Final 2025 Episode: How to Prioritize Your Life and Go Deeper with Both Family and Fitness

We rethink work-life balance with clear tactics for busy dads, cutting screens and excuses in favor of short, targeted workouts, better sleep, and deeper presence at home. Along the way, we talk faith, identity, forgiveness, and why some games deserve to be turned off.

• sponsor update on oral peptides and semaglutide options
• micro-workouts anchored to fixed routines
• early training tradeoffs and sleep priorities
• ditching all-or-nothing thinking in fitness
• time audits to curb screens and sports overload
• presence at home through phone boundaries
• identity beyond job titles and roles
• choosing forgiveness to reclaim energy
• football predictions and lighter banter
• holiday strategy to keep fitness steady

Thanks so much for listening, liking, subscribing, and sharing
Go go check out their website and see what they've got going on
Check out the premium memberships

Become a Premium Member of Dadbods and Dumbbells by visiting:

https://dadbodsanddumbbells.supercast.com

To Learn more about GLP-1s and Set Up a TeleMed Call with Solutions RX, use this link:

https://solutionsrxaustin.com/solutionsrxaustin-dadbods-and-dumbells

To Learn more about Getting in Shape with Barton's company Team Bryan Wellness, check out http://teambryanwellness.com

----------

Follow Mitch: http://instagram.com/runwithmitch

Follow Bart: http://instagram.com/bartonguybryan

Follow the Podcast: http://instagram.com/dad_bods_and_dumbbells

Visit Mitch's website: http://Bigboysruntoo.com

Visit Barton's Training Website: http://teambryanwellness.com

Chapters

• 0:00 Hellos, Sponsors, Premium Perks
• 0:43 New Oral Peptides And Semaglutide
• 2:00 Cutting-Edge Revitrutide Caveats
• 3:00 Framing The Finale And Focus
• 3:25 Workload Shock And Lost Routine
• 5:05 Beating All-Or-Nothing Thinking
• 6:20 Micro-Workouts Around Family Time
• 7:50 Early Training And Sleep Tradeoffs
• 9:05 Reverse-Engineering Mornings
• 10:40 Time Wasters Vs Core Priorities
• 12:40 Presence Over Screens At Home
• 14:05 Identity Beyond The Job Title
• 16:20 Releasing Malice And Choosing Grace
• 18:05 Midlife Chapters And Real Balance
• 20:00 Perspective From Grief And Gratitude
• 22:00 Choose Quality Time, Not Petty Fights
• 24:00 Quick College Football Predictions
• 25:30 A Son’s Audition Matters More
• 27:00 Holidays, Fitness, And Staying Present

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:01

Welcome to Dad Bods and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch. Hey, I'm Bart. Thanks so much for listening, liking, subscribing, and sharing. We love you guys. Big shout out to our sponsor, Solutions Pharmacy. Thanks for all your awesome gels and potions that saved my life. Also, uh, premium members, thank you for uh signing up to be a premium member and supporting us. We love you guys. If you are not a premium member, we do exclusive workouts and uh other special things that we are yet to determine. But check it out if you want to support us. Uh, check out the premium memberships. Today, we're gonna talk a little OU football, UO football, Oregon football, a little Texas football. We're also gonna talk about a little work-life balance. Bart, how are we doing?

SPEAKER_00: 0:42

Doing great. Uh, just wanted to uh do a quick plug for solutions, um, something I forgot about. That uh James Montgomery from Solutions Pharmacy reached out to me. They're doing a lot of uh oral like like uh drops, things like that. If they're getting into the peptides with the oral drops, and so he's telling me that they're starting to part pair up like semi-glutide oral, like like where you just like squeeze a little like uh syringe into your under your tongue, adding with that um either like a um an NAD plus, which is like an energy uh peptide, or they've got um they're also doing some morlin with NAD or some morlin with like ED medications, like that. Yeah. So he's doing a couple of they're doing they're kind of looking into because they're a compounding pharmacy. So there's certain things with peptides they can do and they can't do. And so oral is like their their workaround for like you know, not just like giving syringes to like because if you went to through like an actual pharmacy or a you know, a pharmacy that did the kind of the traditional approach, they would give you the the syringes, which is what most people take semi-glutides through, is through their their belly fat. So they're doing more oral um delivery methods and stuff like that. So anyway, interesting stuff. Um, check it out. Go go check out their website and see what they've got going on.

