February 21, 2019 • 50 mins
Amy talks with her childhood friend and family doctor, Kevin Lewis, about how choosing joy is good for your health. We learn about K9s for Warriors and how they’re #PIMPINJOY. Amy’s friend, Adam Bobo, injects her with an IV drip. Why we started following @bossbabeinc on Instagram.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, cass up a little fool for you. So life.
Oh it's pretty much. It's pretty beautiful. Thanks beautiful. That's
a little Mose said. Kicking with four Amy Brown, Okay,
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here we go, episode fourteen. And I gotta say last
week's episode of My husband was really well received. He's
never come on and done anything with me before like that,
So for him to come on, he's a very private
person and do that, it's quite the trooper. And everyone
was so nice and thought he was awesome and funny,
and I passed along the compliments and he was like wow,
which that really helped me because I want him to
(00:53):
come back as a recurring guest. So thanks for sending
your messages so that I could share with him, and
you know, we talked about how to handle mess like
a man. And then I got some notes from people
talking about how since my PMS is so severe, I
might have pmd D and I totally forgot that. In college,
I was diagnosed with PMDD and they put me on
some pill that I would take two weeks out of
the month, and it was sort of like zolof but
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maybe something else. I'm not really sure. All I know
is when I took it. It turned me into a
person that I just didn't really care. I went from
having all kinds of emotions and feelings really not feeling anything,
and I didn't like feeling that way, so I took
myself off the medicine and haven't been on it since.
But I had totally forgotten, or at least when I
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was recording the podcast about PMDD and how yes, I
was diagnosed with that, So I've heard of it, So
thank you for those of you that reached out to
let me know. And I'm just gonna hope that I
can start to get a little more control through maybe
diet and self awareness and breathing so that maybe I
won't feel it's crazy. Someone suggested that I order a
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weighted blanket for some of the things I d so
I did order one of those, and it should be
arriving soon. So I feel like on next week's podcast,
I'll be able to to do a thing about the
way to blanket and review it for y'all and see
if it's something I recommend that y'all invest in. I'm
excited about today's episode because I have our family doctor
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coming on who's also been a friend of ours. Forever.
He's my husband's best friend, and we're gonna talk about
the placebo effect. I have Bobo coming on, who lives
in Nashville. I told you about him, he well a
while ago because he was the one doing Celery Juice
for thirty days. So I get an update from him
on that, and then we talk about I VS because
he has a business in Nashville where you know, you
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stick I vys or stick a needle and tube and
you get a drip and you get hydrated and you
get all sorts of vitamins and crazy things put into
your body. And then, speaking of that, my friend Kelly,
whose podcast is Velvet's Edge, she coincidentally had Bobo on two. Like,
we run in the same circles and we have the
same friends that do really cool things. So we're like,
oh shoot, we gotta start talking to each other. But
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I guess I'll just use this as a chance to
cross promote that he's on her podcast talking about things
that are a little bit different. I'm sure if whenever
I listen to someone on a podcast that I really
like what they're saying, I actually will type in their
name into the podcast search bar and find other podcasts
that they've been on because I want to learn more
and see if they said something different. And I know
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that Bobo and Kelly talk about like hangovers and how
hydration can help with that. We didn't touch on that
in ours, so if that's something that you're interested in.
He is also on Velvet's Edge, so just search out
Velvet's Edge podcast and she has a lot of other
great episodes you should check out too, so if you're
into that. I also am gonna in this episode talk
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about canines for warriors. And then in my recording of that,
I go on a tangent about a book that I
read that I really think, if you haven't read that,
you need to read this book because I forgot how
amazing it was. It makes me wish that I hadn't
read it yet and I could go back and read
it because it was one of those books I could
not put down. And then I have a really amazing quote,
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or even a couple of quotes actually that I want
to share with you all. Two So that's all in
today's episode. Oh one more thing before we dive in,
I want to talk about step that challenge because I
had so many of you that did the same step
back game that I did, and I was under Aaron
Opria's which Aaron is someone that comes on this podcast
a lot. She's a celebrity trainer and she's awesome, and
(04:27):
she just texted me that the next step bet game
is starting and that Monday. Let me pull up my calendar.
Of course I'm on the wrong month, guys. I just
really need to be more prepared than this. Monday, February
is a deadline is sign up, but then you have
like this week grace period that's like the warm up week.
So technically you have a little bit more time, but
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I like to get right in, so I as soon
as I finish recording this, I'm going to sign up.
So thank you Aaron for texting me to let me know.
If you haven't done step bet, what you gotta do
is download the step bet app and then put in
the game code, which is Aaron Opria E R I
N O p R E A Boom. You pay forty dollars,
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you join the step back game. If you complete all
your steps within the six weeks challenge, then Boom you
get your money back and you split the pot of
everybody else that dropped out. So last time I did it,
and I won my forty bucks back, and then I
won more money that was left over from other people
that quit. So it was actually pretty fun and amazing
and it held me accountable and I moved way more
than I've ever moved, and it felt good to just
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walk around and do things. So I just wanted to
let y'all know since I get so many emails about
the step that challenge. That Monday, a new game starts
for Aaron and that's the one I'll be joining if
you want to play the one I'm playing, so boom,
all right, Well let's get started. Man. I just looked
at the clock and it's been five minutes. Like I
just rambled to you all for five minutes. I didn't
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mean to do that. Here we go, I have a
long I'm how long have I known you? Kevin? Oh
my gosh. Yeah, okay, So doctor Kevin Wayne Lewis isn't here.
And if you hear noise in the background, it's legit
because I'm recording another podcast today with Bobo and he
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is administering I V into my arm like hydration to
get me ready for family feud because we're taping this
before we fly to l A to do that, and
I feel like I need to be as sharp as possible.
And when you're dehydrated, are you bobo? If you're dehydrated,
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you're not as sharp. Correct. Correct. So I'll have a
whole podcast whip Bobo about that. But I've got Kevin
here because he's in town from Austin. He is our
family doctor that we grew up. Um well, I mean
I didn't grow up with you as my doctor, but
your dad was my doctor growing up. And then you
decided to go to medical school, which I think a
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lot of people were like what okay, And then now yeah,
you you did it. You're a doctor, but you have
been for a really long time. And so you now
take care of my family, and you take care of
Bobby and a lot of other friends of mine that
see you that I didn't even know see you. But
sometimes I'll post about you and they'll be like, how
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do you know my doctor? I'm like, I can't talk
about that stuff. Oh that's Kevin is so by the
book when it comes, which hey, you should be. He's
fine for a single violation. Yeah, So Kevin, Kevin took
care of my mom and excellent care of her too
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when she had cancer. He again, it's just a family doctor.
He so he wasn't like her U what is it
called oncologist or anything. But there were times where she
would have an issue and Kevin would we'd call to
address it or whatever, and I would be trying to
ask Kevin questions. He's like, I really can't discuss that
with you right now. And I'm like, Kevin, I'm trying
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to take your mom. You just sit care of her.
And he's like, well, technically, I don't even know if
I can tell you I saw your mom today. And
I'm like, I know you saw my mom today, Just
tell me. So anyway, Hippa, if you're listening, we're playing
by the book. He's solid. He's your boy. So since
Kevin's in Nashville visiting this weekend, his kids are really
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close with our kids. In fact, they're so close they
call each other cousins. And his wife, Michelle is in town.
So anyway, we're we're hanging out and I thought, well,
you should come up to do a podcast about placebo effect,
which we had a fancier way to say it. What
was it? The benefits of placebo? The benefits of placebo,
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so you can you can tell patients walk me through this,
like I know, positive thinking and speaking to my mom
whenever she was in treatment, doctors would say that they
saw a legit different difference in patient that had a
more positive outlook on the whole experience, right and so,
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and my mom's whole theme during cancer was choose joy.
It was the whole pimp and joy thing, and we
tried to maintain that joyful attitude, which I think did help.
I mean, ultimately she lost her badly cancer. But I
mean it's not going to keep you alive. But what
is it that, like, what is so powerful about us
thinking that the medicine is going to work that actually
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makes the medicine work. Well, the kind of a crazy
thing is we don't know why it works or how
it works. But they've done some studies, like Harvard has
done a couple of studies, and historically placebo was used
to tell us whether a medicine works or not. So
like advil take ADVI for example, and you have a
headache and you're in a part of a study, Uh,
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they'd give ten people who have headaches advil and give
ten people sugar pill and then see if who responded,
if they were the same response rates, then would say
that the medicine didn't work because it was the same
as something that doesn't have any active ingredient in it.
But what they started to find out after research certain
things like mood depression, pain control, um in insomnia, that
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placebo there's a placebo effect that actually does have a
positive response. So if you're taking take a pill at
nighttime to help you get better sleep, and you believe
even if you even even if you know it's a placebo.
There was another study down in two thou fourteen where
people knew they were taking a placebo pill. It said
placebo on it, but they still had a reduction in
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their symptoms just because they were taking something that's right.
So they need that for for sleep. Like I've been
really trying to focus on sleep, and actually on my
podcast that aired last week, I had some sleep hygiene
tips from a nurse that specialized in that, and one
of the things was, you know, a lot of don't
use wine to go to sleep, and like what I
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love Donald Glad the wine every night right before bed,
but it disrupts the actual you get worse sleep with alcohol. Well,
that's the only way I can fall asleep these days.
So I'm just kidding people, but I mean a little bit.
But so maybe if I just get a water bottle
and put sleep juice, right, sleep juice on it, and
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then just drink a bottle of water, and then you
should have better sleep. Yeah, maybe I put it in
my little cute little tumblers that I'd like to drink
wine out of and make it purple and drink my
sleep juice. But it's not really wine, that's right. I
feel like that's what helps me go to sleep. So Okay,
back to maybe patients that come in and you're giving them,
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like say, I come in and I need medicine for
something that that's kind of a controversial area because it's doctors.
The number one thing that we have to maintain with
our our patients is just informing them right and letting
you in truthfulness, and so you almost lose the ability
to have a placebo effect. Let's take let's take a medication.
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You know, anytime, what I try to do is tell
patients that I have confidence in what we're treating. If
I'm giving them a medication, I think this is really
gonna work for you, because I do believe that because
I'm choosing the best medication for a patient specific medical
need and I want to be positive about it because
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I want them to feel positive about it. But the
backside of that is we also have to or need
to review side effect profiles with them, right, So it's
just contradictory. So we don't really get to benefit a
lot from placebo um. But just you saying what is
it you say, I think I'm confidence that this is
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going to Just you saying like, say, if I needed
something and you were like, Amy, I have confidences this
is going to work, then in my head I'm like, wow, Okay,
he's pretty confident about this. So then internally I'm getting
confident about out it. And then so I could be
causing so especially with those things that we talked about,
mood like depression, insomnia, pain, I feel like that with
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my doll. So my doll I take for cramps, but
mostly you're supposed to take it when you're on your period,
but I'll take it all month long, and it because
it says on the bottle that it helps with bloating, mood,
you know, all the things. So now while I'm taking it,
probably for cramps during that time in the month, if
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I take it not during that time of the month.
