Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 2078: How to Activate Your Chest While Incline Benching, Training Tips for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle, the Best Way to Introduce Resistance Training to Children & More

Episode Date: May 19, 2023

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin answer four Pump Head questions drawn from last Sunday’s Quah post on the @mindpumpmedia Instagram page.  Mind Pump Fit Tip: Protein is the magic macronutrient! Seek it out if you want better insulin sensitivity, the ability to build more muscle, speed up recovery, and improve satiety. (1:54) Cows with names produce more milk. (9:38) Arby’s accidental death? (16:34) What would be in Mind Pump’s neighborhood? (24:23) Updating the current educational system. (28:50) Dad Life Updates: Asking your kids, rather than telling and everything being your fault as a parent. (33:28) An MRI gone horribly wrong. (42:55) Mind Pump’s new logo. (47:52) Would your 12-year-old self be happy with you? (49:17) Increasing your sodium levels to combat dehydration and cramps. (55:57) Shout out to Daily Dose Meals. (57:42) #Quah question #1 - What can I do to feel my chest more than my front delts during incline benches? (1:01:54) #Quah question #2 - What should I do if I want to train hard, but still be healthy hormonally and have a healthy menstrual cycle? (1:05:42) #Quah question #3 - What are the best lifts when introducing younger kids to lifting? My 8- and 7-year-olds have begun to workout with me in the garage. I have started with weighted step ups, dumbbell rows, dumbbell chest & shoulder presses but was not sure if there are more appropriate exercises. (1:10:26) #Quah question #4 - What should you do in Anabolic if your hip flexors are hurting while doing sit ups? (1:13:10) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Magic Spoon for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! For a limited time only, Mind Pump listeners get a free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase: Visit DrinkLMNT.com/MindPump May Promotion: MAPS Prime or MAPS Prime Pro or the Prime Bundle 50% off! **Code MAY50 at checkout** Cows with Names Make More Milk | Live Science Employee found dead in freezer at Louisiana Arby's - NBC News MrBeast lives in modest $318K house, buys out neighborhood for employees Home - Daily Dose Life **Coupon code MINDPUMP20 at checkout** Visit Butcher Box for this month’s exclusive Mind Pump offer! How To Properly Do The Seated Cable Row (IT MATTERS!) Mind Pump # 1142: Nine Signs You Are Overtraining MAPS Suspension Training Hip Flexor Deactivators- Do these first to maximize your Ab development – Mind Pump TV Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Dr. Becky Kennedy | Parenting (@drbeckyatgoodinside) Instagram DON SALADINO (@donsaladino) Instagram  

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yogurt and fruit. Well, you're probably gonna see a spike in blood sugar and over time that may cause with other factors, insulin insensitivity or insulin resistance. We'll check this out. You're better off eating protein and then eating that meal than you are just reducing the sugar in that meal. That's how powerful protein is.

Eat it before high sugar meals and you blunt the response. Even more so than if you cut the sugar out of that meal. So what does that mean? Well, protein is pretty incredible. So seek it out if you want better insulin sensitivity. And of course, we've already told you it helps build more muscle, speeds up recovery, and it improves satiety. Meaning it makes you feel fuller longer.

So protein, search for it. It's probably gonna help you with most of your goals. Protein first, kids. There you go. I think after school. It's not wild, special or something. Isn't that wild? If you have a high sugar breakfast or meal,

if you've been protein before, it's better than if you just lower the sugar. Well, I think that, crazy, right? Breakfast in general is a really tough one for most people to get a high protein. It's just most of it centered around carbohydrates. Your traditional cereals, toast, bagels, doughnuts, waffles, pancakes.

This seems like it was dinner's dessert. They just recycled for breakfast. It's all like cakes and you know what I mean? It's weird. like, dinners dessert, they just recycled for breakfast. Why? It's all like cakes and... He's right. You know what I mean? He's right, bro. Weird.

You're literally having cake for breakfast, but now it's pancake. I know, this is, okay, this is like a battle at my house right now because we let Max have pancakes a lot. And I'm like, honey, I know that like, and we're there pro-team pancakes gluten-free, like we make it look better, a better, a better, a better version. A better version, but I do explain to you guys, I was like, you do know this is just like cake, right?

I mean, it's literally, it's just, it's rebranded. Right. We're giving our son cake for breakfast. They didn't even try that hard. Cake is an egg. Is it still some cake? Yeah, it still says cake. Yeah, I mean, it literally is.

That's what it is. Flower egg sugar, it makes the same thing. You know, it's funny, so the whole process, food revolution, when it started the meals that got hit, the hardest was breakfast because breakfast is the meal that people tend to have the least amount of time, right? Wake up, oh, gotta get to work, kids get ready. You don't want to spend time cooking anything.

So that was one of the first meals to become almost fully processed, for a while. Because it used to be breakfast you got up and Monday. It was a big ordeal, yeah. It was like you really looked forward to this huge display of food. Now cereal, cereal, boom. That was one of the first things that hit the market as processed food.

Yeah. And cereal is almost always sugar or carbohydrate-based, almost always. Well, now we have companies like Magic Spoon, that right? Yeah, which is totally flipping it on its head. Well, yeah, how many grams of sugar in total in that? There's hardly anything.

Barely anything. Yeah, it's like two grams. Doug, what is the cereal market? Look like dollar-wise. Just curious. Let me find out. Yeah, I'm just curious of how big of a... I know it was, I don't know if it's...

And I'd be curious this. One, what is it, dollar wise per year? And then also, is it on the rise or decline? Any guesses? The serial market? Yeah, yeah. Do you think serial, since we've been, since we were kids, do you think it is a cast to have taken a hit? That's, I feel like it has to. That's just because of competition from other...

I don't know, breakfast. My, my thought is when you're a kid, I just felt like it was talked about more, it was praised more, you think of the a lot more commercial. Commercials that were super famous. I think of like childhood commercials, I can think of like so many serial commercials in comparison.

What about like the, today it doesn't, it doesn't seem like that. What about the most epic ones that were just, I mean, looking back with just a lie. Weedies. Weedies. Cheerios. But weedies was like great for your heart. Like it's all, it's like the whole, the whole,

yeah, they highlight like Olympic athletes and like it was like a sort of an accomplishment, right? To get on the box of a Weedies box. That was a big deal. That was a good trophy. How much does it? So the global breakfast cereal market size was valued at 36.5 billion in 2021 and expected to grow at a compound annual

Great growth rate of 3.7 percent. Yeah, okay, it's global. Okay. I wonder if the US is different though because this just could be that the Okay, there's a lot of this is from 20. That's it progesterone. Oh, well, that's US. No, that says US So go back, Doug. So tell look back to in your your time and our time. Oh, no What does that say? So that's Andrew on the screen now. Oh, it's Andrew. Yeah Yeah, this is just adding to what Doug was saying so US $36 5 billion in 2021 is expected to grow compound annual growth rate So it's a 20% Yeah, 2022 2030 and then this graph basically shows the US now is that because you just be purely because we're just in a bubble I guess about people is that because you just purely because we're just in a bubble I guess about people, is that why?

Because is it a percentage or is it actually like a total because dollar amount is what it's based on? Go back to like 80s and to now can you do that? I'm going to comment that they're projecting it to be 107 billion by 2030. Wow. Yeah, so I'll find out what's next. Here's why I think it's growing.

Actually, when you think about it. Okay, let me hear. More and more people eat cereal for other meals. More and more. That kind of started in our generation. Remember, like before our generation, like you ate cereal in the morning and then everybody's like,

What do you mean? Like it's a snack or like a late night thing. I almost never ate breakfast. I always ate cereal all the time. I can count on one hand. How many times I've had magic spoon for breakfast? It's always for dinner. It's after dinner.

It is, no, it's a sweet treat for me. It's a great, it's completely eliminated my Washington State completely. It has replaced the most part. No, it's a save. For the most part is replaced, by the way, I've heard some people have actually using magic spoon in like milkshakes and protein shakes and blending it all. Oh, it's because you blend it into a powder. Yeah, and actually bumps the protein and take up and it gives this like

I don't the you know the crunch and flavor. I haven't tried it, but I've heard you know what I would make is Like a flurry or something you know what I'll make is a magic spoon crispy treats. I wonder what that would know I've seen those I've we had really good listeners make those. Do you have? I thought Katrina made them one time. By the way, you know, for people wondering why high protein like legit high protein cereal was never really attempted before. It's because protein is expensive and protein usually doesn't taste good. Yeah. That's it. That's a shocky. Yeah, you don't want a high protein cereal because it didn't taste good and it was expensive. Magic's been taste, it doesn't taste like a high protein cereal.

It tastes like the stuff you ate when you were a kid. No, no, it's absolutely amazing. The wizard. Almost no sugar. You know what the worst cereal of all time was? Great nuts. Do you remember that? It was rocks.

I disagree. Oh, you're right. That was one of my favorites. No way. You're pushing sugar. Absolutely. You had to dumb sugar. Oh, yeah. You're a drown. It was sure. I love the crunch. That doesn't count. I don't know. Remember the shredded wheat. It was like literally I felt like a horse. I love eating hay. So I love sure. I have a Jewish shredded wheat. It's trusted. Yeah, frost. Come on. It doesn't count. He's talking about the break. Remember the big ass break?

