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Hello and welcome to the podcast. Podcast. We talk life, work and occasionally music. My name is Switch Blades for Kids and the other half of the podcast. Yes.

Have you ever seen Always study in Philly? No. There's an episode where they're like, trying to explain our Patty's pub as an historical establishment. And there's like two fucking dudes, dennis and Mack. It won't matter to you who they are, but the audience will know. Dennis and Mac fucking walking around the streets. They go, yes,

fantastic. Yeah. Great record. For all the everyone else that watches fucking always sunny and Philly always silly in Philadelphia. Welcome, guys. How are you? Thanks for coming. You're a valued member to our production. Make sure you always tune in. And if you haven't already, make sure you hit that, like, button because it's going to be a good episode. You know you're going to enjoy it anyway. Yes. You're listening to this very clearly in November. You have to be listening to this in November. No, you definitely listen to this in November. And we did this last year. We're doing it this year. But we're going to get a little bit more on top of it, more in front of it. November means men's mental health. It does. And we're going to jump right in front of the challenge that is being a fucking dude in modern day times and fucking dealing with mental health issues. We're going to do all this stuff, maybe share a couple of stories, a couple of tips and tricks on how to avoid the big sad or at least fight through it. Yeah, that's what we're going to do. But before we get into that, Blake, how are you? I'm pretty good. I had a bit of a cooked weekend.

I went to a Halloween party last night that I've gone to two other times in a row, like this year. Right. And look, it was all right, I guess, but I was like, I could have just stayed at home and played video games and probably would have enjoyed that much more. So I don't think I'm going to go back to any of these fucking parties because I'm just at a point now where I'm like, I just want to be at home playing fucking video game. I'm going to be doing anything, like, as a relaxed let loose. It's just going to be playing games. I just rather do it. I don't know, maybe I'm too old. Yeah, my age is getting to me, honestly. I'm already looking at this party that I have to go to. It's the regiment ball. It's coming up in November. Like really early November. I think it's like literally next Saturday. I'm already looking at it. Like, I know that I'm only going to drink, like, a very little amount and then eat as much as I can and then make small talk and then go home and maybe dance a little bit. But at the same time. Like man, at 07:00 I could have been fucking walking the dog, coming back and playing some shiv. Playing Shiv or Conan fucking anything. I I know know it sounds like so antisocial. It sounds like man don't want to be a part of things with people. I speak to these people all day, every day. And it might be the fact that we're in a work setting. Doesn't mean I ever talk about work. My God. Furthest thing from work. If I can keep work talk at the minimum, my God, I will. Yeah. Anyone who knows me knows me. All right. I agree with my son. Sunday gym. Son ed gym sport. Anyway. And I stayed way too long. I stayed way too long. I didn't drink or anything. I just stayed there far too long. I was just talking to teeage, man. I love that guy. He's very fun to talk to. And he's a fitness sort of guy too. It was a lot of just like talking fitness all night, which is sick. I love doing that. That's very fun. And then yeah, I was like, man, it's like 1230. I was like, I've got like I got to go sleep in the car now. Literally, I was like, I'm going to drive and just feel it out. So I drove home. I got like halfway home and I was just like nuts. I ain't getting there, bud. So I pulled over at a Servo, locked the fucking car. The car is still running with the aircon on. It was like sort of a warm night, but it was like I was just like I just had the air going. I probably could have slipped with the car off, but anyway, I didn't expect to sleep so long, right? I would just sleep at like two in the morning for the servo. Yes. I woke up at five. Okay. Okay, good. I'd set my alarm for an hour, for an hour nap and then I would wake up, keep going just to get home and then sleep in bed. Yeah, no, I slept for like 4 hours in my car. Woke up and was like, oh fuck. And just let me drive handbrake off and then fucking straight back onto the highway up to 100. Fucking cruise control on cruise the entire way home. Got home and was like,

