Dynamic Dialogue with Danny Matranga - 418: Speed up Your Training, Surviving the Holiday, MTG Resigns + More!

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

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Welcome in, everybody, to another episode of the Progressive Overload Project. As always, I'm your host, Danny Matrana, joined today by Matt Lakoko. Today we're talking about fitness, nutrition, sports, culture, politics, and more. We'll kick the episode off, starting with probably the most efficient way to maximize your resistance training by taking advantage of supersets talking about how we like to use supersets and how you can use supersets in your own training. We'll talk a little bit about nutrition, especially navigating the holidays. We're post- Thanksgiving. Talk about how to handle the post- Thanksgiving rebound and move on from that. I'll also share a little bit about my trip to Japan, talking about the food costs and the

kind of nutritional differences there. A little more on that. We'll talk about holiday stress culture, all the kind of moving around, how to manage it all, what we're doing a little bit, how we're managing the stress. We'll talk politics, especially some resignations. Some of these bought accounts being exposed over on X, some interesting stuff. And we'll also talk about the stock market, Bitcoin, alternative assets like Pokemon cards, and what we think of things like the 50-year mortgage and Black Friday. But starting off with the first portion of the episode, we're going to talk about training, but specifically training methodology,

to maximize your time. I think most people who lift for, or, let's just say exercise in general they do it for three primary reasons they want to look better they want to feel better they want to live longer boom i think that's pretty true but it's very time cumbersome and i would say that if you are looking to train uh you know a balance of cardio and weights it is better to focus more on weights than cardio i'd say so yeah like maybe 60 40 70 30 not because cardio isn't important but because weights takes a little more time I think you can get a lot out of very little cardio.

But how do you get the most out of your weights if you have limited time? And most people have limited time because they're not like us. They don't work at the gym. They're not obsessed with training. And so I think the quickest answer to this and the science supports this. I saw a new literature to support this. That's why I put it in the show notes is with supersets. Just moving from one exercise into another exercise without a break.

And I do this a lot with my clients. I know you do it a lot with your clients. And just kind of sharing how to use supersets, the best type of supersets. And, like, again, this is not necessarily for maximum gains or strength or anything. It's more for how do you get the most out of your time in the gym, your client's time in the gym, whatever. I think you do it with either antagonist paired sets, supersets, whatever you want to call it. But they really make a big difference. And so we'll kick it off here with kind of, I guess, some of the same.

of the best ways to use them some of the worst ways to use them i think the worst thing you could do with the superset is like go into from one extremely fatiguing exercise that's very heavy directly into a similar extremely fatiguing exercise that's very heavy so like a heavy squat into a heavy deadlift would actually at its face seem like a good superset because it's like oh i'm getting all of my legs done it yes exactly two quick movements to just fry my entire lower body, your injury risk probably goes up because they're too fatiguing back to back.

But if you were to do something like a squat and a shoulder press, upper and lower, completely different, even though they're too, like, super challenging lift. So I think the first rule for the road is don't pair back-to-back exercises that are extremely similar and extremely difficult. Yeah, I don't think, like, compound should not.

exists in a super set together. It's probably a good point. I should say like I guess maybe it's like two upper body compound movements, two lower body compound movements. Because like to your point, a squat in an overhead press or a squat in a row, deadlift in a row, I think are good, good options, good pairings. But overall, a squat shouldn't follow a deadlift and vice versa or anything like that. Lower body compounds are harder to pair.

Right. Than upper body. Totally. Yeah. I guess you could do something like a pull up followed by like an overhead press and be totally fine. The upper body compounds pair really nice. Right.

I think the challenge with super setting lower body compound exercises is they're fatiguing, like, through the low back, aerobically, and you can just move a shit ton of weights. Like maybe something like a walking lunge that's going to be, what do you think, 90% quads and glutes, 99% quads and glutes. If you super, like, a good example of how you could use this. I actually did this exact super set when I was in Japan. I didn't want to squat in a Smith machine, which is all they had at the gym. And the leg press felt really weird. It was the weirdest angle. Like just the ergonomics and the design of the machine.

