The Harland Highway - 484: Maybe the HEALTHIEST podcast EVER!

Episode Date: April 15, 2013

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Okay, here we go, ladies and jajajajaj gentlemen. Wow. This is Harlem Williams, first of all. I'm not even sure it's me because I'm a little out of sorts. This is the Harland Highway podcast, and I'm not even sure it is. You might not even think it is after you hear today's episode, because today is an oddball episode. but this may be one of the best episodes ever

because this episode involves making you a better person and I'm urging you to listen to it from start to finish because this whole podcast is about helping you. Uh-huh. The whole thing, this is the first time I've ever done a podcast where it's all on one topic. And guess what, it was triggered by a phone call from one of you guys, one of you pavement pounders, left me a message on the voicemail at

323739-4330, and he caused me to go off in a really good way. His phone call, I'm hoping, leads to huge benefits for you. So please listen to the whole thing. I hope it inspires you, and I hope it gets you to a better place in your life. This is the Harland Highway Welcome to the Harland Highway All right, let's get this sucker going, huh? You're causing a major disturbance on my time.

It's the Harland Highway. What's up, Bra? If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make it our time? I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. Am I hallucinating here? Just what in the hell do you think you're doing? You just made a wrong turn. On to the Harland Highway.

This is your fucking wake-up call, man. You're riding down the Harland Highway with Harland Williams. In 30 seconds, you'll be dead. I'll blow this place up and be home in time for cornflakes. Hey, Harlan, long-time listener, first-time caller. I had a quick question for you. Oh, by the way, my name is Abbott. Hope you got that, because I think I do.

Anyway, I'm looking to get back in shape and wanted to know if you had any tips for a workout routine or a workout regimen. Hopefully, you had some tips. He seemed to be a real get-up-and-go kind of person. I just wanted to know if you had any tips. Thanks. Bye. Okay, excellent way to kick off the show. Thinking about our health, Lurdies and Snurdle Flurdens.

Abbott, thank you. Good question. Love that name, by the way. It conjures up so many thoughts. Like, it conjures up an Abbott, which is like, isn't that a place where nuns go? It conjures up Abbott and Costello, comedians, classic comedic actors, movie stars, all kinds of things. But good question, man. Let me tell you about my tips, my workout regimen. things like that since you asked maybe it'll help you maybe it'll inspire you maybe you'll go on the internet and look at a picture

of me and go no thanks I hope not man but my first tip is and this is a tough one for me to even say this man because I love this stuff stop drinking soft drinks

put down the pop put down the soda and anyone that knows me, he's like, yeah, right, Williams. But I go through fits and starts where I cold turkey and I quit completely. And then I go through little things where I'll have a little sip, like maybe one pop every two weeks. Or sometimes I just fall off the wagon and just drink it every day. But the older I get, the harder it is to stay in shape because we have less time to do stuff, I really try to stay away from the pop.

And I'm telling you, every time I stop drinking pop, I drop three to five pounds. And I love the stuff. The only place I really allow myself to do it now is when I go to a movie. I got to have a popcorn and a pop. That's my little treat to myself. So stop the pop, stop the donuts, stop the food that you love. And when I say stop, I don't mean cold turkey. I mean, have it here and there.

Treat yourself. and again, I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a doctor. These are just my humble tips for what they're worth. But it's common sense, okay? Physical fitness is really common sense. There's no magic pill, there's no magic to Jenny Craig, there's no magic, there's no easy way to do it. There's no lazy man's way to get in shape and get rid of fat. There's only one principle.

If you fall in a lake, what are you going to do? Just sink and float, or are you going to start swimming to the shore? This is my analogy. Someone throws you in a lake. You fall out of a boat. The boat's sinking. You see the shore. Are you going to swim to the shore?

