 You're listening to the number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is mine pump. Now in today's episode, we answer fitness and health questions that are asked by our audience. But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion. This is where we talk about current events. We mentioned our sponsors. We talk about scientific studies around health and fitness. I'm going to give you a rundown of today's entire episode. By the way, the intro portion lasted 39 minutes. So if you want to fast forward to the questions at around 39 minutes, that's when we start answering those fitness questions. So we open up by talking about the finale of the Mandalorian. Oh man. Oh, that was great. Did that not give you the feels? Oh, it was awesome. Then we talk about another show on Netflix called Song Exploder that I'm going to try and get my wife to let me watch now. It explodes things. Then we talked about blue zones and there's a controversy around blue zones. Was the, were the numbers accurate? Maybe there were some, some issues there. Then we talked about North Korea executing someone cause they listened to the radio. It sounds like normal day over there. Then I talked about the great weekend I had with my wife and my new son. Great time. Good time bonding with everybody. Adam talked about being an abusive father to his dog. By the way, he uses brain FM to calm the dog down and his sundown brain FM. If you listen to it, you can meditate. It can help you focus, help you sleep. And a mind pump's got to hook up. Go to brain.fm forward slash mind pump get 20% off. Go check it out. Then I talk about the homeless guy with the crazy eyes who denied my money. Felt rejected. I don't think he saw you. Then we talked about a study showing that people who got poor sleep had a lot more visceral body fat. That's the fat around your organs. 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And we'll get that shirt right out to you. Hey, so that finale, huh? Oh, man, bro, that gave me all the feels. How about how about Justin at first hadn't seen it? I hadn't seen it either, but Sal watched it first. Oh, so mad. And Sal was like, oh, my God, just like, don't say anything. Shut up. So then, of course, we were just Sal and I were going back and forth. Making shit up. They seemed like Jar Jar came back. Hey, so, so at the end, by the way, this is a spoiler alert for if you haven't watched it by now, you're not a real fan of even watching it. Did you guess that it was Luke, right? When he came in with 100 percent? Of course. Of course. The X-Wing. Dude, come on. And I feel like I called it on the podcast. I'm pretty sure I could go back. I knew it was coming when we saw how badass those, what are they called? The Dark Shoulder? The Dark Knights or Dark Soldiers? Yeah. I saw how much the Mandalorian almost got his ass kicked by one. I knew like Dark Troopers. I was like, the only person who's saving this is like a badass Jedi. And so when I was coming, I was like, bro, but why, why was I? Luke is such like, I guess he's like that bad of a bat. He crushed that one with the force. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Well, you know what it was. It's totally like an homage. Because remember in Rogue One where Darth Vader, they had that scene finally, they gave it to the nerds of like his true power. Like he goes onto the ship and then just starts picking people up, choking them out, slicing through everybody. So they like, they did like a parallel scene with Luke coming in and saving the day like that. It was so bad. Now, what you had the school me on, Justin, is I don't understand timelines right now. I know. This is all over the place. This one is after the original trilogy. Yeah. So it's after. It's after the fall of the Empire, right? So, you know, Luke is still kind of going around. And so this is before I think Ben Kenobi and him really like connect. So I think that that's going to be the next direction they're going to go. What do you mean before him and Ben Kenobi? I thought they did already. No, no. Do you see how young Luke was? He has to have connected because he's got all the he's got the hand, bro. Remember he had the glove. He had the glove and he also had the power of the force. Like he doesn't he learns that through Obi-Wan and Yoda. Kenobi, what am I talking about? Ben Solo. Oh, yeah. I said, yeah, I mixed the two together. Han Solo. You mean Han Solo's son, right? Ben Kenobi, he's Kylo Ren. So this is all kind of like there was no real story of like him. They give us like a little brief synopsis like in the movies. I'm so lost on the. This is literally. I know it is. It's tough. This is literally right after the first trilogy, literally. Yeah, OK. Yeah, yeah. So what so what happens with Grogu then? Because that's this is I know, take some, but then we don't hear about. I know it's I don't know. Like, because obviously they're moving on and you saw that like little teaser they had for, you know, like for Boba Fett. Yes. In his series. I can't wait for that. Now you didn't watch it past the credits. I well, I did after you guys said something. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, we were Katrina and I watched it together and it was funny because I really wanted to watch it. And she's like, we're going to walk the boys. I'm like, no, I'll walk them afterwards. Let's watch this. So I watched it and then I know they had to go to the bathroom. They're all like moving the poor dogs. I've been waiting a long and so as soon as it was over, I got up and walked them and then she was still in the room watching. And then I get a text while I'm out there watching. She's like, oh my God, you missed the end. And then you guys said that to me. I was like, oh, shit. Yeah, that's going to be good, dude. I think the next one's going to be good. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm actually I'm actually excited. Like that that definitely rekindled a lot of excitement for me. It was cool. Yeah. What? Who's the guy that directed it? Favro? Yeah, John Favro. OK, he did a phenomenal. I think he did the best. Amazing. He did the best job aside from obviously the original that I can think of. Sure. I think all the ones that they've done since the original trilogy. Any Star Wars fan now, you're just a hater if you didn't like that series. Yes. I'm going to put that statement out there. Yeah, he did it. He did a phenomenal job. It was great. And what did you guys think of the CGI on Luke's face? You know, it was passable. I think they tried that too in Rogue One with Leia. And then he also had the other general. And it was kind of like it was passable. And I think he was a little bit better. But it's still like you could tell, obviously. It's still pretty good. I think it wasn't bad. I think it's really good. It wasn't bad. Yeah, I think it's way passable. I mean, there's all kinds of fake stuff going on anyway. So it's not like that's like a big deal. You know what I'm saying? If that was like the whole movie was like very realistic and then it was like this one fake thing. Yeah. It would be a big turn off. But since there's a lot of stuff that happens. Dude, just goes to show you the power of that franchise. Disney Plus or Disney the company, the stock is taking off completely based off of the Star Wars spin-offs. Of course. Like they have nothing else. Like I'm on Disney Plus. Like, okay, great. Dude, how many shows did they just announce? They announced at least five or six that I can think of. Well, do you remember the article that I shared earlier this year? I think it was earlier this year. Maybe it was even last year. That Disney was going at a different approach than like Netflix. So they're sticking with this. I mean, it's a very slow approach, right? They've only got this one main series. Character development. Yeah, they only, exactly. Character development, one time a week they're releasing. They're not pumping out series. And Netflix is the opposite. Yeah. Like you can't go on Netflix anymore. Here's the kitchen sink. Yeah, new stuff, new stuff, new stuff. And my best friends and I, we were talking this weekend actually and one of my buddies had just said something. He's like, you know what? I think I'm going to stop Netflix. He's like, they just lost it for me. He's all, I feel like they came out the gates really strong and then it's just kind of falling off. It's like, Stranger Things was amazing. But it's like, when you get it all at once, you don't like, you don't watch it, you know, slowly. You just consume it. I know, think about that, like a series like that that was super popular. What would have