Breach Your Mind
Explore life's depths and unlock the secrets of mental well-being on "Breach Your Mind." Join us as we navigate the intricacies of the human experience, offering insights, inspiration, and practical strategies for a fulfilling life. Get ready to breach the barriers of conventional thinking, embrace self-discovery, and nurture your mental health. Let's embark on a transformative journey together. Welcome to Breach Your Mind.
Breach Your Mind
Humor and Insight Along the Water's Edge
Ever set out for a simple morning walk only to find yourself deep in reflection about the curiosities of life? That's exactly what unfolded during my serene stroll around a southeast Georgia lake, and I've brought the entire experience to your ears. Lacing up for a five-mile trek, I muse on the underrated connection between physical activity and mental clarity. From the rhythmic strides alongside chirping birdlife to a comical debate with myself about the latest fitness fads, this episode is a blend of whimsy and wisdom, seasoned with the therapeutic backdrop of nature.
Who knew that a lakeside path could be a runway for the most intriguing of human and wildlife interactions? Prepare to chuckle as I narrate my encounter with an animated pair of geese and their flappy bravado, right before I share a perplexing moment with a plate carrier-wearing passerby, minus the plates. Plus, you'll be privy to my spontaneous research on the legitimacy of a catchy tune from "The Rookie," and indulge in light-hearted banter about the sleeping habits of ducks. It's the simple observations that often hold the most delight, and this episode is brimming with them.
As we wrap up our shared journey, I confess the physical toll of our miles walked together and the unexpected camaraderie I've felt with you, my listener, every step of the way. Ending on a high note with plans for "new boot goofing," I invite you to take a break from the rush of life and find solace in your own version of a lakeside walk—because sometimes, the best way to step forward is with a leisurely stroll. Join me on this auditory adventure where every step is a story, and every encounter is an invitation to laugh and ponder.
Team 1, stand by Copy. Team 1, standing by Breach breach breach. Alright, so I hadn't posted in a while and I figured to try to get back into it. We're going to do something a little different Today. I'm going to bring you along for one of my workouts. It's not one of my usual workouts workouts because I'm usually in the gym.
Speaker 1:Today it's really something rather easy. Well, it should be easy, but we're going to go for a little walk around a lake nearby and just kind of get some movement. We're going to try to knock out five miles, so we'll see how that goes. I've got the old beats in and it'll be a little sporadic. There's no like specific topic we're going to talk about, but just kind of some random conversation, and I don't really like talking to my phone in public because people look at you weird and I look at people weird when they do it. But that's what we're going to do. So it'll uh just be that some random conversations, probably some stupid moments that happen, whatever, and uh we'll just be popping in. I won't be recording the entire time, cause I'm not going to bore you with however long it takes me to knock out five miles. That's what we're doing today, so see you in a few. By the way, this is southeast georgia. It's 7 32 in the morning, with 87 humidity and 64 degrees. I'll have a few miles from here and the condensation is still very heavy on the windows, so there shall be some perspiration. Yeah, 87% humidity at 730 in the morning. God, I love the south. All right, so we have started. We've got the old Fitbit synced up and it's gonna help us keep track of our distance and, yeah, we're gonna see how this goes.
Speaker 1:You know, and all of our talks about mental health and stuff like that I don't know that I've ever really talked about the importance of finding something to do. That thing is urgent. Hold on, let me fix that, that's better. So I don't know that we've ever talked about it, about how important it is to find something to do with your time and how physical fitness can actually play a big role in that and your mental health. Um, you know, there's nothing more or nothing worse, at least for me to have my mind weighed down with a bunch of stuff and literally just be sitting around doing nothing and get lost in those thoughts. Like it's horrible. It's almost like torturing yourself over and over again because all you do is sit and think about whatever it is that's got you overwhelmed. So I try to keep myself occupied with other things. Not so I don't think about things or I don't get overwhelmed, but often enough the mere act of doing things allows me to release those stress levels. You know, I still deal with things and stuff like that, but it's in a more healthy manner and I'm not sitting around just kind of dwelling on it, and that's kind of what physical fitness helps with as well.
