74: DNF Marathon Trials, The First Picky Bar, Optimization Vs. Happiness, Past Decisions
Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas
Jesse Thomas
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Appearances can be deceiving and the things you don’t know can be super surprising—like the fact that Lauren used Excel spreadsheets to cook up the first Picky Bar. in this episode, Work-Play-Lovahhhs want to know what’s going on behind the scenes. Jesse and Lauren field questions about why some (elite) athletes decide to DNF at the Olympic Marathon trials, they discuss how the first Picky Bar recipe was created, Jesse considers whether his focus on optimization sometimes gets in the way of his happiness, and they take a look at their past decisions and share what they would do differently. Plus, in wacky-Wednesday-like turn of events, the Flomas duo gives you the lowdown on what’s been going on in each other’s lives.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Strava: the social media platform for people who love to post their workouts
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
Jerry Rodriguez’s Tower 26 for swimmers, bikers, runners, and triathletes.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, hey how's it going welcome to work play love we are working playing loving yeah we are |
| 0:10.0 | Lauren Fleshman I'm Jesse Thomas. This is episode 74. We made it to 74. Yep we |
| 0:17.0 | sure did. Isn't there a Beatles song like I'm 74? No, 64. |
| 0:25.0 | Should be ashamed of yourself. |
| 0:28.0 | When I said like I'm. Like I'm 74. |
| 0:31.0 | It's when I'm 74, isn't it? It's when I'm 74, isn't it? |
| 0:34.0 | It's when I'm 64. |
| 0:35.0 | 64, that's what I meant. |
| 0:38.0 | Should we start this episode over? |
| 0:40.0 | Probably. |
| 0:41.0 | All right, so it looks like what I see from your list here. |
| 0:44.8 | Some of the things we're going to talk about. |
| 0:46.8 | Wait a second. |
| 0:47.8 | Lauren, are you looking at the script? |
| 0:51.8 | I always look at the list, Jesse. it's only weird when you write my what's going on section for me that's when it's weird I left it open today good job so what do we have today what are we talking about then Lauren why don't you read it |
| 1:01.8 | DNA thing marathon trials. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Developing our first picky bars. |
| 1:06.0 | Optimization versus happiness. |
| 1:09.0 | Sweet. |
| 1:10.0 | And what decisions would you do differently? |
| 1:12.0 | I don't know. There's some interesting questions in there. |
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