Mark Bell's Power Project - MBPP EP. 641 - Your Belief Is The Strongest PED

Episode Date: December 17, 2021

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Starting point is 00:01:00 Again, MerrickHealth.com. Links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Mike's an athlete, man.Health.com. Links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes. it up sick do you uh you have that video i haven't even seen no let's uh just jump into talking about just bullshit and like worlds and just like what's going on dive into that whoa whoa whoa whoa good catch all right we are rolling oh my god so you've been doing some cold plunging yeah yeah yeah so it's actually really fucking awesome um after i saw the episode with hooverman um there's this place i go to in sacramento called asha urban baths um and i've been using their sauna but they also have a cold plunge in there and it's it's really cool because i think one of the big things that helps with
Starting point is 00:02:01 is like breathing helping you to be able to be more resilient. Wim Hof has talked about it, helping with the immune system. And one thing I noticed is like cold showers are cool because like they get you ready for the morning. But I've noticed that as I've cold plunged more and as I've gotten used to it, I just seem to be a bit more calm.
Starting point is 00:02:20 It does have performance effects, but I just seem to be able to just be in just general more resilient. My breath control is better. So it's pretty dope. I love how you're talking as you're making this super elaborate protein coffee thing or something. What is this? Yeah, dude, it's the Fair Life. You guys don't understand how strange and semen is until you start to hang out with them every day.
Starting point is 00:02:42 It's the Fair Life salted caramel mixed with some Fair life chocolate and i have some coffee down there and then um yeah it tastes fucking amazing man so good it tastes so good you have salted caramel i have i'll give you some i have some of my trunk so i'll give you you if you mix them it's a 60 gram protein bomb man oh my gosh and it just goes down the hatch super easily damn Damn. Yeah. So the cold plunge, you think it's helping you to be just maybe a little bit calmer in life in general? Yeah. I mean, you're already pretty calm, but. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:12 No, no. I think it just helps me be a little bit more calm and a little bit more resilient. And it has its immune system benefits, which I dig that a lot. But try taking a cold shower each morning. Just try that. You don't have a cold plunge at home. Take a cold shower each morning and get yourself used to that. You'll, you'll notice some just differences throughout your day. I'll say that you gotta, you gotta try it first. And then Andrew Hoorman did a whole episode on cold therapy and cold plunging and all that.
Starting point is 00:03:38 How cold is the thingy? Um, this morning it was 40 degrees, but it can go down to 36. So yesterday morning I just got it this past weekend. I just finished setting it up. You have it at your house? Yeah, yeah. It's in my backyard. Is that from the place in Sacramento? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:51 The Cold Plunge people are based in Sacramento. So they're really dope. So it came out this weekend. But I finished setting it up. I think it can be like up to – they have one that's hot and cold, but mine is just cold. So it can be 60 degrees or you can take it all the way down to 36 degrees. So yesterday morning I did 44 degrees. This morning I did 40 degrees.
Starting point is 00:04:16 And tomorrow I'm just going to take it to its lowest because it doesn't like – Otherwise it would be frozen, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But 36 degrees and it's nice. Sitting there for five minutes in the morning. There's some stupid weird stuff that I mess around with just from having different people on the show and just from, like, I don't know, studying, like, philosophy and kind of, like, thinking about how things are a choice and things of that nature.
Starting point is 00:04:39 And, you know, it's been cold. It's been windy. It's been kind of rainy. And when I go to go in my hot tub, it's, like, really cold outside. I got to walk out to the hot tub, and it's windy and rainy at the same time. And plus the temperature is low. I used to go out, and I used to be like, I used to kind of anticipate, okay, it's going to be cold. And because I already thought that in my head, I was already, like, up own head and I would shiver. I'd go out there and I would just, now I'm just like, just go outside
Starting point is 00:05:10 and see if you have the ability to practice not shivering. I'll go out and sometimes it's pretty cold and I got to just like breathe out a bunch and calm my breathing down. But I found that I don't, like I don't have to shiver. It's amazing at all the different things that you can control. You brought up Wim Hof and I haven't really dove into like messing around with a lot of his stuff, but I'd imagine that almost naturally you would probably want to breathe pretty rapidly, like you're hyperventilating almost getting into that cold water. Is that something that you're doing,
Starting point is 00:05:46 or are you just trying to be super calm with your breath? Yeah. So Wim Hof has his own breathing, his whole Wim Hof breathing thing, and he actually says, do not do this in water, because it causes some people to get lightheaded, and some people have fainted. If you faint in water, not a good idea. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:04 There have been some people, that's. So there- If you faint in water, not a good idea. Oh yeah. There have been some people, that's why he warns people, do not do the Wim Hof hyperventilating hold breath holds or whatever in water. In cold water. Because if you pass out, yeah, you're dead. And that's happened to people, which is why you shouldn't do
Starting point is 00:06:15 that specific breathing in there. But the initial feeling when you get into a cold plunge is like, people, that's what they want to do. But what you want to do. But what you want to do is you want to calm your breathing down. Cause you notice once you calm your breathing on down and we, what was his name? Mike who, not, not Mike Mutzel, the guy that we had on that, he, um, pull up record. Oh yeah. Mike Castle. Mike Castle. Um, Mike. Yeah. Yeah. He also talked about this where if you're able to calm your breathing down to your heart rate, like I have my Apple Watch on.
Starting point is 00:06:47 And it's interesting how once I sit in the cold plunge, my heart rate goes from like 67 to 90, 100. Then once I start just slowing down my breathing, it'll come down to 65, 60, 55, 50. And it'll just stay there if I control my breathing. But if I lose control or if I start to feel it and get too cold, then the heart rate starts to skyrocket back up. So you also get the ability to better control your heart rate, your breath, calm down. And you notice that it just is easy if you're able to stay calm. And you're getting a little bit of feedback from your watch, but we've also talked, we've heard Andrew Huberman talk about this a lot, where there's a lot of science and research to back up particular types of breathing for particular
Starting point is 00:07:29 conditions. He's a big fan of kind of the double breathing in. The physiological sigh. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, and then followed by a good sigh. In his research, or not his research, in research that he's studied, I believe, there was a lot of evidence showing that it can help calm you down, help kind of bring that heart rate down.
Starting point is 00:07:55 And it's like, well, shit. That to me is something that's too easy not to do. It's too easy not to pick up that habit. Like the habit sounds great. You just got some really bad news that your Bitcoin isn't worth what it used to be or whatever the thing is, go ahead and try the double side.
