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Top 3 Most Excrutiating Forms of Exercise
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Exercising is the worst, but what's the WORST of the worst? Join us this week as we dive deep and try to identify the most painful, terrible, miserable ways to stay fit and healthy. Have you ever passed out during yoga? Fallen from the top of a bouldering wall? Stood in a line for too long? What are YOUR most painful forms of exercise?
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Introduction to 'My Top Everything' and episode topic
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Oh, music the music's not here. Yeah. There we go. I nailed it.
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Welcome to My Top Everything. Marian. I'm Kara. And I'm Mara. we are three best friends who argue about anything and everything. Everything. Everything.
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And but should we argue about that? That laugh. ah My rich person laugh. um Yeah. I'm trying it out. i think they would suspect
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you. Yeah. ah Well, yeah. So today we're talking about top Three most excruciating forms of exercise. ah So buckle in.
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um But first we have some updates. huh So the first update is for a question for Mara. Yes.
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In the episode...
Mara's quirky update and fly naming humor
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I don't know which episode it will be, but it's our mini episode about things we've done um so since our last recording in June or whatever.
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um You mentioned that you had a dead fly on your desk. Yeah. Is that dead fly still there? Yeah, i took a picture of it. it is definitely still there. It's still on the desk. Yeah.
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and then instead of getting rid of it I took a picture of it and then left work perfect yeah I that you didn't take a picture of it scoop it up no no that's that's that's good yeah no because then it wouldn't be authentic she's a part of me now yeah oh does she have a name we're one oh no no unknown unknown soldier Jane Doe
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Jane Fly. I was thinking that. Yeah. But you didn't say it. didn't say it. God. You're laughing at me. Oh, my God. I have multiple laughs.
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Yeah. my laugh My loud laugh is only for when I'm, like, surprised and delighted. Other laughs are just like, ha, ha, ha. Mm-hmm.
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Just pulling out a lot of the other laughter. Well, we'll post. I know everybody wants that picture of the fly. oh yeah. So we'll post that on social media, right? Yeah. Are there any? Sure. Yeah. Are there any names of famous flies?
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I was. Could we do like. Oh, what's the Charlotte Webber? That's a spider. Does the spider not catch a And also her name is Charlotte. It's called Charlotte Swift.
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Oh my God. When i was like, do we just use like a genus or of a fly as a first name? You know, I'll workshop it. That feels right for you. are Yeah. Seth Brundle.
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The Brundlefly from The Frog. my god. yeah i i There's that um Firefly from... ah Serenity?
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Princess and the Frog. Oh, different genres. You know, the Evangeline. No. The one that's in love with a star. no idea. No.
Exploration of famous flies and childhood memories
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That's not in my childhood.
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That's not in my childhood. It was a little...
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Okay. Apparently there's flies in the bug's life, a bug's life. i've I've seen it like once. It was too scary. The villain? You know what? Yeah, because the fly when they they show you the view of the fly in it and it is very disturbing.
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It's like thousands of little, yeah I think the fly's the bad guy. No? I don't remember. I just remember feeling scared. That came out at the same time as another bug one, right? It was like a Bug's Life and... the ant one.
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And it was like the same. I didn't see either. was like, these are weird. This is a weird era that we're going through. they They did different ones for... Anyway, okay. Yeah. yeah well so Gene Hackman did a voice in one of those movies. I can't remember which one.
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Rustin Power King. yeah Yeah. Sure. I don't know who that is. No, me neither. Anyway. Smile and nod. Smile and nod. Who recently died in a tragic way. At 90 or something.
Bird straws and ancient inventions discussion
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ah Anyway, now that we've reminded everyone of Gene Hackman, the other update in that same episode with The Fly, ah There we talked about bird straws, ah about the idea of taking a hollowed bone.
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um Right. And making it into a bird straw. Yeah. yeah You guys should listen to that episode. It's a good one. You know, our first one back and it was a doozy.
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um And so I looked up our bird straws a thing. No, not really. But 12,000 years ago, bird flutes were a thing so where they would make flutes out of the bird bones they found.
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Like, are we talking like big extinct birds that no longer exist to like the flute noise or was it like a piccolo situation? I love the question. You know, I'm not sure. i was picturing like her what, you know, like the straws that you use for coffee.
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Yeah. just to mix I'm picturing that. And it's just got like teeny tiny little holes. You're just like. Exactly.
