Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 279 - Drop Bad Habits, Including Pornography

Episode Date: October 31, 2019

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I got as lean as I could. You know, I was trying to be lean and tender. Not all of us can be tall, dark, and handsome. Some of us can be. You can tan. But did you eat a lot of lean meat when you were getting ready for show? I did. And you want to know what else is lean and tender?

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I will tell you when to, I'm like E40. I'll tell you when to go. Hold on. So black Jamaican guy and he did what? I'll tell you in a second. Once Andrew says that I can go. And now we are

up and running. Are we cancelled? We got cancelled. No, we didn't get cancelled. Who cancelled us? I don't know. I think the culture did. CBS? Cancel culture. Westwood One? QVC, isn't that free?

QVC? that's a channel i think yeah back in the day they wait no no they they're they're the ones that have like the like the paid like i know about commercials i don't know about qvc but i know about bbc oh the uh british broadcasting broadcasting channel There's some good stuff on there. There's the big black coffee. Yes. And, yep. And, yep. Biblical bashing colonists. Did we get canceled for real?

Are you being serious? I mean, we're. Was it the host? The podcast, the hosting thing that's for the podcast? We found a loophole and somehow we're streaming on YouTube right now despite being cancelled. Really? Yeah. And iTunes is trying to shut down our account. Yeah. Spotify shut us down. What, are we really not

on Spotify anymore? Because they've been doing stuff like that. Oh yeah. Cool. Okay. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Our language? It's either language or... There's a language barrier? No one curses on this podcast. No. Except for in SEMA. I don't know yeah i don't know our language it could i think it's either language there's a language barrier no one curses on this podcast no except for in sema i don't i've never said a curse word in my life and that is a true natty professor natty what a funny name that isn't my name anymore

right there's no social media thing that has my name as the natty professor i can't believe your parents would name you natty with cap shoulders like this yeah it was funny when chris was on and i yeah i think it was chris when he's talking about like uh being natty and he just looks at and see when laughing there's been a bunch of people who like haven't known how to handle that situation tony huge i think did a great job with that do you remember remember? He's like, so you say you're natural, right? Yeah. And he pointed at me and then he chuckled. I was like, fuck you.

Oh my goodness. Yeah, and he was like, there's no reason to get into that or whatever, right? He just went on to something else. We won't do it in front of the kids. Oh, that was too good. Anyway, so you were saying about you met a Jamaican guy. I didn't meet him. I was watching a lot of his stand up because he's absolutely hilarious.

You people should look up Jaboukie something. J-A-B-O-U-K-I. So pretty much he's a gay Jamaican comedian. And in Jamaica, like it's like they're very like not all of them. Right. But it's he's even very straightforward. Like they're pretty homophobic. Now you just mentioned Jesus right here. You mentioning something about Jesus. And that

brought me back to Jaboukie's joke. And it was kind of funny because he went to a Catholic school when he was a kid. Right. So he was like, you know, they were teaching us about like sex ed and, you know, we were all talking and, uh, I was looking up at the cross and Jesus was just standing right there on the cross. But Jesus over here looking real, real nice with his abs. And he's like looking all, hello, I'm Jesus and I'm shredded. And it was just kind of hilarious. But I felt so bad because I'm like, oh, I love Jesus. But that is hilarious.

I couldn't stop laughing. I see what you're talking about. I mean, Jesus kind of had dick root going, right? He did. He did. Every single cross has dick root. Yeah. It's true. It's amazing. And true that's amazing and he's shredded and he's shredded yeah but i think he fasted for a long

40 minutes it wasn't even intermittently it was 40 40 days or something right he did fast yeah he lost some body fat too must be why he was so shredded on that cross did you guys see on 22 jump street when they had korean jesus or maybe that was the 21 jump street was the first one or second one korean jesus i think it's the second one but yeah they had korean jesus and then ice cube as jonah hill's like praying to korean jesus ice cube just sneaks up behind him he's like don't be wasting korean jesus's time like get out here. I need to rewatch that. Dude, it's pretty good.

Korean Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. It's comedy. But anyway, look up Jaboukie. Just look up his first name. His last name will pop up.

I don't remember his last name, but he is hilarious. And then Jessica gave you guys the script, right? She, she emailed it to you guys, right? I got it in a,

in a fax and I can't figure out how to use it. Do I have an email address? Do you have the same one? Yeah. Did we send it the right thing? Yeah, transima at gmail.com. Did we get it? You didn't get it?

Hmm? The documents. Which documents? The files. Which ones? It's under N for Insima. I'll have to look it up. I think I missed it.

Sorry. Don't fire me again, please. Is there something that we're going to talk about today? Or are we going to keep it private? Did the show actually really get canceled? Are you guys kidding around? We're kidding. Okay. So you do have the files. So I got the email. I do get the email, but it was in Braille. So I don't really know how to handle it. Just put your finger, run your finger across it so I don't really know how to handle it. Wow. Just put your finger.

Run your finger across it. You can't quite put your finger on it. Well, because the new iPhone doesn't have the 3D touch. Oh, hap. Hap. Hap. Hap. Hap.

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Hap. Hap. Hap. Hap. I can't pronounce that word. We had to use that the other day. We had to look it up. We had to look up something in that section because I couldn't get my alarm to work.

My alarm for the morning time. Haptics, right? It was me. Haptaptics? What is it called? I can't pronounce that. Haptics, I think, right? English is my second language, so I can't pronounce that.

Dude, I hate being old and being like, the phone's so confusing. But the phone's so confusing. And to try to make a goddamn thumbnail for IGTV, we need a rocket scientist in here for that shit. To try to figure some of this shit out over here. And it's all in different ratios and resolutions. And I'm like, I don't know what's going on. 16 by 9. It's a little early to talk about resolutions.

I'm like, oh my God. It's almost November. How crazy is that? Halloween's tomorrow. Yeah, it is pretty crazy. You're buying fast. You're not allowed to get any candy. I'm fine with that because you've got to have abs. Yeah.

And you do have some abs now. How about I finally see something? Right? Okay, literally. It was two weeks ago. yeah and you do have some abs now how about i finally see something yeah right wasn't it okay literally it was two weeks ago don't i can't hear of herbs you said this okay if you've never made up lies about yourself if something has never happened i don't understand why it's so hard for for you to like why believe it's never happened and all of a sudden today i messed with lighting and exhaled all the air out of my stomach and that's a little bit of definition there that's still so wild to me though like it's never happened right you say you can't

do it and two weeks later they're there when you actually try because there was momentum already going in that direction i'm giving you shit man but i got you i got you it's like somebody loosened up the pickle jar type of thing exactly yeah you know the first guy that didn't do it he definitely loosened it before he handed it to you right and then it's easier to open right yeah or is pickles too much of a phallic symbol for you guys to handle? I don't like pickles. I don't know. Oh, I bet you do. I don't know what that word is that you just use, though.

Phallic? Yeah, like phallus. Phallus. It's. You serious? I legit don't know. Just type in phallus on Google or phallic. Yeah, just type that in.

P-H-A-L-L-I-C. My dumb ass was going to say P-H to be silly because I thought it would be F. No, it's quite weird. P-H-D. Yeah. That's pretty accurate. Pretty huge. Wait.

Donkey. Yeah. Or player hating dickhead player hating dickhead works too I never tried that I heard that first from Kanye actually

pretty huge dick yeah pretty huge yeah that was from Kanye I don't know he said some of the funniest stuff but I heard he's going

insane lately though does he have an Instagram yeah he does you know okay I'm curious I don't think Jay-Z has an Instagram right he does funny know i okay i'm curious i don't think jay-z has an instagram right funny thing about the search bar jay-z doesn't have an instagram no he doesn't

no let me ask you this real quick what would you deem a genius or who give me give me some examples of people you believe like are actual they were literal geniuses throughout history or even now man that was a um i wouldn't cut deep i would have to say like say disney was a genius yeah i think anyone who's able to um so like there's a saying that says like um um, if we're all thinking similarly, then we're not thinking at all. And so it's just the act of somebody thinking quite differently. Um, but I mean, I also, I'm kind of a believer in this weird, weird stuff, uh, of, uh, that

everyone kind of has some genius in them a little bit. And then it's a matter of like who can elicit or who can demonstrate the most of it. And we see it in a lot of different ways. Like you might see it in collegiate wrestling because somebody is a genius because they know how to counter every single move that everyone else does or jujitsu. I'd say Hoyce Gracie was a fucking genius,

you know? And i would say little wayne is a genius because it's like whoever who's ever come out of the scene and rap like him like nobody you know tupac i'd say is a genius like you know there's a lot of people that reach uh high levels where i would say uh they stick out and maybe i don't know what the definition of genius really is we should probably look it up but to me, it's just someone that can execute on a really high level. That's able to be original, you know, being, being an original, um, being cutting made of something different, being cut from a different cloth, um, type of thing I think is, you know, if you think about the people they make like monuments of and, uh, things like that, I think

those people are what separates them and makes them different is the fact that they're original and it's hard because it's like you always kind of like like star trek or star or star wars was after star trek right like you always kind of like pulling or extracting from somewhere that star wars is still genus in its own right yeah no i agree with you i agree with you i think everybody has like certain things that they can be genius at or that they are genius at um but after listening to kanye's album which i mean it was interesting jesus is king um you know he he always compares himself to like disney and jobs right but like jobs change the landscape of how like you use

technology like quite literally like that yeah and every other smartphone is because of him and then like disney he created theme parks based off of cartoons you know what i mean and the amount of money that's in like that that is culture changing right right like honestly even the slingshot is a device that no one has ever thought about. Right. Right? That's changed the way people approach training for injury. But I don't know.

