Reflections and Revelations: Joyce & Marybeth on Holidays, Health, and Hopes for the New Year

Pull up a chair and join the warmth as Marybeth spills the beans on her latest move, from the comedy of furniture assembly to the unexpected yearning for a snowy Christmas in her new mountain abode. There's something about simple living and the community-rich experiences that reconnect us to what truly matters, and that's precisely where our conversation meanders. The passage of time is a funny thing, and as we stand on the cusp of 2024, we indulge in a little nostalgia and marvel at the quicksilver slip of the years since the dawn of the millennium.

The holidays may have wrapped up, but the stories and reflections are as fresh as the first snowfall. From the enchantment of childhood beliefs in Santa to the evolving tapestry of family gatherings, we unwrap the layers of our recent festivities. It's not all cookies and carols, though; the reality of maintaining health routines and managing the stress of the season is something I, Joyce, am all too aware of as I juggle my yoga practice and teaching responsibilities. We careen from the merry to the meaningful, sharing updates on our dear mothers' health and contemplating the practicalities of holiday travel logistics.

As the New Year's confetti settles, we cast an eye towards what lies ahead, including my intriguing health test results and the self-care strategies that are reshaping our daily lives. Whether it's dietary choices or the impact of cooking methods on our well-being, we're getting candid about the changes that make a difference. We even take a peek at our upcoming professional commitments, from my visit to a stroke prevention program to the unexpected laughs we've had with Ancestry DNA kits. With a nod to morning routines and a quip about the less delectable side of 'spam', we're wrapping up this episode with a promise – to keep you entertained, informed, and perhaps even a little amused as we step boldly into another vibrant year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two microphones and make a podcast.
Two microphones and you make apodcast.
Hi, this is Joyce and this isMarybeth.

(00:26):
Welcome to the Modern YogaPodcast.
Marybeth is in a very specialplace today.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am in the closet.
How long have you been there?
I mean gosh, it's been an hournow.
I feel like all the importantpodcasters like Glenn and Doyle
and Abby are in their closet.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Actually, who's the terrible thing for asking?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.
Is it Jennifer or something?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't know, but she's done she's.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Jeff just told me he listened to a podcast I can't
think of who it was either andthey were in the closet and he
goes, but their closet was likethe size of our bedroom.
I'm like, yeah, this one is notNoor McKinney, oh, mcinery
McInery.
Sorry, I don't know why.
I was saying Jennifer, butthere's electricians working in

(01:27):
our house today and we don'thave a lot of rugs and things
around and high ceilings.
So I thought, huh, there'sreally nowhere that the sound is
going to be good and I can testout this closet theory with all
sorts of soft clothing aroundme.
How does it sound?
How does it sound, joyce?
Sounds like you're sexy in thecloset calling me for a good
time, for a good time call.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
How is your closet?
I mean, it looks pretty nice inyour new house.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's really full right now because we don't have
any bedroom furniture like anydressers or anything.
So I have all the clothes thereare in this closet and they
made me cubbies out of wood, sothey're being like dresser
drawers right now, just full ofclothing.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I like it, thank you.
Thank you, have you moved in?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Pert near, pert near.
We have appliances and beds andsheets and cookware and things.
Jeff and I put together somecomposite outdoor rockers for
the eventual fire pit this week,so that was fun.

(02:37):
They just give you an Allenwrench and let you have hours of
fun on the floor.
Are you still married?
We are, I've just.
I was going to say I've learnedto swallow a lot, but that
would lead us down anothermarital path.
What I really meant was I'msure we're both letting,
learning to just let go of a lotof things we might otherwise

(02:59):
say.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, that's good, mm-hmm, you are not saying
anything right now.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So today is the 28th of December.
Is this going to come out?
In a new year, probably, orwill it still be the old year?
What's our engineers?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, so our engineer , if he gets this far.
I'll get mad at me, but slackeda little because the podcast we
did last week, which I thoughtwas coming out last week, is
actually coming out today.
So this will come out after,Unless we do a special edition,
but we should probably figurethat out off air.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, we'll make it seem like we have a plan.
Yeah, can you even believe thatthe year is going to be 2024?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, no.
There's so many factors to thattoo.
I can't believe that becausewe've lived through most of this
.
Well, I've lived through mostof the 70s, you did 80s, 90s,
the aughts.
What's the aughts?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I just remember the hype and thinking, oh my gosh, I
can't believe the year is goingto be 2000.
And now that is just frickingtwo and a half decades behind us
, right?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, that's, it's kind of nuts, yeah, so here we
are 2024.
Plus, like it doesn't feel likea new year weather-wise, it
doesn't even feel like theholidays weather-wise we said
the same thing.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Because Christmas was so warm, I went for a run on
Christmas yeah.
We were driving to NorthCarolina the day after Christmas
and I said obviously climatechange is a bad thing.
We used to call it globalwarming, but it's like I ain't
hating it right now because I'mnot a lover of the snow.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
But even if you're not a lover of the snow, like
it's just, there's somethingunnatural about it.
It is.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's weird.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Being 50 plus degrees in December in Cleveland Ohio,
so true.
We did have that one day ofsurprise snow Mm-hmm, and then
it went away.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
It came and went in a hurry.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it lasteda couple days as far as sitting
there.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
but so are you loving it out there?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I am.
It's still been busy enoughthat we haven't.
Like when we used to come tovisit over the past five years,
we would take a walk, take ahike Right.
And now we've been so busy wehaven't even been doing as much
of that as we would like to, buttoday we will.
It's sunny and bright and he'sgot some time in his schedule.
He's been working like a dogand I have my BFF, steph, has us

(05:46):
.
Oh yeah, your dog doesn't looklike she's working right now,
not at all, laying there underthe window.
Yeah, steph makes this freakingbeautiful prime rib on
Christmas.
Sorry, vegan joist, but orplant-based joist, we're going
to call you Not vegan.
But she gave me the bones stillwith plenty of meat on them, so

(06:12):
they are simmering in a potright now to make some soup,
because this is what themountain people do.
I went into town yesterday,went back to the Wilkesboro
Walmart, needed some, someSwiffer Wet Jet stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
And how far is the Walmart?
That's about 40 minutes, sothat's like an afternoon yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
In fact I told Jeff I just can't believe even here
how long it takes to get nothingdone, like I didn't get out of
here till like 11 in the morningbecause just as an example I
mean, and it's so fun andawesome too.
But so on my way down the hillI ran into our friend Trevor.
So we're just stopped in themiddle of the road with our

(06:56):
driver's side windows open,chatting for about 10 minutes
until another car came up behindone of us and we had to move on
.
And then you get to the bottomand that's where you have to.
You know I have Jeff's pickuptruck, if we want to call it
that.
It's a little bit of a faketruck, but what kind of truck
does he have?
It's a Honda Ridgeline but, sothat you know, there's dumpsters

(07:22):
at the bottom of the mountainwhere you have to put your trash
in a separate place forcardboard, where we are flush
with cardboard right now becausewe're just putting furniture
together and all sorts of stuffso there's just another.
I mean it's all just.
How's the recycling out there?
What's that?
Nobody can pronounce recyclinghere other than the cardboard

(07:43):
goes to a different place.
So already you're like, fromgetting out my driveway, let's
say that's Like now I'm 30minutes by the time I stop and
talk to Trevor, take my trash,and then from there it's another
, you know 30 to the Walmart andit's beautiful, like I drove