Like I just popped the mid All when I want
to feel good, and I feel like it makes me
feel good and I'm less bloated. But I have no
idea if you should probably replace twenty five of those
mid All pills with fish oil, but put them in
the mid A bottle. That way I'll be getting my
fish oil. That's right, because essentially an insect, and so
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I shouldn't take it then, I mean, you don't want
to take it every day. I don't take it daily. No,
I just said sometimes it may not be that time
of the month. Oh, but you just take it and
you feel bad. But I take it, and I'm like,
there's something about knowing I took my doll, like I
instantly feel better. But there's caffeine in it, right, But
I think I've convinced myself that might all makes me
feel better. I feel better when I eat carrot, Kate,
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and your eyes look prettier. I got to see it,
I can see in the dark. No, I think that's
the placebo fact making fun of me. We know it's real,
we know it's a thing. And then UM, and there's
certain areas of medicine that I think it does play
significant difference. Now, it's not going to save somebody who's
having a heart attack or prevent somebody who has cancer
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from progression of that, but I think that there's some
ways that are probably immeasurable to us in science right now.
They will never really be able to truly understand the effect.
But they did functional m r I s I think
in two thousand and fourteen on these patients that there
were three groups that one group got no medicine, one
group got a placebo, and the other group to the
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actual active ingredient medicine, and the all the two that
we're getting taking medicine they had on functional m r
I they showed changes in the frontal cortex. So it's
kind of we believe that it's it's tied to our emotion.
The frontal cortex, uh, the frontal lobe, sorry, is mostly
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associated with emotion and impulse control and these sorts of things.
So I just think that the you know, when you
have a positive perception or or acceptance of what you're
taking or putting into your body, whether that be health
food or healthy diet, or exercising that it makes for
a healthier individual. Okay, yeah, so it's real, but it's
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almost impossible to quantify and it's and to specifically understand
where how it works. That makes sense. But overall, if
let's say, and this is going back to kind of
what when my mom was facing hurt, when she was
in treatment and facing all of that. Um, if we're
diagnosed with something or we're given something, overall, like attitude
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can play a huge role in what your journey is
going to be. Like, Like, your journey can either be
pretty miserable or you have a choice to like and
your body may respond like just given because you you
said you can't quantify it, like you can't, there's no
way to really know. There's some things that we do know,
especially like in your mom's case or people that are
suffering from, you know, something that's expected to be terminal.
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There's a psychological aspect where they're suffering. They're having to
fight off depression, and all of those things are associated
with neurotransmitters. And when we think positively, things like dopamine
get released that have a positive effect on our bodies. UM.
Dopamine is a big one, and do we understand it
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from that point all the way down to how we
feel exactly. No, but we know that these things are happening.
And so I think that a conclusion can be you know,
if you have to go through something like anything like
if you have a headache or you're going through a
cancer treatment, that having positive, positive thinking and believing in
what's going on and what you're doing to help and
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your lifestyle and the choices you're making is going to
have a positive effect. Yeah, okay, I love it. And
then you just need people around you to tell you
that's right, that they have confidence that what you're doing
is working right, and then you will have that like
I'm getting this, I V right now, and I have
so much confidence in you right now, Bobo, so much
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confidence in this. You're probably going to set a record
and family feed an you're gonna break probably a fifty
year swing here. And when you go to the family
feed Yes, and and I'm gonna I'm gonna take my
bottle of believe that if you drink the night before,
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uh bottle of your sleep juice, take two my dolls
and get one more ivy. But the visually I have, well,
you don't need to know that just take the pill.
I have a confidence that you're gonna set some sort
of record on the family feud. Okay, thank you welcome.
I know I'm confident in that too. Okay, so thank
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you Dr Kevin Lewis for coming on. He's Lewis Family
med Out and dripping springs off to nine. What what
does it say on the fancy sign outside Lewis Family
Medicine and Urgent Care. That's it. That's it. There's a
little pharmacy there that sells smoothies. Yes, coffee, you're making it.
It's not my pharmacy, I know. But it's in the
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it's in your building that you put together with people.
It's like we're all grown up in the community. I know. No,
we used to be kids, and now you got your
name on the outside of a building. Scary, and people
come and trust you with their life. I trust you
with my life, and I have all the confidence that
you'll take good cure of Meum. So if y'all are
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in Austin or nearby, then go see Kevin and then
his wife Michelle say hey, she's also getting an ivy
just because um gotta stay hydrated and sometimes you're at
the office, right, Michelle. Sometimes sometimes she's there, so you
might see both of them, Right, Kevin, you want to
how do you want to say by to people? By everybody?
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Until next time? No words of doctor, be positive and joy.
There we go, Pimp and Joy alright over. Now. I
don't know if y'all are familiar with Canines for Warriors,
but it's a really awesome organization that is doing great
things for our military people. They provide service dogs. Obviously
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by the name that probably gave it away, but Canines
for Warriors. But they are amazing and we teamed up
with them last year. We sold a been Joy shirt.
It was our retro one the first time we did,
like the repeat Pimp and Joy and it was like orange, red, yellow,
whatever on a gray tea. So if you have that,
you were a part of this really cool thing. So
I'm using one of my things to update y'all on
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something really cool. And if maybe you're like, I've never
bought anything Pimp and Joy, we'll just know that it's
a movement that we do. I've just talked about it
a little bit here on the podcast. It was inspired
by my mom. It's all about choosing joy, spreading joy,
being Joy, all things Joy, and we have a line
through the Shop Forward where all the proceeds go towards
various causes, and we did the retro line last year
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that went towards dogs for Canines for Warriors and we
ended up getting dogs and the dogs were named after
everyone on the show, like Bobby, Amy, Lunchbox, Eddie, so cute,
and I have an update because it takes a while
for this to happen. It's not just like, oh, boom,
there's a dog. I mean, obviously there's a lot that
goes into this. The dogs have to be born, they
have to be trained, they have to go through everything,
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and then you finally find out about them. And we
got an update. Bobby is now officially a dog. He's
the only one we know about right now. But I thought,
if you've helped out with him and Joy, if you
have a retro shirt, you'd appreciate this update. But even
if not, just learning about Canines for Warriors is super
cool because they help out military people that are coming
back with PTSD traumatic brain injury. I mean, just think
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about it. There's all kinds of things that are military
people deal with that we just can't even imagine. I mean,
I'm married to someone that was in the Air Force
for twelve years, and I see stuff with him sometimes
where I'm like, Hey, do we need to talk about this.
I mean, we're not in a position where we would
need a dog, but we have friends, we know people
that would benefit from something like this. And the fact
that the canine program through Canines for Warriors is a
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percent free for the veteran is amazing. And they provide
um these soldiers with a service canine with equipment, training, certification, seminars,
legal instruction, vet care, housing, home cook meals, unconditional love
and listening, and a lifetime of wrap around services including
available life long healthcare and food for their dogs, which
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is huge. This makes me think of and I know
he didn't get it through Canines for Warriors, but I
don't know if you'll ever read the book Loan Survivor,
and then they eventually did a movie about it, and
he's this Navy seal that survived something that he just
should not have. Obviously, I'm not giving things away by
the name of the book because it's called Loan Survivor,
so obviously everyone else on his team did not make it.
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But afterwards he had a dog, and his relationship with
his dog was so special and intense, and then some
crazy kids now here, I am doing this positive segment
about pimp and joy and canines for warriors. But this
is how my brain works. But I want y'all to
go read the book if you haven't. Well, actually this
part is not even in the book because this happened
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after the fact, so I'm not giving anything away from
the book. But I read the book, was really invested
in the story. And then later saw on the news
that Marcus Latrelle's dog had been randomly shot by some
punk kids that were just out shooting a gun and
like wanting to kill animals, and Marcus Latrelle, the Navy seal,
he hunted them down. Yeah, like these kids messed with
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the wrong person. Like he got in his truck, chased
them down. He called one while it was happening, and
even in the nine one one call I, they put
it out there and you could hear it. He's like cool, calm, collected,
like some kids just shot his dog, and he's driving
like ninety miles an hour or maybe faster if I recall,
and he's just on the phone number one like, hey,
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some people shot my dog. I'm going after them, like
what up? And he was able to tell the dispatcher
the roads they were heading on, and police were able
to intercept the kids and pretty sure they got arrested.
And I don't know, crazy story, but I remember his
relationship with his dog being so crucial to his healing
after he came back and he was the lone survivor.
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It's just you know how pets can be, Like, I
haven't even been through something crazy like that. And my dog. Oh,
I had a dog for ten years of my marriage.
Were married twelve, Okay, so for eleven years of our
marriage we had a dog. And we got her right
when we moved to North Carolina for my husband's assignment
at Fort Bragg. And I survived that first year because
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of Josie, my sweet little role byler. She really actually
wasn't that sweet, but I loved her to death. She
had an issue with trucks and trailers in a fierce bark,
but she really was precious and I survived because of
my dog, so y'all know how special animals can be.
And then we lost her last year to cancer, and
that was really hard and a few months ago, we
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brought a new dog into our life, Cara, and she's
now precious and she's you know, we're all getting used
to her. But she'll eventually fill that void that Josie had.
She's not quite there yet because Josie was so special
to me, but Cara will be that dog for our
family and for my kids. So anyway, all this to say,
pets are so important, and I don't have to tell
you that doesn't have to be a dog. Maybe for
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some of you it's a cat or a bird or
a lizard or something. I don't know. But this is
the letter that was sent to Mary and the shop
forward on us the Bobby Bones show um for the
Pimp and Joy dogs that we were able to buy
all because y'all supported Pimp and Joy and bought stuff
when we were trying to fundraise for these dogs. So
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this is the letter. It says, we are thrilled to
be sending you this letter because that means that the
dog you have generously sponsored has entered our kennel for training.
