they'vetried a lot of things. They're
tired, they're uncomfortable, they're sick, cranky, depressed on medications, they're

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scared to death that we're going totell them that they have to eat let
us. They're thrilled when they findout they get Philly cheese stig for you.
You know, they're busy. Ourclients are very successful. They're not
unhealthy because they're sitting at home meetingpotato chips most of the time. They're
they're unhealthy because they're taking care ofso many people outside of themselves, you
know, and so restoring that thatthat motivation is kind of what we do.

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And we start with really easy steps. There's only two things you can't
have, and we celebrate the successes, and we take a whole new cellular
health approach, which is flushing thatbelly. What is that because we talk
about a cellular health Okay, whatis that? Yes, after forty years
old, no matter how motivated youare, most of the time, stubborn

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fat is found in one region inthe belly, right, And the things
that we used to do when wewere twenty, they don't work anymore.
A toddler, so it all goesback to hydration. A toddler is seventy
percent water man. That toddler's eatingsugar gummies, they're eating birthday cake.
You know, they're eating pizza andit's all going straight through them. They've
got a huge metabolism. You lookat little four or five and six year

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old. Now, childhood obesity ison the rise, but for the most
part, children have very healthy,hydrated cells. The older that we get
the environment wear and tear disease,even medications to prevent disease like metformin and
lipatore, these really intense medications thatare for high blood pressure and cholesterol and

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type of diabetes. What they dois they harden that cell wall, and
what should be a water filled grapeturns into a shriveled raisin. And in
that raisin, you've got this cloggedvisceral belly fat that's in there, hanging
on for dear life. So whatwe try to do when the doctor tells
us, hey, Gary, yougot high blood pressure. You gotta do

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something. You're like, Man,I'm gonna lay off the cook I'm gonna
drink some water this week. Wellwhat happens is we drink the water,
but we don't absorb it, soit right middle woman, So you end
up just peeing it out, youknow. But what the health there does
is we've figured out how to openthe cell and get that water in there
to that detox for the fat andthat flush, and this time you're flushing

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out bad fat which causes strokes,diabetes, high blood pressure, even heart
disease, and dementia. So thatmiddle fat is not as easy to get
off. And so people coming intoour office and what we're giving them is
hope, you know that they canreverse some of these things. And they
haven't succeeded in other programs, butours is going to succeed for them.

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So that's a question you whether youget ask or not. I think anybody
the walks in the health there couldat least admit to themselves if they don't
share it publicly that yeah, likeyou said, why have I failed?
Right? And why will this bedifferent? Right? Right? I think
the main thing, of course,we specialize in how to get your motivation

(08:31):
back after it's damaged. You know, how do you do that? And
we have a team of specialists,We've got behavioral health specialists, licensed counselors,
we have a whole psychology of healththat kind of helps you readjust your
thinking toward food and toward yourself.But but mainly the number one step is
that it's got to be easy.You know, I say this every time,

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but most people who have started weightloss companies have never been fat,
you know, they just have understoodthe struggle. And the main thing about
our coaching team is our one ofour number one coaches has type one diabetes.
Yesterday she drove to Georgia with thechef experience out of her own time,
did not even get paid. She'son the sales team. She went

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with the coaching team met with oneof our clients who was, you know,
younger twenty two years old. Thisclient manager spent three hours in her
house teaching her how to overcome thattype one diabetes at a young age and
how to eat, and she cleanedout her pantry and cooked with her.
And so you talk about motivating,it's human on human, but we make

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it so easy to do. There'sonly two things you can't have. So
when you make the steps easy andyou're not just eating spinach and doing yoga
on the beach and putting lavender oilin your water, that's not sustainable.
We'd all love to move Hawaii anddo that, but it has to be
the American fast paced of life,or it's not going to work right.

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And you you mentioned all these programs, and there's one thing. There's one
thing you see in all these programswhen they advertise them. These are beautiful
people. They're young, they're ingreat shape. They got the guy's got
six packs, the girls got nocellulates. That's right. This is not
the person you're talking about. Thehouse is not what somebody into. I

(10:24):
founded the Health Dare six years ago. I'm sitting in your studio right now,
Gary, and I do not haveabs. I still have cellulite.
I don't look great in a bikininow. My husband thinks I do so,
but but you know better. Butmy husband, by the way,
it was three and twenty pounds,lost sixty pounds on the healthcare as well.

