November 10, 2025 • 32 mins
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell joins Michael Berry to share the powerful story behind his 40-day fast, spiritual transformation, and reflections on turning 50.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
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So Michael Very Show is on the air.
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Night.
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I don't plan to shave, and it's you the thing,
but I just gotta see it.
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I'm done, all right, will I'm mixing O.
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It's I'm beating verdict.
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That's the true.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It's either drink nor drug and no I'm just turn
all right, instagrat.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, first things first.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Shot all of our marines out there, you beloved devil dogs.
Happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps. It is
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the fiftieth anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What did I hear?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The largest iron ore ship in the domestic United States.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I need to check that. I need to check that
fact once more.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Very happy birthday over the weekend on Saturday to the
man who got me into radio, Eddie Martini, who turned
seventy years old on Saturday. That's a big day for
a very very important and beloved person in my life.
It was thirteen years ago today that our family was
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complete and Crockett came home to us. An amazing, amazing
day and this is the day we celebrate every year
as Crockett's homecoming. My kids are very spoiled. They don't
have one birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They have two.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
There is the day they came into the world, and
there is a day they came into our home, which
is equally important to US United States Marine Corps birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes, it is a big day.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Indeed, from when I was reading this story, if I
told you about a woman went to the doctor looking
absolutely fantastic, I mean, this is a very very well
healthy woman and she has spent the money that they
spend on everything to be as glamorous as she possibly can.
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Her hair and makeup done by a professional Gucci heels,
Versachi dress, and a product purse, product purse. The doctor
asked her, well, what seems to be the problem. Man,
She tells the doctor, I've been stung by a nasty
insect of some kind. But I'm ashamed to tell you where.
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It's all right, he said, our communication is privileged. I
won't tell anyone. She said, Okay, it was at Walmart.
Did you hear about the guy who believed only twelve
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point five percent of the Bible is an atheist? In
entertainment news, Billy Joel was angry after finding some wet laundry.
Apparently he didn't start the driver. Stop me if you've
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heard this one. An old, old old man, career politician
with entrenched support within the Houston Black Democrat establishment runs
for the eighteenth congressional district. Al Green announces that he's
been running, that he's running for the eighteenth congressional seat,
saying he will be filing for the March primary under
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the banner the last two people have died in office,
and I will too.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I am not moving.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The eighteenth Congressional district was redrawn such that my home
of more than twenty five years and the constituents that
I have represented for some twenty years are now in
the eighteenth Congressional district. So I announced that I will
be running for the eighteenth Congressional district the permanency.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
His campaign slogan should be I'm black like you, I'm
really old, and I'm stupid.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That has seemed to work for the last folks.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Meanwhile, Greg Abbott launches his campaign for a record fourth
term as governor of Texas. Fourth term all these years,
but now now he means business. If he's elected, he's
gonna lower your property taxes.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
If he just has one shot at it, you know,
you know, after three terms.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
In all, if he gets in there this time, he's
gonna lower your property taxes.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And if you're stupid enough to believe him, you deserve him.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Governor Greg Abbot hoping Texans will keep him in the
governor's office for another four year term. Ibbot announcing his
reelection campaign in Houston's fifth Ward.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
This is the place where I first ran for public office.
We won Harris County then, and we are going to
win Harris County again. This I'll action many of the.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
America.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Did he dial up AI to give that speech for
him and say, give me a guy who thinks he's
being real charismatic, but he could not possibly be less charismatic.
Kind of give him a Ned Flanders voice with an
absurdism to this sort of elmer gantry away. This is
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where I ran for office a very very long time ago,
because all I've ever done is be an elected official.
And now we have come back here to this sacred
ground after all these years that I just keep running
for office and getting nothing done.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And now we're going to We're going to win big.
Please clap, We're.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Going to win big, and if I ever get the
chance to be governor, I'll I'll lower your your property taxes.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You've been there for three terms already. Yeah, but this
time I mean it. Allow me to introduce myself. My
name is Mitta Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Apparently I got Eddie Martini's birthday wrong. He is not seventy.
My apologies, he is seventy one. But it's still a
very happy birthday to him. The lone survivor, Marcus Latrell,
retired United States Navy seal, was honored with the Navy
Cross and the Purple Heart.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
His book became a bestseller.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
His life became a Fantastic movie with Marky Mark in
the starring role.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He and his brother Morgan in the movie.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He and his brother Morgan, who was seven minutes older
than him, celebrated their fiftieth birthday on Friday. Happy Birthday, Marcus. Oh, sorry,
my bad, I mess. Happy birthday, Marcus.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Let's start before we get into the amazing story.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I was a great surprise, by the way, when you
showed up. I just kept that from me.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It was my honor. It was my honor.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't go anywhere I know, I told a buddy
of mine that he texted the way you do, and
I said, it's Marcus Trail's fiftieth birthday and I'm driving
out to see him. He said, you don't go anywhere,
and I said, well, I know this is the somewhere
I'm going. I like to I don't want, I don't't
be predictable. I did go somewhere this year. Tell us
about the great gift you got the Rigby.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Can you believe she got me that? I walked into
the room, the bedroom that night, and it was laying
on the bed and I've been wanting that thing naked
and it was, No, it wasn't. It was dressed up.
But I recognized the case that it came in because
it was unique and I wanted one forever. And just
because of the correlation between mister Rigby, my lab that
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I'd had so long, and the four sixteen caliber on
the actual shotgun himself, which I was baptized on four sixteen,
And there's a lot of significance behind it. And in
my family and the will and the pack down, you
get a cast iron skillet and a rifle and someone
I'm going to be passing down in the family from
here on out, so.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I had been won one.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I couldn't believe she pulled it off too, because this
is an exotic gun. So that was one of the
best ones. And then everyone who showed up was made
the fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
At the Best.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean, there was a lot of gifts that came
rolling in through there. My brother really put out this
year because we played golf every year and every hole
we go to there's a gift waiting on the tea
box for each other. And he actually got me my
old DMX bicycle that I had. I had a diamondback
when I was a kid, and he found that thing
and got it for me. Yeah, I know. It was great.