Starting point is 00:08:15 It's not going to fix the actual thing that threw you off, but it will help to alleviate some pressure, help alleviate some stress. I did not know that Wim Hof talks about not doing that breathing in the water because sometimes in my hot tub, I've been practicing trying to change my oxygen to CO2 ratio in the hot tub just to see how long I can hold my breath. Be careful, my friend.
Starting point is 00:08:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah. For a very long time. So it's probably good that I've only tried like small doses of it. Cause I haven't, cause I think he wants you to do it for like X amount of minutes, you know? Multiple sets of it. And at the last one, you're apparently able
Starting point is 00:08:55 to hold your breath for like two or three minutes. You're just able to hold it. Yeah. So like in just doing like, I don't know, maybe 20 breaths in and out. I'm not doing the hyperventilating. I'm actually, what I'm doing is I'm just breathing in excessively. That tastes gross, doesn't it? God dang, this is bad.
Starting point is 00:09:14 This is bad. Ugh, okay. You've been closer, though. Since we got the new show, you've been a little closer. Maybe when we get the newer, newer show, maybe you'll start to make some money but anyway I've been breathing in
Starting point is 00:09:29 and breathing out and changing that like probably my percentage of CO2 to oxygen or something and I'm able to hold my breath probably for three
Starting point is 00:09:37 or four times longer just going under the water than I used to be able to so have you ever tried interesting stuff I did it enough because i did i tried the cold shower thing and i didn't really like that but then
Starting point is 00:09:50 i i well as i told i just mentioned on the podcast before it's it's totally coincidental but i did the cold therapy thing in the shower or i just turned it cold uh-huh i had my like the worst cold ever shortly after that so i I was already going to be sick. There's no way to avoid that. But getting that cold that fast, I think just like, let's go. Dude, I got so sick. But doing the breathing thing, I remember my pinkies were getting numb. So I'm like, I probably shouldn't do this anymore.
Starting point is 00:10:21 And it felt really weird. So I haven't done it since then. It's a pretty interesting practice. I have the app. I haven't done it in a while so i haven't done it since then yeah it's pretty interesting practice i've done i have the app i haven't done it in a while but i've done it a few times and after you finish the wim hof breathing like if you follow the way he does it like you feel like you have this head high and you're just like let's fucking go like you feel it like it's it's like a shot of caffeine it really is and it only takes multiple like what seven or eight minutes a day try y'all should try that download wim hof's app no give like a shot of caffeine. It really is. And it only takes like what, seven or eight minutes a day.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Y'all should try that. Download Wim Hop's app and give it a shot because it's pretty fun. Just don't do it in water, please. Just don't do it in water. I didn't even know there was an app. The cold therapy type stuff, I mean just I have a sauna, so I go from my sauna to the shower. And it's pretty easy to do the cold therapy from there because you got really, really hot. Yeah. And so it's pretty easy to do the cold therapy from there because you got really really hot yeah and so it's not it's not nearly as difficult but i still found some utility in just uh exposing
Starting point is 00:11:13 myself to the cold i also have like a i have like a double shower head i have like a detachable shower head and i've actually just kind of messed with that in a way where I'm just using almost localized cold rather than getting crushed by a ton of cold water. But I found the shower to be fairly easy to adapt to. I don't want to say easy, easy, but it doesn't take long. Just be a real pussy about it at first like honestly like don't don't be like oh i gotta make it all the way cold and don't get all don't get too crazy with it right away but just uh you can start warm yeah and then go to cold and then go back to warm 70 degrees might feel cold when normally the temperature is 100 or 110 or whatever the normal uh shower temperature is and then plus you know a shower, like the water's only hitting like a certain part.
Starting point is 00:12:10 So I found that like my back and my sides isn't as bad. Now, if I turn to the front and it gets, you know, like on your chest and nippies and your weenus, then, you, then it starts to get, it's a little harder to deal with. But what you'll find is that if you practice breathing and you try to calm yourself down, you'll be super stoic and just standing there in the fucking cold ass water without sweating it. Yeah, one thing I will say,
Starting point is 00:12:38 and this doesn't go to cold showers. This isn't, like a cold shower isn't the problem here. But if you do ever do a cold plunge, don't do a cold plunge right after you do resistance training because temperatures that cold, it like, it will blunt the the inflammation that happens post-training and you want that inflammation. Like you want that to happen. That's why I do it in the mornings because the mornings is like, okay,
Starting point is 00:13:03 this is the start of the day, but I wouldn't lift here then go home and cold plunge because it kind of negates what I'm trying to get from my lifting session. So just keep that in mind if you guys ever do want to fuck with cold plunges. Yeah. The hot and cold seems to help a lot with recovery. If you're all tight and you just worked yourself pretty good on a workout, I'm not saying to immediately do it after the workout, but just having that in your regimen will help you repair and recoup. Sometimes you'll feel like brand new. You'll feel like a new person.
Starting point is 00:13:34 You're like, what the? You're like, I don't even feel the effects of my training. This happened yesterday because yesterday I was feeling something weird in my lower back on the right side, and everything I was doing wasn't working. So I was like, I'm just going to hop in the cold plunge and see if this does anything hopped in it got out five minutes later and i was moving around after i shouted like huh i don't feel it anymore shit wasn't placebo either so i was just like damn it really does be doing some work like temperature does how does it compare to uh cryotherapy ah you see i've i've done cryotherapy? You see, I've done cryotherapy a few times and I honestly
Starting point is 00:14:07 I don't know how it compares to cryotherapy. I know that there are people who have made videos, but I know that whenever I've done cryotherapy I didn't really feel shit. I really didn't feel anything afterwards as like, oh wow, this feels really good. But whenever I've gone into just really cold water
Starting point is 00:14:24 that's made a difference. Yeah, I've done a pretty good amount of cryotherapy, and I never really thought it was great. I never thought it was awesome. They do some localized treatment, and they have this machine, this portable machine, and they can, like, so if your knee is bothering you or something, they can go right on the knee or the elbow
Starting point is 00:14:43 or whatever joint is bothering you. And that seemed to feel pretty good, but it didn't seem to really do a whole lot. The hot and cold contrast stuff, it just seems, again, it just seems like one of those concepts and ideas that is easy enough. It doesn't have to cost you anything because you can just, I think most of us have a shower. And you can just change it from hot to cold. But don't get caught up in like trying to figure out the exact degrees and like just start and just do it. And like I said,
Starting point is 00:15:16 sometimes 70 degrees might be cold for you just because you're not, you haven't really done that before and get used to it. And for me, that's been something that's helped me recover from my workouts tremendously yesterday uh probably the first time i i can't even think of any other time i've done this in my life but i ran for about 45 minutes oh shit i just
Starting point is 00:15:35 went and i ran straight yeah just straight wow yeah i was like oh shit pretty cool um and just on a flat surface but i uh I was running and I was like I want to do some 200s and some 400s today because previously I was mainly doing like 800s and I got like 50%
Starting point is 00:15:58 I got like 100 yards and my calf went a little bit and I was like I don't know what that is and with running what I found the big difference with running versus lifting and my calf went a little bit and I was like, I don't know what that is. And with running, what I found, the big difference with running versus lifting is like with running, with lifting you always have to be careful, obviously, but there's so many different exercises you can do.