Honestly, mine will be a bail. I would hate it. Because I liked the frosted, the tredoweeat so much, I could eat that right now, the unshiggered. I bet you couldn't. I bet if I threw a plane one in front of you, you'd be like, Well, no milk, I need to, I need to.

No, pour some milk on it. We'll. By the way, you know what the selling point back in the day for that helps you poop. Was that what it was? That was it, dude. High fiber, it was all about regular labor. High fiber, yeah the selling, what was the selling point back in the day for that? Helps you poop. That was it, dude, high fiber. It was all about regular labor. High fiber, yeah, fiber was really highlighted. You would see on the box like,

like helps you become regular. Yeah, isn't there a problem? You're called fiber one. Heart heled, yeah, that's, it's a shred of running into the little shred. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, speaking of milk, I have something for you. I have a study for you today.

I'm pointing out. So I wanna, actually, I should shout the girl out with my seatbelt on. Say, okay, so. I love how study for you today. So I want to actually I should shout the girl out for my seat going on. Say Merrill K. So I don't bring the study. Yeah. They're always good though. Okay. I'm not brought to study that isn't like it really interesting because I rarely do it because that's not my thing right. And I can't take credit for it. So shout out to Elizabeth on the YouTube channel. I was going through the comments and I and somebody was commenting on That they love hearing me tell dairy stories, you know So she said something that I had to go back and fact check and absolutely she was right there are studies to support this and back this up

That cows that you call by name or have names Produce significantly more milk been cows that don't have the cows that don't have name and have names produce significantly more milk. Ben Calzad don't have name. The Calzad don't have name. And there's studies to support that. It's a lot actually. I actually looked it up and there's a ton of studies aren't... Yeah. No, I know what it is.

What's that? What's your... It's just the attention, right? Yeah, I think if it has a name, you're talking to it more... Yeah, so that's what it is. Not that I've had a name. The article, the article's in the stuff that are touting the study over. You could call it... It animal treating the animal well. Yeah, so that I'm sure

There's a correlation there if so obviously if you you know have a name for the cow You talk to the cow with a name so that you probably love it take care of it So that someone who doesn't even have a name for it shocks it kicks it doesn't treat it well I'm sure there's some correlation there for sure. Do you know that? So just a little shout out to the motherland for my parents in Italy because they have such a strong food culture.

The way that they treat their animals is so important. The way that they treat their pigs and feed their pigs and cows, and how they feed their cows, because they believe quite strongly that the way you treat the animal really determines, strongly determines the flavor of the meat, or the milk, or the cheese that it produces. Well, isn't this where, it's actually where like wagoo and,

and veal, and all that stuff comes from, is the, is the raising of the, the animals in these like, Yeah, why you, what do they feed them like, olives and, not olives, that sounds more Italian to me. Okay. I Think it's yeah, it's beer Some beer and maybe beer grains. Okay. There is massage. Yeah, they massage them right? I think they do play music

Yeah, yeah, and they may have names like You imagine the one cow. Imagine the one cow in the group. That's like guys Well, it's so ealous. I shut up conspiracy theorists. And love us. Look at them with their fingers. No, you understand, bro. John left yesterday and then come back.

Well, he went to the other place. No, no, no, they ate him. Yeah, you can spears shut up. Don't listen to that guy. So I mean, you gotta think that stress affects hormone levels in us animals. So with that, that has to, and you have an animal that you're eating their meat

or they produce milk. You would think a hormone profile is going to have an effect on the byproduct that they animal, right? So you would, so absolutely keeping them in a less stressed environment. Not only would produce more as far as milk and things like that, but also probably make a higher quality.

You know, the whole treating animals like, like, terribly, really was a byproduct of mass production commercial, ridiculous farms, because it's actually tradition for hunters. And this is almost all hunters you'll find treat animals with tons of respect, to the point where it's more's more common to think the animal after you kill it to respect it To pray over it or whatever so so this is my positive Outlook on this lab-grown meat in this direction that we're going is that it's that's gonna become so cheap that it's gonna It's going to out compete the mass farms and then the only thing that will stick around are these more niche, small farms that are grass fed, no way about like they can just roam. And there'll be people that will,

there'll be a percentage of people that are willing to pay a very high premium to get real meat that's raised that way. And then everybody else who doesn't give a shit, that just wants the cheapest they possibly can they'll go to the artificially made. So I do, that's my positive outlook and which would be great for farming and eco

and all that stuff. I mean, I don't know because- I hope that's the case. I don't know if it would be a big enough market because people don't realize that like, especially grazing animals play an important role in the environment and capturing carbon and, you know, fertilizing. So I don't think it's going to be a big enough market to replace that.

Honestly, and you know it's funny. Here's something. Now I don't know if this is a good or bad thing because you could argue both sides, but lab-growing meat becomes popular and the market for actual cows and pigs and chickens becomes much smaller. I think there'll be a niche market, like you said, but I don't think it'll be a big market. That's gonna mean there's gonna be way less cows, chickens, and pigs on earth.

Way less. Because cows exist in numbers because we breed them and we take care of them, saying we're chickens and pigs. So I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. I guess you could argue both sides. You could easily argue both sides. Yeah, because there's less of them,

but they'll be trivial. And I actually think that it'll be, I mean you could argue both sides. You could easily argue both sides. Yeah, because it'll okay, well, there's less of them, but they'll be trivial. And I actually think that it'll be, I mean, it'll be small in comparison to the other side, but not in, I think, like, look at organic. Organic was not a thing 20 years ago, really, or a little over that now, a hollow-own spin. And you would have to go to a very specialty store to find organic anything.

We're now every grocery store. And that, by the way, I remember watching that like it being a little section and then becoming a part of it. Yeah, but the price is competitive now. It used to be organic. Is it really? It's competitive.

Come on, you pay really high prices for it. Not like it used to be, organic used to be. Well, don't you think that's what it'll kind of look like? I mean, I feel like the same, the same trajectory. I don't know, I feel like lab grown meat when they get the processes down, it's gonna be so cheap because you could grow it. In the lab, you don't know, I feel like lab-grown meat, when they get the processes down, it's gonna be so cheap because you can grow it. In a lab, you don't need lots of land for it.

I feel like that's gonna be at some point. So right now, it's expensive. Lab-grown meat's more expensive than regular meat right now. But I mean, the whole commercial system where they have it now, or they're just like literally confined to these little gates and these cages and like, pump them with antibiotics and everything just because they're unhealthy, you know.

I don't know. I like the idea of it disrupting that whole industry a bit. I don't know what it's going to look like, but that part of it was always gross, but it was necessary because look at the population numbers. It's a numbers thing and to be able to like produce on that kind of volume is insane. Yeah, I know. That's a uncomfortable truth. Is that, okay, well, if we,

if we were right now just dramatically drop the hammer and say none of these farms can exist in this way anymore, the cost of food who go up so high, and the people who, I don't have money, they could afford it, but those that are most vulnerable would have a big problem with that. So, you know, like who, you know, and then the argument's like,

who do you care more about? People who need to afford to be able to eat or these animals, right? Which one? People who need to be the same. So, did you have meat? Did you see the news on Arbys? Did you see the person that was found?

And the freezer? Wait, what? Yeah, they do have body? Dead body found in the, oh my god. Freezer at Arby's. That's like goonies. Yeah, and I think that as of now,

because as the recording in this, the person is unidentified still. Pulled up though. I just saw this morning. Oh. Yeah, wow. I'm talking about a mafia hit or something. Sounds like it.

Yeah, right? Isn't that like an old school mafia? Well, the Louisiana where it's at. Okay. Cause they, I mean, these to discard, well, I've seen movies of them them starting bodies with like the pig troughs and you know, chop. Oh, yeah. You know, you know, you know, you know, like a famous hit man. Who's that famous hit man that they did? Painhouses? No, no, no, no, he, they made movies about

them. I think they called me ice man. and what he would do is he would kill somebody freeze the body Wait, yeah, yeah, so let it fully defrost through off the time so they couldn't piece Yeah, he dumped it and they couldn't connect it to the crime because it looked like the body had just died And then he eventually got caught because he didn't live to frost all the way and they saw Ice crystals and they put two and two together. So there's a woman's body in that. Yeah, so what are the employees? Oh, I thought an employee founded a thai thought I know it says that this woman was an employee Oh, I read the article wrong. I thought it was an unidentified body found by an employee that worked there You sure don't that's according to the news

I got locked in and get out or something. Oh my god. Oh Banging on the door. Nobody can hear you. Oh, bro, oh my God, that would be horrific. Yeah. That would be a terrible way. How many have been in accident? That's what it says it may have been accident? Yeah. Okay, so if you got locked in a freeze like that,

how long for it to probably kill you like that? Well, I know the more you move, the more likely you are to not freeze, right? Yeah, if you were smart, you'd be in there doing push-ups like Don's stock. Yeah, just trying to generate heat. Wow, dude. That was suck.

