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SLAP the Power
SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
Hosted by world touring musicians Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill @vintagetrouble) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator), join them as team with musicians, comedians, actors and artists of all angles and try to chop up some of todays most troubling topics, but with a fat side of chocolate cake and incredible silliness.
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Live Well & Thrive with Celebrity Fitness Guru Mike Torchia
Fitness guru Mike Torchia, known for his transformative journey from an overweight child to a champion bodybuilder, shares his insights on staying youthful and healthy! Discover how his personal experiences and passion for promoting wellness have shaped his mission to inspire future generations. From understanding body chemistry to improving nutrition in schools, Mike's conversation with us is packed with actionable advice and heartwarming stories that highlight the potential for creating healthier communities.
We're not just about fitness; our episode explores the art of comedy and its impact on society. Dive into the nuances of humor with us as we discuss Tony Hinchcliffe's controversial set at Madison Square Garden and its broader implications. Plus, we celebrate the power of grassroots political action, showcasing the Kamala Harris volunteer office's impressive door-knocking campaign in Arizona. It's a lively discussion on the balance between humor and sensitivity, and the importance of leadership in addressing mental and physical health post-pandemic.
Join us for "Paws for Progress," our new segment spotlighting animal rescue efforts in Los Angeles and Florida. Hear about the resilience of communities affected by natural disasters and the inspiring stories of animal rescues. As we wrap up, don't miss our fun and curious segment, "Two Scams and a SLAP," where we uncover the truth behind outrageous headlines. From fitness and wellness to humor and heroism, this episode is a rollercoaster of inspiration and laughs, guaranteed to leave you informed and entertained.
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SLAP the Power is written and produced by Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator). Associate Producer Bri Coorey (@bri_beats). Audio and Video engineering and studio facilities provided by SLAP Studios LA (@SLAPStudiosLA) with distribution through our collective home for progress in art and media, SLAP the Network (@SLAPtheNetwork).
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Whoever wins presidency, I want to address to them what are you doing with the President's Council of Sports?
Speaker 2:and.
Speaker 1:Fitness. What are you doing with food in the school systems? And what about the PE that's so poorly run? The President's Council had this program. Remember? You were wearing your badge and everything. Nobody's even doing that anymore. You know, John F Kennedy was the one that started that whole program at the schools, Wow, and so they've been using the same program since he was president. So you know how out there that is All right.
Speaker 4:The world may not need another podcast, but it could definitely use a slap. That's right. Welcome to Slap the Power, the show that crosses artists who use their powers for progress. I'm Rick Barrio-Dill. I'm Asia Nakia, that's right On the show today did Kill Tony. Just save democracy, tony Hinchcliffe. It's still going on and thank you, bro, thank you for the assist.
Speaker 3:And we also have our interview today with an artist of a different kind, mike Torsha, who is a fitness guru, trainer to the stars like Arnold Sly and even Jason Bourne.
Speaker 4:He admitted he's 68 years old. He looks like he's 40. You got to hear his secrets to the long. It really is amazing. A little later, that's right, we're going to introduce you to a new segment called Pause for Progress. That's right. We've been working on this for a while. We're really, really, really happy to bring this to you guys. And it's where Slap the Power. Partners with the incredible animal rescue work of Compassion, kind to bring you regular updates on trying to slap some progress, or lack of, into the animal rescue community, and I know LA is at the forefront on trying to move the needle there.
Speaker 3:Especially here in Los Angeles with our shelter crisis. And then we also have some updates from Florida of Hurricane Milton animal rescues from none other than me, fresh off of a plane.
Speaker 4:And a little later, by popular demand, two scams and a slap, that's right, where we take three batshit crazy events, two of which are fake but one is real, and one of the two of us learns in real time with you, the listener, which one is a true slap in the face of reality. But first, we are super, super proud to report the Kamala Harris volunteer office next door. Last Friday we sent a full tour bus of badass Californians and they knocked doors in Arizona to the tune of 100,000 door knocks, 100k. 30% of that is California. Yo, that's right. So we're kicking ass um, the most in arizona state party history, which is really incredible and and it feels good there.
Speaker 4:Uh, so we have one final push. You can make a difference. The bus for this week is again a capacity, but if I think they might even be trying to work a second bus here and so, uh, you can caravan, you can phone bank and if you can't phone bank, you can amplify. So to get involved, make sure to go to the links in our description as well as in our bio and also OFACA for Kamala Aja. Are you familiar with Kill Tony?
Speaker 3:No, tell me more Okay.
Speaker 4:Kill Tony. It's an awesome podcast. Because I am a fan of roasts. I feel like this is what we love about Norm Chad Shout out to norm chad. Gambling mad with norm chad. He comes from a. He comes from a place where you got to be able to make fun of your everybody right, we're still. We're still reeling from, uh, tony hinchcliffe's set and what's been fascinating now, even getting a couple of days removed from it, is that people that don't know what kill tony is his set at madison square garden.
Speaker 4:Tony henscliff, uh, I think the net net of it is he might have just woken up the whole entire country of puerto rico to get, to get their, their peeps in florida and in pennsylvania and everywhere to vote. Bad Bunny is shooting out the bat signal. So I think roasting this is kind of an important thing that I want to talk about. I think roasting and I understand they say well, the First Amendment, how come you guys are so soft? Now, one thing is that a set when you're there and everybody understands you're there for roasting. It's another thing when you have text five, five, five to fascism.
Speaker 4:You know, and you're to me, that it's a political rally and that's where I think that's where he tweeted out. You know, you people don't have a sense of humor, and I think the sense of it all is exactly what we have. You know, we have a sense of when something's really funny and don rickles could come in and mow down a room. Norm Chag could come in and mow down a room. He wouldn't stand in front of a podium like that and do what happened at that event.
Speaker 3:No, and I think that it's all fun and games when you're roasting and there's no like ill intent you know beyond it. Yeah, but I think, when you're already dealing with an island like puerto rico that is already dealing with being treated like garbage and trash yeah, it's not so funny at that point, you know like it becomes. It's a dagger. Yeah, and not only that it's one of the most beautiful places on the entire planet.
