Kyle Kingsbury Podcast - #336 A Solocast Full of Gratitude for 2023 and Optimism for 2024

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

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Monday morning, January 1st, 2024. Let's go, baby. New Year's solo cast, which will release two days after New Year's. It's just how it goes when you're a Wednesday release kind of guy, which we've fallen into. This podcast, I'm going to talk a bit about the year in review and the year coming up from a podcast standpoint, from a coaching standpoint, fit for service, what we're doing differently, that kind of stuff.

And I'm going to give away a whole bunch of shit in terms of doables, practicals. Those are always important. I think when we focus on resolutions and things like that, it gets a little wiry when we complicate things and it gets a hell of a lot easier to stick to the program when we simplify off the wagon, we keep going. Last year, I made a commitment to myself that I would do 20 minutes of mobility or 16 minutes of mobility every single day. And boy, I missed like three days in the first six months. And then shit happened and I fell off the wagon and I got back on the wagon. And even though I didn't come close to doing 365 days, I did quite a bit. I did over 250 and my body feels amazing for it.

Just 16 minutes a day. So that was a hell of a resolution and one that I stuck with and I'm very happy I stuck with. My body is better for it. And I'll dive into mobility and let me just, I'm gonna jot down notes here. Mobility. When we talk full tempo reset, I'll talk about why that's such an important piece. And I'll give you guys info on

where you can go to deep dive who I've learned from Dr. Kelly Sturette, Aaron Alexander, homie Aaron. So there's, there's, there's going to be a lot of takeaways in this podcast. Jose, you can do your best with the show notes, brother. You always do a fantastic job. Links and stuff. If I'm talking about something maybe we don't want to hear about, I will prove it with the source that I got it from.

So you can go find out the shitty news for yourself. And if it's good, you're going to get that too. You know, here's your book. Go to thealignmethod.com. Get, get yourself a copy of Aaron Alexander's book and you can dive in there and get some good info. So whatever your cup of tea is, you want to stare at the darkness like I do from time to time, or if you're trying to improve yourself, you'll get info. That'll be in the show notes. Thank you,

Jose. You did a fucking great job. Uh, 2023. I'm looking forward to this year. I've written down a list of people that I want for next year too. And I wrote down some of the most prominent fucking guests that I had this past year. It kind of broke them into a couple of different categories. One, the body, which obviously is, you know, started off as total human optimization

in the On It podcast. That still lives inside of this podcast. I can assure you, however off target we get in talking to Seamus Bruner on Control the Garks, we will always circle back to optimization and making ourselves better in every way, shape, and form. Total human optimization is the physical, the mental, emotional, the spiritual. It's all the things in between. It's relationships. It's sex. It's all of it. And this podcast covers that. So if you're new to the game, that's what we're going to get into. But we're also not going to look away from the shit that

I think is important. And that's stuff that actually affects our lives. A long time ago, 2019, a long time ago, I used to pretend that whatever was happening in politics didn't really matter because that was some shit they were doing in DC. And at the end of the day, if it affected my taxes a couple of percentage points one way or another, big deal. Then they locked the world down and that became painfully obvious that the decisions they're making affect every single one of us. And for those that have been into politics and this shit or geopolitical climates and maybe some deep state talk and things like that, you will know better than I have. But now it's so obvious that it is something we have to look at. And it's something we have to look at because of the fact that predictions that were made around

2020 from participants in 2020 are being made again around the next pandemic and things like that. So we do have to pay attention to that kind of stuff because that does affect us. But this podcast is really not going to steer too far in that direction. I do want to touch on that stuff. I can't leave it out when I think of 2023 in hindsight. 2022 and 2023 really were kind of chill in comparison to 2020 and 2021. It was like, oh, yay, back to normal. Life is good again. Let's make some money. Let's focus on some shit that doesn't have to do with the world ending and doesn't have to do with global takeover. Cool. I'm cool with that. And don't be surprised if somewhere between 2024 and 2030, that looks differently. So we're going to dive into some of that stuff too. We're going to dive in optimization.

We're going to recap some of the great guests that I had on this year. I had some awesome fucking people on for the very first time, people that I want to run it back with who've, you know, from authors to supplement company owners to just everything in between. And just really a lot. And the podcast with Peter Krohn at the beginning of the year. Hoo-wee. We'll link to those podcasts too if you missed any of these.

And I'll talk about the books that I'm reading now as well. So like some of these bucket list guests I have for this year, Robert Edward Grant, who's been on Aubrey's podcast, Homies of Chervine and Blue. He's been at a number of our events, came out to Fit for Service in Sedona.

He's author of Philomath, Neuromind, which he co-authored that, and Polymath, The Aquarian Enlightenment. This shit blows my mind. So I'm reading this book, Polymath, first, which is a little bit above my pay grade. Now, Robert Edward Grant does a brilliant job. That's how you know he's genius, because he can break it down in a way

that's palpable for everyone. And that's why I want to get him on the podcast. But the book, Polymath, is fucking phenomenal. And if you've heard him speak, I'm going to link to him in the show notes here because he does an excellent job. And actually, it's one of the things that I take away when I'm looking at the darkness is a lot of what Robert Ed Grant's philosophy is on life, which I think is phenomenal. So we'll link to that in show notes. I could only find this podcast on Audible. I know most of us listen on iTunes and

Spotify, but if you have Audible, you should have Audible. I know most of us listen on iTunes and Spotify, but if you have Audible, you should have Audible. You can listen to that podcast for free. There's a great podcast there. So if you like this podcast, share it with friends far and wide. Leave us a five-star rating with one or two ways the show's helped you out in life. Organifi is all done with the giveaways. That finished off in 2023. So thank you guys, whoever wrote in just to get free supplements. Hopefully you won. If you didn't win and you left us a five-star review, thank you anyways.

It's fucking awesome. One thing I'm going to do in terms of one resolution that I plan on keeping is I've asked you guys to write me on at Living With The Kingsburys and at Kingsboo. My wife runs at Living With The Kingsburys and at Kingsboo. My wife runs at Living With The Kingsburys and we have a fuck ton of messages that have come through, not from people that we follow.

