Eager to Be Healthy First Radio Interview

speaker-1: know ⁓ yeah, okay here you go here you have the headphones there we go we’re on ⁓

Cohost: gonna get much instruction out of Josh you just you know just yeah here let me just turn on let me not tell you do you need to be close to the mic for it to pick you up

speaker-1: It’s okay.

Michael Scott Eger: and that’s why I need my headphones so I can hear what it sounds like.

speaker-1: There you go, you’re good.

Cohost: Yeah, Josh doesn’t realize that’s what the headphones are for because he often looks at me with his headphones like how’s that sound? I’m like, do you have headphones on? I like this guy already

speaker-1: I

Michael Scott Eger: So let’s get the elephant out of the room.

Cohost: okay i’ll be i guess i gotta go Wasn’t a fat guy are we gonna do fat guy jokes

Michael Scott Eger: No.

speaker-1: Well, you’re a health coach. It’s okay to do.

Michael Scott Eger: It’s a quality of life choice, okay? Less of an occupation is more of a quality of life.

speaker-1: There we go. Gotcha. All right, so let’s introduce you real quick here. Let’s get the, the, the whatever they call it. It’s this, ⁓ this is Valley for Radio. You’re listening to the quiz show. am the whiz quiz and I’m here with Michael Eager, ⁓ health coach. ⁓ hi Michael. Howdy. How you doing today? Excellent. And did you make it in? Okay. Is it, what’s it like out there?

Michael Scott Eger: I wish it was in Vermont.

speaker-1: It’s sunny, 80 degrees. ⁓ it’s skiing weather. Okay, yeah, all right, that sounds good. Skiing on the beach. No, skiing, yeah, yeah. All right, so tell us a little bit about yourself. Let’s do your ⁓ background.

Michael Scott Eger: No, it’s game weather. notes. So I never actually wanted to be a health coach. I wanted to work in the office. I wanted to make a lot of money. I wanted to fix a lot of work with electronics. And occupation got me sick. But more importantly, even before that, I knew food was always a problem for me. Because ⁓ when I was really young, I was so sick my ears were filled with fluid. This is why I have a voice for silent movies. Which makes me coming on the radio a little of a push. But it’s very important for me to get my message out. So ⁓ I had food sensitivities to corn, wheat, eggs, ⁓ milk. So I had all those. This was back in 80s.

speaker-1: Okay.

Cohost: Cool.

Michael Scott Eger: Before the internet, before the helix craze, we didn’t know what to do. So when we changed my food, my hearing improved, my test scores improved, I actually joined gym class. It’s kind of embarrassing to say, but my illness was so great, I was actually exempt from gym class. And, you know, for me to say this on radio, is a stretch. ⁓ coming to the future, know, things happen. I lose my way, find it back. And one day I woke up in the ER. I told him my car and I woke up and I saw my dad. He’s suffering from diabetes. My mom with a lot of arthritis and she was just complaining about moving around the house. I saw my almost certain future. Okay? And it hurt me. It also hurt me because I didn’t feel well. My chest hurt. I was still depressed after the car crash and wanted to change something. So I systematically did everything in my power to improve my health. Originally I was doing for my parents so I could test everything out so they could learn. But more importantly, I feel so much better. that even today I’m 37 I feel healthier than was 26. So.

Cohost: I’ve got a year to be healthy. Yes. I’ll be 37 in a year. And I’d love to feel better than I did when I was 26.

speaker-1: Yeah.

Michael Scott Eger: We can talk off here.

speaker-1: ⁓ well no we don’t do that here, we talk on air. Yeah, it’s all good, it’s all good. So what is, mean, so let’s say you you’re your health coach. What does that mean? Like what do you like? Wait, go to the gym with people?

Cohost: Yeah, I’m the fat guy we can let’s target me I will as we begin our ADD problem that him and I have. Yeah, so I was really like, did you are you were you done that awesome? Like I was really enjoying

Michael Scott Eger: You’re mean. No, actually, actually a good ⁓ detours. It’s important because I have a way to get I have a tendency to get overexcited about what I talk about. OK. And so.

Cohost: So some detours is all right. Absolutely. ready. Winding road.

speaker-1: Alright good, is ⁓ we were talking about this earlier, that if you have an attention deficit at all, this is the show for you because we change on a dime. We’re ready to go. So tell us about your health coaching. Like what is it, what is the, you know, when I think of coaching, I think of, you know, meetings and practices. Yeah.

Cohost: Getting smacked on the butt.

Michael Scott Eger: So anyway, here we go. It’s very important to do one thing well at a time. you- Shots. Exactly. So ⁓ a juggler, he starts with one ball. He tosses a ball from hand to hand till he gets that right. It’s only once that-

speaker-1: haha

Michael Scott Eger: throwing that ball becomes second nature that he adds a second ball and then once he juggles two balls he adds the third ball and he keeps on going until he’s juggling chainsaws and whatever else. Now the thing is when we’re talking about weight loss and getting healthy people want to go to the gym they want to cut calories they want to they want to Do all these other? Variables at once while mastering the first thing that got them sick they have a bad relationship with food So we start there. Okay, so We have to go to basics first. We’ve first we control the blood sugar Okay, because the sugar addiction is one of the reasons we eat out of control. Another thing is we need to get people used to eating at a regular schedule. culture and habit play so much in how we eat that it’s unbelievably important to actually have a pattern interrupt and reprogram us. And then we work on getting the gut health healthy. And once the gut health is healthy, you’re going to start feeling better. And at that point, we add more physical activity. So physical activity is after diet. And it’s going to happen naturally.

speaker-1: Okay.