Like, Kanye, yeah, he's a musical genius in some ways. But that last album just makes you wonder. Makes you wonder. I see what you're saying. Just makes you wonder. Makes you wonder. I see what you're saying. Like, you know, there's what Steve Jobs did with the phone is like it's changed how everyone does everything.

Yeah. And then and then other companies came through like without Steve Jobs. There's no Mark Zuckerberg. Right. Yeah, that's true. Whoa. Wait a second. What? right yeah that's true whoa wait a second what like maybe there would be because facebook was also on the on you know was also via you know your computer right but instagram was like you

know specifically a little bit more for your actual phone right and then most people let's face it most people are using social media like through their phone through a smartphone and yeah like that guy changed that that guy changed everything. What I like about this kind of topic is that it brings up the question of like, what changed things more? Like, um, so it's really, it's really kind of crazy, but like my dad, from the time I was really young, he always said, if you can eliminate your job, you'll be really wealthy. So if you, sometimes if you can eliminate your job or eliminate jobs, then you're making something easier. And in this case, Steve jobs, what did he eliminate? He like eliminated travel. So like Henry Ford, like brought travel to a whole new level, you know, before that you had horses and, uh, it, from some stuff I've heard and just, uh, listening to some stuff through history, it take, it would take like three or four horses to remove one horse.

So like a horse would die and it took X amount of horsepower to get rid of the horse that died because it weighed a certain amount. Wow. And they had a lot of problems with the horses because they would go to the bathroom everywhere. So it's like the, the, the, the car, you know, the introduction of a car was cool and it was crazy and it was over the top, but it cost three times the amount anyone could really pay for it. And then Henry Ford came around and he invented the nine to five job. He invented like lunch breaks. He invented like being good to workers and getting them paid properly. And he invented a way, an assembly line to lower the cost. And so a car went from, i'm making these numbers up but from

what i remember it decreased uh by a multiple of like three he took it from like 900 bucks down to 600 bucks down to 300 bucks kind of like you saw with like a flat screen tv yeah remember the flat screen tv you're like whoa i can never get a flat screen tv i remember that it wasn't that long after it where you're like, I'm getting me a flat screen TV is going to be sick. And so that's what Henry Ford did. And that, I mean, has anything has anything changed anything more than that? Then a fucking car, you know, maybe I guess the second coming of that would be the phone but i would say kanye's west music is not transformative enough to be in that category and maybe that's like a maybe those are different levels of genius yeah i'd agree with that yeah because or even like the internet right because like without the internet phone and everything else is like kabing kabing

the dial up fuck ma don't pick up the phone get got us connect all over again oh i hated that i think that can that can bring us into what we want to talk about a little bit today who invented the internet? Who did invent the internet, actually? I remember this is how fucking old I am. Jerome Bettis was playing in a championship bowl game, like the Orange Bowl maybe. Yeah. And, you know, the bus.

You got to know who the bus is, right? Played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Number 36, Jerome, Jerome Bettis. He's about to look it up on the Internet, everybody. Anyway, the bus played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for a long time. Hall of Fame running back. And Jerome Bettis at that time played for Notre Dame. And Notre Dame was playing in the Orange Bowl. And I looked it up on my dad's computer via, like my dad was telling me about like this internet thing. And I was like, what

are you talking about? He's like, it's like lot, you know, it's like, it's going to tell you what's going on right now. And I was like, but I don't understand how it's like through like the phone line. And I was like, okay, now I'm even more confused. And to make matters worse, it wasn't too long before that, that I thought you could send like a fucking sandwich through a fax machine. Because I didn't understand what a fax machine was. He's like, oh, you can just send whatever you want through this fax machine. And I'm like, what do you mean you can send whatever you want? Like it teleports stuff?

He's like, yeah, kind of. And I was like, so you can send like a cup or a glass or like a. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. It doesn't work that way. He's like, he's like words so you can send like a cup or a glass or like a, and he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. It doesn't work that way. He's like, he's like words. Like you can send words. I'm like, why would anybody care about sending words to each other? But that's what people use for a long time is fax machines.

But anyway, yeah. Jerome Bettis, whenever the hell he, the Notre Dame played in a bowl game. That's when my dad was showing me about the internet. Wow. That's wild. That was before people used it for porn yeah or maybe not maybe people were using it for porn right off the bat maybe that's how it was made honestly i would anticipate that it wasn't too far off when it started that people started beating it to it people are like a real talk people are like we can get dirty

pictures yeah and now we can get dirty pictures. Yeah. And now we can get dirty videos. And now we're on to something. Yep. Well, I think, shit, it was on a podcast, but they were talking about, like, that's what made cell phone screen sizes so big. Oh, God. Because what ended up happening is you can now get porn on your phone. So it's like, I don't want this small little screen. I need HD and a larger screen.

Yeah, all the HDs uh nobody thought about this nobody was like hey like we shouldn't be able to look at everything on the internet there was no discussion i guess not maybe a woman created the internet then i looked it up it said that these uh two guys uh ro and Vint Cerf, internet inventors. Who knows how accurate that is? That's just Google. Yeah, I looked it up. There's all kinds of different answers. And then Bettis was in college in 92. That was the last year.

He ended up skipping his senior year and just went straight to the NFL. Yeah, that's like when I became aware of the internet. Any idea when the internet actually came around? It was a long time ago. Like the 60s or something, right? Or 70s. But it really wasn't doing anything forever, right? Yeah, because weren't you saying that people were afraid that it would just lead to mass confusion?

Sorry, I know this. I get our podcast confused with another podcast but i think it was rogan saying that even initially people were worried about uh submitting information to the internet because then it would be like what's happening today where like you get ads for shit yeah that was like one of the first things that they thought about back then it's like whoa interesting first intern well yeah that is yeah the internet is interesting but uh i think mark when did you first get your hands on like using the internet like really using the internet oh using the internet yes yes like for what it was for its main intention just spit okay so like yeah using the internet and then when did you first discover

the possibilities of what you can use the internet for oh man i don't really know i don't think i had a day where i was like you don't remember the day or no video or no video i'm trying to think like like anything that i can recall that's like that any like pornography or whatever is through like video oh that's what we're talking yeah yeah we're talking about porn but anything i can think of is is more through like video just because like that's what we had. Oh, yeah. That's old school. Yeah, we had VHS tapes.

Ah. And then scrambled and scrambled porn. You know anything about scrambled porn? Tell me. I don't know about it, actually. Scrambled porn, when you go to change the channel. I've heard of that. It would be like scrambled, and it's like, come on. They don't know that they're giving you that signal like that for just a split second.

And you could see some boobie, and you'd be super pumped. You're like, I saw a titty, and be super pumped you're like i saw a titty i think and you're like oh you gotta flip back to their channel and flip back again you're like i saw something else yeah i remember uh like my cousin saying that this one tv in their house got it like way clearer than any other tv and then all the kids started coming naturally like hey let's go watch tv just for makes no sense but this one tv with the same stupid signal that all the other tvs had uh was the one that actually like could decode the scramble i remember i think it was like fifth grade like some kid brought in like dirty magazines, right? Yeah. And everyone's talking about these dirty magazines that he brought in.

I was like, what is everyone talking about? Dirty magazine? Like what the hell is a dirty magazine? And then I saw it like on the playground. I saw like a centerfold or something, you know, the middle of the magazine or whatever. Yeah. Opened up. I saw it like on the playground, like on the basketball court.

And I was like, that ain't a dirty magazine. My brothers have tons of those. That's fucking awesome. We have all of those in our house. Oh yeah, it's a bunch of naked ladies. Issue 62, we got that one. That's fine. That's totally normal.

Oh man. But real talk. We wanted to talk about what habits that either we started or have been going on with or what habits that we stopped that we think have, you know, made a difference in each of our lives. And on the subject of good old gravy porn, I don't do that anymore because i i started watching that when i was like 11 oh my god yeah right i was i was loving and that's like high speed internet stuff um you know limewire if anybody knows what i'm talking about i know that if you are listening to this and you're like 24 25 26 27 years old you know what limewire was you know what it is it's pretty scary because you can't like filter like you can't

um like there should be some sort of system like where you can kind of like level your way up as you get older like you can watch like crazier stuff or something but no it's not the way it works if you're eight years old and nope you start to figure out what's going on on the internet yeah so like I was just sitting there one day you know doing my homework and then I went to LimeWire to try and download some 50 cent because I wanted you know some 50 cent and I was just sitting there one day, you know, doing my homework. And then I went to LimeWire to try and download some 50 cent because I wanted, you know, some 50 cent. And I was typing in some stuff and some stuff pops up like click download. I didn't even know what it was. I wasn't even searching for it.

