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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Upset quote.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The most important thing here is that we have for
a hero archetypes that we look up to.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jesus is a hero archetype of Superman is a hero
arm type. Real character's two too.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I could name a.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thousand Rosa parks from great in books.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I can't head around this.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I'll help you put a period of Jesus is no
question my faith.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It goes very hard to beat the market, but Dan
Crenshaw did somehow.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
He made a lot of traits, including after getting classified
briefings on COVID policy.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Sure, yeah, why not, don't let us trade stocks?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
About about how about we'll just keep whipping ourselves.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
How about we don't make any money either about just
cut our paychecks. Haven't got a pay raise since two
thousand and eight, even a cola increase?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Actually, no, Yeah, this is a great idea.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Let's make Congress a place where only the millionaires can
actually afford to do the job.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This is a wonderful idea. Let's just keep let's just
keep doing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's always some member right who like who senses the
populist energy, and then and then mirrors, believing that this
is what's going to help me connect with the people,
because what do the people want, Well, I mean they
want an easy button. All my problems will be solved
if there's if there's no stock trading, all my problems
will be solved.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
If there's term moments.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, but if you.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Think about any of these things for five whole minutes,
you know, you might quickly come to a different conclusion.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So we went down to the border, and pretty much
all of the Texas delegation was there. Mike Johnson came
from Alabama or from Louisiana, yep. The southern state congressional
members came down to be with us, and we interviewed
ICE agents, we interviewed US Border Patrol, we interviewed US
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Border Patrol Union, we interviewed ranchers. The only persons from
the congressional delegation that was not there.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Houston Congressman Dan Crenshaw struggling in local polls in the
Greater Houston in his congressional district, being challenged by a
constitutional Republican patriot by the name of Steve Toath, small
business owner, active Christian man of the community, Grenshaw. Well,
(02:26):
I'll just say Grenshaw not a man of the community.
How about we leave it at that. And Grenshaw's been
in trouble. His arrogance since he was elected in twenty
eighteen has turned the district against him. He's polling at
below fifty percent in the primary of his own party.
You never see that. The reason term limits. The reason
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I always tell people, if you want term limits, vote
your congressman out. Oh no, no, I like my congressman. Do
you want a congressman from another district to not be
re elected? Congressmen notoriously win their own district because they
have all the privileges, they have all the money. It's
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hard to beat them. They're entrenched. So Crenshaw's in trouble.
And now a story breaks it's getting a lot of
attention online that alleges that Congressman Dan Crenshaw went on
a congressional delegation to Mexico where he was belligerent and
drunk and he was prevented from giving the speech he
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was supposed to speak at and that the committee Chairman Crawford,
went to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. They
wanted serious, serious repercussions for Crenshaw. Johnson didn't want to
bring attention to this because it's pretty negative, pretty nasty,
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but he was prevented from traveling, says the story for
three months. Well, first of all, why are congressmen traveling
this much? I mean, imagine if it was punishment for
you that you couldn't travel on your company's done for
three months? Why did they need to go to Mexico?
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Can you think of a reason your congressman need to
go to Mexico? What is the point of this? Why
so much traveling? If you only traveled once a year,
then the band would have been for a year. A
three month band doesn't sound like anything. That's like saying, look,
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you've had too much to drink. Now, starting tomorrow at
eight o'clock, you can't have a drink for thirty minutes.
I mean, this feels silly, right, you can't swim for
thirty minutes after you eat. And there we were with
our watches twenty seven minutes moment it's three more minutes.
Can I just go early? Nope, it's got to be
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thirty minutes because if you go in twenty nine minutes
and thirty seconds, you'll cramp up and die. It's got
to be exactly thirty minutes. Gotta be Dan Crenshaw in
big trouble and frankly as it should be, as it
should be. Arrogance in the face of your congressional district.
