Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bullwark.

And Sarah is playing hurt. She was in an intense rugby match the other day.

Oh, no, that's not how you injured yourself, is it?

These are lies. I just, I was just, so I have been, because if you recall, if you've been with us for a long

time, you know that JVL and I one time, we went through a Peloton phase, uh, especially during

COVID, you went through a yoga phase, a Namaste phase. Uh, none of those phases held, uh, but I am

currently, I am back in the gym. Uh, I have a 25-year-old trainer who's been kicking my ass regularly.

She is great.

But today she was like, I got a new machine.

I cannot wait to try out this new machine.

What is it?

And it's this freaking contraption where you, it's like the shoulders.

It's like a leg press, the the the weights up on the shoulders

okay are you squatting yeah it's squatting squatting but it's on a machine right but i

squat with the borrowed time it's my favorite exercise great strong quadriceps I'm a sturdy person

from Pennsylvania I climbed on this machine with all the confidence in the

world and I unlatched it and I went deep and I pushed back up and I went,

did you get all the way back up or did she have to rescue you? No, so here's what happened.

This is the worst. I'm the worst like this. I like didn't say anything at first. Of course not. And so I did my first. Don't show weakness. No, I know weakness. That's right. I learned this from whiplash and tar. You never show weakness. I want to show weakness in front of some 25 year old former gymnast who like, you know, can do all the things.

So, but it was in the second set where I like, I was like,

Camarria, I got to stop.

It's too.

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