1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load you. 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: Michael Very show is on the air. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: Upset quote. 4 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 3: The most important thing here is that we have for 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 3: a hero archetypes that we look up to. 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: Jesus is a hero archetype of Superman is a hero 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 2: arm type. Real character's two too. 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: I could name a. 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 2: Thousand Rosa parks from great in books. 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 3: I can't head around this. 11 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 4: I'll help you put a period of Jesus is no 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 4: question my faith. 13 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 2: Wow. 14 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 3: It goes very hard to beat the market, but Dan 15 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 3: Crenshaw did somehow. 16 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: He made a lot of traits, including after getting classified 17 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 2: briefings on COVID policy. 18 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, why not, don't let us trade stocks? 19 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: About about how about we'll just keep whipping ourselves. 20 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 4: How about we don't make any money either about just 21 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 4: cut our paychecks. Haven't got a pay raise since two 22 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 4: thousand and eight, even a cola increase? 23 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: Yeah? 24 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: Actually, no, Yeah, this is a great idea. 25 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 4: Let's make Congress a place where only the millionaires can 26 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 4: actually afford to do the job. 27 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: This is a wonderful idea. Let's just keep let's just 28 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: keep doing. 29 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 4: It's always some member right who like who senses the 30 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 4: populist energy, and then and then mirrors, believing that this 31 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 4: is what's going to help me connect with the people, 32 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 4: because what do the people want, Well, I mean they 33 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 4: want an easy button. All my problems will be solved 34 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 4: if there's if there's no stock trading, all my problems 35 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 4: will be solved. 36 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: If there's term moments. 37 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you. 38 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 4: Think about any of these things for five whole minutes, 39 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 4: you know, you might quickly come to a different conclusion. 40 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 3: So we went down to the border, and pretty much 41 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 3: all of the Texas delegation was there. Mike Johnson came 42 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 3: from Alabama or from Louisiana, yep. The southern state congressional 43 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: members came down to be with us, and we interviewed 44 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 3: ICE agents, we interviewed US Border Patrol, we interviewed US 45 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 3: Border Patrol Union, we interviewed ranchers. The only persons from 46 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 3: the congressional delegation that was not there. 47 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: Houston Congressman Dan Crenshaw struggling in local polls in the 48 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 2: Greater Houston in his congressional district, being challenged by a 49 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 2: constitutional Republican patriot by the name of Steve Toath, small 50 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: business owner, active Christian man of the community, Grenshaw. Well, 51 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 2: I'll just say Grenshaw not a man of the community. 52 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: How about we leave it at that. And Grenshaw's been 53 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 2: in trouble. His arrogance since he was elected in twenty 54 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: eighteen has turned the district against him. He's polling at 55 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 2: below fifty percent in the primary of his own party. 56 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 2: You never see that. The reason term limits. The reason 57 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 2: I always tell people, if you want term limits, vote 58 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 2: your congressman out. Oh no, no, I like my congressman. Do 59 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: you want a congressman from another district to not be 60 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: re elected? Congressmen notoriously win their own district because they 61 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 2: have all the privileges, they have all the money. It's 62 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 2: hard to beat them. They're entrenched. So Crenshaw's in trouble. 63 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 2: And now a story breaks it's getting a lot of 64 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 2: attention online that alleges that Congressman Dan Crenshaw went on 65 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: a congressional delegation to Mexico where he was belligerent and 66 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: drunk and he was prevented from giving the speech he 67 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: was supposed to speak at and that the committee Chairman Crawford, 68 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: went to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. They 69 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 2: wanted serious, serious repercussions for Crenshaw. Johnson didn't want to 70 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: bring attention to this because it's pretty negative, pretty nasty, 71 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: but he was prevented from traveling, says the story for 72 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 2: three months. Well, first of all, why are congressmen traveling 73 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: this much? I mean, imagine if it was punishment for 74 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 2: you that you couldn't travel on your company's done for 75 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: three months? Why did they need to go to Mexico? 