Let's See Where This Goes: Catching up with Joyce & Mary Beth

Joyce & MaryBeth are back with a smorgasbord of topics!! In this episode, they start off with some light talk around past and upcoming concerts along with how time and experience has impacted the way enjoy them.They discuss successful artists such as Taylor Swift and Pink and the impact they have on their own lives and everyone else's. 

The episode segues into the ups and downs of aging, along with the trends they choose to participate in and the ones they stay far away from. We get an update on the Modern Yoga Softball Team's season and how it finished out **SPOILER ALERT: it involves a few injuries.**

Intermittent fasting, liver detox, vegan meals and portion control...the ladies discuss some health practices they've recently dialed into as well as ones they've been loving for years. Keep the tissues nearby as they share sentimental moments triggered through music and just never knowing when our loved ones, both human and pets, will no longer be there. An easy and relatable episode you won't want to miss -- download, listen, like and share!! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two microphones and make the phone call gas.
Two microphones and you makethe phone call gas, gas.
Hi, this is Joyce.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
And this is Marybeth.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Welcome to the Modern Yoga podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
How are?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
you the title of this one.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
The title of this one subject matter is let's see
where this goes.
It's your birthday month.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is my birthday month.
My birthday is the 18th, so itwas kind of weird.
Last year we were going to seeDave Matthews at Madison Square
Garden.
I don't even know if I knewthat at this point Today is the
8th.
I think we did.
That was definitely a lastminute trip.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I don't remember that one for some reason.
Really, yeah, oh, yes, I do now.
Yeah, now I kind of do, nowthat you say that I'm going to
pink tonight.
So it's lots of concert talktoday, that's awesome.
I'm going to pink with my BFFstuff and we've gone.
This will be, I think, our thirdtime, at least just to pink.

(01:30):
We do Billy Joel and pinktogether, amongst others.
But it's funny.
The first time we went I don'tknow if this was a dozen years
ago or what, but we stayeddowntown, the two of us, really,
steph and I, did, yeah, and we,we, we put our cutest jeans on

(01:53):
in our sluttiest shoes and woresome sort of pleather tank tops
and just did that.
And then last time we went topink, we had a couple other
friends with us and we dressednicely and we went to dinner
first and we had a great time.
And in fact our tickets arealways really crappy, which is

(02:13):
fine, because for pink there areno, for anybody there are no
crappy tickets If you're in aconcert, it's just awesome.
But at some point some nerdylittle usher guy was like
there's extra floor seats, doyou guys want them?
And he got us on the floor, wayback on the floor, but still
when pink comes flying over youon her trapezi thing.

(02:33):
So that was super fun.
Now this time, steph texted meyesterday and Steph just had
knee surgery.
She literally has just goneback to work this week from like
double meniscus surgery.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
She goes, I'm going to be wearing comfortable shoes.
And I said, you know, I had thesame thought yesterday, like
used to be the time I'd be.
Like, what are we wearing thisweek to the concert?
Now I'm like, don't know, don'tcare, got to be comfortable.
And also I didn't do the usuallike the whole week or two

(03:07):
before a concert you refresh bylistening to only that artist.
I didn't do that this time too.
So I'm like, steph, we aregetting old.
This whole concert thing ismorphing into something else for
us.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
So, oh my gosh, do you notice anything different?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I just noticed now when you spoke you don't have
your microphone plugged in, andI should have noticed earlier
because your sound was a littleoff, but it really just didn't
register.
So please hold and enjoy thiselevator music while Joyce plugs
in her Yeti mic.
Do do, do, do, do, do, do, dodo.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Do, do, do, do Better .
All right, excellent, zoom.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now your default microphone has just changed.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Now we are two microphones.
Make a frickin podcast.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So I was going to disagree with you, or I am
disagreeing with you and I don'tknow you sound so much better.
I don't know, am I morebelievable?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
So our engineer is going to be so pissed that the
first words from you werethey're going to require some
engineering.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Or not.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Maybe he'll make me do it again by myself.
And he'll do some very fancyengineering.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't think that's age, I think that's just
experience.
I guess you have to have someage with experience.
But like, how many times haveyou worn your sluttiest shoes to
a concert where you have toclimb stairs and walk like
10,000 miles and like, yeah, alot, and then you end up taking
them off because your feet hurtso bad.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I do love you.
You're like 12 feet tall.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
So like that would be really annoying to be behind
you, I know, especially in heels.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, concerts like that, at least everybody's
standing Right yeah.
No I don't wear my slutty shoesto James Taylor.
You know he wouldn't appreciatethat at all.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I feel like there's a better outing for your slutty
shoes, you know, like where youdon't have to walk as far and
you're going to sit and maybenot dance as much.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
But yeah, why wreck your?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
why wreck your knees and?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
your back.
Oh, and that's the other thing,Like when you're young,
wrecking your knees and yourback only lasts a day.
Now you're like look, I mightneed meniscus surgery if I up
this up tonight.
So let's just not do it.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Is it?
Is it like how it used to behung over for a day and now
we're hung over for three days?
Yeah, and it's not even hungover.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's like you have three glasses of something and
you wake up the next day.
Just, you can't even call ithung over.
You just feel old, along thelines of feeling old.
I don't understand thisInstagram threads thing.
Can some young person explainthis to me?
Are they trying to be insteadof Twitter?

(05:56):
Cause I keep getting like adson my Instagram to come on over
to threads Like here's a threadfor you, follow it and I don't
understand why.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
I think threads was what?
Um, it's not an Instagram thing, is it?
It's another app.
I think it took over, or it wastrying to take over, twitter,
wasn't it Twitter?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
But I think it.
I think it is a meta app,because I it's only Instagram
that leads me there.
Which would make sense, becausebecause I just got a text from
Jeff.
He's out of town at a client inGeorgia.
He said I'm at this client andthere's religious rock blaring

(06:38):
during their rally.
Oh okay, I wonder what kind ofclient this is.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Jeff is right at home .
Let's ask him.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Let's talk to text.
What kind of client is thisQuestion mark?
Okay, We'll wait impatiently tosee.
Oh, and here's you guys.
This is just getting so good.
Now Steph has popped in on mytexts.
I have ripped jeans and a greenshirt.
Okay, Thank you.

(07:07):
Stay tuned for my choices.
It will be a while.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
What's going?
On behind you Did you have alittle?
There's a picture.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I can't see me.
Oh, that's a piece of art,that's okay.
That's a good place to go to.
We are all over the map.
If the question was, where arewe going, good luck.
When I was out of town recently, when we were at Trick or Treat
with the kids in Apex, caryarea, north Carolina, there was
a day when the kids were atschool.