that sounds horrible. Yeah, that sounds horrible. It was not fun. Yeah, but anyway, what do you do? Sleep in your car at a servo for too long. That's so funny that you're like, I'll just sleep for an hour. Yeah. Oh my God. It's 05:00. The sun's up. It's really warm. Oh my god, I gotta drive into the sun. I didn't bring my sunnies because it was nighttime. Yeah, literally. Oh my god. I'm not doing it anymore, man. No shit. Anyway, I got home, had a bit of a kip, wake up at like 1030. I was like, oh boy. I thought, this is going to be rough. Anyway. Call Jack. Well, Jack here tried to call me. Call her. I'm like, what's up? She's like, I'll let you know the plan. She's like, we're staying out here all day, baby. She's like, we're out here all day, all night. She's like, we'll be home at, like 08:00 late. I was like, cool. All right, so I struggled for a good hour or so. Just struggled to exist. And then yeah, I had a shower in that. And then I went hard with cleaning. And I cleaned the entire house. I cleaned the entire house. Okay. I pulled everything up off the floor, put everything away, like swept, vacuumed, then mopped the entire house. Wow. Right? I spent a good 4 hours cleaning the entire house. That's huge. You've gone into, like, the zone. Yeah, but I did this thing where I did 15 minutes of that and then I did five minutes of what I considered resting. Right. Which was and I showed you just before the podcast, I made a full workout plan and meal plan. And what I did was I did 15 minutes of cleaning the house, five minutes of working on that, 15 minutes to clean the house, five minutes of working on that. And I did that in, like, three to 4 hours. Nice. And I cleaned the entire house. And I finished. And they have a meal plan, engine plan. Yeah, my workout plan. That is fucking fantastic. It's such a weird work like, way to work. But it was really cool cause I had a 15 minutes timer and a five minute timer, and I just kept changing between the two. If it works, it works. Yeah. I was like, I got both jobs done. I actually worked. Yeah, I did a good enough job to get paid for either one. You know what I mean? There's got to be some sort of I'm sure it's been studied before, like the work rest ratios for optimal work and shit like that. And maybe you've just tapped into that and you've gone. Yeah, maybe that's what works for me. Yeah. And you've just gone, okay, cool. If I work for 15 minutes and put in to do whatever I'm doing and then work for rest for five minutes. But your rest was, like active rest. Yeah, it was active rest. Because I was doing stuff like your brain was just like I'll switch gears and just go to like, I need to do this. And then your brain was like, okay, cool. Now you got to do another 15 minutes of laborious work or whatever it is. It split it up enough that I enjoyed doing both things. Oh, there you go. And I cleaned the entire fucking house. It feels great. And then I went to gym on a Sunday at, like, 530. And you felt good? Yeah, I feel good. And because I had Macars on the way home last night, just before my falling asleep at a servo debacle. I had some acids. I was like, I'm going to fast for today until dinner. Because I actually did really well. I went to a party and took tuna at a protein bar and ate both of them at the party. That is so committed. Straight after you've just smashed macars as well? No, I did that before the macas. Okay. Right. Okay,

I'm out of here. And then when I left, I was like, I'm so hungry. It's like one in the morning. I'm fucking starving. I was like, fuck it, I'm just going to get some ackers. Yeah, but still happens. I ate tuna and a protein bar at a party that was serving food. What kind of food were they serving? Halloween, like inside stuff. Like there was this really nice dip that Laura makes. It's really yum. And there was like all sorts of things. Like there was ollies and bits and pieces and fucking all sorts like muffins. And there was a pumpkin pie, like a bunch of just shit. And I abstained from all of it. And I ate my tuna like a fucking fucking loser. Look at you guys. I bet everyone likes you. Yeah, like a fucking loser. Sat out on a blanket like a few of you are sitting around outside. I just sat there and ate my tuna. Someone's like, is that tuna? Why fucking want it? Yeah, like 100 grams of protein and like 400 calories. And they're like, but why I want to be shredded. Yeah, I still ate macas, but that's better than eating macas and eating all the other shit. Yeah, especially pumpkin pie. Apparently. Pumpkin pie is like really? Not for me, man. Is yeah, no. Oh, man. I think the first time Costco, we went to Costco last year, they had pumpkin pies. And they're huge because obviously it's Costco, but they were like extra large pizza fucking huge. And I remember having a slice and I don't know, but the amount of times I'd heard it on the internet get spoken up so much and it's like, oh, it's so delicious. Oh, man, I love pumpkin pie. It's fucking the best. I fucking had a bite and I was like, this is garbage. Yeah, trash food for trash people. Fuck you. Pumpkin pie sucks. It was like a fucking $15 pumpkin pie. And I was just like, I'm throwing it away. I don't care. I'm not going to eat it. No one else is going to eat it. I got it purely for me. Everyone had a little bite and I was like and I was like, I'm not keeping it in the house 1 minute longer. See you later. I got fucking upset with it because it had been hyped up for me so much. And people were like, you'll love pumpkin pie. It's delicious. It's not. Pumpkin pie sucks. Yeah, I'm not a fan at all. Maybe somebody I don't like pumpkin. Really? So I was like, I'll have a little bit. I had a bite.

