Mark Bell's Power Project - MBPP EP. 663 - Nostalgic Good And BAD Smells

Episode Date: January 19, 2022

Random Topic of the Day: Smells. Smells can take us right back to a time point in our life, they can put us in a trance and even spark habits. Today we share some of the most memorable good and bad smells. Mark Bell and the crew will be brining in random topics to discuss on the podcast, but who ever brings up the topic is the only one who knows what it is. The other hosts will react on the fly. Get the cleanest and most difficult to find shoes here: https://www.instagram.com/faithskickz/ Special perks for our listeners below! ➢Bubs Naturals: https://bubsnaturals.com Use code POWERPROJECT for 20% of your next order! ➢Vertical Diet Meals: https://verticaldiet.com/ Use code POWERPROJECT for 20% off your first order! ➢Vuori Performance Apparel: Visit https://vuoriclothing.com/powerproject to automatically save 20% off your first order! ➢8 Sleep: Visit https://www.eightsleep.com/powerproject to automatically save $150 off the Pod Pro! ➢Marek Health: https://marekhealth.com Use code POWERPROJECT10 for 10% off ALL LABS! Also check out the Power Project Panel: https://marekhealth.com/powerproject Use code POWERPROJECT for $101 off! ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code POWER at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $150 Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Subscribe to the Power Project Newsletter! ➢ https://bit.ly/2JvmXMb Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell ➢Mark Bell's Daily Workouts, Nutrition and More: https://www.markbell.com/ Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ https://www.breakthebar.com/learn-more ➢YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NsimaInyang ➢Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/?hl=en ➢TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nsimayinyang?lang=en Follow Andrew Zaragoza on all platforms ➢ https://direct.me/iamandrewz Time stamps: #PowerProject #Podcast #MarkBell

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do you remember what the actual supplement's called? It was one of Susan's subs. I forgot which one it was, though. The penis pump lady? Penis pump lady. I hope you guys enjoyed that episode with Susan Bratton. Honestly, if there are any other topics, like first off, if you guys have suggestions for people you think that are really good that we can look into, we'll look into them and

maybe we'll invite them on. Or even just a topic. Throw it our way. Even just a topic. Give it to us. Run this show. We might be able to get Susan back again, man. I think so. I think we can go deeper into other stuff. Little known fact.

Bo Jackson was not there during that podcast. Yeah. I just didn't think I didn't think it was appropriate for him Jesus was still hanging tight yeah but I didn't want Bo to get upset wasn't that is that Bo's rookie card too that's Bo's rookie card yeah see he's too young yeah that's exactly I don't want him to hear that kind of stuff no minors listen to this shit yeah don't have sex until you're married kids that's damn right and then when you get married

but yeah uh susan's husband she had this one supplement and she's like makes your cum taste better susan said this we were not speaking about this kept telling me that afterwards and i was like really and she's like yeah and then her husband's like yeah it tastes like maple syrup he said it's so quick i was like oh wow but then i was like you're part of the family i know what you're doing brother he tried his own brand he's like i do taste pretty good if I do say so myself. Why we do this shit, man? Maple syrup. Why we do this shit? He tasted his own brand.

Man, let me get a little bit more of that creme. Oh. Pass me some of that. Oh, is that one yours? We have a full one right here. I'll take half of this. I don't know if you want to go. Because I took a full one. I seriously, you were like, there's a bunch of half ones.

And I seriously do have them all over the place. All over, on top of the radio? Yeah, they're in my house. They're all over the place. Why do you not just do, just down it? Well, I do like to take a full dose. It's nice, but I just don't want to be taking tons of it all day long. You know what I'm saying?

I do really like it, but I try to limit myself to take like one a day. And so it's usually like in divided dosages. Yeah. Mind bullet we're talking about. Then those divided dosages end up everywhere. Yeah, they end up all over the place. So today's topic, we're just going to go for it here. What I suggested to the crew was that we just pick something and then we just kind of go with it.

So I have a really odd topic to share today that I think is fun and funny. Before you continue, just give me 20 seconds. No, no, give me 20 seconds. Just hold on. He's out of here. He sprinted out of here. But if it wasn't kind of odd, it wouldn't be Mark Bell, I think. That's right.

Yeah. So I'm digging it it's just something that i thought of the other day like struck me as being kind of funny and kind of silly so oh yeah you know what we got to give a shout out to our boys over at legendary food they're always doing a better job like i don't the brand i don't um i don't appreciate this because it makes me like with my own company, I'm always like, I got to step my shit up because their stuff keeps coming. Better packages, better tasting, better stuff all the time. Which I mean, that's. And this so far, it's brown sugar, cinnamon flavored, 20 grams of protein, 5 grams of

net carbs. And yo, they sent peanut butter. I smeared their peanut butter, their chocolate banana peanut butter on top of this. It's not carnivore. I'm sorry, cats. But it's only five grams of net carbs. Guys, honestly, if you want to look like Encima, you got to start to eat like Encima. I mean, it's pretty simple.

Fair life. Fair life of coffee, tasty pastries. Don't work out. Don't work out. Some meat at night. Don't sleep. There you go. Okay.

You know what? Okay. Let's clarify this real quick let's clarify this real quick because um people still bring that shit up on that reddit post we did that podcast on within it after we made the video podcast someone then posted that and said look guys he also only sleeps two hours a night does 800 push-ups in the morning meditates for an hour this is the fitness industry. I'm like, guys, Mark, Andrew, and I were laughing in that video. You don't get that that was a joke.

We're laughing that nobody else can do that. Fuck you. Don't keep it going because I just realized people can't take a joke. No, dude, they really can't. I am shocked at how, yeah, people just don't understand. We busted out out the ridiculousness but either way these are fucking

amazing one day we'll let people know that you are a cybernetic organism yeah and we'll unleash

the fact that you're a robot thank you but that'll be fun yeah for now we'll keep it a secret but in regards

to the tasty pastry though like if you were to take all of the best protein bars on the market yeah you put them up macro for macro against this, this blows it out of the water.

How many grams of protein? Yeah, so all of them. 20. 20 grams of protein, only 170 calories. And nothing tastes better than that. Dude. They're not like one of those things that like, oh, it's healthy. And you put it in your mouth and like, oh, these actually taste really fucking good.

And you got to be careful. My wife will take a bite here and there of like a protein bar. And then she's always like, meh. I'm fat. So I've never met anything. You know, I never met a protein bar that I don't like. If they're trying to make it taste like a candy bar, then I'm halfway in. I'm like, yeah, okay, I get it.

Like it still has a gross aftertaste kind of, and it certainly doesn't taste like a Snickers, but I'll still eat it. My wife's like, nah, but those things though, she loves those things. She loves the tasty pastries and she loves other stuff from legendary foods, the nut butters and stuff that they make. Those are amazing. Chocolate chip banana peanut butter, something like that. They use like, I think they use like a sweetener in there, like allul peanut butter something like that they use like i think they use like a sweetener in there like allulose or something like that and it's like sweet but has that little almost like crunchy thing going on yeah and there's actual chocolate chips in it all right

pause okay well he's good he's gonna be shredded by the time this show pops up so we were just talking off air about like, you know, cravings and stuff. And when my wife was pregnant, she did crave a lot of tasty pastries. And we went to a supplement store down the street and we just clear them out. They didn't have very many,

but they had like three boxes and I just bought all three. Yeah, dude. Four grams of net carbs per serving. No sugar added, no cane juice, no agave, no honey, no artificial sweeteners. And it's 13 grams of net carbs per serving, no sugar added, no cane juice, no agave, no honey, no artificial sweeteners.

