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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The

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Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: Several people sharing their stories by email. Since I mentioned

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Speaker 2: the jelly roll story, Chad said, the other incredible weight

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Speaker 2: loss story is actor Ethan Suppley. Am I pronouncing that right? Suppley?

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Speaker 2: Soup lee s U p l e E. He played

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Speaker 2: the fat guy in a lot of things. Remember remember

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Speaker 2: the Titans, American History Acts. My name is Earl and

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Speaker 2: he shows a picture of him where well, let's just

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Speaker 2: say he's not fat anymore. He has an excellent podcast

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Speaker 2: called American Glutton where he delves into health, fitness, and

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Speaker 2: lifestyle and chat.

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Speaker 1: Showed me a before and after.

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Speaker 2: You can't even tell us the same, dude, he went, Well,

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Speaker 2: he went from looking like you and then before to

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Speaker 2: looking like me afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Fit, I mean just a vision of no, not gangly.

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Speaker 1: You know that's not nice.

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Speaker 2: You know what, that's the one thing that hurts my

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Speaker 2: fields that you say, you know what, I'm gonna put

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Speaker 2: some muscle onto twenty twenty six just so you can't

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Speaker 2: make fun of me. Yeah, it's exactly what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 2: People sending me emails about their weight loss, it's an

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Speaker 2: amazing thing. Watching Ramon's transformation. Can I other before and

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Speaker 2: after from three eighty to two twenty. Of course he's

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Speaker 2: two for forty today, but we're talking about that later.

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Speaker 2: Watching the transformation from three eighty to two twenty, it's Uh,

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Speaker 2: for people who have never been fat, they cannot understand it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people just kind of bumble through life

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Speaker 2: and they're kind of always about the same aidia the

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Speaker 2: same way. They'd like to lose a couple of pounds.

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Speaker 2: But that's you know that it's not that big a deal.

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Speaker 2: Why does everybody obsess over it? But for people who

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Speaker 2: get big, so big that that's the thing people are

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Speaker 2: going to remember you for If there's a party of

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Speaker 2: people and someone's talking to you in the corner, and

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Speaker 2: like I was talking to a guy and you know,

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Speaker 2: since we're going to Jamaica. He went to Jamaica, and

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Speaker 2: Which guy?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: The guy?

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Speaker 2: You know, he is wearing a blue shirt. That doesn't

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Speaker 2: help uh. He was wearing.

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Speaker 1: Kangaroos, you remember the ruse from the That doesn't help

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Speaker 2: He was wearing skinny jeans. You know, they're kind of

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Speaker 2: stuck to his legs. No, it was a few of those.

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Speaker 2: He was really fat. Oh yeah, I remember him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And not only going to bring up bald because that

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Speaker 2: doesn't even need that doesn't that didn't enter into this conversation.

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Speaker 2: So for somebody, and a lot of people have this

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Speaker 2: everything in life can't lose weight, and it affects every

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Speaker 2: If you're fat and happy, be fat and happy. I

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Speaker 2: don't care. I really don't good for you. There's people

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Speaker 2: I have found that most women who have rock star

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Speaker 2: what forces them to eat less and work out more. Hey,

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Speaker 2: whatever it takes, but it's you know, I'd rather be happy.

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Speaker 2: But in any case, people sending me emails about their

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Speaker 2: their weight loss stories, it is I was having this

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Speaker 2: but this person's lost over one hundred pounds and as

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Speaker 2: a former drug addict, alcoholic, the whole deal in a

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Speaker 2: And my wife was in on this conversation when we

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Speaker 2: and when your relationship with food has been so tortured,

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Speaker 2: I will say that if I have a skill in life,

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Speaker 2: I would like to think it is empathy. That is

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Speaker 2: not to say that I think if you commit a murder,

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Speaker 2: I'm Michelle Owkan when it comes to that. But that

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Speaker 2: I think it would be nice to have people call

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Speaker 2: it changed their life. And I say that because I

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Speaker 2: made a decision in mid November, probably the second week

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Speaker 2: I decided, all right, I'm getting petru, We're stepping up

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Speaker 2: three weeks, you know, the whole deal. Anyway, So if

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Speaker 2: I would love to hear from you to inspire other people.

