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The Case of the Pukes and I AM A SPARTAN!!!! · WDYM What Do You Mean?

• 0:10
  SPEAKER_01: You're listening to the WDYM, the what do you mean podcast?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now everyone gather around and listen to one of Hamilton's best podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: No research to back this up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think I've ever opened with a good morning.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_04: Good morning, everybody.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_04: Um, today I am recording in the morning time.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_04: I wanted to record in the morning time to get a different feel to the podcast.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_04: You know, when you wake up first thing in the morning, you know, voice is all sounding like this, like kind of scratchy, but not kind of scratchy.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_04: Nobody's up in the by, you know, upstairs, so they could bother me.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_04: He's like, Dad, or babe.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: Nobody's doing that.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's just me, the Rodcaster Pro, and you.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_04: With that being said, thank you for listening to the WDYM.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I'm your host, Michael Glesby.
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  SPEAKER_04: We got two stories today.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_04: We're going old school with the first story with a um, I don't want to ruin it yet.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_04: I want to play the sound because it sounds great.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then uh we got another one, This Buzz For You, which is a mixture of saluting one of my friends for being a good person and uh our inter one of our main interactions in life.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um so that should be entertaining.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_04: Today's today today's episode I think is very entertaining.
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  SPEAKER_04: With that being said, we're gonna get into the first one.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: You don't find that suspicious.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: You don't find that suspicious, you don't find that suspicious.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_04: This is the basically the get out of work get out of work free card.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_04: You know, you you've heard of the get out of jail free card or monopoly.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_04: Well, there's also one uh when you work in the food industry, right?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and it's the funniest one because when I get called this, when I get called for this excuse, I always initially get mad.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_04: I get so mad, I go back to when my TI used to get so mad at us, but back then TIs couldn't curse at us at in uh basic training in the military.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_04: He would always say, you know, what the piss?
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_04: That's what he said, what the piss is going on.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_04: So when I get called and people be like, Mike, I'm not coming into work today.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_04: I said, Well, you know, what's the matter?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_04: What's wrong?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_04: He said, Well, I I've been doing oh, I've been doing this all day.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_04: I've been puking all day, and I just can't come to work.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, okay, I mean, that's cool and all.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_04: You you've been puking all day, and then I get I get it.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_04: Initially, I get fired up, like, man, what the piss is going on?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_04: How the heck you've been puking all day, and you call me a couple hours before your shift.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_04: And it doesn't matter where I'm at.
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  SPEAKER_04: If I'm at Chipotle, if I'm at Bob Evans, if I'm at the hospital, if I'm at the retirement communities, I get the same one, like, I've been puking all day, and I get so fired up, like, man, what the piss is going on?
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_04: Why you've been puking all day and you call me a couple hours before your shift, right?
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, man, what is going on like what's really going on?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_04: Then that anger turns into concern.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_04: Like, wait a minute, what have you been eating all day?
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_04: Because I need to avoid that.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_04: And it's like, like, I need like, of course, you're not, your butt ain't coming in.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_04: Because you're dealing with food, you're gonna be, you know, hand touching, and these people, you know, whoever you're dealing with, the the chance of you know taking what you got and giving it to somebody else, is bad.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_04: We're not we're not trying to do that.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_04: We're not trying to do that here.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_04: But the thing that bothers me is that the excuses that I get, the excuses that I'm being told.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_04: I remember someone at your poll was like, Yeah, uh, I've been puking all day.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_04: You've been puking all day?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_04: Sir, you should be dead right now.
• 3:50
  unknown: Why?
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_04: If you've been puking all day, you should be at the hospital.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_04: Don't worry about a little pilly butt work.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, have someone call it in if you've been puking all day.
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  SPEAKER_04: Some of the other ones I get, like, I've been puking all night.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I mean, you I mean, obviously I work the morning.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_04: It's morning time.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_04: It's six o'clock in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_04: You supposed to be here six o'clock in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_04: Why are you why are you telling me you've been puking all night when you've just been sleep, you've probably been asleep.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_04: You've been sleeping and you woke up.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_04: You're like, oh shoot, I ain't gonna be able to come to work.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna have to use the ultimate, ultimate get out of work free card, which is I've been puking all day, all night.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_04: I've been puking.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_04: And uh me as an as a person who's been working forever, right?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_04: Even if I puke, even if I'm at I'm at work and I'm going or I'm at home doing that, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be one time, maybe twice.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_04: Even so, if I get a calm period of an hour or an hour and a half and nothing comes up, secretly, I'm taking my butt to work.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_04: I've always been that way.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_04: I I I don't miss work.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_04: I've never been the one to be like, well, Mike's un he's undependable.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_04: I can't he can't come to work.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_04: I can't come to work.
