The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
The hosts Mitch and Bart discuss fitness, fatherhood, and guy stuff to help men live a great life, have fun, laugh, and get a little more fit in this weekly Podcast.
The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
Vegas Mis-Adventures, the Round Top Phone Debacle, and Winter Workouts
This episode entertains with vivid stories from a Vegas trip gone wild and practical tips for working out in cold weather. Mitch shares his hilarious experiences including unexpected losses while gambling and being pulled onto the Cirque du Soleil stage, while Bart offers tips for staying active despite chilly temperatures.
• Mitch shares his 40th birthday Vegas adventure
• Highs and lows of gambling in Vegas
• Unexpected hilarious moments at Cirque du Soleil
• Practical strategies for cold weather workouts
• Importance of warming up inside before heading out
• Lighthearted banter on sleep habits and fitness
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Welcome to DadBots and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm Bart.
Speaker 1:Thanks so much for listening, liking, subscribing and sharing. We are so glad you're here with us today. We have a big show.
Speaker 1:Big Huge, we have vacation stories that are going to blow your minds. It's cold now where we're at, probably where you're at too, so we're going to talk a little bit about some cold weather workouts, yeah, what to do when it's cold as hell. Yeah. So for my 40th birthday, I got to pick where I wanted to go, because we went to Cozumel for Stacy, we had a hurricane hit us, all that stuff, so I decided my favorite spot is Vegas.
Speaker 2:Vegas, love it.
Speaker 1:I've been there since you know I've been there many times. I always clean up.
Speaker 1:It's basically, when I go hey, we go to the ATM, it means I'm going to craps. Because I am a craps maniac, I stick to my strategy, I don't deviate. But my wife wanted to come. She's been, we've been a couple times before. We've seen some shows, done the fun stuff. It's cool because it's all extravagant and fun and we stayed in the bellagio fountain side so we get to see the fountain every night. It's pretty sick, sick room. Uh, it was crowded as hell because I don't know why, because it's vegas always, but we got.
Speaker 1:It's very difficult to find tables that are less than 25 minimum blackjack included. So you have to kind of either go off strip into old downtown or you have to really try to find it and it takes some time and it's usually really really late. Well, I forced to. This is my problem. I deviated part. I wanted to just get some craps in and I just was like all right, I'm gonna, this is the table I'm gonna play on.
Speaker 1:I get wrecked, like to the point where I'm like what's going on? This never happens. Yeah, wrecked. So I pull out early and I just say you know what I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna call it what it is it's a loss and'm walking away. Don't touch craps until the next day, yeah, so usually what we do is we have the first night's kind of chill, whatever we get, get us situated, get some good sleep, wake up in the morning, go to old Vegas this golden nugget binions love those places, the the four queens they changed one to the link now and I don't love it, but anyway, the old school stuff.
Speaker 1:And so we take a cab out there and we go to the golden nugget and they have $15 tables, which is frustrating because typically they have $10 $5 tables. So I'm like, alright, again deviating. Bart, this is what she heard me. I stay at $10 tables. I have a certain bankroll and I follow my plan. Well, when you go 15, it changes everything. Right. Your bankroll becomes a little bit smaller and plus Stacy's playing too. So my bankroll is actually half, and now she's playing her way, or she's playing my way. I'm not sure what's going on. But guess what? I never throw dice because I'm bad luck. I told you this. Why didn't you remind me I had to play the pass line? Because there was nobody at the table, which means I had to put money down on the bet. And if you do that and your number hits, you have to put odds behind it, which means you put more money down. So I've already deviated from it and I'm throwing dice.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've ever had a losing streak like I've had at the goldenugget, but I didn't walk away with anything. I was like F this place we're going to Four Queens. Four Queens had a $10 table and we played that a little bit Decent table, but same thing just getting beaten up here and there A hundred to here 50, like just beaten up. Finally, stacy's like listen, I just want to play blackjack. I don't want to play craps anymore. And so we play blackjack. We continue to play blackjack for the next few days and every single time we play Bart, it's nonstop losing.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, you might be up here there long-term loss, loss, loss. I have never seen so much fricking red in my life, bro. And by the time you get done with it, you're like well, we're out of money. What do you want to do now? So it's like well, let's go to a show. So we go to Mystere, which is at Treasure Island. It's a Cirque du Soleil show which is acrobats fun. We've been to probably all of the Cirque du Soleil shows on the strip. You know been to. Oh, been to when they had the Beatles love loved one that was kind of lame, the jackson one, another kind of lame but like oh, it was cool, there was another one that was like that anyway, oh it was awesome, oh it was awesome.