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Speaker 2: I did that so that on January first, I could

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Speaker 1: Oh, new Year's resolutions, those are stupid.

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Speaker 2: That's a person who tried a New Year's resolution ten

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Speaker 1: I think there's something to be There's something about renewal.

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Speaker 2: There's something about feeling better, having more energy, a better

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Speaker 1: Seven one three nine one thousand.

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Speaker 1: MONA, you were up first, sweetheart. Take it away.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You know you have a very your life.

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Speaker 3: Losing weight is pretty incredible, but sometimes the people around

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Speaker 3: They didn't like that mom was changing, and kids sometimes

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Speaker 3: And the people who get it get it, and the

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Speaker 1: You have a great voice.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I think it's harder for women than men.

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Speaker 2: I really do think. I think men can carry some

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Speaker 2: You said you were forty eight, I think your body

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Speaker 2: Are you not going to acknowledge the fact that I

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Speaker 1: Well, does that make Maybe it's just.

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Speaker 3: A voice for radio, but I sure do. I sure

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Speaker 1: Where else does a voice matter than on radio?

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Speaker 3: Mona, Well, I would be lying if I didn't tell

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Speaker 2: You'd not only be lying, you would have sold yourself short.

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Speaker 2: What is the name of your podcast?

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Speaker 3: The name of my podcast is called A Field with

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Speaker 3: Christiana Russel and it is produced by Soul Grown Alabama

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a lot with Christiana.

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Speaker 3: What it's a mouthful? Christiana Reseel Resell r O U

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Speaker 2: I used to live across the street from a fellow

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Speaker 1: There you go A Field with Christiana Roussel, I see it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we talk about all things Alabama outdoors. Because once

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Speaker 3: the rest is history.

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Speaker 1: You're a spunky little thing. I like you. Thanks a

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Speaker 1: field with Christiana Roussel.

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Speaker 3: Christiana's the Christian looking atheen.

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Speaker 1: Oh I got it, sweetheart. I'm on your page. Tim Gothard,

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Speaker 1: Alabama Wildlife Federation.

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Speaker 3: The best one? Well, they're all great. I can't pick

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Speaker 3: a favorite, but the one I did was Kyle live Barger,

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Speaker 1: Oh, she's a cutie, Ramon, look her up.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, when are you coming back to Birmingham?

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Speaker 5: Not now?

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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't be having seductresses alluring me to Birmingham.

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Speaker 4: I'm in Houston, Texas. I actually grew up with some

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Speaker 2: Well, their wood is fantastic, and you don't want to

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Speaker 1: Kathy, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.

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Speaker 6: Hi. I'm sixty two and I lost twenty five pounds.

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Speaker 1: I ride horses. I'm a barrel racer and she's a

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Speaker 2: You know, so much of life is being mindful, being

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Speaker 1: It's not that I don't know who Joe e Ly is.

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Speaker 2: I know that because I know dub Miller. But I

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Speaker 1: Now. I did tell him.

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Speaker 2: Being a musician's musician, I don't want the deep cuts

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Speaker 2: But if there's there's one that's more popular than others

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Speaker 1: But this was doub Miller's list. Can I got a

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Speaker 2: This is wddub Miller's list of the essential Joe Ely. Now,

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Speaker 1: In no particular order, Dallas, which we just played for you.

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Speaker 2: She never spoke Spanish to me, must have not have

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Speaker 2: That's a cover all just to get to you. And

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Speaker 1: I guess we're not doing drum rolls anymore.