happened had they dripped that over time versus? I think it would have made it even more popular. Well, what happens is if you drip it, you don't need to provide so much new stuff, right? So Disney can stretch it. It's a hook. Yes. Because think about how many people do you think signed up for Disney Plus? Just for Mandalorian. Just for Mandalorian. There's a lot. If they dropped it all, if they dropped it all day one, they would have lost hella people because they've been awaiting this whole time. Right, right. You binge it and then you cancel your service next week. Exactly. Yeah, so. Really, I think it's smart. I think it's really, really smart what they're doing. And they exceeded their numbers. That's why the stock went up like crazy because whatever their projections were for Q4, they're crushing. Now, you brought up a show on Netflix Off Air and I was going to watch it with Jessica. Here's a funny song explorer. Yeah, song explorer. I was going to watch it with Jessica. You had mentioned, what's her name now? I can't remember now. Oh, yeah, Dua Lipa? Dua Lipa. So I'm scrolling through and we're trying to figure out what to watch. It's late last night. And I'm like, oh, I'm like, Justin talked about this. And I'm like, oh, he said Dua Lipa was a good one. And of course she accuses me. She's like, oh, just because it's a pretty girl. I'm like, no, no, no. I'm like, Justin said it was good. No, I wasn't the reason. She's like, yeah, right. That's why. She's like, he doesn't like pop music. I'm like, that's what I said to him. And I got this whole thing. I'm like, forget it. I missed this conversation. What was this? No, I like artists. I like people that are really good at their craft. So it doesn't matter what genre of music it is. As long as they're artistic about their presentations, it's not just some formula that's carbon-copied. And there's a ton of that out there. So I totally appreciate it. So we didn't watch it because it turned into that thing. I'm like, forget it. I'll watch it. I'm like, all right. Just be honest about why you want to watch this. I swear to God, Justin, tell me it was good. Yeah, no, it's good. They break down their massive hit songs. So I also watched one with Trent Reznor. And he went through Hurt and how the state of mind he was in, all this kind of stuff that played into how haunting that song was and how he tracked it and how everything was just a little bit off and what kind of instruments he used. And the guy is a genius, man. It's really cool to watch him break down. I totally missed this conversation. Who are we talking about? So essentially it's a, who is it? Dua Lipa is a pop star from the UK. She's actually got some music that's pretty popular here too. But apparently the show from what you told me, Justin, correct me if I'm wrong, it goes in kind of the process that these artists go through to create their music. Yeah, the creative process. Okay. And the, why I brought it up to sales, I've never heard of her. And she has like, like millions of, like I don't know if it was like 60, something million followers or whatever. And I'm like, who is this? I'm always baffled at people that- I did hear you say that. Yeah, I have that many people that know about him. I've never even heard of him. Like it's always trippy to me. Yeah, so anyway, you hear that honey? We'll watch the episode. I mean, she's cute. So what happened? How many of you was like, another night of Magic Mike? It's exactly that. I'm like, come on, face. You know what it was? Yeah, that's right. You know what? You know what happened? This is what happened. Now I've ruined it. It's because of that stupid ass Keanu Reeves movie that I put on. Oh, you still, yeah. That's why, because I put that on and as it starts, it's basically soft porn. Yeah, dig yourself out of that. And I'm like sticking with it because I don't want to... Which one is that one? The one I told you guys about. Remember the one where the girls like show up and, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Wet, like from outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, I know why you wanna watch this. Can we come in? So now I'm, now no matter what, if there's a semi-attractive girl, she's like, oh, you just wanna watch it for this. I'm like, I totally screwed up last time. Hey, I wanted to ask you if you read the article that Shawn Baker shared on the Blue Zones. Oh, I did. The title caught me and I wanted to hear your take on it. this is actually kind of interesting. So it's an interesting take. So he's basically painting a little doubt to the blue zone study. So the people who don't know, the blue zones are areas in the world where a disproportionate amount of people live to a hundred or older in comparison to the rest of the world. And then what scientists do is they go into these blue zones and study how these people live and what is it that makes them live so long. Basically what's the deal, what's going on? So he points to some interesting observations which are kind of true. For example, in Italy, when they started to give people pensions based off of your age, and back in the day in Italy, you didn't have like birth certificates and stuff. So you could basically say, I was born in this year. When they started doing that, a lot of people started to say that they were older than they were to collect pensions. And so you have a lot of people who apparently are over 105, but might not be. And this was true for- Oh, wow, interesting. And this was true for a lot of other areas. Now, do you know this firsthand because your family's told you stories or did you read all this? I read this, but this is also true. So like my dad, for example, born at home, his birth certificate says he was born a couple of days, a few days later, because that's when they went and told the authorities or whatever. So it's not like, it wasn't as, and that's my dad's generation. When you go back, my grandfather's generation or before, it was basically, when were you born? And they'll take your word for it, type of deal. Oh, wow. Yeah, so it is kind of interesting because it does show in that, that when once that they were like official birth certificates, you see this huge drop off in how many people. Yeah, this was true for- So that's Sardinia and then- There's this place- Okinawa and- Okinawa, there was a, yes, Okinawa. And then there was another, there was like an island off the coast of Greece. And they were all doing the same thing. They're showing kind of similarities with this. And you know, I could see the case for that. I definitely, I know when they're looking at like the oldest person in the world, that they have to try and verify it. And it's not like, it's not like it would be, like for example, someone born today, if they live to 120, be easy to verify. Somebody who's 120 today, especially from those areas, it would be difficult to verify. You got to kind of look at different, you know, and kind of trust a little bit of what they're saying. And then you kind of make the judgment. So it's interesting. It is real interesting. And they were, and you were showing that a lot of these areas are poor, a lot of high smoking, a lot of high alcohol consumption, which normally would reduce, you know, how long people live. So- How much did the drop off look like? Like so when we look at today's time in those blue zones, is it, is it dramatic? I mean, what's the difference? Is it, is it all said normal? Well, I mean, if you look at like right now, life expectancy's a little bit higher in places like- But that's everywhere, isn't it? Everywhere we are expected to live a little bit longer, right? Well, a little longer compared to like, like America, for example. But it's not a ton, right? It's not a ton longer. I will say this, this is interesting though. Life expectancy still is a little higher in some of these countries that smoke more than we do here in America. But it's there, I think our diet's so bad here that it offsets that, you know what I mean? It's less smoking, but shitty ass diet. Well, don't you think that some of the countries prioritize relationships and breaks and time off and stuff like that more than we do too? Totally, totally. I think it's, and even in the blue zone studies, even in the blue zone studies, they found, they didn't find any like silver bullets. You know what I mean? It wasn't like, oh, everybody eats this one food. Which is what they're hoping to find. Yeah, what they found was like, they didn't overeat or they ate mostly natural foods and they were active every day and they had close relationships. There wasn't any like big smoking gun. Like this is