Play. It's a video and it's wow. This is cool. What are they doing? This is a lot better than 50 cent. This is a lot better than 50 cent. Right. Yeah. That is that is classic limewire anyway yeah it was so risky downloading anything off of limewire i

messed up so many computers my mom was like why does do your computers keep getting messed up i don't know mom it's the internet yeah and why would a computer get messed up from it? Like, it makes matters even worse. Viruses. I know, but the computer can handle all kinds of shit, but it can't handle porn. Just to embarrass the fuck out of you. That's all it's for. Oh, man. Yeah.

The connection must be really slow. I don't know what happened. Yeah, man. I got to defrac my computer. You remember doing that? Yes. Yes, I did that so so much and it didn't do anything it just made you feel better because you were doing something it did man but anyway being

like being having that at such a young age like i just like that that that that was a thing and it affected me mentally as i got older so i got to a point where I was like, I have a real problem here. Like this is, this is too much. So I had to like, I had to like find a way to quit. And I did. And from there quitting that for me personally, because I started at such a young age, quitting it made a big difference for me positively. Like I just like felt better with the way I was towards women and just focus all types of stuff. But that was one thing for me. And I think the reason why is because I started so young, you know, people like guys in my generation, there does seem to be a huge issue because of like how their brain forms focusing on that. And yeah, it's worse for the younger guys. How did you find a way to quit did you watch like a youtube video or

something actually i did see some user like a mentor type figure that you saw talking about it or something like that and i was too scared to talk to anybody about that stuff like that um i figured like after some time like i came across something called nofap people know what that is um anyway yeah yeah people know what that is. Just not whacking off. Not whacking off to porn. Trying not to whack off to porn because... But you can still whack off. Like, yeah, like you can. But you got to use your imagination.

Just look at a white wall, pretty much. I'm kind of serious, kind of joking. But the reason why it's so dangerous, like, especially for a younger individual to do that to porn is because of, like, the link that they have to that and to a real especially for young men to real women so instead of like this happens to a lot of young men who started when they were younger and their brains were like developing with that um they don't look at women the way they should look at women they don't even try to seek them out because well if i can just just wondering whether their buttholes waxed or not right like like yeah let me get i don't think there's anything wrong with that yeah right but um it really just and

even their interaction with women's very very different if they've just been you know having this quick fix all the time the pornography um so like that's why i think like the the advent of the internet i think my generation was an experiment because guys that were like me who like, it was fresh then and you could actually download that stuff. They were, you know, starting off with that. Whereas like guys like in your generation, when you probably started seeing high speed internet porn, potentially you were like already 21, 22. Yeah.

Like you were pretty good. Like you, you, that probably didn't mess you up that much but for guys in my generation like it a lot of guys maybe they don't think it's an issue it really probably is an issue you know because like it makes a big difference if you're formed i think it might be an issue for everybody period i agree like it could just definitely be just like a cup of coffee right yeah i mean it could be just something that you rely on too much you do you do too much of it but like um this is why like in religions they have uh in some cultures they'll have women covered up head to toe and

there's some religions where uh the only person that ever sees the woman's hair, their full hair without it being covered up, maybe is like their husband. Yeah. You know, and it's, you know, they barely even show like their ankles. And in those cultures, you know, the women are, you know, they're not treated well at all. But I guess the point is, is that they're trying to like contain stuff right and this has been done in religion for a long time and so there's there's always going to be perversions of stuff there's always going to be and that's why i say like with any new technology people are going to all of a sudden turn it into pornography as soon as they possibly can. Like, oh, I can put on these glasses and I can be in like a 3D world.

Like, this is cool. Some kid that like maybe can't travel the country because he gets really sick can now see New York City. He could see the fucking Grand Canyon and he could see he can be in Malaysia and he could be all over the place. He can see all the canyons. Yeah. Or you can have a bunch of pornography going on. Yeah. So it's like you can't really do anything about it.

You can't really put a cap on it because a lot of other cultures are really fucked up because of it. I mean really fucked up all the way to the point where they drive fucking planes into your buildings because there's the the way everything's set up is so jacked up and so suppressed i mean that's really all everything's all about anyway everything's all about it's always all about getting laid we talked the other day about how everything reverts back to your penis right like it sort of does in some weird way i mean we're all dealing with different issues from people maybe not getting enough or maybe looking at it too much

or like there's a lot of different degrees of all this. And so it's a crazy topic to try to make any sense of. But I would just say that there's the level of pornography that's out there that's free uh that you can just access it's just it's terrifying it's really scary like i don't want um i don't want my kids or any other kids like just being exposed to it when they're not ready for it yeah yeah that's definitely the hard hard thing with like uh but what this goes with like the cell phone and then of course like the internet and stuff like i don't want to tell Jasmine, no, you can't touch anything.

Because then what happens the second she gets a little bit of freedom? She goes insane. Right. Yeah. Well, not insane or per that way. But yeah, I don't know exactly how to set up the right roadblocks to be like,'t do that but still take advantage of how dope the internet can be yeah it's tough yeah there there are apps and stuff i'm sure you guys are probably kind of aware of them um you know we have apps that we can shut down our kids phones at certain

times of night and things like that and then i've communicated with my children but you know who knows what your kids actually do try to teach them the best you can and try to, you know, explain things to them the best you can. And then their decisions are ultimately their decisions. My kids are, you know, 12 and 15. So it's they're getting older. You know, I try to allow them to use their own use their own caution, you know, use their own intelligence towards stuff. But it's hard, you know, use their own, use their own caution, you know, use their own intelligence towards stuff. Um, but it's hard, you know, and it's, um, it's hard to like figure out where to draw a line, but I've told my kids for a long time, like, I really only want you communicating

with people in person. So communicating with people in person is where I want you to – that's the way I want you to do things. That's the way I want you to conduct yourself. I don't want you communicating on devices. And if you are communicating on a device, it has to be someone that we all know. Like I have to know them and not only know the kid you're talking to. I need to know the parents. I want to know – because like if it's quinn and she's 12 and she's talking to some like 19 year old guy like that's weird you know and i needed i need

to know about that like what is what is that about like what that doesn't really make sense it doesn't add up it doesn't sound like that's doesn't sound like that's positive at all so you know with uh with the internet it's like kind of access to all kinds of different things. And if we go back to kind of our original topic of bad habits, you know, I think the internet is a deep, dark ditch that you can end up going down, right? You can really, you know, you have, you have pornography. And if you're, if you're just, if you're single, I mean, you're out there searching and hunting and, you know, looking, looking for whatever, whoever it is you're looking for. And you're probably spending a lot of time doing that, which is understandable because like no one wants to be lonely. Um, and sometimes people just get horny, right? So you're like

looking for stuff and you're looking for things and it, and maybe you just spend too much time on it. And maybe like, you know, from what you're saying, I think is kind of great because if you eliminate, it's almost like, it's almost like eliminating something from your diet. You eliminate this bad habit. I talked about throwing out your couch the other day because a guy said that he spends a lot of time on his couch and that he sits there and he consumes a lot of calories and watches TV. I'm like, throw away your fucking couch, just get rid of it. And maybe even throw a hammer right through the center of your television just so you don't do that anymore. And if you're thinking about maybe like I do that too much, maybe I check out porn too much and maybe I'm beating off too much. I mean, really,

is that what you want to spend your time doing? You know, and are you kind of hooked into it? Are you doing it a lot, you know, and has it progressed into something? You know, a quick question to ask yourself is like, you know, is it affecting, like, has it ever affected your job? Like if it made you late somewhere, you know, you just got to like run through these things. Yeah. Has it ever affected a relationship? I mean, these are things that alcoholics and drug addicts ask themselves and the answer is yes then maybe maybe you're

spending a little too much time doing that does it make you feel sad every time you finish start crying hey but real talk that's that's that's one of those habits that i think that um i stopped that helped me out a lot. Like a lot. But yeah. How about you guys? Well, I also just think on the same – even though the topic is like uncomfortable, I think it's important for people to address and for people to talk about.

Like let's say that you masturbate like a few times a month. I don't know. Two or three times a month. Sounds totally normal. Sounds fine. But then it's like, I don't know, like what if you have a wife or what if you have a girlfriend? It's like, you know, it's okay. I think it's okay to like to fantasize. I think everyone does.

I think it's normal. Like you're always going to fantasize about stuff that you can't have. You're going to fantasize about being wealthier than you are. You're going to fantasize about all kinds of weird shit. And you would like to think that you're perfect and that you're just like, no, I'm just focused on you, honey. And that's just where it all ends. But no, you see a girl with a nice ass. You're like, that girl's got a nice ass. I mean, you don't not recognize it. You recognize it. You definitely see it.

But then how you respond to it, how you react to it, those are different things. But if your mind is really drifting, I don't think it's healthy. It's not a healthy place to be. And there's a huge difference between masturbating a little bit here and there to some pornography versus having a fantasy about someone that you see on Instagram that you might actually see in person. You know, now we're starting to get in like a weird gray zone there. Like, I don't know about that one, you know? Yeah. know yeah and then you know not to like make everyone feel guilty or horrible but like you can also just try to think okay well what if the roles were reversed what if this is my girlfriend or wife having these thoughts about you know the guy that she sees here and there at the

post office or i don't know right like or or the guy that works out at her gym that's on instagram what i don't know whatever whatever the scenario is in your life. And you're probably like, I'm not cool with that. Uh huh. And then if you're not cool with it, you probably shouldn't be cool with yourself doing it either. Hey, that's true. And I don't want anybody to think that like something like anti-masturbation, whatever thing. I don't think anything's wrong with that. But there definitely is. And there's a lot of research that's been done on it a lot there definitely is a problem when especially men that dopamine release when you're constantly seeking that out via porn like there is a legitimate issue there um but like even in high school like when i talked like when our

friends we would talk about it everyone's like oh, oh, all the dudes, this guy's like, oh, there's nothing wrong with that. Hey, we all watch porn. It's all good. And I was like, yeah, it is all good. It's cool. But like it's, there's a reason why that industry can make so much money off guys. Like it's, it's, it's, oh, the amount of money that they make is just crazy. It's evolving, man.