That's the thing, though. I like pumpkin. I like pumpkin. And the fact that someone made it into a big pie, you'd think, Man, I would like big bit of pumpkin pie. No, it's not the same. Maybe there's someone out there that makes really good pumpkin pie and that I would enjoy it. But I tell you what. What I fucking got and what I expected, fucking worlds apart. And I tell you what, that pumpkin pie did not see the fucking light of day. After I took a bite out of it, it was gone. What else to come straight? I don't even care if anyone else likes it. It's gone. I didn't even offer it to neighbors or anything. It was just like, hey, everyone, look at this. Straight into the fucking bin. Oh, man. Well, you know, good job, man. Fucking stuck it out. Obviously, if it's still 01:00 in the morning and you're not eating, macars, you did the right thing. I wouldn't fucking penalize you that much for fucking like yeah, right. You know what I mean? I was like, I need substance. Yeah, you're living on a wing of prayer and you're fucking like, I need something to fucking pull me out of this. Help me, Big Mac. Help me. Yeah, literally, save me. It got me halfway home. Yeah, that's right. I'll take that as a win. That's a win. Today was rough, but then I turned it around with my expert cleaning, weird working, fucking hyper efficiency.

Sorry, man, I was just having a drink. That was my weekend. I'm trying to say, oh, I no longer work at I do technically still work at Bunnings, but as a casual, I am on call sort of thing. I'm no longer full time employed. Yeah, you're like, hey, we got a shift sort of guy. Yeah, sort of. I'm going to work with the oldies. Nice. I remember you telling me a while back that there was a guy that you'll see, like once every six months. And that would be it. He would literally come in, like, once every it might have been every three months or every six months. And he would literally come in and fucking do really good work. Everyone knew him. And then he would just disappear again for another six months. Nathan. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Nathan. He ain't coming back. Everyone quit. Everyone fucking sick of it. Everyone quit, man. I'm not even kidding. I didn't go in on my last day. Yeah, I abstained from going in on my last day. I really kicked off a stink on my second to last day to the point where my boss was sort of like, just don't bother, okay? Don't come in. Literally, you'll make everyone else sad

so bad. I just had this builder blowing up at me. He was born off of me. He's being a digger. And it was like a whole like, why can't you do these simple things? Why can't you get this done? Why can't you do that? Why can't you do this? I'm like, we don't have a full team, okay? Like five people leave last week. We're struggling. I was like, you know what? I'm leaving tomorrow. It's like, okay. There ain't much left here. OK, brother. He's up on the boat. Get your order out here is what I was like, right? He was like, what am I meant to do now after tomorrow? What? I don't know. That's not my problem. Okay? That's not my problem. It was probably not the best thing to say. It had been a bit of a dick. So I was like, whatever. And it was funny. Our national state manager no, national manager was visiting the store with the state manager. And they both heard about it. Yeah. So they heard that I'd said that. So then Bazz comes up and he's like, hey, man, what happens? And I explained everything to him. And he goes, okay. He's like, probably shouldn't have said that. I was like, yeah, I know. But he's been a dick. It's just been a dick. And I just didn't want to talk to him anymore. And he was just like, yeah, okay. Well, the national manager knows now. Anyway. I found out national manager didn't even care at the time. I was like, oh, man, he's going to be pissed. Surely. Like, this guy's going to be like upset. No, God didn't give a fuck. He was just like, it is what it is, huh?

Yeah. And then I didn't go into my last day because I was like, man, I'm sick. My ankle is cooked. I've come in all week even though I really shouldn't have. And then it was just like, yeah, just don't worry. Okay, fair enough. On a long weekend over the three day weekend. Fucking and long weekend as well, actually. Nice. From Thursday. Thursday? Yeah. Did you work to work at all this week? No. So we have work from home from Monday to Wednesday. And on Thursday I had four shots. Like I had meningococcal, typhoid, polio, Japanese encephalitis. So I had like all those shots on Monday. And then on Wednesday morning I was like feeling real sick. And I was like, oh man, I'm fucked up. So the whole day I'm just like the work from home was really just like sit in this chair and just barely fucking be awake sort of shit as it comes around. They're like, cool me? Is that fucking PT or whatever we're doing? I went straight to the fucking rapper and I was like, hey, bud, I'm fucking sick. And they're like, I rock up two of the guys that I was yelling my guts out with Thursday. So yeah, me, Noah, and Jay Nabel fucking just like parked up. We're the first three at the raffle. We go up and we're sitting down and we're just talking ship raiders. The fucking receptionist comes out, and it's like, is anyone here for sick freight? And we're like, yeah. Anyone got cold and flu symptoms? And I'm like, yes. And she's like, you shouldn't be here. You should go around to the fucking I can't remember the call, whatever, respiratory clinic. And I was like, okay, cool. I've been waiting here for fucking 30 minutes for nothing. See you later. Walk off. Turns out that place