June 1, 2024 • 13 mins
Ever wondered how a simple walk around the lake can turn a rough day into a refreshing experience? Join me as I share a personal story of battling through a relentless headache by staying active, only to find unexpected joy and novelty in everyday moments. You'll hear a hilarious tale about a new recruit's first encounter with a dirt road, which serves as a humorous reminder of how our backgrounds shape our perceptions and comfort zones. And for a good laugh, don't miss my observation about my rarely-seen-in-sunlight legs, typically covered due to my hands-on lifestyle.
Pushing through pain and finding motivation can be incredibly challenging, but the rewards are worth it. Despite a headache and a rocky start, I managed to turn my morning around with a three-mile walk, falling short of my initial five-mile goal but gaining a sense of accomplishment and optimism. This episode emphasizes the therapeutic benefits of outdoor activities and the importance of perseverance. I'll leave you with a blend of humor, inspiration, and personal reflections to encourage you to push through your own tough moments and find joy in the simplest of things.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Team 1, stand by Copy Team 1 standing by Breach
breach breach.
Alright, so doing it again, andthis time I turned the phone
the right way, so when we renderthe video later, it'll be
(00:21):
better.
I think we're going to titlethis one today is just suck it
up, because, honestly, it's notthat great of a day for me.
Went to bed last night with aheadache and, uh, tried to get
rid of it beforehand.
That didn't happen, so woke upthis morning it was worse.
(00:41):
So that's what I've beenbattling all morning and decided
, instead of just sitting aroundand trying to get rid of my
headache, that you know what,instead I'm just going to get up
and start doing some stuff,because I'm going to feel bad
regardless, and I'm the kind ofperson that if I don't do
anything throughout the day, Ifeel like I wasted the day.
(01:03):
So I'm going to do my best notto waste my day.
So I'm up and here's, hopingthat just simply being outside
and doing some things is goingto help me feel better.
So that's why we're callingthis one Just Suck it Up, and
it'll be another random thoughtsday as we walk around the lake.
Just a little quick note thiswill not be a five miler and
(01:27):
there are more people out here,so we're ahead on a swivel.
So we don't like an idiot Now Ialready like an idiot.
So there's that Back in a few.
You know, sometimes I forget andI think we all get subjected to
it that we forget howinteresting things can be
(01:49):
because we're just so used tohow things are.
I think it goes for a lot ofthings in life, and an example
of that that happened for meearlier this week has to do with
someone I'm training.
So you know we've talked beforeabout how I'm in public safety
(02:10):
and I am one of the trainers,and this person that I'm
training is more of a cityperson, which is not a bad thing
more of a city person, whichit's not a bad thing.
However, while we have citieshere, we don't always work in
the city.
We have city first respondersfor that, and this individual
(02:36):
had never driven on a dirt road.
We are, like so many otherplaces in our country that still
has them.
They're fewer now, but we stillhave them.
He had never driven on them andhis first day driving that's
what he wanted to go, do Notbecause he thought it was fun or
(02:58):
anything like that, he just sawit and was like, hey, let me go
check this place out.
So he did.
He calls me while we're goingdown this dirt road because I'm
in a vehicle directly behind himfor other reasons that we may
get into some other time.
But he calls me and he isscared, absolute to death
because it's a mixture of sandand clay and that mixture causes
(03:20):
him to think that he can'tcontrol the front end of his
vehicle.
He said I'm turning the wheeland it's just not doing anything
.
And blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
I laughed at him, told him hewas doing fine, we kept going.
Well, later in the day it's athunderstorm.
That happens, know.
(03:41):
He decides he wants to drivedown a dirt road again.
Now, probably not the smartestthing, might have should have
said something to him ahead oftime.
But he decides to drive down adirt road for the second time in
his life.
But this time it's storming.
And I don't mean like oh, it'sraining, I mean like it it's
storming.
And I don't mean like oh, it'sraining, I mean like it is like
(04:04):
storming, like just the bottomhas fallen out and he's driving
down it.
And he's driving this car onthis wet dirt road like you
would on the pavement, which, aslong as it's hard, pack and not
covered in water, it's fine.
However, that wasn't the case.
There were places where therewas standing water on the dirt
(04:28):
road and I had to call him andsay hey, you know what?
You might not want to drivefast through standing water
Because you know you could suckwater up in the intake, lock
your motor up.
You also may want to turn yourtraction control off, and that's
for anybody that's driven on adirt road.
You understand it.
(04:49):
But if you leave tractioncontrol on while you're driving
on a dirt road, especially onethat's extremely sandy or
extremely wet, your car's notgoing to get the traction you
need, you're going to spin andyou're likely to get stuck a
whole lot easier.
So tell him that it goes finewhat she tells me.
