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Hey, congratulations, Adam. Congratulations? Yeah, dude. On what? Taco, was it national taco day or whatever? It's racist. What? Racist is quack, bro. You love taco? No. Why would you look at me for taco Tuesday, huh? I thought you liked it. If it was like Spaghetti Wednesday and I said some of you that'd be so racist. Yeah, it's like Potato Friday or something. No, you love tacos, I do like tacos. Oh, I said, so why? No, you know what? You know what I would say that? So I guess it's national, I didn't even know this was a thing, national. Is that, okay, this is like a. Every day's national something. Yes, this is a trend that started in the last, I don't know, five years or so. I know. Every day is a national something day. Are there any days left? Are there any days left? A podcasting day the other day. Don't have something attached to it? You know what? What are those days? You know what it does? All the other national days don't mean anything now because everything's a national something day, you know what I'm saying? Anyway, anyway, I'm not gonna argue this because I'm happy there's national taco day because tacos are amazing. But the reason why I'm bringing that up is I went on my. It's on a Tuesday. I went on my butcher box. They, tacos? Account, and it said on there, you guys never do this. You gotta go there, listen to me. Listen to what I'm saying. Go to your butcher box account every month before your box comes, right? And every month they have new like deals and packages and they'll add new products and they'll have great prices or whatever. So this time they have like a taco night package that they're selling. I can see what it looks like. So it's just like ground meat or like chicken? Like what was that? Two pounds of ground beef, three and a half pounds of boneless pork butt and three pounds of boneless chicken thighs. So, and that's eight plus pounds of meat for 50 bucks. Wow, dang. That was a big stuff but guy too. He is, I was watching, actually, I was watching a barbecue show with my daughter and she didn't know that pork butt was a thing. So like the guy throws a big piece of meat on the grill and it's like pork butt. Slap that pork butt on her. She was cracking up and she's like pork butt. You wanna guess what part of the pig that's from? It's actually from the shoulder. Why would they call it pork butt? You know how to get used to it. Gotcha. Hold on a second. Who's the smart PR guy that said, this is a shoulder, let's name it something worse. I don't know. That's brilliant marketing. Or more sexy. Make any sense. Well, what if that was something that was more desirable back then when they named it? Pork butt. You think so? Then shoulder? I don't know. You're right. It was to the black mirror guy. Well, butts, I'm sure it's pretty universal that butts are fatty, so I'm sure that people would think that, right? So maybe it was a more desirable cut back in the day. Yeah, but isn't it also universal that butts poop? Okay, now holes. Holes, but holes. Butts don't really poop. No, but still, it's the whole area. Anyway, I bought some, so whatever. I just lost my appetite. You were reading something and you were giggling. Oh yeah, no, I wanted to read this to you guys. Hold on, so our good buddy, James Smith, Joe DeFranco's partner sent this to me the other day. So he obviously is into the same stuff as I am, because he'll send me some stuff every now that I'm like, how's this guy, he must read my memes or the things that I send. He sends me over this thing. It's called a professor explains marketing to MBA students. So this professor explains marketing to these students the same way you would be picking up a girl, right? So this is like how he explains. So he uses that as the content. Yeah, yeah, so you see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, I'm very rich, marry me. That's called direct marketing. Number two, you're at a party with a bunch of friends and you see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and is pointing over you and says, he's a very rich man, you should marry him. That's advertising. Number three, you see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and you get her telephone number. The next day you call her and say, hi, I'm very rich, marry me. That's telemarketing. Four, you're at a party and you see a gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie. You walk up to her, you pour her a drink. You open the door of her car for her. You pick up her bag after she drops it. You offer her a ride then ask her, by the way, I'm very rich, will you marry me? That's public relations. Five, you're at a party and you see a gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says, you're a very rich guy. Can you marry me? That's brand recognition. Six, you see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, I'm very rich, marry me. She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. That's customer feedback. Seven, you see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, I'm very rich, marry me. She introduces you to her husband. That's a demand in supply gap. Eight, you see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say anything about, say anything, another person comes up to you and asks her, I'm very rich, will you marry me? And she goes with him. That's competition eating into your market share. Nine, you see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you can say, I'm very rich, marry me. Your wife arrives. That's restrictions from entering new markets. Wow. That's actually really smart. It is hella smart. I imagine that was your professor. I like how engaged you would be in that class. That's great. Isn't that funny? My kid has a teacher who, I guess he's an amputee. I don't remember what class he teaches, but my son says he's hilarious because he makes jokes and he'll use his armpit, his amputated arm as part of the jokes or he'll post up memes that are current to teach lessons. And he's like, dude, I love this class so much. I learned so much. Did you guys have very many teachers like that? I just, maybe that's part of what my- I had like two and I remember them. Yeah, I literally had like one. Doug, you, did you have very many? Not many, the couple. I mean, most of the time these professors, this was in university, I had a law class and this guy was actually a practicing attorney and he'd talk about his active cases. It was very fascinating. Yeah, that would be great. And then I had a tax attorney as a tax professor and he was actually a intellectual property tax attorney. And he talked about all these authors and big celebrity type people he represented and the type of royalties they were making and things like that. He made it actually interesting. Yeah, it's so important to do that. Oh, you know, this might be a naive question, but do they have like at universities where students rank the teachers and star them like a Yelp review and stuff like that? There are places that teachers get reviewed. Sometimes however, the teachers that get sought out are the easy ones and kids will actually say that. So like easier class, harder class or whatever. And so then kids will teach, they'll want the class that's easier to pass. No, the only enjoyable class I had was when we had this kid in there who had Tourette's. And they made every single class amazing. Yeah, nothing to do with a teacher. Yeah, I sat right behind him and you just know and he was about to go off. They'd say something super outrageous and offensive and we would just die. I didn't have a teacher like this. Like I can think of one or two teachers. You had an English teacher like that. So she impacted me positively. So I am not saying that I never had a teacher that impacted me positively. Like she definitely did. Like she encouraged me different than like almost any other teacher. I told you guys with writing and stuff, right? Yeah. Which is grammatically, I'm terrible. But she thought the way that I could convey my thought was really good. And so she put me in advanced English. That was the only teacher though that I connected with like that. The rest, and I never had anyone did like creative stuff like that or found creative ways to get us to learn. I had two. There was the one I told you guys about, I think I said on the podcast that Arm wrestled me in front of class and the bet was if he beat me then I had to come to class every day and if I won then I could continue cutting class. And he beat me and so I showed up and it was really, I respected the guy, it was funny. Then I had another teacher. This is only two. I had another teacher who encouraged us to debate in class. It was psychology class. And he did this thing where he would pick a topic and we would have to debate one side of the issue. And then we'd have to switch and debate the other side. And he encouraged arguing. He was okay if we raised our voices. Of course we had to be respectful. And he let us argue. And then the way that it started was the rest of the class would show a hands which side they agree with or which side they already disagree with before we would argue. And the goal of the debate was not to see how many people agree with you or not. It was to see how many people you could change. And that was so impactful for me as a kid. I thought it was so brilliant that he let us do that. What are those debates that are called? Monk debates? Yeah, monk debates. Have you seen those? Not in a long time. I forgot about that. I got into that for a while. Yeah, for a minute you got me into it too. I hadn't watched any in a while. You know what I like about that is debating is different than the kind of debating that we tend to see on TV which is who can make the best sound bite and who can do the