Speaker 1:The water one. Well, uh, we go to mysterious and I'm pretty pumped about it. We're second row because we do the late show, it's cheaper and it's easier to get in. And we get in and it's just amazing, blowing my mind, and all of a sudden, about halfway through the show, I get a tap on the shoulder and Spotlights on me and that clown guy takes me and pulls me up on stage. Perfect.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna tell you I've set this up so the whole joke is, hey, that I do what he did. He's like he wishes right here, do what I do. I said okay, so put my arms out. He's kicking back and forth, everybody's cheering whatever. And then they bring a box out and he goes, points in the box's like, okay, I go sit in the box, cool, great, I'm sitting there for five minutes probably. Light comes on the box, so light, like a subtle light, not a huge bright and then they start rolling me around the stage. No, I don't, I can't see a thing. She's rolling me around, everybody's laughing the whole way. I'm like, oh, great, finally it pulls me backstage. They pull me out and I'm standing with the stage manager and like a bunch of the actors or whatever, and I'm like, hey, talking to him, whatever. And then at one point I'm like, hey, am I ever going to go back to see the rest of the show? I'm like what is happening? So finally the guy, the guy that pulled me in, comes out, comes from the backstage hey, what's your name? Where are you from? I said Mitch, I'm from Austin. And he pulls me out Mitch, from Austin. Everybody, everybody cheers. I bow, he's like giving him whatever.
Speaker 1:And I go sit down and I look at Stacey and she goes. You will never guess what happened. I was like what happened? She goes? Well, when you got pulled in, the spotlight went on her and the clown guy came with a picnic basket, wine glasses. But basically the spotlight hits her and the seats empty next to me. So she puts her hand and rubs it on the seat like hey, come sit with me here. Big boy, like totally plays on to it, sits down to the point where we're out, we're leaving, and everyone's like man, you got. How long have you guys been with Cirque du Soleil? Like how long have you been in the crass? The crew?
Speaker 2:that it was a. They thought it was a.
Speaker 1:We weren't plants yeah, we thought we were part of. And so stacy says the same thing. I've been pulled up on a couple circus olay shows. Yeah, I don't plan on it. Never, like I've never been marked, I don't know why, but every it seems like every single time I'm a target and they pull me up on stage and uh, and she says you just have that kind of face and I was like what's, what does that mean?
Speaker 1:She's just kind of like you're not like good looking enough, but you're also kind of goofy and not looking. And then you're engaged in the show and I was like, all right, this is enough of this. So I got pulled. That was the final consolation, the final night.
Speaker 2:So good.
Speaker 1:At Vegas. I got pulled up on show. The problem is you can't have any photography or video.
Speaker 2:It never happened. It never happened Only here on this podcast. Does anybody know this happened? So we flew home the next morning.
Speaker 1:We got home, it was fun, you're not going to remember any of the money you lost. You're going to remember that. Oh, I'm going to remember, bro, I've never, I'm done with, I'm done gambling after losing to the ducks bet too.
Speaker 2:Like I am done bro I'm giving it up, this is not your thing. Um, okay, so quick story on my part. So my mom was in town for christmas and then she flew back on friday.
Speaker 1:We decided to go travel around texas for like three nights so we went this christmas, yeah, right after, like the 27th through the 31st, okay so we, we took off, we went to uh.
Speaker 2:A friend of mine has a ranch in Round Top, outside of Round Top.
Speaker 1:We went to there, stayed there.
Speaker 2:It was really cool.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a good friend.
Speaker 2:But we went into Round Top and it was about to rain. It was supposed to pour, so we went to this coffee shop. We got a coffee and whatever, and then it just starts dumping the rain down. So everyone's in the coffee shop. It's kind of stuck right. So all of a sudden we're like, okay, not a good time to leave, let's just hang out.
Speaker 1:Well, one of the ladies in the restaurant says, oh my God, my phone's gone.
Speaker 2:And she's like I had it, I brought it in, I put it on the side and she was convinced. She put it on the side of the of the counter when she, when she ordered and forgot to pick it up, ordered and forgot to pick it up, yeah. So she's like can everybody check their wallets and their?
Speaker 1:and their path. She makes you pull your packets out.
Speaker 2:She was like and and there was a, there was a family next to us, uh, with some young kids they had. They had ordered right after her.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So she was. But they were. They were Hispanic and they didn't they're like, so she was trying to get.
Speaker 1:They were suspicious. She's such a racist bro. I know she profiled. It was a bit of a profile.
Speaker 2:But anyway she was asking hey, you know. And then she a friend of hers, called her husband I think, who was like pulling up the like, find my iPhone. Oh, no, and he's like it says that it's at the restaurant Like it's at the place. It's here.
