Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1698: Signs You’re Not Drinking Enough Water, Exercises & Movements That Prevent Injury, Viagra as a Workout Supplement & More

Episode Date: December 3, 2021

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the benefits of supersets, signs you’re not drinking enough water, using Viagra to improve the pump in the gym, and important lifts or movements that manual laborers should focus on to prevent injury. Mind Pump Fit Tip: The importance of elbow positioning when training your arms. (3:50) The guys share their fascination with the Cool Mitt technology. (10:17) Red light therapy for eye performance. (18:06) Fun Facts with Justin: What makes a platypus, cheetah, and duck unique? (24:15) A Mind Pump Thanksgiving overview. (27:42) Mind Pump’s favorite Christmas movies. (30:50) Why is America’s trust in the media at an all-time low? (36:29) Who is the most successful entrepreneur of all-time? (41:55) Adam’s theory on NFTs. (43:36) What is Mind Pump watching on TV? (48:11) #Quah question #1 – Besides saving time, what are the benefits of supersets? (53:46) #Quah question #2 – What are some signs you’re not drinking enough water? (58:50) #Quah question #3 – Have you heard of Viagra to improve your pump in the gym? (1:05:37) #Quah question #4 – What are important lifts or movements that manual laborers should focus on to prevent injury? (1:09:48) Related Links/Products Mentioned December Promotion: MAPS HIIT and MAPS SPLIT 50% off! **Promo code “DECEMBER50” at checkout** Build Your Triceps with Angles – Mind Pump TV Build Your Biceps with Angles – Mind Pump TV Mind Pump #1417: How To Get Stubborn Arms To Grow Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' CoolMitt - Enhanced Performance through Muscle Temperature Control 300% Work Increase Using THIS?! Andrew Huberman Explains the Coolmitt Weeklong improved colour contrasts sensitivity after single 670 nm exposures associated with enhanced mitochondrial function Visit Joovv for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code “EVERYTHING15” at checkout** A double headed penis and a highly venomous spur. Ballistic Penises and Corkscrew Vaginas: The Sexual Battles of Ducks 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas | Apple TV+ Watch Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Prime Video Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record Jack Dorsey’s departure from Twitter gives him more time to focus on his passion for bitcoin Was Pablo Escobar the World's Greatest Entrepreneur? Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) - IMDb King Richard | In Theaters and on HBO Max Watch Explained | Netflix Official Site Visit Paleo Valley for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code “Mindpump15” at checkout for 15% discount** How To Use Supersets For Maximum Muscle Gain – Mind Pump Blog Visit Drink LMNT for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! How a discovery that brought us Viagra could help those battling the coronavirus Fix Your Back Pain – Mind Pump Blog How To Do A Turkish Get-Up The #1 Setup Cue For The Barbell And Dumbbell Row Exercise Build An Amazing Midsection with the Side Wood Chop How to do a PROPER Plank Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab)  Instagram

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pup, right? Yeah. Today's episode, we answered some fitness and health questions that were asked by listeners, just like you, but the way we opened the episode, it's right Tom, we're speaking to you buddy.

An intro, so the intro was 49 minutes long, where we're talking about current events, what's happening, entertainment news, scientific studies around fitness and health, we talk about our sponsors. So today's intro again was 49 minutes long and then we got to the questions. Here's what went down in today's show.

We opened up by talking about elbow positioning, and why that's so important for training your arms. So if you like to combine different exercises to train your biceps and triceps, and are wondering which exercises to pick for best results, focus on elbow positioning about the elbows. Then we talked about the cool, this is a really weird phenomenon where people are improving their stamina performance

by like 500%, it's non-invasive, it's very strange, really cool. Sounds ridiculous. Then we talked about a study that showed that people who had red light therapy on their eyes once a week for short period of time had as much as 17% improvement in their eye performance, red light therapy has a lot of different benefits.

We know now it helps the eyes, but it can also help regenerate your skin, regrow hair, help your muscles recover faster. By the way, these are all proven by studies, but you gotta get the right red light. Not any red light will do this for you. There's a lot of crap on the internet. Real red light therapy is a little expensive,

but very valuable. And one of the companies that we work with is Juve. They're the best ones in the business, so the only ones we work with in the business. And because you listen to Mind Pump, you'll get $50 off your first purchase. So if you're interested, head over to juve.com. That's j-o-o-v-v.com forward slash Mind Pump.

And then use the code Mind, for that $50 off. Then Justin talked about the platypus and lots of weird animal penises. Fun facts. Something he was been reading a lot about lately. I don't know why. Then we talked about Thanksgiving, how much fun we all had during that holiday.

We talked about Christmas movies, some of our favorites. I brought up one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time and it was not in the legal markets. Then we talked about NFTs, and Justin and Adam have a conspiracy theory revolving bass pro shops. Kinda crazy. Then I talked about the movie, Shang-Chi. We compared it to King Richard, another movie,

and then we talked about a show on Netflix called Explained, Really Cool. Then we got to the questions. Here's the first one. This person wants to know, besides saving time, what are the main benefits of supersets? The next question, what are some signs that you're not drinking enough water?

The third question we answered was, look, I've heard people using Viagra to improve athletic performance in the gym or pumps in the gym. What's the deal with this? And the final question, this person wants to know, what are some of the best lifts or movements that manual labor should do to prevent injury? Also, all month long, in December, we are running a huge sale.

So here is what's going on. Maps hit, that's high intensity in over training done right. And maps split. This is a bodybuilding split workout program. Both of them are 50% off. Those are actually two of our most popular programs. So they're both half off. We're closing out the year with this big sale. If you're interested, head over to maps fitnessproducts.com and then use the code December 50, so that's December 5-0 with no space for that discount. All right, so there's literally, seems like a thousand exercises for biceps and triceps, and

we know that you want to hit different exercises to hit different parts of your arms. So the challenge is which exercises do I pick? How do I know what the best combination is? Here's a great tip, okay? When it comes to biceps and triceps, there's really only one factor you should focus on and maybe a secondary factor for biceps But here's the main factor elbow position Do exercises where your elbow is by your side in front of your body over your head or even behind your body To hit those arm muscles from different angles.

And then when it comes to the biceps, you might also want to consider hand position since the biceps controls that. Other than that, there really isn't much difference between different exercises. No, I know Justin can't contribute because he doesn't train his arms really at all. Well, his arms are massive.

This dwarf for your guys. This actually was maybe the single best tip for building my arms that I ever received. I wish I remember where I read it or I first heard it, but it was like, at that point, I didn't really understand the importance of manipulating the strength curve, and I think that's what you have to talk about now,

because someone who said you hear elbow position may do a machine that is in multiple different elbow positions, but then the strength curve isn't manipulated the same as if you're manipulating a dumbbell or free weight. So you gotta explain what's going on. So there's a couple of things. One is there are different heads to the biceps and triceps,

but the attachments are so close together that trying to work the inner head or the outer head or isolate the different parts of the muscle really is kind of a waste of time. But there are a lot of different exercises that seem different. For example, you look at triceps, right? There's a press down with a rope, press down with a bar, press down with your palms up. The tricep contributes zero to hand or supination and pronation.

So really you're doing the same exercise a bunch of different times. When you're changing elbow position, what you are doing is you're doing the same exercise a bunch of different times. When you're changing elbow position, what you are doing is you're changing the length of the muscle. So bicep gets shortened or lengthened depending on the elbow position, same thing with the tricep. And then what you're referring to is the, I guess the, where the weight is the heaviest

or the lightest, right? So if I do a preacher curl, the weight tends to be heavier here at the bottom. If I do a drag curl, well the hardest to be heavier here at the bottom. If I do a drag curl, well the hardest part is probably here towards the top. So that's one of the things. But the other thing is really just the lengthening and shortening of the muscle. Like my bicep is short when it's up here. When it goes down back here and I'm fully extended, that's like a stretch, right? So the muscles are getting trained in those different kind of length positions. That makes the biggest difference, but you see people all the time, right? They'll go

barbell curls, and then they'll go wide grip barbell curls, and then they'll go dumbbell curls, all with the elbows by their side, and they're almost doing the same exercise a bunch of different times, just using dumbbells and barbells. Well, you see two people want to make sure that they're keeping this constant muscle tension, and so a lot of times the wraps will get shorter and shorter because they're keeping this constant muscle tension. And so a lot of times, the reps will get shorter and shorter because they're focusing on sort of the peak of it, right? They're trying to get the squeeze and the feel versus going through the full range of motion,

which is gonna help to then strengthen, you know, even further in terms of like the muscle potential. Yeah, I mean, I was guilty of this for years. I just, I assume that if I was using a different tool or handle or machine that I was hitting the bicep different, you know, would like to your point. If your elbows position in the same exact place, you can use five, six different tools at holding it, right, to do the exercise and you're not really doing it. It may as well have done 15 sets

of the straight bar curls because everything you're doing is exactly the same and learning to position your elbow in different places for both buys and tries. And I tell you, it's one of those things that you'll, it was one of the most massive arm pumps I ever had the first time I pieced this thing up. Yeah, once you do it, you know. Yeah, you can feel it.