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yeah I like the idea that there's like a Tyrannosaurus bone out there. Pterodactyl. That's the one. Pterodactyl? Yeah. That's a bird. They're very small flutes.
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small please
Prehistoric gender roles and archaeological assumptions
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yeah they're teeny it's just like the coffee straw such a big bear of a man yeah but ah they think that maybe it was like flute say to mimic ancient bird songs so they might have been the first bird whistles basically that's song made out of bird bones just another guess from archaeologists huh yeah
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Yeah, unfortunately, we don't have a 12,000 year old. I did. walk all I did watch. OK, that's a funny that said that I just watched like half of a documentary about Neanderthals because I was and then eventually I got to I was like, we're making wild guesses based off of very minimal information. And I don't know if like they were taking something as minimal as like, oh, there was a piece of clay and they were like, and then we know that they had hierarchical society. And I was like, what?
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Because they had pottery. How are we jumping from to 60 over here? Yeah. Because if it's not just clay and it's like actual, sorry, pottery, that does imply that they had like higher.
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Yeah. I understood it. It was just so many in a row. And I was like, and they explained it. like They were like, this is how we got from point A to point 60. But I was like, i don't yeah i'll follow this track.
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There's a lot of, yeah. Well, there was somebody who theorized because they've always thought that the hunters and gatherers like were male and female, but then they found um somewhere in the European countries ah like clear evidence that there was a female hunter and like female bones and whatever, all the stuff that you do.
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They were like, whoa, women are capable of what men do. Well, then they were like, then there was somebody who theorized, well, we are like, we still put on our own perceptions in the world to these people. Like the people were. have a lens. Yeah. The scientists who were.
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Yeah. We all have a bias. Doing that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so like let's get started. Does anyone feel so compelled to go first? Or i can go first? Yeah, knock it out. Lob it out of the park.
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and Now I can't stop with my the laugh. I didn't say anything. No one... No one said anything to
Excruciating exercises: Barre class experience
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that one. I didn't even think anything that time. Wow. Me either. Okay, so my number three most excruciating form of exercise is barre class.
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B-A-R-R-E. Have either of you, any of you had the... Because I've read Grand pleasure. And I said, no, thank you. Isn't it part ballet, right? It's part ballet. Yeah, that's why I was like, nah. I think it has some Pilates in it, too. But the thing is, is that it is...
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um at least my experience of it, was lots of very small, minute, repetitive movements over and over that were excruciating. So if you were holding onto the bar, like the ballet bar, and you kick your leg back out straight, and then for maybe a couple minutes, you're just moving it up like an inch in the air, and you keep it in the air the whole time, it burns so bad. Just...
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like excruciating and but it I think what gives psychological damage is that the moves are so small like they are so right like you anybody could do that anybody can kick their like leg back out and move it like an inch You know, but you're like, yeah, you just it's it's damaging on the inside to be like, oh, this is so hard to do for a full minute yeah or whatever. yeah And so it's just a lot of moves like that where you're doing just the most minute little changes over and over and over again.
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um Yeah, I think that would be. like yeah I think that would be excruciating for me because I really hate classes where they don't like distract you, like where you're just sitting in your pain and they're like watching you burn and they're getting some sick pleasure out of it. I feel like that's what that vibe is. a little bit. Yeah, I don't think that would be good. They know. Yeah, it just sounds boring. Yes.
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I think just thinking about your pain. Yeah. We're not listening to like Jay-Z or something and getting distracted. There's music. Oh, OK. There's music. Yeah. ah But it has all the normal things that a group class has. OK.
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Like music. Have you ever wait? Sorry. Have you ever been to an exercise class where there's no music at all? I mean, like yoga is just, you know, like background. Right. It's not music. Right.
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So that's what I'm picked because I'm picturing them to be similar because I haven't been to a bar class. No, because they'll do they'll do music. That's like, you know, it's like, OK, and when this beat drops, like now you're going to do this.
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Yeah. um All of my gym classes from kindergarten to sixth grade. Yeah. m yeah yeah all right do what do they call the lines on the basketball court where you have to run suicides a it's a good segue okay to my third yay which are uh suicides and burpees and i know oh wow it could be two but no first off like why are we naming any exercise that children have to do where did they get that name yeah
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I burpees are my number two. so sam Yeah.