The ergonomics, exactly. The way the machine was designed was awful. It just felt so weird. Like, you know how there's horizontal leg presses? There's leg presses that descend on you, and then there's leg presses that you push up and away from. Yeah, yeah. It was like a push up and away, which is my least. least favorite yeah but kind of even shittier than that it was like a leg breast slash hack squat

and i couldn't get deep into the bottom of the squat or pattern no matter how low i went it didn't feel familiar so it's like fuck this but because i was up so early the entire gym was completely empty right and so i said i'm just going to do walking lunges up and down this hallway and at the end of each set of that walking lunge again for time i just it was early i was awake but i didn't want to be in the gym for more than 40 minutes. Right. So I went from walking lunge into a seated hamstring curl, and that actually worked perfect. Because the hamstring's not really training during that walking lunge, and the seated machine curl is so much more relaxed than the walking lunge. They do go together, but it's, again, it's not a compound into a compound. It's a compound into an isolation. So that's probably the rule for

legs. You could do a compound isolation superset, but you probably aren't going to want to do a compound compound sound super set very often. I feel like for me, if I'm going to super set legs, and I guess this is coming from the luxury of working in fitness, having your own space, having the time to do it, freedom of building your own schedule and allotting however much time to it. So I do have like upper body days and lower body days, meaning I have the time to train my whole body multiple times a week. But any leg super set I usually do is almost entirely machine based.

Yeah. Like if, and it does require like, I guess, an empty. gym to like hopping from like a leg curl to a leg extension um but like other than that and i guess when it comes to time and most people when they're strapped for time are probably looking at what like a full body kind of yeah i agree day in general so pairing an upper body and a lower body is just the most effective to have training all of the muscle groups as many times as possible a hundred percent like if you are a minimal like you're training three days a week yeah full days a week if they're all full body that is where the upper compound in the

to the lower compound can be your best friend. I think those are like the people that can benefit the most from a super set and maybe like 80% of what they have plan should be. Yeah, because you can get more in if you do that. So it's like if you are a, if you're training for a general fitness, not maximum hypertrophy,

not maximum strength, you want some gain, some strength, but you mostly just want to be fit. Like do a one arm row into a squat. Right. Into a cable lateral raise. take a break repeat like you you probably don't need to take like a long rest period at all

if you're doing like sets of eight to ten if you're doing like sets of 20 and you're just like i'm just so gasped after that set of 20 like that's different but there is a way to like almost maneuver from okay i'm going to train my upper body i'm going to train my lower body i'm going to train my core i'm going to do an isolation lift and you could sequence not just two in a super set but up to three or even four depending on the time crunch i again another thing i did in japan was like i did the reverse peck deck into the machine chest press into a cable paloff press and i was like i'm just going to do this two times and hit these muscles and then that gives you you have interchangeability there you could just switch them out be like okay my first upper

lower compound is like walking lunges into incline press right and then after i do three sets of that i'm to switch him. And I'm going to do RDLs into lap pulldowns. Right. That would work conceivably for, like you said, 80% of your time in the gym, you just do a few isolation, isolation, things you're good. For sure. And I would argue, yeah, if you are, if you're like, dude, I don't love to lift, I don't

have time to lift. I just want to get the most out of it. Doing a three-day-a-week, upper-lower program that takes advantage of supersets is perfect. Yeah, you need, like, what, three to four supersets? you can probably do that in 30 to 40 minutes 3 to 4 sets like with each exercise or pairing Yes and like I good and like you can feel really good about that Like more is not always better in the gym

