 We have a seven hour travel day, seven hour travel day, maybe more, probably more. And we're gonna be in the city that we're traveling for seven hours, for 36 hours. It's 30%, don't quote my math, it's four a.m. in the morning. I did in New York City, my boy Brett's gonna meet us there. Our flight's to six, I might be getting sick, we're gonna make this happen. My secret is to turn off my cell phone. Now in 2017 that's your watch also, so I turned it off and that makes the time disappear. Because flights at 6.01, it's probably about 5.30, maybe 5.25, we're supposed to board about 5.35. And I guess I've never traveled in the holidays that much. Still got 80% chance I'm getting on this airplane. What a waste of fucking day. Barely made the flight, but we made it. 6 a.m. flight, Charlotte, about four, four and a half hours. Half hour layover, nothing. Now what? Hour and a half here, two hours here in LaGuardia. It's Friday holiday season, so that's where I'm gonna take us another hour or two to get to the freaking Manhattan. Then hopefully pizza and a little bit of sightseeing. As the man, the magic man behind the camera has never been in New York, he's never seen anything, so we're gonna try to show him a little bit. I've never been in the Christmas season, so I want to see the tree in Tangs. So we're gonna go see the Christmas tree. Should we wait for Sandy? Buddy, just focus on your ankles. I'm gonna give this thing all to Sandy. And then, so I want to see the Christmas tree, Christmas tings at Rockefeller, and then show Connor the city as much as we can tonight, because we might have to leave 9 a.m. Sunday. Working on that so we can spend Sunday sightseeing, having fun. But as of right now, seminar tomorrow, sightseeing today, Boston Sunday, and break. Eastern time now. I don't know if I said why I'm here. We're doing a seminar. I saw this gym. My boy Kenny runs it. The homies at Reebok want us to come out here. I think it's like $25 to do the class. All for the seminar. All proceeds are going towards November for like men's health awareness and things. So that's why I'm here in New York. I'm gonna sleep. Try to shake this cold. I got that itch right here. Every time I try to breathe, it feels like that. So I'm gonna try to sleep it off, choke some liquids. And then there's a bunch of cool people. So there's Joe DeFranco, Bert Soren, Brandon Lilly, me and Tehran. Apologize to the others names who I aren't at the top of my head right now. Joe DeFranco is a fucking legend, bro. He trains Triple H. Brian Cushing. He trained a bunch of NFL guys. He worked with Onnet for a while. He trains like the WWE. So like he's legit. He's from Jersey. I watched a lot of his videos going up. Bert Soren and I have had a good chat on the phone, but I've never met him. Obviously, Brandon Lilly, who I've known for some years now and learned a bunch from. So I'd like to feel awesome, non-jet lagged and non-flu-ish and go hang out all day. But we'll just have to sleep as deep and as much as I can and figure out in the morning. And then we leave 9 a.m. on Sunday to Boston. So give this tang a thumbs up seminar coming tomorrow. Flu or not, I'm gonna crush the seminar, but we'll figure out the rest of the day based on how I feel. Good night. Sleep tight. Don't let the bugbugs bite. And if they do, count to two and wake me up in the morning. And something that keeps me in the gym and keeps me kind of doing what I do, whatever the heck that is, is that the barbell doesn't really care where we're from. The barbell doesn't really care who we voted for. The barbell doesn't care how much money is in our bank account, who our parents are or anything once you get under it. So strength, like Taran kind of just mentioned, is the great equalizer. You lift it, you don't. Pounds don't change day to day. Kilos don't change day to day. And any opportunity I can get to get around like-minded individuals. If you only surround yourself with your beliefs and your type, whatever that is, if you're a weightlifter even, you're a powerlifter even. You know, 10 years ago it was a serious like feud. Even now, you know, people are bashing CrossFit or bashing Strongman. And the more you hang out with people that are of that extreme nature, politically, financially, socially, the further we are going to be apart from each other. So if we can all just focus on, again, the barbell doesn't care what's in our bank account, the barbell doesn't care our skin color, our religion, anything of that nature. And we can start to draw more together. I think the better off we're going to be. And events like this allow us to do that in a positive manner. So shout out to Kenny and Solace, shout out to Reebok, shout out to Jen. Big breath, squeeze here. Yeah, you got a big breath in here. Squeeze this, take your time. Good. Squeeze this tighter, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Good, nice big breath, force those knees out. Good, drive into the bar. Good, one more, a little bit more aggressive, no pause. Drive into the bar. Yeah, that's good, bro. If I'm your coach, that's how we're starting. What if your talent is before the high bar? If I'm your coach, that's how we're starting. You can score however you like. You know more of a new elliptic, and I feel like I can do it as well. And you're a new elliptic, you don't know anything about your posterior hurting. You know what I mean? If you're a new elliptic, what your body can do, and the loads you're handling, are not fatiguing your low back. When you're squatting and deadlifting 700 pounds, multiple times a week, then you can be like, Mike, man, my back's having issues, I gotta figure this out. If you're not in, if you don't have an injury, and I'm your coach, I'd squat that way. How'd it go? I don't know, you tell me how it went. I can't say like, oh, fuck it, killed it. You can. All right, killed it. I know Connor, behind the camera, here's a real friend, because he'll tell me when I suck and when I'm good. So we'll figure that out if I did good here, but he told me in the past, like, Mike, that seminar needs a little more feeling, or Mike, not your best work. He's actually, he's nice enough friend to cut it how it is, and still be nice, like, not your best work. I wanna make each seminar, each video, each fucking Twitch stream, each podcast, that's coming soon, the best that we can. Level up, outside ways. We got fucking fancy equipment. He's got his Gandalf staff and stability. Woo, that's pretty good. That sounds like it could be in Dungeons & Dragons, or what's it called? Zelda. Zelda, or what else do they play? What's the real nerdy one? Oh, World of Warcraft. That's a World of Warcraft weapon. The Gandalf staff has stability. We got this new gimbal. We're fucking upgrading shit. Appreciate you guys. I think there's a party upstairs, which I'm going to try to avoid, and then we'll, I think we're gonna go to dinner, hopefully with these guys, as they're going to talk to. This is the 35th Hunger Games, cut to cool train scene. Probably about four years. But every time we come down here, they're at old HQ, is off in the suburbs. So it's probably about 30 minutes from downtown, but they just moved downtown. They're trying to be more part of the city and the culture. So my dad used to travel here a ton for work. He worked for John Hancock for a long time. And he always talked about how much he liked Boston. So this trip, I'm excited to explore downtown a little bit. It's freezing. I got a headache. My flu is getting worse. We're going to check in the hotel, and then, I don't know. I don't know what we're going to do. Find some food, maybe. We'll see. There are the mardits here. There are the potted. Fuck. Shit. Cunt. The potted. Shake Shack. Fuckin' chicken sandwich, bro. Come on, dude. What is hair, dude? Hey, dude. You talking about my fucking hair? My dude? Huh? You talking about Boston? You talking about my goddamn hair here, Shake Shack? There you go. Appreciate you. Podcasts come in soon. I know you're hyped. I'd love to give you the link, but I don't have it yet. Smash this thing with a thumbs up. Give it a like. Give it a subscribe. Next video will be in Boston. See you in Boston.