Speaker 3:That's right we have the most beautiful beaches, the most beautiful mountains. Every time I'm I find a new waterfall, a new magical place with beautiful little cookies and birds, and I'm just like this is paradise. And now I understand why the US loves it so much.
Speaker 4:Yeah, sure, yeah, it was a good acquisition back in the day, wasn't it? It was smart for the portfolio. I think the one thing that people aren't still talking about enough is it's look, I'm a Tony Hinchcliffe fan too. I like his comedy. I think what he's been kind of put through on the sort of political correct side of things has been not cool in a lot of ways, and I think challenging people's uncomfortabilities is what we love. We're kind of lefties that love that. Uncomfortabilities is that's what we love, we like. We're kind of lefties that love that. But the what nobody's talking about is the hate that then continued to come out from rudy giuliani, from from tucker carlson, who could? He knows where she's from, he knows where her parents were born. You know the samoan, and it's designed to be ignorant and hateful. Right, and that's the part you know. And Grant Cardone, you're just like your speed Grant. All these rich guys they are.
Speaker 4:They're advocating for their tax rate they're not advocating for helping you get ahead, and Grant Cardone is one of those guys who just sells these courses and just I don't even want to get into it, because I actually have a family member that went through that the Grant Cardone course. The experience was horrific and so yeah. But point being, why are these people up there spewing hate and then juxtapose it over Kamala, who is talking about, look, I'm here to get to work on the to-do list on helping people and this is how we're going to do it and laying out a plan? That's the other thing that kills me. People say she doesn't have a plan. Plan's all over the place. You just got to have to be open to listen to what it is.
Speaker 3:Right and most of it on that side, I think, is all based on self-interest, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because there's no collective interest coming from that side.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's a very yeah it's a me thing, and I think that's at the crux of it. What is so different? It'd be one thing if it was Mitt Romney and he was getting people excited about you know, hey, we're going to lower your taxes and stuff like that. But this is, this is uh, it's just, it's very hateful. Calling her names, telling, saying that you know that people, the enemy of the state, are Democrats.
Speaker 3:It's just, it's just hateful and it's it's well and and, and you see the misogyny and the um hatred yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:That's the Tucker thing and it's extra because she's a woman and she's mixed and it's just if they really Never underestimate the misogyny yeah.
Speaker 3:And if they really wanted to play fair, they would at least come at it with a level of respect to say hey, you know what? We're going to attack her in every single possible way, her policies. What she's done as a vice president, but we're going to leave the woman and the mixed part off.
Speaker 4:But no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no they're just going straight for it Well, it's thinly veiled, because the woman hits are attacking her IQ when they know she is an accomplished.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 4:Crazy. They're scared of her intellect. That's what it is, and so they they have to. What do you do when you're a bully and you're scared of? It you say that oh you're, you know you're ugly right you know you're when it's, it's the super hot girl.
Speaker 3:Or you say you're stupid when it's a woman clearly is about the arts outsmart the pants well, I mean, why don't they just nip it in the butt and everyone takes an IQ test, and then we just have all the scores? You know, let's get grants, let's get trumps, let's get commas. We could probably put some animals on there honestly and get some higher IQ.
Speaker 4:You remember that cognitive test Trump took and he was like I passed it.
Speaker 3:You know I got A plus it Woman cat and the same as uh, what an amoeba.
Speaker 4:yeah, anyways, but I digress yeah, no, I, I, uh, I think we're excited about what I took. I think here in the studio there's uh, and next door to the campaign there's just nothing but good energy and people that are. They are just getting to work. So you know, kind of again, if you want to get involved, we have it all in our show notes and you know, even like Lauren was here yesterday doing a hit with, I think, a UK press station, lauren Puretra Shout out to Lauren from our episode last week. But all of a sudden we have all these dogs around the office. We have our own wonderland.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah's, make sure to check out the socials that we have and you can kind of uh see the adventures of all the pets that we have, I mean the dogs that we have going on here. But speaking of dogs, uh, the new segment that we have, pause for progress. We're so proud of this. We've been waiting to throw this on you guys, and it's's a collab with Slap, the Power and Compassion, kind and Asia. Please tell everybody all the animal rescue goodness that Paws for Progress is going to be about.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, we're going to have so many great updates, live rescues happening here in the Los Angeles area, but also around the world. With our disaster work, like we just had in Florida for Hurricane Milton, we've just got so much going on but really starting to pull in and focus here in the Los Angeles area. We've got quite a plate of animal rescue SEGAs here to deal with.
Speaker 4:And it's primarily the like. The kennels is one of the first areas that I know you want to attack and feel that it is a fixable problem.
Speaker 3:It is absolutely a fixable problem. We have some big issues with breeder licenses here in the Los Angeles area. We're just sort of giving them out like free car washes or free Taco Bell I don't know what you would give out for free. But yeah, we keep talking about the overpopulation problem. We keep having all these pleas.
Speaker 3:Every single day I'm seeing this dog being euthanized, this dog being euthanized, and we're talking six-month-old puppies, beautiful purebred dogs that are sitting at these five LA County shelters that are all being euthanized for space. And why? Because we have way too many breeders and we have all these intact licenses that we're giving out so that people can keep their animals intact. If we want to, if we really want to attack this problem, we have to go for the breeder licenses and the intact licenses Both super easy, low hanging fruit, solvable issues in the Los Angeles area and then we will see a drastic decline in numbers, we'll see euthanasia rates go down, we'll see kennels being emptied and then we can really start to promote and maybe push some more adoption. You know banners, drive-by signs, billboards Couldn't think of the word Drive-by signs. That's what we called it back in the 80s.
Speaker 4:Sorry, I wasn't alive then, so I don't know.
Speaker 3:I was going to say, wait a minute, I wasn't alive, but I heard the word on the street is that I was alive.
Speaker 4:I just got called out by Brie.
Speaker 3:Is our producer calling us out right now on our ages?
Speaker 4:She just threw a yellow flag here for all our NFL fans.
Speaker 3:She did Okay. Now we have to get back on track.
Speaker 4:But the point of Pause for Progress is going to be an accountable, regular checkup with us, and you're an individual that is always showing up with the receipts and I think in this space, especially in animal rescue and stuff like that, you are, you know, you are. I bow to you. So to be able to do this together is really really exciting because I feel like we can, you know, we can put our resources together and really make a difference and start to have some of these animals through our website where we can increase the, amplify the exposure to these problems and stuff like that. So we're really looking forward to it.