That's horrible. Just being locked in anything for that long would suck. Okay, take a while. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Could you possibly survive 24 hours? How cold is it? So is a big meat freezer. How cold is that?

That's the first. At least 32, but I'm gonna find out. It's gotta be, yeah. It's gotta be able to live. How cold is a walk in freezer? I mean, it seems unlikely because. It does seem unlikely. You walk the next day, somebody's gonna,

that's what I'm saying. Can you last 24 hours? That's why I said that. If you could last 24 hours in there, yeah, I think it's highly unlikely, dude. I think it's probably a hit. It's 35 to 38 degrees. Oh, that's a walk in refrigerant.

Well, so that's a walk in freezer to zero to minus 10. Oh, it's 10? Never mind, bro. Yeah, that's a walk in refrigerate. Well, that's a walk in freezer to zero to minus 10. Oh, it's 10. Never mind. Yeah. That was a walk. That's Fahrenheit. So that's like well below, you know, freezing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So how long can you survive in that? So look up, how long could someone survive at negative zero degrees Fahrenheit? Or, yeah, you know, I don't know if you can put your... I don't know if you can put your... You know, the kind of another dress, of course. Right. You know that drunk people are more likely to freeze the death than sober people? So that makes total sense. Because they don't perceive and feel the... Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. They're not getting the feedback. Or they pass out. Yeah. And they're dead, you know? Is that happened often like in like cities like... Yeah. Oh yeah. Detroit or something like that. That whole place is... That was a big, big problem. I mean, when they... They used to get like, you yeah, yeah, Detroit or something like that. Whole places. That was a big big problem. I mean, when they they used to get like,

you know, these these crazy, like freeze, like storms come through where like literally like the lake would freeze and then it would have you ever seen that in person? I think city, because I've always seen that. I've only seen that on my news and pictures and so on that because what you're describing, which I think is the craziest visual.

Do you see it? You see it coming? Yeah, where you see everything just so free. The wind is blowing so hard and it's raining and it's so cold that it like freezes like that way on cars. You not seen that before? No, yes. I see a few videos from like Canada where that was like real time. There was like freezing like you said. It was like moving like slowly. You actually see it. You've never seen that before? I've seen after effect, but not during. Oh, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying that's what I've only seen like pictures of that. I was asking you to just like,

it looked like it looked out there before. If you ever like woke up and like saw a morning like that, like that would be so crazy. I mean, yeah, there's been icicles and like on everything. Yeah, like sideways icicles. Like it has like sideways, I see the icicles on the cars and looks crazy. Why hate cold weather?

Hate it. So I don't have any definitive answers on negative tan, depends on how you're dressed, et cetera. But only five to 10 minutes in freezing temperatures. Whoa. With a windshield factor. So in that case, Yeah, windshield.

But still, I mean, I would, that's so fast, even of this part, like because what I was trying to figure out was like, okay, could this person logically have figured a way out to survive at least 24 hours till the next shift came in? Think about it though, you're up in like freezing weather, snowing outside or whatever, and you only have a t-shirt on. Yeah. How long do you think you're gonna last?

Not long. Not long. What's the coldest weather you've ever, coldest temperature you've ever experienced? I've been in minus, minus six or nine. Okay. Yeah, I call her up, but I told this before on the podcast that it's, I've, I've, I've been in minus minus six or nine. Okay. Yeah, call it up. But you I told this before on the podcast that it's I've I've been in a 30 degree weather or so in San Francisco and that feels colder. What? Yes. Why is the wind? Yeah. And it's a dry cold versus a a a wet cold.

A wet cold like in San Francisco, because the ocean and stuff right there is like bone chewing cold, a dry cold in like Colorado, feel weird. I come down to the, I remember like days it would be like five degrees and go down to the bus stop for school and wearing like what I'm wearing right now. T-shirt and sweats or anything.

But yeah. Really? Yeah. Weird. That's weird. Yeah, Justin, you've been in the cold. Yeah, you've been in the cold like that. Yeah, it is.

Oh, yeah. Wow. It you've been in the cold. Yeah, you've been in the cold like that. Yeah, it is. Oh, yeah. Wow. It punches you right in the face. Wow. It feels like, and you have to have down everything. Like, you have to have that feathered coat, like, like, pants, the whole thing. Otherwise, it just literally exposes you,

like, you're like, out there, like, button naked. Like, you might as well be, because it's just like, it's hard to breathe. It's, like, like you're like out there like butt naked. You might as well be because it's just like it's hard to breathe. I remember getting like you're just really angry because it's like you just you just have to tense up and like you know I didn't know any Wim Hof like maneuvers back then. So I'm just like like bearing it as much as I could walk into class. But they have underground. So in some of the campuses on other colleges, they have underground passageways

so you could get the tune fro because sometimes it gets that bad. It's because of that windshield. That windshield right off the lake is just like the wind would make that. Oh, hell no. It's brutal. The coldest I've ever experienced

in things like 30 degrees. It never been anything cold. But I bet you've been, like I'm telling you right now, I've been to a lot of cold places and I think that being, I've been in Alaska, I've been in really cold Colorado,

been what else has been really cold for me. But I still think that I can recall some of the coldest windy nights on San Francisco feeling like. Yeah, for these things. Wind is what gets ya. Yeah, because the winds hitting you in your face and so like that, whoo.

Now hot, I can handle, I can handle heat all day long I used to live in Palm Desert now was yeah I don't do well and like when you guys get weird in the heat you guys are so annoying and irritable like I just want to lay down and then like do nothing I start skipping like I love it feels great I just feel like you can you can always you know when you're if I'm really really cold, I can layer up to try and stay warm. But hot, you can just, you peel down so much and you can't peel down anymore.

Now you just in it. You have to bear sleeping in that. That's the worst. Oh, bro, one summer, I was 12 and we went to Sicily to visit my grandparents. This is before they had air conditioning and the house in Sicily, it's a small town or now it's actually a big city, it's a small town or this now

It's actually a big city, but it's like a it's like a concrete like cube and we had no AC and it's humid humid So humid it's like you're walking through water. That's how humid it was and hot and this is at night So I'd sleep in my underwear and bed and just a pool of sweat would be around me. Oh, yeah You guys see what mr. Beast did the other day? I like, no. Okay. I have always wanted to do this.

I still want to do this and I would do it. I have the question would be would you guys all do this? Which is on the spot in the air? No, he bought a whole neighborhood for his family and friends. Oh, really? Yeah, I forget what town he should. Hell yeah, I would do that. Right, like he just literally like,

I would love to buy a neighborhood. Yeah, like a whole neighborhood, he bought all the houses up in it. I don't know, some of his staff, family, and friends all to live there. Imagine that's awesome, I'll be. I would totally do that. Do whatever you want.

And you build such a, I mean, you build your community, say with all your family and friends, you are the only problem is everybody would know your business. You know what I mean me everybody would know everything possibly I mean, I'm friends with my neighbors. You know half my business. It's just because I If I live next to you. Thank you. Thank you. If I live next story Did you guys know that he you guys know that he still lives in his

$320,000 house really in in North Carolina really heard him say that yeah, interesting in that while I think he's just you know in North Carolina. Really heard him say that. Interesting. Isn't that wild? He's probably just trying to ground himself, because he's had so much insane success. That he's trying to hold onto a piece of that, I think. It's interesting. I mean, I'm fascinated by him because he does a lot of really cool stuff, right?

As far as his philanthropy work, and there's my dad. You know, he got criticized for that. How stupid is that? Oh, I know. Yeah, the people were on him for, what was he doing? He was like giving people this basic surgery to restore.

And they were trying to get on with that because he was going to go viral to do, that was such a, I saw that. Such bullshit. I know, so stupid. It's so dumb. He makes money that way and he helps people. So, how's he gonna make money and continue to help people?

You gotta do that. You always find it interesting when we criticize people that are doing things like that, that are helping other people like just I know what would you guys put in our neighborhood? Let's say we built our neighborhood Well, how would we what would be different about it? Oh, there'd be a gym of course There would be a community gym one of the house like a sick. Yeah, we would look like gut like a house Or a lake and a theater. Yes, there would be a movie theater and a gym for sure.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I think that would be it. Everything else would be like a slip and slide to go from house to house. That would be kind of cool. We built it with water or a Western oil. Huh? Ah.

Everybody would have like those scooters. Everybody needs a fireman, golf course. And get up and down from the second floor. You know what now here's what would be tough in that situation. If we have crazy water gun fights all the time, if you did something like everybody probably has an aunt, uncle, mother, and law, or someone that you wouldn't want in your neighborhood. So how do you like? I would blame it on you.

Oh, I'm not. Yeah. Easily. Yeah. I'd be like, hey, I'm fighting them. I know we bought this neighborhood and you know, everybody in the family's coming, but Adam Justin just, they don't want you to hear. I lost the vote. You know,, don't want you to hear it. I lost a vote, sorry. I really wanted to hear. Yeah, but it's all good. Because that would probably be the hard conversation. You have to do that.

There's got to be some fit. Did you see that guy that won the lottery and he showed up to get his winnings wearing a screen mask because you don't want none of his family and friends to know? Really? Yeah, dude. Smart. Well, there's stats on that. How much the family ends his family and friends to know. Really? Yeah, dude. Smart. Yeah. Well, is it what's their stats on that?