And it's 13 grams of fat, six grams of protein, and four grams of net carbs per serving. You guys are going to see, you'll see Legendary Foods everywhere. Yeah, oh, absolutely. By the end of this year, you'll see it everywhere. Yeah. It's one of the fastest growing brands that's in the space. It's going to just continue to blow up. Yeah. So I think our code is PowerProject

right now. We're almost going to have it set up, but guys, either way, once that's in, it's going to be in the description box. We're not kidding about this shit. It's really good. I'm sad because I've got to wait until after Carnivore Month. I definitely broke that shit.

Trying to be a good boy. You be a good boy. You be a good boy. I made it this far. I might as well just stick with it. I'm going to be a bad boy. All right. Here's our topic for today. Let's go.

So let's see. Maybe about three weeks back, okay, I'm in the gym. I'm working out, doing my thang, getting a good workout in. So I'm in the gym. I'm working out, doing my thing, getting a good workout in. And there are some girls that come into the gym. There's not a lot of girls here at Super Training. I don't know about people that have been to Super Training before.

But there's not a lot of chicks in here. So there were some young girls in here. They were attractive. How old? In their 20s. Okay. Okay. But what I noticed and what I couldn't stop thinking about as I was driving home,

they both smelled really good. Right? So I wasn't necessarily thinking about how good they smelled. What I was thinking about, the contrast of how good they smelled versus how bad all the fat guys in the gym smell. And I was thinking, like, with those girls, I'm like, everything smells good. Like, their car probably smells good.

Their room smells good. Like, if you're single and you have a beautiful woman over your house, your whole house smells better. Meanwhile, your house normally smells like feet. It usually stinks. It's usually kind of stale and stagnant in there. You get a woman in there, and bam, it's cleaned up. Smells a lot better. Right. And so I was just thinking, and so I got taught, I talked to my brother about this and we were like, we're like, yeah, some, some people like,

or some of us are so gross. Like our car smells like French fries in the gym for some reason, you know, it has that kind of smell. And so we were just talking about like different gross smells. And like, my brother said that we should make an air freshener that is a fat guy car smell, which would be a combination of sweat and like French fries and stuff. So that's the topic for today. It's like how you can be like entranced sometimes by a smell.

And other times you're like like what is that going on what is that smell whether it be bad breath or whether it be bo or whether it be whatever my old work truck a lot of dudes like that work like construction or anything will understand what this is like but when a truck smells like work and energy drinks you cannot you can go into a truck and be like yep this is this is this dude's work truck because there's either there's a bottle or you know cans on the floor whatever it may be but like you get done with a work day and you don't give a fuck you're just like i just want to get home so you're all sweaty and get in the car and then if you are drinking like if i was a

driver so like i would be drinking something it spills everywhere you don't clean it up because i'm driving this is too dangerous i can't stop and clean yeah but you mean while you're eating texting doing all kinds of shit so if i smell a work truck it just takes me back to like yeah working and just like fuck what time is it i gotta get home like that sort of feeling you know what about a shaker cup smell oh like a shaker cup that's been left in the car with a lid on it yeah i am so that shit out you don't even don't even try to i'm so grateful that's been left in the car with a lid on it. Throw that shit out. Don't even try to sell it. I'm so grateful that's where I am in life.

If I find one, I'll just throw that shit away. You're right. It does require some privilege. Before, I'd just be like, nope, I got to deal with it. Now it's like, yeah, we can do it. It always has that funk. It doesn't leave. What about a shirt?

Sometimes a shirt will turn bad on you. You guys ever have that happen? Doesn't matter how many times. You mean in terms of smell? Yeah. It just has like a dirty towel smell, like a towel that you left on the floor. will turn bad on you guys ever have that happen doesn't matter how many smell yeah just it just has like a dirty towel smell like a towel that you left on the floor that's if i like that's happened to me if i've like let a shirt sit for a long time before washing it yeah if it's even if

it sits in the washer and it just stays wet yeah it's like no you know i'll just throw another dryer sheet and it'll save it it'll save it it. But you know, when you put that shirt on, you're just like, this is the shirt. No one's going to notice. But all day long, you're just like trying to sit back, you know, just hoping nobody can smell your dirty ass shirt. Bro, no, that's why I have my lady like, I have my lady sniff shit. I'm like, hey, is this the shirt? Even if I wore it the day before, I'd be like, sniff this real quick.

Because you're not sure, you know, you don you're not sure. You don't trust your own. You can't trust your own. No, you cannot trust your own sense of smell as anybody. Because you're used to that smell. Oh, my God. I had, oh. I have. I got a really gross story.

It's going to be really good. I want to hear this. But I have some, like, I've had friends. I still do have friends where I'm just like, they don't know what they smell like. And I know that they're such they're smart and they're they're really intelligent so if they knew that how they smelled they wouldn't be going out with that smell but since they are too used to it they're just like they're going through life smelly they don't know and i'm just like this is how you've smelled for

years and i can't talk about it now i can't even tell you there is absolutely nothing worse than the friend buddy colleague whatever you want to call it acquaintance that has bad breath but they are the only person on the planet that does not know it oh yeah you gotta save them you have to save them we gotta openly like tell each other sometimes yeah yeah and then it's like if i say it i'm gonna like hurt the person's feelings that's my that's my concern all the time understand right now as we're talking guys i take no offense yeah freely tell me same thing yeah if i ever come in and i'm just like rancid if you come in i'll tell you if you come in i'll tell you that's all right come in, I'll tell you. I got mouthwash in my office

because I'm like, I don't know, if you eat something or if you fast, sometimes fasting will get you. Or sometimes being lower carb, being keto or going in and working out or drinking a protein shake. A protein shake makes it feel like your breath is going to stink really

bad, right? And maybe it does. I don't know i don't know and then with with carnivore though like eating a lot of meat like a lot of steaks i should get stuck in my teeth and so i'm like man carnivores you guys got to be flossing like extra i remember there was one day you gave me gum it was like a year ago or something and i was i was fasting and the back of my head oh yeah yeah which one you want strawberry strawberries how good yeah see and for like for want, strawberry? Strawberry's hella good, yeah. See, and for us, it's not that big a deal with the three of us, if we smell each other's breath, but I'd hate for somebody new to come in and be like,

yo, and see my fucking disgusting. And Mark, too. Both those guys are fucking melting my face off. The show was fun, but I like, I couldn't concentrate. My eyes were bleeding. I think I smelled their fucking breath from, like, a fire-breathing dragon. Oh, good. Now you got to sniff everything all the time.

I'm good. I smell like charcoal. Normally, in terms of, like, actually, so my nickname is Smelly. My older brothers called me that from the time I was a kid. They gave me a lot of mean nicknames and smelly stuck. I just, when I was a kid, I just hated taking showers. I think that's actually pretty normal amongst some boys. I just didn't like to take showers.

But meanwhile, I liked getting sweaty and like running around and shit like that. So they recognized the nickname hurt my feelings. And so they just kept calling me and calling me and now that's that's the name and i'm sticking to it i guess um but like i don't normally i mean at least i haven't been like told um that i have like bo necessarily but i i know i know when i brew it up um there might be times where i'm unaware where it happens, but I know like if I, if I sweat twice without a shower, so if I exercise in the morning, pretty good. And it's also, if it's hotter out, if it's cooler out, I'm not as bad. So if I sweat through like deodorant

and then I go to, and I cool down and I exercise again, that's probably a surefire way for me to have that, just that deep armpit body over stench going on. Yeah. You know, I always just make sure, and I usually, I was usually good with this. There were a few days, which is why. You put this. Donated. Right?