Speaker 1:It's like today, you know, I've been to Stradivarius. It's five miles. I've got a feeling that my feet are going to be killing me, but it's five miles, it's a beautiful day, the weather is great, other than my little bits of OCD seeing people walk different directions on the track. Yeah, it's going to be good. You know my little bits of OCD seeing people walk different directions on the track. Yeah, it's going to be good. You know I'm not really weighed down by anything right now, but it's still a stress relief and yeah, so I'm here for it. So, if nothing else, find something to do. A hobby, a side hustle physical fitness, that's a good one, but find something to do, see how that works out for you. So I've tried to record two separate times now and have stopped, mainly because there's people coming and I don't want to look like I've lost my mind walking around talking to my phone Though in today's time I guess it's kind of irrelevant with Bluetooth and all this other good crap but either way, I've stopped recording twice. And then, on top of that, I also realized that it wasn't my camera that was dirty, it was the rest of the screen that was all smudgy. So when I was trying to clean the camera, the camera wasn't the problem, it was blurry because the screen was smudgy. So I fixed that.
Speaker 1:And there's some guy who's got a good boy and I'm going to have to stop because here come some joggers. Be right in a minute. Oh, look at me, I jog. Yeah well, I'm fat, I'm old. In all honesty, that guy looked older than me, much more fit. He's jogging. That's pathetic. I'm walking. Hang that train's loud. Anyway. There's a guy who's got a good boy. He's walking around. I don't know what kind of dog it is, because I'm not a kind of person, but what kind of dog? It's a a large breed dog. Hello ducks. It's a large breed dog with like curly hair, like the whole dog is just this big curl. Either way, he ain't dirty because he keeps going down to the lake. Oh, there's a turtle, turtle Anyway, um, yeah, so, anyway, yeah, so just walking around saying good morning to people Morning.
Speaker 1:So there's an older gentleman out here today. He appears to have either had something happen to him or maybe he was born with it, but it looks like his style of walking or his gait is much different than everybody out here, almost like he has to force his legs to do it. This man is straight getting it around here Like he's walking, but it's like his form of power walking and he has straight getting it much older than me. That's inspirational, like to see him out here pushing himself like that.
Speaker 1:The fact that I'm coming up with excuses like the insole in my right tennis shoe is separated and it makes it uncomfortable to walk Maybe I shouldn't do five miles Makes all that stuff seem stupid. Honestly, it is. That's odd. Just a random sweatshirt sitting there and now, because of what I did, I'm looking around for a person to go get it. Because of what I did, I'm looking around for a person to go get it. They're on them, but they're a duck. Where is the person? It's the ducks. The ducks did it. I see you, mallard, what's up? Yeah, yeah, where's the guy? The person? Nah, no, no, no, all right, I got gotta make this one quick. There's people coming, so I review these little clips while I'm walking. It's entertaining.
Speaker 1:But I review them after I get them, recording them, just to see if they're worth keeping, because, let's be honest, I'll edit on the fly. And where was I going with that Crap? Where was I going with that? Yeah, I'll come back when I remember. Oh, yeah, that's right, I forgot, um, I had to go back and watch the last one, um, so I was reviewing the one where, you know, the ducks were like coming to me. I don't know if they're trying to attack me or if they thought I had bread, but she's getting really close, um. So I don't know if they're trying to attack me or get bread, doesn't matter, they were coming after me. I was about it. We thought I won anyway.
Speaker 1:So I was reviewing the video and the cars driving by. This, mike, apparently, is really good. So I'm reviewing it and I'm on a part of the lake now where I'm away from the traffic, and yet it sounds like cars are driving by me. I had to stop myself and look around because I thought there was a car near me. Stupid me forgot that I was actually recording that. All right, she's getting close. I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I was just reviewing that last little clip and if you back up the video and you listen, you're going to hear like a clop, like clop, clop, clop. I don't know what it was at first and I realized that that is my footsteps. This microphone apparently is so good that it's picking up my footsteps from my tennis shoes and my concrete. And now all I can think is it sounds like I'm wearing hard-soled shoes, like something with a hard heel. And now my brain goes hey, you sound like a horse walking down the road. Now I'm thinking it's like clippity-clop, clippity-clop, clippity-clop, and it makes me wonder can other people hear it? Like when I walk by them? Do they hear clop, clop, clop as the old fat guy walks by? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I also don't know where the guy with the dog went. The dog with the like permanent perm, I don't know where he went. And the old man who's walking a little different, he is still getting it. The look on his face says he's wearing down, but this track is roughly about a mile and I passed him three times. I think three times, yeah. So I know he's done at least a mile and a half because we meet like on, even on other ends. So I know he's done at least a mile and a half, even on other ends. So I know he's done at least a mile and a half. He's still getting it.