You're just going to sit there and slowly drown. Well, that's working out, man. You either get your ass up and do something. and go to the gym, play sports, do something, or you're just going to get out of shape. That's all, it's that friggin' simple. Quit thinking of all these shortcuts and ways you can do it and blah, blah, blah with the magic pills and the exercise machines

and the, oh, it's all a bunch of crap. What you need to do is get a consistent workout regimen going okay and you got to stick with it and you got to cut back on the crap foods like i said don't cut them out completely if there's something that give you pleasure in life just go from if you're at a 10 with your crap foods scale it down to a three you will notice the difference make it make it that you treat yourself instead of just on a daily basis eating crap And believe me, I love donuts. I love all that stuff.

I love the same stuff you love. But just scale it way the hell back, and then you can still do it. And by the way, when you're working out, when you're exercising, even when you do eat that stuff, it doesn't stick to you as much as when you're not exercising. When you're not exercising, you eat and everything just kind of grows out. It's like fill in a barrel full of water Or fill in a balloon full of water It just starts expanding

But when you're exercising It's like there's little holes in the balloon And you put the water in But the water's kind of seeping out of the little holes So you're maintaining But I don't want to preach anything to you here I'm just telling you what kind of works for me But here's my workout schedule

Okay Here's my tip for you working out Abbott and anyone else that cares. I take the attitude that I'm not going to go to the gym and be Mr. Universe. I'm not going to be the front page of a men's fitness magazine model. I'm just a guy. I'm an average guy like you with an average physique. And I'm not going to try and be like this ripped up six-pack, vainy, like guy with zero fat.

and, you know, come on, man. Just so, you know, to get that look, unless you're born that way, which some people are, God bless them. Most of us aren't. But to get that way is a full-time job. You have to commit to going to the gym almost every day. You've got to commit to drinking and eating supplements

and all kinds of stuff. It is a big, big, big job to be ripped. up like that okay so most of us don't have that time or don't want to make that effort so first tip is get that off the board my approach is you know what i just want to be healthy i don't want to be overweight i want to be able to wear my clothes comfortably when i look in the mirror i don't want to be repulsed i want to have some tone i want to feel physical i want to know that if if suddenly i had to do a hike or go on a run or wrestle a tiger. I would have some muscle.

And so I go to the gym and I don't put a big ton of expectations on myself. I go, you know what? I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go every other day. I'm not going to go every day. I'm going to go every other day. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do a half hour of walking on the treadmill.

Yeah. I don't run on the treadmill. It's too much work. And from what I've read, from what I've heard, it's bad on the joints. It's bad on the knees because you are running up in the air and crushing down on your knees. And it puts a lot of stress on the old joints. So from what I've read, they say it's healthier to speedwalk. And I've also read, and I don't know if this is true because I'm not a specialist,

but I've also read that it delivers the same results that you burn just as many calories, maybe a little more. I don't know. You can read up on that. But whether it does or doesn't, it does burn calories. It gets you sweating. It gets your blood moving. It gets your circulation going.

It gets everything motoring. So I start with a simple half-hour power walk. I put the speed at 4, 4.0. which is an aggressive walk. It's not too crazy where I'm winded, but it's strenuous, but I'm not like, I'm not breathing like that. I'm getting a sweat gone.

I'm getting my heart gone. I do a half hour of that. I listen to my iPod or my iPad or whatever the hell it is. I listen to my eyes. And it helps a hell of a lot if you have some music on. Let me tell you. It really helps. If you don't have an iPod or whatever they're called,

MP3 player, get some of your favorite tunes. I recommend tunes that get you going, like tunes you would dance to or you have a groove because they can really motivate you when you're on the treadmill. And a half hour is good because it's long, but it's not too long. It's like, for the time you're halfway done, you're like, oh, I don't want to do this anymore. And you look down, you're like,

Oh, well, I only have 15 minutes left. You know, I'm already halfway through. I might as well finish. And sometimes I do an hour, but that's more of a commitment. But my thing is trying to get it in and out of the gym in about maybe an hour and 15 minutes, an hour and 10 minutes. So I start with that, okay? And then I go down to the Nautilus machines and the weight.

and all that, and here's what I do. I do four exercises, okay? I do four exercises. I do two arm exercises, biceps and triceps. And then I do one like shoulders and chest, and then I do another one, just chest. And I try to keep my upper body in good shape because my legs are in good shape because I do a lot of sports.