Later he goes home and talks tohis significant other and tells
(05:12):
her about it and she is alsofrom a more rural area and she
just kind of laughs at him.
But to me that was somethingthat I found funny for the
simple fact of, you know, I grewup driving on dirt roads, so it
was no big deal, but forsomeone in the city, you know,
(05:32):
it was a huge deal, it was ahuge experience, it was
something new, it was refreshingto see how it affected him and
it just, you know, it's a realgood reminder about how we take
some of the things around us forgranted simply because we're
used to it.
You know things that to us it'sjust every day, so it's not
(05:57):
really that big of a deal, butfor others it's a really big
deal and kind of refreshing andsobering all at the same time.
It just dawned on me that, outof everything out here, to
(06:20):
include the sun, my legs are thebrightest thing out here.
I never usually wear shorts,never usually wear shorts.
Just, I'm always doingsomething.
I'm either working in the yard,working at the wood shop, or
doing something you know automechanic wise.
I'm always doing somethingwhere I feel it necessary to
(06:44):
wear something to protect mylegs.
And, uh, so, that being thecase, my legs very rarely see
sunlight, like even when I'm onthe boat fishing, typically
wearing long pants.
And that's because I hatesunscreen.
I hate having to put it on, Ihate having to reapply it, I
(07:05):
hate the way it feels, I hatethe way it smells.
I hate sunscreen, so I don'tlike putting it on.
So I wear pants.
That keeps my pasty white legsfrom getting burnt.
And yet today, when I decidedyou know what, let's go for a
walk, I chose to wear shorts andthey are bright, like I'm
(07:32):
wearing white socks.
I don't know that you can tellthe difference between the two.
No, I'm not going to prove it,I don't care who asks.
So, yeah, there's that.
Yeah, didn't realize it until Ifinished Well, just about
finished that first lap.
(07:53):
That damn geese, same two geese.
Yeah, you remember.
If you watched the last one,you remember Same two geese are
still out here.
I think they remember me.
They're down in the water nowbecause they want this, just
saying, make an impact.
(08:13):
I also didn't want to have tofight geese in front of
everybody or run from them.
What is it about a goose?
They get so intimidating at themoments like, not me, I'm not a
, I'll spin that little neck,but what about?
(08:35):
Geese is so intimidating?
They'd be glad they went downin that water.
Oh wait, that's not the geese,those are the ducks that were
with them.
The geese are lying in wait bythe bench.
Them, the geese are lying inwait by the bench.
Let's see how this goes.
(08:57):
Man, I'm not gonna say much,but we're coming up on them.
They're just lying in wait.
That guy, he's cool.
We don't mind that guy.
These two, these two are not sogreat, so we're gonna see how
this goes.
Oh, here's shit, here we go.
Yep, look at him.
Ain't even did nothing.
(09:18):
Ain't even did nothing.
Just why?
Why, bro?
I don't get it.
So, from looking at theanalytics, there's not a whole
lot of people that watched thislast one.
And that's fine as long as itreaches the one that needs to be
(09:40):
reached.
But if you'll remember, forthose of you that did, our pace
was like 18-something the lasttime.
Our pace was like 18-somethingthe last time, and our pace
currently is 17.24.
So, according to all of thetechnology that I've got, right
(10:01):
now, we are on a 17-minute,24-second pace to walk a mile.
I don't know if that's good.
Again, I still haven't done theresearch into it.
I know that while I'm trying totalk, I'm sure you can hear it
I do have to focus on breathinga little bit, but either way, my
(10:27):
hair moving, getting somephysical activity in, which is
good.
So, yeah, there's that.
Anyone else ever get a mentalblock Like I?
Have All of these ideas, thingsI want to do for the podcast,
things I want to do For mypersonal life, things I want to
(10:51):
do For the home.
Yet, for the life of me, I amat a block to where I can't
think of how to get any of itdone.
And I've been trying.
I know I'm not the only one, sothat's where'm at.
(11:12):
That last clip was not intendedto be so short.
There was somebody coming and,yeah, we don't record when
people are coming, especiallynow that I figured out that I
need to hold my phone adifferent way in order to record
and get a good quality video.
And it's not some little tinysquare.
(11:33):
I think there's somebody behindme.
They're back there somewhere.
I just saw you.
Yeah, nope, I know I'm notgoing crazy.
Either way, I'm having a mentalblock on how to get these things
(11:55):
done and I'm trying to figureout the best way to do it.
So if anybody has any ideas,let me know, because I'm kind of
struggling on that.
None of it is imperative, noneof it has to happen, but it's
stuff that I want to happen.
I realize what happened.
Now there's people on the otherside of the lake.
(12:15):
I called out the corner of myeye.
Yeah, all right.
So there you go.
We uh not got three miles today.
Wasn't the five miles that wehad done before.