Matter of fact, though, when I tried to get on
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it and ride, it's crazy how small I used to
be back in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So that was great.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I'll tell you what, man, if your listeners want to
hear Michael Berry's story, dude, when we had when we
sat down and when you all sat down, and I
was sitting there and and my buddy Cody comes walking
up to me and then paint you guys a picture.
This guy's huge, right, He lived like a piece of rock.
And Michael, he's up at the barget something to drink,
and Michael walks up to him and goes, hey, you
know we know each other. You know that or we've met,
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and the guy goes, I don't remember, goes, yeah, we
got in a fight. Man, I knocked you out.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh that's what. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't realize
that's what you did that to him?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
That's face And I go, who did that to you?
Who said that? If? He pointed over to you and
I go, that's Barry and he goes, that's who I
thought that was. He's great. I was like, that was
the best one liner I've everady.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
He does that, So don't don't like he was in
the room, you know, he looked down at my biceps
like trying to check out whether that was true. And
I think it took about point zero eight milliseconds so
he realized, No, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You talk to me. Yeah, I don't think that happened.
Yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
By the way, that's probably the eighth time I've been
to Houston Oaks and I think this every time. That
is a nice place that they have really done an
amazing job with the old Tenneco facility. Steve Alvis Chuck
watch John Havens. They have made that place into something special.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
If you will.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, Hey, Marcus, I don't know if you're on your
back forty or not, but we're losing you. Our our
signal is not too great. I don't know if I
can get you somewhere to get you to stay put.
Kind of kind of beating, isn't it? Ramon, We don't
have good comms with Marcus Latrel. Wow, this is yeah,
this is like the real deal. It's authentic.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I got to keep it authentic.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
There, Oh, there we go, there we go. Well, let's
talk about so.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Your bride had told me when she let us know
about your birthday party that you would be completing the
fortieth day of a forty day fast. She had sent
me pictures from when you started the fast till then,
and I guess it was from a couple of days earlier.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
But my goodness, it is.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I posted about it last night and a lot of
people had questions, I've done seventy two hours, and I
thought I had done something. It's a pretty amazing thing.
You described it as being spiritual more than anything else.
Gandhi was the guy who kind of was famous for
these very long fast. Let's start with what makes a
guy decide I'm going to do? Was this a christ
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like forty days? How did you decide this? Was this
to commemorate your fiftieth birthday?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It was It didn't have anything to do with my
fiftith in the beginning. And to Jesus fastest forty days.
And you know, for the last five years, I've been
studying the faith hard and I've been getting into it
is the one thing I was missing in my life.
And it was definitely a faith, a pilgrimage to test
myself to get closer to God. And I didn't have
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any intention of getting onto a fast because Morgan, my brother,
he does it. He does three days and five days
and some seven day fast. And I remember when he
told me that he was doing that. It is insane.
Why would I even go a day without eating? And
we get so you know, you've been eating since you
were born. You we get so accustomed to it that
you wouldn't even think you could do do everything else
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to get around that. And you even take pills. But
some people do taket to.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Get around around that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
But I wouldn't. I would have never gone a day
without eating. And then he came up to me. We
were at dinner one night and mel was out of
the country and he goes, hey, I'm going to start
my fast. And this is back in September. He's like,
I'm going to go. I'm going to go a week.
Once you go three days, it's good for you, and
you how smart he is. He's been doing all the
research on it. And then the Bible talks about fasting
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a lot and how the benefits of actually doing a
fast and what that does to you, and it's a
It initiates your your body's natural defense mechanism for anything
foreign inside of your body and eliminates it so you
don't actually have to go through all the the.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Pills and everything rated it about what it's called.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, so in day three, when your body hits atoplogy
is when that starts to happen, and then you're actually
going to katosis as well. So he he goes, all right,
I'm starting to day why don't you do it with me?
And I was like all right, you know, okay, he goes,
you only go three days and I'll go the entire
week and I'll be all right. So the first day
came around.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
All right, hold on, hold on just a moment.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
He's older and wiser, now fifty years old. Lone survivor
Marcus Datrel.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Is our guests to receive all runless. I'm for the
dial tone.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It sounds like this the Michael Barry Show top tone
indicates everything is ready for your call.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well on this the.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Marine Corps birthday they're speaking to. I would say the
most famous Navy seal of all time Ramon, wouldn't you.
I think that's a stretch to say. And a lot
of marines work very closely with him. I've heard nothing
but wonderful things from them about him. Forty day Fast
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on Friday, he completed that he stopped drinking several years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But it was interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It was his birthday party and the food was incredible,
and he wasn't drinking anything.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
He was walking around with a bottled water.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I asked him for his routine during those forty days
because my wife was curious, and it was as follows.
Coffee black, one to two cups in the morning, no
coffee after ten am.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
One bottle water every hour till five o'clock.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Then one cup of hot water with lemon and a
little pink himalay and salt for dinner, then herbal tea
till bed. Did you find one of the questions a
lot of people emailed, did you take any super implements,
any vitamins or anything else like that?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What did you find was the hardest part?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know for most people of fasting, when you start,
it is the routine, the habituated nature of eating, and
that your brain is used to doing things just like
a dog.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You know that you begin to salivate based on time.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
What did you find over the course of those forty
days became the most difficult part?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And then that never went away. So I had to
switch it in my head. I started cooking dinner and
all the meals, and then when the temptations would come
on for food, I started watching food videos online, YouTube
and Instagram to fight it. I just I turned it
into a fight. The devil was tempting me and with food,
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which everyone it's good for you. Food is good for
your body knows that, your mind knows that, your spirit
knows that. So this is why it's so tough to
do this. Day three is when you turn, when your
body makes it shift, so you're going from a normal
feeding routine to katosis, and you can feel that. I
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was with Morgan all day that day and I remember
walking around. The best way I can describe it as
it felt like I had taken a Viking or too
much vicating. I was really dizzy and hazy and I
can move around, and then, uh, I didn't have my strength.
