Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 675: Dr. Jordan Shallow- The Muscle Doc Returns
Episode Date: January 1, 2018In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin talk with Dr. Jordan Shallow, AKA The Muscle Doc. Dr. Shallow is an expert on lifting and muscle mechanics but the conversation strays from the usual conversation a...nd twists and turns in fascinating directions. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! To get some expert training from Dr. Shallow, he has some new videos on Mind Pump TV (YouTube). Check them out and share with your friends. To hear more from Dr. Shallow listen to him on iTunes at RX'D Radio and at themuscledoc.com Networking and podcasting culture (3:17) Display of human nature in a different arena CTE and brain health (8:28) Inception (13:45) Conspiracy theory sports talk and A.I. 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This conversation I was really excited about because I love when we get someone like Jordan inside the studio
and we decide, okay, we're not going to talk about anything that I think anyone would expect us to talk about.
Yeah, I love those conversations.
It's like, it's like, obviously,
we're gonna talk about powerlifting
or like, you know, something along those lines
and we don't even talk about that at all, in fact.
Right, so this is our...
We're gonna totally different direction.
This is one of our audiences that are,
this is one of our people that listen to the show
and they just, they don't like when we don't talk
about health and fitness, like this probably isn't
the episode for you.
We talk about a lot of stuff though.
We know we get into some.
I thought we had some great conversation.
I was just a fun conversation.
Right, which, so because Jordan is a very intelligent person,
I just like to have conversations outside
of the stuff I already know he's really intelligent.
Like normally when you meet somebody who's smart,
they're not just smart in their one little field.
Although that is, that you do see that sometimes. But George's not that guy.
He's a definitely a very intelligent well-read guy.
And it's fun to speculate with him.
We did some speculating in this one.
We talked about a little bit of some conspiracies and ideas.
Yeah.
Talked a lot about business.
Talked about Stanford.
What else do we get into with Jordan?
I don't remember.
He looks bigger.
Did he look bigger to you guys?
Fuck, I'm sure he's gonna.
George's gonna more weight these.
Yeah, he's like a moose. Liftingies. He's like a moose lifting houses.
He's like a mini moose.
Yes.
You know?
We did some good videos with them too when he came into record.
Actually, those should be up on YouTube.
They are.
They're up now.
Once you're listening.
Yeah, they're already up.
And he breaks shit down very, very well in his videos.
If you're a technical lifter and you want to learn all the intricate details, like you're doing.
Yeah, a lot of his stuff.
He did a video, in fact, I intro the video and had to
preface it with, you know, this is definitely advanced. This isn't for everybody.
He's teaching a Jefferson curl and he was teaching a, you know, a
Benover row with a rounded back. So definitely some advanced maneuvers that have
lots of benefits and he breaks down the benefits to that in the videos. But I caution
most people that if you're a beginner,
there's some other places that you wanna start with
before you start getting advanced like that.
That's right.
Dr. Gordon-Shallow, he is a podcast host.
His podcast is called RXedRadio.
That's the letter R, the letter X, apostrophe D.
Radio, his website is www.pre-script.com and on Instagram you can find him at the Muscle
Doc that's underscore in between all of those.
Also I want to mention a program that if you are a fan of Dr. Jordan Schallie you probably
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Dr. Jordan Schello.
That was exciting to get you in here since you've been touring now.
You've actually, you guys' podcast has taken off.
You're doing well, getting all kinds of people on your show and without naming names, what are some of the common things that you're noticing with all these people
that you're talking to?
Yeah, I don't know.
I think so far we've been lucky because we've had the people I've interviewed, there's
been some sort of vetting process, whether it be personal or through you guys, like hook
and a stop with, you know, some of the podcasts and so-called, and it's like having that
personal recommendation goes a long way, but being inundated into,
and I get very much on the fringe of this,
because Jordan and I are just kind of,
maybe we're 47 episodes in as of this morning,
you definitely start to see podcasting culture,
separating itself out as its own entity.
Like me and Taylor were talking about it outside.
Interesting.
Yeah, well, it's just like, I mean, you can see very distinct lines and maybe personality
between like YouTubers and like Instagram famous people, but podcasting is really carving
out its own demographic of not just people like age between this and this or whatever,
but mindset, like it's almost becoming like a sect where if you listen to podcasts,
you're of this influence politically
or you prefer this diet choice over this
or you train this way.
Tribalism, dude.
You know, I mean, it's the display of human nature
in a different arena, that's all it is.
I just, it's really interesting to me.
What's the stereotype of the podcaster?
Fuck.
Yeah, let's go. What are you doing of the podcaster? Yeah, let's go.
What are you doing to me?
It's okay.
It's all of them.
I see if we think the same.
Sure, I just think for me, everything is a religion based off what you're passionate about,
right?
So it's like who's at the top?
And well, it's easy.
Go to iTunes.
It's like who's your god, essentially.
And it's like, how do how do you do a new man?
No, I just, I think,
well, let's, let's,
the podcasting culture, I think to me is,
well, let's look at the demographic.
I mean, it's a very small percentage, and it's rising.
And as it will, as I think it's a very content-driven medium,
right, where it's like, we talked about this.
YouTube can be really precarious because it's,
you know, it's, it's jump cuts. It's, it's thumbnails, it's rankings, it's algorithms, it's tags where it's like
with podcasting, by and large, it's the base production value that it takes to be audible in a car
is I think much more attainable than that of, you know, both financially and technically
than YouTube or Instagram, right? Like, you Like, you got to work out like portrait lenses
and like nifty fifties versus this DSLR and this
and this shutter speed and ISO and all this.
It's like, get a mic.
You could do it in your phone really.
I'm sure some people do.
So you can actually look up statistics on,
you know, the average podcast listener or not.
So podcast listeners tend to be more affluent
and tend to be more intelligent and higher educated than other mediums, but podcasters
Lot of nerds. Yeah, a lot of nerds do like interesting like we we meet a lot of podcasters and they're all so far like kind of intelligent
socially awkward a lot of social awkwardness. We've noticed
It's and it's almost like,
you're right, you start to develop the stereotype
because once you've met so many of them,
we start to see.
We just, that's your brain handles things.
This categorizes, like, okay, this was like this one.
It's not a stereotype if it's true, right?
Like if a trend, like if I walk into a room
and I'm the only white guy there,
I'm gonna notice that.
Like I'm not being a stereotype,
I'm being mildly observant of my surroundings.
But for me, like podcasting culture,
it's weird, one thing that's really coming up
and I think podcasting is driving a lot of this
or the culture's surrounded that, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
When did this become like the men's yoga class?
And like nothing against it,
because I guarantee you these guys could absolutely
because Oprah does it, bro.
Is it, was it Oprah?
Oh, it does it.
See, I think it's Rogan.
That's the Oprah.
Oh, I see what you're doing.
Yeah.
But it's like, and that's,
I think if we look to our deities to the top
of the download charts,
that the good word is gonna percolate down from.
You got Rogan and in the Bay Area,
Ferris, I think is more widely resonated as far as like.
Yeah, Ferris, Asprey, Rogan, I feel like are in a lot of people.
Sure.
Well, Jiu Jitsu and a deprivation chamber has been popular.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, Jiu Jitsu is, if you're gonna, okay, if you want to learn how to fight, but you don't
want to hit each other and you want to be smart, quote quote unquote smart about it, that's the gits here.
Well dude, I think it's like,
it's like, well if you look at the CTE testing
that coming up with now, like that guy
of a contention testing without having to exume
the brain like posthumously,
dude the UFC is gonna have to make a hard pivot
because it's like yeah boxing shirt.
I think boxing's too inundated
into the boys club culture, that there's too many guys that are gonna want to sit around
smoke cigars, watch ring girls,
and watch guys kick the shit out of each other.
And I think boxing is an institution where UFC,
Fox bought it, now there's one every fucking weekend
where maybe it was a little bit different
when your data sets were coming from four fights a year
and not a fight every weekend.
Now all of a sudden these guys are getting to...
We'll talk about this in a few tests.
That's it, yeah.
So it was, and I'm gonna butcher this,
so I'm sorry for anyone who knows the actual hard facts,
but essentially what the neurofibularity tangles
and the traumatic and stuff, the lopathy.
Sorry, I do set it.
That came with blows to the head.
So that's what you and Junior say,
yeah, when he shot himself in the chest,
he did it so his brain could be exhumed
and found exactly that, right?
So the correlation between, you know,
like dementia or Parkinson's or some of these,
like neurodegenerative.
Depression, anger,
or something.
And then like going down the road
into like alcoholism and substance abuse
and stuff like that.
It's something that I actually saw in the NHL
like maybe four or five years ago,
there was one summer that we lost four enforcers.