Like how much the family ends up getting and stuff like that? Like how many people? I think some states require you to show your identity. Yeah. Unless there's like a way you could do it where you hire a lawyer. So did they make it too so they didn't have to report the name? Yeah. Yeah.

So they can keep that anonymous. Like you know there's people that come out of the woodwork. If you're with publicize, you want $100 million, you know, you have people come back. No, that's the move. Yeah. What's going on? You know what reminds me of, let me ask you guys this. A random person from high school,

you haven't talked to in years, sends you a message. Oh, God. What's happening? He's M-L-A. Every time. M-L-M, bro. Let me tell you about this business. Oh, I'm so lucky.

How you been, man? I haven't talked to you in a while. How you investing? I'm so lucky. How you been, man? How you investing? I'm doing good. Have you heard of a Sae Berry? Because. Yeah. Oh, my God. By the way, there's several states that allow you to be anonymous

when it comes to lottery winnings. Oh, it's a state by state? Yes, it is. California requires full disclosure. Of course I do. Of course they do. Yeah. Why?

What are we good for? Actually. Huh? What do we good? Other than our weather and like. Just the environment. Yeah, why? Why? What are we good for actually? Huh? What are we good for? Other than our weather, like, just the environment. Yeah, the actual like land itself. I mean, they're trying to destroy it. I mean, our innovation has been amazing.

We, you know, we're the home of tech. I mean, now it's spreading all over the world, but. Yeah, but he was like talking about government, I think. Oh, yeah, we're just terrible. Okay, yeah. But, that was a good point though. I mean, Silicon Valley has become like, obviously, we'll be talked about and taught about in schools.

You know, California, when that was born, California was not the same kind of state. It was a very kind of free state in that sense. That was the old attitude, right? Let people do what they want. Yeah, that's a dream we actually had. Yeah, we actually had Hollywood, then in turn, it's Silicon Valley. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of it. And we had, we had some of the largest,

what's it called voucher systems for schools at one point in California and then went full in the other direction. We had a voucher system. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, California used to do that back in the day. I didn't know that. So why do we do away with it? Well, there's lots of arguments as to whatever, but I don't, I mean, I think. Because I've heard you talk about that as a solution. So the, yeah. It makes sense if a shitty school, first of all,

here's a deal. I'm thinking about the person that has no options. Yeah. One of the people talk about the wealth gap and disparity. The biggest disparity you'll ever see in your entire life is public schools. Go to the public high school in Los Gatos. Have you guys seen that one? My business was over there.

It looks like Beverly Hills, 90210. It does. Okay, then go to a public school in some rough parts of Oakland or somewhere else. Look at the difference, very different. You're stuck with the school you're by. So if you're struggling and you wanna give your kid a good education, this is public, by the difference, very different. You're stuck with the school you're by. So if you're struggling and you wanna give your kid a good education, this is public, by the way,

there shouldn't be that big of a disparity. You got your kid, you wanna send them to good school, but you're stuck with this shit school over here. You should be able to take your kid and be like the state's paying for it. So I should pick the public school they go to. They don't let you do that. I think it's crazy.

What is the argument for us taking like the private sector out of it, like, or making it like pulling capitalism out of like the school system? Like I feel like if it was a competitive market, one, you would see the increase in pay for potentially for teachers. So you'd see that. You'd see better teachers, better scoring, better what why what is the what is the argument for?

Okay, so Here's somewhere where typical and then you and then by the way with that structure you do vouchers for people can't because I know the argument Oh, well, then not everybody could it cost everybody money to do it Well, then you give vouchers for people to make less than X amount of dollars important that you have Some kind of education that's available to everybody and studies will show that that's actually a better use. Yeah, but you know, okay, let me just pause you right there. In this time and error, that's so silly to me.

Well, now it's becoming different. It's becoming interesting now because now access to information is so expensive that the whole system needs to change, but this was in the past, right? But I do agree that I think there should be, I still think there should be something available to everybody, but I do think there should be some market forces. I think if you're a parent, you're like a school, we should be able to take your kid and give that money to another school. And if that school gets too full, well, great.

Guess what they're going to do. And duplicate schools that do really well are rewarded financially for the success of that. And then the teachers get paid more and so then it becomes competitive that you want which also too would be great for rivalry with like sports and I just think that like that would create this great it would great competitive healthy competition amongst districts and schools like I just I think so and teachers should get paid better for better performance yes. Getting more students having parents want to bring and and teachers

You do crappy should get less money and maybe get fired hard to fire a teacher once they get tenure They just kind of shuffle them around. Yeah, you know, so I don't know but but here's a positive with public schools is They're required to educate your child private schools are not so I have I have friends whose kids are Really tough. They've got learning challenges, have friends whose kids are really tough. They've got learning challenges, and they're just, they're tough. They're just tough kids. And they get kicked out, private school kicks them out.

This one pricks them out. Now the whole diocese of this area, sorry, your kid can't keep coming to our schools, but public schools are required to try to educate and require to try to help them. So that's a positive, I think. Cause if you're one of those parents, you're like, we the fuck my kid?

I know my kids, they're like, we're my mother. Yeah, I'm really because if you're one of those parents, you're like, we the fuck my kid? I know my kids. Yeah. The little little little little little little little little little little little little little type of deal. Yeah, I don't know if I don't know how much of a positive I think that is. I mean, if your kid is so fucked up that you get kicked out of every fucking private school, bro, some of this stuff is sometimes it's not something that you can handle. There's there's mental issues and disabilities and challenges. Yeah. That can be really hard. Like the person I'm talking about, that's really? Yeah, that's a lot of what it is.

It's not like, yeah, and public schools are required to educate them, so I think that, you know, that's good if you're that person, you're gonna need that. Otherwise you're stuck, and then what if you have to work? Now where's your kid gonna go? You know, type of deal, tough situation. I don't have all the answers.

Yeah, speaking of kids, I do. Speaking of kids. Bro, this is so funny. So I keep talking about this course that I'm taking with with Jessica. On EMDR. No, not that. Not not lasers and ambient music. No, of course for children, right? To learn, you know, how to work with kids and stuff. Guys, this is why you're never here as you get so much other stuff you're doing. You go, all this stuff you're going to grow. I've got four kids, bro. I'm totally, like I'm not kidding. I know what you're kids.

So this course talks about how when your kid doesn't want to do anything, you're toddler, ask them why, rather than trying to force them. I talked about this on the... Without them. Yeah, I talked about this on the show that episode hasn't come out yet. But it's so crazy. You know what it reminds me of?

It reminds me of this. Do you remember when you learned in sales, when you learned that sometimes people throw shit out and it's not really an objection? So trying to counter it just creates all these roadblocks to potentially getting the person to work on the train. Yeah, like I remember I've talked about this many times,

giving someone a tour of the gym. It's prime time, it's January, it's packed, and the you know person's like oh my god this gym is so packed and then my Instinct is to like counter it well actually it's not as busy during this always like this. Yeah, there's plenty of equipment available And instead one of my mentors says Why are you countering that it's not even an objection just agree with them and I did and a person's like it's so packed Like I know right and then that was it was done. Yeah, this is this reminds me that so you know I was gonna go outside with the railiest. I'm like, really, it's cold outside.

Put your jacket on. I don't wanna wear my jacket. And I'm like, oh, I remember the course. Now, normally I'd be like, put your jacket on otherwise we're not gonna go outside. But instead I said, well, why don't you wanna put your jacket on? I don't like the way it feels. You wanna try a different jacket?

Okay, let me put it on. Like so stupid, it was like the dumbest thing. Just to ask them what's going on. And that same vein, I feel the same thing too about as a parent learning to be Stoic in those moments when they they emotionally react to or stuff Part of what feeds into that and what causes that behavior to continue to happen is our reaction many times Yes, so if they you know start to throw a fit or get all emotional about that and you can stay stoic in a in a moment like that At one point they realize oh, it's not getting a reaction

at a dad and I'm not getting anywhere with it and they just stop. By the way, it's like you staying just so calm in that moment and you just less of them happen because you're like that. No, that is so true. However, it can be so hard. Oh, very hard.