Speaker 1:And I'm over here with a heart rate of well now I don't know. Hold on, I need your help. We've gone a little over a mile and a quarter. Heart rate's about 106. And you're seeing, I've got a 19-minute mile mile pace. Is that good? Like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I hear other people I can run a mile and a half in seven minutes. That sounds fast to me, like driving. I'm like, oh look, I went a mile in less than a minute. So saying like you went a mile, mile and a half, seven minutes seems like a lot. I don't know that. I've ever run a seven minute mile. I think the best was like nine something. I'm not a runner. I think I almost died. It's like an out of body experience, like I didn't want to be in my body because I didn't like it and they didn't like me, something like that. I don't really remember. Anyway, we'll be back, alright, this is weird. So, like, where'd everybody go? Like there was a couple older guys walking together. There was the old guy with the different walk, there was this jogger, these other two joggers, and I'll see them now. Like I looked down at my phone and now I'm up and now they're not here. Oh wait, nevermind, there's the jogger, I'll be back, okay.
Speaker 1:So two quick things. One really not sure if the people that just walked by me were referring to me or not, mainly because I haven't got earbuds in, I can't really hear much. But as they were coming by, because I was waiting to press record for a different reason, as they were coming by, I could hear them talking because there was no sound, at least coming through the earbuds. There's obviously sound everywhere else, but there was no sound and I could hear them talking. And just as they passed me, I hear something said. I couldn't really make out what was being said. Then I hear what's up, bro, that's where me, I don't know. Like that side of me, that's like self-conscious, thinks you were referring to me, like you're looking at me like hey, if that's the case, like why are you judging, bro? I'll know you.
Speaker 1:Secondly, does anybody know this is not a commercial free fare? What are y'all doing? There's no rock plant over here, okay, anyway, does anybody know what the flowers on top of lily pads are called Like? Do they have a different name or is it just like oh, it's a lily pad? Kind of think through this. I'm not talking about like a nerdy scientific name. I'm talking about like does it have an actual name? Or is it called a lily? Because I know there is a lily, like all kind of a lilies. Yeah, I see another lot. There's all kind of lilies, but these are flowers on top of lily pads. I've said lily too much. It sounds funny now. So, like, what's the name for them? And I only brought that up because, the way my brain's one is, there's a lock on there, anyway.
Speaker 1:So I was about ready to record and I stopped because there was these two kayakers that have now entered the game and they're like paddling down the lake. That's all fine and good. Like the whole bank, all the way around the lake is covered in lily pads. This is not that place. Why are there locks on the fence? It's like random locks, like this isn't that place. It's like, oh, this is our little wish. Like nobody comes to our place, and it's like, oh, we're gonna do a wish here. There's nothing magical about this other than like scenery.
Speaker 1:I don't know, anyway, what was I talking about? Oh, so they're paddling around and I was getting ready to record, but I didn't because people and I uh, oh great, somebody else close but I didn't, because people and I was like, all right, well, they'll pass soon. Because they're paddling, lo and behold, they turned the kayaks so they could look at the lily pads, like, as they're getting close to me and I'm wanting to record, well, you want round two. Duck, what's up? What's up, bro, okay, anyway. So, yeah, just weird, really weird. Maybe I'm just weird, I don't know. All right, well, it's happened. I've now been looked at like the weird guy because the other person and I was like, look more people.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, she's apparently a fast walker and as I looked at the ducks, it was like talking about round two with the ducks. She apparently had already crossed the road from the parking lot to the little pavilion and was within earshot of me talking crap to some ducks. Like I have right to Because, like I won Apex, but like she's seeing me talk crap to these ducks, like I don't know her, she don't know me, but now she's on this course with me and now when, thankfully, she's going the other way hope she's not a jogger I'll see her faster than now. When I see her, she'd be like oh look, there's the weirdo that talks to ducks, which is funny, because there's a duck out here who and I'm not speaking ill of the duck for any of y'all to get upset about it but this duck's face literally looks like he was bobbing for apples and hot fry grease, like all around his face it's just bubbly, and I think it's supposed to look that way because there's another one on the other side of the lake that looks identical, at least identical to me. Like I'm not trying to be that guy, I'd be like y'all look the same, but like they do, they look the same there. Yeah, we're not going there. Nope, nope, not me, alright. So update we are about two and a quarter miles in and heart rate's up to about 112. Pace has improved. It's like 1830 something. Not looking again, though for a minute my Fitbit quit picking up heartbeat, so I'm not sure if there's like a connection issue, or maybe I just died there for a minute, but either way, that's the update on that.
