 I don't like to start things off being a hater or talking shit, but a couple things have come to my mind and let's see if my thoughts can put it out in these words. There's a couple group of lifters. We're already in a niche, we're already in a culture, and then people start to divide themselves. The kind of elitists that won't deadlift on anything but a lego, comp plates, etc, etc. They need the finest shit in the world even though their wilks are under, or their dots are under 400. Those motherfuckers tend to be the ones, and I say motherfuckers endearingly, I love y'all, that pull sumo and arch a lot, right? That crowd kind of goes hand in hand sometimes. Those motherfuckers be the first ones to talk shit on me for using a deadlift bar and pound plates because it's easier. Huh? Am I right? That makes sense, right? Because you'll be talking shit on that a deadlift bar and plates make it easier, but for them, ultra wide sumo and arching makes it easier. So why don't we all just like lift how we want to lift, and lift heavy, and if you're working hard in your own little pocket, then why don't we got blinders on? Like horse races, horses have blinders on so they don't fuck with who's on either side of them. All they worry about is running their best race. They got a jockey up there, and they be riding, and they lovingly spank that hoe, but that's because we're on the team together, and I'll be the eyes for y'all. And then all the other horses are just like this. So what we need here is y'all to be them horses, and I'll be that guiding light. I'm Silent Mike, welcome to the video. We got some squats today, it's a little chilly. I actually wish I had more hate, right? Because that means I'm more relevant. I don't mind all that. I just think it's weird that other fuckers are hating on each other. Most of them don't hate on me, I feel like, but everyone's just hating on each other. To me, it's all on a spin. We're all race car drivers. What kind of car do you drive? I don't care. I don't need to talk shit. If you like Formula 1, and I like to drift, and they like to ride NASCAR, and then these guys like to do quarter mile sprints, they like to dragster. Why do I care? It's just all different. Like, I like cars. I like barbells. I like people getting stronger. And if it's so damn easy, you go load up some pound plates on a deadly bar. I don't care. And then people, the other thing is when people like on the internet to get likes, will say and call out people that live for a cloud. You're calling me out for a cloud. Mommy, I love pussy, but I'm not licking. What, name of a song? It's just what juvenile taught me. When I heard this song, I was walking through Waterworld. You know Waterworld? Yeah. Walking through Waterworld probably. When did the song come out? When did the song came out, bro? Probably 4th grade? And I got my Nautica Ross special trunks on. And you know when you're little, for some reason you always have a belly? Nautica goes crazy. You know? Distended. Yeah. So I was probably walking around like this. And this is the... When you weren't that little, you're 4th grade. 10? Yeah, you're not distended then. No, I was. I ate a lot of cheeses. That's like a baby. I ate a lot of cheeses as a kid. No, it just means you're fat. You're a fat kid. I'm talking about like when I'm like 3 or 4. No, no, no, no. This was me. Like when you walk around your stomach. This was me. But with some Nautica shorts. I'm like, I'll have you. That kid's fat. No, no, no. That kid is fat. We just haven't reached puberty yet. That's what it is. Puberty is stopping you from being skinny. And I don't know why at Waterworld when everyone's fat and distended like me and I got my Nautica shorts on with the netting, which is so uncomfortable when my balls are out, where now it goes crazy right now. I don't know why your balls are out though. Yeah, the mesh. Yeah, it makes no sense. But this song came on. Something, you know, like a light bulb moment? How do you remember that? It's pretty good, right? What are they called? Core memories? Yeah, core memories. Yeah, core memories because I heard this and I was like, and then I got rid of them all of a sudden. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. When you're a kid, you don't look in the mirror that much? So I don't know if I was like that, but in my head, I was like this. Yeah, I don't know because you don't really look in the mirror as a kid. It's kind of a beautiful thing. Down with all mirrors. Take them all out. We don't need them. It's something I've argued and fought for 10 years in this industry because it's happened everywhere and it happens, you know, powerlifting the bodybuilding, bodybuilding to this. I think the more we can understand each other, the more you can lift with experienced lifters, advanced lifters and have some perspective on it. I think people dive in and it's done in Kruger stuff, right? They dive in. This middle ground is the one talking shit, but once you've been doing it for five to 10 years, you start to get a little more perspective on it. Like, man, I don't do what he does and I don't even enjoy that, but that's fucking rad. And I think