Welcome, everyone to the ARP strength podcast.

I am Nick Shaw and joined by Dr. Mike Isertil.

What's up in?

Hey, I'm in a cheery holiday mood.

I can hear the sleigh bell jingling, et cetera.

Excellent.

First of all, so we're recording this before Thanksgiving.

What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

Going over to a family house and bringing, my wife and I are probably bringing our own Tupperware of food and, well, our own individual Tupperwares, consuming that

around the dinner table and summarily leaving and driving home an hour and silence. Nothing to say

to each other. Merry Christmas, happy holidays from the Isretel family.

But yeah, that's the plan.

And it's not a good plan.

It's a plan.

It is the plan that we need to do, need given our particular conditions.

But I'd love to use the rest this episode

to paint a picture for our listeners of what holiday eating looks like and should look like

and should you choose any paths through it where those paths are likely to get you. It's like if a body,

a healthy fit body and a sound mind are the grandma's house at the end of the trail,

the holiday eating is this black forest of Germany, wolves and shit,

little red riding hood, bitch ass running around, all kinds of trolls and orcs and who

knows what's in there. And they're winding paths. And depending on which path you take, you

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