Speaker 3:No, definitely, and I think the component of Pause for Progress that will be the best for our viewers and listeners is that we want you all to be involved. You know we're going to give you the actions to help with these causes. You know, and that's really that's what we're about you know Artists for change and activism.
Speaker 4:So these causes, you know, and that's really that's what we're about, you know, artists for change and activism. So you know, let's roll, that's right. So make sure, the gentleman's agreement that we have, smash that subscribe button. Also, make sure you know you're going to check the Pause for Progress updates on our socials and we'll have it every week on the show, so make sure to keep checking back. All right, when we come back from the break, our interview with the one and only trainer to the stars, mr Mike Torsha.
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Speaker 4:All right joining us for the interview in studio today. He is the host of the Live, well and Thrive pod. He is also founder and president of the Beverly Hills Concierge Service. It's a lifestyle management company which, you know, is something that we're definitely interested in here. Welcome to the show, mike Torsha. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4:For those that maybe that are your audience that might not know us, or our audience that doesn't know you, we focus the show around artists that are using their art for moving the needles. You know, a lot of times it's social progress. A lot of times it is helping people. It is just using their art to push things forward. And one of the things that caught us full disclosure. Mike is a he's a client of ours here at the studio, but what was instantly uh, apparent to us is that you are, uh, you know, in the way of longevity. I I kind of consider you an artist of bodybuilding, like you know, and an artist of of longevity and living well. I mean your. Your podcast is called live well and thrive. So for those people that don't know what, how did you become such the guru?
Speaker 1:in this lane.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I was an obese child and when I was 14 years old the school nurse had told me to come in and see her because I guess they had done some tests. You know, when you're in grammar school, you know. And so she said I need to have your parents come in. I said why? Well, I have to address some issues. I said okay, well, my father's never going to come in. He works, he barely speaks English, he came from Calabria, but my mother will come in.
Speaker 1:So the next day I bring my mom in and the nurse says to my mom, I'm very concerned about your child. He's four foot eight, he's 51 pounds overweight, he's in poor physical condition and if he doesn't do something about it he could end up having a heart attack or stroke by the age of 40. Now that nurse changed the course of my life, and so my mother right away said well, whatever it takes. And then my mom took my hand to walk out of the office. And that's the first time my mother was a very strong, powerful woman, never showed like an awful female.
Speaker 1:She was trembling and her hands were very moist and sweaty and I never saw my mother get that scared. So on the way home she said I know what to do. And then we got home and she said let's go in the living room. She turned on the TV and she said we're going to watch Jack LaLanne. She goes look at me, I'm fat, you're chubby, you need to lose weight. I need to lose weight. Let's do it together.
Speaker 4:And for listeners that don't know, jack LaLanne right.
Speaker 1:Jack Laelain was the godfather of fitness. He'd have this show live with Jack Lelain, and his wife would be there and his dog, rusty, I think, white German Shepherd, and then he started the episode. Here's what 20 pounds of fat looks like. It was all this shavings from beef. This is what it looks like on your body. Well, we're going to do something about it today. So I would do his jumping jacks, which that's where you got jumping jacks from Jack LaLanne. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And all the other exercises. And then he addressed the food yeah, you are what you eat. Yeah, so that was more of a primitive way, simple way, but it was a starting point. And then I joined the YMCA and I saw these bodybuilders. I was intrigued. And then I had someone come up to me out of the blue and say hey, kid, you want to build big muscles? I said, yeah, he goes. Well, listen, you need to do a proper workout. And then we've got to talk about your food, because he poked me in the stomach. He goes you have great genetics.
Speaker 1:Someday you will be a champion bodybuilder, but you are what you eat, which was Jacqueline's mantra and sure enough, I ended up eventually winning Mr New York State and Teenage Mr New York State, Teenage Mr America, Mr USA and all these other titles. That's amazing. I started traveling around the world and lecturing about proper nutrition, working for these companies, but I was still going to college and got my degree and I'm a fitness and nutrition expert. So I've got all my paperwork done, that I'm official, not something just choosing information that I've had collectively it's collectively and my book knowledge combined. But over the years I've been doing this since I was 14. I'm 68 now. I've lectured with dr barry shares, who wrote the series of books the zone the zone which is based on the bodybuilder's diet really.
Speaker 4:So that was where I start. First got into looking at diet was the zone my dad got me the book. He's like you know, you kind of need to think about this and I I've taken kind of a journey that it's, you know, gone all through, uh, everything from gluten-free and everything. But for those people that are just listening to this at home, you, I'm sorry, you just said you're how old you're? You're? I'm 68. The man looks. The man doesn't look a day over 50. He's got, I mean, he is yoked out and it's. I want to know the secrets you know. Yeah, you, you got to help me out.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, dr Barry Sears was brilliant. Yeah, Now what he learned from bodybuilders is he looked at our physiques and he said you guys are magnificent bodies and we weren't reliant those days on all the cardio. It was hard training, proper nutrition. We basically ate high-protein, low-carb diets. We basically ate high-protein, low-carb diets. But he also realized that whenever he would sit with us and he was researching us, we would first eat a portion of the protein and what he had realized is the first food that touched your tongue is the first enzymes and acids that are going to be released into your digestive tract.
Speaker 1:So that means you're going to get digested more rapidly. So in his book, the Zone, he taught people whenever you're going to consume food, the first thing you do when you have your plate is eat a piece of that animal protein. Then you can eat the carbohydrate and vegetable, because it triggers the enzymes to break down the protein and the fats. The sugar will piggyback on that and will be released secondary, not stimulating and spiking your insulin levels, which causes immediate fat storage. It takes that carbohydrate, that sugar, and stores it as energy, which is fat. So that was the first biohacking method with dieting. And then, as people realized, you can also hit a plateau because if you start having such low calories for such a long period of time, after about three weeks your body will start secreting reverse T3. T3 stimulates your metabolism to burn fat at a higher rate. Reverse T3 is like, say, you're stuck on an island somewhere and there's barely any food. Your body can survive on very, very, very low calories because it starts to slow down, because it's going uh-oh, we only have this much food coming into the body. We need to burn slower. So then your body's thyroid starts producing reverse T3, which means you can survive on much lower calories. So when someone's on a very, very strict low-calorie diet for three weeks, their reverse T3 is being secreted and that's when people go.
