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Oh, okay, anybody who ever watched movies in the 80s or 90s You didn't have to see what was on the page, but you knew what they were looking at when they did this and They do this and the page was Okay, so for all the kids out there don't have any idea what that is a timeline dirty magazines Often had a center fold so you'd open it, but then you'd unfold this big picture of the naked lady I love how we're educating the kids. Yeah. Yeah, so the naked lady picture. Yeah, are we officially going right now done? Are you on? Oh, it's been on. Oh, oh been on bro. Okay. You're ready. I knew that you gotta be ready my friend Dude, I'm sorry. Can I just tell you that? Man, sometimes YouTube comments really make you feel insecure. Don't they? Oh, no, what are you to do? I haven't been paying attention other than the nice ones. Just just talking specific shit about like my body That's what they do. Yeah fucking your chest looks weird It's that it's that terrible gray shirt that you wear, that's why yeah Can't wear that anymore. Yeah, asshole for well, I'm telling you I'm telling I was like, oh, I know why he said that Cuz it's true. It looks bad. It's one droopy nipple Yeah, no, you don't have guy though. Okay just a weak ass chest. That's It's totally different. I ain't gonna change. I've been training. I've been training it for decades Ain't going anywhere. You don't put it. You don't put that much focus though Bullshit, it's the one body part. I've never missed ever really ever I don't I would disagree with that. What do you mean? You train your legs and back like a monster. Yeah, my legs I just start you train your legs and back like the way just like I do triceps and shoulders. Yes and chest Yeah, bro. We all have All the other I don't see you do The amount of volume you put on your legs and back I put a lot of volume trust me I know raising compared to you. I'll show you the charts I have it all charted out what the amount of volume you put on your chest. You still writing it all out Unless all your workouts at home that we don't see which is once or twice a week or all chest workouts for two hours I purposely don't work my chest. No, I just gave up I think it gets covered by the wife. I think it's the kind of attention that my calves get you know The wife Peter adds like what you know, like a little little, you know, I actually have the perfect I actually have the perfect body for the wife Peter. I really do. I swear. I put it on seriously And it looks amazing. Did you just why don't we have a Haynes sponsorship? We need you. I don't think you could call What do I have the perfect body for huh? I don't have the perfect body for anything Singlet first. Yeah, yeah for a onesie. Yeah, the perfect body I'll breath you like that, you know, you guys always tease me about being nerdy So I was having this conversation with my son and we're talking about like nerdy stuff, right? So we're having fun and I'm like man You know what magazine I used to read Doug if you open the group text There's a picture of the magazine I subscribed to when I was 12. Okay I want you guys to see the cover of this man I got every single Edition of this magazine. I threw them all away. I shouldn't have because now they sent to the group thread I just sent it right before Okay, and this is what I used to read when I was 12 Just give you guys an idea of what you're dealing with right now. The magazine was called Omni and It was like I've heard that deep science and some science fiction. Yeah, so I'm 12 years old and What's funny is I read a lot of the same shit you do digit sauce 12. I was reading this shit That like the science The robot Proletariat, you know, I mean, you know a powder that defeats cancer like weird shit sober uphill. I'm 12. I'm reading as well Oh, this is cool. This is crazy. I used to also watch the show and this is what my son and I were laughing over Do you guys remember the show on TV called Beyond 2000? No, no, I didn't see that So we're laughing because 2000s like you know, it's 21 years ago. Yeah, but when when when you're in the 80s and 90s Anything beyond anything 2000 above was like that's when we're gonna have flying cars We're gonna be robots and oh back to the future was like I forget what exact year it was But when we passed that it was like mind-blowing. Yeah, so I told him that and he's like beyond 2000 I trust me. I was super futuristic back in the back of the That was one of the best things on TV. How do you come across something like that as a kid? Like where did you see someone? I've never even seen that magazine before I was at I don't know I probably I was at some science fair. No, I never went to science fair I was somewhere with magazines and I picked up and and it probably talked about aliens and some of and then tech and I was like Oh, this is super cool. I told my mom, please And then of course my mom's like, oh, this is smart. You remember that that you ever watched Conan O'Brien He had that one bit or was like Then he would like go off on all these futuristic things Yeah, how about Jetson cars The New York School Board will crack down on students who carry guns by insisting they use silencers while in the library Let's be honest, I was disappointing isn't it very disappointed. This is a very disappointing the future that I was promised Is not the same although we got okay So if have you seen so there's a few clips of this one guy who literally has like the Iron Man setup He's basically I think he's with the Navy, but oh he flies They had him. Yeah, I had him on a boat and then he has like these two. I just saw that. Yeah, these two sort of jet I don't know what's propulsion things on his arms. He landed on another he landed on another boat. Yeah Yeah, I saw that fast or anything though. I feel like you could shoot. I know it's clunky, but dude It's like it's the beginning. It doesn't it's the beginning of this. Yeah Like finalists. We're got some cool shit, you know instead of all this whatever like like lame stuff I get more impressed by this. That's just your regular run-of-the-mill commercially available drones Those are my brother is totally into them. Those things are crazy. Yeah, you lock it in on someone and just follows them Yeah, it's just weird how they can how they can use tons of them together Organized to create like swarms. Yes swarms like like everything you've seen in cartoons and stuff Like make like schools of them and then they like what's your guys is what's your guys's theory on like what? What industry does like robotics disrupt the most first like who where oh the first one. Yeah, like the Trucking and shipping you think so. Yeah, firstly. Yeah, so so right now you have truckers who play a very vital role, right? Producing in bringing products across the country and that's gonna be the first soon as they have Approved AI or whatever self-driving trucks. Yeah. Oh my gosh And then they're already working on like exoskeleton Type suits and things for super soldiers like if you could Google that too Oh, you'll like you'll work at Amazon. You'll have a suit on just like heavy things You're immediately like double 10x the strength of what you normally would be. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Oh, that's interesting So now what do you think do you have an idea of it? No, I like so I mean I see the the the drones delivering boxes and things like that that's kind of already happening Which I mean that is a lot of I mean how many delivery trucks are in work for FedEx and work for Amazon Prime already is There's a ton of those. So yeah, what it'll probably is my guess what it would look like would be a self-driving Truck and then it would park and then swarms of delivery drones drones will come out the back Yeah, right hit a whole neighborhood hit a whole neighborhood Come back and then what do you think the next industry? I think it'd be cool to see Like robots getting involved with a lot of like the 3d printed type buildings So they're you know, maybe like building more structures and so it's like, you know Like people don't have to have a lot of manpower anymore. They just have robots take care of it Wow, what are you thinking what explain so you want to build a building you have the the blueprints Yeah, you plug it in and then the robots go the robot workers with the machines Put out like all construction workers. Yeah. Yeah, when I think of disruptive I think of like what is going to put out the most people out of work by by this like what industry Well, and I think delivery stuff construction is interesting I wouldn't even a thought of that actually but with 3d printing and things like that, you know how far we're pretty far though I think you know the fear around robots and it is cheaper and I also think this I also think that It's going to open a new market for Still the human hand to do things You know like we're talking about like art and stuff like that being to be replicated like I think they're still going to be like shoes at one What one point, you know, all the shoes are gonna be 3d printed like no problem But then I think there's gonna be something about like custom cuz we value that. Oh, this was made by a human exactly Probably yeah, I think you don't open it. I think they'll I think it'll be great What I why I think it'll be great is cuz it will for people who can't afford That's actually a good point because like if