 You are listening to the number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is mine pump. Happy Thanksgiving giving everybody In this episode we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience But we all have a lot of fun in the beginning of this episode. That's the first 44 minutes It's the intro portion. We talk about current events. Sometimes we mention our sponsors So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you a breakdown of today's episode By the way before I do I want everybody know our black Friday sale is going on right now Happening you guys. 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Yeah, then we talk about how sheriffs in California are refusing to enforce czar Gavin Newsom's orders Then we talk about the black Friday sale I already mentioned that I talked about the squats I did this weekend. I did a lot of squats ten sets Squats and I'm feeling really good Then we talk about the movie shoot that's happening by Justin's house with one of the most handsome Hollywood actors ever Take my wife and then we talk about the skiing adventures that Justin had with his two sons This weekend, then we got into the fitness questions. Here's the first one This person wants to know if a food intolerance can actually prevent you from deriving the nutritional value of food So does having intolerance affect how the food is assimilated and utilized by the body the next question This person wakes up in the morning feeling very stiff and immobile wants to know if there's anything they can do Get your head out of the gutter Justin. Yeah, it's not there next question This guy says look I'm bulking, but I'm actually just getting fat. What's the deal and the final question This person wants to know how vocalizing our personal opinions has either helped or hurt our business Again, I mentioned the black Friday sale for the programs and for the bundles one more thing We're also having a black Friday sale on all of our accessories sweatshirts hats Drinkware, you know, you want to access right t-shirt. So again at our mind pump store We sell things like resistance bands Suspension trainers we sell t-shirts and sweatshirts and hats and all kinds of stuff get everything at a massive discount between 85 to 60% off that's at mind pump store.com and then if you missed the black Friday place to go for the programs It's maps at fitness products.com Well, yeah, you know, my son was little he was all he was all worried because he said a bad word I was like, tell me what it was. Come on, buddy. It's okay. He's like, I don't want to say it again Like you won't get in trouble. Yeah, what letter does it start with? He goes s. I'm like, oh man I'm like shit's not that bad of a word. He looks at me like what's shit What word did you say go stupid? You're right. You don't want to use that. I gotta be careful. Hey speaking of kids I got I got another milestone situation that I'm curious to hear you guys Enlightened me like on these moments, right? So You know, this is as a dad like you're like, you know Stretching things and then every once in a while you overreach like in working out the same thing happens I feel like with like messing with my son like, oh, he's not ready for that yet Yeah, you don't say yeah anything right so we're we're reading doing our our usual night thing that we do And he's got this book that we've been reading for like the last five say a month or so and You open it and it's got like a hole about this big in the front of it And he like, you know, we play pickaboo and stuff like that and like his favorite thing to do is like He were I'll rereading and he'd be sticking. He sticks his foot through the hole in his hand And so, you know a bit he's been playing a lot with that and that's a good time, right? So he he's grabbing my hand now and he wants he wants me to put my hand through it, right? So he grabs my hand to put it through there and I pretend like the book sucks my hand in I felt so bad oh shit. He's not ready for that yet. Hey, that's your job, dude Your job is to constantly do that. I did that to my son. He had a film it though No, I did to my boy It was like 11 and I'm and I'm you know him and I used to watch cartoons together and there was this like anime cartoon It's kind of cool, but it was a little scary. It was a little frightening a little bit. I'm like, he's 11 You know, he's he's a good. He's gonna have a good time. Anyway, we're watching and he's totally into it And the frickin one of the monsters comes out and bites someone in half And he he goes he didn't even cry dude. He did one of these Just any kind of you kind of feel shocked. Oh dude. I was like, I just damaged my shit right now You want to know it's funny? He would not watch that for years Yeah, I did that one When we were at Disneyland and I forget what what ride is that the one that the main roller coaster? That's like the one it was like Halloween. Oh, it's the mana horn. Yeah, no, not the mana horn the other one Space Mountain, right? So it's based out Yeah, so it and so they changed it and I didn't know because of Halloween They made like this super creepy ass like ghost follow us, you know as we're going on this It's the first time he even like went on a roller coaster. I'm like, it's gonna be fine, dude This is this Disneyland everything is fun and happy and exciting and we're sitting on there and like we're getting into it It's super dark and everything's cool And he's just like really nervous and he's like holding on to me like super tight And we're getting up through this and then this ghost thing comes to like eat us and he's like Left out of there. He was like just shivering, you know Fuck good. I'm not that bad of a dad. Yeah, you're gonna do it more Yeah, I was too early. I was the worst of my younger brother because let's see. He's six years younger than me So I'm so as I got older. I was not old enough to really judge things as well So I used to do that to him constantly like I gave him a jalapeno when he was like four or five, you know Well, yeah, you can handle it. I'm like here try this out, buddy You drink water gets worse eyes are all crying. Oh, yeah, dude I gave him duct tape to play with and he tucked it to his hair, you know And I made a promise that to tell my mom and I gave him a pocket knife That's how I got him not to tell my mom like don't tell mom. Don't tell me he's crying Oh, I'm like here. I'll get I gave him a pocket knife. He was like seven Like don't tell mom. I'll let you have this. You're something more dangerous. Yeah He still fucks with me to the day about that. He's a dude. You ruined me give me a pocket I could have killed myself Oh, yeah, and we're speaking to kids I forget about this There's this bias right when you have a kid where you try to See them objectively, but you can't help but think that they're special Like they do something like oh this kid he's way ahead I remember when Max first like lifted his head up. He's like look at how early he's lifting it So strong He's like four months ahead right now, so I did this the other day, right? So he's like he's not even three weeks old yet, right? So I picked this was like two days ago. I pick him up I am holding him and whatever and he he stares I was very alert so he like stares at me and kind of you can tell he's studying my face And I'm smiling at him and I'm making faces and then he smiles back And I'm like this is really early for a baby to be smiling like Jessica get over here So she comes over and I'm smiling and then he does it again And she's like what's the big I'm like honey babies three weeks old don't smile They don't they don't socially smile so I had to look it up, and I'm showing her like you do realize is a soap This is a sign of a genius She's like you sure you didn't like you sure he wasn't pooping or something like you did it twice. He's just got gas Yeah, so I'm like I'm like set now, and I'm in my head. I'm like this kid's gonna be brilliant Let's see how well this episode air ages He gets an F and Art class. Yeah, you want to think the best always. I think you're gonna be a genius. Yeah Easily you guys have a good weekend. What you guys up bro listen to this So I got I got a handful of stories for you about this weekend and then our drive home, which was crazy So did you guys see the video we sent over of the when Justin was pulling in I just happened to be outside I was checking Doug sent me up with light bulbs. That's right. I always start the weekend. Yeah, and so I was out I was open the door. It's like, I don't know what you guys roll up eight and nine o'clock at night Yeah, somewhere around eight o'clock or so at night and I just changed the light bulbs for the the garage and They weren't turned on so it's all pissed. I got the door open It's freezing outside and I'm like messing with the switches trying to watch it And just as