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What

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is up Waco maniacs.

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It's your boy.

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Josh changed it up.

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It's not your boy,

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Sean.

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Uh, wow.

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This is a special episode.

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It is our very

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first Wiki way in

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episode of

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the new year.

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uh, we kind of teased it I forget which

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episode we

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teased it in the new year's resolution or,

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to say a resolution.

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that makes sense, I guess.

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That seems right.

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so basically what the show is

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going to be, uh, we're going to talk about

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our

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resolutions, once a

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month.

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We're gonna just a brief episode on Friday, the first Friday of

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every.

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We're gonna just talk about where we're

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at, basically in our resolution, what we want to change, and just kind of keep each other accountable and in

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a fun friendly way, but we also want to get you involved

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with the maniacs.

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So if you have a

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resolution, or want to give us updates

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on,

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how your resolutions going,

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you can email them to us.

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We will put a link in the show

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notes, uh, for our.

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emails.

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And, uh, or you can go on our website@readitonwiki.com and I believe there's a contact us page.

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So you can go there as well

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and submit your stories there.

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You could also do a voice chat.

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We have voice chat

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functionality on

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our website.

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So, so if you want to leave us a voicemail, we'll play that on

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the episode.

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Uh, and we'll, we'll just

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keep up to date with, everyone's resolutions and

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see how, you know, keep each other accountable.

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Keep, keep 20, 22 fun and

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pause.

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So to kick it off.

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John, why don't you give us a you've

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you've been active in the chat, uh, with your resolutions.

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Why don't you give us your resolutions

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and, your plan for keeping.

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to

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them?

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Yes.

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So

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my resolution was, I wanted to actually achieve being in the

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1000 club in terms of

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lifting, for

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those wicked maniacs who might not be familiar with that, the thousand club is a combined 1000 pounds for deadlift.

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Uh, bench, press and squats.

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I want to say 2019 was the closest I got, I was at 865 pounds combined, with all that, but now I'm slowly getting back.

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I'm really out of

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shape.

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So.

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yeah, I actually wrote it down cause I like to write my, I actually like to write or a mat.

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so

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at the very best I was able to do one

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rep

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of bench at 2 45.

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Um, my max squat was three 15 and my max dead lift was 3 0

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5.

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But now that I'm trying to get back into the swing of things,

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my bench has really gone down 180 5 is where I'm comfortable again.

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And then my squat, I just did 2 25

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last week

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And then deadlift I'm back to around

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2 65.

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yeah, dude.

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Jesus.

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getting, getting closer

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and

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hopefully I kind of come back to four.

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Oh.

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And by the way,

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I'm also terrible at cardio.

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So I promised myself to, at least every time I'm at the gym, I have to at least

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do a mile.

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It doesn't matter if it's walking or running

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as long as

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a mile is

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Do a, do a kilometer it's longer.

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I hear.

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math checks out.

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I

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agree.

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It is a.

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Yeah.

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6, 6,

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6, 8.

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that's awesome, dude.

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Uh, yeah, my dumb

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ass

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was

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like a thousand pounds each that's, that's fucking

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oh fuck.

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no.

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Oh no.

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my, I hate squats.

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So I'd just try and get

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my, you know, bench up as much as I can.

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See, it's easy for short people to do squats

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because it's automatically 90 with my short,

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so it's perfect.

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I mean, I'm not tall, but yeah, I understand what

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you're

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saying.

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Um,

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that's awesome, dude.

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Uh, any non physical

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related resolutions?

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Yeah.

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So I'm actually trying to sleep more as

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Sean and Josh knows I do not

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sleep.

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And I am awake at like four in the morning,

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every day.

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And I don't sleep till like 12 or one

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o'clock in the morning

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at night.

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Yeah, that's a good one.

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I, yeah.

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And,

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and, oh,

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and also

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like, I try to check off of.

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work,

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whether it's work or podcasting, just like I shut down at a certain time.

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Nice.

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That's smart.

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That's smart.

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Yeah.