you get a car that's super expensive and someone says this was all handmade That's right. Yeah, like every seat was handstand, which is a slow ass Process you'll get it next year. Yeah, but oh, you oh, yeah, I want that because it was made by hand. Right, right That's a good point. Yeah, so I get excited about that stuff, right? Cuz I think that a lot of people get all freaked out like I was gonna put people on a jobs or things like that I'm like, no, I think it'll just it'll change the market Of course, you know what it'll do which is amazing is drive us back to skill-driven work Well, somebody that couldn't afford a car or couldn't afford a pair of shoes We'll now be able to get it because it'll be so cheap because you can 3d print anything with that But then it'll still open up the higher-end market for people that want something custom and made by hand Sure, no every every time there's an innovation It puts people out of business like when the when the wrist rock watch, right became a thing that put pocket watches That put, you know Pocket watchmakers kind of out of business right cars put wagon. Yeah, but that's another great point though There's a reason why Rolex watches on average $10,000 sure because another handcrafted like something that takes a long time perceived value Yeah, exactly. So, you know, you can go buy a timex, you know digital watch it You know get some target or what about that for what 20 bucks or less But then you could also spend tens of thousands of dollars on one We'll see if these robots will screw up the way that I had Doug like grab a few of these pictures for me like of Design fails. I was watching the show with my kids and like they went off on all these like really poorly designed things and like There was some banks that had their ATMs Way too high for you to even reach it I'm like no way and then there's like multiple examples of like banks for people like jumping up to put their car Yeah, and like climbing on somebody's back to to bring it up I've seen some of these before these design fails where it's where it's like there's like a door and then you open it There's nothing there. Yeah, or there's like a toilet in front. I guess this happens all the time Okay, who does I don't understand explain this to me So like when they're going through the the plans it on paper like there's there's some kind of like Somebody doesn't oversee it and it gets passed through those builders are building it and all of a sudden the dimensions are all There's like Matt the math is off the mass off. Yeah, but the guy the people building it. They just follow the instructions That's real right there. Yeah, I saw one where there was literally there was literally a toilet in front of like a pole I didn't know that That's really happened. Yeah, I've seen stuff like this I mean so what how much of a moron though do you have to be if you're the contractor and you're putting in and How do you not spot that and be like, okay, we got to alter this because you had to be on a ladder putting it up You know I'm saying well think about it this way, right? You're the guy girl building this right you see any like oh they fucked up Like do I tell them and then not work because then they'll stop. I'll just do it. That's gotta be what that's gotta be what happens Of course. Yeah, they're like they know they're in the plans not my fault. Yeah, I just follow I just do what I told hey listen. I'm just here to do what you tell me I don't know. I thought maybe this was for super muscle. I'm not not paid to think Okay, I just have to build the nine foot ht. I thought only for seven footers. I thought this was mba What's going on? You know, back to the to the mba to the no to the to the robot thing And we've talked about this on the podcast. There's all this fear that Machines are gonna take our jobs or we're all gonna be unemployed such a silly Fear it's not that's not how it works if and I this the way I always put it It blows people away, but if robots do everything for us, that's awesome Okay, maybe you don't work because you don't you work when you want to you don't necessarily have to and robots do everything for you That's the like the jet sins, you know, that's like the well it ultimately should drive the prices down on things, right? It should make things way more affordable Tremendous things that you can't afford technically right now if it was all built by robots So they would have to drive they've dried the price down Well think about what happens when when markets can start to produce things and they start to compete compete And then things become free which lots of things today are free that cost money before What ends up happening is they use those the free product and now how do they how do they make money off of it? Well, now they use the free product to deliver advertising So how are we gonna get how are we gonna make money off of giving people free stuff? Oh, I know we'll use this to advertise for things. So there's always ways is basically speaking of money I want to talk about the conversation that we were just starting to have before this podcast started Is this gonna do we need the conspiracy? I don't know if it's like conspiracy as much as it is like Speculating on where where this could go, right? So we are reading an article About digital currency and that the federal reserve I mean right now all the banks all the central banks all the central banks are starting to You know decide what they're going to do pivot wise with Digital currency because obviously with coinbase going the way it did They're all basically saying that they're going to have digital currencies in the next few years Right. So and then and then I also read that the federal reserve is a couple years out from potentially going that way direction too. So What does that mean for us and why why do you think? That's a very scary place to be okay, so The the dream of a digital currency is wonderful for Governments remember the central banks have an interesting relationship with governments They're not run necessarily by the government, but they do have a relationship in which the government allows them to have a monopoly Right. So no other bank for example is allowed to make dollars If you do it's called counterfeit and the government will punish you. So essentially what we've done is we've we've created through force A monopoly for creating our money which allows the federal reserve to get away with and do Basically, whatever they want. So and for for people who aren't familiar you can read about you know, like for example, the federal reserve is not a federal Agency, it's like federal. It's like FedEx. It's just called that it's just a bank It's a private bank use that name right up is a good book Yeah, that's a good one end the Fed by by Ron Paul kind of breaks it down as well Actually the creature from Jekyll island read that that'll tell you all about the creation Of all so so the dream of a digital currency is this think about how many Millions billions maybe trillions of dollars worldwide are lost Because of transactions that can't be traced Cash for example right cash deals are big right well if all currencies digital It's all 100 percent traceable traceable and that's ultimate control taxable Is that is that true though? If it's if it's on blockchain. I thought that was the idea that it keeps it from you think this you think the the official Federal reserve currency that they're not gonna have access to it. You think they're gonna make it untraceable. Of course Of course, so do you think that's the way it would so eventually what it would go is basically just a digital dollar then It's no long no paper. No way we're looking at it right now. What's what I see happening is Private entities are starting to create their own cryptocurrency on blockchain And I thought that that we were moving in this direction of like You would have like for example, we'd have mine pump Dollars which would not be dollars. They would be crypto And we we would just we would decide how valuable a a single coin is worth in in mine pump world Or buying something from us and then you'd have but ultimately you'd have that netflix without all these companies would have kind of But ultimately you trade it for dollars still even with bitcoin You can still buy some stuff with bitcoin, but not much Typically if you invest in bitcoin when you're ready to make money off of it, right? We'll trade it for dollars what we decide it Obviously what we decide right now that determines the value of bitcoin is based off the dollar It's right. Well the dollar that's where we see the value, right? Bitcoin's based off of its supply and demand which we see and by the way it crashed Recently because there was this outage in china. I don't know if you guys saw this They have some of the the the biggest bitcoin mining operations in the world over there So bitcoin mining is where they go through and they try to create more bitcoin through following the algorithm and spend It's like a tremendous amount of energy by the way To do this and I guess they had a power outage Which which caused people to liquidate their bitcoin. So you saw the value of bitcoin drop actually pretty considerably I think it went from like 60 something to 50 In a short period of time, but anyhow With these digital currencies from the central from these central banks from the federal reserve and central banks of other countries