Cohost: So should not have had chicken tenders tossed in hot sauce with blue cheese at 10 o’clock last night.

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ The chicken was good, the breading questionable. ⁓ See the thing is, what people don’t realize is if you’re eating healthy fat, it supplies a lot energy. If you eat a lot of starch, ⁓ what happens is when your blood sugar goes up, you go into a fat storage mode and that’s where you gain your fat. So, A very important thing to understand is that if you’re on a low-fat diet, your body’s going to crave the fat for your metabolism, for your brain health, for ⁓ hormone precursors. And it will then start craving starches so it can manufacture fat in your body. So it’s a complicated question, but ⁓ I mean… I eat right before bed all the time. The way I look at it is right before bed, it’s going to be my last meal, I’m going to be fasting while I’m asleep for 79 hours, and at that time my body starts to recover and then wake up. First thing I do is grab something to eat, take a shower, and then make a snack for my work day.

speaker-1: Wait, wait, wait, what’s this shower thing that you’re talking about? Is that part of your health coaching?

Michael Scott Eger: it’s called proper hygiene. was covered in high school health science.

speaker-1: I must have been out that day.

Cohost: No, he was there that day but it also in that same book were some Images of the female anatomy and he was just studying those he couldn’t get off that page

speaker-1: Yeah, that I didn’t realize there was he was like Lope in tubes that’s some kind of Olympics thing Hold on we gotta do it take a quick break. It’s eight o’clock and you are listening to Valley free radio 103.3 FM w x o j lp and In Northampton Florence Amherst and everywhere on the worldwide web of valley for radio org you’re listening to the quiz show And we’re gonna see we’re here with Michael eager health coach and we will be right back in about two, maybe a minute and a half. Valley Free Radio is supported by you, our listeners, and the Wealth Technology Group, located in 130 Southampton Road, Westfield, Mass. Specializing in full financial and retirement planning, including bonds, IRAs, estate plans, and insurance. For more information, visit www.wealthtechnology.com. Thank you, Wealth Technology Group, for your continued support.

Michael Scott Eger: I’m Sarah, and this is my story. I’m Ellen, and this is my story. One night, I was at a bar. One night, I was at a bar. I was having fun with my friends. I was having fun with my friends. I had one too many drinks. I had one too many drinks. I got behind the wheel to go home. I got a cab to go home. All of a sudden, from out of nowhere, a squirrel ran across the road. And all of a sudden, from out of nowhere, a squirrel ran across the road. It happened so quickly, I barely had time to react. It happened so quickly, the cabbie barely had time to react. I swerved. The cab swerved. I can’t believe it. I hit a guy. I cannot believe it. The cabbie just missed a guy. I wish I took a cab. Thank goodness I took a cab. You have the choice to save a life. Don’t drive, Buzzed. It’s a decision you’ll never regret. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. Brought to you by the Department of Transportation and the Ad Council.

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Michael Scott Eger: Well, let’s start with the basics, OK. Because we’re like starting the conversation at the highlight. Let’s start at the beginning. ⁓ What’s your dialogue?

Cohost: terrible than me and I’m the bad guy

speaker-1: I pretty much eat whatever I want when I

Michael Scott Eger: All right, but I mean, describe your breakfast. Okay, describe your lunch.

Cohost: Taco Bell.

speaker-1: I don’t really eat breakfast. I might get a sandwich or some kind of… ⁓ I sometimes do either sandwich or a salad. ⁓

Cohost: And by sandwich, the $5 giant eggplant parm from the,

speaker-1: Sometimes I get a chicken parm from the pizza place in town or I’ll go to ⁓ State Street and get a you know, ham or turkey, whatever they got on special. Okay. You know, and then maybe like a pasta salad or something like that.

Michael Scott Eger: So we’re all different. Some people handle food differently to others. And some people are more adapted to our modern diet than others. ⁓ What I noticed when I age, my enzyme potential reduced. This is normal. Somewhere in your early 30s, ⁓ somewhere in your 30s, your Enzyme potential. This is your potential to produce enzymes to help digest your food is reduced. It gets fatigued. It’s you can’t keep up. Your body is incapable of keeping up with the food you’re eating. Now what will happen is when your enzyme levels are low, you will then produce more stomach acid. Why this is a problem? is have you ever heard of acid reflux, have you ever heard of indigestion? Acid reflux? Okay. gotcha. So, the reason for that is your body is dumping and dumping more hydrochloric acid into your stomach, hoping it’ll digest that undigested food in your belly. And then if

Cohost: ⁓ yeah. All thumbs next to my bed.

