 We are the number one fitness, health and entertainment podcast. This is mind pump. Now in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience and the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion. Today's intro was 40 minutes long. And we talked about a lot of current events and studies and had a lot of fun. After that, we got into the fitness questions. Let me give you the breakdown of today's episode. We started out by talking about hemp oil from Ned. I took a lot of it the other night and it felt like an edible. So I got a little high, kind of interesting. Anyway, Ned makes the best high quality hemp oil extract you'll find anywhere. There's a lot of hemp oil out there. Most of it's garbage, not Ned. It's third party tested. It's high in cannabinoids. It's actually quite effective. And because you listen to mine pump, you get a discount. Just go to hello Ned.com. That's H E L L O N E D dot com forward slash mine pump. Use the code mine pump for 15% off. By the way, if you're in the military or you're a veteran, there is an additional discount. So just contact them and let them know. They also have a sleep product, by the way, that you could take before bed, make you sleep like a rock. Then we talked about life after kids. It's very different when you have kids. Things change a little bit. Then I talked about the world's most expensive pigeon. You won't believe how much some Chinese guy paid for a pigeon. It's mind blowing. Then we talked about throwing kids. You'll have to listen to the episode to know what happened there. Yeah, it's not a sport, but it definitely happened. Which led us to talk about a cool law in Pennsylvania. They made a new order requiring people to wear masks in their home. When they have guests over, I don't know how they're going to enforce that. Do it. Then we talked about another state, Florida. They went a different route. They passed a law that says you can shoot people who loot. So that's kind of interesting. Yeah, different ideas out there. Then we talked about our sponsor Butcher Box. They make grass-fed meat and they deliver it right to your door. And right now, if you sign up, you get six free steaks just for signing up for Butcher Box while supplies last. All right, so here's what you got to do. Invite your friends, but make them wear masks. Go to butcherbox.com forward slash mind pump. Use the code mind pump for that exclusive offer. Then I talk about a study that shows that smartphones just being within reach reduces your brain power. That's right. You have a smartphone next to your dumber. Then I talked about how a school in Washington now calls Asian kids white kids. I talked about the interview I did with Brett Weinstein. It's on our YouTube channel under the third rail. It's called The Third Rail Show. It's a good show. Go check it out. It's spicy. And then Justin talked about some local filming happening by his house. Was it porn? Was it a horror film? You decide. We don't know. That's 40 minutes. After that, we answer some questions. Here's the first question we answered. How do you practice bracing your core for lifting? The next question, if I were to decide to work out and only do the five most important exercises, squats, deadlifts, rows, bench presses, and overhead presses, what order would you do them in? The next question, this person says, define fitness. Sure, all right. We'll do that after we talk about the meaning of life. And then the final question, this person says, do you have any experience helping a significant other get in shape? Like what pointers do you have for training your girlfriend or your wife? Yeah, don't pinch your stomach. Don't do it. Also, look, right now we're running a huge holiday promotion. A lot of gyms are closing back down. A lot of people are working out at home. 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But we're willing to give out a lot more if you've put up your review on either Apple Podcasts or on Facebook. Step it up, you guys. All right. We're in. We got a good show for you today. It's like the Hodge Twins. I know, right? I like the way they do that. Yeah. It's always funny. Hey, have you guys tried taking a big dose of the really potent med? Well, I thought I was taking the correct dose until you corrected me. You're immune to everything. You just do the entire dropper five times a row. You never feel anything. That's what I did, right? And Sal's like, that's not right. It's supposed to be five drops. Not five eyedroppers? Five bottles? I got the strongest dose, right? The 1500 one or whatever. And I took two full droppers. Legit. And I don't know if they're going to be mad that it says wrong. I felt like I had a edible. Wait a second. So you're still using the regular full spectrum, right? Right now I'm using that during the day. Because I like the sleep. I've like, since they came out with the sleep, since that was mainly, I mean, obviously I've talked about before where you know, I get all hyped from speaking or doing something like that. Like, so I would then still use my regular meds. Like kind of calm down. That's what I've been doing during the day. Yeah. Anxious, bring down like anxiety or that feeling of that, you know, feeling of anxiousness. I would use that. But for sleep, the sleep is... The sleep one, here's why I'm not... It's a knockout. Because my sleep is so interrupted with the baby that I don't, you know, I want to make sure I can wake up. Yeah. You know, not that I'm too groggy or anything like that, but I want to make sure that I'm, I can hear things, my own paranoia. Yeah. But the regular oil, hemp oil, the 1500 one, right? Yeah. Two full droppers. I did that in like an hour and a half later. I'm like, did I have an edible? Yeah. Like I legit felt like I had an edible. So I don't know. So speaking of that, so last night I thought about you as I wasn't sleeping either. Last night, it was like... Shit, text me when I know. Yeah, I know. Start talking about it. I know, I'll start seeing if you're up with me. Hey, are you awake? Up with me. What's face time? Yeah, two o'clock. Well, this is what I thought. I said, you know, because I've asked you... Are you wearing pajamas? Jessica, you guys have the nanit, right? You guys have the camera thing. Yeah. And so the thing that I was asking you before was, you know, your previous two kids, that technology didn't exist yet. And so, you know, you didn't have a partner who was staring at the camera all the time. And so I'm very curious if you run into the same things that I've ran into with Katrina and the camera. Well, last night we had another one of these incidents with what happens when you stare at the camera. It's still at like two o'clock. So I'm out. Like I'm asleep. It's like 1.45 or so, two in the morning. And I wake up to her freaking out because she's watching the camera and he goes to climb out. And she does that, you know, your partner when they make that scream of like someone's in the house or like an accident. What a terrible way to wake up. Or when you're driving, you know, that scream, then you're like, and I don't know if it's just something that's innate in us where like you just, you shoot out, you know, you shoot up. It's angry. Yeah. I'm angry. All the hairs are standing straight up on your, I'm awake. You know, after when, when that, I hear that like scream or fear in her voice. And here's the worst thing, when you don't have anywhere to direct it. Oh yeah. Then you get mad at them. Oh yeah. Yeah. Because Jessica will do when we drive it. We'll be driving and she'll go, and she'll hit me with her hand and then I'll out. What is that? Corrine does that to me all the time too. It drives me crazy. Yeah. And there's nothing. And then I'm mad at her. I'm like, can you like. That's exactly how it goes down. That's exactly how it goes down. I saw this, you know, unfolding like for miles. Yeah. She's like, you didn't slow down. You just saw this. Which is so bad. Yeah. So I had one of those moments last night. So what was he doing? He was starting to, she thought he was starting to climb out of the crib. You know, and he didn't, he didn't climb out. Nothing happened. Oh, that's going to happen though. But I, of course it's going to happen. And if you didn't have a camera, he would do it. You know what I'm saying? And he probably will crash the first time and it won't go so well. But that's like part of having a kid, you know? Where she just saw the beginning of it and screamed, you know? And I'm like in a dead sleep. So I shoot out of the bed. We're ready to fight somebody. Yeah. And I'm asking her, what's going on? What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong? And she's just like, I think he was going to get out of the bed. You know what I mean? You think he was going to get out of the bed. You screamed like that? I had a dream, man. Yeah. It seemed real. So yeah, I was, I was wide awake last night. Yeah, little kids are funny. When they're that small, you could see them. They can do some falls that would kill you as an adult because you're 200 pounds. They weigh nothing. It's physics. Yeah. And