zingers. Real debate is there's like rules and there's more, you have to have more facts. Longer time, longer form. It's usually super deep and philosophical. Trying to like solve problems that they know like you can't really solve. They also do that. What you just said that I think is really interesting how they, everybody votes before the debate starts. Yeah, so it's not about who has more people on her side. How many people's minds did you change? Right. Because it's easy to rile up the people that are already through with you. Yeah, right. If it's already 60, 40 and then it ends 60, 40 it wasn't that great of a debate, you know what I'm saying? But if it was 60, 40 and then also it flipped to 70, 30 or 50, 50 after that, like obviously somebody moved some people. In fact, okay, so if you, one of the reasons why I like politics is if you back out and I know people are always like, when I say I like politics, like are you crazy? I don't like politicians. Presidential debates are a horrendous. Yeah, I like the science of politics because they've studied human psychology and what you'll notice is when there are debates within the party, so let's say it's a primary. So who's gonna win the nominee for the Democrats? Who's gonna win the nomination for Republicans? The debate is all about who can rile up the base more. Then when they go to the big national debate where it's the Democrat versus the Republican, now what they're trying to do is maintain their base but change the minds of the undecided voters and the debates change. And you can see they all of a sudden become more moderate and they start to change kind of their messaging a little bit, whereas when it's in the primaries, it's like who could be the most extreme? Who could be the most extreme on their side? Very fascinating, very fast. Anyway, speaking of problem solved and stuff, I wanted to tell you guys, obviously I'm not gonna give this person's name because this is private information but somebody we all know very closely heard our episode with Dr. Rand and went over to nphormones.com to get an assessment. So this person's healthy, they work out and I'm friends with them, we talk back and forth all the time and they've been telling me how they just don't feel like they used to and their energy's kind of like whatever and so I said okay and because they do everything, most things right, I said this might be a good option to get assessed, so go there, get assessed. Anyway, he went, this was like two months ago, went, got a full assessment and there were a couple things that they could optimize with through medical means. So he decided because he talked to Dr. Rand, he said you know what, I'm gonna give this a shot and see if it makes a difference in my quality of life. He went through, has done it, this is now week four and he's messaging me and he's like dude, I had no idea, I think my quality of life is so much better than it was before and there's nothing extreme, I'm not gonna go over the specifics, but nothing extreme, they just optimized a few things and this gentleman is in his late fifties and he's like, I feel, he's like my energy for work and- Testosterone's an amazing hormone, dude, it's crazy. It is, it really is, but there's much more to that because they look at your free testosterone, they look at your estrogen, they look at- I know but what they're manipulating is the testosterone though, right? They look at all those other indicators but the thing that they give you is testosterone. Or what they'll do is, let's say, because this has happened to some people, their testosterone's fine, but they have a high degree of it that is bound so it's not free. So in essence, it's like having low testosterone. And then what they do is they go and they try to free up more testosterone through other means. Oh, interesting. So then what you're doing is you're taking that bound testosterone, figuring out- Is that an HCG, is that what you would use for that? No, I think no, Arimidex is one of the things that they'll use but there's some other stuff that they'll work with. I thought Arimidex was just an estrogen blocker, no? It prevents the conversion of testosterone- But it also frees up testosterone? I believe it has an effect there. So again, this is not my, this is way more complex than the way I'm making it sound. But I like hearing that from someone who's already healthy. You know, it's one thing if you're not healthy and your hormones are off and then you go and try and get medical treatment, it's like, well, let's see what you can do now in a healthy way. I think I'm up to 10 family and friends that I've introduced to them already. Really? Yeah, and 100% feedback has been amazing. Yeah. I got an assessment this week with Courtney so we're gonna see how that goes. So that's what I was gonna say. What I'm most interested in is- Women. Yes. How are women- I have two that are women. So eight of them are guys- Especially thyroid and everything else, getting all these hormones balanced too and figuring out the sort of basis of where to go from there is gonna be super helpful. What's interesting about this topic is obviously your lifestyle, so your hormones are a reflection of other things, right? So they can be a reflection of your sleep or your stress or- The car you drive. Huh? Car you drive? Yeah. Actually I have a really funny correlation there. There is, no, there's actually they did some, I was reading this morning, I was reading God Saad, right, I was going through his book and they talked about, and I thought of Saad right away cause he's like, I don't care about a car or a drive, whatever, right? But there is actually a direct connection to like, and they did all the studies with a, they took a big group of men, they had them drive like a Porsche 911 and they had them drive like a beat up Ford Fiesta. Is this like some compensating sort of study? No, it actually in, because, and I imagine it's the confidence that it builds in you when you drive that car and you, especially when you drive in public. So they drove it in like country roads, they drove it in public. Oh wow, I was just gonna ask. So it's not about the fast car when you're driving? Well, no, the fast car automatically, by yourself on country roads, still raises testosterone levels. It raises even more testosterone when you are actually in public areas. And then compared to the Ford Fiesta, like it actually lower testosterone levels. And in addition to that, the opposite sex perceived the same attractive man in a Ford Fiesta versus a Porsche 911 far more attractive in that vehicle. So not only does it increase testosterone in men, it also the opposite. Well, the second part's obvious. Yeah, it was just more not for you there. We've known that since cars were invented. I know. But what's interesting to me is I would love to see if those effects last, or if it's a temporary effect. And then if it goes back down. Oh, I imagine it's a temporary effect, but I imagine it's also compounding too, right? I would think that if you're all getting in that car every single day and you're driving that, it probably maintains your levels relatively higher than the person who's getting in the Ford Fiesta. But I would like to take it away how quickly they drop. Yeah, and I would also like to ask him if like, cause there's cause and effect, but also do men with higher testosterone tend to want to drive, you know, flashier cars or cars that are faster. So, you know. Oh, I imagine that this was a completely different. Yes. But I'm wondering how like what other effect, you know, if there's also the cause and effect from it. That's interesting. I wonder if you, if you had lower testosterone, you would gravitate to wanting to drive that to make you feel naturally better, right? So let's say. That's true. So let's say, take me for example, right? When I went through low testosterone, like, you know, I'm trying to think was I, did I want to go take the Camaro out down Canary Row or down, you know, so I could feel that because that feels good. You drive down there. People are taking pictures of the car and stuff like that. I'm sure that, that made me feel good. I don't recall feeling like that. You know, I don't remember being like, oh, I want to go take my car out. Yeah, testosterone is really reactive. It's a reactive hormone. It's like you can make, like thoughts can make it go up and down, winning a sporting event, make it go up and down. Yeah. You know, speaking in front of, in public can make it go up and down. And what I was saying is early. You can't imagine having high testosterone driving a Prius is impossible. Yeah. Impossible. Unless you, yeah, soup it up or something. Yeah, negative. And what I was saying is that, you know, because your life, your hormones, your reflection of your lifestyle, obviously you want to change your lifestyle to make them optimal. But there's also this other like double-edged sword where there's also a quality of life that's not achieved or that can be achieved by optimizing. So it's like this balancing act, okay? Yes, I can optimize my life to try and perfect my hormone levels. But the fact that they're low is also just decreasing the quality of my quality of life. I don't feel as good. I'm more depressed. Testosterone's for men and women. Boy, is it connected to anxiety, depression, drive. It's a feel-good hormone, you know, whether we like it or not. It's just kind of the way it is. Very interesting. Speaking of testosterone, boy, you guys, you just reminded me of this guy. I think I might've brought this up a long time ago. Bob Mundin. Do you guys know who that was? Have I ever brought him up before? Doug, I sent you- From Mundin, Mundin. I texted you a YouTube video of this guy. And I might've talked about him before. It's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen