March 3, 2025 • 15 mins
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In Ep.6 of RideShare RoadTalk, we chat with two local ladies about all things Omakase, Bill Gates in DC, USAID layoffs, University of Tennessee and why I cant lose weight. Let's drive!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk
Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
my passengers, while engagingin personal and topical
discussions.
I'm your host and driver, johnFondas, and we're cruising the
streets of Washington DC.
Buckle up, let's drive.
(00:31):
Hey there, hey, how are youGood, how are you Good, good,
good, come on in.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Two right, yes, cool, I like the car.
Thanks, I'm your unlikelyrideshare driver.
What's fun and exciting.
What are you, ladies, intotonight?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, we just did our first omakase.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Our first what Omakase?
What is that?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's where they make sushi in front of you and you
eat it with your hands and youget like a new bite.
We had 12 courses, uh, and itwas great I should know about
this this is the first timewe've ever done it um like and
it was good.
It was like what 50 bucks, yeah, which is a really good deal
for, like, they make it in frontof you, they scoop everything
(01:21):
they like, talk to you about thefish and where they, so I don't
know.
It was nice.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, that's really cool because, like, I'm down
with sushi for sure.
Yeah, yeah, I'm really fresh.
I'm not like a connoisseur, butI've never heard of that?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, neither are we.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We are yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, but it was really good and it was a good
deal and all the sushi wasreally fresh and it was
delicious definitely first timefor everything.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You know.
That's like such an oddlocation, like when I pulled up,
I just wasn't expecting that tobe there, yeah, um, it's called
sushi by boo, which, yeah, butit was good, okay, yeah and like
after 12 pieces of sushi I I'musually like, okay, I can
probably eat more, but I'mactually full.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it was filling.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It was good.
The person that I dropped offbefore you, ladies.
She was at Nobu having sushi.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, in West End.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Exactly yeah, and she was sitting next to Bill Gates.
Oh wow, no way.
Exactly yeah, and she wassitting next to Bill Gates?
Oh wow, no way and she was likeI didn't know whether to say
something or be a dork or justsit there and oh wow.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, that's funny, we both said the same thing.
Yeah, better keep in buddy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The guy could pick up the phone and change our lives
in two seconds.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I let it there.
I've heard that Nobu in.
Dc is not very good Really.
I went there once, like threeyears ago when I first moved
here, and I couldn't affordanything at all Besides Nobu.
No and my friend wanted to gothere for a birthday and I was
like I can't afford that.
So I went and got like onesushi roll and I was like, yep,
(03:05):
I'm here.
But, um, it was crazy becausethat place is so expensive and
it's all, yeah, like bill gatesand you know, etc.
But there were, you know,people there with their kids
being like, do you guys have akid's menu?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
they're like no, yeah like if you're into like, if
you're a foodie and you want tocheck those boxes, I mean it's
cool right, yeah, yeah, but like, more often than not, it's like
if you just go to some placethat's just straight up like
gangster sushi place, right,you're gonna get gigantic
portions and it's gonna beprobably half as expensive.
But, but I think I went to aNobu, like in Boca or something.
(03:47):
Or it might have been Morimoto,I can't remember what it was,
and it was like cool, you're soexcited and all of a sudden it's
like wait, I'm leaving Hungary.
This was butt-ass expensive.
What am I doing here?
I don't need to be seen, I wantto eat.
But again, if you're into that,it's cool yeah, and Bill Gates,
(04:20):
yeah, oh no.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Are you, are you part of the federal government?
Oh god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean I just listened to a podcast the other
day and you were on it talkingabout how you're going to step
up?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, you would have some choice words to say I feel
like you'd be, like you're ano-boosh?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, you're fine, I have not.
I've been doing this not verylong, a couple of weeks right,
okay, nice.
And then I became oddlyaddicted to the engagement with
people.
By doing it, everyone's got astory.
It's kind of like part therapy,part tour guide and vice versa.
(04:52):
Like people have cracked meopen, we talk about my childhood
for 10 minutes.
It was fucking hysterical,that's an amazing perspective.
Yeah, it really it's fascinatingso it's just been really cool.
It's like an exercise ingetting out of your comfort zone
.
Like my wife thinks I'mabsolutely fucking insane.
But you know there's you knowthere's people who don't want to
(05:12):
talk.