SPEAKER_01: 2:00

I started working, so I've done the oral semi-glutide, and it actually works really well. The only issue I had was just heartburn. It just pops up, but yeah, I mean, check it out. I've started part, uh, a noob dosage of like a whole new thing. I got off of all my semaglutide stuff for a while just to see how I did. Stayed okay. I mean, I still got a little belly, but uh found out about this thing called Revitrutide, which I do not endorse because it's only been tested on animals. But I can tell you so far, so good, baby. Uh my poops are like animal poops, they're terrible, but other than that, I'm losing weight, feeling good. It's not supposed to attack the muscle as much as the belly fat. So that's the idea.

SPEAKER_00: 2:50

So Mitch always a uh on the cutting edge of everything. I love that. All right, so let's talk about uh so first of all, I wanted to kind of set this the set the tone. Uh, we want we're doing this as kind of our final episode of 2025. Uh both Mitch and I have got a lot of stuff going on, including some uh family vacations, things like that. We're gonna be locked in on college football. Maybe we'll do a surprise like college football update if UT goes to the national championship. But other than that, probably not. Uh but anyway, so we're we want to finish strong here, have a great episode, have some fun. Uh, so this one today, I want to talk about work-life balance with more complexity. And we were talking about Mitch and I were talking about this because obviously Mitch has a new job and it's much more kind of demanding on his time and just energy coming off of long days at work and stuff like that. How do you get your workouts in? So, give us a little bit about what you're going through, and then let's talk about kind of the the bigger picture of like how people can kind of find that that opportunity or those when do they work out? How do they make it work within the construct of more complexity?

SPEAKER_01: 3:59

Well, I think there's a few things to it. So loving my new job, by the way, it's super awesome. Everybody is really cool. Um, my regional director is a freaking beast, and it he's like the guy that it's kind of reminds me of what I found with running, where you get with these people, these influencers that are like super into it and it's positive peer pressure. Like that's how it feels is like, let's let's role-play the sales call. Let's like let's get better constantly because we're ultimately all gonna win. I love that environment. It's like a team, you know, it's like a real sports team. So, but with that comes like more hours than I've worked in a long time. You know, typically when you work from home or you do your thing, you can, yeah, there are there are spurts where you're gone for a full weekend, not every weekend. And so what I've noticed is I have a real issue with energy, one, and two, really being consistent in my workouts. It's really easy to be like, oh, I won't wake up at five, but I can after I drop my daughter off, work out from eight to nine, right? But if I'm going to work from there, like it's just a different mental side of things. And so what I've found is, and it's physically, it's there's times when it's physically demanding. You're on your feet a lot, you're moving around a lot. It's not like you're just, you know, sitting and hoping for the best. So I'm trying to find ways to insert workouts, not just in the morning, like, hey, wake up at 4:30, because I'm already drained to like, what are some good ways to incorporate getting my workout in, making sure I maintain my physical activity, making sure I don't lose a bunch in running or lifting, because those are the big concerns, is if I'm not working out four or five days a week, what does that impact long term? So for me, I'm kind of yeah, I mean, you work with a lot of professionals in lifting, uh, in in working out. For me, what I'm finding is I'm pretty new in this position. I'm still trying to find a flow. But what I'm finding is I'll lose if I don't wake up early. I will, this is I probably a good reason to talk to anybody out there that's listening. If you go, I will run or I will lift on my way home from work, or when I get home, the truth is you're not going to, especially if you hit the couch or if you, you know, hey, I need to change, or you don't bring your clothes with you. Like it again starts to come into that mental mindset, which I haven't had to do in a while. It's just been automatic. Hey, I'm gonna work out four or five days a week. That's just a part of my lifestyle. Now it's did you bring your clothes? Did you set them out? Like you have to be like setting yourself up for and be okay with not getting the full workout in. If you can put 30 minutes in, that's better than zero. But I think we have this all or nothing personality where you're, I do at least, where if I don't get a run-in and a lift-in, what's the point?

