 In this episode of Mind Pump, by the way, Mind Pump is the top fitness and health podcast. We're number one. Here's what we talked about in this episode. Now of course we answer fitness and health questions that's a little later in the episode. The first 40 minutes we cover studies, current events. We talk about what's happening in our lives. We mentioned one of our sponsors. Let me give you a breakdown. So we start out by talking about Justin's experiment with OrganiFy's green juice and pure. So OrganiFy's green juice is a blend of green superfood powder. You mix it with water. It's got some health benefits. They've got some ashwagandha in there. And then their pure is a Neutropic based gut health supplement. So you take that and it helps your brain with its function. It gives you a little bit of mental vitality. So we gave it to him and then we waited about 20 to 30 minutes to see if it would happen. And he came out with some interesting facts. So I think it worked. One of them was wrong, but yeah. Then we talked about Netflix and their new analytics and how they're promoting their shows. It's actually real effective. We talked about Pete Davidson, the comedian and Arianna Grande, excuse me, a little bit of a controversy there. I talked about the coronavirus and the hysteria surrounding it. Then we talked a little bit about whether or not viruses are actually alive. Believe it or not, there's actually a debate in the scientific world about that. We talked about the Fed pumping more money into the market, reversing the downward trend. Boy, the real drop is probably gonna happen. It's gonna be real big at some point. Justin talked about the cold calls he's making for a charity and for sexual favors. Yeah, right to the bank, baby. By the way, Organifi, if you want a discount on their products, we have a Mind Pump discount for you. Just go to organifi.com. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com. Forward slash Mind Pump, use the code Mind Pump. You'll get 20% off all of their products. All right, here's the fitness questions that we answered. The first one, this person says, are SARMs a useful tool or a gimmick? So SARMs are new drugs that are out in the market available over the counter as research chemicals, promising to build muscle, not lower testosterone, and not have any side effects. Sounds too good to be true. Well, you know the answer to that, so listen to that part of the episode. SARMs. Next question, what exercises are best for improving vertical jump? So we talk about how you can get more hops in that part of the episode, and I'm not talking about beer. The next question, this person says, hey, does resistance training and nutrition play a factor for women who want to conceive? So we talk all about training nutrition around conception. And the final question, what has fatherhood taught Adam, Justin, and myself? So we talk all about being dads in that part of the episode. Also, all month long, our newest program, MAPS PowerLift, is 50, that's right, half off. So MAPS PowerLift is a full powerlifting workout program. So if you want to get started with powerlifting, if you want to compete in your first competition, or if you just want to get better at your bench press, your deadlift, and your squat, or you just like to build lots of muscle or speed up your metabolism. This is the first time it's been on sale like this, right? This is it, MAPS PowerLift, half off. Here's how you get the half off discount. Go to mapspowerlift.com, that's M-A-P-S-P-O-W-E-R-L-I-F-T.com and use the code POWER50, that's P-O-W-E-R-5-0, no space for the discount. Yes, right. I'm a little off right now, so yeah. Sal just gave me a concoction, and it's what you call it, Neuotropics or Neutropics? Well, it doesn't matter. We're doing the same experiment with you that I did. So a few podcasts ago, I took the Organifi Purin Green, and I timed it 30 to 40 minutes, depending on empty stomach, digestive process, whatever. Took me a little longer. And it kicks in. It was like 45. Yeah. You feel the buzz, Adam did it, and it happened to him. Remember he was like, all of a sudden he was smart for a second? I was so late for the brief moment. Yeah, all of a sudden we're like, whoa, that was pretty. Came out of the woodwork. I know what's happening. Yeah. So we got 30 minutes for you, Justin. We'll put a ticker on. Yeah, let's see what happens. So anyway, but yeah, make sure you put your headphones on the right, Jack. Yeah, I mean, that's how I'm starting the day, so we'll see how this goes from here. You know what I hate, dude? That it's happened to me a few times when we're podcasting, because it's very hard for me to sit still. That's why I have this hand gripper. It's helping, but I'll shift my, and I feel bad for the people recording the podcast on video. By the way, all of our podcasts are on video now, as well. So if you want to see just how unattractive we are, just go to the Mind Pump Podcast. You're welcome. YouTube channel. But anyway, I feel bad because we have people recording the podcast on audio, with video, and about one or two times through the podcast, I always have to adjust my camera. You guys notice that? Yeah, you're so fidgety. Because I'm sliding down and I'm moving to the side of it. So what I hate, what I do, is because I move so much with my foot, I accidentally kick the wire, and my headphones will unplug. And so I can't hear, but I know that the podcast is going, so I gotta keep going. You ever done that? Yeah, you also stare at the TV a lot for a guy who has a photographic memory. I can never figure that out. Oh, up there? Yeah, you're always looking up there. Well, it's either there or there. Everyone thinks there's a fly on the wall. I know, I see it too though. You know what? I never see it. I also do that when I'm just thinking. So it just happens to be in the right. That's what I know that about you. I'm like, it's not like he needs to look at the television for cues of anything like that. No. You tend to do that. This is one on this side. I'd totally would be drawn to it like a fly looking at light. You need one because you never fucking cover your own bullet points. Just like, hey, Doug, remind me to talk about Hugo Boss, this, this and that, and the fucking intro's over. And I'm like, hey, did you want to cover any of those points that you had? Doug fucking taking notes for it. I'm just trying to be present. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to be all calculated. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. Like off the cuff, bro. He is like a present. Unwrap me. With TVs, did you guys back in the day when you guys used to do cardio? Did you guys like watching stuff on TV when you did cardio? Was that a thing? Did you guys, did you utilize that when you put that? I liked watching people. I don't know if that makes it creepy, but that was- Like in the gym? Yeah, like watching what people are doing and like some shenanigans. Me too. Music and podcasts, like when I'm on like list cardio for now, when I was competing and I was doing it every day for a while, I didn't watch TV. I don't think I, as a matter of fact, with all the TVs there, I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's like throws me off because I have to look at a screen that's up above me. So you would just watch people working out like a creep. Totally. And now what kind of people would you focus on? Justin. The interesting ones. You know, the ones that usually are sponsored by the lemon. Yeah. Well, that is interesting and captures my attention sometimes. But usually it was the ones that were using the machines in a different way than it was intended. There's always that going on. It's not like a unique thing. This happens on a daily. Dude, to this day, I've never seen anything quite as silly as this and I've seen it twice. I've seen people use the lat pull-down machine. They'll pull the handles down or hang from the handles. And then like twist. Just twist. Like trunk twist. Oh my God, I thought it was the only one that saw that. Why? What is that doing? I have no idea. There's no resistance twisting. No. You're just twisting. It feels good though. Huh? It feels good though. You do that. No, I don't do that. But I mean it does feel good. How do you know it feels good then? I mean people push with their shoulders the leg press. You know, like drive into it like that. Even when it doesn't have the pads. That's bodybuilding. I think what happens is, because I've done this before, before I like start my set, is the first time I get under a lat pull-down, my arms are hanging up there. It feels good to just kind of let it hang. Traction. Yeah, and then kind of rotate a little bit and then I'll come all the way back. But I mean that's not part of the exercise. It's me just kind of like stretching out before I get started. So was it Saturday? I went to go work out and there was a dude, the cable crossovers. So he pulls the handles down, but it's heavy enough to where he's, it can almost take him off the ground. So he's really light on his feet. And this is what he did. He hung with his arms and then he would jump and just switch his legs every once in a while. So it's like he was an astronaut. He got dink, dink, dink. It's like weightless. Yeah, and it's- Astronaut balance. Yeah, and I really want to say something, but then he's not going to do it anymore. So it's like- Don't let it happen, dude. Yeah, watch the fun. Yeah, I've seen a guy in a free motion like that where he'll get all this spring-loaded tension and then boink, jump up, and then karate kick in the air and then come back down. That guy was one of my favorites. That's a good one. I got one of our listeners while I was doing a row, and I'm not going to call her out because I know her name, but you almost messed me up. I was doing rows and she walked by and you guys know this, when you're doing a heavy row, a cable row or whatever, you don't want to turn your neck. That's like you're asking for a little bit of a neck tweak, right? So as I'm doing this, she taps on my shoulder as she's walking by to say hi. So I kind of- Why you're in the middle of a rep? Why I'm in the middle of a rep, dude. So did you ghost her or what? I just kept looking straight ahead and then I put it down, I looked over to see who it was. I'm like, oh, okay. I know who you are. Don't do that. Yeah. Don't do that to me. Oh, man. You can make my neck. Hey, did you guys see what Netflix is doing now with their top 10? I think that's- Have you seen this, Justin? I haven't seen it yet, no. I think they have in like the, I think it's upper left or lower left corner of the little graphic of whatever the show is. And it says it ranks the top 10. In the nation. Yeah, of all of like views on Netflix. So say number one in the nation, number five and the whatever. That's, you know why that's good? Because sometimes the picture and the clip makes me not want to watch it. Oh, totally. But then if I know it's five- That was like, okay. So that was like in great reviews. That was like knives out for me. So knives out got like 95% positive reviews and I'd heard good things about it. Still didn't close you. Still didn't close me. I watched the preview of it and I think the same thing you got, I heard you say Sal, is that it just looked like clue. It looks like the movie. I thought in fact it was a movie on