Speaker 1:You know, I was on this diet and I was like taking in 800 calories a day. I dropped so much weight the first three or four weeks. Then all of a sudden I'm barely eating anything and I'm getting fatter. So again, he understood that and he shared that knowledge with me. And then when I was lecturing with him, I really understood why it was working. I just knew that all the pros were telling me to do it. It's like Arnold and Franco and all the Mr Universes, mr Olympias but they never really figured it out, they just kind of stumbled on it. But he explained the body chemistry, why it works and I was like a sponge soaking it all in. So what I've learned in college applied through going to lectures and seminars and reading the American medical journals, which I still do today I base it on my experience and factual studies by major universities around the world.
Speaker 1:And just experiences, working for every type of individual's needs, like I've worked with people that were paraplegic, ms, asthma, diabetes, post-traumatic syndrome. I've addressed every type of health issue and concern Double hip replacement, you know, stents in the heart, so I've learned how to navigate around the restrictions and still allow them to be physically fit and get a lean body at the same time. Yeah, and that's where my knowledge is grown, from all the aspects of life that I was exposed to and I had to find a solution. Like when I was a kid. It was so funny when I first started training people, I was like 16 years old and my mother was saying you know what you should get into personal training? Right? I said you think so she goes, yeah.
Speaker 4:After she was done picking on you for being chubby right.
Speaker 1:And she was like this she goes listen, everybody keeps calling up and asking you for a diet and exercise programs and all that. You know how much money it costs to make the calls. No, no, have them call you and if they don't call you right now, they'll call you back. You missed the call, don't worry. So we went around to the, the market, the fruit stand, and we went to the tailor, we went to the fish market in the, in the beef place, you know, because those days it was separate, not like whole foods now, um. And we put a flyer. My mother wrote it with a magic marker personal workouts five dollars, um, meal plans five dollars.
Speaker 1:my friends have gone way up but, anyway, so I just started my business we are in beverly, so then I started I started helping people and my mother got me on this path to be like jack lane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's doing you could do it.
Speaker 1:So I went on that path. But along the journey, man, I had people come up to me and go hey, I've got this illness, I've got heart condition, I have this, this, that. So my father said well, listen, if you ever get stumped, just tell him. I don't have the answer, but I'll get back to you, I'll get you an answer. And that's what I did to eventually, when they'd ask me, I knew it.
Speaker 1:So I was determined to look it up, make calls, reach out to experts that would help share their knowledge. Yeah, but I understood after a while I have to be very I can't be that bodybuilding trainer, right, because I've trained a lot of very, very talented actors yeah, and female actors. Like when Kim Cattrall was preparing for Sex and the City her audition, I prepared her for that. And when she did the movie Mannequin, she hurt her back pretty bad because she had to do stunts in the movie. Pretty bad because she had to do stunts in the movie. So I had to train her to rehab her back then get her body shapely and firm so she could be that sex goddess so to say for the show and of course you know what happened.
Speaker 1:But I've worked with so many other women Roseanne Barr, kimora Lee, nicole Kidman, I mean, you name it Al Pacino, matt Damon, all these people and they all had different body parts that they had to improve on different you know metabolisms, so it wasn't I'm just using different diets, I'm sure cookie cutter workout. You know, I mean Matt Damon. I met him. He had a 38 inch waist, smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, loved to drink beer high carbs. I got him shredded from the born and eddy shredded.
Speaker 4:Alright, that's enough, give me some.
Speaker 1:It isn't like I just use the same thing. Every program is custom. You have to address a lot of issues. First thing I tell people to do is get me the blood work. You may look fine. I want to know what's going on in your body chemistry. I can't tell you take these supplements or any kind of biohacking, because I want to know first of all what's going on. You could have a high cortisol level from all the stress. You could have very low D3 or DHEA. I need to know what's going on in your body. Then I do the reverse. Then I start figuring out what food you need to get the nutrients you need and what supplements you may need to help compensate. Because today, with agriculture, you don't have the same quality minerals and vitamins in the food because the ground has been overused, over and over and over and over.
Speaker 1:And again all the chemicals from Monsanto and all this other crap genetically modifying things.
Speaker 3:Our soil is just by hotness now.
Speaker 4:As a musician that travels all over, you realize when you go to places that you're like oh, it's just the ingredients, it's just the nature of the God. Part of the ingredients are just more dense, they're just deeper in a lot of the places that prioritize agriculture in a way that we stopped doing other than you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's a serious issue today. It's a massive issue and that's what I want to address. Whoever wins the presidency, I want to address to them what are you doing with the President's Council of Sports?
Speaker 2:and.
Speaker 1:Fitness. What are you doing with the food and the school systems? And what about the PE? That's so poorly run? The President's Council had this program, remember? You were wearing your badge and everything. Nobody's even doing that anymore and that's so archaic. John F Kennedy was the one that started that whole program at the schools Wow. And so they've been using the same program since he was president, so you know how outdated that is. So my whole thing is whoever's coming in office, hey here, I'm here to help. I don't I don't want to get paid, I just want to give back and help society. But you need people that are passionate about making a change, and the thing is I was part of the tribe. I was an obese child, so I understand what obese children go through psychologically, emotionally and physically. So you can't just have someone that has a genetic perfect body and think they're going to come in because they have not gone through the emotional scarring like I did.
Speaker 1:So that's what I want to do eventually. I don't know who will win.
Speaker 3:Who knows what the way the world is today, but especially I mean tackling the school systems. I mean a lot of these children don't have the means at home, or their parents don't have the time or the you know nutrition and health is not you know they're in a food desert to begin with. They're in a food desert or they're just trying to survive each day, you know. But if you can implement those things while they're at school, that's where they're absorbing the most information. So, yeah, I mean that would be huge.