SPEAKER_00: 6:57

Yeah, I mean, ideal world, we have unlimited workout times and days and all that kind of stuff. But that's we know as you become a you know, a dad and uh, you know, a husband, you've got those responsibilities. Work becomes more demanding, not just physically, but also meant mentally. I think with a sales job or anytime, I mean, I've I've done lots of sales jobs, and it's not so much just even being on your feet, it's just the the intensity of the focus and the kind of everyone's locked in, everyone's you know, kind of trying to sell and trying to like make things happen. And so it's easy when you're done for the day to want to kind of like relax. And it feels right, it feels like, okay, now I'm gonna go home and relax with my family, and you love your kids and you love your wife and all that kind of stuff. And I just think this is this is a typical scenario of you know, most people that work full-time jobs and that that don't have uh a flexible schedule that they can they can do. And so, and uh some people like their thought is oh well, I'll use my days off to work out, but that almost like you know, because by the time your your fifth day of work happens, um you're just like you're gassed. You're you're you're ready for like two days of rest. Um anyway, so so my thought is this. This is where, and I and you mentioned a little bit, but it's like it's like trying to bite off little chunks. Case in point, just in my life, yesterday. So there's a gym right by my son's basketball league that you know, he does a basketball clinic and a workout class twice a week. And what I figured out is that I can drop him there and in an hour's time be back to pick him up and go to this gym around the corner and do 40 minutes, and I just do squats. I just warm up once a week squats. The other day, Val and I went and we did like a back day because he's you know, it was like an opportunity for us to go, and there's nobody at the gym, and so it's really easy to get in and knock it out and get out. But I mean, you know, you could say, oh man, 40-minute leg workout, that's not enough. Yeah, but I got five sets of squats in at a time that you know, like so I squeeze that in. Now, I I do have the capacity to go do a leg day on the weekend, but I really I'm trying to say think to myself, weekends are for my family. Let's get the workouts in over the week. And I think this is this is always gonna be the hardest thing for people is like prioritizing. I think you should prioritize family first, you know, God if that's your thing, family, you know, and then your health, you know, close third, right? And and so you don't want to necessarily say, you know, if you're coming home, you're getting off work at five or six, you're driving through traffic, then instead of going home, you're stopping by the gym, you may see your kids at 7, 7:30, like you missed a lot of important like relationship time with your kids, and that can feel shitty. And so I um to me, I I think, and there's a lot of science around like why getting up early to do a workout before work actually energizes you, but at first feels like it's gonna wake, wipe you out. In fact, the first day you do it, you might have a crappy day at work because by one o'clock, you're just like done, you're ready for a nap, and and you know, big boss man's not gonna let you take a nap. So, but I think you have to, and so then that's where you got to figure out okay, what are some bite-sized nuggets Monday, Wednesday, you know, Friday, and maybe you do one like morning workout on a Saturday or Sunday when you're off work or whatever. Um, but you do you look at 45 minutes or something like that? Something that's like, I'm not getting up at 4 a.m. You know, you're not, you're not uh what's that guy that does the podcast? Uh what's his name? Uh former Navy SEAL guy. No, no, no, no. The no, it doesn't matter. Uh yeah. Anyway, there's a bunch of them that you do, but it's the idea of like, oh, 4 a.m. here I go, no excuses. Jocko Willock. Yeah. Anyway, not worrying about like 4 a.m. necessarily, but like back back in reverse engineer it, okay? If you're what time do you wake up?

unknown: 11:08

Five.

SPEAKER_01: 11:09

Five.

SPEAKER_00: 11:10

Okay, so five gets you kids to school and then you're off to work?

SPEAKER_01: 11:17

Five o'clock should get me work out.

SPEAKER_00: 11:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 11:22

Then kids to school, then off to work.

SPEAKER_00: 11:25

Okay, so you're you're saying it five o'clock does work for you that for to do that.