Speaker 1:Everybody open your bags under stuff.
Speaker 2:of course we're kind of all locked in, yeah, yeah, there's nothing you can so, but she cannot find it right and everyone's just like, oh my god, it's getting on slightly awkward it's awkward, but also like everyone's trying to help out. Yeah, we're just doing the best we can, because it's like there's nothing else to do.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we can't really leave you should have taken off acting like it, was you well the weather.
Speaker 2:The weather clears up a little bit and the his Hispanic family, they leave.
Speaker 1:Okay, right.
Speaker 2:At which point the find my phone moves. The find. My phone guy says it's outside. Oh my goodness, the phone is now outside, which they immediately think, oh, maybe it's the family just went outside. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Oh my So-. Oh God, was there anybody else that was leaving? No, it was just really.
Speaker 2:The Hispanic Profilers got awkward anyway but you know, and then all of a sudden, I think, like her friend or her daughter, somebody goes out to her car, where and and to drive her car car around it to pick them up. So they wouldn't have to like cause she was in a wheelchair but she so there was, she wouldn't have to like travel through the muddy road. And she comes back in and she's like hey, your phone was in the car the whole time, dude if they would have chased that Hispanic family out.
Speaker 1:I was just like. Oh my goodness, I bet she felt like such an asshole after that.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it was just I was mortified. It wasn't even just like two to like the couple. It was like there's two young kids and like the couple didn't want to like act like they were perturbed by it. But you could tell like there was a little.
Speaker 1:We were right here, so it was like they were sitting there and it was like mom's like hey, it was right over here by this and I just practiced. It was like everybody was focused in on him. It was funny, mortifying and just hilarious at the end, where it's like it's in your damn car dumbass.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious, and of course they there's like a oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:Like oh yeah, I'm sure great, go continue spreading your racism no, that's funny anyway that but it was just a great trip.
Speaker 2:We went to brenham um and just just check out the whole it's a. It was both really cool towns, a lot of fun and it's a great little getaway. We ended up going to the Hill Country no sorry, hyatt, lost Pines for our final night. Oh nice and just like s'mores and riding bikes.
Speaker 1:Dude that's a cool spot.
Speaker 2:And the weather was gorgeous and all that kind of stuff too. I love that spot. I've actually never stayed there, but I and just did cool stuff. That's awesome Relaxed played pool, things like that.
Speaker 1:Do you guys ever go do something on your own without Jack? Do you have vacation?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're working on something like that, for our 50th Around spring break is taking Jack to his grandparents in El Paso and then from there, val and I fly to somewhere like San Francisco or something like that and doing the wine country or something like that.
Speaker 1:That'd be fun Flying back.
Speaker 2:We did that once where we did that and then we went to Vegas from El Paso and then flew back to El Paso and then picked up Jack. So we're looking at something like that for spring break, because it's like we're both turning 50 and we're like let's, let's.
Speaker 1:You got to do something like that.
Speaker 2:I highly recommend jack's great to travel with. But you know it's all about jack. You know it just has to be because you're you know, yeah, that's not how I mean.
Speaker 1:I have two kids, it's never about that. I know it's about me, I'm the, I'm the jack in this scenario, so tell me about. Okay so we're all bundled up here in Austin, texas, it is freezing cold. I went out to go run in the morning.
Speaker 2:Literally. For clarity here. This man is not lying. It is 38 degrees, but it feels like.
Speaker 1:What does it feel like?
Speaker 2:Feels like 33. No, it's 42. This morning it was windy.
Speaker 1:It feels like 33, so it's 40, it's 42. It was windy, it was like 20 feels like 22. I bundle up. I never wear pants when I run, but I did and I step outside of my porch and it was like nope back in and so I go in the garage.
Speaker 1:Thankfully we have a great uh assault, uh running, uh, whatever you call assault, fitness running thing. Yeah, we have a weight bench stacy was working out, but it's still freezing cold in there. Like no appeal to workout whatsoever. So those people out there that are like me, that are struggling to even be active because it's freaking cold as balls out here, like what do you suggest? Like how do we do this?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the first thing is I always, you know, and I'm running boot camps in the morning and dripping so what's the attendance like on there?