So is there something that your kid says, because I can do that really well with my kids, unless they're doing something to one of their siblings, like we were in the car of the day and Aralius and Dollar are in the back. And I'm pretty good with this. Like Aralius will do something, try and get in a reaction and I'm chill, but he was in the back and he would scream, roll out to get his baby sister to cry, to get a reaction. Because he's making her cry, oh, I felt the rage build inside of me. And I was like, and I found myself turn around

doing like a dad thing, like you better know, Jessica's looking at me, don't react. And of course, what does he do? He does it more because he gets it reaction. Yeah, yeah. Oh boy, do you guys have anything like that? Where there's, Well, I don't have a second sibling for him

to be doing that with so that I don't have that situation. Is there something that'll make you it's harder for you? You know, I don't, I'm trying to think of a situation where Max has really got me like that. I'm just, I can't think of a situation where he is acted out like that. We've been lucky when, okay, we had, we had a small moment in time. I remember sharing this on the podcast where he didn't understand when we go grocery shopping that the the people had to take the stuff to He was getting very like territorial like no, it's mine. You know that I remember that

Moment when that then it was like I said again though like that's like my thought was this like I even though I'm in a public place Yeah, my son's acting out a little bit right now, I can't overreact on it. I just stayed calm and kept repeating myself, like she has to scan it, we'll get it back. She has to scan and just repeating, just staying that way. And it was a very small phase that was short-lived. Now what I can't help but think is,

if I were to be more, been more reactive in those situations, would it have been a phase that carried on? Probably. That much longer, and would a phase that carried on? Probably. That much longer, and would I have that battle? So probably. Yeah, my two year old is so, because I'm very, I don't like authority. Jessica is even worse than I am,

and he just got all of that. And like I'll tell you guys, it's funny, he had a rain nose, and I'm like, we gotta wipe your nose, because you know what's coming down to whatever. I gotta wipe your nose. No, I gotta wipe it. No, no, no, so finally, we're out in public, so I finally just grab him, and I just wipe your nose because he knows it's coming down to whatever. I got to wipe your nose. No, I got to wipe it. No, no, no.

So finally, we're out in public. So I finally just grab him and I just wipe his nose. You know what he does? He blows snott out and he looks at me. I'm like, you little, and I wipe it again. He does it again. And he just keeps doing it over and over as I keep wiping his nose.

Oh my God. Oh, this kid is just reminding me of something that I haven't shared yet. That is so funny that we deal with, right? So this goes all the way back to actually teaching Macs I haven't shared yet that is so funny that we deal with right so This goes all the way back to actually teaching max when he was first, you know We were first teaching him how to blow his nose like to get him to get the snot out and we clean him or what that? And so Katrina taught him to do that like showing him and stuff So now when he has like a runny nose or so might that will be like in the living room

Katrina's in the kitchen doing something I'm playing and some and so with that, and then all of a sudden, he'll start going, and then just, he'll just keep doing that until you go get the tissue. So, and many times there's not something around, and I mean, he won't stop. He'll just keep going until the shit's like running down his face. And you hear it, because he's aggressively doing it, and it's like, you know, he was taught to do that

when he's got a blow his nose. Just didn't realize the paper got me? Yeah, yeah. He doesn't wait for you to grab the paper. He just starts doing it as soon as he's as soon as that starts to come on. So that's been a funny thing that we have to try and like, I mean, in my house now, strategically because of this, there's like boxes of tissue like in every corner in every room. So because he will, he'll just start doing that. And it's like, you got to race over there.

Yeah, I think like the biggest battle I mean for the most part, it's been how you react to like whenever it has these like and he's very much like Buck the system kind of kid and doesn't Like school doesn't like to do the tedious kind of like work that he feels like this is just like I'm just doing busy work dad I'm not learning anything like he's already on that level and like, oh no. You're learning this too early. He knows exactly what is just nonsense and when he's actually learning something,

he comes back, it's excited, teaches us what he's learned, but then all this other stuff, he fights us really hard. But for him, it's like moving him from when he's really like chill comfortable and like loves what he's doing and he's into it. And then we have to like go somewhere. Especially if it's like, it doesn't even matter what it is, I'll be honest, like if we just like have to transport him

from this state to another, it's like an eruption, dude. And so I've had to learn how to like really like- You gotta set it up. Yes, set it up like paint the vision, like you know, give him time, like, I have to do a lot earlier than I did previous. That's the key, cause I remember that kind of hurdle of like if he's into a game or do we something

that we gotta go somewhere, that it's really important that Katrina does the time countdown leading up to it. So there's not the time. He hates the time. Oh yeah. It's he's like dad that stresses me out. Oh he tells you that. He tells me that. Oh that's so you'll count dad. Don't count. They're just like Dr. Becky calls these deeply feeling kids. So they're kids that just feel a lot, and that's one of the characteristics, is changing environments abruptly, is like it'll set them off. Yeah, it's so.

We do with the Rayleigh, I said, hey buddy, there's five, I'm gonna put, how much time do you want in the timer? And he'll pick it and I'll put it over there. And then I'll let him know as it's counting down, and then this is what you do. She says, before the timer goes off, because that's, because that's still set them off.

Right, let him know. You connect with them with what they're doing. So when there's two minutes left, I'll sit down with them if he's watching TV. And I'll talk with, oh, oh, look what McQueen is doing. I'm always willing to write whatever. And then it goes off, but it's our time. But you don't say anything.

Yeah. No, I don't say anything. I don't go, oh, your timer went off. I just stay quiet and I let him do it himself. In fact, it's the point now where he tells me, just don't talk. Yeah. And he goes and gets the remote controller turned it off.

Yeah, I've done that. I'll give him a little coat or something, because we have to go. And he'll be playing. And then he's like, I'm putting it on. He doesn't realize what I'm doing. You know, I'm putting the shoes next to it, like sliding them on.

And he's like, oh, and then we just slowly manipulate them out. You know what I think that really helps in parenting is, so I think of this from what I've learned in leadership is having the attitude of everything is my fault. And so when I have a challenge with you, when that sets you up to know, okay, well, what can I do? That's right.

So anytime I have a challenge with Max, no matter what it is, if it doesn't go perfectly or smooth, instead of me ever reacting to his bad behavior, what he's not doing what I want, I take it on as a challenge, okay, how do I figure this out, like how do I, how can I be better about this situation to get the desired outcome that I want versus having this attitude as a parent where I'm just like, I'm frustrated, I'm mad, or just like, he always does it.

Yeah, I'm the boss, I'm frustrated, I'm mad, or just like, he always does it. Yeah, I'm the boss, because I'm the parent. So you listen to me instead, it's like, okay, I've got to figure this, I got to figure this out. 10 times, you figured out, you're gonna be the real. I really do think, if you have that attitude, and it doesn't mean that I get it right away, sometimes it takes like, oh, that didn't work next time I'll try this, or not.

Yeah, apply different concepts, but constantly, you know, be open to new ways of like addressing the same problems. I feel like that's your job as a parent. That's ultimately your job as a figure out how to connect with this kid and help them feel connected. And that's gonna be different from a kid to a kid. Anyway, you guys are pretty good with anatomy.

Okay, you guys are trained for a while. I want to pull up this picture. Tell me what you guys think this is. Just guess that body part. Do do do do do do Do you guys see that? That somebody has swallowed something and they have a, is that a stomach? It's inside.

What is that thing there in the middle there? It looks like a little mini-pull. Oh, there's like a socket wrench? No, that's a butt plug. That's a butt plug. Oh. And, but no, no. I'm kind of glad that nobody knew what that was right away. I'm saying. See what the right, oh, a butt plug. That's a butt plug. Oh, and uh, and but now now you know, I'm kind of glad that nobody knew that was right away. I'm saying. Oh, lies. Yeah, I could see the bottom part there where the legs are.

So that's the rectum, but then look how high the butt plug is. Wow. That is what you guys want to guess what happened. I mean, I'll give you a hand. I don't know. I'll give you a hand. It's a metal butt plug. And they went to get a m. R. I. Yeah. Oh, my god. I'll give you a hint. It's a metal butt plug and they went to get a MRI. Yeah. Oh, It's hold it up. It fucking because you know how strong the magnet and MRI is I so they're like just walking around just doing their errands with a butt plugs. I have no idea Is that strong bro if you have a necklace on your neck? Yeah, it'll pull it off It'll break the necklace so it'll rip through your neck.

You know how powerful? I did not know that. Oh, bro. I mean, I know that they make you feel good. You can't take it off. I know you have to take all that stuff off before you go in and do it. If you stick like a metal on a MRI while it's on,

you ain't gonna pull it off. It's so powerful. Wow. Yes. Wow. Did you know that, Doug? I did not know that. Yeah, I did know that.

How far does that stand to the magnetic field? I don't know,. Yeah, I did know that. How far does that end that? The magnetic field. I don't know, but if you're in it, you're getting hit, that's how it works, right? It uses magnets to change the spin or of your atoms or something. So what if somebody has, can you not do an MRI if you have like screws

and plates and stuff like that? I believe so, I believe you can't. Yeah, I think you have to tell them. That's true, because if you have like a plate, you're saying you're hitting your head. And wouldn't it, if it's that powerful, it almost feels like it would be like kind of pulling you or rip right through your skin. Well, that's crazy. Oh, Doug, Google, how powerful is an MRI's magnet? If it did this, it has to be that powerful. Yeah. Oh, man. So I'm, the question I have is, why would somebody feel like I needed to put this thing in before

they went to their MRI? That's what I wanted. That's what people do. People do the real question. Oh, I slipped the stuff out of my grocery store, right? That's usually that. But I mean, I mean, what I have to do is not carry it. You can't do that because it's not a carry.

Now they always tell you guys have had MRIs. They always say, make sure you have no metal on you or anything. Do you think the person was like, it's not gonna be a big joke. Or they were embarrassed. I better not tell them about this. Yeah, it'll, but. Yeah, I don't know. Or they forgot.

Oops, I forgot to take that. I forgot. How long have it in there? I don't know. I mean, we just talked about being drunk. You don't feel any freeze with that. Maybe it was a really drunk, real wildfire.