Michael Scott Eger: fills up to the top and percolates over. So when you get to that point, you have to do something to repair your enzymes. There are minerals to take. are enzyme supplements to take. You know, just eating smaller pork.

Cohost: and for me it was drinking less red wine

Michael Scott Eger: Actually, I encourage red wine.

Cohost: I didn’t get any indigestion or heartburn till I was 30 and it always had to do with, well, mask. There was a quantity issue with the red wine. This was not a, this wasn’t casual drinking of red wine.

Michael Scott Eger: It was a self-hate. It was a self-hate. So, sulfites are an example of preservatives. So, why is our modern diet so unhealthy? It comes down to our speed of processing food and preservatives. Back in the day, before ⁓ farming became mechanized, we cut the wheat down. It took a while for us to pick it up. It sometimes rained. The wheat sprouted in the field. and that made it healthier. Now we pick up, we cut the wheat, we put it in a truck, we take the wheat off the branch, we then grind it into flour, and then all those enzyme inhibitors in a seed. A seed is an embryo. It’s a little piece of life. nature allows enzyme inhibitors to keep that seed a seed. When you don’t allow it to soak, when you don’t allow the life process to start, those enzyme inhibitors there, that means natural preservatives are in those seeds. And those natural preservatives prevent it from being digested.

speaker-1: ⁓ so because we’re able to pick wheat and all that stuff faster, we’re getting less nutrition from the wheat. Or it’s not as good for us as…

Michael Scott Eger: The nutrition there, the problem is there’s substances in wheat and most grains that prevent the body from exorbitant and the process of soaking, sprouting and otherwise making the seed come alive, unlock those nutrients.

speaker-1: Good show.

Michael Scott Eger: So, you guys like beer, Yes. Can you guys tell me… Do you have some? I gave you my last beer. Okay. So… Whoa. Yeah. Sorry.

speaker-1: Love beer. Yes. ⁓ darn

Cohost: I’m the nice one.

speaker-1: He is the nice one.

Michael Scott Eger: We had it So anyway, you guys did Yeah, you guys like beer, right? Yeah, can you tell me why we mauled the barley?

Cohost: deals with the devil

speaker-1: ⁓ you can.

Cohost: Thanks for

Michael Scott Eger: Okay. What? Steve. Okay, go for

Cohost: well you know we multiply so we can have amber ale’s i don’t know why why do we multiply what are we what are we doing

Michael Scott Eger: Okay, we, ⁓ we multiple, we multiple.

Cohost: More alcohol.

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ What happens when you sprout ⁓ a seed, or in this case, malting, which is somewhere between full regular seed and sprouted seed. It’s like just slightly sprouted and then quick dried. The enzyme inhibitors go down. The starches turn into sugars. And then that’s great because the yeast like sugar and hate enzyme inhibitors. So, ⁓ malting basically makes ⁓ a grain healthier for the wheat and allows you to make alcohol without adding sugar.

speaker-1: Gotcha.

Michael Scott Eger: Okay, now would you like to translate that into something more explainable for our listeners?

speaker-1: ⁓ marlory things did

Cohost: I don’t know about our listeners, maybe just me. Yeah.

Michael Scott Eger: All right. So when you sprout the seed.

Cohost: This isn’t about them, I’m the fat guy here. I need your help.

Michael Scott Eger: Yeah. You bought the seeds to unlock the sugars and make the grain healthier and the yeast like that and make your alcohol.

speaker-1: Okay, so malting helps make the beer stronger.

Michael Scott Eger: It makes it makes a beer better.

speaker-1: Beer better. Better beer.

Cohost: Well yeah, then they’re amber-els, because they’re multi-er…

Michael Scott Eger: All good beers have a malt in the beginning.

speaker-1: All good beers. What about the best beer? PBR.

Michael Scott Eger: You Budweiser? Oh, yeah. Don’t. There’s so many preservatives in PBR. It’s not even funny.

Cohost: That would be a lot.

speaker-1: Well, that’s because they’re trying to preserve the fantastic taste that it has. It’s the beer so good it has the award in its name.

Cohost: they never won an award actually

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ don’t only sing pb are preserved

speaker-1: I’m no their name it it’s in their names are

Michael Scott Eger: The only thing PBR preserves is the cash in your wallet.

speaker-1: And I think that’s a very important thing.

Cohost: They never won an award. In fact, yeah, I hear you. That ribbon that they speak of, that very place they took the beer for that event that they claim they want, that says they want an award at, they didn’t. Everybody who took beer to that event got a blue ribbon. It was thank you for participating.

speaker-1: It’s in their name. Yep. Yep. Don’t toilet my emotions.

Cohost: Just saying and did you know I think I think it’s in Canada ⁓ There’s 108 ingredients that they don’t have to list as an ingredient in a beer and one of them is hydrogen peroxide And that’s what gives you a nice foamy whitehead That’s not you like foamy whitehead

speaker-1: I do like foamy whitehead. That’s not true though. can’t get totally keep hydrogen peroxide and water or something because hydrogen peroxide no idea.