I'm guessing that all those messages are from people that have listened to this podcast. And so it is my embarrassed apology to say I haven't checked a single fucking message the entire year, not one. I've looked at my messages on Twitter and there aren't any from the podcast. So I'm guessing they're all coming through the gram

since I've asked for your opinions on stuff. And the reason I vow to change that and actually start looking through the myriad of shit we get on Instagram is just to see, are there any things from this podcast, any communication lines from this podcast? I want to open that doorway up to the listeners to hear what are your favorite kinds of podcasts? This is a fucking broad spectrum we cover on the show. It's not just, I mean, before, when it was the On It podcast before I came in, it was pro wrestlers and supplements and bodybuilders.

It's taken a hard left turn from there when I took over. And since it became the Cal Kingsbury podcast, we've really expanded and opened up the doorway of the content that we cover here. So I wanna know, as a listeners, how long have you been listening to the show? What are your favorite episodes? What's, you know, what do you want to hear more of? What do you not hear enough of? Do you want more on optimization? Like when you hear Catherine

Arnston, who I'll talk about in a bit on algae and you're like, holy shit, had no idea, right? I had no idea. I'm speaking personally here. I fucking love energy bits now. And this, I don't, I don't take a commission on energy bits. They don't sponsor the podcast. They are incredible. I just had a 5k run with my son this morning to welcome the new year. And they give me a shit ton of energy and listening to her talk about how that influences the mitochondria. You're like, yeah, that that's how they work. It's pretty remarkable. Um, and prior to that podcast, all I had had was, yeah, that's how they work. It's pretty remarkable. And prior to that podcast, all I had had was blue green algae and a shake in an expensive place once in a while. I never supplemented with it regularly or had that as a food item. She calls it a food, not a supplement.

But anyway, we'll dive into her. We'll dive in all this stuff. Share it far and wide and let us know, reach out to me. Let us know which podcast you're actually looking forward to. What are the podcasts you want more of? And what are the podcasts you don't care to hear? And I'll just take note of that. You know, some of the shit, you're going to hear it anyways. If you're like, I don't want to hear about the deep state or something bad that's going to happen.

Sorry, it's my job to report the truth as I see it. And I don't agree with everything every guest says. I had David Icke on the podcast. He was awesome. I just read his latest book, The Dream, and I disagree with a lot of it. I think he's fucking awesome though. And I agree with much of what he's saying as well.

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well. It's palpable. It's a palpable feeling when you're taking a supplement that gives you more energy. Like it's noticeable, but it's cellular energy. It's different. It's not like caffeine where you're kind of cracky. It's like, holy shit, I'm rocking and rolling right now. And it translates to workouts. I'm still doing, I'll talk a bit about my, let's jot that down. What am I doing now? Workouts, all that shit. All right. So I'll dive into how my stats look now. They're not stats, but what the program looks like. I do a little of everything, which is not mastering anything, but I do jujitsu once or twice a week. I do boxing and kickboxing once a week on Fridays at Black Sheep with the boys from

the farm. I lift once or twice a week and I run once or twice a week, but mostly it's once a week. Mostly it's one thing each. If I get two jujitsu's in, I'm not doing twice of anything else. If I get two runs in, I'm not doing twice of anything else. And there's no two a days. Very rarely will I do a two a day. So you might say that's a lot more than you work out, or you might say, holy shit, that's not as much as I expected. Most people are like, you lift once a week. I've been lifting since I was 15 years old and I'm 42 now. It doesn't take a lot to sustain what I've created. And my goals are elsewhere. I have a lot of goals related to being a better athlete. Last year, that was one of the

goals that I made in the very beginning of the year was I want to be an athlete again. I don't want to just be strong. So I dropped from 235 pounds, doing more powerlifting, more muscle, and started to get into better usable shape when it comes to martial arts and running and yoga and mobility. And the reason for yoga and mobility is so I don't get hurt again doing jujitsu because I'm too stiff. Also the reason to lose weight for jujitsu, even though there's a lot of jacked guys in jujitsu like Gordon Ryan, I don't have much endurance when I gain more muscle. I really don't. Gordon Ryan, that doesn't seem to matter for, I don't know if it's just everyone's built differently. He might have a different set of

lungs than I do. But when I carry more muscle, I start to get negative returns on investment in jujitsu and boxing and kickboxing and in running. So I've started to shape things like that. And I'm still on the battlefield testing this shit. You know, like that was my job at Onnit was to really be the guinea pig, the self-made guinea pig, like Tim Ferriss and like so many others who try it and apply it. But I'm applying it at the highest level of sport. Now I'm not in the UFC anymore

and more on the UFC later this year, I can assure you. But I get to go and take this into sparring. I get to go and take this into a run. I get to go and take this and see at a high level, not the highest level, but at a very high level, how does this stuff work? And that's what I love. That was one of my favorite things when I was designing supplements for on it was I would go with Eric Guerrero, ETG, out to Supply Side East, and we'd find novel supplements. And I'd see how my body interacted with it. Sober. I'd see how it interacted with it when I was, when I was running my ass off for sprints, when I was running distance, when I was doing anything that I could apply it to. And then what could I combine that

with, with other things? So even though I'm not designing supplements anymore, I'm still geeking out when something like this comes along, that's new to me. And I'm like, there's a holy shit moment of this works in everything that I'm doing. That's how energy bits me. And I'm like, there's a holy shit moment of this works in everything that I'm doing. That's how energy bits are. And this isn't an ad for energy bits, but I want to say like from an optimization standpoint, that was a fucking game changer in 23. So listen to that podcast. If you haven't, there was another, one other game changer, actually two others, one has to do with water and one has to do with lifting weights. Second game changer from 2023, Dr. Mike DeBoerde on blood flow restriction has blown my mind. I had a knee injury, multiple,

I've had fucking countless knee injuries, but I had a knee injury that just wasn't getting better. I did stem cells, still didn't get better. Eight months I was off the mats in jujitsu and it's a bummer. It happened from a friend of mine who's Austin Swatt and just a badass and an awesome guy who didn't do a heel hook or anything weird. He just did a simple half guard pass and my meniscus crunched and that was it. Got stem cells, thought I'd bounce right back and I didn't. And I had a guest on the podcast who recommended Mike DeBoer and BFR. And so I said, all right, let me see what this guy's all about. We had a call and I was like, dude, this guy knows his shit inside and out.