Like me and my buddy, we were having, I've had this conversation with you. We were having a conversation about like, ooh, kids got it tough now. It's not only do they have their phone, which some of their parents don't understand what they can do with their phone. But if they have those little VR headsets at home, that's an even deeper. Yeah. That's a deeper, like no pun intended. That is a deeper dark hole that they are going to find themselves in. They're now going to be literally seeing titties in front of them on their little headsets.

I mean, if you just try to think about it like this, and I understand everyone has like urges, but it's your mind wandering into places that you just don't, you don't need it to be wandering there. You really don't. Like it's just, and this is something that's never talked about either. Like when, when people take testosterone, it's like, holy shit, like all those elevate, all those things are really elevated. And maybe that's why in the fitness industry, we see so many different people with so many different people every single year. You know, you see a guy and a girl you know guys with a different girl all the time um people break up you know in all industries you know you see it you see it everywhere but i think it's you see it even more like in our industry because

people are taking steroids people's uh levels are elevated and it makes you hornier i mean there's there's no other way there's no other way. There's no other way around it. And so like, just maybe your mind doesn't need to wander. I don't do that as nearly as much as I used to. Like when I, when I was, uh, I think it was a few years ago, my wife was like, I don't know, we were just talking about like masturbation or something with a couple of friends. And I was like, yeah, I still do it almost every day and she was like what she's like where do you find the time I'm like I just sneak it in here and there you know yeah she was like so shocked and she was like huh uh but you know I don't want to be like

um I don't know all lovey-dovey or whatever but it makes it makes things more special when I'm not doing that you know if I do it here and there it or whatever, but it makes things more special when I'm not doing that. If I do it here and there, it's just like, yeah, I'm a dude and I have urges here and there. And I might as well take care of what I need to take care of here and there. So everyone's going to be a little bit different with it. But I do think it is something that should be on people's radar because maybe it's slowing them down from doing the shit that they really want to do because they're occupied by doing this other shit all the time. Yeah. And also the desensitization of everything,

especially you were just talking about kids and stuff. You think about it, it's like, okay, if my eyes can't tell the difference between cell phone light and sunlight, it's like, okay, if I'm watching porn, then my brain probably thinks like dude i'm pounding chicks left and right so when you see like an actual real naked woman or whatever you're you're you know into uh your brain's like oh that's that's good it's not as good as that that freak the other night though yeah it's like well that didn't actually happen but your brain

probably doesn't even understand the difference right right? Nah, dude, you're actually right. Apparently, you know. It's fucking scary. We all know the tabs, right? All the tabs that are typically, right? So like every time someone switches from tab to tab, your brain thinks it's a new mate. Quite literally, your brain does think it's a new mate. It can't tell the difference between it being on a screen.

So if you're so used to all of these different mates that's why i can actually make it more difficult if you're into a monogamous relationship or you like monogamy it can make that very difficult because you're not used to one person you're used to all these different chicks that you've been having every different night like there's a lot of shit that goes into it and that that's why it's just like, I was too into it. So I had to go cold Turkey. I had to get that shit out. Cause I had a hard problem,

but you just want to try and control it a little bit, you know? Yeah. I was pretty lucky. Once we got the internet, I was, this was probably senior year of high school. So yeah,

it was a long time. But on top of that, the computer was like right in the middle of the living room. So nothing was happening. Right. Like, but then I got my own computer and internet in my own room which did take a long time but yeah once that happened my computer had viruses if you got close to it you would

catch a virus like it was pretty bad trojan horses yeah oh man and nobody in the house thought anything of it. Nah, man. It's like Andrew needs that computer. He's on there a lot. Alt-tab? Nah, I didn't even fuck with that. Alt-tab, close that window real quick. Typing during my homework.

Doing your homework with a phone ringing, are you? I love school. I love school. I love school. I love school. I feel so good when I do homework. Oh man, this is a funny subject. Oh my God. It's a good one.

And then also the women on there are extremely talented, so you don't want to be paying attention to that. So much talent. So much. I think we need to leave this show and get back on some everything we're saying about not to do nope oh it's kind of hard to talk about other bad habits after talking about this one nah i think we can figure out some yeah yeah i have a i think a pretty good one

which was yeah it was just uh i was telling SEMA before we started, literally every, by the way, we hit nine, nine, five, nine. Oh yeah.

We are, this doesn't make any sense. It's that we're at, so we have a weird shot clock. It should be at like somewhere around 30 minutes on there because we're 40 minutes on the stream.

Yeah. Oh God. Anyway. All right. So that's where we're at for around 40 minutes all right uh talking to insima about like every male in my family drinks they all everybody uh some of them got a handle on it some may or may not but on top of that like everyone's in denial you know i watch my brother become an alcoholic and he's he's better

now i don't know if he drinks still but i watch my dad enable him and just everyone just it just totally ignoring the fact that like hey this family has a drinking problem it's like i never met my grandfather because i'm pretty sure he died from alcoholism i'm not 100 sure yeah but i'm just like so i'm looking at that and i'm like damn like i'm drinking every night too like okay like i want to stop this chain of events you know like i'm gonna i want it to stop with me right here and i'm the youngest in my family i have younger cousins but as far as like my immediate family and when i stopped drinking a lot of things change right and that's what happens with uh a lot of people's bad habits that they don't want to lose um i lost a lot of friends i i felt like i don't want to lose. I lost a lot of friends.

I felt like I lost my identity. I felt like I lost my ability to have fun. And I'm looking at all these things. I'm like, oh, there's no way I can stop because like I'm going to lose X, Y, and Z. But now that I have completely stopped, like I, yeah, I did lose my friends. I did lose my, that ability to have fun. You know, I lost a lot of things, but I gained way more. And, you know, just like what you were just talking about with like porn and stuff. It's like, yeah, you lost like that awesome afternoon fun or whatever it was. Right. But how much better is your relationships now?

Like you gained way more that way. And then, of course, you know, we're in the fitness space and stuff. So how like obviously shred again is not happening if i'm drinking but it's like how are we going to you know improve ourselves our physique or our strength if we're just you know drinking every night so that's that's probably the biggest habit that i cut you know because it's like uh it's on a bigger scale right it's like it's my whole like family thing and then it's of course on a personal level like you know i went to a dark place when i drink i drink every single night yeah and i stopped that now everything's so much better i'm with

somebody that doesn't drink either like that's that's also huge so this i i know it's a big habit but it's one habit that completely changed my life i agree though like that a lot of people have that habit you know what i mean i think that that's something that gets in the way of a lot of progress i mean i think it's important to understand that that's something that anybody can develop because you know i mentioned that here once sometime last year i don't know i was just like i was i was craving a beer a night because i was drinking beer a little bit more like trying different beers so every night you know i want to get done with jujitsu or get done with something i I'd be like, I want to go grab a beer. Like I really want one. And then after about a two week period, I'm like, wait up out of 14 days, I've had a beer, maybe 10 or 11 of those

nights. This is turning into something like that can happen to anybody. Yeah. You know? So I think that's important to understand. And I cut that real quick. Like I still drink every now and then, but it's not something that's going to be even close to every single day. But it can happen to anybody and it can slow a lot of stuff down. Yeah. And like the like I was telling you, like the pull towards like a beer, like it's I don't even want to say it's there. But like I saw you drinking a Blue Moon the other night at Mark's house. Like I'm like, damn, that looks because Blue Moon was my shit. Like, oh, it was so good but like it wasn't quite the pull as it would be if uh if you guys were eating pizza which eventually the quest pizza did come out and i fucking annihilated that

but it still is kind of there but like it's it's not even an issue anymore you know like i like the last beer i had was at the arnold you know, and then before that, couldn't tell you. But it is still there. But it's just something I don't know, just like everything. It takes a little bit of time. You keep winning every day and then it's like, oh, this is actually like I stack the chips so far against you. You cannot beat me. Yeah.

So, yeah, you kind of kill it off in a way because you're like the reward of not doing that is so much greater than doing it um alcohol is weird um and and coffee i guess in a sense that um like the payoff is there you know like you feel it like alcohol alcohol is a party man alcohol makes you feel great yes and uh like let's say for instance uh in sema you know let's say he had a birthday party or something well i know like if i'm going to hang out with in sema at his birthday party i'm going to be hanging out with people that i don't know because i don't know all of in sema's friends i know a few of them from here but i don't so the quickest way to be like social is like i'll have a couple beers and what are the beers gonna do they make me feel great or any sort of alcohol right yeah gives you confidence you start talking to people and then people are like dude your friend's dope like he came over he talked to me for a half an hour

and it's like no one ever points out like oh fuck he was probably drunk as hell right or high you know what depending on like what what people decide to do um but you know trying to be like sober going into those situations is really hard. It's hard for like a there's like a little period of time that it's difficult and then it's fine. Like once you have to drive home, now you're like now you're back in favor of your decision that you didn't drink when before you go to bed. You're like, I'm kind of glad I didn't drink tonight because tomorrow is going to be great. I'm going to wake up. I'm going to be fired You're like, I'm kind of glad I didn't drink tonight because tomorrow's going to be great. I'm going to wake up.