Speaker 1:Also, kayakers, yeah yeah, I just I don't get it. Like why, just right there, like 10 feet off the bank, staring at lily pads? It's like they look the same. Like that lily pad's a little yellow, that one's more green, that one's got a flower, oh, look one that's more yellow, that one's a little brown. They look the same. And you've done it since you entered the lake. I don't get it. Like it's a competitive side of me. Like if I'm in this lake in a kayak with someone else in a kayak, like we might start out all nice and everything, but eventually I'm going to splash you with someone else in a kayak. Like we might start out all nice and everything, but eventually I'm gonna splash you. We are going to be racing across this lake. Like, if you participate or not, like I will still try to outrun you because it's not actual running, I'm going to splash you. And if that means, oh, she's going the same way as me and she is a jogger, this is happening, maybe the swans will get her, then she'll know I was talking shit, I'll be back.
Speaker 1:She's a runner, she's a track star, not really Like. She should have passed me way before she did, but she's either doing hit training or she's not like a long distance runner. Because she wasn't that far behind me. I just happened to check behind me and see her. She was jogging here. She was jogging, so I stopped and walked. She hadn't showed up. I'm like checking again because, like for all I know, she sees the weird guy talking to ducks and now she's plotting. So I got to be like what you doing when you at, not today? Um, but then she comes past me and she's jogging and she gets maybe 20 yards ahead of me and she starts walking. And she was only about 30 yards behind me when I first noticed her and she was jogging. So now she's walking again. Like I can get behind that. I can get behind that workout. Like I'm not going to last as long as she do, but I can jog for a little bit and then walk a lot and then jog a little bit and then walk a lot more, and that's what I've been doing Somewhere along here.
Speaker 1:By the way, there's an egg. I don't know if it's a duck egg or goose egg. Definitely ain't no chicken egg. Have anybody else out there ever had duck or goose eggs and are they tasty, like, do they taste like chicken eggs? Because they're all birds, they lay eggs and I'm wondering if the duck egg or goose egg that's a pacifier, some little baby's walking around without their binky. But I'm wondering if all these eggs taste the same or if they're different.
Speaker 1:Like I'm sure you all have seen how big an ostrich egg is. That thing's massive. It's like sugar's running again, yeah, I'm not doing that, but an ostrich egg, it's like one of those mini pumpkins. That thing's huge. I really want to try one, but at the same time, like I really don't, because I look at an ostrich and I have some big-ass eyes. But at the same time, like I really don't, because I look at an ostrich and I have some big-ass eyes. But anyway, what was I talking about Before the eggs? No, I don't know. Figure it out in a minute, I guess.
Speaker 1:Is there a baton in your pocket? Are you just happy to see me? That's a song going through my head right now. Sounds a little weird, I'm sure, and I ain't no singer. However, it's a catchy little tune If any of you have ever watched the show the Rookie, which completely, just not even remotely close to reality. But it's an entertaining show. The acting is great. I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1:But there's a scene in there where the officer and his trainee go to this house, or something, at least I think the first time they come across them it's you know they're there for a different reason. There's this garage band sitting there and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the garage band starts up and you hear the lead singer you know talking about is that a baton in your pocket? Are you just happy to see me? Anyway, it's a fun little song and kind of stuck on my head. Well, a season or two later they get sent to a noise complaint and they get out and it's all quiet. He's like maybe we missed it. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, he hears the guitar band start up, or the garage band start up again, and the song starts again. But this time they've added like this little choir that comes out of the house singing, some lady pops out of a van playing a guitar getting her little guitar riff in, and it's interesting, it's funny.
