Latest / Nick and Kristen in the Podcast / The Case of the Mysterious Arm Pain

Transcript

The Case of the Mysterious Arm Pain · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

0:12
Welcome to the Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
0:14
Podcast. I'm Nick.
0:15
That's Kristen. We're married.
0:17
We have a 7 year old. We used to be on the radio and
0:19
now we're doing a podcast because that's what happens when
0:23
you lose your job. It's all you know how to do is
0:25
talk on the radio. It seems to be all I know how to
0:28
do and I've been trying to branch out in the other things
0:32
and nothing's really like fit for me.
0:36
I didn't realize that I was so invested in this career and
0:43
it's, it's been eye opening as I go through things.
0:47
I, I look at jobs and I go, well, that sounds terrible.
0:51
I don't want to do that. And then I I have a very
0:54
particular set of skills that don't really apply to other
0:57
things. Well, they do.
0:59
It's just you're rusty at them because they've only been used
1:02
in a radio capacity. The other day you were you're a
1:06
great photographer. And so we've been saying like,
1:08
well, maybe use something for your photography skills.
1:11
And you thought, well, maybe I should do real estate
1:13
photography. That would be something that
1:14
interests me. You watched a couple videos on
1:16
it. You felt like, OK, maybe I can
1:18
get this done. And you reached out to, we went
1:20
on our like local Vancouver page and it was hey, like want to
1:24
connect with local Realtors? Like hit me up.
1:26
Didn't say you're a photographer but just said like hey if you're
1:28
a local realtor I'd love to talk.
1:30
To you, apparently this is a thing that happens a lot.
1:32
So I for some reason one of the Realtors or real estate agents
1:37
replied to my post and let me go to a house that they were
1:40
showing that was open for two hours to take pictures.
1:43
Super nice of her to let me do this.
1:45
So I really appreciate it and we got to talking about it and this
1:49
is a very competitive market. That's not what.
1:51
I want to hear, I know, like it's something that a lot of
1:53
people think they can do and are competing for it and there's
1:57
money to be made in it. The.
1:59
She said she paid about $1100 for someone to come in for two
2:02
or three hours to shoot pictures, video content, and
2:07
that's a lot of money. That's a lot.
2:08
And so I was like, excited when you said that.
2:10
I was like, OK, this could be viable, right?
2:12
And then you were like, yeah, she said.
2:14
She gets hit up four or five emails a day, a day from
2:17
photographer saying that they want to be their kind of like
2:20
real estate photographer. Yeah.
2:22
So every real estate agent is dealing with that and they've
2:24
all just sent them to spam now. So now.
2:26
Everyone, she's like, great. Yeah, everyone has their guy and
2:29
it's it's the same as every job. You got to know somebody.
2:31
And so now I know her and she's because I told her I don't want
2:35
to grind. Like this is not a job.
2:37
What I want to see is my career. I am just doing this until
2:40
somebody wises up and hires us back into the radio business.
2:43
So I know. So I don't know if that's going
2:45
to happen, but I'm for now, I'm just trying to dip my toe in it.
2:48
And so I just want to work for a company as just a a number like
2:52
just you want. To be a grunt, Yeah, you don't
2:54
want to. You don't want to grind and make
2:55
your own business and have your own real estate photography
2:58
business. You want to work for a real
2:59
estate photographer business and be told like, hey, you're going
3:02
to this house on Saturday or whatever.
3:04
It is. It's not as much money, but it
3:05
is much less stress. Like I don't have to do the
3:07
books, I don't have to keep the paperwork, I don't have to make
3:09
contracts, I don't have to find the people which constantly
3:12
nagging people, which I hate doing.
3:14
And I just have to go real estate agents that need a
3:17
photographer. We'll go to this company.
3:18
The company will say, hey, you're close by, go take a
3:21
picture. And so you here's 100.
3:22
Bucks, you went down there for two hours and you talk, You took
3:24
some photos. I talked to you afterwards.