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But I think this this realistic viewof not trying to get you into
this bodybuilding model, unrealistic cultural socialpressure that we have in twenty twenty one.
We want people to get healthy tolose weight, not lose weight to
get healthy. I've interviewed bodybuilders thathave told me on the day they've won

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prizes, they were the most unhealthythey'd ever been. We're not. Yeah,
appearance is healthy is the new sexy. You know, healthy there's a
trend in America where people are realizingthe value of health and wellness, and
I'm really excited to see that kindof up and coming trend where people are
understanding that healthy is beautiful. Butisn't that part of the problems. We've

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become accustomed to seeing the ads thattell us this is healthy, and this
is something that very few of uscould ever attain that's right, even if
we put in the work to dothat's right, You certainly can't attain a
lot of that naturally, yes,And so that's why we feel we feel
because we don't look like that that'sright. If you go to ideremy dot
com, you can see picture afterpicture after video after video of real live

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people. A single mom named Amywho lost sixty pounds on the healthcare and
regained her self confidence and stepped intothe best version of Amy she could be.
A retired couple named Chet and Kathyin their sixties who were sleeping in
separate recliners for ten years, andin their retirement, we were able to
get them healthy enough to get offtheir seapad machines, get in the same

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bed, get them traveling together,getting them to take their lives back.
A woman named Nikki from up inAsheville who I personally coached. In eight
weeks, she was out of awheelchair. She lost sixty pounds of fat,
lost twenty seven inches. So we'retalking about people who are saving their
lives and regaining the quality of theirlives. We are not talking about a

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We'd love to coach you to thebest version that you can be. All

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Club Boating without owning. It's abouttime we are back on the Health and
Wellness Show here on one of threepoint five FM and five sixty a m
w V own C and we welcomein Aaron plot Now from Massage Mechanics.

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Aaron, good morning, morning.How are you well? Well, you're
always Chippernae're all chiper, it's morning, You're always chipper. I always always
enjoy talking with you because I alwayslearned something new about clinical massages, things
that I had new clue the benefitsyou can get from just having a massage,

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not any old massage, but atargeted clinical therapy massage, which is
what you do at Massage Mechanics.That's right, So we are a clinical
therapy practice. Like you mentioned,it is science based, so it versus
you know, SPA based. Ina SPA you're going in with the direct

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goal of just you know, relaxingand blissing out and being pampered. And
with clinical therapy you're coming in basicallywith a slightly different goal and that's to
fix things, so you know,and we use a lot of research based
methodology in order to achieve those goalsfor our clients. Now, if I
just want to come in and geta feel good massage, I can do

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that. Can I, oh,absolutely one percent? You can still one
hundred percent do that. We aretrained just like any spot therapist is trained,
but we also have a little bitmore focused continuing education situations to help
people with very specific injuries and thingslike that. Just out of curiosity here

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aaron for when it comes to SPAbased massage is how much training education goes
into does something we have to havebefore they can be licensed as a massage
therapist. So in this state ofSouth Carolina, it's different state to state,
first off, but in the stateof South Carolina you have to have

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I believe seven hundred and twenty orseven hundred and fifty classroom hours is what's
required by the state. And thenyou have to take a state mandated licensing
exam from the lll R, whichis called the m BLEX. And then
there are some national exams that youcan't take, though it doesn't certify you

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nationally, it's still a state bystate basis. Is just a different test.
And for a SPA right, thisis just for your SPA licensure for
any massage therapist is what we allhad to do. So every massage therapist
in the state has the same licensurerequirement. First, you know, clinical

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versus SPA. I could drop theclinic tomorrow and go work in a SPA
and be perfectly fine. I wouldn'tbecause I enjoy what I do, sure,
but and I enjoy the freedom ofworking for myself. But the licensure
is the same. Now, wherewe come into some differences is every therapist

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is required to take at least twelvehours of continuing education every twelve years to
maintain their licensure. Where people whatthey decide to take is oftentimes more in
keeping with the field that they're in. The SPA therapists tend to take continuing
education classes that are you know,a little bit more SPA leaning. They

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do aromatherapy stuff, They do differentmodalities that are more leaning towards SPA work,
whereas clinical therapists tend to go alittle more technical and a little bit
more anatomy and physiology based. Okay, And if you've not heard aaron with
us before, I mean the depthof knowledge that you have as a clinical