doesn't open up until 730, but there's, like, a chair there. And I'm sitting there, and I'm, like, just trying to watch this video. And it's, like, maybe 07:05, and I've got my phone number, and I'm just, like, shaking. Like, I can't stop fucking shaking. Oh, God. It's fucking happening. I'm gonna die here. This is it. And I've, like, paused the video. I was watching, like, a lot of tactics video that's so funny. And I was like, I just couldn't stop shaking. This fucking chick comes out with the cart to check blood pressure and shit, and she's, like, all masked up, and I'm just, like, thrown on mine and fucking she's like, Are you okay? What's going on? Like, I'm just a little bit cold. What are you doing? And she's like, hey, you have a blanket? And fucking she wraps the thing around my arm, and then she puts a little clip on my finger, and she's like, okay, cool. You've got a heart rate of 110. And it's, like, really erratic. It was spiking at 120 and then going down 100 and then up to 110. Hundred and 20 sort of shit. It was, like, doing this mental sick fucking my blood pressure was, like, really high. My temperature was 39.4. I was, like, close to boiling my fucking brain. So I'm sitting there going, like, spasm the fuck out, watching the lie detective going, man, I hope she comes out soon. Because the thing is, I was watching this video, and I looked at the time, and I was like, I've got 25 minutes. That means I can watch two of those, like, ten minute videos and a little five minute video you can sort of plan your content around. So I'd already chosen the lightest TechTO video. I was a smart man about this. While my brain is fucking absolutely frying, I noticed I want to watch this latest active video, that I minimize it, and while it's playing, I search for the next video. And, like, that's the next video I watch. And I watched the full video. And so while I'm in the middle of watching this video, I'm like, two minutes. Two minutes goes by, and it feels like I'm like, why isn't anything happened? Like, what's going on? Start losing my mind. It feels like it's been ten minutes. It's only been two minutes on the screen. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? And then I look at the title, like, oh, it really only has been two minutes. Anyway, she fucking checks out all my stuff. And she's like when she tells me, she's like, your temperature is 39 four? And I'm like, yes, high school. And she's like, no, that's really bad. And I'm like, no, that's really high. I'm still, like freaking the fuck out. She's like, come inside. Sit on this chair. At least you're out of the wind a little bit and just sit here. We'll just keep you on the observations and then you can just tell me what's going on. I just tell her, look, I'm fell in fucking sick. I've had a bit of a cough. All of the cold and flu fucking systems sort of shit. And she's like, taking any parallel or airport. No, I just fucking woke up and just drove here. And she's like, okay, cool. And then I'm, like, sitting in this chair still fucking doing the hokey pokey. And I'm starting to just sort of fall asleep in there on those little finger clampy things. They can measure your oxygen levels, sourcing your SP two, whatever that is. I think that is your oxygen level. I, like, asked her about it, so I was like, hey, what is that? What does that mean? What is all that? What does that mean? And she's like she says that's your oxygen levels when we get sort of worried when it goes under 94%. 94%. And I'm like, okay, cool. It's sitting at 98 when she's telling me this. And then I sort of just go back to just sitting there quietly fucking shivering like a fucking retard. And then the thing starts beeping. I look over, it said, like, 89, and then it started beeping and it changed to C nine or something like that, which I think meant like, fucking get this man some oxygen sort of shit. Or like he's in the first stage of fucking boys going to go down. And she just looks at me and she's like, okay, cool. Can you just lay in that bed? I'm like, yeah, sure, I can do that. Get up. Like fucking freaking out. I get some paddocks. She eventually gets me some padadol, like, in between the whole, like, oh, I'm dying, and fucking go to the bed. I smash this paddle and I jump in the bed. And I'm sort of like just like you know when you get into bed and you have a fever and your bones just fucking hurt and you're just sort of, like scooting the whole time. You just sort of, like moving. So I did that for about 30 minutes, maybe 45 minutes. That is rough, dude. And like, just conscious the whole time of like, I've got these two blankets on me and my hands are off. Like, this just goes just, like scooting around. I eventually fall asleep on her. Like, I'm in disbelief. And I'm just like I'm, like, fucking tense enough. And then eventually I just fucking pass out. But I wake up every time I do like a little snore. And the doc eventually comes in and he's like, we're going to do a PCR test. We're going to do fucking a rat test. We're going to do all these fucking tests. And I was like, okay, cool. While I'm asleep, she has to wake me up. And I do like the wake up snore and I scare her. And I'm like she says, I'm so sorry I have to put this swab in your nose. And I'm like, okay, you do the normal thing. And she gets it done really quick. It was a really the nurse that looked after me, fantastic lady, the doctor who looked after me, great bloke me. I must have been a real hunt because I just couldn't sit still. And I was like snoring the whole fucking time. I asked her after, I was like because they dose me up on fucking