Speaker 1:When I started my fitness company was in 1985. I was sitting at Christmas dinner with my parents and my brother-in-law was a cadet at West Point and he invited me to go up there because he saw I was this very powerful bodybuilder and he wanted me to go up there to help condition the soldiers because he was telling me how they'll put on all this gear and with the rifle and the backpack and everything and the boots it's about 150 pounds. And so they have to go up to the 15-foot diving board, jump off and be able to walk and get out of the pool. And he said be lucky, out of you know 50 guys, maybe three can do it, wow. So I had to do strength conditioning at West Point, advising them what to do because I was a very powerful young man. So my mother goes well, you need to create a name for that. And I said well, what do you think? Well, mark said everything is. You know an operation. My mom turns, goes. I know Fitness and registered it operationfitnesscom. I registered it in 1985 and I dedicated it for kids' fitness. But what I realized was you can't just do kids' fitness, because it's the environment the kids are exposed to to make the necessary changes. So I changed it like six months later, to Operation Fitness for the entire family, because it's who you're exposed to, even like in your personality the butcher you meet, or the person in the cleaners, or the neighbor across the street or whatever. Everybody that comes into your life forms who you are and, if you're around, a healthy environment. So when I was doing work with the LAUSD for many years, I was letting them know it's the environment. We need to help the parents. We need the parents to come in and listen to seminars, because the children are going to follow their lead.
Speaker 1:Now I had this one young little girl. She was like six years old. She goes. She's six years old, she goes. Michael, I need your help. My mom is a vegan and my dad is a meat eater and they constantly argue and my father comes home and he wants me to eat a steak. My mom yells at me and says no, I want you to eat these vegetables. So I turn and I said well, what do you like to eat? She says, well, I do like steak, but I do like vegetables. So I said well, you're old enough to understand, so tell your parents that you want to choose the food you eat. And so, sure enough, she went home and she'd share with her parents and they asked to come see me and they actually thanked me, because they said they liked that their child took initiative and they never realized the damage it was causing her emotionally.
Speaker 1:And later on years I saw her later on and I got to tell you something.
Speaker 4:This young lady is now a doctor.
Speaker 1:Hey, and she thanked me because she said when she met me she thought she was going to do physical therapy, but she said I want to be like Mike and she got a degree. She works at UCLA as a doctor now and I saw her many years later, like 20 years later. She came running up to me you, mike Torshaw and I said yeah, and I saw her in scrubs. She goes well, remember you lectured my parents I was about six years old about my mother being a vegan. I go, oh my God, she goes. That's me. And she was very fit. She worked out with weights and yoga and Pilates.
Speaker 4:Had a chicken wing in her mouth.
Speaker 1:No, but you know what's so funny. The father would really want to mess with the mother. Yeah, sometimes bring home a pepperoni pizza. So he used that to make the daughter want to eat that, to piss her off, you know. So he said listen, that's a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a lot of emotional you don't do that because you're affecting the child Right and the emotional upset can create eating disorders. That's where it begins, right. So that's why I'm saying I really evaluate when anybody comes to me to make sure that I'm giving the best advice possible and I teach people. It takes 21 days to form a good or bad habit. If you exercise every day for three weeks, your body will form new neural pathways in your brain, so you do it automatically without even thinking about it. Yeah, so if you start eating healthy for three weeks, just eat very healthy and choose your foods wisely, after a while you'll just make choices because you've programmed your mind. Even subconsciously. You'll reach for things that are more healthy, which you have to do for 21 days.
Speaker 1:Now same thing. If you start smoking or eating really shit food for three weeks, you're going to form now a bad habit, but you can unprogram your neural pathways by switching over and just understand what you're doing. So those are some of the biohacking things little tips that are simple. You don't need to buy anything, just understand how the body chemistry works and then again, why you eat the protein. It's important Whenever I have my breakfast, lunch or dinner, I'm biting into the eggs. In the morning, I'm biting into the protein at lunch, and the same thing with dinner, because, no matter what I eat, my protein is getting digested first, which is the hardest thing to digest, and it won't spike my insulin, which causes fat storage, yeah sure.
Speaker 1:So that's what I drill into people's minds.
Speaker 1:So if you start following all these different protocols, getting in shape is not really that hard and losing weight. But the problem why I created my podcast Live Well and Thrive is because you go on YouTube. You have all these people talking about their personal opinion. Is it based on any facts? Yeah, any scientific studies at universities, notable studies? No, they're just giving their personal opinion and people are following, like there's this one gentleman, he's a very successful businessman. He was following peter attia and and uber and uberman, you know, and so between the two of them, ben greenfield and shit, yeah, all the guys. You successful businessman. He was following Peter Attia and Uberman. Between the two of them, ben Greenfield and shit.
Speaker 1:He was taking all the suggestions, what you should take to boost your own testosterone, what you could take to sleep better at night. He said he was taking over 120 pills a day. He said, listen, one person gives you something for sleep. You try it. But you can't take Peter, tia's and Brecca and Uber and think it works all of them combined.
Speaker 1:Well, if that works, what if I put them all together? Because what I learned was my grandmother. My Sassanian grandmother taught me how to cook and one time I was really getting into baking. As a fat kid I loved to eat, right. So my grandmother, I went to my grandmother and I said Grandma, can you give me a recipe for an apple pie? Then I went to my mom Can I have your recipe for an apple pie? I went to my aunt Rita, who was a great chef too Can I have your recipe for an apple pie? So then I made this. I said the super apple pie, put it in the oven. It flattened, it was terrible, it just wasn't right. So I turned to my grandma. I said Grandma, I took your recipe, my mom's, aunt Rita's. So, miguel, what you should do is you take one recipe, you bake it. You see, take the other one, you bake it, you see, and then you decide which one's the best. You never, ever, mix a recipe. It's all balanced for a reason. Sure, sure, okay.
Speaker 2:So that's what I learned. What I learned, you know.
Speaker 1:So I got him on a program. Now he barely takes any supplements, just a handful of stuff, and he said his stomach was always cramping up and burning. He thought he had some intestinal or ulcer or whatever. He was just loading himself with all these pills. So that's why I'm very precautious about anything I say on the show, because people will end up doing it and.