Cohost: Let’s back to Mike Eager. Mike Eager, right? Mike? I remembered the Eager part. Is that a question? Real name or is that like, that’s awesome. Radio, we’re into like fake names. I think Mike Eager is awesome.

Michael Scott Eger: Yep, Mike.

speaker-1: Sorry.

Michael Scott Eger: No that is my… No. My family is originally from Hungary. There’s a city named… with our family name. ⁓

Cohost: Which would make sense, that you know a lot about food. but we’re not aware of a startup

Michael Scott Eger: I’m based out of West Springfield, Massachusetts, but because of the nature of my business, I can reach anyone with a phone.

Cohost: Do you work out of, like work in or around like a gym or do you do, are you all, I don’t know how this works.

Michael Scott Eger: Well, the thing is, ⁓ we, it’s, it’s, my mom is.

Cohost: Aim on your shirt. That’s awesome!

speaker-1: Sorry, yeah, it’s not my name on a shirt. Yeah Sorry, Mike. I know you got you can call Nancy. You got somebody for that, you

Michael Scott Eger: you can Nancy yeah we know I know someone down in chickpea

Cohost: ⁓ my god. All makes sense to me.

Michael Scott Eger: It’s all about having that referral mindset. so anyway Okay, so where were we because we dropped many balls, yeah

Cohost: Yeah, what’s this? Yeah.

speaker-1: Well ⁓

Michael Scott Eger: there you go here i’m lost in conversation

Cohost: Well, you know, this is… It’s just you said balls.

Michael Scott Eger: Remember the juggler analogy?

Cohost: Yeah, I struggled to keep it straight then it was I didn’t know you enough yet to I didn’t want to I didn’t want to make ball jokes so early so yeah so do you so you work you don’t work out of like a you know like a place you are I call you you spend time with me

Michael Scott Eger: The way I work is you go to your doctor you need an appointment. Yeah, I don’t have appointments. Okay ⁓ You call me when you need me. I am like that trusted friend. You can call at 2 a.m Okay, in fact

Cohost: I have to put you on like a retainer? a lawyer? He says yes, that’s awesome. Okay. Yes I do.

Michael Scott Eger: Okay, and I and I charge a lot less than that awesome But it’s a subscription model

Cohost: He’s like, yes, you do. What if you call me? Do I have to do this? Is that free?

Michael Scott Eger: What? You pay for the month, Okay, so you call me when you need me, okay? You have a breakdown, have… you need… Michael? Yep.

speaker-1: Once you’re on retainer, think it’s like…

Cohost: Sweet,

speaker-1: I’m about to hit the all you can eat buffet.

Michael Scott Eger: Okay. Okay. Focus on the leafy greens. Get some protein.

speaker-1: Right now. Already in the low main man, I’m already in the low main. I got a bucket of MSG and about to dive in. Help me out Michael please.

Michael Scott Eger: Alright.

Cohost: Michael ⁓

Michael Scott Eger: Call me after you drown, okay? Call me, if you do drown, call me after they administer CPR and they’ll teach you how to get back on a horse.

speaker-1: Yeah

Cohost: That’s great. Michael, I’m at the Paris casino. They just brought out the Alaskan king crab legs.

Michael Scott Eger: Is it buffet? Yeah. Okay. That’s expensive. That’s expensive food. I would indulge.

Cohost: Thank you, but even better I went in on the lunch price and waited a half hour from them bring out the king crab legs at dinner Which I highly recommend you’re doing that’s how you get through the Paris casino hotel buffet

speaker-1: that’s a great idea

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ strategies okay thinking out of the box is what made me a health coach and you gave me many segues

Cohost: I give you a segue.

speaker-1: Great.

Cohost: just to go off the cliff with the maker said no

Michael Scott Eger: That was

speaker-1: ⁓ Too soon? ⁓

Michael Scott Eger: L- ⁓

Cohost: you Mike I really enjoy you let’s let’s go out to the let’s go to the Chinese food buffet we get done

speaker-1: Really? You can tell us what to eat

Michael Scott Eger: So that was alright, sorry we are taking so many detours we are our listeners are losing track

Cohost: Not that.

speaker-1: That’s what they expect.

Michael Scott Eger: I get that.

Cohost: No, no, no. I agree with you totally. Mm-hmm.

Michael Scott Eger: So where were we?

speaker-1: We’re on the quiz show. This is Valley for radio 103.3 FM W XO J We’re online here with Michael eager. This is what’s called a reset. Yeah We’re asking you We’re ready to take your calls if you have any questions for somebody who is in the health ⁓ health profession is a health coach Give us a call four one three five eight five one zero three three And then Steve has a question

Cohost: we are ⁓ I think we may have still been actually finishing the discussion about how we work with Mike. We call him when we need him, you work. ⁓ Do I sit down and meet with you and who we make plans and discuss?

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ If you’re local we can meet ⁓ The thing is it takes time to ⁓ Phones are quicker if you need me call me ⁓ If you if you need a meal plan I’ll help you make a meal plan if you just need to reach me by email Reach me by email, but you’re paying for unlimited connection to me while you’re on the plan

Cohost: How about like a trip to the grocery store? Could you go with someone and help? Like, I think the grocery store is a formidable place for someone with like dietary problems. You are a mess when it comes to grocery.

speaker-1: Wait wait wait, tell me about this grocery store. am your work.