You donated this to me because, you know, I usually always have a deodorant in my trunk, a deodorant in my backpack, a deodorant in my backpack, a deodorant at home. You've taken my deodorant a couple times. Yes. Because there's a period of time where for some reason I didn't replenish my stores. Either way, I think that's one big tip. As a dude, just keep one everywhere you go.

Because this is one thing, yo. As a dude. Yeah keep one everywhere you go. Because this is one thing, yo. As a dude, like. Yeah, testosterone's flowing. Like, you're going to be producing some weird pheromones and shit. Exactly. Especially if you eat weird shit also, that's going to happen. But one thing I've realized, and a lot of women have said this, women are more sensitive to smell than men are. And if you're a single guy out here, or if you're a guy in general you want to actually like you first off make sure

that you're not smelly so wear deodorant and all that shit but you know i don't ever wear cologne when i come in here but if i ever uh i'm going like if i'm hanging out with a girl or whatever i will always have a certain cologne i use that's not too strong and i have this beard oil that i use because i noticed and I've been told like oh god you smell so good it's a good reaction it gets a great reaction they are super sensitive to smell and it's a secret weapon I have candles at my house I have multiple like I have like I have candles so that when my candles run out I have more candles all this trying to cover up the smell of your natural manliness that's all it is let it let it cover my natural manliness yeah if they if she comes in and it smells great i know that hey i've got

that under control so that's the other thing that i was thinking about too i'm like these girls they smelled really good but it's a trick like they don't actually i mean i don't know they don't i didn't get that close to them but they don't actually they don't actually smell that good right it's just it but like andrew huberman you know being on the show talking about pheromones and all these different things like we're supposed to be able to smell those things on each other we're supposed to be able to like identify with each other but now everything's pretty masked right like everything's everything we see and everything we smell is a little bit is a little bit uh like filtered like girls have like lipstick uh i think is it chris rock who did

this like whole thing he's like who lies more men or women and he's like it's women you ain't really that tall you don't really look that good because of the makeup and the heels and this and that push-up bra and all that stuff. With the fragrances, though, what – so a period of my life, all I ever did was listen to Joe Rogan. So, like, a good amount of my education and knowledge just comes from his podcast. I can't remember who he had on, but a huge, like, issue with, like, the fragrance and stuff. We need to be able to smell, like, a woman's woman's natural like pheromones and all that shit because if they don't smell good to us that means that they're fairly close to like our um genetic build or whatever the fuck you want to call our dna

meaning like because we're not supposed to like smell our sister and be like oh that smells good we're supposed to smell gross so that way we don't reproduce with somebody too close to us so if they smell good that means that they're far away from us, which means like, yeah, green light. But if they don't smell good, it's like that's a warning sign that says you should not be with that woman. How are we supposed to not get confused on who's our relative? Hey, you'll get to it. Before you do anything too quick, you see them raw. Meaning you see them without any makeup on

it's already too late no no no it's not already too late because you haven't put a ring on the finger you haven't impregnated right so there has been there's nothing keeping this here so once you have seen her with no makeup on right and you have smelled her in the morning before she has put on deodorant or anything or maybe right after she's showered, then you're like, okay, cool. I'm cool with this because like you were mentioning, man, I'm all for

women using makeup. Usually you've got to use it. It feels good. Yeah, like for men, what do we have that's somewhat of a makeup equivalent? Testosterone. Okay, yeah, okay, cool. There you go.

So y'all have your testosterone? Women have makeup? But like I'm all for that. But, you know. Some guys will wear a little jewelry, you know, like it kind of sharpens you up a little bit. Yeah, yeah. guys will wear a little jewelry you know like it kind of sharpens you up a little bit or yeah yeah lotions and uh i don't know whatever whatever creams and shit clean you up or any of that stuff yeah and yeah that's cool and i don't want to sound offensive when i i say what i'm about to say

but there it can be nothing but offensive um i like where this is going yeah but i've seen i've seen i've i've seen I've seen I've say I've gone on dates in the past with a woman that wore makeup who like when I saw them without their makeup

I'm like who are you and I felt so bad like I really felt bad that I was like who are you I didn't say that

but in my head I was thinking that because I'm like in your head you were thinking and I really didn't feel okay about it because I'm just, damn, like, I mean, I would like to know what you look like to an extent, right? And the fact that this doesn't look like the person I met is somewhat unfortunate.

Yeah, you're like, what happened here? Yeah, you know? I hear that. What would the equivalent be for men? You know, there, there are these shoe risers that men hadn't have nowadays to like give them like a few inches in height. Right. And I've seen posts of ladies like getting mad at dudes for wearing that. Like they're like,

how can I go out with you? You're you're six foot one. I get back home. You're five foot 10 or five foot nine. And I'm just like, Oh, we're going to start this conversation. If y'all can wear makeup, and you can make your lips more plump, because that shit's super normal,

where those injections into the lips. Fillers and stuff. Fillers, and maybe some of y'all can make your titties a little bigger. Do you remember, I can maybe try to find it, but there was a video. fillers and and maybe some of y'all can make it titties a little bigger right and you know like do you remember i i can maybe try to find it but there's a video some chick she was like holy shit dude like perfect like figure eight like hard 10 and then oh we're doing the numbers now yeah but then she starts like unwrapping oh no and no. And then it's just like, you just little by little, you're just like heart sinks. You're just like, oh, shit.

Like she was hiding a lot of surface area. She had some Spanx on or something. But it was like aggressive though. I've seen that. You know, okay. Now I don't want to body shame or anything. But you know what? Shame is part of this though.

Like we were talking about like our breath and, you know, I got mouthwash in my thing and trying to have gum with you and trying to have deodorant. And so it is like, yeah, someone at some point said, yo, you stink. And then you got to kind of figure out how you're going to deal with it. And one way to deal with it is to just be prepared or to just, I don't know, work on some different things that could lead to better outcomes, I guess. You know what? You're actually right about that. Shame isn't always bad. I mean, it's not great.

Yeah. I think there's maybe better ways to communicate with people. Say, hey, you fucking stink. Maybe say, hey, man, I don't know if you forgot to put deodorant on or something today. That still might be offensive, but at least— Leave the hate out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like factual like i'm smelling something you don't normally smell so i figure i make you aware of it like and and that's necessary like you i will feel

if you tell me and sema you stink a little bit today i will feel a little bit ashamed of that but i'll i'll i am ashamed right now i will be back in several moments i will be i'll be i'll be like fuck now i will be back in several moments i will be i'll be i'll be like fuck man i didn't want to come in smelling like that well this whole conversation i'm just like do i smell right now yeah now i feel like i think i stink i know that i smell like bacon for sure because i cooked with this shirt on and i was just was like oh my god as i was driving here i'm like i totally i had the windows down i totally smell like bacon that's marx cologne.

I think I told this story when I was, it was eighth grade. Montana Flynn. That was her name. And the reason she comes to mind is because I was thinking of like, who was it? Then I brought myself to the situation. I was like, it was Montana. She was the first girl to tell me I stunk seventh grade. Sutter Middle School, I was sitting in Miss McConniga's class.