(08:08):
down just to the bottom of ourmountain and I'm like I can't
believe I get to be here formore than just a weekend,
because there's just horseschomping log cabins and with the
recent rain this elk creek isjust flowing and it's just, it
is just beautiful, the drivingis beautiful.
And then you get to the Walmartand it's still Walmart and it's

(08:31):
everything's slow.
And, as you know, I, even when Ishop at home, I like smaller
stores, like my grocery storethat I love is my little local,
heinen's in Middleburg Heights.
So to be in a big Walmart orSuper Walmart, I'm like wait, I
needed a scrub brush and that'sa mile away at the other side of

(08:52):
the store, and I also, sincethey have groceries here, wanted
to get a box of spinach.
So now I have to go back thatway, and so I love to buy things
.
I do not love to shop.
I didn't get the gene that mymom and one of my sisters, judy,
has, that shop all day.
Shop till you drop gene.
No, I just want my stuff and Iwant to have to walk around for

(09:15):
it.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, maybe that's why I like Whole Foods, probably
also because I'm there maybeonce a month.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's a certain what's the word?
I'm searching for Intuitivenessabout where things are located.
Yeah, I mean, it is a free forall in a Super Walmart.
I'm not saying things aren'tsort of according to some sort
of plan, but it's not a planthat I understand.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Right.
Speaking of that, I alwaysthought they should put the
heavy stuff first, so that youdon't have to put the heavy
stuff on top of your produce.
That's just me.
Yeah, no, I agree.
And at Walmart that would meanI don't know your heavy
machinery.
Right, right Could be a lotyour bicycles your Right.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
There could be some serious your appliances.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And then you can put your.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I actually Even though I had quite a bit.
I went to the self-checkout forthat reason.
So I could and I'm not a verytype A person at all but I just
wanted things.
Do not smash my bananas rightnow.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I have a 40-minute drive home.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's right.
How about you?
What's been going on with you?
We haven't caught up.
Despite catching up, we haven'tcaught up really.
Christmas, christmas Eve, howwas Alina?
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Christmas.
I mean, I'm sure for everybodyit's just been a lot.
It was all good See whenever mybrother's house the day before
Christmas Eve because my otherbrother was in town got in town
that day, so we wanted to seethem and my brother and
sister-in-law and the baby whois now Well.

(11:01):
His birthday is at the end ofJanuary.
He'll be one which is crazy.
It is Not even a baby, a toddler, and although I get photos, the
last time I saw him was April,so he's just changed.
So much Is he toddling, he'scouchsurfing, he's super cute
and he has that baby belly yeah,me too and fat cheeks and he's

(11:26):
adorable.
And then my mom hostedChristmas Eve and the kids were
all of them.
I mean, the baby was justlooking around like what is
going on, I know was superexcited, and my niece and nephew
were really, really excited.
Probably the most excited wasmy nephew and part of his gift

(11:51):
was a dark saber and it's sword.
So it's long and narrow.
The box didn't necessarily fitin the.
I used one of those bigreusable grocery bags to put all
.
I used actually a couple of themand I put that sword right next
to it and somehow it didn'tmake it to my mom's, my mom
doesn't live that far.

(12:11):
So when we walked in I lookedat James like, oh my God, we
forgot yeah he got to go homeand live.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
James goes.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'll get it.
So he grabbed something to eatreal quick and then he went back
and got it and although my momdoesn't live far, it takes like
20 minutes, so that's the betterpart of an hour to get home.
Get it back, get it, get back.
So when James walked back in, Isaid, okay, wesley, because
this is the present that heldeverything up, you should open

(12:37):
it first.
And he was so excited and helost his mind.
It was so funny.
And then he got all kinds ofother things that he wanted and
he lined them all up and he wasreally, really cute.
And then Susie Ketterer madeAlina.
This looks like it's like acutting board, but it has a

(12:59):
place for a cookie and milk anda place for Rudolph's carrot.
It says something cute.
I should go get it and show youit's hey, santa, I left you
these.
You know, love Alina, orsomething like that.
And so when she woke up she wasreally excited and there were
presents all throughout theliving room.

(13:19):
But she was like he was here,he ate half the cookie and took
a bite of the carrot and themilk was gone.
So that was cute.
And then she was overwhelmed byall the presents and there was
all that, but it was a good.
It was a good.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, I mean there's a reason there's that saying
Christmas is for kids.
Even as we get older, the partswe enjoy are watching the kids
Cousins together and how theolder ones treat the younger
ones, how the younger ones treatthe older ones, where everybody
is in the middle and it's verysweet.
And then they get to a certainage and it's less sweet.

(13:54):
And then you get older and it'ssurly.
And then it comes around againand you start all the whole
process.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, what did you guys do for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
We have dinner at my friend Steph's house.
We went to see Jeff's aunt andcousins in the morning on
Christmas Day because my sisterColleen things have changed in
recent years since we all havegrandkids in different places,
so my sister Judy had ChristmasEve all day at her house and her

(14:27):
grandkids, her granddaughterAnnie, and everybody was there
from Toledo.
We were all there and our extrafamily neighbors Sandy and that
family, the Beauregardts, andthen Colleen, who lives in
Northfield near Katie and herkids Lofton and Miles, took my
mom overnight so that she couldwake up and see them open from

(14:49):
Santa.
So we had a little bit of amore loose schedule Christmas
morning.
So we went to see Aunt MaryJane and then on to Steph's
where I procured these deliciousprime rib bones which are now
making soup in my kitchen.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
That sounds like a pretty low key yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
It was, and I host Thanksgiving.
That's the only holiday I have,and even that is pretty
potlucky with people.
So Christmas is good that Idon't have to do too much,
because I'm already as annoyedAF as Dave Hoffman would say.
I'm annoyed AF by the entireholiday season anymore, I just

(15:30):
am.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well, you have so much going on this year with the
house and everything.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think I'm just so freaking lazy I don't want to be
bothered to wrap stuff and toget stuff and to cook stuff and
to put stuff away.
I didn't even put anything outat home.
I did not put a tree out, I didnot put a Christmas candle out
or lights or anything.
Period In the mountains we didbecause the kids were here to
celebrate.
I put up my $53 tree I think Italked about that Pre-lit tree

(15:57):
for those and that was that.
Soon as we got here I tookthose stockings down and put
them away.
I'm done.
How's your mom?
She's good.
Still got her black eye, butshe's.
Today is Thursday, I believe.
So she's getting her hair didgetting her wig busted.

(16:17):
That's for Thursday activity.
What about your mother-in-law?
My mother-in-law is in Florida.
She's seeing an allergist andtrying to figure out what was
going on there with her Stand byBlood results pending.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Makes me think about the airport, because you picked
her up from the airport.
Where's the closest airport toyou?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Greensboro or Charlotte.
This time we picked her up fromGreensboro, which I think is
almost a couple hours.
She flew back home throughCharlotte because our son Drew
dropped her, because that'swhere he lives.
That's why I love the drivehere, because if you're going to
fly, you're in it for a wholehandful of hours anyway.

(17:08):
You might as well just make itseven Plastic, have your own
timetable and no lines.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
What is the flight for her?
How long is it?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
She's coming from West Palm, so probably just a
couple hours, I would think.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
But how long would the drive be?
You don't even know.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I would say eight or 10 or something, because it's
not like she's trying to thinkof where West Palm is yeah, not
close.
At least eight, but maybe 10.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
I was teaching yoga.
You were gone for a while andthen you were back, and now
you're gone again.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, when I got back , I just for one thing, I've
been surviving.
I think I said last time too oncarbs and alcohol.
I just felt like a completelard ass.
In December I hadn't donealmost any yoga, even just on my
own when I was here and notteaching.
I was like jeez.