Yeah, so giving an example of three exercises that would do that for the biceps and for the triceps. So you could do a barbell curl, so that's elbows at your sides. You could do a preacher curl with elbows in front of your body, and then you could do an incline curl where your elbows are kind of hanging behind your body. And then for triceps, you could do a close grip bench press,

right? That would be elbows kind of in front of my body. You could do a press down, elbows on the side of my body, and then I could do some kind of an overhead tricep extension where my elbows are by my head. Those three elbow positions really give you more bang for your buck than if you do three exercises that are different, but the elbow position is the same. And once you try this, you'll really feel a difference.

Otherwise, a lot of the exercises that we do sometimes, you look at the combination like, well, you kind kind of doing the same thing three different ways. So are you saying that if I'm on the cable machine, I just keep grabbing different handle configurations that that's really not maximize my potential? Yeah, you know, it's funny. I remember when I was younger and someone would said to me,

yeah, if you do press downs with a supinated grip, right? So if you grab the hand, the tricep bar with your palms up versus your palms facing down, you'll feel more of a squeeze on the inner part of your tricep. And you know what that comes from? When you supinate your hands, it forces your elbows in a little more

and you're feeling your tricep press up against your lat. It's really not a change. Muscle activation. So, you know, it's just one of those things. But yeah, and it gives you, typically I'll pick two or three exercises where the elbow positions are. In fact, if you own any of our maps programs and we have multiple exercises for your arms, you will almost always notice that we do this because it's super effective and it makes a big difference. But yeah, I slain between the

different heads of the bicep and tricep. Maybe the tricep a little bit, but it's kind of an exercise and futility. No, do you see any value in the order in which you do those exercises? Like, for example, doing a bicep curl in the shortened position versus the long position. Like, do you think that matters very much or the value is really in changing that up?

Sometimes I do. I start my three bike sizes in the short position, and other times I do it in the length and position. That's a great question. I don't think there's a huge difference, but I tend to personally pick the heaviest exercise first, or the one I can handle the most weight with first,

just because it's the heaviest, and I want to do that first, so I can do the most load, and I move to the lighter exercises, but I don't think it really makes a huge difference. The other thing I would consider would be maybe compound first, right? Close grip bench press is a compound lift.

Probably would want to start with that before moving on to the single joint kind of isolation type stuff. But yeah, it makes a huge difference. Speaking of exercise, that video that you sent us on the cool mitt. Oh, I know from Andrew Huberman. Is it Huberman, is that you said? Is that my statement? Yeah, Huberman is super fascinating. What he was bringing up in that. Crazy.

Yeah. I was so I so I was familiar with the studies that were done on that. I think about six months ago, people were sending me these articles and it was so weird, right? So essentially, what it is is there's this device that cools the palm of your hand and the blood that flows through the hand then go it's cool. It goes to your core and it cools the palm of your hand and the blood that flows through the hand, then it's cool, it goes to your core and it cools the core down. And this improves, I guess, stamina, right? Stamina endurance. To the tune of like 300% in some of these tests that they've done. Yeah, insane. The example he gives is they use, and I think it's on the website, on the cool mid website of the 49er who tested it, right? So he said,

you know, you tested out first by basically doing your max of something. So I think they did like 10 sets of 10 of dips in a workout and did as many as he could to failure. And then he came out doing like 160 or 170 something like that, right? And then they went back like four or five days later using the cool mitt in between rest periods and he was able to do 600 in that workout. Now the crazy part that I thought was extremely fascinating, okay, so because it doesn't make you stronger, it doesn't necessarily build more muscle.

But because he used that and it was able to what, 5X, his work capacity in a single workout right away, the part that I found most fascinating was when he came back a third time to do the workout with no cool mid-again, he now was able to do that 600 reps again without the cool. So like it stuck with him. Yeah, so his body actually, you know, adapted or acclimated to that much volume in a workout

where he wasn't able to even come close to that before, but now using this tool was able to do it. Well, that's the interesting part, because now you can kind of sort of realize that you don't need to add that for every single workout. It's not something that you're gonna be reliant on that. You're actually teaching yourself,

neurologically, how to do that amount of volume. And so your body sort of acclimates to that just by teaching it. I wanna try this so bad, because what I think would be the limiting factor is I can't imagine if my max on dips was a hundred and say 50 in a workout and I've never really done more, too much more or less than that, that's my peak.

And then all of a sudden I do a workout where I get 600, I can't imagine how fucking sore I would be. So that's what I'm curious about is... Does it cause more muscle damage? Well, he said in that video that I was, I said to you guys that it does seem to mitigate how sore they get. Now, how much I don't know until I try it

and apply it myself, but that's the first thing that comes in mind to me is like, okay, if all of a sudden I five X my volume on an exercise in a single workout, I gotta be an unbelievably sore from that, and then that's gotta hinder your recovery process because of how much damage I wanna imagine. When you come back and you didn't use the mitt

and you applied that same amount of new volume of reps, like how sore you're then as opposed to like using, because the thing about it was interesting, it's like, you know, the core temperature plays a big factor in all of that in terms of like your muscle sort of giving up and giving out. And so to be able to come back and then do that same volume, it would seem that maybe you're going to produce that same kind of byproduct that would get you sore. It's weird because it's almost like it's taking off.

Okay, so you buy a new car, right? And without a rev limiter, the car can go 200 miles an hour. It's a super car, but they put on a 140 mile an hour rev limiter. It's like you're taking the rev limiter off and maximizing your performance. What I want to see are long-term studies, does that then contribute to faster gains and strength and muscle, even

if it didn't though, even if it didn't none of that, if it just improves your performance, what it could mean for athletics. That's where I see it. It's crazy. He wants the stickiness of it. How long does that last in terms of like, can I apply that multiple times? But let's say, okay, let's say, for example, if it doesn't last, yeah. If you just got a temporarily, it still will be,

if you can increase your work capacity in a matter of a single workout, heading into game time or something. Exactly, like imagine, imagine like using, so I see massive application here for like a fighter, like imagining it before the fight. Yeah, imagine someone being, and you're training like, like let's say speed of punches, like power punches in a round, like I don't, whatever the max, and you're training like, like let's say a speed of punches,

like power punches in a round, like I don't, whatever the max like this athlete can do, and then they use these cooling mitts in between, and now he could potentially get 30, 40, 50, 300% more output, that's insane. You just, okay, you just made me think of something. Are we gonna start seeing cooling mitts in the corners of the fighters?

For sure, unless they get banned. Yeah. Unless it ends up being like an enhancement tool and they say you can't use it. Why would they ban it up? I don't know. I mean, it's not it's not they banned with a band Yeah, but they banned other stuff that's stupid, you know, crates been banned before come on did they ban crates Yeah, some some some sports of not anymore But early on when it first came on the scene and they didn't know when they weren't sure about it Yeah, anything that works, for the most part, they tried to eliminate people from using it. Well, here's one of the cool thing about athletics,

traditional sports that I like to see. I'm not a huge traditional sports fan, but what I do like to see is that there's always that one person or that one team that discovers that game-changing, you know, advantage. But it's so short-lived because very quickly, yeah, everybody adopts it. It's like in it's like football in the in the 60s when the first, you know, guys were taking D-Ball and you know, lift them weights and all of a sudden, everybody's like,

why are these guys crushing us? And then you know, didn't take very long before everybody started doing the same thing. So yeah, it's interesting. It just reminds me of when I was a kid and I went to a lot of spring training in Arizona and I was able to get on the field this one time with the A's and they're going to practice and everything and there's new technology. Somebody was introducing to the players and they were trying to get this up and launched and they had all this speculation around it that it was going to like increase the way that they could identify how the ball moved and they'd be able to hit it further and all this kind of stuff and all these claims and it was like basically these goggles that had like

strobes, strobe lights in them and so it basically it would slow you know how strobe lights it kind of like slows down the movement and so so is the picture released the ball? Like you can see how, you know, where it was going because it kind of slowed down. But there was a lag to it, right? So there was a lot of, you know, we can see it better, but it is already gone high. The time it was all screwed up. And so I was sitting there watching with my brother, just fascinated. But every now and then, somebody would just crank it.

