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Speaker 1: My name is Clay Newcomb, and this is a production of the Bear Grease Podcast called the Bear Grease Render, where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual Bear Grease Podcast, brought to you by Tacobas Boots. I’m a cowboy boot man, and I’ve been wearing Tacobas for years. They’re the most comfortable boot I’ve ever put on. Good boots for good times. So here we are. We’ve got, we’re coming off hot after the latest Bear Grylls podcast about men’s health. It really was about health in general. We didn’t qualify it as men’s health, but for me, I’d say a lot of what we talked about, other than like prostate exams.
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Speaker 2: We said we weren’t talking about women’s health.
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Speaker 1: Well, but I would say the physical activity stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Building strength would as well be. Diet would be.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I would say it was pretty targeted towards men. But we’re coming off of that podcast, and I’ve got Dr. Jason Lofton with his first time on the Bear Grease podcast in the official Tacovas hot seat. Yeah, nice. And we also have Dr. Adam McCall, also in the Tacovas hot seat. You’re actually wearing a pair of Tacovas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they’re both hot.
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Speaker 1: Oh, those are Tecova’s, too?
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 4: We got these in Tucson, Tecova’s store.
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Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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Speaker 4: Back in April when Cindy and I went.
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Speaker 1: Nice. Nice.
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Speaker 4: Hopefully got me this shirt for Father’s Day, too.
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Speaker 1: Tecova’s shirt, too.
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Speaker 4: We didn’t know.
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Speaker 1: Look at y’all wearing the same shirt.
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Speaker 2: We’re going to be Twinkies today.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Too bad we couldn’t have linked up.
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Speaker 3: Well, I was going to buy those bibs last night, but my wife said, we don’t have that kind of money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Neither do I. No. Well, it’s good to have both of you here.
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Speaker 4: It’s good to be here.
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Speaker 1: It’s… So… Jason has, I’ve known you for 20 years plus.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Probably 20 plus.
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Speaker 4: We met, so I met you walking in the door in 2004 of where I worked training at the time, which close to where Prism meets now.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So you were landscaping and met you.
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Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I didn’t realize that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The old A-heck.
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Speaker 1: The old A-heck building.
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Speaker 3: Yep. Yep.
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Speaker 4: And then hired you to do our landscaping. We moved to Dequeen.
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Speaker 1: You know, I vaguely remember that.
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Speaker 4: The house that’s off of Mayflower, there behind Catfish Hill.
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Speaker 3: Yep. Yep.
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Speaker 1: I remember that now.
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Speaker 4: That was before we got involved in the same church network and everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it’s good to have you here.
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Speaker 4: Good to be here.
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Speaker 1: And Dr. McCall, it’s been, it was fun interviewing you guys. So Josh interviewed Dr. Lofton and then I interviewed Dr. McCall. And we were just discussing this, but we basically asked you the same questions and interviewed you both for about an hour. And what you would have heard on the episode would have been less than half of what they actually said. Because we all know that doctors, you know, you could pretty much can talk down what they said and just take the meat away from it. No, but it was really interesting hearing, y’all basically said the same things, like hit on the same high points about about cardio, and we were asking you questions about those things, but we’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about that later. I kind of want to, what we didn’t do on the podcast was like humanize you guys because in the business of media, you have to humanize people because are doctors people, Josh?
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Speaker 2: Some of them are.
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Speaker 1: Some of them are.
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Speaker 2: Some of them are. Some of them are just robots, you know. No. I’m just kidding.
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Speaker 1: These guys are both really interesting guys and big outdoorsmen. Jason, you do everything.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don’t do as much as I’d like to because of work.
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Speaker 1: Well, what are your top three hobbies?
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Speaker 4: So it has been gravel bike riding. And that’s my wife and I started playing pickleball. And we kind of took.
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Speaker 3: The new one.
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Speaker 1: I’ve never heard pickleball before.
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Speaker 4: But then I tore my calf muscle.
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Speaker 2: He tore his calf muscle. He’s in the total demographic of these middle-aged guys that get injured playing pickleball.
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Speaker 1: You might be in my standup comedy skit.
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Speaker 4: What do they call it? I mean, instead of tennis, it’s basically tennis leg. I mean, pickleball leg.
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Speaker 1: Pickleball. Okay. Let’s stop on gravel biking. There’s more. There’s more. I know more of your hobbies, but. What’s the difference between gravel biking and just mountain biking?
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Speaker 4: So gravel biking generally involves more endurance, like long distance. There’ll be a drop bar bike where mountain bikes usually have flat bar bikes, flat bar handlebars. And, you know, 20, 30 miles would be an average just quick ride. And I mean, up here, you’ll see people doing, you know, 200 plus sometimes on there’s, there’s some.
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Speaker 1: Riding like gravel dirt roads. So not like a mountain bike trail.
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Speaker 4: No, you’re riding gravel roads, which Southwest Arkansas is full of them. I mean, so I’ve ridden from Mena to Wicks with Randy and Randy’s step, which he’s, I think, been on here before. And then shout out to the long legged Randy step. So he’s my riding partner.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 4: And I’m trying to get finished that up from Wicks to the queen, but yeah, all over Southwest Arkansas. And then I’ve been up here riding, but big tires, gravel roads, love being outdoorsy. And, you know, I’ve been chased by a hog. I was down at Pine Creek Bottoms, which is south of DeQueen, and hear a snort and look behind me and hogs coming after me.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 4: Had to get after it, yeah. But, yeah, I just love being outdoors, you know, so you don’t have to worry about cars as much. So, but, you know, big tires and long distance.
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Speaker 1: Man, every time I see these bikers on paved roads, which is like every day, I just think, man, these guys are daredevil.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: These people are. Sometimes people think stuff that they might see hunters do would be dangerous. I think riding on pavement is dangerous. It’s just me.
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Speaker 4: People die doing that, unfortunately.
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Speaker 3: Tom, you talked about that. We were going down. I don’t know if you’ve ever been over to Logap. If you’re coming down steel or coming down the mountain into Logap, We were doing in a race, and I bet we were doing 65, 70 miles an hour on these tiny 22-millimeter tires. And my buddy, I watched him cheat the curve a little bit, and somehow a car had gotten on the road at this segment, and it cheated the curve a little bit. And, I mean, there was an angel wing that was between them, and that’s when I quit riding pavement. Oh, really? I sat up and said, my head, my hands, my kids, they’re all more important than this little adrenaline rush that I get going down this hill. Wow.
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Speaker 4: But I do like to send it going downhill. I mean, I’ve been 42 on a gravel road going downhill. That’s my fastest, but.
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Speaker 1: I bet that’s fast.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like the rush.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so gravel bike and pickleball, which we’re going to skip that. That might just be too high octane for the Bear Grease listeners.
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Speaker 4: I got second place at Josh’s party.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You’re big into smoking meat.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: You’re wearing a meat church barbecue hat. Yep. So you pretty much got that dialed.
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Speaker 4: I like green eggs. Smoking on green eggs.
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Speaker 2: Jason has a problem. I do.
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Speaker 1: He’s been to green egg events and festivals.
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Speaker 4: That’s actually before Matt Pittman got big. He was in Athens, Texas, Egg Fest. And he was set up trying to, I guess, really get his flavors out. And I remember seeing him there. And he’s taking off. He cooks for Dallas Cowboys. How many green eggs do you have? I don’t want to talk about that many.
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Speaker 2: I’ve got a lot.
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Speaker 1: I’m asking a rancher how many cattle he’s got, Josh.
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Speaker 2: More than you can fit on one hand. I’ll put it that way.
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Speaker 1: Are you serious? I mean, would you use them all at the same time?
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Speaker 4: I’ve used three at the same time before. Cooking on, like, say for cooking for a big group, depending on what, yeah. You know, because some of it’s direct, some of it’s indirect.
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Speaker 1: What are the other ones for?
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Speaker 2: Looks.
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Speaker 3: Good deals.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Just in case something catastrophic happens.
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Speaker 4: I’m trying to get some of it on our property, but we’ve got a bear problem. I don’t know how to… I need to build something that would be bear-proof so that they wouldn’t get to the eggs. And so I’ve got some kind of stashed away for that.
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Speaker 1: I just had a vision of you in a cage. Like, build, like, a cage. Yeah, I mean, I’m trying to… And then we turn it into a competition, though.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Two guys in a cage, in a green egg.
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Speaker 4: With a bear on the outside.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean… It would work as it would keep the bears out, but it’d be like a cage, cage match.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But, but okay. So you’re, you’re really good.
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Speaker 2: Barbecue grillers go in, one comes out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Pretty much. Pretty much. So you, you, you’re, you’re grilling, but you’re also.
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Speaker 2: You’re a hunter.
