 In this episode of the world's top fitness health and entertainment podcast, Mind Pump, we answer fitness and health questions, four of them, but the way we open the episode is with some introductory conversation. We talk about studies and current events. We have a lot of fun. By the way, if you want to just fast forward to your favorite part, go to mindpumppodcast.com. The whole podcast is time-stamped. Otherwise, do what we recommend. Start from the beginning and come on the journey. So I'm going to give you a breakdown of what happened in today's episode. We started by talking about TV back in the day. When we go back in the day, we're talking about when Doug was a kid. Way back. Yeah, it's at the turn of the century, a long time ago. Mmm, antennas and all. Then I talked about how Adam had an insecure moment yesterday, asking one of our staff members if he looked fat, although he looked amazing, in my opinion, especially because he was wearing Viori clothing. Viori is athleisure wear that makes you look good even if you're fat, right, Adam? Yeah. By the way, Viori is one of our sponsors, so you do get a discount if you go check out their clothes and use our code. Here's what you do. Go to vioriclothing.com. That's V-U-O-R-I clothing.com forward slash mind pump and get 25% off your entire order. Then we talked about the red sky outside here in the Bay Area. It looks like Mars. Yeah. That led us to talk about private firefighters and their role in fighting fires. I talked about Justin's wife looking really good. She's looking real fit because she's following MAPS strong. A little worried about you. That's one of our workout programs. It's actually one of our more popular workout programs among women, but we have a lot of different MAPS workout programs and bundles. If you want to follow a workout that's designed by trainers with 20 years of experience, in other words, workouts that actually work to speed up your metabolism, burn body fat, build muscle, go to mapsfitnessproducts.com and go check them out. Then I talked about the movie adaptation of the Disney cartoon Mulan and My Disappointment. We talked about Facebook and Facebook's backlash that's happening a little bit right now. Adam brought up Madden 2021 and their new character with a special move he can kneel when you push any button. Super cool. I talked about a study showing that people who can subconsciously pick up patterns tend to also believe in God. That's kind of weird. That led Justin to talk about hidden Mayan cities that we're finding with Lidar. That's a real thing, by the way, Lidar. I talked about how my neck is no longer sore because I am using a customized, individualized pillow from Pluto Pillow. This is a company where you go on their website and they literally designed a pillow for you. If you've never had an individualized pillow, you got to try this out. It makes a huge difference in your sleep. Because you listen to Mind Pump, you're going to get 10% off. Here's what you do. Go to PlutoPillow.com. That's P-L-U-T-O-Pillow.com forward slash Mind Pump. Use the code Mind Pump for 10% off. That was the beginning of this podcast, about 40 minutes. Then we got into the questions. Here's the first one. How do you develop your upper chest? We talk about our favorite upper chest exercises. The next question, what are the consequences and symptoms of eating too little fat? The next question, does running with a plastic bag over your body help your body burn more calories? And the final question, can smoking weed impact your gains? In that portion of the episode, we recommend hemp oil extracts instead of weed because hemp oil has way less THC but is higher in the other beneficial cannabinoids for things like inflammation, helping you sleep, reducing anxiety. Our favorite hemp oil company is NED. And because you listen to Mind Pump, you get a discount. Notice the theme here. We give you discounts on everything. Just go to helloned.com. That's H-E-L-L-O-N-E-D.com forward slash Mind Pump. Use the code Mind Pump. Get 15% off your first purchase. And one more time, if you want to check out our workout programs, if you're serious about getting in shape, if you want to follow workout programs designed by trainers, not by marketers, go to mapsfitnessproducts.com. Do you guys remember when remote controls had two buttons? Do you remember that? When TV remote controls had two? A-B, A-B, select start. No, that's what. A-B, A-B, A-B, select start. This is a tendo. No, I'm talking about remote controls for TV, dude. Oh. Where you would just, it was just up and down. That's how you could do. And then if you had to go to the other one, which was A or B, remember you had to click A or B to get another set of channels? Yeah. You have to get up and walk over the TV. My dad always had remote controls because he had kids. So he'd be like, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Sal, go put it on B. Walk over there. Come back. I can't wait until they vent something. What was A and B? It was at UHF, VHF. Was that how it ran? I don't even know. Do you know how that breaks out? I was too young. Doug, Doug, you should know. You were around before it. No idea. Really? I didn't have a TV growing up. No. At all? No. No TV at all growing up. I had no TV growing up. What was your first TV? Your family used like a chisel and had wagons. And a rock? Yes. Ten Commandments. No. That was it. So as a child, you had zero television? If I went to a friend's house, I had television. Okay. But at my own home, no television. So was that a common thing then? You'd go to a kid's house and watch TV? Oh, yeah. I was hungry for it. I needed some Gilligan Island and Batman, you know? Back in the day. The POW. That one? That one, of course. It just goes to show you. So people like... Mary Ann. Yeah. People like, what would happen if we didn't have like lots of TV or media or whatever? That would happen. We talked to each other. Well, look what a good guy he is. He's like the best person I've ever met in my life. He'd be a lot better. That's because of no TV? Probably. Absolutely. I'm a testament to it. He's such a great guy. I don't know. I have a theory that he's probably a TV junkie now. No, I was when I got my own place. Absolutely. I was binging it. You had to experience it. Yeah. Yeah, most of it's just garbage. How old were you when you saw your first Playboy? Because that was a big deal. Oh, yeah. That was a pivotal moment. Yeah, actually I had a friend whose dad had some in his basement and we discovered him. Wow. So I was fairly young. Yes, yes. Marilyn Monroe, right? I wanted to go to his house too. He had a TV and Playboys. Wow. Wow. Now, how did that kid turn out? I don't know. Where's he at in life today? He's in San Quentin. Honestly, I have no idea where he's at. Too much. Dude, yesterday I forgot about this. It made me laugh so hard I forgot, but I wrote it down because I'm like, I got to bring this up on the show. So Adam walks in the studio and says the most non-manly thing I've ever heard him say. What? You walked in and I think it was to Andrew. You're like, hey Andrew, nobody else answered this. Hey Andrew. Yeah. Do I look fat? Does this make me look fat? I'm like, no. You guys can't answer this. I know what you're going to say. No, but it's, you don't sound like you're fat. I wanted a true answer. You know what I'm saying? I knew it would give you some objectivity. Yeah. First, what do you mean? You don't think we're going to tell you if you're fat? You know we're going to tell you if you look fat. That's the problem. I said, I don't want that. I want someone like an honest opinion. Yeah. You want to comfort? Yeah. Ask you these guys. Yeah. Somebody who I could fire. That's who I wanted. You look gorgeous, Adam. Actually, you look perfect. No, what about now? I turned around. What about now? So why'd you ask that? What was the deal? You were in clothes. Hey, I'm not fucking immune to feeling insecure every once in a while. I felt a little insecure. Oh, that was a real deal? Yeah, it was a moment. Really? I'm not allowed to have those. Oh, you're handsome, dude. You know? You're handsome. You look good. We need to get you guys to give him some love on IG. No, I don't. I look all right. You know? I feel good. I think you look great. I feel good, but I have, I really haven't. The show turned into the view all of a sudden. I'm just pouring my heart out by feeling how I feel about myself right now. I just, I haven't, you know, it's funny. It's funny that we started with this television talk because ironically, this was the conversation with Katrina. I feel like we've been watching too much TV. So we, we literally this, this, this