that. And they already made a movie clue before. And so I was just, I was just not interested to watch it. I'd rather watch something else that seemed more enticing. And I just kept blowing it off, blowing it off. And then finally the other night, Katrina and I had a movie night and there wasn't anything else that we hadn't seen or really wanted to see. And she's like, you know, let's just watch that knives out. We've been talking about possibly watching it for like the last month and a half, two months. I'm like, all right. And we watch it. She's been calling the shots a lot lately. I feel like, oh my God. It keeps happening. I love it. Oh God. Is that what it's happened to me, dude? Yeah, bro. It's slowly happening. You just don't realize it. It's just, it's just, it's just, it sounds calling it out though. I appreciate it. I mean, I didn't even have a daughter. I had a son. That was my worry of having, like everyone asked me like, why are you so adamant about having a son? Well, I said, well, I, you know, I want the Schaefer name to be carried on. First of all. And then second is I'm just afraid if I have a girl, I'm going to be just a pussy. Like it's just going to soften me up. It happens to you. You and your son are, are going to be, she's going to call the shots to both of you guys. That's all right. That's all right. Anyway, was it going to move you or what? It was really good. It was really, really good. I've heard that from a lot of people, dude. Yeah. Well, you know, well, something that we were talking about off air that, you know, movies and not even streaming has been around a while. Like it's so many, we have so many great analytics. I mean, Netflix is built off of analytics, right? What makes it so successful is they, they know how to market to you and get you to binge watch. That's part of the major success they have. And hit makers, the book goes into this, which is a really good read. But it's a little annoying sometimes as a consumer or somebody who likes, I don't know, the artistic side or the novelty of like good writing or a good movie is they've learned and they've hacked and hit makers gets into this like the formula to what makes a successful movie. And then everybody kind of recreates it. Like I was, I was being advertised to, oh, this is a movie you would like to watch. I watched a preview and I'm like, oh my God, it's like hangover with just four different. I've seen it a million times. Yeah, four different dudes. And it's annoying when you see that they just take advantage of knowing that, you know, it will produce enough to make money because enough people want to watch it because it's got a proven formula. I really appreciate a movie where I watch it in either one. I was like, I had no idea that was coming. Or wow, I don't think I've seen something like this before. Yeah, that's why most studios, I mean, they're only putting money into superhero films because that like translates internationally. People like can totally get behind that more. So, but back to the analytics thing, I actually heard that like some of the people that are producing the content for Netflix, they don't release all those numbers for them, the producer that's actually producing it for them. So they're withholding it in-house. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I mean, obviously that's their own motivation to be able to then re-sign contracts. I was just gonna say because if you're a producer and you know you crushed, and then another contract comes up, you're gonna negotiate. There's a lot of stand-up comedy where they put out a special and they wanna know how far it reached and all the stuff and they're really not disclosing those numbers to them. So then some of them are more motivated to then go to like a different platform to try it out there. Interesting. Well, so that happened to me too, Adam, with Lock and Key. Lock and Key's another, it's a series on Netflix that I've seen it, I've gone over it a million times, I've seen the preview. It looks scary when you watch the preview. Yeah, that's what we didn't watch it. Yeah, like a scary kind of series. And so Jessica doesn't like scary shit or whatever, but then it was ranked on their new ranking system. I think it was like number five or four in the world. So I said, you know what, let's try this out. And she was like apprehensive. I don't wanna watch it, it looks stupid, it looks scary, whatever. I'm like, let's just try it, which makes me happy when I get to prove her wrong. Oh, I'm sorry, be right again. Actually, funny thing, the day after, yeah, the morning after, she's like all reluctant. She was like, I guess you were right or whatever. And I'm like, yay. Be grudgingly. And I teased her about it. But anyway, we put it on and great show. I binged like four episodes of it. It's like a, it's a thriller, it's not scary. There's a little bit of, it's like scary for like 14 year old, 15 year old kids maybe. So it's not super scary, but it's like one of those. It's scary for Adam, but not the rest of it. Yeah, that's what made Katrina not wanna watch it. I'm trying to find right now this standup that I watched. Justin, do you watch all the standups that are on Netflix? I mean, I try to, Courtney gets like irritated because that's like all I wanna watch. So I usually watch it by myself, but depends which one are you talking about? So there's a new one, White Guy, Tattoos. Oh, Pete Davidson? And he dated the, I think a singer who talks shit about his dick. Oh, you're talking about the do of the tattoo on his neck back here? Yes, yes. I couldn't get out, I couldn't go past 15 minutes. He's on SNL? Yes, yes. Did you watch it? I didn't watch it. I only watched a clip of like the trailer. Did you watch the Chokey? Did you watch this? Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh shoot, I thought maybe you might- Pete Samp, is it Pete? Pete Samp? I want you to figure it out because- I thought it was what I said. It's, it's your eyes and listens. Pull it up, Doug, because this guy- Pete Davidson is what I said. And tell me who he was dating, because I wanna, and I guess she, she just straight blasted him. Like talking about that, you know, she really was just like doing, she was recovering from a, you know, the last break up and just kind of whatever- Rebound? Yeah, rebound, thank you for it. Couldn't fucking lost her words there. I should have drank that goddamn pure. Should have had it, yeah. So I just had the baby, that's the word I want. Putting it in the wrong hole. Yeah. Not exactly. Oh, Ariana Grande. Thank you, thank you. God, I'm just not there right now. Wow. She's annoying as fuck. Bro, she like- So annoying. She talked mad shit about this dude. And his like whole stand-up is like, at least a good chunk of it is kind of a response to it. So it hooked me in there. Now I didn't know this. And so I'm watching it. Did she actually write a song called Pete Davidson? Is that what that says? Bro, she blasted him in a song. She blasted him all over. Like so- Oh, she's scorned. Yeah, you guys have to read up on this because it was kind of fascinating. What was she saying about him? She made it, like I just told you. Like she was like, he made a big deal about them having a relationship. She played it off like it was a fling and he was no big deal, but said he had a big dick. And like so- Well, that's like a great- Oh, yeah. Well, no, so probably the best part of the whole stand-up he does, he goes, you know, you think that this would be a great compliment and everything like that. But let me tell you, this is how fucking evil this woman is. She straight-ninjaed this that she wanted to make sure that women for the rest of my life are disappointed. Oh, brilliant. Really? And I fucking died, I went, oh- Like what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is what you got. Tell the world you're a fucking, you got a massive dick in every, even if you're like above average a little bit. If you're not- Oh man. Yeah, every, it's disappointed. Wow. So I thought, so I, you know, I don't know who the guy is. We just, it was on. Now, did you like the whole thing? Cause I watched 15 minutes and it wasn't, it didn't capture me. Okay, so he has a different style, right? That's what was at first turning me off from how he was doing it. Like I thought, is this guy like lost for words really? Or is this just kind of, that's his style? It's his style of how he does it. And so it took me a minute to warm up to his style of comedy and it was pretty, it was decent. It wasn't like, you know, over the top grade or anything like that. But I was more interested in the backstory cause I don't know who this guy is. I don't know anything about it. And I'm listening to his jokes and I'm like, with Katrina and I look over and I'm like, did that, do you think that really happened? Did he really date her? Is this part of his skit or is this real? So she's like on the, on her phone, like, like researching all of it. And she's like, oh, no, he said this and she said that and I'm like, so that part of it made it even better. So I went, I paused it, went back, read the backstory on their relationship and all the drama and stuff. And then turn it back on. I mean, So you gotta kind of know his backstory a bit to get into it. I mean, you, I was watching without it and enjoying it to a little bit. You know, it wasn't great again, like I said, but then when I found out the backstory and thought, oh, this is clever. This is clever and really funny. That's interesting. She's so annoying, dude. She's the most annoying person in the world. Her voice, phenomenal. She's got powerful. What makes her so annoying? She just says, constantly says stupid shit. She's like a child that says dumb shit. I don't remember what she said something about. Is that her or Taylor Swift? I know it was Taylor Swift. No, no, she's annoying too, but not nearly as annoying as Ariana Grande. She's just one of the most. And the reason why I know this because I would, my daughter- Because you listen to it when you work out? Yeah. You have to go to all the concerts, right? That sucks. Yeah, no, I'm total. No, she was on a show on Disney channel. Can't remember the name of it. Do you know the name? Chucky? Mousketeers. Victorious? Was that it? She played Kat. Kat, there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she was a character on this Disney show that my daughter used to like. Then she became a popular singer. She's, I think she's half Sicilian. So I was like, oh, it's just cool. You know, whatever. So I kind of paid attention a little bit here and there. So racist, that's the only reason why he listens. Oh, she's part Italian. He loves this. Well, you know, my daughter's into her, you know? And I'm like, is my daughter gonna identify with this person, so I paid attention. All right, I got you. And she just says- Why's she on her? She just says dumb shit all the time. They all do. Yeah, and it's their children. They're young kids, you know, with a lot of power and a lot of fame. You're going to, I mean, I would have said stupid shit at that age too. Yeah, of course. You imagine? Could you imagine? I heard that- You got captured on camera. You got your ego and you're just a little shit. I heard that ever since Kanye did that thing to Taylor Swift, she's just been on this, like, terror of, like, everybody's out to get me