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Speaker 3: No. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I like to hunt and fish. I mean, I grew up, my dad mainly fishing, but we, we go hunting and I, my kids are starting to get into it. Um, you know, Oakley’s wanting to bear hunt this, this year. We’ll see Silas too. So I’ve got to figure out how to get them on the stand at the same time safely and Yeah. But, yeah, I just love to do the outdoors, you know, anything outdoors. I mean, even my workouts. Like, I own a fitness center, but I work out outdoors most of the time, not in the fitness center.
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Speaker 1: So you own a fitness center in Dequeen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You also have a family practice in Dequeen.
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Speaker 4: In Broken Bow.
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Speaker 1: And Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I split mostly in Dequeen, but I got.
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Speaker 2: Shout out to Evan Felker.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: From Broken Bow and D.
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Speaker 1: Queen.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: In both of his songs. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It’d have to change. Something would have to change in one of his songs now. You know what that is?
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Speaker 1: What’s that?
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Speaker 4: In Good Lord Glory, We’re No Longer Dry in Sevier County.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 4: So he’d have to rewrite the verse if it was written today. Really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Yep.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 1: At some point I’ll tell you something funny that my wife said that had to do with the turnpike troubadours, but it’s a little too self-deprecating for me.
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Speaker 4: I knew Oakley had made it when she came to me a while back. She said, have you ever heard of the turnpike troubadours? I was like, yeah, I’ve been around a while. I was like, she’s going to be alright.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so just hitting the high points here. You’re also a father of four.
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Speaker 4: Four teenagers.
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Speaker 1: I can’t say for sure, but You appear to be a really good father and husband.
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Speaker 4: I try to be. I’ve got some good leaders in my church. We spend a lot of time, if I’m not in the clinic, we’re spending time together as a family. I’ve got good kids. We have a lot of fun together.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. It was cool to have you on the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 1: McCall, what are your top three Just things you like to do.
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Speaker 3: Well, I’m going to take one of them away and replace it with be like Jason Lofton.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, same.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that’s a goal at this point. I mean, I am a hunter. I play a little golf in between hunting season. Like as soon as spring turkey’s up, I play a little golf. And then as soon as deer season kicks back in, I don’t ever play golf. Really, it’s just hanging out with my family. kids i got four kids too you’ve got four kids just like jason entering one of them’s a teenager now and that’s been a that’s a learning process as it goes so um and then i’m going to learn how to tie flies okay yeah tonight actually.
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Speaker 2: Oh really josh is helping you yeah we got it we got a group going on a trip and we’re coming they’re all coming over and we’re tying flies tonight yeah i didn’t get them right yep fomo i you know i just thought about it yeah I know I saw the surprise in your eyes when I said that.
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Speaker 3: You’re like, oh, gosh, I didn’t tell Clay.
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Speaker 4: It’s all right. I couldn’t have made it anyway. We got men’s meeting tonight at church.
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Speaker 1: So you used to bike?
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 3: I got into road biking a ton. I think we talked about this last time. I did beat Lance Armstrong up a hill once.
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Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 3: Got a little article in Sports Illustrated because I did beat him up a hill.
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Speaker 4: We talked about this when he was on the first time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I remember. Yep.
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Speaker 3: And so I used to bike all the time and then that happened. And, um, really since starting my own practice and owning a business that took, that became a hobby.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it’s like a, it’s a taking care of a lot of kids.
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Speaker 1: Do you enjoy the business aspect of owning your own medical practice?
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Speaker 3: That’s a double-edged sword. Yes and no. I love learning new things. I love being able to do things differently. When you’re employed, if you want to make a change, it’s like turning a cruise ship. When you own your own business, you want to make a change, just make the change. It’s not a big process.
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Speaker 1: How much of being… Let me back up. I’m going to set the context and ask both of you a question. You feel like that someone who’s a medical doctor, you just graduate from med school and you just like plug into the medical system, you help people, you make good money, and you’re just, this is what you would think. And it just feels like, well, of course, but how hard is it to actually have a successful family practice, which is something both of you guys have built from the ground up as I understand it. So the question I guess also is how much of it is being a businessman and how much of it is being a, a medical doctor that just knows how to deal with people in their ailments.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, I think that the, you don’t know what you don’t know until you realize you don’t know it. And I think when you think, man, this is going to be easy. I’ve asked all the questions I’ve prepared for all the things. That’s just the surface level. Um, I mean, I spend almost as much time running the business per week is what I do actually being a physician.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it’s, uh, it’s a, it’s 80 hours a week and you get paid for 20.
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Speaker 1: So you were trained in the medical field learning about humans, but really you got to be a business manager.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, is that what you signed up for?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 4: I tell, so I had a student from, um, Southwest Arkansas, his sophomore at SAU shadowed me this summer, and I told him he ought to go get a business degree with a minor in Spanish if you’re going to go to med school because we don’t get basically zero business experience or knowledge, and it’s just learned by fire. The insurance industry makes it frustrating. It’s frustrating for us as it is for the patient, and it’s getting worse.
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Speaker 3: We’re doing something about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we’re trying.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. But it’s not, that’s, so I tell people, my wife helps, Cindy manages a restaurant called Stilwell’s in DeQueen. It’s like, you know, the transaction, you buy a burger or a sandwich and the transaction’s done. Everybody gets, you get fed and they get paid. For us, well, the transaction’s not necessarily done when the patient leaves and it might take months to get that.
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Speaker 1: They buy the hamburger, but then- That person would have to go to the insurance company to get payment for the hamburger.
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Speaker 4: We’re waiting to get paid for that burger, so to speak, sometimes months and months and months because the insurance industry is trying to find out reasons not to pay us.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 4: A lot of times.
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Speaker 1: The medical industry feels really stressful to me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: It’s broken. It honestly feels like people might just quit. We might just wake up one day and there are no doctors.
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Speaker 4: It’s starting to happen.
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Speaker 1: Because it’s so hard.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is true.
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Speaker 3: No, you’re seeing, you’re seeing doctors just quit. They’re going, I’m not doing this anymore. It’s not worth the stress. It’s not worth the amount of work. And I think there’s a, there’s two sides of that. You know, you can go make money. If you want to make money, don’t be a doctor. Yeah. You know, but I tell, I tell students all the time, you know, like I want to be a doctor. The, if you can’t talk yourself out of doing it and there’s nothing else that you could see yourself doing, that’s a calling at that point. Man, go be a doctor.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Like the amount of difficulty is worth being able to do what, what the, what the Lord called you to do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, and he gives you strength and, and the ability to navigate that. But man, if you could see yourself do anything else, go do that first. Like it ain’t worth it.
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Speaker 4: It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s hard. I mean, but it’s doable, but it’s hard. But again, it’s, it’s, it’s a calling for me. I mean, it’s, if it’s, you’re doing it for the money, you will burn out.
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Speaker 1: It’s not, you think most people would, would, say that about their profession in the medical, well, as doctors, that they feel called to it?
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Speaker 4: I think initially, yeah. I think a lot of us want to help people. We really do. I think most people are very altruistic and want to help people. Now, do some get skewed by the money or, you know, jaded? Yeah. I mean, it’s the system. Like, we all want to spend more time with patients, but we can’t in the current insurance industry system because that doesn’t pay the bills. So you have to see so many to get the bills paid. And that’s where patients want to spend more time with doctors. We want to spend more time with patients, but from a business standpoint, it doesn’t add up at some point if you slow down too much.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 4: But, but yeah.
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Speaker 1: So how do you, how do you, how do you fix that?
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Speaker 3: Man, I think the, the main major issue is going, there’s no transparency in the medical industry and the, especially on the payer side. And so it’s, how do we reduce the opaqueness of, to really see what goes on so that we can reduce the, reduce the over complex system to make it simple. You know, you, you see me, you pay me for my advice, whether you take that advice, that’s on you, but you paid me for it. And that transaction is done, you know, and I agree to take care of you and answer your phone calls and stuff like that. Um, but this whole issue of, of paying $ 2, 500 a month for your family to, you know, an insurance company, And then you’ve got to pay $ 10, 000 more and you don’t know how much stuff costs whenever you get it done. That has to go. Because what it does is it reduces people’s confidence to enter the medical system when something’s wrong. Right? Like we talked about that yesterday. And so my goal or the next, however long it takes, is to reduce the complexity and introduce just the simpleness of it. Because, I mean, there’s so much beauty in a relationship with a patient and a physician together. that when they know each other, man, you can change the world with that. At least you can change somebody’s health, which, man, it’s a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Well, I commend you guys for just the service of what you do. So, I mean, there’s plenty of occupations that people are providing like a real service to people. I think about teachers. I think about first responders. But really, doctors, I mean, fit into that.
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Speaker 4: You give up a lot of your life. Yeah. to get to just a square one of where you start being a doctor and working.