they weigh nothing. And they're a foot and a half from the ground. They just, they just bump. Yeah. Yeah. I remember once my son literally flipped off the slide, like, bink, bink, bink. Now, if I did anything remotely like that, bro, good bone. Oh, I'd be dead. The dexterity that they have, like in their joints and how limber and flexible they are, like it's, yeah, they just sort of bounce around. Yeah, they hit their head. Tunk. So yeah, we had that. We also, you don't want it to happen. You know, something that I love, this is what I love about Katrina too, is like, so last night we had, and I try and... You got to follow it up with a nice story. I am going to follow it. I'm going to try to get that. Good job, dude. I'm getting better at this. I got to do that more often. I'm getting better at this. Whew, we got 60 on this. So yeah, so I'm trying to become more cognizant of us taking time as parents to like literally shut down, and we just talk for a few hours with no distractions, no television, no other people, just like sitting in the living room, talking to each other about our son. Because really easy, and I'm sure all parents can relate to this. You know, you get wrapped up in work and raising the kid, and you know, if you do have those moments of like peace and quiet for an hour or two, you normally are doing something with your reading or you're watching a movie or just decompressing or maybe being romantic. So there's not a lot of these moments, and I'm trying to be better about picking up that we haven't done that in like a week or two, so making sure that like... And it's been great because it allows us to check in with each other and things that we are seeing in like Max and behaviors and stuff. And so we are both sharing like, you know, are we starting to see like our personalities like come out in him yet? And she's like, you know, he's got this thing that he can like manipulate already. Like he sees like... Whose trade is that? Well, I think we both kind of have that a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Katrina's like... I thought she was trying to put it on you. No, no. I was like, yeah, because she's got that in her too, you know. And it manipulates such a strong word because it is, that's what it is right now at this age, but it's his way of getting away, his way without crying or fighting or doing other things. And so one of the things that... When I put him down, I've shared this on the show before and I share with you guys that I allow him to like work out all this energy on me, right? Like, so the routine is when we go to bed, he, you know, we go in the room, it's pitch black. I sit in the rocker with him. He is probably finishing his bottle up. As soon as his bottle is done, he throws his bottle on the ground. And then he goes through this little phase of, you know, headbutting my chest and like, you know, flipping over and talking and laughing. He's got all the, we got to get all the wiggles out. Right. And I, so, and my routine is I don't, it's pitch black while he's doing this and he's in my lap and we're on the rocker. I don't say anything to him. I'm completely silent. And I just allow him to do it. Headbutt me, kind of grab on me, pull on my beard, like roll around. And I just kind of do this thing where I don't let him get off of me. You're doing like a keto with him. Yeah, exactly, right? So I'm just kind of, and then eventually... Brisk lock. Yeah. Oh, too far. Eventually he wears down and then he falls asleep. What our nanny and Katrina's mom, both are guilty of. They have a hard time sometimes putting him down because he knows that once he gets down to the ground and he can go play or move around, like he'll convince them that he's not ready to go to sleep yet. And so they end up having to like forfeit. They get like, it's over. Like once you let him down and move around or you communicate to him, he's like, he knows he's not going to have to go down. He'll just keep playing. And he'll be fun, right? So they have a hard, it's like, and it's, you know, grandma doesn't want to be all hard on him. He's like, I'm fine. Yeah, I'm playing. Yeah, I'm playing. I'm talking to you and we're having fun. And so then they go, oh, he's not tired. And Katrina are like, no, he's tired. He's just running game on you right now. He knows that if you like talk to him and you play with him while you're trying to play. You cannot get behind the eight ball with kids and sleep. Yeah. Especially at that age. Like they miss a nap or a couple hours. You're going to pay for that later. Yeah, there's, it's going to come up. Yeah, they get crazy. Yeah. Well, what makes you realize now, like, or at least for me, it makes me realize why so many parents, like when I was a single guy with friends that had kids, you're always like, dude, you never come out and you always leave by seven. And like, you know, you've seen the latest movie? No. Yeah, they're always like that, right? But then I realized like, wow, how much you value the routine? Because when they're on the routine. You're screwed for a while. Yeah. Yeah, you got to be on that routine. That's what makes it so, so difficult. It's like, I remember when I first, when my son was born, you know, Saturday mornings, you used to be able to sleep in because Friday night you stay up late or whatever. Kids don't sleep in when they're that age. So you go out, you stay out till two o'clock in the morning. You're still up at 6 a.m. So you're not going down no more because the kids ain't going to let you. There's no appeal there anymore. Yeah. No, there's nothing at all, dude. Anyway. Hey dude, did you ever take care of that side of the couch there? Scotch garden or anything? The jizzy side? Your dog was having a good time on that. That clip that Andrew got was so great, dude. I'm serious though, because you got to, because he did, there was some stuff. It wasn't, it wasn't nothing. He turned it over. Well, I've already decided that this is, this is kind of his seat right here, you know what I'm saying? Okay, that's it, that's it. That's the next time we have to ask. You got to come in here with a black light. Yeah. Oh, what happened over here? Don't do that, don't do that. Oh my god. Hey, speaking of animals, dude, did you guys, you guys want to hear some, some cool news? Yeah. The most expensive pigeon of all time was just sold. Did Mike Tyson own it? No. A pigeon? I had no idea. Okay. So a champion racing pigeon sold by a Belgian trainer. Wow. So can you guys want to guess? Oh wait, pigeons race? They, they race them somewhere? Apparently. To what? How, how do they do that? I don't know. Doug, could you Google pigeon, pigeon racing, please? I don't think deliver messages, right? That'd be more. Okay. Or maybe after the apocalypse we'll go back to it. Yeah, we'll go back to pigeon carriers. How do we race these things? This is interesting, all right. So they were sold on an auction. Through hoops. And yeah, so guess, we guys want to guess how much this pigeon sold for. Remember it's a pigeon. Yeah, maybe a thousand dollars. $400? $1.9 million. Should, oh my god. That's sort of good. And what's the, what's, how long is the pigeon? Yeah, like what an investment. Like a cat just comes out now. Oh, did you see that? Nature's metal clip of the cat who got that bird? No. I love that channel. Oh, that's one of my favorites. Justin who got me turned on to that one. I love it, dude. I do too. It was a rainy day. 1.4. No, that's 1.4. Pigeons flying, okay, so what are they doing? Well, that was a majestic picture they had of a race day. So they take the pigeons and I think, oh, they release them by the hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from their lofts and then they let them go and then they see who gets there first. Okay, all right. So that's the right. 