I'm going to be fired up. I said I was going to work out at 8 a.m. I'll be there with no problem. Now, if you drank and you're driving, that's not great, right? And then when you lay down to bed at 11, 12 o'clock, you're kind of like, oh, man, I told everybody I was going to be at the gym at 7 tomorrow. It's going to be that much harder to, uh, to go through with it. But trying to, once you pull something away, if you can figure out a way to gain momentum towards

that and do it multiple times, then you start to really kill off that, whatever that drive is. I don't know if it's like, maybe it's like dopamine and maybe it's, but maybe it's connected to that, like one thing. And I do hear people say, you know, you might want to try to replace a habit with a different habit. Maybe you, I mean, maybe you replace your beer with some kratom, maybe you, or maybe you replace your alcohol with a decaffeinated coffee or like a tea. I realize it's different, but like at least there's something there for you to like sip on or do. Sparkling water.

Like when I go out and I go out with my wife and friends and stuff, they get drinks and there I am being a schmuck having my sparkling water but like once once the first round comes around and everybody else drank if you can think of it this way you're now in the same category as if you drank because everyone's drunk except for you but you can go ahead and act whatever way you want now yeah you actually have an advantage because you're yeah so you so just think about like um like i don't really have like a lot of anxiety but i might have a little social anxiety and I might like if I was drinking, I would let my guard down and I would be more talkative. But think of it this way. Like if everybody else already had a drink, they're going to think they're not going to think anything you say is weird. So go ahead and act as weird as you fucking want.

Yeah, that's actually really good. You know, go for it. Go have and have, you know, have some have some verbal diarrhea. Go for it. Go have some verbal diarrhea. Go for it. Imagine you are in a group setting where you're kind of nervous and then you're like, man, if everybody just got drugged really quick. If you literally drugged them. It's like, oh, just wait for a couple of drinks and that's what's going to happen.

Everything's funnier to them. Everything's funnier to you too because you're just taking all this in. As long as you're not with annoying people. You're better looking to them and everything. Everything's now in your favor. You can pull out information that they wouldn't submit any other time. You can pull out bullshit and they'll believe you. You heard Donald Trump lost 20 pounds.

He's getting jacked. They'd be like, really? Yeah, he's on a carnivore diet. Yeah, it's weird, man. He's changed everything. He's not building the wall anymore on her okay now yeah yeah yeah they would have to be really drunk for that one yeah but that's that's actually a really good way to put i never thought of that because yeah i do go into social you know situations where i'm like well okay i will pop some mind bullet and that does wonders for me but putting it that way is really i think you just literally helped

fucking thousands of people because that's huge i don't know whatever gave me this mindset but like when i was young and you know i'd go to like a party and people would drink you know that was kind of the mindset that i had adopted was like, everybody else will have a drink and they'll be floating around a little bit in their head and, and they'll be happy. And, you know, I can just almost pretend that I'm drunk, even though everyone knows I don't drink. So I've been utilizing that for a long time, but I also have kind of always, and I know that people get pissed when you like look down on people, but I just, I just kind of do. I do. I look when I, when I was a kid and I would go to parties and stuff and the cool kids would be smoking weed.

I'd be like, those guys are a bunch of fucking losers, man. Like I'm, I'm never going to be like that. Like I don't give a fuck. I'm not, whatever that is, whatever they think they're doing that they think is cool with their eyes all fucking bloodshot. I'm like, I'm not doing that. Those guys are worth, those guys are worthless. And I just, for me, like it was just me adopting, uh, kind of like a principle so that it made me abstain from that. And maybe like your principles don't have to be as harsh. Maybe you don't need to look down on anybody,

but that's what I did. And then as I, you know know wanted to get in shape and lean out and stuff like if I go to a restaurant and I see you know somebody who's heavy eating a bunch of bread I'm just like you know that fucking fat bastard's trapped in that in that rut like he can't get out of his own way and I I'm not trying to be mean or rude to anyone but it helps me to almost look down on them a little bit and be like i'm not getting caught up in that shit people have a really hard time with like when would you ever admit that someone is just better than you like i don't think your average person is like willing to do that people that perform on a high level they're willing to do it like if i was if i was

doing jujitsu and i'm a brown belt and you're a black belt and we and we roll and we and you beat me i'm like you're better than me but in society i can't say that you know in society i'm not man enough to be like you know what dude you're lit you live your life a lot better than i do you show up to work on time you're prepared for everything you're you're in better shape than me because you lift harder. Like people don't want to face any of that in their day to day. And I think that's, this is what drives people to fall into these bad habits in the first place because they're not strong enough to really ride something out for a long enough period of time to where it turns into anything. And so instead they're like, fuck it, I'll just have a drink because what's the difference?

Yeah. No, I totally agree with what you're saying. And I get what you're saying there. The thing is, is like when you say that, you're not necessarily saying that that person or you're a better human being or whatever. You're not like, I am a better human being than you. You are trash.

That's not what you're doing. Or when you're saying somebody else is better than you, you're not saying, ah, well, they're just so much of a better human than I am. You still have compassion for the individual, but you can see something in somebody. Like when Bedros is here and I'm listening, or a lot of our guests are here and I'm listening, I'm just like, you're so much better than me at this, this, this, this, and this. Like literally, you are better than me at that. And this is what I want to take from you. So I can try and get to that. I'm not like, and that's me looking to somebody, you know what I

mean? And you can see that in so much, but I get what you're saying. And like, you kind of sound like an asshole, but it's like, it's not, you're not even trying to be an asshole. You can see when the habits of certain individuals are messing them up and you abstain from that. And because you abstain from those bad habits, you're not in the ditch that they're in. And in this instance, that makes you better. Not we don't even need to say better than that. Yeah. In this situation does make you better than them, but it makes you a better person.

Yeah. You know, so it's the truth. It's tough to say because people will take offense to it. But if instead, like you said, people look intrinsically and try to be better. And instead of, you know, just letting everything slide by, they try to figure out how to be better. They'll adopt that outlook in that mindset. And, and a better person, like as a whole too, like, you know too. Like if somebody is being better, they're also – I'm also talking about encompassing some moral values and some moral code. That's where things can get a little bit weird because there's like religion and there's like weird things with – different things within all that. But like Bedros is a great example. different things within all that.

But like Bedros is a great example. Bedros is not somebody you would want to follow his blueprint from when he was young because he was like, so again, like somebody who simply doesn't rob a house would be a better person than him, in my opinion, because like there's not a lot of things that are worse than stealing, you know, steal and then going into someone's home,

like home robbery. That than stealing, you know, steal and then going into someone's home, like home robbery. That's wild. You know, being a kid and like, I don't know, seeing something shiny on someone's in someone's car. You pop the door open, snag it like I would never do that. I wasn't raised that way. It's not like in my I would be I'd actually be really scared. I'd be like really nervous, like someone's going to find out. Yeah. Yeah.

Like I'm going to get in a lot of trouble. I'm the guy that finds the wallet on the ground in the bar and sees that there's 500 bucks in there and just returns it. I just try to look for an ID. I'm not the best person by any means. I don't always make the right choice. But in those cases, I would never really do anything like that. But again, like if you're looking at some of these scenarios and we're talking about like bad habits and it's like, if you have a ton of bad habits, you know, that are, that are really in the way of you doing anything, then what value are,

you're probably not able to provide a lot of value. Let's talk about someone that we know that provides a lot of value that executed on a really high level. The owner of quest nutrition, former owner of quest nutrition and co-founder Ron Penna. We talk about him all the time. That guy executes on a really high level. That guy, I don't know his business.

I don't know like his, his life. I don't know his relationship with his wife. Seems like an amazing dude. Seems to have moral values, right? That seems to be in place. I can't really speak on what he does and doesn't do, but that looks to be in order. And then his fitness is in order. His eating is in order. His from a business standpoint, he's set, you know, he's somebody that we all look up to. We're like, Whoa, that guy's ahead. You know, that guy. And in a lot of cases, uh, somebody like a Ron Penn is going to be better than most people because most people can't provide that much value. How many jobs has that guy? How many happy, wonderful Christmases have people had because they know ron penna you know like our our buddy uh um now i'm losing his name who sends us all this free shit uh bruce bruce bruce cardenas our buddy bruce you know like how many great christmases has he had

just because he's friends with ron and worked very hard for Quest Nutrition as well. But there's a lot of people that work for that company that are benefiting greatly from rubbing elbows with somebody who is executing on a high level. And what did Ron do? Like Ron at some point started to eliminate one habit probably after another, eliminated bad habit, bad habit. So again, what Andrew's talking about, abstaining away from alcohol it's not easy but if you were to look at it on that level maybe it'd be a little easier

for you because you're like man i don't i definitely don't need the alcohol i think people sometimes think they need it yeah i absolutely thought i you don't need it you don't really need porn you don't need half the shit that's why it's a good idea just to try to do a detox of stuff try a couple days try to go five days without looking up any porn like just see if you can do it maybe you can't do it and then maybe you're like oh shit man i don't know like that's not great yeah just try it yeah i mean you won't do it, Andrew. That'd be pretty easy. Man. I mean, what?