and stirring up all kinds of shit too. You know, in hindsight, that was the best possible thing could happen to her. Yeah. It blew her up. She got so much support from that. It's not even funny. Oh, she was pretty big before that. Yeah, she was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, she was pretty massive before that. She's genuinely super talented. She's the one who- She's really talented. She has, I think she still has like- They're all the music. The most famous or the most amount of retweets ever in the history of retweeting, I think. Really? Yeah, I think, because she's like notorious for never tweeting, and I think she did a tweet, like- So her twats are just the best. Wow. Sorry. Wow. Sorry. Is that past tense for you? I'm gonna- That's the past tense. I mean, I say twat, too, for tweeting, but that was like the wrong place to put it for sure. My bad. That's good. My bad. Some win. Dad jokes sometimes are good. He's saying to dad jokes. Sometimes that's so much a dad joke. When Doug closes his eyes and shakes his head, I know I went with it. I went too far. I had to cross my legs on that one. When Doug thinks you went too far, you know- People don't know, dude, that Doug. When he pops out of joke, it's the Doug. Doug is the worst with that. He always- I tell Katrina that all the time. I said, we'll be funny, because she'll be like, you know, every once in a while she catches some of Doug's humor, right? She's not around all the time. She's like, Doug's really funny. I'm like, oh, no, he's definitely funny. I said, but sometimes, let me tell you, we'll be in the car and Sal will say something super inappropriate that Justin will, and I will- He car dribbles down. And then all of a sudden, there's like a little, there'll always be like a little bit of a pot. Yes. There's always like a- Because he's questioning. Yeah, he said it. There's a delay. And then all of a sudden, Doug says something. And it's like, whoa, bro! Whoa! That was way too far. You're gonna burn and die. Yeah, right, guys? Yeah. Whoa! Yeah. That's so bad. Good God. Anyway, I'ma change gears. Good times. I was on Instagram doing a post this morning and something dawned on me. You know what pose you see all the time on Instagram? Especially with girls. You see this a lot with girls. Oh, they're gonna do the two guys flexing and pointing at each other. Is it the one that's kind of up on a ledge and kind of getting their ass out? No, just another one. I mean, oops, that was way too specific. No, no, it's this one. It's the, you know, okay. You know what I'm looking at. What it was was one of my cousins started following me. So I went on his page and then that led me to look, check out some of my other cousins. And I see my cousins on these pictures and they're all just family, whatever. But they're like at a nightclub with their friends. So it's two girls and they're sticking their tongues out. And I'm like, why do girls always, why do they stick their tongue out all the time? It's either out or it's out to the side or something. It sounds like an anime thing. No, so I looked it up. I actually found a- You can Google that? No, well, no. So what I Googled is- I wanna know what you Googled actually. I Googled why do girls stick their tongues out in pictures and then I put psychology. Cause I wanna look up articles written that were like- Lollipops. Like psychology articles. Because oftentimes they'll comment on behaviors that we do and then they'll speculate. And so I'm like, who better to ask than psychology- This somebody's a whore. Yeah. Thanks, Freud. That's true. So they said that it, although the tongue can signify a lot of different things throughout history like poking fun or whatever, they said a lot of it has to do with just, it's either subliminal or it's overt sexuality. So girls who are doing that, they're trying to show sexuality or they're being sexual by sticking their tongues out. That's what the article said. You needed an article to tell you that? No, I just wanna- That's like, you really needed an article to tell you that? I already thought that. So I just wanted to- Just back it up a little bit. Yeah. Some science. Exactly. One day we need to have like a follow style with his Google searches for a day. Nope. You know, that's why I can never run for public office. Slugs have four tongues. What? Yeah. Hold on a second. What time is it? Did the shit kick in right now? Is it better to- Also, camels have three eyelids. What? Bro, it's working. I just remember that. I was watching a documentary. 22 minutes in. Whoa, it works faster on you. You must be fasted. I'm just telling you. Low carbs. Yeah, low carbs. Protein heavy right now and it's all clicking. You still have the reindeer poops? Yeah. The drops or whatever. I don't wanna talk about that. Dudes. So it's- That's the awkward part. So are you just buzzing or something right now? Oh yeah, I'm stimulated right now. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's good. Hit him faster. 22 minutes for you was like 30 for sale. 45 for you. 45 for you. So we all know, except for once. It could mean that I'm just at a high, high level. It takes a lot longer for it to build up and push over a little bit where you guys impact so much. No, no, no. I think there's more. You guys are so much, they're like here and it's like, oh, just a little bit of- I don't have a lot of gears, dude. A little bit of Organifi Pure puts you guys over. There's just two gears. Wow, this is totally different. There's just more shit to get through for you. Like- The Pure's like, whoa, we gotta fix a lot of stuff. Oh my God, there's so many holes. Yeah, seriously. Oh, anyway, dude, so my, so this whole coronavirus thing, right? Yeah. There's a lot of news around it. There's a lot of stereo around it. Yeah, lots of stuff going on and- Aren't we trying to get somebody on the show? Yeah, I'm gonna try- Take a little phone call. I'm gonna try and get someone on to talk about it because as I'm doing my research, anytime something like this happens, I'm always trying to dig through the, like, what's the truth? Because here's the problem with media. Media is, we have a market for media. Just like we have a market for food or we have a market for clothes. And if I publish an article that says, the coronavirus is not as bad as you thought or if I publish good news, it's not gonna get as many clicks or as much attention as an article that says something like, coronavirus exploding all over the world or what, it's gonna get more attention. So I'm like, I wonder if a lot of this is just sensationalized fear because that's what we keep clicking on. So I did some research and a lot of people are saying, these doctors and scientists are like, look, we wanna definitely make sure we prevent the spread of it, but it's not, the flu is worse. The flu is worse for people, infects way more people, kills way more people. There's a lot of unwanted fears, I should say. Now my family, you guys think I'm a hypochondriac and I get a little paranoid, right? Definitely. I'm not the first person in my family to have these traits. Okay, this was inherited and learned. So my mom is, of course, she's sending us messages with articles and she's like, are you guys buying masks? So make sure you go to the store and get toilet paper and stop shaking people's hands. I'm like, mom, if you do the math, I'm exposed to way more dangerous stuff every single day. It's not that big of a deal, whatever. So we're going back. Anyway, my dad went to Costco to get his hands on. Sold out, dude. On masks. Sold out. My buddy went to, water, toilet paper and masks. Gone. Do you know where my dad had to- What a great business. My dad had to drive to Hollister. Remember when San Jose, right? He had to drive to Hollister to find the masks. Dude. Because they're sold out everywhere. This is the same thing with the generators. You know how they've been turning the lights off and the power outages and all this stuff? Like, dude, it was impossible for me to get a generator. Remember the guy that went to jail or got a huge fine? I think he went to jail, actually, for it. That was buying them up when that- Sorry, one for more? Yeah. So they got them for like a resale license. That's how they fucked them. Opportunist, man. Well, they call that price gouging, but in reality, in the market, that plays a valuable role because the price reflects the demand and the supply. And if the price goes through the roof because people are able to resale something for 10 times more, that sends a signal to the market and producers just produce more of it, you know what I'm saying? So if you can make toilet paper and sell it for five times the profit, every producer is gonna try and produce more toilet paper and you'll get better supply as a result of doing that. It just always reminds me how effective fear is. Oh my God, fear is so effective to affect the masses. I mean, they know this and so they're just looking for like a new thing. That's why I'm always like very slow to be able to buy into like, oh my God, this is gonna be a crazy thing that we have to worry about. Dude, so I have a lot of family and cousins that are in investments. So my cousins who are smart investors- Made a bunch of money off of Charmin. Dude, they're buying stock in like- That's brilliant. Stocks and Lysol and shit like that and they're big and rich right now. Wasn't Max saying too that if you did like the antibiotic hand lotion, sanitize or whatever, it actually leaves you more susceptible to getting the- Yeah, cause it opens the pores. It opens the pores. To Xenoestrogen. To Xenoestrogen, not the bacteria. No, so like the recede, and I started paying attention, you know the receipts you get from the store? You ever feel how they are kind of slick and whatever? That coating is our chemical Xenoestrogens that can potentially affect the body. And so if you use the hand sanitizer and then you handle those, you're gonna get like 10 times more exposure to some of those chemicals. That's okay, so you can get the Xenoestrogen, but you can't get a virus that kills the bacteria. Yeah, so it destroys bacteria and it breaks down the protein sheath that's around the DNA in viruses so that they don't work. I like the word sheath. So then I went down another rabbit hole. I remember in science class back in, I don't remember where, I was probably a freshman. We had this debate as to whether or not viruses were alive or not. You guys ever looked this up? So virus. No, I've not. I know, I don't know why I'm asking you. Well, have you guys ever Googled or even wiped virus? You guys are like, no, we were doing cool shit. Yeah, yeah. In terms of like vaccines, how they collect dead viruses and then inject you? No, no, no. If a virus is alive or not. So bacteria is a single-celled organism. It's actually alive, right? There's a debate as to whether or not viruses are alive or not because really when you look at a virus, it's a- Is it a heated debate or? If when you look at a, yeah, nice. When you look at a virus, it's a protein sheath around DNA, but it requires a host to replicate. So viruses need to consume. They need to produce waste, but they also need to be able to reproduce. Viruses can't reproduce on their own. They have to be attached- Have a host? A host. So there's like some, so you can go back and forth. But they're feeding off of