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therapist, it is really stunning.I had no clue though, so many
things to know when it comes tomassage. But then again, you when
you get into it, you know, and if it's something that you are
interested in doing and you have apassion for it, there is a unlimited
amount of you know, classes andeducation that you can take all over the

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country. So you do a lotof that online or there are a lot
that are online right now because ofyou know, COVID and everything like that.
But traditionally we did a lot ofon hand in person clinicals where you'd
go for a weekend or four daysand you would be in a big hotel
ballroom and there'd be instructors that wouldhave you do the hands on work,

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which I prefer. I feel likeyou don't really know it until you put
your hands on somebody and done it. And all this just to just to
again to to give out the evidencethat no matter whether we're talking about a
clinical massage or just a spaw massage, you know, massu there's a lot
of training goes into it. Ohabsolutely, even you know, somebody right

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out of school has more training thanjust your average you know, I mean,
goodness gracious, there's hours and hoursand hours of education that go into
it. And you know, Iremember my first week in massage school.
I was stunned because I had threeweeks to learn every bone in the body,

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every point in the body, andwhat it does. And pretty much
over the course of that eight ninemonths, we learned every muscle in the
body and everything that each one ofthem does. You know, you learned,
nerve lines, you learned, youknow, pathologies, you learn.
I mean, it's insane how muchyou learn. And so many people have

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this idea that all I do isrub oil on people for a living,
and that's definitely not what I doat all. And and if you talk
to any of my clients, theywill they will highly disagree with you.
They take in that regard. Yeah, I mean, you could really I
mean, you could call yourself athing. You're a physical therapist. I

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mean here it's some other licensure andwell yeah, but I mean for sure,
but I mean the service you offer, it's it's kind of at the
end of the day, it's thesame sort of thing. It goes hand
in hand with it, for sure. I am actually in my office.
I work out of a private gymover on Old Cherokee Road, and I
have a physical therapy practice that isalso in that same building, and we

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definitely do a lot of referring backand forth to each other. There's a
lot of you know, kind ofworking together and things like that, and
a lot of talk with them.I learn a ton from those physical therapists
because I mean they actually they dodefinitely have a good bit more intensive education
than we do. But you know, one of the cool things about it

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is I can control how much educationI get, so I can actually talk
to the pts and say, hey, you know, I'm interested in this
kind of you know, line ofthinking, and they can recommend stuff.
Because a lot of the classes continuingeducation wise that we take are very similar
to each other, and a lotof them have dual certifications for manual therapists,

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so physical therapists, occupational therapists,yoga instructors, things like that,
even personal trainers, so all ofus are kind of working towards the common
goal of people's functional movement being freeof pain and free of range of motion
issues and what it's all of asudden, No, it's about making it
feel better. And so today Ithink we want to talk about I think

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two weeks so we talked about theneurological benefits of today repetitive strain or stress
injurys, repetitive strain injuries. Sothere are couples that I've been seeing a
lot in my office that I justkind of wanted to talk about because I
think it's something very common that peoplearen't really recognizing that it's a problem until

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you know it's a problem. Andthat's texting neck and gaming thumb. So
they sound really odd, but basicallywhat that is is, so you know,
the movement that we're all making,well, we'll take gaming sumb to
begin with. So the movement thatyou're making with your thumb when you're texting,

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uh, swiping, when you're playingwith you know, like a video
game with a controller and everything thosemovements with your thumb made on a very
repetitive basis, over and over andover all day long can strain the saddle
joint of your thumb. And saddlejoints are basically you know, that means

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they go backwards, forwards and sortof side to side and a kind of
rounded motion. Saddle joints can alsobe injured, uh, pretty significantly,
and it brings a lot of pain. There are a lot of muscles that
attach in to your thumb from yourwrist and your hands, and those muscles
can become chronically tight when you're doingthose movements over and over and over again.

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So it's very important to really kindof think about that and stretch out
your thumbs and your hands and yourwrists throughout the day, especially if you're
somebody who is on their phone alot, or who you know really enjoys
video games and is playing games forhours on end, and you know,
or if you work from a placewhere you know your car or something like

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that a lot, and you're onyour phone a good bit texting and things
like that. It's just really,uh, something that people don't think about
until it's a problem. Texting neckis another things just like that. And
it's also called tech neck because it'snot just from texting, it's from a
multitude of you know, technologies thatwe use. But you've got to figure

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whenever you're texting or you know,listening at a computer, looking at any
electronic device, and I've had ae reader or anything like that, you're
looking lately down not There aren't manyof us that hold the phone way up
right in front of us say thatour chin and our neck are aligned properly.

