 We got today, dude. Let's say hello. Hello. We haven't been here in a year. What's going on today, dude? It's been a year. It's been one year exactly. Do I look better? Hey, you look handsome. Um, it's probably been almost a year. You know what I've realized? One that I got a better beard than you. That is false. Show them. Hold on. I'm gonna zoom out here. Yeah, we're even zoomed in. Look at that. Look how chiseled and fine that is. The beard? Yeah. It's not my body, obviously. I mean my beard. Maybe your chin? Yeah, look at that. That's like one of the one compliments I get is my beard. The other thing, even yours actually, that I noticed, is that beards look really good on camera. Yeah, like in the mirror my beard looks okay. Dude, you did it. It's fat finger breast. You should see. It's really here, okay? You guys know the small breakfast sausages? Imagine a small breakfast sausage. It's sort of a foot-long subway bread, and that's the camera Dan's hands. It's like this. This camera, oh yeah, this camera is definitely, yeah. This is Dan vlogging. What's up, YouTube? That's kind of what it looks like. Hey, yeah, my beard's good, dude. All right, what have we got today, dude? Tell the viewers what we're doing. Shout out to Lonnie. Shout out to my boy, Hayden. Shout out to Peepaw. You ever see like videos like that, dude? Just shout out for 10 minutes. Yeah, for 10 minutes long. Shout out to cousin. All right, so we're doing some lifting today. Yeah, let him know, dude. We're getting Dan's in shape. No, we're getting you in shape. I'm just belong for the ride. Oh, you don't want to get in shape. I don't know. I'm just doing what you're doing. Now, I got a photo shoot in a month, a wedding in three months. You're gonna find a hot date. No, can't do it. No, a burning mom is my plus one. Really? Yeah. It's my best friend's wedding. Oh, yeah. You know, mom's known him since she was in third grade. Yeah. Third grade. So we're heading to Florida for that. Maybe I'll find a date there, though. Yeah, you know, I'm in the party and maybe someone else in the party, you know, we just need to a little bit softer now, a little bit softer now. We're getting you jacked. What are we doing? We're doing some deadlifts. Deadlifts. Heavy deads. Heavy three. Heavy three full powerlifting me. Yeah, front squat. I'm gonna front squat instead. Deads and bench, man. And then cardio. Oh, yeah, a little, uh, what's that, Spanish? So worse name ever. Fitness, that's a good thing. Fitness has not evolved, but fitness memes kind of have. Some are good. Yeah. Because that was about a meme for five years. What's going on with the hair? You have a nice beard, but what's- Oh, hair's good, too. Yeah. I mean, it's just ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Should he- I was gonna say chat, wrong. You can tell. Chat. Chat. YouTube. Comment below. You flip the camera around so you see what that- Comment below. When you vlog yourself, you do that. And then flip it yourself. Oh! Oh! I'm new to this vlog thing, dude. I mean, I had a GoPro. Okay, shout out to your channel. Shout out. I don't even know if my channel's still- Yeah, yeah, it's still there. It's still there. Doing some lifts. Hanging out. What were you about to say? I don't know. What was I saying? Oh, shit. Oh, my hair. Oh. I do need, like, a new thing. Like, I really do miss the Jedi Rey, but it was just so unprofessional. I couldn't do it. Um, maybe we'll go, like, a little Mohawk deal. You know, the- the faux-hawk. We'll bring that back. Yeah, bring back the faux-hawk. Cause that's, like, a 2009 thing, so we're slowly getting there. The baggy tee and the faux-hawk. I could do that. Yeah. I might do it. Um, everyone's got a mullet. Couldn't do that. So what we were going to say is chat, YouTube. Yeah. Should Mikey bring back the long hair? No, I like it. It's just so much to take care of. The long hair. It's so much to take care of, but I do like it. I like the fro- I- I- I like it when it looks really good in the hat when you pull it all back and it's just popping. That's what I liked about the mullet too. It looked really good in the hat. Yeah. Um, but we might be able to do this and then just extend this down a little bit and then we'll bleach the whole thing. Bleach it? Yeah. Straight blonde? Yeah. Um, training's been shit. Uh, stress has been high. Um, motivation for training is zero. Talking about it on Instagram and all these motherfuckers are, you know, everyone's taken a picture of their watch at four o'clock in the morning. One, you could have been on a pee break. Two, you could have changed the clock on your- on your phone wrong and just lied to us. But everyone thinks, what do they call it? Hustle? Hustle culture, but there's another term. Were you like romanticize the hustle? Grind? Grind. Hustle and motivate? No, but there's like a term for that culture now. Um, but this hustler grind thing, I've ripped on it as you guys know for like a decade because if I can be more productive, more creative, after eight hours of sleep, then you came with your four hours of sleep and stretching your workout to 20 hours. Who are you to shame me about how hard I'm working? The same thing in this fitness industry where everyone's like, I'm always motivated. I love to train, change your mindset from I get to tr- or I have to train today to I get to train. Like, those are like Jedi mind tricks that don't work. That shit's in a movie. Like just saying I get to train today doesn't make me all of a sudden excited to train. I've been touching a barbell, lifting weights 365 days a year since I was 12 years old. Many, many days am I not stoked to work out and when that happened, I just stopped working out. Why am I going to force myself to do that? If you hate Brussels sprouts, go eat broccoli, some baby spinach or something. Who cares? So when the times hit my life that stress is high, I back away, whatever that might be. If I don't want to train, I don't train. You think like having a 400 pound bench, 600 pound squat is going to define the rest of my life or my days ahead. Like I just, it just doesn't matter as much as you think. Do I want to be healthy? Do I want to feel better? Do I enjoy being strong? Yeah. Do I enjoy having some muscle? 100%. I have a passion for lifting weights and helping people be healthy. But just like not being at my peak strength or peak physique every day for the last 12 years of being on YouTube and podcasts isn't going to define my retirement or my life partner or my kids. It's not going to define who I am. So if you're so attached to these things, you guys are just going to get jacked up and grumpy. So that is what it is. But we're back in week two trying to eat a little bit better. Kai behind us here running the gym. He bought a smoothie and we're doing smoothies at the house. So I'm trying to get some fruits in me, a little bit of baby spinach. I've never done that in my life. I throw baby spinach in the thing, throw some more juice in there. Don't even taste it. Where's my smoothie? We'll get you a smoothie when we get home. I'm going to go eat some sushi, I think, trying to eat a little bit better. I just, when I'm stressed, I eat, you know. Some people drink, some people smoke, some people do drugs, some people are porn addicts. There's a lot of porn addict talk going on the internet, but not me. I just tend to eat a little bit or I tend to shut down. And so I'm trying to spruce it up, spruce it up my life and get back into it. Pulled 484 for three reps, actually really clean beltless. So we might add a belt next week and start to push this damn thing. Front squat at 315 for two, which is a nice little weight for me. Worked that way up to 400 eventually. Bench 315 for two, see what happens. Cardio sprints actually feeling better. I filmed this right after that last week. In sprints, I was sitting on this chair. I'm already ghost white because of the lighting, but I was, my soul had left my body after those. So conditioning is already getting a little bit better. Time to eat. Gonna hopefully punch out one vlog a week. Be sure to subscribe. Like these things. Talk shows in between. Many podcasts, topic thunders, multiple times a week. Check out Dano. If you're in Northern California and you guys need some security, CPG. 50% fax, 3sb.co. Catch you guys in the vlog next week. Appreciate you.