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We have this Democrat congressman who has been arrested in
charge after spending five point one million dollars of COVID money,
which she laundered through her campaign. I can tell you
where she spent some of it. On them eyelashes. They
look like wings coming off of her eyes. When she
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flutters her eyes, the wind moves a butterfly effect right
there on her head. It's amazing. I mean, wow, these
congressmen are out of control. The arrogance of these people,
the ethical violations, the personal indulgences on our money, the travel,
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the arrogance, the insults. You heard Dan Crenshaw say, Oh,
people think that their miserable little lives will be so
much better if they just had term limits and we
don't trade stocks. But that won't affect them.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
In other words, so you shouldn't be limited on how
long you can hang out in DC and live large
what you've been doing, and you shouldn't be limited on
the fact that you're the number two stock trader behind
Nancy Pelosi. In other words, people think that their lives
will be better if I'm not able to get away
with all the stuff I'm doing these days. People think that,
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but it's just not true. Their lives will always be crappy.
So let me do what I'm doing. So if I'm
insider trading, which I'll never tell you if I am,
you don't need to worry about it because your life's
miserable anyway, and me insider trading is not going to
affect your life. Your life is not any good and
you're not going to make it any better by bringing
accountability to my life. That's a real winner in there. Crenshaw,
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The Real Winter Indeed, Wow Wow, The Michael Berry Show,
Michael Berry Show. The Lone Survivor Marcus Latrell, retired United
States Navy seal was honored with the Navy Cross and
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the Purple Heart. His book became a bestseller. His Life
became a Fantastic movie with Marky Mark in the starring role.
He and his brother Morgan. In the movie, He and
his brother Morgan, who's seven minutes older than him celebrated
their fiftieth birthday. Happy birthday, Marcus.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Let's start before we get into the amazing story.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I was a great surprise, by the way, when you
showed up, because I kept that from me.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It was my honor. It was my honor. I don't
go anywhere, I know. I told a buddy of mine that.
He texted, what you do and I said, it's Marcus
Traill'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. Well, I
like to I don't want I don't want to be predictable.
I did go somewhere this year. Tell us about the
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great gift you got, the Rigby.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Can you believe you 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. 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
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the correlation between mister Rigby, my lab that I'd had
so long and the four sixteen caliber on the actual
shotgun itself, which I was baptized on four sixteen, And
there's a lot of significance behind it and my family
and the will and the pass down. You get a
cast iron skillet and a rifle and someone I'm going
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to be passing down in the family from here on out.
So I'd been won one. I couldn't believe she pulled
it off because this is an exotic gun. So that
was one of the best ones. And then everyone who
showed up was made the fifty at the best. 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
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to there was a gift waiting on the tea box
for each other. And he actually got me my old
VMX bicycle that I had had a diamondback when I
was a kid, and he found that thing and got
it for me.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh yeah, I know it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It was great. Matter of fact, though, when I try
to get on it and write it out, it's crazy
how small I used to be back in the day.
So that was great. I'll tell you what, man, If
your listeners want to hear Michael Berry's story. Dude, when
we when we sat down and when you all sat down,
I was sitting there and and my buddy Cody comes
walking up to me and paint you guys a picture.
(10:19):
This guy's huge, alright. He lived like a piece of rock.
And Michael, he's up at the bar getting 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 and the guy goes, I don't remember. Go, yeah,
we got in a fight. Man, I knocked you out.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh that's what. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You did that to him? Everything that 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
everd He does that, So don't don't like he was
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in the room.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
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 that he realized, No,
I don't think you talk to me. Yeah, I don't
think that happened.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Crack.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah he is. 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. They have really
done an amazing job with the old Tentaco facility. Steve Alvis,
Chuck Watch, John Havens. They have made that place into
something special.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Hey, Marcus, I don't know if you're on your back
forty or not, but we're losing you. Our signal is
not too great. I don't know if I can get
you somewhere to get you to stay put. Kind of vetting,
isn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Ramon?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
We don't have good comms with Marcus Latrel. Wow, this
is yeah, this is like the real deal. It's authentic.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, I got to keep it authentic.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh, there we go, There we go. Well, let's talk
about so. 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
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till then, and I guess it was from a couple
of days earlier. But my goodness, it is. I posted
about it last night and a lot of people had questions,
I've done 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 He's
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very long fast. Let's start with what makes a guy
decide I'm going to do? Was this a christ like
forty days? How did you decide this? Was this to
commemorate your fiftieth birthday?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It was It didn't have anything to do with my
fiftieth in the beginning, And because Jesus fasted forty days.