what they all have in climate. I mean, for example, in some areas they ate a lot of fish. In other areas that live in mountainous regions and they ate a lot of lamb and goat milk. So, you know, which I believe that to be true. I think it's, I don't think it's as easy as saying, do this specific thing and live a long time. I think it's a combination of kind of general things. Do you have a prediction on like our generation now? I mean, the things that we have as far as like tools and hacks now that we like just two decades ago, generations didn't have. I'm really curious to like what that looks like. Yeah, I think if I had to guess, you're seeing life expectancy increase, but quality of life I think is in the drop. So in other words, medication and, you know, modern medicine is gonna extend life, but the quality of life isn't gonna be that great. It's like we're keeping them alive with medicines, but they don't feel vibrant or good. Do you think there's been a drop off of, you know, people getting into fitness and you know, really taking care of their exercise? Like I'm not sure. Like what I see out there is a lot less people exercising. Yeah, I think what you would, you know what I would like to see? I would like to see a study because remember when they look at the whole population, it's everybody. Yeah. What I would like to see is a study on, cause there are people over 70 that are consistent with diet, consistent with exercise. I trained a lot of them. I know these people, right? And they were so different from their peers. Like the seven year olds that I knew that exercise regular and eight right, were like, they were like a different species compared to the average seven year old. They were very independent. They were still having sex with their partners. They were healthy, no problems. And then the average seven year olds on like 15 different medications, you know, health problems. Well, I'm just thinking of like your average guy, like I'll see just like walking around or at like coffee shops or whatever. Like I just don't see anybody really like that interested in lifting weights. You think it's less today? Yeah. Oh really? Oh yeah, totally. Oh, I think it's more. I think it's more. I would hope so, but yeah. I mean, it's still a low percentage. It's less than half still. You know what I'm saying? You're more likely to walk into a coffee shop or you know, I think that matters too. Like what you're walking into, right? You compare it to walking in a coffee shop or a Walmart, you know, versus walking somewhere like a, you know, whole foods, you're walking to whole foods and you look around the grocery store and you know, people look a lot fitter because they care, right? They're spending that extra money to make better choices. I think you see more people consciously working out today, but overall less active because activity used to be just a part of life before. You know what I mean? Yeah, just wrapped in everything. Yeah, I don't, you know, I remember telling like my, like my uncles, like I'd be like, why don't you guys work out? And they're like, I work out every day at work. I lift shit and move shit all day long at work. So I think it's just sedentary life. And then the way we design cities, like if you look at like old cities that were designed before cars got popular, you know, San Francisco, New York City, that kind of, people walk a lot. They're not designed like suburb, like then when they started designing like, you know, you know, suburbs and stuff like that. It's like houses here work way over here. You have to drive everywhere. You're not going to be walking that much, you know what I'm saying? So I think that made a huge difference. Did you guys see the North Korea article that I sent over about the guy that was publicly executed for listening to like radio from some other country? Isn't that crazy? Isn't that crazy? There you go. We don't realize how blessed we are. Yeah. That we get to do shit like that. That's wild. Yeah, I know. It just because he was listening to the radio. Dude, just that kind of control over the population. It's so scary. It's insane. It's insane. How hard is it for somebody to actually leave there? Once you, if you were born there, how hard is it to leave? People escape and they cross over to South Korea or they'll go through China or whatever. And you should hear the story. Have you guys ever watched like YouTube videos of interviews of these people? No, no, I should. Oh, it's, bro, it is insane. There was this one lady who escaped North Korea. They brainwash you so much as a kid there that when she left, she still thought that the North Korean leader could read her mind. So she was afraid to say anything. She was afraid to whatever. She thought that when she went to South Korea, she was worried that they were going to kill her because that's what she was told. And yeah. And she says that when she came over there, she saw the world and was just, she didn't believe it. She didn't believe it for years. She was so in shock. It just shows you what could happen when you give somebody absolute power like that. I know. It's pretty crazy. How to do some serious damage. How was your guys weekend, by the way? Good. Did you guys do anything? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you were the one I wanted to talk to you because you went up to Sanctuary. Oh, so nice. Yeah, tell me how that was. Oh, it was great. First night away, right? First night with the railings out there. With the railings. We took the baby and that was great, man. We hung out because the beach is right there and got some time with my wife. So that was real nice. He actually stepped a little bit. So we got to do a little hanky-panky, which was good. Oh yeah, that's nice. Yeah, I saw the photo you guys in your robes on the beach and stuff like that. So did you sleep with the door open? Did you do that? Yeah. Oh man. The fire and then you had a lotter out there. Yeah, dude. You know they were doing outdoor yoga classes over there? Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I was like, all right, they're still doing the thing or whatever. Yeah. That's good. I think that's important to do. I mean, we're not like doing a lot, but just because it changes the environment, it's nice to get that reprieve. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Totally. What about you Justin, what'd you guys do? I just, I mean, I did a lot of housework. The kids in Courtney had been gone like a weekend. Oh, that's right. I forgot they're down south, huh? Yeah, they were gone and then it came back and so we just... You've been awfully quiet for a guy who's been home alone by himself all last week and stuff. What'd you been up to, guys? I've been chilling, dude. Yeah, I'm taking advantage of it. Yeah, like three Juergens bottles right now is just a lot. It's just a lot of Kleenex, just flying everywhere. You look stock now, guys. You look so relaxed. I was like, this face is so relaxed. I feel drained, I'm going to be honest. But yeah, no, I've just been enjoying it, man. And yeah, we see that. Walking the dogs, you know, I'm just doing things on my speed. Watching all the ancient aliens you want. Yeah, ancient, like old shitty 80s movies, that's always a go-to for me. And stand-up comedy is my favorite, which Courtney always gets like, are we going to watch another one? So I'm just all in, get to watch whatever I want. Dude, speaking of the dogs, bro, last night, my heart broke, dude. So my boys, Masi and Bentley are like, they were my first kids, right? So they were the first dogs that I ever bought and raised and everything. And so before Max, they were like my children. You guys know that, I bring them in here all the time. And they're stubborn as shit, they're just part of the breed, you get that. And they're like little bricks, dude, right? So like when they act up sometimes, they'll give them like a little kick in the ass and shit, right? And Katrina's like, oh, don't kick the dog. I'm barely kicking the dog. He's freaking solid as can be, trust me. He'll let you know if you heard him or what with that. And he doesn't even yell. So they were, I took them both out last night and Masi was just acting a fool. Just grabbing his leash and riding in. He's rapping around me and stuff like that. And he tangles around my leg. And I give him like this little side kick. I don't even kick him hard at all, but I hit his leg. It was like in a bad position. And he did this yelp and scream that I've never heard before. And he couldn't put weight on it. I scooped him up. I carried him in the house, bro. I was like, just talking about it gets me