We couldn't be more thankful for your generous donation and
support that will save a warrior's life. Included as a
picture of your sponsored dog, Bobby. Our trainers have carefully
selected him and we will continue to update you on
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how he's doing in training. If you have any questions
regarding the dog or the process, we would love to
hear from you on behalf of the men and women
that we serve, and from all of us at Canines
for Warriors. We thank you. With your support, we can
continue to empower our veterans to overcome the invisible wounds
of war and return to civilian life with dignity and independence. Gosh,
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I kind of got a little choked up reading that
last line because I'm also looking at a picture of
this sweet dog now named Bobby, and a veteran is
going to like have Bobby, a little Bobby and a
little lunchbox and a little Amy and others on the
show because of awesome people like our listeners that support
Pimp and Joy. And if you'll ever want to check
out any Pimp and Joy merch we have, it's the
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shot forward dot com. So anyway, a little update. I'll
try to do more Pimp and Joy updates since I
know y'all are so supportive of the things that we
get to do, and it's just good to keep you
all in the loop. And then Mary also sent over
a bunch of pictures of the little dog Bobby with
his vest like out and about like doing some training,
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and it's just it's just emotional to see, like how
cool we can come together. It's one of those things too.
I mean these because these dogs are super expensive and
that's why, I mean, we had to sell tons of
shirts to make this happen. But it reminds me of
the Starfish story, which I've shared on the podcast. Before
you know, you're buying one shirt, which really you know,
the proceeds from that could sort of make a little
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bit of a difference depending on what it is. But
when we all come together and tons of people buy
one shirt, then we're able to buy multiple dogs to
help service members come back and acclimate to life, like
become civilians and whatever they're dealing with, the dogs can
help them. So we all came together on this one.
It's super cool. And so for now we just have
the Bobby dog. But I'll update y'all is more dogs
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come about and keep supporting whatever it is, whatever you're
out there doing. It doesn't have to be pimp and joy.
It doesn't have to be a squaw. It doesn't have
to be anything that I say on here, but just
go spread joy however you can. And it doesn't even
necessarily have to involve money. It could be just doing
a simple act of kindness for somebody, random act that
is all part of spreading joy, and it'll be a
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domino effect for sure. So pimp and Joy. I love
the is inspired by my mom. It just makes me
so happy. She would freak out looking at this picture
of the little Bobby Dog for sure. And now I'm rambling.
But back to Lone Survivor. I bring that up again
because I was traveling the other day we did Bobby
Feud or I call it Bobby food because that's what
(28:00):
call it on the Bobby Bones Show. But we did
celebrity family Feud with Steve Harvey, and I was traveling
and I was looking for a good book to read
at the airport, and I just really now that I'm
thinking back when I was reading Lone Survivor. That's a
book that I was so into and I could not
put it down. So if y'all have any good book recommendations,
let me know. Four Things with Amy Brown at gmail
dot com. Okay, so I've got Adam Bobo and I
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kind of teased this in my podcast with um Kevin
Dr Lewis that was in and so now we're on
to Bobo. What's your real name is Adam? Your last
name is a Bobo, like for real, it's everybody calls
me Bobo Town. So yeah, because if you have a
last name like Bobo, then it's easy to remember. So
(28:49):
let's talk about how you have the same profession as
Dirty John, the guy that's like this podcast phenomenon at
the moment. We actually went to the same school. You
went to the same school as Dirty John, which is crazy.
And if y'all haven't listened to the Dirty John podcast,
well finish my podcast and then go binge Dirty John
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because it's crazy. This guy completely I don't even know.
I mean, he really was a legit and well you
went to the hold of them are the same school.
So he was a legit and atusiologist like nurse nurs
so and then he but he was also psychotic and
would manipulate women. And this one, poor little it's mind blowing.
(29:35):
It's crazy. Yeah, he was let's just say, oh he
would he was supposed to be administering drugs to patients,
and he got so desperate for drugs that he would
act like he was injecting it into their ivy and
then he would put it in his pocket so he
could take it home and inject it in himself like crazy.
He's a master manipulator. That's like the best way to
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describe master. Thank you there you go, So to work
to everything, um clearly had to be very manipulative and
charming and all kinds of things, because there's no way,
like any normal person is going to be going back
to get with him. And this one woman, she like
kept going back to him, and I'm like, what's wrong
with you? You just like the nicest woman ever. Like anyway,
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So that's your profess. That's how you got into i VS.
That's your profession. Yes, the CRNA part, and then from that,
I mean you were in the operating room for a
long time, four years of anesthesia for open heart surgery.
It's pretty legit. And then you know i VS are
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becoming more and more mainstream and popular. I feel like
when you first started to see it, it was kind
of just on Instagram and like, oh, celebrities are getting
it done or it's like this concierge thing that's in
like Vegas or l A or and that people would
do after a night of drinking to get rehydrated. Um.
(30:59):
But now you see a lot of cities I traveled to,
I mean in Nashville and Austin, there's little shops popping
up where you can walk in and you know, get
an IVY drip. I mean, depending on where you're going,
because I know you're very particular about what you do
and the type of stuff you use. But just for
people that are listening across the country, like you may
start to see these pop up because it's it's becoming
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increasingly more popular and more mainstream and something people are
investing in because they feel like, oh, this is like
the thing to do for my body. So what are
the benefits of Like why would I want to get
a bag of hydration? Is that what we call it?
Why why would I want to get a vitamin bag? Now?
(31:41):
We could be here all day with all the different
variations of what we could get, and I want to
focus on a few in a second, But like, how
much water am I getting right now? Because y'all have
an IVY in me while we're doing this. Yeah, So
The long and short of it is is that anything
you consume by mouth, you can assume that you really
absorb around, whether drug, vitamin C and emergency or water anything.
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Really you're really getting about of that value number. Um
when you take a leader of fluid like this, you're
getting around. It's hard to really put an exact number on,
but like two point two to two point five gallons
of orally consumed water, Like I have to p right now,
right now, but I mean I've connected to a two two,
(32:24):
so I can't go pee right now. But but the
thing about this fluid is that it stays in your veins,
for lack of a better way of putting it, for
four or five minutes to an hour's reached my bladder
yet from earlier, we're flushing out the old stuff. Okay,
while I've got you here, and I'm sure because you
hydrate people staying hydrated. I did on a previous episode.
(32:47):
I talked about water consumption and just how important it
is to stay hydrated. Do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah,
I think that the two biggest help things that we
can simply do for ourselves stay hydrated, And those are
the two things you can't beat that. Like you can
take every pill, take every vittamin, do every reginaty of
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medicine and steam sale and all this stuff, but if
you just go to basic, simple stuff, the best things
we can do for ourselves is get adequate, efficient sleep.
And day two things were terrible at We're bad about that.
I know sometimes I can go all day and I'm like,
why have I not had any water? And then I
don't get the good sleep that I need. But we're
preaching that on this podcast for sure. Last last episode
(33:30):
I talked about it. I mean, we were talking about
it with Kevin a little bit. So we'll we'll continue
to spread that message of drinking water and sleeping. But
also in my vitamin bag right now, I've got glutathion.
Well you'll get it pushed at you. Oh I don't
have it yet, but you'll get it at the very
That's what I'll push in at the very end. Okay,
so you're going to give me glutathon I feel like
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if you're listening right now and you're in the health world,
you likely have heard of glutathion. Because I'm not even
like a health expert, but I knew what glued to
Thon was before and I probably first heard of it
almost two years ago from the Bulletproof guy Dave Asprey
on his podcast and he was talking about getting ivy
drips and how glued to th Ion was like the
(34:13):
number one thing that he would get through an ivy
if he were to recommend you get anything. He was saying,
to get that. And let's just talk about the benefits.
Because if people say they want to come to you,
like you've got a place here in Nashville where people
can go and people can walk in and they so
let's say they come to you and say your business
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name A R T E. It is Greek, It is Greek.
What does it mean? It means excellence of any kind.
I love that arite, but like whenever I see it,
I'm like, Okay, a Rett. That's why I had to say, okay,
arete and it means excellence of any kind. Love that.
(34:54):
I'm all about supporting that. But A R E t E.
And people can find you on Instagram and then if
you're in Nashville or you're visiting Nashville, like you could
go in. So let's say people come see you, like
I would recommend getting People can just even come in
and get glued to thion with a BE twelve shot,
which is honestly sometimes what I do because that's like
the quick, simple, We're not getting the whole shop. And so,
(35:18):
but what are the benefits of glue to thion because
some people even like that. Dave Asper Duty He's created
a pill, the Bulletproof Guide that where you can take
a pill and it's just really good for cleansing or
releasing toxins. All the organs to talk about that. So
the simple way to put it is it is the
master any occident in your body. So we all know
(35:41):
what any occidants are, from any oxidant serums to vitamin
C to like blueberries and different things that we do
that are anti oxidant type things their cancer preventing, cancer fighting. Um, well,
when you look at glutathon, it's the most it's the largest,
most predominant antioxidant in our bodies. The problem is by
the time we hit around thirty give or take um,
(36:03):
you're gonna lose about of your original glutathione. That drop
only puts more allows for more oxidative stress in your body,
more free radicals which only build up toxins in different
waste by products other things like that. So glutothion, what
we do is hold on quickly and that's is that
stuff that can lead to inflammation, which can lead to disease,
(36:26):
primarily cancer. That's where you where I mean. And y'all,
I get into a lot of this stuff because my
mom had cancer and I lost her to that. My
dad currently is fighting cancer. So if you think sometimes
like oh my gosh, Amy just seems like all into
how how is she into all this? But but I
truly am starting to do it to myself to be preventative.
(36:47):
Like I'm I'm terrified. You know, we're just talking to
Kevin earlier about place Ebo in fact, so I probably
don't need to think negatively, but I am honestly scared
that I've got something in me. I mean, when you've
got both your parents that have cancer, or your mom
had it, your dad has it, like it's you can't
help it, think like oh my gosh, like I don't
want to get it right. And I think glutathon is
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one of the biggest things we can do right now
to to work towards prevention of cancer. Do I think
it's gonna keep everybody that may be susceptible to having
cancer cancer free. No, but I do think it's something
that we can all actively do right now that will
be definitely or definitely promote potential cancer free future. You're
just talking about a massive anty accident. They're using it
(37:29):
in cancer research now. Um, cancer patients are using it
with chemo and radiation. They're having better outcomes, are having
less side effects. A lot of that got its initial
boost in use when they saw that across the board
a high nine percentile of all cancer patients had low glutathin.
So they started using it with chemo and radiation and
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people had better results. Um. I hear that, and I
immediately say, I'm on I'm on board. And why not.
It's not like it's it's bad for you exactly, yeah, exactly.
So that's kind of where I like initially nerded out
because I thought, this is something that reduces oxidative stress.
It's it's good for all your organs and detox and
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it's cancer preventing. That's all I need to know. And
I was in, well, then you have the skin benefits
to it. Um. Anyone who who is really into health
knows that organ your Your skin is an organ. So
if you can detox all your organs with glutathione, well
the biggest most visible organ is your skin, So your
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skin is gonna get a great detox. You get kind
of a glow to your skin, which is why a
lot of people get glutathon. Now for me, yeah, that's well.
