1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:10,079 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: So Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 3: Night. 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: You'll get into Mica. We gotta feed a beard. 5 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 4: I don't plan to shave, and it's you the thing, 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 4: but I just gotta see it. 7 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: I'm done, all right, will I'm mixing O. 8 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: It's I'm beating verdict. 9 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: That's the true. 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 4: It's either drink nor drug and no I'm just turn 11 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 4: all right, instagrat. 12 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: Well, first things first. 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 3: Shot all of our marines out there, you beloved devil dogs. 14 00:00:57,200 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 3: Happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps. It is 15 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 3: the fiftieth anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. 16 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,399 Speaker 2: What did I hear? 17 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: The largest iron ore ship in the domestic United States. 18 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 2: I need to check that. I need to check that 19 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: fact once more. 20 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: Very happy birthday over the weekend on Saturday to the 21 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: man who got me into radio, Eddie Martini, who turned 22 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 3: seventy years old on Saturday. That's a big day for 23 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 3: a very very important and beloved person in my life. 24 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 3: It was thirteen years ago today that our family was 25 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 3: complete and Crockett came home to us. An amazing, amazing 26 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 3: day and this is the day we celebrate every year 27 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 3: as Crockett's homecoming. My kids are very spoiled. They don't 28 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 3: have one birthday. 29 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 2: They have two. 30 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 3: There is the day they came into the world, and 31 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: there is a day they came into our home, which 32 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 3: is equally important to US United States Marine Corps birthday. 33 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: Yes, it is a big day. 34 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: Indeed, from when I was reading this story, if I 35 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 3: told you about a woman went to the doctor looking 36 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 3: absolutely fantastic, I mean, this is a very very well 37 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 3: healthy woman and she has spent the money that they 38 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 3: spend on everything to be as glamorous as she possibly can. 39 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 3: Her hair and makeup done by a professional Gucci heels, 40 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 3: Versachi dress, and a product purse, product purse. The doctor 41 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 3: asked her, well, what seems to be the problem. Man, 42 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 3: She tells the doctor, I've been stung by a nasty 43 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: insect of some kind. But I'm ashamed to tell you where. 44 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 3: It's all right, he said, our communication is privileged. I 45 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 3: won't tell anyone. She said, Okay, it was at Walmart. 46 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 3: Did you hear about the guy who believed only twelve 47 00:04:50,120 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 3: point five percent of the Bible is an atheist? In 48 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 3: entertainment news, Billy Joel was angry after finding some wet laundry. 49 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 3: Apparently he didn't start the driver. Stop me if you've 50 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 3: heard this one. An old, old old man, career politician 51 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: with entrenched support within the Houston Black Democrat establishment runs 52 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 3: for the eighteenth congressional district. Al Green announces that he's 53 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 3: been running, that he's running for the eighteenth congressional seat, 54 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 3: saying he will be filing for the March primary under 55 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 3: the banner the last two people have died in office, 56 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 3: and I will too. 57 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 2: I am not moving. 58 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 5: The eighteenth Congressional district was redrawn such that my home 59 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 5: of more than twenty five years and the constituents that 60 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 5: I have represented for some twenty years are now in 61 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 5: the eighteenth Congressional district. So I announced that I will 62 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 5: be running for the eighteenth Congressional district the permanency. 63 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 3: His campaign slogan should be I'm black like you, I'm 64 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 3: really old, and I'm stupid. 65 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: That has seemed to work for the last folks. 66 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Greg Abbott launches his campaign for a record fourth 67 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: term as governor of Texas. Fourth term all these years, 68 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 3: but now now he means business. If he's elected, he's 69 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 3: gonna lower your property taxes. 70 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: Yep. 71 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: If he just has one shot at it, you know, 72 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: you know, after three terms. 73 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 3: In all, if he gets in there this time, he's 74 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: gonna lower your property taxes. 75 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 2: And if you're stupid enough to believe him, you deserve him. 76 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 3: Governor Greg Abbot hoping Texans will keep him in the 77 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 3: governor's office for another four year term. Ibbot announcing his 78 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 3: reelection campaign in Houston's fifth Ward. 79 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 4: This is the place where I first ran for public office. 