emotional. He felt like the biggest tear. Oh dude, and Katrina, so this is how bad it was. So Katrina was up putting Max asleep. Mind you, we run, you know, we run brain FM in there so you can't hear anything out of his bedroom. So Katrina's in there. You can't hear outside normally. And she comes downstairs because she could hear the screaming, hear Masi screaming outside and carried in. She's like, what happened? What's going on? And I'm like, I kicked him. And she was like, what? And I'm like, huh, I swear I didn't even, I didn't kick him that hard. I was just trying to get him to stop doing what he was doing. And I give him this little side thing, but it was the way his leg was. And dude, I just, I'm so glad this morning he woke up and he was, he was walking on. Yeah, he's fine. Oh, he's fine now. But last night, he couldn't put weight on it. He screamed. Bro, you felt like the biggest piece of shit. God, bro, it's hard for me to share it too because I know there's going to be a bunch of people that think I beat my dog and stuff. I was like, I'm not like that guy at all. You just wait till the first day you like yell at your kid or something. Oh, man. You know, that's what went through my head, right? Like that's exact, I went through my head because I think of them, I think of them like my children. And I thought, oh my God, I would just be devastated if I, you know, wasn't a hard hit at all. It wasn't like, I wasn't even that angry. I was just frustrated because he was tanging my leg up off and just kind of gave him a little like a Charlie horse. Yeah, dude, but it was just the angle of his leg and stuff. And it hurt him so bad that he screamed like that. Never heard that. Oh my God. I could tell when I saw him too, he looked at me like, save me, save me, dude. Give me away from this monster. Give me away from him. So like his baddie. I was petting him like, it's all right. Yeah, dude, so terrible. He's still loving you. Take your dad's. Now I'm all afraid. I'm nice to him. Yeah. I know it's like, dude, I was so like right away too. I like, I scooped him up. I'm like, oh my God, is it any neighbor like saw me like do that? You're like hand feeding him. No, dude. He's like to keep that up. Come here, buddy. He's going to take full advantage. You get whatever you want, my buddy. I'm sure, I'm sure. Dude, you just wait till the first time you like yell at your kid because you're human, you know, and you get these little whatever. I remember when I yelled at my son once when he was little and he made this like terrified look in his face. I mean, and I felt like the biggest piece of shit of all time. I still do talking about it. I still feel like a massive piece of shit. He made this look like, huh? And I was like, wow, yeah, I'm the worst dad of all time. They look at big eyes and then it takes a minute and it starts like tears and they're like, oh, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What have I done? Let me take it back. Dude, speaking of eyes, I didn't tell you guys about this. Oh my God, dude. So when I get off the freeway to come, this happened on last week. I've been saving the story. So when I get off the freeway to come over here, when I come off, there's always one or two homeless people on the end there of the off ramp because they get money, right? So people stop at the light and they get money. And so there was just, I didn't recognize this homeless person and they were there and they were standing there with a sign or whatever. And the dude's eyes pointed in two different directions so they're like doing this type of thing. Not cross-eyed with the opposite. No, no, opposite. Like he's like a lizard. Like Adam Sandler move. Yeah. So he's like this way, right? And so I was like, you know, I was kind of feeling like it's the holiday season, you know? Yeah, yeah. Every once in a while, if I have spare money, I'll give it to him. So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to give this guy, like he's looking at me or I think he is. I don't know. I can't tell. He's kind of staring this way. So I can't tell, right? So I'm like, so I'm like, you know, I'm going to help him out. So I roll my window down and he gives me this heads up and he starts walking. And I'm like, I took out my money and he went to the car behind me, got money. I was like, he wasn't looking. I had my head down with the money like this dude. Come over here. He just walked by, went to someone else and walked back. I was like, light turned green, I drove off. I felt like I got rejected dude. It's like, fuck you then. You don't get my money, man. I drove by a guy yesterday that had a literally like full on like stylish like camo fitted, like from head to toe, like. How'd you see him? Full camouflage, talking on a cell phone, holding up a sign. Really? Yeah, dude. I just, that's the new homeless bro have cell phones now. They're just shows you. I thought I heard, wasn't it one of you guys that told me that they have some sort of a deal where you can come in and get like a free cell phone? Can you? Someone told me that. I didn't get no free phone. Yeah. Well, no, you're not homeless. That's why. Cricket wireless. Hold, it's not homeless. It's minimalist. Is that okay? Extreme minimalist. Is that what it is? Yeah, I think that's what it is. Dude, I read a study on sleep deprivation. I forgot to bring this up. You guys want to hear something crazy? Let's hear it. So on people who sleep six hours or less at night, so these are people with pretty bad sleep, right? They had a 32% gain in visceral fat. Oh, wow. 32%. That's cute. You know, visceral fat, right? For the listeners. And is that because of the cortisol spike? Is that what it is? You know, they didn't go into, you know, all the reasons why. I would assume it's the hormones that are being thrown off and the inflammation. Inflammation has been tied to visceral fat. But I would also assume that having that shitty sleep might mean you probably eat more to self-medicate. You know what I'm saying? We talked about this like six months ago where we, and I didn't connect this until not that long ago that when I have a really shitty night of sleep, the next day, the food cravings I have are crazy. Like I want greasy, bad, like junk food. That's all I want to eat. And it's really tough to not after you've had that terrible night of sleep. Wow, so that's interesting. So somebody DMed me and said, and I said no. I said no, but I'm going to think back. I'm going to think now that maybe there's something to it. Somebody messaged me and said that they got the Felix Gray blue blocker glasses. And they said that they're noticing that they're getting leaner is this because I'm getting better sleep. And I said, no, it's probably something you're not tracking or whatever your diet. But I wonder, right? I wonder if, because you're right. When you lack sleep, you crave foods that are comforting to make you feel better. It depends how long you've been running on poor sleep too. And this is maybe something you're introducing that for a week to a month, all of a sudden now has pretty substantial power behind it. Yeah. So I wonder if that would, I know for me, if I, I don't notice fat gain, but if I get bad sleep, I don't build muscle and perform as well. Yeah. But what about the cravings though? Do you guys notice that? Have you ever, I never really paid attention to it. Yeah, I could. Sweets. And we, I thought you shared, I could share with you who shared an article, Sal. I did. I did a while back. Yeah. Hyperpallet food. So starches, sugars, and yeah, and processed foods. The consumption increases because of the production of the feel good chemical. You know, if you lack sleep, right, you got less of these feel good chemicals, you're gonna, you're probably more likely to do things like drink alcohol, coffee, smoke cigarettes too, right? Everything that makes you kind of, you know, feel good in the moment. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, shit, man, that's a, that's a big one. They could totally add up. I could totally see it. And visceral body fats, the one that's connected to really poor outcomes and health. 