And I've honestly, I've been doing my own little research
on myself because I've been coming in and I've been
consistently doing it for like five weeks now, maybe maybe five.
(38:57):
I think there was one week I had to miss
because I was traveling, But and I think I need
to give it a few more because they're you're not
going to see something overnight. But I I feel like
if I look in the mirrors sometimes my skin is
looking a little bit healthier. I'm not having some breakouts
that I was having. But then I also know that
I'm trying to up my water intake and I'm trying
to eat really clean right now. So then it's trying
(39:18):
to figure out was it a combination of all these
things or is it one of the biggest things. I
don't mean to cut you off, and I just got
recently from one of my clients who took a few
weeks off over the holidays. Um, she's artists here in
town who I used to see every single week. She
used to get compliments from her skin providers that do
the topical stuff, whether it be botox or touch ups
(39:39):
or whatever they you know, are doing to her skin
on the out on the exterior. And she took like
six to eight weeks off and she saw some of
them in January and they said, um, you know, how
have you been doing the ivy still? And she said, well, no,
I took a couple months off. I got busy. And
they said you should probably go back to that. Your
skin looked a lot better back when you were doing that.
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Oh And that was like instant compliment to me. I
was like, yes, right now, but I like that. No,
that is a huge compliment. Um No, that's huge. So
I'm in. I'm still going to keep giving it a
go because again, there's other benefits to It's not about
the vanity side. There's stuff going on at a deeper
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level that if I can be preventive to disease, like
I'm gonna I'm gonna try it. But I mean the
skin is like icing on the cake exactly. It's just
like I'm going to skin is glowing. So another thing
I really like to get from you is Beach twelve.
And I feel like a lot of you know, there's
a doctor's office by my house where you can pop
(40:41):
in and they're like, Beach twelve shot. You know, ten bucks,
Like not a big deal, but so I feel like
people have access to be twelve. It's not like anything crazy,
So why why do we do that? Why do we
want the beach twelve? And really what can it do
for people that are starting to see Beach twelve shot
sleep pop up everywhere? Why would they want to? Because
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I get it? Yeah. So the first benefit that everybody
associates beach well with is energy, and it's not caffeine
based energy. It's um. You basically have a molecule that's
working as an enzyme or catalyst that makes your body
more efficient at converting fats, proteins, and carbs to energy.
So it's making your body more efficient at creating energy,
(41:25):
so you don't it's not going to keep you up
at night type energy. It just makes your body more
efficient at creating the energy in a day to day basis,
in the sleep realm. It actually promotes a more effective
sleep cycle. Um, which is another big point that I'm
again back to my whole health thing and anything we
can do to promote more effective sleep, I'm all on board. Um.
It boost your immunity. It's also great for your endurance.
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It augments your red blood cell production. Basically it makes
more red blood cells they carry oxygen, and more oxygen
carrying red blood cells means more endurance, so like exercise
endurance so to speak. Yeah, biggest things though, if you
just said energy creation, your body is more efficient, more
effective sleep, and um, increasing your immunity. Yeah, so they're different.
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We can't get too complicated. We're about to wrap up,
but is they're different kinds. When I say, like my
doctor's office, there's a sign for B twelve, Like can
we trust wherever we're going and just get a B
twelve shot and know or should we be asking for
something specific? You can. But there's a few different kinds
of B twelve. The most most common two that you'll
see you're called sign a cobalman and methyl cobalman basically
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methyl and ciano the two starter words. Um. The most
common thing that we see out there is sign a cobalman.
It's inactive B twelve. It works way less efficiently. It
uses energy to make active B twelve. So which one
is the one we want? We want methyl B twelve.
So like, yeah, so if you just just this is
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to pass along to you, Like if you're going into
a place and you're getting B twelve and you're spending
your money, make sure at lea you're at least going
to a place it's methyl B twelve. Yeah, I mean,
because yeah, I'm not saying Sonic Obama is not good.
We have it in our office. It's just a little
People use it primarily because it's commercially available and easier
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to get. Methyl has a little bit more involved to it.
But if you have a provider and you have an
option between the two, always elect methyl B twelve. Okay, perfect.
And Bobo is actually who I learned about Celery juice from.
And I feel like I might have to have him
come back on to do a little bit more in depth.
But quickly you can just tell people you did it
for thirty days. Yes, I had like a three day
(43:38):
off period because I got busy one weekend. It wasn't here,
but I did. I did all cold Press seller juice.
I was doing it with a lot of other things,
so it's hard to deduce what was you again, but
at the same time with gut health and bloat, and
I think it does help. I did notice the difference.
I I do too, and just you know, I think, yeah,
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that's a big thing. I really think it helps. And
then hydration, I mean, celery in general is super hydrating.
So I'm never going to say that you shouldn't wake
up and drink sixteen ounces of a super hydrating It's
not hurting again. It's like exactly back to hydration and sleep. Like,
if you can get more hydrated, I'm all about it. Yeah, okay, awesome.
(44:24):
So here this bub was very smart obviously, and he
is condoning the whole celery juice thing, which my husband
thinks I'm crazy for, but he's been doing it too
and we both feel better. In fact, I think he
woke up this morning and I was like, where are
you going, and he's like, I'm going to get celery juice.
I'm like, that's my boy. Boom boom, Okay, all right,
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thank you so much. I like when I find a
good new follow on Instagram and I want to pass
it along to you guys, because I think this account
is really encouraging, especially if you're a boss Babe. So
the account is actually ass Babe and the handle is
boss Babe dot ink and I had never followed them
before until Mary posted something from their account and I
(45:07):
was like, WHOA, I really like that quote. So I
started following and scrolling through and I found a quote
that I want to share with you all, and here
it is easy to spot a yellow car when you
were always thinking of a yellow car, easy to spot
opportunity when you were always thinking of opportunity, easy to
spot reasons to be mad. When you're always thinking of
being mad, You become what you constantly think about. Watch
(45:30):
yourself boom. There's so much truth in that. So I
needed that for myself, So I thought I would share
that with y'all, like, what are your thoughts? What are
you constantly thinking about? And can you turn those thoughts
to something that's gonna work more positively for you? So
I thought I would actually go back and let me
pull it up real quick. I might as well pull
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up the original quote that got me to follow boss
Babe because it's awesome. So this is what Mary put
up on the shop forward. Support your friends, Listen to
their ideas, go to their events, buy what they're selling.
When you can share their posts, celebrate their victories, and
remind them of their importance after their failures. Push them.
A little support can go a very long way. And
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so Mary put that up and then I was looking
through some of the comments and it was so cool
to see people commenting and tagging some of their friends.
And I don't even think Mary said like tag a friend,
She just like did some emojis, and it was just
neat to see, you know, women and or followers. Maybe
they're not all women. Some of them are probably guys,
but let's be honest, probably a lot of them women
(46:33):
um supporting each other and tagging their friend saying you're
the first person I thought of, or tagging multiple friends
saying love you guys, and another one saying like so
proud of you, You're awesome. I got you. Dab dab
dab hearth hearth heart raised the roof, em oji, praise hands,
all the things. So, speaking of Mary who posted this,
(46:53):
I love everything she does with the shot forward and
we had, you know, the Pimp and joy Dog update
story earlier, like the Shot Forward is her baby, her
brain child. She wanted to create a place where people
could give back and we're able to do that because
of her vision and her hard work. So shout out Mary,
you're awesome, and Ashley who works at the shop Forward,
(47:15):
and all the other people in all the warehouse, people
that get it all out there to everyone. We are
doing big things, so we're happy to be along for
the ride boom that is today's episode. Hope you enjoyed it.
If you haven't listened to all the other episodes, well
you can go back. You've got thirteen other ones to
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listen to. That's enough to binge now. Now we have
enough up where you could binge the podcast, and if
you want to subscribe, they'd be amazing rate and review.
We don't complain about that and really be honest with
your reviews. Will take it all the feedback, good, the bad, whatever,
all the stars. But we just appreciate that y'all are
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emails coming for things with Amy A. Brown at gmail
dot com and my email. Shoutout today goes to Morgan. Hi, Amy,
I've been a listener of the Bobby Bones Show for
six years. I love that you have a podcast now.
I listen each Thursday and it feels like I'm listening
to one of my closest girlfriends. I love all the
things you share with us. I'm emailing you because you
mentioned wanting to make time to join another book club. Well,
(48:20):
instead of joining a book club, you should start one.
I totally join. I try to read one book a month,
and it would be great to have a virtual community
to discuss the book with something to think about. Anyway,
thank you for being a positive light in my life.
When I wear my Pimp and Joy gear, people ask
me what that means, and I love that I get
to share the story of Pimp and Joy. You rock.
(48:41):
Have a great weekend. Sending love, Morgan. So Hey, Morgan,
good idea. I would love to start a book club.
If y'all are into that, Let's get some more emails
and let's figure out how we make this happen. I mean,
I guess I could just do it on Listen. I
know I've teased the website like a lot Radio dot
com that will be coming. I'm not going to have
(49:02):
a separate Instagram for this, but I will be able
to refer you to the website. But my Instagram is
at radio Amy if you'll want to follow that. I mean,
I guess I could start a book club on there.
I know Mary and I've talked about doing some sort
of a book club through a squaw possibly because that's
something that people have asked for. But okay, which that
(49:23):
handle is at shop spua if you want to follow that.
I run that Instagram account as well, UM s H
O P E s p W a shop spat. But
let me think about how to best execute a virtual
book club. I know, like Reese Witherspoon doesn't doesn't she?
So you know, Freeze got it all figured out. Maybe
(49:43):
I can just kind of. I'm not a part of her,
so I don't know how it works. If any of
you all have any tips on how we can best
do this and then discuss it virtually, and maybe I
could do some lives where I join in and we
chat with each other. I guess, yeah, maybe that could
be it. Okay, well let's see until next week. All right?
Oh wait, before we do go, I want to give
you all Bobo's Instagram in case I want to check
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it out. It's at a R E. T E. Nashville,
So check out that handle if you want to. And
it's always a big thank you to Elizabeth and Mike
d and Walker Hayes for the theme song to Joy
Never Life cast up roa little food for yourself Life
(50:34):
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beautiful that for a little moth up because said he
can't you Kicking with four with Amy Brown
Okay, cass up a little fool for you. So life.