week, there's been no television after Max goes to bed. It's been like back to reading or growing, doing like her and I are working on stuff with real estate right now. And so I think a lot of that, like, I think I can get caught in these like lulls of, oh, working all day busy. Oh, then I get my time with my son and then, oh, I want to veg. Oh, so you just haven't been active. Yeah. I just haven't, I haven't been my normal active self. And so I've, I've felt myself in a bit of rut and I always know because when I try and kickstart myself with some consistency, it doesn't happen. And I fall back in that, oh, it's just relaxed. We'll watch a couple of shows or what do I thought? And I really think that it stems from that because I, whenever I have like a really productive evening where I read or I'm learning something that has nothing to do with watching television and just melting my brain. I also tend to wake up the next day, motivated to eat, ride, train well, do all those things. It's like a momentum growth mode. It is. It's growth mode. Yeah, it really, it is. And when I'm not feeling that way, I'm down on myself a little bit. So I thought you were going to say like watching TV made you feel insecure because of the fit bodies and stuff. I thought you were going to go that direction. That's stupid. No, no, not like that. You look good, bro. First of all, out of all of us, when we're modeling our sponsor, Viori's clothes, you look the best. I do. You got the great proportions. Fits you the best. You do. You got the face and everything. I wouldn't feel bad if I were you. You were going all right there until you said the face thing. We know I had the fat face. No, no, I didn't say fat face. You got the handsome face, dude. Well, they're all now the new fall stuff, man. I'm excited. Dude, I put out a request for a flannel like a long time ago. I should probably like hit them up again and see if they're going to make that happen. Are you going to just do the top button like you always do? Yeah. There's such a mount. Joe actually DMed me yesterday. I forgot to tell you guys that. He wants to link up again. So we'll have him come back out here. Dude, they are crushing. Oh, yeah. Viori is crushing. They're becoming a mainstream brand. Yeah, yeah. No, it's becoming a household name. It was definitely one of those brands when we first started working with them that was like only the cool kids knew. It's kind of like, oh, it's cool. You ever heard of them? You got to check them out. It's like going full on mainstream now. Well, I was like, I was grabbing just my clothes, you know, through the whole thing of like evacuating. And I noticed like, I just grabbed a lot of like the, the new stuff that I had ordered, you know, and just because like it's new and it's like, I'm just like, okay, with like getting rid of the old stuff, but like redoing my whole like wardrobe is so easy. Like they have like stuff for whatever I want to wear. Yeah. Dude, speaking of evacuating stuff. So wake up this morning, you know, here in San Jose, go outside and it looks like Mars. Yeah. It looks like it's weird. It's like yellowy orange. It's kind of weird. The whole, okay. So I just watched total recall with my son the other day and he travels to Mars and everything's red. That's what it looks like right now. It's like you're going to walk outside. I don't see your eyes are going to pop out of your head. Get to the shop. No, it's all red outside. The sun, it looks like the sun in Star Wars. Remember when Luke Skywalker's like standing outside? I don't remember that part. His uncles, of course you do. Yeah. The sun's behind. It's like the red glowing, you know, special sun. It looked like that. But it didn't really smell too much like smoke. And I read up on this. I'm like, why does it look so bad? But I don't smell the smoke. Apparently the smoke is so high in the atmosphere that it's not necessarily mixing with the breathing air. So the air quality in some parts of the bay area are not that bad. Really? But when you look up, in some parts, some parts. According to Apple, it's terrible. In some areas. I've never even seen that. I didn't know that was a feature on the Apple phone until like recently. The air quality is like part of the weather. Yeah. It's like when you look at the weather and it looks at the temperature normally, it just, you know, 78. But now like the screen is gray and it says like air quality, poor, unhealthy. Don't go outside. Fear. Your neighbor has COVID. May die. But it is weird to see that, right? So my in-laws live in Vegas and I guess they were having really high winds. And so all the smoke was getting like hardcore blown and super hot. It's also super hot over there, right? 110, 115. And their air quality reached such a bad point. I think it was yesterday that they were literally, like they said, do not go outside. Do not open windows. The worst air quality measure, like rating you could get, whatever it is, red or whatever they had yesterday. To the point where they were telling people, do not go outside. So this is all the central valley fire, like the smoke coming from there, you think? Yeah. This is more of the valley, I think. Because when I was there this week in the valley, it was worse than in the Bay was. Was it? Yeah. The day for us was like what it looked like for them just the other day. So I think it's coming from that direction right now. Oh, man. What did they say? The gender reveal party started? I know. Yeah. What are they doing with these stupid parties? It's enough. Speaking of the fires, like I read like just after, right after that episode where we talked about the private firefighters, Justin, if it was like a show thing or something, like the next day I'm reading like, I don't know, it was one of my like newsletters, Hustle or something like that. And the up in that in it is they talk about private firefighters. And so the average is $300 to $5,000 an hour to hire a private team. Now what is it, what do you require to do to become a private firefighter? I'm assuming that you have to go through similar training and stuff? I would of course. I would of course you would have to. I mean, do they normally work for like the regular fire department, but then they do that on the side or is this its own company, you know, that just hires these guys out? I would think maybe Doug can research this versus me. I don't know what the hell you would research here. But I would imagine it's firefighters that are either want, you have like bad asses, right? Either firefighters that are retired, right? That are just retired and no longer serving anymore, right? Or it's like their shifts are always like crazy, right? They do like three on and then they have like four or five off, right? And then they're like three full days. So maybe they have the option on one of those days to go out there and fight fires. It's one of those jobs where it's like you're doing the most difficult thing of all time. Like that's the two speeds at their end. Either there's nothing going on or oh shit. And it's back breaking labor when there's fires like this. There's a lot of what they have to do is jump in and dig and create space and it's just you're working and working and working. So it makes sense that they'd get paid that much to come in and help out. Well, isn't like 75% of the job like accidents and stuff like that? Isn't that what most firefighters are having to deal with? Oh yeah, like EMT stuff? Yeah, like most of this stuff is rolling up on accidents. So it makes up 4.3% of the nation's total firefighters but it's growing because of a growing trend towards privatization. So I'm assuming the way it would work is the state has its firefighters and then when it exceeds their capacity then they go and fire private. That's interesting because it's the logistics and the politics behind how they have to really assess do we have enough manpower to control the fire where it's at and how fast it's coming for this particular area or should we just kind of let it go through this area and now really get ahead of it and start repositioning and fortify and just let it burn through this part of the town. And so it's like they have to make those tough decisions and to then kind of, you know, maybe you're in a position where you're in that area or that they're just kind of mowing through and you want to hire maybe... If I had a $10 million plus house, I would do it in Heartbeat. Oh yeah, you're up in the hills. Yeah, if you have a house that's worth that which I'm sure there's a bunch of people listening right now that think it's like some elitist bullshit that it's just like, oh that's terrible those people