This guy cranked it so far, it went like over and into like the freeway. It went like at least like 150 yards past like the stadium. So you know what the challenges with stuff like that is if it throws your timing off, then it's almost like a waste of time, right? So like for example, fighters or people who get into sports that involve punching, right?

They think that if they wear, if they hold weights in shadow box, it'll make them better boxer. With like heavier, heavier weights. Yeah, but the problem is you're used to 12 ounce gloves. And so that's just roads are timing off, right? So like new skill, you're developing. Yeah. So let's say the cool myths only work for a short period of time, but they do work. You can have to train that way. You got to train that way and then get in the ring that way because it could, you could totally

throw off your own. Which in fighting sports, that makes total sense to how you could do it. Because that's how you would train. You would use it and then you get right in the ring and you box. So I don't, I see a lot of application there. Other sports, it'll be interesting to see how it all, it all pans out, but super fascinating. Crazy. Speaking of things in the eyes, like you said, Justin, there was a study that just came out on red light therapy for eye performance. So they took people, in fact, I'm going to pull the study up just so I can make sure I'm quoting it properly.

So they took people and they gave them this red light therapy. So like Juve, right? So we work with a company called Juve that has it. So a once, this is a summary. And this was in neuroscience news.com. A once weekly three minute exposure to long wave deep red light activates the mitochondria in the retina, helping to naturally boost declining vision. Whoa, just three minutes, once a week. Deliver in the morning, significantly improves declining eyesight.

So this is a study by researchers and this is like a big deal. So people whose eyesight starts to decline over time, this is a very natural, non-invasive way of improving your eyesight. Just three minutes of exposure. Do you guys predict that we're gonna see like a surge in this space because of like

the whole metaverse and the VR thing and the, you gotta think that something that would, like the unintended consequences of this virtual reality and augmented reality world we're heading into is you know, when and time have we ever had something like these digital bright lights, this close to our eyeballs for extended periods of time like that, and what are the potential side effects

of doing that? You gotta think that is, that's something that we haven't evolved doing, that there's gotta be some unintended consequences. Some of them are coming down the board. Yeah, it's supplemental, right? So you're trying to like squeeze in all those benefits. You could get from being outside, being in the sun.

It's like removing all those things. And now being inside, I wonder if there's gonna be a little booths. Or if it's just too much artificial light, I would think it can't be healthy and ideal for the eyes. It reminds me of when we were kids. You remember you watched TV and you get real close and your mom was like,

you're so close to TV, you're gonna get it. So what they do with studies, they find that. You're a cross-eyed. It's probably okay. Maybe some eye strain or fatigue, but it's probably okay. My question wouldn't necessarily be is it damaging the eyes, but rather, would you adapt to what that feel?

So for example, have you guys ever wore full-on VR classes and done anything? You get dizzy. Yeah. Because your body's acclimated to the real world. Well, the physics are different. Yeah, exactly. So what if you acclimate to that, and then you go

in the real world and you're just super clumsy awkward? You know what I mean? Because you're always in VR land all the time. So that would be what I would think. That's funny. I wonder if there'd be like a distinctive walk. You could tell somebody was like on VR tonight. Well, you've seen like, you've had sea legs before, haven't you?

Yeah. If you've been on a cruise, what about when you go on a treadmill? You're ever going to treadmill? Walk for 20 minutes and you walk in real life. Everything moves like super fast. Yeah. It's really great.

See, I don't, I think you guys don't that that much VR could be potentially damaged. I mean, last night, literally last night Katrina was working late trying to catch up on a bunch of emails from all the holiday stuff, right? And she was plugging away on her computer like at 10 o'clock a night, didn't have her feelings gray glasses on and so on and so on. I think two, three hours later, she like closes down and she's like, oh my God. Yeah. Eyes and my, she got a headache. It's like, oh my God. I've got eyes and she got a headache.

It's like, you can't, I mean, those are all sides that should can't be good for you. You can't be ideal. So I gotta think there's gotta be some side effects to getting that, and it's not natural light. It's this artificial bright light that we continue to make brighter and more clear, and now we're shoving it an inch from our face.

Well, sure, it messes with your circadian rhythms. I mean, because it's totally artificial, it's like an artificial signal that we're giving ourselves, especially if you go into the later into the night. Yeah, so a big part of that can also be, as you age, your elasticity of, like when you open and close your retina, the muscles that do that for you start to kind of lose their strength. And back to the red light study that I talked about, there's a 17% improvement, by the way,

in people's declining eyesight. And remember, what red light does is it literally gets the mitochondria to produce more energy. So essentially, if I shine it on my skin, then my skin is going to, my body is going to produce more skin cells, faster. So why people notice, like, less wrinkles, and my skin looks younger. This also why they notice, you know, faster recovery, because it's getting the mychondria to move to work even faster. So theoretically, what it would do is cause your eyes to become almost like younger, right? Cause the mitochondria starts to work a little faster.

17% by the way, that's a very significant boost in eye performance and it was such a short period of time that it did it once a week. I foresee this being a big deal. Like I foresee everybody having red light in their house for skin, hair, are all proven things. Are there years it is? I mean, the science is there.

If you go through all the literature. The science is 100% crazy. Which is really weird. Is there anything else that speeds up the recovery of mitochondria like that? Is there anything else that we are aware of? I mean, you're a wife. You can eat really healthy, get good sleep.

Anything that makes you healthier, improve your mitochondrial health. This is a very strange, singular intervention. You just do it for a few minutes and then boom, mitochondria work more effectively. There's things you can do to improve your skin's health, but you could just shine red light on it and also notice an improvement skin. Now, what if you do all the things? Right, so it's a lot faster and easier.

It's not like, oh, I need to string all these days of good sleep and good diet and lower calorie and order. Now, I don't know if it's as effective. I don't think so. I would imagine that sleep diet, you know, lifestyle is probably the most impactful thing just like it is for everything else. Yeah. So I definitely wouldn't trade one for the other,

but it's weird that you have this not, this really, it's not a drug. It's, you know, you look into it once a week and you get a 17% improvement. Has that happened in the morning, by the way? They showed that it didn't work if it was done in the afternoon. Yeah, which is another interesting kind of fact,

what about it? Speaking of weird things, I had this conversation with my son last night and he just out of the blue is asking me about platypus, and I'm like, is this real animal dad? Like, is I think that he's seen a cartoon that had a platypus. And I'm like, is this real animal dad? Like, is I think that you've seen a cartoon that had a platypus in it? And I'm like, yeah, it's a real animal.

It's a really strange animal. And we kind of got into some of the details of it. And basically it's a mammal that can lay eggs, right? But also it has a really weird penis. Okay, it's got like two different heads to it. And then of course, as I'm researching this and I'm like, because I was looking at fun facts, I'm like, whoa, this is weird. So I'm like, I have to explain to you. The female plot of it. Look at this. This is bizarre. Yeah. I guess the seller was called in Cheetah. I don't know, Doug doesn't get my notes

up here today. But Cheetah, my job. Yeah, heavy breathing though, that's good. Yeah, so Echita, I believe is the other one. It's like, basically like a coiled, a prickled, what do you call those? Porcupine? Porcupine, thank you. And like a hedgehog, kind of looks like one of those. But so this one is in that same kind of family,

and it has four heads to it. It's so bizarre. And it only uses like the first two, they can't figure out what the other ones are for. And I guess like the two helps it kind of inseminate more volume. So it has a more chance of breeding. Did you go down the rabbit hole of animal penises?

I certainly did. It sounds like you went my side right? Like just dying laughing, because we're just like, this is so weird. Yeah, so platypus is a very strange and I remember learning about them as a kid and there was a whole debate. Is it a, you know, what is it? Is it a mammal, a mammal that lays, it made a special rule for it, which I think is hilarious.

But so animal penises, anything else you learned about animal penises, that's true. Yeah, so there's another weird one. I knew it. Yeah, so it was another one. Ducks. So you guys heard ducks penises, anything else you learned about animal penises, that's true. Yeah, so there's another weird one right? I knew it. Yeah, so it was another one. Ducks, so you guys heard ducks. Penises, right? I haven't heard ducks. I haven't heard ducks.

It's not the top of conversations before, so I'm very intrigued. It's very weird. It's strange. Like nature is bizarre. So you have this corkscrew configuration. So it's, so they literally screw. They literally screw, maybe that's where it came from. But like if you put up the nuts and like, if you see one duck, it's- So they literally screw. They literally screw, maybe that's where it came from. But like if you put it up the nuts,

it's like, if you see one duck, it's just twisting. Yeah, that's a little corkscrew. It's just, it's so bizarre, like it sort of like burrows its way in there. Speaking of all this, did you guys see that video I sent you? I didn't even know this was a job, but of course it is, right? There's a job where a person, they have this big, I don't know, it looks like a big ass flesh

light. He doesn't have a flesh light is. It looks like a huge one. They use it on a horse when they're trying to get the semen from the horse to impregnate. So literally it was on Instagram. There was this woman holding this thing and they go up and they basically give the horse the hand job. And I saw she was doing this and I'm like, wow, that's your job. That's a real job. I can't believe that. And are you nodding? I guess you know, well, you have, of course I know that.