What they're what they'll do is they're not going to have it plus the dollar They're going to have it to take get rid of the dollar. Okay. Now. Here we go. Put your look put your Okay, so what does that do to the other currencies like the bitcoins and in dodge coins and all these other right? That's why that's where I was so current. Those are always They could always succumb to Government regulation in other words. So let's go immediately to like black market stuff Right. So if the u.s. Government all of a sudden says that's it bitcoin's illegal. You're not allowed to trade in it You're not allowed to own it. You're not allowed to whatever You're just it's basically now just a black market. So then okay now if that happens Then it's really not that different than where we're at right now because right now Cash is that right cash the ability for you and I do exchange cash Cash is not still recognized everywhere right is is is recognized. It's not traceable So if the government comes out and says, okay, here's our official coin or currency that we're going to do And says okay, nothing else will be accepted anymore But we still agree you and I that we trade it's still very different because if you have cash Then it's accepted everywhere and you don't have to trade that cash for something else In order to use it. There's no steps in other words Let's say in a theoretical futures the federal reserve makes a digital currency and they're like that's it no more dollar This is what we're converting to by the way All other digital currencies are now banned. No one can accept them. Whatever, but you're like, fuck. I got bitcoin I want to do some I want to pay my contractor bitcoin I don't want you know, he wants to make you know, whatever like you pay him cash Yeah, if he accepts first off He has to have find a way to be able to accept it and store that bitcoin But then it has no value except for on the black market So for him to get to take it to to use it right buy a house or buy a car He would have to find a black market way to convert it to the new digital cash the new digital dollar Yeah, but you that's kind of the same though right now if you go and you make a million dollars selling drugs a million dollars Yes, if you go big money, you have to launder it Right, but think about all the waiters and waitresses and gardeners and in garage sales And I mean, it's a lot of money that gets moved back and forth that they don't that they can't trace They have no idea where cash is going with that kind of stuff. Now. You're right. You make You know 100 100,000 dollars a million dollars You got to find clever ways of launder it as a whole whatever right because you can't go run out and buy a car with that Yeah, but with with with bitcoin what we're talking about is I'm sure drug dealers and stuff big money But if you're like the average, you know your plumber, you're like, hey, let me just give you You know $50 with the bitcoins like well, I can't do anything with that You got to pay me in digital currency and it's all traced now I think what scares me the most about this is What what points in that direction is what's happening right now with us printing money Because if if it is if now it all makes sense, right sale, right? If the government knows it's going this direction the central bank knows if they're having conversations that we're all aware Unaware of right now of like, oh, this is this is our projected date. This is when this is going to happen Let's say it's four years three years down the road. Let's say it's going to take to get to this place then What what I mean? Why not print crazy money because eventually it's going to be worth nothing anyway, so let's go Let's go bananas. So historically speaking all fiat currencies a fiat currency is always crash Yeah, always a fiat currency is a currency that's not backed by any Anything solid right so the dollar used to be backed by gold. We broke that that final You know line decades ago or whatever where it was just paper The dollar has lost something like 90 something percent of its value in comparison to hard assets like silver or gold Right since we done that so the dollar already is down down down down down and I think and they know this They know the dollar is going to crash. So what are they doing? They're like, okay, we'll have this digital currency This is my theory. We're gonna have this digital currency Let's have a good time with this dollar. It's going down. Anyway, let's Blow it out and and inflate the shed of it Who cares because all of our friends are the first ones to spend it all the big money people Are gonna buy property and shit like that before stuff explodes Then everybody else can be left like what the fuck then when they say sorry, it's a new digital currency trading all your cash Your bank account everything's gonna get converted to the digital currency. By the way, it's now worth this much We will determine the value. So this is potentially what could what could happen. So that's my now Now what what's to stop and we got demonetized and now Everybody just took a shit. No, no, I know right well It would still be considered fiat money though now even as as a as a coin, right? I mean because it's not backed by any any hard asset correct So there's nothing the only difference is we're just starting the cycle over and not only that but it's all Very it's all extremely traceable Every single whatever dollar you have Every quarter everything you spend your money on They know every single step with the click of a button I guess that's a part that I don't I don't understand is because I I thought that was the whole purpose of blockchain Was to make it untraceable and untrackable blockchain is different Because it's decentralized right supposedly supposedly it's decentralized again I think it was created as a way to get us to go in this direction anyway Yeah, I see a counter though till this in that it's very susceptible to attacks, right or to hackers or to uh, EMPs or our infrastructure with You know like taking out our power now what now not now what what kind of value do we have? Well, if you store it off Something on a hard drive there's ways to just like you could take money and you could store it in a safe So technically it's it's very similar now a central Place that does all of this digital power source and all that right So let's say you're you have you you bank with you know all the bank store now everybody's money It's all digital theoretically. Yeah, you could wipe out You know everything all the all the money that's in there and people would have to start at zero Or they'd have to figure out a way to but who knows who knows right? So all of it doesn't sound by the way By the way, here's a deal central banks that control digital currency, right? So let's say we're now 20 years in the future all currency now is digital And you know the u.s. Has its own central bank europe has its own central bank china has its own and it's all digital, right? Everything's traced everything's controlled that way you are Like one small step away from a world currency And if you control the world with the world currency, oh boy, you got a lot of power You got to look into the now technically don't we already kind of do that though with with the dollar? What do you mean because it's it's it's everybody still they're still exchange rates and stuff though Yeah, but everybody bases off of our dollar. That's the reason why it's we've been able to keep printing and be okay with it Not everybody still accepts it as a valuable. You're right for the most part not all but for the most part, but It's if a country decides that they want to come out with their own currency back at buy gold although and historically When countries have done that, you know, we've found reasons to have made them. I don't know Weird Yeah, so but I mean it's very interesting to me. So this all pieced together, right? We're gonna print the shed of money. Oh, we know what's gonna. It's gonna crash anyway Let's just have a good time with it come out with our own digital currency Now everybody's kind of used the bitcoins not that big of a deal when that happens Nope, you can't use bitcoin anymore. You can't use dogecoin. You can't use any of this other stuff anymore This is the currency by the way the money you had in cash. This is what it's valued Oh, you had more cash. Why don't you pay taxes on that? Show us what it is No, I don't want it like it's gonna be really weird, dude It'll be a very very interesting Can you take us somewhere else I wanted to go there because I mean we were just having this conversation before we got on the podcast I'm like, I want to finish that conversation because it's Very interesting to me and when I so because I probably out of us Three I probably watched the real estate market the most and I'm I mean something that I'm just baffled by is that It's just it's not showing any signs. I know no no slowing down Yeah, and I mean I and I've been been watching real estate for a very long time And there's always these kind of you know peaks and valleys and it seems to going be like accelerating It is and that it it makes no sense other than like if it is because of the printing of money happening And a lot of like smart investors realizing that this is because that's what I say There's not a lot of fear of everything Bursting what's not happening right now is this what's not happening Is there's