However, despite having a, wegot up and we sucked it up and
we got it done.
So, if nothing else, I've atleast done that.
(12:38):
My headache has gone away alittle bit, so that's a good
thing.
I feel like I may be able to doa couple more things that are
proactive today, and so, yeah,started out as a rough morning,
could still be a rough day, butgetting things done and, uh, hey
, a little outdoor, a littleoutdoor medicine kind of helped
(13:01):
out a little bit too.
So there you go, till next time, guys.
Bye.
Team 1, stand by Copy Team 1 standing by Breach
breach breach.
Alright, so doing it again, andthis time I turned the phone
the right way, so when we renderthe video later, it'll be
(00:21):
better.
I think we're going to titlethis one today is just suck it
up, because, honestly, it's notthat great of a day for me.
Went to bed last night with aheadache and, uh, tried to get
rid of it beforehand.
That didn't happen, so woke upthis morning it was worse.
(00:41):
So that's what I've beenbattling all morning and decided
, instead of just sitting aroundand trying to get rid of my
headache, that you know what,instead I'm just going to get up
and start doing some stuff,because I'm going to feel bad
regardless, and I'm the kind ofperson that if I don't do
anything throughout the day, Ifeel like I wasted the day.
(01:03):
So I'm going to do my best notto waste my day.
So I'm up and here's, hopingthat just simply being outside
and doing some things is goingto help me feel better.
So that's why we're callingthis one Just Suck it Up, and
it'll be another random thoughtsday as we walk around the lake.
Just a little quick note thiswill not be a five miler and
(01:27):
there are more people out here,so we're ahead on a swivel.
So we don't like an idiot Now Ialready like an idiot.
So there's that Back in a few.
You know, sometimes I forget andI think we all get subjected to
it that we forget howinteresting things can be
(01:49):
because we're just so used tohow things are.
I think it goes for a lot ofthings in life, and an example
of that that happened for meearlier this week has to do with
someone I'm training.
So you know we've talked beforeabout how I'm in public safety
(02:10):
and I am one of the trainers,and this person that I'm
training is more of a cityperson, which is not a bad thing
more of a city person, whichit's not a bad thing.
However, while we have citieshere, we don't always work in
the city.
We have city first respondersfor that, and this individual
(02:36):
had never driven on a dirt road.
We are, like so many otherplaces in our country that still
has them.
They're fewer now, but we stillhave them.
He had never driven on them andhis first day driving that's
what he wanted to go, do Notbecause he thought it was fun or
(02:58):
anything like that, he just sawit and was like, hey, let me go
check this place out.
So he did.
He calls me while we're goingdown this dirt road because I'm
in a vehicle directly behind himfor other reasons that we may
get into some other time.
But he calls me and he isscared, absolute to death
because it's a mixture of sandand clay and that mixture causes
(03:20):
him to think that he can'tcontrol the front end of his
vehicle.
He said I'm turning the wheeland it's just not doing anything
.
And blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
I laughed at him, told him hewas doing fine, we kept going.
Well, later in the day it's athunderstorm.
That happens, know.
(03:41):
He decides he wants to drivedown a dirt road again.
Now, probably not the smartestthing, might have should have
said something to him ahead oftime.
But he decides to drive down adirt road for the second time in
his life.
But this time it's storming.
And I don't mean like oh, it'sraining, I mean like it it's
storming.
And I don't mean like oh, it'sraining, I mean like it is like
(04:04):
storming, like just the bottomhas fallen out and he's driving
down it.
And he's driving this car onthis wet dirt road like you
would on the pavement, which, aslong as it's hard, pack and not
covered in water, it's fine.
However, that wasn't the case.
There were places where therewas standing water on the dirt
(04:28):
road and I had to call him andsay hey, you know what?
You might not want to drivefast through standing water
Because you know you could suckwater up in the intake, lock
your motor up.
You also may want to turn yourtraction control off, and that's
for anybody that's driven on adirt road.
You understand it.
(04:49):
But if you leave tractioncontrol on while you're driving
on a dirt road, especially onethat's extremely sandy or
extremely wet, your car's notgoing to get the traction you
need, you're going to spin andyou're likely to get stuck a
whole lot easier.
So tell him that it goes finewhat she tells me.
Later he goes home and talks tohis significant other and tells
(05:12):
her about it and she is alsofrom a more rural area and she
just kind of laughs at him.
But to me that was somethingthat I found funny for the
simple fact of, you know, I grewup driving on dirt roads, so it
was no big deal, but forsomeone in the city, you know,
(05:32):
it was a huge deal, it was ahuge experience, it was
something new, it was refreshingto see how it affected him and
it just, you know, it's a realgood reminder about how we take
some of the things around us forgranted simply because we're
used to it.