76 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 2: Can you think of a reason your congressman need to 77 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: go to Mexico? What is the point of this? Why 78 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: so much traveling? If you only traveled once a year, 79 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: then the band would have been for a year. A 80 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 2: three month band doesn't sound like anything. That's like saying, look, 81 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 2: you've had too much to drink. Now, starting tomorrow at 82 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: eight o'clock, you can't have a drink for thirty minutes. 83 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: I mean, this feels silly, right, you can't swim for 84 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 2: thirty minutes after you eat. And there we were with 85 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 2: our watches twenty seven minutes moment it's three more minutes. 86 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 2: Can I just go early? Nope, it's got to be 87 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 2: thirty minutes because if you go in twenty nine minutes 88 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 2: and thirty seconds, you'll cramp up and die. It's got 89 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 2: to be exactly thirty minutes. Gotta be Dan Crenshaw in 90 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: big trouble and frankly as it should be, as it 91 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 2: should be. Arrogance in the face of your congressional district. 92 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 2: We have this Democrat congressman who has been arrested in 93 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 2: charge after spending five point one million dollars of COVID money, 94 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 2: which she laundered through her campaign. I can tell you 95 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: where she spent some of it. On them eyelashes. They 96 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: look like wings coming off of her eyes. When she 97 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: flutters her eyes, the wind moves a butterfly effect right 98 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: there on her head. It's amazing. I mean, wow, these 99 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 2: congressmen are out of control. The arrogance of these people, 100 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: the ethical violations, the personal indulgences on our money, the travel, 101 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: the arrogance, the insults. You heard Dan Crenshaw say, Oh, 102 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: people think that their miserable little lives will be so 103 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: much better if they just had term limits and we 104 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: don't trade stocks. But that won't affect them. 105 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: Oh. 106 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 2: In other words, so you shouldn't be limited on how 107 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: long you can hang out in DC and live large 108 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 2: what you've been doing, and you shouldn't be limited on 109 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: the fact that you're the number two stock trader behind 110 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi. In other words, people think that their lives 111 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: will be better if I'm not able to get away 112 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 2: with all the stuff I'm doing these days. People think that, 113 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 2: but it's just not true. Their lives will always be crappy. 114 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 2: So let me do what I'm doing. So if I'm 115 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 2: insider trading, which I'll never tell you if I am, 116 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: you don't need to worry about it because your life's 117 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: miserable anyway, and me insider trading is not going to 118 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: affect your life. Your life is not any good and 119 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 2: you're not going to make it any better by bringing 120 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 2: accountability to my life. That's a real winner in there. Crenshaw, 121 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: The Real Winter Indeed, Wow Wow, The Michael Berry Show, 122 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show. The Lone Survivor Marcus Latrell, retired United 123 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: States Navy seal was honored with the Navy Cross and 124 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 2: the Purple Heart. His book became a bestseller. His Life 125 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 2: became a Fantastic movie with Marky Mark in the starring role. 126 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 2: He and his brother Morgan. In the movie, He and 127 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: his brother Morgan, who's seven minutes older than him celebrated 128 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: their fiftieth birthday. Happy birthday, Marcus. 129 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: Thank you. 130 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 2: Let's start before we get into the amazing story. 131 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: I was a great surprise, by the way, when you 132 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: showed up, because I kept that from me. 133 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: It was my honor. It was my honor. I don't 134 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 2: go anywhere, I know. I told a buddy of mine that. 135 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: He texted, what you do and I said, it's Marcus 136 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 2: Traill's fiftieth birthday and I'm driving out to see him. 137 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 2: He said, you don't go anywhere, and I said, well, 138 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 2: I know this is the somewhere I'm going. Well, I 139 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: like to I don't want I don't want to be predictable. 140 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 2: I did go somewhere this year. Tell us about the 141 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 2: great gift you got, the Rigby. 