eyeboprofen and panadol. And I was in the hospital for like nearly 3 hours. And it was nearly to 2 hours to just over 2 hours and fucking no, dude, it was fucking 10:00. Oh my god. So, yeah, it was about 3 hours. Sorry. Yeah, they dose me up on the eyeprop in panadol. And as I was leaving I was like because I was still not shaking, but I was still like feeling cold sort of shit. And I was like, hey, thank you so much for looking after me. Thank you for letting me sleep for a good hour and a half. Yeah, it's snoring. And I was like, I'm so sorry I snored so loud. And she's like, oh, it wasn't that bad. It was more just like heavy breathing. And I'm like, no, it was no. And she's like, it was quite loud. She was like German or something like that. She's like, it was quite loud. Thank you. All right. Cheers. Thank you. Bye. And I'm fucking out of there. And then the doctors like, don't go to work tomorrow. And fucking if you feel like shit on Monday, fucking come on in. I'm like, okay, no worries. But man, I tell you what, I didn't realize how close to fucking death I was. Because the fucking doctor was like, man, we're lucky we got you in here. And that's what the nurse kept saying. And I was like, what do you fucking mean? Because your temperature went back up when you got inside. And so it went from 39.4 when I was outside and it went down a little bit when I came inside. But then it went back up and it was like 39 point fucking five or something like that. And that's what got them so worried. And they're like, oh, we can't let you leave because we need to have your fucking temperature go down to a certain level before you can leave. And it turns out I just slept it off and then fucking woke up and I was like, what's going on? Is it good? Yeah. Thanks, guys. Thank you. They loaded me up. Fucking off you go. They loaded me up with, like, fucking, like, penicillin, like a moxicillin and fucking hardwood. And they're like, don't come into work tomorrow. I won't. I don't see myself coming in to work. Yeah, I got an eye problem. They're really good, but that was my fucking Thursday. I tell you what, all week, all weekend, I've just been sort of feeling kind of shitty, but I've sort of come feeling good as of, like, maybe yesterday afternoon. And it comes with, like, dose myself up with a heap of fucking drugs all the time. It's great. They said four to 6 hours for Paranormal, six to 8 hours for Ibuproprofin. Right? Yeah. What they don't tell you is you just ignore that and you do it a little bit more. Wow. And then you feel really good. Okay. Great. Not addictive personality at all. Look, that's why don't gamble. That's why I stopped smoking. I found other addictions.

Oh, no. That's terrible. Yeah. I was going to say, are we doing a short episode this week? I thought we were doing this. We are going to do a short episode. So what we should do right now is talk a little bit about mental health. Yes. And then throw in the album and then we can fucking dine and dash. Yeah. Okay. And we'll leave the listener to pick up the bill on the way out. 100%. Yeah. We're jumping out the bathroom window for sure. Yeah. Hell yes. Guys, if you are in a bad situation at the moment, if you're feeling fucking down, I don't have a lot of tips and tricks, but I do know a couple of things that will help. And we're talking about the big black dog of depression. Okay. Suicide and depression is one of the leading causes of fucking death in Australia. And I'm pretty sure in the world I think it's number six in the world of causes of death. And it can come from a lot of places I had postnatal depression. Yeah. I didn't know that was a thing for men, but apparently, according to doctors yeah. You can get it. That's wild. Yeah. And you don't know why you're sad. And then someone tells you it's like, oh, it's postnail depression, like, no, that's a women thing. And they're like, no. And they're like, oh, okay. Yeah, right. Is that why I listened to two albums on repeat which were both, like, fairly sad albums? And if you look at my music choice for that year, it's all sad shit. Yeah. I work through it with music. That's good. I guess that's a positive. But yeah. I don't know. I think the big things that have really helped me when I was going through a real fucking struggle at the start of this year, I found that exercising was the single greatest fucking benefit to my mental health. That I've ever experienced. I would agree. It's definitely swept me up. I know it's swept you up. It's something that just changes lives for the better. It literally has no downside. Except that you might get very addicted to attempting to lift. Yeah. To lifting, like stupidly heavy weight. Because you're like, I fucking love the feeling of heavy things in my hands. Yeah, I would say. And the thing is that you don't have to go hard and either buy a fucking gym set or buy heavy weights or fucking buy a gym membership. You can just go for a walk. There are a lot of I think I've said this before, I don't know if I said this on a pod when I went for a walk earlier. There's a park down the road that has all those fitness equipment things in it, so you can do lapse of the park. And there's like pull up bars and sit up benches and stuff like that. Body weight machines sort of thing. We have one at the local park and it's like a push bar. It's literally like a chess press machine. Yeah. But it lifts you up. Yeah. So I don't know if there must be a big Queensland thing, because I remember only ever seen them in Queensland. I've been up in like down and Victoria, New South Wales, and I didn't ever see them there. But I know