Michael Scott Eger: So here’s something a little bit about me is there’s been a few times with this economy I’ve been on snap. Okay, so food assistance So I became very smart in picking healthy eating options with very little money. So What I do and what I’m trying to do is I’m trying to videotape shopping trips with my clients and we’re going to teach people how to shop Okay, so if you’re willing to be videotaped, I’ll actually go to the store for free with you

Cohost: Let’s do it. Okay. And I want to do this so badly because I feel like I have some knowledge and I feel like this would be great and I think we’ll be entertaining to boot. And if it’s helpful, especially for like low cost foods, I don’t know if you’re familiar with this store Aldi.

Michael Scott Eger: Aldi’s is great, I love the natural peanut butter.

Cohost: That’s where I shop. I love it too, except I put it back because it has palm oil and I don’t want things with palm oil. That was my little hippie-dippy problem I had the other day. I need peanut butter and I almost bought that.

Michael Scott Eger: I can understand the environmental concerns about that. Yeah, this thing is it’s very your body Metabolizes that almost as well as coconut oil

Cohost: Yeah, I’m not worried about what my body does, obviously. But no, this would be great. I would love it because I try to at a grocery store and I sort of learn this because I can cook. there’s a lot of things that that helps knowing how to cook. ⁓ I try to keep to the perimeter of all grocery stores, everything and the shelves, everything in between the perimeter of the grocery store. have like your meats, your vegetables, everything in the middle is all that stuff just sort of frozen, broken down, added with preservatives stuck in can you know so i try to keep to the outside and i buy that’s pretty much what i do except for like cereal and stuff like i never buy

Michael Scott Eger: I would rather you switch by some tuna and sardines instead of cereal.

Cohost: do have tuna, but do love my, my wife just had a, my wife just maybe shouted, she probably just screamed right now as you said that she loves cereal.

Michael Scott Eger: you know what to sing is

Cohost: It’s my brain. I buy says organic.

Michael Scott Eger: You know, still has the grains, it’s still been processed quickly. See, the thing is… That’s good stuff. Soak it overnight.

Cohost: That’s still cut oatmeal. ⁓ I’ve never tried that.

Michael Scott Eger: In the original ingredients of oatmeal, ⁓ if you go back into your great-grandmother’s, being that I’m no longer the younger generation, I have to add extra generation. So if you go back into your great-grandmother’s pantry, you might find an old package of oatmeal, they’ll say, overnight. The reason is in… It reduced the enzyme inhibitors and made it healthier when you made it. When I make quinoa, I will soak it for about ⁓ four to eight hours before I make it. So I’ll probably put it in a pot, soak it, and then make it the next day. Or I’ll soak it in the morning and then make it for dinner. These little steps, while they add a little extra time, greatly improve the nutrition of our food. And when you improve the nutrition of your food, you eat less and you get more nutrition. And that’s huge. Especially today ⁓ when we’re worried about the sustainability of our agriculture, we got to figure out how do we eat more efficiently and enjoy life more.

speaker-1: Sounds good to me.

Cohost: You’re so damn good at this talking thing. See? You should do radio show.

speaker-1: He is good. you should do a health coach radio show

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ Considering I usually sound like this Yeah, okay. I’m going back into my fourth Dictation mode. Okay. Well, ⁓ but then it took a lot of work for me to get to the point I was comfortable to take this invitation and it was I You know, I worked so hard at getting to this point and I still have a lot more work to go but the thing is If I don’t get my message out, how can I help other people?

Cohost: You’re killing it.

speaker-1: you you you know what you’re talking about right and you know i know yeah

Michael Scott Eger: You need to know this. Your friends need to know this. Your friends friends need to

Cohost: This run here.

speaker-1: Okay.

Michael Scott Eger: And more importantly, I want every healthy person listening to this broadcast to think about their friend, their loved one that just needs a little help, okay? And is trying everything but the gym, including the gym, and think about hitting the reset and try just one or two pattern interrupts and start from the beginning. And that’s what I people do. I help them start at the beginning.

speaker-1: Sounds good to me. Alright. Yeah, so.

Cohost: Let’s start. ⁓ I, so initial phone call to you. do we start? What is sort of like the first steps?

Michael Scott Eger: The first step, Okay, first I figure out where you’ve heard of me, okay? Excellent. Because if you heard about me through my referral network, that’s one conversation. If you heard about me from a loved one, that’s another conversation. If you heard about me from my website, that’s a third conversation.

Cohost: if you heard him here on Valley Free Radio.

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ that would be the most interesting conversation. Absolutely.

speaker-1: Yeah ⁓

Cohost: I’m

Michael Scott Eger: The thing is

Cohost: Call us 413-585-1033. ⁓

speaker-1: I think Dean is going to give this guy a call and he needs some mental health coaching.

Michael Scott Eger: Yeah, that’s a little out of my pay grade, but refer someone to that. Yeah. So, ⁓ yeah, where were we?

