Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1883: The Truth About Eating Eggs & Health, the Best Non-Barbell Squat Variations, Tips for Choosing the Correct Workout Shoes & More

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach four Pump Heads via Zoom. Mind Pump Fit Tip: The answer to your fitness pursuit is NOT a new machine, piece of equipment, or the latest fitness fad! (3:10) Caldera Lab has made an impact on the Mind Pump community. (17:56) Fun Facts with Justin: The origins of the Skinheads movement. (22:30) The alarming issues the guys have with the Inflation Reduction Act. (25:48) Is a social credit score in our future? (37:57) Does Amazon want to map your home?! (42:50) Sometimes there are good things that come from conspiracy theories. (45:40) Love is an action. (48:52) New partner alert! Welcome, Fly By Jing to spice up your favorite recipes. (55:11) #Quah question #1 - Of the “non-barbell” squat variations, (hack squat, goblet squat, landmine squat, etc.), which is your favorite and why? (59:46) #Quah question #2 – I'm eating 5-6 egg yolks and 3 whites daily. Is it safe for your health? (1:08:06) #Quah question #3 - How do you approach strength training for High School football players? (1:14:00) #Quah question #4 - How important are the types of shoes you wear during your workout, and should they change based on the type of exercise you are doing? (1:24:59) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Caldera Lab for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code MINDPUMP at checkout** Visit Fly By Jing for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code MINDPUMP at checkout** August Special: MAPS STARTER value $97 or PRIME PRO BUNDLE value $197 you get it for HALF OFF!!! **Promo Code AUGUST50 at checkout** Trim Track Fitness Machine Visit PRx Performance for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! How Skinheads Transformed From An Inclusive Youth Movement Into A Racist Hate Group BLM activist Shaun King used donor cash to purchase $40k dog: report What's in the Inflation Reduction Act: President Signs Bill - SmartAsset What the Inflation Reduction Act does and doesn't do about rising prices Argentina Boosts Key Rate to 60% as Inflation Soars Toward 70% Welcome To The Higher Standard The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World’s Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home The untold story of how the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA Black Bird - Apple TV+ Press Success of Arranged Marriages Visit MASSZYMES by biOptimizers for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code MINDPUMP10 at checkout** The Only Way You Should Be Doing Bulgarian Split Squats! (BUTT GROWTH) Cholesterol For Muscle Gains – Mind Pump Blog MindPump Co-Host Justin Andrews Talks High School Football Training w/ Joe D! Are You Wearing The Right Shoes For Squatting? - Squat University Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Jen Cohen (@therealjencohen)  Instagram Mark Cuban (@mcuban)  Instagram Vicki Reynolds (@vicki__reynolds)  Instagram Christopher M. Naghibi (@chrisnaghibi)  Instagram

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why you can't get consistent with your fitness. Oh my, I feel like this is in response. I saw you reading a letter from a listener. This has to be where this is coming from. And I saw Doug put up on the television, this fitness tool that somebody is, now are they looking for you to invest in it? What was the idea?

They positioned it, so I got a letter. First off, I want to, I want to start with something. You got to be nice for it. Well, no, just okay, look. It comes with shit sandwich, right here. Look, we've all been entrepreneurs for a long time. Yes, exactly, that's a thing. I've come up with my own pride and failed. Yes.

I'm just gonna come out with it right now. You know, you're stupid ideas. Listen. Yeah, I'll throw them all out on the table on top of this. So there's your shit sandwich. I Don't have any imposter spray paint underwear. Yeah, I already just spread it on you guys We're just spraying on you guys. It's a good idea. It listens to you guys. OK, yeah, for sure in this room, who has had the most bad business ideas?

It's probably just right. Wait a second. Oh, wait a second. That's not true at all. First of all, just raise your hand because all of us, all of us, all of us, the most successful thing we've ever done was this. Fair.

Correct? Yeah. Okay. Now, who in here has- I always take the bill. Who in here has tried the most business ideas, Adam? Who's tried the most business ideas? Okay, it's probably you.

I'm pretty sure you've had a car wash business. A law-dollie business. I'm pretty sure you've had a stripper- Then you machine-machine- Then you machine- I'm pretty sure you're trying to be a yoga instructor. What do I do? It's a trick.

Okay. Okay, all right, all right. Try the most business ideas. Okay, all right, all right. Just as you're the most wacky, though. Yeah, definitely quirky. Here's the thing that I respect. Always, I will always respect about entrepreneurs.

I'm the same way. I've done this since I was a kid. You put yourself out there and it takes guts to do it because you're probably gonna fail most of the time. It's just a fact. And the biggest hurdle between an entrepreneur and success is fear of failure. It's always the biggest hurdle.

That's just a fact. So first I wanna say something good. This guy is going for it and he wrote me a letter and mailed it to me. Nobody does that anymore. I got the letter, right now I'm gonna eat a bunch of letters. People are like, sell like this. And I read the letter and it's basically like,

hey, there's this machine that I have. It trains the whole body all at once. So right there. They smell like memory when you used to get letters and they put like scent in there. No, okay. She did that with CPS. Just to sit back.

You would write like, ooh, cinnamon. No. I heard girls like fairbos. It just changed. Anyways. Just to sit back, he would ask, like, ooh, cinnamon. I heard girls like pharibos, it just changed. Anyways. So, yeah, I get this letter, I read it, and it's basically, I have this whole body machine, which ready is a red flag because we understand whole body machines nine out of 10 times,

maybe 10 out of 10 times, you're not gonna do much with that, but anyway, whole body machine, and I can only manufacture 10 at a time. I need better manufacturing capabilities. Do you have any ideas? So it sounds like he's putting it out there for me to either give him a suggestion or to say, oh my God, it's a great idea. Maybe we want to manufacture this. So I commend the person on the guts for putting it out there. Well, I'm about to give him a massive favor right now. Okay. I'll give him a massive favorite tub. Here's a great part.

Our audience now, so please, can we share the link? Can you share the link so people can watch it? So we're gonna say. Okay, we'll give it some exposure. Yes. Yeah, so I'm gonna also pile on the shit sandwich here with you, and give nice stuff first. So we're gonna send lots of people over to take a look at this,

but I also think, because he's looking for the ability to manufacture more of these. But I want him to save his money. And hopefully the feedback that it gets from our audience going there, hopefully he'll see that it's a terrible idea. And here's why it's a terrible idea. When you look aside from the machine looking really weird, because Doug made it a fair point.

Doug's like, if it's marketing, right, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know what I'm saying? Shake, and of course you win. Shake, wait, and then shake, wait. And that's what I think it's through. Shake, wait, it's for sure. The number one. And that's the night. Shake weight is for sure. The number one piece of exercise equipment sold ever was a thymaster.

Right. Yeah. Okay. And shake and shake weight is not far behind. No. So so the dog the better. The dog's point off dumbbell. Yeah.

So to doves and if you would have presented shake weight or thymaster to me at any point in my career and said and that was new. I would say this is a terrible idea. Also, so fair point. But this machine that he has where it works the lower in the upper body at the same time is literally a squat thruster. You could literally do it with a barbell and you could go and you could spend less than

a medicine ball, a hundred dollars and get a barbell with adjustable weights and do the exact same movement, probably safer, and you can progressively overload it a lot easier than probably what the resistance is on this machine. Not to mention, it looks really awkward and silly. So I cannot say that, sorry. But I do like the way you set the table because yes, all of us are just as, you know, I don't know if guilty is the right word, but we do you get to put it out there? That's right. I mean, I remember, I actually have shared this a long time, I think I shared this on

the podcast a long time ago. I remember reading one time that the average billionaire, or maybe back then it was millionaire, I don't remember, a billionaire billionaire back then, it was way more than I had. A billion today is not worth it. Yeah, it's just like a million. It might have been a million back then, but I can't say that now,

because it was like, that's no big deal. The average millionaire back then, this is like 20 years ago when I read this, has failed nine times at business before they were successful. I believe it. And I remember being only like 19 or 20 years old and reading that, and at that point in my life,

I'd only done one or two things and go like, oh my god, I've got to get out there and fail. And that was, and great attitude. And I really do think it's a good answer. I think that's the idea. So I don't know where this gentleman is at as far as how many failures he's had. This is going to hopefully be eight or nine for him.

So he can get to that. So we're with you. Well, okay. So we're in the future. First of all, here's the challenge with fitness. If you're going to present fitness equipment to us or anything related to fitness, because we're, quote unquote, experts in the field

and because we have integrity with what we do, we can't just look at a product and say, ooh, I could market that, make a lot of money. Because could I market this and sell it in a way? We're the wrong people to present something like that. I could, I could do that, actually, I'll be honest with you. I could do that with anything. You show me anything, I could sell it

and find a way, listen, I put my integrity aside. They sell sliding mover, piece of plastic, right? As exercise equipment. As exercise equipment for way marked up over price and it's hilarious to me, but people sell that shit. I'm not gonna sit here and promote it though. Yeah, so that's my point. My point is we're coming from a different place

and I can't sell something that counters the integrity I have as a trainer. So even, so again, if you had brought, if you had brought me the thymaster and I knew the future, and I'm like, this is gonna sell a billion copies. Yeah. Would it have been tempting? Hell yeah, billion dollars, very tempting.

Would I have done it? No, because I wouldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. I just had this exact conversation, excuse me. Last night with Jen Cohen, she called me, we were talking about her whole her you know snowboarding and her Her kite boarding that she's doing and stuff like that that we started the conversation got into investing and then she started to give me a little bit Shit about I've turned down like all and I've even brought it to you guys because I know you guys would turn it down

Yeah, yeah, and she's like hey, what's up with you? Shitting on every investment that I send your way and stuff like that I know you guys are all doing this. And I was like, well, Jen, the products you're sending me there, and she's like, they're so good she's like, one of them was the axle and like, some of these popular products. And we have investment opportunity, and I said,

and I told her the story about my best friend's mother, my best friend's mother, who is basically like my mother. She passed away just a few years now, four years ago now, and she battled with obesity her whole life. And she literally, and I remember as a kid, like she had this room or this loft that was all it was was dedicated to fitness tools. And this was long before I ever became a personal trainer.

Later on in my life, I become a personal trainer and was always trying to help her. And she was always buying the next fitness tool that came out, yet still always struggling with her weight. And I was always trying to explain it, mom, this is not the answer. It's not the next Nordetrac or the next Shakeway or the next tool that is gonna get you in great shape.