Plus I was two seventy and I need a lot
of food calories to move that kind of weight around.
I didn't have that. I didn't gas in my tank.
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But the minute when I woke up on day four
and I thought, I kept telling myself, I was just
make it to day four. We can get through this tuble.
And you're right, the routine is the biggest thing. But
when the minute your body goes into katosis and you
start eating your fat, your fatty like it starts tewing
that away, there's a different kind of energy that goes
with that. And I hadn't felt that before and it
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was great. It was fantastic. Actually, in the autopogy sets,
then you'll you'll kind of hold weight a little bit
and then you'll go I started chewing a pound a
day off and then it went to two pounds a day,
but I would put ten pounds of water inside my body.
So I just kind of stopped weighing myself. I wait
in the beginning, and then a couple of times and
that I stopped. And then my energy and my focus
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is what turned around. Michael. I mean I cleaned the barn,
all the barbecue pits, clean out my closet. Anytime anything
would my met would put me on, or something would
come up in the day, I would focus on it
so intently. It didn't matter what it was. And remember
when we were kids, and it didn't matter what you doing,
it was fun. From either playing in the dirt or
being just anything. You had this kind of bliss that
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went with something that was new and that you were doing.
I had that again. I have that again, and it helped.
And then I just kept telling myself that I would
I would keep the routine. And then anytime it got
two hours to start praying, I prayed a lot, like
all lot, and it from in the morning, and then
with something would come in front of me or someone
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would come over, I would they would have my complete
attention again, which hadn't happened in a long time, and
then when they leave, I'd go back to praying.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Was there a time of day that you found more
difficult than the rest?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Absolutely? And my body, I mean I didn't even have
to look at a watch. The minute one point thirty
rolled around till about three class feeding time. After forty days,
it would not never went away. And that's when I
really started. That's when I started drinking the lemon water
and the salt, and I told myself it was chicken
noodle soup. And after I would get done drinking, and
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I would just tell myself that I was full, like
I had already eaten. And then if my stomach hurt
a little bit, I just would tell myself that I
had something bad to eat, but I was full, and
I just keep going. Because you can't imagine how much
you concentrate on food during the day. You can't imagine
how many food commercials are on TV during the sporting events.
So I'd always watch sports. Thank god football was gone,
because I'd look forward to an event at the end
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of the day. I would take my mind off of
the food. And there's so many things that you do,
and eating doesn't take up a lot of your day. Actually,
you get down, you sit down, we break bread, but
then immediately you're gonna have to do that again. And
I just started telling myself and I'll say, hey, look,
we already ate. Let's just make it to the next
meal and let's do what we're going to do, and
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then that would kind of take the pain away. And
I just got that. I did that until it routined
in my head, and once I got up on Steff,
I never looked back.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's amazing having done fast, as I said, obviously just
a few days, which I thought at the time was
a big deal till like here forty but it's amazing
to me. In a moment like that, I begin to
realize how much we eat to kill boredom. We eat
as an activity, And so I found that doing something
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other than eating, but staying busy, made it much better.
Did you find yourself doing that?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Absolutely, snacking in America, especially like if we had good
food like overseas in Greece and like with the bread,
and you could just eat still lose weight, that'd be great.
But remember the body is its own mechanism, so when
you feed it, it feels that's a drug. Basically, food
is a drug. Because it knows it's getting rewards, especially
if it's great food. I mean, it feels good, but
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then it wears off like a drug, so you've got
to go do it again. And you kind of get
used to that because of how are how good our
food taste? Right, And then normally you're doing it with somebody,
and then you're being entertained by it because when you're eating,
it's usually you know, what's a break, right, you're not
working because that is absolutely what you described and I
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had to break that cycle on that. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
The other thing about that and people who go to
you know, all of those programs Jenny Craig or weight
Watchers or you know, there's one hundred different programs out
there that kind of help you through this sort of
counseling approach is they teach you how much eating is social,
so don't do it with other people because it becomes
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a thing you do to be social, like drinking at
the ballgame or at a concert. And so when people
are thinking about these powerful cravings, some of that is
I think the need to be around you know, we're
social animals. The need to be around someone and visit
with them, and the whole pomp and circumstance of sitting
down to eat together and what are we going to get.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And all that?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If you knew.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I remember when I was in the teams, the only
thing that I really worried about was eating good food,
and then I would do anything else. A man, men especially,
you can go off them and work them till they
bleed and almost die. But if they know they have
a great meal waiting for them when they get done.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh yeah, they'll do it.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And then es Basically, it's sitting around somewhere like a
baseball game with a beer in holleg that's a mariicana,
and it's a good time and it initiates a bunch
of those endorphins in your head that you're having a
good time, and it takes your mind off of your problem.
And when you incorporate those two and then it talked
about into my walls down to the Hey, when you
break bread with people, if you're eating good food with somebody,
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most people aren't arguing.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's right. Marcus Treil's our guest. More coming up, no
matter who's fault today the Michael Berry Show. You have
a photo that your photo matters.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I asked Ramon will never, never, never give up, which
never quit is the Marcus Strell motto. And instead I
got Barry White. Slightly dude.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
He could probably do a forty day fast his own self.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You know what I'm saying, Marcus. You said, Marcus Trell
is our guest. You said you started at two seventy
two to what was your weight when you started?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yes, sir, around seventy two.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And forty day fast. I know you've lost fifty two pounds,
so you got down to two twenty. What's your fighting weight?
What's ideal for you? Where do you feel the best?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You're twenty eight twenty eight? Okay, so even below that,
I am. I noticed you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm back at what I was when I was in
seal training.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Which twenty was was seal training.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Probably, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But you're probably leaner than usually. I noticed your belt.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
You had that look like little bitty kids who are
wearing their dad's pants and belt. I noticed you had
it cinched up real tight, like there was a whole
lot of extra belt. You're on, You're on the last hole.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You had it so tight. Was struggling.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, that's true. You know you get crimped up on
the side, you know, and a certain kind of yeah.