80 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 4: We won Harris County then, and we are going to 81 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 4: win Harris County again. This I'll action many of the. 82 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: America. 83 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: Did he dial up AI to give that speech for 84 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: him and say, give me a guy who thinks he's 85 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 3: being real charismatic, but he could not possibly be less charismatic. 86 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 3: Kind of give him a Ned Flanders voice with an 87 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 3: absurdism to this sort of elmer gantry away. This is 88 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 3: where I ran for office a very very long time ago, 89 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 3: because all I've ever done is be an elected official. 90 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 3: And now we have come back here to this sacred 91 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 3: ground after all these years that I just keep running 92 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 3: for office and getting nothing done. 93 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: And now we're going to We're going to win big. 94 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 2: Please clap, We're. 95 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 3: Going to win big, and if I ever get the 96 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 3: chance to be governor, I'll I'll lower your your property taxes. 97 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 2: You've been there for three terms already. Yeah, but this 98 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: time I mean it. Allow me to introduce myself. My 99 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 2: name is Mitta Michael Berry Genius. 100 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 3: Apparently I got Eddie Martini's birthday wrong. He is not seventy. 101 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 3: My apologies, he is seventy one. But it's still a 102 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 3: very happy birthday to him. The lone survivor, Marcus Latrell, 103 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 3: retired United States Navy seal, was honored with the Navy 104 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 3: Cross and the Purple Heart. 105 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: His book became a bestseller. 106 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 3: His life became a Fantastic movie with Marky Mark in 107 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 3: the starring role. 108 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 2: He and his brother Morgan in the movie. 109 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 3: He and his brother Morgan, who was seven minutes older 110 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 3: than him, celebrated their fiftieth birthday on Friday. Happy Birthday, Marcus. Oh, sorry, 111 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: my bad, I mess. Happy birthday, Marcus. 112 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: Thank you. 113 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: Let's start before we get into the amazing story. 114 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: I was a great surprise, by the way, when you 115 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:21,719 Speaker 1: showed up. I just kept that from me. 116 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 2: It was my honor. It was my honor. 117 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 3: I don't go anywhere I know, I told a buddy 118 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 3: of mine that he texted the way you do, and 119 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: I said, it's Marcus Trail's fiftieth birthday and I'm driving 120 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 3: out to see him. He said, you don't go anywhere, 121 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 3: and I said, well, I know this is the somewhere 122 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 3: I'm going. I like to I don't want, I don't't 123 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 3: be predictable. I did go somewhere this year. Tell us 124 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 3: about the great gift you got the Rigby. 125 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: Can you believe she got me that? I walked into 126 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: the room, the bedroom that night, and it was laying 127 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: on the bed and I've been wanting that thing naked 128 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: and it was, No, it wasn't. It was dressed up. 129 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: But I recognized the case that it came in because 130 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: it was unique and I wanted one forever. And just 131 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: because of the correlation between mister Rigby, my lab that 132 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: I'd had so long, and the four sixteen caliber on 133 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: the actual shotgun himself, which I was baptized on four sixteen, 134 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: And there's a lot of significance behind it. And in 135 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: my family and the will and the pack down, you 136 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 1: get a cast iron skillet and a rifle and someone 137 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to be passing down in the family from 138 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: here on out, so. 139 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 2: I had been won one. 140 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe she pulled it off too, because this 141 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: is an exotic gun. So that was one of the 142 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: best ones. And then everyone who showed up was made 143 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: the fifty. 144 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 2: At the Best. 145 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of gifts that came 146 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: rolling in through there. My brother really put out this 147 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: year because we played golf every year and every hole 148 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: we go to there's a gift waiting on the tea 149 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: box for each other. And he actually got me my 150 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: old DMX bicycle that I had. I had a diamondback 151 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and he found that thing 152 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: and got it for me. Yeah, I know. It was great. 153 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: Matter of fact, though, when I tried to get on 154 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: it and ride, it's crazy how small I used to 155 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: be back in the day. 156 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 2: So that was great. 