(07:40):
Kathleen was at work she's ateacher and Brad and Jeff were
working from home.
So I couldn't wait to get thehell out of there, because those
two aren't fun when they'reworking.
So I just went around sort oflooking for antique stores and
things like that.
It was kind of a drizzly, rainyday and in Cary there was some

(08:00):
plaza that had like an artistco-op.
I'm going to go grab this.
Not that anybody can see thisin our international podcast
audience, can you see?
Because I can't see me.
I don't know what my view isyeah, you can't see yourself.
No, why can't I see myself?

(08:21):
Is there a place to make my view.
You know I'm not good at thistechnology thing, but any hue,
oh, there's my view.
So I stopped Gallery view.
Okay, I stopped in this artistco-op.
Now I couldn't see anybody.

(08:42):
Sorry, this is terrible.
This is terrible podcasting,terrible radio.
But the woman manning the deskat the artist co-op, so all the
artists take turns keeping thebusiness running and they use it
as a gallery and hang theirstuff or their pottery or their
jewelry or whatever.
So I'm walking around and thewoman, you know she was good at

(09:06):
her job because she sort offollowed me around and was
talking about all the artists.
And then she talked about whereher art was and she did some
mixed media with acrylics, whichwere pretty modern and not my
style but really awesome.
And then she said and then,strangely, I also do colored
pencil work she was retired, I'dsay she was about maybe in her

(09:32):
late sixties.
And she said she taught herselfto be an artist after she
retired from corporate America.
So I, of course, as usual, saidI have no artistic talent and
she said well, you know, peoplehave more talent than others,
but it is a learned skill.
She said I watched a bunch ofvideos, I read some books, I

(09:53):
went to some classes and Ilearned how to do these things,
and so I bought because Ithought this would be okay for
the cabin.
It's a reproduction of one ofher colored pencils.
It's called Back in the Day,her name is Diana Robosky,
starting with an H, and it'sthis old truck in front of a

(10:14):
sort of old collapsed tobaccobarn, and so now I'll have a
little piece of local flair inone of the bedrooms.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
That is really cool.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, that's a few hours from where we will be, but
I like that it'll be a NorthCarolina born item.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Did you ask her to be a guest on the podcast?
Because everybody we know didsomething great after they left
corporate America.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Right, that's true.
Hey, I can always go back.
I kept her information.
I took her card.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I'm looking at her website right now.
I love the mixed media stuff.
That's totally my style.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, it was really colorful and gorgeous and she
was a pleasure to talk to.
Oh, she does commissions.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So, like you, I used to feel like I wasn't.
I'm not an artist and I don'tknow that I completely do, but I
do.
I have recognized that.
I think we are all artists to adegree.

(11:21):
If you put eyeshadow on anddon't, call yourself an artist.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Now, some people are pretty artsy with their
eyeshadow.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I will say but look at all the tools that you have
for your just for your eyelidsright and True, they're my
sagging eyelids.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Listen, I'm about five minutes away from buying
those things I keep seeing adsfor where it's almost like a
little piece of tape and itlifts your eyelid.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
You want to do that as a podcast experiment.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now that I would do Joyce.
The other night we were out ata birthday party, which was an
awesome vegan meal, by the way.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yes, it was, but.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Joyce suggested that we go get Botox together and
talk about it on the podcast andI declined that invitation
because I don't want to do theBotox.
But you could do the Botox andwe could talk about it.
Or you could do the Botox and Icould do the piece of tape that
you stick on your eyelid.
And the reason I haven't donethat is that I'm always good to

(12:18):
try something, but then I get soannoyed.
That's why I can't do likespanks or masks, like I'm just
not going to do that annoyingshit, like I got to be
comfortable and easy.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
I was being.
I wanted us to get ridiculousbecause I wanted us to have
really big lips and reallyfreaking tight skin for a moment
.
And just live like that untilit, because Botox eventually
wears off.
Right, but we would have a goodlike six to eight months of

(12:49):
being like that.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
My mom's friend, ellie, always gives my mom her
finished people magazines andthen my mom gives them to me
because she says I don't knowwho these people are and I
always think I'm going to readthem and I never have time to,
so then they end up gettingthrown away.
But the one she gave me thisweek or last week had Meg Ryan
on the front because she's in anew romcom and it's a beautiful

(13:13):
picture of Meg Ryan, who I won'tsay clearly, but apparently has
had some work done, includingthe puff of the lips and the
caption above.
It is something like I'vefinally learned to be true to
myself and I was like, okay, andthat's true, she can be true to
herself, but I don't think shewas being true to her lips is

(13:33):
all I'm saying.
But she's still the mostadorable little thing ever.
Meg Ryan, yeah, I went to highschool with a girl named Casey
Ryan and she was very Meg Ryanish.
She was blonde and petite andadorable and sparkly and had a
beautiful smile and dimples anda wonderful personality and she

(13:57):
married another high schoolfriend and she passed away
suddenly, I guess I don't knowhow many years ago now, maybe 10
years ago.
I hope I don't get that wrong.
And yeah, with three kids.
And so I think about her oftenwhen I see Meg Ryan, because she
was just that way, just thatacute Irish name blonde,

(14:21):
blue-eyed, adorable person.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
That's really sad.
We went to see the Taylor Swiftmovie on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Oh my gosh, I knew that I saw you just before you
were leaving because I went toyour class, so tell us all about
it.
She led with that.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
It was good.
Well, we're talking aboutfemale artists' concerts too.
I love it.
I was really excited, becauseso was my mom, my Ashley, my
stepdaughter and my niece, andso everybody met down at the
Cinemark in Valley View.
I came right from the studio,so my sister-in-law dropped off

(15:05):
my niece and I was most excitedfor her, because she's only nine
and she's never been to aconcert, and, although this
isn't necessarily like being ata concert, it's probably the
closest thing that she'll cometo for a bit.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's actually an excellent in-between experience,
I think.
I think it's a great idea sothat kids sort of know what to
expect from a concert.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah Well, beyoncé is coming out with one in a few
weeks too, so I feel like thisis the start of a new genre kind
of yeah.
I mean it's smart because thismovie I'm saying that in quotes
is on like I don't know how manyscreens of the car, oh sure,
and it's selling out, right.

(15:46):
Well, and so this one wasn'tnecessarily sold out, but and it
wasn't like a I keep readingabout, like people dancing and
kind of going crazy during thewhole thing, and this wasn't
that which I was a little bitbummed out about for Adelaide's
sake, because I wanted her tolike get into it, but she really
liked it and she sang a lot ofthe songs and like.

(16:08):
So that was really cool.
But and I guess later on, afterI dropped her off, she was
singing and dancing on her ownand so I was really happy to
like do that with her for thefirst time or whatever the first
there was.
But it, the show, the movie, Iguess with the concert, all of
that together was really good.