in my entire life. And this guy was, he's called the fastest draw in the world. So maybe you have brought this over. Oh yeah. Maybe not on the podcast though. So he's- Okay, with his pistol, like he just- Yeah, and nobody's ever matched- Wild West kind of- Nobody's ever matched this guy. Yeah, I think I've seen videos of this guy. And he passed away, I think, like eight years ago. But somebody sent this to me and I forgot all about it. I watched a video. This is an old video. It's not doctored or whatever. I can't believe somebody can move this fast with a, this is a revolver and it's a, you have to cock it back in order to fire. Oh yeah, it's too fast. I've seen this guy before. A serious legend, you know, back in Wild West days. That's true. Doug, if you go to like minute one, like 158, that's when he actually demonstrates the speed at which he shoots his gun. I mean, watch this, watch this- And the accuracy too. Oh, accurate. That's it. Did you catch that? Yeah, I did. That doesn't make any sense. And you'll hit- Has he ever shot his foot going that fast? I mean, and it's again, it's not, what is it, single action. You have to cock up, this is an old school handgun. It's like a simultaneous cocking. I mean, I think this highlights more than he else. It's just how amazing like muscle memory is and stuff like that. He's like, he's repeated that so many times that he has that timing down so perfect. So if you watch- Well, to be accurate and pull that thing. Yeah, and there's videos of this guy where you'll have three or four balloons in front of him. So what you just saw was one shot. You can see him shoot three, four, five times. And it literally looks like they sped it up. I mean, this might sound like a dumb analogy, but you should have your- That wasn't even a good one. You're catching to your son when he plays video games. I mean, that's, and then tried to do what those kids can do now. Yeah, it's crazy what the, if you're watching their fingers and what they're doing and stuff like that and all the, I mean, I remember the evolution of like first player or first shooter games and then like Madden and like, I was right at the like mid-20s and it was starting to play a little less and less video games. And I remember that was what kind of like sealed the deal for me was it just got so crazy complex that you had to put in hours and hours and hours of practice to even be okay. To not get your ass whooped by some 12-year-old online, you had to put in just that because there was so many moving pieces going at once. I peaked it, licensed to kill a 007. That was it. That was it, man. That was my, Max, that was my prime. And then after that, it was just, I can't eat. Yeah, it's just because it requires an unbelievable amount of practice to have that muscle memory. No, you're right because my niece and nephew play on consoles. So like PlayStation and Xbox. My son doesn't like consoles. He uses a PC and it's very different. And so sometimes we'll go, if we visit family and they have a console, my son will play and he's like, I hate this. I need to be on the PC. And vice versa, my niece and nephew don't like to be on the PC because they're so trained for the specific app. And you're right, you watch their fingers move and you're like, what the hell? Yeah, it's what, I mean, you think about it, that's the old West version of that. You know what I'm saying? Like we didn't have that shit back then. It's a three-perpercent skill. It is, it's the same skill. Like when you talk about what's going on with the brain and what's going on with your hand-eye coordination, it's like the same thing. You're not thinking. Yeah, it's completely reactive. Yeah, it's automatic. Yeah, 100%. That's wild. All right, speaking of technology, we got to talk about what's happening right now with the biggest social media giants. What is going on in the world? Yeah, it's been all fucked up the last couple days. It's been down and yeah, people are just leery. I heard whims of even Zuckerberg selling stocks. So I don't know if that's true. What? Yeah. Okay, so there's two things going on. One, they had one of the, I think their first or their biggest worldwide outage. So worldwide, Facebook and Instagram were down. So did it get hacked or is this some kind of like internal issue? I thought I heard you got an issue. I heard that they froze it because they're like being investigated by their... No, they were saying it was something else, I think in general. There's all kinds of things happening right now. Well, I don't know what to believe. It's like bad interest. Well, here's why it was crazy. Well, first off, a company like that being down for that long worldwide costs, I think it cost them $200 and something thousand dollars every second or something ridiculous. It was like some ridiculous amount of money that Facebook was losing. Ooh, you should look that up. That's an interesting, because how much did Facebook lose? That's all I thought about yesterday. All I thought about yesterday was what ads are not being spent on Facebook right now. So how many businesses... Did this really hurt them or did this bring more attention to them again? No, bro. This had to hurt. This had to hurt. Because it also... It had to hurt them and it had to hurt a lot of businesses that use Facebook and Instagram to actually monetize. Well, if you have a seven or eight figure business and it's based off of social media, when it's down for an hour or a day, you're losing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Forget the stock, Doug. Google... That's Google, why are we looking at Google? No, Google, how much money did Facebook lose during the outage? Just look that up right here. Oh, here we go. Six billion in hours. Yeah, that was 100 million and lost online advertising sales and 5% loss of their shares, which was $40 billion from their market value. So, okay, so this... That's so fascinating to me that something like could get that big that like hours of it being shut down from it. You know what it reminds me of? Did you ever read that? Like, I remember there was a thing out for Michael Jordan back when Michael Jordan was like one of the highest paid athletes. And I talked about if... And I've seen the same analogy for Bill Gates, I think, where if a $100 bill fell out of his pocket, that it would be a waste of his time to pick it up. Meaning that he makes more money per second than the three seconds it would cost for him to bend down to pick it up. That's what that makes me think of. They're making so much goddamn money that like you could be shut down for hours in your company with billions of dollars. Do you guys remember that episode of the Chappelle Show, one of the best comedy skits of all time, where he's pretending to be like a super rich rapper? Yeah. And you know how they always look cribs? The Rick James one? No, it was a Cribs one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Cribs one. And you know how they always try to show off how rich they are? So like he goes in to make breakfast and he eats like, it's a pterodactyl egg. Ball and shit, album! Ha ha ha ha! Yes, yes! I just wish I had my... Oh, look at that. Ball! Ha ha ha ha! Because he's so rich. He eats the rare pterodactyl egg omelet. Bitch, bitch! Yeah, that was hilarious. Oh, I love that. Okay, so here's the other thing that's going on with Facebook and Instagram stuff. A whistleblower, quote, came out and said this woman worked for Facebook. Yeah, that's okay. That's what I read. They were sharing the data and stuff, right? No, what she was saying is that Facebook knows and knew internally, so their internal memos and internal studies that they're aware of. So this is their own internal dialogue where they know the damage that social media can create. So they know that it creates polarization, that it favors hateful or mean content, and that Instagram in particular is damaging to teenage girls. Yet, they continue to do business as usual anyway and they kind of disregard that and just keep pushing forward. So this whistleblower's coming out saying they know the damage that they're doing but they're keep running their business as usual. Yeah, but how is that any different than alcohol, cigarettes? Thank you. I mean, how is that any different than anything else that harms a lot of fucking people and they continue to do business? Well, so here's what I... Until it gets slapped. And I had this conversation with some of my friends who are like, oh, Facebook and Instagram need to be regulated. This is terrible. They knew it. Yeah, I know. By the way, these are the same guys that complained about the corruption of the FDA. He just opt out. And the SEC. Okay, so here's what I think people need to do is that they need to pull the curtain back a little bit. What we're witnessing right now is the buildup to... This is what I think. This is my opinion. I think I'm right. The buildup to legislation for heavy regulation or an agency that is gonna be created specifically to monitor and regulate social media. Oh, I see that. That's a good call. And the way that they do it is they drum up public support usually by angering and then people and then making people scared. I like this prediction. And this is part of it. Now, what I'm not saying is that social media is great and that Facebook is this virtuous company. No, no, no, I don't think any of that. I think they're bad. But I think it could be much worse. And one of the ways you can make it much worse is by putting a federal government agency in control of the social credit system that inevitably we're moving towards because it just looks like our government is antsy-pantsy to having access to all. They want it because it's powerful. Yeah, well, I think it's less of that even. I think it's