142 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: Can you believe you got me that. I walked into 143 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: the room, the bedroom that night, and it was laying 144 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: on the bed, and I've been wanting that thing. It 145 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: was no, it wasn't. It was dressed up, but I 146 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: recognized the case that it came in because it was 147 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: unique and I wanted one forever. And just because of 148 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: the correlation between mister Rigby, my lab that I'd had 149 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: so long and the four sixteen caliber on the actual 150 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: shotgun itself, which I was baptized on four sixteen, And 151 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: there's a lot of significance behind it and my family 152 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: and the will and the pass down. You get a 153 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: cast iron skillet and a rifle and someone I'm going 154 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: to be passing down in the family from here on out. 155 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: So I'd been won one. I couldn't believe she pulled 156 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: it off because this is an exotic gun. So that 157 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: was one of the best ones. And then everyone who 158 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: showed up was made the fifty at the best. I mean, 159 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: there was a lot of gifts that came rolling in 160 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 1: through there. My brother really put out this year because 161 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: we played golf every year and every hole we go 162 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: to there was a gift waiting on the tea box 163 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: for each other. And he actually got me my old 164 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: VMX bicycle that I had had a diamondback when I 165 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: was a kid, and he found that thing and got 166 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: it for me. 167 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,319 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know it. 168 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: It was great. Matter of fact, though, when I try 169 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: to get on it and write it out, it's crazy 170 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: how small I used to be back in the day. 171 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: So that was great. I'll tell you what, man, If 172 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: your listeners want to hear Michael Berry's story. Dude, when 173 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: we when we sat down and when you all sat down, 174 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: I was sitting there and and my buddy Cody comes 175 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: walking up to me and paint you guys a picture. 176 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: This guy's huge, alright. He lived like a piece of rock. 177 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: And Michael, he's up at the bar getting something to drink, 178 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: and Michael walks up to him and goes, hey, you 179 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: know we know each other. You know that or we've 180 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 1: met and the guy goes, I don't remember. Go, yeah, 181 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: we got in a fight. Man, I knocked you out. 182 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: Oh that's what. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 183 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: You did that to him? Everything that face? And I go, 184 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,599 Speaker 1: who did that to you? Who said that? If? He 185 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: pointed over to you and I go, that's Barry and 186 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: he goes, that's who I thought that was. He's great. 187 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: I was like, that was the best one liner I've 188 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: everd He does that, So don't don't like he was 189 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: in the room. 190 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 2: You know, he looked down at my biceps like trying 191 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 2: to check out whether that was true. And I think 192 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 2: it took about point zero eight milliseconds that he realized, No, 193 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 2: I don't think you talk to me. Yeah, I don't 194 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 2: think that happened. 195 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: Crack. 196 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 2: Yeah he is. By the way, that's probably the eighth 197 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 2: time I've been to Houston Oaks, and I think this 198 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: every time. That is a nice place. They have really 199 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 2: done an amazing job with the old Tentaco facility. Steve Alvis, 200 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 2: Chuck Watch, John Havens. They have made that place into 201 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: something special. 202 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 203 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 2: Hey, Marcus, I don't know if you're on your back 204 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 2: forty or not, but we're losing you. Our signal is 205 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 2: not too great. I don't know if I can get 206 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: you somewhere to get you to stay put. Kind of vetting, 207 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 2: isn't it? 208 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: Ramon? 209 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 2: We don't have good comms with Marcus Latrel. Wow, this 210 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 2: is yeah, this is like the real deal. It's authentic. 211 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to keep it authentic. 212 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: Oh, there we go, There we go. Well, let's talk 213 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 2: about so. Your bride had told me when she let 214 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 2: us know about your birthday party that you would be 215 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: completing the fortieth day of a forty day fast. She 216 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 2: had sent me pictures from when you started the fast 217 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 2: till then, and I guess it was from a couple 218 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 2: of days earlier. But my goodness, it is. I posted 219 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 2: about it last night and a lot of people had questions, 220 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: I've done I've done seventy two hours, and I thought 221 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 2: I had done something. It's a pretty amazing thing. You 222 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 2: described it as being spiritual more than anything else. Gandhi 223 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 2: was the guy who kind of was famous for He's 224 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 2: very long fast. Let's start with what makes a guy 225 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 2: decide I'm going to do? Was this a christ like 226 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 2: forty days? How did you decide this? Was this to 227 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 2: commemorate your fiftieth birthday? 