1.9 million dollars. So the name of the pigeon is New Kim, two year old bird. It was sold on an auction website. New Kim, like Newcombe? No, just new and then Kim, like our dear leader, Kim. Oh, I see. Yeah, and a Chinese buyer bought the racing pigeon. So what's the life expectancy of a pigeon? I have no idea. I'm serious. I have no idea. They don't, birds don't live very long here. Well, two years old is already sold for 1.9. He's hit his peak. Well, obviously they're betting on these races, right? So this is like your race horse. Yeah, your race horse, your stud pigeon. I just had no idea you can make that much money with a pigeon. Well, I didn't even know they, I didn't know they have great pigeon racers to start with. Obviously they got some opportunities out there. Give the pigeon market. Dang, I didn't even know. 15 years? Wow. That's a long time. So I think he was two years old. I mean, think about that. That's, now that makes a little more sense. All the way. Incaptivity, this is all, this is kind of a sad fact. What a weird website, pigeon facts. Incaptivity, pigeons commonly live up to 15 years and sometimes longer. In urban populations, however, pigeons seldom live more than two or three years. So there's, that's not good living in the urban areas. They're not doing well there. You know what I'm saying? I remember when I was a kid, this is a sad story. When I was a kid, I went to the beach with my family and there were these teenagers. Remember when you were like 10 or 11? How teenagers were like, there's teenagers over there. Remember that? When you were like 10 or 11? It's like a big deal. So it's like this group of teenagers and they were feeding birds bread. But I saw them packing the bread with Alka Seltzer. Alka Seltzer. Oh, those assholes. I've never even heard of that. Yes. Oh, they explode. No, I don't, they didn't explode. Do they explode? I've seen them explode. I just saw them shitting. Oh, really? Yeah. I've seen one explode in the air. Really? I don't know what they gave them. Yeah, dude. That's a cherry bomb, bro. That's not a fucking Alka Seltzer. Whatever it was. I thought it was Alka Seltzer though. Swear to God. Alka Seltzer's supposed to make a bird blow up. Get out of here. So something with their stomach. So what happened? I've seen it. It flew up in the air and then just, poof. Yeah, no. Yeah, just exploded. No, no, no. Well, I saw the ones I saw, they were just shitting on all the people at the beach, which now I'm thinking back. That's messed up too. Yes. Hilarious, kind of mean. Well, that does make sense. So the other thing is to, I heard that they actually cook them up. Squab is the name for it, right? For pigeon food? Yeah, pigeon meat. Some restaurants still offer pigeon as a delicacy. Pigeons are like rats. Isn't that, look at that up. I think it's called squab. Well, isn't it, was that, are you talking about what was in billions where they put the blanket over their head and they eat the little bird? Oh, no, that's different. That's something else, right? Yeah, that's something else. It is a young, un-fledged pigeon. Yes, he's squab. Wow. It looks like a little chicken. How did you know that random fact? I just, you know, it's all in here. Yeah, just random shit. Worthless information. Yeah, 100%. It's good podcast stuff though. Whatever you guys don't know, I know. Yeah. So that's how it works. Wow, that's interesting. When my dad was a kid growing up in Sicily and they were poor, he used to go up to the hills and he would, he told me stories. He would take this, this tape or glue, put it on a branch, and then birds would fly and get stuck on it. And then he'd go over and he'd kill them all. And then his mom would put them in the sauce. And they'd have meat sauce with birds. Is that true? Yeah. Wow. That's what my dad told me. We used to catch bats, but we didn't eat them. What? Yeah. You ever done that before? Don't eat a bat, dude. You take that. The last time someone ate a bat, my God. You take a white towel and then you wrap like a rock, like it was about a softball size. And then when the bats are flying around, when you know, that night, you take it, throw it straight up in the air. The bat will come, bite onto the towel, and then the rock takes it down and it knocks it out. And so he'll come back to life. So you don't kill him. It just knocks him out. So you can go over. Very gently. Hey, this is the type of shit we used to do as a kid, right? Go fuck with a bat. You're in the country. Yeah, yeah. This is country type stuff. Yeah, this is country stuff. Yeah, you go mess with the bat. You got about five minutes or so before he wakes back up and then flies off again. Wow. No wonder the bats came back with the vengeance. I used to blow up ant hills. That was my thing. What? Yeah. What did you do? I was a little country too. You put a firecracker? Yeah, you put a little like cherry bombs and like, you know, like black cats and whatnot. Oh, it got over me. They would be on fire too. That's a terrible idea. Yeah, it was stupid. You light it, you know, from afar, it goes and then all of a sudden boom. And then they all fly in the air and you realize you're going to get rained on by fired ants. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah. And they make little like screaming noises. No, they don't. They do. They do? Yes. I think it's just like pressure. We're going to get hammered by PETA. Hey, they're ants. That's what you want. I'm just going insects. Speaking of animals, dude, this, uh, well, or insects, this is, this was terrible yesterday. I'm ready. I'm getting ready to be on a podcast. I'm going to get interviewed and the guy's going to do it on Zoom. So I'm setting up the phone and the stand or whatever. And I go to close the drapes and we have drapes that are like cream colored. So they're kind of whitish or whatever. And there's something weird on the drapes about the size of a, I don't know, a quarter or a silver dollar. I'm like, what is that? That's kind of, it's white like the drapes, a spider. There was a white, a white spider, camouflage spider. That is the most disgusting thing of all time. I don't like spiders that are not, that are a different color. That guy reminds me of the Mandalorian, uh, the second one. Just not down with it. Yeah. Oh, the, the, did you see that episode? The, all the spiders second one. Yeah. Or they all kind of came after them. I was so disappointed in only 32 minutes, man. And what's, what's up with that? I know they're so short. I look forward to that show so much. And I was like, I felt that was kind of the weakest episode. The, the, the first one came out with a bang. And then the third one was, was fantastic. Why are they doing that with the short episodes? I'm looking to you, Justin. Yeah. Well, because they got to carry out this whole string it all out as a series. So I'm sure that, you know, they got to like, that's a cheap way to do it. We should cut, we should cut this podcast. It's really just three episodes. Yeah. It's really, this could be just a long movie, you know, and then they're just kind of chopping it in different scenes. They could try to not send you the Star Wars thing last night. What's Star Wars thing? Oh, I'm texting her right now because I wanted, I wanted you to read it. There's like some, I can't believe you're not up on this. There's like a bunch of like conspiracy Mandalorian Star Wars fucking news going around. Oh, is this when everybody got mad? Not the, not the, no, no, no, not that bullshit. Not a bunch of fucking social justice warrior stuff. It's literally like Star Wars fans that are like talking about what's going on. I can't believe you didn't know it's... Oh man. I'm going to get it said. So we watched having stayed up on it. I got schooled the other day by like an extreme Star Wars fan. For real? Yeah. Yeah. In your DMs or what? Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to remember what, oh yeah. It was something about, like I said, like I'd love to see like a Greedo character. And then he like schooled me on the actual like species, you know, of what, what that was. I didn't remember like a Rodidian or I don't remember what it was. Redodians. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like the one that looks like him. Okay. You know, like let's agree on that. And he's like, yeah, well he's dead. And I'm like, yeah, I know. Yeah, Han killed him. I realize that. Oh man. We watched Mandalorian with subtitles because the baby was like in the corner over there. So it was like really low with subtitles. Oh man. What a shitty movie you have to watch. Every time the frogs, the little frog people were talking, they'd do that whatever. And the subtitles, yeah, the subtitles that say speaking in frog. Every time. It gives you nothing. My son and I were cracking up. It's so funny. Oh, they're speaking in frog. Dude, there was this, I saw this sign today. Sometimes I look up weird news and funny things. There was this French school that put up a sign. See if I could send it to Doug and see if he could put it up on the TV for you guys to look up. So they put up a sign and it's a sign and it looks like a parent throwing a child over the gate. What? Yeah. And it's like, don't do this. Don't do this. Okay. So Doug, maybe you could pull this up. Here, I'll show you guys. So apparently there's a school in France and when the school is, when they're in session, they would close the gates. That's a funny sign. And there were actually parents that were throwing their kids over the gate because they were late. To get them there on time. Then it becomes a sport just like kid chucking. Yeah, yeah. So it says here that they put up signs and skate showing a cartoon of a parent sending a small child to airport. Look at them. Yeah. Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't do this. It's not worth it. And you know if they had to make a sign that it's been happening for a while. It happened and it said there were a few scattered incidents where kids were tossed, their children were tossed over the fence because they were late. You know, there's some stuff you don't, you shouldn't have to make signs. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I've always wondered about that. Yeah, like, here's the deal. The kind of parent that throws their kid over a fence doesn't give a shit about a sign. Like, they're not gonna look at a sign and be like, oh, man, oh, we can't do that. Yeah, yeah. What a good point. That kind of parent, they don't give a shit about a sign. So anyway, I'm gonna be late. Speaking of ridiculous stuff, did you guys hear about Pennsylvania? Yes, I did not. Please tell me. Mandatory mask indoor. So if you have, apparently if you have guests, this is, I know it's so funny, right? If you have guests in your home that are not in your, that don't live with you. So let's say you have your family member or someone over, then they have ordered that you wear a mask in your house. Now, here's the problem with that. Forget the insanity of the whole thing. How the hell do they enforce that? Like, what are they gonna do? Passing rules and laws that you can't enforce just is a stupid idea. I feel like they just like, they just like, well, isn't that love telling people to do now? It's just like this, ah, let's tell them, what else can we make of this? Isn't that the same thing that like, the parents that ground their kid for life, you know, when they get so angry? That's like the exact same thing. Like you can never live up to that grounding. Like you doing that is ridiculous. It's not gonna do anything for you. It's like telling your kid, you know, okay, when you're at school today, don't say bad words at all. All right, cool, thanks. Right. Yeah, no problem, dad. I'll do exactly what you said. You gotta be able to enforce whatever law or order you put forward. So either A, this is my theory, either A, these political leaders or whatever are so arrogant that they actually think that they'll just pass an order and people would be like, okay. No, see, I think it's catering to the people that are, that are scared, that are afraid of all that and they're the ones that are screaming at people when they see people on the street that aren't- You're just giving them ammo to go- That's their neighbor. Exactly, that's what I think. I think it's- No, didn't you hear the latest order? Yeah, it's more pandering. That's what I think. Oh, shit, I didn't. What would you do? Imagine that like conversation, you know? Speaking of stuff in another state, did you see what Florida did? That passed for, looked at South Douglas, I want to make sure I'm not off on this. Sorry, I don't remember. That's legal to shoot looters? Yes, wow. Yeah, it made it legal to shoot- Give me like the wild west out there. To defend businesses if- Looting ended overnight in Florida. I mean, that's what's gonna happen. Immediately. That's what's gonna happen. Do you guys remember- It's gonna be effective. Okay, do you guys remember the rooftop Koreans during the- Do you remember that? Yeah, no. The Rodney King- In LA. The Rodney King riots. So, yeah, that's true. You could allow people to shoot looters. That allow people- That's so- Yeah, that's how you end it though. I mean- That was a thing back then. I remember that. Like the business owners that were just really like, aggressive about protecting their business- Look up rooftop Koreans. Okay, so during the Rodney King riots in LA, right, so that was the video for people who don't know. There was a guy who got beat by cops. Someone videotaped it. Anyway, the cops got acquitted. So for whatever reason, there were huge riots in LA. And Korean business owners, there were a few Korean business owners that- Look at them. They got on the rooftops to protect their businesses with their AK-47s or whatever rifles and pistols. And they were the businesses that didn't get looted. The only ones. Yeah, it actually works. And they call them the rooftop Koreans. Oh my God, I don't remember this. You don't remember this? No, I don't remember this. Obviously, I remember the riots and everything, but I did not remember this. Nobody fucked with their businesses. Look, you see how they put their cars in front and they just got on the rooftops with their rifles? Oh my God. And there you go. And nobody as far as law came after them or messed with them at all. Dude, the cops had their hands full. Remember, what are they going to do? What's kind of- Yeah. So I mean, I think it's terrible. I think that would be horrible. I mean, you don't want it to resort to that, but also, yeah, you got to think about people just trying to protect what they've created. Especially- So here's the part that makes me a little frustrated. There's parts of the country where the mayors tell the police to stand down. So these people are going in and destroying businesses, setting things on fire, causing violence, and then the cops are ordered by the mayors. Then they lose control of their entire city. Yeah. And the mayors are literally ordered to stand down. And so here you are. Let's say you're in your business. Let's say you have built it from scratch. Maybe you're an immigrant and you're like, if I lose this, I'm totally screwed. So you're in your business and you're like trying to prevent looters and they're coming in and police aren't helping you. They're not doing anything. Do you think any other state is going to go that extreme like Florida? I doubt it. Texas maybe? Yeah, maybe. I doubt it. I don't know, even there. Yeah, I think that's pretty crazy. Anyway, let's talk about some good news. Yeah. Switch it up. Butcher box is giving away six free steaks when people sign up. Excellent transition right there, right? I know. For real. No, that's exciting. That's a good deal. Six free steaks when people sign up. They're going nuts. Does it say what type of steaks, Doug, do you know? Yes, it is going to be a combination of New York strips and top sirloins. Nice, very nice. Do you guys like New York? I love it. Yeah. That's one of my favorites. I'm a ribeye guy. Ribeyes are good too. Ribeyes are normally what I get from them. Although the flays. The tips and flays. Yeah, their flays are amazing too. Filets are my favorite. Filets are not bad, but you got to really cook them right because otherwise it's too lean and it doesn't. You always get the filet. Yeah, I always get the filet. Well, yeah, again, it makes, it all depends on, like it has to be perfect. All the cooking has to be spot on. You know what I hate about filets, the one thing? You go to the, when you go out to eat, we're all going out. I'm hungry, right? I want like a 12-ounce steak. You ain't going to get a 12-ounce filet. It's always like a tiny little piece of meat. I mean, you're just kind of condensing it into the real, like, goods. They normally do a six and an eight. It's rare that you see a bigger than that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. And so that's not that fun for me. No, that's why I like the ribeye. Yeah. You can get a big-ass ribeye. Anyway, dude, I read a study on Science Daily. Great site, by the way. If you want to read, like, up and up studies, they did this study on people using their smartphones and kind of wild what they found. So when people had a smartphone within reach, so just within reach, it was next to them in their pocket or whatever, their cognitive function declined. When they took the smartphone out of the room, they actually had better cognitive performance. Just because of the distractibility? I think it's because people feel like they can rely on their smartphone without realizing it, or maybe their distractibility. But how crazy is that? Just it being in the same room. I could definitely see that for having the tendency to want to look something up or fact-check what you're about to say. It's like, if I have that right there, I want to make sure that what I'm saying is correct. Isn't that weird, though? That's interesting. It's very strange, right? So just because it's in the same room, I'm reading the study right now. That's exactly what it was, is that just because it was in the same room, the people performed worse when they took the phone out of the room. I think it's partially just the attachment you have to. So I don't know what you guys do this, but I always turn my phone face down if I'm not... I do. Because just seeing the movement on the screen... All the notifications pop up. Yeah, I don't even have to... It could be out of to where I can't even read it and see it, but if I just see the flashing, the moving on it, it completely distracts me. If I'm in a conversation with somebody and that pops up, it's hard to not look over at it and see what it is. Yeah, and it's just rude. Talking to people and then you're just constantly... Your mind is always over on your phone if it's up and you know what's going on with that. Yeah, but is it different though now, maybe our generation? Yeah, I was just going to say that, Sal. You see kids now, that's the norm. You ever see kids hanging out together? They're all... It's normal to be like... Text each other without talking? No, having conversation. Or they're just sitting together or they're talking to each other while looking at the phone. Yeah, I know, right? Yeah, a bunch of zombies. I know, dude. There's arguments to say because the progression, the future may be where we're kind of linked up with computers somehow, with the interfaces connected to our brain. But scientists are arguing we're