something. Wouldn't that allude to them being alive? That's why it's in between. They'll say viruses are, some people say they're alive, some scientists, some scientists say they're not. It's kind of this in between because they can't, on their own, they don't replicate, they don't do anything. So they can just be there and then reactivate it once they find a host? That's it. So once you get them in your body, they attach to your cells and then they insert their DNA and it tells your cell to do something different. It's like a program, really. Those are creepy. It's like a computer program floating around and you pick it up and then your body gets reprogrammed and unless your body's immune system does something to it, you're fucked, you know what I mean? But anyway, the hysteria is a little overblown on it, but you should still be here for us. It's not the black plague. No. You need to calm down. Well, I'd like to get somebody who's a professional in the field like talking to us a little bit about it because it is getting- Yes. Yeah, no, you're right. Yeah, I'm just a trigger. I'm a political now like crazy. So that's what I find interesting. Have you guys seen that? Because it's an election season? Oh, yeah. How both sides are trying to use it to scare people and devoting for them or whatever. It's so stupid. It's so good. Makes me so. Speaking of the market, this is as of the recording of this episode. So this may change when we drop this episode, but market crashed because of coronavirus fears. The Fed lowered interest rates, injected more money in the market now. It's up again, which I don't know if that was the best thing to do. How much lower did they go? Someone said they lowered them, but they just lower them back down to the all-time low that they hit already, right? So they hit an all-time low and then they started to rise back up again and then they just brought it right back down. I think so. Did that just inflate everything again? Correct. Yeah. Why do that? Well, it's buying time in a sense, you know. That's kind of what they're doing. Slow bleed. Yeah, well, it's inevitable that eventually what will happen is like- And I think we're- Market correction. Yeah, we're close to that, man. When you look at the housing right now, it's just- Bro, it's been a bull market for 10 years. That's like one of the longest bull markets ever. So in cutting interest rate, here's the thing. There's a lot of motivation to keep the stock market looking good because we're in election season. So when you're the president, you have strong influence over the Fed's policy. Even though the Fed is supposed to be independent, there's a lot of influence. So if you're the president, you don't want stock market to go down that long right before you get elected because that could be used against you. So of course they're gonna do something like that. I don't think they would have done that otherwise because when the market correction comes, the more you skew the market, the stronger the connections, excuse me, the correction can be and that could be pretty bad or whatever. I guess it was funny this weekend. I thought of you guys because I was actually in a position where, okay, there's strengths that you and your partner have that are different. We were actually trying to do some good things for the community, for the schools, all this kind of stuff. So Courtney actually signed up to collect these different certificates, offers, and things I got from local businesses for this auction for charity for the school. Oh, I see. And so she signs up for that. They send her an email basically like, oh yeah, and also here's a list of 50 businesses that we need you to cold call and get them to basically provide something for this auction and we need you to do that by in a week or whatever. And so she's like freaking out. And I'm like, whatever, I'll do it. I'll do it. And it was just hilarious because I just remember being at 24 hour fitness and going to just cold calling back when I get rejected and go back, hammer the same people over and over again. So the whole weekend, all weekend, I'm like on the phone, I almost had a Bluetooth in my ear and I'm just calling these people. My motivation behind it though is the funny part, right? So each one that I close, she's like, okay, you can bank a sexual favor. Whoa! She doesn't. I was like, wow, you really want to get this done, don't you? She doesn't know what she just did. I know, I know. So I'm on the phone like, oh, we can just hammer in these businesses. Hey, one of them actually. Did you tell them? Hey, listen. Yeah, please do this. A lot is writing on this. Yeah. Like definitely. So it was funny, because I'm representing the elementary school, you know? So I have to keep that in mind. I can't just be myself. Because I was like, it was funny because like some of the businesses, like the nail shops and like people, like their immediate like answer is like, no, no. Like really aggressively like, no, I don't want to. I'm like, oh, so you don't want to support the community. I got it. You know, like catch myself. I was like, oh, I can't even be like, shitty and sarcastic, you know, because I'm like the elementary school, you know? So I was like, I had to catch myself a bunch. Is it like one of those little coupon books that you end up the kids go sell? Is that what it is? Where you get all the shops and they all give 20% off by this get one free. Yeah, similar. You could do that, but we're trying to get like unique things. So I got like, I was like closing that, shitty. I'm totally out of, I was like 20%, you know, closing rate, which is yeah, it's not my best, dude. Do you want me to go for you? Yeah. Yeah, sure. How'd you guys do that? I think it's a sign of the times. Wow, some excuses out there. But like some of the hotels, I got like free night stays and I got like really good stuff, like like two person like romantic dinners for this like really expensive dinners at some of these places. And so I got like really cool prize, not just like, you know, $20 gift certificate for nail, you know, done, I didn't close anything. So explain this, is this like a, now they're going to get auctioned off or something? Okay. So that's how this works. Well, that's perfect. Now, how are you leading this? Are you leading the conversation with, hey, do you want to donate for charity for school? I'm assumption closing them that basically they've already donated before and that, you know, they're running this again. Are you lying? Yeah. 100%. And then you just saying like, hey, do you want me to come down in person? I'll go ahead and, you know, like a lot of times I would just make up the prize for them. So it was just like, Oh my God. You know, so like maybe like the free, last time was like a free night stay, you know, like for, you know, one of your king suites, like, can we do something similar to that this time? And I got them to do it. Well, yeah. Would you like to repeat what you guys did the last five years? I don't have anything here. They're like, who are you getting here? I would lead with the whole like, hey, would you guys like to promote your services to all the parents in our school? We're doing free promotions. I tried that angle. Did it work? Yeah. That was the ones where I got the hard no. Oh, wow. I would have thought that would have worked. Sal's getting rusted too. Sal's getting rusted. I don't know. You should try it. Give it to me. Give me some numbers. Do you get the sexual favors too? I got two sheets done. I got one more to go. So hold on. So you're closing at 20%. How many is that? How many of those have you closed then? What's the number? Well, so if I'm like, 10 total. So yeah, I know. Bro, that's a lot of sexy stuff. It's a lot of things I'm gonna figure out. Have you already started, yeah. Thinking about how you're gonna calendar that out. Yeah, I gotta make more different too. And so I'm gonna, yeah. I'll put it on the calendar. So now there's, are they all individual sexual favors or can you combine them for one? That's a great question, Sal. Like one night of just pure debauchery. Yeah. Like just like anything goes sort of arena. Yeah. You better negotiate that before you get any further into this because that's gonna be not fair. I know, right? Oh yeah, one night we just had two hour sex and she gets out all the moves. Like I want wrestling. I want like, you know, like. I'm not gonna. Yeah. I'm gonna keep it in my head. He's doing moves. That's why I gotta watch this on video. You can see Justin's moves that he's doing. This is what I picture. This is what I picture. You know what I mean? This is what I picture on Justin's calendar. You know, day one, wheelbarrow. You will too. Jack Cameron, like the day he uses first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm bringing a stability ball in there. I haven't done that in a while. All right, the first question is from Dylan Pied 95. Are SARMs a useful tool or a gimmick? That's you. Did you pick this out? Yeah. You, I know I sent you. It was Dylan who picked. Well, I sent him over a, first of all, define or tell me the difference between a SARM and a peptide. Are they, what's the difference? So peptides are compounds that can cause other actions in the body or can be turned into other things in the body. This is supposedly a SARM is a drug. So SARM stands for selective androgen receptor modulator. So what that means is that these compounds are designed to attach to the androgen receptors in the body and to cause some actions. Now, what are the androgen receptors in your body responsible for? Well, they're responsible for the masculinization of your body. So facial hair, deepening of your voice, oily skin, you know, that kind of stuff, but they're also responsible for muscle building to some respect. So testosterone attaches to the androgen receptor, all steroids attached to the androgen receptor. So SARMs were invented to attach to the androgen receptor, but to cause those receptors to exert the muscle building effects without exerting the masculinizing effects. Cause that's like the magic formula, right? In pharmaceuticals is can we make a drug that gives you all the wonderful benefits of testosterone minus the masculinizing effects? That way women can use them. That way we can give them to people who need to strengthen their bones and their muscles because those masculinizing effects as much as bodybuilders and, you know, roid heads like them because, you know, you start to feel aggressive and all that stuff. When you're giving this to the average person, they don't necessarily want to feel that, especially women, or if you have to give them to kids or whatever. So that's the goal behind these drugs. They're totally new. These drugs have one or two, you know, they're not, none of them are FDA approved. The one that's been most tested, I'm not quite sure what phase of trial it's in, but it still hasn't been approved. Many of them have been dropped by the FDA because of negative effects. And here's what the anecdotes are saying. So I've been really deep in SARMs for a long time. I have no interest in using them because these are research chemicals. They're not FDA approved. A lot of people haven't used them yet for us to really know what they're doing. Now, does the peptide, I know this is a SARMs question, but I'm personally curious because I get a lot