So it was Rick Ripon, Derek Bougard, Wade B.Lac,
and I'm blanking on the fourth one.
But all guys that made a living,
just giving it and dishing it out when it comes to the fighting.
Like technically proficient enough to skate on the ice,
but they were just chain monsters.
Yeah, they were, they were self-governance in the league,
whereas, like, listen, you got, it was a cold war.
It's like, you got this guy, I got this guy.
You need that guy.
Don't talk about it.
And when he was on the ice, it's like,
oh, someone's done this.
Someone's going down.
Exactly.
So, but what is the testing?
Is it imaging now?
The thing is, you know what, I don't,
I think it's radioactive nucleotides
that are binding to these neurofibular tangles.
So, I mean, think, and this again, very roughly.
Because the hard part with CTE was that there was no way
to see if someone had it,
and unless you actually took the brain out.
And I said that it, so it was like this mysterious,
who doesn't have a type of thing.
Yeah, so I think they're doing is they can either inject
or ingest this radioactive nucleotide,
which will bind to the traumatized area of the brain
that are suffering from this,
then you can image it.
And then I can see a picture.
So here's why.
So it's like a die that shows up.
Exactly, yeah.
So if this is really accurate, like they're saying that is,
because I read a little bit about it,
and read the whole article,
but I read a little bit about it,
I think the sport that's going to impact
the most is football. I really do because and not because of
pro football but because the because the because of boxing and you know because
of the signups with kids because because you because you already going down
nobody really signs their kids up for full contact boxing anymore. It just
doesn't happen unless you're poor. I mean this is true. Like poor neighborhoods
you see lots of kids boxing which is why, which is why you see so many minority succeed in boxing as pros,
because that's where they learned his kids.
So you don't, so that's not a big thing, but football still is a big thing
that people enroll their kids in.
And when they have this imaging, and they start showing it in kids who play football,
that's where you're going to get this.
I think football has an easier pivot though.
I think football haven't easier time.
Leather helmets.
Boom, nailed it.
Like, look at rugby, right?
Like, it's, again, it's this idea of like self-limiting behavior.
It's just like having that guy on the bench.
Put a grenade on everything.
Well, that's why I mean, I'll pull the bed.
I'll do it.
No, and I think that'll be an easier time
where it's like you can't fundamentally change UFC to a point
unless you totally change the discipline.
What about limiting the gloves?
Or actually they're already super rude, right?
Like going, because it's not just gloves, man.
You've got elbows coming out.
Exactly, elbows are worse.
Fucking wack.
You know what they're gonna do, right?
You know what they'll do?
They'll turn it back into old school Japanese pancreas.
Remember pancreas tournament?
So the Japanese had, the Brazilians and the Japanese were the ones that had MMA before anybody else.
And the Japanese had a version of it called, that they called it pancreas.
Now pancreas is, was full contact fighting in the ancient Olympics.
So they used that name, but it wasn't the same in the Japanese version,
which you can actually go on YouTube and watch some of these old fights. I can Shamrock fought in it before he fought in the UFC. Frank
Shamrock was a champion. Boss Routin was a pancreas champion back in the day and you could hit to the
head but you had to do open, open poem. Oh yeah. Was it one of the so-called guys you had them on
the podcast. Does stuff with Rogan all the time wasn't he talking about that?
I don't remember. Oh fuck right in the shop. Yes. Oh, which by the way unreal episode one of my favorite my
I was yeah, that was great. You know, he's such a good
I was really excited to interview him and I know like we used to like speculate before
You know the fight in the kid like part of their success. Why is it why are they so good? Oh, Brian Callan's a comedian, he's so funny.
But when you meet Brennan Shob, you realize
like he is very talented.
He's very, very talented.
He's an incredible storyteller, so easy to interview.
It's, I can always tell when there's someone,
like there's some people that like it's worked.
Like there's, they're really challenging to interview.
I felt like we, I had a really hard time just recently
with Dave Asprey, like I throw these great questions that I feel like a good storyteller would just
open up and tell us, but so guarded, so many walls up, it's tough to break through.
Brennan Shobbs, I can open book and he's got a story for everything you ask him.
That's makes for a very good reason.
I love being on the show because it's like, do you remember Inception? How it ends?
We're like the dreidel spins,
and you don't know if you're in the present reality or not.
We go so many layers past an original question
that I'm like, I don't know where we started,
but I'm just clover here.
So every time I leave here, there's just a dreidel spinning
in my head.
I feel like it started with one question,
and it's like, did we answer that first question?
But here's, and this is,
this is a big, I love it, I love it.
Well, this was part of it. Well, this was part of our formula
that we realized really quick that people wanted,
was like, I want a real conversation.
I want to put this guy, this guy, this guy,
or this girl and these guys in their room together,
and I want to hear what they would really talk about.
And this is really what we would fuck a talk about.
And that's one of my favorite questions
that I, I, I, I, I, I'll sometimes pose to people
whether on the podcast or not,
it's like, if you could pick to have dinner
with three people that are alive,
just get to, to think where they're seeking out their information from. I think that's, that to, is like, if you could pick to have dinner with three people that are alive, just to get to think where they're seeking out
their information from.
I think that's, that to me is like,
really telling a person, it's like,
if you could spend time and talk to someone,
like unguarded, who would that be?
Have you had some interesting ones or what,
have you had it?
Yeah, I do usually, I mean,
you got, like, Hitler's always one that's there.
Oh wow.
Which is like, it kind of throws you for a loop.
But then if you think about,
if the person's intelligent enough,
I can kind of get it, if if like he's got like a,
I don't know, like a swastika tattooed on him.
It's like, oh my gosh.
I'm a little worried about your motivations.
You got on the boilerplate stuff, I don't know.
I'm never really blown away,
but that's one that's made its way
on the list so many times
that it when I stopped to think about it,
it was like, who are your three?
Oh, it depends on the day.
Today feels like a Seinfeld day.
It's Seinfeld would be there.
Um, so dad or alive, shit.
Um, I like John Stewart.
Really like John Stewart.
Um, and I think just because I'm in like a, like a media vein today.
Uh, yeah.
Huh.
Any big athletes?
Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
Thank you.
Shit.
Uh, Lance Armstrong.
Oh, 100% I would love later. We want him or she. Yeah, you, oh, yeah. Thank you. Shit. Uh, Lance Armstrong. Oh, 100% I would love later.
I would love him. I want him.
I want him. Yeah, you know what, man? I freaking, I go to, I was in, where was I?
I was in Maui with my wife's extended family. So her father's brother and their kids.
And there was some documentary on, um, this was like last year. It's like an old tape.
And I went to bat for him in front of people. I've never met who I'm gonna have to spend
the rest of my life around.
And it's like, oh, I can't believe that.
And it's like to me, it's like, you know what,
man, for the amount of people that are coming out
across all sports with drug use.
How many, you know, who are the big ones now?
UFC, they got Diaz a few times, right?
How many hundreds of million dollars did that guy raise
for children's cancer?
Anyone? No crickets?
All right, then shut up.
I don't know why.
I mean, yeah, and the thing is, did you watch Icarus?
Yeah.
Holy man, that was insane.
And the one thing that highlighted was like,
show me a failed drug test.
Show me if you did 500.
It's like, if you gotta play the game,
win the fucking game and guess what?
Well, yeah, what's that old saying going,
if you're not cheating, you're not trying.
That's it.
Well, when they interview that Richard Pound guy,
I said, is it possible to get an Olympic gold medal
without drugs?
And he did was just like the longest pause
that said more than words, different good.
And just like, tough break.
It's just a part of the training now.
Yeah.
Well, it's just a part of it.
Back to the football thing and why, I don't know if we could go to the leather leather helmets or not because I really feel like
Yeah, as soon as you see if we can head fracture we we there would totally not let the
Well, the change of style of that's not that's not why because that's what would end up happening right because obviously
Someone's head's not gonna explode. They're gonna stop the carols
But I feel like from a consumer. I mean, it's like, what happened when we, when baseball?
It's the decals.
Remember how we stopped watching baseball
got really boring, no home runs or that,
which by the way, let's talk about that.
Okay, I'm gonna switch gears in.
Cause you're actually a guy, I would love to.
You're just for a second, we had an album.
Adam is a habitual gear changer.
I, well, have you,
well, it's not every day I get like another,
like, person who's into sports in here
that I can find and talk about.
And we can get into like,
I wanna go back to football, but we'll go with you. Yeah, yeah, we'll go back there, but I wanna go into baseball right now because you are somebody I get like another like person who's into sports in here that I can talk about and we can get into like conspiracy theories. I want to go back to football, but we'll go with you.
Yeah, yeah, we'll go back there, but I want to go into baseball right now because you are
somebody I'd like to ask this question.
I don't know how much you follow it or not, but did you know that this year they're about
to surpass the home run, the home run record year of when all the steroids came out?