That's perfectly fine.
Yeah, there's one or twocomplete raging assholes, but
most people are very fascinating.
I've had one young lady.
Just can I talk to you?
I just broke up with myboyfriend.
One lady got divorced and thenthere was some guy who got a
promotion to be an SVP and was acomplete dickhead, was like
(05:35):
really condescending to me and Ikind of just verbally beat him
down.
Yeah, because I don't reallyneed the job so to speak.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I don't care about a bad review or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, so anyways, um, tell me about the whole USAID
thing.
Well, you're a good company forsure, I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I was a gender program analyst, so I worked in
the gender and development hub.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What does that mean?
I'm a lay person.
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, so I worked.
So my job was helping decidewhich projects throughout the
entire world were going to getfunded.
So people would submitproposals I had about $30
million and people like missions, so like, let's say, like
embassies, would write aproposal and say I want to work
on, you know, agriculturalrelief in Moldova.
(06:24):
What we're going to do is we'regoing to train women in these
three agricultural practices.
Here's our evidence for whythese agricultural practices in
Moldova specifically work andhere's the things that we think
were going to happen with themoney you're specifically going
to give us in four years.
That's how long we think theproject is going to go.
Random Monday, exactly a monthago, on the 27th of January, was
in the office and we were toldI was a contractor which most
(06:47):
people don't know this, but like60% of USAID's workforce is
contractors Sure, usaid doesn'thave a lot of direct hires.
Um, we got told that we weregoing to be probably going to
stop work border that night andso, thankfully, I was in the
office, so I got to collect mostof my belongings in real time
um, and then for a month I'vejust been in this like weird
(07:10):
limbo, like usually when you getfurloughed or laid off, you're
just.
You just move to a competitor,you move to like someone else in
the field.
But this is just like readingthe news and like the full
decimation and all that anxietythat I would have if I just had
any old job, like if I was ateacher or whatever.
I'd have the same anxiety, butthen not having a job because of
what you're reading in the news, yeah, it's just like a
(07:32):
two-fold thing and you know, I'ma lay person, right, but I'm
also a journalist by trade athousand years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But most people, a lot of people don't.
They don't have a framework ofwhat usaid does.
So when I'm watching this getrolled out rather quickly, which
is always always a tell youknow, everything all at once is
is a tactic, right?
Um, in my opinion, no, ofcourse um, but like when you
single-handedly say we're goingto occupy and take over gaza and
(08:02):
then you're going to furlough.
let go of a large part of thecia and then usaid, which is
instrumental in formingrelationships that protect us.
What good is going to happenthere?
Right, it's not just's not justthe good work you're doing,
it's the bigger umbrella, it'sthe things that have our logo.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I mean, I was working on a USAID project in
Afghanistan that set up likeirrigation canals and after
every single one of those canalswas finished, you would have a
plaque that had the USAID logo,which has the USAID flag, the
United States flag.
It would have like like ourlittle, like america for or by
the american people whatever theslogan is with the american
flag and that would be therepermanently in afghanistan by an
(08:39):
irrigation canal and that'sjust like one small example.
But after every single activityproject you have something that
stays there all throughout theworld and that's just
subliminally telling people that, like the united states
government helped build thisthing hearts and minds um
there's so many otherlong-lasting effects that that
one activity can have it's a lot, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
it's a lot.
Let's go back to the sushiplace.
Yeah, let's restart.
I mean I got lucky.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I didn't even order a drink.
I was like I don't need a drink, and then the bartender
accidentally made a drink thatno one had ordered and gave it
to me.
So that was what you said.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He accidentally made you a drink yeah that's usually
the start of a really bad horrormovie.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
This guy accidentally made me a drink.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Oh yeah, or a love story, yeah, well, depending on
what, you're into Sounds like.
Like really pornstack Mabelyeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Sounds like a great way to wind up at a bus stop,
missing a kidney.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And that's like a great way to wind up at a bus
stop, missing a kidney.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh God, and what about you?
What's your story?
Oh gosh, I work in a hospital.
Okay, so a little bit different.
I'm a dietician, oh help me.
Help me, but I work in the ICU.
Okay, so I do.
I work with, just like, a lotof people that are very
critically ill and they, youknow, aren't conscious enough to
(10:01):
eat on their own.