of questions around the peptides. And even though you just define them, they still sound very similar to me. They are research chemicals. Yeah, research chemical, they both are supposed to have an effect that hopefully produces more testosterone or growth hormone or whatever. So even though one sounds like it's specific to Anderson receptors, I feel like that they're both kind of similar, no? Yeah, so like the peptides, for example, some peptides you'll use, supposedly what they'll do is they'll have your body release way more growth hormone or insulin light growth factor, IGF-1, which are both anabolic hormones and all that stuff. But again, the problem is, first off, how are they legal? You think to yourself, but these things are not FDA approved, how the hell are people getting their hands on them? There's a gray area in regulation when it comes to these compounds. You can legally sell them as research chemicals. What you can't do is sell them for human consumption. The way they're getting around it is you go online and you're buying a research chemical and it'll say clearly not for human consumption, although that's what people are doing. But people are literally experimenting on themselves with these products. That's what you're doing. Yeah, how do they go around that? Like, I mean, they're pretending that they're running some kind of like lab somewhere or is this just like whatever? I mean, it's interesting to me that, because we've been anti-SARMs since the beginning, but where else are you gonna get something like this where we can go test? Like, so let's just say somebody buys the latest and greatest SARM and we've now got these forums where all these people are talking and sharing what they're feeling, what they're noticing. I mean, maybe one of the best ways to test this with that big of masses coming together. And I think the ones that get popular are the ones that have the most amount of people that have used them and said positive things in comparison to negative things. Is that how they get to where everyone starts talking about them? So the most popular ones are popular because they're the ones that people say give you the most gains. People literally don't give a shit about side effects. They don't. Think about steroids. I can't see color anymore, but it's cool. Yeah, think about any drug, you know what I mean? Okay, first off, think of the population that's attracted to SARMs. It's not general population is to give a shit. Most people don't know what it is. The only people who are interested in it are either bio-hackers or like, you know, people who wanna find a steroid but don't wanna go to the black market. Oh, I can buy this online type of deal. They're not in a mental state to give a shit about side effects. In fact, if they gain muscle, they are really happy and they really don't care. Yeah, my case was always that, if I'm gonna take that, I may as well just take testosterone. That's how I felt. Testosterone's way more effective. Yeah, it's- And we know what it does. Right, so what I don't understand is doing that instead of, like they're not, they definitely aren't proven to be safer. So why would people go there? Then it's the legal side of it, I'm sure. Yeah, come on. No one's- People still think like that, though. It is crazy people think that. First of all, you can order steroids online probably just as easily as you can order SARMs. Secondly, I don't know, I've never met a single person that's had their door busted down for having their personal use of steroids taken. It doesn't have, unless you're trying to- So you see it with the- Make a business out of it. No one's fucking with you for a 10-CC vial of fucking- You see it with like the CrossFit Sports and all those people bringing them down for using these SARMs because they must have thought they're not testing for them yet because they're so new. They think if they use a SARM, they're not testing for it, so I can use this. Now, anecdotally, when you read the message boards and you talk to people and I talk to people who I believe to be reputable, the effects from a SARM are, they're not like steroids. Not even close. And SARMs also promise, or one of the targets, I think target actions of a SARM is also to not affect your natural hormone levels. So the problem with taking testosterone is if you take testosterone, your body stops making testosterone. So they're trying to create these drugs that have less side effects, give you the muscle building effects, but also they don't shut down testosterone. The problem is, SARMs do shut down testosterone, at least at the doses that people are using because the studies, the doses that they're using in the studies are far lower than these kamikaze doses that people online are using. We just don't know what they do. Here's the other thing. People are buying them because they're afraid of the black market and they're afraid that, oh my God, I don't know what's in this black market, you know, viola testosterone. I hate to break this to you. You don't know what's in that bottle of SARMs either. None of these are regulated. They're not a big enough market for people to, nobody knows how to test them properly. And the very few independent lab tests that I have seen have come out all over the place where, you know, dosages are off, excuse me, where there's chemicals that they can't identify that are in them. I've read scary stories of people getting their eyesight permanently affected. There was one SARM that caused people to have like an orange tint or damaged night vision. Like, That's crazy. No, I don't think, I mean, look, you wanna experiment on your body, it's your body, but keep in mind you are, this is a very high risk kind of game that you're playing. We don't know what they do. None of them have been approved and the place you're getting them from who knows what they're putting in your bottle. And on top of that, a lot of people are even inject, like peptides tend to be injected. SARMs at least are oral, but wow, you really need to be careful when you inject a random something into your body. I mean, it just takes the wrong thing to cause a bad reaction. Next question is from Nicknack97. What exercises would you recommend for improving your vertical jump? You know, I just did a post on my story the other day, and you think because I think I've talked about them so many times that everybody's heard and is over there following them, but if you're asking any questions related to sports performance, especially vertical jump area, you have to be following PJ Performance, Max Marzo and Corey Schlesinger. Adju, they just started that whole online educational website. And they're the best. They really are the, in my opinion, they are some of the best sports performance brains in the industry and incredible, also very, very incredible men too. I like them as people. I think they have a great business and they have incredible free content. So if you're not following them, you should be doing that. And the reason why, because it's not like one of us can't answer how to improve vertical jump. Sure, I have an answer and exercises that can help improve vertical jump, but man, these guys are on a whole other level that this is where I go to research and read more information. And one of the things that I think was paradigm shattering for me following PJ over the last, I mean, I've been following him for a good four or five years now, is how important, forget the exercises, how important the technique of jumping is and what a difference that can make. I've seen this guy give somebody six to eight inches on their vertical within minutes by just showing them the approach to it and the mechanics of it to get them to add. I mean, I remember being a kid in the gym and training so hard and wearing those stupid shoes and doing all these things to try and increase my vertical by one inch or two inches where this guy could really look at your mechanics of your jumping technique and improve four or five times that. So the value of following these guys and listening to what they have to say about vertical jump and just sports performance in general, definitely where I get a lot of my information. Obviously you have to have strong legs and so like some of those things of general overall strength will apply to every athlete but then also having the mobility and the stretch reflex that will provide that kind of response. And there's lots of subcategories of this. So it's not like, you know, this exercise is gonna get you like a two inch vertical, you know, like there's a lot more to it. Like Adam's saying in terms of the technique, my mind's been blown with what kind of content they're putting out. So we always shuttle them that way. Well, I'm gonna give an analogy. Okay, if you had, you could have two groups of people trying to improve their punching power and one group does shoulder and tricep and chest exercises and just gets stronger. And the other group practices punching. Practices punching technique and gets coached by a boxer. At the end of 10 weeks, 100%, I will guarantee you that those that practiced punching are gonna punch much harder. And if you don't believe me, have a bodybuilder punch you in the arm and then have a boxer punch you in the arm. The bodybuilder is way more muscled and stronger but the boxer is gonna hit you much harder because punching is a skill and a technique just like jumping is. Nothing is going to improve your vertical jump like practicing jumping. So the number one thing you should do to get a better jump is practice your technique and the skill of jumping. And then the second thing is to practice how you explode out of a jump. That's what the exercise I would focus on is how do I generate force in the shortest period of time? This is where plyometrics can become extremely valuable is practicing being able to exert all that force in a short period of time to give me the most jump. And plyometrics have to be applied properly. The way you utilize plyometrics is by exploding into a jump, resting for a while because once fatigue sets in, you lose the value of plyos. Once you're fully rested, practice again, that's the single best thing you can do. Now, aside from that, general strength in the lower body, in the calves and in the core will contribute to all of that but nothing is gonna get you better than just practicing jumping. Well, I'm gonna circle back to what Justin said because this impacted me personally more than anything else and that was just getting stronger in my squat. I mean, I played basketball as a kid, growing up. I stopped playing for a team and really serious as I got into my 20s. I always did rec ball and things like that but I was not playing as consistently as I was as a young kid. I started to get into bodybuilding, not like competitive bodybuilding but building my physique and caring about how I looked. I started and I've shared on this podcast before one of the things that put the most size on my body was starting to eliminate basketball. So I stopped playing basketball, burning all those calories, started to pack on some size. I got the biggest I'd ever been by not playing ball for a few years and developed my legs from squatting and then I'll never forget coming back and playing basketball after like a two year hiatus and being able to throw the ball down better than I'd ever had in my life. Up