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And that's where the problem comes in, because as you drop your chin
towards your chest, you're putting morepressure and weight. There are pounds of
pressure that are being added onto yourneck per you know, centimeter that your
chin drops down. And you know, our heads are already eight to ten
pounds that we're carrying around all day. So at the size of a small

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bowling ball right right, and whatwas that movie, the movie Ball,
it's a lot of weight, it'sa lot of way. You know,
Yeah, I get you know,a good I guess a good exercise your
Aaron would be, I'm not anexercise like it, but a good point.
So many people these days, ofcourse, we're doing these online meetings,
and if you do one or twoof them and you realize that,

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you know, most people you seeon these zoom calls and what have you,
they are looking down, which istypically not a very flattering look for
a lot of people. So yougot people that are so folks are putting
their their screen or their phone orwhatever up, elevating it to look straight
at it. And that's the wayyou should always do it, right,

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That is the way you should alwaysdo it. And that's an ergonomic kind
of thing. And it's a lotof the times people don't even realize that
the issues that they're having are stemmingfrom that. But chronic headaches, neck
tension, shoulder tension and pain inboth of those areas. Even it can
contribute to lower back pain, youknow, And it's just something that for

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whatever reason, we kind of don'tput these typical day to day actions that
we're doing all the time. Wejust don't relate them to the fact that
that's making my body hurt. Andthey're really simple ways that you can kind
of counteract that. And one ofthose is just tilting your head backwards,

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you know, bringing your chin upand tilting your head back and relaxing your
shoulders and just really letting your neckkind of stretch out from the front,
but also raise up your computer screen. Don't keep your iPad in your lap
when you're using it, you know, kind of get a little table or
something that'll kind of bring it backup. And when you're using your phone,
don't look down at it, youknow, hold it up so that

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you can see what you're doing andso that you're keeping things a little bit
more neutral. And it feels reallyweird at first. Trust me, I
had to learn to do it.And I'm constantly, you know, correcting
my nine year old because she's alwayson something, you know, and and
constantly has that chin touched her neck. And I'm like, oh, you've
got to stretch out because you cansee the whole curvature of her back,

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you know, I mean, sheshe's going to develop a hump, you
know, I mean you got to. Well, you're right, you're right.
Well on the flip side, youmentioned, you know, tilting your
head back, your chin up,stretching it out, which is you're gonna
imagine I'm doing right now as wespeak, and a really good you have
this Fengli like effect on you tillyou meet my start wind up doing it
here. But is it if youset a monitor too high and or constantly

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looking up, is that a problemas well? Yes it is. That's
a whole another set of muscles thatis going to cause an issue and everything.
So it's all about balance, youknow, and it's all about what's
comfortable to you. And one ofthe most important things I can tell everybody
out there is you got to getup and move around, especially if you're

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at a desk all day. You'vegot to get up and you know,
stretch your arms up over your head, you know, grab that door jam
up above you and really stretch outthose shoulders and open your arms really wide
and let your chest open up,and you know, lean over, touch
your toes if you can, youknow, and if you can at least
lean over as far as you can, stretch out that lower back and things

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like that, you know, becausewhen you're sitting like that all day,
it's compressing so much. It's compressingyour lumbar slign you know, your hip
lectures are shortening, and you're notgetting a lot of that pelvic movement that
you need. It's really debilitating overtime. And I see so many clients
that have these issues, and they'repreventable if we just kind of pay a

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little bit of attention to what we'redoing, sure, and we make just
little teeny tiny effort throughout the dayto kind of get up and stretch out
and move around. Well. Aswe see more and more people doing the
stand up desks. Guy used towork here who didn't have a chair in
his office. He stood up eighthours a day. You know, well,
good for you. I can't quitepull that one off, but it

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doesn't really require that stands up agood bit and I can say that,
you know, every now and again, sitting down is nice, but also
to the type of chair you haveis really important. You need something that
has a went lumbar support or ifyou are working on your core, you
know, sitting on a yoga ballis pretty cool as long as your desk