Totally I think people like variety too in general So if you're like okay we're gonna do 20 total sets It's 10 for the upper 10 for the lower We're gonna do like four different exercises To like for the upper four different exercises for the lower we're going to do like a warm-up set and then a hard set. And so you'll do like your warm-up set of pull-downs and your warm-up set of walking lunges, then your hard set of pull-downs, your hard set of walking lunges,

and then we're on to the next super set. And that way, for somebody who's new and needs to practice things, you can just give them more to work with. I don't know. I think this is a good format, and I really think supersets are overused for bodybuilders who probably need to train really hard and rest longer. and underused for general population adults who don't think they have enough time to train. Yeah, sounds like there's an association of supersets with like bodybuilders

and with most people not really wanting to look like that, probably steer away from that. Yes, very good point. But from a time efficiency standpoint, because I think everybody wants to go through the path of least resistance, right? So they want the shortest amount of work for the most maximal gains. And I do genuinely think that supersets is probably, one of the main things I can think of in the gym that would help you achieve the body you're looking to achieve. Yeah, I actually remember this like planet fitness circuit they had the only time I've ever been into a planet fitness is like 10, 15 years ago. And they had a corner

of the gym that was set up as like a circuit and you could walk in and go from station one to two to three to four to five, six, seven, eight and like loop it once or twice be done and have a whole body workout. And it was like the stations were just compounds that alternated from upper to lower to abs, upper to lower to abs. And I was like, that is so dumb. I was like, that's so dumb. I would do that. And, you know, fast forward now to where I'm like, God, it's insane that nobody

fucking works out. What's the lowest, like, assignment you could give somebody that they would do? Like, oh, it's actually probably that. Like, hey, go in a circle. In that circle, you'll make eight stops. Each stop is different and works a different part of your body. But by the end, the whole thing will be fried. if everybody did that circle like 10 spots one minute at each spot it's 10 minutes a day and everybody would be in way better shape like way better so i think supersets even like circuits just allowing yourself to condense your resistance training if you're not like

maximally focused on hypertrophy allows you to get so much done in just two to three weeks and get most of benefits for sure on to food guys we're going to talk about just navigating the hot holiday season, give you a few tips. I find that people are very dramatic about the scale, especially around Thanksgiving. And I would like to give you a little tip, which is to just remember that Thanksgiving tends to be a meal where we eat a lot of food, so there's a lot of bulk in your stomach. It takes a while to get that all out, which TMI literally does mean poop. There's a lot of sodium, so you retain water. A lot of people drink more alcohol.

So this week, like when you hear this, the week after Thanksgiving, don't freak out too much if your weight is high or stays high for a few days after the holiday even a week. It's not necessarily body fat. It takes a lot of time to gain body fat. And I do think that's good to keep in mind during the holidays. Matt, do you have anything that you can think of around the holidays for eating? Yeah, I think the first thing I'd say is just allow yourself some grace because you're not, no one ever has. nor no one ever will get fat off of like one particular meal and kind of to your point about like what is body fat what is fluid retention um i i have conversations with clients about this like all the

time in terms of like what actually one pound of fat equates to from a calorie standpoint that's like 3,500 i think roughly right yeah so like i always ask someone like do you think you overate on your maintenance by 3,500 calories yesterday and they're like no i don't think so i was like well then it's definitely not a pound of fat it can't be all fat. it can't be so i think just give yourself some grace um at the end of the day like you're likely to stay consistent because most of the people i think that are being maybe a little dramatic about the scale weight in any of that like are regular gym goers and they're going to maintain that probably through the holiday season and into the new year and probably the whole rest of the calendar year

so just just don't freak out it's not the end of the world in like a matter of days or a week or so you're likely going to, like, be right back at your maintenance, like, where you started pre- Thanksgiving or pre-holiday meal. Yeah, I mean, I just think mostly it's surrounded on giving yourself some grace. And if you're really, like, that worried about, like, losing gains, and I guess you can, what, prioritize some of the more protein-centric meals that are there, maybe limit your alcohol. Well, that was my thought, my, like, third point to bounce off yours is if you are looking to make it easier to stay on track, most of our holiday.

