 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go Mind pump with your hosts Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer and Justin Andrews In this episode of Mind Pump for the first half of the show we do our normal introductory current events Conversation, it's the best part of the show a little bit of sports today. We got some sports Adam Listen to Sal drop some sports knowledge on you Sal yeah, you know, I'm proud of you today Like one of the guys, you know, right? Yeah, you know what I appreciate one of the things I let me tell you a little bit a little gratitude right here, right? So what I appreciate what I appreciate about you so much is that if it's not a subject that you don't know Much about you won't bullshit it You know, you won't you won't you won't pretend like you know a bunch of shit out Like you it's something that you you have to feel comfortable with like I know it and where you feel like you can contribute Put your two cents and you do so you didn't yeah So Golden State Warriors self-coach themselves Against the Sun's for a blow out. I think it was like a 50 point. Yeah, one by 50 points ridiculous We talk about California's oversight of homeschooling California spelled with a K We talk about governments tampering with the market and they're ignoring of what people really want and then we did a thrive market Unboxing check this out. 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I mean we'll catch up to Bezos then the final question directed at Adam somebody wants to know what his Activity looks like since he's been Hampered by his Achilles tear now us here at mine pump quite impressed with how Adam has been handling himself During these difficult times so Adam talks about that a little bit and also talks about his strategies while he is incapacitated Also two days left for the maps hit launch So maps hit is a program a maps program Designed around high-intensity interval training. This is by far the best fat burning program that we have it six weeks long Combine to the crazy you combine this with a good diet You'll see some pretty profound effects if you don't want to get leaner Maps it will build crazy Cardio stamina and strength endurance. So it's also great for conditioning. It includes Flow sessions which are unique mobility sessions Specific to maps it. 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He's doing that when they call the setting who I don't buddy that Yeah, oh Yeah, you know that kind of music to me and I doubt I'll offend anybody but I do I care is the most bullshit music Yeah Because I kind of like it they just make shit up. Yeah, you just go Whatever the fuck comes out of your mouth it reminds me of art where people just And now I'm gonna offend people throw shit on a fucking canvas. It's that splatter stuff, right? So me and me and Jessica. Oh, when was it? We were I don't remember where we were and It I don't remember much except I do remember we were in an art gallery And there was some spectacular art there and then there was art where I'm just like looking at it And I I swear to God I could do that like or anybody could there's nothing. Yeah, it's just fucking paint It's like somebody took a poop and then just put it in like a box I think with a lot of like art like that that you see in museums I think a lot of it has to do with the history right and who it was I don't I don't I feel like if I don't think you like I don't think like someone super famous Did like a splatter paint thing like you're explaining and then all of a sudden then he became famous I think he was famous for other things like painting probably right and then and then it's was probably a historical time or the painting was at a very Memorable time for him in his life. That's a good point So if you've done something like if you're infamous like let's say you're a bank robber And you've never gotten caught and caught excuse me and then you get caught and you make a painting You're gonna make money off your painting because oh, this is that dude that robbed like 10 banks The association of it. Yes, you know I'm saying yes, so I'm thinking I'm this may be a strategy Make a painting whatever you fucking want and then do something crazy afterwards And then people would be like that's the guy that ate his own shit on TV and then he made that painting Yeah, or something like that. Hey listen. Hey, listen out This is I'm gonna hijack your current events today because I figure if we if we get to talk because you're high Yeah Yeah, I just started sipping on that spray those sprays are good man. No, they're not. Oh my god. They're good dangerous They're 45 milligrams of THC. I feel like they round up. It tastes like Sprite. We'll find out at the end of this episode We'll know at the end by the end of this So I'm gonna hijack you a minute on and since you you get a chance to if we get to throw politics every now Out there which I feel like we've been touching that third rail a lot lately I get to throw some sports in there every once in a while. Yeah, you put you put us like in a corner Right the other day, he's like, come on man. Let's let's ask you. Let's answer this really controversial question Justin Adam, what do you guys think about that? Well, you know what? You know what totally puts you under the griddle here before you continue I do want to ask you guys your opinion on abortion before That's about the next level. Where do we go from here? All right? Go Adam Okay, so I Let me let me tell you so I can keep you because I feel like you can actually Discuss this with us so we can have a really intelligent conversation around this even though you don't follow a lot of sports So the Golden State Warriors are setting all kinds of records. They have been for the last three four years as far as wins They're going for the third out of four years another championship this hopefully this year Destroy their top of their number one again this year and wins they're coaching themselves. Oh well This is what happens. So this is what's this is the and it's major controversy right now It's it's all there's a bunch of shit around this now Let me explain what happened and then I want to hear you guys's opinion so I'm watching the game and they pan over and You see it will actually let me back up here. So you guys understand what what's been going on with the Warriors last two weeks So warriors Win streak they set that record last year. They've done they broke all these records when they're destroying it this year The last couple weeks they've lost a few games and the Warriors losing two or three games in a week or two Span is a big fucking deal because they've been dominating that much So what happens in in sports when that everyone starts freaking out? Oh, is this happening listen that are blaming every right? I'll this everyone starts speculating and so there's been a lot of these interviews and talks around this and You know Steve Kerr is alluded to this is all-star break this week, right? So we're heading down to LA ourselves during all-star break. So this is That's coming up and it's kind of everything so expensive. It's cut. Yes It's kind of like when you're about to you've been working hard and you're about to go on vacation The last three or four days of work. You're kind of checked out So athletes are no different when you get when you get to these mid breaks they have in the season They actually get a few days go see their family and stuff a lot of times you see the athletes kind of dip You know, especially if you're fucking dominating in first place So this is what's been what has been happening with the Warriors right now And so and Steve Kerr being a little frustrated and shit decides that he's gonna have the players coach This has never been done by the way and not an NBA like either I think during the game He just so I've never heard of this never and I'm watching it live, right? and then all of a sudden they pan over and The announcers are talking about oh my god Like look who's running the the plays and you see one of the players the time that are is in the huddle And he's like running the plays and so it was everyone's talking all positive about it It's like oh, this was so brilliant by Steve Kerr like oh my god. I'm thinking the same thing Oh, man, he's the fucking man. This is so rad that he's doing this. Let's see what happens Well, that's like, you know, I don't know It's like the end of first quarter when you first see this well They end up fucking thumping the Suns by 50 points like 47 or so now that's something that's expected anyway Or is that so okay? They were yeah They should have won anyways because they're they're a shitty team, right? And so this out of the ordinary beating. Yeah. Yeah 50 points is a lot in the NBA the spread was okay So, you know she's lacking the spread was 16 points. They were supposed to win by 16. Wow, so that's a big difference Yeah, it's a big difference right? So here's the deal here's where all the controversy is coming from So a lot of people think that's kind of like when College teams or sports teams run the score up and it's disrespectful to the other team It's like and it's this generation now that's like this that was like that Wait a minute hold on a second people are complaining and saying it's disrespectful that they won by 50 Yeah, well that and they did it by having the players coach, right? So there's there's all this talk right cheat. No, what the right? Why are people come? This what's going on here? Yeah in the world people are actually complaining They're so sensitive that they won by too much Let me tell you something about competition if you're in a competition with someone And it's fair and you're following the rules and the rules are agreed upon so I'm not talking about cheating I'm not talking about stealing or anything like that your Duty as a competitor to yourself as a human being to respect yourself is to fucking do your best That's it and if doing your best means you win by a thousand points Then you do your best if it's if the other person wants to quit Early then they quit you shake their hand you say hey appreciate the game that was awesome and that's it and you go your own different way so this actually I And I'm gonna kind of like speculate here But people that had a problem with it if you think of like if I'm playing ping pong with my right hand, right? And I'm dominating but now all of a sudden you switched your left switch for my left and then I'm still like Dominate it just makes that that competitor salty, right that you're embarrassing them Well, well, that's all they feel embarrassed. Yeah, and so like I'm sure yeah exactly this have I remember so my first year We used to play In a softball league and the very first year I got into it. I'll never forget. This is hilarious, right? So I've got all my boys. We're all athletes, right? We all played sports growing up Some baseball players basketball football just a mix but all athletic dudes in there like mid 20 So we're still feeling like we're in our prime and shit and we decide we're gonna start to softball We go down over here to Twin Creeks and we literally have this discussion So when you sign up at Twin Creeks or at any softball league, you have these