And I was wearing a tank top on that day. And it was post-recess. Tank top kind of makes it tough because it's flesh on flesh, you know? Flesh on flesh, man. And I know I probably didn't wear deodorant, but I was sitting right next to Montana. She was on my right, and I was just chilling, just chilling. And Montana looks at me, and I see her in my peripherals, and I'm just like, she keeps looking at me. And then she looks at me she's like and sam

you stink and i'm like shit really she's like you smell so bad and all the kids started laughing and on that day i learned use some fucking axe or old spice i would never use axe these days that shit is no way but back then axe was the thing yeah i don't know if you guys remember that commercials yeah it was old spice for me and that shit would like burn my armpits but i'm like nope this shit smells good i got one compliment and that was it i don't i'm not like a super genius like you i can't remember anyone's name but i remember i just put that on somebody was like dude you smell so good what cologne are you wearing like i'm not wearing any like but no you smell good i'm like oh it might just be deodorant.

It sucks for somebody to say something like that that way, but it did help you. Oh, that burned me. There's probably other people who were like, yeah, like I agree. That's probably why they laughed. You know, they're probably like, yeah, he could use. We agree. He could use some deodorant. A different way, though though she could have said

hey like i find you really attractive but you kind of stink a little bit hey i don't know if she dug you or not i don't know she dug me hey but at the end of the day she could have done a nice but she was a seventh grader yeah what are you doing seventh grader yeah kids are dicks yeah they gotta be they are i got i got a segue i'm not leaving a segue because we're going to come back to this because we got to talk about this shame aspect but i just remembered what i'm curious what kind of fucked up shit happened to you guys when you were kids and i had this messed up thought the other day because i saw this post from this guy on tiktok his name is big mike 675 and he was sitting there right and he had a bunch of like quotations from, you know, things that happened. Like he was made fun of for being fat.

He was asked out as a joke in seventh grade. That's really rough. That happened to me in eighth grade. Ouch. Dominique was her name. She came up to me and she was like, what would you like to go on a date? And I was feeling Dominique. I'm like, wow, she's cute.

She wants me to maybe be her boyfriend. Some shit's not funny. That's not funny. That sucks funny that sucks just wait bro I know it's not funny but but just wait because ah so messed up my thought process on this was messed up and I don't really think what I'm about to say but it did come to mind um so yeah she she played it for a few days and then one day she was like all right see my god tell you the truth actually my boy Austin I don't know if I can call my boy because he knew what was going on. But he came up to me and said, hey, man, I got to tell you, dude. This whole thing with Dominique is a prank.

She was dared to ask you out. And I was like, really? And I played it off. I'm like, that's fine. I went to Dominique. I'm like, girl, that's cool. Hey, Dominique has two kids. Don't be a daddy.

Revenge is sweet. And it's not sweet. That was kind of a joke. That was a joke. But it's not sweet that was kind of a joke that was a joke but it is the truth but it is a joke but um in actuality just like being kids somebody probably dared her someone did dare her and she went through with the dare but what i'm saying is like she probably actually was like into you or whatever i was dusty i was dusty i don't know i was a dusty afric African kid and I know it. Like what grade?

Eighth grade. I think it was seventh grade. I was seventh grade. You were already jacked. No, I wasn't jacked. Yeah, you were. Bro, I was dusty. I had a bad hairline.

I was ashy all the time. I wore, yeah, I know how dusty I was in seventh grade. But one of the stuff is really interesting because the only thing that would get you on the radar with some of these girls that you're mentioning would be to be more like everybody else. For me, it was the same thing with just my experience in school. I just wanted to be like the other kids. And then as I got older, I was like,

oh, this is actually amazing that I'm not like the other kids. Thank God I'm not like the other kids. Thank God I have these other like cool traits. I didn't really recognize it because all I was trying to do is like blend in and sort of hide a bit. And, you know, I didn't, I didn't want to be the brunt of a joke or anything. And that, that stuff didn't happen to me because, because of my brothers, you know, I had older brothers that went through the school.

Yeah. My oldest brother had a, you know, a name for being like the town badass. So people didn't really, and I was big, people didn't really mess with me, but predominantly all white school. I mean, there was, you know, a couple of Mexican kids, a couple of black kids, a couple Asian kids. So there was really no reason to pick on me. I wasn't, I wasn't all that different.

I just struggled with grades and stuff. But I remember like, oh, I wish I could just be smarter like some of these other people. I wish I could be more like them just so I didn't get this heat on me or this pressure on me occasionally. Yeah. I was super focused on academics and shit. I wasn't – I was not a cool kid. I've never been a cool kid um so i didn't even i was focused on like i just lifted and played football and same i didn't have a girlfriend um i thought it was useless to

have a girlfriend in high school like i never understood the point i was like since i was christian too i'm like i'm not gonna get married to you so why would i go out with you that was my whole thing but i actually think that's still decent advice. Like if you're not going to seriously pursue somebody and it's not going to be long term, then there's probably not a lot of great reasons just to like randomly date them. You know, you should, they should be on trial for it. You know, you should be like kind of thinking about is this going to turn into a thing? You know, otherwise, I don't know. I think you could be like wasting each other's time but everyone's got different views of that i guess yeah yeah i got picked on quite a bit but

it wasn't anything like physical like it was just um so yeah i've again i have an older brother older sister but they're like seven and eight years older than me so i listened to a lot of like old school r&b music and then that just forced well not forced me but that just i started listening to wu-tang clan when i was in elementary school okay so i grew up listening to like some really good music but with that with hip-hop i listened to a lot of r&b and then that continued all the way to junior high and then when uh usher came out and he came out that song my way i was was like, yeah, this is a cool jam. Yeah.

Buddy of mine was, you know, he came over listening to it and he's like, you like this song? He's like, yeah, it's dope. And he's just like, you gay? I'm like, why the fuck am I gay? That was the thing back then. So this is like, so late 90s. So it's very different times. If you are labeled gay, you are like, okay, you're ostracized.

Obviously, it's still the same, but it's definitely not accepted. So whenever I was with him by ourselves, it was all cool. The second he would be with somebody else, they'd make fun of me for being gay. Yeah. So little by little, the entire seventh grade, or I think it was eighth grade, was like, oh, Andrew's gay so everybody thought i was gay but it wasn't like because you listen to usher because i like r&b r&b yeah but the thing was it wasn't like like uh like oh he you know he likes dudes it was just

like you know they use like all the derogatory terms and they're just like oh do you want to suck my dick right now it's like what the fuck is wrong with you people what the fuck is wrong with kids but here's the thing so like let's say it's the three of us or well i'll just use other people because they were so mean yeah if i was with one of them by ourselves playing video games or like going to the mall or something it was all good it was totally fine the second there was at least two of them there's like hey this guy was to suck your dick what the fuck is wrong with you like two seconds ago you were fine so that was the shit that i had to deal with and after that like it was like no big deal but like yeah seventh or eighth grade kind of sucked and then ninth grade i had a pretty hot girlfriend so it was all good hey there we fucking go yeah it's weird once once kids get

into a pack it's like yeah i've experienced some of the same shit once kids get into a pack, it's like, I've experienced some of the same shit. Once kids get into a pack, though, it's like everyone wants to meld in, fit in, whatever, and they do that. That's why I've never been part of a clique. Yeah. I've never been part of, my whole life, I've never been part of a fucking clique. I've had friend groups, but it was never like the jocks or whatever. I never did that shit. I never liked it.

So what I ended up doing was, I'm burping because this tasty pastry was so good what i ended up doing was just like like okay these fucking these idiots all think i'm gay like whatever so i'm gonna go over here hang out with these people and then like oh none of them said that cool this is awesome and then they it slowly trickled like god damn it i'm gonna hang out the prep kids over here like they're all fucking sane and then so i would just like kind of hop around to different people and so like by eighth ninth grade came around i was cool with everybody even the fucking hardcore gangbangers knew me and stuff so that was pretty cool too because everyone had my back so yeah it was funny and then most of the people that talked the most shit

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Yeah, a lot of the kids that I was in class with got picked on a lot because they legitimately had, I don't even know what it'd be classified as, but maybe they were autistic or something because they didn't really have anything then. And so me, along with a lot of other kids, were called like retard and stuff like that.