SPEAKER_01: 11:29

It does if I do that. There are days like today where I just can't handle waking up. My body's creaky. Like we we spent all day on a job site, you know, and it I just woke up. Well, here's here's might be the issue, Bart, is it's a mental thing. Is I went to bed with my alarm set for five, but knew that I would probably not wake up, right? My wife woke up to work out, she works all day, but you know, I have a lot of things going for me that there are already people like this is a part of our lifestyle. So I I think I've talked to a lot of people recently where it's like, yeah, I used to do this, I used to do that, but now with this and this and this, a lot of it's kids, a lot of it's work, whatever. What I realize is how do you fit that into your lifestyle? Because for me, taking my kids to school is a part of my lifestyle. I'm going to do that. Um, the big piece I think that people are missing too is let's let's focus on, you know, faith family kids. All right. I can't go to church on Sundays anymore because I'm working. So, where does faith fit in to my family? It has to fit in with prayer and like talking about God at certain times, like refocusing. It can't be focused on a church day. Like, hey, we're gonna go to church, then I'm covered. So I have to already reinvent what I know in my life to be a good setup for my family. Uh, the family side too is now I don't have as much time. Normally, I could cook dinner every night and spend all this time on my phone while my family's around. That's really what it comes down to. It I think what we have to do as as men is overhaul how we spend our time. Because this is the this is the conclusion I've come to is I'm not like frustrated, oh, I'm never getting my workout in, whatever. The issue is how do I spend my time? And actually looking and analyzing on if you do go to bed at 9 a 9 p.m., wow, that seems early. But truly, like if you efficiently use your time and then you wake up at five and you work out and do that thing, but you have to be pretty intentional. Just seeing my child on her phone, and I go, hey, it's time to put your phone away at seven. I didn't put my phone away. That time is quality, or like I work on Saturdays now. I have to get there early, but Stacy still gets up early because that's what she's used to. So I make her coffee and we sit out on the porch and I'm focused on not thinking already about work, already getting myself mental. I have time to get myself mentally prepared at work for work, like being fully focused on her for those few minutes that we have. It's being intentional with our time, whether it's with our family, whether it's with with our faith, whether it's with our workouts. And that's kind of the conclusion I've come to. What I'm seeing a lot of Bart is men our age or our lifestyle, kids in middle school, um, married double digits, and you just can't get it. You're just we're just, I'll say we, we're just not as good at giving less giving less of ourselves at a more efficient rate. We see time as the the piece, and hey, I spent all this time with you. No, it's not necessarily about time, it's about effort. Quality.

SPEAKER_00: 15:10

Yeah, it's quality of time. And but also this is the reality of what we're what you start really dissecting here. And this is for all men, people listening, it's not really work family workout. That we think that's the the problem, but it's phone time, it's college football, it's do I stay up and watch the Lakers play, which starts at 9 30 and goes till midnight. Good lord. You know, and I so it's like it's really about making the choice to down prioritize the things that aren't in those top buckets, you know, family, faith, fitness, you know, those like those are the buckets that if you if you focus on those three, there's plenty of time. There really is. You're only working like, you know, 40 hours a week is only eight hours a day, five days a week. Like, you know, it seems like all of your time, but it's not. But we but we waste a lot of time either in the morning before we go or in the evening after, we that we could utilize. So it's it's just it's one of those things where it's like what I think gets in people's way, because you mentioned like your the people at your work, they used to work out. They, you know, they they some of them still do, but like there, there's probably a lot of guys that get into those high, like high stress sales jobs or like jobs where you need to be on energized, you can't be like falling asleep at your desk. And they just de-prioritize fitness because they just don't know how to put it in. When in reality, they're spending 10 hours a day watching college football on Saturday, and seven hours watching pro football on Sunday, and then another three hours watching Monday night football, right? And it's that's the hardest thing, is if we really look at our priority list, like the people that are playing football right now are not gonna care that you watch the game. Your family will care that you weren't there. Your your pastor might care that you didn't go to church, your wife will care if you're not present, and you will care 10 years from now when you're healthy or not. You will not miss the Laker game. I'll use myself as an example. Like, I I I go to bed, I'm like, I usually watch maybe the first part of the first quarter. And if Luca catches fire, I'm like, okay, I'll might watch till halftime. But I'm like, and that's it. I gotta put the I gotta put the phone or the or the or the you know, turn the turn the TV off, get to bed. Because if I don't get a good night's sleep, if I'm not asleep by 10, 10, 15, you know, I don't recover well, I'm not energized, my workouts suffer, blah, blah, blah. So I just think it's we we want to say, oh, I'm such a great dad, husband, employee, that's why I can't work out. But it's really I love football or I love, you know, fill in the blank social media or whatever, some time-wasting thing that we prioritize maybe more than we should. And that actually makes all the other things that are probably way more important long term suffer.