eating and like socialization takes place in the afternoon and evening have like a high protein high fiber light breakfast for your first meal give yourself more cushion in the like afternoon and evening ultimately it's the holidays if you want to eat like the glutton and go for it then do fucking go for it but it's a lot easier to make it to lunch and dinner and like have good balance and enjoy the shit out of the food but not overeat if your first meal was like very high in protein and fiber and not necessarily like I don't know cinnamon rolls and bacon more baked goods so you're going to have cookies and ultra energy dense food that does not satiate you right like I think you could

keep that going all day just grazing in the morning into lunch into dinner but if you have like a high protein and high fiber first meal you'll have more of those key macros in the system and more satiety so you do get to enjoy the second part of the day just less so and probably eat less speaking of eating and like the cost of eating and I feel like that's very present and on people's mind especially if they're prepping for holiday meals or get-togethers or they're going out the cost of food is is noticeable we went out to dinner on Wednesday my wife and I we took the baby but he doesn't really eat and we we had Italian food I had like lasagna she had chicken Alfredo she had a glass of wine we got

one appetizer, the cheapest one, brusetta, brisketta, and fucking one serving of canoli, two canoli, small canoys. And with the tip, it was like 150 bucks. And so, yeah, it's 75 to 100 bucks a person if you go out and anybody orders alcohol. Unless you're in Japan, where everything is like super cheap. And I don't know if we talked about this last week. I got lamb-based because I told people food is cheap over there. They're like, fuck you American asshole.

your food's not cheap our currency's ass and your dollar's just super powerful either that or it's in the gym this week okay i told oh my god i was like you guys no it's it is multifactorial the yen sucks right the dollar is great when it comes to like purchasing power in japan the dollar is what you want i get it it is also the case that comparatively the the price of food in japan is just substantially lower than it is in america absolutely Like, I cannot imagine trying to convert yen into dollars to then use dollars to buy U.S. food if I were a Japanese traveler who was disadvantaged by the currency exchange. Because you'd be like, damn, my yen gets me like no dollars and my dollars get me like no food. And over there it's the opposite.

Right. Like, it has to be the opposite end of our experience, right? Having gone from America to Japan, I can see like the reverse happening where you might go to like, let's say like a 7-Eleven. which they got a lot of cheaper options. Yes. You get a coffee and you're like, why was this like 10,000 yen? Yes. Here you would be blown away.

And like other people were like, dude, it's just the conversion. I'm like, I promise you. Like in Starbucks for $10 U.S. dollars in Japan, you can get two drinks and like one to two pastries. And in America, yeah, in America you can maybe get one in one. You get about half that if you're lucky. And I found that to be pretty consistent. And I'm like, like I told you guys, it was like everywhere I go to eat my wife, it's like 50 to 100 bucks, easily. Per person, right?

Yes, over there it was like 30 to 60, or I'm sorry, like 15 to 25 bucks per person. It was like, so like almost half for a third. And I'm like, okay, let's assume half of this value is coming from the dollar, but the other half is coming from the fact that the food here is less impacted by inflation than it is in the United States. It's like our food is crazy expensive. And all you need to know to confirm that is like the president is actively, like, restricting the tariffs he has, like on, you name the country, let's say they import beef, and it's like a 30% tariff, not on the beef, it's zero. He's like zeroing out all the tariffs on all the things we eat because the food cost

inflation here is crazy. Now, I know it's super multifactorial. It's a combination of we don't grow. all of our own food we import it the tariffs the general inflation the supply chain all this shit right but man you can eat extremely healthy and extremely affordably in japan with u.s dollars and it really honestly like i i'm empathetic with the people who are tearing me up about the conversion like stupid american coming here and not understanding currency i'm like dude i promise like so it is some of that but like the the food prices here just trash now they're the very the very the very

value is pretty shitty well also like for those people like the american dollar is what backs like all the currencies of the world right ultimately it's the one you want to have like it's it is considered the world reserve currency and like the one commonality with all the currencies backed to the u.s dollar is the u.s. dollar so if like inflation rate or the value of the dollar is what it is that impacts like your experience and paying for anything food or or more than that you know material goods in those other countries. So yes, it does, the dollar does impact, like, your experience, but, like, it's mostly what it is. But I, again, it's like, their food, it has a lower listed MSRP when I pay for it in, when I, like, I'm like, okay, what is, what is 400 yen? What is a 1,200? And you look

it up, like, what the hell? This isn't even a dollar. Like, you know, bottles of water in are two dollars bottles of water in japan are 80 cents and i know that the dollar is giving me leverage it's allowing me to buy more for less but i also know that there is a extreme creep of the cost of what we we pay for right like uh we got the baby lots of little juice boxes lots of little pouches what are those costs like per per like a dollar or under a dollar usd and i would imagine they'd be $2 to $3 U.S.D at a gas station here. I feel like you go to Costco, which is probably the cheapest price per unit. Unit. And it's not even under a dollar.

