Dynamic Dialogue with Danny Matranga - 102 - 8 Fitness Fads that Need to Die!

Episode Date: May 14, 2021

In this episode, coach Danny outlines the EIGHT fitness fads he thinks are the most harmful and the ways in which they expedite the already alarming spread of fitness misinformation.---Thanks For Listening!---RESOURCES/COACHING: I am all about education and that is not limited to this podcast! Feel free to grab a FREE guide (Nutrition, Training, Macros, Etc!) HERE! Interested in Working With Coach Danny and His One-On-One Coaching Team? Click HERE! Want To Have YOUR Question Answered On an Upcoming Episode of DYNAMIC DIALOGUE? You Can Submit It HERE!Want to Support The Podcast AND Get in Better Shape? Grab a Program HERE!----SOCIAL LINKS: Sign up for the trainer mentorship HEREFollow Coach Danny on INSTAGRAMFollow Coach Danny on TwitterFollow Coach Danny on FacebookGet More In-Depth Articles Written By Yours’ Truly HERE!Support the Show.

Hey, everybody, welcome in to another episode of the dynamic dialogue podcast. Today's episode episode 102. We will be breaking down what I believe to be the eight worst fitness fads that have ever graced or maybe in this case, disgraced the fitness, health, wellness wellness nutrition industry why talk about these fads uh i think it's quite important that we really begin to examine the ways in which misinformation or disinformation right they're different not by much the definition of disinformation is false information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media, right? So this isn't necessarily disinformation. It's more misinformation, which would be categorized as false or inaccurate information intended to deceive.

intended to deceive. And I think that a lot of these products, particularly the fads that we'll talk about today, all eight of them have contributed massive amounts of confusion and disinformation. And that's really what I want to unpack because these really haven't gone away. And if they have, all they've really done is leave the door open for other kind of crappy, nasty, just what I would call generally false information to just kind of permeate just come rushing through that door um and it plays on people's you know desire to improve their health which is to me what makes it particularly unfortunate um you know these are things that people purchase because they want to live a healthier life they want to look better they want to you know they want to be appreciated for their bodies. Maybe they're not confident. Maybe they're not

happy with the way that they look. And all of these products, all the fads that we'll go through today are things that I think really, really play on that. And we'll talk about, as we unpack them, why they're particularly dangerous. Because it would take me all of 10 seconds to name these eight fads. But I don't think that gives you, the listener, a whole lot of value. I don't think it really unpacks what it is that's going on in our space and how, whether you're a hobbyist, an enthusiast, or you're just somebody looking to improve your fitness, how you can kind of, one, prevent this stuff from continuing to be so pervasive and leaving

a stain on our industry. And two, hopefully this will protect you moving forward if you are somebody who's maybe fallen victim to some of these kind of fads. But before we break that down, as always, guys, I just want to thank you for subscribing to the podcast. It really makes a big difference for me, for my brand, for my business, and what I'm trying to accomplish in the health and fitness space, whether that's helping people improve their performance, get on stage for something like a bodybuilding show, or just a mom somewhere who wants to lose a little bit of weight so she can better chase her kids around. I'm really here just trying to make the biggest difference that I can,

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It's been around for a while. It kind of peaked in 2017, but it's maybe 2018, but it's stood the test of time. So have things like Zumba, they've kind of lasted. And one of the things that I wanted to do is I kind of wanted to pick things that were either definitively had passed, uh, their, their fad window still unpack that, uh, that I thought were either at the peak of their fad window, where they're really popular, particularly right now, or I think they might become a bigger fad as we move along. So I wanted to kind of talk about that too, because I think that gives us some insights as to how these things take off and really become pervasive in health and fitness culture. But a fad is defined as an intense or widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially something that is short-lived without

a basis in the object's qualities or a craze. Okay. So that's the definition we're working with here with regards to fads. And we're going to open up with number one, and this is something that, or I should apologize. We're going to open up with number eight and work our way down to one in these eight worst fitness fads. And number eight is going to be detox teas, particularly teas that label themselves as enhancing fat burning, okay? Enhancing leanness, particularly working in ways to minimize bloating. There are a lot of teas that are marketed as having particularly detoxifying effects on the body, which to me is deeply, deeply concerning. And again, we'll unpack all this, but detox slash fitness teas. Teas or beverages that are marketed as having a substantial effect on your body composition,

your leanness, or your body's ability to quote-unquote rid itself of toxins. So first and foremost, why I think that this fad is particularly harmful, and I want to unpack each fad in this way. I think that this fad is harmful because it plays to the idea that you can have some pretty advanced physiological responses from drinking a beverage made from tea or other appetite suppressing herbs. And unfortunately, it is not that simple. Another reason that I think these are quite dubious, and we'll talk more about this as we go, is because they leverage the power of influencer marketing. And influencer marketing, in my opinion, is really, really nasty in our space in particular.