Punishing workouts: Burpees and suicides
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Um, yeah, dude. But like people throw up at suicides. Like, yeah, they do suicides in like hockey. And I know I've had friends that have thrown up. You just feel gross. And it's also like, I know it's a punishment, but what are we doing? Punishing.
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Yeah, what is that about? I don't know. Yeah. Like at least in Cheer, that documentary about the, um not Nevada, Navarro, the Navarro Cheer Team. ah If they drop a flipper or like ah if they drop, if a spotter drop Somebody that's supposed to be in the air, the entire team has to do like 100 pushups or something as a punishment.
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But like people get like career ending injuries from getting, you know, dropped on the ground. And then why did I go there? Oh, burpees.
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Yeah. Punishments, suicides, gross name. And in the words of somebody's wife who came upstairs after exercising while I was playing D&D with some friends, she said, I'm 33 I've earned the right to never do a burpee in my life. I feel that. been sitting on that. Yeah. Look at that. I still think about her saying that.
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I'm like, ah girl yeah, I agree. No, they are my dreaded. Like I have gone to a couple of classes nearby where they have us do burpees at the end. And I dread the class because I'm like, it's just it's like minute. It's it's incredible how much suffering you go through when you do a series of burpees because it's all of your body. You're exhausted and you mentally have to like.
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go harder. yeah Like you could half ass a burpee, but then you're like, I'm already doing it. Like I might as well try to go a little bit deeper. And then you just like, you're, out I'm out of breath. My problem is, is like my heart rate gets so high and I'm so out of breath that I'm like, this is not good for me. I feel like I'm going to vomit. it Also, if it's at the end of the class, you're full body exercise like that at the end of the class. Yes, exactly. They're like, OK, you're already like almost done. We're about to do your what do you call the thing where you lay back and you did dead man's pose? Yeah, like you're about to do that. And they're like, ah let's do some burpees first. Yeah. god
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earn it yeah exactly no i did earn it yeah i permanently injured my hand from burpees oh yeah yeah you did it on gravel surgery i did it on gravel for the record and that was stupid i tried to get to 100 think i got in the 80s before i stopped because my hand was numb because i had pinched a nerve and and everybody else had stopped like well before you oh yeah but i was just like let me get to 100
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And was in the 80. Because we had been doing a circus. So I wasn't doing them. i was doing like 10 or 20 at a time But at the end, I think I was trying to do like 40. Because I was like, let me just get this done. Because we were done. And I was like, but I want to get to 100. And then, yeah, it was like...
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it yeah my hand was numb and tingling for like days after and then uh now it's it's pretty much better i still don't have like full feeling in those fingers but i had to get hands had to get hand surgery because of burpees so i personally will never be doing a burpee because i couldn't after that i couldn't even do like cat cow posing yoga i couldn't do yoga because if i had to be on my palms putting weight on my palms like it would activate that nerve and like the trapped nerve and like scent tingling and um yeah uh so fuck burpees
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Yeah, special. There's a whole level of hell where it's just bitches doing movies. That is a great. Yes, that is a great one to add to the list of hell. Oh, my God. You know what we need to do? We need to do top three, like my day in hell, which of my favorite questions to ask. It is. I think it's one of my favorite memories of like our group having conversations as we were in Banff, I think. Right.
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Yeah. you dry on this Yeah. It was like a road trip. It was like a whole like four hour discussion. And I was here for every minute of it. Yeah. I loved that discussion. For our listeners, it's when you you ask, like, what does your day in hell look like? You you you wake up, like, what what's the day in hell? And it is a great way to learn a lot about a person in a very short amount of time. Yeah. That question or the if you have literal infinite amount of money for a day, what are you doing? Yeah. That's good one. Like, a dream real big.
00:15:53
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Yeah. Our producer said that he would rent era-specific Viking ship or some shit. That's right. You did say that. and Other things I still think about. Damn, dude.
00:16:06
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He's getting a blank stare on us. I have idea what we're talking about. Yeah. Producer vibed out. Have we ever called him producer before on the podcast? All the time. Yeah, I think. Our producer Grayson. Yeah. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Grayson. Yeah.
00:16:20
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I just I don't know that I've just called him producer. So I like it. It's formal. It is our producer. Yeah. Put some respect on that name. yeah Oh, man. There's a first time for everything. You make me not want to when you say shit like that.