Like when Sammy saw some of us.
Yes, I did not know that.
Oh, there's not a huge follower of baseball.
So there's an explosion right now on a home run.
Now, is it, is it particular people leading the charge
or just the numbers rising from the bottom up?
Yeah, everything.
Okay, so there's not a couple of like the same thing.
Right, so interesting.
So the juice of the ball or what?
So the theory is that they're doing something with the ball.
And my theory is, so when they,
when they first built
Cours Field in Colorado, they were having a problem
with too many home runs.
Partial pressure of oxygen.
So what they do is in Colorado,
they have a humidor that they keep the balls in.
Keeping the balls in.
So they keep the balls in a humidor before the game starts
and then they play with them then.
Deflate gate.
Right, so that's been,
so that was the calm, the home runs down
and making it an even playing field
like the rest of the stadiums.
So my theory is if that was the case,
then couldn't you do the reverse process, right?
Over-hydrate them, right?
With like,
You mean dry the board?
I mean, dry them all the way out, right?
And then they would be hard as a rock
and fly like crazy.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I guess look at batting percentages.
Like, are they hitting the ball more often?
Because that, I mean, if they're hitting the ball
the same amount that's going farther than, yeah.
But if they're hitting the ball more often,
dude, I think no tropics or let's take it a step out.
Like maybe there's just everyone's on the out-of-all train.
Right?
Like if you're like Bart Simpson focusing on that one.
It's exactly, honestly.
I don't think so.
Well, I mean, you want to double back
to the original question of this inception field
of podcasting and podcasting culture.
You know, there's guys that'll go
the no tropic route or the psychedelic route.
But like, let's just go straight and methamphetamines
and let's just, I swear I've been in rooms with guys
who are like, I mean, I've taken Adderall before,
for example, and holy shit.
And I've seen that in other people, like the full on life. Well, so you have the Adderall before, for example, holy shit. And I've seen that in other people,
like the full on life.
Well, so you know, the Adderall stair.
Here's my, this Komi hasn't blinked in like three hours.
Why is that?
No one's seeing this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here's why I don't think it's Adderall and baseball
or something like that,
because methamphetamines have been around a long time.
They've been using them for a while.
Remember Babe Ruth pointed out the left field?
You tell me it wasn't like,
coked out of his flight. Just like what it says. It does that ration while. Remember Babe Ruth pointed out the left field? He told me he wasn't like, coaked out of his fire.
He was like, what is this guy doing?
He does that rationally.
Who is that one?
Who is that one?
There was one pitcher in the 1970s who took,
dropped a bunch of acid.
Oh, jeez.
For God, he had a game.
Oh my God.
He's like, oh, fuck, I gotta play.
Goes out and, and pitches a no, a no-hitter.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
That's a true story, Doug.
Maybe you can look that up. He's like the Yankees. He pitched a no-hitter on LSD. Look that up. That's unbelievable. Yeah, that's a real, a no-hitter. Unbelievable, I've never heard of it. That's a true story, Doug. Maybe you can look that up.
He pitched a no-hitter on LSD.
Look that up.
That's unbelievable.
Yeah, that's a true story.
I feel like I've heard that.
Which is like pitching a no-hitter is already impressive.
Right, right.
This guy deserves a trophy.
You don't make law from bad cases.
I think is a paradigm that should be applied there where it's like,
if you hear this in your pitcher, don't try.
Maybe apply some sort of like internal logical consistency
and don't like call your guy before your next game.
Yeah, right.
So, oh there it is.
Oh you found it?
What's his name?
Oh it was a video.
Doc Ellis or something was his name?
Oh.
Was it Doc?
Yeah it was some black guy from the men's.
Doc Ellis.
Yes.
Yes he hit a no hitter on acid.
Ha ha ha.
Man, that really boosts sales and the memoirs, I think.
Good for him.
Yeah.
Back to Justin wanting to go back to the football.
Oh, yeah.
The reason why I don't think it's going to go that way is because we've been so conditioned.
I mean, let's be honest, the best part of what watching Indy 500 or watching football
is the crashes, is the explosions, is the hits, is the, oh, it's the high risk, right?
And people wanna, they wanna see that
and they wanna see how people deal with it.
But why don't we all watch rugby?
But that's not the so good.
That's what I was gonna ask to with like how,
I honestly do feel like rugby will make more
of a popular stamp because of all this controversy for a while.
Like that's gonna be an option that like you can get
that physicality by going in that direction.
What I think will steer the ship, like anything is gonna be an option that like you can get that physicality by going in that direction. What I think will steer the ship,
like anything is gonna be the money, right?
If you start seeing Pepsi and you know,
Viagra and shit going over and dropping their money
at the World Cup, then not putting it into,
then yeah, we're really happy.
Cause you see vicious hits, dude.
So I watch y'all black.
Yeah, what about the fucking shit?
What about the Southbound freeway?
What about this?
I think where we're going with virtual and AI shit
is that we are gonna be able to make real soon here.
Like, if let's say I'm a guy who's born now, right?
And in 20 years, I'm in the NFL now, right?
And this is in the future.
I worked my way through my ability to control my body
like in a setting that's safe like this.
And then we see it virtually.
We'll see a bunch of avatars playing football.
Yes, the avatars, but it looks just like us.
Because we're already making fucked-alls
that look like chicks that look real on point.
I hate that you might be right.
Right.
And then you can...
It's like technical ball, remember when technical ball,
like you had the computer just play itself.
So you could take it to the next level.
And I mean, now we can see even bigger hits.
Oh my God, that dude got killed.
You know what I'm saying?
He's out for the season, he got killed.
I mean, I hope to God.
And that's funny,
again, maybe double back to the main question.
At some point, we gotta keep this on Terra firma here.
Like we gotta keep,
like the amount of, in podcasting called
to the amount of biometric stuff
I'm seeing and like all this stuff
with externalizing the human experience
to computers, to data sources, to AI and all that,
machine learning, it's like, at some point
we still gotta be human fucking beings.
Well, I don't see that as entertaining.
I don't know, very personally, but again, I'm not.
Here, two points I wanna move with that.
Here's with football, I'll make this point right here.
I don't think pro-
There's something interesting.
I don't think pro football is gonna be impacted
because people don't wanna watch pro football players
hurt each other.
I think pro football will be impacted
because when we realize, or if we realize,
we don't know yet, if they're hitting each other hard enough,
if we realize that children are causing mild forms
of CTE on themselves, football loses its feeder programs.
The culture starts to change, and it won't happen overnight,
but if it'll happen over generations to where
people will stop watching football
because nobody wants to let their kids play.
I thought they did a study on this already,
that the force, the speed, and that the kids are hitting each other
at isn't enough to do.
Who did the study? Bullshit.
So here's why I call bullshit because the imaging that you know we were just
talking about didn't exist.
So what they're doing is they're coming up with their bullshit calculations.
I don't trust them.
Now I'm not saying that kids are causing damage.
We don't know because kids run and fall time.
But if they show that, that's what could fuck up football. Now as far as this, you know,
this future of externalizing ourself in this and that,
for me, you know what that points to when people talk about that?
It points to humans, natural, narcissistic thought process
where we think we're so fucking awesome
that we think we figured ourselves out.
Well, you haven't, like consciousness
is still the greatest mystery of all time.
And I just posted an article today in the forum
where scientists are observing quantum behavior
in what they call microtubules in the brain.
So they're saying that maybe brain phenomena
is actually happening on a quantum level.
Well, good luck now, Trana.
Well, did you see this stuff about the computer they made? It was like these two bits that they
entered into a same ecosystem. They were both trained or programmed in a certain way that this
was the resource you needed. And then they had their both their own sort of preset ecosystem and
it was totally analogous. It was one to one. And they introduced the other bit into it and they
didn't teach it how to do it. but then the two bits started got connived
They came at their own language. Yeah, they tried to stop the other one from from getting to that resource
Yeah, so it's like maybe human nature is an exclusive to humans at all
Like yeah, and that's kind of the scary part because like everyone talks about AI. I know why would they be competitive?
Like what's the advantage? Well, it's like how did they learn to be competitive
when you talk them everything you think you know,
you can teach them.
And it's just like that survival instinct.
So hard, hard, crazy.
Especially when like AI, or people talk about like aliens,
like well, if aliens can make it here,
then they're better than us in a fact
that they don't have this manifest destiny
because that's a self-limiting human behavior.
So they think it's like, well, what if they did have that?
That would be fucked, right?
Because that's like Elon Musk will talk about that,
like, hey, be really careful of AI.
Or like, Steven Hawking's, I think,
was going on record and be like,
you guys don't know what you're messing with here.
Like, I think Microsoft did one where the AI,
it went to Twitter to learn how to speak.