options for what level play on your team a Double a triple ad or whatever they name them different shit But you have four levels right one being the best player So you you're supposed to like put yourself where you think your team should be like we're all athletes So we automatically we're gonna put ourselves in the first one. We're like, you know what? It's our first time doing this let's not put us in the you know first level Let's do the second level. We don't know you don't know. Yeah We don't know like we could be getting a little cocky and who knows who's out here playing softball, right? And you want you want a challenge, but you don't want to get blown out of the water, right? I have a good right so we decided to do this So we get in the and we put ourselves in second But then we have a little huddle before we start like listen Don't just come out crushing you guys, you know play let's kind of feel the game out because we don't want to because we don't look stupid embarrassed these guys and End up being looking like a bunch of dicks that should be up in the upper leg Which by the way is different right because the NBA is the best Yeah, you know I'm saying right. Yeah, so that's different. I'd be like, you know, but listen listen where this goes So we get out there Second inning we're getting spanked by like 19. Yeah, so we got all the guys up I'm like, hey if you guys weren't playing we need to start Right now so we go about three games into the season and we're getting our asses handed to us I mean, there's there's dudes out there's the old men out there That have just been playing like take it 30 religiously. Yes, very and just very strategic about it You know, we're just a bunch of jocks that are out there trying to crush crush the ball popping up all the time Yeah, oh we get our asses handed we end up having to drop all the way to the bottom league and in there It was competitive But I just thought that was funny, but so these guys the team that was beating us the first time They played for West Valley So it was the whole baseball team on the in the offseason these guys all get together and play softball They drink beer and fucking play the ball together Halfway through the game when they're already whooping the shit out of us by 20-something points They start batting switch-hitted every batter comes up and is batting the opposite side And we know because we just we already got our ass kicked from them on one side Then they're going the other other direction batting and hitting oppo fucking home runs. Yeah, just killing us dude So, you know, there's a little bit of us that was irritated right because we're like you you guys are fucking baseball player all on a Baseball team and you're fucking up all these like, you know, we can war your dad's and shit, you know, so but you know what though again That's if that's you entered into a league, right? It's not a profession It's not a professional. This is the NBA man. You're in the NBA. You know what's gonna happen in the NBA You're gonna play the best of the best and so if you're on that level, that's your own damn And the shitty part is, you know, I don't I don't know Steve Kerr I watch all the games and I watch how I love how he coaches. I love the organization I think that what the Warriors are doing from top-down is awesome He's he does not strike me the guy that did it out of let's just because they he did it from the beginning It wasn't like they were pounding them Let's have fun and goof around and let's that doesn't make a difference Like if he went half-time right and then came in and was like everybody was coaching themselves What it really was was him trying to get his players engaged because they've been checked out for two weeks They're cruising and still beating people not caring some of that So it's like okay if you guys and you guys are losing some of these games You're not gonna lose this game. It's brilliant because it's everybody's focus in and being present and yeah Like so now they have to actually have strategy and like implement it in the game And you know it gets everybody involved, which is the dude that makes perfect sense Anyway, I had to bring it up because it's never been done in history. I've never seen ever seen anyone do it I know I think Joe Tory did it for the Yankees one season so baseball's done it But this is the first time we've ever seen an NBA coach do something like this I just thought it was a brilliant strategy. I thought it was really really smart and it obviously worked I mean they whooped the fucking shit out of them So, I mean, I think it's just so crazy to hear all these pussies that are getting all pissed off about come on It's your responsibility. I don't know. I feel like it's your responsibility if you're a competitor to like how you did that. Yeah, I mean I don't like a you should have beat me not so bad Like you're such a cry baby. I wouldn't want what's weird to me is I would never want that I would never want someone to beat me and then be able to tell me like oh, I didn't even try bro Yeah, I didn't I didn't want it. I don't want to embarrass you. So I'm like what yeah embarrass. That's worse That's what is worse holding back on me and still beating me is worse than you giving me everything you got So I at least have something to measure up against like if you give me everything you got I lose by 50 at least I know where I stand like that's how good you are That's how good I am right now. I got a lot of work to do But if you beat me by 10 and then I find out that you didn't you were half-assing it like I that's not you I'm not gonna grow from that. You know I'm saying I'm gonna think man. I'm almost as good as the best right now It's gonna inflate my ego Actually, it could be a strategy No could be a strategy to not beat someone as good because you don't want them to know how good you really are So if they don't try as hard now, you know I'm saying oh, yeah, it could be there's a strategy the way Or just crush their soul. So I got I got a little current event here So in California, they are I'm gonna read this here. There's they're trying to put forth these laws where California lawmakers are going to make it where if you homeschool your kids They are gonna come visit you the state will come visit your home every month To check on what you're doing with your kids and this okay So you guys hear about what happened recently with that that that those that couple that They were discovered to have they had like 12 children and they like abuse the fuck out of them Oh, I didn't hear that I did hear that so they abused them. They starved them They're just terrible people horrible horrible people, but they also homeschooled So one of the things that so now we think all homeschoolers One of the things that that that that government loves to do is they see an opportunity and in that Opportunity they seize it in a way to get more control over be control How controlling is that when the state says a we're gonna control education for most people? Which is by the way a bad idea because you know the government controlling education what could possibly go wrong? That's number one, but then number two you want to homeschool you you can but war the state still is gonna come check On what you're doing and what you're teaching and what's going on Why does matter if they're getting the same tests and assessments, you know Like their performance should speak for itself I the reason why they want to do is they're saying for the safety of the kids because of what happened Recently, so which is bullshit. Yeah, which is total bullshit is a total intrusion of Liberty and freedom and No government anybody should come into my right to come to my cell for somebody at me They didn't hear the story could you kind of sum it up? You know somewhat as far as like what they found like so there was abuse But they were like starved and chained a couple of them were chained to the bad I mean, it's it's a horrible. I couldn't even read the horror article because it bothered me so bad. Yeah It's absolutely Disgusting, but what does that have to do with education because they homeschooled their kids And so they're trying to say if we had this in place. We would have discovered this earlier So here's the thing. Here's the here's the thing with With yeah, but that's just a beat like I just don't see I don't know I don't see the correlation there with like how to like how they like decide. Okay now. That's a man. Yeah, are they are they Oh, it's not a managing issue. That's like abuse. That's like that's right. Yeah Are they openly saying that are they openly coming out and saying like this is why we're gonna mandate this because Because we need to ensure the safety of these kids and make sure everything's being done, right? Because of course, they own you and your kids, you know, I'm saying they're not your kids It's the state's kids But it's what they what they do and what they do very well and people fall for this is they see a Situation that happened that might be terrible and then they go back and say if we had done this We could have prevented it if we had, you know, and this is with gun laws This is with any type of a law that's one case of a shitty person doing horrible things. Listen. There's there's horrible people first of all Was it legal what the people did to their kids? No, it was already fucking illegal looks like it didn't work They still did it. You know I'm saying it's still a horrible thing It's not bit for lack of government oversight that those people got away with what they were doing, right? It's because it's because they're terrible people and for sure no way and of course in California. They're gonna do this because we're the most Authoritative with this kind of stuff they want to crack down on homeschooling because Homeschooling and non-public schools have exploded over the last 10 years and public school attendance Has gone down considerably that's what feels like to me in San Jose They've shut they've actually closed quite a few schools because they don't have enough students showing up It's like pandemonium when when your kids aren't at school, you know Like they all keep like tabs and make sure everybody's coming in because they get money they get paid per head, right? Yeah, exactly California averages around Here's a number for you that you might want to look up, but I'm almost positive on this I'm almost sure it's about 12 Fabio I believe about $12,000 a year in funding per student per for public school So your school is making when your kid goes to school They are making for you remember school year isn't I wonder how many parents would would figure out homeschooling themselves If they could get $10,000 a year given to them What do you mean like it horse right like horse like if the government said like it since we're already spending 12 What have we spent 10 right save two grand and offer it to you say listen I know you know you have you have someone in the household who could potentially stay home and do the kid or I pay about that much Actually pay a little bit less than probably the public schools get for my kids to go to a private school Mm-hmm, and the school my kids go to Superior it's superior that to the schools