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  SPEAKER_04: And that's never been my thing.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_04: Um I come to work because again, people depend on me.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: And then as as I've grown to this management type since 2014, that's my thing.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_04: Like I I am dependable.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, you gotta I gotta be physically unable to walk in order for me not to come to work.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_04: Even after leg day, and leg day for me I'm out for three days because my legs hurt so bad, which is a whole nother story that I need to get into.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_04: But uh, yeah, imagine I I just can't.
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  SPEAKER_04: I just cannot not come to work.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_04: A double negative.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_04: I cannot come to work.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_04: People depend on me, I'm in a role of leadership, uh, and that's the best example I got.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_04: So when I hear, you know, people like, I've been puking, doing all this, and and hearing this, don't that make you like gag a little bit?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_04: But yeah, that's one of the excuses that I get all the time, no matter where I'm at, if I'm at a restaurant, if I'm at the hospital, if I'm at Chipotle, wherever I'm at, I always get that excuse.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_04: And it's a it's a valid excuse, ladies and gentlemen.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you are puking, keep your butt home.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_04: But I mean, the the the excuses is all day, all night.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_04: If you've been puking all night, you probably on your deathbed anyway.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_04: So that being said, keep your butt at work and or keep your butt at home and don't come into work.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_04: But that's what we do, that's what we do.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_04: So the main story today, the main event today is a Spartan run or Spartan race.
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  SPEAKER_04: I did one a couple years back, 2019 to be exact, and uh it all started with a friend of mine.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now, rewind time back, back, back, back in the day, where uh my friend Gina, she she was she's the one that kind of initiated the Spartan race, so to speak.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_04: So that's what I'm saying.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_04: This one is I am a Spartan, yet it's uh here's to you.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_04: So here's to you, Gina, and we want to tell the story of the Spartan race from 2019.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_04: Um see the thing about that started from the very beginning.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_04: Gina was someone I used to work with at Great Wolf Lodge, and um back then she wasn't the outgoing, you know, get to the gym type thing.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_04: And I was, I was always stay, maintain some type of shape, right?
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_04: Um always believed, you know, you always keep mind, body, spirit all has to be aligned to be successful in life, right?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_04: If you if your mind's right, your mentality's right, your body follows, then your spirit follows as well.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_04: That's my own personal thing, and um, you know, that's what I that's that's how I follow my life, right?
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_04: So, as always, uh I after working at Great With Lodge, we used to work like three to eleven or whatever, I used to go to Planet Fitness and you know, hit the gym, work out, get big, get you know, stay fit, right?
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_04: Just fit.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_04: This is what I always say.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_04: Stay fit enough that if the zombie apocalypse happened, I can outrun somebody, trip them up, let the zombies eat him, and I can run, right?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_04: Even if the funny thing, even if someone trips me up, I can get up and keep running.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, you, you dirty bastard, I'm gonna catch you.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_04: That's the thing I always keep in mind to keep your body in somewhat of a decent shape so you don't get eaten by zombies.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so me and Gina, we always talk smack smack to each other.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_04: And um, we're winding to a point where she's like, Hey Mike, you know, hey, I see, you know, you go to the gym, I bring my gym bag.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_04: He's like, I see you got your gym bag.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_04: Do you uh she's like, Do you mind if I go with you?
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_04: I said, You want to work out with me?
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_04: I said it would be an honor to.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_04: I love when people ask to work out with me, because that means they they they want to change.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_04: And the best thing about change, or you know, when you ask somebody for change is that you have a support system with you.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_04: So she asked me if I don't, you know, use my uh black card, I think that's what it's called, black card for uh Planet Fitness.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_04: I can get somebody in, and we would do it.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: So we would do it, we did it.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_04: And for the first time uh we did it, we're on elliptical, and she's like, Yay, you know, we're on the liquidal, we're looking at each other, like, good job, you know.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, you know, giving the wing, like, good job, you know, we're doing elliptical and everything.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, don't make fun of me.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_04: I said, That's not that's not what we're here for.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_04: We're here to make sure that you get better, you get better as a person, and you build off of that, right?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_04: So um, eventually, that first day, she was worn out, exhausted for like 10 minutes on the elliptical.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_04: And um after that moment, she took it on her own.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: She did her own initiative to start getting in super shape, right?