We have to dial in things that are diabolical. And so because of that, I think I feel even more passionate about those things. It's not that, I don't believe, it's not that I don't think the axles really cool for some people, or that some athletes can use it, and like some people have gotten great shape, fine. And that's, my point is,

over 90% of the population, those tools are not the answer for what they're, the problem they're trying. No, we're interested in root solutions, root cause solutions, not symptomatic, throw more garbage at people, take advantage of. We're already plenty of novelty out there. Yeah, and it just counters our integrity. Like, okay, we only have a commercial for PRX,

but I'm gonna bring them up anyway. They sell equipment, but what they did is they took equipment that's been around forever. It's effective, it's very versatile. Made it more convenient. And just solved the problem, did is they took equipment that's been around forever. It's effective. It's very versatile. Made it more convenient. And just solve the problem, which is space. It's always been a problem. Oh, free weights. I love them. I don't have the room. They solve that issue. So, okay, we'll work with you. Do you know how many pieces people know? Do you know how many pieces of exercise equipment

or fitness tools have been presented to us? I mean, all the time. We say no every time, because that's not the solution to the problem. Unless it truly is something that I'm like, wow, that is solving a problem that we've had, that we haven't really be able to solve with traditional exercise or whatever. In which case, I could say, okay, I could see some value there, but it just doesn't work.

And the answer isn't, you know, if you have issues with your body weight or body fat or health or fitness, the solution is not the next diet. The solution is not the next cool exercise tool. The solution is diet and exercise, but the root of that is relationship with yourself, relationship with food. Why do I find this so challenging? Why do I do this from a place of, of hate and not self-care?

And how can I develop strategies to modify my behavior so this is long-term and consistent? And then when you do that, I don't care what the tool is. I don't care if you use shake weights or, I think there's better equipment, but if that's what you use consistently and that's the only way that you exercise, guess what, shake weights awesome.

Right, right. I don't care if it's keto diet, but if that's what works best for you and you're able to stay consistent, you have a good relationship with it, guess what, I'm cool, I'm a fan of keto in that particular situation. So that's really the key here, but yeah, it's tough.

And now maybe I am opening this up. Maybe I am opening up to where people are gonna present more shit to us, but I'm gonna tell you right now, we're probably gonna shit on what you send us, but if you want the opportunity, go for it. Yeah, go for it. And I'll do this. You can handle the heat.

And I'll do this. Do it, and I applaud it. If it makes sense, I'll put it on the show here, we'll show your piece of equipment, and we'll tear it down if you're okay with that. And maybe you'll be the one out of a billion where we say, hey, this is really great. I applaud anybody who tries that hard, you know, if you're okay with that. And maybe you'll be the one out of a billion where we say, hey, this is really great. Which case.

I applaud anybody who tries that hard, you know, to put themselves out there and put all their efforts into an idea and actually actualize it. Like that's a rigorous, crazy process to go through. A lot of challenges where you're gonna, they're gonna say no to you every step of the way. And if you can make it through all those nose

and keep pushing through, then you know, you're gonna make it. It doesn't really matter what the product is. That's 100%. So if this person gets attention, we posted the video, somebody sees it and says, hey, I can market this in a way.

And then they sell tons and tons of pieces of this equipment. You know, I stand by what I said. However, congratulations. I mean, that's a tough, said, however, congratulations. I mean, that's a tough, broad, starting any business, putting your money out there, but more than that, it's like putting your ego out there.

It's like approaching, it's like when you're young kid and you approach a girl and you wanna ask her out. Like you are, you are sending yourself up, dude, for no. It's like you start with some fives, you do way up, you go to 10, you are sent yourself up, dude, for no. It's like you start with some fives, you do way up, you're gonna 10, you're like, oh! Yes! That was ready.

You just went to a 10, dude. You guys remember the first time, you really put it out there and a girl just crushed your dream, do you remember that? Yeah, soul crushing. Yeah, yeah. I remember, I was, I wanna say sixth or seventh grade, I think it was seventh grade dance. And it was just girl that I always kinda like, I was like, soul crushing. Yeah, yeah. I remember, I was, it was, I want to say six or seventh, I think was seventh grade dance.

And there was this girl that I always kind of like, I was like, oh, she's, and I was never shy, so I'd always talk to girls. Yeah. But this was the first time I really, like, you know, I really put it out there. So she was there and I went up to her and I'm like, hey, you know, you want to dance?

And she's like, okay. So I'm like, oh shit, it was great. So I'm like dancing with her. And then I'm like kind of talking to her. And then she cut me off. She was like, I'm just, I'm not really interested in you. No, it's like half of the song was the left I had a dance quietly, bro What do I do?

You know You guys know me right persistent so on the back of my head was like do I just keep trying Hey you guys know me right persistent so on the back of my head was like do I just keep trying I got three minutes will not now I could maybe Well, what would make you interested You know what is the one thing that's stopping you No objections that it happened to me until I was in my 20s. I mean I grew you ever remember everybody said yes up until that I mean I grew you ever remember everybody said yes up until that

Listen that it that's not that cocky. It's just that I grew up in a very small town So like you girls didn't have a lot of choice You remember the school at like 100 some kids There's like five girls and they're you know, I'm saying girls just like yeah, I got a date this guy I'm not dating anybody, you know, so and then you get cocky and then like, that's right, that's what happened to it. I was like, you know, a precious girl. And she's like, yeah, you know, you seem like a nice guy and everything, but I'm just, yeah, I don't,

I don't not attract to you. Whoa. Whoa. That can happen. That can happen. Yeah. Crush me. That's the thing that Dickish back, right?

No, no, no, she's like actually really, like my friend really likes you. And then I was just like, really? And I saw her friend, I was like, oh, I'm good. I'm sorry. But she still felt better. But I felt better. Yeah.

You know, at least you didn't reply with something meme. No, I don't do that. I hate it when kids do that, guys do that. No, yeah, you're bad. That whole nagging thing and all that. Such bullshit. You got it. You got it just put yourself in.

You know what, back to talking to Jen, which by the way, this girl, you know that she had, I was gonna tell you something else, but before that, just reminded me like, she got Mark Cuban to roll up to her house and do a private interview, just him and her house. That girl is so freaking talented when it comes to like that.

She's really good at making you feel like what's the word? Like important like she cares, like her relationship. And she doesn't forget and she's very attentive. Yeah, no, she's not somebody that, because we've encountered this when we first started podcasts with nobody. And on our way up, there were people that were above us that treated us like idiots or like shit,

which was great when we surpassed them because then we got to like never reply to them, never help them, whatever. This is what happens. Jen's not like that. She treats everybody very well. And I think that's a character, that's a part of her character.

Yeah, yeah. But the reason I was bringing her up, she actually was telling me she's talking to me about Caldera Labs. She actually just met them and she says, do you know that you guys are their biggest producer for revenue? Wow.

Yeah. I was like, you guys, you know it's crazy about that, Jen, I was like, they, I don't remember who from their team sent product to us. It was in the studio for a long time before it. Skincare never will be fun. None of us were even that interested in it. And I remember one day my psoriasis was bothering me really bad.

And I used it and I was like, oh my god, I know it's my skin. I from it right away. And then I started using it on a regular basis. And then you started hammering us about it. Yeah, well then I started for a long time. Yeah, I kept telling you guys. And I'm like, hey, I want to try this product really really wants to work with us. I'm like I use it every day So I feel good about talking about it

So I was like and I don't know if it's gonna do any I remember to tell you guys like it could bomb for our audience They maybe nobody else cares or what doesn't like it like I do or whatever I said, but I want to try it and it was actually the for I believe it's the first partnership We ever did were only one of us was initially yeah using it normally. We all have to like it's the first partnership we ever did, where only one of us was initially using it. Normally, we all have to like, there's like two buttons. Yeah, there has to be at least two or three of us. You were a pretty adamant. Yeah, and then since then,

they've been a great partner. She said, yeah, I guess we were like their biggest producer. I had no idea. You know what? I think, well, two things, it's a good product. And I know this because a lot of, or so my wife, who I'm not a skincare person, so I don't have a lot of experience.

I like it, but what do I compare it to, it's not like I've used a million products. My wife stole mine, so now we have our own. She uses a lot of stuff, so she likes it. And so that's the message as I get is that people who use skincare products, so they have a good product. And then also I think men are low-key interested in having better skin.

You know, especially I think as you get older, I think it's just like you're just start to notice like how you know you're growing hair and your ears and like you know your body's just going through this metamorphosis. You're like I got to slow this down. You know, I'm squinty all the time and all this stuff's happening. You know, it's just one of those things. You start looking at, well, maybe I can like solve some issues here. The worst is when we have like throwback pictures

from when we started the podcast. Yeah, I look at that. I'm like, wow. You're so youthful. Did I walk into a vortex where time moves twice as fast? I'm like, oh, six years ago. Why did I look like I was 20 years ago? I'm not, dude.

What's that? I was getting my hair cut by Vicki, right? So remember, okay, so we were, I started taking copper because we did that test, the hair test, and my copper was a low. And one of the symptoms of low copper is depigmentation. So your hair will be, you can get more white hair or it's lighter or that kind of stuff.

Like, shit, I have a lot of white hairs. I wonder if I'm going to notice a difference. So I started taking, it's been like maybe three or four months. And I've definitely noticed that I'm less white hairs. I don't think I'm going to get rid of my white hairs, but definitely less. So let's get my hair cut. And Vicki's like, wow, I really can tell a difference. I could really tell a difference. Your hair is much darker. And I'm like, okay, I said, but is it also that I'm losing my hair? So I wonder if the white ones are abandoning shit, dude. I think the white ones, at first, I first the white hair to like,

that captain, what are we gonna do? Like get rid of pigmentation, keep holding strong. You know, I'm like, captain, we can't keep holding on. All right, jump shit, let's get out. All right. So I asked her, I said, is it the white ones? The white ones falling out? Or what's going on?

She said, no, I think overall they're darker. But you are losing her. Thanks, Piki. I appreciate it. You can look it out. I know. What are you going to do? All those bald jokes?