that I belong to now That's not to say that there aren't better public schools But if you want to talk about any quality because people love to say that like no these public schools They provide equal but it's not true the greatest segregation and the most inequality You'll you'll see ever and it's devastating effects as public schools You can go into public school in an area and it's gonna have you know Metal detectors and cops at it and teachers that don't give a shit and kids that are fucking doing terrible terrible things to other kids And nobody seems to care and thank God for the internet because you can see videos of this kind of stuff And you also have public schools where you walk in and it's super posh They have everything provided them teachers are super on board everything's great So the inequality is just fucking insane and dramatic and people are stuck with their option because if you're Proximity yeah, that's it if you're if you if you're if you can't afford to move into a super expensive area Then and that's your school which sucks for a kid a kid who's born into a family like that Who's already at a disadvantage and then on top of that you get thrown into a school where you're at another They have no way out right they have these situations where they'll have these charter schools or whatever which are semi-public semi-not and They'll have to they'll do a lottery where they can include kids from all of all different areas You should see the the moms and dads that bring their kids that just beg For their kids to be able to go to these schools many of them single parents many of them disenfranchised or you know underprivileged or whatever you want to call it and They're just they can't because there's no room or whatever. What if instead of Public schools where you have to go to these schools What if instead and we used to experiment with this by the way This is actually in some states do this not a lot California used to do it in some areas What if instead of the school getting 12 grand per year for your kid that your kid is forced to go to and there's no other Choices besides you taking them out and spending an extra whatever what if they gave you a voucher and they said here's your You know voucher voucher. It's worth $10,000 or $12,000 a year around schools You have to use it on education because I know the state likes to control. Oh, that'd be so bad I'm so badass. It would because what would happen is the shitty schools would lose kids and lose money the good ones competition good ones would have to expand and explode or whatever and Even we might even be able to expand what that means for education So maybe my $12,000 or $10,000 check or whatever Doesn't have to go to a school that teaches everything Maybe and because I could see this happening in the market trade school or cool. I could see this happening I could see where you have like, you know My kid takes his math from this and that costs $3,000 a year and he gets a science over here And that costs into the $5,000 a year and then they do this other outreach program Specialized yeah, of course education, of course, you know, if that's probably the best way that I can think about it Especially with the internet do that would be rad. It would be so rad But never no way would they want that because no now you're talking about And you know what the the argument is well, what if some schools don't want the students? What if some students or whatever bullshit? There's a market there's a market for all of these different types of things and of course we can you know We can manage it however we want but I think if we give people more choice You're gonna see parents take better control and here's the thing. I know there's shitty parents out there for sure But at generally as a whole I'll make I'll take I'll make this bet all day long I will bet fucking my house. I'll bet everything on it that Generally parents will make better decisions for the kids than the state will make for their kids 100% I'm sure every parent agrees with that because you I mean the state doesn't take good They're not their kids, you know saying now There's definitely shitty parents out there for sure, but I think there's a lot of parents out because here's the thing about education is that you know if you want to stop the cycle of poverty stop the cycle of Crimin you know criminal activity it starts with education and unfortunately when kids are poor There's their school options are Terrible and a lot of these kids go to these schools and fear for their lives or they have to become What they fear in order to survive or whatever they have horrible options absolutely terrible Imagine if a parent who's a good parent, but it's got to work a lot. I'm a single parent I got this you know what I'm gonna find the best fucking school for you And if that school doesn't do a good job, I'm gonna tell school. I'm gonna take my voucher somewhere else What do you think they're gonna do right? You know I mean right they're gonna try a lot harder So it's empowering. I mean the thought of that, you know for parents, but yeah We just we just give it all the question is how do we how do we break out from where right now? Because just so we were talking about what we're talking about yesterday where we said like you just can't go one extreme to the other Like that welfare. Oh, that's right. It was well for discussing. This is the same thing It's like you're not gonna be able to go for monstrous issues. This is not extreme It's not an extra. I think you could go from where we are now to a voucher system You could do that overnight Well, then what would you do privatize all public schools in all public schools remain public and they can remove They receive funding And so they'd have to like yeah, right right now it is somewhere else secondary Yeah, but that would inevitably put out if let's use San Jose for an example because we have like fucking 20 high schools or more Right, so it would it word for sure the first year put out like 10 schools Oh, the cream of the crop would rise. I think there'd be yeah, there would schools would suffer for sure Oh, they would die the first year the first year you would see and that's what I mean Weeds them out. I am not disagreeing. I'm just saying that it's not as easy as you think it is that would be a massacre There'd be there'd be so many there'd be uproars from the teachers. Yes You would see teacher you would see teachers picketing and shit like that. It would be insane because for sure At least half of those schools maybe more would lose everything would lose ever because they wouldn't be able to keep it up Right, they wouldn't be able to keep their doors open because they're already in the bottom five They don't deserve to be I agree. I agree with you but here's one of the we are We are also the the fucking country that gets pissed off when fucking, you know, we we let a bunch of players coach each other Here's what I'm saying here's what I'm saying with this one of the worst things you could do in a market is prop up a business That the market doesn't support. That's a Horrible terrible waste of resources and wealth. It's terrible when the US, you know auto industry Taint because they were sucking and they couldn't compete and we wanted to save quote-unquote American jobs by giving them Taxpayer do you know I don't they suck that's why they went under That's why they suck because they because American taxpayers didn't want to buy their fucking cars Right, so now you're gonna force us to do that just to prop up these these jobs or whatever now I don't care if afterwards they became profitable or whatever that period of time was extreme waste of Wealth and inefficiency. Well, that's where you go back to what you talked about the other day about how politicians spin that on I'm saving American jobs, you know big Toyota Honda Honda comes in and they're putting our American jobs out and fight for it fight for America and let's let's do this and that's how they get shit like this is so But nobody thinks about real economics and what happens to us when we really do waste It's a it's a massive waste of well So they've done studies on this and they'll show that when we do these kind of programs where we're trying to save jobs Save American jobs it'll cost American taxpayers like 50 to 150 thousand dollars per job saved Think of the waste on that. That's insane. That's absolutely insane. It makes no sense So and here's the thing most people don't even make that per year and you're you know, you know what it is It's that the market this is why people don't like it I'll tell you why the market reflects society and sometimes people don't like what that looks like And so we want to pretend like no, that's that's exact example there Let's be honest all most of us or and I'm speaking as a whole or as a country like Japanese made cars, you know, they they make fucking great cars They go for long hundreds of thousands of miles and you get a great bang for your book They've done an incredible job out of it And so most of us buy that and so that is an example of that and I think that's such bullshit That's what I mean It's a reflection because then what happens right? It makes us look bad. So we see what's going on We're like, oh my god America these American auto manufacturers or this American company or whatever is Failing we need to save it because it's American and it's like take a step back, dude Yeah, the way to save it was need to do better the way to save it would be to buy their product the crazy part There's a there's a big part of our nation that buys Chevy and Ford just because they want to support there I'm kind of like that there's a part of me that buy nothing wrong with that, right? Like that's how I've fallen to that but the shitty part is I do that because I do that because that's kind of my way of Say showing support right, but then at the same time, too I know deep down that I'm I'm not buying the better vehicle right now like that's the crazy part and that's and that's my point My point is if it's a reflection on us. It's no different than When you know women will complain about the body image issues portrayed on magazines in the tabloid magazines Oh my god, I can't believe they're always showing this. It's terrible. It's promoting terrible body image issues But the reason why we're so pissed off at it is because it's reflecting us. It's what we're buying makes me feel bad That's right. Or why is there a liquor store in every corner? I don't like that. That's terrible We need to shut them down. No, we're buying that much liquor. That's it's just a reflection of us So if we really want American companies to survive just because they're American which is I think is a very nationalistic and ridiculous You know sole reason to do so but if that's your thing That's fine. You should definitely have that choice if you want them to survive just because they're American and you're very nationalistic Then you should have bought their shit Yeah, and don't pass these laws that then because it's passing the buck when we Vote to make these laws to force other people to do things. It's just safety taking the responsibility all this shit Is just safety nets like you know We