Starting point is 00:16:16 Running is kind of running and there are different, you can run hills and you can run sprints and there's obviously different intensities to it. But running is kind of running and you keep bouncing back and forth from one foot to the other, and the calves and the hamstrings, and everything's getting worked pretty rigorously, no matter what you're doing. And so I was like, all right, well, fuck it. I'm just going to see how long I can run for.
Starting point is 00:16:39 I just kept going and going and going and going, and Ryan was on his one wheel again, following me around. Ryan Sober is the fucking greatest, man. He's such a savage. But yeah, anyway, I ran for 40 minutes. And today, I mean, when I woke up this morning, I was a little fatigued, but I feel great. I'm going to do some weighted carries today
Starting point is 00:17:01 and go fuck some shit up again today. So are we all just slowly becoming CrossFitters? It's so funny how like years ago, and some people in the audience are going to do some weighted carries today and go fuck some shit up again today. So are we all just slowly becoming CrossFitters? It's so funny how like years ago, and some people in the audience are going to flame us, but years ago, everyone was like, look at these CrossFitters. They're grabbing pull-ups. And now bodybuilders and powerlifters are like, I want to run. I want to move my body. It's great.
Starting point is 00:17:21 Well, I started with CrossFit. Yeah. And, you know, I mean, i'm a little banged up now but yeah if i could get into the habit of doing muscle ups and getting just into these like i'll just say like proper positions to do some of this these crossfit workouts i'll be so happy yeah i wouldn't mind peeps do not i don't i don't know why people still are out here fucking flaming crossfitters because they are some of the fittest fucking athletes. I remember when Real World Tactical came to the gym and it was Alan Thrall, myself, and Iron Mile Ben.
Starting point is 00:17:55 And Iron Mile Ben was breezing through the whole fucking workout, just fucking carrying a stone, doing all these movements. Alan Thrall was like, he was suffering as I was suffering, but I think I was suffering a little bit more than Alan was. But Iron Mile Ben. Do you know if this was on YouTube? It's on YouTube. Yeah, record it. Super Training 06 channel. But Ben was the lightest out of
Starting point is 00:18:18 all of us. I think he was maybe 170 pounds, but he was smoking all of us because of his fitness level. Let's not be too rude to Ben. I think he's like 180, 190. My bad. I didn't mean to do that. Ben is jacked. That's like when someone's short and you're like,
Starting point is 00:18:30 oh, you're only 5'2", and they're like 5'7". You're like, oh, sorry, bro. Well, wouldn't that be worse on me? Like if this guy's 170 and smoking me rather than being... You killed him. Yeah, I was like 260. Ben's jacked, though. Like he's big and, I was like 260. Ben's jacked though. Like he's big and jacked.
Starting point is 00:18:48 He's fucking yoked. And he's also super fit. He can run, he can lift. I gave my boy Andrew some homework to do recently. I told him to get his ass on the, what is it, the Airdyne bike? Assault bike. Assault bike. There we go. The assault bike.
Starting point is 00:19:03 the assault bike and I've been doing three minute intervals with about three minutes rest so you go hard for three minutes it's like you're trying to sprint but let's face it you can't really sprint for three minutes so you're just trying to hang in there for three minutes and it's
Starting point is 00:19:18 nice it's like a good challenge and I just started in corporate more recently and kind of see what it does. But sometimes I like stuff that just makes you feel like you had a kick-ass workout, even though it's short and sweet and even though it's not completely like this devastating thing. Years ago when I was younger, I loved only things that were just completely devastating, like just go in there and just total destruction.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Just annihilate yourself and worry about the rest of it later on. And as I've gotten older, I'm like, it's not even an effective training methodology. So it can be, and it can work for a period of time, but it can also lead to a lot of injury and just a lot of regression rather than progress. I'm happy that I've started training. I've been training with you guys in super training since 2015, but I'm happy that I was here as the transition in your training was made to be more sustainable because I've kind of followed suit in that sense. Like I used to kill myself a bit in the past, but now I'm like, I like to feel good, but also get effective training
Starting point is 00:20:29 because now I'm still making progress. My body isn't as banged up as it used to be. And I know that, wow, I'm 29 and still making this kind of progress. Shit doesn't really need to slow down. Like people always say in your 30s thing, but no, I can keep this progress going. I can keep this sustainable training going, continue getting stronger, continue getting more mobile, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:20:50 And I can still be feeling amazing at 38 just as much as I am at 29. I truly do think that. In jiu-jitsu, it's like they have the master's class that you can compete in when you're 30. You can start competing in master's one. the master's class that you can compete in when you're 30 you can start competing in master's one i don't want to compete in master's and yeah i don't want to compete in master's until i'm in my late 30s and i truly think that i can keep a a young 20 fitness level i think i can um really deep into my 30s and still try to fuck up young guys you might be able to push it all the way until you're about 50 maybe honestly. Honestly, you're right, actually.
Starting point is 00:21:26 The actual weights on the bar, and there might be a couple things that might be slightly different, but I actually would think that it would have more to do with your overall goals than it would be with you versus you trying. I was thinking about this more recently. I've been doing a little bit of deadlifting the last couple weeks and I just went from like, I can't even remember what the weight was that was on there. It wasn't a lot. It was like 365-ish or so.
Starting point is 00:21:54 I went from 365-ish to like 415. It was funny because 365 I was like, oh, I felt pretty good. 415 felt like a ton of bricks and I was like, okay, fuck. It's been a long time like a ton of bricks. And I was like, okay, fuck. But it's been a long time since I picked anything up. It's also been a long time since I've addressed really doing rigorous stuff that's either intense or has a volume to it for my lower back.
Starting point is 00:22:19 I've been training my lower back. I've been doing stuff for it. But there hasn't been – it's not like I've been swinging a kettlebell a bunch. And then I was, it hit me. I was thinking about what Joe Rogan said. He went to work out with a bunch of his buddies that love barbell exercises. I don't even mess with barbell exercises. He talked about this when he was on, when More Plates, More Dates was on there. And he talked about bench pressing and deadlifting. He's like, I smoked all those guys on deadlifts and bench. He said he benched 225 for like 14 reps. He's like, I realize I'm not setting any sort of records, but he's like, I don't bench press.