Yeah, wildfire, you know what I'm saying? And like, oh no, I forgot. That's one of the MRIs. They're like, just something doesn't feel right in this stomach anus area. And I got to figure this out. And so you go in to go get an MRI.

Now, that's severe internal damage. Bro, that's like a mystery. I mean, I think you could go to surgery and get that removed. Right? It's the only way to do that. Holy cow. What does it say there? No, for MRI.

Well, it says it's 3,000 times stronger than a permanent magnet's on your refrigerator. That's kind of a very accurate. How about this? Perfectly. How about this? Can you put this? Is it dangerous to have metal on you when you get an MRI?

And then let's see what it says. But that's crazy, right? Yeah, I didn't know that. I didn't realize that it was that strong of a... You know that we really, we still kind of don't know, how MRIs work. It's a little bit of a misogyny. What? They built them obviously, but what so,

I mean, it's like electro magnet, I'm not gonna go into like talking about it, let's be honest. Yeah, yeah. I don't even wanna trap you. Okay, so what do you mean by that? We don't understand how we're obviously, we do where we like Justin's point of view. Well, no, we know what it produces,

but I think what we think it does is it takes your, I think it takes your atoms and it makes them all point in one direction because of the that I probably get a little wrong by the way. I know. I'm like, this guy's gonna be talking about bicep girls. Right. But it does that. I think when people do that too, I know.

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying you're like, I'm not allowed. We're not allowed to talk about anything else with that. Yeah. Yeah. This is where it's bullshit, but yeah, does it say anything there? I don't know. Armchair engineers.

Well, yeah, so you should not have any metal, even metal crowns in your mouth. Wow. Yeah, the vibration can dislodge, bend, and break the dental restoration. Oh, no. Just from the magnets. Oh, shit.

And so, yeah, loose metal objects can injure you as that person. So how do people like that go and do those things? I don't know. I mean, I would think of you as a metal plate in your head or you got fillings in your teeth and you would be a bad candidate for an MRI. Yeah, I think there's certain kinds of metals too

that are more responsive to it than others. So anything with like, they call it pharaoh magnetic materials, iron cobalt, manganese, nickel. So like, ultrasound or like a CT scan or something like that would be sort of the other alternative. I guess. I'm trying to read how an MRI works. What were you gonna ask me about a logo? You were just gonna say a new logo?

On the podcast logo? Do you see what we put on it? Oh yeah, I did see that. You see that? No, you didn't. I told Doug to add it. Did you really? I did, I am. No way. 100% human made.

100% people have been screen capture in that. No way. Everybody, listen, this is gonna be a thing. I'm gonna tell you right now. I don't, I'm not arguing with you. As AI can start to make content and do stuff, you're gonna have to choose between real human organic content and machine content.

Yeah, I mean, we will remain organic. Honestly, that's why I'm like getting so into like, oh my god, you did put a hundred percent human being. That's right. Yeah, that is right. So I wanted you to do organic humans because that's what it says on, that's written Star Wars,

that's what they call organics. So the humans are organic. I like how he's looking at Justin right now, try to pull him on the phone. Yeah, I know. I know, Jester Lorient. Yeah, and Mandalorian, that's the, that episode. Did you ever watch that?

Did you ever get to that episode? I'm on, no, I'm getting there though. Did you watch Silo yet? I just, no, I haven't. No, I've been, terrible. Syphix, I'll tell you a lot of sex. I'll tell you why later. That's good.

I'm gonna get there, bro. Trust me, it's right up my alley. Yeah, I know I know about it. Oh, it's so excited that I found like a sci-fi movie or show before you guys Are you watching it still you're still watching it? Well, there's only two episodes tonight the third one comes out So it's on Apple right? Yeah, oh, that's the one I don't pay for you don't have Apple. That's the only one I don't pay for You're so cheap I just think it's Right just bought a hundred dollars squirt gun. Yeah, you just bought

that. You did. You're so excited. You like showed us this. There was a water gun on I got hit by an ad on I never buy things on Facebook ads, but this was pretty awesome. It was a machine gun. It is shoots water. It does. We're talking about that. Like what kids have like available for them now. Like there's so

much more powerful. Like do we have you think you said water weenies? Water weenies was like the ultimate water gun. Crapie plastic water guns. That would just, were you in here when I started having the comment? I think you left after you said that because we were making comments about,

you know when you get older, right? And you get to a place in your life where you obviously can buy a hundred dollar stupid water gun just because. That's your one and when you were kidding? Yes. So do you ever, do you ever play this game with yourself? Like when you have like a stupid desire like that

and it's just like, okay, let's be honest, it's a waste, I'm not probably gonna play with it for one day and then never play it again. But then because you're at a place where you can do that and you know like 12 year old me would be so mad at myself if I didn't do that. And so you make a purchase like that? Are you like that? Are you like, I'm usually not.

My brother's like that. He's got drones and radio control cars and boats, you know, the Grubman. But you know, to his credit. Like a BMX, you know, that was my thing. Oh yeah, you did, did you. You bought a BMX and guitars, and that's the easy way I'm like, okay,

I was reliving sort of like the 90s. Well, you play though, you play your guitars all the time. Oh, yeah. No, I'm addicted. I don't consider that like a wasteful toy. You still ride your BMX? You know, I just started to again, because so Ethan just got a new bifurst birthday and so it was like a brought that energy back in and it's in plus the weather's better.

So the weather was the big deterrent. Yeah. So yeah, we're going to be hitting the pump tracks. I just hear you, I feel like. Like, can you do a bunny hog? I can do a bunny hog. Can you remember like, like, 12, 13 years old and thinking about,

you know, when you were dreaming of like, one day I'll be, you know, rich and I'll be able to do this and that and all the things that you wanted as a, like a 12. You know what I would buy? Well, if I did that. I would buy either a gas powered, radio control car,

because those were the shit when we were kids. Did you ever at all one? Oh yeah. Never a gas powered radio control car because those were the shit when we were kids. Did you ever at all one? Oh yeah. Never a gas powered one. Those are C cars that were like, and I was gonna say to my brother's credit, he does play with all these things. He doesn't just buy them,

he actually uses them all the time. But gas powered, or really expensive model rockets. You guys would play a model rocket? Yeah. Those are explosive. So I get the water ones. No, I'm talking about real ones,

the real ones. Yeah, so as an adult So I get the water ones. No, I'm talking about real ones are the real ones. Yeah, so as an adult, I've had both, right? And the only way we were injured to the model rocket. Oh, a long time ago, in my 20s. Okay. So when the reason why I didn't keep that hobby going is there actually a lot of work to maintain them. Every time you launch it or whenever you race it,

you gotta go back and tweak on it and clean it and fix it or else it just, it doesn't, yeah, because they get dirty, they get messy, they get loose, all the stuff on it. So it's like, you have to really be into the, which I have my two friends have remained doing all this stuff. We all bought these toys as we got into our 20s and kept them. They still mess with them, but they also, like in their garage, they have a geek corner, you know, it's like this little corner. Yeah, and they got their drones and RC car stuff all hanging on the wall with all the tools

to fix and repair it in a little shelf area where they can, you know, geek out on it with a little magnifying glass. These before they had kids too, huh? Yeah, yeah. I feel like that's weird. Like you go to a grown man's house and he's got that. Well, that's the, okay, so many,

but if you got kids, I guess, it's not that's what I was asking you guys. That's the 12 year old who finally got money and could afford to go spend $1,000 on an RC car. If I think of when I was 12 and like what I would have wanted, it was probably like, like Star Wars action figures, like the entire thing, and like, oh, like I would have been all like buying everything

and been like, I mean, I do. Yeah, so I was gonna say it. But I kept them, but like, it was just up to a certain extent, you know, and then I passed it on to my kids. You ever know what the matter is about it? Sometimes. I imagine.

I mean, that was a long, you know, a bit of a cheap ass. I mean, you don't always, you don't always splurge on yourself. So with 13 year old, with 13 year old Doug, be disappointed in you. Doug bought a radio flyer wagon.

Yeah, it was pretty cool, actually. No, with 13 year old Doug be happy with you? Now? Yes. I think so. Okay. Because when I want something I will typically go buy it. Okay.

Even if I feel like it's kind of not really, you know, practical. Yeah. Yeah, I go buy things if I really like them. Yeah. Okay. I don't think you're supposed to machine. Yeah, yeah. I don't know.

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Yeah, I would love to have a cool, I would love to just hold one. Just to see. I wanna cut melons. I wanna do the bodyguard thing. What's that? You throw like a sash up in the air and then you just let it fall on it. And it's slip.

Don't you remember that scene? What does that mean? I do remember that. I remember that scene going, damn, that's crazy. That's how sharp it is. Those things are very sharp. It's gonna be a music video. Now the average Japanese person can't own one.

Really? The real one. Yeah, because they're sharp and they were confiscated after I think World War II. Do you know, there's a famous story of when the Japanese surrendered. He offered, I guess it's custom to give your samurai sword or your sword to the person you're surrendering to. And I don't remember who was the general at the time, the American general or... Carthor maybe?