pretty much already there. People don't go anywhere without that extension, without that phone. The only difference with being connected to your brain or you typing your hand is the speed at which you can access your phone. I think a progression to it would be to see that almost like the augmented reality where you do see a little bit, like a notification. If you're wearing something like glasses or anything, instead of having to always pull out a device and looking down, I think the next thing is to be just looking normal. And then you can either block it or you're looking at something that's in front of you a little bit. I'm going to go watch Black Mirror again. Yeah. That has some good episodes. The augmented reality has, I think it has some promise, but I'm not real excited about it. Hey, there was a school district. You guys want to hear something controversial? Yeah. See, this is a good time right here. So there was a school district. I got to find where this goes. I think it was in Washington state. Okay. So a school district in Washington state just put Asian children in the same category as white children. So essentially what it says is, when you mark down what your ethnicity or whatever it says, Asian and white and then students of color as everybody else. So now they're considering them white. Why is that? Because they're trying to show the achievement gaps. And so here's a speculation that if Asian students were included in the other students, that the achievement gap would be smaller because apparently the Asian students perform way better than average everybody else. So instead what they did now is put them So they're going to do that same thing for income and everything else? Because Asians kick white people's ass in all the categories. Well, here's the deal. Like education, income, all that. Well, here's the deal. I don't know why they need to stop breaking everybody up into these groups. And instead it makes more sense to me is income or if you have one or two parents at home, I think that makes a big difference. Right? Why is it got to be your ethnicity instead? Because now they're trying to gerrymander it. You know? Oh wait, Asian kids now are white. Let's put them up in this category because it doesn't fit our original model. Silly to me. Yeah, I just sort of the world we live in. It doesn't make any sense. That's one school that's doing that. In Washington, yeah. And it's kind of making news right now. Don't figure, right? It's very interesting. You just interviewed Brett Weinstein, huh? Weinstein. Weinstein. I would say that. So did I in the interview. Oh, you did? Oh fuck, did he correct you? No, he didn't. But later on when he said his brother's name, he said it the right way. Oh, sorry. No, that episode should be up. And yeah, we had a great conversation. I like him because he's very objective, smart. He's, I like having discussions with people who are objective and can really be consistent with their opinions. It's really annoying when people have an opinion on something and then it changes to suit the narrative. Right, right, yeah. And he's lifelong liberal, right? So that's, he's. He is, but he's often at odds with the current, what he calls the current woke movement. So in, you know, like for example, he became kind of well known because he was that professor at Evergreen College. So if you don't know who he is, he, people knew who he was because at Evergreen College, they did this day where they told white students and teachers to stay home, not come to school for that day. And he said, well, that's not cool. Like you're requiring me or you're kind of forcing me. It's different if I voluntarily do it, but I'm going to, I'm going to come to class and it started a riot and his life was threatened and the campus police were told to stand down. So nobody was, in fact, he got a phone call from the campus police and they said, hey, we were told not to protect you. So we're just letting you know, you know, you got to be, you got to be careful or whatever. So he's, yeah, very objective. They put him in that intellectual dark web. You know, with like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, yeah, Sam Harris. So you have people from both sides of the political spectrum. Are you still, you know, I was watching that for a little bit. I think you turned me on to that, the monk debates. Are they still doing that? Oh, I haven't seen that in a long time. I forgot all about that. I really enjoyed the Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. I watched all of them. Were they really good? Yeah, they were good. They're just thought provoking. Yeah. Yeah, I watched all those too because Sam's always challenging him, which is great. And then it's great to hear them both go back and forth. Yeah, I mean, it's like, you don't feel like they really, I mean, of course, we're not going to like solve all the problems or anything. It's just, it's interesting for me to hear really intelligent debate where there's back and forth, but also they can understand where the other person's coming from and see those points and they're good points. I think it's so important to be able to debate and discuss, especially with people who have different opinions from you. It's so important. It's like the only way we'll get the best ideas out or even just know what people think is to do that, is to allow people to speak. Yeah, you gotta talk about it. Yeah, and it's also to me, it's like when people silence other people for their opinions and tell them they can't speak out and force them to shut up, I feel like you're a coward. Like you're so afraid of their opinion that either your opinion is weak and you can't back it up or you're so weak and fragile that someone's words are, you can't just shut off the TV or whatever, you have to silence them. It's like a, it's the sign for me, it's like the sign of a coward, you know? Oh, totally. Dude, so I woke up this morning, I drove and I was like leaving to get here for work and I was stopped right away as I got up to like the top of our road. And I was like, what's happening? There's this lady in like a, you know, like a construction looking soon with a stop sign and then I look ahead and there's this whole film crew, production crew and like this whole production and it looked like it was like a major motion picture or something. And they were like up in this really like weird creepy road that was like abandoned forever. And I'm like, I'm wondering if they're like filming some kind of creepy horror movie or something like right next to my house. That's interesting. This is, this is weird. You never, you never read about the murders that happened up there by the way? Yeah, I know. Yeah, that's another part of where I was going. Hey, read the article or Doug pulled the article. I finally, so Katrina sent it over to me. I want it. So it, the title of it, Justin says, the Mandalorian, the Mandalorian is about to finally address a disturbing Jedi truth. Ooh. Do you know anything about this? Look at it. A disturbing Jedi truth. We're gonna have to expand that. Yeah. And well, maybe Doug could like give us kind of a little backstory. Well, yeah. I mean, cause she's going after the, the black saber and I know that she's trying to kind of acquire that to bring it back to Mandalore. And so there was like some depth in that latest episode that I was curious about. What's the black saber? I don't know what that is. So if you saw the, the first season at the end, you saw, you know, that the, the menacing guy that was, you know, I forget his name, but like he came out with the, with the black saber at the very end and kind of cut his way out of his. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right, right, right. And so she's high fighter. And so the Mandalorians are trying to go get that is what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. She's trying to, she's trying to go acquire that again. So what's the secret about the Jedi so that she's about to reveal? Well, there's a weird part. I don't know. Remember in that episode when she talked about his sect of the Mandalorians that was like a religious. Oh yeah. You know, remind me of like the extremists. So he's part of the extremists. Like they, well, oh, so I took it like the Game of Thrones, like the wall. Like there's their, there's like lower class people that are in charge of kind of like, like being soldiers and protecting. They never take their helmets off. And then there's like the, the rich, the rich Mandalorians or whatever. That's how I understood. Is that wrong or no? She was saying that it was like a religious sect that was like very like, you know, extreme. And then they like pulled off of like the main branch of the Mandalore. So yeah, they made, they almost like, you know, created their own cult in a sense and then went off. That's how I read it. I'm trying to look and read through it, but it doesn't make sense to me. I have no idea. Yeah. I don't have to. Like a foreign language. I don't know. I'll do some research and report back. Well, disappointed. So the original, the original Mandalorian and Star Wars he was a bounty hunter. And he worked for the Empire, right? What's that? Am I tripping? The original Mandalorian and the Star Wars. Yeah. He was a bounty hunter. And he worked for the jet, not the Jedi 40. No, for Darth Vader. Yeah. He actually, yeah, hired him. And he was he part of that same sect because he never took his helmet off, did he? I don't know. Yeah. That's a good question. I don't know. Yeah. Justin's a knife. I mean, Katrina brought this to me. I'm counting on you to. I just know, in the movies, I haven't like read up on all the like the nuances of like. He's going to get hammered in his DMs. The idea is get him, guys. Get him. Yeah, Katrina shared it with me. Like I would care that much. I was like, what are you sharing this to me for? Send it to Justin. I'm like, I don't get that crazy about this. I mean, I love the show. Don't give me a wrong, but. I'll dive into it. Like I said, I just I've been busy. Okay. Like working. I don't have time to like read about this shit. We expect to recap on next episode. You're really going to get hammered in your DMs. What are you trying to say, Justin? I'm not busy. I don't work. Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. Oh my God. First question is from TwinSanity Fitness. How do you practice bracing your core for lifting? Oh yeah. This is actually quite important. And we tend to do this pretty naturally, usually. Whenever we're trying to lift something heavy. So sometimes you'll hear trainers say draw in your midsection. Not a good idea. Really what you're trying to do is you're trying to brace your core. And the way I used to tell my clients to do this is, like imagine I'm about to punch you in the stomach, you know? You just brace it like that. Sometimes I fake it. Yeah. There it is right there. Let's keep that. Yeah. So here's a little, a little bit more detail, right? So before, especially before you do a heavy lift, you take a deep breath in down into your core. So take it full diaphragmatic breath, breathe in, and then hold your breath and then brace. And then you do your lift. Then after you do your lift, then take a couple of breaths and then repeat it. And what that does is that breath inside your diaphragm, plus your core bracing, dramatically increases the stability around your spine. Now when you wear something like a belt, your core is going to brace totally different. It's going to push out against the belt rather than bracing. Now, did you guys have specific exercises that you like to do to teach somebody how to do it? Because here's the thing too, that sometimes people misunderstand when they, when they brace their core is holding your breath. Sometimes hold, they think holding your breath. Oh, especially if you're doing raps. Right, right. So were there exercises that you guys like to teach? I mean, obviously the fake, like you're going to punch them in the stomach to get that idea across. But did you like like the four point draw and maneuver or vacuum exercises? Yeah, almost like vacuum, like a cat cow, or then I would get to neutral spine. And then they would like just tighten it up but also like go through the breathing of it while being tight. And you know, like little like external stimulus to make sure that I could feel that like their abs are tight. But also having them sit on a stability ball with their hands out. And this is just for like the rotational part of stability. So I would kind of push on their hands with them relaxed versus then now brace. And then so it's like, they got to focus on that staying rigid and they feel the difference right away. For some people that was like, this light bulb goes off and you're like, okay. For me, the most effective way to, because you can teach people how to brace and what you need to do, but then there's a difference between that and actually bracing while lifting because there's a bit of a skill involved and what that feels like. The best thing I've ever done for that was heavy carries. Getting people to do like a farmer walk with a pair of dumbbells and teaching them to brace their core while taking steps, while being able to breathe. And with the farmer walk, he kind of gives you that feedback. You've got the heavy weights or the dumbbells in your hands. If you're loose with your core, you start to sway a little bit. You feel a little bit of a twist. And so it teaches them how to brace while doing a movement. So that was one of my, one of my favorite ways to do that. Next question is from 713 Clown. If I were to dedicate a workout to only the essential five, squat, deads, rows, bench and overhead press, what order would you do them in? Oh, for sure, squat, right? Yeah. Then dead. And then probably row, bench and overhead press. Yeah. That's that way. You know what's funny? This, just those exercises right there, you get a pretty good physique. Oh, yeah. Just doing that, you know? I mean, it wouldn't be perfect because you're not getting rotation. It's a minimalist sort of concept, right? But you'd get a great workout. I would even take it a step further. Here's the deal. At some point, I don't think it's a great idea to always squat and deadlift in the same workout. I think the risk of injury gets a little high. Definitely if you deadlift before you squat, which I never think is a good idea. Right. But even when you deadlift after you squat, so with a routine like that, if you were super minimalist, and let's say you did five sets of every exercise. And by the way, I trained a lot of clients like this often. They'd come in and this is all we would do. I like to alternate squat and deadlift. So if you're coming in three days a week, one workout, we do squats. The next workout, we do deadlifts. The next workout, we do squat and so on. That's exactly how I would train for a while. I went through a period of doing five by fives and I would alternate my squat and my deadlifts on different days. And so I would pretty much use it accordingly to that, but keep those main lifts and then just keep it really simple. And I had good results as a fact of that as well. With that logic, you would do the same thing then with overhead press and bench, too. Because after you bench press, you're not able to lift the same UR on overhead press as you would do if you were completely fresh. Yeah, but the injury risk isn't there. Squatting and deadlifting the same workout? Your low back is very vulnerable. I mean, yes and no. I mean, if you bench press and then you decide you're going to go super heavy on overhead press, I would argue the risk for low back injury is just as high. Really all it is is that if you squat and dead in the same routine and you should do it in that order for sure, you're going to be a lot weaker because you just squatted going to the dead. So you have to modify the weight. You have to do a weight that is significantly lower than what you could do as your max lift or 80, 90% of your lift. So that's in the same thing goes true when you go row bench press after you do bench press. You're not going to do your max overhead press because you're definitely going to be fatigued from bench press. Yeah, yeah. But you know, and I'm saying eventually, right? If you're a beginner in your media, you're probably okay. But if you look at like powerlifting routines or strength athlete routines, they rarely deadlifting squat in the same workout. Typically it's either a squat. Yeah, because they're also chasing max lift. That's why they're chasing after a max lift. If you're a person that's just training, this routine to me is completely fine three days a week. And as long as you modify the intensity of the weight, there's nothing. This is a great routine to run two, three times a week every week. Well, this looks like a pre-phase in MAPS metabolic. MAPS metabolic pre-phase looks like this with maybe a couple of variations because you are working the entire body, you're kind of getting everything in there. And it's working every single muscle group. And it's very, very effective at sending some good strength in muscle building signals. I mean, you definitely can do it. I would just say at some point when you get more advanced, you might be better off alternating those two in my personal opinion. But if you do do them all, you will squat first. So we'll go squat, deadlift, row, bench, overhead press in that, in that order. Yeah, the order is perfect. You just got to know that when you go to overhead press and you go to deads, you're going to be fatigued from the previous exercise. So you're going to have to just do less load. And I don't know, dude, at least for me personally, this is just me, right? I can squat and get after it and then go into deads like a lighter load and be very controlled, safe, and not feel like I'm jeopardizing my form. If I go heavy bench and then I go to do overhead press, I'm more likely to hurt myself in my low back doing that. And now this has to do with I have an- Interesting. For the bench to overhead? Yeah, because I have an anterior pelvic tilt. So I already have an issue with making sure that- At the Instagram butt. Yeah, because