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Ice On Fire with Lori Fetrick – Episode 2438

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Episode 2438 – On this Friday’s show Vinnie Tortorich welcomes Lori Fetrick and they discuss being an American Gladiator, documentaries, how Ice is on fire at age 60, and more.

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Ice On Fire

  • Lori is a former gladiator from the “American Gladiator” show; she is now age 60 and still healthy, strong, and living life to the fullest. (2:00)
    •  Vinnie and Lori discuss the generation they are from and how it is a bit of an outlier.
  • Gladiators taught Vinnie a lot. (9:30)
  • “Muscles and Mayhem” documents Lori and her Gladiator co-stars. (15:30)
    • She talks about the challenges of being a Gladiator and some of the contract issues.
    • Lori now has a children’s book coming out and she has to take caution around marketing it.
  • She shares what she’s done since being a Gladiator. (28:00)
    • She’s had to navigate her health journey due to injury and inflammation.
    • She eats well to help fuel her body and reduce inflammation.
  • They chat about animal protein. (32:00)
  • This leads to a conversation about diet and health trends.
    • Her basic rule for herself is to avoid packaged foods.
  • They discuss LDL and cholesterol. (41:45)
  • Vinnie lets Lori know about his documentaries as she has some questions about certain foods and the environment. (50:00)
  • Lori grew up in a very healthy environment—her entire family had healthy habits. (58:00)
  • They talk about all the things they enjoy about life now and how great they both feel at age 60.
  • Being active and living life to the fullest is so important—this is your one life!
  • Lori recaps some of the other American Gladiators and where they are now. (1:15:00)
  • She discusses the ESPN and Netflix documentaries and why the gladiators first refused to agree to the ESPN one at first. (1:17:00)
  • You can find https://lorifetrick.com and her podcast is “Chillin’ With Ice.”
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Filed Under: 1 On 1 Guests (not luminary), Beyond Impossible, Diets, Documentaries, FAT documentary, FAT2 documentary, Fitness, Health, Nutrition, Podcast, Sports Tagged With: American Gladiators, carnivore, cholesterol, Comic-Con, dave feldman, ESPN, LDL, netflix, podcast, SAG-AFTRA, Steroids, training, vegan

A Firefighter’s Wake Up Call – Episode 2217

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2217 – On this Saturday’s show, Vinnie Tortorich welcomes newcomer Daniel Seedorf and they chat about his motivation to start NSNG®, a firefighter’s wake-up call, his success so far, and more.

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A FIREFIGHTER’S WAKE-UP CALL

  • Vinnie welcomes Daniel to the show and they chat a bit about Bond Girls and family. (1:30)
  • Daniel discovered Vinnie through the Mike Rowe podcast. (7:00)
    • He considered it a kind of “divine timing” because he knew he needed to make a change, but he wasn’t sure how to start.
    • NSNG® almost sounded “too easy”–but it works!
  • They also discuss Vinnie being “shadow-banned” on various social media and on Wikipedia. (10:50)
    • This made Daniel want to learn even more about Vinnie.
    • Vinnie gives the backstory about his Wikipedia entry being removed.
  • Daniel gives an interesting story of how he found out he had fatty liver; he also gives more reasons he was concerned for his health. (18:45)
    • As a firefighter, he got a pretty big wake-up call. (27:20)
    • Now he feels like a million bucks, has tons of energy, and is as active as ever!
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FAT: A DOCUMENTARY 2 (2021)

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FAT: A DOCUMENTARY (2019)

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Filed Under: Fitness, Health, NSNG®, Podcast, Weight Loss Tagged With: Bond Girl, co-morbidities, covid-19, Fatty Liver, metabolic disease, mike rowe, podcast

BEST OF: Fruitarian Michael Arnstein – Episode 2150

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2150 –  In this BEST OF episode we replay an episode that originally aired on January 17, 2014 where Anna and Vinnie speak with the great Andrew Weaver about his podcast; the last half they speak to Fruitarian Michael Arnstein and ask him several questions about his fruitarian lifestyle, and more.

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ANDREW WEAVER & PODCASTS

  • Vinnie and Anna start the show with Andrew Weaver and some comedy fun about Twitter accounts. (1:15)
    • Andrew’s also talks about how his podcast came about and that he is a fanboy of Vinnie’s.
  • Vinnie mentions Michael Arnstein and what he plans to ask him. (11:00)
    • They also chat about other well-known podcast personalities.

THE FRUITARIAN

  • Vinnie and Anna then welcome fruitarian Michael Arnstein to the conversation and ask him questions about his lifestyle.(28:00)
  • They ask him about his claims about his daily fruit intake as well as plenty of other questions. (32:15)
  • They also chat about how he got into Ultra running and why he became fruitarian. (46:25)
  • Michael challenges Vinnie to a competition. (52:00)
  • Anna is so over this! (1:11)

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Anna Risks Her Life By Eating an Egg! – Episode 976

Debunking Lies About Health – Episode 1449

 

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FAT: A DOCUMENTARY 2 (2021)

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FAT: A DOCUMENTARY (2019)

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Filed Under: 1 On 1 Guests (not luminary), Best Of, Diets, Fitness, Health, NSNG®, Nutrition, Podcast, Running, Sports Tagged With: fruit diet, Marathon, podcast, Rich Roll, ultra runner, vegan, Vegetarian, Vi

The Making of the Fitness Confidential Podcast – Episode 1269

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 1269 – This Monday, Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino talk the origin of the Fitness Confidential podcast, how Vinnie came to be a podcaster, the making of Eat Happy, Fat Doc, keto crotch, and more.

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  • Vinnie was trying to sell a book
  • He was told he needed an online presence
  • Dean Lorey called him and told him this
  • He took to Google and tried to figure out how he could ‘go viral’ so to speak
  • Decided a podcast was the way to go
    • He called Anna, and it’s all history
  • Back at the time, Anna was blogging gluten free
    • Didn’t realize why she was still gaining weight, etc
    • Then adapted them all to NSNG® and thus the cookbook was born

 

Filed Under: FAT documentary, Health, Podcast Tagged With: book, eat happy, Fitness Confidential, online presence, podcast

Podcasting and Assisting Lonnie’s Family – Episode 1242

by Vinnie Tortorich

 : Episode 1242 – Lonnie Beauchamp, an NSNG® original, joins Vinnie this Saturday, and the two talk Vinnie’s ascent to podcasting, Lonnie’s current family situation (please support his GoFundMe here), and more.

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ASCENT TO PODCASTING

  • Getting a blackberry was Vinnie’s first step
  • He realized how addicted we are to our phones
  • Vinnie thought, how can I use this addiction to technology for good?
    • Using the internet, iTunes to help change peoples’ lives
  • He also started writing a book
  • Computers can help oneself and other people, and for free

LONNIE’S FAMILY

  • The reason that the FB group exists is because of Lonnie
  • He basically runs that community of over 20,000 people
  • Lonnie has helped countless people
  • Also arranged some of the first NSNG meet-ups
  • His mother has been really sick
  • His mom needed to go to the hospital because she was in unbearable pain
  • She needs medical care and the bills have been extensive
  • Vinnie started a GoFundMe for the many expenses
    • Please support it here
    • Any help is greatly appreciated
  • This lifestyle would NOT be the same without Lonnie, so let’s pay that forward
  • She is close to death, and we need to do anything we can to help her
  • Lonnie and his wife have really shouldered a lot of this

Filed Under: Fitness, Health, NSNG®, Podcast Tagged With: history, Lonnie, podcast

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