3:26
You're like, yeah, you know, like I think it went OK.
3:28
I I won't know until like I upload the photos and kind of
3:31
start messing around with them. And I did.
3:33
That today, and you did that today and you had some thoughts
3:35
about it. I am not happy with what
3:37
happened, I and I, I, I'm putting too much pressure on
3:40
myself for this because it's the first time I've ever done it.
3:43
It's not an easy skill. Like it seems like, oh, yeah,
3:45
you just take pictures of like, the house.
3:47
There's a certain level of skill and practice that comes with it.
3:51
And I needed a house to practice on.
3:53
So now that I've got that out of the way, I get to look at it and
3:56
analyze the game footage. You know what I mean?
3:58
You go through and you go, all right, well, this didn't work.
4:00
This is what I need to do next time.
4:02
This is what I'm missing. This would have helped me a lot
4:04
if I had this. This angle's too high or too
4:06
low. And so I'm, it's a learning
4:08
thing. So but I was very discouraged
4:11
after doing and editing the photos.
4:13
I was like, man, I suck at this compared to somebody else who's
4:16
been doing. It for years.
4:17
Has better equipment, you know, like I'm working on the stuff
4:20
that I have. But I did shoot video and I feel
4:23
much more confident in video than I do in photo.
4:27
And that's something she said that they're actually really
4:29
looking for. It's people that shoot like the
4:31
content video. Because I don't know about you,
4:33
but my TikTok Alvarez algorithm is full of like, like
4:37
walkthroughs of homes that like I could never afford.
4:40
But somebody's shooting that. And the realtor's kind of just
4:42
like guiding people around. And that's what she needs people
4:45
for because nobody's really going to sites.
4:46
They're getting this information from social media.
4:49
So that's something that you're good at now.
4:50
Exactly. So I I did shoot video while I
4:52
was there to kind of create videos and see what I got.
4:55
I haven't I was I was done for the day.
4:57
I have to go into the photos and be like, all right, well, I'm
5:00
just going to go never die in a corner and I kind of work in
5:05
Circle K So I'm going to do the videos tomorrow.
5:08
We'll see how I feel about that. All right, I'll check in with
5:10
you guys tomorrow and see if I'm a little more confident in the
5:12
videos because I feel much more confident in that than I do in
5:17
photos. And if I do get this job and if
5:19
I do find a new career in photography or real estate
5:23
hotograher find social media, whatever I end U doing, we can
5:26
go and celebrate at Sizzler because Sizzler is making a
5:31
comeback. Why on earth would that make a
5:33
comeback? So they survived this whole.
5:35
Time. No, they didn't.
5:36
They did. No.
5:37
They had name 1 Sizzler location.
5:39
There are 74 Sizzler locations in America.
5:42
There were 704, and now they're down to 74.
5:45
They have a new CEO that's like, I'm bringing it back, baby.
5:49
I'm going to rejuvenate Sizzler. So they reinvested into the
5:52
current ones they have. They remodeled all their places
5:55
and they invested in making the food good and they saw a 47%
5:59
increase in food or in like business and so they're going to
6:04
take it. National no, I mean, so here's
6:06
the thing with these like so all these chains get their the food
6:09
from the same place, Cisco. Yeah, OK.
6:11
You'll always see the Cisco trucks out in front of these
6:13
restaurants. There's a whole independent like
6:15
a. There's a whole documentary
6:16
about. It very, very.
6:17
Hurtful it's it's hard to watch, but it's it's the same food you
6:21
get absolutely everywhere and Sizzler has a branding problem.
6:25
Like when you you think Sizzler immediately you go.
6:28
You go you. No, in the 90s no one went you,
6:30
just you. Yeah, the 90s are different.
6:33
It's 2026 right now. Like the?