He was on a farm bit. Yeah, no, he knows. You have to, the only thing I have to contribute to this penis, animal penis conversation, is the viral TikTok that I saw actually just yesterday. And I was not even thinking about that. It's probably wasn't. There's a mom who did a video. I don't know if you guys see that, it's a TikTok video.

She did a video of her son cleaning out the turkey. And in there is the turkey gizzard. Oh, that's right. And it looks like a penis like this big. And the kid's like gagging when he pulls it out. And it went viral. So that's the only thing I have to contribute to you guys. That's the only thing I have to contribute to you guys.

You guys have good turkeys by the way for your own. Yeah, that was really good. We used the butcher box one. It was really good. Oh, did you? Did you guys use that? No, my aunt, we went to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this. You guys have to hold this.

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but did you guys know that there's a huge surge in house fires during Thanksgiving? Yeah, because of the deep fried turkeys. So have you ever seen the videos of people? Yeah, yeah, so I wanted those videos. If you splash a little bit of oil, that's it. And then how do you put it out? Yeah, it's fine.

And then there's, I saw this video where the sky was revolving. Thank God he was in the backyard. He's putting the turkey in slowly. He must have put too much oil already. Yeah. So as soon as the turkey went in, some of it spilled. Big ass fire.

That's where everybody fucks up as they do those big silver ones and that they don't have an oil line, so they don't know where to put oil. Or they put a turkey that is bigger than that they should put inside this. Yes. And then the thing over spills in the fire. Well, in this video, they sprayed it with a hose.

Oil fire. Boos. And the explode. Oh, oh my God. That's terrible. That's terrible. Yeah, we had a really good Thanksgiving. We had the whole family together.

And right now, there's three new babies in the family. So we have my son who's the oldest, my sister's year. My brother's son who's four months old. My cousin has his son, so three boys, right? Who's three months old, and then my other cousin is gonna have a baby in like four months. But boy, does it change parties? Cause there were no babies for a little while.

Parties kinda like that. You gotta put them all in the same school so you can be like the old doils. Yeah, old doils rule. Yeah, yeah. But it was, it was so great to see these babies and everybody's having a good time. Uh, it really makes holidays Fun now Justin's was small how big how many people did you have at yours?

So for us it was small, but it's probably big for most people So we had about almost 40 people, but for us we could I mean if you really wanted we could invite easily 60 people Doug, what about you? How many do you have I think about 16 or 18? Oh, that's cool How about you? That's about where we were, which is considered small for us. Normally, we have more like 30 or so. This was one of the smaller things, giving that we did this year. You don't even ask Katrina, Katrina, Katrina.

That's my point. You almost just added her mom and her together. Still putting that together, actually. Katrina. Don't tell me that's how your wife thought we were doing. I was thinking about Tina, her mom, while I was saying Katrina. And it's like just mad up in there. And I'm still learning her name.

So yeah, no, I don't know why we had such a small one this year, but this was probably the smallest one I've had since Katrina and I have been together. So normally we are 30 plus. You know, it's my favorite holiday, it's Thanksgiving. It's one of mine, it's up there. It's a really good time. Like it's like,

I like it better than Chris, you know why? Because it's exactly like Christmas minus the retail. You know what I mean? You get all the same fun. I think it's a time for me. I think it's a time for me. So like music's a bit better for Christmas, little bit. I think the whole, I think the whole Thanksgiving music.

I think for Thanksgiving two, nothing. New years is just the best time of the year. Like it's, Are you a big holiday person? I am. And Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving is dog shit. Just say that.

Yeah, yeah. I'm not a terrible holiday person. That cartoon or movie or, Come on, have you watched any of the Charlie Browns? Not a long time. Not a really long time. You know what I, so we started, we did everything early this year, right?

So, because I went out and got that tree. That big-ass monster ridiculous tree. I'm so proud of that too. Bro, I can't wait till you take it down. I'm not, I'm paying someone to do it. That was 100%. Like after how would a pain in the ass it was to get it up, there's no way, that's not weird.

There's no way that I'm not gonna pay somebody else to come in. Take this tree and shove it up. Yeah, I'm gonna have somebody else come in and chop it to piece. So you're a big holiday guy. I mean, our house was before because we didn't host Thanksgiving. We had Thanksgiving at Katrina's family. We actually had our, we broke the rule, right? We had the Christmas decorations up before actually Thanksgiving, the couple days before we had already had everything,

which was so awesome though, because we were able to, we had this, most of us had this week off. We were got to do our Thanksgiving dinner, most of us had this week off, we were got to do our Thanksgiving dinner and the kitchen and I all week along just kind of hung out like the house was all done already and we, we started our movie tradition, right? So every night from here on out will watch like a Christmas movie. So it's diehard in there. Diehard will have to be in there because the amount of days that we have All because we started early. I was Christmas movie. I'll hard out. You know what, one's my favorite, Katrina and I were fucking die laughing. I'm so glad we waited till Max was in bed so we could really enjoy it. Because you know, watching a movie with a two-year-old psych impossible. It's four Christmas's.

I think that's really good. I think that's my favorite. That's the one with Reese Witherspoon and what's it? No, not Reese Witherspoon. It's what's the name? uh you're it's am I thinking the wrong one you are thinking the wrong one yeah it's uh god give me the name of the girl starts with a B I think I forget her her name but it's uh uh not and it's not will Farrell I am why it's uh swingers guy what can I think

yeah that's the bench bond thank you it's been fun and in someone else, but it's not Reese with no it's not Reese with it's another blonde girl. No Reese wither spoon is in it and Kristen Chenoweth. Let's let's put that Let's put that in according to according to this in four Christmas. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was someone else. Yeah, speaking of Christmas movies too. so I told you guys like to check this out at some point it's called, it was the fight before Christmas, it's on Apple, but it's this documentary and what's crazy about it, I wouldn't have watched it other than like my friend literally lives in this neighborhood that they do the documentary of. And what's it about?

It's pretty crazy story. So this guy is like insanely litigious. He's a lawyer. And he basically makes his money off of suing people. And he's got this idea that like Christmas should be this grandiose thing that he shares with the world based off of how he decorates his house. And he makes like his house ridiculously covered in lights. it's this whole thing brings camels and so this other neighborhood basically kicked him out and re-zoned so he couldn't do this, didn't have permits to do this anymore.

What a bunch of grinches. Yeah, right? Yeah. But it was just decimating the whole neighborhood. Oh, my bad. Yes. So there's just, and some of this stuff was left out documentary so I've got some of the lowdown from my friends. Oh, my bad. Yes. So, like, I mean, there's just, and this is some of this stuff

was left out of documentary, so I've got some of the lowdown from my friends. Oh, is it documentary? Yeah. So good. Was it good? It was really, but you see, and I want you guys to watch it because I want to see what you think of this guy,

because he is, he's a specimen, and that's all I'm going to say, so I don't get to see it. No, I'll watch it. I'll watch it. You know what documentary we watched last night? And it's not really a Christmas movie, but it's all I'm gonna say so I don't get to see it. No, I'll watch it. You know what documentary we watched last night? And it's not really a Christmas movie, but it's, I'm talking to Trina that going forward, I want it to become a Christmas movie for us.

And that was Mr. Rogers' documentary. Oh, that pulls it apart. It does, that's why I wanted that one. Cause it puts me in this like positive feel good, do for others, feeling like his whole life was dedicated to doing for others and children and so that's why I told her. Such a great message for children. That he would communicate.

Such a good documentary. I know I talked about it when it first came out, however many years ago it was when it first came out, we talked about it on the show, but I had watched it since then. And I was like, you know what, I'm in like that feel good mood. I'm like, let's watch that and Katrina and I watched it last night. I'm like, this should be like a traditional movie that we've been working on. You know what, you know what tripped me out about that? Was because we're so used to the how fast media is now,

right? So the like things switch so quick. Like if you ever watch a movie from the 80s or even the 90s, you realize how slow it is compared to media now. Mr. Rogers was very slow and calculated, but you know he did that on purpose. Intentionally. Yeah. Because he was anti that. He was anti speaking to the kids. Yes, for example, one, but you know he did that on purpose. Intentionally.