(18:19):
I hope I remember how to dothis, as you indicated, when you
texted me and said you're nevercoming home, are you?
It's a little bit like droppingout of time in society.
It's just very different.
This time I've tried to bebetter at doing some yoga on my
own or watching something online, just because I'm disgusted
with myself.
I mean, it comes back and itwas so good to see everybody and

(18:44):
then yeah, really home for twoweeks and then gone again for
two.
Thank goodness for my teachingpartner, lindsay, that little
situation that you hooked up,because that keeps things
consistent.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, and she's been just really.
She's been great with heravailability and she's having a
good time.
I think that's a good situation.
If you guys haven't theinternational podcast audience,
if you may or may not havenoticed that Lindsay subs most
of Mary Beth's classes so thatit just makes it easy when Mary

(19:21):
Beth can't be there.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
So it's not just who's teaching.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
it's probably going to be Lindsay, if it's not, yeah
dirty twerdy, so it createssome consistency and, yeah,
she's been great.
What are you guys going on forthe new year?

Speaker 2 (19:38):
We've been invited to some friends here at the
mountains.
Trevor no, trevor's going to beout of town, this is going to
be Art and Phyllis and Jeff's.
Like what time do you thinkthis goes till midnight, or do
you think midnight can be likeat 1030?
And I said we will live andlearn, we will see, we will

(19:59):
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
When's the last time you stayed up till midnight on
New Year's Eve?

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Long time ago, long time, long time.
Well, yeah, because the lastfive, jeff and I have been alone
in the mountains.
That's how we discovered thismountain was an accidental VRBO
for New Year's Eve just the twoof us.
That's when we fell in lovewith Leatherwood Mountain.
And so, heck, no, that would belike wine in the hot tub and

(20:28):
then fireworks outside, not inthe bedroom, but we could see
fireworks in a neighboring town.
So, yeah, I'm sure I was myhead hit the bed probably by 10.
In the years before that, if wedidn't travel, we would get
together with Steph and Ken justat one of our houses and barely

(20:50):
make midnight.
Yeah, yeah, how about you?

Speaker 1 (20:56):
It's been a while.
I don't know specifically, butI don't.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
It was fun when we were young.
I remember going to I don'teven know if this is still a
place that's open but in maybeWestlake or Fairview there was a
place called Wagner's CountryInn.
It was like a party center andthey would have a big New Year's
Eve thing that was like I don'tknow 100 bucks a couple or
something, or 100 bucks a person, and there was dinner and

(21:22):
different bands and we used todo that my sisters and I and our
husbands and Sandy is includedin that and her husband.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
It's still open.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, and those were really good times, but we were
in our 20s, if that.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
As you were saying this in Westlake and as I was
typing it, I was like I wonderif that's that place that you
and I and James and Jeff wentafter a birthday party that one
night Remember we were at StaceyTeeter's birthday party and
then we were like, do you guyswant to grab a drink?
And we found, oh yeah, theoldest bar, or I don't know how

(22:03):
would you describe it.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I'm trying to picture it again, yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
It was weird, the crowd was it was your mom's
crowd.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, it was.
Yeah, oh my gosh, that's right,that's right.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
I'm like, you would never think that If you're like
oh, we grabbed a drink somewherein Westlake you would never
think.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Given that.
So Stacey Teeter and I wereborn the same year, so that
means her next birthday in mindwill be 55, can you?
Believe 2024 brings, yeah, 55for a 1960s I mean every cliche
or saying you've ever heard justgets more and more true these
years.
Not only do the years fly by,but the decades fly by now.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, for sure, especially when you have young
ones in your life.
Yeah, you know, you don't knowhow much they change and you're
like, well, I haven't changedthat much.
But then it's like, oh wait,yeah, that was three years ago.
It's crazy.
Time certainly does fly.
So I got my test results backfrom my function medicine thing.

(23:14):
I think I mentioned that in thelast podcast.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, I was looking forward to hearing about
that.
That's interesting because thatso replay what that is.
This is outside of yourdoctor's care.
This is something you do onyour own Right.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
And it's called function health.
You basically join it and youget two measurements of 109
biomarkers per year.
So you get blood drawn sixmonths apart but you get it done

(23:54):
twice because they feel likedoing it a week apart gives them
a baseline, like a real, truebaseline.
And then the second time youalso they do urine tests.
So I got my first round ofresults a couple of days ago and
just my second round of resultstoday.

(24:15):
So out of this is all very newto me, meaning I just got this
information and my biologicalage is 33 and a half Nice.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Do I want to know my biological age, especially right
after the holiday, which speaksto them doing how long between
your blood draws?
Just a week, okay.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
So I'd need like a six month.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well, and then they'll do it again in six
months.
So they'll do it twice, like aweek apart, because they Well
actually it says right here Iguess.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm sure any day could be an anomaly, depending
on what's going on.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You're measuring 109 biomarkers.
Most change in three to sixmonths.
With results in hand, you havethe power to own that change.
So I have, out of 15 heartbiomarkers, I have four that are
of concern, and that ischolesterol-based

(25:24):
Cholesterol-based.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
LDL the lousy.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
LDL, LDL, medium LDL, particle number.
So let me see am I super high?

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm sure they'll get into that more specifically for
you, but that is an interestingone, given that you are so
largely plant-based Right.
Imagine, I guess, what it mightbe if you had a whole half of a
cow simmering in a pot on yourstove, like I do.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Right.
So that kind of freaks me out alittle bit.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
As I Aw freak out.
Lafrie say chic.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Go ahead.
My all the rest of thecholesterol measurements are in
range, though.
My total cholesterol is inrange, so in like two to three
weeks from now, I should get aphysician's analysis.

(26:26):
So, as far as, like my fivemetabolic biomarkers, I have
very low leptin, which isconcerning.
My eight female biomarkers areall in range.
What's great about thisfunction health, though, is like

(26:49):
I can click on any of these andit gives me information about
exactly what it is, why itmatters where it should be if
it's not in range, like whatcould cause it and what the
symptoms are, I wish there was away to get this as part of
normal healthcare, instead ofthe backside of it, which is

(27:11):
treating cholesterol, diabetes,heart disease, cancer, right,
like I know it's expensive to do, like why would you do this for
every patient?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
for no reason.
But back at the start of things.
If you began with this, wecould all save money on the
treatment side of the equation.
Well it on the prevention side.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, but they, you know, and they tell you like
they give you suggestions onthings that can improve things
you know, improve the specific,like in leptin, right, they
explain leptin.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
And this is even before the physicians report
part.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
They're giving you some general information.
Yeah, you just started.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
My thyroid biomarkers are good Out of 16 nutrient
biomarkers.
I am at a higher risk becausemy omega-3 is so low, and so I
was like we need to have somefish and we have fish
occasionally.
So and then James was like oh,I have this big bottle of

(28:23):
omega-3 on my desk and I don'ttake it very often.
You can just have it, unlessI'm taking it all of it
yesterday.
Are those?

Speaker 2 (28:29):
still, I've never taken supplements, because I do
eat a lot of fish and I knowthere's omega-3s and omega-6s,
right, and Walnut's are one ofthose too, but the balance is
really important.
And my omega-6, I think is fishor omega tablets their capsules
?
Right, it's like a gel, yeah,are they still like fishy

(28:52):
smelling or tasting at all?