So I had him on the podcast and I started working with the blood flow restriction bands. And that absolutely changed my whole viewpoint of strength and conditioning right now. There's a lot of science that backs this up. I first heard about it when I was in the UFC, but what it was mostly gearing towards the science was around the elderly. It was around hypertrophy, muscle building, and it was around injuries. I wasn't old.

I couldn't put on muscle for my weight class and I wasn't injured. So none of it applied at that point. But right now at 41, it most certainly applied, especially if I'm only lifting once a week and I wanna preserve the mass that I have. I need to get more bang for my buck out of workouts. And the beautiful thing about this is these are 20-minute workouts.

You can do body weight only. You can do like I have a 25-pound band, which is, you know, split that in half for each arm when you're doing curls. It's not a lot of weight, but you're doing three sets of 30. You only get 30 seconds of rest. You're flying through the workout, and you're getting an insane pump. I mean, it's like Arnold in Stay Hungry. He's like, I'm coming. I'm coming on stage. I'm coming at home. I'm coming in the gym. You know, that's how you feel when you get a pump that size. Like you're coming. It's fucking phenomenal. You get insane pumps from the workout, but what's most important is the cascade effect in your hormones

at night. Now I've had doctors on this show. I've talked about TRT in the past, my own personal use of it. I think it's important if you've been hitting the head as much as I have, or if you started off taking gangs of shit in football to be bigger than you naturally would be, and you don't produce much naturally, TRT is phenomenal. But I can say that with a caveat because 90% of the people that are taking shit are not working out. They're not treating their body. They're not following the four doctors from Paul Cech. They're not doing all the basics to actually be healthy. And they think this magic bullet's going to make them better. It's not. It's not without the foundational principles and it's not without the things that get you there. And certainly working out is one of those things.

But when you work out, you break down muscle, you rebuild it, that kind of thing. There's also many other hormones that influence that. And these occur when you're sleeping. Human growth hormone. Human growth hormone meets with insulin in the liver, becomes insulin-like growth factor one, IGF-1. A lot of people have heard of that in the peptide game.

IGF-1, LR3. That works phenomenally. It works a hell of a lot better if you're actually training. And BFR, for whatever reason, because there's blood flow restriction, because there's a lack of oxygen, and DeBoard breaks this down thoroughly in our podcast. So again, any person I mentioned from the previous guests, we'll have that linked in the show notes. Don't go digging through my podcast. Just look through the show notes, and it'll be there. Dr. Mark DeBoer breaks down the science behind this. And it's remarkable because we're talking 6X growth hormone response. And I've taken HGH in

the past. It's a stupid expense. It was $1,000 a month when I was in college. I don't have that kind of cheese to throw around like that if I'm not trying to be a pro athlete or in the pros. But I can get a response that's similar from blood flow restriction. That's mind-blowing to me. It's absolutely mind-blowing. And I wouldn't, again, don't take my word for it. Try it for yourself. Like I believed Mike was telling the truth when he was, and he certainly had the science to back it up, but that healed my knee faster than anything else. And I did it with walking lunges and no weight. Then I got a 10 pound vest. Then I started adding dumbbells. And then all of a sudden my knee didn't hurt anymore. Then all of a sudden I could run, I could do sprints. I could do hill repeats. I could do

sled drags. Then I could do jujitsu again. Then I could do a whole bunch of shit all because of blood flow restriction. That's fucking remarkable. In my humble opinion, that's remarkable to be 40 years in the game, uh, an optimization specialist, and to just get switched on to this when I needed it most and say, this stuff works. It works really well. It works very well if you're hurt. It works very well if you're older. It also works for the young.

And Mike talks about that with his son who ended up getting multiple full ride scholarships. He dropped his 43 tenths of a second in eight weeks. If you're not in you know, in the football game and you don't know how fast that is, like most people, you know, if you have no running experience and you start working with a running coach, you could drop three tenths of a 40, but if you're already close to your prime and you drop three tenths, that's unheard of. And to do it in eight weeks is especially unheard of. And without gear, especially unheard of.

So again, that speaks to the power of what this does for us from a performance standpoint, as well as a longevity standpoint. And on the performance end, there's a ton of guys in the NFL, NBA, every major sport, NHL, they're all using blood flow restriction now in the off season and in the season

because you don't break down the muscle tissue that bad. When you're not training heavy, you don't fuck up the muscle tissue that bad. When you're not training heavy, you don't fuck up the nervous system. And if your nervous system isn't fried, that means you can train more often, right? Now, I don't wanna lift weights five days a week. I've got other shit to do, but I do wanna do jujitsu once a week or twice a week.

I wanna run once or twice a week. I wanna get and hit the bags and spar once or twice a week. And all those things add up. So my weight training can't kick my ass. I can't do a Doug McGuff body by or twice a week. And all those things add up. So my weight training can't kick my ass. I can't do a Doug McGuff body by science once a week on an ARCS trainer where I destroy my body in an effort to build muscle. I just don't have the bandwidth for that

because I'm doing sports and other things and I want to be fresh for it. I also wanna be fresh for my kids. And if I'm sore, I'm not fresh for them. That was something I got in a mushroom journey years ago. If I'm tense and tight and I'm sore and beat down and my little guy comes running up to jump on me and wrestle me, I'm not in the best way I can be.

I'm not going to respond the best way I can be. And that's a hard pill to swallow. But that's how it was for me. Maybe other guys who power lift and shit like that, they don't feel that way. Maybe they're just fine. Maybe they're all big, huggy teddy bears when they're sore as shit and their kids run and jump on them. That wasn't me. So I got to treat my body with care, especially with all the mileage. And this is one of the ways that I do that. I've talked extensively about the book, Easy Strength of Pavel Tatsulin and Dan John.

It's an amazing book. If you want to figure out how to train and still do other things in a way where you're going to get stronger, you're going to get general physical preparedness, GPP, and not smoke your nervous system. And blood flow restriction is absolutely an amazing piece to add to that. One of the things I've done too, is I've thrown it on while kickboxing and boxing for the last 20 minutes of my workout. And I just smoked myself, get a big pump. And I'm actually getting faster. My punching speed's going up.

My kicking power's going up. That's pretty damn cool. So again, these two. And then last on the optimization side, this is more on like general health and wellness side. From 2023, we had Dr. Gerald Pollack on the podcast who wrote The Fourth Phase of Water. He's actually an author of several books.