There was a whole Seinfeld episode on that. And it was like, all the guys, all the guys, I know, all the guys bet. I need to watch this. All the guys had a bet going. And it was like Kramer and George and Jerry and like somebody else got involved too. And they're all like, I mean, I don't know, like just a few minutes go by and show and Elaine walks in,

she goes, I'm out. And he goes, what? Like you, he's like, you weren't even part of the bet. I don't think like you weren't even,

he's like, he's like, wait, what? He's like, women do that too. He's all, he's all confused.

Yeah. And then I, cause Kramer, he just, again, same thing. like what he's like wait what he's like women do that too he's all he's all confused yeah and then i because uh kramer he just again same thing like within like minutes of placing the bet he just sprints in like he always does and just throws his money down on the table like what happened and then they just i think something like the neighbors or something like there was like you could see them yeah yeah and it just that's yeah and elaine had like some hot guy came to the gym and he got all sweaty next to her like on the elliptical or something like that and she comes flying in she's like i'm out and she puts her money on the table oh man yeah because they're betting who could

not masturbate the longest yeah and they yeah so anyway yeah i guess we weren't original in today's topic but you know. Yeah, I need to watch that. That's pretty cool. Seinfeld's good, man. Yeah, I never got into it. I was too young, I guess. Yeah, it's old. I think so, yeah.

It is. It was really old. That and I barely started, well, not started, but it's been on as Friends because Jasmine watches it. I loved Friends. Friends is good. I never watched Friends ever, and then she started watches it. I loved Friends. Friends is good. I never watched Friends ever. And then she started watching it. And like I saw a couple episodes where I'm like,

you probably shouldn't be watching this. You don't really get stuff like that anymore. Like those shows got you really into the individual. You know, I guess you get it sometimes. But there's not like as many sitcoms that are like that anymore, right? No, no more sitcoms. I don't know if people just like don't watch

like TV like that anymore either. They're watching streaming stuff. It's all Netflix and Hulu and stuff. Did either of you guys watch Golden Girls? I have, yeah. Because I've seen every episode of Golden Girls in freshman year. Really? The reason why is because, obviously, I grew up in a house full of-

I don't know why, but I've seen a lot of Golden Girls. I'm kind of embarrassed about it. My mom and sister watched a lot of Lifetime television for women. Should I be embarrassed? Yeah. I should be embarrassed. It was a great show. This is sort of embarrassed. My mom and sister watched a lot of Lifetime television for women. Should I be in Lifetime? Yeah. I should be embarrassed. It was a great show. This is sort of embarrassing.

You masturbated to Golden Girls. No. Shut your dirty mouth. I thought that's where it was going. My bad. No, I used to buy these little pop figurines. And I have Blanche, Sophia, Dorothy, and Rose. That's pretty cool. I think that's dope.

Yeah, I think it's dope too. I think it's dope too. But yeah. Any other habits to drop? For me, eating in the middle of the night was a big one. Yeah, when I was a big, big fatty. But that perpetuates itself too, as we were talking about. Like if you're going to be checking out porn and you're going to be peeting off like you're going to want to do it more eat after too yeah yeah if you're uh if you let your guard down and you're like yeah i'll have some drinks and i guess maybe something to think about

is like is you don't need to be like a therapist but i do think at some point you might need to be your own therapist in this world. Think about like why are you doing something? Because like if you're having a drink and you're like – or you're eating. Let's just say you eat because you're like, I am just so stressed, and you just start stuffing your face. You have to admit to yourself that that doesn't actually make any sense and it doesn't help anything. And also if you're fat, it's going to make things worse because then you're going to feel really bad about it. You're going to be like, man, like I was, I'm not supposed to be doing that. I hired a trainer. I

just started at the gym. Like, and then you're like, I got to start all over it. Well, you know, it's Friday, so I'll wait till Monday. Right. Monday's a holiday. And we know the story. We went over that a bunch of times. Right. And you never really get back on track. So I'll wait till Monday, right? Monday's a holiday and we know the story. We went over that a bunch of times, right? And you never really get back on track. So I think, you know, for myself with this habit of eating in the middle of the night, it'll still happen once in a while where I'll wake up and I'll be like, oh, I'm hungry. And I won't really, it's not like I'm sleepwalking, but I barely know what I'm doing. But now I'm conditioned to do something else.

I'm conditioned to do something different. We're going to talk about that in another, in an upcoming podcast as well, where, you know, you, you set things up, you set up your environment differently. And so just like little things, like I have my, I got slingshot protein, like on our counter. I don't need it on the counter cause I'm drinking it all day, but it's just there. So if I wake up like a fucking bear possessed and I'm going to go dive into our pantry and just eat all the food in there, the first thing I see is a slingshot protein. I'm like, make a shake, make a shake, make a shake, make a shake. I got to keep telling myself, just make a protein shake. So I'll mix up a protein shake with just some cold water, shake it up, drink some of it. I drink probably half of it and I go back to bed.

It was like my brain was like, dude, like remember when you used to wake up and eat something sweet? You should have something sweet. And so I'll do that. And then plus we talk so much about sleep on this podcast. I'm like, let's go back to bed. Just go back to bed. Just go back to bed just go back to bed just go back to bed and so most of the time i just go back to bed because i'm i'm like if i wake up any further and go out into the kitchen and like turn

a light on then i'm up yeah and i'm like i need to go back to sleep so that was a habit for me that took a long time and it still will like rear its ugly head i'll wake up and you know there'll be like a quest rapper in the uh you know on the floor or something in the morning and i'm like what the hell happened here last night yeah you know dude okay before i don't know when we're gonna finish this up so but before we finish like what you just mentioned they're like that's like the one of the golden rules of habit change or changing a bad or yeah a bad habit is you want to replace that with something else. So like, it's not that you stopped getting up in the middle of the night cause you

still do. But instead of reaching for something sweet, you've, you've conditioned yourself so much to grab that protein shake and have it instead that you probably obviously get up a little bit less than you used to. But now instead of having something sweet, that's probably going to mess you up. That's full of a lot of sugar.

Right. You know, having a protein shake. Like, I, that's probably going to mess you up. That's full of a lot of sugar. Right. You know, having a protein shake. Like, I think that's, that's another thing that I keep in my head because he, even though I don't, well,

I guess watch porn anymore. That urge is still there as I've almost as much as it used to be. But my legit thing to do now is get up and walk away. Like from front of my computer or something, I'll get up, I'll walk and I'll, I'll literally go take a walk because I know that

it just takes one thing for me to get back in. So I think it's something that's important for people to realize with whatever habit you're trying to stop, it never goes away a lot of the time. You want to replace it with something else and if you can replace it with something

else, that'll make things so much easier. Oh, my food cravings and stuff are still there. But when I eat a little bit of meat or eat some eggs or something, then it's like, yeah, eating this is better. Yeah. I'm going to look better tomorrow. You know, I'm going to I'm going to perform better tomorrow. Like, that's cool. That's my goal.

And I can kind of, I can think about that. I can think about, you know, the way, uh, Tyler yesterday, Tyler Bray, the way that he shared with us, he said, you know, they're the pizza doesn't taste better than the Olympia stage. You know, and I really liked that quote a lot and not everyone has an Olympia stage, but everyone does have a goal. Like if you're trying to, if you just even made any attempt to eat better ever in your life, you still have a goal. You want to lose a couple pounds. You want to feel better in a tighter shirt. You want to be able to take your shirt off at the beach or whatever your goal.

Everyone has a goal. And that goal can be, you know, the thing that tastes the best to you. can be the thing that tastes the best to you. Maintaining a certain standard for yourself, having a higher standard for yourself, and getting towards that goal should matter enough to you where you can figure out a way to have enough good habits to get you in that direction. I can't wait to say that fries don't taste as good as abs.

