Ep. 19 | How Much Can Discipline and Routines Cover Before Life Breaks Through

The last few weeks feel like someone hit fast-forward on our calendar. Fortis is growing, we’re traveling more than ever, and we’ve had some routine shifts as our dog Toby battles dementia. We share the behind-the-scenes of what that actually looks like for strength coaches and competitive lifters: planning attempts, managing warm-up rooms, staying calm when schedules get messy, and keeping our own powerlifting training on track with PLU Nationals coming up.

We discuss our recent competitions over the past couple weeks before giving y'all an in depth update on Toby. He has epilepsy that’s well controlled, and now he’s dealing with canine cognitive dysfunction with sundowning symptoms that hit hard at night. We share what the nights looked like when he wouldn’t sleep, what medications didn’t help, and the routine changes that finally made a difference, including sleeping with dimmable lights on while we wear sleep masks. 

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Transcript

Welcome And Life Updates

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Fortis After Hours podcast. I'm your co-host, Nate, joined by my wife Liz. Hey. And we have another awesome episode planned for you guys today. Shocking. Uh, yes. You guys may be shocked to hear that we had another awesome one, but you know, every episode we record is awesome. Um, so and we appreciate you guys listening in uh each week that we drop a podcast, uh, since we know that it's not every week that we uh record one of these. And that is because our business continues to grow, thanks to you all. So um we are much busier than we ever have been with traveling, coaching, um, and whatnot, other activities.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

It's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Yeah, it is pretty cool. Um, so today we're just gonna share a little bit about uh that and how that's been going. Uh, this has probably been not probably, this has definitely been the busiest first quarter of any year uh probably since we moved down here as far as the gym. Um so that's been fantastic. And again, thanks to you all and all of our other amazing clients and athletes and members of our gym as Fortis continues to grow. Um and then we're also gonna be talking a little bit about Toby, um, which you guys know you know who Toby is, our little dog. Um, but yeah, we're gonna give you guys a little bit of an insight into what's been going on with him, just some different like health things that he has going on, and kind of go from there.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

We have been getting lots of questions, so this will help help clear some.

Recent Meets And Coaching Wins

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Yeah, we've been getting a lot of questions, and then this way, like there's just like a spot that people can go. Like, if you're interested, you can go listen to it, and if not, then there you go. Um, so anyways, so we'll start with uh just like the um traveling and everything. Where have we been the past couple weeks?

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Yes, because we have not recorded a podcast. Yeah, two weeks because so we've had I think four different meets this year, or whoa, this month that we coach people at. Two of them were virtual or like online people that like I just coached them yeah virtually, like I didn't go there to, but then two weeks ago, you went to Mississippi.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Yep. I went to Tupelo. Low-key Tupelo is kind of a nice spot.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

I've never been there, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

It was a nice spot, and like the the hotel that I stayed at was like downtown Tupelo, nice little area, like Mississippi. Sometimes, you know, I've been there. It can be a little interesting. Um, but Tupelo is pretty, pretty cool, and the gym was a pretty cool spot, too.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

So had the meat go.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Um, meat went good. That was for uh my client Dakota, and we've only been working together five months, is what we uh decided. So we've been working together five months. We put 50 pounds on his total, um, and kind of helped him recover from a uh hamstring tear, pretty bad hamstring tear injury that he had. Um and yeah, he did really well. Uh obviously, 50 pounds on the total, crushed it, and went nine for nine? Yeah. He did. I'm thinking it went, yeah, he went nine for nine. That's how he did that. Um yeah, went nine for nine, crushed it. Uh that meet went well. Um the venue was super cool, like a cool like warehouse that was trans transitioned into like a gym. Uh and it was a pretty cool vibe. So good meet, good vibes. Uh Dakota crushed it, and it was fun to hang out with him and all of his buddies. They all like lived together. It's just pretty cool. And everyone was there. There's a few of them, their first meet, so that's cool. Always cool to watch people do their first meet.

SPEAKER_01 3:39

It's always fun.

Elena’s Comeback At Nationals

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Yeah. Um and then yeah, the following week, I left flew.

