 Yeah, we want to hear your one rules because I love that stuff. It's that I like learning from other people who are Subject matter experts if they can distill it down to like could you tell me the thing like tells you? You're listening to barbell logic brought to you by barbell logic online coaching where each week We take a systematic walk through strength training and the refining power of voluntary hardship You are listening to the barbell logic podcast This is Matt Reynolds coming to you live from the whiskey library. Mm-hmm. I'm here with my bffs P's confidence Andrew Jackson and Nikki Sims. Thank you guys for filling in for me on Monday. Mm-hmm. Well, that was fun Thanks for letting us do that. Yeah celebrated that 20th anniversary with the beautiful Rachel Reynolds and we I wanted to so I've been thinking about this. I actually thought about this while I was in Florida I was supposed to be in Mexico for my anniversary. I don't know if you guys have heard But Mexico no longer allows US citizens to cross their border there. I think they're currently building a wall Keep us out So we had to go to Florida. Gotcha, which was about as open as Missouri is which is about 27% open But the beaches were open so it was great and while I sat on the beach. I was thinking to myself There are many things in my life that I have a single rule That I can I can Judge a book by its cover based on this single rule, right? Now I want this to be a fun podcast, right? So I always know they're gonna be outliers But I'll give an example to our listeners that'll make sense And this is the one that we haven't talked about this other than the example I'm about to give as we were eating dinner tonight. I said this is one of those things So so I meet strangers all the time when I'm traveling and you know, they ask what I do And then a lot a question that will often come up is how do I find a good gym or how do I know if a gym is a good Gym and my one rule about if a gym is a good gym is if the gym has chalk If the gym provides chalk if there's a chalk bucket in the gym It is probably a really good gym. It doesn't mean it's the best gym in the city But especially for like traveling or trying to find a decent gym if the gym has chalk The gym is gonna have at least decent barbells like not the ones with the hex nuts on the end It's gonna have decent weights. It's obviously gonna have squat racks like if it's got chalk so my if you could think about Things in different industries or and you could distill it all down to a single rule So if somebody was like give me the elevator pitch of how do I find a good gym? My answer would be find a gym with chalk if the gym has chalk. It's probably fine. That make sense. Yeah, it's good Yeah, so I started talking about to you guys and that I said so I want you to think about What some of your rules are if you have some of those things that you will use to judge? Businesses or industries or whatever Based on a single rule that works 99% of the time So Nikki do you have one that you would like to share? Oh, I have more than one. I know you do Let's start with your first. Let's one. Okay. I mean a list one thing that came easily to mind was About shoes. I love buying a lot of shoes. I don't have a lot of like lady shoes, but I buy a lot of sneakers and my filter for that is This the sole can't be white unless the whole shoe is white So like the shoes that I'm currently wearing Yeah, the ones that you're wearing which is all white white on white white laces There's an ounce of color on the shoe other than white Yeah, and the sole is white. So I passed the Nikki test for my shoes Yeah, I think like a gum soul or Like I have a hot pink sole shoe, but it like makes it more special and like also It's not gonna look really dirty over time. Yeah So yeah, the sole shouldn't be white unless the whole shoe is white They make a lot of high-end guys shoes like this like this classic style tennis shoe That are they'll come in like black or like dark brown and they have white Such a disruption. I'm not nope. I'm like nope not Interesting because I have a pair of shoes right over there. Well, there's also a trash can right over there We were discussing Andrew was listening to the the podcast on style on the way here It was like I need to I need to do some work. Yeah, I need to go on the fashion LP We're actually gonna take you guys to we've got a great barbershop here in town called Hudson Hawk Shout-out to my boy TJ. It's and we're gonna take you guys and have your have your hair did I've not had a professional haircut since February. That's One and probably two and a half years. Wow, maybe actually three years. What's funny is I don't have hair And I get a professional haircut at least once every couple months I like that straight razor shave. I want some hot I like the hot towels, right? That would be a great. I was gonna say Barbershop if a barbershop does either you can either use if they do straight razor shaves Or if they do or if they have hot towels, you know, and they usually have both. That's a good barbershop That's a pretty good barbershop. Yeah, that makes me think of when I'm looking for a place to get like bikini