SPEAKER_01: 18:28

That's a great way to put it. I I think truly a lot of the what you were saying to me hits is like last night was Thursday night football, and I was looking forward to Thursday night football because it's the first football of the of the weekend. And you get about halfway through, it's like, I don't care about the Patriots and the Jets. I genuinely don't, you know, I might have some money on some over and unders, but like, let's go to bed. It's nine o'clock. Like, that's silly. Um, the other thing that I realized that really helps my family is I think the phone is a huge issue. And anybody that's a high-level leader or or fast-paced environment, and this is what I'm seeing, is you're you don't have to answer your phone at 7 p.m. You don't. Like, what is gonna be accomplished other than the the worried that I'm missing something? It's all like the fear of missing out, and I think that that could save a lot of families, is if we just looked at it from the perspective of uh Stacy asked me this today was no, it wasn't Stacy, it was uh one of my friends. It doesn't matter. Is are you okay being X as a professional? Because a lot of my identity has always come from my job. I can say I do X, Y, and Z. I can do this, and whether it's being a pastor, whether it's being, you know, an agent or whatever. And what I realized is I don't care anymore. And it took a lot of, it took years of just breaking me down in a sense of not like breaking me down in a bad way, but like breaking me down to understand like it really doesn't matter what you do. What it matters is the effort that you put in. It matters how hard you're working. Nobody's gonna doubt that I'm not a hard worker. Nobody's not gonna doubt X, Y, and Z with me being a good dad, but I'm not gonna be able to go to any of my son's soccer games next year. I know that, but if I am, I'm gonna make it the best time. I'm not gonna be on my phone. I'm gonna, I'm gonna use it as an opportunity to be engaged with my son. So things have to shift always. Things are always constantly shifting. And we should we should honestly, I think the grateful attitude in it, and this is universal, this is faith or not, right? The gratitude that you have with what your circumstances are, no matter what they are, is ultimately gonna face you. Now, I I don't know if I talked about this last week or not. I have a terrible memory now. I'm terrible at remembering things, Bart, but I I was at church on Sunday a couple weeks ago, and the pastor talked about having malice, anger, and genuine just disdain for people. And there's a few people in my life that I've interacted with that I carry that. And it was the first time in years where I just legitimately just released it away. I've been carrying it. I've it's just like luggage that you're carrying through the airport, it just continually gets worse and harder, and you're the pain behind it. And and uh there's a a verse in the Bible that talks about um pray for those who persecute you, ask for even exponential blessing on those people. And as I heard that, it was the I've heard it a million times. This is the first time I was like, that's what I have to do. I need to release that pain and that hurt and that malice. I mean, malice in the sense of just genuinely want them to lose pain because that's too much for me to bear as a human being. And when I did that, that was the first time in my life in a very, very long time where I felt completely released of that burden. And I said, anytime my heart gets that malice or that anger or that that pain, I just go, Lord, take it, take it from me. I can't carry this anymore. And I, you know, and then I go a step further. It's like, bless them, not bless, not in spite of them, bless me. No, no, no, you're blessing me. Like, I want them to win too. And that is a game changer. But I think that I say that to all say, like, if you can do that with your enemies, imagine what you can do with the people you love. Imagine the time, energy, effort that you can put into the loved ones that you have. How less work were matters and more those people in your life that really do matter matter. If you care that much about the people that you despise, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00: 23:12