Or feel. I feel like wait to say that, uh, you know, fries don't taste as good as abs or feel, you know, I feel like I'm on my way. Wait until you, okay, this is going to, I feel like this is going to be so contrary to everything we just talked about, but wait until you have those abs,

which you will very soon. Right. And you have a little bit more control where like you eat those fries and you don't feel bad about it because you never even, you barely ever eat those fries. Like that's going to happen. Yeah yeah you'll have your six-pack you look at and be like you'll eat that fry like oh i can do this and you'll still have your six-pack the next day but you won't eat the fries the next day yeah because like what you're saying like the other fat distribution right like it will change yeah i'm really looking forward to that yeah hopefully it goes all to my ass wait what i mean what you got some butt thanks you do

you do i don't know you just do you do your squats do your deadlifts you do your everything you want me to squeeze it you've squeezed it quite often lately actually so i think yeah booty gains hope hr isn't listening because that is a violation mark sorry about that didn't mean to do that you know one interesting thing we'll probably talk about this later but i think it's it's uh the addiction to like sugar um i think in the longest time ago i i was definitely in denial of how much i loved sugar in the past i was definitely in denial because since i was flexible i could make it fit i was like since i can make it fit i can have it and it's only because i can make it fit that i'm having it's not that i really have a problem yet i did yeah right right yeah i don't

have a problem you have a problem i can make this fit my macros yeah i kind of did the same thing the other night like because now that i well i haven't tracked in a while but i've been eating almost like one meal a day so i think i'm good but when i was like really like stringent tracking everything i was like oh dude i got so much more room like oh i'm definitely eating something even i wasn't even hungry yeah like i didn't care but i'm like oh i can get it in like this is gonna be awesome and i'm like huh like this this could go down a really dangerous road dude yeah no that's that's a conversation for another day yeah but it's yeah i think you know on the topic of habits you know another thing that i've changed is just my mindset you know i've just i just literally have changed the habit of having bad habits. Uh, I've, I've changed the habit of,

uh, you know, sitting too long. I've changed the habit of like not moving. I've changed the habit of, uh, not drinking enough water. I changed the habit of not getting enough sleep. I changed the habit of maybe not exercising enough. I changed from top to bottom. I've been working on changing fucking everything. Um, I, one of them, one of my favorite habits is to, is to work on the next day before the day is finished. Like, that's like, that's something that I actually look forward to. Like when I go home from here, I'm going to try to jumpstart tomorrow because I, tomorrow I'm lifting at five in the morning. So when, as soon as I get home from here, there's like a little bit of like dead space and that dead space, boom, I go right in the shower

and I lay out my clothes for the next day. I try to get clothes together for the workout. I try to get clothes together for podcasting because I don't want to be in the same clothes all day. And I try to get myself like arranged enough so be in the same clothes all day. And I try to get myself like arranged enough so that I can handle the next day. And now it's getting cold out. So it takes more time because I got to find like pants that fit and a jacket and different things like that. But man, I love that. I love being able to, you know, feel like like, oh shit, like all these things are going to like happen tomorrow and I'm going to be prepared for them.

Like it feels really good going into that stuff and almost think about like, um, it almost feels like, uh, you're, and I'm not always well rested, but it almost feels like you're well rested for everything all the time when you're prepared for stuff, you know, like maybe people don't understand well rested that, that good because maybe they're not well rested, but just think about when you're prepared for stuff you know like maybe people don't understand well rested that that good because maybe they're not well rested but just think about when you're really sleep deprived like a night where you slept for like 15 minutes and then you have like a test to take at school you got like seven or eight things that you need to go to and your buddy wants you to go to like a concert at like 10 o'clock at night or something. I mean, it's just one of those things where you just feel terrible the next day. You feel so bad. It, I don't ever feel like that anymore. Like I feel ready for fucking everything because

I feel like I kind of physically, mentally, emotionally get myself ready for the next day. And maybe even further than that, maybe even like the next week, you know, I try to prepare myself. I try to, you know, there's a saying that says, you know, don't start your day until it's finished. Meaning like you kind of know what your day looks like. You should just write it out right now. Like, what's your day look like tomorrow? Like, just fucking write it down right now. And then like whatever you need that goes along with that write that shit down too you know like if if you need to uh you

know let's say someone's meet let's say you're meeting your girlfriend for lunch and you're supposed to like bring something to her or whatever like just you know write that down put in your car now like go to your car now and put that shit in there just things like that try to be as on point and as ahead as you possibly can be yeah no that that that's huge how long let me ask you this because like you've you've been performing i guess at a high level for a lot of years like well you're 40 something right now right and 42 and you've had this business for how long uh for about yeah for well slingshot for nine years yep nine years so how long do you think because you obviously i mean you were doing well then too how long do

you think you've been like focusing on stuff like this has this has been something that you've been working on or you've been working on it more lately like what's what's the deal um in the beginning it mattered a lot less cause I, I didn't matter to as many people. And, uh, you know, now that I, now that I'm a figure in more people's lives, then now I need to, uh, you know, have more energy, you know, for everybody basically. And, uh, because of that, I need to constantly work on personal development and constantly work on like, you know, the things that I sit around and think about are, are very, I would say, um, they're unconventional because I, not that I'm not thinking of myself or not thinking of my business. Cause I certainly do. I certainly think of my children and my wife and things like that, too. But I would say the majority of my time is spent on thinking about the people here.

That's what I'm thinking about most of the day. I'm like, I might think, like, I wonder how Andrew's doing. Like, I texted him something today, you know, like, I wonder how this person's doing, that person. And then I'm trying to think of like, oh, so-and-so's birthday is coming up. Again, I'm not trying to say that I'm some perfect human being. These are newer things that have happened for me because of financial freedoms and different things like that. So my mind is able to wander towards these things. But in the beginning, it mattered a lot less. My mind was focused on powerlifting.

My mind was, it just had that singular focus. I was so obsessed with trying to be the best and I didn't have room for anything else. You know, I'd squat one week, I'd squat 1035 and I might go to unrack the weight and I might, you know, shake and be all over the place and look like I'm going to die. And then I know the next week is 1055. It's like, man, I don't know, like, what are you doing? Because the meat is in a month and that last workout sucked. And so like, I would do all kinds of weird stuff in the workouts. Like I remember one workout where I took everything off. Like I had, you know you know you wear squat briefs you wear a squat suit you wear all this stuff and I squatted 700 800 900 1000 1035 and it was a shitty lift and it was

all over the place and then my teammates wanted me to do it again. I was like, no, dude, I'm done. Took everything off. Took all the weight off. And I sat there and I felt better. And I was like, I'm going to do it again. Put everything back on, lace the shoes up, get ready to go. And then, boom, nailed the weight the right way and ended better the next week. But I didn't have time to think about anything else. My mind was so occupied on lifting and being the best I could be in lifting. I didn't really I don't have time to think about myself. I don't have time to think about my wife and if I think about my kids, it was just me, you know, nonstop around the clock. I'm in now though, because I think I like woke up and was like, dude, like you're, this is not,

this is not a good route to go. This is not going to make you happy the way that you think it's going to make you happy. Cause I'm so obsessed with these singular goals and I was so obsessed with trying to make myself better. It really opened my eyes. And, and I also became more aware of the fact that like my idol is not um like Bo Jackson my idol is not Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan these people I idolized when I was a kid my idol's my dad and then I'm like why don't okay why is my dad my idol and it's like well my dad's my idol because he put so much time in other people I'm like your ass needs to do that you know like you need to there's a lot of people that are around you that are good to you and you don't even recognize it at all. I'm like, you just, and I wasn't a horrible person. Like it wasn't like, you know, wasn't like anybody was like,

he's an asshole. Although some people might want, Juan will tell you guys, you know, Juan will tell you I was different for sure. I was just wired differently. Um, and so I just, I just kind of woke up and I worked on some personal development type stuff. I worked on trying to figure out ways to become better in all aspects. And that gives me more time. I cut back on a lot of bad habits. I used to not sleep. I used to not sleep very well. My diet was out of hand. I actually think like, you know, people really undersell the value of good nutrition. But I think that that may have been one of the singular things that was holding me back. Not that like I would have been stronger had I like not eaten carbs or something like that. But I think that the whole, I don't think it's coincidental.

I don't think that the two things came along the way that they did separately. I don't think the war on carbs and my mindset nowadays are unrelated. I think I've seen improvements in your mindset since your nutrition is better and better. I've seen improvements in andrew um that are have been like they're mind-blowing like andrew a year and a half two years ago he would have there's no possible way he would have said anything at that meathead millionaire summit yeah and if he did he would have been like i i can i can i can i could i oh never mind that's that's like that's 100 that's probably what he you know he would have been like in bad's probably what he would have been like. It would have been bad.

Shivering and he would have fell over and passed out. We would have been like, I think he had something to say, but he creamed his pants and I don't know what happened. Yeah, I literally would have passed out and you guys would have been like, oh, he shit himself. Like, oh my gosh. But when he did say something, he had something specific to say and he said it. And I'm sure you were nervous, but you didn't sound nervous. You sounded, thank goodness. Sounded i was i was pretty nervous yeah but i think that the food part of it you know people might think it's a little crazy but i think it's huge man i think

that you know uh i think all the a lot of the improvements that we have made are because of cutting even andrew who might be eating a little bit more carbs is still not eating sugar. You know, when we've all, we've all cut way back on that. And I think, I think it's helping our mental health. It's helping our mindset and it's helping us, you know, put our best foot forward every single day. Man, I can't wait for the first off. There was so much there. I was like, when you were like, when you said that, um, uh, you, like you think that you needed that or that portion of your life where you're focused on yourself, I thought that you were about to take that to, you needed that to be like, I guess you did need that to be who you are

now, but I thought that you were going to frame that being like, this was said, that's something that I needed to do. Cause people would be like, Oh, I need to focus on myself. I need to be blah, blah, blah. Right. But you shifted that and said you needed to know, I guess, how that experience felt and you needed to understand how negative that was to see or to get to this positive place to where you are now. You know, so I'm glad that that distinction was made. But also, I can't wait for the Internet to see your picture whenever you choose to post that shit, because you looking like uh you're looking hot man it's the uh it's the thumbnail cover on a video i just posted on my igtv so it's there everybody andrew who two weeks ago said he wasn't gonna get he wasn't gonna get abs now has some damn abs and his line he has lines on his capped shoulders he's looking good you're looking good he's getting there getting there yeah he's he's heading in the right direction. Anyway, we talked a lot. We're going to move on to another podcast here in just a second.