Speaker 1:I don't want them to. You know. I'm not giving them recipes for that stuff. I'm just telling them, giving them general guidance and whatever help I can give them more detailed. But all these guys want to do is sell stuff like on their shows. That's not what I'm about. I'm here to help people yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 3:It's such a big responsibility, especially when you're in a limelight and you're putting this information out and then people are picking up on that. I mean you're literally changing their body composition and health you know, so you should know what you're talking about. Um, I I just want to switch gears back to the Operation Fitness real quick. I mean, we barely grazed it, but what is the work that you're doing right now with Operation Fitness? What does that look like?
Speaker 1:So what I do is I divide it up with various different organizations that have tweens and teens where they need help and guidance for these kids. So I did a mentor program for the Boys and Girls Club and some of the others where I would speak to the kids about proper eating habits.
Speaker 1:You got to gently introduce the kids and you got to let them know they can have certain treats but stay away from process and what process is Understand what organic is and what natural is and is, understand what organic is and what natural is and then understand what organic natural is. See, it's so confusing, you know, if you go down whole foods or somebody's stores, it says organic, then it says natural, then it says natural organic, and then people are confused so you have that they need to have some clarity at the stores.
Speaker 1:But bottom line is I make it very simple for the kids, making them understand. You know the food plate that's out there today is hideous, it's so off. So I try to just help people use common sense and when it comes to a salad, I tell the kids you want to make a happy salad? My father used to say to the waitress when we go out to eat, or my mother to make a happy salad. My father used to say to the waitress when we'd go out to eat. Or my mother, I want a happy salad. My mother first time goes what's that? Lots of color. Put the red, the green, the yellow peppers. Put the cucumbers, put the tomatoes, mix the different leaves.
Speaker 4:You need colors of Benetton salad, but that's a happy salad. It's also like the gene pool Like but that's a happy salad. It's also like the gene pool, like a Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3:That's me, though. When I'm making food, I'm like I'm missing a color here. I'll just add a little and somehow it made me a great cook. I mean, I've never followed a recipe in my life, but I just I'm like oh, we need more color of this. And then, once it looks nice and happy, I'm like ah, here we go.
Speaker 1:And more enjoyable, right, you know? And what's so funny was a kid, was Arnold. When everybody would have a salad and it would come to the table and if it didn't have all those other vegetables in there he would look. He'd point at me and says, ah, waste, it died. It's rabbit food, it's all water. You get nothing, nothing from it. Green vegetables, bad brisket, I said. My father calls it happy salad. Yeah, I like the happy salad. So Arnold was the same way, because the other way he said you're eating rabbit food.
Speaker 2:It was amazing.
Speaker 1:I remember the waitress brought it to the table. We were eating dinner one time and I was just a kid and it was just lettuce. He goes, I said wait, so I knew what my father was saying. But then when Arnold Schwarzenegger said it, then I knew wow, and every time I get a salad, it's a happy salad, it's got everything in there.
Speaker 4:You split this up from the teens and tweens.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, so what I do is I really dedicate a lot of time working with inner city kids, the various different school districts, to help them understand the proper nutrients that children need because they're growing. Their bones are growing, you know, to about the age 20. Your connective tissues will start to seal then, so they want to get optimal height and muscularity and so on. So Operation Fitness is mainly what I do to give back to society, because I was part of the tribe of obese children. It's a society, because I was part of the tribe of obese children, so I know what it's like to be picked on, made fun of, bullied and have poor self esteem, so I can relate to the kids.
Speaker 1:So I do a lot of mentoring for the different foundations and organizations. But that's what I do. And then I put on these events which I call Shape Up America and I do a fitness event. I'm working on doing one in century city at the um, at the shopping center, westfield, sure um, which is free. I've been doing it for over 20 years and uh, basically it's entire family fitness for the whole family. I even have pet fitness and uh, chiropractors massage service for your dog or cat. Hey, Every aspect.
Speaker 1:Okay, so when you go there it's free. Yeah, I just get enough sponsors to cover the cost of setting up a booth. Yeah, we have a stage where every 20 minutes there's some type of. It could be salsa, it could be yoga, meditation, it could be boxing, it could be a lecture, it could be celebrity chef. So throughout the day you can go and see the chart and see what interests you.
Speaker 1:Then we set up an obstacle course for the kids and obstacle course for the adults, obstacle course for the dogs, because I'm a lover right and I bring in dog trainers to show if you bring your pet and help you teach your dog how to exercise and set up this up in your own yard. I and I wrote many years ago an article for all the pet publications called fitness unleashed, and it's a workout you do with your pet or your cat. You know your dog, your cat and so I'm very much into animal health because before I was a trainer I was considering to be a veterinarian and I was a veterinarian assistant and when I was working with this vet really wonderful guy, dr Ryan.
Speaker 1:He was a really great vet. But one day he had me. He told me I have to take this little dog. That was very ill and the little girl that was holding the dog was about eight years old. And she goes, is he going to be okay? And I said it's up to the doctor, please. And she was crying. I brought the dog in and the doctor checked. He said it's not good, it's just suffering. You need to do the injection to put her to sleep and have the family come in. I said, doc, I can't do that.
Speaker 1:I came in to say that so of course he had to do it and I felt so bad for the young girl so I decided I'm not going to be a vet and I ended up getting into training people. That was my career path. I still have very, very, very close to heart to help animals and that's why I created a company called Healthy Pet Nation. It's com. It has articles on various ways you can take care of your pet and holistic ways. I form things Part of Operation Fitness goals on various ways you can take care of your pet and holistic ways. So I've I formed things.
Speaker 4:So part of operation fitnesscom?
Speaker 1:yeah, if you go down on the bottom, the footer. You see this healthypetnationcom? Yeah, and I've worked with caesar milan and many others, but caesar milan is just training people, he's not really training pets yeah, he's different people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know but he shows you how to act, act. And now he shows more about being active with your pets. Yeah, that's for sure. But his main thing is to train people how to. Well, he's trained some parents, but all these nutty kids going into schools and shooting everybody yeah, I mean, really. I mean, I feel just like you, pat. If you have a kid that will walk into a school. You have a notice. There's something wrong with them. You're responsible, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely. If I was a parent, I need to pay attention. I don't care how busy I am. My mother and father, I don't care how busy they were. They always made sure. How are you?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When my father growing up no TV at dinner, we all sit, we talk about the day. I wonder how school was. Yeah, and that's why I came out really good and balanced and psychologically, mostly physically because we had that dinner time talk I couldn't be more aware. How can you not go like that. One kid in Atlanta shot up the whole teachers, those kids and I did not know, and he gave the kid the gun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I'm saying Take responsibility.