Are you going to get me to go? Hi, they are going to get you to. You're waiting. People are going to be able to go back and listen earlier. Bogas is like, oh, Adam's been waiting patiently. I'm waiting patiently. You're out.

Speaking of bald heads, Justin, there's a note up there about some skinhead movement that you brought up a long time ago. Well, yeah. Or is it past its... Yeah, well, it's relevancy, but yeah, I just ran across the beginning of the movement of skinhead movement. So everybody knows it as like this racist neo-Nazi kind of movement that came to the

States. But when it originated, it was actually in England and it was like an anti-fascist, like anti-racist movement. What? That was the origin? The origin of it was, yeah, they were protesting, racism and fascism and all that stuff in the beginning.

And then somewhere around the line, these Nazi characters took it on and then just ran with it. I didn't know that. It's interesting to me just because, that's fascinating. You think about like causes and movements and things that we've seen, and of course right now, there's like a million of them, you know, like every single day.

It's like, what are those, you know, who's gonna latch onto those and then maybe twist it and turn it in a completely different direction? That's very interesting. Yeah. You fact checking that, Doug? I am. I haven't seen anything yet that I can confirm

or did I answer. Oh, please. Just a little, you know what? I've never been wrong. He's right. He's right. Fact check that. Every time he says some crazy shit at the moment.

I'm just gonna say it. You're not just so much a shabin' real bad. So, I read this, like distinctively. That's really fascinating. That happens with a lot of different things where you'll see the roots of something where it starts and then it turns into something else. Doesn't mean it's the same as the roots, obviously.

Well, yeah, obviously they'd completely shifted in the opposite direction, but I just thought that was weird, because it's just the association. You're just like, you see somebody, like, especially a white guy with like a shaved head. It's like, oh, imagine somebody who was in the middle of that transition. That would be...

Throw confused. How fuck is that? One year you were on one side and everybody was all supportive of what you were doing the next year. Like, you're hating it. Guys, you're going this way. Like, no, no, we're going this way.

Wow, wow, well speaking of these movements, you guys hear about, what's his name? Sean King. Oh, he's that dude that did the BLM stuff and he used the money to get a, he's not, okay, so people know he's a white dude that said he was, that then gotten trouble for saying he wasn't white. Anyway, long story short, he took donated money for, he was either BLM or something on those lines. And spent it really ridiculously.

One thing that they found was he took $40,000 on a dog. And this was from money from those funds. I feel like we're slowly seeing where all that money went. What a piece of crap. Yeah, I've heard multiple reports now of like, we're some of that, that because lots of money got donated to BLM. And no, and because it had, you know, there was no percentage.

There was no percentage. It was where it was going. Yeah. In the beginning, that was always alarming to me. I'm like, okay, so, you know, obviously you're gathering funds, but like there was no like lists of like where the money was going to be delegated. Yeah, that's what you have to be careful.

Whenever there's a powerful sentiment or movement, there's always, you know, huxters that jump on swindlers or whatever you want to call them grifters. And they're like, oh, cool. Let me jump on this and collect. And then because it's got good intentions or good feelings behind it, nobody checks.

Well, speaking of power money, you see the most recent bill they're trying to pass right now? Okay, can I just laugh at this real quick? They passed an inflation reductionary bill that increased the spending. It hasn't passed yet. Okay. It hasn't passed. We're trying to explain it first. Yeah. So it's like, it's almost like if I was like, hey guys, we're going to fight obesity by giving everyone donuts. We're going to add more of the problem

to the problem to solve the problem. 500 billion, okay? 500 billion and it's broken up in like four major categories. You know we're one of the big categories. 80 billion, you wanna guess where it's going? Mm. Overseas. IRS.

Okay, now let me tell you why that's so crazy. Do you wanna know what the total IRS budget is for employees, everything is right now? Before this. Before this. How much? 18 billion. Faaa.

So they are talking about five X-ing almost. Oh my God. The IRS, and then the 40 billion of that is the direct initiative to go after like the middle class and audits. Okay, so one of these is, if you have, if you have $600 or more, and Venmo, you get checked for that by the art flag.

That is not the billionaires. You know, and they say, oh, we're going to go after the billionaires. billionaires aren't using the $600 trend. No, that gives us that. That's the average person. That's okay. So that's why this, what's so alarming about this, is the tax code is already written for the wealthy,

with real estate and investment. Oh, it's, what's so alarming about this is the tax code is already written for the wealthy with real estate and investments. And so this whole initiative is like literally going to, and you talk about conspiracy theories with it. They're weaponizing the IRS big time. Setting it up to go after middle class. I mean, this is going to absolutely just, dude, you think about that. 18 billion is, was there, and they'redine 80 billion. 80 billion, excuse me. Dude, the gap is just getting insane. And so the IRS's claim is that they will recoup over $200 something billion a year

by this initiative. So two things. One, when interest rates go up, that means the interest on our debt, the interest on our debt also goes up. So they have to find a way to collect more money. So that's a fact. Number two, this is a terrible strategy, but it is a strategy nonetheless.

To reduce inflation, take money out of the market by taxing people more. But this is like cutting your head off because you have a tumor on your foot. So it's like, I'm gonna kill myself. It's like the worst answer I can. Terrible. Yes, terrible.

Well, what's terrible too is that they spin it as if they're going, because the narrative is like, you know, tax the wealthy and the don't understand. Okay, why? I think you brought it up one time. And I thought, you know, that's a really good idea. That's just why? Why is not? If you really want to get the 1% right? And get them in a fair way. Why would you not just slap a luxury tax on things? I agree with that. A luxury tax on things that cost a million dollars.

So when you buy a yacht, you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht.

And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. And you can't just buy a yacht. Why would you not just slap a luxury tax on things? I agree with that. A luxury tax on things that cost a million dollars. So when you buy a yacht, or you buy helicopters, or a car that's over $100,000, or shit like that, right? First class tickets. Mega Manchins. Yeah, like just slap extra taxes on those things.

First off, very wealthy people don't care. They're gonna go buy a yacht or whatever. Also, that targets them. The average person ain't buying a yacht. Nobody gives a shit about that. It's the super wealthy. Plus, you're not taxing investments. That's right.

You're taxing your, not purchasing. You're not just weighing them from innovating, building businesses. It's when they go buy toys or do luxury type things, you slap on a couple extra percent. And by the way, a couple extra percent on a $500 million yacht is a hell of a lot more money than going after a thousand people who make 60-grades- Crazy rockets. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's because they really don't want to. No. And also, the other thing too is when you look at the tax code, there's a certain amount that will collect,

and if we tax more, we don't necessarily collect more because overall economic activity drops. In other words, 15% of $100,000 is less than 10% of $200,000, right? So what we see oftentimes is that we'll drop taxes and then because economic growth goes up or drop tax rates, I should say, economic growth goes up, we actually collect more money as a result.

So really what this is, it's a tax code, it's this kind of shell game. And we need to understand that these people that are most influential, that work with government are the very people they pretend to go after, which are the very wealthy, the very connected. And look, you look at the tax code, it's complicated and confusing for a reason. If they really wanted to help the average person, the tax code will be as simple as hell. Simple, 10%. Everybody pays 10%. You don't write anything off.

If you make below this, then you don't pay taxes or you get some help from the government. But they don't want everybody to do that. It's complicated as hell. So the only people that not a maneuver around it and figured out, people with the money to hire people and to figure this should make, and position bills like this to make you think that they're going out there to go get after the rich with their really or not.

The other thing too that really annoys a shit, I mean, if you look at some of these bills, they're like this thick, like just pages, and they'll say, we need to pass this now, people need help. So Congress people literally have a week to figure this out. Oh wait, should we pass it, should we not? And then they have the pressure because they're like,

you guys, it's a fucking inflation bill. We need to reduce inflation. This needs to pass tomorrow. So they pass it without seeing what's in it. Well, yeah, that's the thing. It's the transparency. That's always been my issue with tax and giving money It's like if I'm giving this money to go towards what you know is

Promoted like I want to see where that's gonna end up. I want to see somebody managing that Appropriately versus like in the private sector you do see a lot more transparency You have a little bit more of like okay. I could see you know what their Reports are it's like we don't get those reports. Yeah, nobody invests money worse or spends money worse You have a little bit more of like, okay, I could see, you know, what their reports are. It's like, we don't get those reports. Yeah, nobody invests money worse, or spends money worse than somebody pays, who has zero consequences for doing a shaggy job.

There's no accountability. Well, if you're a government agency, so I'll use two scenarios. If you're a private company, and let's say you're spending a million dollars a year on putting your product out, and then the report comes back, you're looking at your profit and losses and you're like, we lost,

$5.5 a million. We're in the red, we're tanking. Your investors are going to be like, we're not giving you any more money until you figure this out. Now if you're a government agency and your budget is a million dollars and you go spend spend a million dollars, and you do a shitty job, you go back and say, it's because we don't have enough money. And here's the reverse. If they give you a million dollars,

and you only spend half a million dollars, they reduce it, so you gotta make sure. Then they say, oh, you didn't need the money. So the incentive is more, and the incentive is waste. There is no incentive to be effective. Yeah, effective. At all.

So it just keeps exploding, and it just, it's just, it's just, it makes me go back and forth. I know this week in the forum, Helen's interviewing me and we're gonna talk like all real estate stuff. And it's like, I feel like I flip flop on how I feel every week because of news like this.

I mean, just a week ago, I was talking a friend about the real estate market, what I think is gonna happen. We're in a recession right now, even though it's been changed that we're technically not. Just a week ago, I was talking a friend about the real estate market, what I think is going to happen. We're in a recession right now, even though it's been changed that we're technically not. We are. We're in a recession now.

I think that we're in the summertime already demand is dropping significantly when it's the hottest time. And then the winter time is already a time when we start to see it kind of slow down or go down. So my prediction was, oh, 10 to 30 percent. We're going to see a drop at the end of this year. But then you hear stuff like this coming out. And if we pass another bill,

and we put another 500 billion into the system like that, people are gonna, you're gonna still see investors race towards assets. And right now you still have 25%. So a quarter of the buying is still coming from investors. So they're still buying up. So people who don't understand this, when you see inflation go up,

meaning your money is losing value, okay? so if you have money saved in the bank and you do nothing, but save that money, you're actually losing money because that money is losing value and the value is going down faster and faster as inflation goes up. So smart investors and investors who have this capability, consider this, the average American doesn't have this ability because the average American pays their bills, saves a little bit, has some credit card debt. They don't have all this extra money to play this game, but people who have a lot of money,

this is what they do. They say I have a million dollars, I'm not gonna just save it because it's losing money every single month with inflation. So let me put it in an asset. Let me buy property or stocks. So as inflation goes up, investors rush to invest in things that tend to follow the inflation, right?