a bunch of young millennials that are now in the place because this they theorize that some of this is from this Right the the millennials are the largest group of people that are in the age now that can afford To buy homes and they're all out shopping for their first homes. Okay, so that's a that's you know 20 something percent The other 80 something percent is like investors and people that have lots of money and that see the writing on the wall And that and they are just buying and and people are doing ridiculous things They're they're paying without no contingencies. I don't know no appraisal No, nothing about speed paying. Oh, yeah paying over 30 40 percent when you see stuff like that You've got to scratch your head and go like it makes no Like we have we have like numbers that we go by we look at it. It has to make mathematical sense Okay, if we're going to do this it's got a pan out by three to five percent cap rate Ba ba ba ba ba and there's so many people that are coming in Just ignoring all logic when it comes to investing and these are investors. So what does that tell you? It tells you that they don't even give a shit about that right now because they're thinking they want assets Exactly they're thinking three five ten years down the road They know that that's going to be so important behind where my where I grew up my parents house right san jose now I know san jose is expensive. There's a house for sale. It wasn't again. It's a track. These are track homes, right? They're not mansions. So if you live in other places of the country, this may sound crazy But this a four bedroom Track home listed for 1.2 million, which is already crazy, right? They got 17 offers 15 were cash, you know, maybe they sold it for how much 1.4? $200,000 over a ridiculous asking My dad is like, dude, he goes, this is crazy. What should I know? I won't even appraise for that right now That's why I'm saying it's like it does it. I've I've never seen this in at least in my lifetime of paying attention This and maybe it's only been what 10 10 10 years or so that I was really like watching the real estate market maybe 10 15 And I don't I do not ever remember seeing it like this. I know crazy and ridiculous so you you add in what we're talking about the We're theorizing about What could happen with digital currency and that there's a chance that they just don't give a fuck about the dollar and they're just Yeah, I print it. Yeah, yeah, spend it do whatever And then you see what's also happening in the real estate market It kind of points in that direction that you're one more thing to make it just how crazy things are You guys know that No, you guys know my man, you know the you know the fake, uh, uh, the the joke blockchain currency dogecoin, right? So doge, they literally they started as a joke, right? I thought I I thought I heard something That was it was not even that meme dog on it Yeah, that's the dog that the meme dog the doge doge dog or whatever is the cover anyway It is now the it's now valued at more than for For like the company for me for that's been around forever one of the great american companies of all time People company. It's worth more than four. It doesn't even make sense to me. That's what I thought How is that possible? Because of the value of the total proceed value the value of the total doge coins right now on the market So their total value surpass now the total value afford. Oh my god speak of the dogs. Okay. I'm gonna get us out of here Back us out dude, but I mean this is a little kind of crazy So if you have a dog do not walk it across this very specific bridge in scotland Why because apparently I don't know if it there's there's legends. There's folk lore around this whole thing, but basically Uh, they just jump off and commit suicide. What yeah, and this has happened with like Like I don't know like a hundred a couple hundred of these dogs have just jumped off the bridge and committed suicide What if people are just throwing their dogs off? How do I get what like explain that though like is there's some weird Reason that all of a sudden like it and one of the one of the accounts lady was like Is there water water underneath or is there a bridge what it is a bridge over I I don't know not sure if there's water but but basically You know the dog just like totally turned into like zombie mode and just like kind of just decided to just leap Wait, hold on a second. Go back dog. Uh, go here. Go back. I want to read what was there So if you back arrow, I'll read it. That's that means a creepy looking bridge to begin with Yeah, yeah, I mean there's definitely some kind of I feel like jumping on haunted. It says residents paranoia Residents of dumb Barton which is northwest of Glasgow began calling over town overton over town A century old bridge that stretches across a 50 foot gorge The dog suicide bridge local researchers estimate more than 300 have sailed off the bridge 300 tabloid reports say it's 600 Wow, so they just jump off. I think it's highly likely in all the cases here at oveton bridge That it was curiosity that killed a dog Yeah, yeah explain that maybe there's squirrels. Yeah, there's probably squirrels underneath. Yeah, some really dogs Fucking hate some kind of high-pitched noise or something. You know some some weird psychotic person that hates dogs What if it's like the Bermuda triangle, right? What if there's like some magnetic because you know dogs I don't know if you guys do this. They're sensitive to to frequencies Yeah, or not just that the you ever seen them turn in a circle and then poop And they always isn't there don't they always poop in the same direction? I mean, that's what they say Yeah, it's east they orient themselves. You didn't know this always poop east dog Let's look this up and see if this is true because I don't know if that's true or not They always spin, you know a couple times. I mean orient themselves. Yeah, I know my dog definitely does that I'm trying to they orient themselves to the poles or something like that It's like the magnetic poles of the earth. No way. That's what I read. Is that true? I don't know, but that's what they speculated. I'm like literally I can't walk my dog every morning and every night Pay attention to the direction. Well, I know that's I'm trying to think trying to here's spots where we go We should bring a compass Hold on researchers have found that dogs use earth's magnetic fields to align their bowel and bladder movements And they prefer to relieve themselves along in north south access north south. Okay. There you go In fact canines will actively avoid going to the bathroom in an east-west direction So here's what I want you to do adam Pooping the east my compass out there get your compass get your compass when your dog's trying to take a poop move him So that he's east so he's going east-west And see if he stops pooping So it's kind of funny you're bringing this up because I was just him and I right just mazzi and I walking last night and he cracks me up because He does have these little areas that we're we're on our walk And there's this couple specific areas that he always ends up having and I to me I think of it is it's the distance right? He's walked off enough as metabolism kicks up And that's about where he needs a poop almost every time But he always goes in this like bush area and he does the circling around And he's like I mean he gets in a position that does not look comfortable Like the bush is like sticking him in the eye and then he's got one underneath and I'm like, dude Why not move over like six inches to the north south bro, right? Well now you now it makes sense a little bit My my friend's dog. I think is the most brilliant. He he goes around does his spin thing But then he always backs himself up against a tree or a fence And so he like looks directly ahead, but he always shits like right on top of a fence. Wow. Yeah So this is cool, right? So if you're in the woods, let's say you're out in the wood somewhere with mazzi Yeah, and you're fucking lost. Like dude, where am I going right now? Take a shit. Wait till he takes a shit There's north We're going this way. Yeah, please poop. It's late. The sun's going down. I gotta figure out where I'm going. That's funny That's hilarious. That's the best. Yeah. Anyway, speaking of poop, uh, so I ran out of my usual protein had to go to the store and get a Another competitor vegan protein. Oh, no, and I do this every once in a while, right? I run out and I'm like, I want to hit my protein or torture yourself And so I get, you know, I don't want to say the brand But I get a vegan because I can't have dairy so people who don't know this Uh, I have a dairy intolerance. So any whey protein would just destroy me So I go with vegan and normally I use the organifi protein But this time didn't have any wanted to have some extra protein. I bought some Other brand vegan protein. Right. Fucking terrible, bro. It's like It's like it's like you mow the lawn It's like you mow the lawn and then you put it in a bag and then added just like shavings And then you're like, let's just make it chalky to make it even worse. Yeah Terrible And in there and I don't even digest it as well as the as the oh, that's frustrating very frustrating But it's also made me happy because it's like, all right Ours is still, you know, the one we were wasn't like pea proteiners like because you know, they do Do you think that's the reason why it organifies so good is because they have a blend Is you think that's part of what the blend just one the blend is what gives it the the better amino acid profile, right? because So the thing with plant proteins Is they tend to not have Single plant proteins tend to not have as beneficial of amino acid Profiles as animal sources or protein But if you if you use different sources of vegan proteins, you can create better amino acid profile It probably tastes better that way and and then of course, I don't know what else they do to make it taste good But it's it's not artificially flavored. So that's good, but it makes me happy because I had the gross one I think it was brown rice protein. I think that's the one I had. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was like You cough afterwards and Comes out. Yeah, and yeah, not good and then later. It wasn't good. That's why I said, you know We were talking about, uh, you know future and what you know what predicting some stuff, right? Have you guys seen the company? I think it's called light It's called the light phone, but it looks like it a j the way they write it. So it's j i g h t I'm not sure if you so look up dug light phone Like spell the right way first l i g h t and then see if that comes up and if it doesn't then it might be j i um It's the idea is that it's like Basically a minimalist phone And their whole like brick phone. Yeah, they're either they're the it came up on like it was an ad I was watching tv. There's one for old people too. I forgot what it was called, but it was right there It has right there right there. Cricket or something. Yeah So it's a minimalist cell phone, which is what so it has oh there. Here we go. Thank you good Do you have to give the little commercial here so these guys can see like this is what I got hit with this I think this ad right here really like it's a phone It does almost nothing Hey the commercial shows someone playing a record player Yeah, that's I like to do things the old way. No, that's exactly the idea. I'm a hipster. It's so I might run it. It's interesting I mean, that's their whole pitch right is to try and like get us back to being more Social creatures and time for yourself. Isn't that funny now? There's now a market for people who are like I can't do this. I need to get rid of this This you know addicting this is why social interaction. Well, this is also what I'm gonna get my kids Okay, this is what also and they're gonna get this is what also keeps me from being such an alarmist about something like, you know When we speculate about oh my god, like we just I mean, I remember I talked about You know the the uh, what you call a book that I mentioned a thousand times on this podcast and how I was so Adam Attler. Yeah, it's uh, it's altar. Yeah, I said it wrong. Oh, it's so conditioned. Yeah, but you know I there's this if it's that scary that bad so many people are starting to see The consequences of of kids being addicted to tech things eventually this comes out eventually somebody goes, okay There's tens of thousands millions of people that agree and see this and if we create something like this I bet you there's a bunch of people That are gonna move away from the iphone and some of that as amazing and as awesome It is for half the population the other half might go. I hope so I hope so I hope it's not addicted so addicting that we it's too late before but I you know, look Jessica off all social media You know, you guys know that that's what I'm saying that you took yourself off I'm not as Courtney people are moving in that direction. So if we didn't have this business, I would not be on social media Yeah, we've talked about that. So I so I do think there's no I don't know if Doug you can look up to see if it's if the company is successful I don't know how well it's doing or not like the commercial I think it's kind of a novel idea these days Yeah, and Yeah, I wouldn't buy it. You know, truth. Yeah, seriously. I wouldn't I like see I like I have I like having the option But then also being aware of its addictive properties and then going okay Like I have to sell I'd rather self-regulate than somebody else. Tell me if it has a camera on it That will that would be good because I do value the fact that I have a camera in my especially with the baby I I oh that's one of the best features is you know, my uncle because I mean it's it's nice You know, you see your kid do something and you can just pull it out and when I when I first had max my uncle He called me and he's just like Go go get yourself a little camcorder and and record everything right now like do not waste a day He goes, well, you know, it's so funny. I did though. I listened to it I still went out and go I went and bought it and for like the first like, I don't know a couple months I would get it out and I I'm like, what am I doing the phone shoots And I actually think so because I bought like some one of those jvc ones It's like a little tiny one. You guys have seen me probably with it before I I think I pay like a hundred two hundred bucks for it. It's like it was really cheap and It says I think it says it's shot in high def But when I look at the video compared to my iPhone video the iPhone video is better How funny is that it's a hundred two hundred bucks My dad was he loved back in the day. He loved tech too, right? And he would always buy the latest grade he got the the recorder the vhs one. So literally It was like this big you put a vhs in it. It's on your shoulder You're holding it like you used to have to wear the vcr attached on it like a little purse Yes, or you have that right you walk it was a big machine and it was back then It was like 300 to 400 dollars back then for inflation on your shoulder. It's like this big No, it was so it was okay So you had the big thing like sal's talking about and with the handle and then you actually had A thing that went around your shoulder and it was the vcr So it had attached the vcr because that's where the cassette would go and oh it was crazy Yeah, and there were we just have this and they were expensive Yeah, but I love I love the like yesterday. You guys saw the video I sent you so my my son right five five and a half Months old crawling and he's he's not crawling. He's creeping. No, bro. That's crawling Yeah, he was kind of like army doing doing the army thing Okay, listen if you can take if you can take a ball and you can put it Three feet away from or four feet or whatever it was from your son and he can go get it. He's crawling Does that call I thought that was called creeping whatever. That's what I saw. I mean semantics. Come on, dude Like really? I don't mean like he wasn't going up talking to other baby chicks. Yeah creep. Yeah But I mean if he's doing that already, it's only a matter of time before he's you know full Oh, you know, it's so fun too because I'm watching him do this I'm like, oh and I'm trying not to get like too loud because if I do he'll stop and So I'm like Jessica Jessica look like so she looks then my daughter comes and we get my son, right? So everybody's watching him and we're trying to do it kind of like nonchalant because otherwise he won't he'll pay attention to us So he's doing his thing. We're all watching. He goes over to grab the ball and we're like, yeah Everybody's cheering like this is so great He's this kid's gonna grow up thinking he's the most awesome thing in the world He's got these you sent that over to me and it actually made me go back Because those were some of my favorite moments of max was that that was like our first like cool milestone of like You know trying to get him to crawl and then watching him finally crawl across the room to me So You would you sent that and then I went down the rabbit hole of like watching all my videos Okay, so now your son's old. He's not even I mean you're he's still young But he's old enough to where when you look at stuff like that Doesn't it feel like god that went by so fast. Yeah, isn't that weird? Yeah, no it does it it fly So it's so crazy. Actually you're in the phase that I think is not fast You're in the first six months. I felt it was like twilight zone slow And then when's it gone when it's gone and you look back Yeah, but but there's to me like there's uh, there's very little milestones in that first six months I mean you're experiencing one that's pretty early. I don't think they start to accelerate don't they? Oh, yeah Once the one I get in sleep. You're just looking at the clock. Yeah, it's just like That's why it goes to so right and then one year hits and then I feel like it's like one thing after another Oh, he's he's walking. Oh, he's pointing. Oh, he understands me when this like it's like There's milestone after milestone after milestone after that is when I feel like it's like really accelerate I mean, I look back now one month I go, oh, shit. Wow. His face has changed so much and he was doing this now. He's doing that No, he does this thing, right? He's I mean, he's only like I say he's only five months But now he's doing this thing where he wants to get my you know, babies obviously cry when they want to get your Tension But he's figured out that he can just get our attention By just making a sound so now what he'll do he'll be playing and we'll all be you know Either we're watching tv or we're hanging out and then you hear him go Yeah Hey, and you're looking he's looking right at