I'm doing that Justin's coming around the corner and he comes pulling into the driveway and his lights Hit the front garage and all of a sudden you see two bears Yeah, come running out across our driveway probably teenagers, you know puffing it Yeah, the worst kind of bears. Yeah Well, I wasn't sure if they were cubs and we're all afraid that maybe the mom was around because I was standing there with Mack Max was like right behind me I had the door wide open and then I'm like messing with the lights all sudden the lights hit and then there's like two bears We're running right in front of us. So I was like yellow Katrina crap max Courtney did not want to get out of the car There's gotta be like a mom around here somewhere working. We had the one big-ass bear come in break my house There's a few more. Here's it's cool though. I meant to tell you this Doug I didn't even tell you this yet So I went yesterday before I left it to go kind of inspect like the area to see if they messed around and there's Paw marks all over the door the new the new door, but no damage or anything So it's just like there this the new door is good. It's got the we get the round knob We've got the bolt on the outside that that sheet metal is like bolted in they're not gripping on any of that So we'll see we'll see I'm not down with the marketing from that down with the bears, dude It's a honeypot, you know, it's like they've every time they've gone there. They've gotten something out of it I know, you know, I don't blame them for keep coming back for more Yeah, we didn't even have any trash in there or anything, but I think that's I think Justin's right I think they've scored so many times that it's on the bear internet Satellite marked it yeah groups of them are shilling up now Yeah, have a little bear party listen to this though. So last night Justin We rally and and drive late last night was like either drive really late last night or super early You're super loose morning And I look at Justin like bro I'd rather get on the road late at night and then sleep in my own bed Then like get up at four o'clock in the morning and try and be here, right? Yeah So we both agree and we hit the road kind of late last night. What times you guys end believing like nine or somewhere I thought oh jeez. That's really late. Yeah, you guys get home like three o'clock in the morning No, no, we got home at like 12 30. Yeah 12 30 once I'm not good with math Quite a few hours carry the tube Yeah, you add like a whole another hundred miles and you going back my bad No, so we're we're driving right and yeah, Justin and I are you know talking back and forth and We get to the top of Donner Pass and all of a sudden we're in the middle of a fucking blizzard Mm-hmm out of nowhere I could we're flying like 70 miles an hour, you know and you know Donner Pass where it's you know You got all the the windy turns up there all the diesel trucks you call the trucks everywhere Yeah, and all of a sudden, I mean I'm talking like mid conversation doesn't work Like just a cloud of snow comes in and all of a sudden we are in looks like like we're like warp like hyperdrive Yeah, yeah while we're speed and now you guys are both in your trucks where he's with me and mine I drove I drove him home. Oh, yeah Courtney's coming back up today So he's just him and I and our truck together. She's still up there. Yeah, okay So so we're driving and talking and then all sudden this hits us and I mean instantly everyone slows down and people sliding around on the road You can feel how slippery it is and can't I haven't been in that bad of a storm. I've told the story I don't know if I told it on mine pump, but I I got caught in a storm one time where it was This was my high school sweetheart. I was about 20 years old and we were driving I don't know why we were doing this But we were staying in South Lake Tahoe, but we were skiing in North Lake I don't know why but that's what we were doing and so we stayed in North Lake all day Until late at night and decided to drive back home to our cabin Which is it's about an hour driver on the lake so north and shallow south shore takes about an hour So we were driving and that's 28 and 50 and that's where you're you know You're driving near incline village where Doug used to live that area over there and there's like cliffs Yeah, and they're super sketchy and I got caught in a blizzard on the way there to where it was a complete Wide out the ground the entire road was what it's a two-lane highway And we had a drive like 10 miles an hour all the way around like scariest not one of the scariest nights of my life Being caught that storm. This was the second worst like storm. You just couldn't see you guys like hold hands and we did We tried in songs. We tried to act. Oh, nothing different. Yeah We tried to act all cool like it wasn't really Up on the steering wheel like looking it's a good thing. You haven't excessively lifted ridiculous truck. That's right I definitely need I felt a lot safer with a little Honda that was right next to us But that guy is shitting himself right there. I got stuck one time going up to Tahoe We were driving up there in two cars my cousin's family and our family and the storm was so bad The whole road stopped and we were literally stuck in place This was terrible because kids had to go to bathroom and there was nowhere to go We were stuck in the same place for four hours until we finally decided I was probably done around Yeah, I'm sure it was done or pass because I usually need we literally had to go back We just turn around they close the only hit there So we called the the girl once we got through it right we get on the bottom and I call Katrina I'm like hey because I called her and she didn't answer before that and then I called again I said well, you're not even worried about us you guys not because I thought the storm Can't went through there and then hit them like yeah, they would have saw this it didn't even hit them It was just it was just a peak of Donner got nailed hella hard and was scary as shit and then we so yeah, we keep driving and we start noticing there's a lot of cops out and They were we're like, okay, wait, I guess it's like quota time or something Maybe they're like gonna be pulling people over, you know, they're they weren't even out out though They were like like wedged in with their lights off, you know, which we're discussed I think you're like that's they're not allowed to do that anymore right because you have to be able to see them Otherwise, that's a super, you know big hazard Not only that they can get away that you can get away with the ticket because it's like entrapment because you can't see them You're supposed to be able to see part of the cop car and they have to have their parking lights That's true, dude, and then we're so you have to know it's a cop in order to get it No, you don't know it's a cop You just to be able to see that it has parking lights on like so they have to keep their little pass some visibility Yeah, they can't be on the side of a freeway anyway, which black dude We kept driving and we just saw this and they didn't even care about anybody else Like we just were driving and they weren't even looking at us They kept looking up, you know for something and we're just like well This is really weird, you know and we kept going like a couple miles There's more cops like wedged and really like tight places like hiding away and you know on the radio And then we go a little bit further and there's this one cop. He's actually outside his car, right? He's outside his car and I look over and we both saw he had like one of those strips You know where they throw across the road. Oh shit. Yeah, it's a pop tires And I'm like this is like a five-lane freeway like what the hell like why would you like even if you are gonna try and Stop somebody like you're gonna throw like that out there and everybody's gonna go well They must have been waiting for somebody. Yeah, we're at this point. Justin and I are like tripping you guys making up stories Yeah, yeah, okay. Oh James behind us We're like what what and it was you know, it was at least a good 20 to 30 minutes Which was probably at least you know 10 exits and at every exit there was at least two or three cop cars hidden in the dark Some of the cops were out doing this so just and I are like, you know Speculating one or two like you don't just do that for someone who's like speeding or some bullshit Like even like a even like a stolen car isn't enough to get that many cops out So we're trying to figure out what the fuck's going on late at night. Yeah. Yeah, is there yeah We just came out you guys had some weed Hey, thank God we didn't Oh my god Here so we're driving down we're on 80 gets crazier and we're and we're seeing this and we keep and it's just getting more and more And I think I was