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The Dumbbells

52: Unlikely Paths to Fitness (w/ Jason Shapiro)

The Dumbbells

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Ryan Stanger, Gym, Health & Fitness, The Dumbbells, Health, Weights, Exercise, Comedy, Comedians, Eugene Cordero, Fitness

4.9619 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Episode 52 has arrived!!! And The Dumbbells got funny man Jason Shapiro of @lozfelizdaycare and author of "The Memory Hoarders Journal" to talk shop in The Weight Room. Jason opens up about playing sports as a small

-for-his-age kid in an effort to connect with his dad and has a great childhood football story that's right out of one on those happy/sad, coming of age teen movies. Ultimate Frisbee comes up this episode as an unlikely path to exercise and The DBs give Jason some direction to his workouts in the gym. Last the group talks some more about the #KA50CHALLENGE and everyone answers some listener questions.


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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:06.7

This is the Dumbels, the Personal Fitness podcast where we, I'm Eugene Cordero.

0:11.6

And me, I'm Ryan Stanger, have discussions and answer questions on health and fitness.

0:16.0

This is solely based on our own working experience, a little bit of bro science.

0:20.0

So please keep in your mind that we're

0:21.6

not doctors and we have not as of yet ever claimed to be. No. Are you a doctor saying? No. Just a couple of dumbos who love fitness. Want to help you with yours? Is that what we are? That's what we are. Yeah. Yeah. And the help can start right now. Hey, why don't we introduce. real organic, right?

0:17.9

It's almost,

0:18.4

we're making it ours.

0:19.3

It felt hot up top.

0:21.2

Felt hot up top. now. Hey, why don't we introduce... That felt real organic, right?

0:38.1

It's almost... We're making it ours.

0:39.0

It felt hot up top. Felt hot up top. So I felt like we needed to relax into it a little bit. And that's when I just said your name in the middle. And that's how I loosen things up is by bringing up people's human names. What do you think of that? Smart. Hey, let's bring up this human name, our guest, to the wait room.

0:38.5

Jason Sapiro! Hey, how's it going, guys? Thank you very. Thank you for being here. So people would know you from Los Felis Daycare, right? Yeah, I am. Super hot Twitter. Hot Twitter. That's now doing, you're making a show of this, right? Yeah, developing a show right now. You are that. Hoping that goes, but we'll see. What I love about that Twitter and what I love about you is that you don't have kids. I have no kids. I don't know much about kids and I'm also not a doctor. Yes. You're not. You're not a doctor. You don't have kids. So you are also lie. Yeah. Yeah. The lab coat that you wear is misleading. Yeah. And so is that little, uh, hat with a, the reflective thing. The mirror on it. Yeah. Yeah. That's also a lie. Yeah. You walked into here with glasses, which I don't think are a prescription either. They're not. They're just red. They don't even have lenses in there. Yeah, they're just red. They're like Sally Jesse Raphael, like the red lens or the red frames. Frames. Yeah. But I think it distinguishes me and it just sets me apart. And people ask a lot of questions then. Yeah. That's, it kind of gets people talking. Well, you didn't bring it in, but at the front door, he did have a clipboard and a

2:03.5

pen. and we did see him walking down the street, like just kind of hitting his head with the pen and then writing gibberish. Right. Yeah. Interesting. You refused to bring that in, though. No. Demanded to leave it on the porch out there. knew that lie wasn't going to stick.

1:58.5

And if I can get a two for one, I was already out doing that.

2:01.0

Yeah.

2:01.1

Now I'm doing this.

2:01.9

Yeah.

2:02.4

No surveys.

2:03.3

No real. demanded to leave it on the porch out there. Well, he knew that lie wasn't going to stick. And if I can get a two for one, I was already out doing that.

2:18.9

Yeah.

2:19.1

Now I'm doing this. Yeah. No surveys. No real surveys. Fair. Yeah. Bits aside, though, also a book, a memory hoarder's journal. Yeah. I have a book that I wrote last year, and it's kind of a guided journal. it doesn it's not it you don't sit down and read it you

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