Starting point is 00:22:51 And all he does is kettlebells. And I think he's had a lot of shoulder injuries in the past. And yes, all he does is kettlebells. And so you might think to yourself, how does this 60 or 40 pound kettlebell, like I don't know the different weights that he uses, how does that transfer over into these other exercises? Well, if you're doing 10 reps and you're doing kettlebell presses for 10 reps on one side and then doing it on the other side, it takes your whole body. A lot of tricep work, a lot of shoulder work, a ton of core work. That core work is going to transfer over into any lower body exercise that you do. And then what about kettlebell swings? I mean, it's funny because when you deadlift,
Starting point is 00:23:35 it would be really rare for you to do 60 to 100 repetitions of deadlift in a workout. Like that would be, you've got to be a masochist. I don't even really know anybody that does that shit. Not since like George Lehman, do I, like George Lehman used to do like 10 rep sets of deadlifts, but I haven't seen anybody in a long ass time
Starting point is 00:23:55 mess with that. But it's very common when you do a kettlebell swing to do a set of 10 or 20 is very normal. And for you to also be doing it in conjunction with something else that's challenging your core and your whole system, even if you're just doing planks or something like that in
Starting point is 00:24:11 between, now you're having an amazing workout. It's not only working your back and your hamstrings and your hips, it's also testing your mobility, but your core is getting just completely thrashed. So it makes sense when you switch over into a deadlift that when you go to pick those weights up, it's not going to feel heavy. Plus, your grip is getting just completely thrashed. So it makes sense when you switch over into like a deadlift that when you go to pick those weights up, it's not going to feel heavy. Plus your grip is getting worked out tremendously too. Yeah, no, kettlebells are deceiving me. Oh, this is the video, yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Oh, bro, you know, I was so fucking angry at Real World Tactical after this workout. I was so mad. Y'all see me fucking... And see me, you don't make any sense, dude. I was so mad. Y'all see me fucking... You don't make any sense, dude. I was like 265. I was like 267 there. It's just crazy how
Starting point is 00:24:52 you can be shown just about anything physically and you can mimic it. The thing you did with your shoulder the other day after seeing Torensky. I don't know if you say it that way, but's toro i think it's a roach tea the uh wall the uh i think it was gold medalist in olympic weightlifting yeah uh unbelievable weightlifter we actually had him here at super training one time he came came in with his
Starting point is 00:25:18 his coaches it was like probably six years ago he needs to come back and people dude people went fucking crazy he he had uh 20 he had 25 pound plates on each side yeah and he just got down because i asked if he could do anything and his coach was like his coach like he's really happy to be here but he can't really you know he's like he's messing around like tricep push downs and stuff he's having fun uh i was like is there can he like maybe show show us what it looks like when he lifts or something, even just with the bar or something like that? Yeah. I said, I don't even think I've ever even met a gold medalist before.
Starting point is 00:25:56 So I'm like, I'm super hyped. And if I can just see him in person do anything, I'd be fucking thrilled. So he gets down in a squat position he's got 95 pounds in the bar uh-huh and he just he's in this uh he stays in the squat position he's just pressing it out from his back and he does it over and over again and it wasn't a strength thing it wasn't anything where you're like oh my god that's so much weight but i've never seen another human being move like that before in my entire life so he was he was legit in a squat and then he just went like this while he was down in the squat how do you
Starting point is 00:26:29 spell his name t-o-r-o-k-h-t-i-y that also might be that also might be on our youtube channel but it was just like one more time sorry o-r-o-k-h-T-I-Y. Gosh. Dude, that dude's built different. He's built fucking different than anybody else in the entire fucking world. Really? He looks like an NFL running back. He does? I mean, he looked...
Starting point is 00:26:56 He has these fucking giant hamstrings and shit. It's wild. He's not like, I mean, it's not like this crazy, like, shredded bodybuilder. How tall is he, too? He's probably somewhere between you and I, height-wise. He's not, like, super tall, but I can't imagine that he's more than, like, 6'1", or something like that, you know? Man, we have Milanochev here, so, like, we also have a translator. Like, Torokti, come to Super Training.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Come to the podcast, bro. Dude, do you guys know? Has this been swirling around? Do you guys know about what Andre said recently about boxing? Oh, God. Is he trying to get into boxing? I don't know. What did he say? He wants to box Haptor Bjornsson, the mountain.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Oh, Jesus Christ. You know what? I'd be scared for Haptor. And then we were trying to like, we're trying to like a second, go back and forth in translation. I'm like, uh, I'm like, Haptor is not a professional,
Starting point is 00:27:49 but he's been putting like the last two years. He's been like, he lost a hundred pounds. And Andre's also a real Russian. He's not American Russian, bro. They don't really, they don't fall.
Starting point is 00:28:04 They don't.. They don't. And they don't play around. Totally. No, I would be scared for Hathor in that situation, man. I was so like shocked. But like, I mean, Andre, like he, Andre is the most respectful and one of the kindest people I've ever met. Even just in through translation. I mean, he's always happy, always has a big smile on his face.
Starting point is 00:28:25 So he's not trying to talk shit. I just think he thinks it would be a great challenge. Yeah. I'm like, dude, what the fuck? I don't know what to think right now. Holy shit. I wouldn't put it past him. I'd be a sparring partner.
Starting point is 00:28:37 I'd get my ass beat just to see him beat Hathor. Well, and he, so I got to see him throw some punches and stuff. He definitely knows what he's doing. But there's, you know, getting in the ring and boxing somebody is really, really difficult. Okay, I have a question for you. Let's say that Andre gets himself into boxing shape, as we know he can. This guy's probably been scrapping since he was a kid, right? And Thor's in shape.
Starting point is 00:28:59 Who do you think has it? Oh, my God. Man. Because Hathor has that fucking. Yeah, yeah hapthor has that fucking yeah yeah he has that reach so i i would have to give the nod to hapthor just because it looks like he's putting in in the time you know so uh i don't want to doubt anything andre can do physically the same thing with you like if someone's telling me hey and seamus is in a squad 800 i'd be like okay cool when you know he's i know it's gonna happen but like when you know if you put a time someone was telling me, hey, and Seamus is in a squat 800, I'd be like, okay, cool, when?