32% a lot. That's a lot dude. That's the fat around your organs for people don't know. That's, so when you see like the beer belly guy who's belly, maybe you have someone like this in your family. This was my, my great uncle used to do this. He had this big beer belly, but he'd tell the kids to hit him and punch it. It's hard though. It's muscle. Yeah. He used to do that to us, right? Right. It's all muscle. Yeah. It's not fat. It's, man, I remember as a kid being like, whoa, you know, yeah, you know, our uncle's got, you got a fat, but muscular stomach. It's because it's underneath dude. Yep. Yeah. And yeah, he's not around anymore. Yeah. Oh man. I know that's a joke. That's that story. Yeah. No. You know what I like is to see science out there that's making a difference, you know, and like things, big things people are tackling that actually work. One of them was these fog nets. I've never heard of this, but I guess they figured out in place, I think it was in Peru where it's like pretty much a desert. They get like no rain and, but they get the fog runoff from the ocean. And so they had this idea to create these big nets that basically it would capture the fog and turn it into usable drinking water. Oh, so like condensation. Yeah. Oh, that's smart. Yeah. Just like, I mean, that's pretty much what the redwood trees and all the trees do right around here. So yeah, it's pretty fascinating that they've hacked that and they get like thousands and thousands of gallons. Oh, so paint this picture for me. So I'm envisioning like four drones that are flying like this massive net and then they can't. No, they're just propped up nets, like, like literally like really thick fibrous nets and it all traps it and then it funnels it down into this barrel. It's bro, it's literally as it sounds. Look at this picture right here. It's literally like it sounds. It's just nets that are out and then because the fog goes through and there's condensation on the fog and then, I mean, excuse me on the nets and then it drips down. Brilliant. I know, right? Then they filtered, I imagine, and then now it's drinking water. A cheap way to get water. Yeah. A really, really cheap way to get water. Wow, that is fascinating. Very interesting. Hey, you guys want some bad news or some scary news? Yeah, good. Yeah, let's offset that. So did you guys hear the news out of the UK? You guys seeing this? What's going on right now? No, no, no. Apparently there's in this, I don't know, some scientists are saying nothing to worry about. Other scientists are like, this is a big thing. Apparently there's a mutation of COVID in the UK that's making it like 70% faster or more transmissible. Transmissible. So all these countries in Europe are banning travel from the UK now because they've identified this new strain that is making COVID spread faster. What? And now what they're saying is that they think, they're saying for sure these vaccines will protect against this. Dude, we're never going to be able to travel. Again, I'm pretty much concluded. It's going to be virtual travel. How annoying. What about what's going on too? You sent over a thing that they're going to make. Oh, by the way, did you see they just passed what was it, $800 billion? Was it $800 billion just got passed? For the $600 checks or whatever? Yay, everybody gets $600. I know, $800 more billion dollars coming. Then I saw the article you shared about making loans easier to get. What we are just going to inflate to keep pumping that bubble. Boy. Dude, but how, how mad are you though? A two-bedroom condo over here is going to be like $3 million for like five years. You're going to be kidding me. What country was it where they inflated their currency so bad? Was it Zimbabwe? I remember they inflated the currency so bad that people were like, it was more valuable to be burned for heat. I was just going to say, I mean imagine, imagine. They had like $10 trillion notes for them. It's headed in that direction. The people that should be the most pissed are the people that have been saving for like the last 20 years. Like they just cut your value. Bust in your ass like to build your savings account up to a few hundred thousand dollars or something like that. So that dollar you have now is 25 cents. Exactly. No, I mean, okay, on the flip side though, how mad are you if you're the average person, you're struggling because, I don't know, you own a restaurant and Emperor Newsom shut it down or whatever and you're struggling. Oh my God, we're not making. And then they're like, hey, I know it's been hard for the last six hundred bucks. Here's six hundred bucks, my friend. Here's some gas money. Don't spend it all in one place. Meanwhile, my winery gets millions of dollars really quick to support it. Here's six hundred bucks, buddy. Yeah. Take care of yourself. Now, the high five. Did you read the article on the, I think it's, I don't know if I'm saying it, right, I don't know, Doug, maybe you should fact check me. It's six hundred or eight hundred billion is what got approved, right? So, and is that all just for the six hundred dollar stimulus checks? I have no idea. And how long do those last? I mean, they, for a couple months, maybe a best and then they're gonna have to run it again. What's six hundred bucks gonna do for people? It's a great example of people that want the government to come save everybody. Yeah. Yay, six hundred dollars. Good idea. It makes me sad. Well, how long can we keep doing it? That's the question. It's like, how many rounds of that? I mean, I share with you guys that, that webinar from Peter Linneman that talked about that, that he predicted at least two more, two trillion dollar bailouts coming by the end of 2021. I would think so. Yeah, there it is. Nine hundred billion. Oh, it was nine hundred billion. I thought it was six or eight. That's what it says. Long, stimulus bill to provide nine hundred billion in aid. Well, I mean, at least it's something. Like, yeah, at this point, that amount of money doesn't even make sense. You know, it's like nine hundred billion. Here's what I, here's what I, what I don't think. Soon we're gonna have to make up what, what comes after a trillion. Quadzillion, is it? Yeah, well soon we're gonna have to, A, soon we're gonna have to make up a number. A fuck ton. Yeah, a fuck ton. That's a real, a lot of amount of money. Congress passes two fuck tons of money to help everybody. Yeah, it weighs a lot. Here's what I don't understand. Instead of giving printing a bunch of money, what if they just said, Hey everybody, let's not pay taxes this year. Right, can we do that instead? I don't know why they don't do that. Why don't they do that? I don't know. I mean, they both smart. They don't like smart ideas. No, they'll give you the money so you can give it back. Dom ideas are best. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see what happens. It's gonna be quite interesting because, you know, all these assets, you're gonna see a lot of asset inflation. Stock market, houses, they're gonna keep inflating because more and more free money. Yeah. Are you following Tesla? I know, I can't believe that thing just keeps going up and now it's on the S&P 500. Oh, well speaking of which, because you know how Elon- We know those trucks coming out, man. Oh, the Cybertruck? Yeah. I like that. There's lots of hype around that. I haven't seen in any launch date. You guys still think it's ugly? You don't like it? Yes, it's ugly. Yeah, dude, it's hideous. Really? Yeah. They've made some other really cool electric ones. It's like a moon vehicle since then. That's why it's cool. You've seen, I mean, what's the Nikolai, or Nikola, that other company? Oh, yeah. Their truck, their electric travel is sick. That's it? I heard they're like actually in some heat because they're trying to partner with GM is what, okay, I read this. I'm not fact-checking me, Doug, but I read something like that whole deal fell through because of their falsifying of numbers or something like that. Oh, really? Yeah. Like as far as the power of it and everything like that? Yeah. Well, like what they're projecting is value. I can't believe shit anymore. I know. Hey, everything's fake news. Hey, speaking of Tesla. I know. You know, Elon moved to Texas, right? So that sparked this whole conversation. Yeah. So for the first time in a long time, California is likely to lose an electoral vote and I believe a seat in Congress because our population is shrinking. I heard you say this. Now, again, I want to fact-check that Doug, we ought to fact-check it. I know, yeah. Yeah, move those fingers. Yeah, look up California to lose electoral vote. Well, don't look that up. Look up our population because I thought that even though everyone's talking about this like mass exodus of California, right? Everyone's leaving California that we still year over year gain people. Gain more than we lose. That's what I thought. We're at a loss. We're at a net loss right now. Come on, give me the numbers. I want to hear how much. Like five people? That's not very much. No, I think it's 130-here. Oh, this is weird. State officials say California's