try and make things like like the whole 10-year thing and like trying to make things so like people have jobs that like all the security and You know, meanwhile like the performance and like all it's just to me It's like a lot of there's there's like two different types of people are somebody that's seeking, you know Something like that that's like, okay. I know I have this it's super safe like it's a safe bet Like, you know, and so we structure it in a way to make it safe for that reason But at the same time then the performance, you know, the you know the quality kind of diminishes and you know See deal with all those problems as a result of there's creating that there's this crazy mentality that you know capitalism or companies are out to take advantage of People take advantage of employees of take advantage of Situations people will say things like said by somebody who's never ran a company that big before. Yeah, it's always said by people like that It's like you I mean this was the kind of this was an off-air discussion You and I had where I'm like, you know, I'm always very careful about what I say about Big corporate America and what these these decisions that these guys make it's like dude motherfucker has like 30,000 employees working for him Like his decisions look nothing like my decisions that I make every single day And because he did something that somebody took a fucking spin in the news to make him like it looked like an asshole I'm not gonna jump to conclusions right away because I have no idea for all I know He saved fucking 15,000 of his 300,000 employees jobs and their families and their kids like we don't know So people will use this example all time because I know someone's thinking this people will say well What about companies when they are horrible working conditions? What about, you know, the working conditions that existed in you know, right after the industrial revolution here in America where you had Kids working and you had terrible working conditions and they were dangerous Didn't we need, you know, government to go in and save people from Capitalists and the reality is you first off we've you can't compare you have to compare The conditions with the alternative. So what I mean by that is let's say you go to Let's say we go to India and they have a factory and they have kids working in the factory or they have people who are working Ridiculous hours not making much money and by our standards. It's fucking terrible. Like I can't believe they're working in this place It's 115 degrees in here. These people are working, you know, 12 hours a day. They're barely making any money This is terrible, but we don't realize that that is actually an alternative to something worse Which is why it exists in the first place and if if the process actually starts to progress and improve As the market grows and as it market improves, which is what happens in all markets And if we look at like for example, the jobs that are probably gonna give you the most benefits and The best money and the most competitive are these markets that are like tech tech is very unregulated No, who gets paid minimum wage in tech? No, nobody does you know I'm saying and it's not because they're trying to take advantage of people because they're competing for More employees and so it's not about taking advantage. It's about in reality It's an option most competitive environments of everything to try and get Employees so it's like it that's where I see like it's exciting to see that like One minute you see somebody like oh my god, like this this guy's a developer and you know Maybe we could get him on set and immediately. He's already plucked and then he's get another offer and the I told you guys about my niece who was for Facebook man It's they have that's a big piece of the business is literally just recruiting people and yeah, so competitive. That's what you want No, no, that's it's it's like people are in such high demand dude I'll give you some terrible terrible examples because I think sometimes we see a problem And so we think we know what the solution is, but we don't understand the problem in the first place So let's talk about this is a very touchy subject, but let's talk about countries that will have Look child labor where they have kids working in these factors And so Western developed societies that are wealthy will go in and be like this is absolutely terrible I don't know how much different that is than what my mom did to me as a kid It's like leaving me home alone at five. I was doing dishes. That's the reason Say to me So hear me out so hear me out on this right this is these are there's real examples of this Yeah, that's different Western developed societies and individuals who go into these countries and be like, oh my god Look at these kids working this factory. This is terrible and by our standards. It is terrible Nobody wants to see kids working in these kind of factories Yeah, so sometimes what they do is they actually are quite successful They'll go in the lobby to make laws that ban these factories from being open or employing these kids So and they think I solve the problem Then they go back People go back and study these areas and these kids are on the street. They're begging They're prostituting and they're starving and they're dying because the real problem wasn't that the kids were working in factories The real problem was that that was the better option So we got to figure out what more options. How yeah, how can we create even better options? Yeah, because right now if we eliminate this option the other options way worse That's why they're here in the first place eliminating ad, you know, that's great It's a crazy way to have to think about that. It's terrible It's it's terrible that the option that the better option is still bad But it's still the better option So you have to understand these things before you go and pass these crazy laws and these, you know Like the homeschooling thing like oh my god If we homes if we have government check on you know the homeschoolers every month Then we're gonna make sure that kids aren't getting abused at what cost. What are we causing it? It's destruction of liberty. It's infringing on people's whatever the state has way more control now And they are they can decide to take your kid for some crazy shit like you don't want to go down that just feels like martial law It's scary. You know what I mean? Like they're coming in to check up on you with guns and shit Fuck out of here. Just painted like this picture of some dude like kicking down the door. I swear I'm teaching my kids. Let me see those test scores from last week How are you how would you like that like your homeschooling no way and they knock on your door ding dong I'm here and they have to walk in your house inspect your home Interview your kid. I would get like the scariest dogs ever. Oh now. This isn't past yet, right? This is what they're just trying to they're proposing it. Yeah, I don't think it'll pass Oh, wait, maybe won't so invasive. I wouldn't be surprised really if it really I don't know I'll be adamantly against that. I wouldn't be surprised dude They they're I mean the shit that they pass is already so crazy and from the fullest. We don't need we don't need parents come You know like we can handle our own kids. Yeah, come on. Yeah now stupid. Anyway, there we go Bird time or we got gifts here. We got a box thrive market Who it's not a person this time. It's not a person's box He said it's a general box. It's just a general box. I like these. Yeah, I feel like I already know I hope it's I hope there's some equity. I mean it's in there. Oh, I love you Doug. You got that Hey, he's smart. Oh, what's the theme is traveling to LA theme? No, the theme is keto. Oh So drive market you can go on their website and they have a drop-down menu and you can choose paleo Keto different types Holy shit. Are you kidding me? So you can just choose from their list, you know, I even think about my god That's brilliant. That is brilliant Beginning here as an epic hickory smoked uncured bacon and pork don't give that to me up Doug Toasted hemp seeds with sea salt. Oh, it sounds good too. Yeah Some raw cacao nibs Love them nibs Of course, our royal Hawaiian sea salt macadamia nuts. Thank you, Doug. I love you Some sardines. We always need those around my boy and pass those pass those on here. Yeah, I Found this interesting. We got some nut pods original sweetened almond and coconut dairy-free creamer. Well, show me them nut pods. I Found this very interesting. I've never tried it. It's called miracle rice. Oh, I've had that before have you I have it Tastes like nothing and it's like I thought it turned into wine. Is it like watery looks like bone broth in water But if there's like little so anyway, we'll try it out and see if we like it. It gave me gas Well, that's that's nice. Yeah water does that bro But it's because it's high and it's real. It's a lot of fibers what it is. Oh, really? Yeah Now this is pretty cool. We got green and red Thai coconut curry pay actually sauce Hmm from Yize Thai Thank You Doug so we can try that out. Yeah The last thing here is they have keto strips. I know I know you guys are not big on to these But I thought well, I like to appeal I'll appeal one later. Okay, you do that. Yeah I feel like I feel like you got this box for your your son over here. You're fucking favorite Just so convenient. It was a keto box when South you know, you don't like macadamia nuts and beef No, I love it. Can we talk about for a minute? How fucking awesome that is they do that? And we just got a grazed over that I did not I did not know that it is beyond brilliant If you're on a particular structure of diet like your paleo or keto or whatever How easy does it make it where you go down? So it's a drop menu? Yeah, there's a menu somewhere on the site. You just drop drop it down there choose keto And they'll just give you suggestions for keto. That's so great. That's freaking badass. That's a good job thrive market Yeah, I know these guys are thrive for the week. This is why are they are they public is thrive market public? No I don't think so because if they I'm gonna tell you the second they yes the second they go public I'm buying yeah shares because they're brilliant. Well, they're I mean they're a good job They're in a mad hustle right now because I believe they're trying to beat, you know, like Amazon and stuff before Amazon's getting all their All their pieces together, you know, I'm saying the tentacles and I think thrive knows that and so they're on a full-court press for like I mean everything I see them come out with is pretty fucking brilliant, dude It's I'm impressed by by the company. I mean, that's why we all love it so much I mean aside from the forward thinking, you know, they're just doing everything right. Yeah, great, Brad This was brought to you by organifi for those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition Organifi fills the gap with laboratory tested certified organic superfoods to help give your health the performance the added edge Try organifi totally risk-free for 60 days by going to organifi.com That's or gani fi.com and use a coupon code mine pump for 20% off at