157 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, if your listeners want to 158 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 1: hear Michael Berry's story, dude, when we had when we 159 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: sat down and when you all sat down, and I 160 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: was sitting there and and my buddy Cody comes walking 161 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: up to me and then paint you guys a picture. 162 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: This guy's huge, right, He lived like a piece of rock. 163 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: And Michael, he's up at the barget something to drink, 164 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: and Michael walks up to him and goes, hey, you 165 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: know we know each other. You know that or we've met, 166 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: and the guy goes, I don't remember, goes, yeah, we 167 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: got in a fight. Man, I knocked you out. 168 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 2: Oh that's what. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't realize 169 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 2: that's what you did that to him? 170 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: That's face And I go, who did that to you? 171 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: Who said that? If? He pointed over to you and 172 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: I go, that's Barry and he goes, that's who I 173 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: thought that was. He's great. I was like, that was 174 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: the best one liner I've everady. 175 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 6: He does that, So don't don't like he was in 176 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 6: the room, you know, he looked down at my biceps 177 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 6: like trying to check out whether that was true. And 178 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 6: I think it took about point zero eight milliseconds so 179 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 6: he realized, No, I don't think. 180 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 2: You talk to me. Yeah, I don't think that happened. 181 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: Yeah he is. 182 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 3: By the way, that's probably the eighth time I've been 183 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 3: to Houston Oaks and I think this every time. That 184 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 3: is a nice place that they have really done an 185 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 3: amazing job with the old Tenneco facility. Steve Alvis Chuck 186 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 3: watch John Havens. They have made that place into something special. 187 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 2: If you will. 188 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, Marcus, I don't know if you're on your 189 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 3: back forty or not, but we're losing you. Our our 190 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 3: signal is not too great. I don't know if I 191 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 3: can get you somewhere to get you to stay put. 192 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 3: Kind of kind of beating, isn't it? Ramon, We don't 193 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 3: have good comms with Marcus Latrel. Wow, this is yeah, 194 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,319 Speaker 3: this is like the real deal. It's authentic. 195 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: I got to keep it authentic. 196 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: There, Oh, there we go, there we go. Well, let's 197 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: talk about so. 198 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 3: Your bride had told me when she let us know 199 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 3: about your birthday party that you would be completing the 200 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 3: fortieth day of a forty day fast. She had sent 201 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 3: me pictures from when you started the fast till then, 202 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 3: and I guess it was from a couple of days earlier. 203 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,079 Speaker 2: But my goodness, it is. 204 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 3: I posted about it last night and a lot of 205 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: people had questions, I've done seventy two hours, and I 206 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 3: thought I had done something. It's a pretty amazing thing. 207 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 3: You described it as being spiritual more than anything else. 208 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 3: Gandhi was the guy who kind of was famous for 209 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,719 Speaker 3: these very long fast. Let's start with what makes a 210 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 3: guy decide I'm going to do? Was this a christ 211 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 3: like forty days? How did you decide this? Was this 212 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 3: to commemorate your fiftieth birthday? 213 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,719 Speaker 1: It was It didn't have anything to do with my 214 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: fiftith in the beginning. And to Jesus fastest forty days. 215 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: And you know, for the last five years, I've been 216 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: studying the faith hard and I've been getting into it 217 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: is the one thing I was missing in my life. 218 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: And it was definitely a faith, a pilgrimage to test 219 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: myself to get closer to God. And I didn't have 220 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: any intention of getting onto a fast because Morgan, my brother, 221 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: he does it. He does three days and five days 222 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: and some seven day fast. And I remember when he 223 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: told me that he was doing that. It is insane. 