population growth has slowed to the lowest rate on record. For the second year in a row, more people left the state than moved there. The result was a net migration loss of 135,600 people. Oh, wow. So two years in a row now, first time in the history of California? It's just, it's been, they've been losing it for a long time. And no, this is the longest, the biggest loss in 25 years that we've seen. But what you just read was that only these last two years, has there been a true net loss? It's always, even though we're losing people, we still have always been gaining more than we're losing until the last two years. I don't know. I think we've been losing for a few years. Doug's got it up here. Hold on. Officially, California had 21,000 people from July 1st to the 19th. Increasing this. See? See? You're wrong, Sal. But hold on. You're wrong. Increasing by 0.5%. However, it's changed recently. Okay. But the bigger news from Wednesday's new population estimate was that, like I said, 135,600 more people, 135,000 more people left the state. Then moved here. So people are still moving here. It's just more people are leaving. Well, yeah. That's what I'm trying to say. And up until, if I'm hearing what you're reading correctly, is the first time in two years, or the last two years, have been actually net losses. Up until that point, all the people that we were losing five years ago, we were still gaining more. So we're losing seats now? Is that what you're saying? We're likely to lose an electoral vote. And I believe a seat in Congress, if I'm not mistaken. So that will reduce. Does that happen often? How often does that happen? Not for California. I mean, for any state. Is that like in New York? I wonder if that's the same tune New York right now. I heard they're having a mass exodus. Yeah, they're losing quite a bit in New York as well. So, and a lot of, I know a lot of Californians are going to Texas. So I'm wondering if Texas will gain, you know, a vote or, and I don't even know what the numbers are for that. Like, how do they determine? Exactly. How many people will have to be in there, leave or come in order to add another vote? Yeah. It's interesting though, right? So, you know, this is, I tell you what, a little bit of the brilliance in the way that our government was designed. It was designed so that states have quite a bit of power in how they can run things. And the reason why this is a good thing is it shows you. You have options. Yes. And it shows you what works and what doesn't work. And the best way to tell is where are people living? Where are they moving? Who's losing places? And, you know, California losing a lot of people. You're doing a bad job with leadership. Exactly. Look at that first one Doug just pulled up right now. 17 states that will gain or lose a total vote, college votes in 2020. Wow. Okay. So there's going to be other ones too. Interesting, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, California's been in trouble for a little while. It's really, for people who don't know, who've never been here, it's the have and the have nots. That's what California is. You have the Bay Area and the coast, and then everywhere else. It's very different. It's like two different states completely. Like you drive in the mid-California, versus LA and Central Valley. It's completely different. Totally different. Weren't they trying to separate us at one point? Were they trying to make us into two? Oh, yeah. There was a South, yeah, South California. No, there was like three or four Californians weren't there? Oh, that's right. Because the Bay Area was just, yeah. You're right. There was like North, South, and then Central. Yeah, there was like the weed part of California. It was just the door, the tech part of it. We're green governed. The movie part, you know, and then the farmer part. You know? Totally. That's kind of what it is. That's funny. Our first question is from Beauty and Gains Coach. What are the pros and cons of circuit training and when and how should it be incorporated into one's training program? All right. This is a good question. Circuit training is quite popular, mainly because of the intensity, the calorie burn. It's short, so it can be pretty convenient. Here's the deal though. It has to be done properly. Circuit training with exercises hazzardly put together, especially when they incorporate plyometric stuff into circuit training or just stuff to make you tired. You're essentially just doing high intensity cardio. You know, there's no reason to even do exercises. You might as well do jumping jacks and burpees. You'll get the same result. So if a circuit training program is planned and programmed well, it is a great way to get a workout in a short period of time. It's good for stamina, endurance, and occasionally might even provide a little bit of muscle stimulation. Maybe not for your advance, but if you're like beginner or intermediate, you might get some strength gains. The way to program it, I think you should do short cycles of it. I really do. I think circuit training has done best three weeks and then go back to your standard weight training. I think either like that or just intermittently thrown in there when you absolutely need a short workout. Because of the research that came out around HIIT, like I want to say it was at 2001, 2002, right around there when it got really popular, then it turned into this like mainstream thing like everybody started training this way because of the research of how many calories and how much fat you can burn and how it kicks that up for the entire day. Your body burns X amount more calories. The truth is that it's a terrible way to build muscle. It is not the best way to build muscle. Straight strength training is far better than that typical standard programming where you phase in and out of cycles is a much better approach to your weightlifting journey. But the reality is there are times when you only have 20 minutes and to me that's when it makes sense to use a tool like this is you use it intermittently when you only have that. And if you're somebody who's listening and you only always have 20 minutes, then okay, then that makes sense to train this way. But the rest of the population that has the option of training for 50 minutes or for a 20-minute circuit, you're far better off training the 50-minute straight set type of strength training cycle majority of the time and then intermittently either one running it like you're Sal saying for a two-week, four-week short cycle then you get out of it or just using it when you have to when you can only get 20 minutes. Yeah, a lot of those studies, they used like a stationary bike and that was like because it was controlled and there's less impact and they could really ramp up the intensity. So with HIIT, it's really about ramping up your intensity and it is cardiovascular on some level. So in terms of me personally, I prefer to do a HIIT style workout if I'm going to do cardio so I could throw in a lot of different movements if I want to maintain a lot of athleticism and be able to move through all the different planes but maybe add some load. But yeah, it's intense so it needs to be done in short spurts and you need to be able to perform it with good form throughout. Otherwise, you know, you're going to start having diminishing returns especially if you're teaching your body poor technique. What a great point there. If your form is, that's the biggest problem with circuit training is form. The form goes out the window because it's a fatigue-based workout. This was one of my biggest gripes with CrossFit back in the day is that they turned everything into a circuit and when you do that, your technique, inevitably it's going to go south. It just does. Like anytime you're super fatigued, even if you're doing an exercise you're very, very proficient at, your technique goes out the window and then you start to train bad movement patterns in your body. Injury rate goes through the roof and you lose the value of the exercise and then it doesn't become important what exercise you do anymore. And this is my biggest gripe because there's a definitive line between training and competing and when you blur all that together you lose both the benefits. So, just keep that in mind. Like when you're training you want to be conscious of always trying to perfect form and keep composure. Next question is from Amy Innerarity. With consistent use of maps anabolic how long should it take of dedicated person to lose between 75 to 100 pounds of fat? Oh, with maps anabolic you're looking at 30 days problem. We would have sold our own teeth. We would have