waxes If they also do pedicures, right? No That's the one rule to do Yeah, when I get when I get a bikini wax I specifically like I want to go to a place that specializes specifically in Brazilian waxes Like I'm not really interested in if they do anything else like like tire rotations Which I love by the way in fact So I have a rule about about bars if you go to a bar as much as I travel If I'm in a new bar, I will almost always order either a Sazorak or Negroni first If a bar knows how to make a Sazorak or Negroni, which are the two oldest cocktails some two most classic cocktails And like there's you know, they don't bat an eye. They're like yep No problem, you know or they say what kind of gin do you want in it the Negroni or you know Or or if if you're asking for a Sazorak like, you know, what kind of whiskey you want rye whiskey what kind then that's a great bar But if they have to go Wait, can you remind me what's in a Sazorak again? Yeah, they have to go get the bartender book and open it up That's a shitty bar. I don't like bars that will give you a cocktail with a bunch of little ice cubes Like if you serve me an old-fashioned with a bunch of little ice cubes, that's a great unacceptable That's right. It has to be a giant ice. Yes. Yes. So then what do you do? If they fail the rule you leave no, I just make a mental change the order So if if they fail the rule then what I order is I'll order so so my go-to crappy drink at a crappy sports bar is Usually they almost all have makers mark, which is not a great whiskey at all, right? But it's a weeded whiskey and it's decent and all in the price is good And sometimes I'll even order a makers mark old-fashioned and I'll say no soda water Yeah, interesting thing about that is terrible is that an old-fashioned doesn't have soda water in it Yeah, but when you go to a crappy bar, they will always put a splash of soda in it to fill up the cup And I'm like, no, here's what here's what goes in there put the bitters in there Put the whiskey in there And if you want to put a cherry or a or an edge a Piece of the the orange peel then that's fine, too But don't muddle that I don't want the cherry muddle marriage, you know cherry. Oh god. No, no Thanks, so it doesn't necessarily change your Decision but it might change your game plan like you're gonna go you're still gonna stay at that bar. Yeah Yeah, yeah changes you have a drink. I mean cuz then I I mean it would be very rude to ask for a drink Like we can't make sasurax. I'm like, sorry, then I'm not gonna drink here And I'm gonna walk out like I am it just lets me know what I'm dealing with, right? Another another good one at a bar if you go to a bar and you just look and they have fresh herbs on the Bar like if they have basil and they have time and they've got and they're like in a they're like in a little flower pot Growing then that's probably that's my class. Yeah, okay, Andrew. What's one of yours? So when I was traveling Overseas particularly in Asia the one rule for Street cart food was that if it had a line That was this that was the cart. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. If there's no line. It's just a Even if it looks amazing There yeah, and you want it to be a line of local right right right folks that are eating there Like that's their daily breakfast lunch or dinner or whatever that was definitely a one rule for sure. That's a good rule It's pretty good. I am a I'm a pizza snob. Oh, yeah, what's your pizza rule? You and I have had some great pizza right like some like Long Island pizza and that's probably so good, you know And we we just had a great dinner. We have great food in Missouri What we don't have is great seafood because it's Missouri and it's about far away. You can get good sushi There's something about sushi. They'll fly in, you know, they'll fly it in fresh But good seafood you can't really get here and you can't get great pizza here Especially compared to like legit Long Island special My rule with pizza is is if they use fresh basil or fresh arugula on the pizza It's a good pizza So and again with so it's shout out to our waiter our waiter one of my favorite waiters in town My favorite waiter in town Jacob at progress. He said his one rule We were talking to him about this and we didn't want to give much away He said if he can order a classic the classic whatever it so at a pizza place If you can order a margarita pizza, which is like the most classic sort of Italian basic Wonderful pizza and they know exactly how to make a margarita pizza, which by the way has fresh basil on it Not pesto. Yeah, not cooked basil. It's cooked and then the fresh basil leaves are put on the pizza at the end Right, or you know, or they have a pizza that they make like prosciutto and fig jam And then they put fresh arugula on it like fresh arugula fresh basil fresh greens on a pizza the pizza place great Yeah, good one rule, right? Yeah, and most places in as a matter of fact in Springfield, Missouri We only have two places in the entire city that will put fresh Fresh herbs on your pizza. I have a burger one Okay, but the tough thing about this one is you don't know until you're actually eating it and