Oh it's pretty much. It's pretty beautiful. Thanks beautiful. That's
a little Mose said. Kicking with four Amy Brown, Okay,
(00:33):
here we go, episode fourteen. And I gotta say last
week's episode of My husband was really well received. He's
never come on and done anything with me before like that,
So for him to come on, he's a very private
person and do that, it's quite the trooper. And everyone
was so nice and thought he was awesome and funny,
and I passed along the compliments and he was like wow,
which that really helped me because I want him to
(00:53):
come back as a recurring guest. So thanks for sending
your messages so that I could share with him, and
you know, we talked about how to handle mess like
a man. And then I got some notes from people
talking about how since my PMS is so severe, I
might have pmd D and I totally forgot that. In college,
I was diagnosed with PMDD and they put me on
some pill that I would take two weeks out of
the month, and it was sort of like zolof but
(01:16):
maybe something else. I'm not really sure. All I know
is when I took it. It turned me into a
person that I just didn't really care. I went from
having all kinds of emotions and feelings really not feeling anything,
and I didn't like feeling that way, so I took
myself off the medicine and haven't been on it since.
But I had totally forgotten, or at least when I
(01:36):
was recording the podcast about PMDD and how yes, I
was diagnosed with that, So I've heard of it, So
thank you for those of you that reached out to
let me know. And I'm just gonna hope that I
can start to get a little more control through maybe
diet and self awareness and breathing so that maybe I
won't feel it's crazy. Someone suggested that I order a
(01:58):
weighted blanket for some of the things I d so
I did order one of those, and it should be
arriving soon. So I feel like on next week's podcast,
I'll be able to to do a thing about the
way to blanket and review it for y'all and see
if it's something I recommend that y'all invest in. I'm
excited about today's episode because I have our family doctor
(02:19):
coming on who's also been a friend of ours. Forever.
He's my husband's best friend, and we're gonna talk about
the placebo effect. I have Bobo coming on, who lives
in Nashville. I told you about him, he well a
while ago because he was the one doing Celery Juice
for thirty days. So I get an update from him
on that, and then we talk about I VS because
he has a business in Nashville where you know, you
(02:39):
stick I vys or stick a needle and tube and
you get a drip and you get hydrated and you
get all sorts of vitamins and crazy things put into
your body. And then, speaking of that, my friend Kelly,
whose podcast is Velvet's Edge, she coincidentally had Bobo on two. Like,
we run in the same circles and we have the
same friends that do really cool things. So we're like,
oh shoot, we gotta start talking to each other. But
(03:01):
I guess I'll just use this as a chance to
cross promote that he's on her podcast talking about things
that are a little bit different. I'm sure if whenever
I listen to someone on a podcast that I really
like what they're saying, I actually will type in their
name into the podcast search bar and find other podcasts
that they've been on because I want to learn more
and see if they said something different. And I know
(03:22):
that Bobo and Kelly talk about like hangovers and how
hydration can help with that. We didn't touch on that
in ours, so if that's something that you're interested in.
He is also on Velvet's Edge, so just search out
Velvet's Edge podcast and she has a lot of other
great episodes you should check out too, so if you're
into that. I also am gonna in this episode talk
(03:44):
about canines for warriors. And then in my recording of that,
I go on a tangent about a book that I
read that I really think, if you haven't read that,
you need to read this book because I forgot how
amazing it was. It makes me wish that I hadn't
read it yet and I could go back and read
it because it was one of those books I could
not put down. And then I have a really amazing quote,
(04:05):
or even a couple of quotes actually that I want
to share with you all. Two So that's all in
today's episode. Oh one more thing before we dive in,
I want to talk about step that challenge because I
had so many of you that did the same step
back game that I did, and I was under Aaron
Opria's which Aaron is someone that comes on this podcast
a lot. She's a celebrity trainer and she's awesome, and
(04:27):
she just texted me that the next step bet game
is starting and that Monday. Let me pull up my calendar.
Of course I'm on the wrong month, guys. I just
really need to be more prepared than this. Monday, February
is a deadline is sign up, but then you have
like this week grace period that's like the warm up week.
So technically you have a little bit more time, but
(04:48):
I like to get right in, so I as soon
as I finish recording this, I'm going to sign up.
So thank you Aaron for texting me to let me know.
If you haven't done step bet, what you gotta do
is download the step bet app and then put in
the game code, which is Aaron Opria E R I
N O p R E A Boom. You pay forty dollars,
(05:08):
you join the step back game. If you complete all
your steps within the six weeks challenge, then Boom you
get your money back and you split the pot of
everybody else that dropped out. So last time I did it,
and I won my forty bucks back, and then I
won more money that was left over from other people
that quit. So it was actually pretty fun and amazing
and it held me accountable and I moved way more
than I've ever moved, and it felt good to just
(05:30):
walk around and do things. So I just wanted to
let y'all know since I get so many emails about
the step that challenge. That Monday, a new game starts
for Aaron and that's the one I'll be joining if
you want to play the one I'm playing, so boom,
all right, Well let's get started. Man. I just looked
at the clock and it's been five minutes. Like I
just rambled to you all for five minutes. I didn't
(05:51):
mean to do that. Here we go, I have a
long I'm how long have I known you? Kevin? Oh
my gosh. Yeah, okay, So doctor Kevin Wayne Lewis isn't here.
And if you hear noise in the background, it's legit
because I'm recording another podcast today with Bobo and he
(06:16):
is administering I V into my arm like hydration to
get me ready for family feud because we're taping this
before we fly to l A to do that, and
I feel like I need to be as sharp as possible.
And when you're dehydrated, are you bobo? If you're dehydrated,
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you're not as sharp. Correct. Correct. So I'll have a
whole podcast whip Bobo about that. But I've got Kevin
here because he's in town from Austin. He is our
family doctor that we grew up. Um well, I mean
I didn't grow up with you as my doctor, but
your dad was my doctor growing up. And then you
decided to go to medical school, which I think a
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lot of people were like what okay, And then now yeah,
you you did it. You're a doctor, but you have
been for a really long time. And so you now
take care of my family, and you take care of
Bobby and a lot of other friends of mine that
see you that I didn't even know see you. But
sometimes I'll post about you and they'll be like, how
(07:19):
do you know my doctor? I'm like, I can't talk
about that stuff. Oh that's Kevin is so by the
book when it comes, which hey, you should be. He's
fine for a single violation. Yeah, So Kevin, Kevin took
care of my mom and excellent care of her too
(07:41):
when she had cancer. He again, it's just a family doctor.
He so he wasn't like her U what is it
called oncologist or anything. But there were times where she
would have an issue and Kevin would we'd call to
address it or whatever, and I would be trying to
ask Kevin questions. He's like, I really can't discuss that
with you right now. And I'm like, Kevin, I'm trying
(08:04):
to take your mom. You just sit care of her.
And he's like, well, technically, I don't even know if
I can tell you I saw your mom today. And
I'm like, I know you saw my mom today, Just
tell me. So anyway, Hippa, if you're listening, we're playing
by the book. He's solid. He's your boy. So since
Kevin's in Nashville visiting this weekend, his kids are really
(08:24):
close with our kids. In fact, they're so close they
call each other cousins. And his wife, Michelle is in town.
So anyway, we're we're hanging out and I thought, well,
you should come up to do a podcast about placebo effect,
which we had a fancier way to say it. What
was it? The benefits of placebo? The benefits of placebo,
(08:44):
so you can you can tell patients walk me through this,
like I know, positive thinking and speaking to my mom
whenever she was in treatment, doctors would say that they
saw a legit different difference in patient that had a
more positive outlook on the whole experience, right and so,
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and my mom's whole theme during cancer was choose joy.
It was the whole pimp and joy thing, and we
tried to maintain that joyful attitude, which I think did help.
I mean, ultimately she lost her badly cancer. But I
mean it's not going to keep you alive. But what
is it that, like, what is so powerful about us
thinking that the medicine is going to work that actually
(09:29):
makes the medicine work. Well, the kind of a crazy
thing is we don't know why it works or how
it works. But they've done some studies, like Harvard has
done a couple of studies, and historically placebo was used
to tell us whether a medicine works or not. So
like advil take ADVI for example, and you have a
headache and you're in a part of a study, Uh,
(09:51):
they'd give ten people who have headaches advil and give
ten people sugar pill and then see if who responded,
if they were the same response rates, then would say
that the medicine didn't work because it was the same
as something that doesn't have any active ingredient in it.
But what they started to find out after research certain
things like mood depression, pain control, um in insomnia, that
(10:16):
placebo there's a placebo effect that actually does have a
positive response. So if you're taking take a pill at
nighttime to help you get better sleep, and you believe
even if you even even if you know it's a placebo.
There was another study down in two thou fourteen where
people knew they were taking a placebo pill. It said
placebo on it, but they still had a reduction in
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their symptoms just because they were taking something that's right.
So they need that for for sleep. Like I've been
really trying to focus on sleep, and actually on my
podcast that aired last week, I had some sleep hygiene
tips from a nurse that specialized in that, and one
of the things was, you know, a lot of don't
use wine to go to sleep, and like what I
(10:59):
love Donald Glad the wine every night right before bed,
but it disrupts the actual you get worse sleep with alcohol. Well,
that's the only way I can fall asleep these days.
So I'm just kidding people, but I mean a little bit.
But so maybe if I just get a water bottle
and put sleep juice, right, sleep juice on it, and
(11:21):
then just drink a bottle of water, and then you
should have better sleep. Yeah, maybe I put it in
my little cute little tumblers that I'd like to drink
wine out of and make it purple and drink my
sleep juice. But it's not really wine, that's right. I
feel like that's what helps me go to sleep. So Okay,
back to maybe patients that come in and you're giving them,
(11:44):
like say, I come in and I need medicine for
something that that's kind of a controversial area because it's doctors.
The number one thing that we have to maintain with
our our patients is just informing them right and letting
you in truthfulness, and so you almost lose the ability
to have a placebo effect. Let's take let's take a medication.
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You know, anytime, what I try to do is tell
patients that I have confidence in what we're treating. If
I'm giving them a medication, I think this is really
gonna work for you, because I do believe that because
I'm choosing the best medication for a patient specific medical
need and I want to be positive about it because
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I want them to feel positive about it. But the
backside of that is we also have to or need
to review side effect profiles with them, right, So it's
just contradictory. So we don't really get to benefit a
lot from placebo um. But just you saying what is
it you say, I think I'm confidence that this is
(12:47):
going to Just you saying like, say, if I needed
something and you were like, Amy, I have confidences this
is going to work, then in my head I'm like, wow, Okay,
he's pretty confident about this. So then internally I'm getting
confident about out it. And then so I could be
causing so especially with those things that we talked about,
mood like depression, insomnia, pain, I feel like that with
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my doll. So my doll I take for cramps, but
mostly you're supposed to take it when you're on your period,
but I'll take it all month long, and it because
it says on the bottle that it helps with bloating, mood,
you know, all the things. So now while I'm taking it,
probably for cramps during that time in the month, if
(13:30):
I take it not during that time of the month.