Speaker 1:Pretty good, and I had eight to this morning.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I mean so, but you always got to do layers right. The first thing is like cause you don't want to wear something that you can't take off eventually. When your body warms up, Cause that's the great thing about like body weight stuff, like mountain climbers and pushups, and then it's just like your body heat goes up like 20 degrees. So you kind of want to dress as if the weather outside is like 55, because your body heat will make it feel like it's 75.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:If you dress like it's all this ski gear, your body, you're going to be so warm because your body heat from the gear and your body heat is going to end up making you feel hot and sweaty. You want to be able to, like, take layers off and still have, like, hands and feet, warm the initial.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally get it. Like the warm-up part is great and by the time you get into it it's like I don't, I'm shirtless or whatever. You know. Not that crazy, but um, I hate the initial. Yeah, well, this is what you should do?
Speaker 2:You should stay inside. Okay, just wear like sweats and a hoodie that you can take off during the run. You start inside. You do 50 mountain climbers, 20 push-ups, flip over 20 sit-ups, right, and then do 20 squats, 20 lunges, 20 good mornings, yeah, right, just to warm up your legs. By the time you've done all that, your body heat starts to elevate.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you just take off on a run and I promise you hoodie, probably leggings and sweats, probably some smart wool socks, just so your toes don't get cold, and some gloves, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's just that initial, like you're getting out of bed, your your body, that cold air hits the body.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like jumping into a cold plunge yeah, like you're, just like which I've still never done. Yeah, is it worth?
Speaker 2:it. It's so funny, it's like more.
Speaker 2:I just saw a study today where it's like the health healthier you are, the less valuable cold plunges but if you're like super, like overweight or like, and you just have a whole bunch and you don't like exercise much, then it's supposed to be super valuable because it's like a, it's like it's such a shock to your system that it like has all these positive endorphin, like positive qualities. But if you're already stressing your body all the time with like exercise, then it doesn't really like that's hilarious, yeah, yeah, I love that crap though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's always like cold plunge is huge, don't cold plunge heat only heap and cold plunge the contrast only do it on rest days.
Speaker 2:It's like why don't?
Speaker 1:you start saying stuff and like seeing if we can get it to become the new thing, like what would the thing be that you would come up with? That would be like stupid enough that people would do it, but like not worth it at all.
Speaker 2:I think it would be like the way you sleep Only sleep on your back.
Speaker 1:If you snore, the better. If you snore, make sure you snore.
Speaker 2:That means you're sleeping super deep, so don't let your wife wake you up.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:She can't wake you up because if you're snoring deeply and it's loud, that means you are building muscle right there.
Speaker 1:And it would probably be conducive to dreams too. If you dream about working out, that's going to be even better for your system. So, we can come up with some really great concepts. I love the back sleeping thing.
Speaker 2:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:Let's make that a thing, Make sure guys just new studies have shown, side sleeping promotes estrogen release.
Speaker 2:So only to sleep on your back, because that's testosterone, yeah.
Speaker 1:Your wife will find you sexy. Like sleep on your back, your wife is more appealing. She's more appealed to you, Something like that. I think that's good. So breaking news guys just read an article, I think, Dr Huberman. Andrew Huberman said that if you sleep on your back, your wife will find you attractive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and your snoring will be hot. And deeper sleep and deeper sleep.
Speaker 1:And dreaming about fitness equates to fitness only. Right, man, he's a genius.
Speaker 2:Your body can't indiscriminately determine whether it's real calories or calories. If you sleep and dream of fitness, you're getting your burning calories. It does not know the difference. There's my hot take. That's actually really good. There's my hot take. That's really funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like those machines that are supposed to do all. You've done 50 push-ups because you have this sensor that's bumping your leg. Remember those ab things you put in your abs and they probably still have them, but they were really popular and they just buzz and electrocute you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's still. There's still people that do that all the time.
Speaker 1:I want to do it right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's supposed to be actually that the the electrical like like shock pulse things, supposed to be really good for, uh, for like recovery. Yeah, Like if you have injuries and you're trying to like get through injury.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that makes sense, cause it helps activate the right. That's truth, that's not Huberman.
Speaker 2:Don't worry, that's not BS Huberman lab. Well, thanks for the suggestions, thanks for the vacation story, man, I mean just understand that when you start exercising, your body's going to warm up about 20 degrees. So just dress in layers, especially if you're going out for a run. It's going to be the first couple of minutes when you're hitting the road that you're feeling like shit and it gets so cold.
Speaker 2:So just you know, just warm up in your house, do some push-ups, do some lunges do some sit-ups like get your core body temperature up and then hit, and then hit the street and you'll be fine cool. Well, thanks for the tips, man all right, hey, 2025 off to a great start yeah, sleep on your back, let's go. Thanks for listening oh, and my prediction ut national.
Speaker 1:Champion in the national title game playing in a couple days yeah we'll see, all right, man, see you later.
Speaker 2:Later.