I do a lot of tennis. I do a lot of racquetball. So my legs that don't need as much maintenance as my upper body. And so what I do is I do four sets of each exercise. So if I'm doing curls, I do four sets of curls. And when I'm finished the fourth set, I do one bonus machine. So here's what I do. I'll sit down.

I'll do a set of curls. And then I'll wait one minute. I'll look up at the clock on the wall and I'll wait exactly one minute and then I'll do the second set. I'll wait one minute and then I put a minute between each set except right after the fourth one

I'll go do a random machine like a shoulder or a curl machine from my abdomen or anything. You pick it. And I just do one set on that. So four repetitive sets on the first exercise, and then one bonus thing. So that's five reps on a machine.

And then I take two minutes in between, and then I go to my next machine, and I do the exact same thing. Four reps, and then one bonus. Two minutes to the next machine, four reps, one bonus. Then I go to my last machine, four reps, one bonus, and I'm out. And that's it, man. And that usually takes me between the treadmill and my four machines usually takes me about an hour and ten minutes maybe, which isn't bad.

And I walk out of there and I'm not huge. I'm not bulked up, but you know what? I'm doing exercise. And when you do exercise, I'm telling you, it helps with everything. it helps with your sleep it helps if you ever have depression or you're feeling in a bad mood or your your creativity is low exercising affects all those things you you will notice if you don't believe me just get into an exercise routine and you will feel and see the changes your sex life for you men your your little friend seems to work a little better um all that stuff and it's just it's as good for you mentally

and psychologically as it is good for you physically. So if you're sitting around going, ah God, I don't want to do what do I got to get my body in shape for? Well remember, it's not just your body. It's your mind. It's your brain. It's your psychology. It's your spirit.

Getting out there and going to the gym regular. You can't do it once a week and go, well, I went to the gym. I did. why don't I feel good uh-uh to see any results physically mentally any way you want to cut it you got to go you got to make the commitment and get up and go and so I go and I do my thing and I don't go in there with a ton of expectation on myself I don't go I'm going to run a marathon in a week I don't go I look like Brad Pitt when he was 19 I don't do anything in fact I kind of go the other way.

I go, ah, I'm not really doing much. You know, I kind of adopt that attitude. I was like, oh, well, yeah, I'll go to the gym, but what am I really doing? I mean, I'm only going for an hour and ten minutes every other day. I mean, and you know why I'm doing that? I'm kind of tricking myself. Because guess what?

Every time you kind of look up in the mirror or you feel your own bicep or, you know, somebody kind of grabs you or somebody. sees you you feel it people are like hey man you you look great you've been working out you lost some weight or you catch yourself at a certain angle and you're like hey i look kind of muscular i look kind of what's going on and believe me you know if you put this low expectation on yourself and you just go to the gym and it's kind of a throwaway uh guess what the results show up regardless of what your mindset is. And all of a sudden, without really thinking about it too hard

and pressuring yourself too much, suddenly you're getting into good physical shape and you're looking good. Now, there is the whole power of the psychological mind where it's like, you know, when you are lifting weights, you should probably have a positive energetic mindset because I think that translates to your body's chemistry, chemistry when you're actually doing the lifting and the curling you should be going all right

this is good i feel good you know you shouldn't be sitting there going oh whatever i don't want you to work out like eore whatever i guess i'll lift the weight too brother i'm just saying when it comes to you know wandering around in society and thinking you have to look amazing and look good and you got to go to the gym for everyone else no just do it as a throw well i guess i'll go to the gym today, do my thing. Throw it away. Yeah, I went to the gym, did my thing. Don't make it a big deal. And it's just kind of there on the background. And then before you know it, you're looking good, man. Hey, everybody. Who wants to have better sex? No? Yes. Yes. The answer is yes. You always want to have better sex. That's what you want it to be better, not worse. Trust me.