224 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: Why would I even go a day without eating? And 225 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: we get so you know, you've been eating since you 226 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: were born. You we get so accustomed to it that 227 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: you wouldn't even think you could do do everything else 228 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: to get around that. And you even take pills. But 229 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: some people do taket to. 230 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: Get around around that. 231 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: But I wouldn't. I would have never gone a day 232 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: without eating. And then he came up to me. We 233 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: were at dinner one night and mel was out of 234 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: the country and he goes, hey, I'm going to start 235 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: my fast. And this is back in September. He's like, 236 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to go. I'm going to go a week. 237 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: Once you go three days, it's good for you, and 238 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: you how smart he is. He's been doing all the 239 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: research on it. And then the Bible talks about fasting 240 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: a lot and how the benefits of actually doing a 241 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: fast and what that does to you, and it's a 242 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: It initiates your your body's natural defense mechanism for anything 243 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: foreign inside of your body and eliminates it so you 244 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: don't actually have to go through all the the. 245 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 2: Pills and everything rated it about what it's called. 246 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, so in day three, when your body hits atoplogy 247 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: is when that starts to happen, and then you're actually 248 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: going to katosis as well. So he he goes, all right, 249 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: I'm starting to day why don't you do it with me? 250 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: And I was like all right, you know, okay, he goes, 251 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: you only go three days and I'll go the entire 252 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: week and I'll be all right. So the first day 253 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: came around. 254 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 2: All right, hold on, hold on just a moment. 255 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 3: He's older and wiser, now fifty years old. Lone survivor 256 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:46,479 Speaker 3: Marcus Datrel. 257 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 2: Is our guests to receive all runless. I'm for the 258 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 2: dial tone. 259 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: It sounds like this the Michael Barry Show top tone 260 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: indicates everything is ready for your call. 261 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: Well on this the. 262 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 3: Marine Corps birthday they're speaking to. I would say the 263 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 3: most famous Navy seal of all time Ramon, wouldn't you. 264 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 3: I think that's a stretch to say. And a lot 265 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: of marines work very closely with him. I've heard nothing 266 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 3: but wonderful things from them about him. Forty day Fast 267 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 3: on Friday, he completed that he stopped drinking several years ago. 268 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: But it was interesting. 269 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 3: It was his birthday party and the food was incredible, 270 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 3: and he wasn't drinking anything. 271 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 2: He was walking around with a bottled water. 272 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 3: I asked him for his routine during those forty days 273 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 3: because my wife was curious, and it was as follows. 274 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 3: Coffee black, one to two cups in the morning, no 275 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 3: coffee after ten am. 276 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 2: One bottle water every hour till five o'clock. 277 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 3: Then one cup of hot water with lemon and a 278 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 3: little pink himalay and salt for dinner, then herbal tea 279 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 3: till bed. Did you find one of the questions a 280 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 3: lot of people emailed, did you take any super implements, 281 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 3: any vitamins or anything else like that? 282 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 2: No, I didn't. 283 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: I didn't do any of that. 284 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 2: What did you find was the hardest part? 285 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:09,239 Speaker 4: Uh? 286 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 3: You know for most people of fasting, when you start, 287 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 3: it is the routine, the habituated nature of eating, and 288 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 3: that your brain is used to doing things just like 289 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 3: a dog. 290 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: You know that you begin to salivate based on time. 291 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 3: What did you find over the course of those forty 292 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 3: days became the most difficult part? 293 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: And then that never went away. So I had to 294 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: switch it in my head. I started cooking dinner and 295 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: all the meals, and then when the temptations would come 296 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: on for food, I started watching food videos online, YouTube 297 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: and Instagram to fight it. I just I turned it 298 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: into a fight. The devil was tempting me and with food, 299 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: which everyone it's good for you. Food is good for 300 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: your body knows that, your mind knows that, your spirit 301 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: knows that. So this is why it's so tough to 302 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: do this. Day three is when you turn, when your 303 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: body makes it shift, so you're going from a normal 304 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: feeding routine to katosis, and you can feel that. I 305 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 1: was with Morgan all day that day and I remember 306 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 1: walking around. The best way I can describe it as 307 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: it felt like I had taken a Viking or too 308 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: much vicating. I was really dizzy and hazy and I 309 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: can move around, and then, uh, I didn't have my strength. 