that's if You're eating the bun and are feeding the burger and the bun falls apart Because that means they did not consider what it's like to actually eat the burger, right? like they just picked shitty bread right picked not very good bread and Then it just makes the whole experience not very great So the bun has to stay intact while you're eating it We had a burger tonight that we ordered us an appetizer to the dinner To kind of like again in Springfield, Missouri went to a trendy restaurant in Springfield, Missouri And Nikki wanted the burger and I was like really badly. I was like the bird for what I was like We're getting and we what we kind of did was I know this is going to shock and a lot of people in the age of COVID we ordered a bunch of different dishes and then we all just shared off the same plate Because I don't know if you guys know but Nikki and Andrew can't get COVID for me because the only thing You can get for me is the antibodies and so I've tried to give them as many of my antibodies as I can on this trip No, so anyway sweat off your head But one of the wonderful things about the burger tonight was that they made it was clear They had made every single ingredient on the burger like they had made the buns. They had made the pickles That's another one like oh like pickles in a restaurant if they've made their own pickles. Oh, that's big That's a big major. That's a good one rule. Oh like a diner like even like a step up from a diner You know kind of burger-type food. Yes, you got legit pickles that you made and doesn't come out of a That you really care. That's right. Yeah, I have one for another gym one. Okay, it's so yours is sort of like In my opinion like the minimum standard like sure if chalk if they've got chalk That's probably a place you can get the job done. You can get the job done. You can train because there's a lot of CrossFit gyms out there and you know hole-in-the-wall places that you know They've got chalk, but you probably wouldn't want to train there if you were in the area sure regularly But if you go to a gym and it has stall bars That is stall bars. Yes. I don't even know what that is. These are the gymnastics Bars that are mounted up against the wall. They just look like wood dowels like Fru Fru hippie Joe No, this is gonna be like a next level. They know what's going on. It's like the Bulgarian training hall It's like a training hall. Okay. I get it. Okay. Do you go if you walk into a gym? And it's got stall bars It's legit. It's legit for weightlifting at least so I've got I've got a couple that I want to I want to Tell you what the category is and see if you can guess. Oh, what my one rule is rather than me telling you the one rule Okay, okay, so I have one for Mexican restaurants. Oh Free chips and salsa. No every Mexican restaurant has free chips and salsa You ever been to a Mexican restaurant that doesn't have free chips and salsa Occasionally, but like yeah, that's how you know, you shouldn't be going there as if you don't get free chips and salsa No, there's definitely I have I have a rule that will tell you I mean listen karaoke every How do you know it's a great Mexican restaurant with one question. Oh, do you make your tortillas? Do you make your own tortillas? Do you make your tortillas? So remember the Mexican restaurant by Cody's out in at the strength parlor And then you can tell they've like made that they've made it with like the tortillas are made with like masa and Yeah, so good the Mexico girl checking in. Yes. Okay. I have some That are about men So is this gonna be things that make a guy greater an instant rule out So some of these are an instant rule out from like dating apps and then some are like during the initial conversations that they're There would also be ruled out or these are negatives. Yeah. Okay. Let's start with the dating app things If they have selfies that have the animal filters Oh You believe that guys actually put that wait like it puts like the snap Yeah, oh my that's the first off that should be an instant rule out for anyone who's You can use that if you're 15 or below Wow, and then I actually don't want to see Jim picks Yeah, would love to date a guy who lifts but I do not want to see them taking selfies But let's talk about why why is that because it's usually not of them doing anything cool What if there's a guaranteed narcissist? Yeah, post pictures of himself in the gym Which is funny because I just post all videos all day long for me lifting, right? But you don't have any of them on your dating apps. Do you I have a video of me doing a deadlift? Okay, cuz I want someone to know what I'm about. Okay. That's fair Yeah, so is there a certain like crossover point where it would be an appropriate gym picture You know what if they're at the top of a deadlift PR, that would be pretty neat. That'd be okay That'd be pretty I'd be like, okay if they're like a strong man and then like picking a car up Casually resting on this myth Trying to sneakily take a selfie The jerseys were tanked up. Yeah, no nice. Okay another one would be if they have a goatee Yes, absolutely not perfectly acceptable by the way in 1994. Yeah Well, and You know or if