Now, I know what you might be thinking. Well, Danny, you have some followers on Instagram. Does that not qualify you as an influencer? In truth, it probably does. I don't really think of myself as one. And that might be due to modesty, insecurity, or just the fact that, you know, I don't have a bajillion followers like some of these people. But the detox tea wave really rode in on the back of influencer marketing. Why I think that's particularly dubious is because even though at face value, most intelligent people could probably look at a tea and go, how is that going to make me fit? How is that going to make me lean? How is that

going to help me with my bloating? How is drinking that going to quote unquote detoxify my body? At face value, intelligent human beings with critical thinking skills, and again, it's worth noting, not everybody out there has developed critical thinking skills. And again, it's worth noting, not everybody out there has developed critical thinking skills. But they'll kind of inherently go, oh, my bullshit detector turns on a little bit here. But the problem is when you leverage somebody who already has what I would describe as a connection with their audience, and maybe they've built some trust, it kind of bypasses those things. Because people will say, well, that influencer I really like takes them and I do their workouts or they look like they look

great. So things that at face value don't make a lot of sense. And again, we'll unpack this idea a lot because this is a recurring theme can really bypass that if it's presented to you from somebody who you trust or maybe you think you should trust. And so as kind of an aside, as we move through this, and you can take anything I say with a grain of salt as well, because I am not immune in any way to your judgment, but I do think we should be

particularly judgmental of products that leverage influencer marketing over actual substantial science, particularly if they're supplements. We want to see clinical trials. We want to see recurring themes in that data. We want to see recurrent themes of efficacy. We want to know what those dosages are. And with these teas, we just don't. What we know is that they're unbelievably cheap to produce. They're sold for pretty hefty price tags, enough so that the influencers who kind of show for these get a kick, but also that the supplement companies make a really large profit. And at face value, beyond the inclusion of some herbs that might suppress appetite and caffeine, which tends to have an appetite suppressing effect at certain dosages, right? Beyond those two things, there are very few things you could include into a detox or fitness tea that would perform or help the body lose fat, reshape, reduce bloating,

or even detoxify in any measurable way. There's not a lot of science to support our ability to do any of those things using what's added to these teas. It's just the truth. And with regards to detoxification, one of the nasty things about this in particular is it's created this narrative that for some reason, people think that their body is loaded with toxins. And I understand where that comes from, right? We know that societally, at least here in America, we could be quite a bit healthier and we're exposed to a variety of different chemicals, whether that's in food, whether that's in food packaging, whether it's environmental things, and all of that's very, very real. And allowing your liver and kidneys, who do the

primary job of detoxifying the body, to do their jobs correctly, we might think that we need assistance. Truth of the matter is, we're probably not going to get that assistance from these T's. So these are something that I believe to be quite dubious, and that's why they came in and they're our lead off here at number eight. Moving on to number seven, and this is a two-part one. And one of them is kind of a long-gone fad that's died off, and the other one is very much prevalent. And I thought that they worked well together because we could kind of talk about theoretically why these things continue to persist. And that is number seven, waist trainers and sauna suits. So sauna suits were just big, basically plastic suits that you wore over your body when you exercise that enhanced the amount of fluid that you lost from sweat. And those kind of by and large went away with time as

people realized that the weight that they were losing exercising from wearing the sauna suit was water weight. And so even though they were marketed as extremely effective weight loss products, which in truth, they are the general fitness acumen amongst like general population, people don't differentiate between weight loss and fat loss. And that's really critical, particularly for somebody like myself, who's working with clients, I want to be able to delineate, are we losing weight from water, muscle tissue, fat, all of the above? And if so, what percentage of each we losing? How can we measure that? Right? And general population, people go, oh, scale went down, this thing works,