sold a lot more programs. Could you lose 75 to 100 pounds in a year? That's a two-year goal right there. I was just going to say. That's a two-year goal. If you did it in a year you probably did it too fast. Yeah, you're looking at a two-year process and the reason why I'm saying that it's not just physiologically while you should do it slower there's a benefit there also but also psychologically the changes if you're 100 pounds overweight there are some major lifestyle changes that need to happen in order to get you to not just to lose 100 pounds but then to keep the weight off and those changes are not easy. Okay, you might be able to they might look simple so you might look at a piece of paper and write them down and say Oh, I went from being totally sedentary I'll just need to be active every day and I was eating 5000 calories a day I'm just gonna eat 2000 or 1500 calories a day and then I'll lose the weight. Well, that's true but if you don't make lifestyle changes permanent which is a long process you will end up as statistic and statistically speaking people who lose a lot of weight 90% of the time or more gain it back and then some so if this is you and you have to lose this much weight I would give you two to five years is what I would say. In fact, I wouldn't even think of it that way the way I would think of it is I'm gonna make small changes stick with them and slowly change my lifestyle and the weight loss will happen as a side effect is how that's how I would do it. Yeah, and whoever's asking this question I'm sure that's not the answer you're looking for you probably want to hear that to be faster but here's the here's the the exciting part about this is you can actually only lose 25 to 50 pounds on the scale this year you know or the next year and completely make your body look different so I mean a number like 100 pounds of fat is like this arbitrary number that like most people go oh I'm 250 or 300 or 350 I have to get off x amount off of you but your body will look completely different if you do this correctly and still only lose 25 or 50 on the scale if you have you know built in a good training program you're dieting well you're eating well you're not starving your body you're not running up your your calorie expenditure like crazy just trying to drop pounds as fast as you can and you're actually trying to make these lifestyle changes that Sal's talking about you can look completely different 25 or 50 pounds different on the scale because if you've done it right you'll have built muscle along the way while also burning body fat versus somebody who just does the the route that Sal was saying which is okay can I do 100 pounds in a year yes you can I mean dramatically cut your calories in half run like crazy just move every single day I mean you can lose that weight the problem is you're gonna lose a ton of body fat along the way and you're also gonna lose a bunch of muscle along the way and your body composition is not going to be that much better had than had you done it slow and control and you also gain it back because okay you got to understand something when when when I say big lifestyle changes your lifestyle is a part of who you are okay how you live so imagine living in a way that's completely different from the way you live now in a way that requires new discipline new structure and and you're taking away some of your favorite ways to self-medicate whether it's for boredom stress anxiety whatever you're removing that you're removing your favorite drug which is to mediate with food you're adding in new activities totally different lifestyle which means you're probably gonna hang out with people differently you're probably gonna do different thing that is a major change to change that overnight and then to keep it permanent almost impossible it's a slow process it's much more of a takeaway and punishment driver that's gonna get you there quicker quicker I look at it like like this like if I had a scantron and I'm going through this test and I just memorized all the answers and then I got there and I was able to pass the test and you know I got there but then you go back and did you learn anything you didn't really learn anything you need to go through all the hard steps to really understand you know what's happening with your body and why you're you're you're driven to eat certain kinds of foods when that happens what kind of stressful situation triggers certain things like what kind of sleep you need to get like all of these factors matter for you going forward so it lasts and also having compassion for yourself one of the things that's really tough when you get someone at this date they want to go in and they want to beat themselves up like crazy reduce the calories well they've had a realization oh my god look what I did to myself right and so somebody that comes to me with this goal I normally actually tell them I don't want to lose any weight at first and they hate to hear that from me but it's like I want I want to build these good behaviors I want to build your metabolism I want to start to do things with you that I that's going to last you for the rest of your life and if all you cared about was weight yeah I could give you the answers to tests like like Justin said just cut your calories in half get in here move twice as much and you're going to lose body fat you're going to lose weight it's going to come off of you but you know my goal for you is to change your behaviors to change your life forever and that's actually a slow and gradual process and you don't want to and this doesn't matter if you're trying to lose 100 pounds or 20 pounds that first month the six months that I get somebody like this or that wants to lose anything I don't want to lose at first at first I want to regain balance I want to introduce foods that they should be eating more of into their diet versus going right into saying hey take away cut cut cut cut cut okay so here's your strategy and I've worked with quite a few people who've lost an excess of 70 pounds and towards the end of my career I actually had a lot of success but he was here was how we did it this is where we actually found success this is by the way one of the hardest segments of the population to to get permanent results or to get long lasting results one of the most difficult when you're dealing with over 60 pound of weight loss it gets very very hard but here's the strategy that I use towards the end of my career that actually had a pretty good success rate so what you want to do is you want to remember that the inner changes cause the outer changes so we want to focus on working on the inside of you and I don't mean physically I mean just kind of working the inside you know more from an esoteric standpoint I guess so do this hire yourself a trainer that's real important now that's for your exercise and work with a trainer that has worked with people in your situation don't hire the boot camp trainer don't hire the extreme motivational trainer that's going to beat you up hire the trainer that's going to start you off slow that's empathetic that's actually telling you to slow down not the one that's trying to kick you in the butt and trying to make you do crazy amounts of workout so that's number one number two hire yourself a good therapist the therapist is going to be someone you're going to work with on a weekly if not biweekly basis and you're going to be working with them for a long time this therapist is going to be one of the most valuable people you have in your arsenal because again a lot of the changes you're making to your lifestyle are more than just changing your diet and becoming more active actually has it's about root causes to the reasons why reasons why you've been living the way you have so trainer, therapist and if you throw a third person in there then I would throw in somebody who's a nutrition expert in my experience working with those people when I've worked with clients like this the therapist and especially if they had someone do nutrition we had tremendous success and it was permanent success these are people that I haven't worked with for years I still see on social media who've still been able to keep the weight off and they still see a therapist on a relatively regular basis because again this is a hard thing to work with but they did not go backwards and gain all that weight back next question is from Imoi5 What do you think about gastric bypass or any surgical procedure to help lose weight? This, okay gastric bypass will make you lose weight but it's not going to cure your problem so gastric bypass forces you to lose weight okay because