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definitely with the work from home stuff and being able to be contacted by your

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bosses at any time.

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a downside

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and that's

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fair.

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but that's awesome, man.

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I, I, definitely think sleep is a good idea for you.

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Um, it's a healthier for your heart.

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First of all,

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we we're going to keep this podcast

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going

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until we're

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90.

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you know,

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so when I'm 70,

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Golden boys.

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Fuck

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you.

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unless we get a thousand patrons on our $25 tier again, not good at math, but I feel like

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that's a lot.

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of

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Uh, that is a lot.

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Yeah.

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Um,

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that's awesome,

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And, we hope, to keep you going

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with that, as Sean, do you want to give us your resolutions

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And, how you plan on keeping those?

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Did we give resolutions already?

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I forget because I'm trying to think.

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And I don't remember if I said anything.

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I remember you mentioned reading.

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Yeah.

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I'm.

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I'm morbidly obese.

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So probably something to stop being

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that uh, that should probably

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be mine.

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uh,

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Motivation or resolution.

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out of that classification.

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yeah,

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Just, just maybe just be obese

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for

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Yeah.

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There you

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know,

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Yeah.

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just not morbidly, you

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know,

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like every other

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I, yeah, just every other American, you know,

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just

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lose weight, eat healthier,

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and probably be better with

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my family finances.

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Don't a dude.

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Uh,

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I need to probably

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stop eating

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like crazy

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expensive food.

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I would say 90% of my money goes to

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Eating food.

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I probably should

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not eat.

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Fair fair.

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Well, I mean, you gotta, you got to indulge a little bit, but yeah, definitely cutting back is a

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yeah, I'd probably, I, I probably indulge a lot, a

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bit

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as this, this shit.

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You know what I'm

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saying?

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Houston's too good, man.

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He still

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has too much good food.

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uh,

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I wouldn't know.

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Everything's closed here,

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Come, Come, by.

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come by, Texas.

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Never closed.

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unfortunately,

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that's awesome, Sean.

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Uh, we'll, we'll keep up to date

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with,

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to

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see where you're at.

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and

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Yeah, I wish I could give a

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heartwarming thing, but maybe this is good for the wicked maniac.

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So you don't have to start a

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hundred percent right away.

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You can gradually get into

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your resolution.

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Absolutely.

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so.

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I think you can also go the other

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way though, if you want to be.

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as

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a, I think this is the time to be

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as hopeful as you

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like dream

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big, whether it's a job or something

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that you really have wanted

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for a while.

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I think as long as you say

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I'm going to do this thing, I think that.

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That's all it mattered last year.

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My girlfriend was

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like, I want to run a half marathon.

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And I was

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like, you're fucking crazy.

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That's so

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you know how many kilometers that is?

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How many.

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Shaun.

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Uh, it's 13 miles.

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So It has to

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be more more than 13.

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kilometers

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go.

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miles.

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it has to be

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more than 13.

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Fuck me.

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yeah, we'll worry.

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We're both right.

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yay.

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it's like

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21

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or something like that.

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Kilometers.

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Um,

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Yes.

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Sure.

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no idea, but it's something it's something

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crazy like

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that.

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And she'd never run one.

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She managed to do it in this by the summertime.

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I

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was, could not keep up.

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I was dying at like

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five or six and just could not,

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um,

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be dead

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by

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three.

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of a mile.

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but I'm onto my goals, my goals, uh, yeah, like Sean said, I

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I'm, I want to read more.

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I

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read

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one book last

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year,

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So

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Oh, I thought you read one already.

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I'm like

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I have almost read

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one already.

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I've been really digging into, uh, Neil

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Gaiman's Norse mythology.

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So it's stories of like low key, uh, Thor.

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all like

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from, from like historical texts and stuff like that, he gathered all the stories from poems and put them together.

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And it's a great, great.

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read.

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It's

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like a bunch of short stories of the gods and the dumb shit they get up to So I'm very

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happy with that one.

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Definitely recommend

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it.

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If we had an audible sponsorship, I would recommend it on

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would be

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great.