just purely a money thing. We just said the numbers of what a few hours of this company makes. Imagine how easy it would be to get a fraction of that money from them by providing a service that is put in place like you're saying that is just there to regulate them. I mean, it could create thousands of jobs and millions and billions of dollars for the government. I mean, it's kind of a no-brainer, is demonize the fuck out of them, make them seem to get the public scared that, oh my God, we need to put some regulations in place. Or backdoor the government into the company. Well, so always pay attention when both sides of the aisle agree on something. That's the scariest time. That's when it's scary because first you had, I remember there were several, they brought legislation forward several times now to regulate the internet, regulate social media and it's gotten defeated because the public didn't support it. But little by little, the public is starting to support it. First it starts with the Democrat saying it's because of social media that Donald Trump won in 2016 and they're causing all this hate and blah, blah, blah. Then it's the Republican saying, you guys are censoring us. You're controlling information. You're obviously, there's a liberal, they'll say bias. Then the liberals come out, the Democrats come out and say because of you, people storm the Capitol. And so what they're doing is they're pissing everybody off. They're pissing both sides off. Now they're bringing forth this person that's saying, hey, our company knows that it can cause damage. They continue to do business as usual. By the way, this is most big corporations that sell a product or whatever. Yeah, are we gonna stop like that? Meanwhile, nobody doesn't want it to stop because they know what a powerful tool it is for their purposes, so they're just wedging it against whatever everybody else is gonna get angry about so that that way they can, it's a brilliant call. Yeah, 100% agree. However bad it is now, it could be much worse. That's all I'm saying. And it will get much worse. If we put government regulators, if they go in and they start to control it, you better believe that public, that government policy will make its way through social media and they'll use it because it's powerful. It's powerful marketing. It's the most powerful marketing we've ever seen. So as bad as it is, it'll get much worse. So what? Yeah, so I have to bring this up and it's a bit on the conspiratorial side, okay? I have to do it. I have to do it, you guys. I've been sitting on this. Somebody sent me this and it's just a patent that's real. So if you go look into it, you'll be able to find it. It's patent WO-2020-06-06-06. And this is a Microsoft technology right now, which is, I mean, that should say a lot right there. Yeah, so the patent's cryptocurrency system using body activity data. What is that? Whoa, huh? Yeah, so let's speculate about what that might entail in terms of- Wait, say that again. It's cryptocurrency. So getting some kind of cryptocurrency being able to use that for body tracking data somehow. What the fuck? Yeah, so like Microsoft is apparently, you know, working on this. So I don't understand, how does that work? Yeah, I don't either. Yeah. I'm trying, I'm trying. So let's think, okay, who's got a conspiracy right here? Like they have, you want to start a conspiracy, right? He's like, he's found this patent and I think I'm going to start a conspiracy right now. Why would they want to track your body activity and why are they going to tie that into cryptocurrency? Like what kind of like, you know, sort of a connection is there in terms of like paying of, like how are they going to use that, I guess is more- Well, you tax, like people have theorized that we're going to get taxed for like our carbon usage and stuff like that. So imagine if you had some sort of a tracking system that tracks how much carbon I use every single day. Some social credit system, like you trap- Okay, go ahead. And I'm automatically taxed with this Bitcoin. So it says, oh, you today, sir, used 400 units of carbon, therefore you owe seven bitcoins or whatever, you know, like maybe that's, I mean, that's, I don't, that's a carbon tax. Yeah, I mean, no, I really think that that's, I mean, cause the big scare is climate change next. Once we calm down with COVID and shit like that. And the next thing is to get back on the climate change, freaking everybody out in carbon and how are we going to slow everybody down? And I do believe that we're going to move in that direction where we'll get, we're going to get taxed for what we use. They already talking about taxing you in California for how many miles you drive, regardless of the car. Yeah. And so if you just drive X amount of miles, you'll get taxed for every single mile. Yeah, I'm wondering if it's some kind of deterrent for getting you to move around to be more mobile, like, or if it's, see, I didn't know if it was that or if it's like more of some kind of incentive where you're, you know, if it's fitness related somehow, like you're moving, you're like, yeah. Yeah, right. Like you get some kind of like, yeah. Use that as some credit system so you can actually like a cure more like Bitcoin from it or something. What did I say, Doug? What's that? What do you got, Doug? Honestly, I don't know. I mean, I have a diagram here. I think Andrew can put up on the screen. People can try to figure it out. I could read the whole thing, but I don't really know what it says. No, you know what? Yeah, I had no idea. It was just like somebody sent this to me and I'm like trying to figure it out. I thought maybe you guys had some ideas. I like my idea. No, you guys don't like that. I do, but let's crowd sources. So let's, we'll post this up. Oh yeah, our audience will be on top of that. We definitely have enough conspiracy people. Yes, and I want the best. Get your tinfoil hats on. We'll pick the best theory. How about that? I like that. We'll pick the best theory, crowd sources. Remind, you know what? Andrew, we'll actually, we'll put this on the main IG. So I'm very curious about this. And I know we have some, somebody who's like, oh, we got some smart ass listeners. So when this goes live, we'll also put it up on the main IG so we can start to capture some of these. Speaking of climate change, by the way, if you're at any, if you want objective science or truth or whatever behind this, just research the latest nuclear energy technology. Just look into it because if they really cared about climate change, this is what they would be pushing. They would be pushing the newest technology for nuclear energy. In terms of the cleanest way to do it, the most cost effective. It's so clean. It's ridiculous. It creates so much energy. It's ridiculous. And literally, literally that right now could solve most of these issues. But nobody's talking about it because they don't want a solution. They want a wedge and they want to push, either side wants to push their legislation. I started your foundation show last night. It was good. Yeah, do you like it? Yeah, I only went one episode through, but it was enough to, you know, when I watched it the first time, it was even better. Really? Second episode. Yeah, it started to hook me in towards the back and it helped that you told me a little more about the story. Cause I was, and maybe that's what it was. I was so confused at the son or the, you know, he's the Empire. Yeah, that he's three people in one type of deal. Are you giving away like No, no, no, this isn't it. No, you probably need to know this actually to watch it. Because I think that's what lost me. I'm like, I don't understand this kid. It's really interesting concept because it's like the most narcissistic like setup you possibly could have, right? So it's like your bloodline. It's basically a monarchy, but it's just you, right? And so basically you're the one that is the Empire of the entire universe. And you repeat. So you see yourself being born again. Your older self is part of your council. Your younger self is, you're teaching your younger self how to become an Empire. It's kind of fascinating. But I did not understand it the first time I started to watch it because I was distracted. And then I was like, I stopped. I'm like, I don't know what's going on. It sounds like a cannabis show. But Justin kind of explained to me what was going on. I'm like, oh, okay. Now it makes more sense. And it is a lot more interesting. And now I'm like, okay. Now I'm intrigued by like this whole idea. Dude, speaking of cannabis, I got a hilarious story. So, you know, my kids don't listen to the show. So, and they will one day. Surprise, surprise. So Jessica and I the other night were hanging out and the kids are in the room, right? Doing their thing, you know, the baby's asleep and we're like, hey, let's let's let's share a joint. You know, let's hang out and share a joint, right? So I'm like, let's go outside. You know, I have a 12 year old and a 16 year old. Like, you know, let's just go outside. So the smell stays. She's like, no, it'll be fine. We'll go in the bathroom, roll up on the window. I'm like, all right, let's do that. Oh, buddy, how funny the circle of life, right? I feel like you're hiding in the bathroom. You gotta be for breeze. Exactly. I've done that. Like when I was a teenager, like trying to hide, right? Same thing, right? So we're in there. We're doing the thing hanging out. And then my, my daughter texts us, oh, but boss, I smell a bunch of smoke. What's going on? And then my son gets on there. Yeah, it's really strong. It's something's burning now. Now, because, And you're paranoid doing it. Because, exactly. Oh no. Because we're paranoid. Jessica replies on accident. She just replies, oh fuck. I had to the group