310 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: Plus I was two seventy and I need a lot 311 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: of food calories to move that kind of weight around. 312 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: I didn't have that. I didn't gas in my tank. 313 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: But the minute when I woke up on day four 314 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: and I thought, I kept telling myself, I was just 315 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: make it to day four. We can get through this tuble. 316 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: And you're right, the routine is the biggest thing. But 317 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: when the minute your body goes into katosis and you 318 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: start eating your fat, your fatty like it starts tewing 319 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: that away, there's a different kind of energy that goes 320 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: with that. And I hadn't felt that before and it 321 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: was great. It was fantastic. Actually, in the autopogy sets, 322 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: then you'll you'll kind of hold weight a little bit 323 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: and then you'll go I started chewing a pound a 324 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: day off and then it went to two pounds a day, 325 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: but I would put ten pounds of water inside my body. 326 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: So I just kind of stopped weighing myself. I wait 327 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: in the beginning, and then a couple of times and 328 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: that I stopped. And then my energy and my focus 329 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: is what turned around. Michael. I mean I cleaned the barn, 330 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: all the barbecue pits, clean out my closet. Anytime anything 331 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: would my met would put me on, or something would 332 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: come up in the day, I would focus on it 333 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 1: so intently. It didn't matter what it was. And remember 334 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: when we were kids, and it didn't matter what you doing, 335 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: it was fun. From either playing in the dirt or 336 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: being just anything. You had this kind of bliss that 337 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: went with something that was new and that you were doing. 338 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: I had that again. I have that again, and it helped. 339 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: And then I just kept telling myself that I would 340 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: I would keep the routine. And then anytime it got 341 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: two hours to start praying, I prayed a lot, like 342 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: all lot, and it from in the morning, and then 343 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: with something would come in front of me or someone 344 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: would come over, I would they would have my complete 345 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: attention again, which hadn't happened in a long time, and 346 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: then when they leave, I'd go back to praying. 347 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 2: Was there a time of day that you found more 348 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 2: difficult than the rest? 349 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: Absolutely? And my body, I mean I didn't even have 350 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 1: to look at a watch. The minute one point thirty 351 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: rolled around till about three class feeding time. After forty days, 352 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: it would not never went away. And that's when I 353 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: really started. That's when I started drinking the lemon water 354 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: and the salt, and I told myself it was chicken 355 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: noodle soup. And after I would get done drinking, and 356 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: I would just tell myself that I was full, like 357 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,479 Speaker 1: I had already eaten. And then if my stomach hurt 358 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: a little bit, I just would tell myself that I 359 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: had something bad to eat, but I was full, and 360 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: I just keep going. Because you can't imagine how much 361 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: you concentrate on food during the day. You can't imagine 362 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: how many food commercials are on TV during the sporting events. 363 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: So I'd always watch sports. Thank god football was gone, 364 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: because I'd look forward to an event at the end 365 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: of the day. I would take my mind off of 366 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: the food. And there's so many things that you do, 367 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: and eating doesn't take up a lot of your day. Actually, 368 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 1: you get down, you sit down, we break bread, but 369 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: then immediately you're gonna have to do that again. And 370 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: I just started telling myself and I'll say, hey, look, 371 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: we already ate. Let's just make it to the next 372 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: meal and let's do what we're going to do, and 373 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 1: then that would kind of take the pain away. And 374 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: I just got that. I did that until it routined 375 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: in my head, and once I got up on Steff, 376 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: I never looked back. 377 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 3: It's amazing having done fast, as I said, obviously just 378 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 3: a few days, which I thought at the time was 379 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 3: a big deal till like here forty but it's amazing 380 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 3: to me. In a moment like that, I begin to 381 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 3: realize how much we eat to kill boredom. We eat 382 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: as an activity, And so I found that doing something 383 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 3: other than eating, but staying busy, made it much better. 