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Accidental Tech Podcast

487: Mid-Life Rally

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 144 minutes

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0:00.0

We have to start with some housekeeping right away. Happy birthday, Marco. You are 40 years old and what like six days?

0:07.0

Something like that. Yeah, five. Yeah. How you feeling?

0:10.0

We've heard our friend Merlin always joke about like getting older and he like apparently injured his ankle while sleeping a few weeks ago.

0:17.2

And I have now I was 40 for like 72 hours. I woke up one morning like a half hour before my alarm was supposed to go off.

0:25.8

I thought crap. I can miss myself. All right, let's go back to sleep. Half hour later I wake up. I can't move.

0:33.0

So literally in that half hour I had somehow slept on my neck or shoulder in some weird way that like I'm like I do a lot of like core and flexibility exercises.

0:47.2

I am usually very healthy in these areas and yet somehow 72 hours after I turn 40 I slept for 30 minutes and broke myself and like can't twist my body.

0:58.6

It like for like two days now like it's slowly getting better. But I'm like, oh my god. Like I wow that comes on quickly.

1:05.8

Right. I feel like the warranty doesn't run out until like the mid 40 song. I'm not sure what this is. I don't know man.

1:12.2

I genuinely this is such a boring thing for three old white guys to wind about being three old white guys. But here we are.

1:18.4

But now I feel like once I had like 35 things that never ever used to bother me started to occasionally bother me.

1:25.6

And I didn't have the planned up solicence of 40 days to you have had. But I definitely will like bend wrong and can't twist my back for a week or whatever the case may be like all sorts of weird ailments or you know I'll call for

1:42.0

off the wrong way and suddenly like my abdomen hurts for a day or two and I also actually I'm not saying I exercise more or less than Marco but I all I exercise every day like again maybe not maybe not the same way maybe not as

1:54.0

strenuously but I exercise every single day and I am probably the healthiest I've ever been in my life.

1:59.0

And at least certainly the strongest and yet still if I look at something the wrong way suddenly like an entirely opposite end of my body is broken.

2:08.8

So yeah, well that's I don't understand how this is happening to Marco. It's like I said in Twitter like Marcos. I think probably also and probably the best shape of his life.

2:16.0

He's got rid of his banana allergy. He's all you know trim and buff and doing all these exercises and like well not trim.

2:23.8

Well trim or yes well.

2:26.8

I'm yeah I am I'm very strong in certain ways I am not trim.

2:30.8

That's not a thing anyway either way you you've definitely sort of had a midlife rally here but now this whole sleep thing.

2:38.8

I know I like ever since I got more serious about fitness fears ago and started doing more and more stuff having the trainer and everything like our

2:46.8

trainers awesome like we'll do things that exercise muscles that I didn't even know existed.

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