228 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: It was It didn't have anything to do with my 229 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: fiftieth in the beginning, And because Jesus fasted forty days. 230 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: And you know, for the last five years, I've been 231 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 1: studying the faith real hard and I've been getting into 232 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: it is the one thing I was missing in my life. 233 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: And it was definitely a faith, a pilgrimage to test 234 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: myself to get closer to God. And I didn't have 235 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: any intention of getting onto a fast because Morgan, my brother, 236 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: he does it. He does three days and five days 237 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: and some seven days fast. And I remember when he 238 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: told me that he was doing. Now, it's insane. Why 239 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,719 Speaker 1: would I even go a day without eating? And we 240 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: get so, you know you've been eating since you were born. 241 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: You we get so accustomed to it that you wouldn't 242 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: even think you could do everything else to get around that, 243 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: and you even take pills. But some people do ticket 244 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: to get around around that. But I wouldn't. I would 245 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: have never gone a day without eating. And then he 246 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: came up to me. We were at dinner one night 247 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: and mel was out of the country and he goes, hey, 248 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to start my fast. And this is back 249 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: in September. He's like, I'm going to go. I'm going 250 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: to go a week. Once you go three days, it's 251 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: good for you. And you know how smart he is. 252 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: He's been doing all the research on it. And then 253 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: the Bible talks about fasting a lot and how how 254 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: the benefits of actually doing a fast and what that 255 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: does to you, and it's a It initiates your your 256 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: body's natural defense mechanism for anything foreign inside of your 257 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: body and eliminates it so you don't actually have to 258 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: go through all the the pills and. 259 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 2: Everything raised it is that what it's called. 260 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, so in day three, when your body hits utoplogy 261 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: is when that starts to happen, and then you actually 262 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: go into katosis as well. So he he goes, all right, 263 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: I'm starting to day once you do it with me, 264 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, you know, okay, he goes, 265 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: you only go three days and I'll go the entire week, 266 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: and I'll all right. So the first day came around, 267 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: all right, hold on. 268 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 2: Hold on just a moment. He's older and wiseran now 269 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 2: fifty years old. Got survivor Marcus Citrell's. Our guests receive 270 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 2: all runletsen put a dio tone. It sounds like this, 271 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 2: the Michael Berry shoe cop tone indicates everything is right 272 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 2: in for your call. Forty day fast on Friday. He 273 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 2: completed that. He stopped drinking several years ago. But it 274 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 2: was interesting. It was his birthday party and the food 275 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 2: was incredible, and he wasn't drinking anything. He was walking 276 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 2: around with a bottled water. I asked him for his 277 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: routine during those forty days because my wife was curious, 278 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 2: and it was as follows. Coffee black, one to two 279 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: cups in the morning, no coffee after ten am. One 280 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: bottle water every hour till five o'clock. Then one cup 281 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 2: of hot water with lemon and a little pink himalay 282 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 2: and salt for dinner. Then herbal tea till bed. Did 283 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 2: you find oh one of the questions a lot of 284 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 2: people emailed, did you take any supplements, any vitamins or 285 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 2: anything else like that. 286 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: No, I didn't do any of that. 287 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 2: What did you find was the hardest part? You know, 288 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:28,359 Speaker 2: for most people fasting, when you start, it is the routine, 289 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: the habituated nature of eating, and that your brain is 290 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 2: used to doing these just like a dog. You know 291 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: that you begin to salivate based on time. What did 292 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 2: you find over the course of those forty days became 293 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: the most difficult. 294 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: Part, And then that never went away. So I had 295 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: to switch it in my head. I started cooking dinner 296 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: and all the meals, and then when the temptations would 297 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: come on for food, I started watching food video online, 298 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: YouTube and Instagram to fight it. I just I turned 299 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: it into a fight. The devil was tempting me and 300 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: with food, which everyone it gets good for you. Food 301 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: is good for your body knows that, your mind knows that, 302 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: your spirit knows that. So this is why it's so 303 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: tough to do this. Day three is when you turn, 304 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: when your body makes it shift, So you're going from 305 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: a normal feeding