Starting point is 00:29:28 You know, I know it's going to happen, but like when? You know, if you put a time crunch on it, then I might be like, he might not be able to do it. But if it's like he wants to do it in the next three, four years, I'd be like, hey, if he decides that he wants to go that way and be a big boy and maybe put on a little fluff, the 800-pound squat might be in the cards. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:29:45 Andre is just, again, when you watch some people move, it's astonishing when you watch, like Andre's in here teaching some young people how to lift, and he's showing people how to set up for squats and bench. He just gave me a tip the other day when I was squatting. He just kept kind of pointing to my chest chest and I was like, okay, yeah, I'm super lazy with my chest. It's always down when I'm lifting. And so I just kind of just simple
Starting point is 00:30:11 like everyone knows to try to keep your chest up when you're squatting. And it went from feeling like a ton of bricks to feeling super easy. You should have seen his face. He was so happy. He's like, this is right. This is right. I'm so happy that we have him. He. He was so happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, this is right. This is right. Fucking, he's an amazing.
Starting point is 00:30:28 I'm so happy that we have him. He's here in the gym. I'm so fucking happy he is. He's such an amazing individual. He's so fucking nice, but he's also just a savage lifter. He's just a trifecta of goodness. Have you had him rub you? Oh, you've got a little bit of, but I had an actual treatment from him, and he's fucking amazing he's unbelievable yeah he was so happy he's like coated me in olive oil wait literal olive oil he didn't use himself is that a thing or did you guys only have olive oil
Starting point is 00:30:57 on deck we only have olive oil but i guess it is a thing someone somebody else was like actually olive oil works really really well i was like okay my god put a little seasoning on top of you as well he should make that a business man like russian bear massage or something oh yeah i mean i'm not even trying like that would be a great name for a massage but i mean with his his hands like y'all don't understand if you guys haven't like seen andre those are some big ass fucking hands his hands are quite literally animal paws. They're so, not just long, but they're also thick. Big old pads. And his hand from across is super wide.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Do you know what his body weight is right now? I don't know. I would say he's got to be 270 or 280. I was thinking like 270, 265, 270. And Half Thor is fighting at 370 probably. Oh my god. Isn't Hathor like 6'7"?
Starting point is 00:31:52 Hathor's like 6'10". Yeah, he's a fuck. He's 6'10"? No way. Are you sure? Oh yeah. Oh my god. Yeah, it's embarrassing
Starting point is 00:32:00 how big that guy is. Holy shit. I didn't know he was that big. He is a fucking savage. I mean, maybe officially, maybe he's like slightly lower than that, but like he, that's about what he says he is about six, 10, um, really tall people make me uncomfortable. Yeah. No, it's just, I'm not used to it.
Starting point is 00:32:17 No, the whole thing's embarrassing. You know, you're like, just get the fuck away from me. It just really is. You're like, like I'm sitting over here trying to be just as human as you are and here i am all fucking short and shit looking like a toddler i've never met half door in person but i remember brian shaw um we took a picture together and he just he just made me look like a child like he he and he did that on purpose too, but he like came up, went over my shoulder, brought me in close.
Starting point is 00:32:47 And he like, he's just like here, like, I'm like, hi dad. He fucking bothered me, which made me so insecure. I'm like, am I even a man? Cause this is a man. I'm just a boy. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, why would a woman even pursue me?
Starting point is 00:33:04 This is the alpha. Yeah. alpha yeah two more guys like this right i'm the beta here like there's got to be more of them right like there's no way i have a chance if there's two oh god he just sprinkled a little bit more when he was making it's orange it's tough because like that's like you know we we spend so much time on trying to get bigger. And fucking, what's his name? Nathan Jones. The guy that gets killed by Brad Pitt in Troy. Nathan Jones is like 6'10 or 6'11.
Starting point is 00:33:40 He was a world's strongest man competitor. Looks a lot like Thor. Always in great shape and oh this guy yeah lean and yoked yeah pull up a picture of that motherfucker yeah holy fuck
Starting point is 00:33:49 I was in professional wrestling with Nathan Jones and he used to call me little buddy yeah he used to call that's a dick move hey little buddy
Starting point is 00:33:59 like look at this guy man is that a video game oh yeah I was like I was like can you call me something else yeah i was like little buddy i'm like i i work out every day i can cut me some slack i'm a man too
Starting point is 00:34:13 yeah open way where's the open image oh my god yeah oh that's so wrong but it's funny it's funny another cool thing about nathan was that he oh jesus they look fucking terrifying right there yeah so troy was shot in mexico and he was so excited because he's like i'm gonna be on so much shit it's gonna be amazing he was able just to get whatever he wanted and just fucking load up and be big oh that was you know what the first time i went to mexico on a cruise uh they let you out of the ship so that you can go. Steroids, steroids, they're trying to sell them to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:47 I was passing by this little pharmacia booth. And they were like, ah, steroids, steroids. I'm like, excuse me? I don't want any of that. No. You're like, why would I want that? I don't want any of that, but I'm going to leave my bag right here. And here's a $20 crisp American bill.
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Starting point is 00:35:57 What's your email address? I know, right? It's not hard to find. But, yeah, it's wild. Oh, my gosh. What are you looking at? Hapththor and mark is this in bodega or is this la oh malibu malibu yeah god hapthor's such a man bro like i'll send it over to you andrew you know if i had a wife and hap have your have your way you deserve this i'll sit here and
Starting point is 00:36:30 watch and i'll raise the kids i'll raise the kids because you don't have to just cuck me bro rogan's talked about half door before too they're always talking about his dick they're like what yeah cause he's got like a tiny wife they're like how does this work how's the math work out with this
Starting point is 00:36:50 okay you know what nah we're straight up on this podcast Hathor's he's probably packing some
Starting point is 00:36:57 he's gotta be I mean just proportionally like if any of the math adds up yeah man like he's not gonna have a small shoe size.
Starting point is 00:37:05 That's true. That's true. Because he just can't. Yeah. But sometimes in porn, it's like sometimes like some weird ass dude. You brought us here. Who's got some giant hands. Yeah, I've seen quite like it's interesting.
Starting point is 00:37:21 And same as research is quite a bit. And he found out that the women have really small hands. So, guys, go ahead and feel good about yourselves or feel okay about yourself. It's not that big a deal. Yeah. These women have abnormally small hands. For all you losers still watching porn, like. No, like, real talk.
Starting point is 00:37:38 I mean, if you're watching and you're like, damn, their dicks are so big. Just realize the women are really tiny and their hands are small, is why it looks like they're handling a massive hog i just tell my wife all the time like it's it's a video you know it's a movie you know it's like special effects like people don't people aren't really walking around with dicks like that yeah yeah but i do like that because now it's like okay like you know people always like oh this guy's on stuff and you know because like bodybuild, they get smaller, they get leaner, and their muscles look bigger. I guess it's the same thing with these dudes' dicks.