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and 100% free shipping, code Harland. Have fun. Don't throw your back out. But the key is cut down the crap, the crap eating, get up off your ass and go. And believe me, the more you do it, the more you're going to feel good about doing it. Look, I hate working out.

I'll be honest. I hate it. I don't like going and lifting weights and doing all that. But it's just something you just got to, get into the mindset of doing it. And it's like, do you have to sit down every day and eat food? Yeah, you do. Why?

Because you will be unhealthy if you don't. Do you have to drink water? Yes, you do. Why? Because you'll die. It's not good for your body to not eat or drink. So you do it. And you've got to adopt that attitude.

It's like, it's not good for my body to not exercise. It's not good for my mind. It's not good for anything. I'm sitting around making myself unhealthy. So you got to do it, man. And then I'll give you one more tip when you're actually lifting your weights. And this is not my method. This is actually a method that I learned.

I was reading a book called Body for Life a number of years ago. And it's something that you might want to use in your workout. But this comes from a certified trainer. This tip comes from a health expert that I actually use and I enjoy. And when I look around the gym, I don't see a lot of people practicing this. But try this with your workouts. When you're doing your lifts, your curls, let's say you've got 80 pounds and you're doing some bicep curls.

A lot of people is they strain to lift the weight up, but then when they're letting the weight down, they just let it go. So it's strain, strain, strain, drop. Strain, strain, strain, strain, drop. And what I learned from this guy's book is he said, when you just let it drop, there's no resistance. And his method is, instead of just letting that way drop, it's strain, strain, strain, pick it up,

and then strain, strain, strain, let it down slow. Strain up, strain down. And when you think about it, it's like you're doing a double lift. your muscles are having to work really hard to lower that weight if you do it slowly because there's going to be resistance. Gravity is going to be pulling that weight down, and your muscles are going to be fighting to slow gravity. And so what you're doing, in essence, is kind of you get all this muscle burn

pulling the weight up, curling the weight, and now by letting it down slowly, you're getting muscle burn, letting it down slowly and you'd be amazed I watch other people work out and most people just let it drop but if you watch me work out I I strain to get it up and then I let it down real slow and you can feel it you can feel your muscles burning and again that's not my tip that comes from a certified guy so uh you know I recommend it you know I mean you do what you want but I think it's uh it's It's helpful, and it kind of doubles your workout a little bit, if you know what I mean, because you're doing, you're kind of burning muscle in both directions.

So it's a good thing, you know, based on my experience. Again, don't do anything, you know, I'm saying perbatim here. I'm not like a licensed doctor or trainer or anything like that. These are just my methods that I use. You can use them or not use them. It's up to you. But I liked it that Abbott, you know, asked me about this. And, you know, maybe this will inspire you, Abbott, to get into the gym.

And maybe some other people. Because, you know what? All of us should be in the gym. Okay. There's people going, oh, I can't afford the gym. That's $35 of mine. That's $50 a month. Well, okay, let me ask you this.

How much do you spend on beer a month? How much do you spend on cigarettes? How much you spend on junk food? How much do you spend on gas? How much you spend on going to the movies or whatever? Well, guess what? You can't go to the movies or go and eat and go get gas if you're incapacitated. If you're not healthy, you can't do any of that stuff.

It's always amazing how people get chinty when it comes to their health. Here's a tip. Make health your number one priority, okay, over your rent, over your car payments, over everything. Don't make excuses. Get your ass to the gym. And don't go once in a blue moon. Make the effort. Try and go every other day.

If you want to go every day, go. You know, sometimes I get into a method where I'll do my upper body one day and my lower body, my legs the other day. But that's a lot. Working out as a drag. And so I try to at least go every other day. And if this helps you, this helps me a lot, go on your computer and print up a calendar.

Just the month. Let's say it's August. Just print up the month of August. Okay, big squares. Big squares, the size of checkerboards. August, 2013. Slap it right on your fridge. Just get some scotch tape.