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is at the right height and you'vegot you know, your arms and everything,
or at the right height for youto still do your work. But
sitting on something like that, evenfor a little while during your work day
is phenomenal because that really helps strengthenthat core, which helps to strengthen your
back. Interesting always good stuff.Quickly going back to talking about the thumb.
I guess back in the seventies,during the disco years, it was

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the problem with people snapping their fingersall the time. That may predate you
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we welcome you back to the Healthand Wellness Showman one O three point five
FM at five sixty eight MT wvOC and we welcome to the Microphone Live
Care Free Boat Club out of LakeMurray Back. Good morning, my friend,
Good morning sir. How are youdoing today? And you really good,
really good no complaints. Whether they'restill fabulous, life's still good,
yes, yeah, and actually alittle bit cooler this weekend than it was

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earlier in the week A little bita little bit, yeah, which at
this point is just refreshing. Ain'tthat the truth? Though? Ain't that
the truth? Care Free Boat Club, Lake Murray. We were out there
last Sunday. I guess it wasbelieve you were. Yep, took a
little trip over to it. Ididn't realize this one of the one of
the places we always liked to goand eat out of Buffalo Creek. Turned
out that was there next to lastday of being in business out there.

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Yeah. I believe they're closing downto do some renovations and they'll reopen after
they rebrand and so forth. Sothey're not gone forever. Just I think
they're going to be probably closed mostof the off season and coming back and
by next summer we should have acouple of new spots to eat on the
lake, which will be great.Well, you and I talked about that
a month or two back. Imean, it seems kind of odd.
My wife and I talked about this, Yes, the other day. There

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are so few places I mean,there's there's that, or there was to
be something else. Liberty used tobe fraid not out there which has been
closed down for a long time,which will be reopened by next spring for
sure. Okay, good, that'swhere the new care Free boat Club location
is going. That's the one wecurrently have under contract. I let the
cat out of the bag on Facebooka little bit because the sign now says

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under contracts. Well, I knewwe've been talking about that off year now
for a bit, but I didn'twant to. I don't want to put
something out there. Well, andwe will for sure by springtime have the
tiki hut open and be serving foodand drinks and all that fun stuff named
to be determined and so forth.But care Free will be operating out of
there probably within the next thirty toforty five days. As our north Side

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location, we're not closing down.Our South Shot will always be at south
Shore, We'll always be at atthe new location as well. I've got
a couple of boats already ordered.We've started to market a little bit,
and we're offering eighty percent off theinitiation fee. Eighty percent off, eighty
percent off, so we've never gonethat low before. We want to get
members on board from the north sideof the lake to start figuring out how

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many boats when you need to buyto keep our member to boat racial correct,
So that's eighty percent off to joinon the north side. Actually both
Okay, Yeah, people who knowme know that I'm very open in the
math behind running this business and soforth. And this time of year we
can afford to do an eighty percentoff initiation fee for anyone that wants to
join on the south side or thenorth north side. Plenty of boats available,

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plenty of access to those boats available. And if if it gets too
cold here in December and you findyourself going down to Florida, we are
now as a company up to onehundred and forty five locations across North America.
Yep, let's go because just asa couple months ago, it's like
one thirty five. When I whenI opened up, which would have been

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April of this year, I believethe official number was one thirty two.
And now we're at one forty five. When the former fraid Not location opens,
that will be low forty six.Right. And again, as a
member here on Lake Murray, youdo get access to all the boats at
all the locations across the country.You do. There's no extra FIFA for

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that. We call it reciprocity.We highly encourage members to take advantage of
it. We see members from theCharleston location, I'm gonna say, on
a fairly regular basis, because wehave different boats than they do. They
like to come up and use ourdouble decker with a slide off the back
because they don't have one of thoseon the ocean. And then our members
go there on occasion as well.So it's a it's a super close location

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along with Lake Norman and Lake Wilifor people in Lake Murray here to take
advantage of just do something different fora day. Yeah, but locations all
throughout Florida, and I think we'reup to about fifty or sixty in Florida.
It's it's almost ridiculous. Yeah,if you look at a map,
it just runs the whole coast beautiful. So this is again one of the
advantages of joining care free boat clubsbecause when you join here, you join