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Speaker 1: How old were you when you became a medical doctor and just graduated school, I guess?
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Speaker 4: So I graduated residency in 2007, so I turned 31 in September. We graduated in June of that year, so basically 31 years old.
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Speaker 1: Were you going to school that whole time, or did you have a couple of starts?
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Speaker 4: I had one gap. So I graduated University of Arkansas in 1999 and took a gap year. I was on staff with the campus ministry for a year. and then started med school.
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Speaker 1: It took that long.
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Speaker 4: So it’s four years of med school, three years of residency, and four years. So it’s 11 years total just to become a family physician right now.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 4: That’s a long time.
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Speaker 3: How old were you? 29.
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Speaker 1: So it takes that long.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But stuff like, example, I was studying in Little Rock one Saturday night, and George Strait was at War Memorial Stadium in a concert, and I couldn’t go to it because I had a test. Now, hey, there’s some guys out there that they could have gone to the concert and still made an A. I was one of those guys I had to bust it and gave up a lot.
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Speaker 1: What if it had been the turnpike troubadours?
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Speaker 4: They’ve been tough, you know, I mean, you know, maybe I could have studied, you know, I went, I went to school and I said, well, I’m going to give up God or exercise. And that, and I didn’t. And those are two things that I stayed committed to have to this day.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: That’s good. That’s good. Okay. I’ve got to tell you the story that Misty told me.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I was on the phone the other day with a guy, Misty’s in the car with me. And, It’s a guy I don’t know, but it’s just a transaction. I’ve got to pay him some money. And he goes, yeah, I’m from Okemo, Oklahoma. What does Clay say, Josh, if someone tells me they’re from Okemo? What would I say?
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Speaker 2: Do you know Evan Felker? Bam.
00:21:47
Speaker 1: Man, you know what? I know a guy from Okemo, Oklahoma, Evan Felker. And the guy goes, oh, yeah, I knew Evan since he was that tall.
00:21:56
Speaker 3: You know.
00:21:57
Speaker 1: And we get off the phone and Misty’s dead serious. She does not think she’s going to be on the podcast. And she goes, Clay, do you think you could go one month without telling somebody that, you know, Evan felt she was not trying to be cute. And I just said, Misty, he told me he was from Okima. I had no choice. And she said, yep, that was kind of an exception. You tell– she thinks that I just walk into, like, a store and I’m just, like, looking to tell someone that I know Evan Felker.
00:22:34
Speaker 4: That’s funny.
00:22:34
Speaker 1: And so every time that I even say– I mean, I don’t know. Turnpike Troubadours comes up every now and then, okay? It just does. So anyway.
00:22:44
Speaker 2: I do the same thing about you.
00:22:47
Speaker 4: We all do, probably.
00:22:49
Speaker 3: You talk to people all the time.
00:22:50
Speaker 2: Arkansas, you know Clay Newcomb?
00:22:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:22:52
Speaker 3: People say man don’t speak through west fork and i’m like speaking of west fork do you know clay newcomb and.
00:22:59
Speaker 1: Then you’ll be like i heard he knows evan felk.
00:23:05
Speaker 4: It was funny last year there was a kid my kids all play basketball and they were playing away and there’s a game i couldn’t go to for some reason i mean almost make all the games probably because oakley she had a game that night but um There was a guy there that stood out to the girls because they said he was being rude on the other team, but he had a Bear Grylls hat on.
00:23:22
Speaker 3: Oh, no.
00:23:22
Speaker 4: He was being rude? Yeah, I was like, I bet you could have gone up and said, hey, I know Clay, and he wouldn’t approve of this, and he’d have piped down, but she didn’t.
00:23:28
Speaker 1: Wow. That’s the first negative thing I’ve heard. I hear people often say they see a Bear Grylls hat, and they kind of like fist bump some stranger, you know. But, okay.
00:23:40
Speaker 2: You know who you are. Clean it up.
00:23:42
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:23:43
Speaker 2: Clean up your act.
00:23:44
Speaker 4: We were in, uh, Cindy and I went to this little neat little resort south of Austin and I had my hat on and this guy, he’s from England, came up and said, I’ve heard about, what is this? And we started talking and we hit it off, the hat, you know, they invited us to dinner with them that night. Really? He actually said, hey, y’all come hunt in England next time you’re there. But, um, hadn’t been there yet.
00:24:03
Speaker 1: Oh, that’s cool.
00:24:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were over.
00:24:04
Speaker 4: Hat opens doors.
00:24:05
Speaker 3: Just below Bull Shoals, we took our kids fishing over there and that, whatever the little creek is, you can go fly fishing in and, and, uh, I had my Bear Grease either shirt or hat on, and a guy came up to me. He was like, oh, yeah, I listen to that all the time. You know, I have this tendency. I’d be like, well, hey, did you listen to that one render at the very beginning of the year? We talked about men’s health. You know, that was me. Like, whatever you need signed, I’ll sign it, you know. But I didn’t. I kept it quiet. And then my buddy next to me, Mark, he goes, hey, he was the guy. He was the doctor that was on that render. And the guy was like, I didn’t listen to that.
00:24:41
Speaker 2: If I see somebody with a Bear Grylls hat, I just walk up to him and sign it.
00:24:44
Speaker 4: I don’t even know what to tell him.
00:24:46
Speaker 2: I just keep a Sharpie in my pocket.
00:24:47
Speaker 3: Just land bridge.
00:24:50
Speaker 1: We’re going the wrong direction here. The podcast. What’d you think for just like the, and I know y’all were on it, Josh, you were on it, but like just for an hour of concentrated information did we did we kind of hit i think so good stuff yeah you.
00:25:16
Speaker 4: Know it we’re saying i just hope some one part like it’s doable it’s just i think um i think adam it’s doable no matter where you’re at just take the first step and don’t worry about like there’s no such thing as failure it’s a process it’s a marathon you know it’s it’s a journey yeah and so whatever you’re doing maybe you got off the exit get back on the exit and keep going.
00:25:39
Speaker 1: You know, the most encouraging thing for me that I’ve learned, I would say just in the last few years is just how anything at any age is going to be beneficial. I cited this study that I, that I saw online about how they had studied muscle mass with even people in their seventies, eighties, even into their nineties. And they were talking about like a hundred percent increase in, Like the weight they could lift, which, I mean, if they could lift two pounds and then they could lift four pounds, like that would be, you know, double. So obviously the gains would be smaller if you were that old. But the point is that it’s never too late to start doing something that is going to impact your health. And that’s encouraging because I think sometimes people just think, man, that ship has sailed.
00:26:32
Speaker 3: I mean, you take that even and you make it practical, two pounds to four pounds is, someone being able to pick up a half a gallon of milk and import in their cereal. I mean, it’s things like that that you don’t really even think about that would make a meaningful change in someone’s life.
00:26:46
Speaker 1: That’s true. Yeah. And I also didn’t want people to think that this was a podcast for, like, old people.
00:26:54
Speaker 2: No.
00:26:55
Speaker 1: I said it right at the beginning. I was like, hey, this is not– I mean, there’s some applicable things, really, for people probably in their middle age, but I wanted bare– to listen to this and be like man if i start building now healthy eating habits healthy exercise building muscle i mean you can just have such a major runway when you hit you know the middle of your life and on that it could be really major.
00:27:22
Speaker 4: Yeah my biggest regret is on josh is that i didn’t i just started weight training really in the last two years i’ve always ran always rode bikes and you know it’s good for my heart but it just hadn’t built muscle and But I’m enjoying it now. And it’s not bodybuilding. I’m just trying to do functional fitness kind of weight training, meaning can I get off the ground? Can I lift this or that? And I wish I, in my 20s, kept that going.
00:27:47
Speaker 3: Where did you pick? I enjoyed the clip on farmer’s carry. Tell me about that because I’ve never.
00:27:54
Speaker 4: So, you know, like if you’re on a farm carrying buckets, they just have the name of farmer’s carry. So I have kettlebells. I work out with kettlebells. It’s almost exclusively. And I’ve got 44, you know, it’s 20 count, 20 kilogram, but 44 pounds sounds better.
00:28:08
Speaker 1: Sounds like twice as much to me.
00:28:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, 44-pound kettlebells, and I do 100 yards down, rest, 100 yards back. And I can go down and back the first rep, but the second one, my arms start burning, and I have to usually set it down about the 40, 30-yard line.
00:28:25
Speaker 1: I started seeing people do that and learned that it was called a farmer’s carry. And at first, I didn’t think much about it. I was like, what’s this doing like it feels like when you isolate a muscle group and like do a bench press or leg press you like feel the burn but i’m big on farmer’s carries it it when you really stress yourself out carrying that weight it feels like you’re working every muscle in your body yeah that’s that’s it just it’s.