There's August right on your fridge where you're going to see it every morning, every night. And every time you work out, just put a little X through that day. Every other day there's going to be an X. And I'm telling you, by the time you do four to six weeks of that, your body is going to be changed. Your body is going to be changed.

Your mind is going to be changed. Your mental energy is going to be changed. Your friends are going to start noticing. Watch, I'll make you a bet. I'll bet you around week four or week five is when people who haven't seen you for a little bit, or even if they have out of nowhere they go have you lost weight have you been working out you look great you look younger and you're going to be beaming because you know you're going to be you're going to be feeling it man you're going to have more energy at work you're going to have more uh more

energy uh doing everything oh man so there you go abbott got me off on a tear look at that I almost used the whole show talking about working out. Good night, Nellie Frittato. I mean, it's probably pointless to switch gears right now where we're almost at the end of the show. Blame Abbott. Don't blame me. But instead of blaming Abbott, ladies and snortle Florgans,

why don't you thank Abbott? Because how many of you listening right now And now, here's where I'm going to make you uncomfortable. How many of you listening right now are lazy asses? How many of you listening right now have not been to the gym or go to the gym or are making excuses about their health? How many of you? Uh-huh.

Put your hand up. Wherever you are, put your hand in the air if you haven't been exercising or eating right or going to the gym. Uh-huh. I'm going to sound like a bastard right now, but I'm going to bet over 60% of you have your hand in the air right now. And if you don't, I might even be calling you a liar or you're in denial. That's a big number, 60%.

So here's, I'm going to call this the Abbott Challenge. And Abbott, you better do this, dude. You're the figurehead on this. I'm going to ask you guys, every now and then I ask you to do some homework. So here it comes. And this is for you. This is homework to better your life. I'm going to ask you guys to do this.

For six weeks, I want to join a gym, try it out for six weeks. I want you to put the calendar on your fridge. And some of you already are rolling your eyes. Well, don't. This is all to benefit you. Join a gym, six weeks, put the calendar on your fridge, so that's two months. Let's just hypothetically say June and July. And there's eight weeks in there.

I'm asking for six, okay? Me and Abbott are asking for six weeks. How long is six weeks? That's a month and a half. Are you telling me you don't have a month and a half to do a little experiment? I want you to put the calendar on your fridge and I want you to go to the gym every other day. And I want you to come home and I want you to mark it off with an X.

And you can do whatever workout you want. Or you can even try the one I suggest it. Half hour on the treadmill, walking fast, listening to music, and then four repetitions of four different exercises. or if you have your own thing you want to do, if you want to go for three hours, every time, do it. If you want to do an hour, an hour in 10 minutes, you do it. But here's the challenge.

Here's the Abbott challenge. Go to the damn gym. Start to change your life, change your body, change your mind, start feeling good about yourself. Not that you don't already, but if you don't, start feeling good about yourself. and if you already feel good about yourself, start to feel even better about yourself and start looking good.

And stay committed. Summer's coming too, man. This is the perfect time because if you dig it, if you're doing well, you'll be in bathing suit condition if you start right now. And maybe even harder than the working out, I'm asking you to cut back on the crap.

Don't keep popping your fridge. Don't keep Pop-Tarts and donuts and a lot of bread. Go to the store once a week on Monday. Every Monday go to the store. Buy a bag of apples. Buy some peaches, maybe some plums, some green snow peas. Maybe a cucumber, some cauliflower. Throw those in your fridge and have them there.

I'm not saying give up everything eating. but have those things there to add into your diet. Maybe some low-fat cottage cheese. You drop some berries in there and eat those. Instead of a pizza, instead of a hot dog, instead of a Coke. And here's an idea. Go to the store when you do your grocery shopping

and don't be a miser because, like I said, you shouldn't worry about what it costs to have a healthy body. When you're doing your shopping, pick up a case of bottled water. Those little bottles of water, there's like 32 in a crate, fill up your fridge. And every morning, drink at least half a bottle of that water, the little ones. And every night before you go to bed, drink a little bit of that water. Finish it off. The water's good for you.