checkout Our first question is from Mike Lunaris. What is your take on Mikey? What's up? That's our boy Mike. Yeah, Mike What is your take on someone wanting to get fit for proper shoes from a gate and analysis? Specialist before addressing issues in the feet and imbalances. What is a gate analysis? Special it's somebody who watches you. I know what it is, but What is it really though, and how are they certified? It's where I'm going with this like footlocker. Yeah This is where I'm going with this like what is that, bro Reminds me when you talked about that guy on the cruise when you went to Alaska. Yeah. Yeah, like remember He was using that as like a technique to kind of oh, yes training. Yes. Yes. Yes, very exactly very much so right so I Don't even know what a gate analysis specialist is It sounds like it's on your name tag. I think it that's exactly what I think I'm John. I'm your gate analysis specialist. Yeah, it's just it's bovine mammary extraction technician Stand on the gel the milk man would pull up. That's a yeah, I'm the bovine mammary extraction decision over here Yeah, that's William. No, that's exactly what it is. So it's that in itself. I think it's funny, right that We're probably offended like some guy, right? I know I'm sorry There's probably there's actually probably a really good gate analysis specialist out there. That's really good at their job Hey, man. So yeah, what a beautiful dog. You're looking at the gate and clinical movement analysis society Oh, this is a whole society with its positions Hold on its physicians allied health professionals engineers biomechanists biomechanists and scientists Working together to advance scientific knowledge technical capabilities and clinical practice in the field of human movement You know smart people use a lot of words. Yeah, I know it sounds legit. Yeah, there's no reason to use all fluff broke Come on. So I don't know if that's even the same thing. Anyways, it says the gate and clinical movement analysis society So I don't I think this is just like probably is made up of scientists versus Footlocker guy, right? So, let's assume. Yeah, let's assume. They're a badass Let's see. Let's let's assume they're a badass the doubt the question the end of the question asked before Addressing foot issues. So absolutely not and here's the thing No, they're not sell and you we can we don't we can't assume that they are because there's no way that someone a Biomechanics specialist K would see somebody and see an imbalance on their gate and Crutch it with a doctor souls or an insert. Yeah, do you know any that would do that? That would what that would would crutch it that way Yeah, yeah, I don't I don't know. I feel like that's the way that's why I said I don't feel like you Dissell inserts really well, I think it's the Western medicine approach the Western medicine approach is You're moving a particular way. And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna give you these insoles or shoes To correct your your movement. I feel like that's you know, that's that's the and I've seen people like this I've seen people come to me and be like, oh, I have these special inserts. Okay, so let's assume this person is a Fucking scientist. They are trying to use Western medicine approaches by crutching this fucking issue right our opinion I know for sure collectively will be that it's not a good idea That's not the thought process right use now. I worked with somebody who a while ago So I had the pleasure of having an exceptionally talented individual who was a physical therapist work in my wellness facility and She became very proficient in in gate and watching people walk in fact That was part of her assessment should we had this hallway and she'd walk people walk She'd have them take their shoes off and then based on that She would do things and she had somebody who came to her who had special inserts because they were all they were all messed up and I used to love One of my favorite things about training with a lot of other smart people is without them knowing I used to learn from like I didn't even ask them a question that he just watched I would watch and listen and what she did was is she didn't take the inserts out all of a sudden You know I can't do that. No, it's too much It's just like what I did with my squatting with the high heels You know squatting in squat shoes and then going to like high top shoes and then going to like regular shoes and then going to chuck Shoes and then going barefoot. I call my heels right. Well, there were heels. Yeah. Yeah, they are there I mean they got they got pretty high heels in them So that does sound sick that that that's the same right You can't you don't want to take somebody who does have inserts and you want to rip them right out But it's not this is somebody that Mike is asking that they are getting their their gait analysis, right? And the specialist is telling them here's your your you know your shoes that are custom made to you Which by the way half that stuff is bullshit most of the time anyways, but let's just pretend like this one isn't bullshit This is somebody who is fucking certified smart guy and they're telling you to put crutches in your in your shoes Not a good idea. Definitely not a good idea. That's by the way the best title. I've ever heard on my name tag certified smart guy Hey, I'm your certified smart welcome. I'm a certified smart guy. I feel like he does like the finger gun like yeah Who did that to us? Yeah, was that paleo effects was didn't Aubrey Marcus do that to us? Yeah, he did the whole like Yeah, one over the head so If you have to wear inserts to correct your gait and fix you or whatever Don't just take them off. You're gonna cause lots of problems But slowly wean yourself off with smaller inserts or by training barefoot and then wearing the inserts regularly But fixing the feet but it was off can take a long I gotta give you more information here Because I feel like you which you don't know about this person that I know because I know Mike Mike is a coach for orange theory So he's probably asking this I'm going to assume that this is somebody who takes one of these classes who gets on a Time to do all that doesn't right. He's running on a treadmill This person is gonna go get inserts so they can go and exercise and run on a treadmill and and row and do I can See that do orange theory. That's why he's asking. I guarantee it. I mean Mike's a coach for there I guarantee he's probably been trying to get through to this person and say hey It's probably not a good idea that you just run on the treadmill and go see a gait analysis It's going to just give you some shoes to crutch it and then keep going Mike's a smart guy. He listens to mind-bump all the time I know for sure the dude's probably trying to tell him listen What you need to do is you need to address your foot your disconnect your feet And your ankles ankle mobility and address all that by doing proper moves then get into running and not the other way You want to talk about dysfunction though my god like once we started learning about the like the feet and the ankles that once We met with dr. Brink it sucks because I Was literally in a state of unconscious incompetence. I had no idea How big of a deal it was how important was and I didn't even know unless it was something extreme Like I could see severe pronation or supination. I could see that before but I couldn't see anything else I literally couldn't see it because I didn't know I didn't even know what to look for arch and now now when I'm walking around outside I can't help yeah, but see people and be like super obvious everybody visible everybody's fucked up It's funny too cuz like doing the FRC course like I was there for the for one of the days and they're talking about Feet and like he he was like, you know talking about shoes and like what we've been conditioned You know to and how we've compensated as a result of our shoes and all stuff And he calls them the term that he used for shoes is like feet coffins I love that And then we have those pictures of Pro basketball players feet. Yeah LeBron when I everything's just smashed together It turns into like one pile of mush and you can almost guarantee like right now He's a crazy athlete who pushes through all that and you can't tell but I guarantee that that's something that will Cause major issues for him down the road That's what you have to compensate everything else has to compensate for your totally dysfunctional feet, you know or ankle so I mean one of the best things you could do for your training is Address all these imbalances and focus on them and by the way why you're doing this You're still working out so it's not like sure you're not gonna be able to work out super intense and all that stuff But it's gonna pay you back 10 fold by working on so I'm gonna tell Mike to this is what I used to tell Clients when I was at orange theory when they would come up with it was something similar to me I would first of all I would tell them absolutely do not go get Inserts into your shoes. Let me teach you some, you know foot exercise that you can do some ankle mobility Let's pay it Let me point out some of the things that I see whether you you're pronating or supinating figure out What's going on with you and then give you the proper movements to help and work on that And I want you to work on that as much as you possibly can when I don't see you and absolutely anytime you come in My class I want to see when everyone else is kind of warming up and doing things You're over there doing those drills and then when you get on the treadmill, you're not running You're walking and when you're walking you're thinking about your gate You're thinking about the what what I've taught how I've taught you to walk teach them the intent, right? So you get to still do your you're doing a little bit cardio. You're still getting hit and eat You're still moving you're still exercising and you're working on an imbalance that your gait analysis is telling you only they're Telling you here throw these in your shoes because you could throw those in your shoes and go around a treadmill And you will initially feel better What do you what do you guys think about? Do you think the orange theory? How long do you think this this it's still on the rise bad is the stock is still rising right now, right? So when they were just converting all the CrossFit people when you guys Yeah, that's it's not going for a it's gonna go for longer than I predict cross it CrossFit's flattened out They're taking all of them. Yeah, so so because I see orange theory having a sharp fall at some point Here's why here's why I don't think they're gonna go gone So, you know me I was originally the one who was saying like, you know build these things up and tell my boy We're in forever like build these fuck. He's got like 17 now I'm like sell those motherfuckers within the next three years I've been saying that for a long time because you're good They're gonna be at their peak for sure around that time, but they may hang around for a while I think they'll hang around as long as CrossFit hangs around. How about that? That's what I think I think CrossFit's well This is why this is why let me