Like houses, stock markets, stuff like that. So then with that, that's it inflates assets. Even more, who gets screwed? This is one of the reasons why you're seeing a bigger and bigger gap between the wealthy and people who are not wealthy because if you're wealthy You can play this game inflation You know you look at inflation as a problem and you have the ability to kind of solve it But when you're you know you're you whether it out when you're working and you're making an hourly wage

And you're paying your bills and you're saving a little bit every single month. You're like what do I do like? I just got to cut my expenses, like I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Make more per hour, but I'm already working so many hours. Well, historically, what goes up must come down, and we always have these markets where it's like, okay, we've been on this bull run forever, now we're gonna start to see a bear market come around.

But then we also are in this crazy time where we've never been printing money like this before. So, like then there's that other part of me that goes like, God, is it going to keep running longer before? Have to kick the can down the road even further. Have you seen some of the inflation of the places? Is it Argentina? I want to say Argentina that's 60% inflation. Maybe Doug, you could double check that. There's a couple that are up there. Could you imagine? And then runaway inflation is when inflation gets to the point where the average consumer is like they know that everything's just going to get way more expensive tomorrow.

So they go and buy everything they can now. Yeah. And then that makes it accelerate. And then you get this inflation that's almost impossible to control. Yeah. Turkey has 78.6%. Argentina is 60.7%. That's just. Wow. Are you looking at the list that has us on there too? Turkey has 78.6% Argentina is 60.7%.

That's just how are you looking at the list that has us on there too? Because we're like 20 something. We're not even in the, we're not even, we're, are you looking at that list? That has a whole, Yeah, I'm looking at all the different countries. We're down the list.

I don't see us, but I'm sure we're on it. Yeah, I mean, obviously, ours is up, but it ain't 60%. In comparison, the rest of the world. Well, yeah, but then I question like that because we have changed the rest of the world. Well, yeah, but then I question like, what's that? Because we have changed the definition of what it is. And we're really more like,

do they have an accent to that? I don't know. So it's like Argentina more true to what inflation looks like. And then we're more like, Well, you see gas prices are going down again, but you know why, right? Demand for gas is going down. That's right.

Yeah, so people spending less money on gas, less people flying less, that kind of stuff. So the price is a gas. This is what this is, so I really enjoy. I don't know how, if you guys, I know I've, I've introduced you to Chris Nagibi, who I've mentioned on the show a couple times, the thing he keeps saying and trying to explain and he argues with like day-to-day ramsies and some of these other people that are still pushing the real estate agenda, like it's going to keep going up. And he's like, there's no demand. The demand is like going down, down. So you could talk all this stuff about supply supply,

because that's everyone's argument right now. It's all supply side. Yeah, we're behind on supply so much. There's five, we're five million homes below, we're behind on supply. So as long as supply is there, we don't catch up. The demand will stay there. And he's like, there's no such thing as demand

without affordability. And we're keeping moving it up so much that we're moving the affordability out of most people. And so the demand is diving. And you're seeing that right now with consumers. Consumers aren't using spending gas as much. They're not buying houses. They're backing out of houses they were about to buy. So you're just seeing demand go down like crazy. So I'm, that's the other part of me goes, okay, well, if demand keeps going this direction, then we will see that at the end of the year, but it will also see these bills get passed

where we also flood the market again. Then what happens is, okay, instead of 25% investors buying houses, it goes to 30 or 40%. Wow. So it keeps inflating the assets. All right, let's have some fun. Let's get conspiracy theory stuff. We got to get conspiracy theory.

But it's what we threw everything at you today. Now this is all speculation stuff, but there's a book called that I highly recommend if you're into this kind of stuff. It's a true, this is true stuff. So this isn't conspiracy, but it's called The Creature from Jekyll Island. I highly suggest you read that.

It's how the Federal Reserve was created. And the Fed is another book by Ron Paul. That one's pretty good, but the Creature from Jekyll Island. I highly suggest you read that. It's how the Federal Reserve was created. And the Fed is another book by Ron Paul. That one's pretty good. The Creature from Jekyll Island, I super recommend. A lot of people have no idea how we ended up with a central bank to begin with. But if you were to, because, okay, so we have what's called a fiat currency,

meaning in most countries now do, money that's back by nothing, because dollars used to be backed by gold, in other words, if you had a dollar, you could trade it in for a dollar's worth of gold. And that controlled money, because you couldn't print more money if you didn't have more gold. It was connected.

We severed those ties, so now it's called what's called a fiat currency. What was the petro dollar first? It was still, it's not really connected to anything. Well, I was connected to oil for a short period of time. Meaning you have to buy oil with dollars, yeah. But that doesn't mean we can't just print more. Right, right.

Okay, so it's a fiat currency, and historically, no fiat currency has stood the test of time, because eventually they just print, print, print, print. Yeah. It gets destroyed and they have to come up with a new solution. If you were to, if you were to put together a plan to say, let's destroy all paper money, all big currencies, so that we could replace it with a very easily

controllable and trackable digital currency. I swear to God, they would do exactly what they're doing. Right now, that's not a good point. That's on saying. What they're doing now is what you would do, is you would just print, print, print, print, print, let it collapse, everybody panics, and then introduce a federal reserve, cryptocurrency, digital, all paper money gone you have until

the end of this year to turn in your paper currency, to trade it in for digital after that it's worthless and illegal to use is what they do with gold at one point where you had to go to bring it to the bank. This is what you would do. You would just print the shit out of it until the people are like, oh my god, save us. And then they'd say, here's your, this is what you would do. You would just print the shit out of it until the people are like, oh my God, save us. And then they'd say, here's your, that's if you are powerful.

It's very, very over. Yeah. I don't even know if that's a conspiracy theory dude. No. We are literally heading in that direction. Yeah, but I'm saying it would be intentional. Dude, every world leader loves the idea of the social credit score.

I mean, it's like the ultimate way to survey the population and keep a good idea of like what everybody is up to, like what their spending habits are, like every big business wants data. That's the biggest thing. That's the asset these days is everybody's data and like they're selling it. And they're, and so like it's, I just think it's inevitable that, you know, they're gonna keep dripping it's I just think it's inevitable that you know they're gonna keep dripping ways to get towards closer to the social credit score. Yeah if you if you if you had only digital currency and there was no other way to trade and goods and services legally you could track anything and you

could control anything you could be more appealing if you're in power. You could literally say Justin just in Andrews, you were limited from using your digital currency, except for food and housing. Yeah. Because you are whatever- And you're limited to this region. You can't spend outside.

You're not allowed to go. And anywhere you go, it would show up. Yeah. Because it's easy to- And they can control markets. They'd be able to control markets. You could theoretically put an AI machine in charge of reading signals

and centrally controlling economies and doing stuff. So I still see all these emergency acts in place. Yeah. You know, it's easy to shut things down. It's great. Yeah, it's fine. I know. Yeah.

I know. So I don't know. It's very interesting. Isn't there like a, we're going to go even deeper down this hilarious rabbit hole or whatever? Isn't there like a, like a, like a, there like a something in the Bible that says that people have the most? Yeah, the mark of the beast on your arm or something like that. If you don't have it outside of it. Kind of chip. And yeah, so it's interesting. Like, some of the prophecy and things if you go back and kind of read through it all and create create, obviously you have to kind of interpret it in modern day times and kind of see like

how all of these nations are interacting. And it's, there's a lot of interesting correlations there for sure, if you like read it all. Weird. Yeah. We got for us with our dog. Yeah, it's Revelation 13, 17. Yeah.

So that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark Name of the beast or the number of its name. There you go. Wow Wow Ferrier Yeah, that's the ingredient the vaccine. What are they doing at that for? Why do I do with a different name? It's probably there the only one is a good buy stuff They did a name to a that's all I'm saying. Hey listen. We got a new pill. It's going to be only a good buy stuff. They could have named it in the end. That's all I'm saying. Hey listen, we got a new pill.

It's really awesome. Makes you feel great. Say to Noley. Anyway, oh, picking a different name, bro. You're freaking yourself. Yeah, my fiancee. My fiancee. I'm a fiancee.

I'm a fiancee. Hey, speaking of people in power and control, did you see Amazon? Amazon made a big purchase. They did. I robot. Pull this up for me, or is it all? Is this a dishwasher robot? No, no, that's the thing.

Maybe though it's gonna go that direction. It's the, you know, the company, the little hover thing, what's, I think it's called I robot, I think it's what's called. Like the Roomba type thing? Yes, yes, a Roomba. Oh, and it goes around cleaning stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they big purchase on it.

Can you pull it up and pull it out? Hey, we had one, we stopped using it because it scared the railions. Well, everyone's really, okay, so what was my experience with it? I have yet to meet somebody who like swears by, like, oh, it's amazing. Oh, I have them in my perspective.

Oh, yeah, my parents love it. They're trying to sell me on it. I'm actually want to try it out and see if it's like. Okay, so what do they say that it's like, oh, my God, it just keeps how so clean. Yeah, because it's just constant. Like, you know, I could see where it could be really valuable. Like, because it's just constant. And it maps out your house and it actually gets to be clean. So where I could see where it could be really valuable,

is like if you had some, my other house used to have like these dark wood floors and we've always had pets and their hair was like that. And I used to have to get the house clean on a weekly basis because if you didn't mop those floors, they would look so dirty because the hair on the dark wood floors. Yeah, like the kids running in and out the dogs,

like it's just a constant thing where you got a battle dirt and hair and everything else. So more conspiracy theory, but not really theory, because this is from Bloomberg. It says that these things are mapping your home. So they're not really buying a vacuum cleaner. They're buying something that's gonna map your home. Yes.

Oh, damn it. So that's okay. Come on, Doug. No, it's right here in the middle of the box. No, Doug's right. This is why I brought this up, because I knew that the, the, why this was a on, Doug. No, it's right here in my mouth, Doug's right. So why I brought this up because I knew that the why this was a big deal was because they're like, how is Amazon gonna use this?