should be helping with everybody else but it's like if you have a house... They're paying for it, it's their business. Well that's how I feel. I mean, it's like if you have the money to do that and you have a house that expensive and like to your point Justin, maybe the team goes, hey it's too late for us to try and save this whole town we got to start planning for the next town. I would hope that I'm in a position that I can afford to... So Doug just pulled up an article. This is interesting that... Okay, so here's what I think is happening. I think a lot of these private firefighters are employed by insurance companies and they're deployed by insurance companies to save... So if an insurance company is covering these properties it could cost them more money in paying out the damages than it would to pay firefighters to protect them. Wow, interesting. That makes a lot of sense. So that makes a ton of sense right there, you know? Yeah, right, no. If you're insuring a $10 million house you're like go spend the tens of thousands of dollars to save that house or else we're going to be cashing this... Exactly. It's just them saving money. Very interesting. I didn't realize that's how it worked. I thought it was like more like you call them because you want your house saved versus like an insurance company taking care of it for you. Interesting. Justin, I wanted to make a comment, give your wife a compliment. She's looking pretty fit and strong. You hitting on my wife, bro? Huh? Well, I did text her the other day and said you look good. I didn't do that. But she's looking very... Salami. She's looking very... She has my name under salami. Now I know who you are. Long legs. Long legs. I don't know that short legs. Energy. Come on, man. Short legs. That was like the worst cut. That was like the last Viori commercial, wasn't it? You got good turnover though, man. When I see you run. No, no, no. All serious this. She's been working really hard at it. I'm sure she'll appreciate that. That's what she said. She said she's following a lot of the programs to the T. She's running strong right now. She's running math strong right now and kind of a funny story. So she was here at the studio when we were still evacuated and everything and we were just trying to kill time and she was out there working out and she was doing the part of the program where basically you have cheat curls. She's able to kind of add some English to the lift and whatnot. And she takes a lot of pride in her form and technique and I've really helped hone in a lot of these mechanics and things for her. And I guess Adam walked by and kind of looked over and kind of kept walking and Courtney was like, oh my God, I hope he knows I can actually do a real curl. That's really embarrassing. I hadn't even noticed. She was so self-conscious about it. That's so great. Katrina's the same way though. She's like so... But I love that too though. Like that's like to me, one of the most attractive qualities is to see like good form. Of course. Yeah, because I don't know if that's a trainer thing or what but like when you see somebody that just has beautiful techniques. I'm sure that was part of my whole, you know, attraction. Well, Jessica's a trainer so she's always telling me how my form is off. Oh, that's good. Your left arm is lagging a little bit. Turn your left foot full. Can you... Oh my God, that would drive you crazy. Oh no. It definitely can but to her... On her side. She had to turn the end you up, dude. I do that. Yeah, you gotta do that. Is the end you're not loud enough on here let me crank it up for you. She hasn't picked the radio station a long time. Oh yeah. Now it's always me that picks it but yeah, she does that. So I'll turn your right foot a little bit. Maybe you push a little bit left. I'm like, oh my God. Yeah. And she's like, you do that to me. And like, yeah, I guess you're right. I gotta take, I gotta take your advice. Yeah, I guess. Dude, we watched Mulan, the new movie adaptation of the... That's right. That went right to the streaming so you could get it through Disney Plus, right? I was so excited to watch it. You guys haven't seen it, right? No, I haven't. I was going to. I was so excited to watch it and I was left disappointed. Really? Yeah, the kids know. I heard otherwise. Now who told you it was good? Do you have friends that watched it? Katrina's brother actually just, we just were talking about this weekend so it was so good that he would watch it a second time with us. Really? Yeah. Is he reliable? No. Okay. Not at all. Not at all. But either is Sal. I'm glad to say it. So neither one of these... Nobody's winning here. Yeah, I gotta watch it for myself. I'm like, this doesn't do me any good right here. I've got Larry on one side telling me I gotta watch it. And Sal's saying it sucks. I'm like, both of them. I feel like I'm gonna wait this out. Yeah. Well, so far the movie adaptations that they've done are like What Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin. I think they did Cinderella, if I'm not mistaken. Lion King, Jungle Book. They've done a ton. All of them have been great because they've definitely gone back to the original and haven't changed it so much that it's kind of different. Gives you the old feels. Mulan took out some of the characters that kids loved growing up watching. They've added some new characters in there that they didn't really develop very well. There's no little dragon guy? No. Mushu's not in there. Spoiler alert. They completely eliminated Mushu. And my daughter was pissed. Yeah. Like how would they do that? She was waiting for Mushu to show up till the very end and then we turn it off and she's like, Yeah, it goes up to bed and I'm like, what's the matter, honey? She's like, no, Mushu, I hated it. I'm like, all right, so. But it wasn't, I didn't like it that much. I really didn't think it was. So I haven't seen the cartoon version yet. You've never seen the cartoon? No, I didn't. Oh, it was great. Yeah, that's a good cartoon, dude. Yeah, so I haven't watched the cartoon so I'm wondering if I just go straight to the movie. Like maybe I won't care. Yeah, probably. Because if that's true. If that's the reviews, because the Rotten Tomatoes gave it a decent review. Anything over 60 in Rotten Tomatoes is worthwhile to like pay attention to, right? But I know viewers didn't view it as high. I think that's what you were talking about. Yeah, 50-something percent. Right, so. And a lot of times that happens when people don't stay true to like the original story. Because you have expectations. Yeah, exactly. That was what ruined it for me. I had certain expectations. Like Beauty and the Beast hit that out of the park. Yeah, I liked the Lion King. They did great. Except for the bad guy. It wasn't like quite as sinister. That's true. That was my only criticism, but I liked it overall. That's true. What's your guys' favorite Disney movie or cartoon? Do you guys have a favorite? Yeah. Sword of the Stone. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a great one. And that one I think is just because that's the one I watched when I was a kid. When I was a kid, I watched that one over and over. I watched the Robin Hood, the cartoon one. You know where he's like the... Yeah, he's like a... That's a great one, too. Fox or whatever. Yeah, I liked that one. There was the Fox and the Hound. Did you guys ever watch that? Did you guys watch that the other day? Yeah. I loved that. It wasn't that popular. I liked that one. And of course, Lady and the Tramp, watched that one a million times. They have some good... Pinocchio was pretty good, although now there's like conspiracy theories around Pinocchio. Yeah, well, yeah. Definitely if you go on the ride at Disneyland, like it takes you towards like the... Was it Pleasure Island or whatever? Like that whole thing got real creepy, real fast. I was like, what is this? I don't remember this part. A conspiracy theory around it? What? Yeah, dude. It's like about abducting kids and it's about... What? Human trafficking. Yeah, dude. What? If you take it just in little clips of what they say, you could make little crazy conspiracy theories. Like they're kidnapping kids and bringing them to Pleasure Island. Yeah, it's a Pleasure Island. It's like some way back then. You know what? I feel like we live in the most amazing time for conspiracy theories. Are you kidding me? This is the best time for... Because there's so much content. Well, there's so much just misinformation out there. And weird disinformation. That's readily available, that it's not hard to make enough things align. You know, like those videos where they make all the numbers all