into that point, like it was like, you know, at the peak of my basketball training I could barely get up and get a dunk and then I got to a place where I could drop step, two hand, throw it down and I hadn't been playing any basketball. So there is something to be said about, you know, I wasn't practicing jumping. I wasn't even doing any real plyometric working on that. I just built some legs on me that I didn't have as a kid at all and my fuck invert, I don't know what the exact amount of inches but I had to put on at least five to six inches more the way I was being able to throw the ball down. So make sure that you're squatting. I mean, squatting will definitely carry over into your vertical jump for sure. Yeah and it's a little controversial because the skill of cleaning is definitely very high and we talked about this with Sonny on the podcast recently but the triple extension concept of really being more explosive, really like pouring more force output into the ground is really a huge part of that development of being able to increase your vertical jump. And it doesn't mean you need to learn the skill of with a barbell of learning a clean but emulating that process whether it's with a kettlebell or with a trap bar or something like that where we could then mock that type of explosive triple extension is a huge component but working on the strength and then building your way up to the peak of that which is the powerful expression of it. Yeah, the full squats to build general strength and then partial squats to build specific strength for the jump. That is where it applies here. No junk, no joke. So if you're- Junk in the trunk. Yeah, I don't know why I said that. If you're pretty experienced with your lifting and you wanna improve your vertical and you wanna add more strength you can actually add partial squats. This is where partial or half squats actually have some value. I don't ever recommend that except for this. Well, that's, I mean, remember when that video of LeBron James went viral of the way he was squatting and people, ah, there was all this debate back and forth. He's an advanced athlete. That's very specific. Yeah, well, and not only that, he's huge. You'll never see a basketball player take off for a dunk from the deep astagrass squat position or even anywhere close to that. You won't even see them take off from a 90 position to do that. They probably have a three-quarter bend in their squat when they go up for a jump. So why, if you're an NBA player getting paid millions of dollars and you care more about that than longevity and what will build the most muscle on my quads, you're looking for the most carryover into your vertical jump. It does make sense here to train these quarter-type squats that people make fun of people on Instagram for doing because it has value here. Yeah, strong core for coiling. Then you got strong legs for that explosive output. You got strong feet and you got stable ankles. Like all those things very much concentrate on. You know, there's an African tribe that the men jump and this is how they show their virility and fertility and attract women, do you guys know that? No. All the men will jump together and the height and the explosiveness of the jump is how they'll attract women. And so the women in the tribal... And they're also looking at their jump. I was just gonna say, I wonder if it really has something to do with their vertical or what's flopping around. That's a really good way for them to tell. They wear those little banana leaf underwear, bro. You can tell a lot what's going on. Not every African tribe. This is a reproductive kind of dance. No, they don't all wear the same shit. You guys are so funny. She's like, oh, look, that's an eight-inch vertical. No, no, that's definitely a ten-inch. No, dude, they actually wear almost like long skirt, so you ain't gonna see nothing, bro. They're just looking at their... Well, when they jump up, it flies up. I need to explain that to you. It does, dude. Next question is from Yo-Yi Sotelo. Do resistance training and nutrition play a factor for women who want to conceive? Totally. And the rest of the question is... There is more questions now. Would a woman have to switch up her diet and train regimen to better her chances of conceiving? Yes, it makes a big difference. So, first off, being healthy, generally healthy, overall healthy, body fat percentage isn't too low, okay? Because being too low can actually negatively affect your ability to conceive, and also being too, too high. So you want to have a healthy range of body fat. And for women, this is typically for conception around between 20 to 25%, not even leaner than 20%. I've known women who've been in the 17% body fat range had to get their body fat up to 20 before they can conceive. So, in that range, general, overall, good health, that's the biggest impact you're gonna have on your ability to conceive. Now, that being said specifically, if we were to break down, okay, general health, everything looks good, what's the form of exercise that's gonna contribute the most to a woman's ability to conceive? Resistance training, always. And the reason why is resistance training is anabolic. It's pro tissue, it's pro hormone balance. It encourages a faster metabolism, which allows you to eat more. When your metabolism is becoming really, really, really thrifty, you can run the risk of sending a signal to your body that says, hey, we're not getting much food, so probably having a baby is not a good idea. But when you're lifting weights, like we talk about all the time, you're able to eat more, and because you're able to eat more and still maintain a healthy body fat percentage, sends a wonderful signal to the body. Now, any form of exercise that's overdone is gonna damage or negatively affect your ability to conceive. So what I mean by that is even if you lift weights, but you just lift weights a lot and you're training like a maniac and you're pushing your body to the limit and you're always on the borderline of overtraining, probably not a good environment for conception. You wanna be generally in a good, kind of relaxed state. It's funny, I don't know if you guys have had friends, this happened to friends, but I've got several family members where they were trying to conceive, and then because they were trying, they were stressed out about it. It's not working, it's not working. Then they gave up and they just relaxed, boom. It happens right away, you get a whole stress all the time. What are your thoughts? So let's say somebody just heard that statement you made about where percentage there you should be, or ideal, right? Nothing's gonna make the greatest impact of having your body in a healthy state. And let's say somebody is listening to that and they want to get pregnant and they're like at 32%, which is not crazy, but they're at 32% body fat and so they hear that and so they assume that if that's the best thing to do, they start dieting to get down to 20, 25 while they're also trying to consume. And while they're dieting like that, they may be running low calorie, low fat intake. What's your thoughts on that? Because that's gotta be essential too, is to make sure that you are hitting your essential amount of fat and protein for the day. I mean, I would think that makes a greater impact than actually getting that person's body fat percentage. Well, it depends why their body fat was in the 30s to begin with. You know what I'm saying? If they just become healthier and then the body fat percentage starts to drop, then they're probably gonna improve their chances of conceiving. Typically, if you take a woman from 33 or 34% and you do it the right way down to 27, 26%, generally speaking, your health is going to improve. But here's the thing, really forget the body fat percentage stuff. As I was saying it, I know, I was thinking to myself like I probably shouldn't communicate this because people are gonna take this the wrong way. Really it's stay away from the extremes, right? Too shredded and really, really high. That's when you'll have some negative effects. The middle, which is gonna be a big range, you're probably gonna be okay. But if you're like shredded, I've done this now, let me think, I've had about five clients I can think of off the top of my head that were hardcore fitness fanatic, female clients, trying to conceive. And one of the factors that made them successful was taking their body fat from 12%, which is shredded for a girl and gaining it up to 18 or 20%. And I mean, they were trying at the super shredded body fat for a long time. And finally it was like, look, we gotta get your body fat percentage up. You need to eat more food. You gotta send a signal to your body that this is okay to get pregnant. And sure enough, as they gained body fat, they were able to get pregnant. Little berry white doesn't hurt either. Well, you know, the mental state, mental state makes a big difference. Like if you're stressed out a lot, if you're even trying to conceive is stressing you out, that, remember, your body doesn't wanna put you in any position. Aren't there certain foods and nutrients though too to have for ovulation and stuff like that? I believe I remember Katrina reading and she was eating certain foods that like she was supposed to help with her ovulating. Like so aren't there things like that that they can be doing? You don't wanna have any nutrient deficiencies. So you wanna be able to consume meats. You wanna have egg yolks are very, very good. A lot of the the choline that's present in yolk, the cholesterol that's present in yolk, fish. Fish is also very important. That's also important throughout the whole pregnancy. You basically don't wanna be deficient in anything. Oh, shellfish have nutrients that are vital to producing or to have a healthy, healthy consumption. Here's the other thing too. You don't wanna like all of a sudden try and hit new PRs and achieve new athletic performance during this period. You don't wanna challenge your body too hard with exercise while you're trying to conceive. You wanna, that's what you do before, you know what I'm saying? It's not like, okay, we're gonna try and have a baby. Simultaneously, I'm gonna try and hit a new PR and a deadlift and I wanna be able to run the mile faster than I did before. You know, I remember when we were talking with Drew Canole about it basically Organifi producing more seminal volume. What, did he say that? No, remember, there was a green juice, I believe. Drinking more green juice produces a higher seminal volume. Well, I don't know, I haven't tested that yet. You were the one that put, yeah, you know, I said that on the podcast and then you dropped, oh, I knew about that. You dropped some study that had something to do with something that was in Organifi green juice. Ashwagandha? It might be, I don't remember what it was, but it showed that you produce higher volume of semen when you take this. And I remember that we talked about it, that was one of the big jokes when we first signed with Organifi that we did this commercial around. I'm just trying to help you guys out. Well, there are supplements that the man can take. But that's for the guy though, right? Yeah, that's for the guy, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, there are certain supplements for the woman to take. Can you make your husband drink