text with my team. She'd be like, oh my God. Oh no, what do we do? So I like go outside, go out there. And I'm pretending like I'm looking for the, I don't know. Where's this coming from? I go outside. Oh, it smells like someone was smoking outside. I think we're okay. Cause when she said, oh fuck, it only scared my kids. Like, oh, is there a fire? Yeah. Now the good news is, here's the good news. My kids have no idea what weed smells like. You think that? I just think I don't believe that. I don't believe your high school son, just not a kid knows. He's like, it's like, it's skunky, you know. Yeah, there's no, you're in the Santa Cruz. So it's probably, it's like mandatory kids know. I actually taught him like, he smells weed over here. Yeah, I was gonna say, they probably see the plants. No, 100% my son would have said, oh, I smells like weed. Really? Yeah, but he doesn't know. Obviously they don't know. So part of me was kind of like, cool. I don't know, dude, your son's really smart. He seems, you know what, he's so smart. And this is where I think you're naive, because he is literally you. And you would not lead on to your parents that you knew. You would play them. Because you don't want them to know. That's right. Yeah, how could you not see that with your son? I think so. I just couldn't thank you, right? It's the son not him. I totally agree. And is he not? I mean, dude, your son is so smart that when Jess couldn't him to have a disagreement, the little fucker writes a fucking letter to her. Like, and like, just I've seen him, they're like, perfect. He knows what he's doing. He's not, he's not your average teenage boy, dude. And so if you think- You've been played. Yeah, you're getting played, dude, right now. You went outside, he probably grabbed a few stash. Yeah, he's probably token it at the same time. No, no, no. Dad's smoking right now, so I heard that. There's some smell outside. He's all, hey, he's all, it's weird. It smells like Girl Scout cook. I mean, smoke. It smells like smoke. It smells like OG Kush. I had a similar theme, but it was completely a different issue, right? So like me and Courtney were having sex and you know, it was like getting into it, whatever. And things were moving, the beds moving, slam against the wall. So we woke everybody up and like, I literally just like had to just cover myself and then address it in like, I put the blankets on and I'm like, everything's cool, we're fine. Nothing's right. I heard somebody's knocking on the walls, Dad. Everybody's like paranoid and you know, scared because we're in this new place and like it's still kind of like there's unrest. I just pictured Justin how violent he is. Dude, there's no violence. It's just like no way you can plan off either. You know what I'm saying? Are you sure you guys are like, yes, Dad. Like my picture frames were falling off my bedroom. Yeah. I just know how Justin is. I just know how Justin is when he's working out. I'm just like, oh my God. Not the same, dude. That quote's pretty good. I'll let you, how you do anything is how you do everything, man. I feel like, yeah. It's with perfection. How you work out and eat is any indication at all. By the way, how did, is Courtney's a hip surgery schedule? Yeah, she's recovering right now. Yeah, that's the worst. It's like you go through a period as a kid where you have to be quiet and then you're an adult and you don't have kids. You're like, I can fucking do whatever I want. And then you have your own kids. You're like, oh, it's back to where it was before. I got to hide everything. I mean, I'm already like, I mean, I'm really careful now because originally I think I told the audience that I was going to try and not smoke, which that was a terrible idea. And I, I was doing the last one. Yeah, I just don't, you know, and I've been doing the edible thing because ever since COVID, I haven't been the same. But I just don't, I know you guys like the edibles. It just, it's such a different feeling to me. It's different. I don't like how long it takes to hit. I hate how long it lasts. Like I just prefer something that I can control and it's a shorter window. It's a different form of THC. Your liver converts it to a different form. Yeah, I mean, it's obvious. It's very obvious to me. It's not the same feel. And it's not to say that like the right setting, like if we're doing something, all of us, and we're like, I had been a funny move or playing cards or something like, Hey, let's all get an edible and have fun. Like, but for myself, for the reasons that I use it at night to kind of like say it's my glass of wine, right? It's like literally a couple just for I feel myself calm down and the edible just does not do that. See, I'm the opposite. I can get paranoid when I smoke. Yes, I can smoke a little bit, but it's got to be mild. And unfortunately, every strain now at the dispenser is like 17 or 18% minimum. So I have to like search and find something that's like 9%. And then also if I'm gonna get paranoid, it's usually with smoke. Now I can definitely get paranoid with edible, but it's easy to control because I can see the dose. So I like a low dose of THC if I do use it. And it's just a very mild, you know, uplifting kind of feeling. My cousin brought me over these things. You know, it's so cool to watch the evolution of it because now it's like in the open, legal, a bunch of places. And so how, you know, the response from consumers and what they want and like, I've always wanted this and no one's ever made it until now. They have, because I've told you guys, right? So like Katrina will roll me a joint. Well, that same joint will last me all week long, but it's not as fresh when it's like that, right? But it's, I only take a couple of hits off of it so it lasts the whole week. So they actually make these little, these little tiny, like literally like, I don't know, six hitters or whatever. Oh yeah, that's what I use. Oh, you have little joints like that? Yeah, I'd never seen those before. Yeah, the filters on them and everything. You know, tiny mini cone joints. They have these containers that you vacuum seal. So you could put your joint in there and then you pump all the air out and it'll keep it. You can keep it without it being all stinky. Yeah, it'll keep it fresher. Wow, I'm so disconnected from the space. It's crazy. I mean, I always knew like everything that was like on the front end, I just don't go to these clubs or anything. So I've been so removed that I don't see any of this stuff. Oh dude, speaking of space, are you guys watching this new arms race that's happening between the US and Russia? No, no. These hypersonic missiles. Oh, the hypersonic missiles, yeah. Hypersonic missiles that we're launching. I don't know, it's becoming like another arms race. They're unstoppable missiles, they're so fast. Yeah, so like, we're talking like 30, 40 times the speed of sound that these missiles are going. So the US just, I guess, showed that we have one that I think goes like 30 times the speed of sound and it uses the air around it and compresses it and uses it as a propellant. But think about that, 30 times the speed of sound for a missile, you basically can't do anything. In the heck? Isn't that wild? Yeah, you're creating like a meteor. Yeah. Like what happens that slams into the earth? Like how big is that explosion? Well, there's also, and I don't, we don't know if they already have this or not. This is something that they've talked about for a while where they could put tungsten steel rods. So tungsten steel is extremely dense, extremely hard, extremely heavy. And you launch them from space, so from a satellite and there's no warhead on it. So there's no explosive or nothing, but because it's- There's two rods coming out of it. Just one rod, one big heavy rod. Because it's traveling so fast, and because it's so heavy, the kinetic energy alone is like a small nuke. Yeah, wow. So you could fire it from space and it's cheap because there's no propellant, no nothing, they call it- Yeah, it's pretty alarming stuff. They call it rods from God. Oh yeah. Wow. How airs it rod from God? I like how they call it God, like God, you know, rod from Satan, I guess. Yeah, that's right. But if that hits, it explodes with force, that's just absolutely insane. How many billions of dollars has gone into making all this stuff? And what's in space exploration originally supposed to bring us all together? No. Like we're all hanging out, you know, in these space stations. No, now it's like, you know, how many of these satellites can I smash up here and like, you know, develop these crazy ass weapons that could destroy us all? They said that because they got a lot of tax money going to it, but it was always about arms and weapons. I mean, that's what it always ends up being, right? That's 100% what it's all about. All right, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna take a more positive turn. So we're all gonna die. I've been using, did I tell you guys I've been using Caldera on my son? No. Did I tell you guys? No, no. I've heard like some people report using on their hands and having like incredible results. Well, so Adam was the first one to say that it helps the psoriasis. Then because of that, we've gotten all these messages from people who have skin conditions. I get them a lot. I actually don't even talk about it all the time. And they say it really helps. Now it's not a medical product. So you'd have to test it yourself to see if it works. But that, by the way, that one picture that we shared was 10 days, not 10 weeks. 