routine to katosis, and you can feel that. 306 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: I was with Morgan all day that day and I 307 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: remember walking around the best way I can describe it 308 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: as it felt like I had taken a vico or 309 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: too much vic it in. I was really dizzy and 310 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: hazy and I can move around, and then uh, I 311 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: didn't have my strength. Plus I was two seventy and 312 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 1: I need a lot of food calories to move that 313 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: kind of weight around and I didn't have that. I 314 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: didn't even gas in my tank. But the minute when 315 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: I woke up on day four and I thought, I 316 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: kept telling myself, I was just make it the day four. 317 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: We can get through this tuble. And you're right, the 318 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: routine is the biggest thing. But when the minute your 319 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: body goes into katosis and you start eating your fat, 320 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: you're fattie like it starts chewing that away. There's a 321 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 1: different kind of energy that goes with that. And I 322 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: hadn't felt that before and it was great. It was fantastic, actually, 323 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: and then the autophogy sets then you'll you'll kind of 324 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: hold way a little bit and then you'll go I 325 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: started chewing a pound a day off and then it 326 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,640 Speaker 1: went to two pounds a day, but I would put 327 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: ten pounds of water inside my body. So I just 328 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: kind of stopped weighing myself. I wait in the beginning, 329 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: and then a couple of times, and then then I stopped. 330 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: And then my energy and my focus is what turned around. Michael. 331 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: I mean I cleaned the barn, all the barbecue pits, 332 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 1: cleaning out my closet. Anytime anything would my met would 333 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: put me on, or something would come up in the day, 334 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: I would focus on it so intently. It didn't matter 335 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: what it was. And remember when we were kids, and 336 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: it didn't matter what you doing, it was fun. From 337 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: either playing in the dirt or being just anything. You 338 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,919 Speaker 1: had this kind of bliss that went with something that 339 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: was new and that you were doing. I had that again. 340 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: I have that again, and it helped. And then I 341 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: just kept telling myself that I would I would keep 342 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: to the routine. And then anytime it got two hours 343 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: to start praying, I prayed a lot. They all a lot, 344 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: and it's from in the morning. And then when something 345 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: would come in front of me or someone would come over, 346 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,640 Speaker 1: I would They would have my complete attention again, which 347 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: hadn't happened in a long time. And then when they leave, 348 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: I go back to praying. 349 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: Was there a time of day that you found more 350 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 2: difficult than the rest? 351 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: Absolutely? And my body. I mean I didn't even have 352 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: to look at a watch the minute. One point thirty 353 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: year rolled around till about three less feeding time, and 354 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: after forty days it would not never went away. And 355 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: that's what I really started. That's when I started drinking 356 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: the lemon water and the salt, and I told myself 357 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 1: it was chicken noodle soup. And after I would get 358 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: done drinking, and I would just tell myself that I 359 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: was full. I got already eaten. And then if my 360 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: stomach hurt a little bit, I just would tell myself 361 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: that I had something bad to eat, but I was full, 362 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: and I just keep going. Because you can't imagine how 363 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: much you concentrate on food during the day. You can't 364 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: imagine how many food commercials are on TV during the 365 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: sporting event. So I'd always watch sports. Thank god football 366 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,239 Speaker 1: is on, because I'd look forward to an event at 367 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: the end of the day, and that would take my 368 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: mind off of the food. And there's so many things 369 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 1: that you do and eating doesn't take up a lot 370 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: of your day. Actually, you get down, you sit down 371 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: and we break bread, but then immediately you're going to 372 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: have to do that again. And I just started telling myself. 373 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: I was say, hey, look, we already ate. Let's just 374 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,479 Speaker 1: make it to the next meal and let's do what 375 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: we're going to do, and then that would kind of 376 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: take the pain away. And I just got that. I 377 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: did that until it routined in my head, and once 378 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: I got up on step I never looked back. 379 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 2: It's amazing having done fast, as I said, obviously just 380 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 2: a few days, which I thought at the time was 381 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 2: a big deal till I hear forty. But it's amazing 382 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 2: to me. In a moment like that, I begin to 383 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 2: realize how much we eat to kill boredom. We eats 384 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 2: as an activity, and so I found that doing something 385 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 2: other than eating, but staying busy made it much better. 