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everywhere basically yep, yep, andwe make it super easy. I can't
tell you how many people that aremembers with us currently used to own a
boat and wouldn't go out that often. And their biggest complaint was, I've
got this fifty sixty thousand dollars assetssitting in the water. We use it
two times a summer, and that'sit. Part of the reasoning for that
is that it takes a lot togo out on your boat. You gotta

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show up early, you gotta cleanit, you gotta make sure the batteries
charge. You gotta make sure it'smaintained. You gotta take the covers off
it. When you're done, yougotta put the covers back on. All
that stuff that's not part of thefun. You have to do when you
own when you join a club,and this goes for should go for any
club out there. Literally, youshow up, hop on the boat,
and you're gone. When you're done, you bring it back and you're done.

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You don't have to do any ofthat extra stuff. So we have
members now that will go out atten o'clock and come back at noon because
their kid has a ball game attwelve thirty. And then this time of
the year and potentilarly you get yourfavorite college football team is playing on Saturday
night. Well, if you wantedto take your own boat out at noon,
for example, you know you're gonnabe pushing it to get on and

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off lake, and you know,get it trailed up and get it cleaned
up and and everything else and intime to catch the kickoff. Absolutely,
and part of the part of theboating rest in peace, Jimmy Buffett lifestyle
is a relaxed lifestyle. It's notrelaxing when you all of a sudden have
a hassle to get there, toget it done, to get it uncovered,

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to get out on the lake,to then hurry back to cover it
up and make sure everything's right.It need it should be and needs to
be about being relaxed on the water. Well. As a former vote owner
of three different boats, I knowexactly what you're talking about. When we
were coming out last weekend, itwas interesting because our youngest son was with
us and all the way out hejust out of the blue said, this

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is so much more simple, Thisis so much easier to do. And
he said exactly the same things youjust said. All we all we do
is we drive out there. Youknow, we parked the car. You're
guys and I've tried to say no, I got it, but they're they're
they're insistent about that. They wantedyou guys were your guys. Won't even
let me take the cooler or abag out of the car well. And

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some of that is like I havea number of young people that work for
us, and it's their job andthey understand it and they're respectful of adults
and so forth. But then Ialso have myself, who's a fifty one
year old guy and not in theworld's best shape. That's my workout,
that's my exercise. Like I insistmembers let me carry their stuff because quite
frankly, moving heavy things is aboutall I'm good at in life. Just
ask my wife. She'll tell you, yeah, right right right for a

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minute, which I got a firstshe has to meet her the other day.
Yep, she actually threw her carefreeshirt on and came in spent the
Sunday afternoon with me. And whata lot of people don't know is I
grew up in the world where mygrandparents owned the flower shop outside of Chicago.
We had it in the family forover one hundred years, and Mother's
Day for us was everyone going downand working at the flower shop. So
one of the reasons I opened upthis care free location is so my wife

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could come and work with me,my kids could come and work with me,
things like that, because I thinkit's yeah, I think it's awesome
when you can spend time with yourfamily doing different things. And working in
a small business is one of thosedifferent things I enjoyed as a kid.
I wanted to have for my kidsto enjoy and for my wife to enjoy.
So whenever they come and work withme, I have to pay them.

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They don't work for free, unfortunately. But I also come from a
world that believes when you work,it should get paid, and you should
work too. By the way.Absolutely, I'm trying to instill that in
my kids, who are fifteen andeighteen right now. So I'm trying to
instill that work ethic in them thatI got as a kid because I always
went and worked for small family business. And you'll learn to do everything,

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and you'll learn to interact with people, and that's a skill set that I
think a lot of our younger folksaren't getting these days when they're sitting on
a computer all day. Not thetruth. So yeah, they'll say you
work hard and play hard, playhard, but not as hard as it
would be if you own your ownboats. Yes, And the problem is
if you're own your own boat,it's not all play exactly. This should
be all play. And I dowant to also mention that people when they

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come out, it's not just theirfamilies we have, but we have a
number of couples who come out andtheir family is there one or two dogs,
and we actually we love that.My wife was really happy the other
day when up when members came back, they their two dogs on there and
she got to greet the dogs andso forth. So that's last weekend.
Yeah, yeah, actually we did. My wife and I got to meet
yeah Charlie, right, Charlie.Yeah, yep. He's a he's not

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a labrador, so he's not exactlya water dog. But that's okay,
well neither one of our dogs orwater dogs. But yeah, there labrador.
I did just find three strays.I did just find three strays on
the side of the road that Irescued. This was just yesterday, as

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I was coming back from the Fraidnot going to the South Store Marina.
There's three little puppies on the sideof the road. So I picked them
up and stopped at the houses.No one claimed him and so forth.
So I brought him home and mywife said, we can't keep three dogs,
and I said, well, ifany of them jumps in the pool,
we're keeping that one. Because ourcurrent two dogs won't touch the water.
So if one of these strays we'lltouch the water, we're keeping it.