So I do like tube feeding andnutrition through an IV.
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean I'm glad they have you to do that, but that
sucks.
I mean I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, no it's.
I never thought that that'swhat I was going to get into,
like I thought it would be moreso, just like overall healthy
lifestyle, whatever.
But I it's very scientific andI really enjoy that.
That's cool.
Um, like I said, never thoughtI would, but oh did you study
that in school?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
yeah, I did um.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
After my undergrad I went to do like a residency
program where'd you go to school?
I went to virginia tech okay,cool yeah yeah, are you from
virginia?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'm from maryland, maryland, okay, nice my, uh, my
oldest son goes to tennesseenice he's there studying
business analytics or somethinglike that nice something along
those, along those lines.
Yeah, you know he's gettingin-state tuition.
They have a common marketexchange and for some reason
Maryland did not offer it, andso if another school in the
(11:04):
exchange does, you get theirin-state tuition.
Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
There's like 13 states that participate, that's
actually kind of a lot.
There's some master's levelwork also, some really
interesting majors too, like youused to probably Clemson have
like sports management for awhile.
Yeah, lsu was in there withlots of petroleum engineering.
Tennessee has a lot of nuclearresearch or whatever you call it
(11:31):
.
That major Interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, it was.
It was very interesting.
My brother is starting to applyfor college, so I need to tell
him.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, what state Virginia?
Okay, yeah, I don't know ifVirginia is in the thing.
My brother is starting to applyfor college, so I need to tell
him yeah, what state virginia?
Okay, yeah, I don't know ifvirginia is in the exchange I
don't think, I don't think,because they have so many
in-state schools that are prettydecent.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I feel like I mean, my parents did not give me the
option.
They were like you're goingin-state or else you know,
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, like, yeah, my friends humored me and took me
places, and afterwards they'relike really that was fun.
I'm like yeah, I love it here,that's so funny.
I'm like wait yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So how come I can't lose weight?
Help me out.
No, actually that's not true.
I've lost some weight.
I got some really funky bloodwork.
Talked to a specialist, oh yeah.
Not so great news, but it's notgoing to kill me at least.
But I lost like 30, 35 pounds.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But I plateaued for like three months now Totally,
radically changed my diet.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's fine now Nice.
I wish I had all the answers.
Like, I don't even know how tolose five pounds myself, so I'm
sure I am not the right personto ask.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Neither of you need to, I think.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's tough, I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
But everyone's different.
It's like an alchemy right.
Everyone's chemistry isdifferent.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Exactly Like that's what I have to tell all my
patients.
I'm like you're not going to bethe same.
You know your body's not goingto be the same, as you know,
john Smith, down the road, Likeit's.
You know, it's so hard topredict.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I mean, I was always very athletic when I was a kid.
Yeah, constantly on the move,whatever.
I don't remember sitting aroundand eating like 10 pizzas and
12 whole chickens when I was 13.
Yeah, I was always heavy, I wasalways overweight.
And it I was 13, I was alwaysheavy, I was always overweight.
And it's just very strange tome the amount of you know.
I'd run ball every day with myfriends for hours and hours and
(13:27):
hours, and if you just put thaton paper, you know all genetics,
I guess, right yeah, has to be.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I do think that's a big part of it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I do think there's something to the Mediterranean
diet for sure for sure.
That's actually the only dietthat I ever recommend Between
the diet itself and the geneticsof that culture, and just like
the olive oil and just like theheavy influence on like lean
fish and lean meat, yeah yeah.
Yeah, I mean I'm Greek andItalian.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Okay.
And hopefully that'll be enoughto give me you know yeah,
that'll give you 20, 25 more,you know yeah yeah there's
definitely some some goodscientific backing to the
mediterranean diet too, but alsolike, uh, the way that people
live in japan too, like theylive so long right, so not to be
(14:24):
an but asian women havebeautiful hair too yeah it's
just from like the fish and allthe omega-3s and all that stuff
yeah, sorry, that was probablycreepy, but no, no, it's true
like yeah, it's all the the goodfish oil stuff that's on my
(14:45):
list next place to go yeah, Ilove japanese food, the whole.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I need to go right here is good okay oh, we're
doing a stop, okay, oh yeah,yeah one stop and then all good.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Next one, all good.