the first one to be a little like sketched by the Justin's like, okay This is getting weird It's every exit and we've been driving for 20 minutes This is a ton of cops that are just all sitting out on the freeway waiting You're like ready to pounce so we're we're on 80 and we're getting ready if over by Vallejo area Where you branch off to 680 and it's that over you go to the right So you gone through Sacramento right and then you branch off on it all the way over to get to San Jose Yeah, you go all this when you passed like the Budweiser sign or whatever. Is there Budweiser sign over there? No, it's more like that remember that like putt like golf. Yes Yes, and it's and it's always the part where the the San Jose exit creeps up on you We're also in your other jump across. Yeah, you had jump across so really quick So that's exactly what happens us. We're driving Justin tells me like oh bro. We get a San Jose exit I was like, oh shit. Yeah, I miss it I start merging over so I look in my river mirror and all I see fucking way in the back dude I see of cops and they're all across like all lanes coming all a fast all four lanes and back five each Deep coming as fast as you can behind us and I'm looking at him as I'm merging over the right And as I'm merging over the right I see between us and the cops is this white truck Dodging in and out of cars no lights on no lights on doing like 120 plus miles an hour Yeah in and out of traffic and it's coming right to us Yeah, and we're getting ready to right behind us get on this on ramp and I'm like and it was just like a Mean quick reaction. I thought this I gotta stop this guy. Well, no I was like fuck this ain't getting off right here if he's going there let him crash to his death So we go I was like I told Justin. I'm a fucking I'm going left And so I actually got out of the the exit and sure shit He went he went right behind me to the right of me and then out the exit and then all the cop cars flying So he literally passed by you guys. Yes. Wow. Yeah, like right alongside us then took that exit And then all the cop cars behind I mean they're trying to find out what happened you go on the news No, we haven't yet. There's those last late last night. I tried there's no news over It's all just over COVID, you know like election nobody gives a shit about like real thing crazy stuff Nobody cares. Nobody cares. They're bank robber dies of COVID COVID got him he opened his restaurant He had more than three people over Thanksgiving. Yeah, get that son of a bitch. Yeah, I'm tearing it up So let me guess you're driving home late at night I'm sure you guys had some caffeine because it was late at night driving through a blizzard Helicopps. Oh shit car chase. You didn't sleep at all last night. You know, I was okay once we got home I was I was oh wait a minute, but your wives and kids are buck up back up. Yeah. Oh, you guys like good No, it was it's just a weird night though I was just telling Justin I'm like what a weird storm out of nowhere to get in and then I was worried that like Cuz I still had to drive over 17 You know even after that and I'm like dude I bet you like a mountain lion's gonna jump out of the woods, you know my way home or something That was like the kind of night it was Yeah, they're awesome. Yeah, and I just hung out all day all weekend with the kid. Yeah. Yeah with the boy and Jessica So it was just you three then it was just us three cuz my other two kids are with mom So it was just us hanging out and I got to spend some really good time with them and rock them and play with them and Stare at them and hang out with them. Yeah, so we're having now How is he with the last I thought you guys are you still? Syringe feeding to add to what he was eating or is he now getting enough milk? We're still we're still working on it. It's definitely It's definitely challenging. Oh Katrina and I were fighting about this last night like real fighting We're like arguing over like how long we were doing it for and I swear we were doing it for quite a while I thought we were doing it for at least a month after he was born She's like it was not that long was like the first week and I'm like It's not like it a knock against you if we had to do that relax, you know I'm saying like you gotta be careful Mom's taking it all personal. Thank you. Yeah, I'm like I was like it's not that's not the point I was like I know because you would breastfeed him and then I would rock him and I would syringe feed him afterwards And I loved it. It was like actually I couldn't he wasn't ready for a bottle yet I obviously can't breastfeed him So that was my only thing I got to do with him to help you know feed him And so I actually really enjoyed it and I remember doing it for I swear at least a month But you know I got in trouble when I said I know I was thinking about that Cuz you gotta be if you you're right. They might take a personal But I get it right because as a father. What if she said what if she said do you say hey? I remember that remember that year you weren't making that much money. It was a tough year We made it like what do you mean? We did okay. No, you're right. It's totally like that. You know, she gets like it's like something that she was lacking as a mother She wasn't producing enough. I was like, oh, dude I didn't even think like that when I said it and I'm like, oh, you know what you're right It was only like a day or two. Yeah, I remember I remember growing my Chest hair back out just to make sure there's no confusion. Huh? Yeah Because you were nursing him for a while Sometimes you're hanging you put him to sleep and then they would kind of like they do nuzzle their way down and like no It's I start growing like a big patch of hair They don't like I see you the first time like let it happen a little bit You know Sam like oh go ahead try let's see what happens all about You gotta give him some struggle in life Anywhere yeah, no, it's he had it's all put him on my body You know my chest so we're like skin-to-skin and they do that They kick with their legs and they start to search right and you know that they can see Like that's color of your nipple is different than your skin and they smell so I actually try to seek it out So he's like doing this thing and he puts his mouth down on my chest to try to and then he has this Confused look because if you get some chest there Dad has this it's not your mom doesn't work It's not your mom buddy. I saw you guys also did the bath first time, right? Yeah, we yeah, we gave him a little bath with the warm, you know the warm water from the sink or whatever It's so wild to like watch you guys go through because I feel like I just came out of the Twilight Zone and to see you Guys kind of in it right now, so it'll be interesting I want to hear what you have to say like I when I tell people I say The first six to eight months was very much so Twilight Zone not a lot of sleep You're not doing very much like he's barely starting to get to where you can see and recognize who you are Yeah, it was after that that I feel like I love right now right now where he's at and from what like one year old on now And we're at a year and a half you're gonna have a great time when he's like two and a half three. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah He's that's when they push back and they're little shit. Yeah Well, I told you last time on the podcast, so he's definitely I know your figure shit out Oh me that I'm like you got a smart one in your hands My daughter you would throw tantrums that I'm serious if you could hook her up to a generator She would power a city with the amount of energy. She would produce it was Insane, you know, she did I would tell you guys she knocked whenever teeth out one time because she threw such a crazy Yes, that's powerful as a little kid She was in the in the the cart or whatever at the at the target and she wanted a toy And I'm and every time we'd go to the store you get her a toy So I'm like no you're not gonna get it this time and she lost her shit And I thought you know normally when this happens, I'm not gonna give in she's gonna just whatever Yeah, anyway, she's freaking out and make me turn around and then you see blood What's going on? She must have swung her head and hit her own tooth. So I'm really I really want to hear from you I hope you remember to do this as you have these moments of You know, oh, I want to be a better dad this time around or oh, I did this different I want to hear that you like because you were you were experienced already and it's been a long time since you've had kids I really want to hear those most those self-awareness moments that you have where you're just like Oh, I remember this and now I'm doing this instead like I was telling Justin on the way home that You know our latest, you know parent hack, right? We we it's you