you're Mac McGregor. Oh Pulls off the goatee quite well cultural though like that. There's something about a goatee is I don't know this and someone will someone will write in the goatee seems like a Like the history of the goatee is probably Scottish Gosh, I wonder that it seemed like that's a that's a scotch Way of facial hair. So so Mac is one of our coaches great guy Wonderful listen to we'll have on the podcast at some point fantastic. Yeah, I might just have him on to like read children's books Right because it's just like his voice is amazing. He does have a great goatee But there's something about the fact that because he's a Scotsman it works. It doesn't you don't look at the goatee You just don't notice his face exactly He's just like look how thin pointing my goatee is How about so on on that same note Guys that have a beard but shave the mustache. There's no mustache Just a neck beard. I'm so But they just right it's like they or it's like they're so uncomfortable with the fact that there is a mustache It's Incredibly thin so they they like trim the mustache down to like, you know an eighth of an inch or sixteenth of an inch They've got a big full beard everywhere else and they're just won't do the mustache And what guys that's not that's another thing is when a guy is clearly so proud of his beard That that's all he wants to show off. Hmm. I don't like it when it's just like do you like it's they're just about their beard It's like I really hope there's more to you than your beard It's like when a girl takes a selfie and she always makes sure her cleavage is in the bottom of the selfie The guys version of that is he always makes sure he gets the full extent of his beard Like look at my face and you're like all I can see here or use your cleavage down there You clearly got that they cut off like the top three inches of their head But make sure all their cleavage gets in the picture Cuts off at the eyebrows, but they get all the beard in the picture Do you want to hear about what I don't like if I learn more about them? Sure sure So I'll usually ask them what kind of cocktails. I like to drink and stuff. That's a great question Yeah, and they'll you can instantly judge someone. Oh, you know, I really like Jack Daniels done. Bye Yeah, I Drank Jack Daniels on an airplane like two days ago because it was the only whiskey on the airplane and It's really that bad. It's so awful. Yeah, I thought you know, I thought to myself like it's really it's still basically bourbon It's not obviously bourbon, but it's it's not it's not fake bourbon like southern comfort is it's not Bourbon flavored vodka like southern comfort. It's basically bourbon. Yeah, you know, it's taste Terrible so bad a taste then James and like if they say James I'm like or Yeager because that just means that they like to go to a bar and use shots That's right. And I'm just not hammered and then like takes that. Yeah. Yeah. No, thanks what if they show up and I would assume at this point most of the guys that you are going to go on a date with are over the age of 30 They're not absolutely. Yeah, and there is any amount of bling on the back of their jeans on their jeans To me, that's always one like if there's any bling on your jeans If there's any special stitching on the back pocket Over the age of 30 like you're a bad you're a bad human. It's just it's the way it has to be Like no, I do not want to get in your Honda Civic that is a spoiler on it And neon lights underneath That's awesome. You have more Conversation my last one is if like I've gotten to the point where I met them and I find out that they have a mattress on the floor Like I went through this moment I like looked back at all like the not so great guys that I dated and they all had a mattress on the floor None of them had purchased an actual bed and it's like you can get a $35 bed frame. That's right And so I was like nope got to rule that out. That's an instant That's a Who would ever do that? Who would ever do that? I mean I like to understand people going through things, but also Get a mattress frame It's on order. It's on order I may be sleeping on That's just right now on the floor. We love uh frame on order. We love coffee Coffee's tough and it's kind of tough to kind of get a handle on and I definitely my coffee is tough Well, I just mean my palette is not as refined for coffee As it is for say whiskey and but I enjoy it and I want to drink good I can I can clearly distinguish between Good tasting coffee and Folgers or burnt coffee or diner coffee or you know, whatever, right? And so um, but again when I travel and I go to a coffee shop There are there are several different questions that you can ask there like there are certain drinks like there's a some of this would This would be like what you talked about like what's the minimum versus like what makes so for example Like if you want if you want to know if it's a badass coffee shop If you if you order a cortado and they make you one That place knows what the hell they're doing and if it takes seven minutes to make and cost seven dollars. That's exactly right But you know, it's one of those deals like if they know what a cortado is