Yeah. So I just, I think it's our, just our food costs are expensive, even with U.S. dollars. Their food costs are comparatively less expensive. And it's insane value if you have U.S. dollars. Okay, jumping into politics here. Hold up, hold up. Like, real quick, I want to go back. I forgot to mention this earlier. in terms of like the food around the holidays.

I think it's just worth mentioning in terms of like trying to feel as guilt-free as possible. And back to like those people who might be a bit dramatic if you want to call it that, who are consistent lifters, you're likely to get some of your best workouts around the holiday season because a fed body is a well-performing body at the end of the day. So trying to beat yourself up because it's likely your output in the gym like coming off some of these bigger meals and social gatherings is going to produce one hell of a workout for you, something you can really hang your hat on and feel that much better about yourself.

So try not to beat yourself up and feel super guilty about kind of what you're choosing to indulge with with the holidays and friends. I think that's a good point. A lot of opportunity to turn the extra calories into improved training sessions this time of year. That gets missed a little bit. Okay, getting into the politics of things,

just two quick points. One is that surprisingly, we had, a big resignation in the House of Representatives. Marjorie Taylor Green. MTG. Not quite common, pretty common, or I'd say common place or fixture in the Republican caucus. She's like one of the more famous representatives because of how she uses social media. The thing she said, she is kind of insane sometimes.

She's gotten, she doesn't seem as insane compared to these days. If you talk to people now because she's like come out against Trump a lot of people who are more left of center, you know, they're like, yeah, she's not so bad. I was like, okay, so she's in an interesting spot, but because of the Epstein files vote and her decision to kind of challenge Trump on it, because again, this is somebody who's in Congress because of these conspiracy type things. She could, you know, she possibly could. I don't know if she has it anymore, but I think she just wants to be out. she made her money i trump was threatening to primary her he was like look i'm mad at you now i don't like you anymore and i'm gonna spend tons of money on a republican who a hundred percent has my back and would never challenge me and she's like yeah i have a multi-million dollar net worth now i don't need to

stick around for that fucking shit i don't need to get outspent and just torn apart in a race so i think she could dip and then like re-enter the scene in like two years yeah and be like i'm running for president who the 2028 field is going to be crazy i think it's completely wide open oh yeah and she's resonating with a lot of people no doubt about it but what i think was interesting is there was some coverage on this from like punchball news amongst other places but i guess there's a lot of republicans who might resign in just frustration over the fact that okay i don't really want to be tied to this dude he might be a little bit of a sinking shit feels like the satanic yeah yeah yeah And that, like, more and more people might be like, okay, now it would be a good time to take my exit instead of getting, like, if this dude gets impeached, I don't want to fuck.

She even said this in this letter she wrote. She referenced that she didn't want to be involved in a third Trump impeachment. I think a lot of these guys, like, dude. If I have to go on record to vote for or against this guy on impeachment, and my choices are if I vote for impeachment, he will. primary me he will send somebody after my job and if i don't my entire rest of my life people are going to say like who are you protecting right who are you standing up for how could you not you know give us the information we want on this guy and like if assuming the information is bad how could you not impeach this guy for what he did so a lot of aren't going to forget we live in this digital

age where there's receipts that people are keeping and like they're they're gonna come back around. Well, no, it was, was it you that sent me the Kalshi odds for impeachment in 2026 or 55%? Yeah, it was up like 4% the last month. That's insane. That's insane. 40%. Yeah, because after the Epstein. It was like 51 like a month ago. So it's like all but assumed that the Dems are going to win the house and then immediately file articles of impeachment against Trump. I was actually talking about this earlier too, because you probably saw that Gallup poll where his like approval rating is like at an all time low. I think it's like 36%. That is an all time low. He's been.