Like it's not like a tool they really necessarily need, but it's supposed to be able to connect with Siri and stuff, or not Siri, but what's there is the, there is Alexa. Alexa, thank you. Yeah, so. Wait, so let me, let's think, let's, let's, okay. So what's the value?

First off, your house, where you live, you already know's let's let's okay. So what's the value? First off your house where you live You already know you would know I guess you could see what's in the house, right? You could see where there's chairs where there's furniture Where there's people? You you could see okay if you pair it with Amazon you would be able to now find out people at own houses at this size And have this type of furniture by these types of things. So you can start to narrow down even more specific avatar, right? So someone to get more to the market. That's a perfectly market.

Yeah, yeah. So somebody who owns a 1700 square foot house buys these types of pieces of furniture or buys these things. Wow. And that so you would know that, right? What now what is? That would be valuable for Amazon.

Somebody would buy that. I'm gonna talk to Justin right now, because he likes this. What is? It's my article. I'm not gonna get Justin right now, because he likes this. What is my article? No, no, no, because you're gonna shit on when I'm about to talk. Oh, okay, okay. What I'm about to do around, what if this Roomba, it pulls up hairs and it pulls up dead skin?

It's a DNA. It's your fucking DNA. Yeah, I mean, it's an Amazon. It's an Amazon. And it sends it to Amazon. Now they know your DNA, dude. Well, okay, speaking of that. That's the clone army.

I'm gonna take you guys on a ride. Okay. So you guys know the 23 and me. Yeah, right. And you know how I just took a trip to order those. Yeah, like, so you use a fake name? I don't know. You need to use a fake name.

Do you guys know they found the Golden State Killer? What? From like 23 and me, like really? Really? So the the relative I guess with they've they've found like trace DNA that was like I guess it couldn't identify exactly who it was but they were able to kind of correlate it somehow to the killer and trace it back and so they actually used that because it you know willingly people were given their DNA to this company and then they

were able to kind of use that against them in court. Wow. Yeah. That's fascinating. Yeah. So it's like good. Sometimes there's good things that happen out of these conspiracies, but my favorite. I would even know what killer that was.

Gold State Killer. Yeah. So, you know, what's his name? Pat Nazwall and I think his wife was writing a book about it and everything. But yeah, it was here. Obviously, golden states. I'm was a Bay Area central or was it all up and down the details? I think California's golden right is golden state.

Yeah, that's for. Yeah, I don't have a don't we have a sports team? Yeah, you do. Yes. So no, so state warriors. My favorite while Doug looks at it, my favorite, or I have friends and family members, that'll go do 23 me.

And then all of a sudden, be proud of some, like 10% heritage, just some shit that you even know about. Like I have a buddy that you know. Can't my hair stay there? Oh, bro, no, it wasn't, it wasn't Kamala, it was what's her name. I don't, I mean, I have a buddy,

because of the war. Yeah, and he's like, you know I'm like 7% Cherokee. You're still Chad. Like you're still% Cherokee like You're still chat like this is my fun. I was more skyse that was like I'm barely any Irish So I had to like change my whole even though it's just like so I want to do over I want to do it. I totally took a trip like two nights ago I said could you order the 23 me for you and I and she goes why and I'm like, you know I honestly want to build our family tree and stuff and I said Nobody in my family is like I literally I've let's guess. Let's guess what you got now. You know you got right now

I have Mexican German. Yeah, those are the two main the main let's add some more in there Let's throw some in you think I'm a tie I do actually really yeah, yeah, so I know I have some of that. Yeah French I don't know how little it is a Frenchy Yeah, French. I don't know how little it is a front. Yeah, look Frenchy I don't know the way you move. Yeah Well, I mean if you've got Mexican you maybe have some Spanish right because there's some there probably some Native American might be in there because Maybe Yeah, some Norway. Dude, everybody has a little bit of Viking in them. Really? Dude, I've come to conclude.

Just they did a lot of pillaging. I mean, between them and the Mongols, it's like, everybody's got a little bit of, got banged in those guys. Yeah. What do you see there, Doug? Yeah, so this guy, uh, Joseph DiAngelo, with his name, pleaded guilty to 26 counts of murder and kidnapping. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Did you finish that blackboard show? I did. It was good. I just liked it. I finished the last night. I was really good. You know, with my, I haven't seen it. What is it?

It's a true story. It's based on serial killers. That's why I brought it up. That's scary. My, for me, when it comes to like family tree, like literally my parents are from the same town Incisely, oh wow, and I know everybody all the way up until they grow up like at the same school and then no my dad My mom came here when she was four so my dad was there so they that's crazy They're from the same town with a met in America. Well, yes, because okay with trip you guys need to hold a small

I'll tell you guys a little bit about it's going up. Okay, so my parents so it's the sisters really your brother who's really your uncle who's really. Yes. His tree just goes I my own. I my branches. No branches. There's two branches. I'm my own uncle.

No, that's not what happened. So my so they're both from Bagadilla, which is a town. It's basically my mom came in when she was four. Her cousin married my dad's cousin, okay? So they met at a party, because my mom went back there when she was 18 and she went to a party where her, it was an engagement party where her cousin was marrying my dad's cousin.

That's where my parents met. They didn't really meet though. My dad saw her, told his cousin, hey, I like her, cousin told her and they're engaged and so this is old school succinct. Yeah, so they didn't even say anything to each other and she said yeah Go out with them. They've never talked and then they she engagement This is how old school succinct and my family's old old school even for succinct standards So they they that's it that was it there together So the first time they really met,

they went on a walk. You ever seen the Godfather, where they were going to walk and the whole family's following him? That was my parents. Literally went on a walk and uncles, grandma, grandpa, kids, nieces, nephews, following them.

And they're just kind of walking and getting to know each other. They're already engaged essentially. And my mom tells a story how she, they, you know, I know where I'm going on a I'm left here, but they went around a corner of a building and my dad kissed her real fast. And my mom got so scared that her dad was gonna find out because I would have been really bad.

But anyway, so going back, they're both from Sicily. Now, the only thing is that my mom's side of the family at some point came from Milan or Northern Italy because they have, there's a castle up there that's discontent. Discontent cancel up my mom's, that's my mom's maiden name. So at some point my mom's side hundreds of years ago came down to Sicily. My dad is far back as we know.

Isn't there a crazy statistic around like arranged marriages like that? Like they're way more successful? Yeah, it's not technically arranged. I know it's culturally, yes. It's kind of, saying the family approved and all that. You know, I read an interesting article on that. You know what they think that is?

Why they think that is? Because your family knows you better and you know yourself, but I mean, let's be honest, when you're like 16, 17, okay, you have a, Arrange Marriage is divorced rate less than 4%. Less than 4%. Holy shit. So I read, 96% success. Yeah. So I read 96% success?

Yeah, so I read a study, not a study, an article on this. Made a lot of sense. That's great. So the modern Western view of marriage is, I'm going to marry someone that's going to make me happy. All right. That's going to complete me, that we're going to whatever. The old school view of marriage was, I'm going to marry this person, we're a partnership, we're raising a family, and we're gonna do life together.

So what happens, in this article actually made a good case, when you think you're gonna marry someone, and their job is to make you happy, and you're always gonna be happy, you're gonna be let down, and you're gonna be crushed, and you're gonna see the grass is green on the side. When you are like, this is just what it's like, it's gonna be hard, we gotta raise kids,

we gotta do this or whatever, you're more likely to stick it out. And then culturally in those places, divorce is very, very, that's like a big deal. We present this love as like this crazy, romantic, chain, magical feeling. Yeah, no, totally. And that it's like an act, where other places like that,

like you choose to lie. I remember when as like an act, where other places like that, like you choose to live. I remember when as a young adult, when I first learned that, I mean, for as long as I could remember as a kid, I always thought like, you fall in love. And that's it. And then that's it. It's like, oh, I haven't fallen in love yet.

I mean, I thought that forever. And then later on, I was like, love is no, loves an action, you choose to love somebody. I went, what? This whole time I've been waiting loves an action. You choose to love somebody. I went, what? This whole time I've been waiting. If you're gonna be married to somebody for 50 years or whatever, you think you're gonna like that person? All the time?

No, you're gonna go periods of it. You're not gonna like each other. And it might last years. You might have a two, three year period. That's something's tough or whatever. You're going through something. Everybody goes through stuff. You go from age 25, let's say you get married, till you're 85.

You think you're not gonna change drastically and they're not. There's no way you're gonna be in love the whole time. You're gonna, there's gonna be times you don't like each other, there's gonna be times of friction, but you end up like working together growing. Like my parents now is wonderful to see them now. They get each other. When I was a kid, oh my god, it was fireworks, you know.

Isn't it wild that that's not highlighted more like the 96% success rate versus ours, which is a 50. You know, the divorce market is, you know, yeah, they won't do the other statistic of all the big, how big the divorce market is. Yeah, for lawyers, how much money is in the divorce market? Oh, it's massive. Yeah, my sister-in-law is in that market. Yeah, there's a lot of incentive to keep that market, you know, going. There's not that much money in not letting people, not telling encouraging people to kind of work it out. Now, do you remember,

because obviously you were born into a family like this. Like, do you remember making that connection even at a young age, or did that really come full circle for you later in life? Later, it came more later. I mean, it was so frowned upon for me that, and I got married too young, obviously, that I, you just, you just like,

well, I'm just gonna stick it out, you know? Instead of like, I gotta work on this also, because there's two parts of it. Yeah, you stick it out. That doesn't mean you don't work it out though. Right, right. You gotta work on it too, because at some point, so yeah, no, I figured that out a little later.

Yeah. Yeah, because that was young. That was what hell was I, 22? I got married, that was a baby. Yeah, yeah, that was a child. Well, that's how I was wondering, it's like when you went into it, if you, or you like, did you look at your parents when you're in your teens and 20s like, oh my god, I would never do a formal type of, a range thing, I want to go off and do my own thing, or were you like,

oh, I'm gonna fall into something very simple. I had, cuz I was the oldest, I was just such a deep sense of responsibility, I just thought as what you did. So, I don't even know if I thought about it that as far as where you're going. Oh, you know what I mean? I just thought is what you did. So I don't even know if I thought about it that as far as where you're going. You know what I mean? I just thought is what you do. Oh, I'm 18, I'm an adult now.