Speaker 1 (28:54):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Uh-uh, my omega-6 is in range.
Oh, my omega-3 and 6 are nottoo out of balance.
So, again, the physician'sanalysis is going to help,
because there's like 109 thingshere, right, right.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
And it's interesting because you're going to have a
physician's analysis from afunctional health physician.
I wonder even most of ourtypical physicians how they feel
about or relate to or what eachof their approaches are right,
because studying medicineinstead of studying prevention

(29:35):
or approaching it with medicine,studying health, yeah.
Instead of approaching it withprevention.
It's just all interesting.
I'm not really saying anythingof value, I'm just like thinking
out loud.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
So my immune regulation there's 12 biomarkers
.
I have a couple of concerns.
My white blood cell count islow and my high sensitivity C
reactive protein is low, and Ithink that's the one that before

(30:11):
we started recording, I wassaying.
Like they reference, having avegan diet can make getting this
nutrient challenging.
I think that was it.
I could be wrong, though.
I'd have to like go through allof this and then new truffle is
high.
New truffle is how high it is.

(30:33):
Oh no, it's low.
So if it was high it could meanthat there's a like it can
identify certain cancers.
So I don't know, not that beinglow is good, but kind of makes
me I have cancers not on thelist right now.

(30:58):
And then my stress and aging.
My cortisol is in range.
Actually, I got to look at that.
I want to see where in rangeit's at the higher end of in
range.
But so cortisol or femalehealth, thyroid there's five for
thyroid, eight for femalehealth.

(31:20):
16 nutrient oh, here we go.
Two autoimmunity.
12 immune regulation biomarkers.
Nine liver biomarkers 11 bloodbiomarkers, two pancreas, two
heavy metal six electrolytebiomarkers including calcium,

(31:44):
carbon dioxide, chloride,magnesium, potassium and sodium.
13 euro biomarkers thecreatinine is below range, which
that's the one actually.
That was the.
Could be because of a primarilyvegan diet, but everything else
is in range.
I mean out of 109,.

(32:04):
I have nine things to work onand they give you a list of
foods to enjoy.
So at the top of the list areflaxseed oil, dark chocolate,
fresh dill, pickles, kefir andkimchi, and then, if I expand
that, it goes into more thingslike sauerkraut, halibut,

(32:24):
cilantro and it just there's ahuge list, so I'll spare you all
of that.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
It's my favorite, like right now.
I'm thinking of halibut andcilantro together.
Throw me a dill pickle and abite of dark chocolate.
At the end it's a hey, it'slunch.
The specificity with your blooddraw is really good because you
know, as old as we are nowwe've seen coffee is good,

(32:49):
coffee is bad, red wine is good,red wine is bad, meat is good,
meat is bad.
And the fact is it's not goingto be the same for all of us,
right?
So when we, when we followconventional or even
unconventional wisdom, it ishard to know if you're doing
what's best for you.
Some people thrive as vegans,other people fail as vegans.

(33:12):
It's just.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Right, well, and quite honestly, because of my
lack of interest in cooking,being vegan is probably not a
good thing for me, because I'mnot searching out like how am I
doing all of these things?
Right?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
There's a lot of amino acids.
You're supposed to be, you'resupposed to try and have a
balanced.
Obviously we all are a balanceddiet, whether you include meat
or not.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, but this is helping me sort of see that and
I don't know if I told you weI've been getting like prepared
food, like a HelloFresh.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
And I'm getting.
I'm catching a lot of shit inmy family because I can, I can
follow a recipe.
I'm like, yeah, but they giveyou everything measured out.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
And actually I've heard such good feedback from
people with those, even peoplewho like to cook.
We actually how many times am Igoing to say actually in this
breath we got together and gotmy mom some for Christmas I
don't know how Judy handled it,so I don't know how many you get
or whatever but because itmakes you.
What you were just saying is,if you don't love to cook,

(34:30):
you're not going to sit aroundand look up recipes and get the
stuff and do the research.
So here comes something,probably balanced, probably
really tasty, with the rightamounts.
So yeah, I say I'll go for it.
I mean, why?

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Well, and they give you the recipe on this, like
huge card that and it tells youwhat should be in your bags, so
like they basically give you therecipe where you can take it to
the grocery store and just buythe same thing.
Have I done that?
No, but what else it's doing?
It is a little bit expensive,but it's saving the stress of
going to the grocery store andfiguring out what you want to

(35:06):
eat this week or whatever, andit's just like the convenience
of it.
Yeah, we've been enjoying thefood and time is money, and
James and I talk about like wecould probably do this cheaper
and whatever, and I'm like buttime is money, what it's doing
is just giving us a little bitof time and so we still have to

(35:28):
go to the grocery store.
But it's just stakes.
We're not getting it every week.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
No, and then if you don't make it, it's all still
there to make.
I mean, there's also a lot offood waste when you go to the
grocery store on your ownbecause you have all these high
hopes of things you're going tomake and then you don't, and
then you throw your slimymushrooms away and your yes
salad greens or whatever it was.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
So with Hello Fresh you like you also know there's
some fresh stuff in there, soyou need to for most of the
things.
There's some things that youknow, like tortillas, and you
know things that have things incans that you're like okay, that
can that will be okay, nextweek.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
You know what I?

Speaker 1 (36:04):
mean, that's part of the, that's part of the reason
why we're not getting it everyweek.
The other part is James reallydoes love to cook, so, like you
know, he'll cook.
He still wants to cook a littlebit so, but it's good.
So the things that I'm supposedto limit, and I don't think any
of this would surprise anybodyare shortening, which I don't

(36:28):
think I like.
I think of Crisco when I hearshortening.
I know I do.
Are people still usingshortening?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I think it's illegal.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
I think Crisco is not even a thing.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Wow, I guess people who beg because I I don't know,
I've never, I'm not a pie crustbaker, but maybe it matters
whether you use Crisco or butteror what did they used to call a
marg-olio Corn grits, which I'mnot sure I've ever had.
I actually just used them tomake polenta.
We had short rib on ChristmasEve at Judy's with a delicious

(37:00):
gravy kind of sauce that wascranberries and rosemary and
deliciousness.
So we made mashed potatoes andpolenta, which is made from corn
.
You know grits.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
But I wouldn't be able to have it.
White flour, which is notsurprising.
White rice, which is like Jameswas like.
Well, if I take this test,there's no way I'm you know,
he's like such a believer inwhite rice.
Flour, tortillas, pasta, candyflavored popcorn, frozen pizza
it kind of makes me mad.
Pies, alcohol.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Maybe that cauliflower crust frozen pizza.
That was always pretty tasty.
Teter made us that a time ortwo.
Also I've had we've had.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
well, Costco sells it , but that would affect my white
blood cell count and highsensitivity C reactive protein.
I have to learn more about that.
Pies, alcohol, Chilean sea bass, swordfish, tuna, baked beans,
lima beans, sunflower corn, andthen get into all the bad oils.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
And it might not even be the foods that provide some
of the nutrients, but I foundout just through blood donation
that there are things thataffect absorption of other
things.
Right, right, cooking and castiron helps me absorb iron.
Also, vitamin C helps me absorbiron.

(38:24):
So to have some vegetable orfruit juice with vitamin C in it
.
And tea of all things, hot teaor iced tea blocks your
absorption of iron.
Who would know these things?
Wow, you know what I mean.
Like so if it says you know,it's more like don't drink tea
when you're eating dinnerbecause you're not letting
yourself absorb the iron thatyou're eating.