(16:29):
Like Taylor Swift obviously isyou can't argue that she's she's
a great performer.
Like you know if, even if youhate her like she's, she's got a
popularity that is veryappealing to a large audience
and the show has been a savvybusiness woman.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
And she's been well behaved Right.
Hasn't done anything toembarrass herself Right.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well, she's young, she's got time, but yeah but
she's.
She's been around for 17 years,she said I was going to say
almost 17 years Yep, and duringthose young years when you think
it would be most likely thatshe would embarrass herself.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
all she's done is embarrass bad boyfriends.
So we love that over and over.
Yeah, over and over.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Thank you, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Thank you, John Mayer .

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Her show is quite a production.
Like it's worth watching itjust for that.
Her stage is enormous and therewas a part of me that was like,
wow, there's, like you said,not really a bad seat, but she
was at the was it?
Sofi Stadium in LA, which islike bigger than the Brown
Stadium, right?

(17:46):
So it's sold out, but there'snot really great seat either,
because even if you have likeseats next to the stage exactly.
It's like nowhere near herperson takes up pretty much the
whole football field.
Yeah, but the it's a two hourand 40 minute movie, so I'm sure
that the the concert probablywas a little bit longer, because

(18:08):
I think that her costumechanges and stuff just seemed to
happen magically, right.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
They just sort of edit those.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, but but anyhow so say like a three hour show.
I mean, there's choreography,yeah we're show.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
There's choreography.
I can't hear the tail for thewhole thing.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
You know, like the whole, entire and and just like
the while it was the era's tour.
So the amount of her materialthat she covered and you know,
isn't that funny.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Eras at her age, Right and same with Adele, like
from from 20 years old to now.
You know, an adult, a mother.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
But it was really good, like I, I don't know that
I want to go see it again, butif if somebody wanted to go see
it, I would definitely go see itagain.
It was how long Two hours and40 minutes, plus a half hour of
previews.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
While those previews they'll get you.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
And for a moment, while I was driving, I was like,
oh shoot, I hope that theydon't do, or I hope they do
previews, and I'm thinking maybethey won't because it's such a
long movie, and I'm like, no duh, this movie is selling out like
yeah, everywhere in front of somany people.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Of course they're gonna.
Yeah, yeah, my mother in lawwent to see it with her friends
in Florida.
Yeah, they do fun stuff likethat, her and her lady friends.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's awesome, did she like it?

Speaker 2 (19:34):
She did.
She did.
She's off for women,empowerment and all these things
that my mother in law and mymother I'm telling you, ladies,
at the end ish of your life notthat it's the end of anybody's
life, but it's, you know, it'sthese widows and your friends
that that keep you going.
There's so many, you know the,the.
In general older husbands divebefore their wife, who might be

(19:59):
a few years younger than them orwhatever, and and it's these
ladies that go around keepingeach other lifted up.
I mean, I've seen it since mydad passed away and and my
father in law passed away andit's something to see.
They do fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Are you looking forward to pink?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I mean, I know she puts on a great, I assume she
does put on a great show and I'mlooking forward to being with
my BFF having a nice dinner anda glass of wine, and then, yeah,
where are you guys going, doyou know, for dinner?
I don't know, I'm gonna Uberdown there stuff's working
downtown and then we will gofrom there.
Hopefully she has a plan,because you know I'm not good at

(20:37):
that planning sitch.
I'm like just I'll just bethere with my fork, let's just
go.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'll eat whatever.
Do you have a favorite pinksong?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
You know I tend, with all my favorite artists, I tend
to like deep tracks that aren'tthe popular ones.
There's a pink song called Idon't believe you that I really
love.
There's one called beam me up.
These are both pink powerballads, but you got to love

(21:16):
dirty little freaks kind oflyrics, so I love it all.
Raise your glass.
There's a I think such a funsong of hers is Fun House.
Love me some pink.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah Does.
She has a pretty big productiongoing on too.
I know you mentioned.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, she's amazing to see.
I hate to use the word amazingbecause it's such an amazingly
overused word, but trulyeverybody has seen all the
acrobatics of her dangling thereand everything, but she's just
full on hard all the time andher voice is so spectacular.
She was just on TV I don't evenknow what interview, but

(22:03):
whoever the reporter was wasstanding on her belly while she
laid on the grass and she beltedout a full power lyric or two.
She's just so.
Her voice is so strong,literally and figuratively.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Wow, Actually somebody there's a woman in our
community who just moved to thestate within the last year and
she's been teaching yoga forquite a while and she's
interested in teaching for us,so she spent some time at
teacher training, most recentlyyesterday.
And where's she from?

(22:40):
Well, new Jersey.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
But before that, like Charlotte, before that, because
, I had somebody new in classthat just moved to the area and
I'm trying to remember if itmight be the same person or not,
she's been in town for almost ayear, second class.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh okay, I was in town earlier this summer but one
of the trainees was playingwith the singing bowl that we
have and we were in Brexvilleand we have a.
I know we have one inStrongsville, that's small, the
one in Brexville is a bit biggerand the one in Brexville is
like pottery or porcelain orsomething with the metal in it,

(23:19):
not the metal one inStrongsville.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, it gives a whole different sound.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
She was saying to put it on someone's belly and get
the sound and vibration whileit's on their belly, and I was
like oh, never heard of thatbefore.
So we didn't do it because wewere practicing teaching.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
but I was lucky enough to inherit my Jane's
singing bowl, which is tiny, itfits in the palm of your hand,
but it gives big sound.
But I'm just thinking, ifsomebody put that on my belly
it's probably going to disappear.
You're crazy.
Into my folds.
We're going to be like where'sthe singing bowl?
Get it out of her belly button.
We're going to need an ER visit.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, I just Googled singing bowl on belly and
healing solar plexus chakra withsinging bowl came right up.
We'll have to try that.
So oddly enough, there's twopink songs that remind me of
this is so sad when two of mydogs died.