00:28:52
Speaker 3: Just it’s functional too yeah like how many times are you going to be stuck on a bench press right trying to lift something.
00:28:58
Speaker 1: With a rock on your chest yeah exactly.
00:29:01
Speaker 3: Like Man, work out to the way your lifestyle is.
00:29:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:29:04
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:29:05
Speaker 4: So everything I do is all about like my, you know, first it’s called a Turkish get up. You literally start on the ground on your back. You lift the kettlebell with one arm all the way up and you go back down. So, I mean, that’s training my body to constantly go up.
00:29:19
Speaker 2: All the way to standing?
00:29:20
Speaker 4: All the way to standing over your head and then you come back down and you do both sides. And so it’s as much of a whole body, you know, workout as possible. And so that’s just one of my. things I do inside of that. So those are those functional, I’m looking online constantly trying to figure out what’s something functional I can do to add to what I’m doing.
00:29:39
Speaker 1: Is the, is the whole strength training, adding muscle idea for longevity. I know it’s not new, but it feels like it’s new on the mainstream platform of going.
00:29:52
Speaker 3: Out last five years. It’s really, it’s found, it’s found its ground. Yeah.
00:29:57
Speaker 4: And just the data, you know, it’s because now we have research and data showing what this does beyond the cardio, because the cardio was the focus, it seems like, forever. I don’t ever remember hearing strength training and emphasis in med school.
00:30:08
Speaker 3: No.
00:30:08
Speaker 1: It’s such a no-brainer, though. It is. I mean, when you, because when I heard it, I heard it was a lady doctor that was on Huberman. Gabriela, real famous kind of influencer person. Anyway, I heard her talk about your muscles are the organ of longevity, I think is what she said. And it just clicked. It was like, well, I guess that makes sense. And then now everybody’s talking about it.
00:30:39
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:30:40
Speaker 4: And Adam mentioned, Dr. McCall mentioned, you have to have your heart to get you there. But if your muscles aren’t going to get you out of the chair or off the ground, if you fall, then you lose your independence. And that’s what we, you know, your muscles are what are going to cause you to lose your independence.
00:30:54
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
00:30:55
Speaker 3: I think that’s the difference between a 42, 43-year-old and a 50-year-old. I was talking about still going hunting. Jason was talking about maintaining the independence. So, I mean, there’s a shift, I guess, that happens.
00:31:07
Speaker 1: He’s so old.
00:31:08
Speaker 4: But that independence, you know. Josh has got me beat by a few months.
00:31:11
Speaker 2: I got him beat by four or five months.
00:31:13
Speaker 4: But, you know, I do, like Clay mentioned, I want to be hunting at 70 if I can or rafting with my grandkids. You know, I want to be able to do those things. And, you know, there’s some data that says, hey, we don’t necessarily– We might not peak at 40 or 50. If we keep at it, we might can actually peak out even in like your sprint training. I saw something saying, hey, at 60 or 70, you can still hit those times that you were hitting when you were younger with proper training.
00:31:34
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:31:34
Speaker 1: Well, I said this in our interview, Dr. McCall, but it didn’t make the cut. About when I turned 40, I felt myself getting weaker, just physical activity. And I, like you, cardio trained kind of my whole life just physically. ran, stayed active, like at any time between 15 and 40, I could have got out of the chair and ran five miles, but never weight trained other than pushups, which are questionable. Um, and, but when I was about 40, I just noticed I just wasn’t as strong as I was, you know, throwing a saddle up on a mule or picking up a bag of dog food. And, um, But I looked the same. I felt like I weighed the same. My belly wasn’t getting any bigger necessarily. And I was kind of like, this is not good. And then that’s about the time, five years ago, that everybody was like, oh, you got to add muscle. And I’ll be brief. When you turn in your mid-40s, you realize some of the things that you said when you were younger were just dumb. And this is one of the.
00:32:50
Speaker 2: Things most of what I said when I was, well.
00:32:54
Speaker 1: I am really trying to work on having less of, of these just like very opinionated statements that just aren’t true. I used to say that I was philosophically opposed to public working out. Okay.
00:33:10
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:33:10
Speaker 1: It’s just kind of an insecure, dumb thing to say. And I just kind of thought it was funny, but it was actually true. Like if you would have, even six years, five years ago, been like, Clay, you’re going to join a gym and you’re going to go there a lot.
00:33:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:33:26
Speaker 1: I just would have said that will never happen. Now I, and then my, my youngest son started, he’s a ball player and was going to the gym here in town and kind of in an effort to just spend a little more time with him. I was like, you know what? This was three going on four years ago. I was like, I guess I’ll go up there. And I was, so insecure about it i really was.
00:33:51
Speaker 2: Yeah i just it can be really intimidating.
00:33:53
Speaker 1: Yes it can i just i just didn’t like working out just around all these people that i didn’t know and uh i just kind of pushed through it and just did very minimal stuff but just kind of worked some of the major muscle groups out and i was like oh this can’t hurt and basically just started building on top of that and after about two months of going to the gym, you realize that nobody cares. Nobody’s watching you.
00:34:21
Speaker 3: Right.
00:34:22
Speaker 1: And today I just go in there and do my stuff and I don’t think a thing about it.
00:34:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:34:28
Speaker 1: And it’s, it truly has changed my life and I look the same. That’s, that’s what’s, um, I think if I’d worked out this hard when I was 25, I might’ve been, you know, you might’ve seen more of a visual impact. Uh, But I truly am in some of the best shape of my life. I’m strong as I’ve ever been. And I really think it has altered the course of my life.
00:34:58
Speaker 3: No doubt. I mean, that’s what we talked about. I mean, you put a ton of deposits into your bank account.
00:35:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:35:03
Speaker 3: I did like how we– like that was– we both talked about that. Like if you’re investing, the dividends will pay off.
00:35:11
Speaker 4: You know, I tell people– Good analogy. My patients like– You know, we call 40 over the hill, right? So if you think of 40 being like a hill of strength, you’re starting to go downhill after 40. And if you’re not strength training, it’s like if I use a bicycle, for example, if you’re on a bike, you’re going downhill with no brakes. And when you start strength training, all of a sudden you add brakes to that bike and you’re not going to stop the descent, but you’re slowing the descent down so that at the bottom of that hill, you’ve still got that independence. Without that, it’s just however Mother Nature takes you down.
00:35:40
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:35:40
Speaker 4: So you can add that brake at any time, any point. And slow that down.
00:35:44
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:35:45
Speaker 4: Slow the loss down.
00:35:46
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:35:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:35:48
Speaker 1: Well, we said, Josh, that we were going to talk more about you.
00:35:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:35:56
Speaker 1: And we brought up briefly GLP-1. GLP-1. GLP-1. Can either one of y’all talk about those and kind of the controversy? Give me the controversy that people might think about it. And that’s probably not the right word, but. Pros and cons.
00:36:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:36:15
Speaker 1: What are they?
00:36:16
Speaker 3: So GLP-1s are.
00:36:18
Speaker 4: Glucagon-like peptide.
00:36:20
Speaker 3: Yep. And they’re not always just GLP. There’s a couple of ones that are GLP and GIP, which is gattric inhibitory peptide, glucagon inhibitory peptide. And they’re basically these… You think of a peptide as being a form and at a job. You can have all the people there. You can have the workers. You can have the surveyors. But the peptide is the foreman who shows up and says, you go do this, you go do this. And basically that is what it starts to signal. And the way that the GLPs work is they slow everything down, they stabilize your insulin, and then they tell your brain that there’s no dopamine. Like a lot of times you’ll eat something, you’ll get a big dopamine surge from that. And it tells your brain, that wasn’t very good. You didn’t get enough dopamine. So why are we eating that? And it really is a game changer for most people.
00:37:22
Speaker 1: People are using it to lose weight.
00:37:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:24
Speaker 1: The GLP-1.
00:37:27
Speaker 3: And I think the controversy is people say, well, we don’t know what it’s going to do in 20 years. Actually, we do. You’re going to lose weight. It’s been used for 20 years.
00:37:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, by Etta.
00:37:39
Speaker 3: Came out in 2001, and we’ve been prescribing that.
00:37:42
Speaker 2: And it’s primarily been used for people with diabetes.
00:37:47
Speaker 1: What are the names of this?
00:37:48
Speaker 3: Is this Wegovi, Ozempic?
00:37:52
Speaker 4: Zetbound, Manjaro. So you’ve got two main ones, Terzepatide and Semaglutide, which are the generic name. They’re not generic yet, but the base name. But Manjaro is Terzepatide, and Ozempic is Semaglutide.
00:38:07
Speaker 1: And so people are using… these drugs pretty much to lose weight.
00:38:12
Speaker 4: Diabetes no but like say the lady at church recently got on one and she came two weeks later said my arthritis is almost completely gone and so there’s other impacts that it’s having besides just diabetes and weight loss.