aligned? Something you need to check on Alex Jones. Yeah, let's see how he's doing. Well, he's probably dead now. Well, I mean, okay. Too much information. Conspiracy theories sometimes are true. Oftentimes they're not true, but why do people come up with them in the first place? To make sense of stuff that is hard to make sense out of. So when things happen that just seem... Remember September 11th? September 11th? When that happened? Yeah. It just seems so crazy. It seems so surreal to watch the buildings fall inside their own footprint. They're so out of nowhere. Yeah. And the way they fell in their own footprint and what happened and how could this be possible? And that spurred to this day there's conspiracy theories around that that just happened. What's the statistic on that? There are statistics on like 90-something percent of time it's the obvious answer. Yeah. There's like a... Occam's razor, right? Is that all of that? Is that what it is? Yeah, I know there's like a stat on that. Like 90-something percent of time. It's a very high percentage that it's the most obvious thing. Yeah. It is. And sometimes we're, you know, hard to believe stuff happens. So what do we have? We have a pandemic. That's... We haven't experienced, you know, in our lifetime. So that alone is going to spread. People are at home not doing anything. Your mental health is probably suffering right now, especially if you're already on the brink. We have social media that spreads things like crazy. Did you read that Facebook article I sent over to you? Oh, yeah. What did you think of that? I think Facebook... So the article talks about a guy who... Well, I actually can't say that. They're non-binary. So it's their day. That's what they said in the article. Okay. But they left Facebook because they think Facebook is not doing enough to stop the spread of dangerous political information or dangerous information. Yeah. That incites, like, hate and violence. Based off of this person's particular person's opinion. Here's the thing. Facebook is any... First of all, whenever you have a lot of power and they are as a company, they have the most users of any other company in the world and they have the most information on their users of any company in the world. And they're arguably one of the more powerful, if not the most powerful, media source, right? It would be Facebook. Extremely powerful. Largely credited for Trump's victory in 2016. I know that the Democrats really pissed off about that and said Facebook didn't do enough to prevent meddling or whatever. And then the Republicans say that Facebook is, you know, liberal leaning and they silently... Here's the thing. They're so powerful, they're going to be blamed for everything. And because they've already taken the stance that they edit the stuff that's on their platform, now, no matter what they do, someone's going to be pissed off. Yes. Now, if they had always opened up and been like... Well, they're not neutral. Exactly. It leaves them open for us. So what I read into that is that they're feeding into it because it just creates more traffic, right? Yeah. Because they monetize often. Right. The easy way to solve this would be like just eliminate all political shit on Facebook. It's like that's... We're just going to say this platform is to connect to families and friends. Like it originally started as. But that's the most shit. When it's charged is when everybody's going there and like arguing. Right. And what I thought was interesting about that article, too, is that because until that article, I've read more recent stuff about Facebook being leaning liberal and it's more conservatives that are angry at Facebook. Uh-huh. And that was the complete opposite. He was like somebody who was saying that they promoted things that were more charged and more conservative leaning and attributing the actual election winning to Trump. Well, again, it probably goes to the whole algorithm of feeding you exactly like what you want to see in your own bias. Yeah. Well, the top track... The top pages on Facebook, politically speaking, with the most traction, you can actually look them up, what the top ones are. A lot of them are conservative. They get more views and more shares than other pages. But it's users that are doing the sharing and are spreading the stuff. So that feeds into the, oh, you're not... You're biased in one direction. However, when it comes to blocking pages, there's evidence to show that they may be blocking more conservative pages. Again, here's the problem... That's where it's interesting. Yes. And here's the problem. The problem is for Facebook, this is where they're screwed. They are not neutral and they are powerful. They're going to be targeted. Yeah. No matter what they do, they're going to piss someone off and they're going to be blamed for something or someone losing or someone winning or some issue. It's just the way it is. The way that they could have done it had they gone back in time. I don't know if this would have been better. It would have been, hey, we don't... We're neutral. You post whatever you want. If you don't like it, you block it. It's up to you. We're just a neutral place. It's interesting. As you get to that size, it's inevitable, right? It's impossible to build something to that scale and not literally piss off. And here's the thing. We hear this all the time, right? Our marketing team most is, don't pick up the brick, right? Don't pick up the brick. Just because one loud mouth is bitching about this, it's not a pure representation of your entire business. The difference is when Facebook is dealing with billions of people, a fraction is millions. It's its own government, in a sense. And that's why we get into this political divide because everybody's opinion all smashed in one direction. Now businesses have to deal with that. Well, look, when you're at the top and when you're making the most money or you have the most perceived power, you are a target for everybody. Look at Bezos. Look at Amazon. He is now a target by everybody. All of a sudden he's either evil and not paying the taxes. Forget the hundreds of thousands of jobs he's created. Or the fact that he literally created a company that has arguably been one of the most positive impacts on our lives, especially now with either whether you own a small business or with a small product. You can do good. But we don't want you to do that good. Yeah. Okay. All right. You can win just a little bit better. Well, here's the deal. I don't feel bad either because if you're going to be at the top, what do they say about leaders, right? When you're at the top and you're leading... Yeah, everything is your fault. It's all your fault. First role of leadership is everything is your fault. So you're going to accept it. You want to be the dude or the girl? Yeah, yeah. I cash out before that. You know what I'm saying? I'm out before that. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'll let me go back and fucking be invisible. Take your money and bounce. Yeah. Speaking of like companies pandering and shit like that, Justin, fucking Madden 2021. I thought this was a fucking joke. What happened? I thought this was a joke, but they literally, they put Colin Kaepernick in Madden 2021. And I believe he's made the cover, too. But he's not even in the NFL. He's not even good. He wasn't good. No, I know. He wasn't... He's not even on anybody's roster, though. Like, how does that work? Hey, what are his special moves? Did you see what I posted? Left bumper, kneel. Right bumper, kneel. Right trigger, kneel. Left trigger, kneel. D-pad, kneel. All he does is kneel. Every time. Yeah. So he's, yeah, he's, I mean, you guys think it'll make, it'll increase their sales because now they're getting more attention around it? You know what? Here's the deal. If you're a diehard mat, I was a big... I don't understand that. I was the kid who bought Madden every single year for many, many years. And if you're a diehard man, in fact, you buy it no matter what. You don't give a shit about all this political bullshit. Like you're just like, whatever. You know what I'm saying? So if you love the game, you're playing the game no matter what. But, and maybe there is a group of social justice lawyers that are going to, would never buy the game, but they want to buy it as a support. I mean, it's totally panning. I think it's brilliant because I think I could just picture from a business perspective. I do. I think I can imagine two, you know, guys going to play a game against each other. One guy picking Kaepernick. The other guy being like, I'm going to crush you. You know what I mean? Just to, because there's so