#197: Drunk Dialing -- Ladies Night Edition!

Out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.

Can I answer your personal question now?

What is the end of time?

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This is Tim Ferriss, and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show, where it is normally my job to deconstruct world class performers of various types of all ilks. This time we have a slightly different episode by request. We have another drunk dialing episode where I meander, gin in hand, Hendrix this time around to my table where I record myself getting inebriated, dialing too many of you via phone, and fielding your questions. Now this is Ladies Night edition. Why is this ladies night edition? Well, the ladies were absent from the last drunk dialing fiasco. And why is that? Well, I thought I would explain a few things because it's just math, among other things. So I'm looking at the demographics, a result of a poll on woofu here, and we have 11,643 respondents. So pretty. I would say, statistically representative. My audience is, as it stands right now, 84.4% male, 15.83% female, and 0% other. I will leave that to your imagination. And what that means is a few things. If we look at the math, last time, people submitted their names, phone numbers, et cetera, and it's first come, first served, the people who sign up first get called first and three out of the 20, which is exactly 15%, were female. Unfortunately, those women and several guys as well did not pick up. So if I go to voicemail, I call the next person. That is what happened. So this time around, so that the ladies would not get crowded out by all the dudes. I did a ladies night edition and we talked about quite a lot. We talk about language learning. We really get into the weeds on language learning. We talk about exercising with injuries or around injuries. We talk about viral marketing. My thoughts on that, my criticisms of that, perhaps handstands and handstand training, how I decide what to experiment with, how I decide after that, what to share with you guys. Teaching disabilities versus learning disabilities and the craft of writing, common mistakes, goals, et cetera. So I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I did. Of course, the blood alcohol content helps and that is enough prelude for now. So without further ado, as I always say, after a long introduction, please enjoy volume three, ladies night edition of Drunk dialing with Tim Ferriss. Hi, is this Glennis? Am I getting that right?

You are totally getting that right.

Sweet. Yes. Hi. Yes, miss. Yes, ma'am. Where am I reaching you? Where are you located?

In Toronto.

Toronto. That's a fine town. I like Toronto.

It is a fine town.

I have spent some time there. There's a lot of good. Have you? Yeah, lots of good companies, good people, good coffee. I dig it.

Totally.

How can I help? What can I answer or just lie and try to make something up to answer?

Okay, so my question was about, I've read the four hour body, love it, have used the diet off and on for a little while now. And the thing I haven't been able to do have been the exercises. And that's because I have a couple of sort of ongoing physical issues. As I said in my little post when I did this, my body is sometimes a bit of an asshole. And so I have a cervical disc that is basically permanently bulged, so I can't do the kettlebells, and I have knee problems. So squats long term are not a good thing for me. So I guess I'm wondering what your advice is for people who want to stay active as they recover from injuries or if their bodies are just not as keen on some of the sort of basic hit workouts and that sort of thing.

For sure.

A lot of those type of movements.

Yeah, well, you're catching me at a good time for this because I am in the process of recovering from two injuries as we speak.

I'm sorry.

That's okay. I have a sprained ACL in one knee, so I cannot squat at the moment. And I have a torn left lat rib, which is extremely uncomfortable. Needless. Oh, my God. Yeah. And I have been addressing this question for myself. So here is the short answer. The short answer, and I'll elaborate on this, is do what you can. I'm also sitting about 15ft from someone who is riddled with injuries, just like me, who is dealing with the same thing. Okay. And giving me the stink.

We're all a mess.

And giving me the middle finger stink eye. The answer is, do what you can. And what that means is, and I'm inclined to this, as is everyone else, I think, particularly if you have an injury with a primary mobility joint, say something that helps you walk, like a knee or a prime mover, meaning a large muscle group like a quadricep or a lat or something like that, to just stop. And to be frank, I've been a lazy ass and I've not done a whole hell of a lot in the last two weeks, but I just started yesterday and in the last few days, focusing on the things that I can do, such as long walks,