SPEAKER_02 3:45

I left to go to Texas. Uh I flew into Austin, but the meet was in Killeen, Texas. Never heard of it before. Um, it's I don't know, it's an hour-ish north of Austin. Um, but I went for USAPL High School Nationals. Um, Elena was competing there. And um she did great also, nine for nine. And if you don't know or if you haven't read the captions, I just think this is cool, so I'm gonna like brag on her a little bit. Last year, it was actually Easter weekend, so like literally this weekend. Um, last year, she broke her back um in an accident that was not related to lifting at all. Um and I want to say multiple uh compression fractures in I don't remember the numbers of the vertebrae, but multiple of them. And she fortunately was able to um I don't know, survive, first of all, and second of all, like recover and work through that. Um, and then obviously a lot of PT and some rehab work to get her back to where she was. And then she started working with me last, we think it was in the in October, I'm pretty sure. And um, I started coaching her in October.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

We already training her mom, so it's kind of confusing. It's like yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

I'd been training her mom, and then I started training her in, I'm pretty sure it was October though. Um, and we started working together to kind of see what we could get built back up. Um, she hadn't touched really any of the weights that she had touched prior to breaking her back at that point. Um so we worked through that. We actually she competed in December, um, just kind of like a for fun meet to get her back on the platform. And then we did high school nationals last weekend, and she hit a lifetime PR squat, lifetime PR deadlift, and matched her PR bench. Um, so also also a PR total. Um, and she she tore, well, I don't know about Tor, she hurt, partially tore, strained something, her rotator cuff from wrestling during prep for high school nationals because we didn't do more than one thing. Sometimes there's more things that can happen. Um, so she was was able to rehab that, worked with the PT on that. Um and then we were still able to pull out a PR match for her bench. So it was pretty cool. Um high school nationals, it was a lot. I it was I think a four-day meet, and what I didn't know is they have a JV day and a varsity day, which like makes sense, like high school sports. There's JV and varsity, but it kind of looked like I think the JV was all just one day, so I don't think like as many people do that, and then varsity is like the other three days, I think.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Um varsity being like a little more competitive, you think?

SPEAKER_02 6:40

So I think they have a higher qualifying total, is what I kind of decided. But then I don't know. So we were talking about it, and so I'm pretty sure JV has a lower qualifying total, and then varsity has like a little higher qualifying total, but there's no like cap total for like the JV. So in my brain, you could just be like, Oh yeah, I'm gonna do JV and then win. Yeah, like I'm not saying everyone does that, but I just thought that was interesting. That like in my brain, I feel like if you have a certain total, then you should have to go to the varsity day to compete. And then also, like, if you don't have like a certain minimum, which I guess then that is kind of you don't qualify for varsity, you would have to do JV. Um, but Elena did the varsity day even as a sophomore, which is kind of cool. And then I think she said she talked to like everyone else in her flight, and they were all seniors, so kind of cool that she was like a sophomore competing with all the seniors. Um, and she placed in her weight class, I think it was like 13th out of I think 22, maybe-ish, something around there. Um, I mean that's pretty good, especially as a sophomore, yeah. Yeah, as a sophomore, when most of them are uh seniors, I'm sure some juniors too, but yeah, so I didn't know that they did that. That was pretty cool. Um, there's also a lot of equipped high school lifting there, and then a bunch of things.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

That's a big thing in Texas, like there's a big like equipped lifting uh community, I feel like in Texas specifically.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Yeah, it was interesting, yeah. But yeah, so it was fun. It was a three-platform meet warm-up room was crazy. Yeah, it was a huge warm-up room, which is nice when you have three platforms all going at the same time. But but yeah, it was cool. Nice, yeah.