Thank you, it was nice chattingwith you yeah, so nice chatting
with you.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Have a good night okay, take care.
Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk
Conversations in Motion, apodcast where we create
unfiltered talk space thatexamines the meaningful lives of
my passengers, while engagingin personal and topical
discussions.
I'm your host and driver, johnFondas, and we're cruising the
streets of Washington DC.
Buckle up, let's drive.
(00:31):
Hey there, hey, how are youGood, how are you Good, good,
good, come on in.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Two right, yes, cool, I like the car.
Thanks, I'm your unlikelyrideshare driver.
What's fun and exciting.
What are you, ladies, intotonight?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, we just did our first omakase.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Our first what Omakase?
What is that?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's where they make sushi in front of you and you
eat it with your hands and youget like a new bite.
We had 12 courses, uh, and itwas great I should know about
this this is the first timewe've ever done it um like and
it was good.
It was like what 50 bucks, yeah, which is a really good deal
for, like, they make it in frontof you, they scoop everything
(01:21):
they like, talk to you about thefish and where they, so I don't
know.
It was nice.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, that's really cool because, like, I'm down
with sushi for sure.
Yeah, yeah, I'm really fresh.
I'm not like a connoisseur, butI've never heard of that?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, neither are we.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We are yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, but it was really good and it was a good
deal and all the sushi wasreally fresh and it was
delicious definitely first timefor everything.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You know.
That's like such an oddlocation, like when I pulled up,
I just wasn't expecting that tobe there, yeah, um, it's called
sushi by boo, which, yeah, butit was good, okay, yeah and like
after 12 pieces of sushi I I'musually like, okay, I can
probably eat more, but I'mactually full.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it was filling.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It was good.
The person that I dropped offbefore you, ladies.
She was at Nobu having sushi.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, in West End.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Exactly yeah, and she was sitting next to Bill Gates.
Oh wow, no way.
Exactly yeah, and she wassitting next to Bill Gates?
Oh wow, no way and she was likeI didn't know whether to say
something or be a dork or justsit there and oh wow.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, that's funny, we both said the same thing.
Yeah, better keep in buddy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The guy could pick up the phone and change our lives
in two seconds.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I let it there.
I've heard that Nobu in.
Dc is not very good Really.
I went there once, like threeyears ago when I first moved
here, and I couldn't affordanything at all Besides Nobu.
No and my friend wanted to gothere for a birthday and I was
like I can't afford that.
So I went and got like onesushi roll and I was like, yep,
(03:05):
I'm here.
But, um, it was crazy becausethat place is so expensive and
it's all, yeah, like bill gatesand you know, etc.
But there were, you know,people there with their kids
being like, do you guys have akid's menu?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
they're like no, yeah like if you're into like, if
you're a foodie and you want tocheck those boxes, I mean it's
cool right, yeah, yeah, but like, more often than not, it's like
if you just go to some placethat's just straight up like
gangster sushi place, right,you're gonna get gigantic
portions and it's gonna beprobably half as expensive.
But, but I think I went to aNobu, like in Boca or something.
(03:47):
Or it might have been Morimoto,I can't remember what it was,
and it was like cool, you're soexcited and all of a sudden it's
like wait, I'm leaving Hungary.
This was butt-ass expensive.
What am I doing here?
I don't need to be seen, I wantto eat.
But again, if you're into that,it's cool yeah, and Bill Gates,
(04:20):
yeah, oh no.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Are you, are you part of the federal government?
Oh god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean I just listened to a podcast the other
day and you were on it talkingabout how you're going to step
up?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, you would have some choice words to say I feel
like you'd be, like you're ano-boosh?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, you're fine, I have not.
I've been doing this not verylong, a couple of weeks right,
okay, nice.
And then I became oddlyaddicted to the engagement with
people.
By doing it, everyone's got astory.
It's kind of like part therapy,part tour guide and vice versa.
(04:52):
Like people have cracked meopen, we talk about my childhood
for 10 minutes.
It was fucking hysterical,that's an amazing perspective.
Yeah, it really it's fascinatingso it's just been really cool.
It's like an exercise ingetting out of your comfort zone
.
Like my wife thinks I'mabsolutely fucking insane.
But you know there's you knowthere's people who don't want to
(05:12):
talk.
That's perfectly fine.