And you know, for the last five years, I've been
studying the faith real 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 days fast. And I remember when he
told me that he was doing. Now, it's 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
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even think you could do everything else to get around that,
and you even take pills. But some people do ticket
to get around around that. 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,
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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 know how smart he is.
He's been doing all the research on it. And then
the Bible talks about fasting a lot and how how
the benefits of actually doing a fast and what that
does to you, and it's a It initiates your your
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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 pills and.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Everything raised it is that what it's called.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, so in day three, when your body hits utoplogy
is when that starts to happen, and then you actually
go into katosis as well. So he he goes, all right,
I'm starting to day once 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 all right. So the first day came around,
all right, hold on.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hold on just a moment. He's older and wiseran now
fifty years old. Got survivor Marcus Citrell's. Our guests receive
all runletsen put a dio tone. It sounds like this,
the Michael Berry shoe cop tone indicates everything is right
in for your call. Forty day fast on Friday. He
completed that. He stopped drinking several years ago. But it
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was interesting. It was his birthday party and the food
was incredible, and he wasn't drinking anything. He was walking
around with a bottled water. 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. One
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bottle water every hour till five o'clock. 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 oh one of the questions a lot of
people emailed, did you take any supplements, any vitamins or
anything else like that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What did you find was the hardest part? You know,
for most people fasting, when you start, it is the routine,
the habituated nature of eating, and that your brain is
used to doing these just like a dog. You know
that you begin to salivate based on time. What did
you find over the course of those forty days became
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the most difficult.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Part, 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 video online,
YouTube and Instagram to fight it. I just I turned
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it into a fight. The devil was tempting me and
with food, which everyone it gets 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
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a normal feeding routine to katosis, and you can feel that.
I 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 vico or
too much vic it in. 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
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I need a lot of food calories to move that
kind of weight around and I didn't have that. I
didn't even gas in my tank. But the minute when
I woke up on day four and I thought, I
kept telling myself, I was just make it the 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,
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you're fattie like it starts chewing that away. There's a
different kind of energy that goes with that. And I
hadn't felt that before and it was great. It was fantastic, actually,
and then the autophogy sets then you'll you'll kind of
hold way 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
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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 then then I stopped.
And then my energy and my focus is what turned around. Michael.
I mean I cleaned the barn, all the barbecue pits,
cleaning out my closet. Anytime anything would my met would
put me on, or something would come up in the day,
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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 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
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just kept telling myself that I would I would keep
to the routine. And then anytime it got two hours
to start praying, I prayed a lot. They all a lot,
and it's from in the morning. And then when something
would come in front of me or someone 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 go back to praying.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Was there a time of day that you found more
difficult than the rest?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Absolutely? And my body. I mean I didn't even have
to look at a watch the minute. One point thirty
year rolled around till about three less feeding time, and
after forty days it would not never went away. And
that's what I really started. That's when I started drinking
the lemon water and the salt, and I told myself
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it was chicken noodle soup. And after I would get
done drinking, and I would just tell myself that I
was full. I got 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
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sporting event. So I'd always watch sports. Thank god football
is on, because I'd look forward to an event at
the end of the day, and that 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
and we break bread, but then immediately you're going to
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have to do that again. And I just started telling myself.
I was 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 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 step I never looked back.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
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 I hear forty. But it's amazing
to me. In a moment like that, I begin to
realize how much we eat to kill boredom. We eats
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 (21:40):
Absolutely, and snacking in America, especially if we had good
food like overseas in Greece and 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 the drug because it knows it's getting reward. Especial
if it's great food. I mean, it feels good, but
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then where and where is off like a drug, So
you got to go do it again, and and you
kind of get used to that because of how are
how good our food tastes? 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
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what you described. And I had to break that cycle
on that. Well.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The other thing about that, and and people who go
to you know, all of those programs Jinny Craig or
weight watchers or you know, there's one hundred diferent 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
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it becomes a thing you do to be social, like
drinking at the ballgame or at a concert. And so
when people are thinking about these these powerful cravings, so
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
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are we going to get and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
If you knew, 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, oh yeah, they'll do it. And then especially
sitting around somewhere like a baseball game with a beer
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and hollied, that is that's Americana, 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 problems. And when you incorporate
those two and then it talks about in the Bible
down too, is like, hey, when you break bread with people,
if you're eating good food with somebody, most people aren't arguing.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's right, Marcus. The trail is our guests more coming up,
no matter who's fault today the Michael Berry Show, you
have a photo that your photo matters, Marcus, you said Marcus,
the trail is our guest. You said you started at
to seventy two to what was your weight when you started?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes, sir, around two seventy two.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
And forty day fast. I know you've lost fifty two pounds,
so you got down to twenty what's your fighting weight?