00:16:38
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So would you still get a Viking ship now that you've been recalled to that moment? Sure. not? Goddamn. Anything goes today. Yeah. He's not hungover.
00:16:52
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I'm just a piece of dust floating on him. rock hurtling unfathomably fast through an infinitely expanding void so why not why why why not get a ship yeah yeah and for our listeners who need to take a small break and go have an existential crisis after that sentence uh tune back in in five minutes You know how you can distract yourself? Text somebody you know who you think would like this podcast.
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Hey. Oh, shit. All right, Kara, what's your number three? i feel like I should use the burpees. The burpees? Yeah, and I'll switch my two and three. Okay, so I'll go to my number two then, which is hot yoga.
The torture of hot yoga experiences
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Oh. Hot yoga. Grayson agrees. Our producer agrees. Yeah. This is on my list, and I have a story I can share. I would love that. Yeah, so i um have only done hot yoga once.
00:17:47
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It was in New Zealand. I went with a friend who did it like several times a week. Don't know how. Hot yoga, you basically... go into a boiling furnace of a room and it's longer than a normal yoga session. It's usually like 90 minutes or two hours.
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And it's, um, you're not supposed to eat for like eight hours. but It's like going into surgery. You're like not supposed to eat for like eight hours beforehand. and like your water content, blah blah, blah, blah, blah. There's like a whole thing because so many people like pass out and puke that they're like, so you have to eat so you have some energy, but you can't eat so much that there's like stuff in your stomach. oh my god I don't know. i was like already so apprehensive. I was like, I don't know if I could do an exercise class where there's so much prep.
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um And then ah you're doing it, but it's like, I think it's like 90 degrees in the room. And it's, I mean, it is so excruciating because you're, and because of the length of it, you're holding the poses for long amounts of time. my God. Like five to 10 minutes.
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And it is, I had to stop many times like and go into child pose and like, cause I was like, I am actually gonna faint. Like if I continue to do this and some people like leave the room And I was like, I cannot leave this room. I will not come back in. I go out there.
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i experience 70 degrees or whatever. I'm not. I'm not coming back in to do this again. i could not believe the people who would walk back in to the heat and be like...
00:19:27
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All right. Ready to go. It's it is. I think the two hour is killer. I didn't know that. Or what? 90 minutes. I can't remember. it felt like two hours.
00:19:38
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It felt it was the longest exercise class of my life. I looked this up. um it's it's ah they They have to have the room between 95 and 108 degrees. Oh, my God. 108.
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Yeah. I thought I went up to 100 and something. yeah it does. And yeah it's a it is excruciating. It's horrible. um I did yoga for the first time in college.
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ah I was a sophomore. i was fed on... these disc shaped little pizzas from Costco and, and, and beer and cranberry juice.
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And I decided, I decided to go to yoga with some of my friends one day, having never done it before. And it's hot vinyasa. Oh my God. Which of your friends is do who, which psychopaths was,
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ah Can I guess? Was it Matt? Was it Ben? Was Ben? It feels like a Ben thing. Ben hauled my sorry ass into this hot room with a bunch of candles lit and a bunch of... It's a bad sign when you walk into a room for an exercise class and everyone's already sweating as they're sitting cross-legged staring at a mirror.
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It was actually going pretty well. ah I was surprised at my flexibility and my endurance ah for about...
00:21:03
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25 minutes when we were asked to drop into a crow's pose. Oh. On your little hands and some people are going into full handstands. And I was like, I got up into the crow's pose and I remember thinking, damn, I'm doing it. I'm actually doing it. This is crazy.
00:21:19
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And instantly, if anyone's ever had a panic attack or passed out before, you know what I'm talking about when you start to get the tunnel vision and your ears just go...
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I was just like, this is the first time this has ever happened to me. And I'm like, oh God, oh no. And so I drop in a child's pose. It's not getting any better. I'm like, I got to get out
Hiking frustrations and exercise reflections
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of here. And I stand up fully. I cannot see at this point. And I i had to feel my way I felt my way to the wall and I felt my way out of this fucking room and i i got to the door. I can't see anything. I can't hear anything. I just remember kicking that door and that ice cold air washing over me and I just...