Starting point is 00:38:10 Hey, a guest that we have coming on the podcast, which you guys are going to love this one, Susan. I don't know if we've talked about it. We've talked a little bit. A tiny bit, yeah. Man, I've been working that penis pump. Oh, you've been putting it into use. How do you like it?
Starting point is 00:38:25 Every other day. Because it's literally like it's supposed to be like a workout regimen. Like you're sitting there with your – You got your nuts in there. Well, you can't. Or have you not done that? There's two. I mean there's the one that you can put your dick and your nuts in it.
Starting point is 00:38:38 But there's also the one that – The full package, we'll call it. Yeah. There's also the one that if you just get yourself hard, then you just sit there and you pump away. And I've been not like it first thing is it is crazy because the pump literally pumps more blood into your dick um so you're sitting there and you're like wow it can actually be this big because it's like it's pumping extra blood and your penis expands but it expands even more and you're just like wow i have this ability this is here like you're like yeah you're like i gotta show somebody this i gotta just snap this
Starting point is 00:39:09 picture unbelievable i think andrew said that the other day like wait hold on wait a second let me let me unhook this shit send a picture of cool put it back all right good but it is supposed to help with like the um it is supposed to like make the veins within your dick a little bit more able to handle more blood flow. Right. And it helps the health. This is quite literally helping our prostate or our dick health. Yeah. There's something about some kind of atrophied muscles or muscle tissue or something in there that this will help or some shit like that.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Yeah, dude. This is wild stuff. Well, it's what? Use it or lose it right and so like for uh some people end up with dysfunction for all kinds of different reasons sometimes it could be mental sometimes it could be heart related sometimes it could be uh i mean there's there's a lot of different reasons on why it can happen but this will help get i mean this literally i mean i think that people think that penis pumps, they just
Starting point is 00:40:06 think they're a joke and they don't think they do anything, but they can be useful. They can help get some blood flow to the area. Didn't Leo give you a whole thing on what you... Yeah, he knows fucking everything about them. So he's got like a training protocol. And if... You didn't
Starting point is 00:40:22 open it yet. I still haven't opened it yet. Yo, in this this it's from joe caplan maybe you can bring up the brand just if any of our because it works is it's hit yeah yeah um any dangers like has you like over pumped or like oh you can definitely get yourself in some trouble you can but like the manual says like do not go over 10 there's there's like the the thing right it goes all the way up to 30 you're not even supposed to touch 10 and for your first few to get your dick used to it it's like you start a little bit lower battery or something no dude pump like it's oh yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:40:55 it's it's a hand pump it's a hand pump bro this one's electric though i think whoa i think that yeah electric pumps you can set it and forget it This is the ones that we have right here, though. That's the one that we have, yeah. But we got a few extra things in there, too. Thank you, Susan, by the way. I don't think you're listening to this episode. We can't wait to talk to you. But thank you for sending all of us.
Starting point is 00:41:14 We're going to bring some more peeps on this show to talk about sex type stuff and sexual performance. Because I've actually had a lot of friends hit me up kind of independently. And they're like, bro, I got some serious issues going on, and I'm really happy that you guys are talking about it, all the way from erectile dysfunction all the way to people being really addicted to porn. And again, we're guys, so we joke about everything, but a lot of the stuff is really serious.
Starting point is 00:41:41 If you have your if you have like your connection to being a man is kind of your man parts and if your man parts ain't working uh it's it will set your whole body off in a way that doesn't feel good and that that's not good and so we need more people to talk about it i need more people to be able to help people uh get out of these predicaments a huge percentage of of the United States is pre-diabetic and diabetes and the blood flow to that area, they kind of go hand in hand. And so that's a big reason why, you know, so blood pressure and diabetes, like these kinds of things, they wreak havoc on your body. like these kinds of things, they wreak havoc on your body.
Starting point is 00:42:28 And then there's so many young people getting into, we talk about TRT and just steroids and performance enhancement all the time, but it's like you want to trade that performance enhancement of just having a little bit more muscle mass for potential dangers later on because it's like I don't really think there's like a lot of information right now on like what what's your body like if you're on steroids for 30 years 40 years 50 like we don't really know and so if you start flirting with this stuff when you're 20 you know i you know it could like i mean i started when i was 25 uh and i'm telling you straight up like you know you got to just be i don't regret anything that I did. It's part of my story.
Starting point is 00:43:09 It's part of who I am and what I've done and shit like that. And so I'm all good with it. But the more information you have going in, the better. Oh, absolutely. Which is great. It's great that we have cams like Derek, who's talking about a lot of this stuff and talking about – because he doesn't only go into all the benefits, but he does go into the dangers. But, you know, I have a video that's coming out kind of about this topic. And, you know, it's great that we have all the info.
Starting point is 00:43:36 But also, I finished reading You Are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza once again. Thanks, Andrew, for the reminder because I think I read part of it a few years ago. I read it again recently, and as cheesy as it sounds, the power of belief, if you believe something can work or if you believe you can do something, it sounds cheesy,
Starting point is 00:44:01 but it really has a big effect on what you're able to do. And in his book, he has so many literal studies that have been done. For example, morphine, right? When people thought that they were being injected with morphine, individuals were able to go through surgeries without actually, like they literally injected them with a saline solution, cut into them. actually, like they literally injected them with a saline solution, cut into them, and the person released the endorphins necessary to not feel pain because they believed that they were on morphine. And there's a bunch of other things. Like, Andrew, remember that study with the old people?
Starting point is 00:44:35 Yeah, that's what I was going to mention. So they brought just a group of elderly people. You know, they're in walkers, probably even wheelchairs. I don't remember all the details, but they were not very mobile mobile and they weren't feeling good either these people were coming in they're like i'm feeling oh sorry i have arthritis so they they put they basically brought them into a different like living space and then they were like hey uh we're gonna pretend that you guys are back in your like 20s or something like that looking at the date they actually put everything that was available to them back into that year so
Starting point is 00:45:05 whatever it was like shitty tvs if maybe you know the newspapers everything they're like we're going to pretend that everything is 19 blah blah walkers started getting put away they started playing like frisbee and they started like running around and doing shit running bro like in a short amount of time yeah so they walked in or they couldn't walk in. And then as they left, they were like literally younger, like health markers showed that they had like aged in reverse. And they didn't do anything, any like inject anything. They didn't do anything. All they said was just pretend that you're 20 for the next like week or two. Believe it.