they're a big thing in Queensland. It might even be a big thing in America. But give them a go. If you ever see that. Go for a walk, find a park and attempt some of these machines. Give them a go. You never know. It's something to do with I know that. It's something to do with endorphins. Yes. Exercise releases endorphins. And that's the feel good chemical, right? Yeah. Hormone chemical. Yeah. So you've got nothing to lose. And probably the hardest part, or the hardest step will be to take that first step. Yeah, it is. I was talking to Jason earlier, friend of the show right now, right? I don't know why I said like that. I was talking to him about trying to get comfortable in gym and I was like, just go for 15 minutes and just go like three times a week. Yeah, just do your first week. Is I'm going to spend 15 minutes walking on a treadmill in the gym? Yes, you go do that and then you go home. That's exposure therapy right there. That's exposure therapy. That is fucking you are giving yourself a small dose of something that either you're not used to or you're uncomfortable with, and you will slowly become comfortable with it. Yeah. It fucking works, man. It worked for me. So I just did that. I'm just going to go in and I'm just going to use some machines. Just machine weight stuff. I'm not even going to touch free weights. I'm not going to bother. Like, I'm just going to go get comfortable in the gym setting again, right? Yes. It's been ten years, maybe longer. I'm going to make sure I just get comfortable and then I'm going to start lifting properly again. And it took me, I think, like a month and a half of doing that, of just I'm going to feel it out, I'm going to just mess it out, and then I'm going to see what happens. And that was it. That was the easiest way for me to start going to the gym. But like I said, it doesn't have to be gym. It can be just a walk. Like, it can be just Winston fucking barking. Yeah. But it can be anything. It doesn't have to be gym. You don't have to spend any money on it. You can just go for a walk. Go for a walk. If you don't even want to leave your house, you can literally walk around your house or do push ups. Sit ups. If you can't do like, a laying down push up, do it off your knees. If you don't want to do it off your knees, find a bench. Go on your kitchen bench. There's variations of doing pushups, too, where your down motion is a normal push up, but then you put your knees on the ground, push up, and then put your knees back up off the ground into a push up position. It's like an intermediate step between a knee push up and a normal push up. Yeah. It's literally a stepping stone. So you're getting the downward motion of a normal pushup, which a lot of people can do, and then you're getting the push up movement of a knee push up, which a lot of people can do because you've taken away a lot of the weight from just having your butt up. And it's fantastic. I can't believe how many if you switch from normal pushups to knee pushups, the difference is incredible. So if you're thinking knee pushup, give it a go. Give it a go. Yeah. I think almost everyone could do knee push ups. Yeah. A very small percentage of people who can't do a knee push up. I've always been able to do a knee push up my whole life. I can always do it. I've always been able to. And I've been a big guy and very out of shape. Yeah. And if you're still not able to do it, fucking excellent. That means anyone can do it. I think anyone can do it. Yeah. I mean, if I can do this shit, anyone can. Honestly, I get why people say that too. Like, you'll see some dude who's, like, shredded and he's like, trust me, if I can do it, anyone can do it. I get it. Because when you finally get into a mindset of doing it, it's just everything seems like to make sense now. I get it. It's easy to not eat dumb shit all the time and it's easy to eat clean, and it's easy to get healthier alternatives and to count calories and macros. I'm like, yeah, it's so much easier. I'm like, I don't know why I haven't done this my whole life. Anyone can do it. So what you're talking about there is, like going from, say you're a person that eats really unhealthy, doesn't exercise. Fucking literally, we'll just wake up, play video games, go to sleep, wake up, play videos, go to sleep. That's pretty much me to go from. And that's including eating shit sort of thing. And that's like your life, you know what I mean? The step, because it's a massive leap from that to counting calories, working out every day and having these set of routine habits that are designed for you to be really healthy, like hitting excuse me, say, like, 10,000 steps. And as I said, counting calories, exercising every day or at least six days out of the week and doing all of that, that's quite a large leap. But it does take a lot of steps. Like, you didn't just start doing this. The first thing I did was start eating healthier. We just started getting takeaway food and stuff as much. I started being more conscious of the stuff I was putting in my body. That was literally the first step. And then the second step was getting comfortable in gym. And then you just keep slowly adding stuff in because the more you do it, the more it becomes habit, and then you don't have to think about it anymore, and you can focus on thinking about how to improve what you're doing. Yeah, but this is a lot of gym talk, and this is meant to be more mental health talk. Yeah, that's true. That is true. I find it therapeutic, and I find it a very good habit and hobby for me, like exercising. I get it. I do agree. I think that it's such a big part of being