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to the floor face planted oh my god when i came i was still halfway in this but no one came i was like inchwormed into the locker sat there for about 15 minutes it's just a normal hot vignette For that instructor. I went back in. Oh, my God. That is crazy. I went there for 15 minutes, and I went back in and finished that class. Wow. That's some early 20s boy bullshit right there. Yeah, is terrible.
00:22:35
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My God. it is It is. It is. It would be in my day in hell. Yeah. It would. um It's, yeah.
00:22:47
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I feel like Kara wants to try it. Yeah, I do. Yeah. I need to experience it at least once to... Because I feel like this could be something that I would enjoy. Like, a weird, sadistic way. i think it is. There's something... You like it. Yeah. Because the whole point of it is that the heat means that your muscles are, like, more flexible and more just, like...
00:23:08
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longer and whatever. And so the idea is that you are able to go deeper further into poses. And I did, I did like that part. I liked, I even liked like the long, really like settling into a pose.
00:23:23
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That was very meditative and nice, but it was just, I mean, I don't like the feeling of, am I going to pass out every five minutes? Right. That feeling's not fun.
00:23:33
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I deal well with the heat though. So I wonder if you'd, I think the prep I wouldn't do. So it'd just be like my body at that time. I'm not going to prep. I already know that. You and Grayson.
00:23:44
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Yeah. that That feels right. Yeah. um purdue It'll be fine. Our producer and Kara.
00:23:51
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Yeah, i would try though. Okay, what's your number two? ah My number two exercise that I find fucking excruciating is any physical activity in which I'm doing and then all of a sudden I'm like, well I'm done with this and I want to be out of it, but i can't leave for whatever reason.
00:24:12
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um Walking around a lake and I'm done. can't leave. And halfway across. You've got to do the next step.
00:24:20
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Yeah. I've done I'm done the hike because it's just the same fucking scenery. Done. Get me off. Yeah. I'm done. That was the hardest part about like when we would hike in Washington and being like, okay, we got to the top. It's really pretty. And now it's like, okay, four hours back to the car. And you're like, i've already seen all this shit.
00:24:37
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yeah All the same. This might be a controversial statement for the people who like hiking, but... After training to climb Mount Adams, so you can only stare and wonder at so many trees. It's a tree.
00:24:49
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I am done. This was Grayson's weekly monologue when we were out there. Because I would make us go hike and he'd be like, oh, more trees. There's another one. Yeah. I mean, Washington has a lot of the same trees. There aren't even any animals out in Washington. There's nothing for them to eat because they can't eat trees.
00:25:08
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It's a bold statement. It is a very terrible. There are very few animals. Okay. Interesting. He's correct. Okay. I'll look it up later. I mean, comparatively, it's like per... I would get... Now, okay. Here's a slap that if we want to do a slap that.
00:25:23
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I would guess that there's more animals... per what square area yeah area in yeah are we gonna do some washington it and okay square footage or like area but the problem is is that the state area so if you divide the number of animals by this area of the state hmm but okay but we have like animal farms with like millions of chickens no no wild animals i'm sorry oh yeah natural minnesota has more yeah washington's like half desert So yeah are you going to take that part out for this experiment?
00:26:00
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Sure. Yeah. so The lush part. Cascades West. The desert still has animals. I think we have to include the animals. I actually think that would help your numbers. yeah Write that down as an update. We'll have to figure this out.
00:26:14
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Grayson's on it. Is somebody's lab bedding? So you think Minnesota has more? yeah Because I think, OK, so in Washington, it's a lot of vegetation, but it's not edible vegetation like Grayson said. So it's like, oh, you have these super tall trees. Oh, you have like no underbrush.
00:26:32
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And so here there's like seasons. And so you have new growth all the time at the low animal area, like where people like animals actually hang out. And there it's just a lot of tall trees and nothing at the bottom.
00:26:45
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I just don't think there's any sort of way to do a proper census of all of the animals. I don't know if we can find the answer to this. It's just my bad. Like, are we including insects or we just going mammalians?
00:26:56
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Mammal? Yeah. I think I would do mammal. Yeah. Not fish. Fish are not included because Minnesota's got 10,000 lakes. 13,000. Excuse me. We underestimate 13,200. I feel like you just got your real official Minnesotan badge.