the Instagram butt going on. So, but I mean, that's common. I mean, the anterior pelvic tilt is very common in most people. And now I have a little bit of an excessive one, so I have to constantly be reminding myself to stay engaged, keeping the core tight when I'm pressing good weight over my head. Yeah, I rarely I'll go dead to overhead press because of just like the strain of the lower back. I'll feel that like when I'm then pressing a load overhead. So I don't usually stack those back to back ever. But that's just me and my own preference. Right, that's what I'm saying. Common wise, right? If you would look at, you know, you just randomly picked a thousand people's workouts, you often will see a bench press and some kind of an overhead press in a workout because typically people will pair chest and shoulders. Yeah, I do that. Rarely do you see squats and deadlifts in the same workout. Yeah, that's fair. You really do. You just don't see it very often. And I think it's because people know how to. They're very demanding. Those are like the most demanding exercise. Yeah, but again, if you're beginner, intermediate, and you're smart, you could definitely do them all in the same workout. I just don't, when you're getting strong, you're starting to really push yourself. I think you get better results alternating those two. That's the key. As you get more experienced and strong, and then you are going to have a tendency to want to push the weight more, this is where it gets risky is to have them back to back like that because they are so demanding. If you just went and did four or five sets of heavy squats and then you're going to go do deadlifts with that, then absolutely you're at risk. You know what's funny, though? You do five sets of each of those, right? So five dead squat, dead rows, bench, overhead press. That right there is better than 90% of the workouts that are on there. Oh, yeah. I'm dead serious. Oh, absolutely. That simple basic thing that we just said right now. That's the meat of it all. Like if you want to get fit, you don't want to buy a program, you're like, whatever. I just want to do something basic that's going to work really well. And you want to do something that's better than 90% of the garbage that's out there. Just do that. Next question is from LT Fitness Training. Defined fitness. I can't because it's like defining love. It's for every person, it's different. Yeah, I mean, what's one person considered fit? It may not be fit for someone else. Like a bodybuilder might be very fit for their workouts, but would be terribly unfit for running a marathon or swimming a few laps or whatever. You really can't define fitness. I like saying something like health. Health might be a little bit better, and in which case, I would say you have some longevity. You can move freely. You don't have any pain. You've got good blood lipid levels. You've got good insulin response to food. You've got decent energy throughout the day. Hormones seem to be pretty balanced. But fitness is so specific. And really, this is something you have to define for yourself. If you want to be able to play with your kids, go on the occasional hike, like the way you look in your clothes and just generally feel good, then your fitness goals are very different from someone who wants to max deadlift or whatever. I totally look at it more as a ability, maintaining or improving abilities and an overall function and capacity of the human body. So whatever that looks like for the individual, it's going to vary. And that's why it's such a hard thing to nail down and define exactly what it is. But from my perspective, if I have a goal or pursuit that's physical, it's really like the fitness is the process to get you there, or it's something that you're constantly adopting and considering in your everyday practices. So now that we've covered how I think we all agree that it's hard to define this. Now, do you guys have your own personal? I was just going to ask that. Yeah, general fitness. For me, we talked about this actually on a recent podcast where I have a certain amount of weight that I feel like for those actually the big lifts that we just talked about, that I want to be able to do. And to me, that's what being fit is for me. Like I know I'm not anywhere near my max lifts on all those. That's okay. I don't need to be that fit in all those areas. I want to make sure that I'm also not weak in all that stuff. And same thing goes for even cardio. Like by no means could I get out there right now and run three to five miles and do great at it. But if I could run a mile, I could run a mile right now and I could do a decent amount of time. And so I have like markers that if I can't get under a mile under nine minutes, I'm starting to get out of shape in that area. Like that's not fitness to me in that area. So I need to get better at my cardiovascular endurance. If I'm not able to bench work out with 225 on bench, I know that I'm starting to lose my strength in that area. If I can't deadlift more than 400 pounds, I know that I'm losing my... And so to me, as long as I'm kind of staying... And then mobility wise, right? So if I notice sometimes I'll get down, I haven't been in my 90-90 in a while and I'll get like, I'll cramp just from being in the 90-90. So I know that I'm neglecting my hip mobility. And so I kind of have all these little things that I check in with myself and I have markers for me that I say, okay, I'm pretty fit. I'm fit. I'm healthy. I'm good. I like where I'm at. Sure, I can be better in all these things, but I don't want to allow myself to go below that because then I feel like my fitness is suffering. But that's so individual. Yeah. Yeah. For me, it's like I like to... I want to be able to work out, feel good in my workouts, get a good pump. I want to be devoid of major pain, aches and pains. So I feel like I can move. I want to feel like I could go on a hike because that's something I enjoy doing when the weather is nice. I like to go on hikes. I like to feel like I have a good libido and I like to feel like I have good, sharp energy. My job involves obviously being on a podcast or being on other podcasts or doing media. And if I notice that I start to feel a little foggy or not quite as quick with my comments or my thoughts, then I'll start looking at my diet. I'll start looking at my sleep and my exercise because I want to feel very sharp. So for me, fitness means feeling sharp, feeling pretty strong and otherwise just feeling healthy and like I said, like I can go on hikes. Yeah. I think too, it's where you are in life. For me, it was different when I was trying to get as much out of myself as I could in my athletic pursuits and trying to PR and I think it's just, it's evolved now to a lot of what you're talking about in terms of being pain-free, having energy to keep up with the kids and actually like have that movement where I can be explosive. So being explosive, I think as I'm aging is really a high pursuit for me. I want to, because that identifies to me if I have mobility issues or if I have any kind of pains or like the patterns throughout my day are limiting my abilities, I want to address those things. And so for me to jump and to, you know, move quickly left to right and twist and do all these types of things to play basketball, to throw a ball, to kick a soccer ball, to run, like it really is like heavy emphasis on movement now more than ever. But I do agree. I try and keep certain lifts in mind. Like I don't want to lose my strength. I still want to be able to squat, you know, somewhere around what I used to squat. And I want to keep those abilities. I want to be able to deadlift. I want to be able to bench. I want to be able to overhead press. And so I keep those constant check on those things. Next question is from Composed Cocktails. Do any of you have experience helping a significant other get in shape? I'm having a hard time balancing being a good or nice boyfriend while also trying to be strict or real with my guidance and advice. Who picked this question? I did. This is really good, right? Okay. So I like this question because this has been an interesting journey for me. I used to have a rule that I would not train my girlfriends. I never did, like so all through my 20s. It's a slippery slope. Well, here's what I found. I had a really, I was so passionate about the job. I had a really hard time if like, you know, and every girlfriend did in my 20s, this would be like, will you train me? Or will you write a plan for me? They would ask that. I like your voice to me. They do it just like that. Please me. Yeah, right. So they would ask me to do this. And whenever I would try, I would get really frustrated because we would be working out together and it would turn into giggling and flirting and not taking the form and technique serious. And like, you know, or if I was putting them on a diet plan, you know, they followed it for like a few days and then they were off of it. And it was like, so I'd have all this kind of wasted energy and help them. And I took my job so serious. It was so