Another Day Archives: The Government Should Be a Trampoline, Not a Net with Open Mike Eagle

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

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4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ana and Open Mike Eagle explore the fine line between resilience and overextension—digging into rock climbing injuries, political burnout, and why real strength comes from sustainability, not just survival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And during the beginning of the pandemic, or actually after we stopped doing total lockdown, mask era, I got really into indoor rock climbing.
0:10.4	Indoor.
0:11.0	Oh, in the gyms where they have.
0:12.6	Bouldering, yeah.
0:13.3	Okay.
0:14.4	And I did it so often and with such enthusiasm, I, like, strained my soldiers so badly.
0:24.3	Oh, gosh.
0:25.0	My doctor was like, I haven't seen this in a while.
0:30.0	Were you trying to, like, hold just with one and just, like, you know,
0:33.5	I was just like, what I was doing was over extending because I'm hypermobile.
0:39.5	Is that an affliction?
0:41.4	What?
0:42.1	Is that an affliction?
0:43.5	Hypermobility?
0:44.4	What is that?
0:45.0	It's like, it's funny because it actually, in the medical literature, it sort of is,
0:51.1	is interestingly aligned with some, like, emotional and mental things.
0:57.6	Okay.
0:58.0	But it wasn't until, like, a couple years ago that I realized this is, this is the first
1:04.2	line of the chapter.
1:06.5	Hypermobility isn't the same as flexibility.
1:08.9	Oh.
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