6:34
90s are coming. Back No, they're not like places
6:37
like Chili's, Applebee's, Sizzlers, Black Angus, Outback
6:42
steakhouses. All of them are like, like the
6:46
brain care has tanked because nobody wants that same, the same
6:50
steak that you could get at every single restaurant.
6:52
People want like a bespoke kind of experience.
6:56
Maybe I would love to if they had, if they had a what's the
7:00
steak place we go that we love? That's everywhere.
7:02
Well, we always look. For City Grill.
7:05
What's the one? Texas Roadhouse.
7:07
Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse is a chain, and
7:09
they probably get their food from Cisco, but it's good
7:12
quality. It delivers every time, and if
7:15
Sizzler can do that again, we go in Sizzler.
7:18
That was the. Celebration people would go to
7:20
Disneyland, but before they went to Disneyland, they would go to
7:23
Sizzler. I just and that's.
7:23
What we wanted to do, The thing is whenever these businesses get
7:26
too big too fast, the product is bad.
7:29
So the fact that they used to have 700, now they have 74 and
7:33
this new CEO is like, we're going global.
7:35
It's like that's not what I want to hear right now.
7:38
I want you to invest in those 74 for a couple of years until it
7:42
starts winning best of, you know, Saskatchewan, Canada
7:47
steakhouses. Like you don't grow too big too
7:50
fast. Build the brand back up.
7:53
Like, take your time with this, because the minute you start
7:56
going global is the minute nobody's going to want your
7:59
stuff anymore because they have to cut corners to do that.
8:02
That's the thing. So they've now their first goal
8:05
now is to remodel the current stores they have like they're
8:07
going to go in, remodel, redo, rebuild.
8:09
And like. And all that focus funny.
8:11
And so how are they making it? Because how many steaks you got
8:14
to sell? Well, they.
8:15
Said it went 47% up in sales so like.
8:18
And in the not remodeled like they haven't remodeled yet like.
8:22
No, they didn't. They remodeled one and sales
8:24
went up. 47%. Well, all right, so they're like
8:26
all right, if we keep doing this, we can see a boost again
8:29
and then we can have all you can eat shrimp on Fridays there's.
8:33
No way. This was I, I hope a scissor
8:35
comes back near me so I can try it because I, I don't know if
8:37
you'll go with me. No, I will not.
8:38
This was the celebration. This was the the family outing.
8:42
When we got a chance to go out to dinner, our family would go
8:45
to Sizzler and we'd get the all you can eat shrimp.
8:47
And they had bread and shrimp. I mean, they had like the bread.
8:50
I would go to the I was the all you can eat shrimp kid.
8:53
I go to the shrimp bar and eat olive a shrimp.
8:55
I know. Did you have a place that you
8:58
guys? Yeah, like there was a couple
8:59
celebration places that we had, but they were all like mom and
9:02
pop places. Oh so.
9:03
Like local? To your house?
9:04
Yeah. Like we lived in a a spot in
9:06
Orange County where like down the road there was a lake and
9:10
there was multiple restaurants kind of attached to this lake
9:13
that overlooked the lake. So there was nice ambience.
9:16
But they were all privately owned and they were lovely.
9:19
And like, one of the places was a like a Mexican food
9:22
restaurant, Tortilla Flats. I took you there because you're
9:25
like, there's nowhere. There's no way this is good.
9:27
Max this. Was Whiteville in like it's
9:29
Orange County? We're in the middle of deep
9:31
Orange County, like red Orange County, right?
9:34
And so I take you there. What were your thoughts?
9:36
The tacos were. Amazing I was.
9:37
Like, oh. D.
9:39
This is a gem in the middle of a orange city.
9:44
Right. So we, we, it eventually sells.
9:47
The owner sells a new person comes in, completely revamps it.
9:51
It's terrible now. Everybody says it's terrible.
9:54
I think it's even gone out of business now.
9:56
So it's like, I don't trust anybody.
9:57
There was also a pizza place and there was a Teppin place,
10:00
hibachi place. And so like, those are the
10:02
places that we'd go to celebrate.