I don't. None of my closees bit anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
So a lot of questions came in regarding your forty
day fast. I do not encourage people to do a
forty day fast, but I do think a day, even
two days, is a very healthy thing. And everybody I
know who's ever done it, it is, it is. It
is an experience, and it's about Marcus and I were
talking about this on Friday. It becomes a power kick
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because when you're when you're fasting, you can be uh,
you can be at a dinner and there's a dessert,
and you will you will order desserts and hand it
to people. It is the ultimate self control. And there's
such there's such a sense of accomplishment to that that
most people will never forget.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Most people are powerless over food.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well, I got trapped in an airplane going to New
York about day five and they were serving lasagni and meatballs,
and mel sitting there right beside me, just having a
great time. She said, this is so good. I mean,
it was non stop, the temptation. But you're absolutely right,
one two days, three Dayspecially if you get three days
where the autophogy starts and starts eating all the bad
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stuff away, like get cancer or anything and lead all
that out of there. And it's it's a it's a
discipline and a wheel tower. And when you get done,
you have that in your mind, like I can do this,
I can get through this. If I can go without eating,
I can do most anything. And absolutely you're right on
about that.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's uh, it's inspired. But so now you're fifty years old,
you were you were thirty when Loan Survivor happened, and
that was an inspiration to a lot of people, including
my brother who was the first person who introduced me
to you through the book.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And the team never quit and that's your motto.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But look, it's like Jim Brown as he aged, or
or Earl Campbell as he's aged, was this for you
internally a moment where you say, I got to prove
to myself I'm not in the grave yet I got
to prove to myself that the young Marcus is still
in there.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So everything that I've gone through in my life, there's
always had to be a rite of passage that I
stepped through to prove not only to myself but everybody
around me that I was capable of something, and then
obviously it was growing up. And then when I went
to seal training the hell when I tend my trieding
on me, I was acknowledged by our peers that hey,
this is what you are, this is what you're supposed
to be. You've done your gauntlet. You went through the fire.
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And when I got out, I didn't have my new
purpose and I had been searching for it, and a
seal training tested my body. Then when I came back
around and I healed up after all the wars and everything,
I was the searching for my new purpose. When I
went into the Eyeba game, I found it in there.
And the Eyoa game tested my mind and that was
my mental gauntlet. And as I graduated from that the
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new fire hell, weic that I had to walk through
to find my purpose, which is obviously into the faith
and being on as far away from more as I
possibly can. I had to prove myself again. And the
way that you do that is you go through forty
days without eating. You go through a forty day fast,
grow closer to God, walk with Jesus, to truly separate
yourself from the earthly desires and everything like that to
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see clearly what I was supposed to be doing. And
that happened to me while I was in there, and
I proved to myself, it's its only own academy. If
you will, there's lessons in there. It was like being
back in school. So every day as I was going
through that, I realized that I was changing more and
more towards my new purpose and that that flame kind
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of burns inside of you. And then when I graduated
on my birthday, I didn't know what it was going
to be on my birthday. This is how I knew
it was kind of a godly thing, because when I started,
I had no idea I was going to go to
forty days. And about day nine, I was like, I
wonder what forty days comes out on, and sure enough,
it was on my birthday. I was like, right to that,
I'll do it, and I never looked back.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
We talked on Friday. We talked on Friday night because
that was your fortieth day. So here are all these people.
You're not drinking, you're not eating, You're just drinking water
and enjoying the fellowship with your friends. And the next
day was to begin your process of kind of reintegrating
into the real world, and it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Was going to be bone broth.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I asked you last night how that bone broth went
for you, because it can be dangerous. If somebody wants
to read about how you come off of fast, you
can injure yourself. You can hurt yourself badly. Your body's
not ready for that. You started with bone broth and
you said your stomach rumbled. Let's talk about what's happened
starting Saturday through today with you trying to start back
into foods.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, let me tell you the hardest part of this
is coming back. And I've had my ass spent plenty
of times. And when I wake up in the hospital
and I'm recovering, there's people that take care of me.
I'm not used to that unless I'm hurt, right, And
now that people are taking care of me and I'm
going through this slow process, I know that I've accomplished something.
So the first forty days were for discipline. These next
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ten to twelve days are for patience. This is what
this is teaching me because I want to eat so bad.
You know, there's four thousand restaurants in Houston, and I
want to eat it, every one of them. I have
literally eaten in my mind everything on the internet. I
had these restaurants in certain states that we're going. I'm
flying there if anybody wants to go with me, that
we're going to hit once I can eat. And this
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is the fact that I have to sip on bone
broth and it's not a hunger thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That's gone.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's not the food whatever. You know, I'll go forever
if I don't have to eat, fine, my body will
eat itself away. I've hit that mental mark where it's
not a thing for me anymore. That's kind of like
what happened to me and steal train with pain. But
I got to tell you, bro I sit there and
they put this little broth in front of me. I
got to have a couple of vegetables in a period, right,
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So it wasn't anything I could chew on. Every now
and again, i'd catch a scrap of something in between
my teeth and I'd be like, oh, thank God, I
think that was an onion. And because I love to
eat a whole big boy, right, and I this past
ten days is so frustrating to me and everyone since
I'm off of it. Everyone's enjoying themselves and eating around
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me and just being like, oh, you got to try this.
And I know that if I do, it'll hurt me.
I could have whip me, and I don't want to.
I'm trying to do this right and follow the directions
and do it.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
My dog.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The best doctors and nurses that take care of me,
and I don't want to disappoint them. And this part
has been a struggle. So if you're wondering on a
forty day fast, that the hardest part is it's coming
off of it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Marcus the trail turned fifty on Friday, which was the
fortieth day of a forty day fast. That's right, no food,
only water and little coffee in the morning, little salt
in the evening. We will talk to him about ruminations, marinations,
and the wisdom of the loan survivor turning fifty coming up.
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Come on, I don't really mean Mari nations there, but
that I was thinking of something that would ride.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You got something better. Congratulations, Come up, Marcus A Trell.
