Episode Transcript

Michael Abernathy 0:00
Hey what’s up? What’s up? What’s up everybody? How y’all doing? welcome back to THE a.m guys, welcome back to five minute rants. I’m your host, Michael Abernathy. And we got special guest, Robert Hays. What’s up, bro?

Robert Hays 0:25
Hey guys, how’s everyone doing? I know you can’t answer me. But I still like to ask that arbitrary question. Anyway coz is just fun.

Michael Abernathy 0:32
No. That’s great. How have you been man?

Robert Hays 0:37
Doing well.

Michael Abernathy 0:38
So well. Today, Robert and I, we had breakfast this morning. And then I was like, Hey, you want to record a podcast? Because one of the things that we were talking about was facing it now. And I won’t say any more than that. I’ll let Robert take it from here.

Robert Hays 0:53
Sweet. Okay, facing it now. So large part of me wanting to talk about this. And I was talking about this is like most of my life, I’ve been pleasure driven. And What I mean by that is like, I love video games. I love food. I love beer I love you know, hanging out with friends I love you know, basically just like, giving myself gratification. And so as I was writing notes down, like, we talked about this stuff a lot, and especially in life, like, you know, pleasure now, basically equals pain later, because I love pizza, right? If I eat a ton of pizza, what’s gonna happen to me, I’m gonna get really fat. And you know, right now currently, I’m 6’2 about 215-216, something like that. I’ve been as most with my weight like 230. And to me, that’s like, I was really fat, you know, really unhealthy. You know, I can’t run very well, all that stuff. So that means like, all the burgers, pizza, beer, sodas, everything that I ate really, like, led to pain later.

You know, but as I own that I’ve been in self-gratification having pleasure. Now. That means now that I want to have pain in my life. So I’m choosing to work out I’m choosing to make better decisions with my food. And so if I choose to have pain now, that will mean pleasure later, you know? So like I said, now I’m like to 215. And I feel better, because I’m choosing to eat more salads. I’m choosing not to drink as much beer or drink as much coke, all that stuff. Yeah, and then other things, you know about pain now versus pleasure now, you know, like debt, if you guys think about debt, right, that means that I have been paying for things with money that I do not have, you know, so I have a lot of, you know, built up a big amount of debt in my life. So like, now I have to have the painful thing of saying, I don’t want to do that anymore. And I’m going to delay all of my pleasure, for later to have to really deal with the debt now.

Michael Abernathy 3:24
Can I clarify something real quick? So What Robert saying is this, we talked about this last episode, which hasn’t even come out, Robert hasn’t even heard it, but about short term thinking. And the short term thinking is where you pick pleasure now, and you defer the pain to later and then What happens is the pain always catches up to you, you can never get away from the pain.

Robert Hays 3:53
Right. You can never get away from the pain. And that’s been like true in my life. Like, I’ve built up debt, I’ve gotten fat. I’ve done all these things, to where now I’m like, you know, I’m older. I’m like, wow, that was really dumb. It was really detrimental to me and to my health and everything else. So now I’m choosing to delay things for later. So, you know, it’s doing the hard work of like, you know, paying everything in cash, driving down the debt, you know, making sure that I’m delaying deny, deny myself of like What I want, which is I want nice clothes, right? I want all the pizza. I want all the beer and stuff. But it doesn’t actually mean good things in my life. It means pain in my life.

Michael Abernathy 4:39
I think that’s so good, man. Because pain is always going to be there. And the longer you delay, the bigger and worse it gets. And it’s like now you’re like cool. I have enough pain currently to where it’s like, I gotta change but the danger is oftentimes we never change until it’s too late and then it’s like we have this overwhelming mountain in front of us is better to face it today than it is tomorrow because tomorrow never gets here. You’ve never lived in tomorrow. So well guys, we are out of time. And so we’ll catch you next time. Peace.