00:27:13
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Did I? Yeah. I've known that for a while. I feel like I got it when i learned how to pronounce... ah
00:27:23
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You did it to yourself. Mille Lacs Lake. Yeah. um My friend was trying to point it out on a a map and she's like, it's the biggest lake on there. And I was like, I don't see a Mille Lacs Lake. I see a Mille Lacs. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:39
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millly lack yeah Yeah. Yeah. It's a tough one. There's a lot of, there's a lot of words. I had no idea it was the second largest lake.
00:27:49
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Yeah. Some weird facts. Yeah. What's your number two? mean My number two, um, is, and, It's bouldering. And I'll say it's not. OK, so I'm.
00:28:01
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Oh, I got Grayson and I just. I know. I know. i had the same expression on our faces. Yeah. And I know it's controversial. It's a hot take. I love climbing yeah because I feel that the juice is worth the squeeze.
00:28:15
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I do not feel in bouldering. The juice is worth the squeeze. I'm not upper body strength gifted. And so it's like you're trying to go what, 30 feet in the 20 feet in the air, whatever. And you have like three moves to get there. And they're really hard.
00:28:27
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It's a very upper body strength situation. Yeah, you're a woman, so you should be climbing with your legs and your hips. I tried. i feel like I'm pretty flexible, too. And I just could not ever get to the goal.
00:28:39
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Even at the easiest, I felt so angry with myself. I was like, I can't even get up there. Are you joking? And then you're not strapped in, so I feel a little less safe.
00:28:49
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I'm not willing to do the same type of like risky moves as I am when I'm strapped in. Yeah. It's just like excruciating. And then I beat myself up for the mental toll that it's taking. Yeah, I do. i do Bouldering is hard for sure. Mentally, mentally hard when it does feel like, oh, this is not like I could almost jump and exactly hit the top. Exactly. yeah So why can't I get up there?
00:29:14
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um And I will say, yeah, I do prefer climbing as well, just because of that safety of like knowing I can be risky. and have it pan out. But I think bouldering is so great for like learning to trust yourself and your feet, especially. You do have to take risks, but if you take the risk when you're only two feet off the ground, like it's gonna be okay if you fall.
00:29:36
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But I do, there have been times where I've gotten three quarters the way up of a bouldering wall and then felt frozen. Cause I was like, I don't know that I can do this next part, but I don't wanna fall. And it is really, really hard, but this is this is controversial take.
00:29:51
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I almost said bouldering for one of mine. um i yeah yeah I'm not a fan. yeah But when you figure it out, when you figure out like a piece of it... That's why I didn't put it. Because I was like, it is very satisfying to get a route with it that I've like struggled with a little bit. And I'm like, fuck yeah. Yeah, because you can be like 10 minutes on this one problem. yeah and And what's so great is unlike other sports...
00:30:20
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the your your muscles learn so quick. And so you can feel in those 10 minutes yourself getting stronger and like figuring it out. And it's like a great way to watch your body in a very quick amount of time, like adapt and get better. So that's very satisfying is that thinking about other things like exercise classes where, you know, over weeks you might see a change in stamina or something.
00:30:45
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Right then and there you're like, oh, when I tried to get to that, two runs ago, I couldn't even do it. And now I i figured out that part and I'm on to the next issue in this run. It's like very, very satisfying.
00:30:58
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I've been offered to go bouldering many times and I always say no. I just, I would rather not. yeah I'd rather do a lot of other things. That's so interesting. That was so so surprising to me about you yeah particular. Because it seems like when you would.
00:31:12
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feel like she's always been open about not liking bouldering. I'm also very naturally good at a lot of physical things. And so when I'm not, I think I like extra hate it because I'm not used to that feeling. Yeah.
00:31:25
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Like yeah climbing I'm naturally able to do because I'm stretchy and I'm willing to jump and things like the natural things you have to do. I'm good at. Yeah. Okay. That's my number two.
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00:33:11
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10 miles. first Sorry, 10 minutes. mile. Good Lord. mile run in under, oh my God, 15 minutes? No, it was a 10-minute mile is what we were to It's not a 10-minute mile. own I had to do a 10-minute mile and in elementary school and middle school. We certainly did not in Iowa. What? I did. i had to do...
00:33:29
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We had to do a mile. Yeah. I don't think it was timed. No, it was timed. The goal was 10 minutes. Not everyone. I didn't make 10 minutes. Yeah, think the goal was set. But if you didn't, it's not like you had to do it again.