Locked at like 37, 38%. But like who is still supporting? Like who is still that 36% and it's MAGA. Well, but if that number is going down, that means MAGA is even jumping ship. They are. Because everyone else has. That's a good point. I think the coalition that got Trump elected is like, let's say it's 48% of the voting electorate.

And it's like, common like it's 46%. And then you have like these weird third party stragglers or something. Maybe he's 50%. She's 47 and they're three. however you want to slice it right his base maga base is like that 38% number he could never go below the people who would always love him no matter what and for a long time even at his worst moments he would never go below 38% right and seeing that go lower and lower you could be right it might be indicative of the fact that there's like erosion of the base like the actual the people who buy

the merch the people who wear the hats the people who have the flags um the bumper stickers like if you lose see this is the thing if it's a general election and you lose in 2010 let's say 2016 and you lose 15% of the people in your in your um coalition but you keep that base you can find another 15% to add into your coalition later trump did this with the crypto people and the gambling people he's like i'm not i got 36 37 or 38 and i need to get to 50 and i need to get to 50 and I'll get there by piecing it together with the wackos, the anti-vags people, however, I have to get there. It's going to be hard for someone to get to that number if the base shrinks and shrinks and

shrinks. Yeah, I think you're just running out of essentially like little groups to try to pull from because at some, at this point, I think what is being created is a group of voters that are not going to vote anymore. So what you'll see is like, you know, you see these like, oh, 49, 47 percent and then like whatever, the rest is the independent, right? Like I think you're going to see like only 80% of people vote with like a closer to 15 to 20% of people that just like I didn't vote. We've had really high turnout in the last few elections because Trump is so galvanizing.

He turns lives out and like lives. It's so interesting. So but yeah, I do think going back to Marge, she's dropping out because she detects that the cult of personality that is the Republican Party and it's kind of dependence on Trump is now. in a really tricky place because he's become a liability right and how do you rebrand this party and like do you really want to be someone like her who's going to have no choice but to defend her previous positions on the epstein files and on transparency and then have to maybe vote to impeach him and have all of the chaos of that guy coming after you or take your money walk away with the best reputation you've probably had in a while yeah and some integrity and maybe come

back and resurface after some of this because like here there is a world where this guy does get impeached and then it's like okay now the Senate has to make up a decision wow that's crazy because if there's 10 Republican senators who are in an election year they're all going

to be like I can't do it he'll primary me but there might be some unlike the House which is every two years we're like dude I just got reelected I'm here for fucking six years I'll do it I'll get rid of them like and then if he it could happen over the Epstein thing, it doesn't seem like it will happen, but I don't think, I don't think even

the members of the House want to have to vote on it. Yeah. Do you think, uh, politicians and maybe, maybe it's just mostly those of the Republican Party are finding Trump like less and less scary as like this unfolds? Because I remember being like, how the hell does he have such a stranglehold on these people? Yeah. So at this point, like, I think he's like kind of going bad shit crazy a little bit yeah and people are starting to disassociate to your point and people don't want to be associated with that this they don't want to have to like face the music per se and like the rest of their political career be faced with questions that they're like man for the next i got 15 years left or whatever before i've you know realistically retire and i'm going to be like

for 15 years i got to face questions about like this shit this one vote this one vote on to protect this one thing to like you know whether it's like snap benefits or the way the military is handling certain like things in international waters and i was like i had to sit there and defend all that i think a lot of them might just be like i'm i'm dipping because trump's gone by then like i these there's no way he lives another 15 years no and he won't he he can joke about running in 2028 but he is he has a lot less power than he did this time last year because his popularity's dipped a little bit and the Epstein stuff has really hurt him. And that vote in the House, 427 to 1 to release the files,

shows that 209 Republicans who weren't going to vote for that swung on like a dime. Right. And it's like, well, there was a day not that long ago where he could call anybody in Washington and get whatever he wanted. Right. And now he can't even do that with Lauren Boehbert. Pretty much. So he's weakening.

Speaking of like the just general weakening, like I do think a lot of, like the MAGA shit is starting to just kind of become obviously stupid to people and like obviously phony to people. And this thing on X, I think was huge. You saw this, right? Like, you probably spend more time on X than I do, definitely. Yeah, I like Twitter and hate it all at the same time. But it is my favorite social media. It's fine.