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Did anybody jump in and not yetyet, We're hoping. We're hoping.
She has her favorite. She's hopingjumps in, and I have my
favorite. I'm hoping jumps in.So we'll see. Oh, you have
to update is on that one,absolutely, and now update you when we
find homeless for him as well,because I don't think we're allowed in our
huay to keep five dogs at thispoint. That they would probably be frown
on that, I'm sure. Now, okay, So we understand the benefits

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of joining a boat club when itcomes to the hassle of bony own boat
versus I mean again, until youdo it, you don't realize how what
a relief it is to know asyou're heading out there to the lake that
all you gotta do is get outof the car and get on the boat
and go. It's gassed up,the keys and the engine, the batteries

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on it's ready to roll. Wehave all your water toys you might need,
whether it's a two boats or saddlesor whatever the case is. You
can let us know when you makethe reservation what you want. We're putting
on the boat. It'll be waitingfor you when you get there. And
I like to say it might bea bold statement, it might not be
exactly true, but we also savemarriages because oftentimes a husband and wife who

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are living together wonderfully each want adifferent boat because they each have different things
they want to do on the water. A boat club gives you that option
to do different things on the waterwith a different boat, and you can
make the wife happy this Saturday,and you're self happy next Sunday, and
it really does lead to just abetter world. You're not tied to that

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one kind of boat. You getoptions for all kinds. So you got
try tuns, a number of them, a number of try tunes. They're
the most popular Lake Murray boat forsure, which I come from the Midwest.
Try tunes aren't nearest popular up there, but down here they're they're the
mainstay. You see more of thosethan anything. Yeah, try tunes or
pontoons, I mean you don't likethese days. That's pretty much all you

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see. Yep, but you've gotthat you mentioned the double decker, yep,
double decker with the slide. Wejust ordered our second double decker with
a slide from our friends at DawsonMarine. So I'll give them a shout
out, and that one's gonna bein probably thirty days. They'll have it
in from the factory and it'll bewater ready at that point. So that's
got a two hundred horsepower on itas well. It's got a slide coming

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off the side instead of coming straightoff the back, so it's a little
bit different, but it's still thesame concept, same size and so forth.
But if you want speed, wehave our bow riders as well,
which are good for wakeboarding all thatkind of fun stuff. They go up
to a three hundred horsepower engine.It's a twenty four foot boat, so
it's bigger than you expect as well. I think it fits twelve or fourteen

(46:42):
people on it, so it canfit a lot, it can pull a
lot. I like to say,if you're if your child is over eleven
years old and you want to throwthem off a tube, that's the boat
to take if your child's under tenyears old and you want them to ride
on the tube, take one ofthe one hundred and fifty horse powers of
them an enjoyable day. I hada member come back the other day and
explained to me that he watched hisson's skip across the water like a stone

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and we think it might have beensix skips before he actually went down,
And I'm like, yeah, thathappens sometimes, and he goes. I
was worried, but we went topick him up and he was grinned from
ear to ear, laughing. SoI'm like, that's good. That's what
this is about. But if youjust want to go out there and do
a little fishing, ye, wehave center console fishing boat as well,
and I just ordered two more fishingboats. Ah. Yeah, they're a

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little bit different than the center console. They're aluminum big enough. I think
they are both eighteen footer smoker craftsthat have the live wells and the seated
high and all that stuff. Sowe want people with the addition of the
North Club a north location, Yes, we've got to add more boats,
so we're gonna make that as diverseas we can. So even if the

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South location where you live near,doesn't have the fishing boat available that day,
it might be available at the northside, which is an extra for
most of our members. Twenty minutedry I have thirty minute drive at most,
but if you need that particular typeof boat, going to the other
side of lakes not the end ofthe world. Now, and again this
the system for there's an online reservationsystem which is really cool because it allows

