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00:00 Gang Back Together
01:23 Mental Health Corner
01:39 Back Pain Diagnosis
07:09 Dental Insurance Racket
12:34 Post Surge Recovery
19:24 Surgery And Withdrawal
24:36 Sponsor One Skin
26:23 Terminal Widget Reveal
31:24 Widgets And Visualizations
34:51 Release Plans And Review
36:56 Universal Bundle Pricing
37:38 AI Boosts Mark II Sales
39:20 Leaving Oracle Behind
40:03 Ninety Hour Workweeks
41:55 NV Ultra Vaporware Woes
43:17 Missing Collaborators Online
45:09 Dan Peterson Secret App
46:23 The Pit TV Complaints
50:49 ER Nostalgia and Cast
54:01 Season Two and Other Shows
58:33 Gratitude App Picks
01:00:09 AI Tools and Claude Code
01:04:35 Bookshelves and Audiobooks
01:07:10 Wrap Up and Sleep

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Gang Back Together

Christina: [00:00:00] What’s that? Do you see a podcast update in your feed? Well that’s because you’re back on, on Overtired and, uh, and I’m Christina Warren and I’m joined by, uh, Jeff Severns Guntzel and Brett Terpstra. What do you know? The whole gang is back together. Overtired, everybody what

Jeff: Hi everybody.

Brett: I need a, we need a party sound. We need a

Christina: we do. We need a soundboard. We need a soundboard and we need a, a way to be like what Gangs all here. Some sort of a like a either a a we need a horn. That’s what we need. We need one of those. Those horns they play at at at football games.

Jeff: would like that very much.

Brett: or that like B.

Christina: exactly.

Jeff: yeah,

Brett: That would really wake people up.

Christina: It really would. And, and especially, um, all of us.

’cause I we’re recording this earlier than we ever do. Brett’s been up for a really long time and, uh, I think Jeff is probably like raring to go, but I’m like, I, well now

Jeff: raring to go, but I’m warming [00:01:00] up.

Christina: Yeah, I, I, I’ve been up since like five 30, so I’m okay too, but yeah.

Brett: I wrote an entire shortcuts in shortcut intense interface for my new app this morning, and it’s actually working. I’ve never written for shortcuts before.

Christina: Well, Ooh, we will, yeah, you gotta talk to us more about that ’cause I wanna hear more about that.

Mental Health Corner

Christina: Um, but first I think we should probably do, um, because it’s been a while since we’ve all been together, we should probably do a little bit of a mental health corner.

Brett: yeah, Who wants to kick that off? Okay, fine. I will.

Jeff: health. Mental health. Silence.

Back Pain Diagnosis

Brett: I, uh, I, I, my sleep has gotten a little worse than it was before when I told you it was bad. Um, I’m, now, I’m back down to like five hours a night and I just wake up at like 2:00 AM. And like I go to bed by eight or nine and I get up at [00:02:00] 2:00 AM every morning and I just cannot, for the life of me fall back asleep.

And for like the first hour I’m up, I’m not even really awake. Um, I’m just kind of sitting on the couch staring at my computer and not be, not able to do anything After about an hour. Um. I, I, I’ll get some coffee, I’ll take my meds and like then it’s kind of like most people’s, like maybe 10:00 AM 11:00 AM um, by, by like 3:00 AM but it’s still wearing me down.

Um, I got, so I’ve had back pain, um, for a while now. Uh, I can’t stand up for more than about five minutes and I can’t walk for more than three to five minutes, which has really put a dent in my, um, ability to exercise. And, um, so I finally got, I got an MRI [00:03:00] done, and they. Diagnose me with stenosis, which I think is kind of a, a broad term, but like a couple of the discs in my lower back have collapsed and, um, they, they, they think I can be treated with, uh, with shots and not surgery.

Um, so I’m hoping, I’m hoping to get that figured out because, okay, so right now, uh, we, we always go on walks in the wildlife refuge, um, like the wetlands refuge near us, and I love it. We, we see so much cool stuff there and I hadn’t really been able to, but what I found was this little, it’s like. Folded up, it’s like two feet tall, uh, camp chair and it, it’s like a camp stool.

And so I carry that with us while we walk and then like every three minutes I’ll like have to set it up on [00:04:00] the side of the trail sit. And if I sit for two minutes, the pain goes away, I can then walk again immediately. Um, but like after, after three to five minutes, like my back freezes up and I, like, I literally, I can’t move anymore.

Um, so this little, uh, take carrying a chair and doing it in three minutes stints, um, has at least allowed me to get out and get some green time. But that’s kinda where I’m at.

Jeff: What does this little chair look like? Uh

Brett: It’s blue

Jeff: huh.

Brett: and it has four legs and it’s can canvas.

Jeff: is it like an adorable little camp chair that you’re supposed to be able to like

Brett: I think it’s a toddler’s ch camp chair.

Jeff: Excellent. This is the detail I

Brett: like, it’s smaller than my butt. Like I’m perching on it, but it’s enough to like get my back, uh, into feeling. Okay. And it’s not too heavy to like carry[00:05:00]

Jeff: Show art, but the art, the art is you perching. Just to be really clear.

Brett: Yes. My, my 280 pounds pound perched on a two foot camp stool, it’ll be great.

Jeff: Wow. Well, I’m glad there’s something like some kind of thing

Brett: Yeah, no, it’s actually really good. It’s really good to get the stenosis diagnosis and ’cause for a long time I just assumed because I gained weight, my, my back wouldn’t work anymore, which was depressing. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I’ve been this heavy before and I have not had this pain.

And even after my first like 50 pound sudden weight gain, I didn’t have back pain. So it didn’t make sense that my body just couldn’t handle it, uh, like something else had to be going on. So it was actually much like any diagnosis, I think, um, other than, you know, terminal illness, but for like A [00:06:00] DHD or stenosis or any like mental health condition, it’s a relief to get a diagnosis and find out you weren’t crazy, you weren’t making things up.

So yeah, I’m, I’m grateful.

Christina: No, I completely like, can, can relate to that. ’cause when I, like with my back, well my cervical spine, um, it was kind of a similar thing. Obviously mine was more acute and it was a different scenario because I got, um, like the, you know, diagnosis relatively quickly, although it still felt like it took longer than, than I wanted it to, to, to get my MRIs and whatnot.

Um, but it was similar to you. It was like kind...

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