both mentally healthy and physically healthy as exercise. I get it now. It's like a fucking switch flicked in my brain. And I understand. I get it. But I've also been in really shit positions. I've been in a really bad mental state. I've been through you know, everyone will go through shit. It's just what life is. Everyone goes through shit because it's different than everyone else. It doesn't make it any better or worse or whatever. Right? Yeah. It doesn't make it harder, easier. No, it doesn't. Everyone's shit is still shit. Whatever it is that is worrying them, it is the worry of their life right now. And regardless of whether it's the bigger because there's always someone doing worse than you. Oh, yeah. There's always someone doing worse than you in this world. So you could just sit there and be fucking, look, I don't want to go into that. I want to go into that. You know what I'd like to say? I heard from a fairly successful person. The one way that he got out of a really big slump so he wasn't like he didn't get diagnosed that he was depressed. He was just like absolutely feeling like shit every day, sleeping in real big fucking gut of a rut. And he said the one thing that really helped him was like treating something nice every day. And he would find like a random dog. Like he would go for a walk or on his way around doing whatever he was doing, he would find like a dog or like a cat or fucking an animal or something like that. And it wouldn't have to be necessarily like a fucking physical thing. Like sometimes he would see like a bird in the tree and he'd be like a fucking rainbow lowercate and he'd be like, that is a really pretty bird. And he would just say something nice about it and then he would keep on going, but he would keep it locked in his fucking memory. Other times he'd be walking around, pass the dog and he would ask if he could pat the dog. And then he'd fucking pat the dog. And he said he was a really good boy. He was a really good boy. Just dumb things like that, where it's just like this person is just putting in a little bit of effort to make another thing feel good. Apparently it's like a sympathetic sort of side of the brain. It's contradious too, because you do that sort of thing to someone's dog and then they feel that like that little bit of they get that little endorphin hit, I guess. Sorry, they feel good as well. You appreciate my dog. Thank you. Yeah, I put a lot of effort into this mutt. Yeah, that's it. But that was what he said at the end of the whole spill was, if you want to feel better, try and make someone else feel better. And apparently it fucking work for him. But he found that trying to make another person feel better was very difficult. And in the cases where it could be easy, it was still harder than just saying hello to a dog and patting it, you know what I mean? And getting out of that terrible feeling just by fucking patting a dog or fucking saying nice things about birds. It was such a strange because German at nine, eight, five, the streamer. No, I don't yeah, I love watching him. He's a chaotic fucking person. But listening to how he was actually in a real struggle and then fucking pulled himself out of it, it's really fucking inspirational to use a fucking sick buzzword. We're not professionals either. Take whatever the fuck we say with a great assault. We are, though, we are two guys that have been in fucking big trouble mentally. We help each other out with a lot of exercise is talking to your mate, talking to your mates makes it so much easier, man. How much just to get shit off your chest? I get it. I understand. It's another reason why this podcast is fucking keeping us both going. Is it? No. A little bit. It's just our fucking it's our weekly fucked unleash. Yeah. Chess shit. Anyway, look, if you are struggling, I'm sure we'll have something in the links in the box. We can say, hey, look, fucking it's easy to say if you are struggling with your mental health or if you feel like you're depressed. Yeah. It is lifeline. You can call or you can even easier talk to a friend, talk to anyone. If you don't feel comfortable talking to a mate, talk to a stranger. It's strange how easy it is to talk to strangers about stuff. Oh, yeah. And because it's the thing of like, you don't know if you'll ever see them again. Yeah. And you can just completely unleash. Yeah, that's fantastic. It works. And I suggest trying it. If you're feeling fucking a little bit shitty, give it a go. You'll be surprised at how willing people are to listen. Yeah, but on another note, we're not talking about music, but we are talking about music exactly. Like this week we listened to James Brown at the Apollo. Yeah, it was something. It was something. Hey, look, it was well recorded. Was it? You know what? I'm fucking sick of here at 70s. That one. No, shortly. That wasn't the think, it was the thought. It was way fucking earlier than that. Because there was that one maybe it's a chick. There's one woman absolutely screaming her fucking lungs out. Like, it must have just been the scene of like, if you're at any live show, all the women are just going to fucking shriek. Shriek like fucking banshees. And I'm just like, man, just enjoy the music. You sing along and you go, yeah, clap. Yeah. You fucking finished a song. Or I liked the song. Yeah. I liked this song the entire time. So my nana seen The Beatles when she was a girl. She said that she couldn't hear the music when they were playing because everyone was screaming nonstop. It was a thing. It was the thing to do. Apparently no one understood how fucking live music worked. Yeah. From