Yeah, there's one or twocomplete raging assholes, but
most people are very fascinating.
I've had one young lady.
Just can I talk to you?
I just broke up with myboyfriend.
One lady got divorced and thenthere was some guy who got a
promotion to be an SVP and was acomplete dickhead, was like
(05:35):
really condescending to me and Ikind of just verbally beat him
down.
Yeah, because I don't reallyneed the job so to speak.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I don't care about a bad review or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, so anyways, um, tell me about the whole USAID
thing.
Well, you're a good company forsure, I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I was a gender program analyst, so I worked in
the gender and development hub.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What does that mean?
I'm a lay person.
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, so I worked.
So my job was helping decidewhich projects throughout the
entire world were going to getfunded.
So people would submitproposals I had about $30
million and people like missions, so like, let's say, like
embassies, would write aproposal and say I want to work
on, you know, agriculturalrelief in Moldova.
(06:24):
What we're going to do is we'regoing to train women in these
three agricultural practices.
Here's our evidence for whythese agricultural practices in
Moldova specifically work andhere's the things that we think
were going to happen with themoney you're specifically going
to give us in four years.
That's how long we think theproject is going to go.
Random Monday, exactly a monthago, on the 27th of January, was
in the office and we were toldI was a contractor which most
(06:47):
people don't know this, but like60% of USAID's workforce is
contractors Sure, usaid doesn'thave a lot of direct hires.
Um, we got told that we weregoing to be probably going to
stop work border that night andso, thankfully, I was in the
office, so I got to collect mostof my belongings in real time
um, and then for a month I'vejust been in this like weird
(07:10):
limbo, like usually when you getfurloughed or laid off, you're
just.
You just move to a competitor,you move to like someone else in
the field.
But this is just like readingthe news and like the full
decimation and all that anxietythat I would have if I just had
any old job, like if I was ateacher or whatever.
I'd have the same anxiety, butthen not having a job because of
what you're reading in the news, yeah, it's just like a
(07:32):
two-fold thing and you know, I'ma lay person, right, but I'm
also a journalist by trade athousand years ago.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But most people, a lot of people don't.
They don't have a framework ofwhat usaid does.
So when I'm watching this getrolled out rather quickly, which
is always always a tell youknow, everything all at once is
is a tactic, right?
Um, in my opinion, no, ofcourse um, but like when you
single-handedly say we're goingto occupy and take over gaza and
(08:02):
then you're going to furlough.
let go of a large part of thecia and then usaid, which is
instrumental in formingrelationships that protect us.
What good is going to happenthere?
Right, it's not just's not justthe good work you're doing,
it's the bigger umbrella, it'sthe things that have our logo.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I mean, I was working on a USAID project in
Afghanistan that set up likeirrigation canals and after
every single one of those canalswas finished, you would have a
plaque that had the USAID logo,which has the USAID flag, the
United States flag.
It would have like like ourlittle, like america for or by
the american people whatever theslogan is with the american
flag and that would be therepermanently in afghanistan by an
(08:39):
irrigation canal and that'sjust like one small example.
But after every single activityproject you have something that
stays there all throughout theworld and that's just
subliminally telling people that, like the united states
government helped build thisthing hearts and minds um
there's so many otherlong-lasting effects that that
one activity can have it's a lot, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
it's a lot.
Let's go back to the sushiplace.
Yeah, let's restart.
I mean I got lucky.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I didn't even order a drink.
I was like I don't need a drink, and then the bartender
accidentally made a drink thatno one had ordered and gave it
to me.
So that was what you said.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He accidentally made you a drink yeah that's usually
the start of a really bad horrormovie.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
This guy accidentally made me a drink.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Oh yeah, or a love story, yeah, well, depending on
what, you're into Sounds like.
Like really pornstack Mabelyeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Sounds like a great way to wind up at a bus stop,
missing a kidney.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And that's like a great way to wind up at a bus
stop, missing a kidney.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh God, and what about you?
What's your story?
Oh gosh, I work in a hospital.
Okay, so a little bit different.
I'm a dietician, oh help me.
Help me, but I work in the ICU.
Okay, so I do.
I work with, just like, a lotof people that are very
critically ill and they, youknow, aren't conscious enough to
(10:01):
eat on their own.
So I do like tube feeding andnutrition through an IV.