That's sacrilegiously. Did you just say I bet those fasting
founts are awful? That's Marcus a Trell
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Night.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You'll get into Mica. We gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's you the thing,
but I just gotta see it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm done, all right, will I'm mixing O.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's I'm beating verdict.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's the true.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It's either drink nor drug and no I'm just turn
all right, instagrat.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, first things first.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Shot all of our marines out there, you beloved devil dogs.
Happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps. It is
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the fiftieth anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What did I hear?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The largest iron ore ship in the domestic United States.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I need to check that. I need to check that
fact once more.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Very happy birthday over the weekend on Saturday to the
man who got me into radio, Eddie Martini, who turned
seventy years old on Saturday. That's a big day for
a very very important and beloved person in my life.
It was thirteen years ago today that our family was
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complete and Crockett came home to us. An amazing, amazing
day and this is the day we celebrate every year
as Crockett's homecoming. My kids are very spoiled. They don't
have one birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They have two.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
There is the day they came into the world, and
there is a day they came into our home, which
is equally important to US United States Marine Corps birthday.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yes, it is a big day.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Indeed, from when I was reading this story, if I
told you about a woman went to the doctor looking
absolutely fantastic, I mean, this is a very very well
healthy woman and she has spent the money that they
spend on everything to be as glamorous as she possibly can.
(04:08):
Her hair and makeup done by a professional Gucci heels,
Versachi dress, and a product purse, product purse. The doctor
asked her, well, what seems to be the problem. Man,
She tells the doctor, I've been stung by a nasty
insect of some kind. But I'm ashamed to tell you where.
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It's all right, he said, our communication is privileged. I
won't tell anyone. She said, Okay, it was at Walmart.
Did you hear about the guy who believed only twelve
(04:50):
point five percent of the Bible is an atheist? In
entertainment news, Billy Joel was angry after finding some wet laundry.
Apparently he didn't start the driver. Stop me if you've
(05:14):
heard this one. An old, old old man, career politician
with entrenched support within the Houston Black Democrat establishment runs
for the eighteenth congressional district. Al Green announces that he's
been running, that he's running for the eighteenth congressional seat,
saying he will be filing for the March primary under
(05:36):
the banner the last two people have died in office,
and I will too.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I am not moving.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The eighteenth Congressional district was redrawn such that my home
of more than twenty five years and the constituents that
I have represented for some twenty years are now in
the eighteenth Congressional district. So I announced that I will
be running for the eighteenth Congressional district the permanency.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
His campaign slogan should be I'm black like you, I'm
really old, and I'm stupid.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That has seemed to work for the last folks.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Meanwhile, Greg Abbott launches his campaign for a record fourth
term as governor of Texas. Fourth term all these years,
but now now he means business. If he's elected, he's
gonna lower your property taxes.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
If he just has one shot at it, you know,
you know, after three terms.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
In all, if he gets in there this time, he's
gonna lower your property taxes.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And if you're stupid enough to believe him, you deserve him.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Governor Greg Abbot hoping Texans will keep him in the
governor's office for another four year term. Ibbot announcing his
reelection campaign in Houston's fifth Ward.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
This is the place where I first ran for public office.
We won Harris County then, and we are going to
win Harris County again. This I'll action many of the.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
America.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Did he dial up AI to give that speech for
him and say, give me a guy who thinks he's
being real charismatic, but he could not possibly be less charismatic.
Kind of give him a Ned Flanders voice with an
absurdism to this sort of elmer gantry away. This is
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where I ran for office a very very long time ago,
because all I've ever done is be an elected official.
And now we have come back here to this sacred
ground after all these years that I just keep running
for office and getting nothing done.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And now we're going to We're going to win big.
Please clap, We're.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Going to win big, and if I ever get the
chance to be governor, I'll I'll lower your your property taxes.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You've been there for three terms already. Yeah, but this
time I mean it. Allow me to introduce myself. My
name is Mitta Michael Berry Genius.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Apparently I got Eddie Martini's birthday wrong. He is not seventy.
My apologies, he is seventy one. But it's still a
very happy birthday to him. The lone survivor, Marcus Latrell,
retired United States Navy seal, was honored with the Navy
Cross and the Purple Heart.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
His book became a bestseller.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
His life became a Fantastic movie with Marky Mark in
the starring role.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He and his brother Morgan in the movie.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He and his brother Morgan, who was seven minutes older
than him, celebrated their fiftieth birthday on Friday. Happy Birthday, Marcus. Oh, sorry,
my bad, I mess. Happy birthday, Marcus.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Let's start before we get into the amazing story.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I was a great surprise, by the way, when you
showed up. I just kept that from me.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It was my honor. It was my honor.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't go anywhere I know, I told a buddy
of mine that he texted the way you do, and
I said, it's Marcus Trail's fiftieth birthday and I'm driving
out to see him. He said, you don't go anywhere,
and I said, well, I know this is the somewhere
I'm going. I like to I don't want, I don't't
be predictable. I did go somewhere this year. Tell us
about the great gift you got the Rigby.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Can you believe she got me that? I walked into
the room, the bedroom that night, and it was laying
on the bed and I've been wanting that thing naked
and it was, No, it wasn't. It was dressed up.
But I recognized the case that it came in because
it was unique and I wanted one forever. And just
because of the correlation between mister Rigby, my lab that
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I'd had so long, and the four sixteen caliber on
the actual shotgun himself, which I was baptized on four sixteen,
And there's a lot of significance behind it. And in
my family and the will and the pack down, you
get a cast iron skillet and a rifle and someone
I'm going to be passing down in the family from
here on out, so.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I had been won one.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I couldn't believe she pulled it off too, because this
is an exotic gun. So that was one of the
best ones. And then everyone who showed up was made
the fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
At the Best.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean, there was a lot of gifts that came
rolling in through there. My brother really put out this
year because we played golf every year and every hole
we go to there's a gift waiting on the tea
box for each other. And he actually got me my
old DMX bicycle that I had. I had a diamondback
when I was a kid, and he found that thing
and got it for me. Yeah, I know. It was great.
