Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, episode number 296. Now I'm back today with Tom.

Tom has got a colossal task on his hands today because all over Christmas and into early January this show

trended at number one worldwide so Tom. No, no pressure at all.

Because all of the shows were with you not here.

Yeah, thanks for that man. That makes me feel really good about myself. It was only because of the topics. That was why the show went to number one.

And people really enjoyed it. I think that's why we try and be as honest as

humorly possible on the show because well I suppose the fitness industry

has inherently been a little bit dishonest over the years and with the sort of rise of social media and how much we use

social media people revel in the positivity that is social media every day.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of stuff that's

negative on social media, but people are very good at painting a picture of

how perfect their life is using social media. So you know I think it was refreshing for a lot of people to hear

different perspectives and then we had Brian keen on the show and he's another

podcaster so that was very well received and it's good to be back answering people's quandaries.

No I think the podcast that you did without me although I wasn't there were very good.

I enjoy listening to them anyway so I think as you say it makes a big difference in the age of social

media to actually hear what real life's like for people that you see all the time.

Because I mean everyone's always known that people on

social media portrayed the best of the best of their life and it's nice to see the

real world for a change. Let's um let's go off on a tangent because you've just spurred a thought in me and also over my breakfast

this morning which was the button up bolognese from Heat and Eat Lean, which is amazing by the way.

I was watching a, they'll call it a motivational video,

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