More Travel And Upcoming Competitions

SPEAKER_00 8:22

So yeah, so that was like the past couple weekends, uh busy traveling, and then oh yeah, and then last weekend I coached at an Olympic weightlifting meet for my client Nikki. Uh, she did awesome as well. She uh, well, we ran into a little bit. She did awesome. She did awesome. Uh snatches, we ran into a little bit of a snafu. Uh, you can check Instagram or YouTube for that. Uh, but then she came back and crushed a PR Kleiner Dirk. Um, and that was able to that Kleina Dirk was such a big PR that that was able to match her total PR. So uh given how snatches went, that was awesome. Yes, that she was able to come back and do that. So that was a fantastic, busy weekend of competition last week.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

Yeah. And then I think coming up, April is kind of chill as far as like meets and things go. And then May, we have except for today.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Today I moved to Tortoise House. Well, you did do that, yeah. Just did that before. I've never seen a tortoise in real life, just cruise around. I mean, like maybe at a zoo.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Toby met it too.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Yeah, I I had Toby meet it, and I kind of thought like maybe he'd be somewhat interested in it. No, he'd just walk right by it. Didn't even like want to sniff it or like I don't know, maybe if he seizes a rock, like try and pee on it, something. Nope, just walk right by. I was like, okay. And meanwhile, the tortoises is like chopping on the grass, just like it was pretty funny. I've never seen like like I don't know. I mean, I've seen a tortoise like you know, at a zoo, but like it was like, I don't know, just gotta cruising around eating. It was funny that's what they do, anyways. Yeah, April's pretty chill.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Yeah, so May we have PLU nationals in San Antonio, which we are both competing in, and then I think it's 14 people. I keep mixing up my numbers, but I'm 13, 14, somewhere around there, people that we're bringing to compete in um PLU nationals May 16th and 17th. And then about a week later, 10 days later, I'm gonna fly out to California to coach Lolly at USPA nationals.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

And then a few weeks later, we have some meets in June happening. We have a big uh the one up in Floralla. I've never heard of this town, Floralla.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

Um there will be a big Fortis presence arriving.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

But yeah, we're bringing, we're bringing um another big chunk of the Fortis powerlifting team that's not doing nationals. A lot of them are gonna go do this. Uh the I don't remember the name of the meet, but it's in Floralla.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Um Super Gym. It's a super gym something.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Yes, so that. So we'll be doing that in June. So it'll be a busy next couple months with meets and traveling and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

But but not as busy as the first like quarter. Yeah, the first quarter.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

It's chill April, though.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yeah, April's chill. And the first quarter, I think I might do like a recap thing because we had I'm gonna miss some, so I'm not even gonna attempt to do it, but we had a lot of competitions that we were coaching, a lot of athletes. So it's a fantastic start to the year. Um, and you all have done a great job. So it's been super fun to be a part of uh y'all's days sometime soon. I'm probably gonna get the meta glasses so that way we can capture the days.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

But oh, I got to wear those at the at high school nationals.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Very jealous.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Um, A7 was there, and they were like looking, they wanted to do some like different POVs, like coach, athlete, spectator. It's cool, and uh it's posted on there on A7, and I'm in it, and it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Jealous.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

But they did like Elena wore them on her first squat, and then I wore them on her second squat, and then we had her mom as a spectator wear them on the third squat, and it's like a whole compilation of like a bunch of people wearing them, but then I thought it was cool because she definitely was like one of like the main focuses of it because it was like all three of her points of view of her squats, so it was pretty cool.

YouTube Consistency And Subscriber Goal

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Yeah, it's pretty sick. I might have to get some. We'll see, we'll see. Um, maybe for the second second half of the year, but anyways, yeah. So that's been that's kind of like a little update on our coaching um and competitive schedule. Also, a quick update. Pretty soon, it will be a hundred days of posting a video every single day, uh, which I'm pretty excited about. And it's next week. Nice. Next week, we'll be crossing over that. I'll probably do a video on that, to be honest. And we really, really appreciate everybody on the YouTube uh for subscribing. We had a check the other day, it's almost 150 new subscribers this year, which is fantastic. Uh, especially for YouTube's a little bit the growth is a little harder there. Um, so we really appreciate you guys tuning in on YouTube um and helping us grow that channel so that we can reach more and more people with our message about redefining strong for everyone. Yeah, um, so that's been pretty encouraging, and I definitely could not do that without you guys. So uh that's been awesome. Um okay, so now we'll talk a little bit about Toby. Um, so if you guys don't already know, so number one, if you really don't know, Toby's our dog. Uh he's everywhere. So you probably, if you found this podcast, you probably have seen him. Uh, but if not, that's our little white dog, Toby. Uh he's a little fluff ball, and he is 10 and a half, and he has epilepsy. Uh, so he has seizures.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

Um, and then recently are very well controlled though with medication. Yeah, I was gonna say he takes five times a day, two different medications for his epilepsy. But they are very well controlled.