But but my bigger one a lot of times that I'll use because cortado is also kind of a pretentious drink to to order It's not my primary drink. I would order Is I ask them about I say do you have any coffees that are natural process? So and what that is is like there's only a couple different ways to process coffee beans There's like the washed and there's honey process and natural process And I think it makes a big difference in the way the bean ferments And so again, it doesn't matter which one you like or even or even if you know if you know the difference But a coffee place should know So if they're like oh and I guess some of that also comes down to the fact that do they roast their own coffee I went to a place the other day who which is it's got a reputation for being a very pretentious High-end as a matter of fact I went in there and I saw two crossfit games athletes like individual. I'll tell you off Off air who it was but but big-time crossfit games athletes and they were in here You know drinking coffee this coffee shop and this coffee shop was a very like uppity sort of coffee shop And they buy uppity coffee from an uppity coffee roaster, but they don't roast their own coffee I Imagine that there is a coffee podcast going on right now and they're saying What is the one question that someone comes in and asks you if they want you to think that they know anything about coffee? Yeah, but they're actually a douchebag How do we know if if they're a giant douchebag if they ask about the process The difference but they want you to actually can Think Yeah, I don't so what's another one of yours Well one that I picked up from years of running factories is that the a rule for just cleanliness When you go into any Workspace or home is the floors The cleanliness of the floors And whether or not there are You know debris or foreign objects. Oh, man Wow debris Fod on the floor Well, if you think about it, if you go somewhere, what it is is a tell of attention to detail. That's right. That's right So that's it's a one rule of if you don't clean your floors What else are you letting sell it gosh? I need to go home and clean my floors You can go by like if somebody's coming over the house in six minutes You can run through your house and pick up all the crap and throw it in a closet or whatever But you can't clean your floors on the floor. Yeah, and so if your floors are gross Then that's yeah, that's tough. Yeah, that's that's interesting. Yeah, and it it reveals A depth of other potential things. That's what you could always Walk quickly through any space and tell Where to go look further That's interesting What about I was thinking about in our industry could you and I don't know that I have a great answer for this But is there for for clients who are looking for a coach Or is there a single question or maybe just one or two questions that they could ask Their perspective coach that would quickly identify If the coach has any idea What the hell they're talking about how much you bench That is not a good question That is not the right question Oh man Tough right the clients can ask something that is going to make the client feel special We don't like just imagine if you went into Even what you felt like we're one of these gyms We were talking about that had a little bit had some chalk in it or had Andrews pull-up bars mounted to the wall Whatever stall bars. So stall bars You know and you're like, I wonder if the coaches here know what the hell they're talking about What what could you ask them? I mean, I guess you could pull out You know you could you could ask about some personalities about like, you know Do you like what do you think about Louis Simmons or something like like that could be a question? But like that doesn't really tell you if they know how to coach You watch the lifters. That's what I do. Yeah, that's actually how are the people in that space train? That's a good question I think I would want to know I would ask them. What does your what do you do on your first session? That's a good question. Mm-hmm because Maybe they do an fms. That's true I've also been in a gym where they teach the low bar squat first by Teaching them how to pull a pvc down onto their back. Right like what? Like an imaginary lap pull down, right? So even a question like Do you low bar squat here is not really a question that answers that because I might say yes And what they mean is is we're going to teach you how to pull a pvc pipe into a low bar position And like well, that's not actually what we do. Yeah So you would ask what what if I joined here and I hired you as my coach or my trainer What would we do in our first session? Yeah, that's a great. Yeah, it's a great question. And what should they do in the first session? Watch them lift Well, I know but like what kind of lifts right? So I mean with it Yeah, I get you know, we say like hey, we're gonna focus on the basics, right? We're gonna come in and we're gonna And they should immediately lift Right, that's one tell. Yeah, that's exactly you need to go to the barbell Right And you need a squat Not hey, we're gonna evaluate your gait and your overhead squat and yeah, we're gonna see what