And the challenge is to get six weeks out of you people, the pavement pounders. I want the healthiest podcast listeners on the planet right here. It's time to get motivated. It's time to stop making excuses. It's time to feel good about yourself. What if someone walked up to you on the street and said, hey, man, I know a way to help you have a better life? would you walk away from that guy or would you go tell me about it well i'm just telling you what's

worked in my experience and what i've read about and what i've seen in other people again i'm not an expert i'm not licensed i'm not anything but i know what i know from what i've done in my life with my experience and i'm no adonis but uh you know these these are routines that have helped me stay in pretty good shape my whole life. So there it is, gang. Wow. Abbott, nice phone call, man. You used up the whole show.

But it might be the best show ever because I'm hoping it helps all of you to get to a better place. In six weeks, you're in a better place than you are right now. And I don't want to hear any of this. Well, I've got a busy. week, and I've got to drop that kids off, and I've got to drive the subway to work, and guess what? I'm a busy mofo. I make time. I'm going back to, gee, you'll make time for everything else, but your health. You've got time to sit and watch the news. You've got time to watch, you know, friends. You got time to watch Mike and Molly, which is about a couple of fatties anyhow.

Why don't you replace those moments where you're being lethargic and use those and go to the gym and make your health a priority and put all that other BS on the back burner? You'll be amazed how good you feel. I can at least guarantee you that. If you can get to the gym every other day for six weeks, I'm telling you, at the end of that six weeks, you're going to be a different person.

mentally, physically, all kinds of ways. Now, it's up to you. It's up to you. I'm trying to motivate you. I'm trying to inspire. I'm doing it right now, folks. By the way, I'm not just sitting here talking. I do it.

I go every other day. And I travel. I've got 40 jobs. I do voiceover work. I write. I executive produce. I travel. around. I do stand-up. I'm flying. I'm acting. I'm going to meetings. I'm on the move a lot.

Guess what I do? The first thing I do when I get to a hotel, right when I'm checking in. What floor is the gym on, please? Well, that's on the second floor, sir. And you want to know something, gang? This is sad, but it's true. I go to gyms at every hotel I go to, and 99% of the time the hotel gyms are empty, completely empty. I've got a whole nice gym to myself because everyone's up in their room eating pringles and watching dirty movies. Well, guess what? That's you guys.

Just because you're not at a hotel, you're at home sitting on the couch, eating chips, and watching TV. It ain't that different. Let's use the motel as a, the hotel as a metaphor here. Are you up in your room being a lazy-ass ordering room, sir? or are you going to get off your ass and take an elevator down six floors and do a little physical activity so don't be lazy just commit go for it and uh i'm going on and on about it because i care about you guys and i think you're going to really like this experiment this

homework and i already know some of you are dropping off shame on you Before you drop right off and write this off, I'm circling back to the people that have already jumped off the train. Get your ass back on the train. How dare you? Get your ass back on the fitness train right now. I'm whipping your ass with a giant bamboo stick. Yeah, I know.

You jumped off. You're like, oh, screw that. Listen to the guy. Forget it. I don't have time to go every other day. day to the gym. Let everyone else do that, losers. Get your ass back on the train, you lazy bum. Do something for yourself. Yeah, now you're getting me angry, Abbott. Do you hear that? I'm getting mad, Abbott. I really am. I want you to do this. I really do. Can you hear

in my boy? I care about you. I want you to experience this because I know some of you've probably you've never done it. And you might even go, wow, what a world that opened up. And some of you might have done it before, but never really set a goal. Some people just, I'll go to the gym. And you go for three weeks and you're like, oh well, that wasn't fun. But if you set a target, if you set a goal, give yourself six weeks. You're locked in.

Think of it like a job. You're being hired for six weeks to do a job. And you've got to check in every day. and put that X through the thing. And my hope is that you like it, you get addicted to it, and you see the benefits, and you just keep going. But some of you might not want to. Just for now, let's start small.