Time to get married. I've got a good job, save some money. Yeah, exactly. I was a deep sense of responsibility with an immaturity that didn't match and that's that or experience. In experience. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, I got to take a turn here because we have a new partner we're working with. So I'll announce to everybody, it's a company called Fly By Jing. And they make products that you add to food like seasonings and Doug, what's the name of that sauce that I always use from there?

It's the hot one. The Jiang sauce? I think it's or Jiang sauce. Yeah, okay. I'd slap it all over your face. It's Chinese. Yes, so this company presented to us, sent us this thing, hey, do you guys wanna work with us?

Again, another story where I just put it off, put it off, put it off, Doug tried it, Doug's Mr. Fuddy, and he's like, it's actually good guys, you guys should try this. I don't think so. Anyway, you guys saw me, I tried it once. You've been using it every day now.

Hell good. It goes with everything. I've seen it everywhere now. I never saw it before, and then since you've been using it and swearing by it, I've seen it everywhere now. I never saw it before. And then since you've been using it and swearing by it, I've seen it at Rayleigh's. I've seen it at Costco. Like they're all over the place.

Yes. So they're a much bigger brand than I thought it. I literally thought it was like some small mom, pop brand that listens to the show that sent us in some stuff originally. Because I had never, I wasn't familiar with the brand. I use it. And what I like about it is when you eat unprocessed foods, whole natural foods,

you definitely, look, here's a deal, everybody likes food that tastes good, right? So, you know, even though I'm eating for health, nutrition, I still wanna make it flavorful. So I eat steak, I eat chicken, I eat vegetables, I'll eat rice. Seasonings make a big difference for me, because it's something I can add afterwards,

or a little bit of sauce, if I can add some calories, a little bit of sauce, makes a big difference. So I it's something I can add afterwards or a little bit of sauce if I can add some calories a Little bit of sauce makes a big difference. So I'm big into that kind of stuff. I know you guys are too Are they all spicy or are they have different like no? Oh, yeah, summer sweet summer more savory. Okay, but my favorite one is the spicy one. It's just I mean I put that on everything. It's so freaking good. I tried a rice of try to own vegetables meat fish I put on a really good. Are you and Jessica both spice lovers

or are you the one who only likes spicy in the relationship? Um, I, like, Trina doesn't like spicy stuff. Actually, no, she's starting to like spicy. Because Trina doesn't like spicy stuff. I love spicy stuff. So we always have to make, I always have to do, or I have to put like red peppers or put something online to it.

But I like spicy stuff, but you put me next to someone who really likes spicy stuff. I don't like it like they do. I had a buddy who was... Doug probably has the hottest palette. Yes, Doug likes that should maybe me and then maybe me. I don't know, where are you at with that? I'm pretty, I can go high on the spice.

I think Andrew takes the cake. Oh my God, have you tried Andrew's spicy that he brought from his house over here? No, no. It's not, it's a fire, and I don't mean good fire. I mean, it's, it looks like a real Mexican. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I kind of pretend a little bit.

You're like a mild sauce Mexican. I'm like half bet. Dude, my buddy, I had a buddy who was, he was English, but his heritage was from India, right? And they can cook really spicy. I went to an Indian restaurant in Los Gados with him. And he walks in the back of me, he knows the cooks. And he goes, hey, he goes, I want you to make it spicy.

Like, and they're like, you sure? And he goes, yes, like we eat spicy. So they bring out this curry. First off, it looked like paste. So it wasn't even liquid. It was like paste. I swear in for it. No, no, no, I got an asthma attack.

I ate some of it. I swear to God, I ate some of it. And I, and I, I was like, anaphylactic shock. I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop. Is that wild? How some people have the tolerance? You ate the whole dish? Yeah, in that wild.

Bro, I had some of that. I had to go to my car, think God had an inhaler in there. I don't want to be like in pain while I'm like taking bites. It was painful. But no, fly by jeans, not that spicy. The spicy to the average person likes it,

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All right, here comes the show. First question is from Jada Rankin of the non-barbell squat variations, which is your favorite and why? Oh, yeah. You know what? I have an answer now that would be very different than if you had asked me this You know what? I have an answer now that would be very different than if you had asked me this a year ago. I have now started implementing belt squats. Have you guys ever done these? With the, the, with that machine? Yeah.

Is it called belt squats? It's called belt squats. Yeah, that's kind of an unfair one. Yeah, it's a machine. Yeah, it's a brand new. Well, that's not, that's not why I say it's unfair. It's unfair because it's like so hard to find. Exactly.

Very rarely rarely. I'm very rarely, you know, he's not a huge, there's not me, Jim. Well, I know you guys are going to give other answers and I'll give one that's so hard to find. Exactly. Very rarely. I'm very rarely. He's not a huge, there's not many gyms. Well, I know you guys are going to give other answers and I'll give one to you. Okay. But the belt squat feels so damn good because it loads at the hips. I'm doing a squat. It works on my mobility.

I can go down into a deep position, perfect my form, and really hit the body without having to engage the lower back much, which it kind so it kind of takes out that element and I could focus on lower body mobility So that has become my favorite but taking that out. No, no, you don't get to do too. Oh my bad. Yeah Bulgarian split squat is 10 best ones. I'm gonna jump in there and say Bulgarian split squat is has become one of the, one of those exercises too that I avoided for a very long time in my career.

I had a couple times, I remember dabbling with it in my 20. You just grabbed 20 pound dumbbell, that's why. Yes. And then being completely truthful, like that's what, that's why I didn't do it because I was so weak in that exercise that I'm like this is this sucks

I don't want to do this and so I voted it for a long time And then I remember I went on a kick where I'm like okay I was doing all unilateral work and so limited ravler squats and unilateral So it's one of the best ways to unilaterally trained without any sort of machines or anything so I started doing it and boy So I started doing it and boy, one, I got strong really quick and I saw some of the best development in my legs when I was doing that. And I felt really good. Like it really, I really, yeah, I really felt and I, there was a major discrepancy from left

to right for me and I focused again on the weaker side first and really brought that strength up. And then when I went back to bilateral squatting, I noticed a huge difference. Now, I'm gonna guess that the name Bulgarian split stance squat comes from the fact that we learned it from Bulgarian weight lifters. I'm assuming.

I'm assuming say Russian, but. No, but while the Bulgarians, which joking, it's in the name. They were part of the Thanksgiving season. I can't believe that one right away. Okay, I'll probably. Well, actually, there's your side. It was the Bulgarians.

They crushed and wait for, during when they were part of the Soviet Union. And I think that's what came from, maybe Doug can look that up, but yeah, good exercise. Well, I guess I gotta go with kettlebells, you guys didn't leave me a whole lot. I love Bulgarians as well, but I like, unless you can count like,

Cambridge bar, like if safety bar in terms of like a different type of a barbell that low, she said non-barbell. Specifically, she said non-barbell. Well, no, that, no barbell. No, that's not my cool stuff. Yeah, so I love, you know, a double loaded kettlebell squat that's, you know, it's not necessarily a goblet squat, but it's just a double loaded kettlebell squat that's, you know, it's not necessarily a goblet squat, but it's just a sort of loaded, yeah. And so I'm in the rack position and I can get some good

depth with that. Just, it keeps everything nice and centrally loaded and also too, like it's just, it feels more controlled in a natural way to hold your wrist, like in the front loaded squat, you know, a lot of times you get in that flex position that's rough, but I like doing that and loading it super heavy. So I want to, yeah, there's what it looks like. Yeah, so it was originated when the assistant coach of the Bulgarian Weightlifting National Team,

Angle Spazov, toward the US in the late 80s to speak on the training methods of the highly successful Bulgarian Weightlifting System. Yeah, so it was a good guess. So I want what I want us to speak on the training methods of the highly successful Bulgarian weightlifting system. Yeah, so it was a good guess. But yeah. So what I want us to comment on, because I guarantee if you were to ask a majority of other coaches and trainers in our space,

they would, one of them, especially three of them listed, one of them would have listed a haxquat, and none of us did, is there a reason why- Like a haxquat machine? Yeah, because that's, I mean, that's even in the example

that she gave, you know, Hacksquat, Goblet Squat, Landmines Squat, we actually didn't use any of that. You can feel volume, but I don't see a lot of like, I don't know, in terms of like function. Now, I'm gonna go more in the functional side or, something I can load more specifically that I feel like, you know, puts more demand. I don't hate the Hacksquat.

I just don't have it on my top five. You know what I mean? Like, I would even go through it. I would even do leg press. You would make it, oh wow. You would do leg press before the Hacksquat? Before the Hacksquat I would because, because I have, I typically will do

some kind of a squat variation anyway. So Hacksquat, it's too similar. Yeah, but we're, okay, we're pretending that. We're, we're pretending, eliminating. Yeah, America, Kate, from this person's perspective, you don't have barbell squats, you are real pacing the squat, right? Yeah.

And you only have a couple choices. We all listed three choices. You did the belt, I did Bulgarians, and you did the front loaded kettlebells. Okay, none of us did the hat squat, which is what I would say most coaches and trainers would have said. And now I'm asking you Why not that and you can't use that as an excuse because sure it's replacing it sure sure

So why not the Hacksquat in replace of that? I You know the way that the Hacksquat machine feels to me it I don't I don't get a great feel I could see the the purpose with adding volume and getting a better pump I just don't I just don't like like with all the exercise we said I get getting a better pump. I just don't, I just don't, like, like, with all the exercise we said, I get a much better feel from a legs. Maybe I would do a hack squat over

what the double loaded kettlebell squat only from a body building perspective. When it comes to functional, I think Justin's on point with that because that is a very functional movement. I mean, loading weight in front of your body and squatting has a lot of carry over. So that's the answer I was searching for

from both of you, right? Is that? And I agree with Justin, is that the main reason why I didn't go that way is I went functional, right? I went a unilateral exercise and I think most people need already more in their routine. I saw huge development in my legs.

So even from a bodybuilding perspective, I would still push Bulgarians. Now, if I was only focused on even from a bodybuilding perspective, I would still push Bulgarians. Now, if I was only focused on talking to a bodybuilder, I don't care about any, the functional side of it at all, or what I think is better for a majority of people. I see them, I have more towards machines.