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_04: So she's starting to get in shape on her own.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_04: Congratulations.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_04: That is awesome.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_04: She's doing her own thing, and I'm still doing my thing.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_04: So, fast forward a couple years, uh, roughly 2019, we do the uh spark.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_04: We start talking smack to each other, like, yeah, yes, you know, because um rewind back again.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_04: And, you know, I told the story on Snapchat, and uh I posted on Facebook, and she's like, you know, she was real uh touched by, I think she was touched by you know what I was saying and everything, and we start talking junk to each other on Snapchat.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, well, you know, um, you know, I'm in good shape, you in good shape.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, Yeah, you know, I'm in decent shape.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_04: Let's let's, you know, let's do something.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, well, you know, there's a Spartan race coming on.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_04: I said, What's what's a Spartan race?
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I didn't know what a Spartan race was at the time, you know, just like, hey, every other person, I don't know what a Spartan race is.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, let's do a Spartan race.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_04: So I look, type it in the old, you know, phone and see what it is.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_04: And it's a Spartan race.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_04: It's a challenge, an obstacle, it's a three-mile obstacle challenge like American Gladiators, but outdoors.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I know, I'm like, I don't know.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_04: Initially, I'm like, I don't want to do this.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_04: I ain't doing no Spartan race.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_04: I haven't ran in years.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_04: You won't be out here running a Spartan race.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_04: And then she does the trigger, a trigger word for me.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_04: She has decides to call me a bitch.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_04: P-I-T-C-H bitch.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, normally on a WDYM, I don't curse.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_04: This one's going to be marked for explicit language, but she called me a bitch.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, that happens, it just turns me into the incredible hawk.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_04: It's like it's not gonna happen.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's like mild manner, Michael Gillespie's usually cool, but unless you make him angry.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, Gina, don't make me angry.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_04: People wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm like, you know what?
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_04: I agree.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_04: You wanna run the Spartan race?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_04: Let's run the Spartan race.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna do this, we're gonna do it together, right?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm like, alright, cool.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm like, all right, I again, I go to Planet Fitness, I lift weights.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, ex nay all that.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_04: We're not doing that.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna buy some equipment.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_04: So I go buy uh a whole bunch of weights, I buy a bench press, it is on and popping.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_04: You don't mess up and all that good stuff.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_04: So uh I start training, right?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_04: I start training hard.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, you know what?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_04: I need to stop what I'm doing.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not gonna just just w mildly lift.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not just gonna just lift and just be like, this is good.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_04: I want an actual program.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna buy me a fitness program.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, oh man.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I don't know if I should do that.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_04: But I was like, you know what?
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna do it.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm looking through, trying to find a program.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_04: You know, Billy Blanks has a program, his little Ta Bow stuff.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_04: Like, no, I'm talking about some weightlifting program.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_04: I come across this guy named Ryan Ingle, and the dude's jacked up, swole.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I could do this.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_04: That ain't nothing.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_04: I could do that, no problem.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm looking at the price of of the uh program.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, okay, it's a it's a nice chunk of money, but it's a personalized program just for you.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_04: Again, this is not an endorsement to Ryan Ingle, but he does have some good stuff on there.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not lying.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_04: So I go out and I buy the program that I want, right?
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_04: So uh I'm lifting, I'm I'm I'm I get the program, I'm lifting mildly, but then once uh once the program actually gets here, it is on and pop.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_04: I'm looking at it, this thing is personalized just for me.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_04: He, I mean, this guy asked me, Am I lactose intolerant?