Because he was anti that. He was anti speaking to the kids. Yes, for example, one of the things that he did was so brilliant, there's actually a show this documentary, as he says, hey, you know boys and girls, do you want to see how long a minute takes? And he does a stopwatch. And he puts it off. And it's silent for a minute.

But it's so smart, it's so brilliant for a kid, because it gets them to be quiet and focused and be present for for a minute, but it's so smart, it's so brilliant for a kid because it gets them to be quiet and focused and be present for a full minute. I thought that was so, so smart. It totally is. No, his brilliance to know that, to see television when it first came on the scene and know what it was promoting, what it was doing,

and then know that there was gonna be this massive need for a different message, you know, other than just because TV when it first came out was I mean still is just about consuming yeah selling you Whether you're selling people their ideas with news or you're selling them products on commercials That was really the the purpose of all of it and he was like here's this amazing tool that we can use to Better Here's this amazing tool that we can use to better ourselves. And that was like the whole evolution of PBS and he was a big part of that. Dude, speaking of news,

have you guys seen the polls that they're taking on Americans' trust in the media? Oh, God, no. All time lows. Why should hope so? They are, they are tanking and getting just, they suck. They're so bad.

And it's funny, I listened to, I just started listening to Rogan again, Joe Rogan. He's going so hard, especially after they hammered it. Because he got attacked. Yeah, and it kept saying he was taking horse dwarmer, even though you got prescribed by a doctor. He's hammering them so hard. I did not realize how bad it was.

Like, for example, CNN's viewership is down, something like, it's like at all time lows, like 60 or 70%. So my theory on all this is like, and why it's so crazy and why I try not to get so hung up on how crazy and stupid the media is, is that this is literally their last desperate graph. It's a Hill Mary. Yes.

It's their last desperate graph. Fuck it, we don't gotta be honest. Do whatever it takes to get any sort of eyeballs and attention because the ship is going down. It's, we already know that already most Americans do not get their news through traditional forms of media on television. You're getting it from Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and places like that. You're not going and sitting down and watching the five o'clock news.

You saw that all start once like magazines and newspapers started to lose their relevance. And so the only way they could get people to come back was to the shock and awe titles and, you know, like basically like the the bait and switch approach of getting the eyes and then they're just getting what ever. So here's what's happening, right? Because you think, oh, they're trying to get more views, but they're getting less and less views. What's happened is they've attract as much of a boogeyman now. No, they've attracted in a very polarized,

extremist audience. And now they're fucked. Because they have to cater. See, I don't even think they've attracted that. I think that's all they have left. That's what I mean. I think that's the only thing. It's the they're dying no matter what.

And this is their only way to hang on to anybody, is to cater to the extreme left and right, depending on which one you're watching. But it is interesting how we still base our culture off of that form of media, like anything, in terms of like, oh, well, this is what we all think now. Like we still kind of, like we haven't completely abandoned that yet. Yes and no, because we're still dominated.

Okay, so we're, Okay, so the generation before us is still consuming and still get, wait till our kids are adults. Yeah. Once our kids are adults, that's gonna be so old news. You know what I predict? No puns. So this kind of media fell out of favor a long time ago because people started to favor opinions.

So what happened is people wanted journalism with opinions, so they don't wanna just have someone reporting, I wanna hear what you think about it, it's more exciting for it. I feel like what may happen is it may revert back to the old media where there's a new news network and they're like, just reporting, no opinion. Here's the video, it actually happened.

Here's the whole video. We had no opinion. I think we're already seeing what's going to happen and is you are going to gravitate towards people you trust in mediums that you like where you like to consume and you'll get your news from that. I mean, how many times have we even heard that from our audience? That was never a goal. We didn't go like, hey, where are we starting?

My pump so we can deliver news. But people like to hear us talk about what's going on in current events. I think you see that with with a lot of these quote unquote influencers or social media people or YouTube stars is that you're going to gravitate to these people and it's them or people like them that you're going to want to hear the current events and news from someone who you've built somewhat of a relationship or you trust to deliver it or your values aligned with theirs. Therefore, you want to hear how they break down. Speaking of social media, the CEO of Twitter stepped down. Do you guys hear this? Oh no. Jack Dorsey just stepped down. What's the most? There's obviously a fight.

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I try, I try to get into it. I couldn't get into it. I have a Twitter hanging around out there, but it's like, I just, and a couple times I was motivated to do it. Like, we talk, you know what happens? I always talk to somebody, another business owner. Oh, Twitter crushers.

They're like, oh yeah, we're generating X-Mod. Oh my, damn, I should be doing that, you know. So then I always talked to somebody another business owner. Oh Twitter crush Oh, yeah, we're generating X-Mod on my damn. I should be doing that You know, so then I go get on it for a while. Well, this is lame. I'm not doing this anymore I would rather tick-tock my life You'll get you out Twitter before Tiktok for sure I'm Tiktok. Doug. Did you find anything about why he stepped down? I think he just you know what to believe right? Yeah, he just feels like the company can do better under new leadership. He's staying on a CEO of Square, though,

which is another company there. Speaking of entrepreneurs, I'm gonna read you some statistics on one of the most, in my opinion, successful entrepreneurs of all time. You ready for this? Let's see if you guys can guess who this person is. Okay. The guy from Virgin.

I'm not gonna say his name, I'm just gonna tell you. At the height of this person's power, they were bringing in an estimated $420 million a week in revenue. A week? A week in revenue. Is Rockefeller? Hold on.

They dominated 80% of the market. So 80% of the market was due to this particular individual. So one person was responsible for those things. I'll give you one more hint. He didn't operate in the legal market. Oh, God. Oh, that's a power. That's a power.

Pablo Escobar. He brought in 420 million dollars. You know what's always funny when I hear stats on like Pablo Escobar is like, who the fuck is, who's the bookkeeper on that? Like who, and who shared that? Right, how do we, how do we fact check that? It's probably more, right?

Probably more or like, I mean, Do you know how many? Check this out. Drug dealers aren't keeping fucking bookets. It's like, and it, and it. Well, you do have a ledger, it's fucking unreadable. No, it is, it is estimate, but look at this. They say that he probably was,

so he's responsible for 80% of the world's cocaine and smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the US every day. Yeah. Every single day. That's insane. Now, you have you guys ever seen? With the CIA's blessing. Pictures of his house and like it's rooms

and he's got gold rooms and toilets and guns. Gold, yeah, AK47, and Tiger's and Tiger's. Yes, that's what you have to do, right? You can't spend it on normal things. That is so crazy to me. So you know, someone was telling me that a lot of this NFT, shit that we got going on right now, a lot of that is just way to smuggle.

So why it's exploding so fast? A lot of money, I mean. Yeah. Oh, wow. Just smuggle things. Like smart. Right. So you get you and that's like a good percentage of. So if I want to get to the same conversation

I was having about Bass Pro Shops. What? You never know. You mean you and I. Yeah. I was bringing it up to somebody. Just when I were walking up the brass pro shots like how do they like what's the business model here?

How do they have these huge, you never look at it since to me, because here's another fun fact. So I think I believe it's the seventh largest pyramid in the world. You know what it is? A bass pro shot. What? Yeah.

Yeah. What's a fun fact for you? I didn't know that. Yeah. Lane, right? Justin and I were walking up to a Bass Pro Shop one day and like we're going in, I remember we walk in, I don't know if it was like a weekday. And I don't know, maybe there was 12 people

in the whole entire fucking ginormous place that's not even charged you to get in. What is this business model? The land, the land, the stuff inside of it, the building, it's all statues, the bears. So, Justin, is your conspiracy that they're a front? Yeah, they're a front. That's what I said.

That's what I said. It's got to be some sort of a front. Is the show that Tim Allen does, is it really based off of the Bass Pro Shop guy or whatever? I have no idea. You got no show I'm talking about. Yeah, I do, yeah.

I know what you're talking about, but I don't know. Cause he, I mean, that's, he, you know, they do like a, like a, you they do like a fake version, right? If it's not a bass pro shot, but it's similar. Yeah, it's similar to that. And so I wondered if it's like loosely based on the guy who did. Maybe they smuggle protected animals or something.

You go in there and you're like, I'll take this. Justin, we talked about this. I actually didn't get a chance to do a deep dive because I've wanted to dive in and find out more about the company, because it just doesn't, I mean, the more I see businesses like that, where I'm like, how you guys do? They're just huge showrooms. Well, the other one is, I've brought this up before in the podcast, years ago, when my first experience with living spaces.

Yeah. Living spaces doesn't make sense to me either. Right, that one too. Like, the discount their price is so low that you know they don't have sense to me either. Right, that one too. Like they discount their prices so low that you know they don't have massive margins on it. And then they have these warehouses full of hundreds of millions of dollars of furniture just chilling there, just sitting there.