your overhead We're gonna warm you up with some reverse hypers and then I think we're gonna You know activate your glutes with some hip circles Yeah, I'd just be looking at their floors. Do they have stall guards? And and what do they make their own tortillas? And it was like, what's your floor cleaning regimen also don't day at Stila baby oteca And if they point upstairs, that's where we are right now In the whiskey biblioteca No, but I mean all seriousness, I would probably just Have a casual offhand conversation and watch what was going on in the gym That's what's really like that's the real tell for what is going on at the gym, you know, I remember I remember going and training at the Olympic training center in Seoul South Korea several years ago It was there with my buddy, uh, Steve Galvin and we were we were He he was an Olympic weightlifter and I was a I was a Better power lifter than that. I am now for sure And uh, and he was doing some snatches and then ended up doing some deadlifts And I was deadlifting and there were I mean, it was just a training hall It was basically it was like it was a room that was basically twice the size of a basketball course It was like two basketball courts. I bet you they had stall bars there. Yeah, they had stall bars As a matter of fact, I was just thinking to myself when you said that the last time I've seen stall bars Was at the Olympic training center in Seoul South Korea That's the last time I rest my case, but uh I so then the team came in and they started doing snatches. They were doing They were actually doing like hanging snatches Uh with straps so they'd strap and they'd pull it to pick it up to the hang and they'd go down Kind of the jump position on pop and jump, but they had a they had a guy on each Olympic lifting lingo right there. They had a they had a guy on each platform That should be a one rule for somebody who does not know Well, you're gonna bring it down. You're gonna pop in your own jump Do you know what I mean? It's fine So I could remember like the the atmosphere in that gym was that there there were there were probably 10 platforms in a row on one side and there were 10 platforms in row on the other side So it's like 20 platforms and I and and Galvin and I are on the far corner of One of this row at 10 And it started filling up with the team and they started and this the guy that was across from me would hit a snatch and then within 10 or 15 seconds the guy next to him Would do his snatch and then the guy next to him would do his snatch and the guy next to him and then while while The next guy each guy was getting ready for the snatch The guys that had previously snatched worth loading on the next plates on their bar And then they sat in a folding chair and they watched each other lift and the coach sat in the in the middle of like behind both rows And shouted stuff, which I think was coaching, but I don't actually know because I assume he was watching the lifters and he was he was coaching and it was cool So then what we would do is we would try to Time it so that when so it would go around the room and then when it kind of got to my platform It was like it's my turn, but they didn't wait on me Then they just went so they just passed me and passed Galvin the next guy would go Eventually I got my deadlift heavy enough that by the last set or two They like let me work in I think they figured out what I was doing. Yeah, they were really cute, but it was It was a blast. It was actually that's probably the most badass gym I've ever trained in We used to do a version of that Or our coach would have us go around the room and we had to all make in order to get credit for the round And we would do that it it would be at something like 80 85 percent and uh We'd have to get a 10 completed rounds. Oh, man So sometimes you'd be doing that for 25 30 rounds. Yeah Because one guy or two guys missed or whatever But it created a it created that kind of sense of being on the platform Yeah in a competition. Yeah, it's really and you have to perform while everybody else isn't there watching and yeah It's a cool training. Uh high pressure stuff. So I have a what do you think is a good rule for a hotel? That's a great question Uh If they have a bar Is one You know if you go to your standard like holiday in or marriott or whatever they don't have a bar They've got free breakfast Which is not a place that I probably want to stay powder eggs Not so powder eggs. Yeah, I was going to say with like some like the breakfast bar Is a pretty good tell like whatever the quality of that Well, if I'd say I mean like don't get me wrong I've stayed at many hotels over the years with a free breakfast. Sure. And even mostly to this day when I take my family somewhere We go stay somewhere at a holiday express than free breakfast Absolutely, but if you're going to have a hotel with a free breakfast, it probably is not a great hotel I think if they have White duvet covers that says a lot about the hotel. That is that's a great one. But if it's like some pattern Plasticy bedspread. Yeah, no White duvet covers. That's probably gonna be pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, I think the free breakfast is You know is not a binary thing. I think that's actually the tell like the quality of that free breakfast Really? Yeah, you can get I've been stated some nice, uh free breakfast Like we're clearly talking to two neat dads right now I like san diego Radisson in I think okay had a free breakfast and was delicious. Yep. And I had like egg whites like a nice Like uh egg burrito bar kind of like it was free. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it was great Speaking of neat dad Obviously like if you want to if you want to eat good barbecue on a saturday And the guy's not wearing white new balance that's making the barbecue That's your one rule You should be wearing white new balance What's like the one tell of if like a lawn is like a good lawn if it's edged Uh-huh. Yeah, so for me it's edging and it's it's I mean Yeah edging. Yep. Me too. Right neat dad I'm into that too. I love just walking that edge and just going right to the edge Like I'm in a really good control position Lawns I don't know what else anything else. I have one more. Okay for the 12 women who listen to this Uh for picking out workout pants. Oh, okay, so If you have to convince yourself to not buy them Then you should probably get them. Okay, but if you have to convince yourself to buy them Then you should not buy them. Does that does that apply only to workout pants? Or is that kind of a generally good shopping rule? Oh, that actually probably is a good Shopping rule, but the answer isn't always going to be that you should buy them But with workout pants generally it's you should buy them. Okay. I got you. There's something special for me Uh, I've got one for uh traveling. Okay, if the Gas station or a place of restroom that you're stopping at has a key Like what the dangly thing right probably Not good What's the uh, what was the guy in dumb and dumber when he Uh, what was the guy that with the trucker hat that he was like, you know, meet his name was like catfish or something Remember and he was like to care gets stuck in the he was like For a good time meet catfish here at tuesday morning at 10 a.m. And he just happened to be in this all He was like, oh god and then catfish like breaks open the door. Yeah, thanks is in there to Have a good time to have a good time So I think no, I think that's good. I think that so so here's what we want to know I want to know from our listeners. I know there's some that we've missed for sure. What are your one rules? about various topics by emailing questions at barbell dash logic.com And put in the subject line one rule Yeah, we'll collect those and we'll post them on our social media So also if you think that we are like way off base on one of these right because I know there's going to be Like somebody's listening to this and they own a pizza place And they put pesto on their margarita pizza instead of using like real basil and they're going to yell at me You know what send us a pizza. We'll decide that's right. That's right So it's the pizza and we'll be like davy page views and we'll we'll do a little barstool Pizza review and we'll tell you how good your pizza is live on on the air But uh, yeah, we want to hear your one rules because I love that stuff It's the I like learning from other people who are subject matter experts If they can distill it down to like could you tell me the thing like tells you? Yeah Like I'd like to know what makes a great dentist or something like I don't know what makes a good dentist I walk into a dental place and like, oh you have 18 cavities and it's $3,700 and I'm like wait a minute I brush and floss my teeth twice to three times a day and have no pain in my mouth How do I even know if you ever you ever had a cavity and you're like I'm not really sure if I have it How would you even know if you had a cavity? Oh, can someone tell me the one rule for picking out health insurance? That'd be good. Yeah. I'd love to know about that. That'd be that'd be good Yeah, so I'd like yeah some good good one rules. We're looking at we're looking at at cars Like I'm not looking at buying a new car. We're frugal. So we're you know looking at buying a Uh, another suv for the family the one the current one has I don't know 140,000 miles on it And I look at consumer reports, which does a pretty good But like I don't know that they're exactly what I I'm looking for for like How do you know what like is really going to be a good reliable car and it's going to like it has seat warmers This only thing that matters warmers and coolers. There you go. So the thing I love best What do you love best about your Toyota tundra is that my tundra has seat coolers? It's like sitting on an air hockey table. There's it's wonderful. It's not air hockey. You're like, oh I just slide around on that seat. It's cold air all the time. I'm just miserable I just hover the whole I guarantee you that the warmer has never been turned on on my seat when I'm driving So it's a matter of at most the time In our car the the air conditioning is you know, we've got the dual And so it's all the way low and the seat cooler is on me and directly in my face And my wife who sits next to me has the heater all the