You know things that to us it'sjust every day, so it's not
(05:57):
really that big of a deal, butfor others it's a really big
deal and kind of refreshing andsobering all at the same time.
It just dawned on me that, outof everything out here, to
(06:20):
include the sun, my legs are thebrightest thing out here.
I never usually wear shorts,never usually wear shorts.
Just, I'm always doingsomething.
I'm either working in the yard,working at the wood shop, or
doing something you know automechanic wise.
I'm always doing somethingwhere I feel it necessary to
(06:44):
wear something to protect mylegs.
And, uh, so, that being thecase, my legs very rarely see
sunlight, like even when I'm onthe boat fishing, typically
wearing long pants.
And that's because I hatesunscreen.
I hate having to put it on, Ihate having to reapply it, I
(07:05):
hate the way it feels, I hatethe way it smells.
I hate sunscreen, so I don'tlike putting it on.
So I wear pants.
That keeps my pasty white legsfrom getting burnt.
And yet today, when I decidedyou know what, let's go for a
walk, I chose to wear shorts andthey are bright, like I'm
(07:32):
wearing white socks.
I don't know that you can tellthe difference between the two.
No, I'm not going to prove it,I don't care who asks.
So, yeah, there's that.
Yeah, didn't realize it until Ifinished Well, just about
finished that first lap.
(07:53):
That damn geese, same two geese.
Yeah, you remember.
If you watched the last one,you remember Same two geese are
still out here.
I think they remember me.
They're down in the water nowbecause they want this, just
saying, make an impact.
(08:13):
I also didn't want to have tofight geese in front of
everybody or run from them.
What is it about a goose?
They get so intimidating at themoments like, not me, I'm not a
, I'll spin that little neck,but what about?
(08:35):
Geese is so intimidating?
They'd be glad they went downin that water.
Oh wait, that's not the geese,those are the ducks that were
with them.
The geese are lying in wait bythe bench.
Them, the geese are lying inwait by the bench.
Let's see how this goes.
(08:57):
Man, I'm not gonna say much,but we're coming up on them.
They're just lying in wait.
That guy, he's cool.
We don't mind that guy.
These two, these two are not sogreat, so we're gonna see how
this goes.
Oh, here's shit, here we go.
Yep, look at him.
Ain't even did nothing.
(09:18):
Ain't even did nothing.
Just why?
Why, bro?
I don't get it.
So, from looking at theanalytics, there's not a whole
lot of people that watched thislast one.
And that's fine as long as itreaches the one that needs to be
(09:40):
reached.
But if you'll remember, forthose of you that did, our pace
was like 18-something the lasttime.
Our pace was like 18-somethingthe last time, and our pace
currently is 17.24.
So, according to all of thetechnology that I've got, right
(10:01):
now, we are on a 17-minute,24-second pace to walk a mile.
I don't know if that's good.
Again, I still haven't done theresearch into it.
I know that while I'm trying totalk, I'm sure you can hear it
I do have to focus on breathinga little bit, but either way, my
(10:27):
hair moving, getting somephysical activity in, which is
good.
So, yeah, there's that.
Anyone else ever get a mentalblock Like I?
Have All of these ideas, thingsI want to do for the podcast,
things I want to do For mypersonal life, things I want to
(10:51):
do For the home.
Yet, for the life of me, I amat a block to where I can't
think of how to get any of itdone.
And I've been trying.
I know I'm not the only one, sothat's where'm at.
(11:12):
That last clip was not intendedto be so short.
There was somebody coming and,yeah, we don't record when
people are coming, especiallynow that I figured out that I
need to hold my phone adifferent way in order to record
and get a good quality video.
And it's not some little tinysquare.
(11:33):
I think there's somebody behindme.
They're back there somewhere.
I just saw you.
Yeah, nope, I know I'm notgoing crazy.
Either way, I'm having a mentalblock on how to get these things
(11:55):
done and I'm trying to figureout the best way to do it.
So if anybody has any ideas,let me know, because I'm kind of
struggling on that.
None of it is imperative, noneof it has to happen, but it's
stuff that I want to happen.
I realize what happened.
Now there's people on the otherside of the lake.
(12:15):
I called out the corner of myeye.
Yeah, all right.
So there you go.
We uh not got three miles today.
Wasn't the five miles that wehad done before.
However, despite having a, wegot up and we sucked it up and
we got it done.
So, if nothing else, I've atleast done that.
(12:38):
My headache has gone away alittle bit, so that's a good
thing.
I feel like I may be able to doa couple more things that are
proactive today, and so, yeah,started out as a rough morning,
could still be a rough day, butgetting things done and, uh, hey
, a little outdoor, a littleoutdoor medicine kind of helped
(13:01):
out a little bit too.
So there you go, till next time, guys.
Bye.
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