Professor at UW Washington, I believe. And not long before that, we had Mario Brainovich from Analema. And both conversations were around structured water. Structured water is a big deal and it can be done for very cheap. There's a lot of instruments out there. The thing that I like about Anilema, and again, I got no personal interest in mentioning these guys, but their stick, I think it goes for about 170 bucks. It has structured water in it, in a crystal. You swirl it and vortex your own water. And I got big gallon Yetis because

we're at the farm all day and I don't have time to refill shit. So I want whatever I take out to be with me the whole day. And it just makes the most sense that I swirl this for a minute. It's 15 seconds per liter. That structures your water. You can also get structured water from juice, fresh pressed, cold pressed juice. You can get it from raw milk, according to Gerald Pollack. He wasn't sure on raw milk, but I can guarantee it is structured. He agreed with me on my thought process there. All that said, when you bring in structured water, your body can use it more effectively. It's more hydrating. It's more nourishing. It's able to do its job in bringing nutrients around to the body more easily. And of course, this is the most layman Bush league fucking explanation of that. If you want a deep scientific deep dive on that,

read the fourth phase of water by Gerald Pollack, or listen to the podcast that I did with him for a more basic view. But these things are available now. And what I'm doing at the farm, because we're just getting finished with building our house right now, is we're working with Greenfield systems. So Ben Greenfield's brother and his father, Zach's his brother, I forget his father's name. He did an excellent podcast on Paul Chex, Living 4D. I'll link to that in the show notes as well, if you want to listen to that. Fantastic story there on how he got obsessed with water and into this whole thing. But Ben's dad and brother have a company where they do whole home filtration and whole home structuring with one device. And whether you're getting municipal water or water from a well or rainwater

collection like we're doing, they actually will have water samples done and their chemist will customize what you're going to get through this. Now, this is more expensive than other things by far, but long-term, if you're a homeowner, it's by far the most important thing you can do because now your baths, your showers, that's all structured water. And Mario breaks down when you have a structured bath three times a week, what that actually does for your body is a lot because we absorb water through our skin. All the plants, if you're growing your own food and not even in large amounts, but if you have fruit trees and things like that, or even non-fruiting trees, they're going to grow better.

They're going to be far healthier with structured water. So if you can structure the whole home, now you don't need a wand. You don't need to do other things. Onalema also offers a whole home structuring devices, not a filter, but if you already have filtration through a different company and you want to just add that on, check that out. Check out the podcasts we did. Again, Mario Branovic from On a Lemma. We'll have that linked. And Gerald Pollack, Fourth Phase of Water author. Those were amazing podcasts that really illuminated a deep dive on water.

Now, back to Paul Cech. Paul Cech has a new book coming out called Spirit Gym that will blow your fucking mind. It's coming out early this year. The first two volumes. I think I can say that now. And I've had the privilege of reading a handful of chapters from this book. I think he has two or three chapters on water alone. So Spirit Gym, we're talking spirit. We're talking spirituality. We're talking about the game that we're playing right now. Why have that many chapters on water? Because it's that fucking important.

Your water is that important. When I talked to Shervin Jafferia, the founder and owner of Symbiotica, I was telling him everything I'm dialed on. And he goes, water is the most important thing that you're not doing right now. And he was right. And that's what drove me into having podcasts like these with these two wonderful guys and learning more about it.

So check it out for yourself and really look into that. What is the best thing you can afford right now? It might be a wand. That's what we're doing currently and a whole home filtration kit. If you can afford it, looking into Greenfield Systems

and seeing what you can do with them and tell them what your budget is. But whole home with the Vortex is gonna be super good. I mean, because now your plants are getting it, now your pets are getting it. Everyone's going to benefit from that greatly. That's it on the optimization side from the past. We'll circle back to that in the current and in the future for 2024. Some of the other guests that I really appreciated were Seamus Bruner, the author of Controligarchs. And I've got the advanced copy here I'm looking at right now on my desk.

It's funny to see what's left here because we're moving in a month and everything's getting boxed up around me. There's no video for this, so lo siento. This book was incredible because what it did so beautifully is it tied all the pieces together. Many people, you know, and, and, you know,

I'm going to try to get Alex Jones on this podcast. He was just on my homie Luke stories podcast. I'll link to that in the show notes. It's four hours long. I haven't listened to it yet, but I guarantee it's going to be awesome if you're into that sort of thing. And what I love about control of Garks though, as a book, is it, it ties in a lot of names that we've heard from guys like Jones and different people that just get thrown out, right? It's like, oh, the Rockefellers, Soros, Bezos, you know, and he just goes down the list.

And there's no real background description of what are they doing exactly? What have they been doing exactly? How do they fit into this weird puzzle of what David Icke calls the web? How does that work? And Controligarx lays this out beautifully. The sub tag here is exposing the billionaire class, their secret deals, and the globalist plot to dominate your life. This is what I've been talking about for three years. And it's all in one book. It's all in one book. And the thing that'll blow your fucking mind is chapter five, which I hated reading,

is all on the war on farmers and the war on food. And this is the shit I've been glued to. I'll link to this in the show notes as well. I just sent it to you, Jose. It's on what I had understood as 115 different food plants that have gone up in flames, explosions that have happened in the last three years.

I think it's a little older, the article, and needs to be updated. But internationally, it's like 750 food processing plants and grocery stores have been exploded, bombed. Not anything else, not accidental fires, bombed. you know, they had, and then I'm not saying from overhead, but from within they've had explosives go off where they've blown up an entire fucking food processing plant or meat processing plant. That's a big fucking deal. It's not make-believe it's not. And I'm not saying this to doomsday. I'm not saying this for clickbait.

I'm not saying this to scare people. I'm saying it's a fucking big deal to pay attention to that. And chapter five in Control the Garks really deep dives this. It deep dives, you know, the deep, deep dives. It deep dives what happened in the Netherlands and how that could potentially be implemented in other places like Canada and

Australia and potentially implemented here. I think it's going to be a lot harder to implement in the United States for obvious reasons. When you compare us to Canada and Australia and other places, there's a little different in how we've organized ourselves thanks to the second amendment. But I will just say, this book is very important to read. If you've been avoiding this stuff, if you've been an ostrich with your head in the sand, don't stay there long. There is something called Agenda 2030, which is marking what they're trying to accomplish by 2030. And none of that looks good. It doesn't. It really doesn't. But as David Icke says, when you understand where they're going,

the totalitarian tiptoe becomes painfully obvious. And it takes our awareness to turn the ship around. It takes us saying, wait a minute, we know what you're doing. Don't do that. Simple as that. Simple as that. The powers and the people.