(24:25):
And there were very separateoccasions, but one was my first
German shepherd named Samson,and he died like one day.
I came home and he wasseizureing and he had a brain
tumor.
Like within 24 hours he was gone.
It was awful and at the timeher song who Knew was popular

(24:47):
and it just like, like who knewright?
And the lyrics which I didn'tpull up are like there were just
lyrics that every time I heardit it would just make me ball,
because you know, right you do.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
There's a lot of cathartic crying with pink songs
.
They really are, and I thinkthat's because that's where she
pulled them from.
She's just a wonderfulcommunicator in that way.
I mean, even you know she'sbeen frank about her marital
troubles not troubles.
I think.
They're pretty happily marriednow but they talk about therapy
a lot and they're raising twokids and they broke up, you know

(25:28):
, before they had kids.
And her one song it's literallyjust called please don't leave
me.
Like I'm an idiot, I havemisbehaved.
I will say I don't need you,but please don't leave me.
Oh, that's just so true for allof us.
Like, come on.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well and who knew when I so I was divorced.
I had lived with my family fora while and then my dad got.
How was that fun?
At first it was fine and thenit wasn't.
But my dad got laid off of hisjob after being there for like
30 years and like right at thesame time found out he needed

(26:09):
bypass surgery.
And it was just like a reallyhard time and within about a
year or two I moved out.
I stayed to help.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
And then, like I'm, a bypass surgery and no job, bye,
bye.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Right.
And then I just because atfirst, if you move back, when I
moved back in, you know it was atemporary thing and we're all
adults.
I think I was 28 years old, soit wasn't like.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I can't.
Imagine.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, but then after a short, like within a short
period of time, it was like theywere my parents again like what
time are you going to be home?
Where are you going, like youknow, staying up waiting for me
on the weekends you know, I waslike wait, no, hold on, I'm 28.
And it's just like you can'tlive with your parents forever.
So anyhow, I bought this houseand I in May and in June I

(27:07):
adopted Samson and he was anabused German shepherd and you
know he came with a story.
He was at the APL, he had alittle pink heart on his cage
because he was a special caseand he was actually like taken
from his owners.
He had lived in a house withother animals and kids and the

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guy just, I guess, was abusiveto him.
But and so the neighbors atsome point had called because
the guy apparently lost his joband kicked Samson out to the
backyard.
They had a fenced in backyardand Sam had like frostbite scars
on his ears and you could seeevery rib in his body.

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So his neighbors called and hewas taken away and the owner was
nice enough I feel weird sayingthat to fill out a personality
profile and like the dog, theonly behavioral issue.
There was one question I mightstill have it actually that

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there was one question that saidif you could change anything
about this dog's behavior, whatwould it be?
And he said he'll take off anyopportunity that he gets.
Well, no shit.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
No shit Sherlock.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah.
So and then with special cases,they don't let you adopt them
immediately.
They make you wait 24 hours sothat you can really kind of
think about like they don't know.
You know like they're.
They don't know theirbackground really.
They know whatever informationthey have and they don't know if
they're going to be good withkids or bad with kids, or if
they're going to be aggressive.

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They don't know.
You know a lot of things andlike.
So I had a couple of dogs thatI had wanted to meet at the APL
and then and I did, and like Iwas just sobbing over Sam and I
was driving to the Parma AnimalShelter because there was a dog
I wanted to see there and this,this awesome volunteer, brought

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the dog into like a little roomand the dog was super cute.
I don't remember what I likebig dogs so I'm sure it was, you
know, some big dog.
I like big dogs and I cannot lie.
So she I was crying aboutSamson and she was like listen,
somebody's going to adopt thisdog and this is the Parma Animal
Shelter.
Go get that dog from the APL.
Like nobody's going to want him, you know, and like I just

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looked at her and she I wantedto hug.
Maybe I did hug her, I don'tknow, yeah, how wonderful.
But I did go into the cat roombecause during my few years back
with my parents, so like myjunior year in college, a cat
sort of moved in.
My mom never liked cats, butthis, this cat showed up in our
backyard.
She was really cool.

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She's an all black cat.
She was small, we called herputty cat or puts and she had a
gash on her back leg.
And it was that one winter,that do you remember, the one
winter where there was one daythat was negative 50 degrees
with wind chill and everything.
It was like terrible.
So my mom was like I'm going tobring her in just for today,
like she's somebody's cat, she'sprobably lost you know whatever

(30:16):
.
So not only did my mom bringher in like she was, she put a
cooler out in the backyard thatshe stuffed with like flannel
blankets for when she was backout.
And then she put the the.
It was the old school coolerthat the the little things broke
very easily.
So she kind of nudged the.
She gave her enough room to getin so she could get some more,

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like totally take care of thiscat.
So a few weeks later putty catwas in labor and my mom ended up
with three cats.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh boy, long story.
Yeah, she ended up a cat granny, yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
So when I moved back home you know I was I was
allergic.
I'm allergic to cats, so I waslike also kind of sequestered to
my my room with an air filterand everything else like that,
and I built up a tolerance and Icould actually like pick them
up and, and you know, I just hadto wash my hands and
potentially change my shirtafter I spent time with them,

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but it was huge difference from,like, I used to walk into a
house and start like my eyes,would you know?
Whatever?
I had inhalers and all of allthose things.
So I thought, well, I can get acat now.
And this cat was being an idiotat the eight or at the parma
animal shelter.
It was like laying on its sidetrying to smack me, and I'm like

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, I need this cat.
And it was a black and whitecat.
All of our cats are.
My family's cats are tuxedocats, and my brother had a
tuxedo cat and this one was socute he had his face was mostly
white, I think.
He had black around his eyes,but he had like a little black
mustache, so I named him Gomez,and he was really cool.
He was a pain in the ass,though, and he wanted to go

(31:56):
outside, like he was like.
Also, what I learned was thatyou build talents as to specific
cats, or at least in my case, Idid so I was allergic to him.
So I thought, okay, this isobviously a street savvy cat to
begin with, who probably justgot caught into them in the
wrong meal and ended up at theshelter.
So I would you know put, gavehim a little collar and I would

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let him out, and when he wantedto come in he would jump on the
screen door and hang from it.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, cats are spectacular for pets.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah so.
So I told them I wanted, Iwanted to adopt him and he it
was a Saturday and I guesswhoever did the adoptions like I
had to come back on Monday orTuesday or whatever.
So I got Samson the next day, Igot him on a Sunday and then I
brought Gomez home a few dayslater and it was.

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They were just very funnytogether and, and you know, I
have this like badass GermanShepherd and the cats just swat
him.
And we would walk and Gomezwould like come out of the
bushes.
You know 10 houses down thestreet and it was they could
have been Instagram or TikTokstars if they were around, right

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now, yeah, I guess the amountof time I spend watching
hilarious animal videos is notnegligible.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, and what's the other pink song for another dog?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, but I wouldn't, so that who knew it was like it
was just me and Sam, while I'mGomez, but it's such a like.
So you took my hand, you showedme around, you promised me
you'd be around.
I mean, like that's yourrelationship with your dog,
right?
Like if someone said threeyears from now you'd be long
gone, I'd stand up and punchthem out, like now they're all

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wrong.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, I knew better, because you said forever.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
And then they end up.
I'll keep you locked in my headuntil we meet again.
Now crying my friend, yes, sothe other one is glitter in the
air.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Oh, that one.
Jane used to play thatsometimes before yoga.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Because my other German shepherd, I, I this was
the only dog I ever bought, likea purebred, long haired German
shepherd.
She was beautiful and just sosmart and she died very suddenly
.
I mean, it was like a two weekprocess but like nobody could
figure out what was going onwith her and like the breeders

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live five minutes away.
They this was their first andonly litter and they kept in
touch with everyone.
They were like grandparents.
Nobody else had any issues,except for one dog had like
sensitive skin and yeah.
So that was really hard.
Like a three year old dog isthat's really really rough

(34:53):
Actually?