the green juice? Whoa! You eat shellfish, I'll drink green juice. There are supplements that women can take to help, but I won't recommend any because I don't wanna recommend any unless a woman works with a doctor or functional medicine practitioner because some of the pro fertility herbs that women can take can also reduce fertility if it's the wrong woman. If she's taking it and it's not for her. But for a man, a man can take horny goatweed, tribulus terrestris. He could supplement with zinc and then Ashwagandha. All of those have been shown to improve sperm motility, sperm number, sperm health. Those are all supplements I took when I was trying for my first two kids and it only took us a couple months or whatever and they tend to help. But yeah, for women, generally you wanna be healthy and you don't wanna go low in anything. You're not trying to go no carb and you're not trying to go low fat. You wanna kind of have everything because you want your body to think things are ample. We have lots of resources. I'm not under a lot of stress. That's the state you wanna be in. And a good person to follow, Dr. Gabriel Lyon was who was in communication with Katrina the whole time during us trying to get pregnant and then her pregnancy. So she's been a great resource for us. So if you're not following her on Instagram, you should follow her and look her up too. Next question is from A-Rod goes ham. What has fatherhood taught you? Just had my first son. What advice would you give to a first-time parent? Adam, you're the newest dad. That's a loaded question. Yeah, I mean, since you're the newest dad I always love asking you questions like this because it's like, I forgot what it was like. It's so new, it's so fresh. Yeah, no, there's, God, there's been a, there's a lot, right? I definitely have an unbelievable amount of patience, empathy and love that I'm not used to. I think that those have been some of the biggest differences that I've noticed in fatherhood. The way I view a lot of things, I've never been so unselfish in my life. Like just the way I am with money. I mean, Sal actually said something and he called it, it's weird too. It's really funny. And normally when Sal says something to him, I make a point to try and counter that and make sure he's wrong. That's so annoying. It is, I try really hard sometimes. And I was like, I do not like politics. I find myself following politics weird way more. The world becomes bigger. Yeah, yeah, it's no, it's cut into my sports time. I'm very nervous about it. Because now you care what's gonna happen. I do, right? So there's things like that that I didn't think that would happen and that's happened. What else, you know, there's someone asked me all my questions, what am I most scared about? And I think the thing that I'm most nervous about as a father is I know that it's inevitable that I'm going to come up short somewhere and not knowing where that somewhere is, is what scares me. Like every, if you talk to any experienced father, they'll always tell you to do the best you can. It'll never be perfect. There'll always be something that he's mad at you about or resent you for or that he didn't, he doesn't, they think that he would have done differently. And so I know that's inevitable. No matter how great of a father I'm trying to be or think I am. And so the fear is what is that going to be? Well, the double edge to that too. I was talking with my dad actually about this because it was like, for me, I felt like he had a great job raising me, but there was this moment where also he felt that he underestimated me. And we had a conversation about this, but I'm like, that's what drove me. That actually is something that was a good thing for me. I'm glad that it was out there to where I had to work that much harder to kind of prove myself. I have this sort of chip, but it's like he didn't intentionally do that. It was just like, I assumed it was gonna go in this direction and then you totally threw me off by like taking all of your initiatives elsewhere. So you just don't know. I mean, I think a lot of it, for me, the fear is the unknown. It's just, I don't know exactly, like you think you can predict things and then it just completely goes in a different direction and you're like, okay, I have to be adaptable. I have to be flexible. I have to help where I can. I also have, and this is gonna, this is probably gonna piss off a lot of people, especially any of our feminists that listen to the show. You just pissed them off. Just pissed it off. Well, I mean, I've always been very pro. Like, I mean, I'm attracted to a woman that is incredibly independent. She said to me like the first time we ever really started a date was, I don't need you, I want you. She's self-made. She was raised to never need or depend on a man and I'm attracted to that. So I'm very much so, you know, I don't say I'm a pro-feminist person, but I would think that the messaging, I think around that for the most part, I've been pro for a very long time and I think that it has been needed for a century now to the pendulum. It was swung so far one direction that it had needed to come back the other. But now I have this new look on a lot of the messaging around that that actually really bothers me, that I'd never bothered me before until becoming a father. And that's because I recognize now the magnitude and the importance of being a good parent and the role that women have played in our society for so long. Like it's, it like gets me emotional just thinking about like how important the mom plays a role in the child and that we are encouraging and almost pushing women out into the workforce so hard, almost as if it's like an inequality thing. And I don't think that at all. Like now I have this like humbling attitude of like, holy shit, like I think I'm this big boss, man, I make all this money. I make sure that we can eat and I put this roof over our head. Fuck, none of that matters. If it wasn't for her and what she's able to do for my son and take care of our household, like the importance of that and the value of that, I think we just, I think we just have not, I don't think a lot of people- Put it aside. I don't think you think about it until you get put in that position. And so, you know, sometimes I think that we have this younger generation that's coming up and they're pushing that message so hard to empower a woman and hear me roar. And like I said, for the most part I've been very pro all of that, but now I'm starting to rethink my stance with that and what it's doing because then it's teaching a lot of women that you shouldn't be just as proud about being home. Like now, more than anything else, I look at Katrina and this was very hard for our relationship because I wanted her to stay home but I knew I couldn't say that. I knew I couldn't tell her like, don't continue to pursue your dreams and your career. So absolutely would I never do that. But deep down inside, I was like, man, I hope she wants to do that. And luckily for me, she's in a position where she can do that now and she still works but she's now able to stay home all day with our son. And I just, there's so many things that happen, interactions that happen with your son, with other people potentially in the day that I think, man, there's no other person in the world that I would rather be teaching this young infant right now than me or her on his morals, his thoughts, his engagement. And we're pushing that agenda so hard about women in the workforce and equality and all those things that I think are important but almost to a fault now. And that's, and it never bothered me before. And sometimes now I see some of the messaging that's out there related to that. And that's something that's taught me that I've been taught in this whole fatherhood and being in this position and realizing how fucking important it is, parenting is and how hard it is and how much work it takes to raise a good child. It's 24 seven nonstop all the time. And if we're pushing the men to go out and work hard, the women to go out and work hard and everything like that, we're forgetting about the generation that's in up and coming and the roles and what you're going to, what, how that's going to form and shape them. Ages, three to seven years old are the most formidable times of a human's life and you are laying the foundation for that is. And if you're so concerned about being an equal person financially as your partner that you're putting that as a second to me, that's a wrong fucking message, man. I just think that when you push one message hard, simultaneously, maybe on accident will demonize the other side. So I think it's going to start to balance out. So I can see what you're saying. What you're talking about. Do you get what I mean though? Oh yeah, I do. I totally do. I never looked at it. Actually, a lot of women say that. A lot of women, you have camps where I'm at home, I stay at home, I work and then they'll demonize each other. You should be at home with the kid. No, you should be. Well, Courtney experienced that when she left her job. It was hard for her because of coming back and them all sort of like, not intentionally but giving snide comments about like, just her not working anymore. Like she doesn't have a purpose anymore. And I'm just like, that's so gross. Like, I don't know, that really got to me too. She's the greatest purpose ever now. Yeah, and I could totally see it from the angle that you're talking about. And I know it's hard to talk about that because of, you know, we're at society, but it is. It's a very, very important role. And I'm so happy that, you know, she's there to do that. You know me, I don't give a fuck about what everybody thinks. Oh yeah. I know for sure I pissed off half of our listeners by making this. I don't think so. By making a statement like that. But I, I mean, it's the truth. We're still for all that too. If that's your purpose. I've never looked at it like that until now. Until now, I mean, until now I was always pushing Katrina. I mean, her and I used to almost be competitive financially to help push each other to grow. And you chase your career, I'm chasing my career, we're this power couple, all about that. Then all of a sudden this kid comes in this world and shakes everything up. And it not only shakes up our day, our schedule, but just the way I think. And I know, I know how important those early stages are and those interactions and the things that they piece together. And goddamn, that there's, I can't think of a single thing in the world that is more important to me right now than laying a good foundation like that. And man, if all I cared about, if all we cared about was pushing each other in financial equality, then where do I leave him? You know, just throw him in a daycare and he'll figure it out. Don't worry, we're gonna make plenty of money. You know, I mean, unfortunately sometimes that's necessary, right? Unfortunately sometimes both parents have to work or it's a single parent, let's be honest. The vast majority of single parents out there are women. In fact, I had this conversation. I had this conversation with my son when we were going to school. We were driving and I was talking about the values of men. What are the values that men provide? Like what are the things that we need to do? And I told him, I said, one of the most important