00:38:26
Speaker 3: We know the glp1s have about they’re 70 active in reducing inflammation yeah so i’ve seen people who had crones go into remission I’ve seen people who had RA go into remission just from GLPs.
00:38:45
Speaker 1: So you guys, both of you are really positive on these?
00:38:50
Speaker 4: I tell people it’s as close to what I would call a miracle drug as anything we’ve seen in 20 years that I’ve been a physician.
00:38:55
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah.
00:38:56
Speaker 1: Why are people so, when you click on social media, you hear all these people saying, oh, this is, beware of this.
00:39:05
Speaker 4: You know, well, one, I would say that some people call it the Ozempic face because they’re losing lots of weight and your skin stretches and it doesn’t, it’s not elastic and stretching back. So, you know, they have that look. But another thing is, you know, I tell all of my patients, I think too many people are on these that aren’t doing it, but if you’re not strength training while you’re taking these, 30% of your weight loss is muscle. So for every 10 pounds somebody loses on this three pounds of muscle if they’re not strength.
00:39:32
Speaker 1: Training okay that brings up josh because i have heard that that’s that’s one of the top things people are like yeah these glp ones work but you lose a bunch of muscle mass and then we know that muscle mass is the is the Pathway to longevity. So really, you know, you’re kind of paying, cheating. What’s the phrase? Cheating Paul?
00:39:56
Speaker 2: Robin Peter.
00:39:56
Speaker 4: Pay Paul. Yes.
00:39:59
Speaker 1: Yeah. But you’re saying if you strength train while you’re taking this, it’s going to help.
00:40:05
Speaker 3: It’s the cheat code.
00:40:07
Speaker 4: Yeah. And honestly, that’s any diet. If you’re just losing weight with diet alone, you still need to strength train to keep from losing muscle. Okay.
00:40:15
Speaker 1: Okay. Now that’s good intel.
00:40:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:40:18
Speaker 1: Because if you just reduced your calories to 700 calories a day and didn’t do any strength training, your body would eat some of your muscle. I mean, that was where you would lose some of the weight?
00:40:29
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:40:31
Speaker 1: Okay. So, Josh, I actually asked Josh before I put on the podcast what I did. I said that because he quickly gave a synopsis that he’d lost 50 pounds and And then Dr. McCall had talked about just how just this radical transformation. I mean, even inside your labs, your blood work, your, all your stuff, just kind of like with that weight, weight drop loss and a change in lifestyle.
00:41:00
Speaker 3: Right.
00:41:01
Speaker 1: So big stuff happened. Yeah.
00:41:02
Speaker 2: So the one I met with, with Dr. McCall was, it was December 30th. And so we kind of made all these changes right at the beginning of the year. And, and there were, there were certain things that, you know, it the primary thing was losing weight. Like you’ve got to lose weight. I was, I was 271 pounds and which is way more.
00:41:22
Speaker 1: Than your five, six. So that’s six foot one.
00:41:26
Speaker 2: I’m six foot one, but it’s still, it’s way too much weight for my body. I’m a fairly big, big framed guy, but still 271 pounds is way more than, than I need to be carrying. And, uh, you know, he talked about, and I’ll, I’ll tell you, I had, I had a lot of other things that, that were, ailing me as well. I had, I have two, two messed up rotator cuffs from some skiing accidents. One, one has a partial tear into tear. And, uh, I was having to get, um, cortisone shots on my shoulders about every six months just to manage the pain. And, uh, he suggested, um, he suggested a GLP and I, I didn’t know a lot about it. And so the great thing about, about talking with dr mccall is he he takes all the time that you need to communicate and to allows you to ask questions so i mean i’ve just bombarded him with questions and uh that was one of the things and i appreciated the fact that you know he when he said hey let’s look at your health you know he was looking at my heart he was looking at my weight he was looking at my sleep he was looking at my testosterone he was looking he you know he asked me about my spiritual life i mean just Like he said, we need to look at this holistically. We can’t just treat one thing and expect it to change your life. And so it really was a decision and a recipe to benefit everything. But losing weight was the thing that we needed to do that would have the most impact on my health system. Because my blood work was really bad. I had high cholesterol issues. low testosterone and, you know, I’ve been pretty transparent about, about, you know, having can’t testicular cancer. Um, you know, that, that caused, it was a big part of why my testosterone was down, you know, lack of exercise. And so, um, in doing that, like we really talked about the need for, I think anything that you rely on as a, as a crutch or a cure to fix you, um, will be successful for a time. And then as soon as that wears off, you’re going to, you’re going to fail. And so I knew that, that getting on the GLP, you know, we talked and he said, Oh, you’ll, you’ll probably lose a lot of weight. I didn’t, I didn’t know how much I would lose, but, but he said, you’ll, you’ll lose a lot of weight. But I knew that I couldn’t just rely on that to fix it. I knew I had to change the way I was eating. And I knew I had to, I knew, I mean, I’m, I’m 50, I just turned 50 in May. And I was noticing how much muscle, you know, I’ve always been a big guy. I can’t say as I’ve ever been real fit, but I’ve always been strong. But I had noticed how weak I’d gotten over the last five to seven years. And so I immediately changed my diet, started focusing real heavily on protein and fiber, and then started the GLP and started a really low.
00:44:33
Speaker 3: Dose of How did you take it?
00:44:35
Speaker 1: Is it a shot?
00:44:35
Speaker 2: It’s a shot. It’s an injection you do once a week.
00:44:38
Speaker 1: You do it yourself?
00:44:39
Speaker 2: I do it myself. Yep. Yeah. I, I, mine is compounded. So the pharmacy sends me a vial and I just draw it up in a syringe, syringe once a week. I mean, it’s like taking insulin. You, you stick yourself in the belly and a tiny, tiny, tiny, you honestly can’t even feel it.
00:44:56
Speaker 1: And, uh, do you work for big farm?
00:45:00
Speaker 2: No, I do not. Um, But then I started alternating running and weight training. And when I say weight training, I mean like really emphasizing heavy weight because I know that heavy weight is going to build my muscle. It’s also going to increase my testosterone. And so I really started focusing on heavy weight and getting strong. But I know that my heart’s not super fit. So I wanted to be able to do aerobic exercise to try to get that VO2 max. I’m sure my VO2 max when I started was in the dumper. So I’ve really been focusing on that. And I honestly have been working out six to seven days a week. And I don’t always necessarily work out for an hour, an hour and a half. There are days where I work out, I’ll weight train for 45 minutes to an hour. And there’s days where I weight train and run.
00:45:55
Speaker 3: In a day.
00:45:56
Speaker 2: But I’ll just go, I’ll go run three miles. And it now I’m down to, it takes me about 28 minutes, 29 minutes to run, to run three miles. And, uh, I, I tell you, I think I’m probably like more functionally strong now than maybe I’ve ever been. And I feel like I’m more fit than I’ve ever been. And that’s, you know, that’s just in the last eight months, but I’ve been really consistent with it for eight months. And so I, you know, I’ve dropped 50 pounds. Um, My, my labs, I mentioned this on the podcast, my labs on Adam, he, he actually was coming here for the podcast. And I said, did you see my labs? And he goes, no. And he pulled him up on his phone and he goes, Josh, this is not good. Like I saw the look on his face and I was like, oh crap. Like he’s serious about this. And, uh, one of the first things he said was, I think you need to see a cardiologist. And that was like, oh my gosh. I need to see a cardiologist. You’re too young for that. I can’t believe I’m at this point.
00:47:02
Speaker 1: Right, right.
00:47:05
Speaker 2: And that was one of those things where it’s like, I got to do something or I’m going to be having a heart attack. And so just in about four to five months, my labs went, my testosterone doubled.
00:47:20
Speaker 3: My labs, my.
00:47:22
Speaker 2: Lipid panel, which is your heart, your cholesterol and all that kind of stuff, went from off the charts to down at the lower end of normal. And so, I mean, just in eating better and exercising and losing weight, it’s been seriously life-changing. And so I would encourage anybody out there who thinks, and I had gotten to the point where I wasn’t doing much physical. I mean, I was, I’m out, I’m outdoors and I’m hiking and that kind of stuff. But as far as intentional, um, exercise wasn’t doing a whole lot, um, that you can do it. I mean, you just, you have to, you have to make that initial thing. I will tell you that momentum is such a valuable thing. Once you get that ball rolling, you want to keep it rolling. Um, You know, I can’t say that changing my diet makes me feel a whole lot. Like, I don’t notice this huge change. I’ve got so much more energy. But the combination of the exercise and the diet and the losing weight has given me a ton more energy. And I feel so much better. I feel better than I’ve felt in 20 years, probably. So, anyway, I would encourage, I mean, if you’re struggling with your weight and you’ve dieted, and lost weight and put it back on i mean i’ve been through that cycle a number of times if you’re if you’re that’s you talk to your doctor about a glp i mean i’m not a i’m not the kind of guy that’s just like hey just go take a drug you know what i mean but but you can’t just rely on that thing to fix the problem because really the problem is inside of you you know what i mean you have to you you you have to purpose to do the right thing you have to purpose to make the right choice but something like a GLP can help. It can help with that. And so can’t rely on it, but it can help. So man, I encourage anybody out there. Um, I also encourage you if you haven’t had, if you haven’t been to the doctor, if you haven’t had your blood work done, I had no idea that my, my, I was in that bad of shape. I mean, I knew it was heavy. Right. But I had no clue what the impact was. And so, do it.