Yeah, so now HACCWAP becomes in my rotation, because you can significantly load it more than the two that we said. You're maybe not the belt squat. The belt squat could rival that. And so that would be the only reason I don't like the belt squat because it's, I mean, good luck finding that right there. I've only ever, I've only just started using one because I never saw one.

Yeah, me too. Like there's been, the, the, the, they just recent got, got one at the Bernal gym, but they hadn't had one for as long as I had been lifting there. So the rare to find. So, or else I'd say that, those two for loading purposes. I think we could change the bar up and get those cool bars that load totally differently. It's like a whole new exercise.

So, I think that's a good point. I think a reason why this person is asking this is because they're limited, right? Of the non-barbell squat variations, you know, which is our favorite? And why? So I'm thinking, what I'm thinking in my head is this person's like, doesn't have a squat rack or doesn't have a barbell. So what do I do? Yeah. So what do I do? I want to know what the best exercises you do. And so Bulgarian comes in mind, right? To me is the number one.

I just really think that even the ones you guys, when you consider equipment, what do you consider? I would agree. I like my do prefer kettle the ones you guys know. Yeah, when you consider equipment, when you consider. Yes, I would agree. I like my I do prefer kettlebells over dumbbells though. In terms of like if I'm going to try and load a bit heavier and like try and rack because it's just in forms and fits a little bit better. Oh, yeah, trying to hold a dumbbell and rack position. It's all like your biceps. Yeah, very, very different.

Very awkward. Yeah, that's it. Okay, that's it. Because I got up to doing a hundred pound dumbbells on Bulgarian split squad for head. I worked my way. Oh, but you didn't rack up I mean, yeah, you're you're holding on your side. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What I'm wondering is could I could I rack Hundred pound kettlebells in that loaded position. That'd be interesting a lot more core stimulation I've done. Yeah, and and you know, laterally like I've done, yeah, in, in, in, in, you know, laterally, like, rack loaded in one side, that's super channel. I love it. Yes, actually, have you ever done Bulgarians and tried racking one versus the other with the

same leg forward? It's a very different field. Yeah. Yeah. Next question is from Saurab 15. I am eating five to six egg yolks and three whites daily. Is it safe for your health? No.

Totally dangerous. This is so terrible. This is the result, this question right here annoys me, not because this person's asking me this question, but rather that this question even exists in the first place. This is 100% the result of terrible, policy, of complete false policy that came out and was promoted for decades,

telling us that dietary cholesterol was bad for us. It's what gave us high cholesterol. It's what contribute to heart disease and all these issues. Complete bullshit. A whole leg in particular is literally like nature's multivitamins. We're the most nutrient dense foods you can find. It's been called the world's perfect food. The cholesterol, dietary cholesterol, they've now said this, even our own government policy

said this, really plays no real role in your body's own cholesterol. So now I do want to say this, there's always individual variances. If this person's diet is terrible and they're so high in calorie, they're adding another five-eighths. Context matters. It's bad. Then yes, it's bad for you. But all things being equal if everything else is healthy, the calories are appropriate,

all that stuff. No, it's actually, it's one of the healthiest foods you can eat. And the studies are now, good well-made studies now are finally starting to show this, but we've known this for a long time. So I hate that this even exists because... Myth persists. How many people have avoided eating whole eggs or have only eaten one here and there so I can't eat more than one like when I when I even my parents when I

would eat scrambled eggs and I'd have four my mom would be like four no no you can't have more than two that's like too many yolks my mom would even say that my mom that's not that's not true at all now now I you know I eat like 10 eggs a day on average so so stupid advice. Yeah, well, you were very direct. I was going to answer it with like, this is not enough information to even give the right advice

because I don't know where you are. Like I don't know where your diet currently is at. So to be able to say, how many whole eggs in egg whites should you eat in a day without knowing, are you 50 pounds overweight? Do you over consume by 1, you know, whole eggs in egg whites should you eat in a day without knowing, are you 50 pounds overweight? Do you over consume by a thousand calories already? Your cholesterol levels are through the roof. Like, yeah, then maybe eating that

is not most ideal if you're in that situation. But if you're a relatively healthy person and you have no underlying issues that you're aware of, the eating, my response actually would be, why are you even eating the egg whites? Why not eat five to six full eggs? Yes. Unless you're just trying, the eating, then my response actually would be, why are you even eating egg whites? Why not eat five to six full eggs? Yes, unless you're just trying to cut calories like this. Right, that's what I mean.

I need to know calories, right? So if you're like barely going over by 200 calories, or say that's even less than that, like 125 calories, you're going over and you're a way of staying under is by eating three egg whites instead of three more full eggs. I'd be like, why are you doing that? If you, if you were to list like health foods, top 10 health foods, again,

any food can be unhealthy. If it's making you eat too many calories, if it's inappropriate for your particular body. So let's put that aside for a second. It's be generally, if we were list health foods, eggs would be up there, period end of story. It would be up there. And what's funny is that we've put like fat free cereals and

grains and other things higher on the list. And we know what the big problem is, is that we stop feeding kids eggs, whole eggs for a long time. You know, if you look at like real ancestral type health and what makes kids healthy and proves right cues, egg yolks are eggs and egg yolks in particular, or one of the healthiest foods you could give a child, give it a young child. You know that intolerances to eggs, which are quite common, okay? So if you look at like the top 10 foods that people might have an allergy in tolerance to, eggs are somewhere there, maybe near the bottom, right?

There's like dairy and like gluten and eggs. It's being like egg whites. It's the egg whites. Egg yolks, if somebody has an intolerance to eggs, it's almost always the whites and not the yolks. Sometimes it's both, but it's almost never the other way. It's almost always the whites and not the yolks. The yolks are, and that's the part we cut out, which is crazy.

And if you look at the nutrients present in eggs, you get coldine, you get B vitamins, you get the cholesterol, you get, and coldine is like a, you can almost consider an essential nutrient. It's like a conditionally essential, I think, is how that would put it. So it's terrible that we've actually taken the healthiest part out of the egg because of bad information. To the point where we get questions like this,

like, you know, the questions that we should be getting is do you think drinking five soda a day is bad? Or something like that? I got to what we should be hearing, not five. This is a very whole natural healthy food and it's actually one of the few foods that people still eat that is not unprocessed. So yeah, get that out of your head and again anything can be unhealthy if it's too much but in this case it is a lot of other food. I am speaking. And look, when I get my blood work done, it's so funny. I always tell my doctor now I have a radio doctor

so I'll do this, but I would change doctors often because I don't care who I'd see or whatever. And I would always tell them, hey, just wanna let you know, I eat about 10 to 15 eggs a day. They shut up and I know I really do. And I say that to you because the way to get my numbers. And I get my cholesterol numbers back in the dark,

and I always lie. Do you think this is a cholesterol thing? It's kind of weird that this person though is eating, because the yolk is where most of cholesterol is. Yeah, right? And that's why they're asking you to tell me. They're eating because the yolk is where most of cholesterol is. Right? And that's why they're asking you to tell me. They're eating five to six egg yolks and then only three whites daily.

Why, I'm confused why are they cutting out two to three egg whites? I think that they may know that the yolks, maybe they follow wellness pages and like, oh, this is real healthy and then other people are probably telling them, are you sure? So they do a blend. Yeah, I'm gonna be a goodie,

I don't know. And they get the other community to I'm gonna do a deep blend. I don't know. I think the other community is saying egg whites and bodybuilding. I don't know. I'll just do the half and half. Yeah, am I bumpers? Is this all right? I don't know.

No, eat the whole egg. And there's actually studies too that show that the protein synthesis that happens from eggs is better when you eat the full egg. So you actually get more of a muscle building effect from whole eggs than you would from egg whites imagine. Well, all things balanced, man.

Next question is from Brady Willard 10. How do you approach strength training for high school students? Do you pick this question, Justin? Yeah, it's just for me. You guys are good at this one. I have no idea. What are the foundational things with this, Justin? Because I actually learned a couple things from you.

Yeah. In this regard. So yeah, what's the things with this, Justin? Because I actually learned a couple of things from you in this regard. So yeah, what's the deal with this? So in terms of structuring, like a strength training and workout program, I think it's really just about taking inventory and kind of checking the abilities first, right? Just like any regular client.

It's just like, what am I working with first? What are the biggest offenders? What's the things that I need to like really zero in on so I can build upon that have a foundation to work with? So I think for me, it was like, it was challenging because I came in assuming the abilities were further along than they were. And I think, COVID had a bit of a play into that because of the two years of infrequent. They weren't in the weight room, they weren't practicing, they weren't playing. And so it's like there was just disconnect with physical activity and movement and schools really like, you know, we're trying their best with Zoom and all the stuff to try and keep kids active and doing things. But I really think that, you know, this got away from us and we realized.

So just that said, like, it was just something different coming into that, like having to kind of figure out, okay, what can I do that will keep their attention, that will be effective, and we'll address these things, but we won't have to like live in that forever. And so that's where I started out with like some isometric positions where it was challenging enough for them to hold and sustain this balance wise and stability wise, and then I could show them that there was a disconnect there.

I can show you your favorite. So, you know, like in a lunch position, so in a split stance position for one, like just having them kind of squat it down and holding and sustain that position, also seeing their base and like seeing, you know, their foot position with that and like, you know, which kids were kind of falling over,

which kids didn't have any core control. And then, too, being able to kind of progress that. So, you know, things like just holding a plank was pretty enlightening to see, like where their core strength was, being able to use some of our tests from, like, the compass tests, like, so the wall press was, like, very enlightening to see how little Mobility and control that they had over the shoulders and and their head and so like this forward position Which was even further exaggerated by being on their computers and desks So it was like I had to do a lot of work with That external rotation and getting them back to good postural

that external rotation and getting them back to good, postural positions. You know what's so valuable about this? Because I think a lot of people, especially coaches, I would say, don't consider assessing first. They go right into, here's the exercises, here's what we're gonna do. And if you do, there's,

exercises can be good or bad, depending on who's doing them, if they're appropriate or not. If they're inappropriate, it could be the best exercise in the world. One thing I learned from you that I thought was, I didn't even consider this, but it's so true, is when you're looking at exercises, you have to consider when's the season start, and are they going to be able to gain the skill to do this exercise properly, gain the benefit by the time season starts?