Speaker 2 (34:54):
yeah, because she's not ready.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
No, and because she passed.
That's how Chloe came.
Well, Chloe didn't come to bebecause of that, but that's how.
I ended up adopting Chloe, whowas right behind me and now
we're.
You know she's got less timeleft than she has behind her.
I don't want to say that we'reat the end, no, no, but you, you

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know you're preparing in adifferent way.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's on your radar.
Yeah, it wasn't with thoseothers and that song Glitter in
the Air, is in itself such abeautiful song because it's sort
of like not constructed like anormal song.
Yeah, it's just like itactually is like a thing that
floats in the air.
It's sort of got a weird formatand and some really concrete

(35:42):
lyrics, but then others are realsort of vague and it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, have you ever felt a lover with?

Speaker 2 (35:49):
just your hands.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I don't think so.
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
I don't share my food , so I know the answer for me.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
But so now, when you hear those songs tonight, you
can start crying, because I'mcrying, if I'm crying you're
crying, I will, I will be.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, well, that's how I feel about being me up,
and I don't know what Pink wroteit about and I haven't asked
her.
But we have a.
We have a baby in the family.
My sister, judy's baby, rachel,passed away at five days old.
And the song that's what thesong always makes me think of
cause she's?
She's talking about somebodywho's not here, who's in another

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realm, and saying can you beamme up?
Just a minute would be enough.
Give me a minute.
I don't know what I'd say in it.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I'd probably just stare, happy just to be there
holding your face.
Beam me up.
Let me be lighter.
I'm tired of being a fighter.
I think a minute's enough.
Just beam me up Now.
I have to.
I have to listen.
Oh it'll.
That's a tiered jerk, orfriends.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
So in other news, modern yoga softball has ended
for 2023.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Do we have trophies?
Do we have belts?
What?
What was the outcome?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
So in Strongsville.
Well, I'll start with Brexvilleor Broadview Heights.
In the Broadview Heights Leaguewe went into the championship
game of the lower divisionundefeated In the playoffs you
have to.
You have to lose twice to beout.
And the lower division was thewhole entire league, which was,

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I think, only six or eight teams, but there were two teams that
were so good they just made themthe upper division.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Oh, so that they didn't beat on the rest of you.
Yeah, Mercy Leslie.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Although when we played, when we played one, we
played them really well and thenwe played the other one.
We didn't have like we'remissing a few key people, but
whatever it was, it was fine, itwas fun.
But in one of our first playoffgames I was on third base and
somebody hit a long fly ball andI was just kind of jogging home

(38:01):
.
There was no play and I slippedon home plate and caught myself
with my left hand and anawkward fall and like really
hurt my hand.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
I thought maybe I had oh, I remember you showing me
that you had a whole bruised paw.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah, my palm was bruised.
I was so swollen.
The next day you couldn't seeany like any veins or bones in
my hand.
I thought I had fracturedsomething and it was just such a
dumb thing that I was like Iwish I had a better story for
this.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
But I had been wrapping it Saying.
Last time I broke a finger.
It was walking up the basementstairs and like flailing into
the wall, like there's never anygood story, right.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
So I couldn't.
I played the rest of that game,but I think I was in the
outfield and I didn't getanything hit to me, thank God.
And then I couldn't grip thebat with my left hand, like I
was trying, and I just couldn't.
But so I was wrapping.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Well, my name is Joyce and I like to jam.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Oh, not that kind of wrap, no, I was wrapping and I
couldn't get the compressionright, but anyhow, our makeup
day for that Monday night leaguewas Wednesday and we had no
rainouts this year.
But the city apparently liketold the commissioner tell all
these teams that they're gonnafinish on Wednesday because that
following Monday was supposedto rain and like it was the
second or third- and to wrap itup, so it was just like get it

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done.
Fortunately, the game startedafter I think it was at 8.30.
And we only have six girls andthe girl that usually plays
third base is a school teacherand had conferences that night.
So I had to play third basewith this hand and I'm like you
know, it's fine, I'll just wrapit up.

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I wrapped it up like a box,it's fine, I'm fine.
Right.
So then I went to play catchand I was avoiding the ball and
I was like, oh, my mind isn'teven letting me know how bad
like my body was.
Yeah, you have a brain thatworks.
So thank God I got nothing atthird base and we beat them like
really quickly so and I hitwell, which was crazy like

(40:02):
really well so, but anyhow, ithas nothing less to do with me
than the whole team we won.
It was really fun and we wentto have you been to the brew
wall in Braview.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Heights on?
No, but I know where it is.
You didn't go to the DQ no,that's a little.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
No, we didn't go to the DQ after, but it was that we
had a really good time Likethat was a really fun season.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
When you're older, you go to brew wall afterwards
for a wall of beers.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
And it's a.
Well, it was a Wednesday night,so yeah, it wasn't a crazy
evening, but we have a big, bigtrophy in the Brexville studio,
so that was fun.
And then in Strongsville we hadto wait a few weeks to play the
final games.
We went in the same way wherewe had to be beat twice in the
lower division, and so we endedup playing a couple of weeks ago

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and it was such a.
It was like that Friday nightthat was so beautiful.
And then Saturday morning itwas snowing.
You know, it was like winter isover.
Yeah, I was away, but we havethis newer, new couple on this
team and they just moved to thearea and they wanted to play and

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they did, but they both haven'treally played baseball or
softball before.
So, anyhow, morgan was out inright field during the first
game and some left-hander hit along line drive and she was
going to catch it and I was atthe pitchers mound and all I

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know is it hit her head andbounced into right center field.
I've never seen anything likethis.
It hit her in the eye.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Right in the socket, like her eye socket was a glove
yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
It was so scary and like I felt like I just wanted
to puke because I'm like, ifthis girl loses vision, I'm
playing co-ed softball.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, like Clevelanders will remember what.
Who was that Herb score?
Didn't he get hit with a balland it ended his career?
I will look that up while youcontinue the story.
Cleveland Indians player.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Well, our catcher got her a cold beer to put on her
eye because no one had ice.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Nobody had a bag of frozen peas handy.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
No, when I hurt my finger, somebody who came to
watch someone on our team had afrozen margarita in one of those
squeeze packs you know, oh,yeah, yeah, the kind that you
buy at the grocery store andthen freeze at home.
So that's how I iced my fingerwith a frozen margarita.