Yeah, it's totally fine. But what's interesting is like all these big MAGA accounts that really spread and proliferate a lot of interesting, interesting off. color maga shit on Twitter where that stuff really goes crazy right they had a setting that went live on on x slash twitter that basically like updated the app and essentially could show you where an account originated yeah i was explaining this to my client this morning and and like she was like no shit yeah so countless of these large like multi hundred thousand follower accounts that post conservative like pro america stuff like like literally accounts like pro maga yeah like literally accounts like maga mark from texas and it's like

wait a minute this account is located in bangladesh right this account is located in turkey or serbian there's a ton of places overseas all over the place and it's like almost anywhere but america dude totally and it's like i i've been on threads and i see these like obviously rage bait accounts and i'm like oh my god like whoever is posting this is absolutely just diabolical. Like I saw this one, it's this chick, and she's like, AI, has a big rack, and like, it's

like, like, we're leaning over a car. Double guns. No, no, no. And she's like, I'm a smart, educated woman. I don't need no small penis magamand to fix my car. And I was like, this is a man. This is a democratic man.

For sure, trolling these people. And it's literally, like, the comments are incredible. They're just like i love you you're the best you're amazing honey i fuck this kind of beautiful smile yeah fuck this bitch she deserves to die yeah she wants some mag of meat that's why she posts like this and i'm like none of these people have any idea that this is completely fictitious right and designed to just evoke maximum volatility it was like it's like somebody was like okay let me post my most insidious divisive political takes from a fake account of a beautiful woman

and I will troll and pick at the insecure men specifically like dude I'll find it and I'll send you the account I see it all the time I'm like this is so bad and now this is targeting mega people the same way some of these accounts do the opposite but I'm just I'm reaching a point man where I'm like dude this is like the algorithms and the bots and the AI influence from other countries just trying to get us fucking nagging each other is out of control i know you see this because like you have a large social media following um and and therefore have to like maintain and keep it up but what would you say like in the comments because i've seen your the number of comments you can get on certain posts what is like a rage bait comment compared

to like a genuine one like what's the breakdown would you say okay here it can't be like 90 10 it's probably like 10% of comments 10 to 20% of comments are either direct rage bait or just fuck you guy yeah like which in a way is kind of rage baity too like i'll be like totally i'll be like yeah trump is 80 years old and totally unhinged and the gop should figure out like who is going to be the face of this party in 2028 and like the top comment will be some guy like you're unhinged faggot and i'm like okay um thank you you dude that was extreme like at least like hoping you respond one in 20 comments is just crazy like that so it's like let's say it's 5% what i would say about the rage bait specifically

this happened to me last week there's this guy's got to be doing it on purpose i don't think i have ever seen somebody more fucking stupid in my life i want to read some of these takes for you is this the one that like you shared yes dude like these are all designed to just cause people to be like, you're an idiot, you're an idiot. You know, and almost all these takes are so god-awful. Okay, here's one. Maybe vaccines cause autism. Maybe they don't.

But either way, common sense says they're not good. They're not both free and mandatory because they're good for you. I mean, common sense doesn't say that. This is a rage bait. Here's a good one. Only negative people think positivity is toxic. Here's another one. Not a single person in the government,

including the president, has the power to release the Epstein files. I actually responded to this one. Donald Trump could do it with a stroke of the print, with a pen, bro. Why lie publicly? He goes, that would be true if the president or government

had any power. I was like, are you intentionally obtuse, bro? They have the power to make you pay income tax. And he goes, yes, and your landlord has enough power to evict you. And I'm like, bro, none of these things are related. No, no. And I was like, oh, my God, he got me.

He got me. He got me. He raged baited me in with some garbage. Right. And then he was just like, like a child, when you're like, please be quiet. And they're like, fart, butt. Yeah. Please don't say fart, butt.

