Mark Bell's Power Project - Do You Have Preferences or Are You Fatphobic? || MBPP Ep. 829

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

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So he won his class. I don't know about the overall, but he won his class. And for his first show, heavyweight, that's a big fucking deal, bro. That's so cool. He looks amazing. He's fucking jacked. Yeah. And when someone has wide shoulders like that, that's a big part of bodybuilding, right? You're trying to have wide shoulders and small waist. And when a guy comes in and it looks like he threw a blanket over a refrigerator,

you're like, I think that fucking guy won. Yeah. He has great symmetry. He came in lean. Good job to him and his coach, John Hack. But he looked amazing, man. He's going to do the sack show too coming up. So can't wait to see him crush.

It's going to give him so much momentum. Yeah. That's what's exciting, right? Yeah. You know that he's got to be fired up. Oh yeah. And also too, you know, we know, you know, from talking to him on the show more recently,

but also getting to know him, you know that he's going to be like hypercritical of, oh, they said, you know, my hamstrings, like, and then he's going to be in here like smashing his hamstrings, right? Or whatever the hell it is. They might have gave him commentary. I don't even know what they would make up. Yeah, yeah.

No, there are a few things, but like. No one better say anything bad about our Kenny. Yeah, yeah. He'll kill. He'll kill. And he's so young. He's just going to keep developing in all these different places. You know what I mean?

It's hard to get that maturity and that thickness when you're younger. But he has good thickness at his age. You see how weird bodybuilding is when we talk about this? He's so thick. Wow. Wide. I like him for his personality. Totally normal me.

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bro. Artificial sweeteners. They were right. The internet was right. All right, Mark. So, so I,

no, I ain't even ask that question. Do you have any date? Like when you were younger, did you have any dating preferences in the type of people you would date? Were you like, Oh, is there just anything you wouldn't date?

I just want to know. I don't know. Do men have types? Yeah, definitely. Okay. Like, I like small Asian women. Yeah, that sounds really good. Or I like black girls.

Or I like white girls. Are you fetishizing asian women mark maybe maybe i mean you know i don't know oh maybe i watched some anime here and there i don't even who knows wow i don't know you're talking about me let's just talk about you guys nah dog no this no this this this is this is an interesting conversation because i like i remember i've heard i've heard you know there's some women that, you know, I've heard them say, oh, this girl, she just doesn't like black guys. And it's like, okay, that's just her preference. You know what I mean?

Or she really likes, she really likes black guys. Okay. Well, is she fetishizing us? No, I mean, I'm happy'm happy to take i'll take the fall when you hear the other side when you hear that they don't like to date black guys are you like i'll take that racist bitch she's never been with me no i'll set her straight let me show her man but no, people hear stuff like that. And they, they sometimes, it depends on what the preference is.

If the preference is, for example, I don't generally like to date white guys. I've heard, I've heard a girl say that before. That's kind of okay. People will be like, Oh,

that's, that's not a problem, right? It's not like a bad preference she's not what would be what would that be it's not precious it's just it's like what you prefer what you're into yeah but once she says i don't date black men it's like what well what if uh i mean this gets into a whole nother thing but, what if someone just doesn't want to have a mixed kid? Hey, that's that in itself.

Okay. So that like, is that okay? Or is that too weird? Okay. But you know what? You actually kind of that's a good question to pose because, for example, Africans that come from like Nigeria to here, generally within the culture, they do want their children to find another african to date or marry so that the culture stays like stays going into the next generation same thing i know with a lot of fucking it up with shitty caucasian genetics keep that shit pure yeah 99 no no but but the same thing with like indian cultures like they come here they generally want their children to marry

with and it's not a racist thing. These are like religion things that have been passed down for centuries in some cases. It could be religion, but it also just could be the culture. Because one thing that does tend to happen is when somebody from another country comes and let's say they date a white girl, right? There's thoughts that maybe the culture will be lost with the next generation. So it's not that these parents are like, I don't want no fucking mulatto kid. Right?