10 days. 10 days that guy's hands went from the way they looked in the before to after of using it. So my son has a slight intolerance to eggs. And I think I told you guys, the doctor encouraged us to give him a tiny bit every single day, just to keep his immune system from becoming hyperactive. But because of this, and we think it's because of this, he gets a little bit of dry skin, like in the crease of his ear, and it'll itch and he'll like scratch it and stuff. And so at first I was like, maybe I should put some Vaseline on it to keep it moist. Great idea to put that. I did, I started using Caldera. And it's been, I've been using it now for a week and I see improvement. Oh yeah. That shit's amazing, dude. It is. It really is amazing. I use it more now than the cream that I was prescribed. It just, because it's all natural and I feel like it actually works as good as like the steroid cream that they've given me. Yeah, and right, steroids have all kinds of stuff. Yeah, yeah. So I'm always trying not to use that. I only use the steroid cream when it's like really, really bad for me, but which by the way, it's wild to me that the after COVID, like my psoriasis was so bad. And it still hasn't like completely resolved or got back to where it was before. So I've been reading about, there's more and more studies now along COVID and its effects. So here's what they say. Initially when you get COVID, the virus is active in your body, in your system. But then the virus is gone and what's left over are fragments that cause this immune reaction in the body. And then that's what causes a lot of problems. Is your own immune system. That's why they say some of these treatments for COVID that they're testing have to be done in the beginning because after the virus is already gone, now at that point, it's not going to do anything to attack the actual virus. You have to then control your own immune system. So really, so because your immune system became hyperactive and because psoriasis is a kind of autoimmune issue, makes perfect sense. Yeah, it's very obvious too, because when I, one of the things that actually helps the psoriasis more than anything, it's like, if I do fast, or if I do like a, you know, like a fasting mimicking diet or I'm like 500 cal like really, really low. And because we were sick and not feeling good, nothing tastes good. Everything was bland. I was super low calorie for a long period of time. And even when I came out and was like my taste came back, I still didn't have much of an appetite. So I was really, really low calorie diet was good. What I was, the foods that I was eating and my psoriasis was just off the chain. It was like I was eating ice cream and candy every day and eating burgers and G like, like I was totally doing all the worst things I could do. That's how bad it was. It was worse than what it was when my diet is completely to shit. That's how much it affected. Interesting. Yeah, my autoimmune stuff. Interesting. Isn't that strange how so many people have such different reactions? I do feel like my long capacity is getting better, but it does still feel off. But I think a lot of that too is just because because it's been affected, I haven't done a lot. I haven't pushed myself cardiovascular either. So there's a little bit of that too, right? So I think I'm just kind of out of it. It's not feeling like it was before where I felt the pressure so much. I think now I'm just deconditioned because I haven't been doing it. Now the fatigue is getting better? Yeah, the fatigue's definitely, that's gone. I don't have that anymore. That lasted for a while. I'm almost a month after COVID where, yeah, I would just, if I had like a semi-active day. Dude, you know what's funny is that Adam was the most blasé about COVID, right? Like, whatever, ah. Now that he's had it. I was like, I want it, give it to me. Now that he's had it and he lasted for so long, we had an employee call in and say, oh, I got exposed to COVID, I can't come in. And Adam's like, when was the last time we saw him? Who did he see the guy? Why are you worried, bro? Oh, you don't want that again, do you? No, no, now you're gonna get everybody DMing me again. No, by the way, we were not exposed. The guy was exposed outside of work before we saw him. I mean, after we already saw him. You said that you know people that have actually got it twice. See, I don't know anybody yet at the house, so I know people that speculate, but I don't know anybody that's been tested twice. But was it the same variant? No, it was a different variant. Unlikely, it was two different variants. But I also have a friend that, oh, we know this person, I don't wanna say their name because I don't know if they want us to say it. They got COVID, tested positive, recovered from it, went and got tested for antibodies and has none. Oh, yeah. Some people... Yeah, that's annoying. Some people don't develop antibodies after having it, or even with the vaccine, won't develop antibodies. Really weird. Now is there a possible error in that that they just... I was gonna say, is that possible too, though, that they have them and they don't... They only test a certain type of antibody. Yeah, they might not be, yeah. There's also like ski cell memory that's different they don't test for. By the way, I'm gonna go get tested for antibodies just to see... Nice. Where are you gonna do that? LabCorp? LabCorp. Oh, okay. Yeah, you just go and they'll test your antibodies. Tell me when you do it, maybe. I'm curious. Me too. Me too, I wanna see where I'm at. Which one of our friends, was it Paul Saladino or someone who's been doing that? One of our friends that got it, he's been testing his antibodies and seeing how long he lasts. I can't remember who it was. I thought it was Paul. Yeah, no idea. You know, he got completely wiped out. Did you see that? His Instagram, they never gave it back to him. I know. He's been rebuilding it. Wow. He was, I don't remember where... Dude, I... He was talking too much about codes. Yeah, I called it. Quarter of a million or half million. I called it. The second social media started acting like an editor. That's when they opened themselves up to all this. Now they're gonna be hated. What they could have done is they could have acted like the phone company where they're like, put up whatever. You guys regulate it yourself. The users can mark it if they want to, decide what they wanna watch, what they don't wanna watch. But once they started to edit, now they're, and I knew it, they're gonna get regulated at some point. They're gonna make a case for it. Isn't it already kind of regulated in the US different than it is in other countries? Like I... They're protected like phone companies are currently. But because now there's a case that they shouldn't be, like a phone company like AT&T, you and I get on a call together and plan a bank robbery. AT&T cannot be held accountable. But if AT&T is editing calls and allowing someone, not others, now you can be held liable. So the social media companies are currently being regulated like phone companies. However, because they're editing obviously, that's opening them up to potential regulation or at least making the case. And that's what they're trying to do so. Hey, I hope you're enjoying the show. Head over to one of our partners, Serenity Kids. Now they make food for babies and for kids that is extremely healthy. I'm talking about grass-fed meats, grain-free puffs, products that have bone broth, good protein and fat content, all health. It's literally the healthiest baby food in kids' food that I've seen anywhere. It's the only product, process product or package product that I give my 11 month old son. And right now they have pumpkin spice puffs. These are grain-free and they're infused with bone broth that you can give your baby. It dissolves in their mouth so it's really fun and safe to feed them as a little snack. Go check them out. Head over to myserenitykids.com and then use the code MP20 for 20% off your order. All right, here's the rest of the show. First question is from Nicholas Costa, 3517. Does cardio kill muscle games? Okay, we gotta clear this up. Kill. We still get this and I believe that a lot of the pro and anti-cardio rhetoric that's happening now in the fitness space is maybe kind of connected to how we talk about it. So first off, I wanna be very clear. There's health benefits to any form of activity so long that it's applied appropriately. Now, depending on your goal, you can apply some forms of activity in ways that might be counter to your goal or in ways that will be pro your goal. So cardio can be either pro muscle gain or anti-muscle gain. Here's where it can be pro muscle gain. Does it improve your health and does it improve your capacity to do resistance training? So let's say all you ever do is lift weights and you do heavy sets and low reps and that's how you like to train and your stamina is really preventing you from training in ways where you can increase your work capacity to give the kind of volume that maybe your body would need to propel you any further. In that sense, some cardio will help you. It definitely will. Doing some cardio, improve your capacity, your work capacity can help you build more muscle. Now, how can it hurt when you're sending competing signals? When I'm training for lots and lots of endurance and I'm training for lots and lots of strength and muscle, well, now I'm gonna get a little of both and not a lot of either. That's when it can kill. And our big problem really is when number one goal people have with working out is to get leaner, right? Body composition changes is the number one goal. And the problem is when people make cardio, the cornerstone of their routine for fat loss. It's just the terrible strategy. That's the thing that we tend to talk about. That's all it is. That's the period. That's it. When I think back to all the clients that I train that were coming in for fat loss, their strategy with cardio was terrible. And it doesn't mean that