this is great. Then they gain all the weight back because they figured out it was water, which then led to kind of sauna suits falling out of favor. And another product, I don't want to say took its place, but kind of, again, inserted itself as a product that enhances sweating. And that's particularly localized. And that would be the waist trainer. And what I mean localized is that you wear it around your waist. So it's going to create compression and heat that will enhance the fluid that you lose, particularly from that midsection. And this isn't rocket science. If you've ever exercised wearing compression clothing, you notice that compression creates heat and that lack of air exchange or breathability, right? And a lot of our workout

fabrics are designed to enhance breathability. The less breathable something is, the more congestion, the more sweat you'll get. And so these waist trainers work really through what I would describe as two primary, or let's say three primary mechanisms. Localized sweating to reduce the amount of fluid around the midsection, which could make your waist appear smaller. sweating to reduce the amount of fluid around the midsection, which could make your waist appear smaller. Atrophy of the core musculature because the body begins to rely on the tightness of the actual brace or corset or waist trainer in place of using the core musculature. So atrophy of the core musculature could in like over time lead to a more quote unquote trim waistline. However, you do not want atrophy of your core musculature if you give a rat's ass

about your performance. And then that last little piece is something that I would just describe as general awareness. And you become relatively keyed into the fact that you have this on and it might actually enhance your ability to control your breathing, your core, your intrinsic abdominal musculature so that maybe you're able to look better on stage if you're a bodybuilder. And that's maybe the one element of these that I think is understandable. Like I could give you the thumbs up there, but for general population, particularly women who want to lose weight and lose weight around their midsection, the idea that you can just throw one of these on and it's just going to be magic is mildly frustrating because it totally circumvents the discussion that we really need to be having,

which is about energy balance. You cannot lose body fat without being in a calorie deficit, even if you wear one of these tools and the water weight will come back. And if your idea of creating a body that you want to feel proud of involves a small waist, there are plenty of ways to enhance the visual kind of slenderness of your waist by developing your lats, your delts, your glutes. All of those things will do that, especially if you get lean enough. But I don't think you're going to see any remarkable change from these. And again, it's completely polluted the fitness narrative of spot targeting fat loss. We were starting to get away from it. People were starting to get it. And then these came out and they really blew up. And

again, it kind of muddies the waters because you go, well, I heard from this one trainer that maybe you can't spot target fat loss, but my friend wears a waist trainer and her waist is super snatched. So I don't know what to believe. And that kind of stuff right there is how most people operate in our space. And so that to me is kind of a problem. Moving on to number six, and this is a funny one. This is one that I've actually fallen victim to quote unquote victim, if you would even call it that. And that is Rich Piana's eight hour arm day YouTube video. And again, this is probably not nearly as egregious as the other two. It's just these aren't in any sequential order. But this to me is funny for two reasons. One, kind of in the title, eight hour arm day. Really? Like, do we really believe that any human being on earth has any business training for eight hours a day? Certainly not. And 14 year old Danny had absolutely, or probably 16 year old Danny had no business going to the gym with eight protein shakes. I forget what it was you were supposed to bring for carbs, but you were supposed

to drink like a protein shake every hour and just train arms for eight hours. And Rich Piana, rest in peace, guaranteed that you would gain like an inch on your arms. And this isn't to say that an eight-hour hellacious arm workout or that hard training or the training for longer or the training with more volume isn't an effective way to elicit hypertrophy. It's the fact that this YouTube video got 2 million fucking views. And there are a lot of people out there that get their identity as to how they can train most effectively for muscle gain from YouTube.

I did that early on in my training career. And that was a huge mistake because the truth of the matter is natural lifters, particularly young male natural lifters, particularly young male natural lifters. And if you've ever wondered the breakdown of like fitness content on YouTube, it's consumed almost entirely by dudes. Like dudes love YouTube. YouTube has an old, like a crazy high male user base. Like men spend more time on YouTube than women, particularly in the fitness genre. Nothing wrong with that. But stuff like this really kind of circumvents the fact that any natural young lifter, and that's who would probably watch a video like this. Let's be honest. Anybody who's

