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Ok. There's not a lot of things I know extremely well. But Gym Culture (so-called) is something I'm very familiar with.

Having been a loner gym rat since the early 1980s - not to mention a Certified Personal Trainer for 10 years (a title I kinda wince at now) - I have seen my share of trends, advances in training equipment, the lauding and debunking of certain modalities of training...and the various type of folks who dwell in the gym.

This episode breaks down them down into categories:

The Muscle Dudes (otherwise known as the Roid Droids)

The Know-It-Alls

The Creeps

The Malodorous

This is Part One of what could be a two or three part series.

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You ever wonder why folks engage in small talk? If you're being honest with yourself, is it really that enjoyable?

Standing around, shooting the shit with someone because you feel you should. That makes no sense.

If you don't seriously have the inclination to speak to anyone, it doesn't mean you're anti-social or a misanthrope. You're just comfortable in your own skin, and enjoy the silence. If someone else is visibly uncomfortable because you prefer a cessation of verbal activity, that's not your problem.

This episode salutes our ability to not say a goddamn word if we don't wanna.

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Ryn Gluckman is the Nursing Director in the ER at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. During the summer season — thanks in part to “Vacation Brain” — there are a lot of preventable injuries (some pretty horrific).

With more than 18 years’ experience working at off-island hospitals, Ryn has seen her share of “what is, but should never be” when it comes to safety — or the ignorance thereof.

I had her in for a bit of a “post-game analysis” of the goings-on in the emergency room at the island hospital. And while she couldn’t get overly specific (patient confidentiality and all that), she did give a solid snapshot of how too many folks do a disservice to the young ones by not leading by example. Subsequently, there are a fair amount of head injuries and — not surprisingly — alcohol-related trauma.

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