that's really what it is. It's kind of an appreciation. It's a little bit, I know we've been on our life code shit lately, but it's the truth. I think once you appreciate someone's differences, you don't have to do it. You don't have to love it. You don't have to like it. Participate, but I think we can still give daps where daps are due. I don't love, I can't say I'm the biggest footballer soccer fan. I played a little soccer. I'm Argentinian, so I watch the World Cup and I understand the sport well. I played it for 10 years, but I don't watch every game. I can still watch and appreciate what these athletes are doing, even though I think LeBron James is the freakiest athlete in the world. Like, those don't have to butt heads. They can be separate entities that are not exclusively mutual. And I think same thing here. Like, you can be a Jamal Browner fan and a Russ fan, right? And I think that's a good combo that's helping the sport. Those guys hanging out together and lifted together, but you can enjoy ladies lifting. You can enjoy stiff bar. You can enjoy Olympic weightlifting, even though you're not Olympic weightlifter. There's so many things that are cool within the fitness space and the community has to come first, not the pounds on the bar, the company you rep, and what, how stiff your fucking barbell is. It's just not. Yo, Mikey here. We doing a Q and A when you start cutting? Ladies and gentlemen, so deadlift series continues, but I want to help y'all and answer questions from y'all. Oftentimes I'll take stuff from Instagram and answer it here, but let's grow this YouTube only community. Y'all are the squad. You've rocked with me the longest. So comment below, ask anything you want. Business, fashion, life, lifting, nutrition. We'll start to answer those or even base full videos around your questions if they're good enough. So answer below. You can also join Discord and ask two, but let's get them going in the comments below. Light them up. No such thing as a dumb question. We'll start plowing through them. Things are going crazy. So we've got this huge meat coming in Feb four and five. And so the planning for that's starting to rev up really hard. Me and Steve at the end of the lab, designing the next drops. So we've got a couple of teas on the way and the next full collections, obviously in the works. So that's exciting and getting the ball moving there. I'm heading to Vegas Thursday, Friday. I'm not sure I'm training or if I'll vlog it or not, but I'll see Bart for a little bit for sure. We'll see what's going on there. And otherwise, man, the team's on full flow. Team's kicking it. Jim's going hard. Jim has grown more over the last three months than it has in like six months before that. So the community is really growing, I think with you all online and in person. So I can't complain. It's hectic and there's a lot of little plates I'm juggling, but things are good. Instagram, TikTok, slowly moving, Twitch streams aren't what I want them to be, but you know, step by step, you got to give yourself a little bit of grace. So hopefully more gaming content too, but honestly, I was just a little disappointed with Warzone 2. I was hoping I'd get addicted to it and then force myself to play it. Because again, we have all these plates going. I got to keep them spinning while I add new shit. And if the new shit isn't very enticing, it's hard for me to neglect some of these other plates to be honest, but everything's good. I need a haircut. That's what we really need. Probably when I come back, we need a haircut. Comment below where we should dye this thing. I think I'm going to bleach it again, but it's shaggy, bro. Keeping the beard, because it's the bulk beard. The beard will only go away when I'm sub 195 again. The beard's staying, but the hair probably bleaches in the trim up because it's going crazy right now. There's some kind of evidence out there somewhere where a 10 to 20 minute walk post-workout of the same recovery effects as all this ice bath and bullshit everyone's doing. You can call it a cool down. You can call it a recovery walk. You can call it cardio. I don't give a fuck what you call it, but after a hard training session, I just took some water in the back, quick meeting with Seabass. Now I'm going to walk for just 10, 15 minutes. Nothing crazy. I'm not going crazy. Two to three miles per hour, a little incline going. That's that. A couple deliveries here at Third Street. Upgrading some of the equipment. So we've got a busy day today. Meetings tomorrow, meeting today. Third Street classic February 4 and 5 open to the public. We've got 200 lifters. We're going to have a prime time. We're going to have some sponsors. It's going to be big time. So we've got a bunch of pro power lifters coming that we'll be competing. It's going to be an absolute party. A bunch of big names, a bunch of big name coaches. It should be good. So market calendar, Sacramento, California, downtown Sacramento, Third Street, Barbo. We'll be hosting it at Third Street. Brand new video every Monday, Thursday. Appreciate you guys driven by culture and the community. Wheel for me. I'm out here. Catch you in the next one.