you and I'll do it back to him And the whole house starts going back and forth. You know what I find Which you're going to be coming up on all this stuff soon Which will be interesting because you have such a gap between your kids age And I don't know what it was like when you were raising your two oldest I do remember what it was like raising my two younger brother and sisters and like there's so much like Cool tech and new stuff So and this isn't tech, but this is a cool new stuff that exists now that did not exist when they were kids as um these coloring books that are There it's like a pen that he gets And he can mark all it doesn't mark anything so he could draw on the counter on the walls It does but on the book that it comes with when you when he marks it It's like watercolors and it changes so it looks like he's cut so he feels like he's coloring Now is this still tactile so it's not electronic. No, okay, so it's still tactile It literally looks just like the old school Crayola highlighter pens Except for they're like they're white tips and then when he colors on these pieces of paper The paper turns the colors of whatever the pen is supposed to be But he could draw on anything and it doesn't mark anything up. He has the same thing for his bath So we have these these these crayons That are designed to go in the water and he can draw all over the bathtub You got markers on this and then you just one wipe and it goes. Oh, that's cool. Oh, it's brilliant That's really cool because you think when when you're when you had I remember having my little hack Yeah, it's a huge hack. My little brother and sister Oh, they fucked up cleaning the walls of like, yeah, that's such a common thing kids will just like draw everywhere Have they have these has he thrown anything in the toilet yet? Has he figured that out yet? I just didn't I tell you did I not bring this on the podcast Oh, I didn't bring this up on the podcast. Maybe you did. Yeah, you did Okay, I was gonna say yeah remember I because I I hold him sometimes I was holding him And I was peeing and he threw it in the bath. Why has he has he gone off on his own to figure this out? No, no, okay Yeah, that's coming. Yeah. No, they'll do that at some point. Yeah, he hasn't he hasn't trained it Where's my uh, mine pump shirt, you know, he's really why is the ceiling dripping? I know I keep saying this so I feel like I'm gonna jinx myself, but he's He's so mellow. He's chill. He's not destructive. Uh, you know, I wonder if that's gonna change Like, you know, I was a teenager Because he's he just is not and and he still is that and he definitely is at that age where he is Challenging what he's not supposed to do So I've told you guys that Katrina's trained the whole no, thank you thing, right? And so, uh, you know, I have the speakers in my Living room and upstairs are both are exposed, right? So there's no screen on them I think you can go walk over and like push right on the subwoofer and stuff And he knows not to touch the speakers like no, thank you And you're like we've grabbed him before but he'll walk over there And you know and he'll do the like he's gonna put his hand on it and then look back at me to see and kind of mess with me And so he's doing little things like that, but he doesn't run over go Now you know you gotta do is what you do He'll never touch him wait till he goes over wait till he touches it and turn the right turn it on Ah, yeah, he'll never Traumatize him That's effective Now do you do you with him before you put him down? Do you dim the lights? Do you manipulate the Oh, yeah, you guys do all so we because that makes a big difference No, I Katrina and I have gotten really good about this I mean I talked I've talked on the show before about the whole nerdy blue blocker thing and how You know, I used to never do anything like that and I used to scoff at people that would wear those things and stuff But you know and maybe it's a getting older thing like I don't know like but for sure It makes a difference because when I if my kids forget my older kids forget to put them on Um more often than not I'll I'll talk to them the next morning How was your sleep and I could tell they were tired because they didn't sleep as well When I have them put it on not only do they go to bed earlier, but they get better sleep Now I noticed with me big time. Well, I know I just I just know I look at the clock Okay, and I want to go to bed in an hour and a half put on my Felix Gray's and I'm going to get better So, you know, it's funny like so I finally got my my kids like actually enjoy putting them on now But like my youngest was a lot like me like back in the day So did you guys ever have this thing about like I'm not a poser like I So like whatever like people were rocking like certain clothes like their skateboard, but they weren't a skateboarder You know or they're wearing like cowboy boots. You're not cowboy, you know, and so his whole thing was like I don't need glasses, you know, like I see perfectly. Why am I doing and like and so I had to like It's it's been a long time of like convincing him that like this is like a protection thing from like all this screen You like that you're taking in and it's affecting your sleep Well, you know max is so young so I obviously can't put glasses on him right now But we I we won't even let him watch anything even close to bed because once that sun goes down Like definitely no iPad. No TV. No nothing because I noticed a huge difference in his behavior Oh, yeah, like when we have different people watch like obviously with the nanny Like she has certain like rules and schedule like what to do with him But occasionally we have Family friends or somebody that watches him and we're not like I mean if someone especially if it's a family We're doing a favor right if I have like his his aunt or something come over and watch him Like Katrina and I do dinner or something. I'm not going to be like don't let him watch tv It's like whatever this one time. It's not a big deal But it's it is there's a stark contrast in if he got You know hours of television in the day versus none whatsoever So you can tell it stimulates their brain It's totally it's and we've done this enough times to like tease it out And I just think that some it's it's such a It's such a common practice in most people's homes that they don't really pay don't know They don't know they just think that their kid is being kind of high strung today Or he had a hard time going to sleep But Katrina and I have made we've done many many times of like he's he's gone weeks with no television No iPad know anything all outdoor activity and and you can literally see the way He his behavior is how he sleeps and how easily he goes down It's important to monitor that and watch and see what affects them so much Those are the two things is get sunlight when the sun is out It sets your circadian rhythm and that helps you produce more melatonin at night and get better sleep and then avoid Electric lights or light in general or if you have to Or glasses that block the blue light those two things alone Are natural. It's not a drug. It's not a pill. It's nothing to you know It's not a sedative. It's your body naturally sleeping the way it's supposed to by doing those And I think that most people don't recognize that because you've probably never teased it out It's okay. Everybody has at least one if not multiple TVs in their in their house Right it's most people now have smartphones and or iPads or all of the above It's such a common practice that I doubt there's very very many people that have young kids That I actually said what would happen if we just did one week one week We just agreed that we're going to Every time the kids want to play we're going to go outside or if he gets bored We're going to entertain find ways to just not use tech for one week And I guarantee if you did that You would see enough credit now. I'm not saying that we need to live like that all the time I mean, I think I told you already I came out and said on the podcast I didn't want to even introduce it to him and I've totally broken that rule completely But I still respect The the power of it And the and the difference of his behavior when I let him and I when I and I don't let him use it So we were we're very careful of like how much time that he gets of any screen Whether it be a television or iPad because it directly affects his behavior Hey real quick before you listen to the second half of this podcast head over to mind pump free.com Go check out some of our free guides. We have fat loss guides Muscle building guides. We have guides for personal trainers and much more They're all totally free mind pump free.com. All right. Enjoy the rest of the podcast First question is from ryan mclellan 07 to 4 What is the best way to build the peak of the bison? Oh the good old bison peak We haven't actually addressed this in a while right the whole Targeting a part of the muscle. Yeah, this was a old mind pump episodes when we came after uh, your old boy over there Stepani yeah, well he said he said some stupid shit about making your bicep longer with a preacher girl Anyway, so back in the day that they would say that you know, obviously exercises Different angles on that stuff. They all have different value right and in some cases You can work on different parts of a muscle for example with the chest because of the Multiple attachments