been lifting for two, three years probably knows better. And I don't think there's a woman on earth and maybe there is, and I might be making assumptions here that's going to watch and then go through with an eight hour. You know what? There are women who would do this. That's perhaps a little bit of a myopic old school view. But let's just say this. Most of the people who watched this video, I'm confident, were young men. And most young men who are in the peak of their testosterone producing years don't need to train for eight hours ever. Certainly not for their arms. They don't need to train for six hours. They don't need to train for eight hours ever. Certainly not for their arms. They don't need to train for six hours. They don't need to train for four hours. They don't need to train for two

hours. They might need to train for one hour hard. A young man in his prime at the peak of his testosterone following a progressive resistance training program will gain a ton of muscle. Absolutely no need to do anything like this. And this video getting 2 million views, thousands and thousands of people trying it, most people not getting it done. You would kind of think that with that, oh, you'll learn your lesson, but it continues to entrench the idea that more training is better. And while there is some truth to that, it's important to remember that better training is better. There is never a substitute for high quality training. And so eight hours of crappy armwork isn't going to get you very far if you don't have the other elements in place. And this is one of those fads that, again, it kind of leaked and polluted the narrative. the narrative. Hey guys, just wanted to take a quick second to say thanks so much for listening to the podcast. And if you're finding value, it would mean the world to me if you would share it

on your social media. Simply screenshot whatever platform you're listening to and share the episode to your Instagram story or share it to Facebook. But be sure to tag me so I can say thanks and we can chat it up about what you liked and how I can continue to improve. Thanks so much for supporting the podcast and enjoy the rest of the episode. Moving down to number five, and this one is a fad that has come and totally gone, but it is going to kind of be a segue into what I think is a much bigger problem. And this is Skechers Shape-Ups shoes. And the reason that these absolutely exploded was they announced, they had their product launch advertisement during the Superbowl. And it was an ad featuring Kim Kardashian, who at that point was at the absolute peak of her power, quote unquote power.

And the commercial effectively goes, she's looking really hot. She's got her sports bra on. She's looking cool. She breaks up with her personal trainer because she doesn't need him anymore because she's wearing her Skechers shape up shoes. And these shoes are shaped in such a way that they build your glutes and tone your tummy. Anybody with a discerning, remotely functioning brain would go, that seems kind of stupid, which is why these shoes didn't last very long. However, why I brought this up is this, the real fad here, the fad within the fad is the ability for marketers in the same way they leverage, you know, smaller scale influencers to leverage celebrities and the power and pull that celebrities have over the health decisions of general population individuals. Uh, and they

can be pretty destructive. They really can be, you know, like it's not uncommon for the diets that musicians or actresses or actors do to get in shape for movies to become things that people try themselves, even when they're probably not healthy or sustainable. qualifications that people have when they're presenting information. And when you leverage a personality, or I should say, in this case, a personal brand with as much reach and as much power as Kim Kardashian had then that she very much still has now, you're going to get a lot of buy-in. And the unfortunate truth is that, and this isn't a Kardashian bashing session, that might have almost rhymed. That opened the door for her to become an authority in the health and fitness space. And like, let's be entirely honest here. Like totally honest. Kim Kardashian has an extremely mediocre body. Probably if we, you know, completely remove the support she has through augmentation, through her ability to

probably have access to some of the best trainers and nutritionists in the world. Like if you take all that away, what is your expertise? Do you have any? I don't necessarily think she does. Is she genetically blessed? Yes. All of the women in her family have beautiful bodies. Have all of those women have had some type of augmentation? Quite possibly. I tend to believe that most of them have. Is that an indictment on their character? No. Should you ever judge a woman who decides to get work done on her body? No. However, where I draw the line is when people who have had that type of work done, or perhaps they're just genetically gifted and blessed, and maybe they have access to things

that other people don't, like really quality personal trainers and great food. And in her case, maybe even a chef to then go on national TV in front of the largest audience that you could ever get the Super Bowl and project that the body you have came from a pair of shoes is unbelievably misleading and frustrating. And celebrities do this stuff all the time. Like Shaq, I love the guy. Shaquille O'Neal, one of the best basketball players ever, probably the best center, most dominant center I can think of. You could make an argument for Will, you could make an argument for Kareem, but Shaq, come on. Shaq is all over these ads for over-the-counter testosterone boosters. And you just watch the ad, you're like, oh my God, Shaq, come on. You know it's bogus, but the amount of money that these companies will put behind celebrities to endorse their products is quite high. And if people don't want to say no, we end up clouding the space with celebrity endorsements, which I think are even more