Do you what's ideal for you? Where do you feel
the best?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Twenty eight?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Twenty eight? Okay, so you even below that?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I am.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I noticed you.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'm back at what I was when I was in
seal of.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Training, which twenty was was seal training.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Probably, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But you're probably leaner than usually. I noticed your belt.
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.
You had it so tight.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Bro was struggling. Yeah, that's true. You know, you get
crimped up on the side, you know, and a certain
kind of yeah, I'm none of my clothes bit anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
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 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. Most people are powerless over food.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, I got trapped in an airplane going to New
York about day five and they were serving Lasagni in
balls and melts and there robit Stivan just having a
great time.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
She's like, this is so good.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I mean, it was non stop, the temptation. But you're
absolutely right, one two days, three days is the specially
if you get to three days where the autoplogy starts
and starts eating all the bad stuff way like get
cancer or anything, and lead all that out of there,
and it's it's it's a discipline and a willpower and
when you get done, you have that in your mind,
I can do this, I can get through this. If
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I can go without eating, I can do most anything.
And absolutely you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's it's inspiring. 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. And the team never quit
and that's your motto. But look, it's like Jim Brown
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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 (27:11):
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
through seal training the Hellwics, when I pinned my trident
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 looking searching for my new purpose. When I
went in and did the Eyeba gain, I found it
in there, and the IOA game tested my mind, and
that was my mental gauntlet. And as I graduated from that,
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the new fire a hellwic that I had to walk
through to find my purpose, which is obviously of the faith,
and being 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
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desires and everything like that, to 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
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purpose and that that flame kind of burns inside of you.
And then when I graduated on my birthday, I didn't
know 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. And I
was like, right that, I'll do it, and I never
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looked back.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
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 was going to be
(29:22):
bone broth. 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
(29:42):
back into foods.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, let me tell you. The hardest part of this
is coming back. And I've had my ass with 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 process, I know that I've accomplished something.
So the first forty days were for discipline. These next
(30:05):
ten to twelve days or 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 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
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going to hit Once I can eat and this is
the fact that I had to sit on bone broth
and it's not a hunger thing anymore. That's gone. 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. It's kind of like what
happened to me and steal the train with pain. But
(30:46):
I got to tell you, bro I sit there and
they put this little broth in front of me with
I got to have a couple of vegetables in a
bit of period, right, So it wasn't anything I could
chew on. Every now and again, i'd catch the scrap
of something in between my teeth and I'd be like, oh,
thank god, I think that was an minute. And because
I love to eat a whole big boy, right, And
(31:07):
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 me and just being like, oh, you
got to try this. And I know that if I do,
it'll hurt me. I get a whip me and I
don't want to. I'm trying to do this right and
follow the directions and do it.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
My dog.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
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 2 (31:37):
Marcus Strel 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 lone survivor turning fifty. Coming up,
(32:05):
Come on, I didn't really mean Mari nations there, but
that's I was thinking of something that would ride. You
got something better? Congratulations? Come up, Marcus A Trell. That's sacrilegious.
