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== Taking a break and personal updates ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Good. We took a break, which we haven't done in a really, really long time. We had a week off, which is nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Super strange, I will admit that. Especially since prior to that, I had recorded a guest episode, which I had pre-recorded like a week prior to the actual guest episode happening. So it's been like three weeks since you and I have actually talked live on the podcast. So how have things been in these past three weeks? You having a good holiday? You're all relaxed, refreshed, had a good holiday season so far?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, pretty decent. Pretty decent. I had a good Christmas. I did throw my back out two days before Christmas.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, you know, just really compounding, because I don't know if you were aware, but I sprained my ankle before we went on vacation.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That part I missed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So before we went on vacation, I sprained my ankle pretty bad, like two days before. And like, I'm still kind of like, that's, you know, mostly back to normal now, but not completely. Two days before Christmas, threw my back out. So, you know, I'm just like, I'm at, I'm just, all of these things, they're just getting piled into 2022, right? You just like, they're all in, right? And now 2023, I can just, you know, all this stuff's happened.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So you kinetic chained yourself right into a back injury after spraining your ankle, you know, probably, you know, favoring one side. Now you've thrown out your back because you've had to take care of your ankle. And yeah, that sucks. All of that stinks. So yeah. As someone who throws their back out about once a year, I don't wish that on anybody. It is bad stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My issue was, I hadn't been working out because of the ankle injury. And then went too hard. I threw it out at the gym. Yep. So I wasn't listening to my body, which was telling me like, hey, you've probably had enough for today. No, that was not the case. So I threw it back out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Humans aren't very smart in that aspect, are we?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So now it's going to be even longer, you know, like probably another couple of weeks until I can start that again. But learned a valuable lesson.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We all do it. This is a life lesson and you've learned it for probably the next year or two and you will do it again later. It's just the way it's going to be, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Although if you ask my wife, we can all say I've learned my lesson forever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Between me and you, it's going to happen again. I'm going to do it again, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's totally going to happen again.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know who I am.