10:04
All right, so we went to Sizzler.
10:06
It was all you can eat shrimp. All right, 6. 99.
10:08
For kids, enjoy your shrimp. Yeah, I did.
10:10
I loved my shrimp and I wish it would come back.
10:12
And then when we when after my parents divorced, the
10:15
celebration place was Applebee's, so OK, clearly we
10:18
were bawling. But a lot of people likes likes
10:19
Applebee's. Like, I mean, it's still around
10:21
for a reason. Yeah, I'd be curious to go and
10:23
try it now. Like my tastes have changed, but
10:26
I. Feel like most people go for the
10:27
margaritas now. Yes and like apps I could see.
10:30
I don't think you're ordering a sirloin from from Applebee's.
10:33
I think you go for like jalapeno poppers and the two for two
10:36
margaritas. OK, well, I don't.
10:38
We don't want to drink. I know.
10:39
So it's like, I'm not going to be.
10:41
There but some drinking might help your arm feel better.
10:44
I know apparently Kristen as AI don't I'm going to call it the
10:49
mom arm. Yeah.
10:50
Because it feels like something you get for being a mom.
10:52
Yeah we're we're just making up the reason this happened.
10:55
We are assuming that this was why we asked Claude, and Claude
10:59
basically confirmed this. But so So for six months now,
11:04
Kristen's arm has hurt and she's now just brought it.
11:07
Up Well, OK, so yes, my arms hurt.
11:09
Probably longer than six months, but it's been one of those
11:12
things where it's like, ah, it's tender, but then it goes away
11:15
and then I don't think about it for three weeks and then I'm
11:17
like, oh, it's sort of tender again.
11:19
It's right here if you're watching it on the YouTube, like
11:21
it's right below my shoulder. Like where you kind of like grab
11:24
somebody when you're like kidnapping them and like pushing
11:25
them into a Speakeasy, you know what I mean?
11:27
Like correct, but it's called the goon hand when you goon.
11:30
Yeah, like a like a goon, handsome.
11:32
Yeah. Like when there's a like a when
11:34
you're saying criminal like. Yeah, you're.
11:37
Like, you're coming with me. That's exactly the spot, right?
11:40
And it started to hurt when Lily was, I want to say like 5 or 6,
11:45
maybe 5, because she always sits behind me and she's constantly
11:50
asking for things. Can I have a snack?
11:53
Do you have a pen? Can I see your phone?
11:55
Can I whatever it is? And I'm always reaching behind
11:59
to like, give her stuff. And that's when I noticed that
12:02
the arm was really hurting. And I kept saying to you, gosh,
12:06
that really hurts my arm. And you're not going to remember
12:09
this, but you were like, it can't possibly hurt that much.
12:12
Oh, come on. You're just handing or something
12:15
like not in a mean way, but very invalidating, right?
12:18
And like lately the pain has started to increase.
12:23
And I've also noticed that a part of my chest that's
12:26
connected to this arm muscle is kind of protruding a little bit.
12:30
And I was like, oh this feels like this area is a problem.
12:34
This area is screaming for. Help.
12:36
Yes, it needs some and this isn't like a oh, I should go get
12:40
checked out like it. It's like a muscle is inflamed,
12:43
right? And so I woke up this morning.
12:46
I can barely use my arm. And we we looked at Claude and
12:51
it basically says like, yes, this is a thing.
12:55
You could we get it from reaching behind me 100%, It
12:59
said. That repetitive motion for.
13:01
And because you're like, you're opening the shoulder and.
13:03
You're going like this and handing things of varying weight
13:07
behind me. Yeah, and I I tried to fix this
13:10
problem several times, but nobody was on board.
13:13
For this what? Do you mean so I've if Lily sat
13:15
in the other seat it wouldn't hurt as much and if we stop
13:19
handing or give it to me to hand it to her I know I'm driving but
13:22
like Also she could stop asking for stuff.