(38:46):
So some of those aren't.
It's not just the nutrient thatmight be in the food that
they're listing for you as a yayor an A, but the interactions,
I guess, are what it helps youabsorb relative to your specific
blood drop problem, your heartmarkers.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Heart markers.
So overall I have threeself-care items.
Limit alcohol consumption.
If drinking is a regularpractice for you, which it
actually had, I just kind of letmyself go during the holidays a
little bit Me too.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
And it's I, and it was more of a stressing.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
I do too, but I shouldn't like.
Honestly, I didn't drink thatmuch.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
No, we don't either.
But like, even just here, likeat home, on a Tuesday night, are
we going to open a bottle ofwine?
No, last night we opened aChristmas sale.
That was a Wednesday night.
Would we do that at home?
No, yeah, this still feels fun,I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
So reading this book by Sarah Gottfried.
She's a functional healthmedicine or a functional health
doctor, and she's like herspecialty is women's health.
But she explained that I guessprobably in your 40s your
blood-brain barrier gets thinner, so you oh, that's the only

(40:05):
thing that gets thinner, youdon't?
handle like.
That's why you can have a drinkor two and you feel it just
gets to you a lot faster.
And also why hangovers are nolonger like just a day.
They sometimes can be days, notto say that I have any

(40:27):
experience with that.
Honestly, I haven't been likereally drunk in a while.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Well, I think that's more of the thing is that you
don't have to drink a lot tofeel quote, hungover, end quote
You're a little.
You don't sleep.
Well, you're a littleheadache-y, even if it's not
like oh, I was so smashed, I'mhungover, it's just like ugh.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Well, that's the other thing I think is
interesting.
Or one thing I think isinteresting is so many people
have oar rings or whoopbracelets and they measure your
sleep.
We have a guy who switched fromdoing yoga in the morning to
doing yoga in the eveningbecause he got I think he got
the whoop.

(41:07):
Yeah, and he just didn't.
And I've heard this from somany people.
They didn't realize that theirsleep was so bad and I know mine
is not great to begin with, butalcohol.
So Dr Heiman on his podcast wassaying like even having one
glass of wine disrupts yoursleep significantly.

(41:29):
Maybe not to the point where,like you're feeling hungover or
whatever.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
It just disrupts your sleep, it disrupts your sleep,
which is when everything healsand restores.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, and if you're not sleeping right like it's
almost one time somebody came inactually I think it was one of
our teachers came in to practiceon a Sunday morning and she was
like I slept for shit lastnight.
I'm so tired I can barely keepmy eyes open and I'm like I
don't even know that it's worthdoing yoga.
You might be doing yourselfmore harm than good by doing

(42:07):
something taxing versus gettingrest, you know.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Anyhow, my second and alcohol is a depressant as well
.
So if any of us are strugglingwith any of that, you can't deny
.
I mean, we're drinking adepressant in the evening and
then we're drinking a stimulantin the morning, and how crazy is
that?
It's maybe not depress orstimulate ourselves unnaturally.
Just see what happens.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Just see what happens , instead of void smoking.
If this is a regular practice,not an issue, and then a
balanced diet, which clearly Ineed to work on, then it gives
me a list of supplements.
The top five are a multivitamin, probiotic, baswalia, curcumin
and fish oil, which aresupplement.

(42:52):
I don't take it.
Oh, and then it goes intocertain setin and vitamin D3.
I take D3.
So out of these one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, I take
one.
Well, now two, because, well, Idon't know, omega-3 probably
isn't fish oil, is it?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Now I have to learn, I'm not sure, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
So I guess my biggest concern here is the heart stuff
and I definitely want to getthat in order.
But I think if I got that inorder, everything else would
kind of fill in a place too.
It's interesting because I waslistening to a podcast.

(43:39):
Yeah, actually I think it was aHuberman Lab had somebody on
and it was a long podcast.
It was a couple of weeks ago,but it was a doctor who was just
giving these very bluntopinions on everything.
It was pretty cool.
But I'm like God, I hope Idon't have to go on a statin,

(44:02):
right.
But this doctor said that dostatins really work?
He said that they've found sofar that statins will increase
your lifespan by four days.
They're not making a bigdifference.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah, I had a friend and this has been many years ago
now he was put on statinsreally young like in his 30s,
and he wasn't wanting to takethem.
His argument was that he doesbelieve that they can prove that
the statins lower thesecholesterol numbers, that they
want them to lower, but theycouldn't prove to him that they

(44:46):
translated that number beinglower to him having less of a
chance of having a heart event.
He just didn't believe that.
He's like yes, I know that thenumbers work.
The science works to say, if weapply this to this, that number
gets lower.
Does that mean I'm anyhealthier?
Though?
That's what he was notconvinced about.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Did he change anything.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
He, I don't know, I don't remember, I didn't care,
but I did think it wasinteresting because of course at
that time my dad, my parents,were on cholesterol medication
and my cholesterol has alwaysbeen fine and to my knowledge so
has my sister's.
My dad's was always high, likeagain in his 30s, and my dad
didn't die of a heart relatedevent.

(45:31):
But he also got sick youngerthan that, probably with
dementia.
But I'm not saying statins areimplicated in his dementia, I'm
not saying that at all.
But I think there's some talkthat what the statins block, as
far as that fat kind ofabsorption or whatever, is

(45:52):
what's needed in the brain.
So back to functional healthand you getting your blood drawn
and seeing what is moreimportant for you.
Are you more at risk forAlzheimer's or for breast cancer
or for heart disease?
And then the prescription forour food and exercise and sleep
is different for each of us.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
So I have to figure that all out like five minutes
ago.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Yeah, isn't that the truth, though?
You know, when we're young,we're like, yeah, we have our
whole lives to stop eating icecream and drinking beer and get
better, but now we're like well,now you know right about having
a good, healthy life, not evena long life, not even what I
look like in my overweight ornot, but like I'd like to.

(46:41):
You know, get up and down offthe floor with your, with your
grandkids, which we now all have.
I actually, here in themountains, jeff and I started
watching this just four or fivepart Netflix series that James
told me about documentary aboutthe blue zones and places in the
world where they were.
People live to 100, which is notthe point of living to 100.

(47:02):
But the point is they're notfalling down, they're not
getting cancer, they're living afull life.
And the first episode whichJames and I talked about was
about Okinawa and how they theyare all just making everything
on their own, every food, youknow.
They're working in the garden,they're sitting there squatting

(47:23):
down and, full on goddess, squatlike a toddler right or a yogi,
100 times a day.
So it's like we're going to thegym and doing 100 squats.
They are, they're pulling weeds, they're living like this.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
And so what you're touching on, I think, is the
biggest shift.
It's not a shift of just diet,it's a shift of lifestyle.
Yes, right, and it's notdrinking at night, right, like
my, my sister-in-law actuallyhas the whoop right and she

(47:58):
whoop whatever.
I asked her if she wanted aglass of wine and she goes no,
it'll mess up my eating, shegoes if I have, or my sleeping.
If I have a glass of wine, Ihave to do it at like noon,
right, so, like, which soundslike a great idea, but the, you
know, I'm not going to do it.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
You're not sitting around with your friends at noon
, necessarily.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Right, and it's it's, you know, not grabbing the bag
of chips, or you know it's it'sreally being mindful of what you
eat when you're out, becauseyou know that everything is, you
know, saturated in butter orthings that are just loaded on
that aren't great for you and,let's face it, I think that most

(48:45):
people eat out way more thanwhen we were younger.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
For sure there was nowhere to go when we were
younger.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Right, it was like a big deal.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
We went to Brown Derby if it was somebody's
birthday.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
And now it's almost like what are we doing for
dinner, in the sense of likewhere are we going to go, versus
like what are we going to make?
So, and then you know, wetalked about convenience a
little bit ago with like hello,fresh, and stuff like nobody has
time to do anything.
That's why we go out to eat somuch, because you just don't