destructive than social media influencer endorsements. So that to me is kind of a problem. Moving on to number four, Fitbits, but probably not for the reason that you think. I think in general, Fitbits have been a net positive. I like that they give people the ability to see their heart rate, to measure their steps, and maybe even to get a rough estimate and gamify just how many calories they burn. The problem I have with a Fitbit is that they have created this myopic obsession amongst exercisers that they need to focus on the amount of calories that they burn during their training, more so perhaps in the amount of calories they burn throughout the day. Why does this matter? Well, when we look at what we call TDEE, total daily energy expenditure, we find that only a small percentage of our total daily energy expenditure comes from exercise. And if you really focus in on how many calories you burn during your workout, which in truth for these devices, Fitbits, Apple watch, you name it. They're all

extremely, extremely variable and they're not very consistent and they're not necessarily too accurate. What you get is you go, Hey, I burned 500 calories during my workout. And that view is a little bit myopic because one, that data is probably incorrect. And two, if you're following a calorie controlled eating plan, and you've calculated for your activity level, those calories have already been added in. And so what a lot of people do is they then either go eat back those calories, or they don't acknowledge, like I said previously, that of your total daily energy expenditure, only a small percent comes from exercise. The largest percentage comes from something called NEAT. And that's why I brought up steps. Steps on the Fitbit I quite like because they are a metric that we can use to measure NEAT,

non-exercise activity thermogenesis. And if you add steps and you measure steps and you use that as a metric of NEAT, that's probably a better long-term way to enhance your fat loss than by just trying to get the highest amount of calories burned possible from your Fitbit. Because people get into this idea of, oh, I did a workout, but I only burned 300 calories. Well, maybe that workout was stimulating to your muscle tissue. It was particularly damaging to your muscle tissue. So you'll burn more calories recovering and growing new tissue. And that added muscle will elevate your metabolic rate.

It's not exercising should not be about burning as many calories as possible. In my opinion, it should be about building and fortifying what your body is capable of. Use nutrition and NEAT to, again, really enhance your energy balance goals. Like if you want to lose fat and you don't, you want to cut your calories, great. You don't, up your NEAT. Like we've got different levers we can pull here. your calories, great. You don't up your knee. Like we've got different levers we can pull here, but the Fitbit fad and the obsession with posting how many calories you burn after finishing your workout, in my opinion, has been somewhat problematic. So moving on to number three,

and again, I could be incorrect about any one of these things, but I wanted to unpack these so we could have a better discussion about how these things influence people's decisions in our space. And again, whether you're a trainer, you're a hobbyist, or you're an enthusiast, this should give you something to really look at, consider, and sit with for a while. Number three is juice cleanses. And these have kind of peaked more recently, perhaps, of all of the things on this list. These are the most popular at this point in time. And while I think that vegetables, fruits, juices in general are unbelievably nutritious and adding them into your diet is almost always going to be positive and healthful, only drinking juice for several days

in the name of losing weight is silly. And if you do a quote unquote cleanse where you're like drinking this juice with the expectation that it's going to cleanse and detox your body, it's not going to do that. If anything, it's just a break from eating like a total asshole that you probably would get. You'll lose a lot of water weight because you probably will be reducing your carbohydrate intake. Even though a lot of these juices contain fruit, most of them come from vegetables. And vegetables, when you juice them, don't yield a lot of carbohydrate. So you'll see quite a bit of water weight loss, probably some glycogen loss. If you don't have adequate protein, which is very difficult to get from juice, so we can assume that most people that do this don't get enough protein, you'll likely see muscle loss. And the thing that I hate the

most is when you finish these juice cleanses, which can be anywhere from one to seven days, you've done nothing to modify your eating habits. So the likelihood of you putting that weight back on is extremely high. And, you know, the likelihood of you having any detoxification effect is extremely low. The likelihood of having any cleansing effect is extremely low. And I'm not going to dissuade anybody from drinking high quality juice from fruits and vegetables. I think that that can be fine.