much rivalry and football. So winning, calling Kaepernick. Well, he won in the Nike thing. He won. Like, look at him. Like he's going. So they're playing. So the rumor is that money, they made his attributes better than Cam Newton, which that is, I would be fucking pissed if I were Cam. Oh, I get what you're saying. So like in, I've never played the game. So in the game, you have like skills, like his speed, his, his accuracy, his like, you know, all these just like, he wasn't that great. Was he? And let me. So by the way, that's a big deal in the NFL. So like Madden has become such a phenomenon that you brag about your skills. Oh, yes. Like athletes, like take that serious. Like they ranked my speed at 97 this year. What the fuck? They did not do that. Oh, yes they do. They made him better than Cam Newton. Yes. What? Oh my God. Such a crock. Bro. Like it's already bad enough that you bring somebody. I'm offended on his behalf. Yes. Like, Cam Newton's awesome. Hey, hilarious. Kaepernick has made a lot of, he has actually monetized this pretty damn well. Hell yes he has. And you know what? Good for him. Whatever. But I just think it's hilarious. All the companies that are pandering to all this shit. Yeah. It's getting out of control. Well, the consumers will decide if it was a good decision or not. Yeah. You know, if their sales are good or bad, that'll determine if more companies continue. Because didn't Nike sell a lot because of him? Or did they lose money? I think they did well, didn't they? They did. They did both. It went one way than the other. It's hard to say, right? Like what's the overall, like how did it do? It's just like the NBA what we're seeing right now. Like, you know, definitely viewership is down. But you know, NBA is making such a hard pivot that this is, they're calling it the new NBA, right? And so, you know, maybe this is just a rough time right now. And maybe guys like me who are like dying to watch basketball and missing it so bad are just like, fuck it. I don't care anymore. I want to watch the sport so bad because I love the sport. Deal with the bullshit. You know what I'm saying? That's interesting. Dude, I read a very interesting study. I thought this would bring up a conversation between us. So they did this study on, they were trying to find out what kind of thinking patterns are connected to your, the probability that you'll believe in a higher power. Okay. And they found something very interesting. So here's the summary of the study. This was a study done at Georgetown University Medical Center. And the summary says, it's in Science News Daily, by the way, great website. Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns. So this is an ability called implicit pattern learning are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a God who creates patterns of events in the universe. So they connected the two things. So here's what they did, right? They did a test. How do you test that? Well, here's, they did a test, right? And so it's called what I call, what I say was implicit pattern learning. So it's an unconscious ability to identify patterns. And they can test for this. And one test that they do is they have people watch a sequence of dots appearing and disappearing on a computer screen. And then people push a button for each dot and then the dots move quickly. But some participants, the ones with the strongest implicit learning ability began to subconsciously learn patterns hidden in the sequence. And even press the correct button for the next dot before the dot actually appeared. Now here's what's crazy about this. The best implicit learners did not know that the dots formed patterns. So they were even unconscious of the fact that they were able to do this. So this is a skill you could pick up on. This is high, according to the study is highly correlated with people who believe in a higher power. So your subconscious ability to pick up patterns, maybe you can even call that a gift, I guess, is also connected to people saying that it does not exist. I think that's interesting because forever I've said this, and it's always, in fact I can't remember where we just were. We were somewhere, Katrina and I. And it's normally when we're in nature and you just see the beauty, the amazement of like how it all works. The design and structure. Yeah, and I always catch myself saying, it's like, man, there's people that don't believe that there's something far more greater and powerful than us that laid this out. Because it's so wild. Fractal geometry trips me out. It's just so, it's so perfect that and everything works together so well to create this thing that we take for granted every day that we walk around on that I just think it's wild. The thing that there's people that just believe that we collided with the fucking rock and then it all just happens. I just think that's crazy to me. Well, it is interesting to me. It is interesting that there's this subconscious brain pattern of identifying patterns. So this subconscious thing that's happening. You might even be able to stretch and say it's an ability, right? It's an ability that you might not be aware of almost like a sense or a feeling because that's what subconscious things are, right? Like you just do things and you're not really aware of them. What was the percentage of people that had this ability versus people they tested? You know, I got to look deeper in the study to see what that is. I'm just curious because like if that's like an innate ability that most people have versus just a select amount of people that can think in that direction. Yeah, it said the data suggests that if children are unconsciously picking up on patterns in the environment, their belief is more likely to increase as they grow up even if they are in a non-religious household. Likewise, if they are not consciously picking up on patterns around them, their belief is more likely to decrease as they grow up even in a religious household. And you know what's funny about religion or spiritual practices? There always is an element of faith, right? There's always an element of just feeling or just almost like, I hate the word, use this word but knowing, right? So it is interesting that they picked this up and this was a neuroscience study. Really recent, huh? Yeah, isn't it fascinating? No, it's fascinating because what I just said is like, I have said that so many times and it's always happened in those moments where I'm out in nature or in awe of something, right? I'm just in awe of like what I'm looking at and trying to be present at the moment like, wow, this is just so wild how or this is also what draws me to like the nature channel. Like I love watching that because it's just, it's so fascinating to me on how many of these creatures and species like intertwine and work together, you know? Speaking to that, like so National Geographic, I think you can get it through Disney Plus but they have this show on there with this guy who, we watched Josh Gates and we watched these like sort of archeological type shows where they go to these old like ruins and ancient ruins and sites and things and the discoveries they're finding now in like down in Mayan cultures these like these incredible cities that they're uncovering because of Lidar technology and so they're going through this like really dense jungle that you literally can't see anything and they're finding all these pyramid structures that are on top of like mountain ridges that they're finding oh my god, this was an entire military compound that was devoted to, you know, fighting off this other invading culture over here that we just discovered like 10 other pyramids over here that never been seen before. It's insane all this like discovery that's happening right now that we're not hearing about you'd have to kind of like go find it for yourself it's crazy. This is my favorite kind of stuff to look into because it teaches us about ourselves and in what's so much more history out there. Way more and there's theories out there that you know that the human civilizations had built things and done things that were so old that it just we don't have any evidence of them because they're so old that they weathered away or there was a natural disaster and so the stuff that we see we think oh the oldest is the pyramid and there's some theories that say hey some of the stuff even in Egypt whether it be the pyramids or the Sphinx that was there before the Egyptians have you heard about this with the Sphinx? Like the water erosion they're like yeah the last time He talks about that kind of stuff see that's what Lidar looks like so they can see what the structure looks like. It's a