I heard that from somebody I dated in the past. That's why I use that word. But it's more so that I just don't want our culture to be lost because of this mixing of that. I think there might have been more pressure years ago too, like where now there are a lot more mixed races, right? Yeah. Than there was 30 years ago or 50 years ago too like where you know now there there are a lot more mixed races right like yeah then there was 30 years ago or 50 years ago have you ever seen the projections for america or something have you ever seen that yeah it's not it's not looking good you can't say that say it's a joke no what say it's a joke what projections were you talking about about how many people are illiterate? Is that what you're talking about?

Good save. Good save. Hey, I listen to Dr. Phil. I know what's up. No, it's the ethnicity. You've seen the pictures of like, yeah, by 2050, what the average American will look like. I've seen it before. Mixed and hot.

That's where we're heading. Hey, it's good. Like, maybe we'll just take the best from all of each other and keep mixing it around. See what the fuck happens. Keep putting it in a blender. See where we end up. Every word you say, I sweat. I'm just like, God, what's about to happen?

Hey, you never know. If we could be so lucky. No one listens, though, so we're not ever going to get canceled. It's a wonderful system that we have going on here. Flying right under the radar. Hello? Here to see, did you hear an echo? We have to watch this clip.

We have to watch this clip. You want the clip, right? Yeah, let's pull it up from the cut. All right, so there's a tweet that we'll read after this that went viral. And it's reaction to this man's... Let's just watch the clip. Here we go. Hey, guys. I'm Nat Villa, number one.

Hi, I'm Nathan. Hello. It's nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you. I'm Sam. Samantha. I'm doing good. So in terms of dating, what is something that is like an automatic deal breaker? I can be really chatty sometimes.

And I've had a lot in my past where people were like, I'll talk about something and then I'll just cut me off. I need someone who will listen to me. What is something that you watch by yourself that's a guilty pleasure that you don't tell anybody? I mean, I watch a lot of anime. I watch a lot of Asian shows like korean dramas what is your time she puts stickers on her car pause it's not like a deal breaker anything very to asian men that's cool all right let's keep going let's keep going what race do you think i am i have no idea i don't I don't want to make assumptions. Do you want to take a guess? I would say maybe white to Asian, maybe? I'm Asian, actually.

Oh! Oh! Are you sure? Hey! Hi. How are you? Good. Good evening.

This man is sneaky. Why, Nathan? We get along on a lot of different topics, but I felt that it was something where i could become a really good friend with you yeah that's just kind of a gut feeling for me no that's totally totally valid yeah so post hug he i i'm i've never seen the show can you give me a quick rundown on what the fuck is happening so this this shows the button where each person this one they're blindfolded they're they have a date and they press the button where each person, this one, they're blindfolded.

They have a date and they press the button if they want to just go to the next person. And they don't press the button if they want to stay talking to the person that they're with. So when the button turns red, you can press this like you're not down. Got it. We got to see a little bit of the next one though because the next one is also. It just rolls right in. Did we mention that they're blindfolded? Yeah, they're blindfolded yeah they're blindfolded they're sitting across from each other and they're trying to find out

about one another without seeing each other without seeing each other so for the audio side right yeah he asked if he can give her a hug he did he felt that she was a little bit bigger and then as soon as he said her pads on as soon as he sat down uh hit that red button for the next so here we go okay i can't see anything because i don't have my glasses on bye sam goodbye yeah i feel so bad oh yeah hey how are you i'm good how are you are you? Good. My name's Nathan. What's your name? I'm Amy.

What is your dream? Amy is wifey material. What makes someone wifey material? I just really like to take care of my man. I like to spoil him. I mean, I obviously expect the same energy back, but I can cook really well. What do you love to cook? Steak dinner.

There you go. Let's go. Steak is amazing. What do you love to cook? Steak dinner. There you go. Let's go. Steak is amazing. Wow, that is very fancy. Mashed potatoes. Make them models. Oh, are you a model? I don't.

Where did you guys get that information? What? How tall are you? How tall do you think I am? I'm thinking like 5'11". Do you want to give me a hug and see how tall I am? My man with his move. Why don't you press the button?