along the sternum It is plausible to work the upper chest and the middle part of the chest and the lower chest But with muscles like the bicep or the attachments on the other end are so close to each other. There's two heads That you're trying to work one over the other You're kind of wasting your time now back in the day what they would say is Well, this exercise works the bottom of the bicep. It'll make your arm longer This one works the peak It's going to make the bite the bicep a little taller here and this one Works the roundness and this one does also makes it thicker and this was all back in the in the 70s and 80s Right during the kind of weeder I think you got legs too because When you do some of these exercises, you do feel More tension in a squeeze right in a stretch, right? And so you're like, oh, this is definitely working that part I just I feel it more there which You can manipulate the strength curve and there and there's value to doing that, right? So there's not not value in doing, you know a variety of different bicep exercises I think there's uh, it's very important to manipulate a you know the angles and that's right The position of the elbow and where where the most tension is on there So there's tremendous value in in utilizing it But the answer to this right is just I mean it's uh in order to work the peak of the bicep or develop the bicep more The best thing that you can do is to do the things that you're not doing for your bicep Is just build your bicep is the variant, right? Yes. Yeah, but that's just it though, right? So You know if you get Here's the mistake I made as a as a young young kid who was training a lot of biceps because I care I wanted this right You know I got really good at doing these, you know alternating dumbbell curls I mean I did that and then like a machine preacher like A thousand times over and watch my strength get better and better and better at it And I'm like oh, I'm really strong in this area, but then I didn't really notice my biceps developing anymore Well, one of the worst things that I could do in that situation is to keep doing those same exercises all the time In hopes that it's going to continue to show progress in the the size or the peak of my bicep The best thing that I could do is to learn other variations of of bicep curls and Different elbow positioning which would manipulate and change the strength curve That was the best thing that I could do to develop my bicep. Yeah The exercise that they said back in the day that worked the bicep was your concentration curl, right? Anything where the tension is at the squeeze of the exercise now There's value in that but it's not working The peak of the bicep any differently than Exercise where it maybe felt more at the stretch like a like a preacher curl even like an incline curl The reality is if you want a good, you know, complete bicep workout Look at elbow position and look at tension, right? So I like to pick exercises where my arms are by my sides traditional dumbbell curl barbell curl Maybe one where elbows in front of me There's your preacher curl and maybe one where an elbow is behind me like a drag curl or an incline curl And then your full range of motion You chin up, you know something where you're going through the entire range and you're getting Tension with throughout the entire muscle so underrated right a palm like a supinated grip Chin up where you're squeezing the biceps and a lot of people aren't strong enough to do this Yeah, but if you are super intense, it's so underrated as an incredible bicep exercise In fact, it's one of the best bicep. It's a compound exercise For your biceps. That's one of the best ones that I can think of but yeah, you can't With the biceps you can't focus on the peak or the bottom Or length you can't lengthen it or shorten it the attachments are where they are You can get make it bigger or smaller, but you can't change the that's what that's what this is what happened We do too much mirroring time They don't even know They don't even know Next question is from alip fit. Do thermogenic fat burners actually do anything? Who picked these questions today, these are like fun. You're going down like this super old school bodybuilder Well, these are all questions that we've answered probably a hundred times But back in the days that we haven't talked about some of this stuff in a long time But I'm glad you are because I just got a A text message yesterday from a buddy of mine who sent me over like some supplement company that I'd never heard of And he's like, oh my friend of a friend started this Could you look at him and just tell me what you think and you know at first glance I'm like, ah, it's you know pretty standard. There's no proprietary blends. It looks like it's not GMO Don't waste your money on all the the the fat burner ones and the claims all those I was like it's it's And those are the most popular right those are sold the most because it's targeting the pain point that everybody has I know I know but yeah, it is worthless absolutely worthless I mean you're talking you're we talk about the analogy of supplements being like the spoiler on the hondo like Fat burners. Well, I don't even know where where that would do the sticker That's the that's the air freshener. There you go. That's a sticker. There you go. That's what I was looking for That's the K&N sticker So here's what you'll get with thermic thermogenic fat burners thermogenic Meaning that they increase the amount of calorie burn in the body. Do they do that to some extent? Maybe a little bit But really what's the value in a fat burner? Why do they work for some people because they do for some people some people take fat burners Back in the day the most popular fat burner the one that was supported by studies Was the aphedra caffeine aspirin stack the good old eca stack Oh you felt that now you took it and you would lose weight and people were like this is burning body fat No, not necessarily It's a very strong stimulant and appetite suppressant So if you take it throughout the day because these are recommended taking three servings, right? I don't care if it was hydroxy cut or it was like legal match or zenadrin Or what I did was I just bought each of them independently and took my own you take them three times a day They suppress your appetite. So if you've ever been on a strong stimulant If you've ever taken like prescription aterol or ritalin You know that you don't want to eat much And that's where the weight loss comes from now some that and then the the movement and the jitters You bring up lots of lots of energy. Yeah, you bring up something like out of this leg and all that I mean if you're somebody who's never done something like that or if you've never had, you know 600 milligrams of caffeine in a day or something like that watch what you do You're so amped and jittery and moving all day. So the those little ticks all day long add up So you figure out all that moving and the suppressing of the appetite. This is where the magic comes in It's not because something in that supplement is actually burning right now Someone may be watching or listening and think oh, that's a good idea It's what I want. I want to suppress my appetite and I want to be hyped and be energized So here's the problem the body adapts very fast to those effects Receptors start to get down regulated your body stops producing or starts producing less of its own Energy producing chemicals and in a very short period of time. Okay, let's use caffeine as an example. That's a very common Stimulant everybody uses caffeine Think back to when you first used it how amazing you felt now think about how it feels now to take it Months or years later when you have it every morning now It just makes you feel normal and if you don't have it you feel like dog. Shit. This is what happens with fat burners They work in the short term, but then your body adapts now I need them just to feel normal and then when I go off of them Which you will eventually because otherwise it just feels terrible when you go off of them You're gonna have like a two week period where it's the reverse You have a lower energy You feel like dirt and your appetite goes through the roof through this period of this process So what you end up seeing with this if there is weight loss is you see weight loss plateau weight gain when you go off So no fat burners are unless you want the energy and you want the appetite suppressing effects And you and you don't mind that it's short term and you have a plan for post Rebound or whatever which most people don't but if you do then maybe there's some some specific value But I I never in my life recommended thermogenic fat burners to clients. I've never in my life said to a client I know we're trying to burn body fat. I don't want to say never I actually did back in the day when I was when we were taught that this was effective Once I learned that this is totally ineffective and probably doing people harm I never would tell people to take a fat burner to help them burn body fat Next question is from young devin five What do you think about battle ropes and when is a good time to implement them in your workout? Oh, I remember when battle ropes they're fun a thing. Yeah. Yeah, it was it I remember like all the functional practitioners out there like this this became You know one of their staple go-to moves and and Honestly, it was it was fun for conditioning