This stuff scared the shit out of me when I first got into it in 2020 and 2021. It doesn't scare me anymore. All it takes is 8 billion of us waking up to the fucking thing that's going on and say no and hold people accountable. All right. Dive into that one. Seamus Bruner, Controlligarchs.

He's also, I set him up with Paul Cech. They're going to do a fantastic podcast. Kelly Means. That was an excellent one. And also on food and medicine. He and his sister have a book coming out this year. Phenomenal. Dr. Thomas Cowan, always a phenomenal,

I'd like to call him a regular on this show. He doesn't come on that often, but he's one of my favorite authors of all time. He has been a brilliant mind since 2020, before that, long before that, but really has been a brilliant mind and an amazing educator. And Mark Gober, who's, long before that, but really has been a brilliant mind and an amazing educator. And Mark Gober, who's been on this podcast,

one of my favorite authors, just came out with a new book. He's gonna come on in the future here again this year. He just wrote an end to upside down medicine. And in that he brings up and quotes, Dr. Thomas Cowan, Sally Fallon-Norell from the Weston A. Price Foundation. It's cool to see these kind of things link up. We had Hilda Labon-Norell from the Weston A. Price Foundation. It's cool to see these kind

of things link up. We had Hilda Labrada-Gore, who is the host of the Nourishing Traditions podcast, or Wise Traditions podcast. She hosts Weston A. Price's podcast, their foundation podcast. And she's an amazing person. She's an amazing guest on. And I love that they've had a backbone and didn't back down from telling the truth the last four years. They've been great. There are a number of books that I have on my desk here that I'm about to dive into. But first, to understand health and wellness better, look no further than Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price. This is what really breaks down the ideas that are formulated behind Paul Cech and how to eat, move, and be healthy and more, plenty more for Paul.

But a lot of it on food stems from this. A lot of it on health stems from this. When we understand our food and how we interact with our environment better, then we understand what health means and we understand what disease means and we understand what is not taking place. And, uh, it's important that we deep dive and educate ourselves on that. The contagion myth, phenomenal book. Uh, and, um, highly recommend you guys read that. It's on audible now, Salon, a Sal, Sally Fallon, Morel, and Thomas Cowan wrote that. Uh, and there's some really important books that flow with that. Bobby Kennedy is running for president. He's got my vote, whether he wins or not, whether we don't have an election or not. You know, what's funny is the things that have been going around

online where people asked Alexa, who's going to win the 2024 election? And Alexa says, we're not having an election. I just geek out on shit like that. I'm like, oh God, that's too juicy. Even the AI knows. That said, Bobby Kennedy has been hard at work with children's health defense and whether he wins or not, he's already changing the world. If you have not read the real Anthony Fauci, red pill yourself and fucking read it. But also he's got a couple other books that just came out, The Wuhan Cover-Up, which I'm deep diving right now.

And then another one with Kennedy and PhD Brian Hooker. So I'm going to try to get, Kennedy's way too busy to come on my podcast, but Brian Hooker, PhD, I'm going to try to get him on. The book title is Vax Unvax. And you can guess what it's about.

It's about all the meta analysis of kids that have never been vaccinated versus kids that have their 72 shots. And it's not surprising to me because I was cued in on this shit years ago, years ago, long before 2020. And both our kids are not vaccinated, not a single fucking shot. And both of them are in incredible health. Wolfie and Bear are in incredible health at eight and three. So I've mentioned that before. I don't say it on every podcast for obvious reasons, but that just, that shows where my fucking line in the sand is drawn. And if you're curious about that, if you don't have kids, look into it. One of the most important books we ever read was Dissolving Illusions and Dr. Susan Humphreys. And again, in Gober's new work and into Upside Down Medicine, he references that book and has interviewed her.

And there's a lot of juicy information on, again, what did the world actually look like when these diseases came around? What did the world look like? How sanitary or unsanitary was it when there was outbreaks of these different things? How do the energetics affect that? Another book you should listen to or read is The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Furstenberg. And again, correlation does not equal causation, but holy shit, when we map electronics throughout human history,ation, but holy shit, when we map electronics throughout human history, the recent history, at least, when we map electronics and the boom of radio frequency

and different things, it's a little hard to discount it. I'm gonna say that. And how these things all flow together and end upside down medicine by Mark Gober is a must read, it's a must listen. If you are on the fence about this stuff and you wanna know more, vax on vax. There's charts in it that are self-explanatory.

It's not hard to comprehend. And we have this data now. I've been waiting for data like this. We have it now. It's here. So that's gonna take a long time for people to wrap their head around. If you've already invested in Western medicine

and you've invested your family in that direction, I understand that's a really hard thing to turn that ship because no one wants to believe that they've been hoodwinked. No one wants to believe that they've made a mistake. And I'll just leave it at that. I understand. I understand both sides of the coin, but if you're into it, if you're, if you're, you're curious and you want to know more, I would get these books, Facts on Vax, I would dive into Kennedy's work. Mark Gober is an incredible author, one of the favorites that turned me on.

Dr. Nathan Reilly, the holistic OBGYN turned me onto it, was an end to upside down liberty. Mind-blowing look at politics and spirit, mind-blowing. And I had him on the podcast for that one, just a beautiful human. I can't wait to have him back on. He'll be on shortly coming up to discuss his new work. And he also did one that I finally listened to that's a total side note is the end upside down contact. And I totally thank Mark for doing that because most people won't touch aliens, ETs, near death experiences

or any of that shit. And he did. So it's like, fuck yeah, man, go there. Break it down for me, buddy. And he did a phenomenal job with that one. Dr. Robert Gilbert was absolutely incredible. He's broken down sex magic and mystery schools, the hidden teachings behind mystery schools. I absolutely loved having him on. He was a speaker at Arcadia, an event we threw in Vegas earlier this year and just blew my mind. One of the things he was talking about, so here's a giveaway from Dr. Robert Gilbert, is the potion for sex magic. You need something that opens the upper energy center,

the middle energy center, and the lower energy center. So these three must be opened equally. Lower energy center, center can be done, and I was talking to a couple homies about this with Siri and Rue, but that also is purgative and not very sexual. Cialis works for men and women both, and Lodocialis works for men and women both,

and it can open that energy center. MDMA and MDA or sassafras open the heart center, and above, you can use really any psychedelic to open the upper center. Now, everything is a matter of knowing yourself, know thyself, what is ceremony level versus what is sex magic level, and really tiptoeing in to figure this stuff out.