know, I totally understand now why parents appreciate the Routine right because when he's home and you know, the naps are on the routine is everything Oh, it's everything. It's like the kids an absolute saint. He's easy. It's it's great Right as soon as you go, you know, we travels go somewhere or what about that for the weekend or a few days? And he's out of his routine. It's like oh my god It's like starting all over again of trying to get him to get in get in go to sleep and do all stuff and so And something that I at least I've learned like for at least for max and my experience is that the more as a parent You get frustrated and you resist those types of things the more difficult it becomes versus trying to just kind of weave in and out of it Yeah, just now we're talking about this like you got I call it like putting cones out, you know Like constantly I'm just always putting cones out to kind of like, you know maneuver them around to where I eventually want them to go It's not like because you can't control them You know, that's just not gonna work out for you Like you're gonna think that you have all these things perfect and it's all gonna go down this way And it never does so it's just like for me I've just learned to kind of like, you know at least like build that past so eventually it gets to where No, he was he was sharing this last night I'm oh, it's so funny you say that because this is like the latest, you know Parent hack for us is when we go out to truckie one of the things that it's always frustrating is exactly that It's like his bedtime routine like it changes his time goes to bed. We don't have the rocking chair We don't have the room like transit. I mean we have this whole transition system that we do home I mean we still bath and read that's all normal and feeding time all that But his environment is so different that it's like we're trying to adjust to like How do we get this kid to go right down because he goes right down at home? And so what we do is we lay on the bed and because it's instead again Instead of like resisting him and fighting him and dealing with it We're like, you know, we'll just let him wear down. We get after we're done with reading Katrina literally shuts all the lights off in the room blacks it out and she lays on one side of the bed I lay on the other side of the bed and we just leave them in between us We don't talk to him We don't communicate we don't say anything to him and we just let it he kind of goes back and forth between us Yeah, exactly He's like flopping his arms around and talking to himself and we don't communicate with him nothing and just kind of let him do his thing And 15 20 minutes or so of him doing that with it pitch black in the room of it And we you know, we can feel the bottom so if he starts to want to crawl off the bed You feel like Katrina like shove him over to me and then I pull him up And you know, it's just like this dance that we do all until he finally just kind of wears himself out And then once he'll eventually Park his head like in between either her or me and whichever one he does that person just naturally gets up Rocks him for a few seconds and then puts him down That's like it took a while to figure this out like okay The more we resist him and and get frustrated with him not wanting to go down because he's in a new place The more it more difficult it is the irony of it all too is it's a kid you fight going to sleep And then when you're older you can't find time to go to sleep. I know, you know I mean like I take back all those naps. Oh, yeah, I thought yeah I'd love to have a few of those back. Give me those mom. You know what I'm saying. Please. Oh, man Anyway, so is this this episode's up on Thanksgiving. Yeah, it's Thanksgiving. Oh, yeah happy Thanksgiving weird Thanksgiving a little bit weird for people Did you guys hear that the sheriffs in California a told Gavin Newsom that they would not enforce his I love this His Thanksgiving orders, of course. Yeah, the young guy doesn't even practice his own laws Oh in mandates. I buddy. Oh, that's so bad. That's that's a bad reflection of Leadership you had you had to think that was coming right. Do you guys have anybody though that like they hear stuff like that? And they're like, oh, we gotta this is what Gavin Newsom said. So we need to do this. I don't know anybody That's like there's people like that. I think when people people DM again I get really upset with me Look, I think if you if you look at people's behaviors When COVID cases go up and people are aware people naturally start to modify Their behaviors sure the problem is when you make the when you make all these mandates Then they start to rely on you to government to tell them what to do. Yeah, so the second government's like, okay We're opening back up and everybody put it over here Yeah, so I think people naturally would kind of begin but I do like the fact that the now I'm not saying I think people should have gatherings of massive amounts I think people need to be responsible, right? But I think it's silly that but let them be adults and determine what that looks like what a night Could you imagine the nightmare that would have created if the police and sheriffs actually? Oh, yeah Could you imagine? Well, yeah, that would just that would cause you're putting a lot on them too to do that Like come on and just imagine being a cop not gonna. Sorry guys Yeah, Justin wasn't weren't you telling me that there was a bunch of protests or yeah in Huntington Beach There's a massive protest because of the 10 p.m. Curfew or whatever. So they basically just Turned that into some big parade and March and everything Immediately at 10 o'clock Okay, it's civil disobedience. It's happening. It's yeah people are just I think you got to let people just make their choices right now That's what I think I think the more you push on them the more you're gonna get that kind of yeah I mean, it's real and then like people need to be responsible and there's no denying that but also like we're adults Like treat us like adults not like little kids. Yeah, I think yeah for us personally Jessica and I we're gonna isolate we got a newborn sure. It's also flu season So we're being pretty smart. My family is now scattered. So normally you'd have 40 or 50 people together and so now what my family's done is the people from each like the San Jose people are gonna be over here The Sacramento people will be over there and so people are kind of smaller parties But for Jessica and I we're just gonna be at home just me her and the baby Are you guys meeting with small groups? No, I'm with I got so we're 15 deep which but that's small for us too though Right, so we normally have in the law there. Yeah, no, I know Two of the 15 have had COVID already So you can take them off and they're immune and then two others will be had just got their test I think yesterday Because they just came got they were sick and so they got tested. They were negative. So yeah, we've got four four of the 15 is pretty much There's no risk and then the other ones are like her mom or her like all Isolated well just people that we we already see on a regular basis like so her her family We we continue to we've seen for sense I mean there was the initial wave where everybody was like super isolated and locked up Then once everybody started to relax a little bit We started to see like our immediate close family that would all live in the same town and all interact So most of them we don't have any like aunt coming in from some other city or somebody like There's nobody that will be at Thanksgiving that I haven't been around in the last two weeks So it's I mean it's all people that we see. Yeah, I'm just going to hang out with Courtney's parents and then her sister That's it. So yeah, we're having kind of a small thing and then the next day I'll see my parents and then my brother. So that's as much as I got. Yeah I think you know, it's every winter. We do see a spike in illness no matter what you forget COVID, right? you still see you still see cold and flu season go up and It's largely due to the fact that people start to gather in big groups, but also low vitamin D levels. There's no Sun You know, so in they fat and they definitely are showing that with COVID low vitamin D Increases your risk for having severe symptoms. So it's a good idea To make sure your vitamin D levels are good and then zinc is the other one. Hey Doug I wanted to ask you I know that Casey or marketing science what that sent over an email about like we're gathering a bunch of testimonials right now Yes, what it what's going on with that? Like where do people go? What's can you give me the whole lowdown? Right, I don't know all the details But what they're doing is they're collecting testimonials of people who've gone through maps programs and if you go to this page