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_04: Which side note, I am, you know what I'm saying.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_04: That's another story for another lifetime, another story for another episode.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_04: But yeah, I don't lactose intolerance.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_04: So, like, things that I would like high-in-protein cottage cheese, I ain't eating that.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_04: That is that just giving me the poops.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_04: Sorry, sorry, TMI, too much information.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_04: But he's giving me my own program, you know, six eggs in the morning, spinach, broccoli, fish, no bun.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, I'm like, yo, this thing is working because I'm starting to get big.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_04: I'm looking in the mirror, like, yo.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yo, I'm starting, I'm starting to get a little big.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_04: Look at the arms.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_04: But the arms are speaking for themselves.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_04: The triceps speaking for themselves.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_04: The shoulders are speaking for the the the chest, they they ain't titties no more.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_04: These things, it's not titties, they're actual chest, like actual like muscle behind the titties' chest.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_04: I'm getting big.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_04: And so here's the thing.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_04: I'm getting to a point where like I've never been this big before.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_04: Never ever been this big before.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_04: So I get up to lifting roughly 225 pounds on the chest press.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, yo, I'm doing back, is broad.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yo, I could put the whole log on the back.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_04: I got it.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_04: You know, saying I am getting big and I'm getting full of myself and everything.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_04: Looking good, everything.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_04: I'm listening I don't I don't gloat about anything.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_04: I'm I I always remain humble.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_04: My number one rule was always remain humble.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_04: Thank God for everything that I got.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: So when I'm I'm getting in shape, getting ready for a Spartan race, I have people taking pictures of me behind my back.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't even know that.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_04: You'd be like, Michael, well, how do you know?
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_04: Well, the people that was taking pictures showed me, like, did you know how big your back was?
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_04: Because you can't look at your back.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_04: You know, you look in the mirror, but it don't look right.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_04: Someone took a picture of me with my back all swole in a shirt, and they were like, eh, it was a female.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, You look, you know, you got a sexy back.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_04: I said, you know, I'm just like Justin Timberlake.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_04: I bring in sexy back, you know, I'm kidding.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_04: But the back is broad.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, yo, this is this, she's in trouble.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, what about the six-pack?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_04: Six pack?
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_04: All right, that's still a one-pack, but you know, the most of the problem, I'm like 80% of super saiyan.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_04: I go, I even, why I say that, I even bleached my hair.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_04: I put blonde in my hair.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_04: I'm looking like a whole different person.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_04: I'm ready to rock this joint.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_04: I'm ready to kill this course.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_04: I've never been in this shape before.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_04: Running 1.5 miles, exactly, because anything after that is ridiculous.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: But I'm I'm feeling good.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_04: I'm feeling good about this Spartan race, and I'm going to kick her butt, rightfully so.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_04: So the Spartan race is in like the June-July time frame in Indiana.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_04: I live in Ohio, just in case you guys don't know, Hamilton's Hamilton's finest podcast.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_04: It's Hamilton, Ohio.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_04: Stay with me.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so we get out there, and then suddenly, well unexpectedly, my dad dies.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_04: So when that happens, that does, that does um put you back a little bit, so to speak.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_04: It's just like, hey, you know, dad, my dad died.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_04: You know, the situation that how it happened, it was kind of messed up, everything.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_04: But uh, you know, I'm the only one that's gonna be able to take care of everything.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_04: Mind you, that I have two sisters in Atlanta.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_04: My brother hasn't spoken to my dad in 20 years, and my other sister doesn't drive.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_04: So it's like anything that has to be done, I'm gonna have to do it.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_04: And plus the the idea that, you know, your father passes away, it's like that sucks.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_04: Like, you know, any of it's it sucks, but you know, it is things that we all have to go through, this, that, and the other.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_04: So that was in May.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_04: So I kind of like chilled back from working out a little bit and focused on getting this stuff together and cleaning out his apartment and all other stuff that goes with that, right?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_04: And to this day, we are still dealing with that, you know.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_04: So mind you, that's what, 19 in this year 23.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_04: There you go, like four years later.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_04: There it is.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_04: So, uh, so I stopped working out and I'm still in decent shape, you know.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_04: A couple a month later, I'm not gonna lose too much.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_04: Not gonna lose too much in order to do the Spartan race.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_04: So the week of the Spartan race, the week of the Spartan race, that Wednesday, I donate plasma.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: Now I've been doing that for about a year plus, and um and towards the end of the month, when you do like seven seven donations, eight donations, nine donations, you start getting bonuses, right?