And then by the time they came in for
their morning coffee it was like spitting out racial epithets. Yeah, it was just like shut it down,
shut it down, maybe Twitter probably the best media for this like, learn. Yeah, I mean, you
went on to the hash ads. We could very well create artificial intelligence that through the process
of achieving its own enlightenment goes to these stages of becoming this evil murderous machine.
And then by the time it's like, oh I'm enlightened now, and everybody's dead.
You know what I mean?
So, who know?
But again, I think we're so narcissistic that we think we know what that looks like, or what
real artificial learning can control it, right?
What's, well, what self-awareness really looks like.
What do they call it, the TORIG test, where we ask computer particular set of questions
to determine whether or not it's really self-awareaware or if it's pretending to be self-aware.
That's another question in and of itself.
How do you know it's really conscious?
Yeah.
What's it been like over at Stanford?
I mean right now it's a lot of meetings.
A lot of just planning for the season.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm getting everyone on the same page.
As far as boots on the ground, planning for the season, off season, injury rates, stuff like that.
What's your position there?
Head strength conditioning coach for men's and women's rugby.
Awesome.
Yeah, so I mean, kind of in my purview
or in my vein of thinking lately is, you know,
because they don't, they don't,
they don't honestly like looking at the injury rates,
the concussions are not there.
AC joints, ACLs, stuff like that.
Yeah, but I've seen somebody snap their finger,
but that was, yeah.
But it's like, yeah, it's more of a-
There's a prosthetic for that.
Yeah, there's no prosthetic for this.
Your mind is way more.
And that's the thing that strikes me to
with Stanford especially is like,
these kids are smart, like beyond smart.
Like, because if you don't play ball resource
Yeah, and if if to like you know, there's not the
Just in college sports like pro sports. There's not the the the lens on it. There's not the
microscope on rugby, right?
So it's like if you're pursuing it
You're also pursuing another thing like you can go to a D1 school, get a communications degree, do your four years, through the NC
UBA, and then know and coming out the other end, you'll go in the draft, and you'll make
a couple million dollars.
That is a conscious business decision that a lot of these people make.
They get through with the required GPA necessary to pass, and I'm sure even not even at Stanford,
the kids that are going through that are really smart, but if you're pursuing rugby in an institution like that,
there's gotta be some steal in the walls academically because it's like, you're not gonna come
out the other side, make a million dollars.
So is that what you're noticing?
This is probably the smartest group of athletes you've probably ever been around?
Oh, I mean, and that would be across the board of anyone.
Like I've worked in an administrative role at Stanford
for two years and it's everyone is like a super,
it's to the point where it's like,
I feel like if someone walked in and they're like,
all right, which one of these isn't like the other one.
They came that guy right there.
What is he doing here?
It buster, no, it's just, it's an insane,
I like it because working in the Silicon Valley
have worked at, that worked in Apple for a year
before opening my private practice and seeing, I don't want this to be come off like in Cindy area, anything like
that, but the level of entitlement that comes with holding down these positions at these
institutions that are world renowned.
You meet people from Facebook, it's like that statistic, they're people from Harvard,
like if 15 seconds of meeting someone that it's gone to Harvard, they'll have mentioned the fact that they have gone to Harvard. Where Stanford, I feel like,
is a little bit more, what's the word? Genuine, like, there's not really financial incentive
to work at Stanford. Like, they get, it's the prestige that they're after, so you really get
people who are passionate about what they do. So, in the past, I'd work with a lot of physicians, a lot of members of the hospital and stuff like that.
If these guys went to Kaiser or went to like Sinai or went somewhere else,
like they'd be making a killing.
But the fact that they have access to all this money and it's not going in their pocket,
but they have access to the best facilities and the best education and the best people. They pursue it there because that's their passion.
Is it true that Stanford and Apple are working together?
Oh, yeah. I mean, everyone's in, I mean, Samsung's working with Apple, right? There's
labs from Stanford that are an Apple, Apple's labs that poach through the Stanford. I mean,
engineering at Stanford, I think is probably MIT
and Stanford are probably one, two,
depending on whether you're going like electrical
or mechanical or CS or anything like that.
Yeah.
It's just the, you know, I mean, it's like anything, right?
Like they're talking about, you're medicine
or engineering or something,
but they're passionate about it.
Because like if you're passionate about money,
it's like, I can't really resonate with that,
but they're actually passionate about
the outcome, not the income, and it's like...
That's what I found.
I've trained a lot of surgeons,
because my old gym used to be next to Goods and Merton.
Oh, yeah, just so I have like, so fast come there.
Yeah, so I used to train a lot of surgeons and doctors,
and when they come in and I work with them,
I just, most of them didn't even drive like super nice cars.
They drove like a regular Honda.
One of my guys who was a vascular surgeon,
very successful drove a Nissan Pathfinder
that had like 150,000 miles.
They were, they just not into it,
but they're super, super smart people,
really passionate about what they do.
And many of them volunteered,
every year they would volunteer hours,
like one of the doctors without borders,
and stuff like that.
And go overseas.
So I just gained such a respect for people
in that field because of that,
because I always thought of doctors as,
now I've worked with plastic surgeons,
little different.
Plastic surgeons tend to be a little bit different.
I know it's a stereotype,
but yeah, the surgeons I worked with like that.
Yeah, it just seems like,
I mean, it's just altruistic,
like even in the technical field,
their goal is to improve humanity
where I think some of these major companies
in the Silicon Valley that people identify with,
like how many people I saw when I worked at Apple
that had Apple tattoos on them?
Oh, yeah, dude, 100%.
And I'm talking to people.
It's totally everything, yeah, I mean,
it is. But it means that's, and I don't wanna pick on Apple, probably because And I'm talking to people. It's totally everything. Yeah, I mean, it is.
But it was called in.
And I don't want to pick on Apple, probably,
because they have a mean legal team.
Yeah.
I mean, everything from.
We like iTunes?
Like, yeah.
Hey, there you go.
Shout out.
Apple, Facebook, Google, and it's funny.
We talked about sex of, you know,
you can tell a difference between an Instagram
or a YouTuber or a podcast.
I can tell the difference between someone that works at Cisco and someone that works at Facebook
and someone that works at Google.
I think they're all building their own, you want to go back to conspiracy theories.
I think they're all building their own ecosystems.
They're own 100%.
That's what we're watching.
Right now.
They're building these huge soon.
Seen the new spaceship.
Dude, dude, right?
Crazy mental.
I wouldn't be surprised if one day I'm coming out
like the whole thing.
It takes off.
Exactly, bro.
Exactly.
I haven't been thinking after this day.
Yeah, this is just,
shh, shh, I'm gonna come out of the hole for you.
It's like, I guess I wasn't on the ship.
Yeah, no, and we'll, too, like, especially local
near having Tesla, that's scary.
Tesla and PayPal.
I've heard whispers that he's behind Bitcoin.
So I've heard that, because I really know who created it.
Yeah.
Let's talk about cryptocurrency.
I'm a fuck.
Okay, so I bought, right?
So I'm on the Litecoin train right now
and looking at XRP because I,
before I thought that we were going to see these Facebook,
Google, Apple, these communities, right?
So hang in there and pay attention to where I'm going
with this.
There's gonna be, within Apple,
there's gonna be some of the best doctors in the world.
There's gonna be the best movie theaters,
the best grocery stores.
You're gonna have all that within.
And then on there, you can use Apple Points
to purchase all this stuff.
And they get...
How is that different than AppleBit?
You have the 10, I know you do,
because you said me talking Poo emoji now.
But like, when how easy is this?
They're best feature.
A single best feature.
I blew so much money the last three weeks
since I got the phone.
It's fucking insane how easy it is.
It's too easy.
It's developing new currency. Yes, yes. Because Venmo is PayPal. Right, it's fucking insane how easy it is. It's too easy. It's developing new currency.
Yeah, yes.
Because Venmo is PayPal.
Right, that's the thing.
But those are still dollars.
Yeah, you're too easy for dollars.
It's the first step to a better, more efficient,
and the dollars just continually decline.
So I'm reading a really good book right now
called The Bankruptcy of our Nation.
And it just gets in.
Oh, you're in my house now.
Oh, bro, I love this shit.
So, well, and if you look at history and like all of their fiat money,
oh, no, don't start talking like that, bro, you can do me.
Go off.
Dude, go.
Let's see like the Illuminati, like triangle.
I am.
Well, you got to explain what a fiat currency is.
Right.
So it's, yeah, it's based off of, it's based off of you key.
It's not backed, right?
So if we can't back it by gold, you can't back it by something.
So it's basically, it's not, yeah, the US, it's made up.
It's a fake value.
Yeah.
Well, it's backed by the government.
The government.
It's backed by our military.