Okay, let's pause this. That's pretty much it. Now, there is a tweet that went super viral after this clip came out. And it says, this video is misleading because Nathan, the dude buzzed, the dude that buzzed her hugged every single girl that sat down. And when he realized they were fat, he immediately pressed the buzzer.

This dude is actually fat phobic. And then there's just comments and comments and comments of people being like, wow, he's so fat phobic. He's super fat phobic. And I just wonder about that. Is he fat phobic? I don't even know what the definition of that is.

Oh, sure. But I would say that he has a preference when it comes to, and this show is for dating, right? It's for dating. People are going to date and hook up and all that stuff, right? Potentially, yeah. So I think it's, you know, you hear women very often talk a lot about height very openly. They're like, I will not date a guy that's shorter than me. And they are dead set on that.

Yes. And I think, you know, just the shitty part about any of this is just that you could miss out on a really great person, you know. But knowing your preference in the beginning and knowing whether you're attracted to somebody is really fucking important. It's an important part. You know, if you're going to be with somebody for a long time. Yeah. Now, this is just dating. And maybe what would it hurt if you were with somebody for a couple of weeks or months, experience something different and just had no idea that you could just fall in love. And the person is not your ideal that you thought

previously. Yeah. Let me quickly read the definition of fatphobic to you guys. Noun also known as anti-fat is the implicit explicit bias of overweight individuals that is rooted in a sense of blame and presumed moral failing being overweight and or fat is highly stigmatized in western culture not just western culture actually um other cultures too but just because he didn't want to date that girl doesn't mean he was putting a moral judgment on the woman it's like people are saying this dude's fat phobic but it's just she is just not his preference. They might live very, very different lifestyles, you know? Oh, you can't act like there's not lifestyle things that occur when somebody is, when they have, when they're excessively overweight.

Like there are lifestyle differences for sure. It wouldn't be any different than you get in a conversation with somebody and you find out they love the weekend because they love to drink and they love to party. And then you would be like, well, that that's not they love to go to the club and they love to be out late and you're thinking wow that's not my lifestyle i'm normally in bed by like 9 p.m it's an automatic no yeah it's an automatic no it's there's no further there's no further go and the guy's like maybe we could be stuck her into the into the friend zone right away i don't really party phobic, Mark?

I am. Actually, yeah. I do have a fear of like being at a party and then not being able to get my sleep to get my training in and do all the other stuff that I want to do because I'm a selfish motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah. It's just so funny. I guess nowadays, like we were talking about before,, you know, I've heard, I've heard certain women say, I don't like dating white men. And nowadays, because y'all are kind of under fire for a lot of shit, it's kind of okay

for me to say that. We're on the outs. You're not on the outs. It's just, we still got all the money though. So we're set for a little while. You're just not, not, uh, what is it called? Like you're not hot right now. You're in we'll come back we'll make a comeback you will make a comeback but it's like okay let's say this like like that's okay right there are

certain things that is okay for people to say for example woman can say i won't date a guy who's under 5 10 like i can't have zero control over you can't change that shit you can wear some little booties to make yourself taller but you can't do anything about that um like we just mentioned there i've heard this and it's something that certain people say but certain women won't date a guy because he has too much muscle so you have too much muscle some people i know the perfect too much muscle. So you have too much muscle. Some people have too much fat. I know the perfect person we need to bring in here for this.

I need to bring in my mother-in-law, Sherry. She's on that Dayton game. Oh, she is. These days. And she has all kinds of reasons why to boot people out of her life. It's really, it's amazing. But it's because she's older and she doesn't have time.