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_04: So I was figured I did my Wednesday donation, therefore I'm about to get my bonus on Saturday.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_04: Saturday is the Spartan race.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_04: Alright, no, no, no, no problem.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_04: I never felt bad after a plasma donation, so it's like no problem, right?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_04: That Thursday, I'm all I'm talking, I'm at work talking about the Spartan race again.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_04: I'm about to get this Spartan race, you guys don't even know what's gonna happen.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna kill this joint.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna kill this Spartan race.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_04: And one of my friends who I work with said, hey man, you wanna you up for the challenge for Spartan?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, I am.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm about to kill this stuff.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_04: So how about we do 10 flights of stairs?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_04: I'm competitive by nature.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_04: This guy said, You want to do some stairs?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, let's do some stairs.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_04: And I ain't scared of stairs.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do it.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do it.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_04: I ain't scared of no stairs.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_04: Now, mind you, he's been doing this, right?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_04: So we start doing it, he's off, he's off and running.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_04: Boom, doing like jumping, like hiking or stepping two steps ahead.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just doing choppy steps of one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_04: He's on two, two, two, two.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm like, I'm wasting more energy.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_04: Like, oh man, I'm gonna lose because he's going two, two, two, two.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_04: Again, he's been doing this for a while.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_04: I haven't.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm doing one, one, one, then I start doing twos like he is, catching up to him.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_04: Eventually, he beats me, right?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_04: No big deal.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_04: Competitive in me, he's like, this mug set me up.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I can't believe.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I should have known that he's been doing this for a while.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_04: Why would he challenge me out the out the get-go?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, whatever.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_04: So after that, I go home, and now it's Thursday, Friday.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_04: I am sore.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_04: I am so so I've never been so sore in my life.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_04: I I I was so sore, I just couldn't do any steps, and I have three flights of steps in my own house, and I could not do any any steps.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_04: I could barely walk, barely run.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I am in so much trouble.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_04: Now I took Friday off to prepare for Saturday's Spartan run.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_04: That Friday, I soak in the tub literally all day.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'm hoping that you know the the uh the water, the hot water will relieve these muscles, but these are freshly torn muscles, and I'm not gonna recover in time.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_04: So I've I've I've screwed myself when it comes to my legs.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_04: Now, I haven't seen the course yet, so I don't have any idea what I'm getting to, but I think if I could just right now, it's not even about finishing in first, second, third, fifth, tenth, twelfth, twentieth, fiftieth.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_04: Right now it's just to finish the race.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_04: That's all I my objective is just to.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_04: Finish the race.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_04: I am so sore.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_04: So that Friday I soak in a tub and everything.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_04: Then Saturday, the day of the race, I go and donate plasma.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_04: Now, the day of the race, I should not be donating plasma.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_04: I should be focusing on the race and so but I want that bonus.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_04: I want that plasma bonus.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_04: Like my seventh, eighth bonus.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_04: I get like an extra$50,$60 on top of what I normally make.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_04: That's like$130,$140 in one day.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_04: Like, why would I not want that bonus?
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, this is this is a year-long thing.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_04: This Spartan race is just one thing.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_04: Or one event of the year.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm like, you know what?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_04: Just finish.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_04: Just finish the Spartan race.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_04: That's an achievement with all in itself.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_04: So I go donate plasma.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_04: My legs are sore.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_04: Now I gotta drive to Indiana.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_04: As I'm driving, I can feel the fatigue already setting in.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_04: And mind you, I drive I guzzled some Gatorade right after uh right after donating.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_04: I figure, you know, I would recover.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna recover because this is not detrimental to the race.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna win.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna win this race.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_04: So um I get there and I see Gina.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, oh shit, dude.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_04: And then the competition is like, oh shoot, I forgot.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_04: I've been talking smack this whole time, like I'm gonna beat her.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm learning to myself, clearly, clearly, clearly, I'm not gonna beat her.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not, I'm not gonna beat her.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_04: This is how I'm setting myself up for failure, and it's not cool.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_04: Not cool at all.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna lose this race.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_04: Then as we pull up, I see her and she said, Hey, this is my friend Greg, and uh he's running the race with us.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, okay, cool, no problem with that.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_04: And he, Greg, is super excited about the race.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_04: He's like, yo, dude, I'm gonna beat this.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, he's like hyper.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yo, dude, I'm gonna beat this.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna knock this thing out, I'm gonna be the first one.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_04: He kept talking a mile a minute.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, this dude don't realize this is a marathon race.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_04: This ain't no like sprint.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_04: And on top of that, on top of that, it's the hottest day of the year.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_04: Come to find out after, you know, after we run it, that this day, the day we decide to run a Spartan race, it's the hottest day of the year.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_04: So that's on top of that, we got that.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_04: And we're running a Spartan race, and I'm the only one prepared.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_04: What do you mean by that?