Not so many people said that kind of stuff to me or to my face just because I was pretty big from the time I was young. But I remember walking down the hallway with one of my friends and a guy just came over and just knocked his books knocked his, um, he knocked his, uh, books out of his hands. He just came up and just, boom, just knocked his books out of his hands. And it was an older kid. It was like an eighth grader. And I was in like sixth grade and I saw that and I was, I was like, I didn't know what to do. Cause I was like, it like didn't register. Cause it was like so gross to me. I was like, I was like, well,

what the fuck is he, what does he do? And I was like, well, maybe they know each other because that's some shit I would do to my friends. I'd mess with them that way. You know, we'd mess with each other a bunch of different ways. And then I saw the kid, like he picked up his books and the other kid was still there. Then the other kid just, they're walking side by side and he just like clocks them. He just punches them in the face. And I was like, okay, well, that's not normal so i grabbed the older kid by the backpack i didn't know what i was gonna do i was like this ain't good you know whatever the fuck he's doing this ain't good i just grab him and i start swinging him around and keep in mind i'm already like lifting and i just go boom up against the locker and his head hits the locker

he hits the ground and he's not moving oh and there's like everyone's in the hallway like what the fuck happened and like his papers exploded and like shit went everywhere i didn't know what i did i kind of felt like almost a little sick to my stomach because i was like you get scared did you think yeah it's like that wasn't good and i've never done anything like that before yeah so i went to the principal's office i got in like of trouble. I got home and my dad's like, oh, I heard you got into a fight. And it wasn't much of a fight. Yeah. And I was like, well, this kid did this or whatever. And my dad was just, my dad didn't really care too much about the story. He's just like, I'm just disappointed. Cause he's like, you're, he's like, you're really strong. So you gotta be really careful. You're really strong. And I was like, why I learned that

I didn't, I didn't really know that before. And I was just mad. And I just, you know, did that. So my dad was like, he's like, well, he sounded like you were just standing up for somebody. I said, yeah, that's what I was doing. And he's like, all right, well, it also sounds like you won. And I said, well, I got my point across, I think, you know? And he was like, all right, well, that's good. You know, he's like, but you're in trouble. That's cool. That's a good way to handle it. If we all walked into the, like, a cafeteria out of school, we would know that smell right away.

Oh, absolutely. What is that? It's like just years of, like, fucking shitty food. Dude, I remember those hamburgers were so weird. They looked like the surface of a planet. Like it had like little craters. Like the burgers somehow looked like on an English muffin, especially now what we know about English muffins. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

You've got to butter that. I explained that description to my wife, and my wife was like, I like that description. She's like, that makes a lot of sense there we go i'm like man i've been craving some making me crazy this damn carnivore month though but yeah those burgers they back in the day in school they smelled really disgusting like if you actually smelled them like got up close to them and smelled them they smelled like garbage they were like uh the the hamburgers that they have at a.m. p.m. But like worse.

And they're like gray. Yes. Why the fuck are they gray? Took the words right out of my mouth. I was just going to say they're gray. They fed that to us, guys. Yeah. Don't feed me gray stuff.

Guys, we ate that shit. I know. Isn't that like we're growing kids. We ate that shit. Yeah. But that was at least like a hamburger. But like some days it would be like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which was delicious though. People think they have it bad nowadays getting chipped or whatever.

We got it way worse. We got just straight pollutants right to our fucking heads. Yeah, they poisoned us. One thing that was good about those lunches were the tater tots. I always say tater tots were always fire. Tots were fire. They were so good. Oh, yeah.

Tots and then chocolate milk on Fridays. Chocolate milk was always good too. Chocolate milk was good. Tots and then chocolate milk on Fridays. Chocolate milk was always good, too. Chocolate milk was good. Sometimes, I think they gave us Smuckers. Smuckers was pretty tasty. Smuckers, like drinks or something? No, no, no. It was in the plastic.

Like a PB&J? Smuckers PB&J. Yeah, that was really fucking good. I don't know what they did. Are you talking about like Uncrustables? Is that Uncrustables? Uncrustables, yeah. The little peanut butter and jelly circular thing.

Yeah, the circle thing. Those are good. Those are delicious. I never had those in school, but those are great. That's the ultimate powerlifting food right there, Uncrustables. They didn't have that invention when I was a kid. Yeah, me neither. But I remember the first meet I went to, Record Breakers,

and this ST crew had all their fucking piles of food in the middle and they had hell of uncrustables and i'm like damn i really want one power lifting is awesome nobody knows who i am no one knows dude literally nobody knew who i was i thought everyone might have i don't know gotten gotten the hint that i was actually here because mark told me to yeah and smokey's like no we just thought you were some fucking creep sick yeah who's this creep taking all these pictures yeah like thanks mark he told nobody all right here's a stinky story this is really really gross so we're benching at the well the original super

training gym um was off in norwood and the uh place next to it was a Hmong funeral home. And I'm not sure if I'm even saying that right. I don't know. It's Hmong. Yeah, I don't know how to spell it or whatever. In their tradition, when someone's older or when someone's of higher value in their hierarchy or however you want to say it, they have longer and longer funerals for them. And so these funerals would last, you know, sometimes like a whole week and they would

have all kinds of food there, but they would do shit there that like you're not supposed to do. They would like slaughter animals. There'd be an animal there that was alive and then I'd see them like chopping something up. So they were doing weird shit. So there was that smell always kind of creeping around the gym. And they actually would cook food up, and it was actually really good.

I've tried some of it before. And some of the other guys in the gym were like, that's disgusting. What are you doing eating that? I'm like, well, how do you think we get our food the same way? It's just that, yeah, you happen to see them. Slaughter. Yeah, you happen to see them slaughter it and have the drainage in the back. It was just weird.

But so that smell was always kind of creeping in the gym because they were always cooking and stuff. But this story goes a little something different. This is a really, because I just think, anyway, I'll just describe it. It's a bench day. We're all going back and forth on the bench. Yeah. And we go pretty fast. Our rotation was pretty quick because we'd have like five or six people.

And so to have five or six people going on one bench, you just want to change the weights and do your set, change the weights, do your sets. And if you do it that way, then you end up with a nice rest interval. That's great for strength training. You get like three minutes, maybe five minutes on your top sets or something like that. So it works out perfectly. We get to encourage each other, get to spot each other, get to give each other form tips and things like that. So this one guy is benching with me. His name is Mike Moore. Mike died maybe like a year or two ago. He sold me the gray monolith that's in the gym now for $1. He really just wanted to donate it to me, but he wanted to make it official that it wasn't his anymore. So he was old school. He was like in his 60s. And so we exchanged a buck for it. Really great guy. Always loved him and everybody at Super Training always liked him a

lot. He was awesome. So Mike is benching and Mike comes over to me and he's like, he's like, I'm not sure if it's Big Jim or if it's Roy. He's like, one of these guys, they stink. And both these guys are really big you know so sometimes with bigger people sometimes sometimes uh you know it's hard to keep everything clean like roy was a big big guy i'm not trying to be disrespectful towards anybody but roy was a big big guy and when you're 500 pounds there's some extra creases and extra things going on right but? But Roy never, he never, ever smelled. I never noticed him smelling. I never noticed Jim smelling either.