It's mine pump media comm forward slash MFP dash testimonial You can also find that link at the mine pump podcast comm site. That's where our show notes is okay You'll be taken to a page and then that page you just need to include some information There there's some questions to fill out and then they're also asking for a video. So Again, if you do this you have a chance actually to be on this show That's the incentive here. So share share your testimonial and the best ones will be chosen And somebody will be on the show awesome Speaking of maps the Black Friday sales on now, right? So if you're listening Here's your chance it is if you've been waiting to follow one of our maps programs Or you've been waiting to sign up for one of the maps programs You've been interested in like one of the newer ones like maps power lift for example All individual programs are 65 percent off So every year the biggest sale of the year by far sweet babies is Black Friday So 65% off and then bundles are the where we take the multiple programs and put them together Those are already discounted typically 30% off. You can take an additional 50% off Of those programs and the two codes are for the 65% off BF maps and then for the bundles is BF bundles. Those are at maps fitness products Dot-com so I think we're probably gonna see a lot of more Popularity with our at-home programs to be quite honest. I think a lot of gyms are still speaking of at-home stuff Totally that you guys see too there are our flags were almost sold out already too So we did the garage flags. I kind of had a feeling because yeah I got a lot of messages from people for us to do that And I think it's a cool idea because I wanted one from my own home gym Yeah, and to just rock, you know, like a cool mine pump flag I can't believe I forgot to bring some up to Tahoe when we went Go back up. So I'll bring I'll bring some with us. But yeah, I know I want to get one for my garage. Oh, yeah Represent you guys want them for your place. You better hurry up speaking of garage. I did a workout over the weekend I think you guys did one similar to this that you ever do this where you set Something in your head like I'm gonna do this many sets and this many reps Mm-hmm, and then you get halfway through and you're like damn that was that was a lofty goal But now I have to do it. This happened to me on Saturday, so I'm getting back into squats I've been for a long time been working on unilateral and mobility and stuff So I'm getting back and squats for me Nothing blows my legs up like squats and they work really really well So I'm excited to get back into them. So now this is like week three or four of me squatting again So I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna put 225 on the bar and do 10 reps. That's moderate intensity for me So I did 10 sets of 10 reps one minute rest in between. Oh, and That's seven or so of those that's crazy. Oh, dude by the time so first set one. I'm like easy Yeah, first four move I have five to six and I'm like this is this is not gonna I don't know. Yeah, so I'm setting the safeties up, you know, so I have to fail your music progressively get more intense I like that's usually high. I at that point I couldn't I didn't even check the music because I'm just sitting there You know rest or whatever. Yeah, so I did it. I did 10 sets and you know, I'm surprised. I'm not Wow No, I'm not that sore and I would mess me up right dude I swore to God my legs grew I swore to God like a quarter inch to have they blow up with squats I don't know what it is about squats, but it's just crazy. They're swollen, bro Yeah, I think we're like two inches. No brother in flame Dude, I was gonna follow up. I brought up the other day that there was like people filming outside my house So I did some investigating. Oh, you found out what it was. Yeah, so Don't film. Yeah, it was totally a porn It wasn't a porn. Yeah, it was a I guess it's a movie I don't know if it's coming out on Netflix or one of those type of like Amazon or whatever You know streaming service But it's with Channing Tatum. It's so he's Not tell your wife called the dog. Oh, I did I just I just went by and like played some like, you know dance music just to see, you know, I had set them off That's Jessica's guy, too. Yeah, she I like what she actually doesn't like she thinks he dances Jessica doesn't say anymore when there's a guy that she thinks is hot She was like, we do you want to watch this movie or sure? She just rewinds. This is interesting No, she's very subtle like she's really smart with the psychological shit She's like, hey, you want to watch a movie tonight? I'll be like, yeah, sure and then she'll pick it I'll be like wait a minute. We need a minute. No, it's Thor, dude Yeah, if if Thor was ever making a movie like near me Chris. I'm done. Here's my wife You don't even call was real Dave. No, it's just or like he's earned it Is that what Chris Chris Hensworth? Helmsworth. Yeah, he's not bad. I miss those elves. Yeah Guy yeah a speaking of two shows I watched Wayne on Amazon Good, tell me what do you think great? I knew you were gonna. I'm on episode eight. I think yeah Have you guys gotten pretty far? So how about the home depot scene? How crazy is that hustle dude? I love don't you go a mess that's gotta be somebody does that bullshit What a piece of dirt people do that come back. Yeah, I would have come back Oh, you know somebody does that bullshit the casting and the writing for that the all the characters are flawed and But all likable even the bad characters even the assholes. Yeah, they make him like in a way that you still like I knew you guys all would like it. Yeah, great. Well, I can't believe I missed that. You know, that's 2019 It's been out for over a year. Oh, I love my fair part is when he turns on like punk music And they started dancing all weird like flopping like a fish. I like this guy the Boston accent cracks me up Yeah, no good show. Yeah, great much watch great show and then comedy. There's Jim Gaffkin What's his name that comedians stand up? Oh, he put up. Yeah on Amazon. I hope I said his name, right? Maybe Doug can look him up. I feel terrible again African hilarious and then Kevin Hart did one hot pocket. Oh, I saw that What was his any good? So I only halfway through pretty good, but it's weird. It's in his house. It's during COVID Yeah, it's during COVID. So it's in his house small audience. Everyone's wearing a mask He had some funny COVID jokes to open with he did But you don't hear the audience laughing is loud because it's only like they're all mass 20 30 people And then with the mask, you can't see their facial expressions. So it throws it off a little bit Yeah, but I don't blame him for trying. Well, I'm glad that yeah, somebody's at least trying to make it like, you know Like at least it's like a stepping stone back towards maybe they can start doing that more I was thinking to myself what would have been smarter would have been to put everybody in a box with see-through plastic walls because as an as someone watching I'm realizing when you're watching comedy You want to see and hear other people reaction. Yes. Yes. Otherwise. Yeah, the comedian feeds off that too because it's like, you know They they know how to like, you know, put more emphasis on things based off how they react all that stuff We went we went snowboarding this weekend, too They were they police that a lot more than I thought they were going to how do they police that? Well, just every time somebody was in line They had they actually had people working that were walking the lines and making sure your your face shield was up Oh, wow. Yeah, they want to stay open. So I don't blame. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, and that was whatever. I'm fine with that I'm gonna problem that but I just thought, you know, you're outside and everybody's kind of doing their thing that they're gonna Hard to breathe because I mean you're an altitude and then you just like haven't done all these moves like so I was This is the first time we took the kids because they've had lessons before that This is the first time we took them like on the slopes just with me and Courtney and we were having quite a time for a bit especially with Everett, but Like I I learned I have to like physically sort of hold him in place And then he gets it once he gets the feel of it and then he's he was great the whole rest of the day The beginning was rough But Ethan like just took off like he just was all about it and wanted to go to like the intermediate run And so I take him up on this intermediate run and we're up there and we start going down and he's doing great Everything's working out. But then we get to a point where I'm like, okay We got to go on this side of the trail because it's like the easier side or there's like a black diamond And he's like, oh my god, this one and then he just like no I don't know if it's a good idea pal and then boom. He just goes down. Oh shit. Yeah, he goes down And I'm like following him, you know on a snowboard So it's hard for me to like stop and like, you know adjust and wait and like he so he's like flipping over It gets his legs are all in different directions He's kind of laying there's like oh, and he's trying to pick himself back up But he gets back up and then and then I'm like, are you all right everything cool And then he gets up and just bombs it straight down like doing pizza all the way down like with like all kinds of speed I'm like, no Just praying he's gonna be okay, and he just he made it out. Wow I was like where'd all this daredevil stuff come from you know, that's the oldest right? So ever it's the one who's normally the one that's a little more fearless And then he will you had a little more trouble with right? He was a little scared when he was scared at first but I mean he's really young and So yeah, he took a little more coaxing, you know to get him to the place But he he picked it up to tell him what happened on the lift dude because he got one of those Oh, yeah forgot so when we were going up, you know with Ethan too This was another sort of lump against the whole thing We're getting off of the ski lift and so at the very end, you know, there's even signs for this Everybody knows to do this like you got to like bring those ski tips up And so I was like talking to him, okay And I took the you know safety bar off and we're just kind of like going to the front there and like Just right before we get there. He drops his skis down. Did they get stuck? You know, they get hooked get hooked. Yeah, it flops him forward So he goes forward on his face and on his stomach and like I get off and I'm like oh shit And like I so he didn't go all the way down He was kind of halfway up and then the chair was gonna come like just totally like smash into him So I jump over and I reach for him and I like smash him into the ground. So like went right over his head And then he gets up he pops one ski out, right? This is this is more of an advanced run so like everybody there isn't beginners and they're all like You know like waiting for us And so I just like grab him and I like throw him to the side and his skis under there And I grabbed that next and try to like assemble it ball back and I'm like, oh my god He's never gonna do this again. He's like like that was nothing. He's like, oh, that was you know, crazy I don't know if you've ever seen someone that that's like that if there's a so when you're your steed You're so we just stuck in the snow. Well, no, no, no, look at this Oh, yeah, when you when you're on the chair ramp and you're getting ready to come off the chair lift There is a little mound right and then you you drop off and you yeah So what he did was he let his skis drop below the mound before you're even off the chair So they hooked the mound which throws you forward and then you fall face forward You see at least once every time I ski I see one person do this where they hook it They fall off and then you're like you're sitting up and then the chair You in the back of the head. It's like I mean when it's not you It's the funniest shit ever you ever watch or unless it's like your son But Justin to have the awareness to go jumping over there and then shove his face in this You guys ever watch that video I don't know where it happened, but the ski lift went super fast and people were stuck on it Did you ever see this and they were getting flung off? You never saw this. Oh, it was going hella fast, but this is not okay. It's funny But it's not like people were must have been the most scary thing ever Oh, they were getting thrown off and people were getting smashed by the chair and the machine wouldn't stop You never saw this video. No, I never saw that Terrifying I told you about the one time when I was at the theme park I think it was it was in Wisconsin. I was at like a great America there and The the ride itself like had stopped and I was upside down and I was upside down for 20 minutes Before they could finally like get everybody like off or turn turn the ride back on and so I'm there with this girl I got a date and I'm upside down and we had we had made the mistake Obviously big mistake of bringing vodka with us, right? It's like we had poured it in one of those like frozen Lemonade slushies and I drank that like right before I got on that ride. I was like yacking upside down Oh, look it. Look it. Look it. Oh, shit. Watch. Oh, this you know, it's so funny I totally see Sal because we were last time we were all together last year and we were gonna go Skiing and everything like that and he was the one I could see your ass No, no, this is no joke and it wouldn't stop. Whoa, it just kept going and people are trying to leave us dude Imagine like Oh, I'm telling you dude. That is not good. This is no it's no joke and it just wouldn't stop There's another video of another place at this app. Where's the emergency shut off? That's crazy. Yeah, look people are jump people are bailing I know look at the smart people that bail early. Yeah. Well. Yeah, dude. You're gonna get pulled into that. Look at They're like jump just jump off of it, man. I hit the off button you asshole. Wow. Look at that. Wow Oh Yeah, so there you go reason number 75 while I know I will not go. I totally we hear what I'm saying I'll tell you how many times I know that like set we were all gonna go skiing last year and Sal's like, let me Google See how dangerous it is like the worst thing that's ever happened Let's start there. Yeah, and then I'll think about it First question is from aug docu if you have food in tolerances Do you still derive the nutritional value from those foods? Oh, that's a good question Yeah, it's kind of a that's kind of a general question, but I Can say with pretty good confidence that no not necessarily for a few different reasons, right? So when you have a food that your body reacts to you do get an immune response with changes Hormones a little bit causes more inflammation may reduce your ability to absorb and utilize nutrients And also when you have this kind of elevated low-level immune response in the body It does make it harder for you to do things like build muscle and burn body fat So from that standpoint, you definitely want to avoid food intolerances them. It's not this is what see This is one of the reasons why you know, just counting calories and macros isn't really everything There's a lot more in the details and your your body's so unique That how you react to the food also can play a role like for example and I'll use an extreme example, right like dairy I don't have a dairy allergy, but I have a pretty bad intolerance to dairy Justin on the other hand can you know, he can drink all the dairy he could drink and bathe in it And he's probably okay. Dairy queen And so let's say he drinks, uh, you know half a gallon of milk and I drink a half a gallon milk Am I going to get the same effect from the protein the carbs and the fats? That he will know I highly doubt it. I think it's gonna cause a lot of inflammation to reduce my body's ability to absorb things I'll get gastro issues and I'm not going to get the great results So, uh, it this something you should definitely pay attention to I think it's an interesting question Though because I also think of it like as a new world problem You know, you know like in terms of like if there's food out there and I'm starving And I'm trying to get some food and that's like you're trying to say like you can't get any nutritional value from something That's gonna make your tummy a little upset I mean, but at the same time, let's let's say it gives you diarrhea and let's say that's something you get super dehydrated And now that's a problem. You're gonna be battling out in the wild too. So Uh, I don't know man. I guess it just depends but it obviously over time We're talking about something that you're gonna be constantly eating all the time So that's in terms of frequency, uh, you know, that could have more detriment to you than uh, just getting it for the Nutrients well along those lines, okay, diarrhea Gastro issues constipation were big would have caused big problems for people. Sure. Yeah Could lead to death back in the day. Oh diarrhea is a leading cause of death in Third world countries for sure. Lots on people die from diarrhea all the time What's that show where they put them in the arctic remember that alive? No, what was it called? Oh, yeah alone alone Remember that girl who she was doing great, but she got so constipated that she had to leave because she couldn't So, you know food intolerances are no joke, but that's the extreme like let's forget the extreme. Let's just say you get Bloated or you get a little bit