really crazy technology I mean it just removes all of the trees from the rubbery and whatnot and just gets it down to the elevated land and you can see structures and everything just clears day. That's really wild. Sphinx water erosion and they're saying that it's a hypothesis or a theory that there wasn't water on earth in that region for way before the Egyptians were there so in other words the theory is they found the Sphinx and then they built around it they found some of these structures That was like the center of knowledge from all around the world people would go there and then the library of Alexandria and everything and then that all got decimated. Well what I find that's very fascinating about this so obviously we've been on earth for a long time as a species is that sometimes we discredit the wisdom that has lasted for as long as it's had but we shouldn't do that because it literally has stood the test of time so a lot of these ancient spiritual practices and beliefs and you see a lot of crossover across the world from one practice to another that maybe not even had contact with each other that's real wisdom that's been around for a long long time and then even if you go in the more like what we know of like I've gone to Rome and they talk about the engineering that was required to build some of the stuff or with the Coliseum how they fill it with water to have water about they didn't have electricity or they didn't use electricity it was all crazy engineering water channels it like toilets all figured out super wild dude I figured out my neck sometimes I get kinks in it and it's just something I've dealt with for a long time but I think I finally figured out the cause of it is it too high of a pillow yes I had the same exact either too high or too low of a pillow so when we started working with Pluto pillow right you go on the website you enter in it personalizes a pillow for you I did not realize how big of a deal that was because pillows for me now I'm realizing are either too high or too low so if I sleep on my side I'm in this kind of weird kink position and the Pluto pillow because it's individualized to me it's always perfect so if I use another pillow I start to notice the neck pain yeah I kind of did I mean Courtney always makes fun of me because like she called me the princess and the P because I have so many pillows you know I got I got one too I stuff between my legs now for my hips like a pregnant lady sometimes I lay on my side I'm like oh you know my hips bother me yeah it's short leg problems yeah so like I used to have two that I would stack and it was like I just realized this is way too high and so I ordered one too that was like smaller and in size and it was like a complete night and day difference like I didn't wake up with that kink in my neck I was like facing all the time yeah dude it makes a huge difference that's the brilliance of the company there was nobody was doing anything like this before well I thought I was so smart what I used to do is I would have my pillow which was either down I like down pillows or like something soft like that and then I'd have to like throughout the night crumpled up folded or you know you like stuff the corners to like push it up to create the perfect height but then as you go to sleep throughout the night you end up losing you know its shape or whatever this thing holds its shape obviously it was individualized for your neck and your shoulders and the whole thing and you know this is an issue for especially for people that who build a lot of muscle you sleep on your side and you got delts and all that stuff your a normal pillow probably isn't going to be appropriate for you know for someone like you and then for you know for short legs yeah it's a real deal alright our first question is from Brady Thomas how do you develop the upper chest heavy barbell incline yeah just you know it's you know so funny is that growing up in the 90s and then early 2000s and working out the exercise for a long time the exercise that every guy compared himself to other guys with was the bench press that was the exercise that you you bench bro you'd never asked the guy how much they did anything else how much can you bench you know it was like that you showed your strength so it was very very popular exercise everybody did it Mondays and gyms was like national bench day and you'd see all the benches taken up and literally you know in the gyms I would manage they would have between five to six flat benches because they were always taken and used and you know but body builders they used to do a lot of flat bench but then later on you notice that a lot of them mainly did incline exercises and they said that it would create a better more aesthetic looking chest I tend to agree with that I think although the bench press is a phenomenal exercise for developing overall you know chest mass I think in terms of aesthetics most guys are probably better off mostly doing incline exercise I would catch myself just living near the bench section like Mondays like that was like my thing I would do incline then I would do flat bench and then I would do decline they were like all in a row and you know going through I definitely found the value in incline bench and I actually enjoyed that and would feel like you know it did have an impact on the growth of my chest overall I did not have that same feeling about the decline bench I pretty much find that exercise worthless I don't know what you guys think I would I would go dips over over decline yeah decline didn't do shit no I didn't so somebody asked me on my questions actually a similar question of this that saying that you know is is it true that incline bench press it will do more for your chest development than any other exercise and I said I can make that argument you know I can make the argument the other way too like if that's all somebody did right you doing something different would actually be a huge value so if you were a hardcore incline barbell bench presser and that's what you did mostly and you never did flat or you never did dips you never did flies then the obvious would be true doing one of those would actually do give you the most development in your chest but I think that why the why that's true or why your point is true Sal is because I think that as once you get introduced into the bench press it's like the staple move that you know for young boys for sure like to measure strength like oh what do you bench bro you know and when you tell someone what do you bench you go off of the flat bench you don't go off the decline you don't go off the incline what do you flat bench is your your number because of that you spend most your time trying to get good at that and you neglect the incline bench and I just think that you know the upper chest when you develop the upper chest the it looks it makes your chest look so much more impressive I mean for sure this was a major focus when I first was getting into competing and you know when you've been lifting for 10 plus years you know it's hard to you know how good at your programming or whatever it's hard to see like really massive changes in your physique and that was probably one of the biggest changes I set out and I've talked about on the podcast more than once I set this goal out like I'm gonna incline bench so much that I want to catch my incline bench to my flat bench so that was like a big goal of mine like how close can I get my numbers can I get my incline almost as much as I flat bench and the result of that ended up being the most impressive chest that I ever built over the two decades of lifting and so I always encourage lifters to do more incline chest press especially if you're in this game for the aesthetics you're trying to sculpt and build a physique I think it's one of the best things you can do yeah I think the flat bench is great especially when you're first starting lifting but an incline lift, incline lifts whether it's a barbell or a dumbbell or dumbbells is really important for the aesthetic look women in particular I think because they're because they have breasts working the upper chest probably is gonna give them more aesthetic appeal than the flat bench and then here's the thing if you want functional ability from your presses overhead presses are one of the most functional exercises incline presses are closer to an overhead press than a bench is and then for that kind of functional strength like you would get from a bench press I think dips are are really really good exercise they're it's gonna give you that that's a similar kind of functional strength that you may need in the sport and then if you think of the