But to kind of tie everything all together, there's probably some habits that you have that you might not even be aware of. But again, just like if you have something, if you have a habit that you – I mean you probably are aware of it. You probably are aware of it you probably are aware like what is there's probably something in your way of getting abs there's probably with andrew it was like he already had good nutrition he already had good training he was just like we needed to put a time frame to it and so maybe you don't even have a bad habit but maybe you just need to make things more of an emergency in some way and that'll help you ditch any like maybe they're not like maybe they're not terrible habits maybe they're not even necessarily bad but maybe they're like little white lies they're crinkled into your nutrition

yeah that's that's absolutely yeah absolutely yeah yeah yeah i'll have that fuck it right like there's some of that sprinkled into probably everybody's life but when you put a time frame on it it changes everything quite a bit um you know just if if there's something that you think you're doing too much maybe you like ice cream you're having ice cream every night maybe you're having a drink every night try five days without it try six six days, try a week, especially with alcohol. I mean, like if you're, if you're a different person, when you don't have alcohol, I'm just going to tell you that you're an alcoholic. If you're a different person

and you feel like you can't, you can't not have it and that you're in a crap mood when you don't have it, you, you, you need, you need to re-examine that. I'm not crap mood when you don't have it, you need to reexamine that. I'm not trying to tell you you need to feel horrible about it, but I'm just trying to tell you that I think it would be great if you made some changes. It would be great if you looked into that a little further and went without a little bit. Now, you can say the same thing about coffee too, right? Because somebody doesn't have coffee and they feel grumpy and they have a headache and stuff. But those things will subside and the reward will be a lot stronger than you think.

Yeah. Or just like whatever the habit is, like substitute it with something a little bit better. You like donuts? Have a Quest donut bar. Yeah. And if only there was a way to get it cheaper, right? How could you get these? Or what about a Quest hero bar?

The old hero bar. You're going to what gonna what i'm gonna take more home today oh no yes my problem actually no we don't have problems we got tons baby yeah we got plenty but anyway uh yeah slight pitch but i'm being real like if you do have a sweet tooth have a hero bar you won't know Bar. You're going to enjoy it. You're going to feel good. And it's not bad for you. And then because you're a listener of this podcast, you can get it cheaper than everybody else. Head over to questnutrition.com. Enter promo code MARKSQUEST at checkout for 20% off your amazing Hero Bars.

Highly recommend it. hero bars highly recommended this uh this kind of stuff is really amazing because what you'll fill your life up with will be will be so much better than what was in your life in the past yeah so like now when you cheat you're gonna be like i'm gonna have a quest bar you're gonna sound like an asshole like us you know you're gonna be like i'm gonna have salted caramel collagen from perfect keto that's actually true yeah and people are gonna look at you like you're like if we say it amongst ourselves we're like oh yeah i totally get it but like try saying that like in front of some family members or something and be like what yeah like get out of here i mean we're still gonna eat pizza and we're still gonna eat some stuff here and there but

it's probably gonna be a quest pizza you know we're probably uh you know i had a cheeseburger with the bun yesterday i had another one today i have kind of taken about four or five days off of just dieting because i got down to 227 and i was like i'm gonna look like a weenie in any minute now so i need i was like i need to bring in some calories so i just went and then so in sema the other day is like what's going on with your veins oh that's like, I ate a bunch of food and ate a bunch of carbs. Well, they were just, they were blowing up, I think, at the, at KU. Yeah, your veins were like really large. They were looking angry at you.

They were. Yeah. But, you know, even, even with that, it's like, I'm kind of, I'm trying to eat bad. And I went to Burger Ream in Davis and they they have a keto burger, and they have a regular burger, and I did a taste test. So I had the regular burger with the regular bun, and I had the keto burger with the keto bun, and we should all go because it was awesome. Could you not taste it? What was the difference? There's a difference, yeah. Yeah, like so a regular regular bun, you know, squishes down and compacts down, especially on like an 80 20 burger really, really well, because there's like a lot of grease and there's the cheese.

Right. Yes. And it squishes down and like this soft. It's kind of almost pornographic. Right. How good it looks and how the just how it all works is amazing. Like the bread absorbs it. And then the bread is super uh thin right well

the keto bun doesn't do that because it's it's like a bun on steroids right and it's like more fibery so it stays up a little higher it's a little thicker there's like a little bit more of a layer to like bite into but it's still fucking awesome your hands don't get all you know gross and full of meat and cheese and stuff and uh i mean i i think i think i could have maybe pulled some of the middle part out of the of the unbun or whatever but i just wanted to see how the flavor was uh without messing with it at all and i didn't have anything on there i just had i just had cheese it was just a cheeseburger there was i kind of did on purpose because i wanted to see like what it really tasted like you don't want to mask the flavor yeah no ketchup nothing just it's just

just cheeseburger and it was fucking awesome that's great it was obviously the one the one with the uh regular bread was better but not by much and the main difference was just salt like i and again i didn't like i didn't want to alter either one of them but if i just put a little extra salt on the one with the unbun i think it would have been just as good i think it only has like five grams of carbs or something like that it's pretty fibrous damn what if in and out did that what if in and out on five guys and wendy's just did that i mean yeah in and out you listening they should be i mean they talk to me all the time when I order stuff. Call them up.

Yeah. That's cool. If I get a day or a meal where I can allow a little bit of extra calories in, if you guys give that to me, I'll take Stephanie there because she has a legit gluten intolerance. And that would be cool to like, hey, you get to enjoy everything I'm going to eat too, you know, because I mean, she likes lettuce wraps, but, you know, still like, you know, you smell the bread and the bun and you want that. And yeah, it's really good. Lettuce wraps just don't really work that good though, you know, unfortunately they always like fall apart. They fall apart. And then like the bun itself, like it kind of absorbs some of like the juices and stuff.

Yeah, like the burger. It becomes its own thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like a burger needs to be put on like a Foreman grill and like let all that stuff grease out of it and then put it on the lettuce wrap. Then it might work better. But no. We need all those juices.

I love the juice. Speaking of a Foreman grill. So we cooked. Well, we took some Piedmontese patties to Stephanie's parents. I thought you were going to say to George Foreman. Wait. So, took them to the in-laws. And, you know, we're kind of in a rush.

So, we just put them on the Foreman grill. Now, they tasted fine. They were good. It's good meat. Did you receive an invite to any of this? No. Well, like I said, you know, it was at their house. I couldn't invite other, like, you know, it wasn't my place to invite.

Aren't we family? I mean, we are, but. Was that the day maybe our phones were broken? No. It was really windy. But also, I just don't think Andrew thinks we're family. It was windy that day, and I think my cell phone signal was not working. I'll have to double check, but.

I'm hurt. I'm sorry, guys. I did bring in sliders the other day from piedmontese yeah you guys tried those i think the ground beef is actually growing on me by the way that he's amazing but i'm gonna let you get back to your story because i don't want us i don't want us to get off no well i was just gonna say that like i remember cooking on foreman girl thinking like this is the best thing i've ever like this is amazing and then so we put the piedmontese patties on there and thankfully it's good meat

but man i'm never cooking on a damn foreman grill again it just was nothing close to to a grill obviously pan fried would be amazing yeah but if it wasn't piedmontese beef it would taste like a straight hockey puck like it just was not good i was so shocked that it didn't taste awesome the way i remember cooking on a i mean because that's all i used to be able to cook on was a four-wing grill like literally dinner every night was on a damn grill but i was shocked i was upset it's like uh if you watch like an old movie that you were fond of when you were a kid and you want you look at it and like this doesn't hold up at all yeah yeah but anyway that's all i just wanted to report back. Shout out to our boys over in Perfect Keto.

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like legit haven't had one in a while are you telling the truth i am i am telling the truth? I am. I am telling the truth. I'm trying to get these abs. And then for Piedmontese, I highly recommend the sliders because they're super easy to cook and they taste amazing. But I did have the ribeye, the grass-fed, grass-finished. Yes. Oh, my gosh. I don't have that defrosted today, but I'm eating that tomorrow. Just when you think can't get better, it does. I thought you were supposed to save that for Thanksgiving.

No, that's the tomahawk, and I am saving that. Honestly, I have two of those tomahawks. I feel like I'm just going to save them for Thanksgiving now. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. And then just eat both of them then. Yeah. Anyway, head over to piedmontese.com. That's P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T-E-S-E dot com.

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At Insima E. Yang on Instagram and YouTube. N-S-I-M-A-I-N-Y-A-N-G. Shout out to our boy Tyler, who we had on the podcast yesterday, Tyler Bray. Guys, go listen to that podcast. The guy was like so nonchalant about his situation. He was like, yeah, whatever. Everyone's got problems. And I got over mine.

It's like, holy fuck, dude. Like that's just an unbelievable mindset. Mindset so strong that um he's not gonna allow anything to stop him and i think that uh there's a lot to learn from somebody like that you can find me at mark smelly bell on instagram strength is never a weakness weakness never strength catch y'all later