tell you why okay before you we say anything I see pop pluses of mine Here's why because if CrossFit it really is the answer to CrossFit. It really is You know when you unpack all of it CrossFit plot It's for the people who would want to do CrossFit It's for the people that would want but can't do CrossFit and are too scared to do CrossFit or either or like because they have had They're they're normally a little bit older They've had some sort of injury or issue or they've known somebody who's been hurt doing CrossFit But they they love the group class setting. They love the circuit intensity. They love the intensity They love the circuit base They love the competitiveness of the scoring and beating each other They I mean orange theory nailed it because what they did was they said we see the fall off That's happening from CrossFit from all the injuries and the people that are complaining because of all the bad coaches and that the growth of that So we're gonna swoop in and we're gonna make a similar product That's safer and more family and friendly and that's what they did they cut out all the Olympic movements And now it's just a circuit-based class they can create they create the same competitiveness just like they do with leaderboards and size CrossFit They do the same thing only they're using. I'm they attach it to were they attach it to fucking Epoch. I mean old 1972 science. Yeah, you know saying we did those. I mean that's been around forever I'm firmly convinced that This style of training will never go away like it the group setting the intensity the competitive like it's gonna be Recreated even if orange theory goes it's gonna be recreated as something else I agree that's maybe with VR goggles or something stupid And so I being somebody who worked there for a couple of years and got a chance to kind of peer in right it reminds me a Lot of what I felt and saw which is what drew me to them originally with 24 our fitness growth of 24 Yes, they're just they they're not they're not just growing because they're popular. They're they're making moves They're making moves. They're they're bettering their product. They're on the and I used to I remember working for 24 Fitness and people would always tell me about other fitness chains. They're popping up. I'm like, uh, I don't even sweat I work for the best one in the world like literally it's they they're the only ones to reach billions of dollars We're so we're so five steps ahead of everybody else like oh, that's cool They're creating that our company is like did that six months ago. We're already on the next thing They're kind of like that for the fitness the fitness in there and they're really combining fitness and tech and they're They're they're forward thinking so I think they're gonna hang around as long as CrossFit hangs around That's my call now the tech which is gonna propel them like pretty far Mike make her get prime or prime pro There you go. Next question is from MK fitness three eight eight nine What is the best way for someone to overcome being? Neurologically tight meaning they constantly feel their muscles are tight But have great range of motion and pass stretching tests Can someone constantly feel tight or restricted and it just be a neurological symptom? How does one improve that it first off? It's all it's always neurological, right? So all starts there first all muscles tightness pliability, you know, extensibility Flexibility whatever you want to call it because without that signal your muscle would just lay there like a dead fish It'd be super like just if you had to be like cutting it out of your system throwing it on the ground It's without the central nervous system. Yep. Yep. Yep. So it's always a neurological issue You're stressed. That's what it sounds like. That's exactly what it's all tensed up Yeah, if you nailed it if you have a good range of motion and you can stretch really well But then throughout the day, you're just tight You got a you got to release some shit. It sounds to me like you're holding on. Yeah, you're placing your body in a protective kind of position throughout the day because of Whatever daily stress or whatever is going on in your mind is going on because remember if I From a from a purely brain perspective if I Imagine if I truly believe and imagine or dream that a lion is coming after me or versus seeing one in my brain It's exactly the same. Of course It doesn't have the the the same feedback as if the lion actually scrap, you know, clawed at me or whatever But in my brain, it's exactly the same thing. So when you're stressed out Your body is in this state of fight or flight fight or protect, right? It's trying to protect you So what is a stressed out body look like? Well Shoulders are probably hunched and rolled forward a little bit. Why because your vitals are in front of you You want to protect yourself? Your arms are kind of in tight your head is down again because you're protecting the front of your throat You you occupy less space. This is something that's a big one like people who are confident Yeah, I want to occupy I want to point out though to this person that you don't necessarily need to be all hunched over Around like that for this still to be that symptom though So that because this person could be listening to you right now going like oh, I have great posture Yeah, you know because you could still have decent looking posture what you or what you think is I'm just I'm just going with like yeah No, you're right. Yeah, you're right But I just want the audience that's listening or the person who's listening to this you answer it right now that Because you could you could throw them off by them thinking like oh if I'm not think about it this way if you were Outside you were hanging out and all of a sudden behind you without you knowing a loud explosion goes off. What? What would you do with your body instantly as you freaked out over the night loud you shrug your shoulders you Real quick so your body is doing that to a lower level and what I mean by that is your upper trapezius is probably activated Or levitate or scapulae because you're you're kind of tight You may feel tightness in your diaphragm Which might feel like chest tightness because you're not breathing fully so you need to kind of relax a little bit in order to do that You have to focus on both the emotional and the physical and what I mean by that is Massage helps because it temporarily loosens muscles up and that feedback will then tell your body to relax tell you mentally to relax Don't you get so crazy how we we have this natural instinct that does like think about it There's such a great analogy just gave right there So I don't know if how many people realize that like isn't it crazy how that is like no one taught us that No one trained us anything like that But every one of us right now if we're to take turns scaring the other one when jumping out you get in that posture you would all We'd all do would do the same same thing. It's protective. Isn't that crazy? There's also a universal our brain works that fast There's also a universal Victory pose that people have like if somebody wins something throw your arms up you throw your arms up and what do you do? Just comes up. What are you doing? You are showing dominance You're exposing all your vital parts under your arms all your arteries everything's open your show your head is up Because you're telling so fucking dry mom and you're taller. So it's so crazy. That's right. So So definitely I would say get massage I would say focus on your breathing because your breathing does a lot to dictate how you feel So belly breathing is a great way to go with your body So figure out how to tap into the parasympathetic It sounds like you're just you're just driving 100% sympathetic all day long and even though you may have You know the flexibility or the range of motion that you can achieve To pass these tests or whatever the standards is like it just sounds like you're just carrying that same operating system all throughout your Dude, I'll never forget. I had when I had my wellness facility I had a situation happen within the business that was really stressful. So I was like super stressed out I was handling that I was trying to manage the business. I had shit going on at home And so I felt I didn't realize how stressed out I felt because I'm the kind of person that Even with lots of stress. It's hard for me to identify that I'm stressed out I just keep going unless it's so extreme or I become so self-aware that I can I can see and I'm better at it now But I was really bad at it before So one of my co-workers convinced me to do a yin yoga class was actually first yin yoga class ever did now yin yoga is You get in you you get on the floor you get into a pose or a stretch and you hold that shit for like three minutes And the music is soft and nobody's talking in there and it's quiet and when you're sitting in a stretch in a room quietly For a while and you're sitting in a stretch for three minutes Weird things start to happen like you start to realize how tight you are because all of us the first you're like Okay, this is as far as I'm gonna stretch and the next thing you know Oh shit, I just went into the two inches. This is weird next You know, oh my god one of the two inches and this was a it was an hour and a half long class by the end of the class I Remember distinctly telling my friend we walked out and she's like how do you feel and I'm like I've never felt I haven't felt this set this level of peace in such a long time I didn't know it existed because I was in the state of stress that consumed me that I didn't even realize I Was really in so well, this is really the science behind the woundness of what everybody talks about yoga I mean there's so much woo-woo around it, but there's actually some really good science to support why you fucking fill it So I mean if you could take a yin yoga class Highly recommend doing that meditation Walking outside barefoot in the grass like all these things that help relax you because a hundred percent you're stressed out That's I'm gonna place my money on that right now You know, I feel too like going we just we just had somebody who were talking about prime-prime pro for this is another example You know of a client that wanted to kind of like still go to the gym and like exercise or do things like I would put them in fortification sessions the sessions that are Helping correct any sort of imbalance they have that could be maps prime, right? I think that could be a very that's a very I love to do when I'm not feeling in the mood to go slam and hit the weights or get after it Like I love to just go through priming movements or go through all our mobility drills and flow and get get into that Because you still get a nice workout in and you're also working on it's a I don't know I get a very similar feeling is what I get like when I take a yoga class because when I you go class I feel the same way after I do like a mobility session for 30 minutes, too Yeah Next up is e Braga zero six all of you've been training for over a decade in which direction Do you see your individual training in the next five ten twenty years? And where do you see yourself from a business