I think if you're trying to lose weight, you probably want to focus a little bit more on getting vegetable specific juices because they yield less calories. If you're trying to get your micronutrients from juice, it's a fine thing to do. But the idea that all you need to do is remove these foods that are bad and just drink these foods because they come from vegetables and they're natural, it does make sense. And why I believe that this is a little bit dubious isn't necessarily because it makes no sense to me, but it's because it makes a lot of sense to the uninitiated and they become extremely, extremely popular. Okay. Number two are 12, 8, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, you name it. Weak challenges. The old 12 week fat loss summer shred. I hate these.

And I hate these for different reasons than you might think. Let me first tell you what I do like about them. Most of them involve community. Most of them involve a definitive start and end point. And most of them can be effective at yielding results. I love all those things. And if you're going to choose between a 12-week challenge or nothing, do the 12-week challenge 100 out of 100 times. Doing something stupid is probably better than doing nothing. And I know that sounds a little bit silly, but bear with me. I really think that most people exercising, even in a way that most of us who are initiated might find silly, is so much better than them doing nothing. And again, I don't want to poo-poo on anything that

if you were going to do nothing, you know, well, now I'm just not going to do anything. If that's what you're going to go do, go do it. But here is the thing with 12-week challenges. If there's no educational component, if there's no sustainability baked into the nutrition or the training, which there almost never is, all you'll do is, and this is very popular with gyms or bootcamp classes or online fitness personalities, get as many people as you can to do the exact same thing for a definitive amount of time and give a prize to the person who does the best. Everybody else, it's not hands-on.

It's not specified. It usually has absolutely zero foresight as to what to do after that 8, 10, 12-week challenge is over. And so in many ways, people do these. They don't see very good results, or they do see very good results, but they can't sustain them. And they become unbelievably pervasive. And they're really, really, really popular right now. And so that's why these made the list. But again, I'm not a huge fan. I prefer to take a slow, sustainable, tailored approach. And again, in full disclosure, it probably makes sense that I would feel that way because

I offer one-on-one online coaching, which is basically, or one-on-one in-person coaching even, which is the antithesis of this. So that might be my own bias coming to the table, which is why I think it's important to acknowledge that they're certainly better than nothing. But in general, it's a good idea to have an exit strategy in everything that you do with exercise, particularly if it's going to be rigorous or related to your fat loss. All right, guys, the last one. This is number one.

These drive me bananas, probably not as much as some of the other stuff. But again, I got eight for you. And that is the explosion of Instagram swipe workouts, TikTok workouts, and reels workouts. Again, if you were not going to work out, but you went on Instagram and you saw somebody who you think has a great physique and you admire them and you look up to them and you want to look like them and you go to the gym and you do their workouts, that is so much better than doing nothing. However, these workouts, particularly the swipe workouts, the TikTok workouts, the reels workouts, you name it, they're not progressive. They don't include a whole lot of education. And a lot of the ones that I've seen include exercises that are stupid, entirely made up. They make no sense. Like squat, curl, press,

lateral raise, RDL, four sets of 10, all with the same dumbbells. Never put the, what are we doing here? What we're doing here is we're trying to create something that gets likes and shares and gets out there more than we're trying to create something that actually helps people see results. Cause you could pick a different workout every day, go to the gym and maybe get somewhere. But if you followed a program, unsexy as it may be, you'll almost always get there. And so again, that could be my bias speaking because you can head over to my website

and peruse any of the programs that I've made for people just like that, who are probably inclined to fall into the pit of doing a different Instagram workout every day. But if you're looking for something different or something cool or something fun or something novel, but there's never any progression baked in, you're not going to get very far. So guys, the eight fitness fads that drive me absolutely nuts right now, detox teas, waist trainers, what I would call click-baity YouTube videos that promote extreme

training for people who probably don't need it to make really good results. Sketcher Shape-Ups, which is just kind of a scapegoat for overall celebrity marketing of fitness products. Fitbit and the myopic obsession of the calories burned aspect more than their ability to help with sleep and need. Juice cleanses, challenges, fat loss challenges, and the pervasive kind of just nastiness and stickiness of workouts on TikTok

and Instagram. So guys, I hope you found this podcast valuable. If you did, be sure to share it because you never know who might need to hear this. There's probably multiple people out there who have either tried all these things or are actively falling into these traps as we speak. We want to help those people out. So share this to your story. Be sure to tag me if you haven't already. Leave me a five star rating and review on iTunes. I appreciate every single one of you. Stay tuned for the next episode and have a wonderful, wonderful day.