pushing movement in sports it's often at an incline like if you're in football you don't you very rarely push someone away standing straight up or leaning back it's usually leaning forward you're using your hips along with the press that mimics more of an incline press if you're throwing a punch in you know not that pressing necessarily makes you stronger at punching but it does work some of the muscles that are involved incline probably translates better than a flat as well the other case I'll make for it besides just developing the chest is that it's I like I liked it later on and you know when I started to do it more myself I realized that it actually puts you in a more favorable position for mechanics it's easier for sure yeah so the incline because part of getting good at bench pressing you you need to learn to be real to retract and depress the shoulders down so you can engage more the chest and you don't roll forward and since most people that's the common thing right so you get a client you lay them on a flat bench one of the hardest things to get them to understand is you know to not let their shoulders protract forward and push with their their triceps and their shoulders and teaching them to be able to retract the shoulder blades back while they press to engage the chest that's like one of the hardest things to teach when you're teaching a client especially somebody who's fairly new to lifting what I found was when I would take that client over to an incline because of the angle the angle naturally lets the the scapula kind of drop back down and like back into your back pockets right so it naturally pulls the shoulder blades back and down so it actually was easier to get clients into the proper form and mechanics on an incline so I then began to teach that first before I would teach a flat bench once I piece that together yeah now here's the thing too if you want to see what kind of chest you'll develop from focusing more on flat or more because flat definitely is probably more of an overall mass builder you look at the chest of the 70s they did favor the bench presses a lot look at Arnold Schwarzenegger this really big chest this kind of square look to it you could look at power lifters who converted to bodybuilding so they built a strong foundation of bench press Ronnie Coleman was a power lifter before he became Mr. Olympia and he still did a lot of bench press and you look at his chest and yeah he has a little bit more lower than upper but he's got this really big full looking chest that was hard to compete with whereas always focusing on the upper chest maybe you'll have less mass but you'll have maybe more of a balanced look so they're both very impressive both exercises are important but if your goal is upper chest then I would just do all upper chest exercises when you're doing your presses I wouldn't do any flat bench if that's an area that's lagging next question is from Jay Hein 62 what are the consequences of eating below the minimum daily requirement of fat you know not good yeah it could be hairs skin hormones yeah fat and protein are essential okay that your body cannot make certain fatty acids that it needs for hormone production for nerve development for brain function for connective tissue support and all that stuff same thing with protein there's certain amino acids the body cannot make in other words if you don't get the adequate amount or the minimum amount of fat that your body needs the consequences can become very very dire okay this is not true for carbohydrates those are not essential not saying that you might not suffer from some you know performance issues or whatever if you drop your carbs but you're not gonna have major health issues like if you don't eat enough proteins and fats you don't see this as much these days but especially when fat was demonized this was something that I saw with female clients was very common yeah I would see that you know they have the dry skin hair loss was one their inability to feel full they're always hungry mental fatigue was a big one and if they got tested for their nutrients you would see that their fat soluble vitamins you know a and d for example would be kind of low so the consequences are really not good if you don't get adequate fat you need it your body absolutely needs it to thrive I had several female clients that this was the key that unlocked us breaking plateaus you know for months I was managing calories on them training's going good I know everything should be lining up that we should be seeing results and their body was just staying stuck and I remember looking at fat and going like you know what her fat's really low if I boost her fat up a little bit and I remember the first couple times I did that and it was just it was the key that just unlocked their body to start responding then again so you know you just got to remember that like everything works together so it's like it's like a car engine when something is off like the timing timing belt is off that the car sounds different it runs different it feels different our bodies are similar in that way where you know even though this is maybe there's not something related to fat that is like directly correlated to your metabolism but if things aren't operating smoothly it can and will affect those things and sometimes it's that simple for some clients that oh wow you were just you've been under consuming on a on a central macronutrient for so long that your body's not performing optimally it's not running optimally and just by me kind of boosting that up a little bit all of a sudden the body fat starts coming off energy levels skin feels better notice hair like all these things started to change you also could you all get clients who feel cold all the time I had a couple female clients who had fertility issues we bumped their fat intake up and they got pregnant in men I've seen low testosterone so I've had male clients who don't eat enough fat and they come to me with their testosterone readings and we just bumped their fat intake and low and behold their testosterone levels go up sleep is another one lie not be able to sleep because you don't have enough fatty acids it reminds me of what was it like late 80's early 90's the whole low fat like everybody was like so concerned about eating any fat and that was like a big push that you were because you eat fat you're going to get fat and like I'm just wondering where this question you know is coming from in terms of like what type of diet strategy they're trying to implement if there's other you know like I know vegans like obviously there's going to be a big push to find fats from vegetables and find fats out there that they can get that aren't from animal products but still you got to do a lot of hunting to make sure that you're getting adequate amounts so I'm sure that is a bit of a struggle yeah omega-3 fatty acids or what vegans typically need to supplement because it's really hard to get those from vegetable sources you can get sources that convert to that but it doesn't do a very good job but yeah not eating enough fat is a bad idea it can cause some real problems if it's for a short period of time it's not a big deal but you definitely don't want to go too low next question is from Carlos V US does running with a plastic bag over your upper body help burn more calories you guys remember wrestlers and stuff on this super common for water way for water way if you're unattractive you can put it over your face too yeah you can do that you know what okay here's the benefit of running with plastic bag over your body there is one yeah let's hear it you might you might be able to train your ability to acclimate to acclimate to heat you know you might be able to increase your tolerance for discomfort calorie burning you're going to burn less calories here's why you can't perform nearly as hard go try to run as fast and hard as you do normally with a plastic bag and you'll notice that you can't so whatever extra calories you may burn from the fact that it's harder is more than negated from the fact that now you can't perform it heats you up faster you start sweating you feel like you're working more it's like that that's really what it is the core temperature rises it makes you sweat the benefit is sweat it only makes sense to me if you're an athlete who is cutting water weight here's the deal with water weight the minute you go over and you drink a half gallon of water it goes right back so if you are cutting to make a weight because you got to weigh in because you're in a fight class and you need to drop two more pounds and you've got five hours till then this makes sense to me I understand what