Toby’s Health And Epilepsy Context

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Yeah, very well controlled. It did take a while to get him to that point, but yeah, they're very well controlled, so he doesn't have seizures often, knock on wood. He still has them um occasionally, but but yeah, much less often. So the medication, you know, with working with the vet, we've been able to find something that works for him um on that front. And then late last year, he basically just stopped sleeping.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

So we kind of talked about this a little bit ago.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Did we?

SPEAKER_02 14:06

Sort of, yes. I mean, we didn't really like fully go into details with it, but like we have mentioned that.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Okay, so we're gonna go into the details. So yeah, basically, like really wasn't sleeping, and like not only was he not sleeping, but he was like, it's like this like restless, like really restless, like panting, like just not okay. Like it almost looked like he's like scared or yeah, so he seemed really scared.

SPEAKER_02 14:26

He would like climb on top of us or just stand at like in our faces and bark or pant or whine or for hours.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

Like not not just like a little bit.

Nighttime Restlessness And Dementia Diagnosis

SPEAKER_02 14:35

The whole night. Because I've had a lot of people be like, oh, well, he's just not sleeping. Like, that's fine, you can still sleep. Um, no, because he's it's not that he's just not sleeping. Yeah, it's the it's a whole situation that I don't even have like words to explain really. Um basically he's like and he would like he'll like lay down for like a second, like literally maybe like five seconds, and then he would like jump up like something was like biting him or like attacking him, and then he would like run off the bed and like start running around the house and then crying, and then like it was just it and that would just go on for hours and hours and hours.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

And that was kind of like starting, I don't know, like November-ish time frame, and so that kind of led into this whole thing, which obviously we went to the vet multiple times, try to like work with them, and eventually they diagnose him with something called canine cognitive decline, which is basically like dementia uh for dogs, specifically sundowners, specifically sundowners. Um, so a lot of his nice, a lot of his uh symptoms, basically all of them mainly, are at night only. Uh and during the day, he's relatively fine. He is a lot more um, he's a lot more aloof, unaware. Uh he already kind of was, and now definitely as he's continuing to age, and with this, it makes a lot of sense with the cognitive decline diagnosis. Like, he's just not really like present at all times. Like sometimes he'd just kind of be snoozing, and like by kinda, I mean asleep. Um, so he's you know, he's pretty, pretty kind of chilled or he's a little more like reactive now to the things that like like bars slamming, things like that.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Yeah, he used to not care at all about like sounds and weights and people and things, and he definitely has gotten like more reactive to the now it's like it's kind of like now it's like a 50-50.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Like sometimes he's fine, sometimes not fine at all.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

Um, so all that's been going on, and then um, you know, so we've been working with the vet to try different things to like help him sleep, all of which have failed.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

So we did start him on a medication though that I think is helping him like throughout the day. Um may or may not be also helping at night, somewhat.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yeah, so he's taking one medication that's like for it's basically I think to slow, I don't think it's like reversing anything, but it's like to slow the symptoms uh from the dementia that's helps with balancing the dopamine levels in their brain, actually. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Um, which apparently something about dopamine levels has to do with cognitive decline, which I don't quite understand how those are connected, but I do know that it says it helps balance dopamine levels.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

So yeah, of course. It says that. Um, which so that I think is actually like helping him. Uh but then there was some other uh medications that we tried to help him sleep that I think actually made it worse. Made it worse.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Um and fun fact, we gave Toby a whole bunch of trazodone and he didn't sleep at all.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

And like a lot of our clients, like they're like, Oh yeah, like if I give my dog like a fraction, he's like passed out for hours.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

We gave him a whole pill and he didn't sleep an entire night.