Six week it. It's like six weeks, okay? Every other day to the gym. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Abbott Challenge. And Abbott, excuse me, you called in, buddy, you started this avalanche. You are going to do it, Abbott, okay? I don't care. Some of you might jump off the train.

Abbott is going to do this damn thing. And Abbott is going to call in six weeks. And Abbott is going to tell us how he feels, how he looks, how it worked for him. You got that, Abbott? you are committing to this I don't know what you look like are you thin are you fat I don't know now for those of you that are worried about your health I'm not a doctor I can't command you to do this I

can't tell you how to work out but if it's something you want to do and you're unsure about going to the gym on your own accord go see your doctor and get his advice But to me, getting healthy is just about getting up off your ass and doing it. So, Abbott, yeah, maybe you're upset that you made this phone call now or maybe not. But after six weeks, I think you're going to be happy you called me about this. And we better hear from you, Abbott, because I know there's people listening that are going to do this. They're going to follow through on this.

I know, and I'm proud of them already. but Abbott, you're our leader, okay? This is the Abbott challenge. We need, ladies and John, chant, Abbott, Abbott, we need you, Abbott. We need you to be the poster boy for this movement. The pavement pounders are going to get in shape here. And just so you guys know, I'm out there doing it already. I've been doing it, but I'm going to keep going.

I'm in the gym every other day unless for some flu we all have fluky reasons a funeral a car crash we're flying for two days okay if that happens you get off schedule the first day you can get back in the gym you do it if you miss two days or three days by you have to you don't let it stop your momentum go you know what my rhythm got broken but boom you're right back in it start again boom Six weeks. Oh, I think I just burned about eight calories, not eight, probably 800 calories, just with this rant. I'm excited for you guys. And if you hung into the end, I'm glad. I hope you, I've never done a show where the whole topic is one thing. And I'm even running long. Normally I do half an hour.

I'm at 40 minutes right here, Abbott. so uh that's it i'm gonna i'm gonna stop there i hope i hear back from you guys in six weeks i want you to tell me if you did it and if it affected your life if it changed your life for the better um and uh again you got to do this on your own accord it's it's you know it's it's all up to you and you've got to figure out your own method of doing it. Again, I'm not a specialist. I'm not ordering you do it, but I'm suggesting. It's a tip.

Oh, I'm so excited. So I want you to call me in six weeks, 323-739-4-330. Okay, 323-739-4-3-3-0. Tell me how great you feel. Or you can write me at Harlowyms.com. And we're going to put your calls on the air. And Abbott's call is going to be the first call in there.

And it's going to be exciting, man. It is going to be exciting. So there you go. We are at the end of the show, man. You know, and for those of you that are like, oh, man, where's the comedy bits? Where's the, what happened to the funny stuff? What, you know what? Relax.

You might have just been handed a gold ticket here to help you get your life into a better place. You know, there's a million other podcasts. You can go listen to someone, interview someone, or you can go listen to someone, tell a joke or sing a song. You know what that's like? It's like sitting on the couch watching TV, eating Pringles. Come on, man. One podcast where I do something to try and benefit you.

in a way that's bigger than entertainment, you've got to take that. You've got to take the Abbott challenge. So thank you for your call, Abbott. You set off a firestorm here. Hopefully you guys will participate. And like I said, we want to hear from you in six weeks. No excuses. 3-2-3-9-4-3-3-0.

Can't wait. and any of you that have already bailed, get your ass back on the train. Now, don't bail. Do it. Just do it. And we're going to do it next time here on the Harlan Highway. We're at the end of this show.

Very unusual show, but I kind of dig it. I kind of like it. I'm excited. I'm invigorated. And that's it, gang. Get your ass to the gym. Pick up the phone. Call a gym, join.

Get it started. Because you are the pavement pounders, the most physically fit podcast listeners in the podcast universe. And thanks to Abbott for his call. And until next time, a great big bowl of low-calorie, sugar-free chicken. Chalmy, baby. Thank you.