She's like, this guy used to be a heavy drinker this guy used to do this this guy used to do that or he still does this or like she's like i don't have time to walk in she's like i'm i think she's 74 73 it's like i don't have time anymore i have time for you to come into my life with all these problems so not like she's trying to look for the perfect person that doesn't have any problems. But when she recognizes like, this is my future is to have this conversation all the time with this person. And you can kind of relate it back to someone being heavy or someone having,

some people are really against being with somebody for a long period of time that has like debt. Like that's a big thing. And then people are like, well, that's kind of discriminating against somebody that just doesn't quite have their shit together yet. That kind of sucks. Yeah. Well, maybe it does, but maybe you don't want to be intertwined with this person that can't get their shit together. And it's a conversation you have to always have with them about how they're going to turn things around. I i mean it's like a lifelong project to get someone head in the right direction and someone that's heavy you could be like this is gonna like fucking take a long time i don't want to be part of it yeah there's but or even try to like like there's no you don't even want

to really maybe even try to change the person because maybe they don't want to change and that's fine exactly they don't want to change and that's fine. Exactly. They don't want to change, that's fine. And also that's just your preference. But the interesting thing is why is it that there are certain things that are preferences that are okay and preferences that turn into a phobia? For example, I mean, another thing that a lot of people throw around now

was transphobic. You know what I mean? And there are people that are trans who are in the dating marketplace, right? Where if a guy doesn't want to date a trans woman, some people will say that guy is transphobic. No. It's not transphobic. It's just that guy has preferences to date a biological woman.

That doesn't mean he hates trans people. It's just that is not his dating and sexual preference that is all there is to it but society now will say you're transphobic why does that make sense yeah i don't know i'm trying to even just see it from the other side i'm trying to see it from uh like that girl's side you know in in the video but like could people uh come to similar assumptions if they hugged somebody and someone was too muscular? If they hug somebody and somebody is, you know,

and then quote unquote, like too thin, too muscular, too skinny, too fat, whatever someone wants to say. But I think any of those things would be all, whatever your reason is to not open up the door to date somebody, I think is a, it could be discriminatory. It could be racist, I think is a, it could be discriminatory. It could be racist. It could be this.

It could be that. But that's your decision because you're trying to meet somebody that you can potentially be with for a while. Yeah. So why would you want to be with someone that you're not compatible with? It doesn't make any sense. For example, I wouldn't try to date some girl who, like, let's just say her parents just don't like black men. Because that's just a difficulty. You know what I mean? And you're going to have to act all white all the time.

Listen, listen. I wouldn't even rush to say that those people are racists. I'm not going to rush to say that because some people would be like, oh, those people are racists. Like, no. Let's say that they grew up around a bunch of white people. Their whole community was white. Their daughter is white. And now they just like want their daughter to date somebody who looks like her.

I'm not going to immediately say that's racist. That just literally could be a preference. That's okay because, again, like we just mentioned, I know Africans who would just love for their child to date another African to keep the culture going and to keep that going to the next generation. It doesn't mean they don't like white people. And other cultures. Asian cultures do this all the time, especially when they come from those different places. They have the preferences for their children. It doesn't mean they hate other races.

They just want to keep the culture going. It might be different and it might be really hard for the entire family to deal with. Like hard for the family to deal with because of cultural differences. And maybe they're just, whether it's white or Asian or black or Jewish or like a religion. You see this a lot in religion. Somebody goes outside the religion and bring somebody else in. It's a big deal to the family. It's a cultural thing that's been embedded for many, many years. And it's just different.

And so it's easy for us to say nowadays, be like, oh my God, that's wrong. But I think, again, people have individual preferences. People are tied to their religion. They are really tied and married to their beliefs. And I think people will kind of always be that way. And they're not always going to be open-minded. Oh, that's great that you found someone that you love. They're not going to – most likely people are going to have some sort of judgment no matter who you're with, right, with your parents, your mom, your dad, whoever you bring this new person home to, everyone's going to have an opinion of them. And if they're a different ethnicity, that's probably going to make things a little more complicated.

Like it probably just is. I'd imagine most of the time. Yeah, luckily my girl's family is all cool. Luckily, my girl's family is all cool. But a girl that I did date, her dad did say, I like everything about Nsema. Oh, Jesus. I like everything about Nsema other than the fact that he's black. He literally said that.