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean I'm glad they have you to do that, but that
sucks.
I mean I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, no it's.
I never thought that that'swhat I was going to get into,
like I thought it would be moreso, just like overall healthy
lifestyle, whatever.
But I it's very scientific andI really enjoy that.
That's cool.
Um, like I said, never thoughtI would, but oh did you study
that in school?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
yeah, I did um.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
After my undergrad I went to do like a residency
program where'd you go to school?
I went to virginia tech okay,cool yeah yeah, are you from
virginia?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'm from maryland, maryland, okay, nice my, uh, my
oldest son goes to tennesseenice he's there studying
business analytics or somethinglike that nice something along
those, along those lines.
Yeah, you know he's gettingin-state tuition.
They have a common marketexchange and for some reason
Maryland did not offer it, andso if another school in the
(11:04):
exchange does, you get theirin-state tuition.
Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
There's like 13 states that participate, that's
actually kind of a lot.
There's some master's levelwork also, some really
interesting majors too, like youused to probably Clemson have
like sports management for awhile.
Yeah, lsu was in there withlots of petroleum engineering.
Tennessee has a lot of nuclearresearch or whatever you call it
(11:31):
.
That major Interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, it was.
It was very interesting.
My brother is starting to applyfor college, so I need to tell
him.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, what state Virginia?
Okay, yeah, I don't know ifVirginia is in the thing.
My brother is starting to applyfor college, so I need to tell
him yeah, what state virginia?
Okay, yeah, I don't know ifvirginia is in the exchange I
don't think, I don't think,because they have so many
in-state schools that are prettydecent.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I feel like I mean, my parents did not give me the
option.
They were like you're goingin-state or else you know,
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, like, yeah, my friends humored me and took me
places, and afterwards they'relike really that was fun.
I'm like yeah, I love it here,that's so funny.
I'm like wait yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So how come I can't lose weight?
Help me out.
No, actually that's not true.
I've lost some weight.
I got some really funky bloodwork.
Talked to a specialist, oh yeah.
Not so great news, but it's notgoing to kill me at least.
But I lost like 30, 35 pounds.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But I plateaued for like three months now Totally,
radically changed my diet.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's fine now Nice.
I wish I had all the answers.
Like, I don't even know how tolose five pounds myself, so I'm
sure I am not the right personto ask.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Neither of you need to, I think.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's tough, I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
But everyone's different.
It's like an alchemy right.
Everyone's chemistry isdifferent.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Exactly Like that's what I have to tell all my
patients.
I'm like you're not going to bethe same.
You know your body's not goingto be the same, as you know,
john Smith, down the road, Likeit's.
You know, it's so hard topredict.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I mean, I was always very athletic when I was a kid.
Yeah, constantly on the move,whatever.
I don't remember sitting aroundand eating like 10 pizzas and
12 whole chickens when I was 13.
Yeah, I was always heavy, I wasalways overweight.
And it I was 13, I was alwaysheavy, I was always overweight.
And it's just very strange tome the amount of you know.
I'd run ball every day with myfriends for hours and hours and
(13:27):
hours, and if you just put thaton paper, you know all genetics,
I guess, right yeah, has to be.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I do think that's a big part of it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I do think there's something to the Mediterranean
diet for sure for sure.
That's actually the only dietthat I ever recommend Between
the diet itself and the geneticsof that culture, and just like
the olive oil and just like theheavy influence on like lean
fish and lean meat, yeah yeah.
Yeah, I mean I'm Greek andItalian.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Okay.
And hopefully that'll be enoughto give me you know yeah,
that'll give you 20, 25 more,you know yeah yeah there's
definitely some some goodscientific backing to the
mediterranean diet too, but alsolike, uh, the way that people
live in japan too, like theylive so long right, so not to be
(14:24):
an but asian women havebeautiful hair too yeah it's
just from like the fish and allthe omega-3s and all that stuff
yeah, sorry, that was probablycreepy, but no, no, it's true
like yeah, it's all the the goodfish oil stuff that's on my
(14:45):
list next place to go yeah, Ilove japanese food, the whole.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I need to go right here is good okay oh, we're
doing a stop, okay, oh yeah,yeah one stop and then all good.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Next one, all good.
Thank you, it was nice chattingwith you yeah, so nice chatting
with you.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Have a good night okay, take care.
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