of gastro issues or a little bit of inflammation It's just it's probably a small effect, but cumulative, you know over over the years Are you gonna get the same benefit as if you were eating foods that you your body was you know worked well with No, I don't think probably not. No, probably not. All right. Next question is from the bad mad scientist When I wake up, I feel very stiff and immobile and it takes me a while to regain my natural mobility Welcome to the club. What can I do? What can I do before during and after I sleep to help me wake up and move better a couple of 13 year olds? Well, mine was like legit this guy over here with the other direction. I don't know you guys I'm just echoing. I got a remedy for feeling stiff. So here's the deal. All right. Let's get serious. So, um Number one your this studies will show this if your sleep is not Optimal you will wake up with more inflammation and pain. So Make sure you sleep. Well, I have a sleep routine where you know a couple hours before bed You prepare by turning down the lights and you can relax Make sure you have a good environment for sleep. The right temperature helps quite a bit I know when I use the the chili pad for example I wake up less stiff in the morning Then when I don't use it Inflammatory diet that kind of stuff can also play a role. How comfortable your bed is, you know If you've ever slept on a bad bed, you know what a difference that makes when you wake up in the morning But let's say that you forget all that and you still wake up stiff in a mobile Yeah, you you definitely can wake up and stretch and do five minutes of mobility Well, I've noticed this just with myself in terms of changing up my workout routine made a massive difference And I didn't realize just doing my normal barbell training I had to you know, step away from that for a bit and work a little bit more on unilateral kind of training and You know, give my joints some time to To work on stability again And that really helped because I would wake up in the morning stiff like my hips would hurt like my shoulder would be achy And uh, you know, it wasn't until I sort of started changing up my workout routine where that sort of got Alleviated again and then I could come back to it So this is similar to what happens to me if I get like a lift in and then I go for like a Three hour plus drive too where you're just in a fixed position after you've trained really hard So, you know, and I know that and I know this now, right? So I know if I go like heavy squats and then I got a drive three hours or whatever like that If I just ignore doing some mobility work before I get into that car I'm gonna pay for it You know about an hour and a half into two hours in You're gonna see me like rocking forward in the in the driver's seat because my low back is all tight You're gonna see me shifting around because my feels like someone's stabbing the side of my hip like my it's like on fire So if I don't do it, but if I get down and I go, okay I know I gotta drive Three and a half hours or more if I get on get down and I do some 90 90 mobility work before it's a night and day difference The same thing goes for before I go to bed. I know if I train Like heavy squats or deadlifts if I do not Do some foam rolling or some mobility work before I go to bed I know I'll wake up and I'll pay for it And so, you know, and that's gonna be different for everybody for me It's low back and hips like that's the that's the big difference. I don't really wake up with tight shoulder issues or upper back stuff It's always in my hips. It's either my it or my low back, which is all hip complex stuff related Which is all 90 90 for me So if I get down before I go to bed and I do some 90 90 drills before I get into bed I wake up totally different than if I just ignore that and I know I train hard and I go to sleep Then I'm paying, you know, I also use that feeling of waking up and feeling stiff as a Very effective sign Overreaching well or just mobility issues in general like I may not notice during the day and when I'm working out that my back bothers me But if I go to bed and notice when I wake up I got a Kind of crunch a little bit before I sit up or I got a roll differently to sit up and then my back's a little Stiff and then it feels better. That's kind of an early sign to me. Okay. I'm lacking a little bit of core stability I'm only noticing it right now when I wake up From you know from sleep But if I don't answer it now if I don't fix it now Then it's going to start turning into problems when I'm awake during the day and when I work out So oftentimes you can use this as a little bit of a early like a canary in the coal mine Indicator. Yeah, here's another thing too. You can go to you can have Anti-inflammatory natural foods right before bed and this may actually make a difference. So I like turmeric is a great Food you could take before bed Organifies gold juice has lots of turmeric and anti-inflammatory Herbs and plants in it that you can drink before bed Also helps for calming you down too calming. Yes. So those things make a difference. Uh, bromelain bromelain is an enzyme that if you take On an empty stomach. So if you take it with protein or with food, it's an enzyme that breaks down I believe proteins But if you take it on an empty stomach bromelain has a quite a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect So if you, you know, let's say you ate at eight, you know, seven p.m. For dinner, but you go to bed at 10 That's three hours empty stomach Take, you know, some bromelain go to bed. See if that makes that one was trippy Like I remember I had Talked to you about that and then one of my clients had really swollen knees like constantly and supplemented with bromelain made a big difference And it's it's natural. It's from uh pineapples. It's remarkable how effective it is as a natural anti-inflammatory Um, but yeah, you can do those things too and they're natural So they're not like, you know, NSAIDs or aspirin where they have those hepatocyte effects. They're usually pretty safe Next question is from mike helm seven. I'm bulking, but I feel like I'm getting fat Help sound like sell. Yeah It's the seller right now, but does he look like sell? Maybe because he says getting fat. No, this is I think this is uh, this is really a such a fine dance, right? When you are trying to put Weight on or put size on Is, you know, you know, you need to eat in a calorie surplus But I think that it took me a very very long time before I got comfortable with how little of a surplus I needed in order to bulk and put size totally because the the whole I mean nothing is uh more frustrating from this for the skinny guy or girl who's trying to build muscle and as you know pushing the calories and lift in every day and then they wake up one morning and they're lighter than they're The scale is lighter than what it was two days ago. Are they getting like a pound in a month? Yeah Yeah, and so um that really messed with my head for a very long time when I was trying to bulk And so I was always just over stuffing and over feeding during the ball and then I would just put on Way too much body fat. So You know, you just got to be if you have good programming So if you're following a maps program and you're eating even in the just the slightest bit of a surplus I promise you you're bulking. You're probably putting muscle on and if you're not seeing the scale move, that's okay There's probably a very nice exchange You're probably even leaning out a little bit and then you're also adding a little bit of of muscle Do not let yourself get caught up in what the scale is reading If you're doing if you got good programming and you're eating you're getting stronger, right? That's the best indicator. Yeah getting stronger is a great one It's not completely foolproof because sometimes getting fatter changes your leverage And it does make you a little strong like my squat will go up if I gain body fat for some reason I just can squat more weight But but look at general am I stronger in all my lifts? If there's a yes there that's positive like adam said have a good workout You can be in a calorie surplus have a great diet if your workout is not stimulating muscle You ain't gonna gain muscle. You're just gonna gain body fat maps anabolic And map strong in my opinion the two best bulking muscle building programs generally speaking So if you're looking for a good program or aesthetic aesthetic can be great too a little more advanced though, right? Yeah, a little more but for the average person to anabolic or strong would do it aesthetic great if you're experienced I mean no matter what I would I don't care how experienced you are I would go anabolic first and then either to strong or aesthetic as the second program And then the other one for the third and then as far as surplus is concerned You