Try THIS Next Time You're Bored
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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There's some surprising research about boredom that dave shares during today's ten-minute walk.
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| 0:00.0 | Turns out I've been doing it all wrong. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness |
| 0:16.0 | you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps |
| 0:23.4 | a day. I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. |
| 0:30.4 | Every now and then, as I'm walking around town, I'll hear somebody say something, and it just |
| 0:37.4 | sticks with me. |
| 0:38.3 | That happened just a week or so ago. |
| 0:41.3 | But it still doesn't quite reach the level of what I heard earlier this year. |
| 0:46.3 | This is number one with a bullet and I think it's going to take something pretty incredible to top this. |
| 0:52.3 | I was walking by one of the local TV stations, |
| 0:56.8 | and there's a parking lot across from the station. Someone was leaving their car, coming through the |
| 1:03.9 | parking lot, getting ready to cross the street. I wasn't really paying attention to them. |
| 1:08.1 | They certainly weren't paying attention to me. |
| 1:11.1 | Saw them out of the corner of my eye. |
| 1:13.8 | And then he started talking, and that grabbed my attention. |
| 1:16.8 | And I was close enough that I clearly heard him say, as he looked skyward, |
| 1:21.8 | Dear God, please don't let me screw up on local TV. |
| 1:25.7 | I have no. Please don't let me screw up on local TV. |
| 1:33.3 | I have no idea who he is. |
| 1:38.9 | What he was getting ready to do, I suspect he was heading to the TV station to be part of their morning program as a guest, |
| 1:43.6 | and he was just nervous as all get out and dear god don't let me |
| 1:49.7 | screw up on local TV so the other day I was walking through town and came upon two people |
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