It was like, he's such a great guy. Just get rid of that. And honestly, when she told me, I was like, it's kind of funny. It's kind of fucked up. It's kind of funny but but this man came from another country he wanted his daughter to date someone that was within the culture i had to be able to understand that you know you you can't expect somebody that has grown up in a other country around a bunch of people that looked like them they come to a country they have child, right? Their culture is in their blood. And then their daughter brings home a guy from a totally different culture. You can't expect there to be no discomfort. You would want there to be no discomfort, but you cannot expect there

to be no discomfort. The man isn't a racist. He's just wants something else for his family line. It's not comfortable. It's not the nicest, but it's not racist. And people nowadays are too quick to put a label on something, labeling this man fat phobic, labeling somebody transphobic, labeling somebody racist. Imagine being able to have an actual conversation with somebody, you know, it would be hard, right? Because somebody might think that you're mad or upset at whatever was said, but to actually have a conversation, say,

Hey, I wonder about that. Like what you like everything about me, except for that I'm black. What does that mean? Like, did you have, do you have bad experiences previously?

Like what's, is this something from your history? Is this something that you've been taught? You think you were born this way? Like what, you know, where does this come from? And you can go back and forth and discuss it and it's actually really interesting in talking to friends who've said stupid shit over the years and in getting

conversations with them about such things you start to walk them through it and they're and they'll use the term all they're all they're all like you know all of these people are this way they'll use the term all they're all they're all like you know all of these people are this way you say well what about so-and-so what about him what about her and what about and they're like well not them and then you're like well okay maybe one of the good ones yeah yeah maybe there's maybe there's like differences within this culture just like they're like for white people i mean we got shitty people all over the place you know whether, whether they're really wealthy or whether you have like people that are white trash, you know, with the fucking their boat and their fucking truck rotting in the front lawn type thing. Like, I mean, there's all kinds of like stereotypes and things like that. And they're not just stereotypes for no reason.

We didn't pull them out of thin air. They're around and they exist for no reason. We didn't pull them out of thin air. They're around and they exist for a reason. And so every culture has some major differences. And I think it would be cool to kind of get into more conversation with people and say, I want to learn more about your comment. Because is there something that we can clear up? But I think they would think that you want to fight them. You want to choke them out. It's because black people just love to fight no no no no no no stereotypes are a motherfucking man yeah car project family how's it going now p montes beef is a company we've been eating literally for years now because they have some of the best beef on the market.

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Do you guys think that there's more of, I'll say, knee-jerk reaction to put a label on somebody as racist or label on somebody as fatphobic because it's very obvious what we can see, right? He hugged her and she was bigger. Oh, he's fatphobic. Whereas if maybe they were in conversation, just taking like the fitness guy talking to somebody. Everything's clicking. But then she says, oh, I also like to party every weekend. And he's like, oh, I'm out. You know, so but because it is something that we all can see that she was a bigger girl. It's pretty easy to just be like, he's fat phobic.

Do you think that has something to do with it? I see what you're saying. Like from the looks of her, we can't tell whether she's Democrat or Republican. Exactly. Which could also be a deal breaker for somebody that's real political. They could be like, I don't vibe with that. Yeah, I think you're right. It's something that you can see.

And it's we do label stuff and we group things together. That's like it's like part of a superpower being human. Like we group things together. My understanding is like that's one of the big separations between us and animals is that we can say, oh, I can use this shaker cup to like pour stuff into and shake it up and turn it into something I can use all the time where other animals don't have the ability sometimes to use tools. Here and there they might a little bit, but they don't have that kind of ability. but they don't have that kind of ability. And I think as humans, we tend to like group things together so that these sort of things, these bottles and different things, they're all in like a category.

Like that's a category. I know what to do with that category. I know how to utilize that category. Or I know how to explain it or whatever it might be. But I think it's easy to group things together. It makes it a lot easier just to say there's this group over here and this is what I don't like about that group. And this is what I like about this group and this is why I'm with this group things together. It makes it a lot easier just to say there's this group over here and this is what I don't like about that group. And this is what I like about this group.