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you up to two weekday and twoweekend reservations. Correct as far as really
a year, yes, basically.But now when I say that, oh
so that's all I know. Forexample, this past weekend we had a
reservation already yep, and and Iactually texted you and we called out there

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that morning and said, we don'thave as many people as we thought,
and do you have a smaller trytune, And sure enough we were able
to reach out to a member whowe know likes the bigger try tune and
say, hey, the party Pelicansavailable if you want to swap. They
were all about wanting to do that. So we do get to know our
members, We get to know whatthey like, what they do, and

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we're very accessible from a texting standpoint, is goofy as it sounds I was
someone that five years ago hated texting. Now I'm pretty sure texting saved my
marriage, you know. So wehave a lot of our members that text
in and say, hey, isthere a boat available today? Is there
a boat available tomorrow? And that'sthat's perfectly fine, yea perfectly fine,
And we text right back and say, yeah, these are the two.

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And I had a member text andthey asked about, like the end of
September, if there was a boatavailable on Saturday, and my response was
yes, all of them, whichwould you like that time of year?
Right exactly? And then I wasable to reserve it for them. So
the app is super simple and easy, but you can always just text and
we take care of the back endfor you. So we've talked about how
a hassle free it is. Butwhat about the cost factor? Okay,

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you mentioned it again. There isan initial fee, correct, and then
a monthly fee. But that initialfee you're offering eighty percent off. Eighty
percent off. We've never gone thatlow. It's for the month of September
only, and part of that reasoningis we want people to get in now
when they can still enjoy the waterand be in for next year, so

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it helps us better plan our fleetfor next year as well. So the
more people I get in in September, the better I can plan for next
year, because now's the time Ihave to buy the boats, to get
them direct from the manufacturer and scheduledelivery and all that kind of fun stuff.
So there's there's a method behind themadness of giving a great September deal.
The folks that joined early in theyear had all summer to enjoy the

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boat, so their deal may nothave been as aggressive from that initiation standpoint,
but they were able to use itduring the prime season. And I
fully recognize we're no longer in theprime season season, so I have to
motivate people to want to come outto help me better plan for next year.
Now, will there be any downtimesover the winter or will you have
boats available all winter long? Wewill have boats in the water all year

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at both locations. It's deep enoughto always have boats in the water.
At South Shore, we may notbe able to have the full ten boats
in the water because as they drawthe lake down, some of the slips
get a little to a little tooshallow. But we'll always have at least
four, they're likely six, dependingon how far they draw the lake down
and then over at the fraight.Not. I think we're gonna be fully

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All our boats will be there forsure because that water is pretty deep where
the docks are, so we shouldn'thave to pull any out. Okay.
So again, the second location openingup in the next month, month and
a half, yep, I wouldsay to be safe forty five days.
We're signing people up now for thatlocation under our September special, and we're
giving the guarantee that if for anyreason we don't open as planned, we

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will refund their money so they don'tlose anything. But again, when you
sign up, you can use boatsat both locations, right, You're not
signing up one of the others.Nope, Nope. It's it's also stupid,
stupid question, because you can youcan get one of any care for
you towhere in the country, soyou can. But on Lake Murray.
Both of them are clubs owned bymyself, so we treat them exactly the
same. You're a member of one, you're a full member of both.

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It's terrific, all right. Sothere's still plenty of boating season left though.
Ye, a bunch of people outthere. Of course it was Labor
Day weekend last weekend too, Iknow. But still, yeah, plenty
of folks out there, and it'llbe probably pretty busy today, more than
likely out there as well. SoI guess the only thing to do now
is to say, all right,you're listening, and you're hearing. Eighty

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percent off the initiation fee. Verynice. Absolutely, you will not find
a more price effective way to beout on the water. I'll tell you
that right now. It's substantially lessthan owning a boat. And it's a
very aggressive price for a boat club. With the level of boats we have
and the accessibility we have and thelocations we have. Oh, they are
beautiful boats in there, and i'dgotten one yet the head even close to

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one hundred hours on the engine,I don't believe. No, I think
we've got one that breaks one hundredhours. But it was all put on
this year. How to folks thatI get ahold of you, my friend?
They could reach us at carefree boatsdot com. They could email me
direct at Matt M A T tat carefree boats dot com, or they
can call us at eight three threefour two six two eight four four that's

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