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Speaker 2: Me and Billy the Kid, Box Cars and Settled for

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Speaker 2: Love Best Compilation Live and An tones Well wrote, Okay,

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Speaker 2: do you want to give a list or do you

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Speaker 1: Okay, road goes on for ever, not on his list. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Okay, when you play Bucky Duck as the headliner, then

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Speaker 2: you can have your list. And then finally my personal

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Speaker 2: favorite barbecue and phone the live at Liberty Lunch version.

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Speaker 2: It really is like getting to talk to my grandmother

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Speaker 2: because I know, without a shadow of a doubt that

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Speaker 2: Dub did not go look that up anywhere. He sat

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Speaker 2: there and he thought through music that he has enjoyed

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Speaker 2: driving in his truck as a landman across New Mexico

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Speaker 2: and thought, one of that song is important for this reason,

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Speaker 2: and they're just not a lot of people that would

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Speaker 2: do that anymore. That's a throwback. You need a Dub Miller.

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Speaker 2: Everybody needs a dub Miller. A guy that's fifty going

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Speaker 2: on one hundred and twenty Brett, you're on the Michael

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Speaker 2: Berry Show. Ramon tells me you lost three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty pounds, Yeah, somewhere around there.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think i'd keep up. We got that high.

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Speaker 5: You know, you tend to for the first little bit

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Speaker 5: and then you know once you I think in the

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Speaker 5: first year after the surgery, I lost two hundred pounds

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Speaker 5: and then the next year another one hundred After that,

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Speaker 5: you sort of stopped paying attention at that point.

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Speaker 2: Brett to put into perspective how much you lost Ramone

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Speaker 2: at his absolute fattest, And I keep those photos to

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Speaker 2: keep him skinny, and I'll send them to him on

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Speaker 2: occasion and he's like, oh, hey, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: go back there. You lost the entirety of Ramon at

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Speaker 2: his fastest.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: So what are you weigh today?

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Speaker 5: Around two fifty something like that, So.

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Speaker 1: You're almost six hundred? Are you over six hundred pounds?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I was six oh one at my highest. That

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Speaker 5: was a month before the surgery date I checked in, How.

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Speaker 2: Did you know you were six o one? Like, how

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Speaker 2: does someone come to the knowledge at their six oh one?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 5: It was, uh, you know, when you get to that weight,

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Speaker 5: it's actually very difficult to find a scale that would

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Speaker 5: weigh you. The surgeon's office had a scale. I think

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Speaker 5: that went up to like a thousand pounds, but.

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Speaker 1: He's read or anything.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was it was very difficult to find somewhere

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Speaker 5: to actually weigh yourself when you got up to that point.

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Speaker 5: But that was a month before the surgery. I was

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Speaker 5: six oh one and that was the first time I'd

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Speaker 5: ever seen a six at the beginning of the number,

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Speaker 5: and I was like, WHOA.

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Speaker 1: So I watched the Joe Rogan interview with Jelly row In.

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Speaker 2: Rogan was talking about the fact that he goes for

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Speaker 2: a walk and he puts a forty five pound plate

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Speaker 2: in a backpack on his walk just to make it tougher.

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Speaker 2: And he's talking to Jelly Roll, who's just lost three

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Speaker 2: hundred pounds, and he said, imagine, so you could not

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Speaker 2: left three hundred fifty pounds. I guarantee you couldn't bench

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Speaker 2: press it. You couldn't and you were hauling that around

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Speaker 2: all day every day. Yeah, God, Brett, that is you

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Speaker 2: must just talking about a new lease on life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, wow for being six hundred pounds, I was, you know,

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Speaker 5: still getting out there and doing quite a bit. I was.

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Speaker 5: I was. I was a volunteer firefighter. I was an

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Speaker 5: emty raised here actually seventy two of my.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, Brett hold on, what a story.

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Speaker 1: Good for you?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there should be a pill to get to know,

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Speaker 2: like Brett Fields being two.

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Speaker 1: Fifty instead of six hundred. Boll I'd take that

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