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The Rich Roll Podcast

Roll On: E Pluribus Unum

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Election week. Healing the national divide. Environmental progress. Weekly wins. And, of course, listener questions. Welcome to another edition of Roll On. Commanding co-host duties as always is my hype man Adam Skolnick, an activist and veteran journalist perhaps best known as David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me co-author. Adam has written about adventure sports, environmental issues and civil rights for outlets such as The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, BBC, and Men’s Health. He is the author of One Breath and is currently hard at work on a novel. Some of the many topics explored in today’s conversation include: • Recapping our whirlwind election week; • Making sense of the 70 million votes for Trump and the implications this presents; • Understanding Biden and the presidency to come; • Bridging our cultural and political divide as a national imperative; • Rich’s latest Esquire piece and thoughts on the writing process; • Chris Nikic, the first athlete with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman Triathlon; • and Rich’s newest offering, Voicing Change. In addition, we answer the following listener questions: • How do you stay focused on your journey and minimize distractions? • How do you embrace change and take a step into the unknown? • How do you make time for your partner as parents to young children? Thank you to Frank from Southern California, Davin from South Florida, and Michelle from New Jersey for your questions. If you want your query discussed, drop it on our Facebook Page, or better yet leave a voicemail at (424) 235-4626. The visually inclined can watch our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Enjoy! Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

The Rich Roll Podcast

0:19.0

Alright, Adam Skolnick is back and it's time to take roll call. Let's do the show.

0:31.0

Alright, what's going on everybody? Welcome to another edition of Roll On, where me and my height man Adam Skolnick who's sitting across me right now, my bestie, journey man, journal, adventure, author, environmentalist, breakdown, topics of public interest.

0:48.0

Today's going to be a bit of an election extravaganza. So if you're burned out on that, I understand, but we're not going to let this moment pass without sharing a few thoughts about that in addition to our typical teachable moments, a little show and tell some listener questions.

1:04.0

And as always, kicking it off with a little fitness check in, but I think today, Adam, we should start with how our mental fitness is doing.

1:13.0

Yeah, well, you tell me how you feeling, where were you when all this stuff was going down? It's been a roller coaster. Yeah, I feel good today. I'm definitely feeling a sense of relief. I feel like I can breathe.

1:26.0

I feel calm like my blood pressure is settling in. And I think it didn't really become completely apparent to me until I was watching Harris and Biden deliver their speeches.

1:41.0

Yeah, the other night, and I could just feel myself settling. And I was much more emotional than I expected to be, because I think those speeches were great. Yeah.

1:51.0

But in the grand scheme of things, they were relatively banal, but in juxtaposition to what we've been enduring over the last four years, I felt like they were exactly what we needed to hear.

2:02.0

And, and it all kind of like don't on me how much tension and anxiety I had been holding, even while simultaneously trying to create healthy boundaries between myself and the new cycle, you know, out of self preservation, to just exercise a little bit of self care amidst all the chaos and insanity.

2:22.0

Yeah, it's like we've been trapped in solitary confinement, listening to death metal for four years. And then Kenny G came through.

2:31.0

And then Kenny G came through and you're like, I always hated Kenny G, but boy, it's beautiful.

2:38.0

That's a pretty good analogy, I think. But no apologies to death metal. I didn't mean to insult death metal like that.

2:46.0

How's your mental state? You know, I'm good now. It was, it was funny. Like, I've been very positive. I've been very, I've believed that there was a chance to win this whole time, but on, on Tuesday, when it was not going well, I have to admit, I did not feel like it didn't feel like a win.

3:04.0

Yeah.

3:05.0

We were going somewhere dark. It felt like, and I wasn't shocked by it. I'm not shocked by the numbers. Trump got and we'll talk about why we're going to get into all of that.

3:15.0

But, but, and I wasn't surprised at the time. And I wasn't like affected like I was four years before, you know, where I was really, really, really upset.

3:26.0

This time I was like, okay, trying, trying to stay on top of it. And then the next day, waking up to better news and then following it throughout the course of the day on Wednesday, and into the night where it looked good.

3:39.0

Again, I felt like I could sleep well. I wasn't like super consumed with it. And then on Thursday, when like we'd turned the corner. And I think by the, I forget what time it was that we took the lead.

3:52.0

We were on our way taking the lead. We meaning Biden, Pennsylvania and Georgia and all of that. Right when it started looking really good, I started freaking the fuck out.

4:02.0

You know, like I was like, I was like, is this going to work? And I couldn't sleep. But I checked like three times in the middle of the night. And like I was, I was, I don't know why. But I was like, I was afraid.

4:14.0

Like it was all going to be like a mirage and evaporate.

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