00:49:50
Speaker 3: Yep.
00:49:51
Speaker 4: And most insurances pay for once a year visit. If you’re paying the premium, then take advantage of it.
00:49:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:49:59
Speaker 4: Go see and get that checked out.
00:50:08
Speaker 1: Have you guys found people that the GLP-1s didn’t help?
00:50:13
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
00:50:13
Speaker 1: Are there some people that just, like, genetically it’s not as effective? Or is it all about their behavior along with taking the drug?
00:50:24
Speaker 3: I mean, I think both. But, I mean, I have one of my patients. We’ve tried everything. I mean, he’s kept calories. He’s washed them. He’s worked out. And he cannot lose weight.
00:50:38
Speaker 2: How old is he?
00:50:38
Speaker 3: 35. Wow. And he’s big. And so like, we’re looking into, is there other genetic, like ghrelin deficiencies and things like that, that are there other biochemical or biologic processes going on that, but all in all a GLP most of the time helps.
00:50:57
Speaker 1: Most of the time.
00:50:57
Speaker 4: Few people have some side, so side effect, most common would be nausea initially, but most people’s nausea improves over time. Had to had a few older women say it’s caused them to lose more hair. Sometimes maybe a little magnesium could offset that. But for the most part, most people respond well to it.
00:51:15
Speaker 1: Who’s eligible for this? It’s not just somebody that is like 150 pounds overweight or something.
00:51:25
Speaker 3: No. I took Mount Jaro. I got to about 240 pounds almost. And I lost right at 50 pounds with it.
00:51:36
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:51:36
Speaker 2: Man, you don’t know.
00:51:38
Speaker 3: You don’t know how bad you feel until you feel good again. And you tell someone who hadn’t worked out in a while, hey, why don’t you start running? They go run once. They’re sore for four days. And they’re going, you want me to do it again tomorrow? I can’t do it again tomorrow. I can barely get out of bed today. And so the GLP actually helps with that because the inflammatory.
00:51:59
Speaker 2: You know, that’s another thing I forgot to mention. My rotator cuffs. I said that at the beginning. Within a couple, like I had gotten to the point where I thought I was going to have to have rotator cuff surgery on my right side because it was so painful. And within two weeks of starting the GLP, I forgot that I had pain in my shoulder. Like it literally went away because it reduced the inflammation in my joints so much.
00:52:23
Speaker 1: If we had filmed you telling all that story, walking through like beautiful pastoral landscapes… It was like nice music. It could have been a Big Pharma commercial.
00:52:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I’ve got a face for Big Pharma.
00:52:42
Speaker 1: Your story is incredible, Josh. And it really, I think the way you responded just with your behavior, but also just being 50, I don’t know, it just feels like you’re the perfect example of somebody that could help that, that understands that it’s not just a crutch. Cause that probably is where maybe it doesn’t work as good feels like is, is maybe somebody that kind of just keeps the same lifestyle.
00:53:10
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, the idea is it helps, helps you kind of get the ball rolling or, you know, helped you change. I mean, it’s not easy to, I mean, we, you know, there’s a saying you can’t, can’t out exercise a bad diet because you can be exercising, but if you don’t change your diet, you’re not going to see those results. But, but, you know, I, I tell people I could foresee this being almost like a vitamin in the future. If we can get people on it, we can prevent some of the diabetes, the knee replacement, just from the weight. So for every pound someone gains, they add four pounds of pressure to their knee, six pounds to their hip. If you can lose a pound, you’re taking four pounds of pressure off your knee, six pounds off your hip. So just think of the joint replacement since it’s weight-based. But diabetes, heart disease… If we see somebody hitting that trajectory right now, it’s hard to get people on. The tricky part is the cost and getting it approved by insurance. If we could get people on this stuff, we would not see some of these problems.
00:54:09
Speaker 1: So you guys are like big advocates for this.
00:54:12
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Prevention. Because I’m a preventative-based mindset. The problem with medicine is… it doesn’t pay for prevention. It pays to fix the problems.
00:54:22
Speaker 3: It’s reactive.
00:54:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that’s the big, big part of the problem with the business industry insurance of medicine.
00:54:31
Speaker 1: So would you, going back to this question, I mean, would you give a GLP-1 to somebody that was 10 pounds overweight that couldn’t knock off 10 pounds?
00:54:39
Speaker 4: Sure, why not?
00:54:40
Speaker 1: Really, it wouldn’t have some negative, because it feels, the way I’ve ingested it and it’s been kind of fed to me and I understand it would be like, Use this if nothing else has worked and you’re like really overweight.
00:54:56
Speaker 3: The last 10 pounds are going to be hard to get off no matter what. We know that. But one thing that you can do with it is microdose it. And it helps you change how you eat because the food that you did eat doesn’t taste the same. It doesn’t taste good anymore. And so you can use small amounts of GLP-1. to help someone as they begin that transition and changing a diet. We talked about it. I don’t think it was in the podcast, but I’ve used it to help people quit drinking alcohol. I’ve used it to help people quit smoking.
00:55:30
Speaker 1: It’s like witching sticks.
00:55:31
Speaker 4: Craving. Yeah, it’s similar.
00:55:32
Speaker 1: You can use it to find graves. You can use it to find water lines. You can use it to find pet burial spots. I’m sorry.
00:55:42
Speaker 3: No, I was thinking of an analogy. I love analogies, and It’s kind of like you can go, if you’re going to hunt, you’re going, you know what, I’m going to go scent free. And you wash your clothes and scent free and you do all the right stuff, but you still smoke a cigarette on the way to your deer stand. You’re not doing yourself any good. You’re thinking that the one thing that you had to do was just use scent free laundry detergent. No, you’ve got to make change too. And you have to be methodical about what you do and when you do it so as to make the biggest difference in your life.
00:56:16
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
00:56:17
Speaker 4: Man that’s interesting yeah for my you know for my height i’m five seven five seven and a half um and i’m about 15 pounds overweight okay 15 to 20 and i’ve i’ve got some in the fridge i’ve been just so you’ve considered oh yeah i mean i mean if if anybody that would see you would just be like oh this is a fit good looking guy but yeah i mean you don’t see my shirt off either so you know i’ve got my pants size has gone up in the last couple years and You know, I intermittent fast. Most days I eat once a day. And you would think I would just drop pounds, and I haven’t. And the skinniest I’ve ever been was when I was training for, like, hard half marathon stuff. And, you know, I have a sweet tooth, so I can give up a sweet tea or a Coke every.
00:57:02
Speaker 3: Now and then.
00:57:02
Speaker 1: I’ve seen you knock down some sweet teas.
00:57:04
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker 4: The Stilwell sweet tea in the Queens has been my nemesis right there. But really, I mean, the things you can do, I tell people, say, hey, you don’t have to give it up completely. give it up Monday through Friday, you know, say, say your, your, whatever your cookie or your cake or whatever, just give it up Monday through Friday. Give yourself some on the weekend. It’s okay. Like that, that can be a diet. You know, you don’t have to completely, it’s ideal.
00:57:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:57:29
Speaker 4: If you could completely get rid of that stuff, but Hey, we want to enjoy life too. And food is enjoyment for us, you know, for some of us. And so I try to help people find ways that make, that works for them.
00:57:39
Speaker 1: So I find it interesting that you have considered too.
00:57:43
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:57:43
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah. I mean, For sure, I’ve got it sitting there just waiting on me to start it.
00:57:49
Speaker 1: Okay, what about the peptides that people are taking, like athletes are taking to build muscle? What is that? Is that the same thing?
00:57:56
Speaker 3: Essentially, except for we don’t know what it’s going to do in 20 years.
00:58:01
Speaker 1: Okay, so there’s a difference. There’s a difference between what Josh has done and what some guy is doing that’s using it almost like steroids.
00:58:11
Speaker 4: I think those are… Probably some of the future, as more research comes out, I do think we’re going to be seeing more and more benefit from those because the Chinese and the Russians have been studying for a really long time. And there are some good doctors over there. There’s some smart guys. And how much of that data do we have?
00:58:28
Speaker 1: I don’t know.