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_04: It's the hottest day of the year.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_04: I brought two water packs, and these are the water packs that go on your back, and you put it in your mouth, and you bite on it, and you you know, you suck on it, get water.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_04: I froze them overnight, like thin water, thin water, then I poured water in them, so therefore, we have um cold water throughout the whole Spartan race.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_04: I'm the only one that brought them.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_04: I brought two because I didn't know about Greg was coming, because I would have bought a third one.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_04: But I only bought two for me and Gina.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_04: So we're running, we're getting ready to start the race, and as we said at the starting line, they do this whole little excuse me, they do this whole little thing to get you all hyped up.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_02: The day may come when the courage of Sparta fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_02: But it is not this day, but this day we fight, and to prepare you for that battle, I will ask a very simple question: who am I?
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: To which you shall respond, I am a Spartan! Who am I?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: We are honored by your courage and competitive excellence, but know this that your mind, body, and spirit will all be part of the ultimate test.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_02: Reach glory on this day! Who am I?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: Look at the Spartans on your right and your left, you will drop the strength from them, as they will jump straight from you.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: But today is the day that you want us to glory.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_04: So, off the gates, we are starting the race.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_04: And mind you, this is in per this is at Perfect North Slopes in Indiana.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_04: The first obstacle is going straight up the hill.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_04: Now, again, the main thesis of this podcast is that my thighs are literally on fire.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_04: I cannot run up this hill and expect to live.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not doing that.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_04: No, ma'am, no, sir.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_04: But here's the funny thing about it this is the first obstacle.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_04: And I, Gina, and Greg, we're just walking it.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_04: We're just walking it because we know this is a trick.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_04: This is a trap.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_04: People are gonna start running up here, and people are gonna fall down the hill dying.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_04: And as we're walking up here, people are already on their fat on their butt, gasping, tired, about to pass out.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_04: I just like, I told you, I told you not to do that.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm looking at them as I'm walking up the hill.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_04: That's first obstacle.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_04: Legs are on fire.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_04: Thesis of the day, legs are on fire.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_04: First obstacle, right?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_04: No problem.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_04: I walk up the hill, and there's slanted walls, and there's cargo nets and everything.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_04: And it's like, okay, you know, I could do the physical part, it's just I can't do it fast.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_04: Because my thighs were on fire.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_04: Again, I've been set up for failure by my guy Chris, who wanted to challenge me 10 flight stairs a couple days prior to the Dag on Spartan race.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_04: And me being stupid and competitive, I agree to that.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_04: So we're coming up the hill, doing the obstacles.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_04: We come down the hill, there's more obstacles, and in between all that, Greg he vomits.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_04: He threw up.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_04: Mind you, he has one of my water bags.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_04: Guess what, player?
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_04: That's your water bag.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_04: You can have it.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want it.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_04: It is yours.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_04: You can keep it.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_04: You threw up, you you went too fast, you went too far.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_04: So that's your water, that's your water bag.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_04: He pukes, and he is he's just down for the count.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_04: So it's just me and Gina now.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_04: We're doing the whole sandbag lifting.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_04: We're doing all the obstacles.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_04: All the obstacles are fine, right?
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_04: It's just the run.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_04: There's parts in the of the competition where you just have to run a couple miles.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_04: Again.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_04: My thighs are on fire, ladies and gentlemen.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_04: I cannot, I cannot run.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_04: I cannot run for whatever it takes.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_04: Right?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_04: I can't.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_04: I can't.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_04: I can't.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_04: I can't run.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_04: So eventually I catch up to Gina, and then Greg eventually catches up to us.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_04: And at this point, I'm physically, I'm pooped, I'm wiped.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_04: I have I've basically committed to just doing the bare minimum just to do it, just to say I've completed the Spartan race.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_04: On the other hand, Gina's doing every obstacle.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_04: There's one obstacle where you pick up the boulder, take it uphill, place the boulder, and come back downhill.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_04: She does that.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'm walking by that bad boy.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_04: There's other parts where there's you jump in the jump in the river and do some swimming.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_04: I can do that, no problem.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_04: Gina's like miles ahead of me.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_04: I can see her from like way up there, like, yo, she's kicking ass.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_04: Now remind this reminds me, it's the same girl, woman, excuse me, woman, that was on barely can do an elliptical.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_04: Now she's way ahead of me on a Spartan race, and I'm like, I'm low-key pissed because you know I'm losing to a woman.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_04: Secondly, she was talking the whole time, and now she's backing it up.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_04: Everything.