13:24
This is mainly her problem, but there were many occasions where
13:28
I said stop giving her stuff or have her moved to the other
13:32
seat. She doesn't want to sit in.
13:33
The other seat I know, but then she doesn't get stuff.
13:35
Like, yeah, I know, but it's like it's, it's like this motion
13:39
where it's like. Then you try to turn all the
13:41
way. And then finally I started
13:42
putting it over my head because I was like, just grab it up
13:44
here. Yeah, I know 'cause that's going
13:46
to be some like repetitive motion, but it's just like, and
13:49
you and immediately you were like, well, how long has this
13:51
been hurting? And I was like, you're not going
13:52
to love the answer. And it's been like 6 to 8 months
13:55
that it's been like actively hurting every day.
13:57
Now it's gone. It's been hurting for years.
13:59
But it but it would go away. Yeah, it's been going away.
14:02
Between the knee pain that's gone away like, and the, you
14:04
know, the, the gallbladder pain, now there's an arm pain, right?
14:08
And it's just like I don't. That's why you're so grumpy.
14:11
All the time, but I don't know how much more I can take.
14:14
I would. Imagine that's you've got to be
14:15
sick of being in pain. Maybe you should have said.
14:16
Something I know well, because I didn't think it was so bad, I
14:19
always just assumed it would go away.
14:20
And now it's gotten exponentially worse.
14:23
And now it's like I have a doctor's appointment that I'm
14:26
going to make with my primary care 'cause my big thing was
14:29
like, I don't even know what part of the arm this is called.
14:32
And so I don't know who do I talk to?
14:33
Who do I, who does this area like, I don't know?
14:36
And so I, I was like, as an orthopedic surgeon, that doesn't
14:38
really make sense. So it says basically on Google,
14:41
like talk to your primary and then they'll tell you which
14:46
first of all, what body part this is and then who treats
14:48
that? And immediately it was like,
14:49
you're going to need an MRI. And I was like, I just got the
14:52
bill from my overnight emergency room stay.
14:55
And I'm not loving that. And I don't know if I can
14:58
emotionally be cut open again. Yeah, well, yeah.
15:01
I know, but the. Longer your weight, the more cut
15:03
and open you're. Getting I've got knee surgery,
15:05
I've got C-section scars, I've got gallbladder scars, I've got
15:08
arm scars. Like I don't know how much more
15:10
I can take and then also it's like I can't take any time off.
15:13
I'm the only the only one in this family currently working.
15:16
I only get paid when I go to work.
15:18
It's not like I have a salaried position.
15:20
I only get paid when I see clients.
15:22
Like I can't take off any time to do this.
15:25
So there's been a like, meh, we're just going to see if this
15:28
goes away type. Of it's only going to get worse,
15:30
so you need to go. I have a doctor's appointment
15:32
scheduled. And This is why I complain all
15:35
the time. I do it for you.
15:36
Why you'll never be wondering if I'm ever in pain or if I'm
15:40
hiding something from you. Because I will bitch about it to
15:43
to the end of the earth, I know, but.
15:45
You understand? That life and you'll go, you
15:46
should see a doctor and I go and then I just complaining and then
15:49
eventually you'll convince me. So I need you to complain.
15:52
What sounds better, by the way, which complain sounds better?
15:55
The one that's just constantly complaining about something and
15:57
I'm not taking any action. Or the person that maybe hides
16:01
his pain a little bit because they know they have to be strong
16:03
for their family. Let's just say I've had no
16:05
surgeries and you've had several because you.
16:08
Waited, and that's why the boots coming you could kick you right
16:11
where the sun goes. Because you waited too long.
16:13
You should complain more, Kristen.
16:14
That's what I'm saying. Well, let's hope for not another
16:19
surgery, but we'll let you know. We'll keep you posted.
16:20
Thank you for watching. Thank you for listening and
16:22
don't forget to disappear.