Matter of fact, though, when I tried to get on
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it and ride, it's crazy how small I used to
be back in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So that was great.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I'll tell you what, man, if your listeners want to
hear Michael Berry's story, dude, when we had when we
sat down and when you all sat down, and I
was sitting there and and my buddy Cody comes walking
up to me and then paint you guys a picture.
This guy's huge, right, He lived like a piece of rock.
And Michael, he's up at the barget something to drink,
and Michael walks up to him and goes, hey, you
know we know each other. You know that or we've met,
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and the guy goes, I don't remember, goes, yeah, we
got in a fight. Man, I knocked you out.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh that's what. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't realize
that's what you did that to him?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
That's face And I go, who did that to you?
Who said that? If? He pointed over to you and
I go, that's Barry and he goes, that's who I
thought that was. He's great. I was like, that was
the best one liner I've everady.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
He does that, So don't don't like he was in
the room, you know, he looked down at my biceps
like trying to check out whether that was true. And
I think it took about point zero eight milliseconds so
he realized, No, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You talk to me. Yeah, I don't think that happened.
Yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
By the way, that's probably the eighth time I've been
to Houston Oaks and I think this every time. That
is a nice place that they have really done an
amazing job with the old Tenneco facility. Steve Alvis Chuck
watch John Havens. They have made that place into something special.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
If you will.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, Hey, Marcus, I don't know if you're on your
back forty or not, but we're losing you. Our our
signal is not too great. I don't know if I
can get you somewhere to get you to stay put.
Kind of kind of beating, isn't it? Ramon, We don't
have good comms with Marcus Latrel. Wow, this is yeah,
this is like the real deal. It's authentic.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I got to keep it authentic.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
There, Oh, there we go, there we go. Well, let's
talk about so.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Your bride had told me when she let us know
about your birthday party that you would be completing the
fortieth day of a forty day fast. She had sent
me pictures from when you started the fast till then,
and I guess it was from a couple of days earlier.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
But my goodness, it is.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I posted about it last night and a lot of
people had questions, I've done seventy two hours, and I
thought I had done something. It's a pretty amazing thing.
You described it as being spiritual more than anything else.
Gandhi was the guy who kind of was famous for
these very long fast. Let's start with what makes a
guy decide I'm going to do? Was this a christ
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like forty days? How did you decide this? Was this
to commemorate your fiftieth birthday?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It was It didn't have anything to do with my
fiftith in the beginning. And to Jesus fastest forty days.
And you know, for the last five years, I've been
studying the faith hard and I've been getting into it
is the one thing I was missing in my life.
And it was definitely a faith, a pilgrimage to test
myself to get closer to God. And I didn't have
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any intention of getting onto a fast because Morgan, my brother,
he does it. He does three days and five days
and some seven day fast. And I remember when he
told me that he was doing that. It is insane.
Why would I even go a day without eating? And
we get so you know, you've been eating since you
were born. You we get so accustomed to it that
you wouldn't even think you could do do everything else
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to get around that. And you even take pills. But
some people do taket to.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Get around around that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
But I wouldn't. I would have never gone a day
without eating. And then he came up to me. We
were at dinner one night and mel was out of
the country and he goes, hey, I'm going to start
my fast. And this is back in September. He's like,
I'm going to go. I'm going to go a week.
Once you go three days, it's good for you, and
you how smart he is. He's been doing all the
research on it. And then the Bible talks about fasting
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a lot and how the benefits of actually doing a
fast and what that does to you, and it's a
It initiates your your body's natural defense mechanism for anything
foreign inside of your body and eliminates it so you
don't actually have to go through all the the.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Pills and everything rated it about what it's called.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, so in day three, when your body hits atoplogy
is when that starts to happen, and then you're actually
going to katosis as well. So he he goes, all right,
I'm starting to day why don't you do it with me?
And I was like all right, you know, okay, he goes,
you only go three days and I'll go the entire
week and I'll be all right. So the first day
came around.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
All right, hold on, hold on just a moment.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
He's older and wiser, now fifty years old. Lone survivor
Marcus Datrel.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Is our guests to receive all runless. I'm for the
dial tone.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It sounds like this the Michael Barry Show top tone
indicates everything is ready for your call.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well on this the.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Marine Corps birthday they're speaking to. I would say the
most famous Navy seal of all time Ramon, wouldn't you.
I think that's a stretch to say. And a lot
of marines work very closely with him. I've heard nothing
but wonderful things from them about him. Forty day Fast
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on Friday, he completed that he stopped drinking several years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But it was interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
It was his birthday party and the food was incredible,
and he wasn't drinking anything.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
He was walking around with a bottled water.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I asked him for his routine during those forty days
because my wife was curious, and it was as follows.
Coffee black, one to two cups in the morning, no
coffee after ten am.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
One bottle water every hour till five o'clock.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Then one cup of hot water with lemon and a
little pink himalay and salt for dinner, then herbal tea
till bed. Did you find one of the questions a
lot of people emailed, did you take any super implements,
any vitamins or anything else like that?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
What did you find was the hardest part?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know for most people of fasting, when you start,
it is the routine, the habituated nature of eating, and
that your brain is used to doing things just like
a dog.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You know that you begin to salivate based on time.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
What did you find over the course of those forty
days became the most difficult part?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
And then that never went away. So I had to
switch it in my head. I started cooking dinner and
all the meals, and then when the temptations would come
on for food, I started watching food videos online, YouTube
and Instagram to fight it. I just I turned it
into a fight. The devil was tempting me and with food,
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which everyone it's good for you. Food is good for
your body knows that, your mind knows that, your spirit
knows that. So this is why it's so tough to
do this. Day three is when you turn, when your
body makes it shift, so you're going from a normal
feeding routine to katosis, and you can feel that. I
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was with Morgan all day that day and I remember
walking around. The best way I can describe it as
it felt like I had taken a Viking or too
much vicating. I was really dizzy and hazy and I
can move around, and then, uh, I didn't have my strength.
Plus I was two seventy and I need a lot
of food calories to move that kind of weight around.
I didn't have that. I didn't gas in my tank.