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_04: The monkey bar, she's hitting the monkey bar, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_04: Of her body strength, I could do monkey bars.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_04: Just the legs are on fire.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_04: And I can't do much with the legs on fire.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_04: I can't.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_04: I can't.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_04: So everything, everything from half point on, Gina just kicks my ass.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_04: She's gone in in the wind.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_04: I don't even see her no more.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I'm walking, walking through mud.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_04: And mind you, let me tell you guys something.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_04: Walking through mud with hurt thighs does not save lives at all.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_04: I thought I was going to go through the mud and drown in the mud because at that point I had no more fight left.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_04: I could not, I could not go on.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_04: Right now, my bottom line is to just finish.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_04: It's just finish.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_04: I could do all the upper body, the monkey bars, the climb this, all that.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_04: But anything with the legs, I am toast.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm completing the course, and towards the end, you see people like, come on, boy, clapping and everything.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_04: Come on, guy, you can do it.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_04: You do it.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_04: Mind you, I've drunk all my water in my water bag.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_04: I'm physically tired.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_04: I'm dehydrated.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_04: My thighs are on fire.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_04: I swear I saw Jesus a couple times.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_04: Like, come on with me, child.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, not yet.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not ready.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_04: So right now I'm just finishing.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_04: The last obstacle was hot jumping across.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_04: Or jump, grab a rope, and swing across hot coals.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm thinking to myself, the key word was jump, right?
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_04: I think you have to jump to grab the rope because the rope's swinging back and forth, swinging back and forth.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_04: You have to jump, grab the rope, and keep hike your legs up so they don't catch on fire and survive.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know if I could do that.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want to be on WCPO News saying, today, a black man got 30 degree burns from what?
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_04: Falling in the hotel coals and couldn't make, couldn't manage to get out the coals and stuff, burnt, die, and everybody's sad.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_04: I couldn't let that be on WCPO News.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_04: So I got a running start like a mile away because I knew I couldn't make it if I started at the rope.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm running, thighs are burning.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_04: I've never felt this pain ever before.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_04: I thought I was gonna die.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_04: I told you I saw Jesus.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_04: Um I jump, grab the rope, swing across, and survive.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_04: I made it.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_04: I finish the Spartan race.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_04: Thank the Lord, right?
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_04: And rightfully so, I deserve every second of this applause for completing that Spartan race.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_04: After that, they hand me, at the time I didn't know what it was, white claw, whatever it was.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_04: I thought it was some kind of hydrate, because you know, we're running a Spartan race.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_04: Why would they give me a white claw, whatever beer, whatever that was?
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_04: I drank the sh out of that, okay?
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_04: Now I'm back to not cussing.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_04: I drank this sh out of it.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_04: I was whatever it is, it's going down.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_04: Find out it was alcohol, a little buzz afterwards, but at the end of the day, I got my shirt, I got my medal, I finished the Spartan race, and I'm very proud of that to this day.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_04: And Gina finished like 30 minutes, 30 minutes before me.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_04: So she kicked that damn course's ass, right?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_04: So that was 2019.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_04: And so I started talking to Smack recently to, you know, hey, 2023, there's a Spartan race.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_04: What do you what do you think, Gina?
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, yo, whatever.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_04: Sign me up.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_04: I ain't scared of you.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_04: With it, you know, I'll beat it before and I'll beat it again.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, okay, cool.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_04: So we started started doing it, you know, training again, trying to get ready for the training and everything.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_04: Then she decided to get and she got proposed to and she's getting married.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm pretty sure the Spartan race is off.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_04: At least that's what I'm hoping for.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_04: Because my training, while my training is is constant, it's not Ryan Engel training.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_04: You have to train to do a Spartan race.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_04: I don't care what you say.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_04: It's very important to get to your max before you do that that Spartan race.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_04: So, yeah, that's the story of I Am a Spartan.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_04: That was fun.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_04: And eventually I'm gonna do another one, but I just don't know when.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_04: But then I'll tell you one thing what I won't do.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_04: I won't be on those stairs doing a whole bunch of steps.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_04: With that being said, this episode is coming to an end.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_04: Go out there and go and try to be a Spartan.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_04: It's not for the week.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_04: And don't do stairs beforehand.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_04: Please don't.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_04: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie of the WDYM.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for tuning in as always, and I'm out, Spartan Scouts.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_04: Peace.