And this is why I'm with this group over here. Yeah. That's like, there's two things. That's the first reason why honestly, like older people, 50, 60,

70, I am not quick to like really just like get mad at when I hear them say certain things. Because especially when you're someone from another country coming to this one and you talk to some 60-year-old, I don't know, Asian, white or whatever person, they'll say certain things. You'll be like, ooh, got to remember, you're 60. You came at a different time. Let's talk about that. You know what I mean? So nowadays you really got to have some grace with the older generation because they're used to certain things that is not current.

But another thing that I found kind of funny is I was listening to the Flagrant podcast. They have a Patreon episode where they're talking about like being fit is not fun. And they're like, if you're super in shape, maybe you have a six pack. There's no way you're enjoying life. You're not allowed. You're not eating food. You probably feel like shit all the time. And one of the guys, his name's Al, when he was in shape, there was a time that he was really, he was like,

I was the most unhappiest ever. Like I wasn't happy at all. Cause he would do like juice fast and all these things. So people have a assumption of what your lifestyle is because you're in shape. They think you're not enjoying food. You're not enjoying life, and you're unhappy. And if that's what they think that person is, right, they're probably not going to potentially want to date that person because they're like, he doesn't know how to have fun. Right? And you could even say that about someone like Andrew Strolls, who's super popular, super successful. You can be like, that's got to be so much stress. Like who would ever really want to even put themselves in that position? Like good for him.

That's cool. Like he makes money, but I would never want to be anything like that because that would be, it seems like a lot of weight. Imagine being Joe Rogan. You got to walk around and everyone's like, they're like going over every single word that you say and you're getting, you know, in trouble from this thing and that thing. and you're getting in trouble from this thing and that thing. So I think a lot of people would just prefer to kind of sometimes fly, almost fly under the radar. And it's real easy to point to other people and say, I don't think being able to run a two-hour marathon,

that seems like you just hate yourself. You just want to torture yourself every day. But what if some of these people that are pursuing these things, this is their expression of their own version of self-improvement. Again, kind of back to the topic at hand, you get in a conversation with somebody and you find out that they are so obsessed with the gym and you're just meeting them and you're not a person that goes to the gym. You'd be like, you know, I think this is the end. You know, this is,

we're not going to go any further communicating because I don't go to the gym you'd be like you know i think this is the end you know this is we're not going to go any further communicating because i don't go to the gym i don't understand it and you're there forever and i'm always going to probably bug you about that what's that uh that meme that went around with that woman like no one cares stop filming your workouts or whatever that oh i thought it was the guy in the corner like the buff dude in the that's pretty funny that one was funny but there was a woman uh yeah she's like she just goes stop please stop filming your workouts nobody cares and like every guy uses it like like and they're you know doing fucking curls and shit like that hey but that is a good tip for all for all for all the guys in the audience that are dating and out there let let the first thing you talk about,

please don't let it be the gym. Talk about something else in the gym. Cause it's visible. It's obvious. You know what I mean? If you go to the gym, but then if you talk about the gym initially, that's immediately like,

Oh, all he knows is the gym. So what would you talk about? Talk about her. Let her talk about herself. That is the easiest move. Like, like talk to her about a program you wrote for her. Let her talk about herself. That is the easiest move. Like talk to her about a program you wrote for her.

So do you deadlift? Because your hamstring looks so good. Right? Yeah. No. So she's talking about how when she was younger, she did gymnastics. Right? And then you're like, you know what?

I was in the gym the other day. I was thinking about gymnastics. They must have really strong grip because i was doing this deadlift yeah yeah it just keeps coming back to this fucking gym no matter what i do like on the new season of love is blind the ballet dancer oh they just did like a fucking hyper cut of how many times she told all the guys like yeah i'm a ballet dancer i'm real flexible like i'm a i'm real bendy and like that was like her go-to and like two guys said she was embarrassed and sema really bad right here this is amazing we've had many women that have come to super training gym many women have been on the podcast and people that just kind of hang out in the gym within a minute of of meeting andEMA, they say that they're single.

Wait, what? Within a minute. It only takes about one minute. I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe two minutes. Wait, when has this ever happened? It happened this past weekend. We had a girl in here deadlifting.