It's actually what really backs us, what really backs
the US dollar now is the petro dollar, is the fact
that all oil, the major OPEC nations,
the OPEC nations, the world will only sell their oil for US dollars, which is what protects our dollar.
If they were to drop that and start using other currencies or start using gold or stuff like that, the dollar would collapse.
Which is, there's a lot of conspiracy theories as to why we went into Libya, which we hated Libya for a long time, but it wasn't until they decided to start creating
their own gold back securities that we went in there
and fucked them up, or how JFK was gonna create,
have the US government mint its own money that was silver,
and not the Federal Reserve, and then he got popped,
and all these, you could go down the rabbit hole
with this kind of shit.
Well, cryptocurrencies, in my opinion,
has to be, and we're seeing the evolution of it
like with like you're saying Apple pay, it's becoming to the point, and if you looked at the evolution of money, cryptocurrencies, in my opinion, has to be, and we're seeing the evolution of it like with like you're saying Apple Pay,
it's becoming to the point,
and if you looked at the evolution of money, right,
we started off with like tangible things
that we would trade like gold, right?
Like if I wanted to go buy something of a lot of value,
I'd carry all this gold and give it to her.
Well, that became ridiculous after a while, right?
So it's like, okay, so now we come up with coins,
and then the coins go turn into paper money.
So now when I want to buy something that's worth $10,000, it's just a little tiny little stack.
So I can carry that. So what's the next evolution to that is not having to carry anything being
completely safe and protected like cryptocurrency and be it all say like you and I be talking right now.
I'll be like, hey, I like those shoes. Oh, I like those shoes too. I'll give you 50 bit coins for that.
Oh, yeah, okay, cool. Look at your phone, boom, done. Now give me your shoes. Well then that's the problem.
Is every time you take a,
you move a deviation away from that,
the gold standard,
money becomes less valuable to people.
As far as I think of a casino,
that's why you walk in and get chips.
Cause it's like, oh yeah, fuck,
I don't need this plastic thing.
I've never seen this before.
There you go, yeah, I'll throw a thousand on black
or whatever.
Where it's like every time you, now we're devying towards that,
it's like, it wasn't so easy, like, I don't,
I kind of like, South shoes better.
If I wanted South shoes, I'd be like,
he's got the black socks on today.
I want everyone to.
Everyone here that I'm rocking like.
Yeah, I would do it.
But it's like, I wouldn't think to pull out my wallet
and give Sal and have some sort of bartering system.
But if I just had to go on my phone,
I'd be like, hey, Sal, you're size 12.
Here's the deal with cryptocurrencies.
The deal is the reason why, first and foremost, we don't know who created them.
It's an algorithm that will never inflate because it always produces less and less bitcoins
as it goes along.
The reason why it became popular, let's be honest, is because you could purchase things
with bitcoins in ways where they cannot trace you.
So if you go to the dark web or where people are buying like the, what was that website
that got shut down?
Silk Road.
Silk Road.
People buy drugs and stuff with, so they're laundering of money through big guys that have
bought drugs with cash.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. But not online. Sure.
That's the way, now people are doing it.
That's not true, yes you do.
Yeah.
So, online, online, it is very difficult to trace or track somebody who uses a cryptocurrency
versus using dollars or money.
Now, here's the thing though.
It's moving to, how are you, how are you not, I can't believe you're not all the way
on the train because to me,
it's what's moving us back into like a free market.
Well, no, hold on.
How do they maintain the scarcity of it?
Hold on, hold on.
There's a way to do that.
Yeah, for a point, there's only 20.
There's only, there's only, yes you can.
You kiss you can if you don't create more.
There's 22 million bitcoins available.
So it will have a ceiling.
So, and if it does go where it's going,
speculate on the value of one single point.
They'll go down to fractions and you'll end up using like a one tenth of a-
Right, right, right.
Exactly, but imagine somebody right now to invest in one of those,
like so major, major cryptocurrencies right now.
If you just, like, I've urged people that, listen,
if you got three, four hundred bucks to throw at a light coin
or one of these ones that are only three or four hundred for a single one,
throw by one, by one, and hold on to it,
because if this goes where it's gonna go,
the fact that there's be only 22 million in circulation
means that, and we will create the value of it
as, and are there more than 22 millionaires?
100 millionaires are there?
Absolutely, that would take,
I'd give a million dollars to have one.
Here's my problem with Bitcoin.
Right now people buying it,
most people are hoarding it.
So people who are buying it and investing
in it, they're not even like doing commerce. They're hoarding it.
There's been houses that have been purchased with big coins.
They have, they're have, but hold on a second. Right now you see a lot of hoarding.
I'm going to just recently.
It could very well, and a lot of people speculate that it was created by governments to track
illegal transactions. So you think I can't be tracked online buying
ship. I'm sure that can be seriously.
But besides that, besides that, right now a lot of people are buying it to speculate on it not to buy it as a currency and they're sitting on it
Right, which means the value of it has been inflated like crazy. So you got to be careful
I I know what I think is there's gonna be there's gonna be 50 of them 100 of them different cryptocurrency
It's blockchain is the technology cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency is just like a,
it's another type of using it.
So I think like, let's say for example,
we have competing currency.
Yes, exactly.
Let's say Amazon decides to accept,
which there's rumors around Amazon accepting Bitcoin.
So Amazon starts to accept,
that becomes their cryptocurrency.
Well, then Apple decides the partner with, you know,
Litecoin or someone,
and there's gonna be I think a hundred of them,
and they all create, and we'll,
What have you heard about that one that actually you trade gold be, I think, a hundred of them, and they all create, and we'll.
When you heard about that one,
that actually, you trade gold,
so it still has a bit of a gold standard field,
but like, you're a gold cap somewhere.
Yes, I have heard about that.
If you can actually trade through e-commerce,
you can trade the gold.
The right to the gold is in a vault.
So you have a tangible thing at the right.
It's like going back to the old days.
That's how blacksmiths like that.
I like that idea, just because, like,
you can always get it.
Gold's good, you know, it's like a tangibles I like that idea is because you can always get it.
It's like a tangible thing that still exists,
which I think people are always afraid of just having
nothing but numbers.
I just think it's the natural progression
of what we've seen for so many years.
We've seen this natural evolution of like
how why is currency changed over the last 100 plus year?
Over, why is it changed like that in the first place? That's going to disrupt governments. Yeah, because money is trust. Currently is trust, right?
And I know some of the kids that, you know, they smoke way too much dope stay way up way too late
on YouTube. I've bought into this. And if these fucking guys end up getting power because they bought
a lot of Bitcoin, the world is in. So the very fact that like, you know, Bayzo's, there's much more to that.
A.I. to come in and clean.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's like the fact that Bayzo's is thinking about,
like, or rumors of Bitcoin.
Good, good.
We need them to have money.
Because they're smart people.
I trust that they are gonna make the right,
or if they get some financial ancillary kickback
and doing so and he's,
you see he's like the first guy to break 100 bill.
A couple will look like last month.
It's the big race to the, to be a trillionaire, right?
That's the big race.
Is that what it is?
The big rap was really close.
The big race between the four.
Who are so forward being Facebook, Google, Apple,
and Amazon.
Oh, crazy.
I got a quote for you.
You're a booker.
The trillion cash.
That's the race right now.
I got a quote for you.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not
who makes the loss. That was Ross Child, who said that quote years ago, decades ago, this is,
excuse me, you know, over two centuries ago, or I think in 1700s, the people who are going to
freak out the most over this kind of stuff are these major like federal reserve. Yeah, like these
huge central banking, central banking is one of the, has performed some of the worst evils
of all time.
And they're the ones that stand to lose the most
with something like this.
But that's the way everything goes.
Expect, if this shit actually starts to threaten,
it's not threatening anything right now
because when it does, you better believe
some shit's gonna go down and it's not gonna be pretty.
Well, either that or what you'll see is what when you
start and that's when you better be racing to the bank to be getting someone getting on it yourself is when the bank start investing in it when the banks actually start taking their money and going we better
hedge our bets here and buy up some of the shit so we're not we're not standing there and you know they're fucking our dicks on our hand
well that's what kind of happened with you when they were hedging their bets on the on the The real estate thing though when that crashed in 2008. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's I think it's very interesting
I think when you look at history
You know, we didn't even talk about like all the all the other failed currencies all the other all the other countries and nations that had had
Currency yeah currencies will fail eventually right all of them do it so it's it's it's not a matter of... The collapse of the dollar is some economists say.
And ever will.
It's one of the biggest threat to the sovereignty of our nation.
Yeah.
It's the collapse of the dollar.
Well, I mean, everything is moving decentralized.
Like, like, the whole food is, or even like fucking Chipotle.