386 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 2: Did you find yourself doing that? 387 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: Absolutely, and snacking in America, especially if we had good 388 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: food like overseas in Greece and with the bread, and 389 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: you could just eat still lose weight, that'd be great. 390 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: But remember, the body is its own mechanism, so when 391 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: you feed it, it feels that's a drug. Basically, food 392 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: is the drug because it knows it's getting reward. Especial 393 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,239 Speaker 1: if it's great food. I mean, it feels good, but 394 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: then where and where is off like a drug, So 395 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: you got to go do it again, and and you 396 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: kind of get used to that because of how are 397 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: how good our food tastes? Right, and then normally you're 398 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: doing it with somebody, and then you're being entertained by 399 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: it because when you're eating, it's usually you know, what's 400 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: a break, right, you're not working because that is absolutely 401 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: what you described. And I had to break that cycle 402 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 1: on that. Well. 403 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 2: The other thing about that, and and people who go 404 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 2: to you know, all of those programs Jinny Craig or 405 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 2: weight watchers or you know, there's one hundred diferent programs 406 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 2: out there that kind of help you through this sort 407 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 2: of counseling approach is they teach you how much eating 408 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 2: is social, so don't do it with other people because 409 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 2: it becomes a thing you do to be social, like 410 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 2: drinking at the ballgame or at a concert. And so 411 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 2: when people are thinking about these these powerful cravings, so 412 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 2: some of that is I think the need to be 413 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 2: around you know, we're social animals. The need to be 414 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 2: around someone and visit with them, and the whole pomp 415 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: and circumstance of sitting down to eat together and what 416 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 2: are we going to get and all that. 417 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: If you knew, I remember when I was in the teams, 418 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: the only thing that I really worried about was eating 419 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: good food, and then I would do anything else. A man, 420 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: men especially, you can go off them and work them 421 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: till they bleed and almost die. But if they know 422 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: they have a great meal waiting for them when they 423 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: get done, oh yeah, they'll do it. And then especially 424 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: sitting around somewhere like a baseball game with a beer 425 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: and hollied, that is that's Americana, and it's a good time, 426 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: and it initiates a bunch of those endorphins in your 427 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: head that you're having a good time, and it takes 428 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: your mind off of your problems. And when you incorporate 429 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: those two and then it talks about in the Bible 430 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: down too, is like, hey, when you break bread with people, 431 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: if you're eating good food with somebody, most people aren't arguing. 432 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 2: That's right, Marcus. The trail is our guests more coming up, 433 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 2: no matter who's fault today the Michael Berry Show, you 434 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 2: have a photo that your photo matters, Marcus, you said Marcus, 435 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 2: the trail is our guest. You said you started at 436 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 2: to seventy two to what was your weight when you started? 437 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, around two seventy two. 438 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 2: And forty day fast. I know you've lost fifty two pounds, 439 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: so you got down to twenty what's your fighting weight? 440 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 2: Do you what's ideal for you? Where do you feel 441 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 2: the best? 442 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: Twenty eight? 443 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 2: Twenty eight? Okay, so you even below that? 444 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 1: I am. 445 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 2: I noticed you. 446 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: I'm back at what I was when I was in 447 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: seal of. 448 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 2: Training, which twenty was was seal training. 449 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: Probably, yes, sir. 450 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 2: But you're probably leaner than usually. I noticed your belt. 451 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 2: You had that look like little bitty kids who are 452 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 2: wearing their dad's pants and belt. I noticed you had 453 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 2: it cinched up real tight, like there was a whole 454 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 2: lot of extra belt you're on, You're on the last hole. 455 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: You had it so tight. 