and I thought it was like a novel stimulus But I always struggled with implementing that into an actual program in a routine other than you know trying to get You know excess movement. So For me, I just look at it as another way to kind of add in activity You know, maybe it's on a recovery day or maybe you're You know your sport specifically where where you have to move your hands really fast You know somehow and so maybe there's some value in it with like MMA boxing and that kind of community But in terms of you know, you're every day average person. It's it's somewhat of a novel type of of fitness tool I don't really see like it's like jumping rope for tough guys Jumping rope for tough guys. I liked it dude. It's fun. I know you did it for a while. Yeah I mean I had exactly It's a that's right. That's right. How do I like I don't see you doing this skipping So Joseph's like fuck that I'll do this the whole day. This is way cooler. Yeah Hey, hey, this what's happening working out right? He's got his headphones on. So how do I fucking let everybody in the gym? No, I'm functional. Yeah And then I could fight you can't do this. I'm gonna grab these ropes Yeah, I mean get rid of the ropes and then do that doesn't look really cool I had I had I had him for boot camp, you know back This is back when I I've talked before like when I was running boot camp classes and it's a conditioning tool Yeah, it was a great way to keep people busy, you know, it's you know, it's what do we do between What do we do between the burpee stations at the step up replace the jogging in place? It did It really does here here. Hold on to these and for sure There's somebody right now watching there's some trainers so offended right now because you know you do that shit for that reason Yeah, you know, it's gonna keep your client busy. So they before they do the next Man call that because really the you know, the people that try and make the claims of like the shoulder movement and the thing the benefit Because okay, you could sell anything right if you give if I had to sell ropes I could sell you on why it's great. But the truth is The the the real benefits of benefits of it are not that much higher than somebody that literally doing jumping jacks in place Right. Yeah, the that's there's like a sport specific reason for it. You're right. There's no other Yeah, and of course right away. I know the the the hardcore bow rope guys Oh, you what are you talking about? Have you ever done the you know, the the the hammer move and the this move? You could you could try and make the case that oh, it's working this muscle and you get this core movement It's like, okay. I can also make the case for burpees and jumping jacks. It's like it's part It's in the same category. It is it's in the same category of just, you know burning calories keeping the body moving You're gonna get you'll get you'll get stamina endurance You could get a lot of it in your shoulders and your back power moves with it I mean you can do slams and get your whole body involved And so I mean it's it's sort of a safer way to implement some power moves in there But like honestly, yeah, it's very I remember when it became a thing. I was watching I don't remember what I was watching. I think it was the ultimate fighter the reality show and I see them using battle ropes I'm like oh This is going to be in a gym now in the next month because it's cool And fighters are using it and sure enough. That's what you ended up. I still think it's a missed opportunity They should have had like the ropes where it's two ropes and then a guy on the other side So we're really battling Fucking battle you Didn't we have a guy come out here and shoot some youtube videos on the barrel? Yeah, and he's great. He has all kinds of like good information around it and It's just like again. It's a novel. It's a novel type of fitness product Yeah, I mean and so I guess you're getting back to the original question Like what do we think about it was a good time to implement them in your workout The it if I was bored of stair master or elliptical or running on the treadmill that day. That's what I would do Yeah, or rowing. It's like it's a it's either like a conditioning type workout where you're trying to build stamina It's and you want to do maybe upper body stamina on some lower body stamina Do a crazy circuit with now a rower and an assault bike now if you're doing it for power Totally different when you're doing it for power. You don't do it for fatigue So the same rules apply for any power movement. You're not doing it to fatigue to your shoulders burn You're doing explosive You're expressing speed and you're stopping before you get fatigued in that case I could see the case for it to be done at the beginning of a workout if I'm If I'm explosive with it, I'll spend 10 15 minutes doing that then going into my traditional Yeah, and it gives you somewhat of a tangible thing to objectively look for like if I could get the wave to go all the way to the anchor point like if If I can do that and get a high enough wave and and and force my body down with enough speed, you know So it's things like that you can pay attention to next question is from one koner Our spinal flexion exercises like crunches dangerous for your back I hate I annoys this shit out of me when I hear people especially fitness professionals and even worse doctors and specialists who say things like This exercise is dangerous. Don't do it right and the latest one that annoys a shit at me is this whole like Don't ever do exercises that flex the spine Huh. Yeah, does your spine flex and extend it does it actually does guess what happens if you never strengthen those Movements, you'll lose them. No, yeah, then you end up in a situation where you're more vulnerable You accidentally flex your spine because you're and living your life and you end up injuring yourself I really wish that they would say that you know for like when they gave that advice It would be like, you know for liability reasons I have to tell you this and then they went into explain like in more depth because I know That's the reason why this is like you I don't think a I hope a doctor is not that stupid that there's not benefits in strengthening that movement Right, like even if you even if you just went into basic medicine like you and you know enough about the body To know that that strengthening that would be of value. The problem is with the spine Here's the issue with the spine like like all joints now the spine is made up of many many many moving parts and joints And the problem is when you Allow it to move to its end range of motion meaning the joint can no longer Flex it can no longer flex with and what's stopping it is its own the joint itself And then you add load and then what's supporting the load isn't your muscle But rather the end range motion of the joint now you cause problems because Now what's holding that weight or whatever are your discs? Is the spine itself? Yeah, but an exercise like a crunch on the floor. It's like there's very very Talking about yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing going on there. That's that's bad if you're doing them properly Look, I did oppose the stupidest one I've heard because I've definitely heard dead lifts and I've actually gotten my brother in law was like oh My doctor told no, I've heard this where they say Every exercise for your core needs to be a neutral spine because that's what you need to strike Oh, you've heard that so I have heard that before Which is insane. Well, I move robotically I mean, I understand like a full setup maybe for somebody who has just came out of like back surgery or some issue and they're There's exceptions, of course if you have like a few spine you gotta be careful with how you move Right, but I mean even that person though a crunch I mean your your your back is supported by the ground and when you crunch you're only rolling the spine up A tiny bit. So how do you get up off the ground? How do you get up out of bed? Any any movement that you can do with full control full stability good strength good mobility is safe Any movement that is outside of that is dangerous and it doesn't matter what the movement is It doesn't matter if we're comparing a dumbbell curl to an olympic clean Two very different exercises in terms of technique if the dumbbell curl cannot be done With control stability strength and proper mobility. It's dangerous even though. It's a very simple exercise But yeah, you definitely don't want in with any movement You don't want you don't want your joints To support the movement what I mean by that is to give you an easier example Because the spine is maybe a little more difficult if you look at my elbow, right? At some point my elbow can't extend anymore and that's not because My muscles won't allow my bicep would allow more extension, but it's the actual elbow joint itself This is it that's as far as my elbow goes now if I held a heavy weight in this position And I allowed my elbow to hold it rather than tensing my bicep And holding it with my muscle relaxing. Yeah, so my joint is holding that's going to cause joint damage If you do that with your spine the same thing so even rounding your back is okay so long as It's not the spine itself that's supporting you. It's the muscles around and you're not in your have muscles That's right. 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