I don't know if it was MacArthur or the Navy. I don't remember, but they let him keep it as a sign of respect. Like, you know, you can keep that. Kind of cool, right? Yeah, it's cool. Would 12 year old be happy with you? With me?

Yeah, dude. He would. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, I'm just curious. I mean, I know how everybody... I've just said that, I don't know if it's really. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think about that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Why? No, I'm just curious. I mean, I know I have to say that.

I don't know if it's really. Yeah, I think about that stuff. I really do. I think about like, well, there's times when I'm like on the fence or something like that. And I think, okay, like, logically, I know I'm processing this. Actually, no, 12 year old would love me. I get as many supplements as I want. Yeah.

I work out, you know, I kind of look like I work out when I was 12. I wish I did. So there you go. Yeah, okay. I got a cool podcast We're not thinking about that at 12 you were having a cool pot. You probably think about though you're gonna be talking a lot Yeah, oh you talk if you make money talking. Yeah, that's really good part for sure So you were gonna mention Element you were gonna say something about I've just been so I mean it was you who always used to talk about doing to a day

Yeah, so I mean, it was you who always used to talk about doing two a day. Yeah, so that helped. Um, I mean, I haven't had any, any issue since, since I started doing that. So I mean, it's still the cramping or whatever you're going to. Yeah, I can't figure out if that's what it was. It's some sort of a strain that I get in my quad. It used to be when I was, I was under hydrated, not drinking enough water. I know I've been drinking of water, but what I thought it might have been because I started to kick the diet up where I started, I stopped eating out

at all. So my sodium intake probably dramatically reduced, and then I thought, I wonder if that has something to do with it. And so I've now, now I'll drink like a packet while I'm here, and then I'll add another one when I'm actually working on it. So I got a message from my, I sent some element to my aunt because she was getting like muscle weakness and this and that, she used to be a dietician. And I said, you might want to increase your sodium. And I said, you know, it's kind of outdated information on sodium. And you probably need

more and I sent her some studies. So she started using an element. She loves it. Notice the big difference in energy and strength and all that stuff. But she also said this. And I forgot that this was a thing that would happen to my clients. Because the water tastes good, because element tastes good, right? No sugar, but it does taste good. She drinks more also. She also drinks more water. Do you guys have clients like that where if they added some of the water, because you're always trying to get your clients to drink more water, that that was a tip.

You should have a flavor, yeah. I forgot about that. That was actually one of my hacks to getting people to drink water would be to add something to the water that tastes good. It used to be like crystal light. Yes, so that's what it was. I had quite a few clients like that that wouldn't drink water.

And was it like tasted something, you know, and it's, yeah, you had to really sell it to them. And that was an easier way, but if I had element or element T back in the day, way better, way better, no emotion. All right, shout out today. I wanted to do a little bit different is, so one of the most common things,

and by the way, we're not paid by this company or anything like that, so I just wanna disclaimer before I go here, that we've been asked since the beginning of this podcast is, ready meals that are ready, why are we called this? Oh, you got it, yes, you got it. And people.

And people have been sending this to us since the beginning. Like everybody wants to do it. And we've just kind of, that's not our thing. They're all gross usually. Yeah, no, they're all gross. It's just like not an area that we've really cared too much. When we got linked up with Don Saladino, we all headed off and he talked about this and we're kind of like,

he's like, let me just send you guys something. There's no deal. We don't have anything going on. And boy, I've been so impressed with them. I love the way it says, I love the macro profiles on them. They're customized to me. They're all customized to us individually.

They've been sending them to us. Companies called Daily Dose. My favorite thing right now that he's, and each time they've sent me one, it's been like, last time it was like this kind of mud putting one. This time it was a cookie dough. Yes. The dessert.

So good. Bro, did you have the cookie dough? Yes. I have that last night. That's why I had last night too. That's why it's top of my mind. My kids were fighting me for it. Oh, it's so filling, high in protein,

a mental amount of calories in it. It's I don't I got to find out exactly what it is. It feels like it's some sort of oatmeal-y type of thing that they make. Yeah, overnight oats or something. Yes, something like that. Boy, it's a treat and a half to half. So I'm difficult with these ready-made meals

because I avoid gluten and dairy. And that usually makes it suck for me. They sent me a bunch of meals, all of them gluten and dairy free. Now here's the, here's the kicker. They all, a lot of these dishes have like sauces that you can add to your dishes, like dipping sauces or sauce. And dairy free sauces are either not

existing or disgusting. These are all so good. Oh yeah. Oh really? Yes, super good. And I don't know what they, they're either cashew based or nut based or almond based or something, but they taste like like a dairy dipping sauce. You know what they, they're either cashew-based or nut-based or almond-based or something, but they taste like a dairy dipping sauce.

You know what else was bombed that I did not think I would like? So salmon's my least favorite fish, and I'm not a fan of like, how do you get the salmon cake one? Yes. Did you use the sauce? I didn't even need the sauce. Oh God, you gotta do the chicken sauce. It was so good.

Oh really? Yes. Did you have the salmon cake? I didn't. I didn't. And the sauce was great. Well, just straight cold, too. I just straight out of the refrigerator, ate it on the way to the game and it was good. Yeah, and listen, this is a hundred percent full disclosure. We are not working with them. Yeah, yeah. No, we're not paying. We don't ever shall though. Although,

Dawn did say for listeners that they did give them a discount. So if you use mind pump 20, okay, you can get a deal. That, yeah, so for our people if they do go over there They use that there is a there is a discount on that. He's such a good guy. Yeah, he understands how to break it I don't know he did I mean that's smart. I mean that's how he got us is just like I got a free Come on, okay, listen. I don't want any yeah, right? Hey, hey real talk though to our audience I mean, that's like I mean, I'm such a fan of like business like this like you got to you got to woo us there was Not even not even that it's just there was no expectations. Like, he's a real good guy like a real world.

Yeah, everybody else that ever, I mean, people send stuff to us all the time and they want or expect something for it where he literally led with that. Listen, I don't want anything from you guys. I don't expect you to do something which that is the way to get me. You know what I'm saying?

It's to have that attitude. And then just let the product or the thing speak for itself. If I really like it, I'm gonna share it, right? We got clothes. For sure. Good job, Don. All right, butcher box. What is butcher box?

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forward slash mine pump. And if you go through that link right now, you'll get ground beef added to your box for a year plus $20 off your first order. All right, back to the show. First question is from Fulvio Castle. What can I do to feel my chest more than my front delts during incline benches? Oh yeah, so good question. So mechanically, there's something you could do, and then mentally, there's something you could do. So mechanically, if you think of the action of the chest, and what it does is it pulls the upper arm, the humerus, across the body, right?

It's called horizontal adduction. So if you flare elbows out as you're going down, and then bringing them together at the top by keeping it, so keep them out the whole time, then you're going to hit the chest more mechanically. But you also want to think about what the chest is doing. So imagine you're bringing your elbows together and your hands together and get that squeeze there.

And studies do show that simply thinking of the muscle and the action increases its activity. So those are the two big things that I can do. To seated row for 15 to 30 reps for two to three sets before. Not trying to get sore in there, but get a pump in your upper back. To this day, I was just working out at the fitness 19 two days ago, and I was doing incline chest. And sometimes what I'll do, because in this gym, the incline bench is way, far away from the seated row

and the place was super busy. So I knew if I left one to go to the other, I would lose it. So I actually grabbed the bar from the bench before I load it for bench press and I do bent over rows. And I see people looking at me all weird because I'm taking the incline barbell and I'm bent over rows. And I see people looking at me whole weird because I'm taking the incline barbell

and I'm leaning over the bench and I'm doing these rows. But that's why I'm doing that is because still to this day, even though I understand mechanics really well, it makes a huge difference for me to get just a real light pump in my upper back that which is just, all it's doing

is promoting you to stay in that position. So you're in that position. Yeah, so you're in that position. Yeah, and that retracted position because what happens when we press is the shoulders roll forward. And when the shoulders roll forward, the scapula rolls forward, the delts take over a lot of the movement and the triceps versus if you can stay in that retracted position as you press, then you'll keep it in the chest. And so a way to do that is to prime the back and get it kind of pumped up before you do that. Yeah, yeah, I like that a lot in terms of being real specific with that. I mean, one just

real basic warm up. I'll do a lot of times is I'll do like a farmer walk, but it's really a posture walk. And so it's really the same concept, but it's a little different because of, you know, I'm retracting my shoulders, but I'm depressed. I'm basically packing my shoulders and I'm really, you know, extending my chest and opening up and then, you know, like kind of anchoring it down. So it is kind of in a sense like just training to, you know, to keep you in that sort of locked position with your shoulders back and down. Now lastly, what you can do is you can do a few sets of an isolation chest exercise first just to get a pump in the chest and to feel the chest. What that does is when you're doing the incline, it allows you to connect more to the chest

muscles because they're pumped already, they're a little bit fatigued and that'll help you adjust your technique and your form to feel it more. So if you're doing another little tip in regards to the, or adding on the kind of the tip that I gave. So I, a lot of times I pair chest and back. So if I'm doing a split, I love chest and back days together. Or if I'm running a full body routine, I always order it like this.