Did you just say? I bet those fasting funds are
often that's Marcus A. Trell.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Michael Very show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Upset quote.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The most important thing here is that we have for
a hero archetypes that we look up to.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jesus is a hero archetype of Superman is a hero
arm type. Real character's two too.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I could name a.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thousand Rosa parks from great in books.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I can't head around this.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I'll help you put a period of Jesus is no
question my faith.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It goes very hard to beat the market, but Dan
Crenshaw did somehow.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
He made a lot of traits, including after getting classified
briefings on COVID policy.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Sure, yeah, why not, don't let us trade stocks?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
About about how about we'll just keep whipping ourselves.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
How about we don't make any money either about just
cut our paychecks. Haven't got a pay raise since two
thousand and eight, even a cola increase?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Actually, no, Yeah, this is a great idea.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Let's make Congress a place where only the millionaires can
actually afford to do the job.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
This is a wonderful idea. Let's just keep let's just
keep doing.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's always some member right who like who senses the
populist energy, and then and then mirrors, believing that this
is what's going to help me connect with the people,
because what do the people want, Well, I mean they
want an easy button. All my problems will be solved
if there's if there's no stock trading, all my problems
will be solved.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
If there's term moments.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, but if you.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Think about any of these things for five whole minutes,
you know, you might quickly come to a different conclusion.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So we went down to the border, and pretty much
all of the Texas delegation was there. Mike Johnson came
from Alabama or from Louisiana, yep. The southern state congressional
members came down to be with us, and we interviewed
ICE agents, we interviewed US Border Patrol, we interviewed US
(01:54):
Border Patrol Union, we interviewed ranchers. The only persons from
the congressional delegation that was not there.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Houston Congressman Dan Crenshaw struggling in local polls in the
Greater Houston in his congressional district, being challenged by a
constitutional Republican patriot by the name of Steve Toath, small
business owner, active Christian man of the community, Grenshaw. Well,
(02:26):
I'll just say Grenshaw not a man of the community.
How about we leave it at that. And Grenshaw's been
in trouble. His arrogance since he was elected in twenty
eighteen has turned the district against him. He's polling at
below fifty percent in the primary of his own party.
You never see that. The reason term limits. The reason
(02:54):
I always tell people, if you want term limits, vote
your congressman out. Oh no, no, I like my congressman. Do
you want a congressman from another district to not be
re elected? Congressmen notoriously win their own district because they
have all the privileges, they have all the money. It's
(03:14):
hard to beat them. They're entrenched. So Crenshaw's in trouble.
And now a story breaks it's getting a lot of
attention online that alleges that Congressman Dan Crenshaw went on
a congressional delegation to Mexico where he was belligerent and
drunk and he was prevented from giving the speech he
(03:37):
was supposed to speak at and that the committee Chairman Crawford,
went to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. They
wanted serious, serious repercussions for Crenshaw. Johnson didn't want to
bring attention to this because it's pretty negative, pretty nasty,
(04:01):
but he was prevented from traveling, says the story for
three months. Well, first of all, why are congressmen traveling
this much? I mean, imagine if it was punishment for
you that you couldn't travel on your company's done for
three months? Why did they need to go to Mexico?
(04:25):
Can you think of a reason your congressman need to
go to Mexico? What is the point of this? Why
so much traveling? If you only traveled once a year,
then the band would have been for a year. A
three month band doesn't sound like anything. That's like saying, look,
(04:48):
you've had too much to drink. Now, starting tomorrow at
eight o'clock, you can't have a drink for thirty minutes.
I mean, this feels silly, right, you can't swim for
thirty minutes after you eat. And there we were with
our watches twenty seven minutes moment it's three more minutes.
Can I just go early? Nope, it's got to be
(05:08):
thirty minutes because if you go in twenty nine minutes
and thirty seconds, you'll cramp up and die. It's got
to be exactly thirty minutes. Gotta be Dan Crenshaw in
big trouble and frankly as it should be, as it
should be. Arrogance in the face of your congressional district.
(05:30):
We have this Democrat congressman who has been arrested in
charge after spending five point one million dollars of COVID money,
which she laundered through her campaign. I can tell you
where she spent some of it. On them eyelashes. They
look like wings coming off of her eyes. When she
(05:52):
flutters her eyes, the wind moves a butterfly effect right
there on her head. It's amazing. I mean, wow, these
congressmen are out of control. The arrogance of these people,
the ethical violations, the personal indulgences on our money, the travel,
(06:21):
the arrogance, the insults. You heard Dan Crenshaw say, Oh,
people think that their miserable little lives will be so
much better if they just had term limits and we
don't trade stocks. But that won't affect them.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
In other words, so you shouldn't be limited on how
long you can hang out in DC and live large
what you've been doing, and you shouldn't be limited on
the fact that you're the number two stock trader behind
Nancy Pelosi. In other words, people think that their lives
will be better if I'm not able to get away
with all the stuff I'm doing these days. People think that,
(06:59):
but it's just not true. Their lives will always be crappy.