So I was like, that's really weird. So we go around and I didn't even notice the smell. Then I finally smell it as I'm on the bench. I'm like, oh my God, it's disgusting. Like that is like, and it was like a foul smell. Like it wasn't just like a BO thing. It was like more offensive than that. It was stronger than that. I'm like, this is like, I'm like, this is pretty bad.

And then the smell kind of went away and they would come and go during the workout. And I was getting super confused by it. And then I noticed when Mike is about to lay down on the bench that mike has a um a band-aid on his head and i'm seconds away from telling roy like dude like something on you i don't know what's going on but something on you stinks so mike goes to do another set and i'm standing next to roy i opened my mouth and i was gonna be like big roy don't know, man, like I might need deodorant or something. I'm about to say it, but Roy is also super sensitive. So I'm like, don't say that to him.

Like he's the fucking sweetest guy. He's super nice. Like, fuck that. Like, just don't worry about it. Just get through the workout. I go to lay down on the bench again and there's that fucking smell again. So now I get up off the bench. again so now i get up off the bench i turn and without thinking a little bit more thoroughly i sniff the bench pad that was behind my head my stomach hurts oh dude i almost blew chunks

immediately because i stuck my nose right down next to it i sniffed it and it was the exact smell and it hit me like 10,000 times more powerful than just me smelling the smell occasionally Mike Moore had a cyst on the back of his neck that he had removed like a couple days earlier

and it was leaking from the side of the bench ha oh my god and because you're like yeah it was leaking. Ha! Oh my God. And because you're like, yeah, because it rubs, so you couldn't see the color of the pus,

so it just kind of rubbed into the bench. Yeah, and it was like, there was no turning back from there. Mike was like, he just turned red, and he was super embarrassed. And I was like, dude, I'm so sorry. I didn't know any other way to handle that. Let's clean the bench up and let's fucking forget about it or whatever. Oh my God.

I was like, it can't be Big Roy. I'm like, Big Roy, he always smells good. It smells like Big Roy just came from taking a shower or something. He always smelled like, what is that soap that smells really good that springs uh irish irish springs he literally smelled like that all the time like this this guy smells amazing like i noticed that about him like you know what i mean so i was like he doesn't never he never stinks jesus christ that was a rough one i we can't top that. I thought you were going to say because they're slaughtering animals or something.

I thought, like, oh, boy. That was foul. Shit that comes from your body is just gross, you know? Yeah. Yeah, it can be. Oh, man. That's disgusting. Well, you know, this isn't going to be a smell thing, but college people, college dudes, we be stupid sometimes, especially college athletes.

I can top you on at least the disgusting side of it because this was done on purpose. So freshman year of soccer, the seniors who do just different type of shit to haze the freshmen right the first thing that just caught me off guard is i i've never showered with a bunch of dudes so that was different you know you walk into the shower the first day some kids do this in high school if they do a sport there but i didn't so it's like all this dick i'm just like oh well you know what yeah we're all out here and just do our thing so So I'm showering. Cool. Okay, get used to it. Week two. Week two, you have towels that hang in your locker.

So when you go back to your locker, you dry your body off. Well, this was double days. And we were training in the morning. We were training in the afternoon. And, you know, you guys ever heard of jock itch? Oh, yeah. It's, you know, fun. Yeah.

Every summer, I got to be careful. Right. You got to be careful. And it's also, it's something that you can contract from somebody else. Something that can spread through contact. Right. So you got to be careful. Oh, no.

Yeah. Well, part of the hazing was, if you have it, give it to the freshmen. And we didn't know. So I go back to my locker and so does a few of the other guys that are freshmen we go back to our lockers and we're just you know wiping down cleaning up pretty sure it was rory who did this because rory was a jackass um but the next day i'm like why am i so itchy am I so itchy? Why am I so itchy? And then the next day, some of the seniors be laughing. I'm like, what the fuck are you guys laughing at? They're like, you ever had jock itch before in SEMA? I'm like, what?

Yeah. So, yeah, a few of us contracted jock itch. Tinia Curtis, I think this is the, or no, yeah, I'm pretty sure Tinia Curtis. But that shit was itchy. It was red. I couldn't run because I had big thighs. And it was just rubbing next to each other whenever I was sprinting. Yeah.

So I was like, fuck. I went to the hospital. And luckily, a nurse told me a trick to get rid of jock itch. Instead of going and getting some shit from over the counter, take some white vinegar and pour it all over that area. It's going to burn, but you'll get rid of your jockage within a day. Oh, it'll probably burn, burn. Yeah, yeah. So I literally went home.

I sat on my couch, opened up my legs. I bit on a pillow, and then I just emptied this thing of white vinegar on my crotch. I was squeezing into the pillow and just – because it was so – but it literally burned the fungus away. Yeah. And within a few hours, my jock itch was gone. She was like, this is going to be excruciating pain, but it's going to be the fastest way for you to get over your jock itch. So for all of you guys who may have had jock itch or will get jock itch when it happens buy some white vinegar pour it all over it'll go away pretty quick damn i wonder if that nurse still works or if she got fired right after you

told too many people that that shit worked yeah it went away yeah man yeah i think i don't remember i know i i thought i shared this on the podcast i'm not sure just regards to like weird smells um this was before we were married but stephanie went to go get i think she had to go get new tires or something and then she was texting me she's like babe like my car stinks really bad i'm like what do you mean she's like i don't know it just smells weird yeah like okay it was no big deal whatever she like went and and put a shit ton of air freshener everywhere. So then it smelled really bad because it was like the, I hate air freshener smell. It's gross.

Anyway, so by the time I got home, I was like, okay, so what's the deal? And she's like, it smells really bad. I'm like, okay, go in there and it reeks. I'm like, you have a dead animal in here somewhere. I was like, there's a dead rat probably stuck in like the air vent or something. Yeah. Yeah. And then so I'm like snooping around like, man, I smell it like in the back seat.

It's like snooping around some more. I'm like, no, like I'm losing it. Like it's here somewhere. So I open up the trunk and it's definitely in there. Moving stuff around and I find a bag that had old steak in it. We like barbecued somewhere, brought some leftovers home, forgot it in there, left it in there. And it fucking just, it smelled like death. Yeah.

And we got close to it. It was disgusting. This wasn't a dead animal. That's good. Right? Well, I mean, it was a dead animal. I mean, yeah, but it wasn't like you had to pick up a rat and take it out. Yeah, no, yeah, that would have been really bad, which that has happened.

Like, I hate when I can smell a fucking dead rat like a mile away. Yeah, yeah. Like, I can smell it in my clothes, but that fucking sucked. We had a dead, well, we're not sure what it, like, was it like a raccoon or what it was. A big old possum something large because we heard it in the wall for a long time and it was that it was my one of my uh old residences and the funny thing is we we had a guy come out that was supposed to be like like a varmint control or inspector or something, right? Because we were like, we don't know.

We hear this weird noise on our wall. And then we knew the outcome. We know that eventually this thing's going to die because it's trapped. It sucks. And so the guy comes out. The guy's wearing the tightest sweatshirt I've ever seen. His sweatshirt is tucked in to his jeans, which are also really tight. That's a dope style.