Yes. So in other words, like a power clean, right? That's a good football exercise. Well, if you're working with a bunch of kids that can't do a proper bodyweight squat, that have never done a power clean in their entire life. Yeah, and you've got three months till the season starts.

By the time the season starts, you may be progressed to just the barbell because you had to start with the broomstick, but you got no benefit now because you had to learn the skill for so long. Yeah, and you can reduce that now to just a squatted jump, vertical jump. And you get in that triple extension, you're getting that explosive power generation, which is really what you're trying to promote with a power clean.

I mean, it's just a lot more technical and there's a lot of moving parts you got to learn and it takes a long time to teach that. So yeah, I had to like weigh out a lot of those exercises and I really just reduced it. It was all a big reduction of bringing it down to like, you know, your five core lifts. Like, you know, if I'm doing bench press, I'm doing back loaded squats, you know, even front squats for me was a very important one, pull ups, dips, and overhead press. Things like that where I was just like, really fine-tuning those movements, bend over rows,

dead lifts, and then I would use the trap bar for dead lifts just again, because... The skill. The skill, the hip-hinging part of it is something that I worked with them, towards the latter half of the programming, we started to get that down, and kids started to understand how to hold their position and be able to kind of fold. So it wasn't a squad, it was different, it was a hip-hinging movement.

And so, yeah, it was literally as simple as possible and then just slowly add a new skill on there. And I eventually even taught them how to do a kettlebell swing swing which is another big skill acquisition that I had to really deliberately teach. Yeah, what I'm getting from is the simplicity. Yes. Like simple, basic because you're going to get the most value out of it. And more complex, the less likely to arrive value because it just requires so much skill and learning. There's different rules.

I remember making mistakes as a trainer, as a young trainer writing programs for young athletes because I Wasn't taking all those things into consideration just in and I was writing a program like I would write a normal client Yes, you know based off of building muscle or whatever acquiring not realizing there's other factors at play here And I am in a small window of okay, they're gonna go perform their sport in X amount of weeks or months and I want to give them their biggest bang for their buck and even though I know, you know, X, Y and Z exercises are super beneficial for these types of athletes, you know, not taking the consideration, the skill acquisition time and that, well, it's like, okay, well, they're not going to really reap those benefits till later. So finding other exercises and simple, like, and realizing that, and I think we talked,

I don't know if it was off air or somebody in the former, the soccer, the soccer team that was doing the Turkish get-ups. I just, if you could get a whole team to be able to organize their body in a Turkish get-up with good form, the carryover that will have into that sport is, even though it's in's out of control. Yeah, and even though the average person would go like

Turkish get up, soccer, why does it make any sense? You know what I'm saying? You know what's funny? So you guys are gonna love this, we're gonna go sports now. So, it's my favorite. And no, this is true for like the sports even I engaged in like I did judo and jiu-jitsu, but I think this is true for all sports. The, especially the younger team, right high school maybe college maybe when you get older,

it changes a little bit probably stays the same. It's the teams that execute the basics the best, right? The most consistent basics. The teams that are like, yeah, yeah forget, you know, forget dribbling, forget passing. Let's practice this crazy layup and let's do this, this, you know, forget dribbling, forget passing. Let's practice this crazy layup and let's do this, this slam dunk and whatever. Like, and remember in Jiu-Jitsu, there were guys that would come from Brazil that would just smoke everybody. And they would smoke everybody with like the same basic shit

you learn the first few months of Jiu-Jitsu. I tried it. They just did it so well and they practiced it so often. I try to explain this all the time to our players. Like, and Dala Sal is a good example of that. Dela Sal, the Patriots, that's all great example. Just because it's, you know it's coming.

And it's just a few plays, but they're masters at those plays. And they could even point at you, I'm blocking you, and they're gonna block you. Because they're not afraid to do that, because they've practiced those skills so effectively that they're gonna have that step and that advantage over you

because you're just not at that same skill levels and because they've mastered that. Do you know that my uncle Casey took that philosophy, Deilo Sal, what you're talking about, to popcorn or football. So he coached popcorn or football for like five years. And just, I mean, to the point. Oh, bro, fathers like got together and we're trying to throw him out because he was winning every game by like 30 points. And he literally was like three plays, you know, and just run the ball down their throw

and just he got the kids so good at like those three plays. They just just destroy. And all these other dads that were just kind of like, we can war your dads, we're trying to execute school plays, maddened, they're like, trying to execute school plays, the kids, and in case he was just like, no, we are just gonna be good at these three things. And that's, yeah. I think the key to

I think the takeaway is, if you're a coach or your high school student is, there's a value that you can derive from an exercise, but before you could derive that value, you have to be able to perform that movement. And that's a value that you can derive from an exercise, but before you could derive that value, you have to be able to perform that movement. And that's a skill acquisition that can take a long time. So what you wanna do is focus on the basics, do them well, and don't throw a bunch of stuff at yourself

because you're not gonna get much value. So if you did, you know, somebody, if I took a high school student and I just did five exercises with them for the next year, I would, they would do better than a kid who did 25 exercises. I mean, it's better to have a strong body. I mean, that's what you're doing in the off season. You need to build your body so you're strong, resilient,

and that carries into speed. That carries into, like, that's the thing, is you can then shift your adaptation, but the strength that you built in that foundational period will go with you. So you have to really hyper focus in on the simplicity of it. Like, I'm just developing a strong body in the most effective way I can. To the point of your simplicity, Justin and I right now are helping my nephew, who's a high school basketball player.

And we've literally reduced it down to three movements. And his homework is literally to it down to three movements. And his homework is literally to just practice these three movements. And one of them is a windmill, a basic kettlebell windmill, a jump box, just a straight, straight forward jump. Yeah, vertical jump, and then a ice skater. So those three, and it's just like, all I want you to do is to practice that,

take your time between sets. And I think that as a coach, you think like you see all this information around plyometrics and you're like, oh, I wanna implement all these cool plyometric stuff. It's like, listen, if your kid can't even organize his body in a vertical jump with good form, you're doing all these crazy explosive plyometric work, is this time?

Yeah, it's a waste of time. It's just injury. It is. And or you're just gonna to create poor recruitment patterns. Right. They're going to be sloppy. You're going to have bad habits. And so that's what I see with a lot of these high school coaches is they're starting to

get better about like implementing better technical, you know, technical stuff in the programming. But then the programming is so over complicated for a high school kid that they're not getting what they should be getting in return for these type of movements. Next question is from Micah2448. How important are the types of shoes you wear during your workout and should they change based on the type of exercise you are doing? Yeah, you know what's funny about this? It's less about the best types of shoes and more about their certain shoes you should

not wear. You shouldn't wear shoes you shouldn about their certain shoes, you should not wear shoes. You shouldn't wear. Yeah, when you look in. Running shoes are the worst. Yeah. Like big cushy. No lateral support at all. No, and they're so cushy and squishy

and you load them with a squat. Your heels elevated. You might not want that. You're deadlift with them. I saw a guy yesterday, actually yesterday, I was deadlifting and he was deadlifting on the platform, and we were pulling and I was going to have you, and he would go up to like three, four plates,

but he had running shoes on, and I really, really wanted to tell him, like bro, you should take your shoes off. You have no idea how much that's messing you up right now. That's what I would do is, if I went to the gym and I didn't have time to go change into, like normally I have chucks, almost always on when I'm lifting, that's typically,

but everyone's, I love shoes, and I'm wearing sneakers today. I'm wearing a pair of Jordans that I wouldn't want to lift in. And this was yesterday, I don't know if you saw them. I don't know if you saw them. I was lifting yesterday and I was wearing a pair of J's, and I just stripped them off and go barefoot. I would not want to lift in those, I love wearing those shoes,

but I'm not going to wear those shoes inside the gym to lift. I want to be as close to being grounded as possible, which I think you're minimal shoes. Which I think your five finger ones are ugly. So if you don't want to have sex, you can wear those ones. Or you wear chocks or vans. And I get like our boys over at squat university, they pick on chocks a little bit,

because they're narrow. The toe box. Yeah, and it doesn't help you spread your toes. So in a perfect world, you can get to a place where you can squat and do things barefoot. That's in a perfect world. You should be. You get the marbles or whatever the ones that cover your toe at least, but it's not like the toe exposed.

But yeah, I mean, again, I understand what they're doing with that, but yeah, I mean, again, like I understand what they're doing with that, but yet it's pretty dorky. So if you're not fully committed into that, like just make sure at least you have a shoe with like a flat wide surface so your feet can, I mean, it is ideal to have your toe spread out so you can, you know, create more surface area for you to have, you know, gain balance and control, which is, that's what you're really resisting because if you have any shift in the weight, you want to be able to account for that and your feet are a big part of that process with where the rest of your kinetic chain's

going to go. Yeah, I remember as a high school, I think it was the first time I squatted close to 300 pounds, right? And I remember backing, I had running shoes on, A6. And I remember backing the bar out, and I remember my feet feeling kinda like squishy. And that's when it occurred to me, like, oh, this isn't feel, like if I twist a little wrong,

I'm gonna hurt myself. Do you guys know what Paul Anderson is? Paul Anderson, really great, the greatest weightlifters, really great American weightlifters of all time, right? Big dude, broke records, pressure. He used the weight lift in dress shoes, okay? Now dress shoes, you know, the kind you wear when in a suit.

Now at first I like dress shoes, what are you doing? That's actually dress shoes were actually a great weightlifting type of shoe. Back in those days they were solid wood bottom with a slight heel. What do Olympic weightlifting shoes look like? Yeah, it does look like. I've actually heard people talk about,

oh, he lifted in dress, I'm like, that's weightlifting shoes, just that, you know, not exactly weightlifting shoes look like? I've actually heard people talk about, oh, he lifted in direction, like that's weightlifting shoes, just that, you know, not exactly weightlifting shoes. There was a trend for like construction boots for a long time where guys were construction boots. Just squat heavy. Yeah. Super stable, super hard sole, slightly elevated heel,

makes sense that you'd be able to squat better. I would see bodybuilders do that and they'd be like, oh, I could squat better. I might, you know, it's because the heel was slightly elevated. Really good. Look, if you lack our information, head over to mind you know, it's because the heel was slightly elevated. Yeah. Really good. Look, if you lack our information, head over to mindpumpfreed.com

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