00:33:40
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00:33:56
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CrossFit is pretty excruciating and terrible. And just, oh my God. Annoying. Yeah, that almost made my list. Everything. Yeah, almost. CrossFit. yeah Everything.
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Yeah. Fucking. Oh. i want the number. Okay. No, you go. I want the, I can't figure out his name. This is going to be a painful experience. Uh-huh. You know, in like the 80s and ninety s ah largely our moms would watch. Oh my God. That guy. Richard Simmons. Is that with the tiny little straps? Yeah. And he's got the curly hair. Yeah. What's his name? Richard Simmons. Richard Simmons. Yeah. He's our number That fucking hottie. fuckingughty yeah ah Thank you, Richard Simmons. Midnight masturbation material. Cut that shit right now.
00:34:35
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No, no. We have keep that. I'm fine with that one. No, now not Richard Simmons. He's... No, I don't think we're talking about Richard Simmons. Whoa. I thought well you were talking about Richard Simmons. Are you talking about the guy that was on the elliptical the whole time and he had like exercise? No, he's like black and ripped.
00:34:51
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George Foreman? a Do you know I'm talking about? He's got the skinny little You thought she was talking about Richard Simmons, right? It's like the women in the leotards and they have the socks and stuff and then they kick their legs in the air and he's walking around he's one, two, one, two, one, two.
00:35:11
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You know who I'm talking about? I've seen a video or two. I think anybody would have thought you were talking about Richard Simmons. No, no, no. Richard Simmons is a famous one, but when you said he was he said you said he was ripped, that's when I started He's He's ripped.
00:35:24
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We'll have to find He's pecs like no one's business. Put it on the updates, but this one goes out to Richard Simmons. oh Yeah, Hell yeah. Can we give Jane Fonda a shout out then, too? Oh, shit. Oh, Jane. Jane should be our number one.
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00:36:42
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the all she's one The thing I forgot I needed to say about bouldering until we did our sponsorships was that I also didn't put bouldering on the list because I feel like the encouragement that you get while you're at the gym from other people. It's such a nice community. It is a great community. Like I remember we were watching one guy. It was...
00:37:03
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a run I like to call the raviolis because they looked like raviolis like thrown onto a wall and they were round so it was like basically impossible to oh yeah you basically had to run on them and then jump and like hang on something and five of us or six of us ended up watching him do this and we were just like going eight shit when he finally did it yeah yeah it's so it's so good and what I like about it is you get winded yeah and It's totally normal to just lay on your back and rest for five minutes.
00:37:36
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Like everybody is like, you need to rest. Like sometimes if you're going too hard, like you have to take a break. I love that. I love that. It's just built in break. You can go there, you can hang out, you can talk to people, do a couple runs. Yeah. I guess you make it yourself.
00:37:50
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It's nice. Self-build. Yes, Karen? I found his name. His name is Billy Blanks. He's a Ty Bo video instructor. yeah. And he's got the tank top that, like, slips below his chest.
00:38:02
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His little checky booze. Yeah.
00:38:06
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Terry Crews. He looks kind of like Terry Crews, yeah. That's guy. Generally, that is... Yeah. All right. Let's do our number ones. My number one ah excruciating form of exercise is any exercise that's not in a class where I don't have headphones.
The agony of exercising without music
00:38:26
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That's going to be get on the treadmill without headphones. Get on the Stairmaster without headphones. When you take your walks, do you take headphones? Yeah. um I usually listen to something. okay Yeah.
00:38:40
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I'll listen to something. i ah If I don't have headphones, I'll just play it on my phone. I've been listening to our podcast episodes while I take walks. And then, no, sometimes with Bandy I won't. But i don't, like, consider walking, like, you know, even with it. That's the least excruciating form of exercise to me in the whole entire world. Like, I'll always be down for a walk most of the time.
00:39:02
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But, um yeah basically, like, any type of When you're like, I'm going to go exercise and then you don't have the headphones, that is the worst. It brutal. Like your headphones die halfway through.
00:39:15
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So you kind of got a taste of how nice it was to have that stuff and then it's gone. Yeah. Yeah. That's mine. That's a good one. Short and sweet. Yeah. I took the second definition of exercise for my number one excruciating, which process or activity carried out for a specific person purpose, especially one concerned with a specified area or skill.