Speaker 1:So I got to thinking about it the other day and I actually went to YouTube to see if it was an actual song. It does actually, you know, have like a an artist for it, like, but was it a song before the show or did they create it specifically for the show? Either way, it's a fun little song. It's called daddy cop. It's funny and that's like on my head and repeat right now. So get a chance, go to youtube, look up daddy cop, because it's actually a fun little song and it's on my head and repeat right now. And I think I'm gonna go listen to it because I I recorded it.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna listen to it and maybe I'll think about something else to say why do ducks sleep with their faces under their wings, like they're not even covering their eyes, so it's not like they're trying to sleep and all that Like one? It would be uncomfortable for me because I don't have like the whole snakey neck. But like what if you had like a bad bo day, like you got some body funk going on or some body odor build up for ducks, don't? They don't bathe like us, like they're not using an old spice like me, um, but like they're just breathing in like their own essence while they sleep. That doesn't sound very attractive to me. It doesn't sound very attractive at all. Oh, there's the geese. The geese look like they got pants that are sagging. What's up, bro? You missed leg day saying Alright. So we are over halfway.
Speaker 1:We are about three and a quarter miles into our little trip and it dawned on me that days like today, when you're out, you're doing something that I guess you enjoy, when you're out, you're doing something that I guess you enjoy. It's a beautiful day, low stress, it's a good time for reflection, and just before, maybe a minute or so before I hit record, I too was reflecting, and what I was reflecting on was the fact that, like right now, there is some friction in the nether regions, but I can't really explain and I don't know if it's because a box ofs are ridden up or if it's from my workout pants, I don't know. I'm reflecting on that right now and I'm thinking what could I have done to prevent this? Like the obvious answer it's about, like talking to gym rats like they go oh well, you know how do you not pull a muscle? Uh, doing a leg workout? It's like, oh, do chest or do arms? Like the obvious answer is like don't walk. Like don't try to walk five miles and your thighs won't be hot enough to make some pancakes or some flapjacks and that sounds really good right now. But all those carbs might be bad, but the thought of them and the syrup were delicious.
Speaker 1:By the way, one of those gooses, like I thought I think he wanted to smoke, like as I come by, you know, stuck his head up, had his little beak out and everything. Like I don't think he knows he don't got teeth and I'll throw hands like that beak, you might pinch me, but like, bro, I'm coming back with some fire and I got some pretty strong legs. We can turn that little snake neck into a pool noodle real quick, I'm just saying. But like he stuck his head up and like he started talking smack and then the goose that was with him started, started talking smack, like I don't know what they were saying because I don't speak goose. If any of y'all do, maybe I'll record it. Y'all can tell me what he was saying. But like I felt like it wasn't good, like he was like sitting there challenging, like come on, bro, like let's do this goose style. I don't think this style goose style. It's like Gustav, so like the same but different. I don't know. Anyway, all right, get back at it.
Speaker 1:The kayakers have finished their journey. They have slowly in like the longest kayak event ever finally made it around the lake and have decided to call it quits. After like three quarters of a lap, they've just drug the kayaks back up their little tiny boat ramp. That's their calling it quits. Kudos, kudos, beautiful seeing you folks here today. I stand corrected.
Speaker 1:The female of the group has apparently decided to take a walk. Either that or she needs to use the restroom, because the boat ramp is on the opposite side of where the bathrooms are. And uh, so I'm now running from her and I've got someone in front of me. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place and somewhere. I don't know where she is. Oh, there, she is coming around the corner, the jogger's coming and I've got the geese I'm coming up to next. So, like I got the geese, I'm coming up to next. So like I want to record when I go by these geese, because I feel like one's going to tempt me. He's going to try me, like I feel it. And if he goes after the lady, I know it's nothing personal against me, that's just the life he lives. But oh man, she peeled off, so I got to find this out myself. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, the jogger stopped and the kayaker is not as fast as me, which means I'm going to record through this whole process of walking past these geese, like I'm trying to respect nature. You don't understand. I'm trying to respect these geese that are doing goose things, but so I'm trying to respect nature, you don't understand. I'm trying to respect these geese. They're out here doing goose things, so I'm going to give him a little wide berth, but oh, there he goes. He's raising that head already. Like put both feet down, don't? Oh, you're the one that wants to smoke, huh, yeah, let me show you what he's doing. Look at him. I'm going. I can't even do nothing. He's just trying to get smoke for no reason, like if there weren't people around me and that goose might have just had it out. Like I had to put the phone down. I see catching both hands, grabbing by the head.