384 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 3: Did you find yourself doing that? 385 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: Absolutely, snacking in America, especially like if we had good 386 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: food like overseas in Greece and like with the bread, 387 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: and you could just eat still lose weight, that'd be great. 388 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: But remember the body is its own mechanism, so when 389 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: you feed it, it feels that's a drug. Basically, food 390 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: is a drug. Because it knows it's getting rewards, especially 391 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: if it's great food. I mean, it feels good, but 392 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: then it wears off like a drug, so you've got 393 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 1: to go do it again. And you kind of get 394 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: used to that because of how are how good our 395 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: food taste? Right, And then normally you're doing it with somebody, 396 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: and then you're being entertained by it because when you're eating, 397 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: it's usually you know, what's a break, right, you're not 398 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: working because that is absolutely what you described and I 399 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: had to break that cycle on that. Well. 400 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 3: The other thing about that and people who go to 401 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 3: you know, all of those programs Jenny Craig or weight 402 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 3: Watchers or you know, there's one hundred different programs out 403 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 3: there that kind of help you through this sort of 404 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 3: counseling approach is they teach you how much eating is social, 405 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 3: so don't do it with other people because it becomes 406 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 3: a thing you do to be social, like drinking at 407 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 3: the ballgame or at a concert. And so when people 408 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 3: are thinking about these powerful cravings, some of that is 409 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 3: I think the need to be around you know, we're 410 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 3: social animals. The need to be around someone and visit 411 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 3: with them, and the whole pomp and circumstance of sitting 412 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 3: down to eat together and what are we going to get. 413 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: And all that? 414 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 2: If you knew. 415 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: I remember when I was in the teams, the only 416 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: thing that I really worried about was eating good food, 417 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 1: and then I would do anything else. A man, men especially, 418 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: you can go off them and work them till they 419 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: bleed and almost die. But if they know they have 420 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: a great meal waiting for them when they get done. 421 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they'll do it. 422 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: And then es Basically, it's sitting around somewhere like a 423 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: baseball game with a beer in holleg that's a mariicana, 424 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: and it's a good time and it initiates a bunch 425 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: of those endorphins in your head that you're having a 426 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: good time, and it takes your mind off of your problem. 427 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: And when you incorporate those two and then it talked 428 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: about into my walls down to the Hey, when you 429 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: break bread with people, if you're eating good food with somebody, 430 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: most people aren't arguing. 431 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 2: That's right. Marcus Treil's our guest. More coming up, no 432 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: matter who's fault today the Michael Berry Show. You have 433 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: a photo that your photo matters. 434 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 3: I asked Ramon will never, never, never give up, which 435 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 3: never quit is the Marcus Strell motto. And instead I 436 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 3: got Barry White. Slightly dude. 437 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 2: He could probably do a forty day fast his own self. 438 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 439 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Marcus. You said, Marcus Trell 440 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 3: is our guest. You said you started at two seventy 441 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 3: two to what was your weight when you started? 442 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, around seventy two. 443 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 3: And forty day fast. I know you've lost fifty two pounds, 444 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 3: so you got down to two twenty. What's your fighting weight? 445 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 3: What's ideal for you? Where do you feel the best? 446 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 2: You're twenty eight twenty eight? Okay, so even below that, 447 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 2: I am. I noticed you. 448 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: I'm back at what I was when I was in 449 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: seal training. 450 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 2: Which twenty was was seal training. 451 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 1: Probably, yes, sir. 452 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 2: But you're probably leaner than usually. I noticed your belt. 453 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 3: You had that look like little bitty kids who are 454 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 3: wearing their dad's pants and belt. I noticed you had 455 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 3: it cinched up real tight, like there was a whole 456 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 3: lot of extra belt. You're on, You're on the last hole. 457 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 2: You had it so tight. Was struggling. 458 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. You know you get crimped up on 459 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: the side, you know, and a certain kind of yeah. 460 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: I don't. None of my closees bit anymore. 