And they're like, fart titty. And you're like, please don't say. say that either and i'm like oh my god this dude just totally was fucking with me and and it worked what's funny like rage bait or not you think it was like a genuine account it is a very real person right like his entire just like trying to flex a level of intelligence but not being able to have enough common sense that connect the dots that so talked about this person's account is primarily them giving what they think are like hot fiery takes on their own podcast which is which is usually clipped and it's like okay those weren't those clearly aren't working anymore so we're going

way off the deep end and just into straight up garbage right and um yeah i would say like 20% of the content on threads and instagram it's like explicit rage bait closing up the episode talking a little bit about markets i figured we'd spend some time on bitcoin and just alternative assets we spent a lot of time talking about the stock market we spent a lot of time talking about inflation but one thing matt has a little insight on it's like trading cards Pokemon cards and i think that market's cooling off a little bit just like bitcoin and i've lived through a few bubble e markets and i would say that like when markets are frothy and bubbly things like Pokemon and crypto go crazy and when these markets cool off it might be the case that

you know you see some of the cooling off first and these alternative assets i'm wondering what you think yeah i think uh from like a crypto and i guess Pokemon so people listening i'm a nerd i collect Pokemon cards and sports cards sue me a lot of people do yeah yeah it's popular to do the market's pretty saturated but i think this is the problem again with crypto and the trading cards is like when the value of certain cards or coins is established completely on just like vibes hype and there's not any particular reason that you can explain it it's just like big enough following social media personalities just being like hey i think people should buy this and everybody gets in on it or like somebody determines that this card is the one that everyone

should be chasing therefore the value of it increases um i do think part of the cool off does have to do with the level of affordability yeah a lot of things because you can't just go spend as much money as you once did maybe on more crypto or i think that's kind of it collection and I do think it's kind of as simple as that. I really do because I think it's like, okay, you know, you were telling me not that long ago about this card that's like $2,000 right when it comes out of the pack because it's super hot. It's the new Charzard card.

And every time this happens, it's hot right, when they come out, and then it will naturally go down as more people find it. And there's more supply. But they're coming down faster. And I think it's because maybe that market was a little top heavy. And same with crypto. And I do think that these alternative assets, like the coins and like the cards, they go way up when the stock market's ripping. Right.

And they might start to contract a little faster than the stock market because the stock market has so much institutional money. It's tied to things that are a little more tangible. It still goes on vibes. Totally. Maybe less so. I think definitely less so. But it's something I'm watching. I'm paying close attention to the alternative assets because we talk a lot on the pod about

affordability. We talk a lot about income inequality, just the general economy. And I'm interested, are these things a little bit of a harbinger of like, okay, we actually are seeing like a little sell-off. We might have a little sell-off on the horizon because people would rather exit things like commodities, trading cards, and coins before they exit the stock market. But here, you know, maybe there's an exit coming because I think everybody's like, dude, these stock valuations are crazy high, just like the Bitcoin and just like the trading cards. But at some point, we caught up on those. Well, there's got to be like that natural fear ultimately that it's going to drop like lower and you're going to lose money on it because

it's like kind of this asset. You're not necessarily like a stock, right? Like you're not holding it in your hand. And you can see like the, I guess you, I'd call it a perceived value. Like what you're told it's worth. But it like you're not in control of the value of it. And with stocks, at least, you know, I think powerful people are, but I don't rebel to any of those people. So I like things that are a little bit more pure controlled. Yeah. It's like the Pokemon card. That's why like some of the, if I choose to do any like betting or sports betting, it's on a place like Kalshi because it's like people like myself who are to determine probability.

And I'm just assessing my own intelligence and my own intel on people like myself versus like insider information. I'm going to have no idea ever what the hell is going to go on there and I missed my opportunity to make however much money because it exists in like a 20 minute window or whatever. The stock market is seen as being like so like clear. It's like high quality investing, high asset class investing. It's like dude, it's also very obviously manipulated by politicians. It's become a lot more obvious to me the last year.

Or they are able to manipulate the game in like the stupidest ways and just make Buku bucks by like trading options because they know stuff's coming down the pipe and it's like that helps buoy it and it's like also very juiced by borrowing and all of that stuff but that'll do it for the episode today guys if you enjoyed be sure to follow on Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts leave a five star in rating and review

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