Speaker 1:And when you're young I was, of course, brought up, take responsibility. So younger I was, you know first very introverted. Now I became like a alpha male evolved to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was you know first very introverted and then I became like a alpha male, evolved to that. But I tell people, if you don't know what to do, don't do anything, but reach out to someone that knows about that specific need you have, whether it's diet or exercise, whatever. Because you want to make sure that if you go to someone you know maybe you don't want to do weights, maybe you don't want to do treadmill maybe you're the kind of outdoor person that'd rather go biking, do calisthenics or do some kind of rings and ropes and things like that.
Speaker 4:What I found out is you're being true to something that gives you joy as opposed to something that gives you death. Right, because if you can find out what that thing is like, when I realized that, oh, my knees hurt, you know, and stuff, so I don't necessarily like running, but like playing tennis, which actually kind of helps. Before we let you go, um, one of the things I want to ask you. We're next door to the, uh, kamala harris, you know the volunteer office. I wanted to kind of hit you up and see what gives you hope about the future. You know, um, considering, uh, just where things are in our politics and, probably more importantly, our, we live in separate sort of algorithmic silos which produces separate realities. That feels like that's an energetic block. That can also be a cortisol thing, which people are stressed out over, this and everything, which is just generally not healthy. What's your take on all that?
Speaker 1:Well, when it comes to right now, we're at, hopefully, a turning point to see who wins.
Speaker 4:I don't know if it's Either way, it's going to be a turning point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah because they all know you can't mess around. You get an office, you make a lot of promises. You better fulfill those promises. So my take is that also people have to take into consideration that COVID really messed up people's minds, bodies and souls Increased in suicide. That's a great point. I mean depression, post-traumatic syndrome.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So we're recovering from a very, very despairing time.
Speaker 1:So, whoever comes in office needs to direct the health of our nation in every aspect, and so we need to make sure that corporations are giving people that downtime at work for what I call brain breaks. Hydration, hydration, stretching Every hour you should take, even if it's a two-minute break. Brain break yeah, that gives them a chance to get up, because people are on the computer and they get carpal tunnel syndrome, poor posture. You know they're like this the whole time, yeah, and they're forming bad posture and bad form and they're working so much they don't have time to take care of themselves. So over the years I've created a program which is called Stagger Training so you could do 10 minutes of a workout in the morning, 10 minutes on your lunch break and then 10 minutes like when you get home or before you go to bed, so you can get a half hour. Or you could do 20 minutes and do an hour. The body doesn't have to train for an hour. I tell people, bring it up. So that whole concept is.
Speaker 1:So I think if we number one our future generation, whoever becomes president, who is running the President's Council of Physical Fitness, sports and Nutrition, because we are farmers and those children are future, are future generations. So we're breeding an unhealthy nation right now. So a lot of the schools don't have PE or they have no budget for a sports program. So we need to really take time on the health of our nation, on the health of our nation. But we need to have psychiatrists or psychologists in the schools. Because of COVID especially, mental health is not being addressed.
Speaker 1:And corporations let me tell you something with my concierge service, they've called me to bring in security because they have had constantly had death threats, because when they had cutbacks they had people threatening to kill the executives that were above them. They fired them. I had one executive, very big company out here there was someone who was threatening to kill him and his pregnant wife. Of course we got him right away. Now the police couldn't do anything because, well, he just made threats. No, we confronted him and he admitted that yeah, if I see them, I would kill them. Of course he was put away now.
Speaker 1:But there's a lot of people out there that are really deranged and when something happens I mean look at the shootings that have creased significantly, not just in the schools but in the streets Someone's getting an argument. Just the other day someone shot someone because they had an argument, because someone cut them off, because I think a lot of damage happened. So I really think whoever comes in office, we have they have a lot of damage happens. I really think whoever comes in office, they have a lot of work to do. They need to reach out to people like me that do it because we want to make a difference, not because we're getting a big salary, because we want to make that change. That's why I say Operation Fitness was established to improve the quality of life mentally, physically and emotionally and spiritually.
Speaker 2:Now, because you have to have some hope I'm not saying you have to be quality of life, mentally, physically and emotionally, and spiritually now, spiritually Because you have to have some hope.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying you have to be religious, but you have to believe in something. Otherwise you're wandering around like lost, right, but I really think, whoever it is, that's why I've invited Trump. They actually got back to me and said he's trying to see if he can come in, but it can only be like a 12 or 15 minute interview. I said, well, if he can come in, let's do it.
Speaker 4:Did you get hit with the $25,000?. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:I know Donald for like 35 years, so so it's different, but I know his insurance and his camp?
Speaker 4:Yeah, they would say that. So yeah, sure, we'll come on the pod 25K.
Speaker 1:Well, I, you know, I did that. Yeah, well, that's a speaking fee, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, come on, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on Come on Bill Well, Mike Torsey, thank you so much.
Speaker 4:We're going to make sure to have the information on everything on the Beverly Hills Concierge Service as well as Operation Fitness stuff we'll put in there. And then again, you know your podcast, live Well and Thrive. I dig it. I really, really love a lot of the good things, the good nuggets that I get out of it by listening to it and I appreciate you coming on the show and we'll have you back on. We can keep on top of everything that's going on in your world.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, it's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you both.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, Mike.
Speaker 5:Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and we are so excited to be bringing you our new creative baby, the Character Select podcast. I've wanted to save the world since I was four.
Speaker 3:There has been no character like him up to that point, and there really hasn't been a character since.
Speaker 5:Every episode of Character Select, we're going to be taking fantastic video game performances and talking about what makes them tick, what makes them exciting as players, as performers, as sound designers, as casting directors.
Speaker 2:That was. I feel like I've been ambushed.
Speaker 5:I don't even have a podcast to talk about a video game, so there's a big old love fest here. That's how we start this and you're just going to have to deal with it. Recognized by the 2013 edition of the Guinness World Book of Records, gamers Edition, as the most prolific female video game voice actor in the world.