Cohost: I’ve called you, we’re just setting up to…

Michael Scott Eger: So once I know where you’ve heard from me, we can get you me. No. No, I charge one flat rate unless if you’re on food assistance, then it’s discounted. It’s one of reasons why I do that is I’ve been on it. It sucks. I, you know, a little bit of help is all you need.

Cohost: decide how much you’re going to charge me. Let’s see if I qualify.

Michael Scott Eger: You’re not going to save that much.

Cohost: When I get something? I remember my grandmother, she’s 90, she got a jersey she applied to see if she could get some kind of food assistance and she did. got like $21 a month and she was so very happy and she said, this is, I’ll take it. And then one, guess like the next year they like dropped, they took it away from her, like dropped it down to like $8 and she was like, oh, well, I guess they gave it to someone else.

speaker-1: Yeah

Michael Scott Eger: Yeah, so the next question is in qualifying someone to be a client of mine, we have to work on a why. A why is more important than I just want to lose weight. That’s a goal. You have to understand why you’re reaching that goal. So you have to know ⁓ what it’s going to do for you. What’s it going to do for your friends? Who’s going to help you in that? And then you need the last part, which is your goal, as something to determine success. Once that’s well ⁓ defined, I got a sense if you’re going to be disciplined enough that when you work with me, you’re going to do what needs to be done. Because there is a little bit of, there’s a little bit of, of change. It might be uncomfortable for some. Yet once you go through it, you start a new lifestyle that’s amazingly fun because you get to eat meat, you get to eat fat again, you get to eat more often, you get to enjoy. I can teach you how to, my old voice is kicking in, I can teach you how to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. and not gain weight. It’s all about breaking the day into three meals. Appetizer, main course, and dessert.

Cohost: And maybe this is the, what about booze? Does it help for that day?

speaker-1: Yeah, what about booze?

Michael Scott Eger: Well, ⁓ tend, this thing with alcohol is, the way alcohol works is initially ⁓ spiced your blood sugar and then crashes it. So ⁓ I tend to like products like BBC because that is unfiltered beer. It’s, ⁓ it’s unpasteurized. So all the enzyme activity still there. I drink that before my meal. and then I use that in replacement of a starch and then I eat something that’s with more protein and a lot more vegetables.

speaker-1: Okay, I’m down with that.

Cohost: So drink more beer, eat more vegetables.

Michael Scott Eger: Yes. You’ll be shocked. It’s like the vital nutrients in your vegetables will fill in any nutrient deficiencies. And deficiencies cause cravings. Sugar deficiency cause cravings. Fat deficiency cause cravings. Vitamin A deficiency cause cravings. Vitamin C deficiency causes cravings. Magnesium deficiency cause cravings. You have to…

speaker-1: Sounds good to me.

Cohost: Pornhub.

Michael Scott Eger: Yeah, exactly. Cause it’s cravings.

speaker-1: It does, yeah.

Michael Scott Eger: You were afraid I wasn’t gonna roll with that.

Cohost: Wasn’t sure no doubt there. I think we can be friends. I think we’ve established

speaker-1: Do you think so let’s

Michael Scott Eger: So anyway.

Cohost: And were you going to ask if there’s any hope for me? What a question.

Michael Scott Eger: He’s alive, is he? He is. Okay, we’re ⁓

speaker-1: But I’m just saying, know, Steve’s a big guy.

Michael Scott Eger: Right? I seem bigger.

speaker-1: I’ve seen bigger. I’ve seen smaller. But you so like.

Cohost: show or not a growing on a show.

Michael Scott Eger: Guys, how would you like to learn that you can lose 2 to 5 pounds ⁓ off you in a week? I got a plan for that. If you have food sensitivities, I have a plan for that. If you’re diabetic, I have a plan for that. In short, we build something custom to you. So, we’re just waiting for our first caller, right?

speaker-1: So. Yeah, well, yeah, people don’t call in.

Cohost: 1033 it’s snowing outside here with Mike eager health coach.

speaker-1: this knowing and And we’re going to get snowed in. right. Hopefully we don’t get snowed into the parking lot and plowed in. By the way. Yeah, you’ll be fine. I’m kind of

Cohost: You might, I’ll just drive. I say that, but I could very well get…

Michael Scott Eger: No, I I missed my super

speaker-1: Now I have a…

Cohost: You like how what kind of super did you have?

Michael Scott Eger: a 96 Subaru Legacy, green, a five-speed 2.2 motor. thing was bulletproof. I had about 300,000 miles before I retired it.

Cohost: You loved it. Wow. I’m, I’m searching for a car. I, I, I do bruise on you have, he have breakfast with you and Josh.

Michael Scott Eger: I got a guy. I got a for this. No, no, no, no, he doesn’t. He has breakfast with other people.

speaker-1: But ⁓

Michael Scott Eger: But if you want a hard to find car Okay, if you want something special and used that’s not in this market. He will find it Okay, so I got I got guys for everything. Yeah and gals

speaker-1: Yeah. And a gal. Yeah.

Cohost: So well, there’s some if you can get me a gal for certain something for some

speaker-1: Any gals for nudge nudge wing wing?