00:58:28
Speaker 4: But you’ve got to be careful because right now you can buy that stuff without a prescription. You’ve got to be careful. It’s kind of like if you go and get water out of a pipe in the ground, it might be great. clean water, but it could be also contaminated with Giardia, and it looks the same. And so we’ve got to know what our source is. But, yeah, I think the peptides, it’s huge, you know, popular right now, and I think there are some that are beneficial, but we’ve got to be careful.
00:58:57
Speaker 2: If I understand it right, like a peptide is like a program. Like it’s telling your body what to do.
00:59:03
Speaker 3: Yeah did you not listen to my.
00:59:05
Speaker 1: A little bit ago we talked about that yeah.
00:59:08
Speaker 2: I mean just i’m just i’m not i’m literally thinking because i deal with because there’s like different peptides so they’re literally just they’re all peptides but they’re telling your body to do different things yes so it’s not a glp1 is a peptide yes but it’s a but it’s a well-researched.
00:59:25
Speaker 1: Peptide okay What these young guys are using to build muscle is the thing that actually you guys are like, well, let’s… I mean.
00:59:35
Speaker 4: So there’s peptides to help build muscle, peptides to help inflammation or maybe even injury repair, peptides for hair loss. I kind of need all those myself. And so there’s a lot of peptides. So some can be taken daily. Some can be taken… Some have to be cycled.
00:59:55
Speaker 2: So.
00:59:56
Speaker 4: Like some of these peptides increase blood flow to maybe certain areas, but if you’ve got a cancer that you don’t know about, you don’t want to increase blood flow to your cancer. It’s feeding the cancer. So that’s the stuff. That’s the hidden dangers in some of these.
01:00:08
Speaker 3: Okay.
01:00:09
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:00:10
Speaker 4: So, yeah. And you mentioned compounded. Compounded are medicines that are made by pharmacies that can get ingredients that aren’t from, say, your Ozempic and Manjaro companies and can be bought and used and mostly safely, but you get on a physician’s, there’s a physician’s Facebook group. I don’t know if you’re a part of it, but I am. Oh my gosh, you mentioned compounded and people will light you up like you’re the worst doctor ever.
01:00:39
Speaker 3: I think it’s going okay. They also put in either B6 or B12, which can help with some of the side effects and the cost of it. It’s so much more reasonable for people And you go, man, if it works, why would I withhold something that was, you know, I think what we talked about, if you come to see me, my whole thing is I’m looking at your numbers, not because they’re a number, because I go, what is that going to steal from your life? Like, man, did I want Josh to lose weight because his BMI was high? Like I didn’t look at the BMI and go, man, that’s too high. Let’s get to that goal. I said, You’re going to be able to do more. Your knees are going to feel better. And you’re going to be able to live more life that God has intended you to live. And you’re just going to be able to live it better.
01:01:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:01:31
Speaker 3: And so if I can get a cheaper drug into someone who needs it, why wouldn’t I do that?
01:01:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:01:38
Speaker 3: Same drug. They just don’t spend billions on advertising.
01:01:43
Speaker 4: Yeah. But just be careful again. You can get that stuff. Just be careful where you get it from.
01:01:49
Speaker 3: And there’s… I mean… you want your doctor to know where it’s coming from. Like you want them to know what’s the difference between an FDA approved, FDA inspected, um, compounding pharmacy versus one that isn’t like, I mean, there’s, you want, you want to know your source. Hmm.
01:02:08
Speaker 2: Hmm.
01:02:09
Speaker 1: That’s all, that’s all really interesting. Yeah. All really interesting. Well, I think the, the, the, the three big things that I heard and that, we emphasize, which I think anybody could stand by would be for anybody, male or female would be to build strength. You just, just if you, if you’re interested in living a healthy life in your later, later years, and even when you’re young, build strength, build cardio, get your heart pumping. I heard a guy one time just say, He said a human is designed to be out of breath every day of their life, which I thought was a pretty good just way to think about it. Get your heart beating every day.
01:02:58
Speaker 4: That’s something that I’ve tried to implement is adding kind of some sprint training to what I do, whether it be on a bicycle or just at the football track where I’ve been running. It’s something to get your heart rate up at a high zone. We’ve got five heart rate zones, I guess, one through five zone, one being your just casual zone two is considered that aerobic kind of threshold. You want to stay in, but then zone three, four and five are, are zones that you start hitting your anaerobic threshold. But we need, we don’t hit that enough. You know, like our ancestors were chasing or being chased and we don’t do that enough anymore.
01:03:33
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:03:34
Speaker 1: And then the third thing being your diet. Yeah. And I think, I think that is probably where most Americans get in trouble because is what we perceive as normal is not normal.
01:03:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:03:46
Speaker 1: It’s just, it’s just never normal to eat hot Cheetos.
01:03:49
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:03:50
Speaker 1: It just isn’t. I mean, the truth is it may sound funny and I’m joking and it is funny when I say that, but like, uh, like it just, it’s just not. And I’m sure there’s something, there’s things that I eat that are my hot Cheetos that we all have, but, but, but the American diet is just pretty messed up. And, and, What I was trying to focus on, and it’s because it’s been an emphasis inside of my life, is not letting the culture dictate what I think is normal. Because I think we do that. I think we see, we compare ourselves to the rest of the world, and it is not very hard to be fitter than the average American. And I mean, you could be more fit than the average American and still be pretty bad out of shape. And then the whole idea that To be unfit is to be diseased.
01:04:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:04:45
Speaker 1: That’s a pretty powerful kind of sobering thing. And then, you know, I said, and if you, I think if you analyzed the people listening and, you know, if you analyze your world, you might find this to be true. Maybe you’ve thought it before, but just how casual we are with like being bad out of shape. I mean, guys laugh about it. Oh, yeah. I mean, how many guys.
01:05:06
Speaker 4: There’s doctors that are terrible out of shape.
01:05:08
Speaker 1: They just laugh about, boy, I’m bad, out of shape. And it’s like, I mean, it’s kind of like, man, I got cancer.
01:05:14
Speaker 4: Yeah. Right.
01:05:16
Speaker 1: You know, and that might be extreme.
01:05:18
Speaker 4: Well, no, more people die of heart disease than they do of cancer. I mean, it is, but people don’t take it this serious as cancer.
01:05:25
Speaker 3: We know that our diet a lot of times feeds the cancer. I mean, it’s a big, it really needs to be at the forefront of what you think about. Yeah.
01:05:33
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And at the same time, we can’t, It does no good to compare. Here I am talking about comparing yourself to other people. On the other side of it, you know, there’s a lot. There is a lot of genetic variation in people. And you may put a bunch of inputs in and never get what someone else gets. But you got to erase that and find what’s healthy for you. Find just like your sweet spot for functionality in your life and longevity.
01:06:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:06:05
Speaker 1: And be content with that. You know, you may never be the guy on the, on the cover of men’s fitness, but it’s like, so we can’t compare ourselves.
01:06:15
Speaker 3: Right.
01:06:15
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we’d look to, you know, I kind of, I didn’t want a dog like fitness influencers, but at the same time, most fitness influencers are pretty extreme. And now if they were sitting here, I would, I mean, one of them, which I’m looking at Josh as if you’re not a fitness influencer. Now you are. Um, I don’t want to be the guy that like, like, you know, talks about like people dog, cam Haynes all the time, more power to cam Haynes, man. How the cams like, I don’t know how old cam is late fifties. Yeah. And I mean, just work so dang hard. And, and it’s like, that’s incredible that he runs. I mean, just, miles per week yeah i love it that that’s not everybody’s gonna do that.
01:07:09
Speaker 2: Right and and we and people have to know like it doesn’t take that like it doesn’t take having eight hours in your day to work out right you know i mean to prepare your food and all that.
01:07:18
Speaker 1: Kind of stuff now now cam now cam’s my friend he would say he worked he worked on uh he was a water he worked in the water department his entire career did you know that he had a regular career he retired from the uh wherever he lives in Oregon. Um, so I’m, I brought up campaigns. I’m not dogging campaigns, but my point is, is that fitness influencers are not always like the, the best goal. They’re inspirational.
01:07:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:07:46
Speaker 2: Right.
01:07:46
Speaker 1: When I see cam, I’m like, yeah, I’m going to go run. So I use that, but I don’t probably will never be as good as cam Haynes and that’s okay.
01:07:54
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:07:54
Speaker 1: You know? Um, so it’s a, it’s a, everybody’s got to find their balance.
01:08:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:08:02
Speaker 1: But you can’t, you have too many excuses or you’ll shortchange yourself.
01:08:07
Speaker 4: And that’s why I tell people just 11 minutes twice a day will check that box.
01:08:13
Speaker 1: That’s good.