you're doing if you're sitting in saunas wearing trash bags doing that makes sense to do that everybody else I think you're a moron dude I got in a big old thing with the wrestling coach when one of my cousins wrestling coaches because he was a wrestler he did very well and he was spitting I saw him spitting outside spitting in a cup and then he was looking very good I'm like what are you doing I'm trying to make weight it means a sophomore your coach is literally telling you to go sweat and spit and not drink water to make weight I'm like go fight in the higher weight class and let me have a conversation with this guy but these are some of the practices that they would do to try to make weight which is silly silly if you're a kid don't do this if you're an adult sure you can do whatever you want with your body but don't do this oh yeah and you see the body wraps that was big business for a while too I would like get this moment where like oh my god like my waist is a little bit smaller and then they drink water and everything else the next day and boom it's right back like magic just do this next time there's a UFC fight watch the way ends and then look at the fighters at the way ends and then look at the fighters the day of the fight yeah totally different looking people yeah because they've sucked everything out of their body I used to I would have people in the gyms I'd manage and we you know we have signs that say you can't go in the sauna with a plastic bag or plastic over your body or oils that encourage sweating but at least once a month that I have to go in there and kick some guy out for having a garbage bag over his body or rubbing wax all over what is it called you know sweet sweat or whatever yeah encourage sweating yeah there's there's really no crack there's no health benefits whatsoever it doesn't burn more calories if anything in my experience you're burning less calories because your performance goes down into the crapper next question is from ants dope life can smoking weed impact gains sure yeah it's just like yeah definitely can't you know I talked to a cannabinoid scientist recently had a great conversation with her and we went down a whole bunch of different paths with cannabinoids this is the the compounds that are found in marijuana plants and hemp plants there are some potential health benefits that you can get from cannabinoids if they improve your health then they might help you with your gains but I can't you know I'm trying to think of all the people I know that smoke weed how many of them have improved their health from smoking weed I can think of one person out of that I don't know 30 40 people I know who smoke weed most people smoke weed like to get high and that kind of use is yeah it's going to take away from your gains cannabinoids high dose especially THC probably negatively affect your anabolic hormones they predictably lower testosterone levels or anabolic hormone levels I should say in animals they can do that in humans too especially at high doses it can definitely if it's used chronically it can definitely reduce motivation which that's not drive goes down yeah that's not a great thing for for working out they can balance out inflammation if used at low doses but just you know two or three hits from a joint is way higher than low doses and at that point you may be influencing inflammation in a negative way in terms of gains so I don't think it's it's not something I'd say go do this to improve your performance I've heard long distance runners though like they do well with marijuana under the influence yeah just during the yeah yeah be ever done like have you ever done a long run no I haven't I don't know it's awesome I love mobility yeah under the influence no it's all because it you trail off dude you trail off in your thoughts and I mean it's like when you know when you hit that like when you're running right it takes about 10 15 minutes or so the runners yeah then you hit that runner's high and then if on top of that if you got a cannabis high on top of that like you just kind of drift off into your own thoughts you know what they very therapeutic and you know what they attribute the runners high to natural cannabinoids that your body releases so it makes sense right anandamide I think I know it's called 2 AG if I'm not mistaken and here's something you can do okay if you want to utilize cannabinoids for potential benefits use hemp oils full spectrum stay away from too much THC too much THC he's got some negative effects on the brain use things like CBD and some of the other cannabinoids that are non-psychoactive what those things tend to do is they tend to increase your body's own production of its natural cannabinoids this is not a bad thing so if you're going to if you're going to notice any benefits from using cannabinoids then you go in that direction not buying the weed at the dispensary that's you know 20% THC or smoking a joint with your buddy that's probably going to be detrimental so that's why you know for me nowadays I stick to things like Ned which is the full hemp oil extract full spectrum and that I don't notice the negatives if I were to have like weed from the dispensary you know I get that you can have fun with it and all that stuff but it's negatives is what I know yeah you have to be real care I mean this is a conversation I have with my younger brother a lot right like I was lucky that I didn't really even find cannabinoid I mean I had a bad experience with cannabis twice in my early twenties and it wasn't even until I was like 30 that I really like smoke weed and like the way I look at it right now so I like weed the same way like a desperate housewife likes wine and I look at it the same way that like you got to watch that you got to be careful of that like if am I smoking every single night am I turn into a cougar am I dependent on this am I having the whole bottle type of deal like because there's so much positive messaging around right now with marijuana and the health benefits of CBD and yada yada yada at the end of the day it could turn into an addiction and an issue like anything else so if it's getting in the way of you learning more and growing and spending time on your business or working better at your craft or being a good husband or being a good father or being a good son if it's starting to bleed into those things and you have to be you only you know that you have to be self aware of that to make that decision and most certainly can bleed into getting into way of your gains if you know getting high ends up happening and you don't go to the gym because of that like that's it's an obvious issue but if there's ways that you can find it to compliment your life and have balance I think there's nothing wrong with it like I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having the occasional glass of wine to enjoy that with their dinner but very easily you can turn into somebody who has two or three glasses of wine every single night and then at that point when you start asking yourself okay is this more of an addiction and something that I rely on more than something's actually helping me or complimenting or enhancing who I am. Yeah and when they do studies on cannabis and performance it clearly reduces power output and explosive performance so for lifting weights probably not a good idea. Not the best idea. I've done it before lifting weights. Terrible. It's not a great idea. Yeah. For me it definitely doesn't improve performance but maybe for long... Makes you more interested in it though. Maybe. For long lower intensity kind of long duration stamina based movements maybe the pain killing of facts the fact that you're in this other state of mind might help with that kind of stuff but for lifting weights and for explosive power definitely not a good idea. It doesn't make me stronger for sure. I can't lift as heavy but I might be in the gym longer and I might focus more on squeezing and pumping the muscle or I might just lose my focus and start looking at articles. Yeah or whatever walks by. Yeah. So look Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio if you want to watch the podcast you can come check us out on YouTube you can also find all of us on Instagram that includes Doug the producer you can find Doug at Mind Pump Doug you can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam Part of the benefits of learning and performing a good squat is the core and low back strengthening that you get from it when you when people look at squats as just a leg exercise and they try and switch it out with something like leg press which absolutely requires zero core stability or low back stability