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It worked great.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
There's worse ways to do it.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
So, anyhow, this young lady is a nurse and she
was like don't call 911.
She told her boyfriend to takeme to the hospital.
She wasn't complaining aboutnot being able to see, but her
eye.
I have never seen anything likethis.
It was awful.
So turns out that she did notfracture anything.
She got so lucky.
I can't even I'm so grateful,but she didn't fracture anything

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.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, I mean seriously our local former
broadcaster, herb score.
So it was May 7th 1957, duringthe first inning of a night game
against the New York Yankees atMunicipal Stadium in Cleveland.
Score through a low fastball toGil McDougal with Jim Hegan, I
hope catching I hope I'mpronouncing these McDougal lined

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the pitch to the mound andstruck score in the face,
breaking his facial bones andinjuring his eye.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
He ended up score, permanently, lost his sight in
one eye as a result of theaccident and eventually
recovered his 2020 vision,though he missed the rest of the
season.
He returned in the next seasonand then eventually he retired,
switched his pitching motion toavoid another similar injury,

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anyway.
So yeah, the threat there isreal.
It's not just like, oh, ithurts.
There's a lot of getting hit inthe face with a ball that's
been hit at that speed.
Of course, that was a baseballin Herb's score's case, but
still wow, well, it's funny, yousaid that and so they hadn't
played ball before Sheen herhusband, which I'm so impressed
that they put themselves outthere.
I'm almost impressed with people.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, bravo, they were a lot of fun.
She actually.
I messaged with her last week,which was about a week away from
it happening, and she sent me aphoto and you could.
I think I might have shared itwith you, but you could see the
bruise all the way down hercheek.
She should have gone out onHalloween as Rocky Balboa.

(44:45):
She said next year, just keepme at catcher.
And I was like you're thinkingabout next year and I had also
thought should I put her atcatcher, put her in right field,
and we only have five games inthe regular season, so it's a
short season.
She had caught before, but Ijust feel like catching can be

(45:06):
really intimidating.
It's a really fun position butit can be really intimidating,
especially for somebody who'snever played before.
And I thought, well, she'll besafer in right field.
And then I was definitely wrong.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
And then that's what happened.
My eighth grade boyfriend, RickW, always caught and he
unfortunately once caught a batunder his chin, bit through his
tongue and needed some stitches.
So I'm just gonna say it'sdangerous everywhere out there.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Well, that's also.
That's a fast pitch and he hadequipment on and everything on
Child in slow pitch.
If you're not comfortable, likebeing down there, they don't
care.
If you like, stand back by thebackstop.
You know, like they'll justYou're just there for the
position, really, yeah, and theump is always like I mean, this
is co-ed slow pitch, it's not,you know, it's not.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
But the, so that we lost the first game.
We were pretty, pretty rockedby this whole incident.
So, and then the ump.
So this happened, like later inthe first game, maybe like the
fifth or sixth inning, and ittook a while for everything to
like for the game to get backright.
We had to take care of Morgan.
Like it was very shocking, ittook time and the scorekeeper

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poked his head out of the windowand was after it was all done,
was like, really sorry to tellyou guys, you have to take an
out every time they're up,unless you have someone to
replace them in the lineup.
And we hit everybody.
So I'm like, are you?
I mean, considering thecircumstances, this is co-ed
softball right?
Like she just got, she justtook a ball to the eye.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
So don't be a Karen.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Don't be a Karen scorekeeper, you scorekeeper.
So we started the second game intheir pitcher.
Who was this?
Like big dude?
He hit one just to my left onthe pitcher, like to the point
where I kind of reached out buthad to get away too Cause and I

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fell down, which is no big deal.
I just fell on my butt and youjust don't do that as a guy.
And co-ed softball whether who,no matter who's on the mound
right, he gets the first andbefore, like as the plays
winding down, he goes hey pitch,sorry.
And I just look back.

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I was, I was really fired upfrom just this whole thing and I
just looked back at him and wasjust like I rolled my eyes and
like whatever.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
The next time he was up he hit one at my head and so
he had Is it possible that hehad no control over where he was
hitting?

Speaker 1 (47:46):
That he was just a big over.
He had advanced runners.
The play was still happeningand I started yelling at him.
I was like, dude, that's thesecond effing time that's
happened.
Like, that is not cool.
And he was like and he goes whodo you think?
You think I know what I'm doing, you think I'm good enough to

(48:07):
like, do that.
And I go, I don't care.
If you can't control it, thenyou don't need to play.
Like.
And our first baseman saidsomething to him too.
So then when he was up again, Iwas stepping onto the rubber
for the mound from behind it.
I was throwing these big, longpitches.
He hits it into right centerand then he hits it into left

(48:29):
center and I'm like okaywhatever.
I mean, I don't think thatsomebody would purposely like
take the pitcher out, especiallyafter we lost you know another
player, but like it was justreally frustrating.
We ended up losing that game too.
We played pretty well.
My the strike zone was gettingsmaller and smaller the more I
pitched, like unless I droppedthe ball right behind the point

(48:52):
on the plate.
Like even our catcher was likeI don't.
Guys on our team were like didyou piss the empire off?

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Like what just happened.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
And so in their team they were not swinging and
anytime somebody had like twoball or three balls they would
say red light, red light, likenot to swing it was.
It was crazy, but we it was areally intense night.
It was really fun and I mean,aside from her getting hurt and

(49:24):
it was just like it was kind ofa, it was a good way, aside from
the injury, of ending theseason.
And I was really happy to learnthat there wasn't a trophy
given.
Everybody just got shirts.
So I was like, okay, well, allgood.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
So yeah, I mean we're running out of space for
trophies in the in the modernyoga lobbies.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
When we repainted, two trophies fell down.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
So we lost.
I heard I heard all about itfrom your husband and but that's
okay.
A trophy is.
I like the belt better, butalso a trophy is such a
temporary thing it's probablylandfills are full of trophies,
just like they're full ofdiapers.
Less trophies, america.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Well, that's what I thought.
James was surprised that Ididn't want to like try to put
it back together and I was likewe're fine, we're fine.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
I mean I might still have my NCA National
Cheerleaders Association trophyfrom when Padua High School
cheerleaders were in thenationals all four years when I
was there, but I can't reallytell you where it is right now.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
I will miss softball, though it was really fun.
We had a couple of really goodteams.
We just always it's always agreat group of people Like we
just and you.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
some years it just rains all the time.
I know you did get somereschedules this year, but it
was a weird.
This was fall ball that you'retalking about right now, but,
like it was a weird summer herein Cleveland, it was not a hot
summer at all.
Some summers are so hot thisone never got hot but this, like
November, is so stellar, Holymoly.
Every day here has beenbeautiful, sunny, fall-ish.