01:08:14
Speaker 4: And, you know, especially I think y’all mentioned as soon as you put your fork down, within a minute, try to go get that 11 minutes in. Because that does change how your body’s metabolizing glucose and stuff like that. But that’s doable. I have people tell me they don’t have time. Like, you got 11 minutes twice a day? They’re like, yeah.
01:08:31
Speaker 1: Do it.
01:08:31
Speaker 4: Just start walking.
01:08:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:08:33
Speaker 4: We can all do it.
01:08:34
Speaker 1: Misty and I are pretty obsessive about walking after we eat. We even do it sometimes after we eat at a restaurant.
01:08:43
Speaker 2: Sure.
01:08:44
Speaker 1: Josh and I, do you remember several times we’ve been traveling?
01:08:49
Speaker 2: Yep, and before we get in the car, go walk for 20 minutes.
01:08:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember one time we walked in some little podunk town in Oklahoma. It’s me and Josh just walking down the road. People were just like, who are these guys?
01:09:01
Speaker 2: It’s Evan Felker.
01:09:03
Speaker 1: I bet that guy knows Evan.
01:09:06
Speaker 4: And if you can exercise with your wife, do it. Your spouse, do it. I mean, I think it’s important to try to do that if you can. Not everybody can, but it gives you time to talk and, I mean, Like, Cindy and I, we have a tandem bike, and we ride our tandem bike, and, you.
01:09:20
Speaker 1: Know, me and Josh do that, too.
01:09:23
Speaker 3: I thought I saw you guys.
01:09:25
Speaker 4: I need a Bear Grylls kit.
01:09:26
Speaker 2: Oh, I want the front this time.
01:09:28
Speaker 4: You know, I need a Bear Grylls kit, huh?
01:09:30
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, for sure.
01:09:31
Speaker 2: But really.
01:09:32
Speaker 1: Don’t put a Bear Grylls sticker on your tandem bike.
01:09:34
Speaker 4: No, I’m talking about the home. But, no, really, I mean, it’s important. If you can do that with your spouse, do it. You know, it’s just time together, and y’all can work out together.
01:09:44
Speaker 3: Yep.
01:09:45
Speaker 2: Yep.
01:09:47
Speaker 1: Excellent. Well, thank you guys both so much for taking time out of your busy practice, which is very real, and meeting with us on short notice. I really appreciate it.
01:09:58
Speaker 4: I enjoyed it.
01:09:59
Speaker 3: It’s an honor, man.
01:10:00
Speaker 1: And so tell us about your practice. Where is your practice, Adam?
01:10:04
Speaker 3: So mine is in Springdale on the corner of 412 and 49 there by Sam’s Club. If you’re from this area, it is the old Fun City. I say it’s Fun City 2.0. You know, I did have a golf simulator in my office. I was trying to keep the vibe of the putt-putt course, and then my nurse said that I was spending too much time on it, so I had to take it down. Yeah, it was an issue, apparently. And then just in the back corner, I’ve got a big blue tower, and we see everybody, you know, womb to tomb.
01:10:40
Speaker 2: Yep. Actually, Adam’s going to be delivering my first grandchild. what we think is going to be my first grandchild. I got two of them coming very close together. Wow. But, uh, yeah, he’s, he’s my daughter-in-law’s doctor.
01:10:52
Speaker 4: Wow.
01:10:53
Speaker 1: That’s cool.
01:10:54
Speaker 4: You signed a HIPAA.
01:10:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:10:55
Speaker 3: I was about to say, I can’t neither confirm nor deny that.
01:11:00
Speaker 1: Uh, Jason, tell us about yours.
01:11:02
Speaker 2: Yes.
01:11:02
Speaker 4: I’ve been in D queen Arkansas, which is Southwest Arkansas for, um, 19 years now.
01:11:07
Speaker 1: A couple of turnpike troubadour songs.
01:11:10
Speaker 4: Yep.
01:11:10
Speaker 2: Yep.
01:11:11
Speaker 1: Well, one.
01:11:12
Speaker 2: Yeah. One.
01:11:13
Speaker 4: Um, And so, and then I opened up in Broken Bow, uh, 24. And so I was downtown Broken Bow and downtown Duquesne. Got 200 year old buildings that, you know, I’ve got a love hate relationship with those old buildings. But, um, but yeah, and, uh, enjoy being, you know, I grew up in McCurtain County my first 12 years and kind of back to my roots. And there’s actually one of my, one of my patients like worked with my grandmother, you know, like it’s neat seeing people who knew my grandparents or worked with my dad and But, um, yeah, it’s, uh, both, both places. It keeps me busy. Uh, hopefully get, you know, if anybody’s out there.
01:11:47
Speaker 1: Are you taking new patients?
01:11:48
Speaker 4: Taking new patients. And if anybody out there is a physician wanting to get, you know, some, getting a private practice, reach out to me. Cause I’d like.
01:11:54
Speaker 1: You need a physician. Yeah.
01:11:55
Speaker 4: We need some more help. We’re growing and, and, um, I’d like to hunt a little more and fish a little more. And, you know, it’s hard to do when you’re seeing patients every day.
01:12:03
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:12:04
Speaker 4: But yeah.
01:12:05
Speaker 1: And y’all are taking new patients.
01:12:06
Speaker 3: We are taking new patients. I’m, um, We’ll be back to clinic full-time in about four weeks, and so I’ll be able to start resuming that. I took a little time off just to see my family this summer and make some hard decisions about delivering babies and really think through that.
01:12:22
Speaker 1: So you deliver babies too?
01:12:23
Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
01:12:23
Speaker 1: I mean, we know that, but that’s not common.
01:12:26
Speaker 3: Not common. No.
01:12:27
Speaker 4: No.
01:12:27
Speaker 1: So you’re kind of a traditional family doctor.
01:12:31
Speaker 3: I mean, closest thing that you can get to what an old-school doctor would have been is just everything.
01:12:38
Speaker 1: We’re old.
01:12:39
Speaker 4: Trained pretty much deliver babies. I delivered my last one in 2007 and I enjoyed it, but I like having a schedule. I don’t, you know, babies don’t come on schedules and.
01:12:46
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, they’re really bad at that. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And the hospital no longer delivered when I, when I moved there, they were already this OB department, all these small towns, OB departments are shut down. I think Mina might still deliver, but I think they do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You got to go to a bigger, bigger town.
01:13:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So we, I have four kids. We had to go to texture can an hour away for two of them. And then I found a really good doctor, a guy named Clint Henson and Todd Springs, And we started, our last two got delivered there.
01:13:11
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So it’s, you know, it’s a challenge if you’re, my wife’s water broke on the way to Hot Springs, number four, and we made it with about an hour, hour and a half spare.
01:13:21
Speaker 1: Hmm.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I don’t miss, no. Yeah, no, people are always like, I mean, what, I mean, how do you do it? You know, and what time do babies come? You know, I’m like, you know, it’s not usually between eight and five. And they said, why is that? And I was like, because they’re not usually made between the hours of eight and five.
01:13:41
Speaker 1: Exactly nine months after the time of conception. Dude, the minute.
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Speaker 3: It’s amazing how the body works. I don’t even know where I was going.
01:13:54
Speaker 1: You just wanted to tell that one joke.
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Speaker 4: That could go way off track.
01:13:58
Speaker 1: It hit. It hit hard. Oh, gosh. That’s funny.
01:14:04
Speaker 2: Well, we did mention on the front end that we have guys in the Toccova’s hot seat and the Toccova’s auxiliary hot seat that you guys will be receiving a pair of Toccova’s boots from Toccova’s. So thank you, Toccova’s. That’s awesome. I hope you guys enjoy those boots.
01:14:19
Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And you’re going to be at the– we should have said this at the beginning– world championship squirrel cook-off be there with brent and lake pickle.
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Speaker 2: Brent and lake pickle we’ll have a booth up there and and uh we’ll have a great time come down and check it out there’ll be lots of food to eat what’s the day when is it um it’s september september 12th um all day there in springdale at the the hunt nature center um so come down check it.
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Speaker 1: Out yeah that’s a big big event there’s a lot of uh lot of booths it’s hard to describe what it is but the main thing is a cooking contest using squirrel 40 teams they give away a lot of food uh it’s a.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful campus it’s a beautiful campus game and fish will be there they’ll have lots of cool activities for kids and for everybody and so it’s a it’s kind of a an event for all ages.
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Speaker 1: And i’ll be in uh let’s see when does this come out no it’ll happen after i come after i’ll be in missoula montana Oh, that’s right. Three days after you hear this. I was there. It was great. Well, thank you guys so much.
01:15:28
Speaker 4: Thank you for having us.
01:15:29
Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: A lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: Excellent. No sign-on.
01:15:34
Speaker 2: No keep the places. Keep the wild places wild, people. That’s where the bears live.
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