456 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: Bro was struggling. Yeah, that's true. You know, you get 457 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: crimped up on the side, you know, and a certain 458 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: kind of yeah, I'm none of my clothes bit anymore. 459 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 2: So a lot of questions came in regarding your forty 460 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 2: day fast. I do not encourage people to do a 461 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 2: forty day fast, but I do think a day, even 462 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 2: two days is a very healthy thing. And everybody I 463 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 2: know who's ever done it, it is, it is. It 464 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 2: is an experience, and it's about Marcus and I were 465 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 2: talking about this on Friday. It becomes a power kick 466 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,479 Speaker 2: because when you're when you're fasting, you can be you 467 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 2: can be at a dinner and there's a dessert, and 468 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 2: you will you will order desserts and hand it to people. 469 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 2: It is the ultimate self control. And there's such there's 470 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 2: such a sense of accomplishment to that that most people 471 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 2: will never forget. Most people are powerless over food. 472 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: Well, I got trapped in an airplane going to New 473 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: York about day five and they were serving Lasagni in 474 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: balls and melts and there robit Stivan just having a 475 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: great time. 476 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 2: She's like, this is so good. 477 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 1: I mean, it was non stop, the temptation. But you're 478 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: absolutely right, one two days, three days is the specially 479 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: if you get to three days where the autoplogy starts 480 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 1: and starts eating all the bad stuff way like get 481 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: cancer or anything, and lead all that out of there, 482 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: and it's it's it's a discipline and a willpower and 483 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: when you get done, you have that in your mind, 484 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: I can do this, I can get through this. If 485 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: I can go without eating, I can do most anything. 486 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: And absolutely you're right about that. 487 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 2: It's it's inspiring. But so now you're fifty years old, 488 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,719 Speaker 2: you were you were thirty when Loan Survivor happened, and 489 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 2: that was an inspiration to a lot of people, including 490 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 2: my brother, who was the first person who introduced me 491 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 2: to you through the book. And the team never quit 492 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,719 Speaker 2: and that's your motto. But look, it's like Jim Brown 493 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 2: as he aged, or or Earl Campbell as he's aged, 494 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 2: was this for you internally a moment where you say, 495 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 2: I got to prove to myself I'm not in the 496 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 2: grave yet. I got to prove to myself that the 497 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 2: young Marcus is still in there. 498 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: So everything that I've gone through in my life, there's 499 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: always had to be a rite of passage that I 500 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: stepped through to prove not only to myself but everybody 501 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: around me that I was capable of something. And then 502 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: obviously it was growing up. And then when I went 503 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: through seal training the Hellwics, when I pinned my trident 504 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: on me, I was acknowledged by our peers that hey, 505 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: this is what you are. This is what you're supposed 506 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: to be. You've done your gauntlet. You went through the fire, 507 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: and when I got out, I didn't have my new purpose, 508 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: and I had been searching for it, and a seal 509 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: training tested my body. Then when I came back around 510 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: and I healed up after all the wars and everything, 511 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 1: I was looking searching for my new purpose. When I 512 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: went in and did the Eyeba gain, I found it 513 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: in there, and the IOA game tested my mind, and 514 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: that was my mental gauntlet. And as I graduated from that, 515 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: the new fire a hellwic that I had to walk 516 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: through to find my purpose, which is obviously of the faith, 517 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: and being as far away from more as I possibly can, 518 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,239 Speaker 1: I had to prove myself again. And the way that 519 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: you do that is you go through forty days without eating, 520 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: You go through a forty day fast, grow closer to God, 521 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: walk with Jesus, to truly separate yourself from the earthly 522 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: desires and everything like that, to see clearly what I 523 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: was supposed to be doing. And that happened to me 524 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: while I was in there, and I proved to myself 525 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: it's its only own academy. If you will, there's lessons 526 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 1: in there. It was like being back in school. So 527 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: every day as I was going through that, I realized 528 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: that I was changing more and more towards my new 529 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: purpose and that that flame kind of burns inside of you. 530 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: And then when I graduated on my birthday, I didn't 531 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: know it was going to be on my birthday. This 532 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: is how I knew it was kind of a godly thing, 533 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: because when I started, I had no idea I was 534 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: going to go to forty days. And about day nine, 535 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: I was like, I wonder what forty days comes out on, 536 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: and sure enough, it was on my birthday. And I 537 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: was like, right that, I'll do it, and I never 538 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: looked back. 539 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 2: We talked on Friday. We talked on Friday night because 540 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 2: that was your fortieth day. So here are all these people. 