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But the minute when I woke up on day four
and I thought, I kept telling myself, I was just
make it to day four. We can get through this tuble.
And you're right, the routine is the biggest thing. But
when the minute your body goes into katosis and you
start eating your fat, your fatty like it starts tewing
that away, there's a different kind of energy that goes
with that. And I hadn't felt that before and it
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was great. It was fantastic. Actually, in the autopogy sets,
then you'll you'll kind of hold weight a little bit
and then you'll go I started chewing a pound a
day off and then it went to two pounds a day,
but I would put ten pounds of water inside my body.
So I just kind of stopped weighing myself. I wait
in the beginning, and then a couple of times and
that I stopped. And then my energy and my focus
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is what turned around. Michael. I mean I cleaned the barn,
all the barbecue pits, clean out my closet. Anytime anything
would my met would put me on, or something would
come up in the day, I would focus on it
so intently. It didn't matter what it was. And remember
when we were kids, and it didn't matter what you doing,
it was fun. From either playing in the dirt or
being just anything. You had this kind of bliss that
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went with something that was new and that you were doing.
I had that again. I have that again, and it helped.
And then I just kept telling myself that I would
I would keep the routine. And then anytime it got
two hours to start praying, I prayed a lot, like
all lot, and it from in the morning, and then
with something would come in front of me or someone
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would come over, I would they would have my complete
attention again, which hadn't happened in a long time, and
then when they leave, I'd go back to praying.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Was there a time of day that you found more
difficult than the rest?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Absolutely? And my body, I mean I didn't even have
to look at a watch. The minute one point thirty
rolled around till about three class feeding time. After forty days,
it would not never went away. And that's when I
really started. That's when I started drinking the lemon water
and the salt, and I told myself it was chicken
noodle soup. And after I would get done drinking, and
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I would just tell myself that I was full, like
I had already eaten. And then if my stomach hurt
a little bit, I just would tell myself that I
had something bad to eat, but I was full, and
I just keep going. Because you can't imagine how much
you concentrate on food during the day. You can't imagine
how many food commercials are on TV during the sporting events.
So I'd always watch sports. Thank god football was gone,
because I'd look forward to an event at the end
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of the day. I would take my mind off of
the food. And there's so many things that you do,
and eating doesn't take up a lot of your day. Actually,
you get down, you sit down, we break bread, but
then immediately you're gonna have to do that again. And
I just started telling myself and I'll say, hey, look,
we already ate. Let's just make it to the next
meal and let's do what we're going to do, and
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then that would kind of take the pain away. And
I just got that. I did that until it routined
in my head, and once I got up on Steff,
I never looked back.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's amazing having done fast, as I said, obviously just
a few days, which I thought at the time was
a big deal till like here forty but it's amazing
to me. In a moment like that, I begin to
realize how much we eat to kill boredom. We eat
as an activity, And so I found that doing something
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other than eating, but staying busy, made it much better.
Did you find yourself doing that?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Absolutely, snacking in America, especially like if we had good
food like overseas in Greece and like with the bread,
and you could just eat still lose weight, that'd be great.
But remember the body is its own mechanism, so when
you feed it, it feels that's a drug. Basically, food
is a drug. Because it knows it's getting rewards, especially
if it's great food. I mean, it feels good, but
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then it wears off like a drug, so you've got
to go do it again. And you kind of get
used to that because of how are how good our
food taste? Right, And then normally you're doing it with somebody,
and then you're being entertained by it because when you're eating,
it's usually you know, what's a break, right, you're not
working because that is absolutely what you described and I
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had to break that cycle on that. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
The other thing about that and people who go to
you know, all of those programs Jenny Craig or weight
Watchers or you know, there's one hundred different programs out
there that kind of help you through this sort of
counseling approach is they teach you how much eating is social,
so don't do it with other people because it becomes
(23:04):
a thing you do to be social, like drinking at
the ballgame or at a concert. And so when people
are thinking about these powerful cravings, some of that is
I think the need to be around you know, we're
social animals. The need to be around someone and visit
with them, and the whole pomp and circumstance of sitting
down to eat together and what are we going to get.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And all that?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If you knew.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
I remember when I was in the teams, the only
thing that I really worried about was eating good food,
and then I would do anything else. A man, men especially,
you can go off them and work them till they
bleed and almost die. But if they know they have
a great meal waiting for them when they get done.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh yeah, they'll do it.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And then es Basically, it's sitting around somewhere like a
baseball game with a beer in holleg that's a mariicana,
and it's a good time and it initiates a bunch
of those endorphins in your head that you're having a
good time, and it takes your mind off of your problem.
And when you incorporate those two and then it talked
about into my walls down to the Hey, when you
break bread with people, if you're eating good food with somebody,
(24:08):
most people aren't arguing.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's right. Marcus Treil's our guest. More coming up, no
matter who's fault today the Michael Berry Show. You have
a photo that your photo matters.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I asked Ramon will never, never, never give up, which
never quit is the Marcus Strell motto. And instead I
got Barry White. Slightly dude.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
He could probably do a forty day fast his own self.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You know what I'm saying, Marcus. You said, Marcus Trell
is our guest. You said you started at two seventy
two to what was your weight when you started?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yes, sir, around seventy two.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And forty day fast. I know you've lost fifty two pounds,
so you got down to two twenty. What's your fighting weight?
What's ideal for you? Where do you feel the best?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You're twenty eight twenty eight? Okay, so even below that,
I am. I noticed you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm back at what I was when I was in
seal training.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Which twenty was was seal training.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Probably, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
But you're probably leaner than usually. I noticed your belt.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
You had that look like little bitty kids who are
wearing their dad's pants and belt. I noticed you had
it cinched up real tight, like there was a whole
lot of extra belt. You're on, You're on the last hole.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You had it so tight. Was struggling.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, that's true. You know you get crimped up on
the side, you know, and a certain kind of yeah.