the sound of it, it was like, oh, man. Maybe that's what they do when they're listening to fucking music at home. They turn on the fucking radio or they put on a record and they just start screeching like fucking animals. They don't understand, oh, my God, the sound. And they're just fucking like they're little monkey brains that are just fucking frying and just they don't understand that music can come out, but it doesn't go back in. You know what I mean? Like, you can't scream back into the music, but they found a way to scream back into the music, Blake, and that. You know how they did that? Live recordings. Live recordings. Blake. And they just scream. They just scream constantly. That's what we're trying to say. Look, I listened to it once. Same. Yeah, same. I couldn't listen to it more than once because when I tried for my second time, I kept skipping. And then when I heard that same, it would have been like two or three fucking ladies that were just talking about but the music, if I could fucking put the screeching aside. Put the screeching aside. I'm going to hang up the vocal cords. Yeah. James Brown. I don't know. It was weird. It was definitely music. Yeah. Like, it was vibey sometimes. There was a lot real funky in that. But then I was just like, I don't know. That didn't hit me either. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Maybe at the time, maybe I didn't get it. That'd be that, baby. Because they were jamming a lot. They were just like sort of just going through the motions. It was almost like a late night talk show host with his band, that band's playing with James Brown. Because if he does, like any talking or anything, they'll have hits with the Trump is like, yeah. He'd be like, wow, bam. Ow. Bam. Ow. Bam. Yeah, that would be happening all the time. But then the fucking chicks would start joining in and then they would start screaming, you don't get the music part. Because they only did that live. You know what I mean? They only played that live. Yeah, that's it. It's a shame. It's a real shame. Because it was like you know what? I don't really get James Brown. I like that it was like jamming. And they were on point, too, which was really yeah, they were really tight. Yeah. All their timing was really on point. Like, you can tell that they were good musicians. It's not my cup of tea. No, neither. I can definitely say that. If you like that kind of music, you like that kind of music is good. That is niche sort of shit. I don't think that's anyone's favorite album. No, I don't think so either. It's so strange that it's on, like so many every top, it was one for five lists or something. Like how I don't get it. How? How could it be? Anyway? What are you screaming? Fucking women. What are you writing? I'd write it like five or six. I'm not going to say it's bad. It's not bad. No, five is average. But it's not good. But it's not good. Yeah. This is a fight for me. What I would like to say, because now that we've given the ratings, we're not going to talk about James Brown at the Live at the Apollo anymore. We're going to move on to the next album. But what I would like to say in between, this is Mark. I did get your message right before recording. And what I'd like to say is

we're not listening to any more live albums because that was our third in the trio of live albums. But if you want to listen to fucking friend of the show Mark's album's suggestions for live albums, make sure you check out Music in High Places by Unwritten Law and the Arctic Monkeys live at the Royal Albert Hall. Those are his suggestions. And I'll make sure that he fucking hears this. Because if he's caught up right now, he's literally like as recording this. He sent me right before we started recording this. He's up to date. Thanks for listening, Mark. You fucking beautiful. Human, by the way. Yeah, we'll try to suggest stuff because we will listen to it eventually. I'll be down for an Arctic Monkeys album at some point, maybe soon. But what we are going to listen to Beyonce is tell us whift what is it? What do we listen to? It's an album from 2009. It's called Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix. It's an indie BOP, man. There are songs on here that have 200 million plays. Everything else is a minimum of 12 million, 10 million double digit millions. Yeah, it's a lot of plays. It's a lot of stream that came out in 2009. Yeah, it's an old album, you know what I mean? It's 15 going on 15 years old now. Sure, man, I know the math. That's not 15. Next year it would be 14 years. So 13 years this year. Sorry, my apologies. I'm also pretty sure that's the same year Step Brothers came out. Wow. Yeah, I think you're right. I don't know.

I actually had 2008, I had that Physical album, the Wolfgang under those Phoenix album. Yes. Oh shit. I had it. I don't know where it is now. It's probably gone. Anyway, maybe I know where to wrap this up. I think we should probably wrap this up, right? I'm looking at stepbrothers on IMDb. Okay. You know the guy Chris Gardock? The kid who fucking makes Brennan eat white dog shit? Yes. Do you want to see him now? Show me after. No, you need to see this right fucking now. Oh my God. No. Change windows. Look at him now. Oh wow. He's red. He's jacked, dude. He's shredded. Well done. That's nuts. That's nuts. Well done. Anyway, change window. Anyway, you want to wrap this shit up or what? That's nuts. I want to save that picture and we're going to add that in so that everyone could see what we're looking at. Chris got lucky. Just make that the fucking title image,

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