Like, when they got in, like, you know,
they were dicing out salmon alabritos for like,
but I think, and if, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure what they were attempting
to do was they were attempting to locally source for a chain across the country.
So they weren't doing the due diligence on quality assurance because they just couldn't
manage the logistics of, you know, going to each one of these farms, but they were attempting
to locally source their produce and their meat from local to that particular franchise.
So it's like, I fairly know we'll pursue that kind of felt flat for a little bit, although I
still go to Chipotle if I'm hungry, but I think-
I'll feel the diary.
Decentralizing, decentralizing, and like, which is weird, because I still remember being in the
sixth grade, and we have classical, I don't know if you guys have social studies.
Yeah.
So yeah, social studies, and we talked about globalization and like how crazy global
is it and to see that in my lifetime as short as it's been pretty much almost be totally
like everything everything everything that can be decentralized is becoming decentralized.
Yeah, which is why I feel like you would think would you agree more with the crypto
No, I'm not I'm not disagreeing. I think the future is in competing currencies.
It has to be right. I'm just saying right now what you're seeing with Bitcoin is a lot
of fervor, a lot of, a lot of people speculating and I see a major crash. Okay. So why are you
coming before why I see a correction? Okay. It does have the signs of something that
exists in a bubble. Well, and this is why too, though, because right and what you're seeing right now,
so Bitcoin has become like the Kleenex of blowing your nose
right tissue paper.
So it doesn't mean it's the best,
and it's not the best, and that's why this is the most known.
Yes, it's the most popular, the most well known,
because it's got the most publicity,
but there's already other cryptocurrencies
that are coming up that are showing that they have less errors, that they're more efficient.
And that's where, so it's really like trying to bet on the right horse.
That's going to get picked up by something like Amazon or someone huge like that.
And right now there's all this speculation around Bitcoin being accepted by Amazon, but
the reality maybe it may be a cryptocurrency none of us even heard of, or they may get
the blockchain technology themselves
and create it for all we fucking know.
I don't know, but I'm very fascinated in cryptocurrency
and I think it's around the corner for us
sooner than we think.
And I know it's weird to say it,
but this whole iPhone X experience for me
has really got my brain spinning around that way
because I'm not kidding,
because the immediate transactions,
yes, you have to pay attention to.
Well, you can't stop the decentralization,
that's how you just can't.
There's nothing you could do to stop it.
I mean, they try to,
then neutrality was a good idea,
like for them to try and slow down or stop,
you know, this fucking explosion.
She's a slow-during thing on that?
Yeah.
Yeah, you can.
That'll fall, you see it that way.
Yeah, that's what it's said.
Sounded a post on it,
oh, did you see it? Yeah that sound that a post on the
uh... you did a post on the
form trying to get their hands on
stopping this decentralizing effect are trying to get their hands on being able to
regulate things but
the problem is that legislators
can't legislate as faster than the technology can advance they just can't do
it so even if net neutrality was still a thing even if
the government was regulating all these phone lines
and now they have their hand on the controls,
technology's gonna come out with another way
to deliver the internet.
Well, it's the motivation to progress
is always gonna be greater.
Like look at drugs and sports.
They'll always be drugs in the Olympics as long as
the motivation of someone, like that study,
oh fuck, I forget what it's called,
but it's like if you ask 90% of what I would. Yeah, called, but it's like, if you ask 90%, I would.
Yeah, if you were to die, if you gave you a limp at gold,
like if you could win, take something
that'll kill you and fight you.
I think that was on Icarus.
I think that was an Icarus.
I think it was.
Okay, I was impressed with it.
I saw the same, I read the same study,
they said if you ask somebody that this would kill you,
if you get gold medal, but it's gonna kill you in five years,
it was 98%.
Yeah, almost all of them said yes. And it's like, that's the same mindset of human nature that's just being you in five years. Absolutely. It was great. Yes, almost all of them said yes.
And it's like, that's the same mindset of human nature
that's just being applied in a different arena again,
where it's like, yeah, the motivation of someone
to be liberated away from centralized governments
and from regulation and to be able to buy.
And again, it's like, you know, I'm not gonna go buy a kidney
off some with Bitcoin.
I could.
And it's nice to think that if I need it I think that's the only way you can yeah
But it's like I just I just think that like
the the big brother mentality is is it's been around for so long that it's on its way out and that people are just
clawing to the last grips of control
Yeah, it's once that switches over once the money goes everything goes
Yeah, there's a little bit of a
Let's just stop a company like Apple, who gets all the things that I say,
where you have the best doctors and the best of everything. What is to stop them from saying,
okay, let's say the average salary of an Apple employee right now, let's just say for argument's
sake is $150,000 a year. What is to stop Apple by devaluing the dollar themselves by saying nobody
makes more than $50,000 a year, but we're going to scale you up through Apple points. And
it makes total sense for you as an employee to take 200,000 Apple points because if that
is, if you can use those Apple points to go to the doctor, to go to the grocery store,
to go to the movies, to go at, do your inner, if they've created a little world like that.
That's how they'll scoot around the laws I'll make sure they pay you minimum wage,
but then everything else is Apple points.
But, you know, it's funny.
It's good.
I mean, it's gonna be crazy,
and I'll take it a step further.
I'll take it a step further.
I don't think the future is gonna have
major super powerful corporations either.
I don't.
I think companies like Apple, Google,
you name it Facebook, whatever.
I think these companies, when patents become obsolete,
excuse me, when patents become obsolete,
which they will be, at some point soon,
it's gonna be obsolete to patent something
because there's gonna be technology
for people to just replicate it on their own.
You're gonna see major decentralization of wealth as well.
That's like the last remaining bureaucracy.
That's it, that's it.
That's it.
When I can copy your music, I can copy your movies,
I can copy your clothes, I can copy your technology,
just because I have the technology to do that.
Now, who's gonna have all the money?
Who's gonna make billions or trillions of dollars?
It's gonna be very different.
Well, at that point, we might as well be robots, because all the things you mentioned require creativity,
which is something that's so unique to the human experience, that it's like,
well, fuck, I don't want to live in that world anyways. You might as well just pull a 38 to my head right now,
and it's like, fuck that, man.
I think we're gonna be more creative.
I think you're gonna see, I think you're gonna see both free up time to be creative.
Both kind of worlds existing, and I think that Facebook will provide its own ecosystem.
And just like you're seeing, like the,
you can be worse.
You're already put on campus at Facebook?
I don't think it, no, I haven't.
Dude, it's like Disney World.
You're already doing this.
Like with like corporate housing and stuff,
it's like they're already trying to keep it with people.
They're gonna have their own armies.
So, and I don't think it's gonna be like that.
I don't think it'll be like,
but I think it'll be tribal.
Tribal to the point where it's like
my camp's better than your camp,
but I don't think it'll be causing wars or fights
to be like, listen, if you wanna come join our group,
you can come join our group.
If you wanna be in your group,
you can join your group.
Well, yeah, but I mean,
think of how many people,
and this is a very Silicon Valley center conversation
because I mean, I drive past Google to get to my office.
I've worked in the confines of Apple and I've worked in the confines of Apple,
and I currently work in the confines of Stanford.
And there are bubbles within bubbles within bubbles.
And it's like, that's all well and good
for this, like, the geographical radius of the South Bay.
But what about the people that don't work?
Like, what about the Midwest?
What about the heavily armed people
who might not be getting the call to go on this patient?
And this is why I think they'll be still.
Wow.
Yeah, but how are they gonna sector?
How are they gonna feel when there's like this utopian
society on the other end of this shiny gate?
And that's the thing.
It's like when you create that level of disparity,
whether it's a government that's doing it,
whether that's an institution that's doing it,
those, you don't wanna be the people with it.
Like you don't wanna be the people with.
That's if you have tyranny and oppression,
but if companies do operate in a market
where they do succeed because they're serving
the consumer everybody benefits.
So you go through some of these,
we're in Silicon Valley,
but you drive through the Midwest,
everybody has an iPhone, everybody's on tech and stuff like that.
So I don't think that's as big of a,
I honestly think the decentralization
is gonna get to the point where
You're not going to have you know people who have tons and tons and tons of money look at music
If you look at music right now, it's hard now to be a to make a shit ton of money in music because people buy individual But it's already changing and it was interesting listening to Billy Corgan talk about this like the the shift of everything going now to streaming
It's like it's now what what happened was a lot of the,
the big record companies, they sort of hedged their bets.
And so what they did to get around it was to buy a lot of the
equity into these streaming businesses.
So they still have a hand in it with their artists,
but now it's finally like it's making money on that end.
So more people are into the streaming, you know,
for the monthly dues where they're actually making profit again.
You know how the consumer, it's better.
Yeah.
For the consumers way better.
And you know how this is getting shfucked.
You know how artists are making money now?