So let me do what I'm doing. So if I'm
insider trading, which I'll never tell you if I am,
you don't need to worry about it because your life's
miserable anyway, and me insider trading is not going to
affect your life. Your life is not any good and
you're not going to make it any better by bringing
accountability to my life. That's a real winner in there. Crenshaw,
(07:22):
The Real Winter Indeed, Wow Wow, The Michael Berry Show,
Michael Berry Show. The Lone Survivor Marcus Latrell, retired United
States Navy seal was honored with the Navy Cross and
(07:44):
the Purple Heart. His book became a bestseller. His Life
became a Fantastic movie with Marky Mark in the starring role.
He and his brother Morgan. In the movie, He and
his brother Morgan, who's seven minutes older than him celebrated
their fiftieth birthday. Happy birthday, Marcus.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Let's start before we get into the amazing story.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I was a great surprise, by the way, when you
showed up, because I kept that from me.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It was my honor. It was my honor. I don't
go anywhere, I know. I told a buddy of mine that.
He texted, what you do and I said, it's Marcus
Traill'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. Well, I
like to I don't want I don't want to be predictable.
I did go somewhere this year. Tell us about the
(08:38):
great gift you got, the Rigby.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Can you believe you 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. 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
(09:03):
the correlation between mister Rigby, my lab that I'd had
so long and the four sixteen caliber on the actual
shotgun itself, which I was baptized on four sixteen, And
there's a lot of significance behind it and my family
and the will and the pass down. You get a
cast iron skillet and a rifle and someone I'm going
(09:24):
to be passing down in the family from here on out.
So I'd been won one. I couldn't believe she pulled
it off because this is an exotic gun. So that
was one of the best ones. And then everyone who
showed up was made the fifty at the best. 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
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to there was a gift waiting on the tea box
for each other. And he actually got me my old
VMX bicycle that I had had a diamondback when I
was a kid, and he found that thing and got
it for me.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh yeah, I know it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It was great. Matter of fact, though, when I try
to get on it and write it out, it's crazy
how small I used to be back in the day.
So that was great. I'll tell you what, man, If
your listeners want to hear Michael Berry's story. Dude, when
we when we sat down and when you all sat down,
I was sitting there and and my buddy Cody comes
walking up to me and paint you guys a picture.
(10:19):
This guy's huge, alright. He lived like a piece of rock.
And Michael, he's up at the bar getting 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 and the guy goes, I don't remember. Go, yeah,
we got in a fight. Man, I knocked you out.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh that's what. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You did that to him? Everything that 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
everd He does that, So don't don't like he was
(11:00):
in the room.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
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 that he realized, No,
I don't think you talk to me. Yeah, I don't
think that happened.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Crack.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah he is. 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. They have really
done an amazing job with the old Tentaco facility. Steve Alvis,
Chuck Watch, John Havens. They have made that place into
something special.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Hey, Marcus, I don't know if you're on your back
forty or not, but we're losing you. Our signal is
not too great. I don't know if I can get
you somewhere to get you to stay put. Kind of vetting,
isn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Ramon?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
We don't have good comms with Marcus Latrel. Wow, this
is yeah, this is like the real deal. It's authentic.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, I got to keep it authentic.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh, there we go, There we go. Well, let's talk
about so. 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
(12:37):
till then, and I guess it was from a couple
of days earlier. But my goodness, it is. I posted
about it last night and a lot of people had questions,
I've done 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 He's
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very long fast. Let's start with what makes a guy
decide I'm going to do? Was this a christ like
forty days? How did you decide this? Was this to
commemorate your fiftieth birthday?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It was It didn't have anything to do with my
fiftieth in the beginning, And because Jesus fasted forty days.