hard for me to like switch to this. Like it ain't that serious for her, you know, she wants my help, but then she don't really give a shit that much. And so I just made like this hard rule. Like, I don't train, I don't train girlfriends. I don't do that. It wasn't until Katrina, did I meet somebody who I actually trained, died and eat with. And for me, it really was, I waited. And for the first two years, we didn't. I didn't help her at all with any of that stuff. I waited until she came to me and like really, really, really wanted me to like dial her hand on all those things. Otherwise, it comes off as like me trying to push all that on somebody who really deep down doesn't want it that bad. And that was always like this struggle in the relationship. So I mean, my advice is to make sure that the, the significant other really wants the information that you want to give to them. Because sometimes they just say it because it's like, Oh, you're a trainer. You're knowledgeable about nutrition. You're knowledgeable about working out. So help me out. But deep down, they really don't give a shit that much about it. And they're not going to treat it the same way that you want a client to treat it. It's a slippery slope because you're telling your client, Hey, you know, that's not on your meal plan or maybe that's outside of your micros is different than telling that to your wife or your girlfriend. They feel like tyrannized. Yeah. Or like, why am I not looking good? You know, my fad or what's in you. So you have this slippery slip going on. I agree with Adam. Number one, make sure they, they're asking you. Don't approach them. Don't go up to them. Say, Hey, do you want me to have them ask you and they really want to do it? And then define what that looks like. Say, Hey, what kind of trainer do you want? Do you want me to just focus on your workouts? Do you want me to like help you with nutrition? To do you want me to call you out? Or do you want to just, you know, be boyfriend and girlfriend and I train you in the gym? And, you know, and that's it. And then here's the second. Here's the other part. Don't take it so seriously. I hate to say that, but I mean it because if you value your relationship more than that's more important, you know, sometimes being right is not as important as everybody being happy. It's your job. You gotta remember it's your job. So it's like you're asking your partner to step into your work every single day. And then you're also asking yourself to outside of work work more. And it's just the worst thing is to get in an argument or a fight with your significant, significant other over their lack of devotion to the workout plan or diet. Like what a silly thing to argue about. It's just like any other profession. Like, you know, somebody coming home and they know that they work on cars. And it's just like, why haven't you fixed it? You know, it's just a different dynamic. You know, at that point to where it like, oh, get to it. You know, it's like this sort of, it's not, there's not a whole lot of urgency. And so to actually get somebody else involved, I highly recommend. And this is something that, you know, I did. Justin trained my girlfriends. Yeah. I trained his girlfriends. You know, Jerry trained mine. You know, like, so that was, I have a unique situation because I started out training my wife before we were even a couple. And I realized right away, this is going to be unprofessional real fast. And so I sent her off. Spotting her. Yeah. I might fall down. Hurry up and grab him. Yeah. No, I knew I was like really professional, but also I was like very much like, dude, yeah, like this is going to be a thing. And so I, yeah, I got somebody else to train her and like kept tabs, but down the road, it was like only until just recently actually where like Courtney has been asking me a lot more about like what she should be doing, what kind of food she should eat, like what, like how her training, how her posture looks like, like form technique, like all that kind of stuff. I just kind of like waited. I waited for that opportunity and she was like, you know, really into kickboxing at the time and would ask me all these questions, why her knees and her back hurts. And I'm like, I had to be real. I'm like, this is why. And you're not doing this, that and the other. And then I just leave it at that and then walk away. Yeah. It really, it's up to them to then, you know, follow up and want to be educated on that subject. 24 hour fitness used to do a really cool thing. If you, if as we had it, we used to get training sessions for half off. So basically you're just paying to cover the cost of, of the trainer and stuff like that. And the company's not really making any money off of, off of you, you getting personal trainers off. So I always bought it for all of, like every girlfriend trained with like my best trainer at the time. So Justin's trained one of my girlfriends because he worked with me during that time that I was dating her. I trained a lot of people's girlfriends. So I would like here. Yeah. I mean, if they were coming to me and they were asking that, I would say, listen, you know, you're far better off. I'll get you my best trainer and they'll do this and you know, and they'll coach you and help you. You'll, you'll do better. And it always worked out much, much better that way. I don't want to be that person. You said, or you alluded to Sal, like it ain't that serious. Like it's more about our relationship and like blending my work and job, especially if you take it seriously into that. It can strain the relationship. It depends on the people. Like Jessica loves when I train her in the gym. She really enjoys me telling her what exercise it's to do, watching her form, pushing her and motivating her. I am not a great client for someone else to train. I've just not, I've been working out so long and training myself for so long. And sometimes she'll give me critiques and I can, I'm not as receptive and she gets annoyed. And so we've had these conversations. So it depends on the person. I would do terrible with that. Yeah, yeah. Like imagine, like if you, you know. Yeah, no way. Yeah, no way. I'm just not a great client. That's why I don't even work out with workout partners. I don't need your opinion on it. Yeah, I know. I know I'm not a great client. I know it. I know I'm not a great client. I mean, there'll be very few people that I think would be able to train me. And you know, so. Well, that's an interesting topic. Do you have like in mind like somebody you would actually allow to kind of run you through some workouts? Oh, you know, the only way. I can't even think of it. I know, it's tough. No, the only way I could is if I was pursuing something specific and I was looking for, exactly. So let's say. Like MMA training or something. Yes, yes. Or like, that's where I'd be. Or like Olympic lifting. Exactly. So I'm not, by any means, you know, proficient in Olympic lifts. And I know there's far better. Sunny Webster. Right, right. There are far better coaches out there. I would 100% hire one and love to have one teach me. Yeah. Traditional resistance training. Yeah. You can't think of anybody. Bodybuilding coach. I can't think of anybody. Phil Daru or, yeah, like P.J. performs if I'm trying to like actually jump higher, you know, like, so I would do that. Yeah. Like if I was going to do a Jiu-Jitsu tournament, I would probably want to work with a coach. Yeah. It would have to be a very specific goal that I have that I'm aware that this person's far more educated than I am on that. But general health and telling me what I need to do, get the fuck out of here. Yeah. And you're just, you're so set in your own way and what you do. And you feel like you know your body. And I know I'm a pain in the ass with that. So yeah. You're going to have that conversation. And I think the key is not to take it so seriously. I think when you take it too seriously. Yeah, have fun with it. Oh, I've made the mistake, you know. Yeah, that was my mistake. You're out to dinner and then they order something. And then you're like, oh, you sure want for the diet, huh? Now you're just an ass. Let their own guilt talk to me. Yeah. And now you're just an asshole boyfriend for husband. Especially the waitress hears you. And I got that look once like, did you just tell this bitch what's up to you? They're called servers now. But you understand, a trainer too, you know. Stupid. Anyway, look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. So come find us on YouTube. You can also find us on social media. You can find us on both Instagram and Parler. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Sal, Adam at Mind Pump, Adam, and Doug, the producer at Mind Pump, Doug. Besides what most people think, this is really best for beginners. Oh, it's a great exercise for beginners. For beginners, when I think of like how I used to train clients, right? So I avoided exercise like this because they were difficult. Later in my career, things like the squat and the deadlift began to become the center point of all of my program.