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  • Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead

  • By: Dave Barry
  • Narrated by: Arte Johnson
  • Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (125 ratings)

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Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead

By: Dave Barry
Narrated by: Arte Johnson
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Publisher's summary

Now is not the time to start that fitness program! Instead, laugh along with humorist Dave Barry as he debunks, demotivates, and delights on the subject of fitness. Hear his inimitable views on exercise ("the best time would be the first thing after Easter, but not the one coming up"), weights ("big-time lifters have turned into 400-pound hairy sweaty shapeless grunting masses of tissue. And the men are even worse"), and much more.
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Hilarious

This is awesome. I love Dave Barry! I listen to this at work and it makes the day fly by.

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funny but out of date

this is humorous and you will get some laughs. but truly, it is dated a bit

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Not the best

I love Dave Barry and no one makes me laugh more. But this is one of his less funny.

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Nostalgic vs dated humor, but usually funny

I’m a big Dave Barry fan and read his weekly column for years. This book is over 30 years old and typical of his formulaic but imaginative wit. Arte reads it well but doesn’t always hit the punch lines in rhythm. I recommend playing it a bit at a time so you don’t get saturated with his style; that’s how I used to savor his columns anyway.

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Excellent

I read the book several years ago and thought it was funny. But listening to Arte Johnson read it is even funnier! I almost hurt myself I was laughing so hard.

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Laugh out loud funny

I selected this read when I was feeling blue. I haven’t laughed out loud in weeks, and this book had me belly laughing. Dave Barry is a genius!

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A Dave Barry Classic.

Anyone thats ever struggled with weight or body issues and those with annoying gym rat friends and anorexic family members will appreciate this book. His parodies of BS lifestyle advertising and fitness trends are brutally executed yet remain completely G-Rated. Art Johnson always makes Dave Barry's Audio books funnier.

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I lost weight listening

As person on a weight loss journey Thank you for this I Laughed so hard I'm sure I lost weight 😭🤣

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It has the voice of like the instruction videos from the 60s.

It feels like it's from the 60s.It's funny but it is a little dated and I looked at the time that it was published and 1999 And I was like that's why it feels old. It's 2024

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Beating a dead horse

The running time for this so-called book was 2 hours, 4 minutes and 22 seconds. If this book had been shortened to 4 minutes and 22 seconds, that would have still been too long to listen to such tripe.

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