The homie Jamie Wheel really broke this down in detail in Recapture the Rapture. But Robert Gilbert breaks this down very simply. You have psilocybin at a low dose to open up the upper. You have MDMA or sassafras to open up the heart. And you have a low dose of Cialis to open up the lower. And then you get down. Now that's on my bucket list for 2024.

Have not done that yet, but I will report back what the experience is like, hopefully with Tosh. And I'm excited for that. That not done that yet, but I will report back what the experience is like, hopefully with Tosh. And I'm excited for that. That sounds fucking rad. It sounds really rad to have an experience like that. Robert Gilbert also has a deep dive on the Rosicrucians. He did with Aubrey Marcus. He did a phenomenal podcast on Lucifer and Armand before Paul Cech's five-hour Lucifer Armand breakdown, which I'll link to that in the show notes. If you didn't listen to that last year,

that's one of the deepest dives on Steiner that he's done. It was my favorite podcast of the year to listen to. He brought in both his wives, Angie and Penny, to do that together with him. And I just found it to be just insanely beneficial from an information standpoint to an execution standpoint. They did an amazing job with that podcast. So big love to y'all in the check house at the rainbow house. Go over heel to go. All right. We got, and then Peter Krohn, man, Peter Krohn, Peter Krohn

ripped me open and in the best way possible, he ripped me open in the way, uh, in the way psychedelics do, you know, like this will benefit me, but holy shit, this hurts, you know? And Peter's a dear friend. I've meant to keep in contact with him more. And that'll be a resolution that I keep hopefully this year. But he has such a brilliant method of getting straight through the shit

and right to the center of what the issue is and really breaking that down in a way. And one of the greatest takeaways that I took from that podcast that I still refresh my mind with is that words are not descriptive, they are creative. When we tell a story of what happened, we think we're describing a situation, but that's not true. We are creating our reality at every moment. And for a lot of people that are scientific materialists, you might say that's bullshit. Robert Anton Wilson would be a good guy to deep dive into. Robert Anton Wilson said, there is, I don't believe in reality. I believe in realities. Everyone has their own reality tunnel.

Don't get caught up in what is subjective or objective. That's his own rabbit hole. But the more I've explored medicine work and manifestation and my own life in particular, the more I've come to that realization. And that's my own reality tunnel. I can agree to that. That's not going to be everyone else's reality tunnel. Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct. And that still holds true for any of the metaphysical shit, especially the metaphysical shit. But big thank you to Peter. That was an awesome episode. If you guys missed that one, check it out in the show notes.

Upcoming guests. I mentioned Robert Edward Grant, mind-blowing. Polymath, get that book. It is awesome. And listen to the podcast I'll link to in the show notes with his. One of the things I love about this podcast that he did was he really breaks down something that I've heard in the past from Aubrey is that when you realize things aren't happening to you, they're happening for you. Everything isn't happening to you. Everything's happening for you. If you make that shift, you can begin to look through the past and see how every challenging moment brought about a newer, better version of yourself, a newer, better version of your life. And you have gratitude for the challenges. You have gratitude for the hard, shitty moments, the hard, shitty things, the injury, the divorce, the job loss, fill in the blank, how that panned out in a positive. And if you're listening to this podcast, you can probably

do that. And end of the year is a fucking great time to do that. When you get a curve ball thrown in, you don't know what's going to happen. We're making serious changes to fit for service and pay and execution and everything we're doing. I don't know how that's going to turn out. This is where I let go, let God, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier to let go, let God. When I look in the rear view and I see every challenge brought me something better. And Robert Edward Grant details this perfectly in this podcast, that it is as alchemists, we transmute the lead into gold. This is what it's all about. The inner alchemy of life is transmuting our lead into gold. It's not in whipping up actual lead into gold. We're doing our own alchemy every fucking day. And that's where we get to take,

why the hardship? Why the darkness? Why the sadness? Why the misery? To transmute it into light, plain and simple. And that's really fucking challenging when you think about some of the kid-related shit and all that stuff. I don't know how to wrap my head around that stuff yet. But personally, when I look in my life and I see that, all right, nothing's happened to me, everything's happening for me, can I hold that? Then I can use hindsight as foresight. So now when a challenge comes up, I can remember that hopefully and hold my center line.

And if I can hold my center line, that makes today's challenges a hell of a lot easier than being a captive of whatever emotion or whatever thought tangent my brain wants to take me on, my mind wants to take me on. One of my favorite stories from a shaman that I sat with named Tete Carey, he said, in the jungle, when the storms come,

the monkeys climb down the tree. They don't stay on the top of the tree. They climb down the tree where it's safer and they'll climb down even further just above the forest floor where the trunk is strongest. There's no blowing around. And in the West, when the storm comes, we climb to the top of the tree. We go to our head to think through the storm where it's fucking most wacky, where the wind's whipping us back and forth, where we're at a consequence of the elements. We've got rain, we've got wind, we've got lighting. All the shit happens all the way up there. And if we just travel down into ourselves, into our heart center and beyond that,

we find trust, we find stability, We find comfort. Now that story was awesome, especially in the moment on ayahuasca. For me to actually make that worth a damn, I have to remember that in the moment. And this is using hindsight as foresight. This is remembering that we are always held. And that's not always easy to do. But that is a mission. As things get wiry between 2024 and 2030, and I can assure you, I don't know what it is. I'm not fucking Nostradamus,

but there are enough people that I trust. It's worth paying attention to. Things will get worse before they get better in many arenas. And each and every one of us has a choice in that moment. How do we respond to it? And if we respond in stress, if we respond in fear, that's not going to be the best use of ourselves. If we respond in center,

knowing this is going to be a benefit in some way, shape or form. I don't know how yet, but it will be a benefit. One way or another, this is gonna turn out positive. It always does. If we can hold that, then we can think a little bit more clearly. Then we have the use of our faculties at our disposal, right? The mind is a terrible master, but an excellent servant, right? If it's in control, if it's at the steering wheel,

that's not the best use of mind, right? If we remain heart-centered and in our center, in our quiet center, calm, relaxed, able to see through the periphery from all angles, we have a greater purview. All right, let me get off the soapbox on that shit. An excellent documentary is The Great Taking by David Webb. I want to get him on the podcast.