(49:19):
have time with with everythingyou know.
Um, but I honestly, like,without having dove into this
too much and my, my results,like I, I feel it's, I can
handle this.
Yeah, and you know powering, Ican make some changes and I'm
also getting some other testsdone or other scans done in a

(49:43):
couple of weeks to measure my um, to look at things more, more
in depth with my heart, and justjust so I should go get that so
I can explain it to you.
I'll pause again, hold on, Okay.
So Carrie Hoffman gave me theseflyers actually earlier this

(50:03):
year.
I should have jumped on thisearlier, but it's at um,
southwest General.
It's called the gray mattersstroke prevention program, and
so what you can do is include inthis program is a one on one
consultation with a qualifiedmember of our healthcare team

(50:25):
who will discuss lab screeningassessment, ekg and ultrasound
results.
So you get stress and strokerisk assessments, laboratory
tests for cholesterol, bloodsugar, uh screening for body
mass index, blood pressure andheart rate, complete 12 lead or

(50:46):
lead EKG, atrial fibrillationscreening, carotid artery
ultrasound screening, and that's$60.
So then there's also thecirculation circuit.
Um, that helps to evaluate yourcirculatory health as well as

(51:08):
detect early signs of cardiacand vascular disease through a
vascular screening.
And what do they do?
They screen for stress, heartdisease and stroke risk
assessments, cholesterol,diabetes, body mass index, blood

(51:28):
pressure and heart rating,atrial fibrillation, carotid
artery.
So it's oh, abdominal aortaultrasound and peripheral artery
disease, which my dad had andthen one on one consultation to
review the results, and that's$99.
So they go together.
So I'm doing this in a coupleof weeks.

(51:51):
That's at Southwest General.
You said, yeah, the lady Ischeduled with said that it
takes like 45 minutes, hmm, andI'm like, oh, and what's it
called?
It's called gray matters.
I think that's the lead one.
And then it has the circulationcircuit, but there's no website
on here, like I tried to dothat.

(52:13):
Exactly what if you're, unlessyou're?

Speaker 2 (52:14):
texting.
Yeah, I'm no, I'm just going totype it into myself, though at
Southwest General, so that'llhelp me remember to look it up
at Southwest Hospital later.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
But I looked it up when we were talking about it
before the podcast and Icouldn't you know what.
I did it at UH that Southwest.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
But I see, yeah, the stroke prevention program.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Yeah, so I'm doing that.
And then oh, I forgot tomention I bought for Christmas.
I bought all of us ancestrypackets.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Oh boy, yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Yeah, james has been wanting to do that for a while.
It comes up every now and thenand I was going to buy them.
They were on Amazon and, likeyou have one delivered like in
two hours, but there's differentkits.
So I went on Antrocessory tofigure out what was what and
they had, like this mega saleand they're all access one.

(53:07):
It was only like I don't know30 bucks or something.
I don't have them yet, but Igave everybody.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
And then does it cost more as you try and go further
and further, or I don't know howthat works, yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Yeah, but I think you have access to whatever.
I'm like I don't.
I haven't dove into it becausewe don't have the kids yet.
I'm sure I can dive into it,but yeah, you get.
I think you get like an app andlike things pop up, I don't
know.
I'll let you know in the next,as time goes on.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
So those should be arriving any day.
So yeah, it's a.
I feel like I'm figuring myselfout.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
I do know someone who did one of those recently and
found out that they're let methink, let me get this straight
their mothers, grandparents,were first cousins.
Oh whoops, didn't want to knowthat information.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
That's not weird.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
That's not weird at all.
Not just cousins, but we thinkfirst cousins.
So that was kind of like youMight explain a lot.
Nah, just kidding.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Oh, I speak here big time.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Yeah, I guess I need a nap today, do you ever let
yourself take naps, becausethere are days like I know.
Your Monday used to be reallybad, but you switched some
Monday scheduling.
Do you still have to get up atlike four on Mondays and start
your day?
No, well, that's just.
Not only is it a Mondayalthough for you guys weekends
aren't normal weekends, becauseyou work as much or more on the

(54:53):
weekends as any other days butto not only have Monday come and
hit you hard, but to have itwake you up at 4 am, I just
cannot abide.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
So Colleen Weber wasn't feeling well a few weeks
ago and she messaged and saidyou know, it was like on a
Monday and says there's any wayI can get a sub for my 545 on
Tuesday morning in Brexville.
And I was like you know what,I'll just do it, because I don't

(55:23):
teach as much in Brexville as Ido in Strongsville and it's
good for me to be there.
And instead of waking up at3.50, I woke up at like 4.35 and
I didn't take a shower, I justkind of cleaned up because I
could come home, yeah,afterwards, yeah, so it took me

(55:46):
12 minutes to get there, nice.
And then Colleen lives closerto the Strongsville studio and
so I messaged her the next day.
I was like you know, I reallyenjoyed teaching that class for
one and I also enjoyed the drive.
I'm like, if you would beinterested, would you consider,

(56:07):
would you consider, would you beinterested in switching Monday
mornings at 5.45?
Like you take Strongsville,I'll take Brexville.
But we will kind of like youand Lindsay to a degree, like we
will be each other's backup.
So if she ever needs a sub inStrongsville, it's me.
I ever need a sub in Brexville,it's her.
And she was like, absolutely soshe lives like 12 minutes away

(56:31):
from Strongsville and I figuredit was also smart going into the
winter although I know thatthis winter is supposed to be
mild and whatever but likethere's nothing worse than
having to get up even earlier tomake sure that you can get
there on time to open the doorsand do all the things.
Clear the path.
Yeah, and then also we madeanother change Lauren Roberts

(56:55):
has moved out of the 930 PowerBasics in Brexville on Tuesdays.
We're just going to get herwork schedule and like it's just
not the most convenient for herand I always want teachers to
like it should be convenient.
So we're making some changesthere.
But at first James and I werejust like we'll just take it

(57:17):
over, like it'll either be me orhim, but it makes more sense
for it to be me because heteaches on Monday at 930.
I now teach on Tuesday, amandaand Wednesday, josh on Thursday
and Danielle on Friday, and Ilike that having different
teachers, although Monday,wednesday and Friday are power
and Tuesday and Thursday arepower basics.

(57:38):
But I just think it's a reallynice balance and I can very
easily go teach that 545, gohome and shower and be back in
Brexville comfortably by 915 atthe latest.
The thing with Strongsville wasthe reason I had to get up so

(58:00):
early is because I stayed thereLike I stayed and taught the 930
as well.
So it wasn't like I was justgoing in to teach a class and
coming home and having class at5 o'clock in Brexville.
Whatever I'd stayed at, I teachthe 930 as well.
I remember back in the dayJames was like why don't you
come home between classes?
I'm like I'm not driving out toStrongsville, driving a half
hour teach a class, drive a halfhour home just to stay home for

(58:23):
maybe an hour, yeah, and thenturn around.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
You could get yeah, it's just nonproductive time.
You're just in the car.
Then instead of you could dosome work or do whatever.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
But I mean Colleen's a great teacher and it just I've
been very.
We never wanted to leave aclass in Strongsville for
Brexville.
We never wanted to like sort ofabandon, right.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
What was already there established yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
But this makes I'm not abandoning this just makes a
lot of sense.
It's the right thing to do forme personally and for Colleen
personally, and she's a greatteacher, she loves teaching, and
it's not like I'm never goingto be back there at that time.
I'll sub and whatever so butyeah, it was weird to sleep in