standpoint cool? Yeah, cool. Yeah, um, I See my individual training Slowly morphing into a really Much more intuitive way of training now I'm much more intuitive now than I was five years ago So I can only imagine that in the next you know ten or twenty years It's gonna take on a completely new different role. I think honestly and if I'm being quite honest I think my training will require in the future less Gym workouts so I still I think I'm still gonna always lift at least two days a week heavy in the gym and More and I'm hoping in 20 years I have this opportunity or so to be able to do this for 10 years to Be able to do a lot of my stuff outside So, you know two days a week of lifting and then every day will involve some type of outdoor activity whether it's swimming or rowing or Hiking because I'm starting to find now that I get way more out of that then because I get a lot out of working On the gym again. Don't get me wrong. I still do but I get a lot of a lot more different differently from the outdoor type of stuff like me and Jessica, you know, we've done we've got a few weekends where You know, I don't have the kids and she doesn't have to work and we'll just go hike and we'll do a gnarly hike You know, we'll be hiking for four or five hours. We'll take water with us and we'll fast the whole time and when I get back I'm exhausted. I know I've burned tons of calories. I've done climbing because these hikes are challenging But what I get from it is so it's so incredible I would love to be able to do that on a regular basis. So I feel like my training will probably look more like that in the future From a business standpoint You know, I see I really who knows what the future holds. I think you'll be promoted by that time. What I think you'd be I think, you know, I would I really would love to be working with these gentlemen for Ever whether we're with mine pump or not. I love working with these guys that we constantly grow I'm always impressed by them And I want to you know, I hope to be able to do to work with them for up until I retire at some point Personally for me at some point I would like to write a book or I would like to Do something where my commentary is more on just strictly current events and opinion and stuff like that Just I really enjoy it But but other than that, I don't see too much different from what we're doing, you know, what we're doing now Well, you just I like that Yeah, somewhat on the intuitive front, but as far as training is concerned like I know that for me It's less about being the strongest the hero in the gym, you know, and like that sort of young man's mentality towards training I feel like I've matured a bit As far as like the way that I treat my body And press the limitations, but at the same time, I don't want to get soft. I don't want to get complacent I don't want to be in a place where you know, I lose any abilities or strength that I've achieved and So I would love to just keep expressing movement in different directions and loading it accordingly and you know learn be open to learning new techniques and especially the unconventional route I've sort of drifted into that direction and I want to continue to pursue that and and get more versed in certain tools and I really I really enjoy Bodyweight training and I've been doing that with my kids quite a bit and it's just I just like approaching it more now as play and Something that is a continuous just part of my day instead of it like I got like a workout I'm getting you know instead of that I'm just like if I'm watching TV for like this is what usually happens throughout the day So I'm watching TV. I get home. I'm like, oh, okay. I'm sit down and then you know, my youngest is like dad Check this out. Come on. Let's let's work out. I'm like, yeah All right, and I get up and then we're like we're doing stuff on the rings I'm climbing on stuff and you know, it's just fun and it and it's exhausting because like once I get into it and I get the momentum in it, like I'll start I'll start doing more, you know And I feel I feel the effects on my body and that's fun for me. You know, that's all I need and You know and I know that like That doesn't like register to some people that listen as far as like, you know They have like very specific PRs and you know goals and you know, I've been there Yeah, and I when I I feel like I did I did pretty well as far as squats and bench And you know, like all that kind of stuff and that's just not where my head is at these days going forward But I always will still do it. You bet you bet your ass. I'll still do it But so that's that's training. I think as far as business is concerned I definitely like I fucking enjoy the freedom of what we've created and the and just the The ability to go in I don't even know like we're I don't know what it looks like, but I'm excited So whatever the hell it is where we're creating something together I I want to be a part of it kind of like Sal was saying like it's just it's a long-term thing I feel like whatever we do is gonna be awesome and fun and If it's not I think we all will know and we'll we'll you know abandon ship and we'll do something else That's cool, but at the same time so you have individual goals I mean I tried I tried, you know my my hands in an invention and you know, maybe I'll pursue something like that eventually again you know once it makes a little more sense timing wise and all that but Really like I'm just I'm just trying to like enjoy the process and you know kind of go with the flow I Think yeah, let's see here five ten twenty years from now It's hard to say that far out because God knows I'll be moving in 20 years But I you know, there's some things that I Think I'm pretty certain I'll be doing I think I'll I'll be training kind of like a bodybuilder Mobile bodybuilder because I really enjoy I really really enjoy sculpting the physique. I got a big kick out of that When I competed and I didn't think I would I didn't think that was gonna be a big deal for me I'm a competitive person. So I knew that I'd have this drive to compete and win But I didn't know that I was gonna have this like also in this newfound passion of like whoa I can sculpt my physique. I kind of always knew that as a trainer But when I actually put it to practice, I didn't realize how much I would fall in love with that That it's almost like an art form to me now. So I do see myself Getting not getting back to the competitiveness of that Like I have no desire to get on a stage ever again and compete whatsoever And I know a couple of years ago. I was saying, oh, maybe I do it for cherry I have no desire right now to do anything like that, but I do like the style of training I do like sculpting the physique, but I also do recognize What it can cause and all the issues that it can cause if that's all I'm focused on So I do think that I'll integrate a you know a mobility based program But with pieces of bodybuilding training because I just enjoy it now. That's Saying that's could be where I go But I'm also the person who so easily can be distracted because something new is out And I want to challenge myself and I want to apply myself and my knowledge and see if I can go after it So I'm just as nutty to go a different direction And honestly that I was really I had some I was setting some high goals that I didn't even express anybody else Thank God because I went and tore my Achilles related to playing basketball and I'm having this You know right now having a time to reflect because I don't know if I'm gonna pursue that and that's tough for me I've never really said to myself. Okay, I'm gonna go do something and then and then thought like oh shit maybe I'm not gonna do this and tearing the Achilles was a big deal to me because I Mean it revealed that I have some other issues that are going on besides just the Achilles But it also wasn't an injury that was caused by another person It was all myself like I was all by myself and it just went and it's like fuck dude I'm in no place right now to be pushing my body towards hard aggressive Goals in that arena if this if my body is responding like this already So I don't know what I'll do with that But I definitely think that I'll keep like the body building going on with some sort of mobility in the 510 20 And as far as business is concerned Man, I had to echo what the boy said. I think what I love about these guys since day one I mean first of all we created it with the ability knowing that there may come a day that we would sell it Right, we knew that you know, we're smart enough. We've been around long enough We've all built enough businesses before that hey if even if this is Amazing and it grows so big and everybody's making the money they want to do and they love them what they're doing There may come a time where if not one or two or all of us say hey, dude I'm you know, it's too much now my family. I I've set myself up in a position where I don't have to ever do anything again I think that you know, I want to walk or do something with that That that'll be a conversation that we might have to have one day And so we built the business like that, you know knowing that and we still continue to build it that way So I think that is a very realistic possibility. I know we will be faced with that one day I know one day. We'll all have to sit in a room and go Okay guys, you know, let's check in here like is this what we want to do for the rest of our lives And do we love it that much and I really personally and I told the guy literally just talked about this the other day with you guys that I believe that we're gonna be faced with an option like this because I'm as much as I pay attention to How every time the business scales how incredibly more challenging and stressful it becomes as much as the money that comes with That is awesome. It also brings on all these other responsibilities with that and that just continues to Multiply as the company gets bigger. So, you know, now we're in that that, you know 9 to 12 person like employee Facility and so once we start getting I think to a point and I know that's a bad example Is to use people as as the size of a company because you can have a small company that makes a lot of money I do believe as far as a responsibility goes there become a time where the guys and I will have to all go Okay, maybe we'd rather carve back on some of our responsibility Just do the parts that we're very passionate about like because something we've all agreed on is we love this part Yeah, like it's very therapeutic. It's it's fun. It's it's easy I mean a dream if we just did that right and so we and and I and I know like any other business that I built that What ends up happening is you spend a lot of times doing the things that you don't love I think there's a problem to a lot of people that fail a business is they they Over-glorify the whole entrepreneurship thing. It's like in reality You spend 80 time or 80% of your time even in a very successful business doing the shit You don't want to do you like it about 20% of the time doing doing the stuff you love sometimes less Yeah, sometimes less and so I think if we start to see that that piece get carved out Where we're doing less and less of what we love