She was like, yeah, my ex-boyfriend. She had an ex. We had it happen with another guest of ours that we had. I'm not going to mention names. But it's happened like a handful of times. I'm like, wow, I didn't divulge that information to me and my brother right away. It sucks to be in SEMA. If I forgot to mention it, i'm not with anybody any longer

yeah you guys remember that last relationship well that is well over i also i also think uh i also think that some women that would say i'm not really into black guys we go there you go hold on let me let me let me hold that statement for a moment I want to resend it oh my god I must suck to be in seem I would

hate that it's horrible yeah no that'd be terrible yo that's fucking funny that's hilarious he's rolling around with that mustache things are getting out of hand yeah oh man slow him down andrew rebutts pull something up i don't know dude oh yeah did you were able to find that clip of the stop film no i i couldn't on instagram i don't know but i know how to find memes i gotta say it being like i ate nine rolls of sushi last night nine last last yeah but that's

all i ate yesterday. You can eat what you want and be in shape. I just want to say that because people think that if you're in good shape, your life sucks. You eat pretty much what you want now and all your food is good and enjoyable. We talked about it all the time. I ate pizza last night. What? I ate a medium pizza.

What was on the pizza? Cheese. And? That's it. Just a cheese pizza. Yeah i know well i had black bear last night oh you did yeah what did you eat there this show's going all the shit the fuck's going on around here but just to clarify running and eating pizza i i woke up normal-ish time uh-huh took uh Took my daughter and her friends to the mall. Walked my son

around the entire mall for fucking way too long. My first meal today was like around 4 or 5 o'clock and it was a fucking gigantic Bob's Big Bear Burger from Black Bear. Black Bear Diner's really good. It's really good. Their bun is just...

Portion's huge. Yeah, pretty big. They're getting smaller as I get bigger. Well, because our taints are getting smaller too, so they're trying to size it up with that probably. The plastics in the food that is making them smaller. They shrink down. I went for a run yesterday, and I did this loop that's kind of by my house that has a ton of

hills. I went through that and then I ran the beach and ahead of time I'm thinking like, I've never done that before. That's going to like totally kill me. I got towards the end of running the loop where the hill is. There's like a huge hill at the end. That's like continuous and probably takes like 10 minutes just to get up that one hill. And I'm like three quarters of the way done with that hill. And I'm like, oh, I'm almost done. Like this is crazy. And then I went in the house and just got out of my shoes and went barefoot to run on the beach.

But it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. But I had a really good energy output. And when I was on the beach, I was actually running pretty fast most of the time and still had good energy. And so when I came home, there it is. When I came home, I was like, you know what? I just need to fucking, I need to really eat. I ate steak.

I had rice. I did all that stuff a little earlier in the day. But I was like, you know what? I need to just actually consume some calories. So I ordered some Woodstock pizza. Oh, that's a really good pizza. Woodstock? Yeah, and I'm a cheese guy. I just like cheese.

I mean, I'll go pepperoni and I like different kinds of pizza, but I usually just go with cheese. Dude, Woodstock is my shit, though. That's your jam? Oh, my God. The fat part is I took the crust, because the crust has like a little fold-over thing, and I fucking stuck butter in there and ate that like I was eating like a bunch of bread and butter fucking awesome that crust will have like do my mouth's watering they'll throw like

the sauce in there too though yeah that shit's really good I've never had Woodstock are there any in this it's in Davis okay I got it I think it might be like the only one it's weird they take the top part like the crust part and it's like folded a little bit and there's like no cheese on that part. But it's really good, especially if you have butter or ranch dressing. Okay. Whenever you want to go, dude, I'm down. That shit's really fucking good.

I had the sushi yesterday, so I'm going to chill for a day or two. I'll get it in like a day or two. Yeah. I think this would be a whole other topic. We should play that thing from uh the uh podcast that you saw that on what did you say it was on a flagrant yeah yeah we should we should go over that but we'll take this one on out of here take us on out of here all right thank you everybody for checking out today's episode stay tuned for smelly's tip uh curious to see smell it smell what

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I wonder if I can. I can't. This right here. This one right here. Thanks for that shirt, by the way, Andrew. You're welcome. Yeah, that was a great shirt. Check out the Discord down below. Smelly's tip right there.