And you know, for the last five years, I've been
studying the faith real 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
(13:38):
any intention of getting onto a fast because Morgan, my brother,
he does it. He does three days and five days
and some seven days fast. And I remember when he
told me that he was doing. Now, it's 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
(14:00):
even think you could do everything else to get around that,
and you even take pills. But some people do ticket
to get around around that. 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,
(14:20):
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 know how smart he is.
He's been doing all the research on it. And then
the Bible talks about fasting a lot and how how
the benefits of actually doing a fast and what that
does to you, and it's a It initiates your your
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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 pills and.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Everything raised it is that what it's called.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, so in day three, when your body hits utoplogy
is when that starts to happen, and then you actually
go into katosis as well. So he he goes, all right,
I'm starting to day once 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 all right. So the first day came around,
all right, hold on.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hold on just a moment. He's older and wiseran now
fifty years old. Got survivor Marcus Citrell's. Our guests receive
all runletsen put a dio tone. It sounds like this,
the Michael Berry shoe cop tone indicates everything is right
in for your call. Forty day fast on Friday. He
completed that. He stopped drinking several years ago. But it
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was interesting. It was his birthday party and the food
was incredible, and he wasn't drinking anything. He was walking
around with a bottled water. 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. One
(15:55):
bottle water every hour till five o'clock. 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 oh one of the questions a lot of
people emailed, did you take any supplements, any vitamins or
anything else like that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What did you find was the hardest part? You know,
for most people fasting, when you start, it is the routine,
the habituated nature of eating, and that your brain is
used to doing these just like a dog. You know
that you begin to salivate based on time. What did
you find over the course of those forty days became
(16:41):
the most difficult.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Part, 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 video online,
YouTube and Instagram to fight it. I just I turned
(17:04):
it into a fight. The devil was tempting me and
with food, which everyone it gets 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
(17:25):
a normal feeding routine to katosis, and you can feel that.
I 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 vico or
too much vic it in. 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
(17:49):
I need a lot of food calories to move that
kind of weight around and I didn't have that. I
didn't even gas in my tank. But the minute when
I woke up on day four and I thought, I
kept telling myself, I was just make it the 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,
(18:11):
you're fattie like it starts chewing that away. There's a
different kind of energy that goes with that. And I
hadn't felt that before and it was great. It was fantastic, actually,
and then the autophogy sets then you'll you'll kind of
hold way 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
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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 then then I stopped.
And then my energy and my focus is what turned around. Michael.
I mean I cleaned the barn, all the barbecue pits,
cleaning out my closet. Anytime anything would my met would
put me on, or something would come up in the day,
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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 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
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just kept telling myself that I would I would keep
to the routine. And then anytime it got two hours
to start praying, I prayed a lot. They all a lot,
and it's from in the morning. And then when something
would come in front of me or someone 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 go back to praying.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Was there a time of day that you found more
difficult than the rest?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Absolutely? And my body. I mean I didn't even have
to look at a watch the minute. One point thirty
year rolled around till about three less feeding time, and
after forty days it would not never went away. And
that's what I really started. That's when I started drinking
the lemon water and the salt, and I told myself
(20:06):
it was chicken noodle soup. And after I would get
done drinking, and I would just tell myself that I
was full. I got 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
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sporting event. So I'd always watch sports. Thank god football
is on, because I'd look forward to an event at
the end of the day, and that 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
and we break bread, but then immediately you're going to
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have to do that again. And I just started telling myself.
I was 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 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 step I never looked back.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
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 I hear forty. But it's amazing
to me. In a moment like that, I begin to
realize how much we eat to kill boredom. We eats
as an activity, and so I found that doing something
(21:32):
other than eating, but staying busy made it much better.