461 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 3: So a lot of questions came in regarding your forty 462 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 3: day fast. I do not encourage people to do a 463 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 3: forty day fast, but I do think a day, even 464 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 3: two days, is a very healthy thing. And everybody I 465 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 3: know who's ever done it, it is, it is. It 466 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: is an experience, and it's about Marcus and I were 467 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 3: talking about this on Friday. It becomes a power kick 468 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,959 Speaker 3: because when you're when you're fasting, you can be uh, 469 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 3: you can be at a dinner and there's a dessert, 470 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 3: and you will you will order desserts and hand it 471 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 3: to people. It is the ultimate self control. And there's 472 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 3: such there's such a sense of accomplishment to that that 473 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 3: most people will never forget. 474 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 2: Most people are powerless over food. 475 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: Well, I got trapped in an airplane going to New 476 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: York about day five and they were serving lasagni and meatballs, 477 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: and mel sitting there right beside me, just having a 478 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,239 Speaker 1: great time. She said, this is so good. I mean, 479 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: it was non stop, the temptation. But you're absolutely right, 480 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: one two days, three Dayspecially if you get three days 481 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: where the autophogy starts and starts eating all the bad 482 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: stuff away, like get cancer or anything and lead all 483 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: that out of there. And it's it's a it's a 484 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 1: discipline and a wheel tower. And when you get done, 485 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: you have that in your mind, like I can do this, 486 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: I can get through this. If I can go without eating, 487 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: I can do most anything. And absolutely you're right on 488 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: about that. 489 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 3: It's uh, it's inspired. But so now you're fifty years old, 490 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 3: you were you were thirty when Loan Survivor happened, and 491 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 3: that was an inspiration to a lot of people, including 492 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: my brother who was the first person who introduced me 493 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 3: to you through the book. 494 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 2: And the team never quit and that's your motto. 495 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 3: But look, it's like Jim Brown as he aged, or 496 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 3: or Earl Campbell as he's aged, was this for you 497 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 3: internally a moment where you say, I got to prove 498 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 3: to myself I'm not in the grave yet I got 499 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 3: to prove to myself that the young Marcus is still 500 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 3: in there. 501 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: So everything that I've gone through in my life, there's 502 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: always had to be a rite of passage that I 503 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: stepped through to prove not only to myself but everybody 504 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: around me that I was capable of something, and then 505 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,239 Speaker 1: obviously it was growing up. And then when I went 506 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: to seal training the hell when I tend my trieding 507 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: on me, I was acknowledged by our peers that hey, 508 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: this is what you are, this is what you're supposed 509 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: to be. You've done your gauntlet. You went through the fire. 510 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: And when I got out, I didn't have my new 511 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: purpose and I had been searching for it, and a 512 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: seal training tested my body. Then when I came back 513 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: around and I healed up after all the wars and everything, 514 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: I was the searching for my new purpose. When I 515 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: went into the Eyeba game, I found it in there. 516 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: And the Eyoa game tested my mind and that was 517 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: my mental gauntlet. And as I graduated from that the 518 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: new fire hell, weic that I had to walk through 519 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: to find my purpose, which is obviously into the faith 520 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: and being on as far away from more as I 521 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: possibly can. I had to prove myself again. And the 522 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: way that you do that is you go through forty 523 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: days without eating. You go through a forty day fast, 524 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: grow closer to God, walk with Jesus, to truly separate 525 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: yourself from the earthly desires and everything like that to 526 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: see clearly what I was supposed to be doing. And 527 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: that happened to me while I was in there, and 528 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: I proved to myself, it's its only own academy. If 529 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: you will, there's lessons in there. It was like being 530 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: back in school. So every day as I was going 531 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: through that, I realized that I was changing more and 532 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: more towards my new purpose and that that flame kind 533 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: of burns inside of you. And then when I graduated 534 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: on my birthday, I didn't know what it was going 535 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: to be on my birthday. This is how I knew 536 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: it was kind of a godly thing, because when I started, 537 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: I had no idea I was going to go to 538 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: forty days. And about day nine, I was like, I 539 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: wonder what forty days comes out on, and sure enough, 540 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: it was on my birthday. I was like, right to that, 541 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: I'll do it, and I never looked back. 542 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: We talked on Friday. We talked on Friday night because 543 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 3: that was your fortieth day. So here are all these people. 