Let us know if you guys think this fatphobic thing is interesting or if it makes sense. Maybe we're off. But what do you guys think? Comment below and let us know. And see me on Instagram and YouTube. And see me yin-yang on TikTok and Twitter, Mark. I think this goes pretty good with today's topic. And it's something I heard Dr. Phil say when he was on Joe Rogan.

I don't know if you guys have a chance to listen to that at all. I didn't even know that was interesting. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. He just had him on like a couple days ago it's really good it's really good talked about uh america sliding down a giant hill and going into a big bucket of shit basically but it was really they had really good information but anyway uh dr phil he said uh you don't have to be offended

every time you can be you don't have to be offended every time you can be. You don't have to be offended every time you could be. Somebody says something about your race. Somebody says something about people that work out or somebody says something about people that do the same diet as you or have the same religion or same politics, or you don't have to be, you get to take a beat for a minute and just understand like just somebody has just a different background than you.

Who the fuck knows what it is? Who knows what their situation is with whatever the fuck it is that they brought up. So I think it's a really, really good way to try to keep that equanimity. I also wanted to say today was day 60 of run every day. I don't know how long I'm going to do this for. Today was day 60 of run every day. I don't know how long I'm going to do this for. I have my sights set on a marathon down the road, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to run continuously through that.

I guess we'll find out. But, and I think Andrew's experiencing this with jujitsu, and I've experienced this in a in a relationship as well like you can go from being one way one day and then you're totally different just a handful of days later like that happened when I met my wife I was single forever didn't really ever have a girlfriend like I don't know dated a couple girls and just I don't know shit just never worked out. Met my wife and then boom, just like attached at the hip. We were together for a long time. We moved in together for about a year.

We were engaged for about a year and then now we've been married for 20 plus years. With Andrew starting jujitsu, you go from knowing nothing about jujitsu to where any mention of anything that they talk about you don't have any clue what they mean even the simplest task even something like shrimping or something like that in practice which is like a drill even though you're seeing it and even though you're mimicking it you still don't have any app any idea where it applies or how to use it or anything and then i don't know two weeks later later, you're like, oh yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Got it. Cool. Three weeks later, a month later, a year later, two years later,

right? So on and so forth. You continue to learn, you continue to like master these things with running. Like I just felt like it was so poor at, I can't even explain to people how hard it felt. And I know it, it probably feels similar to people when they go out and they try to run. They just can't breathe. Like can't. I don't like the word can't, but you can't breathe any longer. You're running and you get like hyperventilated and you can't fucking go anymore. Or your cabs are on fire.

And you're like, I don't know if I keep going. Like maybe I could keep going. Maybe if I keep going, like maybe I could keep going. Maybe I could keep going, but like, what's it going to do to me? If you start to work on it and you have it become a practice, you don't necessarily have to run every day like I'm doing. But if you start to make it routine and you start to do it often, whether it's pushups or air squats or running, any of these things, string together some days or string together a handful of weeks where you participated in this activity for more days than you don't, which would mean four days a week. There's seven days in a week,

right? Try to figure that out whatever way you can. And if you can string together a couple weeks or a couple months of it, you'll be so fucking shocked at what you can do. You'll be so surprised. And now you have a new skill set. And when it comes to fitness or losing weight or something, now you have another piece that you can utilize. We know that Andrew's going to get leaner and get in better shape just from jiu-jitsu. Not right away because it's going to take time for where he can apply himself more. When he gets more explosive and gets more into it and knows the moves better

and knows how to defend himself better, it'll become a fucking workout. With running, it's a workout when you first start right away because you can't, you know, it's so difficult to breathe. It's so difficult to get some of it down. So anyway, I just want to encourage people. 60 days ago, I had zero days in a row. Now I got 60 days in a row. You can do the same thing. By the time you listen to this, by the time you finish listening to this, maybe you got run number one in there. Strength is never weakness.

Weakness is never strength. Catch you guys later. Bye.