Did you find yourself doing that?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Absolutely, and snacking in America, especially if we had good
food like overseas in Greece and 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 the drug because it knows it's getting reward. Especial
if it's great food. I mean, it feels good, but
(22:03):
then where and where is off like a drug, So
you got to go do it again, and and you
kind of get used to that because of how are
how good our food tastes? 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
(22:24):
what you described. And I had to break that cycle
on that. Well.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The other thing about that, and and people who go
to you know, all of those programs Jinny Craig or
weight watchers or you know, there's one hundred diferent 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
(22:49):
it becomes a thing you do to be social, like
drinking at the ballgame or at a concert. And so
when people are thinking about these these powerful cravings, so
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
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are we going to get and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
If you knew, 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, oh yeah, they'll do it. And then especially
sitting around somewhere like a baseball game with a beer
(23:37):
and hollied, that is that's Americana, 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 problems. And when you incorporate
those two and then it talks about in the Bible
down too, is like, hey, when you break bread with people,
if you're eating good food with somebody, most people aren't arguing.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's right, Marcus. The trail is our guests more coming up,
no matter who's fault today the Michael Berry Show, you
have a photo that your photo matters, Marcus, you said Marcus,
the trail is our guest. You said you started at
to seventy two to what was your weight when you started?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yes, sir, around two seventy two.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
And forty day fast. I know you've lost fifty two pounds,
so you got down to twenty what's your fighting weight?
Do you what's ideal for you? Where do you feel
the best?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Twenty eight?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Twenty eight? Okay, so you even below that?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I am.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I noticed you.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I'm back at what I was when I was in
seal of.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Training, which twenty was was seal training.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Probably, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But you're probably leaner than usually. I noticed your belt.
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.
You had it so tight.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Bro was struggling. Yeah, that's true. You know, you get
crimped up on the side, you know, and a certain
kind of yeah, I'm none of my clothes bit anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
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
(25:31):
because when you're when you're fasting, you can be 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. Most people are powerless over food.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, I got trapped in an airplane going to New
York about day five and they were serving Lasagni in
balls and melts and there robit Stivan just having a
great time.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
She's like, this is so good.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I mean, it was non stop, the temptation. But you're
absolutely right, one two days, three days is the specially
if you get to three days where the autoplogy starts
and starts eating all the bad stuff way like get
cancer or anything, and lead all that out of there,
and it's it's it's a discipline and a willpower and
when you get done, you have that in your mind,
I can do this, I can get through this. If
(26:26):
I can go without eating, I can do most anything.
And absolutely you're right about that.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's it's inspiring. 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. And the team never quit
and that's your motto. But look, it's like Jim Brown
(26:55):
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 (27:11):
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
through seal training the Hellwics, when I pinned my trident
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,
(27:33):
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 looking searching for my new purpose. When I
went in and did the Eyeba gain, I found it
in there, and the IOA game tested my mind, and
that was my mental gauntlet. And as I graduated from that,
(27:55):
the new fire a hellwic that I had to walk
through to find my purpose, which is obviously of the faith,
and being 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
(28:17):
desires and everything like that, to 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
(28:39):
purpose and that that flame kind of burns inside of you.
And then when I graduated on my birthday, I didn't
know 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. And I
was like, right that, I'll do it, and I never
(28:59):
looked back.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
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 was going to be
(29:22):
bone broth. 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
(29:42):
back into foods.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay, let me tell you. The hardest part of this
is coming back. And I've had my ass with 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 process, I know that I've accomplished something.
So the first forty days were for discipline. These next
(30:05):
ten to twelve days or 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 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
(30:26):
going to hit Once I can eat and this is
the fact that I had to sit on bone broth
and it's not a hunger thing anymore. That's gone. 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. It's kind of like what
happened to me and steal the train with pain. But
(30:46):
I got to tell you, bro I sit there and
they put this little broth in front of me with
I got to have a couple of vegetables in a
bit of period, right, So it wasn't anything I could
chew on. Every now and again, i'd catch the scrap
of something in between my teeth and I'd be like, oh,
thank god, I think that was an minute. And because
I love to eat a whole big boy, right, And
(31:07):
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 me and just being like, oh, you
got to try this. And I know that if I do,
it'll hurt me. I get a whip me and I
don't want to. I'm trying to do this right and
follow the directions and do it.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
My dog.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
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 2 (31:37):
Marcus Strel 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 lone survivor turning fifty. Coming up,
(32:05):
Come on, I didn't really mean Mari nations there, but
that's I was thinking of something that would ride. You
got something better? Congratulations? Come up, Marcus A Trell. That's sacrilegious.
Did you just say? I bet those fasting funds are
often that's Marcus A. Trell.
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