00:39:42
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And so my number one excruciating exercise is any lesson in patience. um If I am being stuck behind a slow walker and I can't go around because i'm in the middle of the fucking aisle, goddamn. People that have longer legs than me that, like, can't walk faster than me or keep pace with me and they're like...
00:40:06
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Just, I'm, like, I would be on, six for me? would be unstoppable with those legs. Are you kidding me? It would be amazing. The majority of. Where is she? She's gone. She's around the block. I'm Yeah. You could really Irish goodbye if you had. it would be amazing. Legs like that. I could reach everything.
00:40:27
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Um, yeah, I really identify with this one. Yeah. Yeah. This feels right. Almost any line. um I was standing in line with Sally one time and I must have sighed too much. And she looked at me and said, go wait outside. and
00:40:41
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and I was like, okay. yeah um any left turn at a light in Minnesota, i swear to God, there's so much fucking space in between cars. What are we doing? Not paying attention. That makes me want to scream. So many people could have turned in that green light, but here I am sitting here waiting for the next one.
00:41:06
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you know, um so sometimes stories. This is a good one. Yeah. This one. This is a good one. Thank you. I feel like we could almost have a whole podcast just on yeah that type of exercise. Yeah.
00:41:18
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That could be a topic. Yeah. Looks at the producer. Yep. That could be a topic. That's a good one. Yeah. I like that. It is excruciating.
00:41:29
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Yeah. Yeah. Um, my number one is spin class. i i have done it once. And I highly did with Grayson. And I... ah you didn't do with Savina?
00:41:41
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Oh, that's cycling. What's the difference between cycling and spin? I don't know. That's the same. I put cycling slash spin on mine. So you've done it twice? No. You went with Savina? Nope. You didn't go with Savina to the bike? I have never done a class with Savina on a bike. I have done one with Grayson in Seattle.
00:41:57
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Oh. And it was... And I have heard, legend it holds up, that it is extrusion. I can't have my heart rate i thought at that amount of ridiculous height and then have to like maintain that for 60 minutes and not be able to like drink water because you're on a freaking bike. And so you can't, like, where am i where's the water bottle? How do I get it?
00:42:17
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My sweat's dripping everywhere. Everything is in pain. It's a very effective exercise. Yeah. But good lord. And you're getting yelled at the whole time? Yes, and everyone else is better than me at it in the room.
00:42:29
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They're like, oh yeah, I'll jump, ah I'll hop up and down like a bunny on this bike for an hour, and no problem. and How do you end up going anywhere then? What? If everybody's better than you. Yeah, how you get through the day,
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00:42:47
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yeah Anyway. Yeah. I did not enjoy that experience. That's fair. Yeah. So the stereotype of like, oh, my God, this spin class is going to go kick my ass. It's real.
00:42:58
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Okay. Yeah. Okay. Crazy. That's good one. Yeah, that's good. So let's ah wrap this up. yeah Yeah. Let's get let upper rip do our show.
00:43:11
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final list oh right yeah i forgot about this okay let's recap um Marion what's your first three your top three my top three uh it was bar class hot yoga any exercise where I don't have headphones ah Okay, thank you.
00:43:32
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And I said burpee suicides. Sorry for putting two into one there. Any physical activity where I'm done and any less in impatience.
00:43:44
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Most of mine are
00:43:46
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My three was also burpees and then two was bouldering and one was spinning or cycling. So you think you have to put burpees in? yeah um i think you have to put hot yoga in yes yeah yeah even though i don't have that experience yet yeah it is just don't like being hot it's really clothes on it really is like so bad but i say maybe burpees hot yoga and lessons and patience i don't know what's one two three in those but they all suck Yeah, I think lessons in patients specifically with exercise. Like if you're trying to get something done and someone's in your way and you're like, just move. God.
00:44:26
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um No situational awareness. yeah I would say number one is burpees for me. Yeah, sure. these's three I mean, I've had surgery because of it. yeah No other exercise has caused me to get surgery. There we go. Yes. yeah yes Yeah.
00:44:41
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Okay. Yeah. Burpees, number one. hot yoga yeah yeah and then lessons in patience yeah yeah yeah sounds good what a cordial fight I know it's not the same as the points you don't get all fighty like the points we will just wait until the next one alright that's a little teaser for you guys tune in next two weeks from now yeah if you made it through this episode I guess to hear that I like to believe they finish. Every listen is a finish, full finish. How could you not?
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