Yeah, because it just it you have it holds you prisoner to and to the energy of hating or or detesting or wanting that person to fail or whatever. I I listened, I haven't seen I heard listened to the whole podcast, but I listened to Tim Tebow on Flagrant this last week. Fantastic interview. And he was talking about when he was the backup quarterback at Florida and how he really tried to wish the best for his for the starting quarterback, and even when he went in and wanted to do well, to see it as like him wanting to continue to lift up the quarterback that he actually wanted to, you know, he wanted to be the starting quarterback, but he also knew that he couldn't get into a comp competitive mindset around that. And you know, it was it was it's a very funny interview, and Tim Tebow is a fantastic communicator about like his faith and all that kind of stuff. And he talked about a little bit about that, like just not wanting to put you know competitiveness or or hatred or anything around uh anything except being a great teammate. And you know, I always think about your dad and my dad. Um, you know, you've talked very highly about your dad and how he was a pastor um and really like a champion of like a community. Uh and my father, similarly as a you know, director of disabled student services, like really, you know, for until he retired at 50, he had to retire very early because of his handicap. But he went from like the super important person at UC Davis to like a retired guy. And I he I don't think he understood how hard that was gonna be. And I think unfortunately, you know, you know, it was probably when I was like 12 or 13. So those formative years of of me being uh uh in middle school and high school where he was finally home a lot, like he didn't he didn't I don't think he knew well enough how to transition into into what you're talking about, where it's like, you know, so much of who he was was based on like how he was able to impact other people and and make a difference, and and he struggled with you know with depression around like finding out how to finding a way to kind of have a new purpose, you know, in the last you know, 17 years of his life before he passed away. Um and so I I just I I congratulate you on kind of feeling that and wanting to like pass through that, but also you know, I as I'm 50 for those of you out there who are in your 50s, like there is it's it's it's feels like a different chapter. Like the I want yes, I want to hustle, yes, I want to do well in in my my business, my company, and I want all those things to happen. But like I don't want to work so much that uh I miss things, you know, that I that I I you know that I'm not able to, you know, be with you know, there for my my son and my wife and those and and be able to do those things. So it is it there is a finding a balance of like what's really important. Like, I mean, yes, I could probably make a hundred thousand dollars more if I just like work tirelessly six days a week and just kind of like you know, just went all in on like trying to build this company and grow it and get more trainers working with me and all that kind of stuff. But for what? You know, for what to what end? Like I've got seven more years with my son at home, you know, my wife and I are 50. Like we've you know, so there's a lot of that, there's a lot of that there, and I'm like, okay, this is this is a really cool place that I'm in because I'm really happy with the balance right now. But I but ten years ago when I was 40, it was it was grind, grind, grind. I was going off to, I mean, literally like 10 years ago, I was starting, it was like maybe nine years ago, I was starting work in in Charlotte, North Carolina, and like opening that market, and it was just I was traveling and we were I mean, there was so I mean I was running boot camps early mornings and evenings and early, I mean, four nights a week, five mornings a week, Saturdays sometimes, plus clients. It was just so much. And it was a great time to be to hustle, but I was definitely that guy. I was a guy who had I was the camp gladiator director. I was, you know, I was one of the big dogs. I really got a lot of my identity from that place, from that place of like, what do I do? Look at what I do, it's pretty cool. And so, I mean, I think all that's kind of chapters of life, but I think it's uh it's a tough one if we don't recognize the transition, um, and and what and that we're maybe holding on to something that that doesn't serve us anymore. Yeah, um last thing I wanted to say is uh this and I I went to a uh a memorial service at uh a church here in in Oak Hill for a uh a former client, a Camp Gladiator client who lost his son at who's 21 years old. And you know, I I watched the memorial and and the brothers came and talked, and of course uh the father who I know really well came and talked, and you know, the mom, and it just and I just couldn't help picturing like any like that's any dad, that's any mom, that's any brother like fortunately, you know, you know, that's not me, but like wow, like coming looking at that from like that is that's a dad who's just heart is broken, you know, and and just try and like realizing like good lord, you just don't know what what can happen in a blink of an eye. And just how that like really impacted me. And I didn't know the the the son very well. I'd worked out with he worked out with me a couple of times and I knew his brothers better. But man, I talk about like holy shit, like that that was a tough perspective to like really see and go like that that could be any of us, right? And and if that was me and I looked back like you know, the the moments, the the years, the connection, the the f the relationship with my son, like I'm just what would I you never want to feel like you you didn't put give everything you had all the time because you just never know. You know. So anyway, that's a bit of a heavy topic, but I I do think that, you know, so much of this podcast has been, you know, some of it's been fun and goofy and like let's, you know, let's talk, you know, powerlifting and like, you know, lifting heavy weights and all this cool stuff that we as dads can kind of take and and throw into our, you know, into our lives and making it a little more fun or better. And, you know, I all that's important, but I think it's also one of the things that I love about this podcast is it is also about the challenges and the reality of like being men at 40 or 50 and this time in our lives and how you know it can be amazing, it can be so incredibly you know, inspiring to be in this position that we're in, and it can also be really, really difficult.