541 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: You're not drinking, you're not eating, You're just drinking water 542 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 2: and enjoying the fellowship with your friends. And the next 543 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 2: day was to begin your process of kind of reintegrating 544 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 2: into the real world, and it was going to be 545 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 2: bone broth. I asked you last night how that bone 546 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: broth went for you, because it can be dangerous if 547 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 2: somebody wants to read about how you come off of fast. 548 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 2: You can injure yourself. You can hurt yourself badly. Your 549 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 2: body's not ready for that. You started with bone broth 550 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 2: and you said your stomach rumbled. Let's talk about what's 551 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 2: happened starting Saturday through today with you trying to start 552 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 2: back into foods. 553 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,479 Speaker 1: Okay, let me tell you. The hardest part of this 554 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: is coming back. And I've had my ass with plenty 555 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: of times. And when i wake up in the hospital 556 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: and I'm recovering, there's people that take care of me. 557 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,239 Speaker 1: I'm not used to that unless I'm hurt right, And 558 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: now that people are taking care of me and I'm 559 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: going through this process, I know that I've accomplished something. 560 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: So the first forty days were for discipline. These next 561 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,479 Speaker 1: ten to twelve days or for patience. This is what 562 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: this is teaching me, because I want to eat so bad. 563 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: You know, there's four thousand restaurants in Houston, and I 564 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: want to eat every one of them. I have literally 565 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: eaten in my mind everything on the internet. I had 566 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: these restaurants in certain states that we're going I'm flying 567 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: there if anybody wants to go with me, that we're 568 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: going to hit Once I can eat and this is 569 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: the fact that I had to sit on bone broth 570 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: and it's not a hunger thing anymore. That's gone. It's 571 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 1: not the food whatever. You know, I'll go forever if 572 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: I don't have to eat, fine, my body will eat 573 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: itself away. I've hit that mental mark where it's not 574 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: a thing for me anymore. It's kind of like what 575 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: happened to me and steal the train with pain. But 576 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: I got to tell you, bro I sit there and 577 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: they put this little broth in front of me with 578 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: I got to have a couple of vegetables in a 579 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: bit of period, right, So it wasn't anything I could 580 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: chew on. Every now and again, i'd catch the scrap 581 00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: of something in between my teeth and I'd be like, oh, 582 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: thank god, I think that was an minute. And because 583 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: I love to eat a whole big boy, right, And 584 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: I this past ten days is so frustrating to me 585 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: and everyone since I'm off of it, Everyone's enjoying themselves 586 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: and eating around me and just being like, oh, you 587 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: got to try this. And I know that if I do, 588 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: it'll hurt me. I get a whip me and I 589 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: don't want to. I'm trying to do this right and 590 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: follow the directions and do it. 591 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 3: My dog. 592 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: The best doctors and nurses that take care of me, 593 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: and I don't want to disappoint them. And this part 594 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: has been a struggle. So if you're wondering on a 595 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: forty day fast that the hardest part is it's coming 596 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: off of it. 597 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 2: Marcus Strel turned fifty on Friday, which was the fortieth 598 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 2: day of a forty day fast. That's right, no food, 599 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 2: only water and little coffee in the morning, little salt 600 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: in the evening. We will talk to him about ruminations, marinations, 601 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 2: and the wisdom of the lone survivor turning fifty. Coming up, 602 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 2: Come on, I didn't really mean Mari nations there, but 603 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 2: that's I was thinking of something that would ride. You 604 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 2: got something better? Congratulations? Come up, Marcus A Trell. That's sacrilegious. 605 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 2: Did you just say? I bet those fasting funds are 606 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 2: often that's Marcus A. Trell.