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So we dusted it off. That's why I went and got a second Wii Fit board because I assumed this one would break. This is our original one from our original purchase. They're very cheap to get, the Wii Fit boards. So if you can break one a week and you're not going to run out of ability to buy them, every shop has 20 of them sitting there that they'll probably be happy to take. So we are on a Wii Fit. I'm going to try this. I think I want to try it until May. Yes. And now we had some experience with the Wii Fit before. We have, yes. Everyone in the world owns it. Everyone had experience with Wii Fit. Yeah, if you own the Wii, you had a Wii Fit. You had the board. you like it was a really uh interesting unique thing but i forgot a lot about it you know so i will it was funny the day before like i had i had gotten it i checked to make sure it would work and i set it up and i just like we just set it up to make sure it would read it and everything like that but we didn't do anything i was sitting there in the shower going to work and i went oh crap like in my head i remembered how this wee fit board was gonna call me a fat butt and like you're oh you're so you're so heavy and oh you're so normally obese like it is ruthless it is and i was just washing my hair and i went oh man i forgot it's i remembered it immediately even though i hadn't started it yet and uh it did immediately i i totally forgot about the measuring measuring measuring and then oh the it's now this is uh we're gonna probably give updates each show you know we're only four days in today when i started it'll be the fifth day not in a row but i'm gonna start trying to be every day yeah uh you can't it won't be every day you know but it'll i'm gonna try to do most days you know and yeah uh it was incredibly fun I was laughing I was in pain a lot yes there's some I have learned that I cannot do planks yeah and it's merciless don't worry yeah it is very Japanese at its core meaning it's not going to be gentle no when you screw up right it's like hello are you still there yes I'm dead now we now one of the things that's interesting well we'll start before we get too deep into this I also had to stick to this thing. Now, this came out. This is developed by Nintendo, the publisher's Nintendo. So this is straight up Nintendo only. It was released on 12-1-2007. So it was December 1st, 2007. I always like to set the mood. The top song was No One by Alicia Keys. I've never heard of her. You have. And the top movie was Enchanted from Walt Disney. Oh, yeah. So what, and then we, what, do we have an exchange student? We did. We had Sarah. Who immediately showed us how out of shape we were in 2007. When we were black belts and we were, we thought we were fit, but we were not fit at all. So Sarah was a, is a ballerina, is, still is. Yes. Yeah. All these years later. But one of them is like sun salutation, a yoga pose. Yeah. And you have to like touch your toes. Well, the board is like three inches off the ground and she would just like bend over and touch the ground. Not her toes. Well beyond her toes. And we're just like, great. Yeah. See, now I was always, I think I was better at touching my hands flat to the floor than you were. This is many years ago. Like we we became black belts in 2005 Yeah And so we had been doing a lot of running and push and and lots of physical exertion And I also did a lot of flexibility stuff so I could kick better Yeah So I was pretty good at that That's all long gone. Oh, yeah. You know, my brain still thinks I can do it, but I cannot.

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It lets you choose between two trainers. I chose the lady. You chose the man. I don't think I like the man yeah the lady's better I remember didn't the fitness trainers weren't they added to the Smash Brothers universe I think so and I think you can even get the Amiibos which I have to find those if they did make them because they're hilarious it might be a surprise birthday present or something it's a lot and I loved we're going to try to also one thing I remember from before all of our exchange students were on the Wii all of our family and friends they're on our Wii so I want to transfer them all I think you can put 10 at a time on the Wii mode and then you go upstairs and we can transfer them in and then they're in the game with you, they're like throwing the hula hoops or they're running past you and waving and it makes it so fun because you throw, like when I play the hula hoop game, you're one of the ones that throw me, the hula hoops. Right, the extra so you get extra ones. And there's an added layer because the exchange students meant so much in our lives. Now, we're still in contact with most of them fairly regularly, but they're in Japan. Yeah. And, you know, they're not. Or in Laul. Laul So they not in our house in our lives every day So this I think when I see them I going to feel so much happiness and that might sound dumb to somebody to some people but you're nuts because you see them, you see the me they made and your brain and heart actually just goes back to when they were here with you and they were here when Sarah was kicking your ass at all the games the shooting game not Mario Kart she wouldn't play me on Mario Kart that was a wise decision She tried and was like, oh, no, I'm never playing you again. She doesn't like it. She didn't like losing. How about we do Link's crossbow? Yeah. And she would kill us. That's so funny. But it was, and that's what I mean. Like, my dad's in there. Yeah. My dad will be in there, which will be sad, but I'll be glad to see his knee again. You know, so there's a lot of really good positives. This is not a hardcore fitness thing. No, no, not at all. There's other games. there's active and there's and there's that who's that gal who's really mean oh and like jillian michaels jillian michaels so if you want this kind of really really stuff that'll push you it's out there yeah this was the first one this is the one that set the mold like you can have fun and do all this wacky stuff that's what the wii was made for yeah and then they did one on for the switch too Yeah, the Ring Fit. We have it. But I don't know. Maybe after I do this for a while. My goal is to unlock everything in the Wii Fit and then move to the Wii Fit Plus. We have them both. I do have to say, the Wii Fit. Fun fact, as of March 2022, it's the third best-selling console game. Not as a bundle. Not as a bundle-rooski. Bundle-rooski, bundle-rooski. But sold on its own. Bundle-rooski. it sold 22.67 million copies that's the Wii Fit do you know what the top two were no I didn't look it up oh so if you uh if you pay more than 14 cents for a Wii Fit uh game you're crazy because they're they're literally every single place they've been in every bundle bundle ruski I've ever bought has had at least one of them so you know it's uh but it's i was shocked and surprised at how that what this is doing like how fun this is and how i'm like looking forward to it at work i'll sit there and think about it and like i'll try and stretch so i'm better when i get home for my wee fit so i can get my age better you know i don't know it's just it's what this is what the Wii is supposed to do. It's what it did do. It made bowling and boxing and the one I don't like, the ski one, is the slalom one. Only because I suck at it. But I'm going to get better at it. I'm going to practice that one. And the ski jumps, there's so many interesting fun games that keep you moving and doing things.