544 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 3: You're not drinking, you're not eating, You're just drinking water 545 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 3: and enjoying the fellowship with your friends. And the next 546 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 3: day was to begin your process of kind of reintegrating 547 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 3: into the real world, and it. 548 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: Was going to be bone broth. 549 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 3: I asked you last night how that bone broth went 550 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 3: for you, because it can be dangerous. If somebody wants 551 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 3: to read about how you come off of fast, you 552 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 3: can injure yourself. You can hurt yourself badly. Your body's 553 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 3: not ready for that. You started with bone broth and 554 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 3: you said your stomach rumbled. Let's talk about what's happened 555 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 3: starting Saturday through today with you trying to start back 556 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 3: into foods. 557 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: Okay, let me tell you the hardest part of this 558 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: is coming back. And I've had my ass spent plenty 559 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: of times. And when I wake up in the hospital 560 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: and I'm recovering, there's people that take care of me. 561 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: I'm not used to that unless I'm hurt, right, And 562 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: now that people are taking care of me and I'm 563 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: going through this slow process, I know that I've accomplished something. 564 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: So the first forty days were for discipline. These next 565 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: ten to twelve days are for patience. This is what 566 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 1: this is teaching me because I want to eat so bad. 567 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: You know, there's four thousand restaurants in Houston, and I 568 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: want to eat it, every one of them. I have 569 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: literally eaten in my mind everything on the internet. I 570 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: had these restaurants in certain states that we're going. I'm 571 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: flying there if anybody wants to go with me, that 572 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: we're going to hit once I can eat. And this 573 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: is the fact that I have to sip on bone 574 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: broth and it's not a hunger thing anymore. 575 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 2: That's gone. 576 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: It's not the food whatever. You know, I'll go forever 577 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: if I don't have to eat, fine, my body will 578 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: eat itself away. I've hit that mental mark where it's 579 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: not a thing for me anymore. That's kind of like 580 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: what happened to me and steal train with pain. But 581 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: I got to tell you, bro I sit there and 582 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: they put this little broth in front of me. I 583 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: got to have a couple of vegetables in a period, right, 584 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: So it wasn't anything I could chew on. Every now 585 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: and again, i'd catch a scrap of something in between 586 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 1: my teeth and I'd be like, oh, thank God, I 587 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: think that was an onion. And because I love to 588 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: eat a whole big boy, right, and I this past 589 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: ten days is so frustrating to me and everyone since 590 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: I'm off of it. Everyone's enjoying themselves and eating around 591 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: me and just being like, oh, you got to try this. 592 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: And I know that if I do, it'll hurt me. 593 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: I could have whip me, and I don't want to. 594 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm trying to do this right and follow the directions 595 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: and do it. 596 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 3: My dog. 597 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: The best doctors and nurses that take care of me, 598 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: and I don't want to disappoint them. And this part 599 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: has been a struggle. So if you're wondering on a 600 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: forty day fast, that the hardest part is it's coming 601 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: off of it. 602 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 3: Marcus the trail turned fifty on Friday, which was the 603 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 3: fortieth day of a forty day fast. That's right, no food, 604 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 3: only water and little coffee in the morning, little salt 605 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 3: in the evening. We will talk to him about ruminations, marinations, 606 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 3: and the wisdom of the loan survivor turning fifty coming up. 607 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 3: Come on, I don't really mean Mari nations there, but 608 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 3: that I was thinking of something that would ride. 609 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 2: You got something better. Congratulations, Come up, Marcus A Trell. 610 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 2: That's sacrilegiously. Did you just say I bet those fasting 611 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 2: founts are awful? That's Marcus a Trell