don't need a whole you don't need a massive surplus to gain muscle Um, you know, how many look let me put it this way gaining a pound of muscle a week would be Remarkably fast bulking. I mean that's like super genetics Muscle building I don't expect that to happen in anybody Except for maybe a beginner with with decent muscle building genetics But let's just say for hypothetical reasons you could gain a pound of lean body mass How many calories and grams of protein and carbs and fats do you think it really would take your body? To gain that pound of muscle. It's not much at all It's like 50 extra calories a day or less or something like that So you don't need the huge surpluses So if you're getting fat you're probably eating too much and I would look at your workout If you fix those two things then you'll fix this problem next question is from adam polman fit How has incorporating and vocalizing your personal opinions and details about your lives? positively or negatively affected the brand business and your personal lives you guys remember adam right adam was uh I think it was colorado where he came out to the live event tall tall good-looking fit guy He has his own podcast. He's probably interviewed both of you. You don't even remember. I do I do recognize his name. Yeah Oh, I know it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so he's no. Yes big guy. I'm sorry. He's full of shit over there. Yeah Yeah He's on video you can see his face you can see that if I saw his face like no No, I'm saying like I'm saying your your face is on camera. So it's like so it's very obvious I mean, I might be calling it out, but he looks confused as shit as he says Hey, hey, I totally remember and justin doesn't remember the tall handsome guys like you do That's the problem. It's fixated. Hey Justin. He was next to that attractive girl Oh, yeah You know what? I have some very strong opinions about this because I think times have changed a lot when it comes to this In the past, I think it's safe to say it was not a smart idea for anybody in media To talk about their personal opinions on a lot of different things. In fact, uh, pr agencies used to tell celebrities all the time Do not talk about politics. Do not talk about personal opinions Don't do any of that stuff Just stay general because it could screw you one way or the other These days with the cancel culture. It's a little bit different Okay, if you say the wrong thing or you do the wrong thing or you act in a way that whatever pisses off the mob They could literally destroy your career now my opinion And I think you guys will agree with me and if even if this wasn't true We do it anyway because that's another part to this but in my opinion if you build your business Saying what you're gonna say and being who you're gonna be Then you're somewhat protected of that in the future because if something happens and something comes out and they're like Oh, Sal said this about politics. We people are like he's been saying that for yeah since day one consistent Yeah, and oh, you know, you know, you know adam was seen drinking a diet coke I thought he was yeah, he talks about that all the time. It's not a big deal Like I think if you're gonna build a business in new media Then you need to be you need to be somewhat authentic and real because at some point someone's gonna see something or whatever They're gonna come after you maybe and if they do What are you gonna do come after me? I've been this way since day one. I've been honest since day one So I think that somewhat protects you. Yeah, I think these days is just different like uh, the the days of portraying yourself in a certain light and and You know having the the Lambo behind you and like whatever like staple of success looks like, uh, I think those days are you know, it doesn't do as well as it used to I know it still does well for some of these guys out there that can kind of portray themselves like that But I just feel in terms of a long-term strategy to get as close to your authentic self as possible Um, I mean it it it is what it is like either like me or you don't at a certain point I think we've been getting slowly more comfortable with the fact of like this is who I really am Uh, and so like I I don't really know how to be anything else And I think people appreciate that at the end of the day. Well, I think this is I actually think this is necessary Right because at one point if you try and you know Only talk about the things that you think that everybody wants to hear about and you're not being your authentic self and you're holding back Your opinions and your values and your views Then you and and let's say you actually build a successful business Then you got to get up every day and you got to be this person that isn't completely you And so even if it's doing well financially and it's growing Uh, you don't get to be yourself. I promise you that that that'll be short-lived pressing And you know what in the past adam that that you there was a buffer between You and people who watched you on tv or whatever. There's no more buffer. Yeah, so you're screwed exactly So then you got to get on your social media every day and pretend to be this character that you really are not And you know, this was a conversation that we all agreed very early on it's like we're going to be You know raw and real and ourselves and and here's the deal What's neat and why I think this is important today and you and you definitely can still get away even with cancel culture Is there's a very good chance there's a million people out there at least in the internet that are just like you That think like you that similar in age similar in values and views So don't be afraid of the you know, uh, the other hundred million that are totally not like you You don't care your goal is to find those million people that and you don't even need a million But i'm just throwing that out there. Let them find you Yeah, or yeah, exactly be yourself and continue to be yourself and then eventually they your tribe Of people that are wanting the information that you have or the value that you have to provide We'll seek you out And then what's great about that is you don't have to constantly be apologizing for the way you do things I mean, I think that was one of the things like sal was alluding to that really I think saved our ass I mean we came out so Over that our personalities over the top on the beginning we throttled hard Yeah, if anything we kind of backed off a little bit, uh, and so we wanted to make sure okay Our core audience is definitely they've got just as dark of a sense here. Remember as we do. They're okay with profanity. They're all those things Uh, otherwise you wouldn't have been paying attention to us And so we don't have to deal with a lot of that bullshit Yeah, and the truth is that it's not going to guarantee you success It might hurt your business But so what then you're not in that situation where you're either acting fake Or vulnerable that's the thing that you got to be careful with is you can make yourself very vulnerable Um, you know, I was talking about kevin hart, uh earlier in this episode about his his comedy thing And he said how um, he had announced that he was going to go plant-based And then a couple days later he was eating a big mac and some lady with a cell phone Took a picture of him. I got you and then he's like, oh man now. I got to apologize all these people or whatever And so that's the the world we live in there's cameras everywhere people all around you It's not going to guarantee success. It might hurt you who knows but at the end of the day In my opinion, there's only one way to be successful through media and that is to be authentic That's the only way I can do it. I don't want to walk around looking over my shoulder I don't I am not the kind of person who's going to apologize to the mob that I don't even fucking know I don't know who you are. I'm going to apologize for so So i'm just going to be who I am and then you know, if someone gets mad I know there's going to be you know, 10 000 other people are like, oh, he said that like 15 of the times Like you're an idiot for getting mad. That's just who he is right look Mind pump is recorded on video um and audio so you can come find us on youtube mind pump podcast You can also find all of us on social media. That's instagram and parlor You can find justin at mind pump justin me at mind pump sal adam at mind pump adam and dug the producer at mind pump dug Doing all these competitions. You're getting crazier and crazier levels of it. What is it? That's the driving force of this at this time. Yeah, I'm know it's a great question. Um, well the driving force is wanting to stand out I think because I wasn't good enough for any of these things. I just did them I would for me is the act like marathon swims is great because