values that a man can have is discipline. Now this is not because women can't provide discipline and men are only disciplined. It's not that at all. The reason why it's the most important value is because men, more than women, get pulled to not be disciplined. So I'll explain. So there's a term called Peter Pan syndrome. This typically doesn't apply as much to women. If you have a couple that gets divorced, the odds that it's the man that all of a sudden becomes non-existent in his child's life or is not no longer super there are far higher than for the woman. It's more, you see men get pulled more to being the 40-something-year-old dude that's making tons of money, never got married, never had kids, banging all the hot chicks, hanging out. It's the, I don't have a biological clock so I could always have kids whenever I want and at some point I'll have a lot of money and I'll marry some younger girl and we can. So I'm just gonna be this dude that has no responsibility in parties all the time. So a man for a man discipline is extremely, extremely important for a man as he ages. This is exactly what I told my son. I said as a man ages becomes more financially successful, he becomes more attractive to more women. That poses a big challenge. It's the, and think about it this way. In society, who are the men that are truly respected? I mean really respected. Sure we look at the Hugh Hefners and the Dan Bilzerians and that looks cool, they got lots of followers but in real life the men that are respected are the ones that can have access to all that stuff. Yeah, but don't. Decide to be with one woman, decide to have children, decide to go to work, to come home at night to be with their family. So it's all about- Against all the odds. It's all about discipline and here's the thing about fatherhood and this is the biggest lesson that you learn right out the gates and you just keep learning it is this. It's hard, it's not nearly as exciting and fun but it's way more meaningful. Way more meaningful, why is it hard? It's selfless, you gotta, here's the thing, here's the big thing. If you want your kid to grow up to be a particular way, okay, you could coach them, you could talk to them, you could teach them, that has some value but the truth is at the end of the day- You gotta live it. You have to be the man you want your son to be or you have to be the person you want your kids to grow up to be. So if you want them to be- God? That's right. So if you want them to be responsible, honest, humble, here's a big one. I'll give you guys like a personal story. I was like a couple weeks ago, my kids, they didn't do their chores or whatever and I got irritated and I actually got angry and raised my voice and blah, blah, blah, blah type of thing. Now I had every right to be annoyed. It was the 10th time I had told them to do something. So I was definitely, you know, I was definitely valid but I got angry, I yelled, I let them see that I didn't control myself and just overacted, right? So after all was said and done, I went over to my kids and this was later on when I calmed down. I went over to my kids, sat them down and I said, hey look, I said, I wanna apologize to you guys. I said, I'm really sorry. I lost my temper. I said, the reason I got mad is valid. You guys should definitely listen to what I'm saying and be responsible but the way I acted was super inappropriate and I really apologize. Now did I do that? Now some men have trouble doing that because they don't wanna show weakness, they don't wanna show their kids. Nah, I don't apologize, I'm your dad, you do what I say. I did that because I wanna show my kids that even their all-powerful father can humble himself and admit when he was wrong. What is that gonna teach my kids? That's gonna teach them to do the same thing. It's a very important lesson. So it's like, it makes you the best person you could possibly be, I'll tell you that right now because there's nothing you will, and I, you know what? You're a dad now, Adam, so you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's hard to explain to somebody who's never had kids the amount of love that you have for your child, what you would do for them. There's nothing in the world that you wouldn't do when you really love your kids. So you wanna talk about growing as a person, I think to myself, okay, instead of thinking how can I teach them better? How can I tell them what to do? And what kind of structure can I show them? That's all important idea too, but oftentimes I'll sit down and be like, am I the man that I would want my kids to be? You know what that does to you? That makes you act a particular way even when they're not around. When you're out with your buddies, when you're hanging out, when you wanna be lazy. When I did this the other week when I was trying to get my kids off electronics, you know what I had to do? Get off myself. I could tell them not to do it and sit on my phone and watch TV, but instead I said, I gotta be the man that I want them to grow up to be. So I got off and it was way, way, way more powerful. Here's the other thing, is that being a father teaches you how to be brave, okay? Not fearless, it's the opposite of that. It's how to be brave. You will never be vulnerable like you are when you're a dad. I didn't realize how invincible I was until I became a father. I thought I was vulnerable before, but now you got this baby that you're taking care of and this kid, all of a sudden you got fear. What's gonna happen at school? Who are they gonna talk to? They gonna do drugs? Are they gonna make the right decisions? What about this? What if they get sick? What if they get hurt? You know when you don't have- What's that creepy van over there? When you don't have kids, you don't got no fear, man. What are you afraid of? You're by yourself or whatever. Maybe you got a girlfriend. Ain't chicken or whatever. All of a sudden you have kids, you're scared as fuck from day one until the day that you probably die. You're always gonna worry and have fear and fear presents the opportunity to be brave. So now I gotta move through this world a vulnerable, vulnerable person. I give the example of Superman before. This was a great conversation I had with my kid years ago when he, you know, he was in, I think it was a tournament and after the tournament I asked him how it was and he did well and all that and he said, oh, I wish I was brave like you. And I said, well, what do you mean? He goes, well, you're not afraid of anything. And I said, do you think Superman is brave for running into a burning building? The fire can't do anything to him. The person who's brave is the fireman that walks in that if he makes the wrong move, he dies. I said, the bravery comes from being afraid and you will never be more afraid and fearful than when you become a father. That's the biggest lesson that I learned from it. And boy, does that, that one keep getting taught to me. Well, you said something that I think is really important for the person who's asking this question about becoming a new father that I think about all the time now that I never thought about and you touched on it and it's valuable enough to reiterate it. And that's, you know, when they're this young right now and they can't speak and tell you how they feel or what they notice or what they don't like, the only thing they can do is watch and emulate what you do. And so how you act, how you speak, the way you speak to your partner in front of them. Oh, that's a big one. That is a big one. The way that a boy especially learns to treat women is the way that you treat his mom. 100, and it starts now. Yes. I think this is the mistake that a lot of people make is they think that, oh, he's, you know, he can't talk, he's unaware right now or you don't have any memories of when you were one years old or eight months old. So you just assume that you didn't, that stuff's getting hardwired in their brain. The way you socialize and interact with other people, especially the people that you're with on a daily basis like your spouse, the habits that you have, whether you're staring at, someone asked me that a day if I was tired of watching all the kid's cartoon stuff. And I said, honestly, I really haven't introduced that. He hasn't watched anything like that yet on TV. He's watched a little bit of sports when I'm watching it so he gets to watch it. And do not think that I don't think about this to either, like, if basketball's on, like I allow basketball to be on being there because I've won, I so badly won. Oh, yes. And then we go down, we walk and go down the park and we play and Katrina and I will shoot hoops while he's in there and we're playing and interacting with him. Like, I mean, that's my way of hoping that this kid's gonna go down that path is cause he'll see positive, he'll connect positive things to that. He'll see me loving his mother and having fun and us playing and enjoying it. And that's the same thing with working out. Yesterday we were inside the gym. I think I did a little story. If you saw Katrina, the lights were all off and she's like pushing the stroller and shoulder pressing at the same time. And, you know, we couldn't get him to go to sleep while we were in here working out. And so she did what she had to do to try and get her workout in and still keep him happy at the same time. But like, we think about that a lot. I mean, we think about the, if we have somebody at our house, you know, maybe we had like five, 10 family members come over for whatever it is. And if one of the family members is talking drama and is talking shittiness on that, you'll say, Katrina does this all the time. She's really good about it. It's caught me to do it even now too where she'll just kind of pick Max up and go outside the room, won't make a big deal, I'm gonna make it- They feel the energy, man. Fuck yeah, man. And we think about these things. Like I think about those things that I never thought about before because I know that right now this kid is just a sponge and absorbing everything. And yes, I know it'll never be 100% perfect. Yes, I know I'll probably stub my toe and swear and shit like that. I know that. But if I'm already at least being active and conscious about the conversations that I'm having in front of him, the my attitude, the energy that I'm putting off in front of him, if I'm at least trying that right now, at least I could be, I'm a little bit better than the person who's not given a shit and not paying attention to that. And I think as a father, as a parent in general, that's extremely important to pay attention to. Right, but really the big one too is especially for those of you who are divorced or you're not with the mother of your child, how you treat your child's mom is one of the main ways that they learn how to treat women. So if you want your kid, you want your son to grow up to be a good man and to treat women the right way, you better demonstrate that the right way because that's how they learn. They learn from watching you. So show respect, be a good person. At the end of the day, that's the best possible thing you could do. And with that, go to mindpumpfree.com and download all of our guides, resources and books. They're all totally free. You can also find the three of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin, me at Mind Pump Salon, Adam at Mind Pump Adam.