Concerts.
Old school.
They had to go back like they did back in the day.
They're making the money off of concerts now.
Movies, movies are going that way.
I look at, I was at the movies the other day,
I was watching Star Wars and two of the commercials,
that's probably, one was Netflix and one was two of the commercials. Netflix, probably.
One was Netflix and one was Amazon Prime.
Right.
Yeah, dude, for a movie that they're making.
So, and this is why it's good that the net neutrality thing
got shot down too, because real soon here,
and I was telling Katrina this,
because she was asking all about it,
like, well, why is it so good?
It's not, well, think of this way.
Real soon here, Amazon, Netflix,
we're gonna be able to be sitting at home
and the new Will Smith Netflix come out.
And instead of having to go down to the theater for 599,
I could stream it right to my house.
And I get to see a blockbuster movie
get delivered to my bedroom with instantaneously.
Do you not, I mean, I can buy shit on Amazon.
And in the holidays I have,
like I've literally sat in Valley Fair
trying to get a fucking park spot the past two weeks. And in the holidays I have, like I've literally sat in Valley Fair trying to get a fucking park spot the past two weeks.
And in waiting for a spot,
when on Amazon bought the shit I was gonna buy
in the fucking mall.
I'm at home, yeah.
But it's like, don't you worry about like the lot,
I mean you guys social interaction is the business, right?
But it's like, I like going places and talking to people.
And it's like I find even as everyone's buried
in their phones all the time,
even going out and trying to interact with people
who are in that digital space,
is making it harder for me to even wanna go out,
and then it's like this compounding cycle of life.
I think people still wanna do that.
I think people wanna do that,
but I think it's gonna change.
Well, I think you're gonna see showrooms.
You're gonna go to Amazon showroom.
You're gonna go to, and it's gonna be different experience.
I think we're in the middle of seeing
the pendulum swing right now.
And it's not all the way to the edge yet.
And so that's why we all kind of feel this way, because I agree with you.
But I also think this is why I tell people like if you want to invest in something
right now, invest in the fucking massage places, the meditation places, the yoga
places, all because those places, you're gonna, they've been around forever.
That's been around for thousands of years, all that shit, right?
Folk Tank didn't just come around, but why are we seeing it on the rise right now?
It's because people are starting to realize like human connection, being detached from
all these electronics and being present is going to become important again.
But what do all these things that you just listed on list off a few more?
Having common now is that they carry with it a social capital, right?
Ice cream museum in San Francisco.
Have you seen pictures of people at this?
Oh, it's basically create physical space
so you can share your experience online.
What?
Oh yeah, well I mean, it's like this.
Okay, no, I mean, it's the-
It's playing yourself.
It's kind of, the Ice cream museum is something
that I've just seen a lot where it's like,
this thing doesn't need to exist.
I can buy fucking ice cream everywhere, but they have this, it's like 25 bucks to enter or something like that.
I haven't gone because I feel, I'm just diametrically opposed to the entire idea behind it because I see the forest for the trees.
I see exactly what they're doing.
They're creating, I mean, every room, there's like, I don't know how many rooms, but like you get Ice Cream and you walk around,
I'm like, yeah, sure, I can just go to the ice cream store
and get that, but no, at the ice cream museum,
there's like very colorful rooms,
and it's basically made for every room
to be an Instagram friendly picture taking experience
so you can help bolster your social capital,
that it's like, you are only,
you're literally living your life for the grocery.
Social currency.
Exactly, but I mean, how is that any,
so now here you have a self perpetuating marketing model
based purely off the fact that you've woven in a bolstering
social app.
So you think you're gonna see that in those types of businesses?
I think it's, I think I'm spending my night
how to, like days and nights trying to figure out
how to do that with my own businesses,
how to like, you know, think of like the red carpet events
where like people have.
No, no, you're right.
We've already talked about that here.
I mean, one of the things that we wanted to do
was we're gonna make a wall for like when a guest
like yourself comes in and you get like a shirt
and then you get to pick up pictures for your Instagram.
And that's a gyms or a cost example of that, right?
Like we, I've called your cast.
So you've got the big zoo thing.
It's like, oh, I took a picture of the zoo thing
or it's like, think of cities, right?
Like, I take a picture with like the bull
with the big testicles or like the giant silver bean
in Chicago.
It's like these landmark places that exist
so you can only go to share them with your friends on.
I was really there.
Yeah, exactly.
And yeah, but it's to me, it's such a,
it's so, people don't realize that that's what they're
getting hooked into.
Yeah, but you gotta tell me how you think
that's gonna tie into a massage clinic or a float tank.
The ones that are gonna do, well, that's the thing.
I didn't start hearing about these float tank things
until like the people I followed
went down this road and started doing it.
So like, you know, the float tanks,
they light up in their blue,
or they're this one's green,
and they're in a room with like bamboozzing.
So we're saying instead of going there to unplug,
you're going there and you're plugging in.
To plug in exactly.
But that's the brilliance of it.
And like that's I really, I relish in the experience
of being in places where there's no identifying criteria
that I could take a picture that's just me in a place.
Like people don't know what you're doing.
Well, I mean, I always double-bought,
I mean, I'm very Jim centric in my life. He's like, I live in work inside of many of place. Like people don't know what you're doing. Well, I mean, I always double back. I mean, I'm very gym centric my life is like I live and work inside of many a gym. Um, just and now just
fucking started working at another open office in another gym. And so I look at very much the
Instagram culture. Is it, you know, it's, it's by business. It's part of my life. It's lifting
culture. It's all that. And like one thing that really started to hurt me was like these very
instant famous gyms, like
Barbelbergate.
And nothing against Barbelgate, I think it's an awesome facility.
Barquans, the wicked, he's really puts up together something special.
And it wasn't until I visited that I realized that.
But the massive, the whole wall says the name of the gym, where I train, there's an orange
squat rack.
And if you squat, that's where you squat.
And there's not a single thing that says, but it's the work that's been done in that orange squat rack
that might as well be the best graffiti spray me.
And that's what I like things to be known for
where it's like, give me tangibles, don't just give me like,
oh, look how cool this looks.
Look how cool this looks at the fucking ice cream museum
or whatever, it's like, you're not doing anything.
You're just petty dick slapping
and you're putting money into the pockets
of the people who conjured up this.
And I think with that specific example,
that was very much a conscious choice.
They're in a war room.
This is what we're gonna do.
It's like literally like,
it's how you lure children places.
Ice cream, we are getting the back of my window as van.
Oh my God.
Take a picture and put it on Instagram
and tell everyone how awesome my window as van is.
I don't know, it's just, it's a really,
when you sit down and you think about the innovation.
Yeah, with the, see,
an innovation of technology into your life
and how much it affects you whether like,
consciously or like, so,
blim and leans like,
fuck, you lose sleep at night over it.
You know, I wanna believe in humanity more.
I wanna believe that we're smarter.
I, right now, we're,
I feel like a lot of people are being duped by the social media and being able
to put this facade on and draw and build that way.
But I'd like to think that when we see ourselves becoming so connected.
So for example, like we have a short memory, dude.
I have caught myself in the last three years since we have now built a business that obviously
thrives
off of social media platforms and without it we would probably be dead. I have now watched
myself go from being a guy who didn't give two shits about Facebook, didn't do any of
that stuff, never was on it, never ever was on it. I actually have to monitor myself
on how much I can consume of it. And at what point is it am I doing work
and then what point am I starting to consume, right?
And they brought up before that they say the next,
the new scrolling is the new smoking,
where you fucking ate that.
We stopped comparing shit to smoking.
Like a sitting is the new smoking thing.
Right, right, right, right.
But no, I get it.
Yeah, but the point is that what happens is you just get caught up and you don't realize,
you start off, you try it one time, then you have two, then you have three, then you
have the next thing, you are your chain smoker.
And that's the idea, the comparison of is that you start off justifying it because you
need to do it for business reasons.
The next thing you know, you're so plugged in, you can't even get away from your phone
for more than four or five hours in a day.
And how unhealthy is that?
And then I like to think that right now, a lot of people aren't putting that together
because there's not a lot of people talking about it because we're all talking about
how great all this technology is.
But I think that that pendulum will swing also.
And I think people will start to realize it and realize, okay, this whole facade of the
ice cream museum and the go to the float tank and take pictures and stuff like that.
Maybe that's what's happening right now.
But in the future, I think people will realize,
like, if you want it to actually make an impact on your life
and actually truly do what it's supposed to do,
which is, get you become more present,
then you're going to have to disconnect.
So I don't know.
I want to believe that eventually we'll go that way.
Well, what?
Technology is a good tool, but a better master.
Right?
That's kind of the end game there.
It's, I don't know.