(59:20):
on Monday, if that's what you'recalling that sleeping in yeah,
Well, alina usually is up byfive o'clock.
She's up having fullconversations that the whole
house can hear, and it's usuallyfollowed by go back to bed,
alina.
And then for the rest of usit's like okay, well, we're up,

(59:40):
so now we're up.
But yeah, there's no.
I think we've talked about thisbefore.
There is no slow wake up forAlina.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
No, kids are different.
Yeah, they're up.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
I'm up now.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
They're up.
I'm up now.
That's how my husband is.
I'm up.
Well.
Well, Tigger, I'm not up, sowhy don't you just bounce on out
of the room and leave me to?
I get the best sleep once heleaves the bed, Like get, get
out and let me really sleep.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
I get really good sleep if I get up and do
something for a while, like if Ichange laundry or put some
switch to the dishes and like doenough to, to just be like yeah
, and then lay back down.
If I can fall back asleep,that's when I'm like out.
Yeah, it's phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
And that's what it is Like.
I'll wake up a little bit whenhe wakes up, and then I can
really go and it's like out, outcold.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
And you wake up and you're like where am I?
Yeah, that's good sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I wish I was an early riser, or better at early
rising, and I and I could tryand fix that by going to bed
earlier.
I tend to stay up and watchsomething now, and I don't mean
super late, but I mean I can'tlike the way things stand right
now.
I couldn't just go to bed atlike 930 or 10 o'clock.
I guess I could try to read orsomething or watch something and

(01:01:05):
fall asleep, but I feel likeI'd be laying there with my eyes
open like what, what am Isupposed to do now?
Like I'm not falling asleep.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
My problem is I will like play a game on my iPad like
Candy Crush or something,because I'm addicted to it, and
listen to a podcast and so thescreen is terrible for you, yes,
and I that's.
One thing that will bedifficult for me to do is to,
like I, that should be my newyear's resolution and put the

(01:01:35):
freaking screen down.
No screens after seven or eightor something.
Cause it's.
It takes a while for your brainto adjust.
It's kind of like the suggestionthat you should have your food
digested about two hours beforeyou go to bed, Right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
So yeah, you can't just lay down, close your eyes
and think that everything thatwas just activated in there is
just going to go away, right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Do you have a thing?
I still have this, but it'sprobably more washing my face
now.
It used to be my contacts, likeI would get so tired that I
could fall asleep on the couchand like sleep through the night
and wake up and my eyes areburning because my contacts were
still in.
Soon as I, you know.
It's like okay, time to go tobed.
I'm going to take out mycontacts.
As soon as I take my contactsout, I was wide awake and now

(01:02:21):
it's like that with washing myface, like yeah, as soon as I
drag my ass up to go wash myface, I get in bed.
I'm like just what youdescribed, like okay, what are
we doing now?

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
What are we doing now ?
And that's the thing, too, withgetting older when you're
younger, you're.
You don't care if you wake uplooking like Courtney loved
because she fell asleep withyour makeup smashed on your
pillow.
But when we're old, we don'treally like to do that because
we are don't want to deal withthe laundry, we don't want to
deal with what's going on withour face, so we wash our face.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
I still do it there's time.
I was super tired last night.
I just, yeah, I fell asleepwith my makeup on.
Actually, the other day I endedup taking a shower much later
in the day and like puttingmakeup on and whatever, and I
didn't really do much.
Yeah, I wasn't like out or Idon't know.

(01:03:11):
I mean like it didn't, wasn'tlike, yeah, it wasn't like I
left the house, I guess.
Oh, so it was a waste ofexpensive makeup.
Yeah, but I woke up and itstill looked good.
I was like, well, you know mymascara didn't smear and you
know I still have still had the,the contour going.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Yeah, nice, I cannot do that.
People need to teach me how tocontour.
For one thing, my eyesight isso bad that even if I have a
magnifying mirror, I just can'tdo good contouring or decent
makeup stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Speaking of looking like Courtney Love.
A 24 year old in the house whohas yeah, this is all second
nature too.
It's not even like let's trythis.
She's like this is what youneed to do.
Yeah, and it works.
And so I'm like, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Because if you watch a YouTube video, it's 34 minutes
long and you're like who hastime to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
And I'm like gosh.
It's like you want to jump tothe recipe button, just like
when you're looking for a recipeand they give you an entire
blog about it.
Right, shut up and give me theingredients.
I don't care about your capehouse and where you first dug
these clams, I just want therecipe.

(01:04:26):
But there's a jump to recipebutton.
So we need that on the, on theYouTube.
What did I just use YouTube?
Oh, something Jeff and I wereputting together.
You know, the directions inthese boxes are not awesome, and
but there's a YouTube video nowfor everything.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
You see, a guy put together this bar stool and it
was like, oh okay, that makessense now.
And then, in fact, these fourchairs that we put together this
week, by the fourth one, wewere so expert at it I said we
should have recorded our ownvideo with that last one because
we did it quick.

(01:05:09):
Once you know what you're doing, it's quick.
I can't believe this is aconversation I'm actually having
.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
It's called being a grown-up, huh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Yeah, I've got a lot of Allen wrenches in the house
right now, because everythingyou can put together comes with
its own Allen wrench and they'reall the same.
They're all the same, andactually we have to use Jeff's
drill all the time or his powerscrewdriver.
So I don't know if people aredoing this all with Allen
wrenches.
It's taking years off theirlives.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
I'm just saying you should have your own handyman
corner.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Handyman corner.
We are the least handy handymen and women ever.
In fact, don't tell anybody,but I'm handier than Jeff.
Again, that sounds dirty.
We're not talking about handieshere, I'm just saying that he's
got a good 70% grip on stuff,handyman-ish stuff.

(01:06:11):
James is very handy.
Javier James is pretty good Inthe studio.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
He leaves his talents at the studio.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
He leaves his talents at the studio.
You don't wear a tool belt athome for you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
But I think I'm handier than I give myself
credit for.
But I wouldn't call myself.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
I think it's an intuition thing too, sometimes
with I can't really explain it,but my dad wasn't good at stuff,
so my mom always had in fact itwas a big joke she had this big
pink plastic tool kit, yeah,and we limp along, we limp along
.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
We get it done somehow, some way eventually.
Well, it was nice to catch upwith you in the closet.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
It was.
I think you and I need to setup a good 2024 podcast.
Guest slash topic situationdocument Yep, and I'm going to
since I'm here in the mountainswith some time, I'm going to
take out my notebook and pen andI'm going to do that and I'm

(01:07:25):
going to type it to you and thenyou're probably going to put it
in a spreadsheet, becausethat's how you like to see
things we have we already haveone of those, so I'll translate
it into the Google doc.
Yeah, but it would be a goodyear to have some of those
former guests back.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Yeah, and we need to.
We need to interview Colleen.
She was a teacher spotlight orshe was in the teacher spotlight
in December and we have lotsmore teachers that who haven't
been on the podcast.
We have to make that happen andwe will.
We will make it happen and diveback into yoga.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Yeah, we need to recommit to maybe adding some
photos of things that we'retalking about and you know, and
some more Q and A, that the DaveHoffman Q and A episodes were
really, really fun and they'd befun from some other people as
well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
And I also feel like Dave would probably say yes to
coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
So you think I have all the.
You know we've often talkedabout podcasts that each of us
listened to and so many of themare really educational and
informative and everything.
But I have to say I listenedthis week to guilty pleasure
podcast, in that, for one thing,I don't even know these people.