Michael Scott Eger: That’s a different business.

speaker-1: Different business but same type of service.

Michael Scott Eger: It’s definitely a consumer market.

speaker-1: Yeah, ⁓ she’s into that I’m down

Cohost: talking about.

Michael Scott Eger: I don’t know what we’re talking about either.

speaker-1: I’m making it up. All right, so let’s do it. Let’s take a quick break. Let me see here. Do you have any musical requests, Michael? What’s your favorite? What’s your favorite band? What are you listening to? Pink Floyd? I can do that. It is actually an anniversary of Pink Floyd today. Today marks the day that the dark side of the moon broke the record for the.

Cohost: You may not like this.

Michael Scott Eger: Play Floyd?

speaker-1: ⁓ Longest running, ⁓ longest ⁓ album at number ⁓ one. 460 weeks. Let’s see, any particular, ⁓ here we go, we’ll play this one, might as well.

Michael Scott Eger: cool.

speaker-1: you

Michael Scott Eger: you Big job, big boy, pain ya

speaker-1: ⁓ Okay Die! New car cab-

Michael Scott Eger: You I’m in the high fidelity

speaker-1: you

Michael Scott Eger: Don’t tell it’s like my

speaker-1: So they say, it is a And we are back with Michael Eager, health coach. It’s 8.38. And that was ⁓ Money, the 2011 remastered by Pink Floyd. My request for Michael here and also a little piece of ⁓ trivia. This marks the anniversary of the day that Dark Side of the Moon broke the record for longest running number one album or something like that. I read it somewhere on Facebook.

Michael Scott Eger: you

speaker-1: You know how that goes so the ⁓ So you got so what’s your how people get a hold of you Michael? What’s what what do you? ⁓ Got a website got your phone number or whatever you want to give out

Michael Scott Eger: Okay. So the website is probably the best way to start the conversation. It’s www actually you don’t need a www.michealeagerhealthcoach.com. That is a Michael Eager is spelled E G E R and the health coach. ⁓ My phone number is 413-455-0797. When you call, just leave a message. I’ll call you right back.

speaker-1: Michael your health

Michael Scott Eger: ⁓ Let me know you heard me on this show and we can start the conversation from there.

speaker-1: Sounds good to me. Steve, I got this guy you need to call. He’s a health coach.

Michael Scott Eger: Okay.

Cohost: Okay.

speaker-1: He’ll help you go shopping. you met Michael Eager?

Cohost: Okay. Caitlin Pearson on teaching modeling and battling hot teacher stigma.

Michael Scott Eger: Okay.

speaker-1: I love your headlines. Yeah, yeah, well that’s headlines by Steve.

Michael Scott Eger: That’s random. So, Google must love him.

speaker-1: Yeah, I can imagine what his Google feed is like if he even went back if you went back into his search history, I’m sure I’m sure you’d be Horrified yeah horrified. I think would be a good word. Okay three injured in Mendota oil or honey oil explosion

Cohost: I saw that headline and I didn’t know what that was. I didn’t bother reading. What is honey oil?

speaker-1: It’s a honey oil explosion. ⁓ Three people were burned following what authorities are calling a possible honey oil explosion. I don’t know what honey oil is. process of making honey oil from pot. ⁓ Okay, authorities say that the process of making honey oil from pot is extremely dangerous and requires the use of butane, is highly flammable.

Cohost: think the health coach would say don’t try to make anything that’s going to blow you up.

speaker-1: Right.

Michael Scott Eger: Well, life’s short. You want to have the highest quality of life while you live it.

speaker-1: Life’s too short, yeah.

Cohost: See that?

speaker-1: ⁓ Yeah.

Cohost: How, what is the length of time you typically work with someone?

Michael Scott Eger: Typically, I like to get people pretty well trained ⁓ in three to six months. at the six months, I want them to be ready to fire me. That’s right. If I’m doing my job right, you won’t need me for much longer than six months. Another thing is, if I’m doing my job right, you’re gonna be spending less money on food and less money on my fees. than you will on your new wardrobe. if you’re doing, whatever you’re doing, think about it, is your cost for your trainer, your ⁓ specialized food, whatever, ⁓ greater than your wardrobe. And if it’s not, you’re with the wrong program. In three months, mean, all the food, all the training, I probably spent less than a grand for my weight loss. And here’s the thing. I then spent another two and a half grand replacing my wardrobe. Okay. That was the most fun I ever had shopping. It’s almost like you get a new way. You get a new opportunity to set your image. You had an old self and now you have a new healthier self. And here’s the best thing. Then you can give all your old clothes to charity. the reason you do that is you never want to go back. And more importantly, you help someone else. So lose weight, give your clothes to charity, and you’re more disciplined to stay with your goals.

Cohost: This for me, could lose weight and my clothes to like a tent manufacturer.

Michael Scott Eger: You know that the big tops always need more fabric.

speaker-1: You ⁓

Cohost: Thanks a lot.