Speaker 1:Is she wearing a visor or an oculus? Like if you're out here walking around the lake wearing an oculus, like that's og, like that's that's taking it to a next level. You've gone beyond 4D. Nope, it's just my eyes. It's a baseball cap, it's just white. Are we done yet?
Speaker 1:Alright, we are four miles in and starting to fiddle a little bit. Feet are heating up and I know that my briefs have not crept up. It feels like it, like it's good and warm there. There's some friction and my pace has slowed down. I can tell that we're at about 19.45 a mile now and, yeah, but positive side that we are on the downside of it.
Speaker 1:And if right now I were to turn around, well, let me get around the other side of the lake. The positive side is, if I were to get around to the other side of the lake which I'm going to because we're this far in, we're finishing five miles. But if I were to get around to the other side of the lake and decide, you know what I'm done, I ain't swimming across but to walk back around, it would be the same as if I continued walking. Ergo, I would still get my five miles. So we're at that point where we would get it regardless. Well, almost, but we're almost at the point where we would get it regardless. Well, almost, but we're almost at the point where we would get it regardless. It ain't much further, but even at that, I've still got enough to get all the way around, because it's only like the feet have only just started to feel it and in just talking to you my pace has picked up. So you guys are kind of giving me a little, a little oomph to move forward.
Speaker 1:And on the plus side, I no longer have the kayakers, the jogger I don't know what happened to her. We've got a couple of new players entered the game. They're going opposite directions so I'll see them pretty easy. I don't know who that cat is over there. Yeah, so like recording-wise I'm wide open now, like short of somebody popping out of the woods, which that would be interesting, short of somebody popping out of the woods like I got unrestricted recording mode now, like I know I know you could record with people around anyway. Yeah, you didn't see the look I got from the jogger when she heard me talking smack to some ducks, and I should have saved that smack talk for the geese, because that one goose you seen him, it her, I don't know what it identifies as, but he on the phone, he loud too. I hear him on the other side of the lake, but maybe I'm loud. Can they hear me? Like that one can't, because they are heavily engaged in conversation on the phone or to themselves, I don't know. Well, that's a female and she's got some pace. I've got to pick it up a little bit because she's going to catch up and ruin my mode, anyway, but I should have saved the smack talk for that one goose because, like you saw, there was two of them and it was that one, like they swapped places. The, the one that was like, oh, sup bro, like he was chill, he was on the other side, but the one that was like now we doing this, he was on the side, closer and they switched roles, and the sup bro, he was on one foot, that's the one I was talking to and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, oh, who is this? All right, we got another player in the game. I don't know this person's walking, but uh, yeah, yeah, we're almost done there, we're getting there and I'll give you my pathetic time once I'm done.
Speaker 1:I know, like a lot of times, people can't control how they look. I can't control how I look. Probably could, if I took better care of myself, like use some skin care products, stuff like that. I'm not. But how do you just look angry Like this person was walking? It's a beautiful day. This person just look angry, like this person was walking. It's a beautiful day. This person just looked angry, like even smiled at me, and it was an angry smile. Like I feel like this person like generally not an angry person, but the face says I'm mad, like is that? Do you look mad while you're asleep, do you? Are you a mad sleeper like you? Just your face just says like I don't know, I don't get it.
Speaker 1:Like it takes all different kinds to make the world go round, but I don't, like I have a receiving headline, so I try not to have a hairstyle that like looks like I'm trying to cover it up or like makes it look more pronounced. I try not to do that. I take some steps, not much I'm actually really lazy. Do that, I take some. I take some steps, not much I'm actually really lazy. But like I feel like if I had a face that just looked angry all the time, like I do like a little different hairstyle or I don't know, like how would you do that? Like if you just walked around looking angry like what you upset about I'm not upset. Well, why don't you smile? I am smiling Like I'm sure she's okay with it, and I hope she is Because, like, that's her life, that's her style. But you just look angry. I wonder, like, are you Like? I don't know.