(51:18):
For walking, I have nocomplaints.
And also, speaking ofcomplaining, I was thinking
about how I need to fast becauseI was surviving on, as I keep
saying, pizza, carbs, Halloweencandy and seasonal beer while I
was traveling for the past fewweeks.
And as I was thinking aboutfasting, I thought I also need

(51:40):
to fast from negativity andcomplaining about the fricking
weather which is how I spendmost of my winters.
So the universe and MotherNature have been helping me
because there's been nothing tocomplain about these days.
This fall is sunny, beautifulfall days.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, the weather's been great.
Well, like I said, on theMonday night league we didn't
have any rainouts at all.
Last year I think we play fiveweeks plus playoffs and I think
like three of them at leastrescheduled, and then the season
ended up going really late.
And then in Strongsville, theonly things that were rained out

(52:22):
were the last couple of weeksof the playoffs and then, like I
said, we ended up playing onsuch a beautiful night, and
those fall nights are, well,even the fall day like it's just
everything is just gorgeous.
I wish it would stay this way.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
I know, I know it really is gorgeous, and some
years we don't get much of afall at all.
So we're really lucky this year.
Every year is so different.
I mean our summer wasn't hot.
It doesn't mean it wasn't agood summer, but it wasn't hot.
And some years it goes from a90 degree multiple days in a row
.
Summer plunges you right intowinter.
So we were really lucky.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
How often do you fast so far?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
hopefully we'll continue to be so.
I fast.
Typically I eat like a trashcan till Sunday night and then I
don't eat most weeks.
This isn't every week, becauseif I feel like it I do, but most
weeks I don't eat anything onMonday until Tuesday morning
when I wake up, and then duringthe week I try and be done

(53:25):
eating by like 7 pm.
So let's say then that TuesdayI eat something.
I'm done at least by 7 pm andthen I don't eat Wednesday till
after I teach my noon class, sothat's like 2 pm, so that
usually ends up being 18 hours.
Just because of that's how itturns out.
I can't eat for hours before Ido yoga and be comfortable in my

(53:48):
core and stuff.
I just like to be empty when Ido yoga Doesn't always work out
that way.
I try to do that most nights.
I try and be done eating by 7and then not eat until maybe one
or two the following day.
But then the weekend comes andI really don't make it part of
my plan.

(54:09):
Like, I'll try and hold outFriday as long as I can, because
I know we're probably gonna goout, have dinner somewhere or
make something bigger at homeand have a few drinks.
And then Saturday same thing.
We're gonna go out Saturdaynight, so I don't eat Saturday
morning.
I teach till noon, so Iprobably don't eat until
mid-afternoon then.
And then I overeat, of courseSaturdays, because that's when

(54:29):
there might be bread or chipsand salsa or wine, and then a
fire outside with a littlebourbon and a s'more or
something.
And then Sundays are differentin the summer, but this time of
year Sundays end up being for usa bigger meal, like I'll make
homemade spaghetti sauce orhe'll smoke something on the
smoker, and so that justinvolves more bread, delicious

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carbs.
We may go out to brunch thatmight involve some mimosas and
some bacon.
So my thing just barely evensout to balanced.
I'm pretty people might thinkfasting for 18 hours is pretty
strict, but then on the otherside of it is the weekends.
I'm pretty naughty and I enjoyit, and I feel bad.

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On Mondays I wake up in guiltand shame as if I smoked crack
all day Sunday, which is notexactly the same as eating bacon
and drinking champagne, butfeels like it.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
I've been fasting for probably a couple months now.
My window, my eating window, is11 to seven for the most part.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
It's like a second shift job.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Yeah, I like to eat in the morning and so I thought
that was going to be challenging, like not eating necessarily
like breakfast food, but likenot eating something in the
morning.
But it's been okay, Like I'mhungry today and you're so busy.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Like for me, if I'm busy, it's easy.
My problem is I'm not alwaysbusy, and if I'm home and not
busy there, better be nothinghere to eat.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Right and that's honestly where my problem is is
that when I'm home, I'm a grazer, so I'll just, every time I go
down to school, and that's toughbecause you've got a little one
at home.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
There's other people there who like to eat.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Right, and she's got lots of snacks, you know, and
Halloween candy but it's funnywhen Jeff goes out of town like
he is.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
This week he was.
I had stuff to make black beansoup, which we love, and he was
like, well, but I'll be out oftown.
So and I'm like, hi Right, it'sme, I eat too.
So I'm actually going to goahead and make my black bean
soup and I'm going to eat it allweek and enjoy it.
Sorry, charlie.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Yeah, like I'm hungry today because, because I had a
really long day yesterday, I wasin the Brexville studio.
I was there from about 1030until about in the morning until
about 830 at night and I hadteacher training from 11 to two
and then a meeting from 2.15that went to about 4.15.

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So at that point, so I broughtlike I had an apple and an
orange and something else that Iate at 11, like right, right, a
few minutes before teachertraining started.
And then I went to BeyondJuicery, which is my favorite
place there, and I got a saladwhich is really good, but and I

(57:22):
love salads, but like that'swhat I had last night I had the
strawberry almond chicken salad,without the chicken.
So I had kale and spinach,strawberries and almonds and
that was probably around five,five o'clock, four, 35 o'clock,
and that's the last time I ateand I don't want to eat, have

(57:44):
you?

Speaker 2 (57:47):
have you looked into?
Because so just the thingsyou're telling me you're eating?
There actually was a podcast Iused to listen to called
intermittent fasting stories,but it kind of annoyed me so I
stopped listening.
But the one thing that peopledo share is what they break
their fast with, and often theyrecommend a protein instead of a
fruit or something.
So I don't know if that makesyou feel any different.

(58:08):
How do you feel fasting?
Because I always feel frickingamazing.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Strong and empty and yeah, yeah, I'll be honest, I
feel good and most of the timeit's not, like I'm usually not
this hungry, like it's.
I'm not complaining, like I'llbe fine till 11 o'clock, but I'm
just hungrier today because Ireally didn't eat a whole lot
yesterday in general and I wasvery active and actually I might

(58:33):
even eat earlier because I'mpast the 16 hour fast and I'm
not gonna I teach tonight, solike I won't even have the
opportunity to eat till seven.
But I will say that givingmyself that seven o'clock end
time has been good, because Iread that you wanna have
everything fully digested beforeyou go to sleep.
Now, james likes to eat later,so he fasts as well.