Children's Health Defense posted it, but I think you can go to thegreattaking.com. He has a book. The documentary is somewhat boring. Let me just say that right now, but the meat and potatoes of it is worth knowing. It's very worth knowing on how laws have been changed systematically, even at the state level, in all 50 states and internationally, in most of the world,

most of the Commonwealth areas, that don't look good for ownership. It looks a lot like what Klaus Schwab was saying when you'll own nothing and be happy. The first part of that, you'll own nothing. This is what that first part of that, you'll own nothing. This is what that part looks like. How do you get to making a prediction like that, Klaus? Oh, you change laws with no one looking. This is what's been happening. And more importantly, the stats,

and this will be good for people who have an economic background, but the stats around the Great Depression, inflation rates and all this stuff that preceded are right there. And one of the things that he breaks down is that the banks all didn't go up in smoke in one moment. One or two toppled. And then a year later, one or two more toppled, and then all the dominoes fell. So Silicon Valley bank, pick another one. And in a couple of years, perhaps they all topple. Now, again, this isn't for me to fucking scare people. This is for me to say, watch it. There is a positive thing here. There's a takeaway from it that David Webb gets to.

He has recommendations, even though he's not telling people what to do with their money. He has some recommendations on a lot of the shit that I've been saying. Know where your food comes from. Know your farmers. Own what you can outright. Don't be in debt. Build community.

Know where you go in a pinch. Have an exit strategy if the cities go down. Just know that shit. That's just important to know. Where do I go if an emergency happens? Where do I go if they just close grocery stores? You know, if it's 2020 again, what do I do in that situation to make sure that I've got food and water and that the people I love are taken care of and that we're safe? That's important stuff to know. All right. Fit for Service is changing next year.

We're gonna become Fit for Service Academy, which is really cool because we're moving more towards like a university, even though we're not a university. But teaching, breaking stuff down. And this really came from a lot of our members who had said, hey, we really appreciated when we broke off into smaller groups before the big summits where we all get to hang together and

get to know each other, but smaller groups. And we want to deep dive content. We don't just want bits and pieces here and there with book recommendations. We actually want to go deep on it. And so Aubrey and I and Caitlin and Godsey, we all got together and we really broke down six interesting maps of ways people could deep dive. One is financial. We've heard a lot about that. People come, they want to know about manifestation and all these different things. And I'm into it. But finances, how do we improve finances, especially in times like these? Relationships, always super important. Relationships is a massive one.

The physical, I'm gonna be teaching the physical and Godsey's gonna be teaching the mental. Caitlin's gonna be teaching the emotional. Aubrey and Clay Herbert will be teaching financial. Aubrey and Vailana will be teaching relationships and we will round table the spiritual and we'll bring in amazing guests and people who we've learned a ton from,

like Mark Gaffney. Mark Gaffney is gonna be on this podcast 12 times coming up next year. I'm super stoked for that. We're gonna break down one of his most brilliant books, A Return to Eros. What are the 12 faces of Eros? How do we utilize that as a roadmap in reality? So the

reason I geek out on this stuff is through the dark night of the soul, when nothing makes sense, it's not just grab the nearest religion that I can hold onto as a crutch. What actually makes sense to me on the fundamental building blocks? Are there first principles of reality? Mark Gaffney proposes so. What does that actually look like? How do we engage it? How do we work with it? And it's beyond the secret. It's beyond, you know, wishing for shit. It's beyond any of that stuff. I love the secret when it came out. This is beyond that. It's beyond what consciousness actually looks like, how to listen, how to engage with the she, how to engage with the divine. And it's brilliant. It's brilliant because as he,

as he brings forth these different faces of Eros, it makes a fuck ton of sense. And you're like, oh, aha. Okay. I get it. I get it. I get it. It's not hard to understand. So we'll be deep diving each face in a, in a podcast every month coming up. Super stoked for that. But that's, that's the spirituals. We're gonna try to gangbusters on everything that we've learned from everyone that we love and know. And we will cover some of the dark stuff and how you work with items like Watiko

and the Archons and different things of that nature. If you've had experience with darkness on plant medicines or just in life in general, all that's a part of the discussion as well. Stoked for that. In the Physically Fit 101, I'm going to be breaking down core principles from Paul Cech. I'm going to be breaking down different forms of fasting. I'm going to be breaking down a lot of things, but most importantly, we're going to be optimizing from head to toe. How do we actually get shit done? And because these classes are smaller,

it is personal. It's personalized. This is what I love about it is that I get you for 13 weeks, not one-on-one, but 30-on-one, where I really get a chance to know you, know what you're working on, and give you everything that I know to set you straight. And we've got three plus months to get you there. You will change your life. There's no two ways about it. Fitforservice.com is where you can look at Academy. Full Temple Reset is our deep dive. It's five days.

We only have one week left. January 10th is the end of applications for Full Temple Reset. Full Temple Reset is where we spend five days hammering into ourselves through practice, not just words, but through practice, the things that actually move the bar. So we fast each day.

We have a thousand calorie shake each night. So fasting mimicking diet, Dr. Val Torlongo, as I've mentioned before. We are in the sun on the ice bath every day. We're doing mobility every single day to rewire the nervous system and open up the fascia in the body so that we actually have new

ranges of motion, new mobility. We're able to work through injuries and actually train again and move again and heal the body. All that gets done simultaneously, day after day, while I break down the core principles of Paul's work along with many others. Eric Godsey deep dives Jungian psychology. He breaks down the symbology. He breaks down dream analysis for people and makes you able, he hopefully leaves you with the ability to analyze your own dreams, which is a very powerful way to work with the psyche and one of Jung's biggest recommendations. He also gets into internal family systems work, inner parts work, and you leave with a new view of what your psyche is and how to work with that.