Michael Scott Eger: Did I go too far?

speaker-1: We can make a sailboat Steve I went to

Cohost: Of course, I some kind of fat guys float better joke

speaker-1: Well, you wouldn’t if you were giving away your clothes you wouldn’t be fat anymore

Michael Scott Eger: You wouldn’t be a buoy if you were floating. Hey!

speaker-1: Hahaha

Cohost: Booyah!

speaker-1: ⁓ here it is, on February 13th, 1981, Pink Floyd’s legendary album Dark Side of the Moon became the longest running rock LP on the charts at 402 weeks. It would stay on the charts for total of 741 weeks, making it the longest running album of any style of music ever. The record holder before Dark Side of the Moon was Johnny Mathis’ Greatest Hits, which was on the chart for 490 weeks. Tada! Useless information that you cannot use today, however you decide not to use it.

Michael Scott Eger: Uhhh… useless.

speaker-1: That is the best I can do there was another headline here that was pretty funny and I needed to find it but I couldn’t the Main governor thinks about thinks life-saving anti-overdose medication will cost too much Let’s see, there’s the top 10 girl groups of all time. Let’s see, it’s 8.45 on Valley Free Radio 103.3 FM and do you have weekend plans? Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, hope you did your shopping, but also it Love Your Local Musician Day right here on Valley Free Radio. From 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. we’ll be playing all the area’s best local music, taking requests for your favorite local band. I’ve got a ton of stuff lined up. I’ve got a whole stack of CDs here and I’ve got more to go through. All day long we’ll be listening to great local music. Tomorrow night at the 11s is Road Horse and the Donut Kings and a couple other bands will be playing. You can get tickets at the door for that. Also don’t forget about the four Sundays in February presented by the Northampton Arts Council on Sunday, February 16th at 2pm is Mumbai in Massachusetts. It’s an afternoon of fantastic Indian and Indian music or fantastic afternoon of classic Indian music with sitars and a bunch of other instruments that I can’t pronounce. Also on Sunday, February 23rd, the last Sunday which wraps up the four Sundays in February is the really big show with Mike Flood, legendary indie rock guru. He’s gonna be playing Ed Sullivan and introducing a fabulous lineup of valley talent. in this only in Northampton Spectacular. Tickets are available online for both of those. Just go to NorthamptonArtsCouncil.org and you’ll be able to find your tickets there. Get them because both of these shows will sell out. What else is going on this weekend? ⁓ next Wednesday, February 19th is the Homelessness Marathon broadcast from Burlington, Vermont. going to be interviews with homeless people and talking about homelessness issues and ways to solve this problem. So you can tune in to Valley Free Radio online at valleyfreeradio.org. Also we’ll be playing it on FM, on your FM dial at 103.3 from seven to one a.m. They’re broadcasting out of Burlington. This is not a fundraiser. Although they do take ⁓ donations. This is more of an information informational thing also from six to seven that day is the world peace radio hour with Don Freeman And he will be having a guest also ⁓ with the homelessness theme. I believe he’ll be having someone from the ⁓ veterans affairs Homeless that deals with homeless vets So lots going on at VALENTINE’s Stay tuned. Always check out our website. There’s always new stuff going on there. I will have this interview with Michael up there today, hopefully, before I leave or get snowed in. Again, I’d like to thank our sponsors, the Wealth Technology Group. I’d also like to thank our good friends over at Blow Paste. If you have not heard or seen or tried Blow Paste, do it. Do it soon. Try it. Give it a try. It’ll change your world. So I’ll play their jingle and we’ll be right back. Don’t let another blissful moment go to waste Taste the magic of blow paste So give that salty sausage a peppermint taste With the magic of blow paste Freshen up the job before you turn out the lights And get a pearl necklace to go with your pearly white If you want to make his day and put a smile on his face Taste the magic of glow paste

Michael Scott Eger: Right on.

speaker-1: All right, Mike, let’s give you, let’s give you, your quick sign off here. Let everybody know how they can get in touch with you. This is Michael Eager, health coach.

Michael Scott Eger: You can reach me. Best place you can get me is Michael Eager Health Coach. ⁓ You spell Eager E-G-E-R and that is dot com. My phone number is 413-455-0797. That’s 413-455-0797.

speaker-1: Excellent, thanks for coming on. Really appreciate it. And if you wanna catch this interview and find out more about other things that going on at the Quiz Show, you go to valetfreeradio.org. In the programming tab, you go to local music shows, find the Quiz Show, I’m right in there. I’m gonna play a couple more tunes and then we’ll be signing off. I hope everybody has a great day. What do you got, Steve? Where you gonna be? Gotta work. Sounds fun. All right, so I’m gonna play. Yeah, it’ll be fun.

Cohost: I work. Yeah Well, I mean, yeah, it’ll be fun.

speaker-1: Are you working at your, your happy job? Okay, good. Excellent. All right, so. Excellent, all right. So I’m gonna play a couple tunes. We’ll be back in a couple minutes to wrap things up one more time just in case it wasn’t wrapped up quite right the first time.

Cohost: No happy job. You’re my happy place today. ⁓

speaker-1: Can’t take I’m trying to get over you, the way you Turn away the way you see right through me Bye of the terrible crime plaguing you, stalking your shadow once this pain I can’t control I’m Need to stay on my own