Like I just popped the mid All when I want
to feel good, and I feel like it makes me
feel good and I'm less bloated. But I have no
idea if you should probably replace twenty five of those
mid All pills with fish oil, but put them in
the mid A bottle. That way I'll be getting my
fish oil. That's right, because essentially an insect, and so
(13:52):
I shouldn't take it then, I mean, you don't want
to take it every day. I don't take it daily. No,
I just said sometimes it may not be that time
of the month. Oh, but you just take it and
you feel bad. But I take it, and I'm like,
there's something about knowing I took my doll, like I
instantly feel better. But there's caffeine in it, right, But
I think I've convinced myself that might all makes me
feel better. I feel better when I eat carrot, Kate,
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and your eyes look prettier. I got to see it,
I can see in the dark. No, I think that's
the placebo fact making fun of me. We know it's real,
we know it's a thing. And then UM, and there's
certain areas of medicine that I think it does play
significant difference. Now, it's not going to save somebody who's
having a heart attack or prevent somebody who has cancer
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from progression of that, but I think that there's some
ways that are probably immeasurable to us in science right now.
They will never really be able to truly understand the effect.
But they did functional m r I s I think
in two thousand and fourteen on these patients that there
were three groups that one group got no medicine, one
group got a placebo, and the other group to the
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actual active ingredient medicine, and the all the two that
we're getting taking medicine they had on functional m r
I they showed changes in the frontal cortex. So it's
kind of we believe that it's it's tied to our emotion.
The frontal cortex, uh, the frontal lobe, sorry, is mostly
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associated with emotion and impulse control and these sorts of things.
So I just think that the you know, when you
have a positive perception or or acceptance of what you're
taking or putting into your body, whether that be health
food or healthy diet, or exercising that it makes for
a healthier individual. Okay, yeah, so it's real, but it's
(15:46):
almost impossible to quantify and it's and to specifically understand
where how it works. That makes sense. But overall, if
let's say, and this is going back to kind of
what when my mom was facing hurt, when she was
in treatment and facing all of that. Um, if we're
diagnosed with something or we're given something, overall, like attitude
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can play a huge role in what your journey is
going to be. Like, Like, your journey can either be
pretty miserable or you have a choice to like and
your body may respond like just given because you you
said you can't quantify it, like you can't, there's no
way to really know. There's some things that we do know,
especially like in your mom's case or people that are
suffering from, you know, something that's expected to be terminal.
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There's a psychological aspect where they're suffering. They're having to
fight off depression, and all of those things are associated
with neurotransmitters. And when we think positively, things like dopamine
get released that have a positive effect on our bodies. UM.
Dopamine is a big one, and do we understand it
(16:56):
from that point all the way down to how we
feel exactly. No, but we know that these things are happening.
And so I think that a conclusion can be you know,
if you have to go through something like anything like
if you have a headache or you're going through a
cancer treatment, that having positive, positive thinking and believing in
what's going on and what you're doing to help and
(17:16):
your lifestyle and the choices you're making is going to
have a positive effect. Yeah, okay, I love it. And
then you just need people around you to tell you
that's right, that they have confidence that what you're doing
is working right, and then you will have that like
I'm getting this, I V right now, and I have
so much confidence in you right now, Bobo, so much
(17:38):
confidence in this. You're probably going to set a record
and family feed an you're gonna break probably a fifty
year swing here. And when you go to the family
feed Yes, and and I'm gonna I'm gonna take my
bottle of believe that if you drink the night before,
(18:04):
uh bottle of your sleep juice, take two my dolls
and get one more ivy. But the visually I have, well,
you don't need to know that just take the pill.
I have a confidence that you're gonna set some sort
of record on the family feud. Okay, thank you welcome.
I know I'm confident in that too. Okay, so thank
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you Dr Kevin Lewis for coming on. He's Lewis Family
med Out and dripping springs off to nine. What what
does it say on the fancy sign outside Lewis Family
Medicine and Urgent Care. That's it. That's it. There's a
little pharmacy there that sells smoothies. Yes, coffee, you're making it.
It's not my pharmacy, I know. But it's in the
(18:45):
it's in your building that you put together with people.
It's like we're all grown up in the community. I know. No,
we used to be kids, and now you got your
name on the outside of a building. Scary, and people
come and trust you with their life. I trust you
with my life, and I have all the confidence that
you'll take good cure of Meum. So if y'all are
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in Austin or nearby, then go see Kevin and then
his wife Michelle say hey, she's also getting an ivy
just because um gotta stay hydrated and sometimes you're at
the office, right, Michelle. Sometimes sometimes she's there, so you
might see both of them, Right, Kevin, you want to
how do you want to say by to people? By everybody?
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Until next time? No words of doctor, be positive and joy.
There we go, Pimp and Joy alright over. Now. I
don't know if y'all are familiar with Canines for Warriors,
but it's a really awesome organization that is doing great
things for our military people. They provide service dogs. Obviously
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by the name that probably gave it away, but Canines
for Warriors. But they are amazing and we teamed up
with them last year. We sold a been Joy shirt.
It was our retro one the first time we did,
like the repeat Pimp and Joy and it was like orange, red, yellow,
whatever on a gray tea. So if you have that,
you were a part of this really cool thing. So
I'm using one of my things to update y'all on
(20:14):
something really cool. And if maybe you're like, I've never
bought anything Pimp and Joy, we'll just know that it's
a movement that we do. I've just talked about it
a little bit here on the podcast. It was inspired
by my mom. It's all about choosing joy, spreading joy,
being Joy, all things Joy, and we have a line
through the Shop Forward where all the proceeds go towards
various causes, and we did the retro line last year
(20:36):
that went towards dogs for Canines for Warriors and we
ended up getting dogs and the dogs were named after
everyone on the show, like Bobby, Amy, Lunchbox, Eddie, so cute,
and I have an update because it takes a while
for this to happen. It's not just like, oh, boom,
there's a dog. I mean, obviously there's a lot that
goes into this. The dogs have to be born, they
have to be trained, they have to go through everything,
(20:57):
and then you finally find out about them. And we
got an update. Bobby is now officially a dog. He's
the only one we know about right now. But I thought,
if you've helped out with him and Joy, if you
have a retro shirt, you'd appreciate this update. But even
if not, just learning about Canines for Warriors is super
cool because they help out military people that are coming
back with PTSD traumatic brain injury. I mean, just think
(21:20):
about it. There's all kinds of things that are military
people deal with that we just can't even imagine. I mean,
I'm married to someone that was in the Air Force
for twelve years, and I see stuff with him sometimes
where I'm like, Hey, do we need to talk about this.
I mean, we're not in a position where we would
need a dog, but we have friends, we know people
that would benefit from something like this. And the fact
that the canine program through Canines for Warriors is a
(21:41):
percent free for the veteran is amazing. And they provide
um these soldiers with a service canine with equipment, training, certification, seminars,
legal instruction, vet care, housing, home cook meals, unconditional love
and listening, and a lifetime of wrap around services including
available life long healthcare and food for their dogs, which
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is huge. This makes me think of and I know
he didn't get it through Canines for Warriors, but I
don't know if you'll ever read the book Loan Survivor,
and then they eventually did a movie about it, and
he's this Navy seal that survived something that he just
should not have. Obviously, I'm not giving things away by
the name of the book because it's called Loan Survivor,
so obviously everyone else on his team did not make it.
(22:23):
But afterwards he had a dog, and his relationship with
his dog was so special and intense, and then some
crazy kids now here, I am doing this positive segment
about pimp and joy and canines for warriors. But this
is how my brain works. But I want y'all to
go read the book if you haven't. Well, actually this
part is not even in the book because this happened
(22:43):
after the fact, so I'm not giving anything away from
the book. But I read the book, was really invested
in the story. And then later saw on the news
that Marcus Latrelle's dog had been randomly shot by some
punk kids that were just out shooting a gun and
like wanting to kill animals, and Marcus Latrelle, the Navy seal,
he hunted them down. Yeah, like these kids messed with
(23:04):
the wrong person. Like he got in his truck, chased
them down. He called one while it was happening, and
even in the nine one one call I, they put
it out there and you could hear it. He's like cool, calm, collected,
like some kids just shot his dog, and he's driving
like ninety miles an hour or maybe faster if I recall,
and he's just on the phone number one like, hey,
(23:24):
some people shot my dog. I'm going after them, like
what up? And he was able to tell the dispatcher
the roads they were heading on, and police were able
to intercept the kids and pretty sure they got arrested.
And I don't know, crazy story, but I remember his
relationship with his dog being so crucial to his healing
after he came back and he was the lone survivor.
(23:47):
It's just you know how pets can be, Like, I
haven't even been through something crazy like that. And my dog. Oh,
I had a dog for ten years of my marriage.
Were married twelve, Okay, so for eleven years of our
marriage we had a dog. And we got her right
when we moved to North Carolina for my husband's assignment
at Fort Bragg. And I survived that first year because
(24:08):
of Josie, my sweet little role byler. She really actually
wasn't that sweet, but I loved her to death. She
had an issue with trucks and trailers in a fierce bark,
but she really was precious and I survived because of
my dog, so y'all know how special animals can be.
And then we lost her last year to cancer, and
that was really hard and a few months ago, we
(24:29):
brought a new dog into our life, Cara, and she's
now precious and she's you know, we're all getting used
to her. But she'll eventually fill that void that Josie had.
She's not quite there yet because Josie was so special
to me, but Cara will be that dog for our
family and for my kids. So anyway, all this to say,
pets are so important, and I don't have to tell
you that doesn't have to be a dog. Maybe for
(24:50):
some of you it's a cat or a bird or
a lizard or something. I don't know. But this is
the letter that was sent to Mary and the shop
forward on us the Bobby Bones show um for the
Pimp and Joy dogs that we were able to buy
all because y'all supported Pimp and Joy and bought stuff
when we were trying to fundraise for these dogs. So
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this is the letter. It says, we are thrilled to
be sending you this letter because that means that the
dog you have generously sponsored has entered our kennel for training.