Starting point is 00:45:39 Yeah. Literally. That's it. And there's so many other examples in that book that it got me thinking. I'm going to put the video out maybe tomorrow or the next day. But it got me thinking like there's like a mind virus in fitness that a lot of guys, you know, guys that are making Natty or Not videos, they're cool and they get views. if you want to or if you do, if you want to try to get this big, you can't. And the only way you can get this big is with steroids. Now, a young cat is going in and training, and he's like,
Starting point is 00:46:12 damn, the only way I can get that big is with steroids. They believe that. They internalize that. So they're training, and they don't even believe they can get to the size that they want to get to because they're like, oh, they're all on steroids. And then sooner or later they get on because they believe they have to get on to achieve that size or whatever. And that's literally, that's part of your belief system. So if you already don't believe you can do something, the chances that your body, like
Starting point is 00:46:34 you can literally, like from what I've been learning in this book, you can probably blunt certain things or blunt certain whatever to actually help you get there. I truly believe that. And so it sounds cheesy, but I'd say go get that book guys with Dr. You are the placebo by Dr. Joe dispense. That's also good,
Starting point is 00:46:52 man. It's also on scribd service that I love because it's basically like Netflix for audio books. You pay one fee and you get their entire library. Yeah. Not a sponsored ad whatsoever. I just been using them for, I forgot how many years now.
Starting point is 00:47:06 It's on there as well as a couple other books. There's also Blinkist. You can shorten it up. It's a 10 minute book. I love Blinkist. They're mind viruses of everything. When you get to 30, everything starts going downhill. I saw Lane Norton post. He did a 650 deadlift the other day and he was pumped
Starting point is 00:47:23 because he's like, I'm 40. People make a big deal about 40. 40, yeah. And people make a big deal about 40. But I was also thinking like people, so that's cool that he posted that so that more people are aware of like, hey, the best may still be yet to come. Or you might still be able to hang in there with your former self from when you're younger. But I think that a lot of people have been doing a good job of dispelling that myth. And I think most people are more like, well, it seems like, not that we want to think that the wheels are going to fall off ever, but it does appear that a lot of things start to go
Starting point is 00:47:54 when you're more like in your 50s and maybe even later than your 50s. But even fuck that, bro. No, yeah. No, I agree. I agree. But, you know, like with Stan Efferding and Dr. Sean Baker and some of these people. I mean, Sean Baker. He's been going nuts lately, by the way.
Starting point is 00:48:12 He's been deadlifting like a motherfucker and eating like 18 eggs and like three ribeyes for breakfast. Sean Baker is probably, I think, like 55 or something like that, right? I mean, or 54, you know, somewhere in that neighborhood. Obviously, again, like people can point to genetics, but like the guy has a belief system that what he's doing is working, and who knows if what he's doing is actually like the most optimal thing to do, but because he believes in it. I mean, look at our boy Martin, Kind of just paralleling this a little bit.
Starting point is 00:48:47 When he talked about running, he grew up running. He was a sprinter, a really high-level sprinter. He was a sprinter for USC. Being on the USC track team or being on any of the sports that they have is pretty fucking outrageous. We asked him what he does for like fitness and working out and he rattled off so much stuff we were we we couldn't even let him finish his sentence because he just he just took five miles nothing crazy yeah yeah technically a
Starting point is 00:49:19 marathon last week super easy have you ever do you have you ever run five miles when i was younger for soccer and shit but like andrew uh the most would have been like two yeah i don't think i've ever i don't think i've ever run five miles before you know what i mean so it's like there's a lot of people who've never even done that and if he was just like oh you know i i you know run walk on the treadmill 20 30 minutes a couple times a week it's like that's still a lot of work. That's still a lot of time, 90 minutes a week, and you're getting in a couple miles. That's pretty dope.
Starting point is 00:49:50 But he believes it's easy. He believes it's easy. He grew up with it all the time. I grew up seeing, and Michael Hearns, same thing. I grew up seeing people with six plates on the bar, seven plates on the bar. I grew up seeing people benching four and five plates for reps. I've seen women handling 100-pound dumbbells. It's just I never even thought about it until I got a little older
Starting point is 00:50:11 and started going to other gyms. And I'm like, why is that guy struggling with a 40-pound dumbbell? That's weird. Maybe he's new. Maybe he's never lifted before or something. Then I started kind of recognizing how odd the place was that I was in. That was actually the problem. There's nothing wrong with somebody struggling with 40-pound dumbbells.
Starting point is 00:50:27 It's just that I came from a gym where people were super obsessed with lifting. And even with the current situation that we have going on with the flu, the second leading cause of death is related to your belief of what's going on. And that's not made up for me. I think that's from the CDC. You can refer to Shawn Stevenson when he was on our podcast. He referenced where they have that publication
Starting point is 00:50:53 and that information. So, man, your belief system, they talk about it when you get cancer. They talk about it. It's not easy. He goes into that in the book, too. Like, they literally categorize cancer patients, and they're the people that in the book too. Like they, they even, they, um, they literally categorize cancer patients and they're like, they're the people that have the resilience.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Like I don't want to butcher it, but he goes into like belief systems of cancer patients and how that literally makes a difference. If they survive, like a doctor be like, they're probably not going to make it. And a doctor will be like, look like looking at the way patients are responding to things and acting with
Starting point is 00:51:23 things. He's like, they have a really good chance of making it just because of their belief and their resilience. It's not a fucking joke. Which can be really, really, really super difficult. Especially if you're faced with a really just gut-wrenching disease that knocks a ton of body weight off you, takes your hair off your head. And just, I mean, it's cancers. Not trying to downplay it.
Starting point is 00:51:46 No, no, it's brutal. It's brutal. And, but I don't think it hurts at all to believe as best you can for as long as you can, as much as you can. And that's why a lot of times too, with some cancer survivors, they'll say, I wouldn't have made it if it wasn't for so-and-so, you know, it wasn't for my family. It wasn't these people being around me. That's not to say that the other people, you know, don't have that still.
Starting point is 00:52:10 Like sometimes it's just in the cards that it's your time, I believe. Yeah. But the power of belief is probably infinite, probably something that we'll never truly understand. Yeah. I'm going through the book again, but I remember basically like somebody who was diagnosed, they we'll say six months to live according to the doctor but christmas was three months away and he promised his kids or whoever i again don't remember that like this will be my last christmas but i'm gonna make it to christmas he was fine the whole way and then after christmas all his like everything went down and he died and so so, again, that's that power of belief.
Starting point is 00:52:46 There were more stories in the book like that too where people were like, a doctor said, like you, I think the doctor mentioned, they lied to the patient because something happened. He was like, oh, yeah, everything's actually looking good. You're doing great. And they were giving them a certain medication, and the medication wasn't actually the right one. It was, again, it was a placebo. But because the patient believed, everything was good until the patient found out that they were being given a placebo. And then once they found out that it was a placebo, everything went downhill, literally. It was like, oh, shit, this isn't the medication that I need for this?