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Let's

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shout out to audible

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They support us for

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February's

Josh: 00:08:30

way in.

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And then, just general,

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in

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shapeness our gyms were closed a lot last year

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and they're closed

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again, think as of

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today.

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So I am slowly building

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a gym

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in my dungeon and, uh, we got a treadmill

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coming next

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week.

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We

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got, you know, a bench,

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we got adjustable weights.

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So I'm going to try and get

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back into the grind.

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cardio is a big thing for me, John.

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So

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I'm definitely gonna try.

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I'm putting a TV down here so that

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I can run and

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just watch TV

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and hopefully get my cardio up.

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but yeah, I think that is all of my goals.

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I would do want to travel,

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but

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it's

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hard to set that

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going to be

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hard.

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to set

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that

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goal.

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So

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as much as it pains

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me,

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say that I'm a flight next

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week

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to go somewhere.

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I wish you luck.

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I'm

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going to Vegas to

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Damn

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that's.

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Oh,

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bats COVID

Sean: 00:09:25

city.

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But.

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when, when John gets COVID, well, it'll just be Sean and

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I

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on the podcast

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next week.

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so yeah,

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I

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enjoy this.

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I think this

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is good.

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We can try and keep each other accountable and hopefully, keep the wicked maniacs, accountable as well.

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Um,

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if you want to tweet us, email us

Josh: 00:09:46

or give us a voice message of your goals or, resolutions or anything like that, feel free to do so we'll put a link in

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the show notes to all of, uh, the

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ways you can contact us.

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And, uh, yeah, this is super fun.

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I hope we can keep this up.

Josh: 00:10:00

This is a wrestler.

Josh: 00:10:01

My resolution

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is to keep this going.

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Can

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I add something

Josh: 00:10:05

Yeah.

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Even if it's just, even if it's just something good that

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happened to

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you that month or something, let us know, like, let, like, let put it on a voicemail or if you want us to read it, like, we want to celebrate you, you

John: 00:10:19

know, like this is a good way for

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us to connect because.

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feel like,

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I know I was listening

John: 00:10:24

to

John: 00:10:25

shouts and thoughts earlier this morning is about the good news that that happened.

John: 00:10:29

and the hosts, they were just like, I couldn't really think of any good things that happened.

John: 00:10:34

You know, like more of the bad, you hear more of the bad,

John: 00:10:37

it's more spotlighted than the good things happen And when something good does happen, you're like, oh shit, that really

John: 00:10:43

happened.

John: 00:10:44

I feel like we need to celebrate that more.

John: 00:10:45

So hopefully wicked maniacs get

John: 00:10:47

encouraged to let us know about the good

John: 00:10:49

things that happen in your life, because we want to celebrate you if no one

John: 00:10:51

else

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will.

Josh: 00:10:52

I agree a hundred percent with that.

Josh: 00:10:53

Yeah.

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I just want to make this

Josh: 00:10:55

a positive show.

Josh: 00:10:56

So

Josh: 00:10:56

that

Josh: 00:10:56

I'm going to need it for my own mental, mental health.

Josh: 00:10:59

Over the next few months,

Josh: 00:11:01

the Canadian winters are cold and.

Josh: 00:11:03

And if I'm trapped

Josh: 00:11:04

inside, I

Josh: 00:11:04

need

Josh: 00:11:05

some positivity.

Josh: 00:11:05

So please send it our way.

Josh: 00:11:07

Uh, we will definitely

Josh: 00:11:08

need it.

Josh: 00:11:09

John won't, he'll be in Las Vegas getting COVID, but,

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Yes,

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pretty much.

Josh: 00:11:13

thank you guys for

Josh: 00:11:14

sharing.

Josh: 00:11:14

I hope

Josh: 00:11:15

you enjoy this and thank you, WCA maniacs for listening.

Josh: 00:11:18

We

Josh: 00:11:18

will see you guys on the next

Josh: 00:11:19

step.

Sean: 00:11:20

Bye.

John: 00:11:21

Peace.