We couldn't be more thankful for your generous donation and
support that will save a warrior's life. Included as a
picture of your sponsored dog, Bobby. Our trainers have carefully
selected him and we will continue to update you on
(25:31):
how he's doing in training. If you have any questions
regarding the dog or the process, we would love to
hear from you on behalf of the men and women
that we serve, and from all of us at Canines
for Warriors. We thank you. With your support, we can
continue to empower our veterans to overcome the invisible wounds
of war and return to civilian life with dignity and independence. Gosh,
(25:53):
I kind of got a little choked up reading that
last line because I'm also looking at a picture of
this sweet dog now named Bobby, and a veteran is
going to like have Bobby, a little Bobby and a
little lunchbox and a little Amy and others on the
show because of awesome people like our listeners that support
Pimp and Joy. And if you'll ever want to check
out any Pimp and Joy merch we have, it's the
(26:14):
shot forward dot com. So anyway, a little update. I'll
try to do more Pimp and Joy updates since I
know y'all are so supportive of the things that we
get to do, and it's just good to keep you
all in the loop. And then Mary also sent over
a bunch of pictures of the little dog Bobby with
his vest like out and about like doing some training,
(26:34):
and it's just it's just emotional to see, like how
cool we can come together. It's one of those things too.
I mean these because these dogs are super expensive and
that's why, I mean, we had to sell tons of
shirts to make this happen. But it reminds me of
the Starfish story, which I've shared on the podcast. Before
you know, you're buying one shirt, which really you know,
the proceeds from that could sort of make a little
(26:55):
bit of a difference depending on what it is. But
when we all come together and tons of people buy
one shirt, then we're able to buy multiple dogs to
help service members come back and acclimate to life, like
become civilians and whatever they're dealing with, the dogs can
help them. So we all came together on this one.
It's super cool. And so for now we just have
the Bobby dog. But I'll update y'all is more dogs
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come about and keep supporting whatever it is, whatever you're
out there doing. It doesn't have to be pimp and joy.
It doesn't have to be a squaw. It doesn't have
to be anything that I say on here, but just
go spread joy however you can. And it doesn't even
necessarily have to involve money. It could be just doing
a simple act of kindness for somebody, random act that
is all part of spreading joy, and it'll be a
(27:39):
domino effect for sure. So pimp and Joy. I love
the is inspired by my mom. It just makes me
so happy. She would freak out looking at this picture
of the little Bobby Dog for sure. And now I'm rambling.
But back to Lone Survivor. I bring that up again
because I was traveling the other day we did Bobby
Feud or I call it Bobby food because that's what
(28:00):
call it on the Bobby Bones Show. But we did
celebrity family Feud with Steve Harvey, and I was traveling
and I was looking for a good book to read
at the airport, and I just really now that I'm
thinking back when I was reading Lone Survivor. That's a
book that I was so into and I could not
put it down. So if y'all have any good book recommendations,
let me know. Four Things with Amy Brown at gmail
dot com. Okay, so I've got Adam Bobo and I
(28:28):
kind of teased this in my podcast with um Kevin
Dr Lewis that was in and so now we're on
to Bobo. What's your real name is Adam? Your last
name is a Bobo, like for real, it's everybody calls
me Bobo Town. So yeah, because if you have a
last name like Bobo, then it's easy to remember. So
(28:49):
let's talk about how you have the same profession as
Dirty John, the guy that's like this podcast phenomenon at
the moment. We actually went to the same school. You
went to the same school as Dirty John, which is crazy.
And if y'all haven't listened to the Dirty John podcast,
well finish my podcast and then go binge Dirty John
(29:11):
because it's crazy. This guy completely I don't even know.
I mean, he really was a legit and well you
went to the hold of them are the same school.
So he was a legit and atusiologist like nurse nurs
so and then he but he was also psychotic and
would manipulate women. And this one, poor little it's mind blowing.
(29:35):
It's crazy. Yeah, he was let's just say, oh he
would he was supposed to be administering drugs to patients,
and he got so desperate for drugs that he would
act like he was injecting it into their ivy and
then he would put it in his pocket so he
could take it home and inject it in himself like crazy.
He's a master manipulator. That's like the best way to
(29:57):
describe master. Thank you there you go, So to work
to everything, um clearly had to be very manipulative and
charming and all kinds of things, because there's no way,
like any normal person is going to be going back
to get with him. And this one woman, she like
kept going back to him, and I'm like, what's wrong
with you? You just like the nicest woman ever. Like anyway,
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So that's your profess. That's how you got into i VS.
That's your profession. Yes, the CRNA part, and then from that,
I mean you were in the operating room for a
long time, four years of anesthesia for open heart surgery.
It's pretty legit. And then you know i VS are
(30:38):
becoming more and more mainstream and popular. I feel like
when you first started to see it, it was kind
of just on Instagram and like, oh, celebrities are getting
it done or it's like this concierge thing that's in
like Vegas or l A or and that people would
do after a night of drinking to get rehydrated. Um.
(30:59):
But now you see a lot of cities I traveled to,
I mean in Nashville and Austin, there's little shops popping
up where you can walk in and you know, get
an IVY drip. I mean, depending on where you're going,
because I know you're very particular about what you do
and the type of stuff you use. But just for
people that are listening across the country, like you may
start to see these pop up because it's it's becoming
(31:20):
increasingly more popular and more mainstream and something people are
investing in because they feel like, oh, this is like
the thing to do for my body. So what are
the benefits of Like why would I want to get
a bag of hydration? Is that what we call it?
Why why would I want to get a vitamin bag? Now?
(31:41):
We could be here all day with all the different
variations of what we could get, and I want to
focus on a few in a second, But like, how
much water am I getting right now? Because y'all have
an IVY in me while we're doing this. Yeah, So
The long and short of it is is that anything
you consume by mouth, you can assume that you really
absorb around, whether drug, vitamin C and emergency or water anything.
(32:03):
Really you're really getting about of that value number. Um
when you take a leader of fluid like this, you're
getting around. It's hard to really put an exact number on,
but like two point two to two point five gallons
of orally consumed water, Like I have to p right now,
right now, but I mean I've connected to a two two,
(32:24):
so I can't go pee right now. But but the
thing about this fluid is that it stays in your veins,
for lack of a better way of putting it, for
four or five minutes to an hour's reached my bladder
yet from earlier, we're flushing out the old stuff. Okay,
while I've got you here, and I'm sure because you
hydrate people staying hydrated. I did on a previous episode.
(32:47):
I talked about water consumption and just how important it
is to stay hydrated. Do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah,
I think that the two biggest help things that we
can simply do for ourselves stay hydrated, And those are
the two things you can't beat that. Like you can
take every pill, take every vittamin, do every reginaty of
(33:08):
medicine and steam sale and all this stuff, but if
you just go to basic, simple stuff, the best things
we can do for ourselves is get adequate, efficient sleep.
And day two things were terrible at We're bad about that.
I know sometimes I can go all day and I'm like,
why have I not had any water? And then I
don't get the good sleep that I need. But we're
preaching that on this podcast for sure. Last last episode
(33:30):
I talked about it. I mean, we were talking about
it with Kevin a little bit. So we'll we'll continue
to spread that message of drinking water and sleeping. But
also in my vitamin bag right now, I've got glutathion.
Well you'll get it pushed at you. Oh I don't
have it yet, but you'll get it at the very
That's what I'll push in at the very end. Okay,
so you're going to give me glutathon I feel like
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if you're listening right now and you're in the health world,
you likely have heard of glutathion. Because I'm not even
like a health expert, but I knew what glued to
Thon was before and I probably first heard of it
almost two years ago from the Bulletproof guy Dave Asprey
on his podcast and he was talking about getting ivy
drips and how glued to th Ion was like the
(34:13):
number one thing that he would get through an ivy
if he were to recommend you get anything. He was saying,
to get that. And let's just talk about the benefits.
Because if people say they want to come to you,
like you've got a place here in Nashville where people
can go and people can walk in and they so
let's say they come to you and say your business
(34:34):
name A R T E. It is Greek, It is Greek.
What does it mean? It means excellence of any kind.
I love that arite, but like whenever I see it,
I'm like, Okay, a Rett. That's why I had to say, okay,
arete and it means excellence of any kind. Love that.
(34:54):
I'm all about supporting that. But A R E t E.
And people can find you on Instagram and then if
you're in Nashville or you're visiting Nashville, like you could
go in. So let's say people come see you, like
I would recommend getting People can just even come in
and get glued to thion with a BE twelve shot,
which is honestly sometimes what I do because that's like
the quick, simple, We're not getting the whole shop. And so,
(35:18):
but what are the benefits of glue to thion because
some people even like that. Dave Asper Duty He's created
a pill, the Bulletproof Guide that where you can take
a pill and it's just really good for cleansing or
releasing toxins. All the organs to talk about that. So
the simple way to put it is it is the
master any occident in your body. So we all know
(35:41):
what any occidants are, from any oxidant serums to vitamin
C to like blueberries and different things that we do
that are anti oxidant type things their cancer preventing, cancer fighting. Um, well,
when you look at glutathon, it's the most it's the largest,
most predominant antioxidant in our bodies. The problem is by
the time we hit around thirty give or take um,
(36:03):
you're gonna lose about of your original glutathione. That drop
only puts more allows for more oxidative stress in your body,
more free radicals which only build up toxins in different
waste by products other things like that. So glutothion, what
we do is hold on quickly and that's is that
stuff that can lead to inflammation, which can lead to disease,
(36:26):
primarily cancer. That's where you where I mean. And y'all,
I get into a lot of this stuff because my
mom had cancer and I lost her to that. My
dad currently is fighting cancer. So if you think sometimes
like oh my gosh, Amy just seems like all into
how how is she into all this? But but I
truly am starting to do it to myself to be preventative.
(36:47):
Like I'm I'm terrified. You know, we're just talking to
Kevin earlier about place Ebo in fact, so I probably
don't need to think negatively, but I am honestly scared
that I've got something in me. I mean, when you've
got both your parents that have cancer, or your mom
had it, your dad has it, like it's you can't
help it, think like oh my gosh, like I don't
want to get it right. And I think glutathon is
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one of the biggest things we can do right now
to to work towards prevention of cancer. Do I think
it's gonna keep everybody that may be susceptible to having
cancer cancer free. No, but I do think it's something
that we can all actively do right now that will
be definitely or definitely promote potential cancer free future. You're
just talking about a massive anty accident. They're using it
(37:29):
in cancer research now. Um, cancer patients are using it
with chemo and radiation. They're having better outcomes, are having
less side effects. A lot of that got its initial
boost in use when they saw that across the board
a high nine percentile of all cancer patients had low glutathin.
So they started using it with chemo and radiation and
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people had better results. Um. I hear that, and I
immediately say, I'm on I'm on board. And why not.
It's not like it's it's bad for you exactly, yeah, exactly.
So that's kind of where I like initially nerded out
because I thought, this is something that reduces oxidative stress.