they completely reconstruct your stomach make it the size of a thumb so you're literally physically forced to eat less unfortunately it does not solve the root reason of why you were eating so much in the first place now in some cases I can see value there's some emergency cases your health is so bad they're like we just need to do this and then we'll worry about the other stuff afterwards but it's not going to solve the root cost most in my experience the people I've worked with who've been this is kind of connected to the previous question right the people that I've worked with who have to lose this much weight because gastric bypass is usually for people who need to lose a tremendous amount of weight in my experience there's a lot of pain and suffering behind that and what ends up happening when you remove their their you know medicated their medication of choice which was food they're left now with struggle like oh my god how do I how do I medicate this pain or this issue that I have some of them turn to drugs some of them turn to sex some of them turn to other addictions so it'll make you lose weight but it's not going to fix I only I only see value in this when it is life or death if it's life or death if you've got somebody doctor says listen you've got at the rate you're going the weight you are the conditions that you have you're going to die in a year or two if you don't get this weight off and so to me I see that right and I've seen that I've seen that plenty of times and that makes sense then I've also seen people that have tried to gain weight so they could actually apply oh my god I saw that and be approved for gastric bypass now that is insane to me and I've actually had clients that have tried to hire me yeah they didn't qualify so they had to gain weight yes they weren't it's crazy they weren't overweight enough and they want to get the gastric bypass and so they've hired me to help them put weight on them before they go get it and I just refuse to do that so I think that for that reason and then here's the other thing like so with like like liposuction right that would be the other surgery that would see again almost everybody puts almost everybody it's like super high everybody puts body fat percent body fat goes back up and let me tell you and I've seen a lot of these bodies obviously working in the gym for as long as we have it looks weird I mean and I would challenge anybody that's that's actually seeing these pictures of what people look like when they've done liposuction and they go then they go back and they put 20 pounds or more of body fat on and now that they've like artificially sucked it out of their body different than the way it would come on or come off of your body yeah it now makes you look weird like I've seen people do like the well some other places now yeah I've seen people do these tummy tucks and they drop 20-30 pounds from the tummy tuck and then they still have the lily flabby arms then they put the 20 pounds back on and then it looks all disproportion it looks really really weird and you'd rather have them I mean I would rather just be overweight than to be all proportion there was a there was actually a member of my gym that did that got lipo on their trunk actually consulted with me beforehand and I tried to convince them to go the trainer route and the nutrition route they said no they got a lot of body fat were taken off their trunk anyway months later they started gaining the weight back and what was really weird they weren't gaining it around the trunk like they did before but their face and their shoulders yes they look all gaining body fat and it was like oh my gosh this looks really really strange sorry yeah I mean I've heard I haven't heard of actually gaining weight that's crazy to me you know leading in to get the surgery because I've seen you know there's at least some doctors out there that are like well you know in order to even you know do this surgery and put you under you're going to need to lose this weight and they have to like prove that they can lose weight for at least like a month and and do like a regular like fitness routine and like you know have some kind of discipline so you know I think if if it depends on you know on the place but also like the extreme kind of life or death situation is really the only place I see value next question is from Haley Green-Strong what career do you have massive respect for but would never be able to do oh what would I say can we can I say single mother here because like does that count and I think this is a single parent yeah no yeah trying to buy some points I think you would know it's like single mother doing any job like literally if you're all by if you're all by yourself as a parent I don't give a shit if you're a librarian or you sit at ampm fucking working all day like that I don't care what the job is if you're trying to manage making a living while also raising a child oh gosh that's insane I feel like and I know I couldn't do it I know I would I would just fail miserably I'd be a terrible dad or I'd be broke because a joke can be a great dad to be one of the other I don't know if I could do both yeah Jessica has a friend who has a I think a three-year-old or two-year-old and a new baby who's three months old and she's a single mom and she works takes care of both of them and I'm just like I don't know how you don't you know burn out or die like this is insane what an incredibly difficult job so aside from a single parent I think one time I volunteered to teach a kindergarten class and talked to them did you really I did so I used to volunteer I've done fourth grade fifth grade sixth grade I've done junior high junior high was fun I did high school and then I did kindergarten and I was supposed to go and talk about nutrition to a bunch of little tiny kids and you know show pictures and do that kind of stuff and I I was I did it for like it was like two hours like I did like you know 30 minutes and they took a break another third and then it went to lunch and it came back and I was fucking exhausted and I was like I don't know how teachers control this many children this age it's saying it's absolutely requires everything I lose my mind oh dude I was so exhausted afterwards I didn't know how they did I remember when I when I left I told her I'm like you you're a champion no I don't know how you did it I was I was those are great examples though I just immediately thought of astronauts I don't know because like I'm a sorry are you watching are you watching that show right now the just started so don't quiz me okay yeah okay it's it's good so far but yeah just to see like what they go through and like like and they rarely ever even get to go to space you know and just to see like you know how brilliant you have to be to start right you gotta be like an astrophysicist to you know you have to have like they're every pedigrees you know of everything yeah you'll be able to be able to build a rocket on top of building you gotta yeah you gotta problem-solve under like extreme conditions like you gotta be an in-hot-spinning there's super athletes you know super athletes like I mean there's no appeal for me like to go to space as much as I love sci-fi like there's nothing out there for us what the fuck are we doing you know like there's nothing you can't terraform these places like they're just it's just like the worst desert possible with no air to breathe yeah they're they're like as close to superhuman as you could imagine yeah I remember when you went up and flew in the jet with the fighter pilot and Jason how many how many Gs did he take you he did nine 9.3 now imagine flying in nine Gs and knowing what you're doing yeah how do you do that I don't know like it's totally like it's baffling to me that's a great example because a lot of those guys like you know the top tier like fighter pilots like some of them go you know into the the space programs and stuff after that but yeah even them they have like they're brilliant and they're they're you know physically crazy with all that stuff that's insane look mine pump is recorded on video as well as audio come find us on youtube mine pump podcast you can also find all of us on instagram look for Justin at mine pump Justin you can find me at mine pump Sal and Adam at mine pump Adam now the next one this one's also very important and that's to eat carbohydrates if you've ever gone a low carb diet you know that you start to notice a reduction in performance and then if you're somebody that enjoys the pump it kind of starts to disappear and this is because carbohydrates attract water into the bottom