Med Changes And Lights-On Sleep Fix

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Yeah, yeah, like at all. Um and so yeah, so anyway, so that has really just kind of been like something that's been going on, and then it really got worse like a few weeks ago. Um, like far worse. Like Let's say, like he was like fully awake like the entire night, and it's just no way to like you can't exist like that. Like, that is just craziness. So we had to go to the vet and like kind of re-talk through everything, and they gave us some uh ideas to like rearrange some of the medicine that he takes, cut out some of the other medicine, um, and then your boy in his creativity uh came up with the idea to get some lights.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Well, they told us to sleep with the lights on, which we did for two nights.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

We did for two nights, and now that's what we do, in case you're wondering. Too long to read. If you want to sleep to the end, that's what we do now. Um, but we had to get so I got I wanted to get like some of those like hue lights, like the color lights, where it like changes like the actual like color of the room type thing. So it'd be more of like a like orange, red, like mellow type feel. Um so we have those. And they're dimmable, so they're like a little bit darker. Our current setup, we have those. We have sleep masks because Toby needs the lights on. Um, and currently, as of like the last week, he's slept. So that's cool. Um, so anyways, he likes the lights. Yeah, he likes the lights.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

Um we also have a little very, I was gonna say a fairly strict like nighttime routine for him that does help.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

I was gonna say, and the funny thing is when I was talking to the vet, like they're talking about a routine and all this, and I'm like, yeah, we already do that, which we did, but now I'm like, well, or even we could do it. Yeah, so now it's like now it is like like we have all these different things in this order. Um, and that seems to be helping our little guy, which was really uh a little bit of a relief because for a little bit there, that was definitely kind of tearing us both apart, probably from the inside out. Uh, both like emotionally, because like no one wants to see their pet go through something like that. Um, and then also just physically, because like we're used to you know, sleeping a good seven. Liz sleeps usually nine hours, like seven to nine hours.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Eight to nine now.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Okay, so yeah, Liz usually sleeps more than me. I like sleep because I'm here earlier, but anyways, like we're used to that, and then to go from that to all of a sudden, like some nights we're not sleeping at all, some nights we're sleeping two hours, and for a little bit there, it was happening like multiple, like two yeah, like we're we're sleeping, I would say on average for like two, three hours for like a little bit, like a few weeks, a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

A couple weeks, yeah. Um and I think part of it too is like not only is it like not a lot of sleep, but we also continued to demand our bodies to do all the things that we want them to do because that's what we do. So it was definitely very challenging, and like I'm sure there will be periods of back and forth of this, like kind of and for the rest of his life, I'm sure, however long that may be. I'm sure we'll have like good weeks and bad weeks, and good days and bad days, um, just because I think that's the nature of this disease.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Um and the vet, like the way they put it was kind of it helped me out. It was a little bit sad, I'm not gonna lie, but it's like that you know, she just said you have to understand, like, he's basically just losing touch with reality, like just over time. And it's like, okay, like because you know, like you like at first you're like, Oh yeah, he has this. I'm like, okay, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

Like, you know, yeah, see, I figured this out like a long time ago.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Apparently, Liz figured this out a while ago, but I just was like, I'm pretty like optimistic in case you guys haven't figured that out.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Um a little more of a realist, I think.

Recovery Limits And Training Deload

SPEAKER_00 21:11

Pretty optimistic. Pretty much, I do not think there's anything that I cannot do. Like, there's just always there's always some way we can get it done. And yeah, this was like the first time, so it's like pretty emotionally taxing for me, just because I'm like, okay, like we're already doing everything. Um, he's already on the most powerful drugs basically that we could give him. There's no other drugs. Um, and basically she's like, it's only gonna get worse. So I'm like, okay. Um, so but with the advice from her and then just like my gut instinct, I don't know, like we were able to because I'm like, okay, well, we can like basically double down on the stuff she she said would help. Um, and that has helped so far. So we'll see how it goes. But anyways, yeah, that's been going on. And like Liz said, you can so like I do believe for a long time, like Um we don't have the funds for this yet, but at some point, maybe we have like a documentary crew type thing. Not a documentary, but like people like you know, for YouTube, like they could just like film us, so I don't have to worry about the producing and all that stuff. Uh-huh. Then maybe you could see all this, but we don't have that, so you're just gonna have to take my word for it. But for a while, like our I really believe our own systems, nutrition, hydration, like everything else that we do in our life to really like help with recovery and training, uh, kind of like I was explaining to someone earlier, like almost like if it's like a like a wall and there's like waves crashing, like it kind of like will like hold hold fast for a little bit, right? But then like after a while, it's like there's only so much wall. And uh, you know, like over over time, you know, externals like will you know tank your recovery, um, put you at you know a higher risk for injury, uh reduce your ability to perform what you want to do, whether it be with work or training or whatever. And definitely, at least for me, I kind of like found that last little limit here on this last block. Um, which was, I mean, like overall it was fine. Cause like I I like push myself and like I try my best, like truly. So I'm like, well, like that's just all my body has for this block. Um, and I knew it was time to deload, which was right on cue, to be honest. So that's here we are. Yep, time to deload. Um, but yeah, that definitely was an experience and or is an experience working with that, and we'll probably continue to be. But we are trying to give the little guy the absolute best life possible, yeah. Uh all the way to the end.