And you don't see enough of a check. Can you appreciate it off your taxes or anything? Or is there any kind of tax? There's gotta be. There's gotta be some strategy. It's almost like when you ever go to like a really wealthy area where the rent is super high and you see these little businesses

That sell like candles and shit. I'm like how are they how is this candle business making any money? I do that all the time. We'll go walk around nice areas walking to stores and Jessica's always like right You know, what do you think about this one? So there's no way how do they making this money survive? So city council like votes or gives them some kind of like tax break to come in I think it's just a wealthy person's spouse. Oh, right. It's been a life for kids. It's like let me start business and lay, all right, here you go.

Do your thing and then they kind of lost, but they run off all their taxes. But anyway, back to NFT. Yeah, I think there's something there though. Yeah, okay, so that's not a bad idea. So like if I want to sell you some contraband, then I could be like, hey, me and NFT. You make some bullshit graphic NFT, you sell it and buy by it with Bitcoin. And it comes along with my,

It's the easiest thing to spend Bitcoin right now, right? Because like it's tough to spend Bitcoin on tangible things, right? But you can buy these NFTs. Well, you can even buy them with cash, right? Aren't people buying them cash too? I don't, I think so. I know, I think you can, I think you can too.

I have an investment. But yeah, it makes the most sense to do it with Bitcoin and to do it to smuggle, you know? I always found that funny is that you have people who have all this money that they get through illegal means for whatever, and then the big problem is, how do I spend it? How do I use it?

Without causing much of red flags. And literally their goal is to pay taxes on it. Like, I want to pay taxes on this so I can use this money. So that's their goal. Well, not only that, but then the other thing they don't ever think about either is that they have to find a way to create a business

that generates somewhat near the amount of money that they're doing to legalize. Which sets another hurdle you don't think about. You're like, okay, I'll start up this. My wife's hair salon brought it up. Yeah, exactly $5 million. You said, I'm a sort of my wife with a hair salon and then you're like, oh, look, I need to wash

$3 million a year and she's got eight stalls and the math just doesn't make sense and you're just like, I can't possibly. We have to go to the shampoo. Yeah, funnel enough money through there. So you don't even, it's already hard enough to do that and then when you finally find a way to potentially do that, to try and wash all of it is like crazy.

Just, oh man. Hey, I wanted to bring up a movie to you guys. Have you guys seen Cheng Chi? Did you tell me about this? Yeah, you did. You did. Have you seen it? I have not seen it.

It's actually really good. It's a new Marvel. It's a new Marvel character. Great. If you like fight scenes, Kung Fu fight scenes that are kind of fantasy. So there's like superpowers. Yeah. Funny. It's actually new Marvel character. Great, if you like fight scenes, kung fu fight scenes that are kind of fantasy, so there's like superpowers or something. Yeah, funny. It's actually one of their better-

Doug, did you watch it? Yeah, you watch it? Yeah. Okay, I'm still waiting for Doug. I probably will not watch it. Doug, if you watched it, if you watched it, Richard, I told you I did watch that.

That was very good. Thank you. That's that, that's nice. Can you, do me a favor, Doug, go to Rotten Tomatoes, look, to Tomatoes you do me a favor, go to Rotten Tomatoes. Look, look to Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Look at Rotten Tomatoes.

All right, tomatoes. And look up the, the, the, the, the, the, the, Rotten Tomatoes. I'm telling you, dude, it was a really well made. Well, Marvel always gets good ratings. I keep it on the bad ones, right? Because it's just like, it's got a crazy fan base that was one of the better ones.

No, all right. Tell me. If you say it's one of the better ones, I'll get it. I'll get to it. I'll get around to it. But I mean, how do you guys not watch King Richard Strange? I like it. King Richard is like a, it's a true story.

It's an amazing true story. Like what? What's, stop. Yeah, it's excellent, actually. Yeah, it's very good. Excellent, right? Doug, you left you wanting more, it was so good. Yeah, yeah.

We'll smith the, a Guaranteel win an award for it was so good. Really? Yes. So, yeah, that's how good it was. Sounds. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll submit the guarantee a win and award for it was so good. Really? Yes. So yeah, that's how good it was. Sounds kind of boring. What is, oh, look at that. 92% tomato meter, 98% audience score. Shenzhen, look up King Richard.

Let's see who ranked higher. I bet he got high. Yeah, let's see. It's got will smist. So it's gonna be up there. Now, where do you rent it? Uh, no HBO had it. Oh, wow, look at that. It's a tie for audience score. It's 90 and 90. gonna be up. So now where do you rent? You have to rent it? No HBO had it. Oh, wow, look at that.

It's a tie for audience score. It's 90 and 90, okay. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's really good. I guess I gotta check that out. And it doesn't have like a crazy fan base of children. That's why it scored so high, you know what I'm saying? So that's where your marvel is probably so hard.

Interesting. Have you guys seen that series on Netflix called Explained? Have you guys seen this? Yeah, yeah, we got into it. Remember, we all got into it for a first few episodes. Yeah, so they have a talk about Molly and Silasai bin and stuff like that. Yeah, and then they have,

I think they call it by its actual name, not screen name. So same. M-D-M-A. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But they have some really good ones out right now. They have one on like brainwashing Because it's been on it's okay to say it's been out for them. They have one that I haven't watched yet

So I've watched all the new ones right and Jessica and I are watching them and there's one that her and I are like I don't want to watch that one. It's on the teenage brain like I don't need to watch that shit I got two teenagers at home. I try to freak, you know, overall. But there's some really good episodes on there about the mind and how it works and memory and brainwashing. Now, Doug, when you go do your family Thanksgiving, do you guys watch a lot of movies together? Or is this? None. None.

So they're not no TV over there. No TV. Oh, really? Is there really no TV in the house? There's no TV in the house. They just have a radio. Oh, wow. That was that. That was That was that radio story. We had a gram. We watched Moxtape signals.

Shut up. Now, where are your parents like that growing up? Or they like? I grew up with no TV. Oh, wow. Like Katrina. Wow, that's really interesting. Wait, Katrina grew up with no TV?

Not until, until Tina married Troy. He brought the first TV. Wow. Yeah, that's why she's so adamant about us not having a TV in the bedroom. Because it's like, first of all, they didn't have a TV forever. Then they finally got one.

It was like one TV rules around it. They hardly ever watched it. It was just Troy who watched it most of the time. So Katrina's like, Adam and about no TV in our bedroom. Wow. I love TV, man. Yeah. No, me too.

So that was like one of the areas in our relationships. One of the big challenges that we've had. It's a television in the house. Didn't you say that she won't watch TV in bed, but she'll open the laptop and watch a movie in bed? Yeah, that's the irony of it. We'll carry a nine-inch screen into the bed and we'll watch it.

And I'm just like, this is stupid right now. We can have, and I have in my bedroom, they actually, this house has a nice mounted for plasma, so there's no wires, like literally across from my bed, we're supposed to be in instead, we have this massive mirror. So there was a deal, I don't know if I told you guys this or not, but in our master bedroom, we have two walking closets,

and there's one that is definitely probably the woman's walking closet, and then there's the guys walking closet, meaning there's like... One's big, one small. Yeah, one's really big, and one's heels, and then higher heels. Yeah, because I got this much of the closet. So the deal, because I really wanted to put a TV in and could choose like, no, no, so okay, well then if did you really get the bigger, I got the bigger closet TV?

That's right. That was the, I said, if I have to compromise and I don't get to have a TV, which is fine. Okay, then you got to compromise the closet. So she did. So I mean, you're cool. Like, don't get me wrong.

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A superset, typically the way that is defined is you take two exercises and you do them back-to-back with very minimal rest. So you don't rest in between, you do one exercise and switch right to the next one. And that's called a super set. There's a couple of different ways you could do them. The most popular way to do it is for the same muscle group.

So two exercises for chest or two exercises for back and so on, there's the different ways to combine them. And then a less popular way would be doing to opposing muscle groups, biceps triceps or chest and back is the most popular. So what are the benefits? When you do the same muscle group, you do get a better pump.

You are able to squeeze out more reps. And part of the reason for this is you're changing the angle and the exercise. Now, you could you accomplish something similar by lightening the load of the exercise you just finished and doing it again. You could, but then you miss out on the benefit of changing the angle and the tension,

and just the difference. Teaminess you get on muscle supersets are present in a lot of our maps programs in at least one of the phases because in our opinion, there's a ton of value. So I think they're great. Don't get stuck on them though, your body tends to adapt and they stop working, but in short periods of time, like three to four weeks at a time,

I think they're freaking awesome. It's also a really quick and easy way to increase intensity and volume. And I think what you said is the most important part. I remember when I first found these and started doing super sets, and then I got stuck in this routine of like doing them in every workout

because you're increasing intensity and you're increasing volume. So you're gonna probably get a bit a better pump. You're probably gonna be sore than you're used to being. Then the next workout you might even see some gains that you haven't seen in a while. And so that part of it becomes addicting. And then all of a sudden you start doing every workout

with all these supersets. I think anybody that's trained supersets has probably a fall victim to this also, is that you do that and you're like, oh shit, this is amazing. So you just start doing all the time. So it's a tool like anything else. I think it's an incredible tool.