Super important, five-day crash course. At the end, we feast and we have a sound healing from Paul Hubbard, who is Violana's sound healing coach, as long with Tina Rodriguez. If you guys are in Austin, if you had experience with either one of them, trust me when I say Paul is in a league of his own. Paul Hubbard is a magnificent sound healer

and we get to finish with that and then food and then we're off. And the best part is for the rest of the year, you have an improved metabolic rate. For the rest of the year, you have improved immunity. And that's not just hocus pocus bro science. That's people from different folks that have come on this podcast

and verified that with their own stats amongst thousands of people. God, who was it from NutriSense? We'll link to that in the show notes as well. The last podcast I did with the woman from NutriSense had mind-blowing stats on metabolic function during COVID and what rates of illness actually looked like if you were metabolically fit.

And one of the key takeaways that she said in that podcast was if you've got 100 pounds to lose, you don't have to lose the whole 100 pounds to actually get metabolically fit. You can reset metabolism and your immunity in a matter of weeks and then worry about the weight later as that comes off slowly and healthily.

But it doesn't take long for you to gain back what you've lost and then work from there. And that's one of the most beautiful things about doing a fasting mimicking diet in the wintertime once a year or twice a year is that you get six to 12 months of benefit from it. And that's what Dr. Walter Longo has shown in his studies, who is the inventor of it. So really cool shit. We dive into that. Physically Fit 101 is going to be incredible. I'm super pumped for all the other classes we're offering through Academy. It's going to be a different form, a lot of question marks. We're still going to have three meetups. We're going to meet in Montana in May. Classes start in March. So signups are right now. We'll meet in Montana in May. We'll meet in Sedona in September,

and then we're going to meet out in Malibu in January of 2025 for our final event of the year for 2024. So super stoked for everything that we've got coming up there. Check it all out at fitforservice.com. And anybody that's down that wants to come out and shoot the shit and get to know what we're doing at the farm, go to gardenersofeden.earth and sign up as a volunteer. You can come out, see what we're doing on the land, help us move the animals around, pull some weeds, do some cool shit, and get to know your local farmers. That's it. Get to know your local farmers. Get to know where your food comes from. Watch documentaries like Common Ground, which is the follow-up to Kiss the Ground. Super important documentary. Super important because it bridges the gap between left and

right on how we heal the environment. And it's not complicated. Nature's brilliant. The divine game that we're in, there is an intelligence to it in everywhere you look. And it's just a matter of how do we listen to that? And if we can listen to it, what is it saying? Well, there are clear ways to make things better. And Common Ground really shows to that the proof in the pudding with side-by-sides of different farming practices, what that equates to from nutrient density that goes into our mouths, what that means for nutrient densities in the soil to the grasslands, to the cows, to the herbivores, to everything up to the food forest and beyond. And we can do that. And as they said in food Inc, you vote with your dollar. So if you have a couple extra bucks

to buy organic, that's a good start, but organic is not the move anymore. It's really not. They keep changing shit up on purpose to keep you anymore. It's really not. They keep changing shit up on purpose to keep you guessing. Cali means really deep dive that. But finding out how the farmers run, do they have regenerative practices? Are they spraying anything? There's organic sprays now that are still considered organic. It's kind of bullshit. It's not kind of bullshit. It is bullshit. So knowing where your food comes from that's a big one especially as we talk health and wellness and what we want to do going forward um i'm still not quite sure i'm in a bit of every year we select a word of the year i'm still in the process of

chewing on what i want that to be for 2024 i think it's good practice to have something like that. One of the lines that I keep moving through my head for me and my son is slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. My first jujitsu coach, Dave Camarillo would hammer that. I think it comes from the Navy SEALs. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. And that is something that I want to embody. I don't know if there's a word for it, but that is something I want to embody in 2024. I don't want to rush into shit. I don't want to kind of gloss over stuff and just work my way through it and drag heels

or blast my way through something. I want to take my time and be slow and smooth and let that be the speed that actually matters and more methodical, I guess, in everything, in my work, in my reading and learning, and just chew on things a little bit longer. We digest, process, and eliminate, starting with the mouth and saliva, but the better we chew on something, the better that whole process goes, right? It's the first place it starts is in the mouth. And the better we chew on something, the better that whole process goes,

right? It's the first place it starts is in the mouth. And the more we chew, the better the digestion processing and eliminating becomes, right? It's the first step, but it's one of the most important. And that's true of anything. Can I chew on it a little longer? Can I move a little slower, which is smooth, and that's going to increase the speed of the output. I think that that's an important piece for me at this moment in Bear Man. So I'll figure that out, how that correlates to one word. Another thing that I'm going to do this year, which is a proposal. I don't want to give away too much,

but there is an exercise in the workbook of Spirit Gym in chapter one that will blow your fucking mind. I'm not gonna give it to you. You gotta get the book. I will have Paul on. I'm actually gonna fly out to him at some point in the year to podcast about this because this is his life's work.

And the background of my screen right now on my desktop is one of his beautiful pieces of art that he's done for this book is absolutely mind-blowing. The symbology is meant to speak to you in a way that's beyond words. And much of his book is layered with it, but also very practical things. And the workbook is just that. It's a practical way to connect to the content of his book. So I'm gonna be participating in that chapter one piece. He knows what it is. I'll let you guys get into chapter one of the workbook in Spirit Gym to figure that out.

It's a life-changing thing. And I know this because I've been friends with Paul long enough and heard him break this down for me in various ways, why it's important. So I'm really excited for that in 2024. You know, in 20, each year we paint, and I learned this from Paul as well, we paint a mandala of what we want, you know, how we want to create each year. And I'm looking behind me right now at the mandala that I created for last year. And there's, uh, there's what you'd expect from a month, like a, you know, Eastern mandala, the artwork, um, behind that, but then at four corners representing the East, the South, the West, and the North, the seasons, Native American spirit wheel. I have a few different

items in there and all of those have proved to be manifest this year, which is pretty fucking rad. Really fucking rad. Now that I think about it, just staring at that guy. So I think it's a valuable, super valuable process to paint what you want your world to be in this next year. And just include that and use symbols, not just, you know, artifacts and things like use symbols that equate to more than just the thing that you're pointing at. And, and I think you'll be surprised in wonderful ways of what that, how that chooses to show up in your life. That's it. I love you guys. I'm super stoked for 2024. No matter what the wild ride that it is, I always think back to Chervene who's just says, you know, cosmic giggle and shit hits the fan,

cosmic giggle. God has a fucking serious sense of humor and you just got to laugh sometimes. Cosmic giggle all the way through 2024 with me me i love you guys and look forward to hearing back from you Thank you.