Starting point is 00:53:22 And then all their tests started going worse and then they died because they started not believing in what they were being given. Like that shit is insane. But it's true that literally your belief can have an effect on your physiological functions. Now think about that when it comes to your fitness. If you don't believe that you can gain muscle,
Starting point is 00:53:41 if you don't believe that you can lose this body fat, that could be doing something to your actions and your systems within your body, not just what you do, but your literal hormonal function. It's crazy. Yeah, it sucks that you have to start this whole conversation with, I know people think it's crazy or I know it's like, whatever. But it's like, what's the detriment if you truly believe in whatever it is? There's no risk. The reward, you get through whatever it is, or you get in better shape, or you start making more money. Everything. There's nothing wrong with it.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Just try it. I'm proudly naive to things. Honestly, because people, when I say i believe mike is natural or like i think that person doesn't need to be on drugs people are like are you stupid or are you not like honestly i truly do believe that and i think that's helping me yeah maybe i like being stupid it's helping me yeah yeah well like you know again with with what you were saying mark like kind of like ignorance is bliss like you didn't know that people couldn't squat 405 for reps easily. Right.
Starting point is 00:54:49 So then that's just what you believed in. Yeah, and I actually thought when I was lifting, I thought it was bad. I thought what I was doing sucked. I was like, this isn't, how come it's normal for everybody? And then I saw the work ethic behind it too, though. So the belief system is great, but then you have to have your actions match up and I think it's easier when you do believe, you do believe in yourself,
Starting point is 00:55:12 it's easier to go, other people will see that. Like if I didn't, if somebody else created the slingshot and they just wanted just to only make money off it but they weren't really sure how well it would do and maybe it would just be something that somebody created because there were people that came out of the woodwork later on they're like i created this five years before you did and they have like
Starting point is 00:55:32 pictures and videos and stuff but they never made it and why didn't they make it they didn't make it because they didn't believe in themselves they didn't believe there was some sort of hurdle that got in the way because who wouldn't want to make money and have a prosperous business over just, you know, putting in some work to make it all happen. So the beliefs, I'm a huge proponent of a lot of that stuff. And I don't think it is good to have some perspective and to understand there are, there are certain, some perspective and to understand there are,
Starting point is 00:56:04 there are certain, there are certain limitations to yourself that it might not be in your best interest from a time perspective and from a perspective of all the different shit that you're trying to do and be as a person for you to try to like invest a bunch of time into all of a sudden believing that you're going to be in the NBA. Like there are some things that sometimes are delusional, but could you dribble the ball better? Could you run faster?
Starting point is 00:56:30 Could you be a lot better in the pickup games that you play? Like, I mean, there's still a lot of stuff that you can explore within that that might not be your most ideal thing that you're chasing, but a belief in yourself is probably the most important virtue to have. And if, and again, having a Martin, uh, uh, on our show, the, uh, founder of, um, of cameo, he was saying that that's like the main thing he wants to leave for his children. There was nothing about money.
Starting point is 00:56:59 There was nothing about, he just, he, he did talk about opportunities. Like hopefully I left them leave behind some great opportunity for them and he's like and hopefully they really believe and have a lot of confidence in themselves like i i don't think there's anything else to say after that when you're talking about raising children like if your child uh if that's he just he gets nothing else from you except for that like some love some hugs kicking the ass here and there and uh but the main thing that he really picks up from you and learns from you is just that uh he should be confident in himself fuck man you won yeah i can't wait to get him into uh like
Starting point is 00:57:38 super training when like on a big like heavy training day because after you said that i'm like yeah this fucker he's not going to understand what like less than 135 is he's not gonna know how to calculate quarters that'll be sick but yeah that's amazing y'all wanna uh wrap this up and roll to another one yeah i think so that'd be good i got poop uh a little bit all that penis pump talk guy you fired up hey y'all why did susan call it the whopper is it really called the whopper i i don't know because i looked on the website i'm like i don't see that that might be her thing our penis off menu yeah off menu penis pump order maybe our penis pumps are called the whopper the flying dutchman of penis pumps yeah we don't have a code for you guys or anything but it's at drjoelcaplin.com yeah yeah because it's amazing reading her who's joel caplan who's this guy he's a doctor
Starting point is 00:58:27 that she's been like we got to talk to this guy too yeah i guess we will joel go mr pump yeah you're gonna come on the cast and talk about some i just thought it was interesting that like when you put the like your dick and balls in the cylinder like it pulls everything but like because we have more penis inside our body like it is going to pull that out even more excuse me wait so wait you did the dick ball pump dick ball pump okay and then because like if you feel around you're a savage your your shaft goes further than what you see on the outside this will extract it out and pull that out more so it sounds so invasive it makes me uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:59:05 All I'm saying is what Leo and Longevity said about the hanger, except you're not hanging something from your dick. You're just having the pump do all the work. Can we just get a woman to do this too or not? Oh, never mind. Well. Anyway. Yeah, that leads to.
Starting point is 00:59:22 You're not supposed to release the blood flow after you pump oh you got to keep it locked in you're also not supposed to um you're not supposed to come two hours before or after pumping i don't know why but because the blood flow because the blood flow because after you bust it's gonna take a nap so it's all the blood's going to get pushed away. Ah, okay. Yeah. Yeah. You want to chase the pump, chase the, God damn. We are such meatheads, bro.
Starting point is 00:59:49 I fucking love it. You got to get a, I love this shit. This is crazy. You're like a fucking like self-induced boner that you're intentionally like working on, but you can't work it out. You can't do anything with it. And then you're supposed to massage in between each set. man you're out here you're just pumping 10 minutes goes by all right and
Starting point is 01:00:12 then you gotta just massage put it back on i like that you used an oversized demonstration for that yeah you know i'm just over here i'm gonna have to use some of my fucking form in there that's like our actor guest when he kept saying it's just flying everywhere naked in the scene brett azar he's just yeah it was just yeah flopping he's looking jack by the way that dude is insane right now. He looks great. I'll put him up later. He's super jacked. Iron Sheik.
Starting point is 01:00:49 Guys, if you haven't, also, that's another podcast that you guys should check out. Brett Azar, because we talked about a lot. He played Arnold, or Arnold's body double, in one of the Terminator movies. Super strong dude. Talks about his strong, too. And he talks about his apparently massive hog. But he's a really cool dude look at this
Starting point is 01:01:06 fucking guy though plays the iron sheik and what's the show young rock young rock yeah rock phenomenal take us on out of
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