So I always do back first. So if I, if it's a full body routine and I'm doing chest and, chest and back, I will order the back exercise first to promote the retraction of the shoulders and get my upper back pumped up. And that makes a huge difference. Or if I'm doing chest and back, I'll do all my back stuff first and then I'll go to my chest. And that helps promote what I'm talking about.

Next question is from Guitar MBA. What should I do if I want to train hard but still be healthy hormonally and have a healthy menstrual cycle? You know why I like this question? Because what this person doesn't realize is the context of what hard means. First of all, can you train hard and be healthy hormonally

and have a healthy menstrual cycle? Yes. Hard is depends on the person. It just needs to be appropriately hard. The right dose. That's all it is. But yeah, you could train hard, but you have to define what that is and it has to be appropriate. So is lifting 50 pounds hard?

Well, if you're five years old, it's real hard. If you're me, it's not that hard at all, right? So your workouts can be challenging, but they must be appropriately challenging. So that begs the question, well, how do I know if it's the appropriate intensity and volume of stuff? Well, a couple of things. One, you should feel more invigorated at the end of your workout than you did before. So you should not feel like you survived your workout at the end. You should feel like, oh, I feel great. I have more energy. Two, a little bit of soreness is okay. A lot of soreness means you probably overdid it.

So soreness that lasts a day or so, probably okay. The kind of soreness where it hurts to the touch in the last for several days, you overdid it. Those two right there are pretty good ways to kind of direct you in the right intensity. Yeah, in other ways, but just becoming more aware of your rest recovery and how you're fed leading into these potentially hard workouts.

You know, I've been, or I've finally sent to saw a bunch of rings. I've been wearing mine for the last week or so. One of the parts I like best about it is it's, you know, HRV portion of it and like telling me, you know, how am I of it and like telling me, you know, how my, and then my sleep tracking, right? So the combination of my HRV was sleep tracking gives me insight on how well rested and recovered I am and it gives you the score. Now, like any of these tools, I don't go like, oh God, it says 60, I can't work out or I shouldn't do this. It's not really determining. That's right. It's not like determining whether I'm in a

trainer or not, but it does give me another data point to compare to what, I now have enough, I've had this for two weeks, I've now had enough days where I see like, oh, when I sleep really good, this is about where my score is and this is what I feel like and this way. I look like, oh, when I have a night where I'm up late, I make bad food choices at night, like I went through the warrior game of the night,

like after midnight, fall asleep, I had pizza and candy, like just, and you better believe that night was a low-sweet score. I woke up with a low like HRV rating as far as like, hey, you know, train easier today. And so if you won, you can learn to do that without a tool, but this is where these tools I find valuable, is like, you know, and maybe that was a day

that you had planned that you were gonna really get after it. like, you know, and maybe that was a day that you had planned that you were going to really get after it. And in that case for me, that was a day where I decided, you know, I did like a lot of machine work in the gym and chased more of a pump than I did. It wasn't a heavy deadlift or squat day because of that. And so, you know, but then I'll have another one. We're all have two days off where I've had, you know, two days of full recovery.

I was well wet, a fed, I went to bed at a good time, and it's like, my readiness was really high, like, hey, that's the day I'm going to get after that workout. Plus, I mean, I think the common thought is to make anything hard, you just have to add more weight and then progressively overload constantly. And there's a lot of different ways to challenge yourself to make things harder, which if I'm going to adjust the tempo and really focus on isometric harder, which if I'm gonna adjust the tempo and really focus on isometric tension, which then too isn't as damaging

in terms of the recoverability to it. So you can do applied different techniques that might not add as much force that's really a little bit more damaging if you recover from it. Such a good point. So Justin, I just, to that exact point yesterday, okay, so those have been following along,

have heard me probably mention that, I got some sort of a strain in my quad. So unfortunately, I have not been able to like, heavy squat, it's been driving me crazy. Like I wanna get after it, I feel good about everything else. But because of that, I haven't been able to do that. So yesterday I did body weight squats, BFR. And you know, sweating, got a great pump from it,

everything like that, but that level of challenge and intensity for my body, like I could totally, it was appropriate. It was appropriate. But a great way to find a way to make something hard without necessarily just loading all the time on the bar, which is how we think many times, the last leg workouts, same concept,

except for I didn't do BFR, I did single leg deadlift and toe touch stuff, which for a guy who doesn't always get due, you know, body weight stuff or stability stuff, again, was sweating and it was really challenging. My legs were actually sore from doing just that. So yeah, there's plenty of ways to increase intensity, make a workout hard without always like hammering the weights and going super heavy all the time. Next question is from Stabler Brian. What are the best lifts when introducing your younger kids to lifting? My eight and seven year olds have begun to work out with me in the garage. I've

started with weighted step ups, dumbbell rows, dumbbell chest and shoulder presses, but wasn't sure if there was more appropriate exercises to start with. Well, body weight. Yeah, generally speaking, if the child can perform the exercise with good control and stability and mobility, then it's appropriate. It's appropriate. So that's how you say, can they do it with good balance, stability, do they look like they're in control, then it's appropriate. That being said, Adam said, I mean, that's 100%

is do closed chain bodyweight movements. Those are the best movements to do for kids because it teaches them, they develop better body awareness and control than they would if they were using dumbbells and barbells at a young age. So instead of doing a bench press, do a pushup. Instead of doing a pull down, do a pull up. Instead of doing a shoulder press, do a push-up. Instead of doing a pull-down, do a pull-up.

Instead of doing a shoulder press, do a handstand. Bodyweight exercises are better at younger ages for getting them ready to lift weights later on. Yeah, and to that point, that's why I really love a suspension trainer as a first introduction. Because you can manage somewhat of the intensity of it and work your way towards more challenging angles with it as well. So, you know, just body weight rows with the suspension trainers, a really, you know, good one and chest presses and things. And then you kind of like work your way up towards the pull-ups,

towards the dips, towards all those other really valuable moves. But I really like to do that in terms of getting them aware of controlling their body and being able to maintain these positions. I love a suspension trainer for a kid because of that, those reasons right there. And you can make, you know, you can make a push-up more difficult on it. You can progress like a bodyweight squat to a single like pistol squat with a suspension trainer supported.

Like go from beginner to advanced with it. Yeah, you can really challenge them and make it fun. I love doing challenge. I think like kids like stability stuff, like balancing on the leg and toe touch. And you know, don't get hung up on the things that we do as adults all the time.

So it's like, oh, you need to have, this week needs to be 12 reps and this week needs to be like, have fun with it. Make a game out of it where how many in a row can you get without you know losing your balance and doing things like that. I think would would benefit them before. I just move them straight into doing, you know, dumbbell pressing and curling with weights and barbell stuff. Not that that's wrong. It's just that that would better serve them to lay a better foundation for, you know, you know, barbell dumbbell stuff in the future. Next question is from L. Cole 10. What should you do in anabolic if your hip flexors are hurting while doing sit ups?

You know, when you, when you watch someone do a sit up or a crunch, it's for the average person, they have a tough time differentiating between hip flexion and lumbar flexion. Okay, so if you look at somebody standing straight up and they bent at the hips versus bent at the lumbar, it's two different muscle, you know, recruitment patterns. Bending at the hips is hip flexors. Bending at the lumbar is the abs. So whenever you're doing an exercise for your abs, think of that.

So it's like, and I see people screw this up all the time, especially with leg raises. They'll do leg raises and really what they're doing in hip flexor raises. It's the rounding of the lower back. That's what the abs are doing. The abs are connected to the bottom of the rib cage and the pelvis.

So it brings the rib cage closer to the pelvis. It does not flex you at the hips. That's the hip flexors. And because ab exercises are bending forward, whether you do sit-ups or crunches or reverse crunches or reverse sit-ups or leg raises or whatever, it's easy for people to confuse it to. But you have to really focus on and understand what the abs are doing to make an ab exercise effective. Otherwise, and this is so common, so common that people do ab exercises and really work their hip flexors through full range of motion. And the abs are just serving as a stabilizer during the whole time.

Well, you really broke this down in the YouTube videos. I just had a set of flexor deactivators. So I would focus on watching that video, breaking it down, really try to mimic the way that, you know, cells teaching it in that video. It's an old video too, yeah, to be able to feel it in your apps. It is. And we haven't talked about this on the show in a long time. So we probably have a large portion of the audience that hasn't heard me

reference that. One of the first things I recommended, my family, friends, anybody when they ask me fitness related questions is to go to YouTube first and literally put mind pump in first and then the question you have. You literally put mind pump hip flexor, you only have to put the full question and just put mind pump hip flexor and you'll see a ton of videos that Sal has done

in regards to this. And we've tried our best to make sure that most of this stuff has been addressed in there. And so if you don't search like that, you're probably missing something that's perfect for you. Now for someone watching who's like, I still feel onto my abs, even though I'm doing it,

like you guys say wrong, well the abs are stabilizing the spine. So you're gonna feel it, but you're not working them through a full range of motion. And if you really wanna develop your abs, you gotta train them, like any muscle. You're just stabilizing. Yeah, you wanna train them through a full range of motion.

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