we never did cardio. It just means that when they first got back into the routine, because there's this idea of, okay, if I want to lose, I don't know anybody. If you were to take a room of 10 people that are not fitness fanatics, like people that probably listened to our show, and say, hey, if you needed to lose weight, okay, you need to lose 20 pounds as fast as you can, what would you do? And they would say, oh, well, I would stop eating this or I'd stop doing this or cut my calories. They know they've reduced their calories and they'd say, and I would do cardio, literally. I guarantee that 99% of them would say that. And the truth is that is a terrible strategy for almost anybody who's getting started on their fat loss journey. I am not speaking to somebody who's consistent and been working out for 10 years and doesn't miss and hits their protein intake and has a healthy amount of calories they're consuming, 2,500 to 3,000 a day and they're in a great place. And I'm saying, don't do cardio. No, I'm not talking to that person. I'm talking to the majority of people that are coming in that are looking for fat loss. Starting off with cardio is a terrible strategy. And I'll take it even further. You take that group of people and we can even make it a little bit more complex and say, here's three different or four different forms of exercise. Rank them in order in terms of which one's gonna help you burn body fat the most. Lifting weights or resistance training, most people would rank at the bottom. The truth is it's at the top. It speeds up your metabolism and it results in pure fat loss, not muscle loss. And it gives you better long-term results. That's it. There is no demonizing cardio here. It's just, people tend to use it wrong. They tend to use the wrong tool for the goal that they have. But now the question is, does it kill muscle gains? Well, if the cardio signal that you're sending is out competing the muscle building signal, then yes, it will. But if your number one goal is to build muscle and you do cardio in a way to augment that, now what does that look like? For me, it looks like higher rep sets, super sets, pushing the sled, maybe even some sprints here and there. That would help augment or accelerate or at least amplify how my workouts are in terms of muscle building. That's what that would look like. But if I'm doing long-distance running and cycling and combination- Well, I think there's a difference there when you look at the different types of cardio that you're introducing. And I do subscribe to that work capacity increase of really fueling into new muscle gains if you're seriously stuck in that low rep range and you don't have the sort of endurance to get through high reps. But working through those sets with higher reps, specifically too, that's gonna build up your endurance and have that effect, which in a sense is a cardiovascular experience. It's just not like the traditional sense that people attribute it towards. So in terms of just staying overall healthy and including movement and activity in your day, that's at the utmost priority. But how you structure that does make a massive difference in how your physique is. People just think it's a faster way to get to their results and it's not. That's just a mistake. It's not a faster way to get leaner. It's not, and especially if you don't have everything dialed in nutritionally, like if you're not feeding the body adequate calories and macros that it needs, and then in addition to that, you're also pushing excessively on cardio, you're not gonna build muscle. You're definitely not gonna build muscle that way and you're gonna initially lose some fat, but eventually we'll hit a plateau and then you're in a really shitty place. You're super low calorie, you're moving like crazy and your body's not changing anymore. Now to be clear, the perfect, and of course this is different from person to person, but generally speaking, the perfect routine for overall health and wellness and quality of life has a strength building and muscle building component, a cardiovascular component and a mobility flexibility component. Now this isn't, but also of course you wanna have a spiritual component and you wanna have good sleep and all that stuff, but in terms of working out, those three components would be part of a routine for overall health and longevity and that's just the bottom line. Now, there's individual variances and you could value muscle and strength more than mobility and flexibility or more than the cardio or vice versa, that of course you wanna take into account, but yeah, this label that we may be anti-cardio, we're not, we're anti-doing things the wrong way for whatever your goal is and that's what we're always gonna talk about. Next question is from Chris FTW-8. Besides saving time, what are the benefits of supersets? Oh man, strength endurance. Strength endurance is the main one. So there's low rep strength, maximal strength and there's strength endurance. Bodybuilders tend to have this. You get a power lifter and a bodybuilder working out together and when it comes to the heavy weight, the bodybuilders, excuse me, the power lifter's gonna outperform them typically. Once they get into sets and reps and then you'll see the bodybuilders start to outperform because of the strength endurance. The pump is another one. I love the pump. The supersets really amplify that. That's one of my favorite effects. That's a really weird one for me because I didn't realize, like I remember working out with Adam even when I was just doing my normal sort of strength routine that was like low reps and then doing these supersets so just this feeling of almost engorge, like tightness. Like I couldn't keep going because the pump was so intense because it wasn't something I ever focused on to where it actually limited any more reps that I could do and that just like blew my mind. It was my strategy to level the playing field. Yeah, exactly. No, I mean, this is actually some of the other benefits of this is the last question. This is another great way for you to build some cardiovascular endurance. It's not going to compete with marathon running if you're trying to get cardiovascular endurance, but this is one of the ways that you can get some of that. That's what's beautiful about weight training is that you can do things like supersets and trisets and shorten the rest periods and watch how your heart starts beating. And I mean, that's how you strengthen your heart. So there's ways that you can get cardiovascular benefits through strength training. The opposite is not true. Yeah, now another benefit of supersets is to focus on a muscle that you may not necessarily be connecting to well in compound movements. For example, maybe you do barbell rows and you feel it more in your arms than you do in your back. One way you can do a superset is you can do an isolation movement for your lats and then move to the barbell rows. It's called a pre-exhaust. It allows you to feel that muscle more, right? You could do this for chest too, like flies before a press or maybe your glutes on a squat. You could do a hip thrust right before a squat or you could do it for your quads, a sissy squat or a leg extension before a squat. So you could also do this. Another way you could do a superset is to just in terms of increasing the value or I should say the quality of the workout experience, right? So let's not, let's all not discredit the experience of the workout. We all love certain feelings. There's definitely value in that, whether it benefits your physical body or not. There's certain things I do just because I love the way they feel. I love supersetting opposing muscle groups. There is no better feeling than having your chest and your back pumped at the same time or your biceps and your triceps pumped at the same time. So I like to do that sometimes where I'll do a superset chest and back exercise or a bicep and tricep exercise just for the experience, improving the quality of the experience. Next question is from Claymation14. How important is it to follow a program? Can you just improvise your sessions and do more instinctive training and still see progress? What's that saying, know thyself, right, was that quote, right? You got to know yourself a little bit before you can decide this. Like, and most people fall in this category, you're going to tend to do the stuff that you like, you're going to tend- You're gonna trick yourself. Yeah, you're gonna avoid the stuff that you don't like. I think we're guilty of this. Even with all of our experience, knowledge, and the points you're about to make, I think that it's just human nature to do that. And so you've got to be really self aware that you're probably doing these things. And I mean, and I know that, I train intuitively, but I know that every time I follow a program, strictly I always benefit from it because- It's written down, you gotta do it. Yeah, even as well, even though I know I have these tendencies and I try and be aware and change and it still doesn't matter when I follow a program, I always get better results. Yeah, so what I like to do for myself is because I've trained so long, so there's an instinctive or intuitive component that I like to implement. But knowing myself, there's certain things that I tend to avoid, like high rep, lower body work in particular, or mobility work. And so then what I'll do with my program is I'll write those aspects in. So it'll be open in terms of what I can do within the workout, but I'll say to myself, for the next six weeks or five weeks, I'm not going any lower than 15 reps for lower body. That way, that's the part of the program that I'll write for myself. Now, what I do in the program, what exercise I choose, that's totally free. But that's the component I'll write down because that's the component for me at least that I screw up on. I also think it's important to decipher whether you are training or exercising because if you're exercising, this is fine. If, because the difference between training and exercise, training is you're training towards a goal. I want to lose weight, I want to build muscle, I want to get faster, jump higher, you have a specific goal, you're training. You're not going to beat that with by the person who's following a program. You're always going to do better if you follow a program. But if your goal is just to be healthy and you choose strength training as your main mode to stay healthy and exercise, there's nothing wrong with this. It's intuitively trained because it doesn't matter if you don't progress a little bit more in muscle or strength one week or not, you're still getting tons of benefits just from the exercise. So it really does matter what your goal is here. If you're trying to get to a destination, training program, 100%. If you are just exercising, then this is totally fine. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what I was gonna bring up in terms of being in sort of a maintenance phase or yeah, you're just focusing on your own health and listening to your body and what your body needs are. I think there's a definite good place for like training intuitively. And it's something that I operate more of these days than I have in the past, but also I know that I need to also implement a good program at some point in order to push me a bit and to get me outside of my comfort zone because you do get into those patterns and it just becomes one of those things where now I'm just kind of spinning my tires. Nothing's really happening. I need to get outside of that by really being more structured. Yeah, I'd say most people benefit from a structured program. I would say all. But if you've been working out for a long time on your own and you've been consistent. And when I say long time, that means years. Not like, oh, six months I've been consistent. You're looking at two, three, four years at least. That's when you can start to really figure yourself out, know your body and be more intuitive. But even then you'll benefit from having some structure. Yeah, I mean, would you deny? I mean, you're the most experienced person in this room when it comes to weightlifting and just as most knowledgeable about it. No, I just said, I do that for myself. Otherwise I start to gravitate towards, you know, avoiding the shit that I don't like. Yeah, but there's nothing wrong again with the intuitive. I mean, if you're not trying to make major moves and you're training because you do it for the mental health and you want to feel good and you know it strengthens your heart and it keeps you fit, like there's nothing wrong. In fact, I mean, that's where I'm at right now, right? Like I just got done saying how much I benefit from following a program. Yet I'm not following a program. I'm more like intuitive trainer now. But I also don't have major goals right now. I'm not trying to add a bunch of muscle, burn a bunch of body fat. I'm just trying to kind of maintain. Next question is from Jenny Chapman, 356. Can you speak to how fitness isn't selfish? As a mom, I really struggle with this. It's a big challenge for parents, especially moms. It can be though. Okay, depends how you use fitness. Are you using it to escape? Or are you using it to improve yourself and make you... And include others. Right, and better at what you do. So you know that saying you can't pour from an empty cup. If you're unhealthy, if you're not fit, you are not gonna be as effective as a mom or as an employee or as a partner because, I mean, look, if you feel like crap, you're just not as good at handling bad and stressful situations. You're probably more likely to self-medicate with other things. You're not gonna be your best self. The best version of yourself. If fit and healthy you is the best everything else that you could possibly do because you're fit and healthy. It doesn't guarantee that. It just means you're in a position to be even better at those things. But if you work out to avoid and escape, if you're like, oh, sorry, I gotta go work out again. Sorry, I gotta work out again. Because you don't wanna be around your husband or you don't wanna deal with your kids. And I get there's a natural component to this, by the way. A little bit of that is totally normal. Like we all do this where we're like, I gotta get out of the house for a second. I get that. But if it's this chronic thing, then yeah, I could definitely become selfish. But again, if you're doing it to make yourself healthier, it's an investment in everything. Like I don't wanna partner who doesn't take care of their health because I know how much worse that's gonna make everything else. It just is, it's a fact. So fitness done right in a healthy way is not selfish. It's all the mentality going into it and the psychology behind it. Like if you're in it to better yourself and to improve and to grow and to make sure that you have that kind of energy and stamina to play with your kids and to be chipper and lively around your family and friends, like it benefits all those things, but there's a structure behind that that you need to consider. And it can get to a point where we focus on the wrong things where like, it's all body focused or it's all like the aesthetics and it's all just like, I'm not getting this and I hate my body because it feels flabby here. And it becomes this like obsession. And that's something that can happen. And so you could see how that would become like a selfish endeavor once we start focusing on those things versus like how to really improve all the other aspects. I mean, I think when you look at the social media landscape, I would actually make the case that a majority of the people fitness influence each other are actually selfishly motivated. So although I think it's important, I want to part. It's insecurity driven, isn't it? That's right. So I think what you have to be very aware on if it's, because we talked about that study or the right that where you could take a whole week off straight in your training routine and get just as good of results as the person who trains every single day. So if there is this, oh, I've built this routine, I never miss, I go five days a week and at this time and you have that and your wife or your husband tells you like, hey, honey, I want to talk to you, have dinner, some things have been on my mind, this and that. Oh, that's, can you do another time? Because this is my time of working out. Your kid has a baseball game. That's right. If you start making these decisions that sacrifice other parts of health in pursuit of what you call your health goals with fitness but it's really driven because of your insecurities about your body, it can be very selfish. And I mean, I saw this in competing. I think that was competing was one of the most selfish things that I ever done in my life. My whole life revolved around my food choices, my training times, my sleep and I made everybody else around me adapt. So that's very selfish. So I think there's definitely a balance here but I also think it can be very unselfish to not take care of yourself. So not taking care of yourself can be very selfish in comparison to being there for your partner. You already said it Sal that when you are healthy you're a better husband, you're a better father, you're just a better person, a better employee, a better boss, so it can be very selfish to not. So there's this fine dance between the two of them. Yeah, I know for me, this is just something I'm more aware of now more than ever. The mental benefit for me is probably the most important. I think I am and because I've been exercising for so long consistently, I've done a really good job of treating myself naturally for things like anxiety and depression, which I think I might be prone to. I think this is something that might actually might have issues to these ups and downs and regular exercise is really good for me in that particular sense. So, and I know when I miss and I miss for a few days I start to feel these kind of mental effects. So it's real important, but the challenge is exactly what you're saying Adam, is this more of a selfish thing or is this benefiting me? I mean, I just recently had an issue with this because the place that we live in now, I would work out in the garage in the early morning, but the garage is literally right underneath the baby's room and I'd wake him up. And so, Jessica's like, you can't, if you work out in the morning, he's gonna wake up. And I had struggled with this, pissed off. No, I'll do it quietly, I'll do it. But I had to accept it, it's true. Like I'm gonna wake him up and so I gotta find an alternative. And so what I do is, you guys see me, I scram over here and I do an hour workout in 35 minutes, some weeks when it's just the way it's gonna have to be, but that was tough for me. That was tough for me because there's a selfish component too, which is like, ah, I gotta get, it's gotta be my workout. So this depends, this depends, but I tell you what, if you have a really good partner that you trust and they say to you, hey, your workouts are starting to become a little selfish, as hard as that is to hear, you might need to kind of consider that maybe they're telling you the truth, consider that. Look, if you like our information, head over to mindpumpfree.com and check out our guides. We have guides that can help you with so many fitness and health goals. We wrote them for free to benefit our audience. Again, it's mindpumpfree.com. You can also find all of us on Instagram. So Justin is at Mind Pump, Justin. I'm at Mind Pump Salon, Adam is at Mind Pump, Adam.