Speaker 1:We're almost there, by the way. We've got technically two more corners to negotiate and we are in the stretch. We do have to get past like Goose Hulk Hogan. Over there I don't see anybody else high stepping away from that goose or nothing. So it has got to be personal. That goose has just got to like, not like me. I don't even know that goose. I didn't do nothing to them. I'm just out here enjoying nature like they are. That's fine. We're fitting a leave too. Yeah, that goose might get it Like.
Speaker 1:I might have to like stick and run and hopefully nobody out here got my tag number or nothing but like, if he's stuck, is it a justifiable defense to kick a goose in the neck like? Oh, he tried to attack me. I kicked him in the neck and I don't know. The jogger was coming up. I think she had her head buds in. It's a different jogger, not the same one. She chose pink too. I don't know why, and she also likes to play softball. Y'all know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:But uh, anyway, okay, is it a justifiable defense to kick a goose in the neck if it tries to get you? And if you kick it in the neck, would that really do anything? Or would it like spaghetti noodle around your leg? Like what? If you kick a goose in the neck and it does like this little whip action where it whips around and wraps around your leg and now, like the goose beak, is like nipping at you? I'm sweaty, so I'm not sweating it too bad, but like what, if all? Right. So we did it, made it five miles and took us an hour and 36 minutes and I feel like that's entirely too long for five miles. But I was walking and I wasn't really putting a whole lot of effort in. I was just kind of getting the movement in. Heart rate was up, so does still count as a workout and spent some time outside. So either way, I'm good with it. Um, I am going to say that I do sometimes try not to be very judgmental. However, there is someone who has just come out here to, I'm presuming, go around the track. I'm presuming go around the track and he has showed up with a plate carrier on.
Speaker 1:For those of you who don't know what a plate carrier is a plate carrier is basically just like some kind of canvas material or something along those lines, whatever the company decides to use which holds body armor. The specific type of plate carriers hold different types, but in general you're talking level 3, 3a, 3a plus and higher plates, which can be ceramic or steel. Some offer the ability to have soft armor underneath, which is just like several layers of kevlar stacked on top, wrapped up, and that's called soft armor. So they allow you to have soft armor underneath, which just gives you an extra padding if you ever take a round in your plates. So this guy shows up with a plate carrier on and to those that don't know, it's like oh look, he's got a vest on, but yeah, that's a whole plate carrier and he's got no plates in it. At most he's got some soft armor in it, but there's no plates in it.
Speaker 1:So the thought in my mind immediately goes to why are you wearing it Like? I got nothing against you wearing your plate carrier to come out here and knock out a mile, two miles, I've done it with five miles. I've got no problem with that. I keep my plates in mine and it's heavy Like it's it. It weighs a good bit because I've got steel plates, but I leave the steel plates in it while I'm going around. Matter of fact, just about everything I carry on my plate carrier. I leave on it when I'm using it for something like this.
Speaker 1:Yet he has got a slick plate carrier with a name tape, an American flag and maybe some soft armor. There's no plates in that carrier whatsoever. So it makes me wonder why he's doing it. Did you seriously just come out here to look cool? Come out here to look cool because if you're looking for a basically empty plate carrier to add anything to your workout, you are kidding yourself like kudos for getting out here and moving. I'm all for that, because a lot of us lead too much of a sedimentary life and that leads to poor health and a whole bunch of other problems.
Speaker 1:But seriously, bro, why are you wearing the plate carrier? Like, like, part of me says you know what? Maybe he just doesn't know. Maybe he just doesn't know that, like, the point of it is to add weight, to have you know, 50, 60, 70, 80 pounds on you while you're doing it. But then there's the other part of me which thinks that he literally just did it because he's going to be in public and he wants to look cool. By the way, he's also got that, that shortcut stash. So, yeah, anyway, ours is done and I'm gonna go home, get a shower and, uh, I got some new boots. So I plan on putting on my new boots and doing some new boot goofing. They are not genuine ostrich, but I'm gonna put on my new boots and I'm gonna go around and get some kicks and, uh, I'm gonna have a wonderful day. Hope you do too. Thanks, guys, bye.