Yeah, and he's got these big old boots on. And he looks like a former professional wrestler. He's got like a big, he has like a beard and like a big kind of curly mustache. Wow. He sure wasn't like a stripper type thing. And he's walking like all stiff and like he was a professional wrestler

for like 10 years or something right and he's just kind of looking around he's like he's all just his whole body's super tight like anytime he looks at the ceiling he's gotta like move his whole body and um he goes outside and he's like yep he's like you guys gotta chop down those trees that's where it came from and he comes back inside he starts filling out like paperwork and uh he's like well there you go he's like just sign there it's 50 bucks i was like but you didn't do anything he's like there's nothing i can do me and andy were trying not to die laughing while he was there

and i was like i was like i was like as funny as that was that guy is like look at these dumb motherfuckers they don't realize that they just have to trim back the tree that's out there that's how animals are kind of crossing over you know on top of the roof or whatever we had a similar situation like i'm like i can smell that there's a fucking rat somewhere in the ceiling you know or yeah and same answer well those trees over there you got to trim those back because that's how they're getting in i'm like okay i'll get to that if you get to that fucking dead rat and he was he's just like similar like um you gotta take the whole house apart yeah the truth of it so it's not worth it but so but the

similar attitude he's just like yeah there's like i like, I mean, I can't find, I don't see anything, but if, you know, he's dead and he fell in the wall and then you're going to have to like cut the wall down and you know, it's just, there's a lot. So yeah, I'm going to go ahead and get out of here. And then the smell got worse and worse and it smelled a lot like that bag of steak. And so I'm like, call that fucker back. Like he needs to come back out here. A different guy came out and he was like oh yeah there's something up there and he took like two seconds he poked his head into like

the um like yeah attic yeah whatever entryway thingy and he's like oh it's right there and he just like grabbed well he didn't grab it like he he disposed of it correctly but i was like see i fucking like that other guy was just being a lazy piece of shit like he just didn't want to help because he as soon as he walked in and just like you know he had that like that tilt where he's like what you guys got like fuck dude there's a rat up there you know what i mean yeah people yeah exactly they're just like fuck i'm here people that have been over their job for like the last six years that was him and we were like probably like the last stop on his route he's just like what the fuck you want and I'm like, dude, there's a rat.

He's like, nah, fuck that rat. You're fine. Cut that tree. Yeah, cut the tree down. I didn't call a tree service. Well, now we know better. We trim back our bushes, right guys? Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, we trim them. It's a must. Trim them way back. Oh, that reminds me in regards to smells. No, I don't like cologne. I try to get deodorant that doesn't smell like anything but i got that manscaped and i i got like the package duo it has like some like fucking it's like a ball reviver cream or something i need to restock it's like a it's basically like

aftershave for your nuts yeah and so i'm like all right i've never done anything let me try this out and so i put it on and i'm like you know later that night it's like so what'd you think uh does that smell good or not she's like i was wondering where that was coming from yeah it's awesome so i'm like all right cool there we go i guess i wear cologne down there now you wear anything on your balls what a testimonial a testicle monio testicle monio not a sponsor by the way they're not a sponsor just fucking really good stuff when i bought my manscape thing like last year it did come with that and um i gotta say also i got compliments on that so i haven't worn no i literally haven't i forgot i do have like half of that ball cream in one of my cabinets i need to start using that

again um and i need to restock because that stuff works. Do you put anything on your balls, Mark? It smells good. I have put the Lume stuff on there before, which is like a deodorant. I think I was telling you guys it's like a deodorant that you could just put anywhere. You know, some deodorants are like almost like a lotion. It's almost like a lotion. This is like all natural stuff stuff so that way it's

not doing anything weird to you or whatever but yeah yeah i've messed around with that before but i just don't really like having like i guess like oily whatever lotion on my nuts i don't we were talking about this with chad men it's like i don't like any oils on anything but it doesn't get that way yeah this one is like um yeah i don't I don't like it because it just smears around. You know what I mean? Like it doesn't go in your skin well. You keep pushing it around. Yeah.

I'm like, I don't want to be fondling my nuts for this long. Yeah. Well, I do. But no. You want to fondle my nuts? Yeah, I do. So I was like, I'll fondle your nuts. But hey, no.

No. It's good. And then it's like part of the whole ritual. You know, if like, I don't know if she can smell that, she's going to know that like, oh, it's uh it's good and then it's like part of the whole ritual you know if like i don't know if she can smell that she's gonna know that like oh it's smooth saline hey sure beats uh like extra medicated gold bond powder or something like that you know what i mean and and you're training her habit loop because now it's like uh what's the uh reward pavlov's like cue, Andrew's balls smell good. Routine. Reward.

Reward. You could probably like get her with that. Like just put that like right under her nose and she'll be in a trance. Or just put it in random places around the house. Like just like rub it on certain places so that she's just going around. She's like, it smells so good. I wonder what Andrew baby's doing. Baby.

That's actually a really good idea. That's great. She does most of the podcast. She starts showing up over here looking for you. Yeah, she's going to come visit on Monday. Oh, sweet. I'm serious. That can work.

It definitely can. I'm going to put some ideas in my head. I'm going to get this shit rolling. Oh, man. But, okay, we got to rewind because we were talking about shaming people, right? Yeah. And, okay, so I once knew a girl, and she was trying to get herself to work out more, but she never could bring the motivation to do it. She would wear waist trainers, right?

She never could bring the motivation to do it. She would wear waist trainers, right? And this waist – like waist trainers, they're the type of things where when you put them on and you're wearing a dress, it looks like your waist is snatched. It looks like your waist is super small. But once you take it off IRL, in real life, like that's not what it looks like. So in my head, I'm just like, don't you find it cumbersome? And I mean, just like, again, not trying to shame, but don't you find it cumbersome that you have to use this device to make your body look the way you want it to look? If you could just go and start working out and you actually could look like that.

Those things are super popular waist trainers that really cinch women's waist in and tighten it up and i'm just like but if that's not how you actually look don't you don't you feel as if that's i would hate to you know let me just like if there is something cosmetic that i forgot this one hey I was just Googling waist trainers. Hey. There are girls from, yeah, some guys that wear suits so that their waist can look smaller.

There's, there's men's versions of that, that kind of, kind of do the same thing. Yeah. I'm just like, hey man,

like I get it. It's a cosmetic thing, but hit the gym. I don't know about you guys, but. It's a hundred dollars, a hundred dollar underpants. Yo,

I don't know about you guys, but I like stuff to be a little bit more subtle. Um, it is really nice when you're, uh, significant other person, uh, like goes out of their way.

And, um, I don't know, like where's maybe more makeup than normal and is trying to look quote unquote extra hot for like an occasion, you know, like puts more time into like prepping themselves, getting themselves ready. I really think it's great when women do like different things with their hair and different things with their makeup. Like I find it to be really attractive. But in general, I think that

makeup should be like a little bit of like a highlight of what you actually naturally kind of have. Yeah. And it just, there's, I personally am not a fan of, of somebody wearing like a lot of makeup. Now I will also say I am not a woman. I don't know anything about any of that. So I'm not coming at you from your perspective saying that you should do anything in particular. I'm just saying from my perspective, I don't even really like to see women wearing a lot of makeup, except on occasion when it's like, you know, for something a little bit bigger. That's me personally. What about you? Yeah, as far as makeup is concerned, my thing is just like

if I'm with somebody, all that matters is I like the way you look without the makeup. If you want to wear a lot of makeup, that's cool, but if I'm with somebody, that means I like how they look without everything.

That's why being in shape is super important because that can't be hidden. Once I'm naked, it can't be hidden what I look like. And once you're naked, it can't be hidden what you look like. Do you take care of yourself, et cetera? Cool. Because I'm going to continue to always – I'm not going to let myself go because for myself and my personal health, but I'd also like the person I'm with to be attracted to me. And that goes both ways. So whether a person chooses to wear some heels so that their calves pop and they look that way, whatever, but when you're in the Ross version of yourself, am I attracted to that?