Speaker 1:You know it's a special project when you hold on to the people you created it with.
Speaker 2:Careers are born by being in the right place at the right time, where you can't control the right time, but you can control the right place.
Speaker 4:All right, mike Torsha, I mean, that guy is amazing. Like I said, 68?.
Speaker 3:No, he is. He is and he's doing good work, which is what we love. I love Operation Fitness, helping these inner city kids and really, really doing the work and putting in the time.
Speaker 4:All right, as promised, the update on the ground from the fresh off the plane. Off the plane, asia Nakia, you did a sneak trip to Florida to check up on your team there who's been on the ground for Hurricane Relief and for animal rescue there. Please give us the update. How's it going? I mean, literally, I don't even know. You're telling me this fresh off the plane. Give it to me. How did it go?
Speaker 3:This is super fresh. It's actually going really well. I was quite impressed with just the city of St Pete in general, the cleanup. I mean from what my team was experiencing and what we were seeing from the debris piles, things in the street, broken signs, lights I mean they really have been kicking butt. I mean they got some extra hands and it's looking like almost nothing happened, which is insane to me from what my team was sending me. But on the animal side, everybody's doing really good. We had a dog that was shot right before the hurricane, who we pulled and still alive though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, still alive.
Speaker 4:This is an RFK moment.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, no no, all good news here. He's getting the bullet removed, but you know sad situation. And then we had another little girl that was hit by a car during the hurricane. We took her in, but we also took in little squirrels and the squirrels are just blossoming and they're now eating solids and they're just chippering away.
Speaker 4:I saw them on our Instagram. I was like no, no. There's something about small animals eating food that like, except for cats, but they're not small enough.
Speaker 3:That's the problem. It has to be like a chipmunk size. You know squirrel chewing food, gotcha.
Speaker 4:So are you. And what's the prognosis? Or the yeah from here.
Speaker 3:Right now we're just, we're just we're dealing with sort of an influx of owner surrenders. You know a lot of people that have realized that their situation is not going to change, they're going to have to go live with family members. So we are getting an influx of animals coming in that are going to be going into the foster system and then being adopted out. So that that is, you know, I think, a part of the hurricane. Stuff that people don't always think about. It's not always the immediate Like, yes, we do the triaging, the immediate rescues dogs stuck in water, animals at a farm that are drowning, those kind of things are immediate. But then we have, you know, months after where people can't get their trailer back, they can't go live with their moms, with their two dogs, you know. So these ripple effects after the hurricane sort of continue on.
Speaker 4:So we'll be dealing with Hurricane Milton and Eileen for, you know, the next few months maybe even up to a year, so people can stay on that on our site as well as Compassion Kind.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. We've got, you know, new animals up for adoption. Definitely animals in need of fostering. The more fosters we have, the more animals that we can help.
Speaker 4:And if you want a hit of just good, good, good mojo, go to our socials and you can see the baby squirrels. Yes, All right, as promised, before we get out of here, two scams and a slap, and what it is is you, the listener, and one of us each week we trade each week finds out and goes through three headlines, which one of them is actually a slap in the face and real. So this week I'm on the block to try and figure this out with you, lovely listeners. So I pass it to Asia Nakia.
Speaker 3:All right, here we go. All right, okay. First news item on the list Coffee Shop offers free coffee for reciting poetry instead of payment interesting.
Speaker 4:Um can I ask where? What part of the country? No, go ahead, go ahead, because I get portland.
Speaker 3:I could understand.
Speaker 4:I was gonna say it's gotta be seattle or portland, like shout out to portland, all right, but but you know I'm for your strip clubs, not necessarily for the coffee house. All the good coffee, okay, all right, that's one. Beautiful though, though. Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3:Okay, next Attorney throws Pringle can full of feces at a victim advocacy center. Okay. And the third headline, and the third NASA plans a mission to capture asteroid and bring it to Earth's orbit. So, rick, yeah, of those three things, which one is actual reality?
Speaker 4:Which one is a slap of reality. I'm going to say the asteroid because I know right, I heard the other day like a palm's worth of an asteroid's worth, like a trillion dollars, of some kind of rare mineral. So I'm going to say that.
Speaker 3:Well, sadly for the Victim Advocacy Center it was. It is an attorney that was trying to blow off steam, and his way of doing that was filling up pringles cups with his own feces interesting and throwing them at the building?
Speaker 4:yes would that be a mala shit cocktail or what that would be, I don't know. Would that be a mala crap cocktail? Mala crap, yeah, mala mala mala, I don't know, we'll workshop it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, woo, I know it's silly season, you know. So people calm the nerves, you know it's an important time. It is Feel the feels, but do something too, and I don't think throwing Pringles, cans of feces.
Speaker 3:Maybe we can funnel this into some more constructive sort of I think so, because there's definitely the repetitive behavior of it, right.
Speaker 4:Shit in a can? Yeah sure, I believe that's a repetitive behavior you would have to learn.
Speaker 3:It's like a daily thing. So if he could just put all of that energy.
Speaker 4:Right if you could put all the energy you spend on shitting in a can and throwing it at a women's advocacy group.
Speaker 3:Unless he's going to Costco. I can't believe that.
Speaker 4:That is a slap of reality.
Speaker 3:I should have guessed that one he's got a full package of Pringles ready to go every day, and then he times when he shits to go drop it off at the center.
Speaker 4:That's a lot of effort. I hope it's the regular Pringles too, and not the barbecue I was thinking it's probably like spicy ketchup or something.
Speaker 3:All right. Well, that was two scabs and a slap. So Rick and I have been sort of collecting some of our favorite items that we both use at home, at the office, you know, around town, Things that we love, things that are sort of helping us become healthier human beings. We're really trying to focus on that. There's a lot of craziness in the world.
Speaker 4:Yeah, removing toxins out of our environment and stuff like that, and we have clients that have been kind of also pushing us and, yeah, keeping us honest on that as well where you find out oh wow, I've got this cool memory foam pillow and turns out, maybe that's why, uh, you know, occasionally you get headaches and things like that, you know. But you gotta check the brands and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:So we're good and and also we have not left out our fur babies. They are also on on there, they've got some favorite products. Yes and yes and our link is in the show notes and also on social media. You can find our links in the bio.
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