I like to typically use it now when I'm crunched for time. So like when I have a short amount of time, I'm not gonna get a full hour, hour and a half. It's not like a nice workout. Good way to keep the volume the same with the short of time. That's right. I could literally do the same amount of volume I do in an hour workout.

I just now cut it down on 30 because I'm basically supersetting every exercise. And because I do it infrequently like that, my body recognizes it as like a novelty and then it responds really well to it versus if I trained every workout like that, it would have less value. Now, Justin, I was gonna ask you with athletics

because they use supersets, but differently, right? And you're the sports guy, they'll typically call them what? Now, is it complexes or what's the term that they'll use when you're like? Yeah, complexes. So, a lot of times you'll see these with kettlebells or you'll see with like barbells or dumbbells. And it's basically they use it more as a way to get through some like tough like full

body, like compound lift kind of movements and to perform that like in almost like a circuit fashion. But again, we're just shortening the rest in between each one of these types of exercises. And so it's trying to get you to be able to go at that kind of an intensity and sustain that kind of an intensity for a little bit longer amount of time, just like you would if you're going harder and performing in the game. Yeah, and it gives you, you're going to get more strength stamina or strength endurance. So there's maximal strength and there's strength endurance, which allows you to exhibit this strength for maybe more reps.

Once you go too far, then of course it just becomes straight endurance. Here's a couple of my favorite ways to use supersets. And I do, I'll do a super set based workout these days, probably maybe three times a month, and it's usually when I am crunched for time. And so it is very novel for me, and I get a great workout when I do it. But some of my favorite ways to do it

are one of them is a pre-exhaust method. We're all do a single joint isolation exercise for muscle and then go straight to a compound lift. And I learned this from Mike Mencer's heavy duty book. And this is what a way that he was, he said it was a great way to get a muscle to fail, a major muscle to fail without worrying about these kind of helper muscles failing first.

So for example, you do like a cable fly to failure, then go straight to a bench press. So what you do is you pre-exhaust at the chest, then you're the bench press, now you're using the delts and the triceps to help you out. And man, does it build up strength stamina, give you a crazy pump.

And if you're really, if you really like pain, and you wanna work on your legs, try pre-exhausting your quads before squats. Like tricecici squats and then squats, or leg extensions and then squats, fricking gnarly, but I sort of got it blows up your quads so big during that workout.

Next question is from Luke Colestios. What are some signs you're not drinking enough water? Your thirsty a lot. It's probably the biggest one. Actually, isn't technically the, the, if you are thirsty, it's already the sign. Do you, right? It means you're already technically it's already the sign. It's too late. It means you're already technically dehydration.

So here's the problem with that. Is that true? Yeah, well, you get, okay. So here's a problem. There's people in the fitness and performance space that say, for example, they'll give this arbitrary number. It's not necessarily arbitrary, but they'll say, you need to drink a gallon of water a day.

Then you get like the science people and they'll go, no, that's not true. You need much less water. And then the fitness people will say, well, if you're thirsty, it means already to hydrate. And the other people will say, no, you're not to hydrate it. Okay. There's optimal water intake for maximum performance. And then there's just the amount of water you need to be okay. And if you have that much, you're not going to get negative detrimental health effects. Optimal is typically more than the minimum required for no negative effects. So I think we should talk about optimum

and not necessarily, because if you just drink when you're thirsty and you pay attention, you're not gonna necessarily have these negative health effects from not having enough water. Or maybe you do, you're just not recognizing that. Yeah, or maybe it's like over a long period of time, right? But if you want optimal performance,

a little bit more water makes a big difference. You'll feel it and you'll work out, you'll see in your skin, you'll sleep better. Like there's a lot of things that you notice. Well, there are different things. And I remember I heard Justin talking about this one time and I had never thought about it for like low energy. Sometimes people come in and they train

and they haven't really had much water at all for the day. And they're just low energy and making sure that they, you know, chuck a glass or two of water before their workout could make a difference on their energy levels. I noticed a difference when I started to make a conscious effort in that. I also noticed something that, and I'm gonna totally destroy this,

like maybe you guys can help me put towards exactly what was going on, but I went through this phase where I wasn't drinking very much water at all, and I kept hearing this whenever I'd squat heavy, I'd get, I remember you telling me this. Yeah, I get like this pop in my quad and it would hurt. It would like, it would drop me to the ground. Like after I would freak out, it would

feel initially like I tore something or something happened. And then it would feel, it would feel really bad for at least a couple days. And then it seemed to get better. And I'd be okay. So I know I didn't tear anything. It wasn't anything major like that. But it happened to me enough times that I could start, I started to connect the dots, like, oh wow, every time I don't make a conscious effort to drink at least a quarter of a gallon of water in my day before I got to these leg routines, this would happen to me.

And so long as I always stayed really hydrated, it would never happen. No matter how heavy I went, no matter any other combination of things, and I couldn't quite figure out what it was. All I knew was it was connected something to me being hydrated. That was causing something out, and I don't know if things weren't lubricated very well, and so they got hung up, and then that popping feeling would happen. Well, yeah, I can't really add to that, but in terms of joint pain, I definitely have

seen a massive difference in terms of being hydrated, not being dehydrated, and having that nagging, achy, chronic, kind of, you know, arthritis kind of feel when I'm not drinking enough water. That, and my clients as well, I've seen it with them, and once they're focused on that too, it's definitely helped alleviate a lot. Yeah, for me, it's, the color of my urine will tell me a lot, right? So unless I've had B vitamins, which B vitamins always turn your urine super, but it's a different

kind of yellow, it's like, it looks like it's glowing. But if my, if my P is like a light yellow, then I know I'm getting enough water. If it starts to get really dark, usually means I'm not drinking enough. And here's one. What about blue? Blue's pretty good at the hospital, right? Or red, right? Yeah, or you're awesome.

Yeah, or, but so one thing to keep in mind though is if you're somebody that works out often and you don't eat a lot of processed food and let's say you suffer from like eye twitches or muscle cramps or heart palpitations which a lot of times people will say, oh that's related to not being hydrated. So you just drink more water and it doesn't go away. This is something I figured out for myself. It wasn't that I needed more water. It was that I also needed more sodium.

So because sodium helps, it's an electrolyte, right? It's part of how muscles contract and the body works. I would just drink a lot more water and sometimes some of these things wouldn't go away and my urine was super clear and I'd still get certain issues. And then I realized I need more sodium, because I don't need process,

even though I salt my food, it's not a lot of sodium. So when we started working with LMNT, that made a huge difference. And I put that in my water and then boom, had none of the things. Yeah, I just didn't even bring that up because that's something I found out even in athletics. So I had never played in humidity before and this was a massive adaptation.

I had to figure out because I would be so fatigued and I would be gassed by like half time and I couldn't figure out like an out hydrate, you know, days prior to that making sure. And this is all that they would tell me is like, and they'd weigh you in and everything to make sure that you're replacing your water. Replacing your water, but I just never seemed to be able to get, you know, energized, like, consistently, to be able to play in that environment,

other than probably to play it more often and adapt, you know, naturally, but, you know, the electrolytes that started introducing more and adding, like, but the electrolytes, I started introducing more and adding like, pinches of salt into my water. And I was able to sustain my energy way longer. Yeah, when I would train endurance athletes, that was a big one for me. It was like maybe 10 years into my career

and I started getting, I got one, you know, it was you get one client and then they'll refer a few friends and they're all in the same shit. And so I had these clients that were triathletes and one guy was a competed in Iron Man, so it's a big deal. And that's what I did with them. I'd have them put a pinch of sea salt in their water and it made a huge difference. And why? Because

they sweat so much and they don't eat a lot of processed food. And if you do the math and you look at their sodium versus how much they're excreting, even though they salt their food, it wasn't enough. And so I'd say, add some, and I remember the first guy I told that to, I said try adding a little salt to your wives, like salt water. I'm not, well, not like the ocean,

but add a pinch in your water each time and see if you notice a difference. And he came back, he's like, dude, it was, it was crazy. I felt like a completely different person. So something to keep in mind, because if you're like really fit in health-minded and you're drinking a lot of water and then you have these signs of dehydration and you can't figure out what the hell's going on And you drink more water might make it worse. You may actually need some electrolytes or in particular sodium

Next question is from King John King. Have you heard of using Viagra to improve your pump in the gym? Is there any benefit to this? I heard you talk about this once before, Sal, that's why I brought this question in here. It was popular in the late 80s and early 90s, used to see, at least I did, in the gym I used to work out. Viagra was invented in the... Viagra invented it in the late 90s, I think.