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He usually goes from like twoto 10.
So he'll be up at like 9, 30,10 o'clock having a bowl of
cereal, and I can't do that.
But if I'm up talking to him orwhatever, I might just graze
or-.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Pop some in your mouth, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
So now that I just have the guideline, it helps a
lot.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
And again, people might think that we talk about
this as a weight loss tool.
But really there's that idea ofautophagy that we've talked
about, that the claim is, and Idon't know somebody who's
important, let us know.
But what I like thinking aboutis the idea of your cells sort
of cleaning house while you'resleeping empty and your body's

(59:38):
not worrying about digestion.
So from that standpoint that'sgetting to be more important to
me, maybe detoxifying your liverand well, maybe MB, you could
stop drinking if you reallywanna detox your liver.
But my point is not weight loss, quote unquote.
Loss, the smaller size isreally, honest to God, not on my

(01:00:02):
radar as much anymore asstrength and health.
I mean, I've talked aboutwanting more muscle tone back,
which can change your shape too,but it's really not about
getting skinny anymore.
I mean, for God's sake, I'm noteven wearing slutty shoes to
the pink concert.
I clearly don't care about myappearance anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Well, are those dumbbells that were in front of
your the photo or the-.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
They are, those are just.
I just have like little five,eight and 10 pounders at home,
yeah so are you-.
Did you call me a dumbbell,joyce?

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
No, but are you doing some curls and-.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
I do some.
Yeah, I do just some thingsevery day.
I need to up my weight, myweight, the weights that I lift.
We talked about that, but Ialways try, even if there's
nothing else to do, because Idon't have a great place at home
to exercise, but I do.
I could plop, throw down myyoga mat and do pushups and sit
ups and squats and lift a fewweights.

(01:00:58):
If it just makes me feel like Idid something that day, then
that's enough, or at least toget me through the day.
Yeah, Otherwise you fall down apath of sloth hood and although
sloths are very cute and I lovethem, it's harder as you get
older to rebound from that.
Like when you're young, it'slike you can go through phases

(01:01:20):
where you don't exercise and youget fat, and then you do
exercise and you get thinner,but just like with knee injuries
and everything else, the olderyou get, you realize if I lose
this, if I don't use this, I'mgonna lose this, and now I might
not get it back.
Now I might need a hip replacedinstead or a back surgery or
whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Yeah, Aging is no fun , but it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
It's not.
Nothing we can do about itGetting hit hard with the
menopause stick.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
You know.
And then on that idea of weightloss with fasting you know,
when James started fasting itjust fell off of him.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
He just walked away.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
It doesn't really happen like that for women.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
I mean it can.
No, I mean it's unfair, it canbe very effective.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
I try to keep this schedule with my intermittent
fasting, but, like on theweekend, like you said, we were
at a party the other day.
I wasn't going to.
I don't beat myself up if Idon't do it like once or twice a
week, because you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
You have to live life with other people.
I mean, you don't want to bethat person that's walking or.
I had a friend Actually youknow her, I'll tell you who it
is after and her sister-in-lawwas very strict with things.
She was a bodybuilder and stuffUnderstandably her own choice,
her life.
But you know, literally she'dhave like a chicken breast and
some rice in her bag at alltimes and she just would not,

(01:02:53):
could not, participate in familylife for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
But was that because of her having like?

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
I'm sure she was Competitions or whatever.
I'm sure she was Nothing forcompetition or something.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
I kind of get that.
But if you're not like butwe're not that Right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Yes, but we're not doing that.
We're having a life.
And you know what I've had?
You know conversations in myhead about this because, just
like this weekend, when theweather was so nice, jeff made a
fire.
We sat outside, we had abourbon and I was like this is
lovely.
Do I need to be drinking morealcohol?
No, but it's just lovely to sithere and have a conversation

(01:03:35):
with my husband and have alittle bourbon and I don't want
to do anything.
I don't want to do withouteither.
So, as we say in the yogastudio, it's all about balance.
It's about balance.
Intermittent fasting is we had astellar meal at that party.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
We were at the same party together.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
So shout out to Cleveland vegan who, instead of
chicken marsala, we had chickpeamarsala.
We had stuffed mushroomsinstead of sausage in them.
It was sort of a walnut mixture, a black bean nacho situation,
with cashew cheese or sour cream, I'm sure what else was there

(01:04:11):
with that salsa was a moment.
Oh my gosh, the bruschetta.
Or the pierogi's non-dairypierogi Yep, Every husband was
hilarious especially the chicken.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
And then he loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
I was sitting.
Yeah, I was sitting next to him, so I didn't really see his
face.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
But no, it's funny, I'm going to get some chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Quote unquote chicken .
Amanda texted me the next dayand was like Jeff's not shitting
himself today or anything.
I'm like no, he's fine, it wasall.
It was really truly deliciousstuff.
I mean, when you peoplesometimes think, when you're
vegan, you just pull meat out ofyour diet, and some people do
just do that.
But if you are a foodie and Iknow you're not but if you are a

(01:04:56):
foodie and you really like somethings, there are some just
phenomenal recipes andrestaurants that do.
I mean this was chickpeapatties, marsala, that it's not
the same, but it scratches yourgourmet itch for sure.
Yeah, not as gourmet as youtrying to make red popcorn in a
rice steamer, but gourmetnonetheless.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Do you go to Cleveland vegan Like was that?
Have you been there before?

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
No, that was my first time there.
I've had them, I've been tothings that they've catered, but
I have not been there.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
I love it there.
I don't get there as often asI'd like, but so we are back
from a brief technical break.
Yeah, and we're back, and we'reback.
But yeah, we were talking aboutfasting and like it's taught me
, like it's helped me understandmy eating better too, I guess,

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where I graze because I don'teat big enough meals.
Like if I just eat a biggermeal and I don't eat a big meal
because I'm like, well, I'm notthat hungry, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
So like and that's different for everybody, because
my problem is kind of theopposite.
I have a portion controlproblem, so when I do eat, I can
put it away, man, withoutgetting full, and it's the
fasting has made me realize thatmy body does not need at all as
much as I give it as fuel.
Like I'm fully, like when Idon't eat from Sunday night till

(01:06:23):
Tuesday at nine o'clock in themorning or something.
I am full of energy, I'm nottired, I'm not hungry, I feel
clear.
So it's not going to be thesame for everybody, but I don't
need all the food I give myselfon the daily, clearly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
So I hear you, but you're you froze, I'm going to
you froze on me too, joyce, sofunny.
Well, I think that's our cuethe world.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
I think we should wrap up, the universe is pushing
back against us to end thisepisode of the modern yoga
podcast.

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