How To Treat Toby At Gym

SPEAKER_02 23:36

And like we've we've posted some signs in here that say, like, basically, don't pet Toby. And so to clarify, if you are listening to this, like if he comes up to you and approaches you, like you can still give him a little pet, say hi to him, you know. That's fine. It's more for the like basically one, just be more aware of him because he's not aware of anything or anyone. And then, like, if he's sleeping at all, don't touch him, don't touch him.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

Because, like, even if I touch him when he's sleeping, like, especially at the gym, like at home, he doesn't really seem to care, which is funny. But like at the gym, even if I touch him, he'll get like mad at me for touching him. So if he's sleeping, just yeah, don't touch him. But like, you don't have to because I've had a couple people be like, Oh, I can't, like, I have to ignore him when he comes up to me when I walk in the door. I'm like, you know, you can still like give him a little pet, say hi. Like, it's not like you have to ignore him, just maybe be a little more gentle and be a little more aware when he's if you're on the floor, if you're stretching, or if he's like somewhere else. Like, just be a little more aware so that way, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Yeah, so that way he can just have as chill of a time as possible. Because you know, we love we know that like a lot of you guys like uh listening that come to our gym in person and like people that have visited that may be listening, like love Toby and everything. And we do want to like try and keep him in the gym as long as possible. Um, but he is just getting a little bit older, so there are certain things, certain things we have to do to make sure that he's okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Um, but yeah, overall, like the good thing is the rest of his life he seems fine. Like just the nighttime. Yeah. Uh I was joking for a long time when we were in the midst of it, it's like Batman. Like he's like, like we go to sleep and he's like, All right, I'm Batman.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Batman time.

Closing Thanks And Subscribe Request

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Except it's not funny at all. No, we're not sleeping. And he's like sad. It's not. But yeah, so, anyways, that's a little bit about what about what's been going on in our life, specifically with Toby. Um, but we do really appreciate everybody that is a part of his life because I truly believe that I think it's like extended his life um being around so many humans, like he's gotten to interact with so many people, he's so many people, and everyone loves him, yeah. Um, so we really appreciate that. And we appreciate your support as we kind of navigate this uh his little life. Yeah. So, anyways, but yeah, so that kind of does it for this week's episode of the podcast. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed uh a little bit of a quick little update. Yeah, a little update. Um, and we'll be back next week. Uh, we should be back here for a while um weekly.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Probably all the weeks in April.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yeah, all the weeks in April.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

Maybe not the 25th, but Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

Um Liz does all my scheduling now, so I don't really know anything. I do. Um, but yeah, we'll be back next week with another awesome episode for you guys. Thank you so much for listening. If you're watching on YouTube, hello. Uh, thank you so much for tuning in on YouTube. And if you don't mind, please subscribe to the channel. Uh, we are very, very, very close to 500 subscribers, so that'd be pretty awesome. Um I really was thinking about pulling 500 every day for deadlift until we got to 500, but then I am uh training for nationals. Yeah, I'm training for nationals, as Liz Liz reminded me, so I'll have to not do that for now. But the goal is to get to 500 followers. And trust, if we are not at 500 followers by nationals, I'm doing that afterwards. All right. So do me a favor and just do 500 so that way we don't have to do that.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

I'd be good.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Uh, but, anyways, yeah, thank you guys so much for tuning in to another episode of the podcast, and we'll see you guys on the next one. Later. Bye.