way on and the seat warmer all the way up in her seat And we've got this weird thing going on between us. So and our kids are like our kids are in the back seat They're like, I feel like there's a tornado going on What's going on kids someone also Uh shed some light on the one tell or rule for picking out a new mattress Okay, that's I need a new mattress. So just tell me what you know The interesting thing about mattresses are like how much the Chinese market has changed that over the last few years because Like when I was when we first got married 20 years ago mattresses were like $4,000. Yeah And I remember thinking to myself like I'll never I'll never be able to buy a mattress my whole life Right and then over the last decade Memory foam mattresses, so we you know, we got memory foam mattress and now you can get them they ship I think most of them are actually from china you can get them on amazon They have great ratings and a california king size You know, it's got 27,005 star ratings on amazon is $300. That's amazing. I'm like what this is ridiculous. So yeah, that's Even if I have to replace it every so that actually is really good information. Maybe I don't need to spend $2,000 on a mattress No, no 300 might be a bit of a Reynolds exaggeration. No, it's not. It's not. They are really cheap 300 bucks. Yeah I have a queen size in my guest room and it was like 250. Yeah, that's what's actually once we got this one We ended up buying the same brand and I think we got now I'm trying to remember. I wish I could remember the brand because I don't have any Sponsored by him. But anyway, so we we uh, we bought them for every bed in the house So like every bed is the same. Yeah, they're really the same mattress from So got them shipped in. Yeah, that's a good one. There's there's I've thought about that stuff before Like we need to but somebody needs to write a book of the best things the book of one rules I think that's called consumer reports. Is it called consumer reports? Is that what it is? And they're like if they make their own tortilla is it Mexican restaurants? That's how you know, it's good So another good one at Mexican restaurants is if they have mezcal Oh, if you ask me weren't you with me the you might have been there too But nikki was definitely there the time I was like, hey, I was trying to order tequila And I was like this was a mess in yaho tequila any tequila that's brown And he was like he was like, huh? And he had no idea and he didn't speak a lot of English But it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't really the language barrier It was the lack of knowledge in the tequila world at this restaurant He was like, I will bring you the best you're the best tequila the person is tequila and it's Looks like vodka. This is why it's clear. Why does it possibly mean? I was like it was probably jameson Yeah Like you are not you're not understanding I like making one of my favorite cocktails right now if I go to a Mexican restaurant It's the mezcal margarita. Oh, yeah, you just pick out the top shelf margarita And you say hey make me that but instead of using tequila make it with mezcal delicious golden I don't know. I think that's it. You guys get any more. I got all mine now I mean, I'm actually interested to hear more from our listeners. Yeah me too So send us your one rules tag us on instagram. Yeah tag us on instagram. We'll repost. We'll talk about it Let's get a conversation going. Hashtag one rule fool Hashtag one rule fool. There we go. So number one one rule fool And you can tag barbell logic. Yeah or Reynolds strong take a picture of your floor tag me That's right. Andrew barbender We're very nice. Please don't take a picture of your goatee and tag me So you should here's what I want. I need you to flood nicky's dm's with all of your selfies Goatees Jim With love with your mattress with your with your with your jeans bling Like that's what we need. I want to see your solid black shoes with white souls All of those things so all right. So in fact In the crate honestly, it's been a crazy week And and it's been it's it's been a painful week for the united states It's been fun to do a fun conversation today I wanted to do a fun conversation when we like we can actually in humor and good fun But the reality is is that our country's in pain our hearts go out to people who are struggling right now Our hearts are there as well like man. It's it's it's tough Do good things for people this week. Nice, but that stuff matters Have some fun with things like great Cocktails and go into restaurants and enjoying the people that you love But like treat the people that you don't know like the people that you love like that's really really matters And so while it's fun to judge People based on their tortilla making ability Or their basil on their pizza You guys know that like I really have a heart for like there's value in humanity And so glad everybody's around we've very much we've very much value All humans and and so we're out there and fighting the good fight So thank you for listening and giving us your time even in the midst of the craziest year of all time 2020 And we'll see you here in a couple days