(01:08:43):
So I've always been an NBCwatcher.
So I used to watch the todayshow always NBC news, whether I
liked anybody or not.
Oh, let me just interject hereWeather person who has not
returned, who had an accidentover the holidays.
But there's a weather personand I'm going to say her name,

(01:09:07):
peyton Domchke, that my husbandloves and she has announced she
is moving on this week and wealways knew it because she was
too good to stay in this marketand she's not from here.
I want to say maybe she's fromChicago, but we're very sad to
see Peyton go.
But any who?
So I was always NBC, whether Iliked who was on or not, locally

(01:09:27):
or nationally.
My friend Steph was always ABC,you know, she was always Diane
Sawyer and Good Morning America,and I mean literally for 40
years.
We've been talking about thisbut is, of course, has been on
my radar who Amy Robach is,because of her breast cancer
battle because she was marriedto Billy from Melrose Place More

(01:09:51):
importantly, andrew Shoe.
But there was a bit of ascandal a year ago where she and
her co-host or co-anchor, tjwere how do I want to say this
were revealed to be having arelationship.
They were both going throughdivorces but nobody really knew

(01:10:13):
that.
So the whole thing lookedreally bad and they ended up
losing their jobs at ABC andit's taken a full year.
But now they just started apodcast called Amy and TJ or JT,
no, it's TJ where they finallytell their own side of the story
.
So it's total.
It is total.
You know, guilty pleasuregossip for me, because I just

(01:10:36):
wanted to hear, I just wanted tohear how that all that went
down.
So I listened to two or threeepisodes of that this week.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Sometimes you need to do that.
That's my favorite murder forme, where it you know, like I
like the Hooperman lab a lot andlearn a lot from him.
But, like I was saying, thatlast podcast I listened to I
think was two and a half hoursand it was all really good
information where I felt like Ineeded a notebook.
Yeah, and I will do that stuffto myself all the time where I'm

(01:11:04):
like I need to pause this andwrite this down, and I never do,
you know.
But again, it's a matter oftime, like you want to, you want
to fill yourself up with someeducational stuff.
For sure you can't do allguilty pleasure, right, yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
And if you don't, guilty pleasure.
That helps me fall asleep, forsure.
Like watching the housewives.
That's another thing.
People, people just roll theireyes when they find out how many
franchises of the realhousewives I've watched over the
years.
But it's like so entertaining,like, do these people live on
the same planet?
Yeah, because it doesn't seemthat way, but it's very

(01:11:40):
entertaining.
Oh Joyce, that was a big yawn.
I could see all the way down toyour toes.
That's what my mom used to sayto me when I was a child.
I could see all the way down toyour toes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
That was a big yawn.
I have been watching the Brownsa little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Have you.
Well, I think this is the yearto watch.
It sounds like they're they'vegot a good thing going.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
But because Joe Flacco is now the quarterback
and Deshawn Watson is who knowswhere having shoulder or having
recovered, recovering fromshoulder surgery, and I just, I
just love this turn that thingsare taking and I feel a little I
don't know, a little not right.
Because of that.
I don't want anybody to gethurt, of course not, but but

(01:12:23):
sometimes karma or the universetakes care of things.
Yeah.
You can, you don't have anybrowns gear to wear, but that's
okay.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
That's right, you got rid of your browns gear.
Huh, throw it all away.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
Hmm, that's okay, though.
I'm okay, I have lots ofclothes Like bra burning.
I won't wear this.
I should have burned my brownstuff.
So an email just went out, oneof our emails that you know like
from modern yoga, and for themost part I get every email that

(01:13:01):
anybody sends, whether yourespond to a receipt or, if you
do, info at modern yoga.
The only ones I don't get thatJames gets are submissions to
the website but he'll forwardthose to me.
So our email list is very bigand a lot of our people are

(01:13:23):
clearly out of the office.
Oh, and you get all those, andso, yes, in this last 30 seconds
I've gotten 27 emails sayingautomatic reply.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
How do you manage, given that, how do you manage
your emails?
Do those all funnel to aseparate place?
I mean, how do you not missimportant work emails when there
are just so many coming in?

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
So I well, I'll get rid of these.
I mean, they're all the same,you know, automatic reply.
This is obviously like out ofthe office thing, right, right,
sure, I'll get rid of thoseright away, but that may sound
old.
I like to work at a computer, Idon't know.
Oh, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Especially for that.
Even if you just teach a classfor an hour, you're there for a
half hour before checking peoplein, and now two hours have gone
by.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
You have to have.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
You could have a significant amount of emails,
and now you're sitting there atyour phone trying to delete,
delete, delete.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
What's not important.
Right, last I think it was lastWednesday, maybe it was a couple
of Wednesdays ago.
I teach one class, you knowwell, and, yeah, one class in
Strongsville from 6.30 to 7.30.
And I put my phone on, do notdisturb, I had eight texts by
the time I was done and I wasjust like I hope none of this is
urgent.
It's, I mean, it's a lot thatwe get.

(01:14:43):
You know well, I get all thebullshit to like the people who
try to sell sell me things youknow like do you want to partner
on Instagram?
Do you need more Instagramfollowers?
I could do this for you, youknow, it's just like.
I don't feel like I owe them aresponse.
You know, and then, people willfollow up and be like hey, did
you get my email last week?
Like, yeah, you're irritatingme and I don't have the time to

(01:15:04):
tell you that, so delete Goodbye.
And then every once in a whileI remember I have a spam folder
and you know how sometimesthings get Right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
The wrong things are.
Oh my gosh, I can't evenimagine checking in on the spam
folder.
I'll check it right now.
I mean, I have trouble.
I can't imagine how you canmanage email.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
So the first one in spam.
Hey, I'm still waiting for yourreply.
I emailed you last week Anotherone.
I sent you an audit of yourwebsite.
Here's my prices.
You didn't.
You didn't respond.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I'll get Sherlock and I'm not going to respond, right
, and then the odd one will slipin there.
That mattered.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
Yeah, and I'm not.
I'm not seeing any of that.
Hopefully I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Just take this opportunity to remind people to,
if something is important, tomaybe put something in the
subject line.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
that would indicate that Well, everybody thinks
their, their thing is important,you know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
Right, right.
Well, like I email a lot ofpeople stupid shit if I but then
like if it's important, I willsay 20, 22 taxes, or something
like oh well, searchable andyeah so, but I guess I was cause
I'm looking at my spam.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
That's what I like.
How do you keep something outof somebody's spam, like there's
a response to from one of ourteachers that has never gone to
spam before?

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Yeah, why would they?

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
go to spam?
I don't know.
That makes no sense.
And then actually a student whohad contacted me elsewhere
maybe she called her somethingwas like did you get my email?
I'm like no, I haven't.
Well, here it is, which is justweird.
I don't know what, what therules are.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
What kind of spam?

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Right, so I stopped looking at my spam, otherwise I
can't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Why did we named it?
Why did we name it after pottedmeat?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Oh, I just.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
I wonder if it stood for something initially, like
the letters in spam.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Maybe just because it's chopped up, excess bullshit
is why it's called spam.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
That wasn't on the list of things for me to avoid,
probably because it's justcommon sense, right yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
I will.
I will research the potted meatand let you know about that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
All right, well, I'm going to let you go, so I can go
now and spam out of my spamfolder.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
And, if this gets, we don't know when this will be
released, but happy, healthy,brilliant new year 2024 to us
all.
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Happy new year.
I will see you next year,literally, which is better than
see you next Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Yes, and with that, all right, we're done.