It's it's good for all your organs and detox and
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it's cancer preventing. That's all I need to know. And
I was in, well, then you have the skin benefits
to it. Um. Anyone who who is really into health
knows that organ your Your skin is an organ. So
if you can detox all your organs with glutathione, well
the biggest most visible organ is your skin, So your
(38:35):
skin is gonna get a great detox. You get kind
of a glow to your skin, which is why a
lot of people get glutathon. Now for me, yeah, that's well.
And I've honestly, I've been doing my own little research
on myself because I've been coming in and I've been
consistently doing it for like five weeks now, maybe maybe five.
(38:57):
I think there was one week I had to miss
because I was traveling, But and I think I need
to give it a few more because they're you're not
going to see something overnight. But I I feel like
if I look in the mirrors sometimes my skin is
looking a little bit healthier. I'm not having some breakouts
that I was having. But then I also know that
I'm trying to up my water intake and I'm trying
to eat really clean right now. So then it's trying
(39:18):
to figure out was it a combination of all these
things or is it one of the biggest things. I
don't mean to cut you off, and I just got
recently from one of my clients who took a few
weeks off over the holidays. Um, she's artists here in
town who I used to see every single week. She
used to get compliments from her skin providers that do
the topical stuff, whether it be botox or touch ups
(39:39):
or whatever they you know, are doing to her skin
on the out on the exterior. And she took like
six to eight weeks off and she saw some of
them in January and they said, um, you know, how
have you been doing the ivy still? And she said, well, no,
I took a couple months off. I got busy. And
they said you should probably go back to that. Your
skin looked a lot better back when you were doing that.
(40:00):
Oh And that was like instant compliment to me. I
was like, yes, right now, but I like that. No,
that is a huge compliment. Um No, that's huge. So
I'm in. I'm still going to keep giving it a
go because again, there's other benefits to It's not about
the vanity side. There's stuff going on at a deeper
(40:20):
level that if I can be preventive to disease, like
I'm gonna I'm gonna try it. But I mean the
skin is like icing on the cake exactly. It's just
like I'm going to skin is glowing. So another thing
I really like to get from you is Beach twelve.
And I feel like a lot of you know, there's
a doctor's office by my house where you can pop
(40:41):
in and they're like, Beach twelve shot. You know, ten bucks,
Like not a big deal, but so I feel like
people have access to be twelve. It's not like anything crazy,
So why why do we do that? Why do we
want the beach twelve? And really what can it do
for people that are starting to see Beach twelve shot
sleep pop up everywhere? Why would they want to? Because
(41:03):
I get it? Yeah. So the first benefit that everybody
associates beach well with is energy, and it's not caffeine
based energy. It's um. You basically have a molecule that's
working as an enzyme or catalyst that makes your body
more efficient at converting fats, proteins, and carbs to energy.
So it's making your body more efficient at creating energy,
(41:25):
so you don't it's not going to keep you up
at night type energy. It just makes your body more
efficient at creating the energy in a day to day basis,
in the sleep realm. It actually promotes a more effective
sleep cycle. Um, which is another big point that I'm
again back to my whole health thing and anything we
can do to promote more effective sleep, I'm all on board. Um.
It boost your immunity. It's also great for your endurance.
(41:48):
It augments your red blood cell production. Basically it makes
more red blood cells they carry oxygen, and more oxygen
carrying red blood cells means more endurance, so like exercise
endurance so to speak. Yeah, biggest things though, if you
just said energy creation, your body is more efficient, more
effective sleep, and um, increasing your immunity. Yeah, so they're different.
(42:11):
We can't get too complicated. We're about to wrap up,
but is they're different kinds. When I say, like my
doctor's office, there's a sign for B twelve, Like can
we trust wherever we're going and just get a B
twelve shot and know or should we be asking for
something specific? You can. But there's a few different kinds
of B twelve. The most most common two that you'll
see you're called sign a cobalman and methyl cobalman basically
(42:34):
methyl and ciano the two starter words. Um. The most
common thing that we see out there is sign a cobalman.
It's inactive B twelve. It works way less efficiently. It
uses energy to make active B twelve. So which one
is the one we want? We want methyl B twelve.
So like, yeah, so if you just just this is
(42:55):
to pass along to you, Like if you're going into
a place and you're getting B twelve and you're spending
your money, make sure at lea you're at least going
to a place it's methyl B twelve. Yeah, I mean,
because yeah, I'm not saying Sonic Obama is not good.
We have it in our office. It's just a little
People use it primarily because it's commercially available and easier
(43:16):
to get. Methyl has a little bit more involved to it.
But if you have a provider and you have an
option between the two, always elect methyl B twelve. Okay, perfect.
And Bobo is actually who I learned about Celery juice from.
And I feel like I might have to have him
come back on to do a little bit more in depth.
But quickly you can just tell people you did it
for thirty days. Yes, I had like a three day
(43:38):
off period because I got busy one weekend. It wasn't here,
but I did. I did all cold Press seller juice.
I was doing it with a lot of other things,
so it's hard to deduce what was you again, but
at the same time with gut health and bloat, and
I think it does help. I did notice the difference.
I I do too, and just you know, I think, yeah,
(44:00):
that's a big thing. I really think it helps. And
then hydration, I mean, celery in general is super hydrating.
So I'm never going to say that you shouldn't wake
up and drink sixteen ounces of a super hydrating It's
not hurting again. It's like exactly back to hydration and sleep. Like,
if you can get more hydrated, I'm all about it. Yeah, okay, awesome.
(44:24):
So here this bub was very smart obviously, and he
is condoning the whole celery juice thing, which my husband
thinks I'm crazy for, but he's been doing it too
and we both feel better. In fact, I think he
woke up this morning and I was like, where are
you going, and he's like, I'm going to get celery juice.
I'm like, that's my boy. Boom boom, Okay, all right,
(44:44):
thank you so much. I like when I find a
good new follow on Instagram and I want to pass
it along to you guys, because I think this account
is really encouraging, especially if you're a boss Babe. So
the account is actually ass Babe and the handle is
boss Babe dot ink and I had never followed them
before until Mary posted something from their account and I
(45:07):
was like, WHOA, I really like that quote. So I
started following and scrolling through and I found a quote
that I want to share with you all, and here
it is easy to spot a yellow car when you
were always thinking of a yellow car, easy to spot
opportunity when you were always thinking of opportunity, easy to
spot reasons to be mad. When you're always thinking of
being mad, You become what you constantly think about. Watch
(45:30):
yourself boom. There's so much truth in that. So I
needed that for myself, So I thought I would share
that with y'all, like, what are your thoughts? What are
you constantly thinking about? And can you turn those thoughts
to something that's gonna work more positively for you? So
I thought I would actually go back and let me
pull it up real quick. I might as well pull
(45:50):
up the original quote that got me to follow boss
Babe because it's awesome. So this is what Mary put
up on the shop forward. Support your friends, Listen to
their ideas, go to their events, buy what they're selling.
When you can share their posts, celebrate their victories, and
remind them of their importance after their failures. Push them.
A little support can go a very long way. And
(46:13):
so Mary put that up and then I was looking
through some of the comments and it was so cool
to see people commenting and tagging some of their friends.
And I don't even think Mary said like tag a friend,
She just like did some emojis, and it was just
neat to see, you know, women and or followers. Maybe
they're not all women. Some of them are probably guys,
but let's be honest, probably a lot of them women
(46:33):
um supporting each other and tagging their friend saying you're
the first person I thought of, or tagging multiple friends
saying love you guys, and another one saying like so
proud of you, You're awesome. I got you. Dab dab
dab hearth hearth heart raised the roof, em oji, praise hands,
all the things. So, speaking of Mary who posted this,
(46:53):
I love everything she does with the shot forward and
we had, you know, the Pimp and joy Dog update
story earlier, like the Shot Forward is her baby, her
brain child. She wanted to create a place where people
could give back and we're able to do that because
of her vision and her hard work. So shout out Mary,
you're awesome, and Ashley who works at the shop Forward,
(47:15):
and all the other people in all the warehouse, people
that get it all out there to everyone. We are
doing big things, so we're happy to be along for
the ride boom that is today's episode. Hope you enjoyed it.
If you haven't listened to all the other episodes, well
you can go back. You've got thirteen other ones to
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listen to. That's enough to binge now. Now we have
enough up where you could binge the podcast, and if
you want to subscribe, they'd be amazing rate and review.
We don't complain about that and really be honest with
your reviews. Will take it all the feedback, good, the bad, whatever,
all the stars. But we just appreciate that y'all are
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emails coming for things with Amy A. Brown at gmail
dot com and my email. Shoutout today goes to Morgan. Hi, Amy,
I've been a listener of the Bobby Bones Show for
six years. I love that you have a podcast now.
I listen each Thursday and it feels like I'm listening
to one of my closest girlfriends. I love all the
things you share with us. I'm emailing you because you
mentioned wanting to make time to join another book club. Well,
(48:20):
instead of joining a book club, you should start one.
I totally join. I try to read one book a month,
and it would be great to have a virtual community
to discuss the book with something to think about. Anyway,
thank you for being a positive light in my life.
When I wear my Pimp and Joy gear, people ask
me what that means, and I love that I get
to share the story of Pimp and Joy. You rock.
(48:41):
Have a great weekend. Sending love, Morgan. So Hey, Morgan,
good idea. I would love to start a book club.
If y'all are into that, Let's get some more emails
and let's figure out how we make this happen. I mean,
I guess I could just do it on Listen. I
know I've teased the website like a lot Radio dot
com that will be coming. I'm not going to have
(49:02):
a separate Instagram for this, but I will be able
to refer you to the website. But my Instagram is
at radio Amy if you'll want to follow that. I mean,
I guess I could start a book club on there.
I know Mary and I've talked about doing some sort
of a book club through a squaw possibly because that's
something that people have asked for. But okay, which that
(49:23):
handle is at shop spua if you want to follow that.
I run that Instagram account as well, UM s H
O P E s p W a shop spat. But
let me think about how to best execute a virtual
book club. I know, like Reese Witherspoon doesn't doesn't she?
So you know, Freeze got it all figured out. Maybe
(49:43):
I can just kind of. I'm not a part of her,
so I don't know how it works. If any of
you all have any tips on how we can best
do this and then discuss it virtually, and maybe I
could do some lives where I join in and we
chat with each other. I guess, yeah, maybe that could
be it. Okay, well let's see until next week. All right?
Oh wait, before we do go, I want to give
you all Bobo's Instagram in case I want to check
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it out. It's at a R E. T E. Nashville,
So check out that handle if you want to. And
it's always a big thank you to Elizabeth and Mike
d and Walker Hayes for the theme song to Joy
Never Life cast up roa little food for yourself Life
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