Was it 90s? Yeah. So it must have been 90s. I guess that's right, because I was in high school, so you're right, 96. You got it. 96. Oh, look at that. Yeah.

Memorize. So, it's from a class, these are breakthrough drugs, by the way. By the way, Viagra was originally created as a blood pressure medication. So what it does, it's called a PDE5 inhibitor. And it inhibits this enzyme that breaks down nitric oxide and nitric oxide has some functions the body one of which is to dilate blood vessels So opens and it relaxes blood vessels So more blood can flow through so they invented it because they said well if we open the blood vessels will lower blood pressure

Then when they did the studies they said well lowers blood pressure a little bit But we get this awesome a wretch.? Yes, look at these crazy side effects. Everybody's getting bonus. We got a better way to sell this, right? So they sold it that way. Could you imagine being part of that? I mean, that just had to have been like, one of the most hilarious, like,

fine-tune duck, right? I don't know. Did you know Monoxidil, the thing that helps grow re-roher, was also created as a blood pressure lower. And they also saw side effect and like, oh, we got something else. We can block it, they must have just been chitchee. Exactly.

But anyway, so it doesn't work for opening up the blood vessels and improving blood flow. Yes. So theoretically, it should improve your performance. Studies show that it doesn't really improve too much performance except for training at altitude. For some reason, when people go to altitude and they get a drop in performance,

taking things like biographies. Oh, I'd imagine that it to improve the pump, right? It's got to improve the pump. Maybe that's performance. I can't think of, okay, all that you could take all the citralline and argonine and pump boosters you want. Nothing's going to boost your nitric oxide like Viagra. So if you want to get a better pump through that mechanism, then Viagra's got to crush. Right, right. I would think that. I mean, as long as you're okay with doing bicep curls with a boner, I think it's... You have to be sexy to be a rouse, I mean.

I'm just gonna do it. No, you do not. I'm not wearing a speedo. If you ever fuck with Viagra, you do not have to be a rouse. Do you just get a, yes you do. Do you just get a boner off of it? No. Oh yeah, dude.

I've told you the, I've told you the, my Vegas Viagra story that when I went to Vegas, the first time I ever experimented within my 20s, this is a disclaimer, don't do this. And I remember someone gave it to me. Oh yeah, so we thought it'd be a good idea. I drank all those two days I was there, non-stop like around the clock.

So I wasn't really sober. I come back and sober up from the fly, I'm driving home and it's like it all kicked in at once. And it was... You must have taken a massive dose. No, I just took two or three over the course of like, you know, 16 hours. Dude, so didn't even work while you were there.

Right, so I didn't get it while I was there. I was so hammered that I'd like, I never got to a retroactive. But then I'm driving home from the airport from San Francisco with this thing that just will not go away, dude, and it hurts. So that could happen. Yeah.

And some people have to go to the hospital for it. But dude, the dose is very on it. So there's like 25 milligrams, can go up to 100 milligrams. And maybe you got the strongest ones. You're gonna put to the high, I don't remember. Yeah. Okay, so you know what's interesting? Will it improve performance?

Maybe, studies also show it can raise testosterone. It can lower estrogen, reduce the risk of stroke, and trip off this, right? If you Google this, look up PDE5 inhibitors and COVID. They're actually looking at these drugs as ways to protect the vascular system with an infection of COVID, because one of the main issues is these strokes

and these damaged your blood vessels, and they're actually studying if PDE5itors are going to be effective ways to prevent some of those, you know, big negative side effects. But yeah, I mean, if you're going to take, I guess, a prescription drug for better pumps. I mean, I guess Viagra would be it. It's a very expensive way to get a pump. I guess. I mean, drink some more water.

Yeah. Nothing will give you a better pump than being fully hydrated. That's true. Yeah, drink some more water. Next question is from fabulous Hudson Hornet. Water important lifts or movements that manual laborers should focus on to prevent injury. Yeah, so this is, okay, obviously it depends on the individual. Every individual's a little different, so what I would recommend to one job you're doing. Well, I have one right away though. I think rotational stuff. Yeah, I think if you're in manual labor, or you're just lifting heavy things,

and it doesn't matter what types of heavy things that you're, where I see it, or where I saw injuries and clients, was always doing something rotate, almost always doing something rotation. It's low back injuries, dominate. And it doesn't take a lot of weight. So you could literally be somebody who works at like FedEx and you're just putting some boxes that are all under 20 or 30 pounds,

but because you're moving dynamically or you twist and turn a certain way and because you haven't strengthened that rotational movement, it doesn't take much to hurt yourself. I was gonna add to that, yeah, core strength. That's it. It's a big component to that. Because a lot of these sort of habits that make you efficient at your job, like a lot of times, you don't

consciously think about lifting anymore, just kind of getting the movement, the momentum of it, and relax the core while you're doing these things, where we strengthen our core and make sure that everything's protected. It'll help to eliminate the back pains and it'll help you to, you know, be more effective and have more longevity in your job. Yeah, there's three things I want to say about this.

Almost 90% of my family does this kind of work and I grew up around it and you would see this all the time. And back pain is by far the most common issue that these people will run to. There's knee stuff and shoulder stuff, but back pain is dominant. So, core stability, work on core stability. Here's the second one.

Reduce visceral body fat. Okay, so visceral body fat is the body fat that's underneath muscle. And in men, oftentimes what you'll see is they'll get a belly, but it's hard. You ever have like an uncle or someone joke with you, like, oh, you got a big belly, yeah, but touch it. It's really hard.

Yeah, it's to punch my uncle. Yeah, that's because body fat's underneath the muscle pushing it out, so the muscles on top so it feels hard. So what does this have to do with back problems? When the muscle's being pushed out, it's now being stretched and it loses its ability to stabilize the spine.

So if you have a lot of visceral body fat, you start to lose, just like a pregnant woman, when the baby is pushing out the abs and the core, they lose core stability and they start to rely a lot on their hip flexors and a lot on their QL. And then these muscles start to have problems and they start to get back pain. So those two things are really, really important, I would say.

Along those lines, I would add then actually incorporating good hip mobility, because many times, a lot of that low back pain comes from the inability to rotate and move the hips through its full range of motion. And so what ends up happening is those low back muscles over compensate for movements, and then you strain it, or it's just, it's not, you maybe don't hurt it, but then my low back is just, oh, all day, it's on fire because it's taking more of the load because your hips aren't able to take that. The third thing I wanted to add to this was, and you see this a lot in, well, not a lot, but you see it often with manual laborers,

is that they'll wear back support. And it's like a weight belt. It'll have the suspenders coming down and it goes around the, you'll see that home depot with some of the workers. And what it does is it compresses the midsection and creates some more core stability through outside forces.

Here's why that's a bad idea. Even though wearing one probably feels great. You probably put it on, you're like, oh my God, my back doesn't hurt anymore. I'm gonna keep wearing this. As your body depends on that, you start to lose strength in your core, making it more susceptible to injury.

Not only that, but the way the core stabilizes with an outside device like that, this is true for weight belts, as well as your core pushes out to brace against it. So now it starts to change its recruitment pattern. What does that mean? You take that belt off, then you go do some work in the backyard,

don't put your belt on, it'll play with your kids, and you're actually more likely to hurt yourself now. So don't wear those as a way to protect yourself, strengthen your core, the old-fashioned. So let's be even more specific. So each of us, two exercises. Two exercises I give to generally speaking, I give this, I'm going to give this person. So my two, I'm going to pick, is I'm going to pick the Turkish get up, and then I'll, I'm gonna pick, is I'm gonna pick the Turkish get up. And then I'm gonna pick a single dumbbell row. So a single dumbbell row with emphasis on the pulling it all the way back

and actually rotating in that movement. So those are my two. Yeah, I would say like cable chops, you know, for that added rotation and also like decline sit-ups to just work on the core and general and the abs. Yeah, I would do a plank the right way, right, with the pelvic, pelvic tilt plank.

Active plank or just even a stabilizing plank. And then maybe a counter rotation with the cable. So you're standing and then you extend your arm so it increases the tension and then bring it back to create that kind of counter rotation stabilization. But the plank one was the one I did most often with family members, and I would modify it. They would do it off their knees or up on a desk to get started, and that really made a big difference. Look, if you like our information,

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