I don't. None of my closees bit anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
So a lot of questions came in regarding your forty
day fast. I do not encourage people to do a
forty day fast, but I do think a day, even
two days, is a very healthy thing. And everybody I
know who's ever done it, it is, it is. It
is an experience, and it's about Marcus and I were
talking about this on Friday. It becomes a power kick
(26:00):
because when you're when you're fasting, you can be uh,
you can be at a dinner and there's a dessert,
and you will you will order desserts and hand it
to people. It is the ultimate self control. And there's
such there's such a sense of accomplishment to that that
most people will never forget.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Most people are powerless over food.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well, I got trapped in an airplane going to New
York about day five and they were serving lasagni and meatballs,
and mel sitting there right beside me, just having a
great time. She said, this is so good. I mean,
it was non stop, the temptation. But you're absolutely right,
one two days, three Dayspecially if you get three days
where the autophogy starts and starts eating all the bad
(26:41):
stuff away, like get cancer or anything and lead all
that out of there. And it's it's a it's a
discipline and a wheel tower. And when you get done,
you have that in your mind, like I can do this,
I can get through this. If I can go without eating,
I can do most anything. And absolutely you're right on
about that.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's uh, it's inspired. But so now you're fifty years old,
you were you were thirty when Loan Survivor happened, and
that was an inspiration to a lot of people, including
my brother who was the first person who introduced me
to you through the book.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And the team never quit and that's your motto.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But look, it's like Jim Brown as he aged, or
or Earl Campbell as he's aged, was this for you
internally a moment where you say, I got to prove
to myself I'm not in the grave yet I got
to prove to myself that the young Marcus is still
in there.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So everything that I've gone through in my life, there's
always had to be a rite of passage that I
stepped through to prove not only to myself but everybody
around me that I was capable of something, and then
obviously it was growing up. And then when I went
to seal training the hell when I tend my trieding
on me, I was acknowledged by our peers that hey,
this is what you are, this is what you're supposed
to be. You've done your gauntlet. You went through the fire.
(27:53):
And when I got out, I didn't have my new
purpose and I had been searching for it, and a
seal training tested my body. Then when I came back
around and I healed up after all the wars and everything,
I was the searching for my new purpose. When I
went into the Eyeba game, I found it in there.
And the Eyoa game tested my mind and that was
my mental gauntlet. And as I graduated from that the
(28:14):
new fire hell, weic that I had to walk through
to find my purpose, which is obviously into the faith
and being on as far away from more as I
possibly can. I had to prove myself again. And the
way that you do that is you go through forty
days without eating. You go through a forty day fast,
grow closer to God, walk with Jesus, to truly separate
yourself from the earthly desires and everything like that to
(28:36):
see clearly what I was supposed to be doing. And
that happened to me while I was in there, and
I proved to myself, it's its only own academy. If
you will, there's lessons in there. It was like being
back in school. So every day as I was going
through that, I realized that I was changing more and
more towards my new purpose and that that flame kind
(28:56):
of burns inside of you. And then when I graduated
on my birthday, I didn't know what it was going
to be on my birthday. This is how I knew
it was kind of a godly thing, because when I started,
I had no idea I was going to go to
forty days. And about day nine, I was like, I
wonder what forty days comes out on, and sure enough,
it was on my birthday. I was like, right to that,
I'll do it, and I never looked back.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
We talked on Friday. We talked on Friday night because
that was your fortieth day. So here are all these people.
You're not drinking, you're not eating, You're just drinking water
and enjoying the fellowship with your friends. And the next
day was to begin your process of kind of reintegrating
into the real world, and it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Was going to be bone broth.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I asked you last night how that bone broth went
for you, because it can be dangerous. If somebody wants
to read about how you come off of fast, you
can injure yourself. You can hurt yourself badly. Your body's
not ready for that. You started with bone broth and
you said your stomach rumbled. Let's talk about what's happened
starting Saturday through today with you trying to start back
into foods.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, let me tell you the hardest part of this
is coming back. And I've had my ass spent plenty
of times. And when I wake up in the hospital
and I'm recovering, there's people that take care of me.
I'm not used to that unless I'm hurt, right, And
now that people are taking care of me and I'm
going through this slow process, I know that I've accomplished something.
So the first forty days were for discipline. These next
(30:15):
ten to twelve days are for patience. This is what
this is teaching me because I want to eat so bad.
You know, there's four thousand restaurants in Houston, and I
want to eat it, every one of them. I have
literally eaten in my mind everything on the internet. I
had these restaurants in certain states that we're going. I'm
flying there if anybody wants to go with me, that
we're going to hit once I can eat. And this
(30:38):
is the fact that I have to sip on bone
broth and it's not a hunger thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That's gone.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's not the food whatever. You know, I'll go forever
if I don't have to eat, fine, my body will
eat itself away. I've hit that mental mark where it's
not a thing for me anymore. That's kind of like
what happened to me and steal train with pain. But
I got to tell you, bro I sit there and
they put this little broth in front of me. I
got to have a couple of vegetables in a period, right,
(31:03):
So it wasn't anything I could chew on. Every now
and again, i'd catch a scrap of something in between
my teeth and I'd be like, oh, thank God, I
think that was an onion. And because I love to
eat a whole big boy, right, and I this past
ten days is so frustrating to me and everyone since
I'm off of it. Everyone's enjoying themselves and eating around
(31:24):
me and just being like, oh, you got to try this.
And I know that if I do, it'll hurt me.
I could have whip me, and I don't want to.
I'm trying to do this right and follow the directions
and do it.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
My dog.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The best doctors and nurses that take care of me,
and I don't want to disappoint them. And this part
has been a struggle. So if you're wondering on a
forty day fast, that the hardest part is it's coming
off of it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Marcus the trail turned fifty on Friday, which was the
fortieth day of a forty day fast. That's right, no food,
only water and little coffee in the morning, little salt
in the evening. We will talk to him about ruminations, marinations,
and the wisdom of the loan survivor turning fifty coming up.
(32:14):
Come on, I don't really mean Mari nations there, but
that I was thinking of something that would ride.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You got something better. Congratulations, Come up, Marcus A Trell.
That's sacrilegiously. Did you just say I bet those fasting
founts are awful? That's Marcus a Trell
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