and more and more of the things that we don't even care about You know running behind the scenes systems and managing people that nobody else even sees or does has nothing to do with Us talking on these microphones. I could definitely foresee us having that conversation, but without a doubt I think we all agree that you know, even if we moved on from this project in the future Which would be nowhere in any time soon. I know that we would probably do something else together for sure Next question is from megabop Adam what does your neat look like since the boot? I was put in one today and can't imagine not having walks with my pup Oh God, you know before you answer Adam. I want to say something about this is that watching you go through what you're going through Achilles tear Going off synthetic testosterone You have Challenging to say the least For anybody who's ever gone from being on testosterone to off after as long as you know, you were on it That by itself Can cause lots of issues the least of which are things like depression then on top of it being limited to Not being able to move which one of the best things you could do when you feel like shit right is move So now that's taken from you. Yeah, and I want to say you've been handled you've handled yourself in a way that really exemplifies your character, which is very strong and Very growth-minded and I know I speak on behalf of the guys very impressive Let's see you handle it champion. Well, I don't think I only been an asshole like 20% Which is only 5% of the normal right so it's gone down, which is weird. Yeah, I actually think I'm more of a lover I feel like it thinks I'm more cuddly and lovey right now She's like yeah without the testosterone image. She feels like I'm more I'm sweeter. I'm nicer, right? So the flower this for yeah, you know to Sal's note before I get in the boot thing 100% no doubt in my mind that What I've been going through for the last six months has hands down been probably off the top of my head Some of the most challenging times I've ever been through mentally, you know And then actually now physically with the Achilles like before they kill you said before the Achilles The whole testosterone thing is a mind fucking itself like and that's really tough Especially when you talk about your libido being a man being in my mid 30s right now being in a relation in a great Relationship for seven years like there's a lot of their fucking dynamics that I don't even share and talk about on the show That comes comes with that and then I the crazy part that those that don't know this I you know at January right before January hit I had set this goal at the beginning of the year I was gonna pursue two things That I was very passionate about as a child and so the crazy part was I know the internal motivation Of why I did that I knew that I was kind of battling like this You know, I didn't feel good about myself. I'm my testosterone super low. I have no motivation to train. I have no libido so what better than to You know put poor myself into things that I know I'm very passionate about like I've never felt flow state like I've felt Felt it on a basketball court or or riding down a mountain. That's to me the closest thing to being in flow state I've ever felt in my life. So the thought process for me was okay I'm not allowed it. I'm gonna allow this depression to build up and feel sorry for myself I'm gonna fucking go do something and not only I go do something I'm gonna do things that I know I'm passionate about That's gonna help pull me through this time that I'm kind of going through right now. So talk about a crushing blow I mean, I literally got a brand new snowboard in the box inside my my room right right now Which I didn't need but I wanted to because it was part of like being excited about what I was doing I can I can afford to go basketball. Oh, I brought three. I bought three basketballs I bought two new pairs of Jordans like I bought a new basketball bag. I got two pumps I mean, I'm all set bro my George. I mean, I literally and and I know what I was doing like I didn't need all those things That was again, you know me feeding that I'm feeling down. I'm feeling kind of so I like things You guys know I'm a fucking I'm bougie. So I like stuff. So it's like treating myself I'm also gonna be putting in goals forward for me So I was being very positive about the situation that I was in and then to get to get the fucking Achilles terror on the second day of playing basketball, you know, January What or whatever air out of your oh, dude, it was it was a crushing blow Like I don't know I've I've ended to have done it myself like not at somebody else some asshole stepping on me or what about that? So that was that has been a motherfucker for that I mean that like nothing else I could ever think of and if it wasn't for you guys and and being here and this show and Listeners man because I've got a ton of support from so many people Sent me DMs and I read every one of them and I try to respond to everybody I think I get to about 99% of everybody out that DMs me and I appreciate all the love that everybody sent my way and And all of it helps for sure and this helps and being around you guys It's always motivating stuff. So this has been one of the hardest times for me going through that for all those reasons I mean, it's just been like it's been a shitstorm when it comes to my my health And then then you add to that right now The Achilles terror and then I get into this boot so The biggest motherfucker of this this boot is I can't walk around man You I mean if I walk around for let's say 2000 steps, which would be a very low day anyways My back is killing me because it's like walking if you're just one foot is elevated. Yeah, and I think you're your meditation Process is yeah, I'm big. I'm the guy who talks about me all the time. I'm not only you walk your dogs So many things right Katrina and I go for hikes and walks on a very regular basis So the boot all sudden is like fuck I can't do that either and still don't you don't get me wrong I tried to muscle through it. I was like, I'm just gonna just fucking walk, you know So give shit, but then so then what ends up happening now my back hurts all time Now I end up wanting to have pain killers because my back is killing me all the fucking time So then I know better than to go let that take control of my life because I've been in that position before So then I'm battling back and forth that like fuck, okay Well, I'll just sit at home so then I'm at the point where now I'm eating one meal a day because if I eat any more than that I put on weight on you know So it's definitely been and so I'm in some of the worst shape I've been in probably five years and the way that I've stayed positive with all this I'm getting to your question eventually In a long roundabout way the way that I catch you I have learned to deal with this is My I don't I don't I say it all the time on the show like I don't identify with a being a bodybuilder I don't identify with being an athlete. I don't identify with being a soft Achilles torn, you know, you know feeling Skinny and no muscle. I don't identify with that guy. Those are all that's not who I am, you know And so right now my body is going through some of its hardest time and I Just have to be okay with that and so I'm just kind of embracing all of it I'm not stressing out about it if I'm still was it a baby shower and Normally, I wouldn't be drinking and caring about my physique and this and that and if ever I should be really caring about it It's right now, but at the same time feel like no, I'm not I mean with my my best friend We're enjoying time like this is not the time for me to be about me anyway So I think that what's getting me through this right now is is accepting it is accepting that I'm in a position right now It's made me appreciate other parts of my life like walking like a god what I can't wait To be healed to just go for a fucking one-hour walk. I cannot wait to throw a book in my ears Which there you go. There's something that I have latched on to because Um, I haven't been able to do anything physically is I've been reading a lot So I mean to me the best advice I feel like uh, I ever received From someone I wish I remember who it was. It was a long time ago What they had told me that man when you when you when you have because shits bound to happen for everybody Whether it be family whether it be relationship whether it be work like everybody has shit Nothing special about what I'm going through right now. Everybody has fucking shit poops But everybody also has Something something that they can latch on to their life that is good that is positive that and and when you start to Latch on to that and put your energy and focus in that and let that flourish let that grow get better in that craft Whatever that is and so, you know, I when real when relationships were bad I used to I love work and so I put it into work and when I'm excelling at work That always makes me feel a little bit better about myself or sports and so whatever it is for you So right now like I really have a lot of those things. I can't do I'm reading I can read I can grow You know so I can continue to learn I can continue to get smarter. I continue to to expand that way So that's been kind of like my saving grace is you know, I've been digesting a lot of information I've been reading a lot that makes me feel good and I'm around the corner right now So I've got probably another two weeks before It's you know, completely healed and then I'll be starting the rehab process But when you're in the boot, you know, I'm I can't really do need because I like I'm saying you're you're It's like you and you don't really want to because unless you had okay now what I could do I didn't do this and I could have done this and I thought about it too. So this is an option for you Is uh, I know the 24 fitness by my house actually has one of these are they used to is the uh bike Yeah, the cardio for for like people in a wheelchair, right? So just the arm bike cold I don't know. I think it's I don't even know what it's called But it's like it's like a recumbent bike for but for not for your legs But for your arms, right? And so I could have done I could have done that To get my cardio, but then I also Could not worry about it and not and not make a big deal about to go drive all the way to a gym to do this Just to burn a thousand calories. Just so I just gonna eat less Be okay with I'm gonna I'm gonna lose some muscle right now I'm gonna be a little bit softer than what I'm used to being I'm probably carrying myself around 14 15% body fat, which is very high for me So and just be okay with that and be learned to be comfortable with kind of where I'm at now and know that When I'm healthy and my body can move I can change that, you know, I can drop a percent every week consistently Excellent, sure. Excellent, brother. Thanks. Appreciate you. Uh, two days left, right? Isn't it two days left? Yes. Only two days left or hurry up our maps hit Promotion so we have a program called maps hit high interval high intensity interval training It is the best fat burning program. 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