Hope here is this is this is your morning, so I hope you have a wonderful day in front of you. I'm up on the West Coast today, and we've got a lucky people to have all the sunshiny. And you're looking well over there in East Coast. Joe: Howard, it's great to be here, mate. Howard: Joe Cross, welcome to the Plant Yourself Podcast. What shone through for me was Joe's genuine enthusiasm for helping people, and his willingness to continue growing and learning. How he used the camera to support his journey. What strategies he uses to stay compliant with a “mostly plants” lifestyle. How he balances being a role model with being authentic and transparent about his foibles and failures. I ended up following my curiosity about his life since he became a wellness celebrity. Joe's story is well-known and easy to find online, so I wasn't sure how I would add value to the world by having another interview with him. You can now watch it on Amazon Prime, along with the two FS&ND originals. He's regained the rights to a documentary that had been languishing in the bowels of Netflix, The Kids' Menu, in which he travels around the US shining a light on the elegant and creative solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic. Now, coming up on a decade later, Joe is still at it. His second film, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2, highlights the stories of some of those people. His transformation story, chronicled in that 2010 documentary, has inspired millions of people to start juicing, and to add more plants to their diets. Part road trip, part self-help manifesto, FAT, SICK and NEARLY DEAD defies the traditional documentary format to present an unconventional and uplifting story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves.Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead” when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease. What emerges is nothing short of amazing - an inspiring tale of healing and human connection. As Joe is recovering his health, Phil begins his own epic journey to get well. Phil Staples is morbidly obese weighing in at 429 lbs a cheeseburger away from a heart-attack. While talking to more than 500 Americans about food, health and longevity, it's at a truck stop in Arizona where Joe meets a truck driver who suffers from the same rare condition. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle. He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days. With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long-term, Joe turns to the only option left, the body's ability to heal itself. FAT, SICK and NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe's personal mission to regain his health. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't end well- with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn't far behind. 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope.
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