SPEAKER_01: 30:48

That's a good word, man. I I think the conclusion to that for me is you're never going to regret not yelling, not having that argument. There's there's not gonna be a time in your life where you're like, oh man, I should have been a little bit more petty with stuff like that. Letting go of things in your life that don't matter, focusing on the things that do. It's not necessarily about how much time you have with said person, it's about the quality that comes behind it. And I I would love to live in a world where if my family was no longer or if I was no longer here, everybody's communication behind it would be wow, what a life. You know, what what an experience. And I think that's what every man should aspire to, and that's what we're trying to aspire to. We just find different avenues to do that, I think. Whether it's our job, whether it's our workouts, whether whatever it is, is let's focus on what we have in front of us and really look at the finite piece of life we have. How much life do we have left? We're halfway, more than halfway done. So, how are we gonna maximize those pieces? I think is so important. And not most efficiently, most six-packy, like whatever it is, I think I think we can ultimately go back to how do we love our family well? Because you're never gonna have another kid or another wife like you have currently, right now. And whether you're in a place where this is your second chance or whatever, the reality is right now in front of you is your best opportunity to maximize those things. I love you, man. Thanks for sharing that stuff. Um, thank you to all our listeners. Uh, thanks for listening to dad bods and numbells. We have a lot of traveling, a lot of time to spend with our family over the next month and a half, but we will be back. We're not stopping. This is a continual thing. Um, and go ducks. Go ducks.

SPEAKER_00: 32:53

All right. Well, that's a we're not ending it right there. We got to talk a little college football. We got to leave this on a bit of a lighter note. Uh UT is playing uh Jordan tomorrow, 6 30 p.m. That's gonna be a big game. That really decides kind of the probably the rest of the season for for uh Texas. Um I'm gonna call it go ahead and say it. Texas gonna win this. The D Texas by three. Uh Arch is gonna have a good game, wing goes back, some of the some of the the there's gonna be enough offense to to support their great defense, and they're gonna stop the running game of of of Georgia, and that's gonna be the difference maker. That's my prediction. Could I be wrong? Sure. Um, but I promise you this more important than that game is my son has an audition for the high school musical for a musical at at at high school that they're looking for uh young kids to to be a part of it, uh gypsy.

unknown: 33:55

Oh, that's great.

SPEAKER_00: 33:56

Anyway, so so I just I mean that to me, that's he has an audition on Saturday. That's so much more important than the game that uh because for this exact reason. Like he is he has no fear. Like I I middle school, I wanted to join the choir. I did, I thought you had an audition. My friends told me later on, you never you don't have the audition, you just signed up. But I thought I was like, I could never do that, but I wanted to so bad. I wanted to sing, I wanted to act. I remember going to the high school musicals and seeing friends of mine in the musical and going, like, that looks awesome. And then in college, I finally sang and I finally did musicals, I finally did operas and all that kind of stuff, and I finally had the cojones to actually do it. And I'm just so incredibly blown away by my son's like, like, it's not even like, oh, I'm so afraid, but I'm gonna do it. It's just like, yeah, I'll do it. Sounds great. Like, oh man, this is awesome. So it's like as much as like he's playing basketball and he's doing workout classes, like this this is another thing that he's into. And my God, I just I think it's the coolest thing. So anyway, um, so but you've got OU's got a UO, I guess, you just not be confused, University of Oregon. They got they got a I'm not not a nothing burger game, but it's it's not a ranked team. They got a win, but but they're not playing a ranked team, so you're expecting kind of like a 49 to three type outcome. Uh, you know, but you never know. You never know. So that's that'll be fun. Uh, you know, Mitch and I will be around. Mitch is going over overseas to Europe for a little vacation with his family for the holidays, which is awesome. Um, you know, who knows what's going to be happening, but uh yeah, I mean, lots of stuff going on. We hope you guys listening have an awesome holidays with your family. Um, this is if there's not a better time to just like double down on like family and and connections and relationships, uh, but the challenge is always like, you know, where what happens to your fitness? You know, people people tend to lose, you know, gain five pounds over the holidays. You hold us those like kind of general platitudes about how people gain weight over the holidays and they kind of kick the can down the curb. Is that the word? Is that the expression? To to January 1st to like lose weight again. But man, why not why not be the exception? Why not be the guy who doubles down to his family, doubles down on on like the relationships that matter, and also takes care of his or his or her body. That would be that would be that's a dream come true, man.

unknown: 36:32

It's possible too.

SPEAKER_01: 36:33

It's possible. You can do this. Uh, we appreciate you guys. We love you guys. We're looking forward to the first of the year. We're gonna have some awesome new uh segments, things that we can offer. So stay tuned. Thanks so much for listening to Dad Bods and Dumbbells. Have a happy holiday, happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year.