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- [Brad] Eating healthy can be hard,
even when you're not moving.
And this week we are.
Well, Chris is. I'm helping.
- Well, hello.
I've moved to Austin.
I've brought everything that I own, including Wayne.
He's been stressed out. I've been stressed out.
We've all been stressed out.
And when you're stressed out,
it's really hard to cook a meal.
So today me and Brad are gonna make
this little tomato-roasted, cherry tomato,
roasted cherry tomato.
It's a penne pasta, and it has roasted tomatoes in it,
that you put in the oven and it's really good,
and it's perfect considering all the chaos
that has been surrounding moving.
Ain't that right?
(cat voice) Yeah, Dad. That's right.
- [Brad] Chris is getting his life together.
He's losing weight.
He started therapy
and now he's moving away to take a new job.
And while I hate to see him go, I'm proud of him because
he's making these moves
even when they're difficult in the moment.
And moving was really difficult.
Is this what we're making our journey in?
- Yes, it is.
Wait, are you filming right now?
- [Brad] I am. - Oh, you are.
Okay. I, I thought you might just
be holding the camera cause you wanted to look cool.
- [Brad] Do I look cool though Chris?
- Yeah, you always look cool.
- [Brad] Oh, thank you.
- So moving to Austin, exciting, terrifying,
mean how it started?
That didn't go so well because I used to drive, you know
a trailer a lot for work when I was a kid.
I've lost that ability apparently,
it's like one, it's not like riding a bike.
It doesn't stay with you forever.
And apparently Brad can't do it either.
So that makes me happier?
- [Brad] I feel like we're getting close.
- Then Brad and I loaded up the truck
and we got on the road.
What was supposed to be a six hour drive
to Benton, Arkansas turned into an eight hour drive.
Who knew that just going under,
20 miles under the speed limit
would add two hours to your ride?
People who know how to do math, would know that.
It took us eight hours the first day,
eight hours the second day,
Brad and I left from Benton, Arkansas, his hometown.
I told Brad that we needed to leave by at least 6:30.
We didn't leave till eightish.
And then we got really close to not making
to my leasing office in time to get keys.
Luckily we got here just as the sun setted
and we were able to hit rush hour Austin traffic
which was illuminating.
We finally got here, unloaded everything
and saw the immense task that would be ahead of us
the next few days of unpacking.
Let's just say my stress level with all this is,
glad I'm not checking my blood pressure right now.
Ow, Wayne.
- And Bruce, here's the other thing,
I'm really allergic to cats and I sneezed the whole time,
whole time I was sneezing.
- Okay. So we're almost,
(Brad sneezes)
Bless you.
- I wanna sneeze. That's what I wanna do.
I took a tranquilizing amount of Zyrtec
which is also problematic, 'cause I was driving.
Somehow I stayed awake and here we are.
We, we made it.
- Oh Brad.
Thank you so much. - Of course.
- For everything.
I mean seriously, like you didn't have to do this.
- Dude, like I wanted to.
Like, you know, you didn't you haven't had
to do any of this.
- [Andrew] Why do you want to be doing this?
- I mean, that's a really complicated question I guess,
like I mean there's a lot of reasons why I wanna do it.
One, 'cause I get to do with my friend.
Two, it's 'cause getting healthier, losing weight
will open up opportunities to me
that I can't even imagine right now.
Sorry, I don't wanna get too emotional on camera.
You mind...
- [Brad] This is the story of Chris's journey
towards health, with the help of a friend.
Now that he's in Austin, we've become recipe pen pals,
sharing, healthy plant based recipes from afar.
And again we've needed easy recipes like this one
because it's been hard.
Hard to eat differently, cook the food, resist temptation.
Sometimes it's been difficult to know
what we're doing at all.
Evidenced by Chris and I eating a potato
with baked beans on it.
Chris has been very patient with me
as we figured out how to tell this story.
And we've tried a lot of interesting things
before we arrived here.
With Chris hundreds of miles away
and almost a hundred pounds lighter.
So I'm thankful pasta and it making it easier
to come back and cook without Chris around.
And with each recipe we make and share with each other.
This whole process gets a little bit easier too.
- You know, doing this a year ago,
I would've never thought about living in Austin,
having a new job, but because of the focus
that Brad and I have had mentally,
physically
and culinarily?
Is that an appropriate word for that?
Has really shaped the outcome of my life.
I'm - Brad's even said that I'm a happier person
that there's a light in my eyes that wasn't there before.
Hmm. Yeah. I mean
- [Andrew] Do you feel that?
- I feel that, I feel that.
I feel a lot of things right now.
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