If I am, hey, we're fucking game. That's all I really – that's the way I come at it. damn, hey, we're fucking game. That's all I really – that's the way I come at it. Yeah, I just think that men and women have the wrong idea usually of what we're into. Like guys think that having a bigger bench press is like going to reel in more women or having your arms be like bigger. Now, having yourself in better shape, of course, that can help. But I think we're kind of like

going about it the wrong way or like that's not necessarily the thing that they're uh placing at the highest value uh-huh and i think and i think because i think that dudes are doing stuff for other dudes which sounds weird but women are also doing stuff for other women i've heard i've heard a lot kind of get dressed. Like if a girl, if you've been with a girl for a while, like a couple of years, and you're like, we're going to a movie. Maybe we're going to a movie and dinner. They might dress pretty good. They might look pretty good.

But if they're going out with their girlfriends, they're going to look fucking smoking hot. Yes. Like, wait a second. What the fuck is this? You're on the money with that. I've heard women say that. Like, I've heard a girl told me this recently. She's like, yeah, when I go out, I go out like I'm getting myself ready.

I'm doing this for dues. I'm doing this to go hang out with other girls. And in my head, I was like, really? Oh, okay. But I've heard that a lot. So, like, some women do really do that because do that because they're going to hang out with girls. Or they're going to, yeah. It's just like guys getting a new Harley or a new tattoo.

It's kind of for each other in some weird way rather than it is to, although women can be attracted to those things. I'm not saying they can't be, but it's kind of more for us. It's kind of a weird thing. Yeah, I'm definitely on the more subtle side um but to your point and seem of the like yeah without any makeup or anything yeah i still think my wife is extremely hot but like now that we are married like yeah let's see what you can do like see let's i don't know go get your your uh fucking eyelashes done or something like let's like get you like super dolled up and you know go out somewhere or something because like i'm not worried what it's

gonna look like after you know the makeup is off yeah i've already you know it's like you already got the the check mark like we're good to go yeah like and now let's just i don't know go see what what happens yeah i don't know like yeah i've never cared i've really like, it's, I guess it's cool, you know, but I've never cared about the nails. Guys don't even really barely notice, I think. And that's a rough thing. If there's any trouble. I always get in trouble for that shit. There we go.

There's a tip. I'm going to continue to pay attention to that. Dudes, if you are with a lady, start trying to notice when maybe their hair gets done, if they do it, or their nails get done. Because in past relationships, the amount of trouble, not even trouble, but just the sadness that has come from my partner for not noticing that she got new nails or she did something to her hair. I'm just like, oh, fuck, I didn't notice. I'm so sorry. It can bring up other conversation. It does. And then they can say, oh, yeah, I went to so-and-so.

And last time I went over there and it sucked and it didn't do a good job. And I'm just like, I don't know. You get to learn. You learn more about each other. And you never notice. You never notice when I do this. And it's all for you. My wife cooks dinner pretty much every night and every night, I think, or every single time.

I just try to, I don't know. It's a Jordan Peterson rule. It's part of his 12 rules of life. Don't allow your wife to be a maid. And I think that's, I mean, that doesn't go along exactly with what we're talking about here. But don't try to objectify your significant other. It's going to happen. Like you're going to do it sometimes, but, you know, it's just like little stuff.

You see them, you see somebody doing the dishes, you help because it's part of like a fucking team effort. Or you do something different. You take the garbage out or whatever. Like you just, wherever you can pitch in, those kinds of things. That was something I didn't really get to ask Susan, but I did ask her like in a different way, was basically just trying to find things outside the bedroom to be able to still score points. Not that you're always trying to score points, but you're always trying to score points.

Always trying to score some points. Yeah, but if you're – whomever you're with is stressed out all the time because they do so much, think about if you were stressed out a lot, how much you would be thinking about sex. I mean, for some guys, we just think about it all the time. It doesn't matter how stressed out we are. But for some other people, with that stress impact on them, they might not want to do that.

Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm a horny boy. Dude. Hey, what's up? So my friend, O.L., he's been in here training yeah and he's been in here training with his brother and they're both goofy bastards and i've known them forever yeah and i go to oh well's brother he just got done benching and i was like how's it going today how you doing he goes i'm horny and i was just like oh my god that's amazing I was like I'm going to use that

next time I go to Nugget wait pause did he follow it up no it was a warning no we all just started dying laughing we were just like

saying what a like ridiculous response that is so next time you go to the grocery store and you're at the checkout and they're like how's it going today

say I'm really horny hey real talk though man for all the younger guys out there you're like in your late teens or your teenager or early 20s or whatever um let's just say that you're not getting sex on the regular um pick up jujitsu like one thing i will say because remember i had said i quit porn at 24 i also find it weird that that's the age i started jujitsu. Like one thing I will say, because remember how I said I quit porn at 24. I also find it weird that that's the age I started jujitsu because that shit

tires me out so much to this day. I get back from a jujitsu practice. I ain't thinking about sex. Like I'm like, I'm just, I want to sleep like in real talk, not just jujitsu, but I think that every man and woman too should do something that's physically demanding.

Because when you do something that's physically demanding, truly physically demanding, whether it's a hard lifting session or whatever, your mind isn't going to be only thinking about, you know, the next, your next beat off or what are you going to get your next nut? Because you've already expended so much energy. And I think like I took a lot of my old, uh, or, uh, porn addicted energy and I put that deeper into my physicality. Like seriously, because it's a good place to put it. Yeah. I'm a high-test male. I'm horny all the time. It's true. But I do so much physical work that it doesn't bother me. You can take more clearly. I love that Susan did point that out. She's just like, guys want to masturbate every day.

It's like, yeah, we kind of do. One thing that, because a lot of guys, when she said that, there's some guys who are all on the semen retention train. Oh, yeah. I did see a lot of that. Guys, okay. First off, when we have talked about masturbation and porn, masturbation isn't bad. That's not what we were saying. Or that's not what I was saying.

I was talking, the problem is that and then using porn all the time. Masturbating is healthy for you. If you can get yourself to a place where you don't have to use pornography every time you masturbate, cool. But that's what we were talking about. We don't think masturbating is bad and you're going to go to hell or, you know, like we don't think that's not what we're talking about. You're not going to shrivel if you nut and yeah retain all your semen yeah so porn is just extreme it can be yeah it yeah and it can become more extreme than it can become a coping mechanism and then it can cause a lot of other things but masturbation itself as the action is not the enemy have you guys ever smelled the cum trees in davis yeah so you mentioned it yeah right i mean they're they, they're like all over the place.

There's some in Sacramento, too. We have them in Elk Grove, everywhere. But man, when those things blossom... Why are they called the cum trees, by the way, man? Because they smell like a giant load. Smells like a fucking bukkake contest was going on or something.

Hey, bukkake! Alright. Y'all ever watch a new buccati oh my god yo um because i remember out of curiosity when i was younger i was like what the fuck's bukkake oh god oh yes don't look that don Hey, y'all curious. Hey, just for, you know, just curiosity's sake, just type in Bukkake on Pornhub. See what pops up. We've all been there. Yeah, don't go on Pornhub. Don't go on Pornhub. Yeah, don't go on Pornhub.

Don't do that to yourself. That's fucking trees. It's owned by Jeff Bezos, I heard. I'm just kidding. I made that up. I was about to say, like, Jeff knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. Andrew, take us on out of here.

Sure thing. And the reason why those trees are everywhere is because they're dirt cheap and they grow very easy. I learned that shit and I'm just like, these are fucking everywhere. Real quick, before Andrew takes us on out of here. They get stanky. These are the Bordeaux's.

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