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Wellness Check from March 24th, 2926 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Oh, let me get this. It's Elena. This is our
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: friend Elena Wood from Nightingale College. Good morning, miss Wood.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? I'm doing pretty very good today, Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Hellout you. It's yeah, so so so so, which is
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: a good day for me?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: What's something that could make his day better? Elena? What
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: could he do to make his day better?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? I have the cure. It's called dance.
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  Speaker 1: No, I listen, I don't, I can't dance. Don't ask me.
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  Speaker 2: I know that this is your favorite topic, so I've
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  Speaker 2: been really excited to discuss it with you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's discuss dance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, dance is a really great form of physical activity,
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  Speaker 2: and in addition to our own physical fitness, it also
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  Speaker 2: helps support our brain, which is pretty rad.
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  Speaker 1: I think, well, what kind of dance are we talking
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  Speaker 1: about here? Any kind?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, any kind? And there's there's some additional benefit to
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  Speaker 2: doing synchronized dancing with a group, But you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do that if that's not your jam.
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  Speaker 1: I mean dancing bootscoot boogie sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that absolutely works.
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  Speaker 1: I used to enjoy when when I was a kid
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  Speaker 1: in grade school, they made us do square dancing. Did
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  Speaker 1: they do that when you were.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had to do I did that too, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it was actually kind of fun. I remember enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have a caller, but they'd had a record
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  Speaker 1: that they would put on. It was a square dance caller,
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  Speaker 1: and so the teacher would teach us to do all
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  Speaker 1: the different dope, side dough and all of that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and it made you feel good. Well, this is the
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  Speaker 1: latest point. It was kind of fun exactly. Yeah, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Except nobody ever wanted a square dance with me was
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  Speaker 1: always the last one.
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  Speaker 3: See, we were assigned. We weren't picked, we were assigned.
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  Speaker 3: Luckily I got Jana McAllister.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, well lucky you. Yeah. So uh, let's move on
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  Speaker 1: with Yeah, how do you find yourself doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can go to your local community center. We'll
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  Speaker 2: probably have some sort of dance classes. Also, most fitness
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  Speaker 2: centers have dance fitness.
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  Speaker 1: Style classes and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah. You can also just turn on some music
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  Speaker 2: in your home and shake your booty in your living
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  Speaker 2: room and that works too. So there's there's not really
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  Speaker 2: wrong or right ways necessarily to do.
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  Speaker 1: This, honey, please bring me my booty. I need to
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  Speaker 1: shake it. It's uh, you know, it's a it's sus
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  Speaker 1: sortable in a certain ways. It's a lost art though,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. It's there used to be Yes Arthur and
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Murray dance studios all over the country where you
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  Speaker 1: people would go and they would teach you to dance dance.
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  Speaker 4: But now you can do it, like Elena was saying,
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  Speaker 4: at your local gym. There's classes and stuff or zoom,
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  Speaker 4: but even something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And dance has, like I said, so many great
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  Speaker 2: physical benefits for us. It helps with our our cardiovascular fitness.
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  Speaker 2: It helps us get strong and build balance. And additionally,
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  Speaker 2: it has some really great mental health benefits such as
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  Speaker 2: improving our self esteem, which is I think a really
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  Speaker 2: cool side effect.
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  Speaker 1: Dance improves your self esteem. How does it do Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How does it do that?
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  Speaker 2: It helps us when we learn new things. It helps
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  Speaker 2: us to increase our sense of self mastery, which is
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  Speaker 2: one of the factors in self esteem. We're proving to ourselves, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can do hard or different or new things. So
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  Speaker 2: it helps us to build up that confidence.
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  Speaker 1: If I could, if I could only learn to cha cha.
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  Speaker 4: I've actually thought it'd be fun to take a dance
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  Speaker 4: class with my husband like it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Gina, I think it would be fun if I
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  Speaker 1: could take a dance class with.
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  Speaker 4: Your Sure, we could take turns.
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  Speaker 3: The last time that I danced till I was sweaty
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  Speaker 3: was we saw a real big fish with the boys,
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  Speaker 3: and I was dancing a lot and sweaty and.
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  Speaker 4: It felt good.
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  Speaker 3: And now I'll just occasionally throw on some ska music
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  Speaker 3: at home if Sue's not around, and just kind of
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  Speaker 3: dance a little bit, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And it says it's good for to protect your brain.
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  Speaker 2: It says here, Yes, yeah, this helps us to protect
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  Speaker 2: our brain, especially as we're aging, so learning new skills
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  Speaker 2: can help to ensure it keeps our memory active. Dance
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  Speaker 2: sequences also sometimes have a little bit of improvisation in them,
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  Speaker 2: so that's another skill that really keeps our brain sharp
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  Speaker 2: and helps us to just yeah, it helps us to
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  Speaker 2: age a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess then just seek out. You should probably
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  Speaker 1: seek out again at your local gym or community center opportunit. Yeah, yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I be creative. I guess I'm sure you'll find places
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, dance is everywhere, even at your friend's wedding or
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  Speaker 2: a concert you go to. You can just cut it loose.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Elena, thank you. I'm gonna next
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  Speaker 1: time I get an opportunity, I'll try to as they say,
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  Speaker 1: cut a rug.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I love that, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Where will we find out more?
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  Speaker 2: You can learn more about this, as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 2: amazing programs by visiting nightingale dot edu.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Coffee you soon, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Take care
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  Speaker 1: All right,