It's, like you said, it's inevitable,
but I think the big thing with the scrolling is being able to check yourself, like, and look at
something before you post it and be like, is that what I want to sound like versus is that what I
sound like? Right? The auto correct and the edits you can make to like your perceived intention in the world
where it's like, when the rubber hits the road
and you're face to face with someone
and you got like you're in a job interview
or you're on a date or you're saying something
and you can't like tax, like, no,
like should I send the eggplant emoji
and maybe it's not so much time.
You know what I mean?
Where it's like, I don't know.
It's just the dissonance between who you are online
and who you are in person. Yeah, I think it's two different people. It is, I had a lot of,'t know, it's just the dissonance between who you are online and who you are in person.
Yeah, I think it's two different people.
It is.
I had a lot of, you know, this was tough for me.
When I first started Instagram, I was doing a lot of what I knew would get traction.
And for me, that was being in the men's physique role and taking these pictures of myself,
you know, shirtless in the mirror and doing all this stuff.
And I remember that I built a pretty large following on that and I became this guy
and I do not identify with a bodybuilder.
That's not because I did it.
It doesn't mean that I identify with it.
I did it because I saw the opportunity
for me to gain all this traction.
So I had a really hard time kind of breaking free of that.
Like that's not just me.
But even now, like you're,
I mean, orders of magnitude more successful now
because they mean that put your foot in the door, but the fact that now you pursue a passion and something that
is in line with one to one with what you want to do now, then you're seeing real success
in my opinion.
I agree.
I think a lot of people, they get a taste and whether they're doing the men's physique
and a lot of people do a lot of things for the gram or for YouTube or whatever, and it's
like, until that aligns with what your real passion is,
I don't think it'll ever be successful.
I agree.
Yeah, and I think a lot of people just float around,
you know, the popular pages of the people that have,
you know, a couple of tens of thousands
or a hundred thousand followers on Instagram.
Oh, I think otherwise you become like the one-hit wonder, right?
Sure. Yeah, that's a good way to look at it.
Yeah, you explode.
I mean, we've already done interviews and met people
that have got like millions of followers
And I think like and they and they did it around like one way and perfect example and and not knocking
Zoo culture or
What he's done over there, but he has definitely attached himself as this guy who does all this crazy stuff
And it's like you're I'm expecting every time I tune into my Instagram that he's gonna do something cool
Like I he's gonna flip a car over? Are you gonna do a squad on a fucking
tricycle thing?
Like, I'm looking for, you'd now become almost like
your tight cast.
Yeah, a slave to your audience
or else your business doesn't thrive.
Like, that's scary, you know, for...
Yeah, and I think that's the nice thing about this podcast
is how many people thought then,
when they're gonna tune into this episode,
they're gonna see my name,
and they're not gonna think that we're gonna talk about this.
We're talking about getting it.
Bitcoin and fucking like, we barely touch any biomechanics
stuff at all.
And I think when you can become more than the sound bites
that exist if you online,
I think that's when you gain like a real presence,
because you're a real person,
you not just beholden to the image you've put out
unless the image is layered.
There's layers, there's exactly.
You know, people have depths and I feel like, I hate that.
I hate that when we only, like, we only portray
this one sort of surface image of ourselves.
And it's like, come on,
do people are way more complex than that?
You'd like to think so.
You would.
Yeah, yeah.
Or even not, like, say the, you know,
I think there's a, I fuck a problem pulling this
from Paris, dammit.
Where it's like, you want to appeal,
and whether you do this consciously or not,
if they success with people like your podcast, it comes to mind more so than probably any other is
appeal to 10% of your audience that make that be your focus. Whether again, it's you're sitting
down in a war room and you're consciously making the decision that this episode is going to be like
this and this is the topic we're going to go and we're going to cover fermented foods and all the
people that are into the nutrition are going to like. And the next week we'll make a hard switch
into the training, or then we'll do like a funny episode.
What's like, you guys just flow and the stuff comes out
and you catch the 10% inadvertently,
because of that 10%, those people, that's their mantra,
that's their guiding light.
They don't really, and like you said,
you'd like to think maybe people have some more depth,
that maybe they don't, but maybe they just wanna hear,
and then you guys can introduce them to the fringes and every 10 episodes or so you'll come back to
the fermented foods you come back to the training. We're trying to build a brand
based on us just talking about what we want to talk about and the reason why we
want to do that is because we can do that forever. Yeah, so we're not gonna
fuck ourselves. Now that you've been podcasting you're
hitting fucking three different facilities your ads, Tam, for your all
of the place.
Do you even have very much time to tune into any podcast?
Are you still with podcast?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I give you a lot.
You guys are on the top.
I, I, I QA our own podcast, I'll listen to our stuff.
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisional History.
I probably listened to Top the World.
I was a huge fan.
Yeah.
His storytelling is, is like, just just his way of connecting the dots.
I've never listened to that before.
It's really, it's just from the quality
to the choreography of the whole thing.
He's one of my favorite writers.
Yeah, no, I haven't traveled in favorite,
so I've been listening to a lot.
I mean, I'll tune into Rogan,
depending on the guests, it gets a little of meh.
Like a Dalek Silasave and whatever. I kind of heard it once for a while. know, it's like an Alex, it's Ivan, whatever.
I kind of heard it once for a while.
I kind of feel like that's what a lot of those,
that whole group of guys are all kind of talking about,
Jiu-Jitsu and Fuken's psychedelics.
It's like, I don't know.
Which I like to talk about that.
I do, it's interesting to me,
but I feel like there's more, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I'm trying to think, what else?
Who do I listen to?
I'll just go like, I mean, I like to keep it
in the fitness space.
And just to see the contrast what's out there.
Like, I mean, Greenfield, I'll listen to a B-pack.
I'll tune into the muscle up, where one gets,
I mean, that scratches and nerd itch in me,
just like hearing different approaches.
Trying to think, yeah, those are probably
the top ones right now.
If you really want to go information heavy, you could try, found my fitness Dr. Try to think. Yeah, those are probably the top ones right now. If you really want to go information heavy,
you could try, found my fitness doctor on the Patrick.
Yeah, okay.
She goes deep.
Yeah, I've heard her on a couple podcasts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, if you want to challenge her
vocabulary and stuff like that and you just
what you're looking for,
I feel like it's so...
Smoking mirrors.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, No, no, no, no, no, no. No, she's the shit. I like her.
She's deep, bro.
She's the son of the way she talks.
But it's like, if you and your friend have a nice one.
For me, for podcasting, you said,
I want to be entertained somewhat.
I want to enjoy the conversation,
just for the conversation purposes.
That's why I said, if it's deep,
I'll learn to.
And then I want to pit.
Yeah, exactly.
I feel, maybe if I was in school at that time,
going through a degree in the related field, I would eat her podcast up
because I just wanna be consuming info, but it's like,
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what I think that wife's been listening to that.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember driving up from so cal like last month
and that's exactly what it was.
Oh, a jug life.
Chiwess Smith.
I think him and Max, they had a good job.
A very, very fitness centric, but entertaining nonetheless.
And I think our episode comes out like next month.
So shame was plugged into it.
It comes out of like I even found it.
Just kind of here, let me not so suddenly,
just drop that in there.
But not as if it's pretty good.
I really like to keep it kind of in the power of lifting space
to keep my finger on the pulse of things.
What are you learning yourself like through this whole process?
I mean, I love getting a chance to talk to you
because I get to talk to you before you started.
Now you're doing it.
I think you do a great job.
I was thinking you're an intelligent guy.
It gives good information.
You got good guests.
Now, what are you learning about the business?
That's different, man.
It's really like, it's just the range.
You just realize how insignificant the fitness space is, I think.
How it should be significant to everyone
because it's, I mean, it's the foundation
and fundamentals of people that are leading the charge
as far as becoming healthy, fine, better ways to get healthy.
But it's just so insignificant in the grand scheme of things
when you look at the podcasts that are rising to the top.
I mean, look at it this way.
Like if you went fishing, you'd put a worm on a hook.
But if you were trying to catch me,
you'd be better off with like a doughnut
or like a protein shake or something.
And I think that's walking a fine line of where you're willing
to go as far as being palatable to a broader audience,
but also saying true to your own value set.
What a great point.
So that to me has been just interesting,
but also to like not being limited,
like we did one with Brett Contreras,
and me and Brett have had like, instant knife fights online.
Like there's video evidence of me
and it's going up on our YouTube channel.
I don't know when, whenever I put it up.
There's video evidence of me doing a hip thrust
with Brett Contreras, which,
but like you meet him and you talk to him
and you put the swords away.
You close to you.
Yeah, honestly.
It's like, all right, all right, all right.
I don't know what to do. But it's like, I do think just,
and it was like, I don't know, I was hard headed.
I was honestly, and I still am,
to some extent resentful of people who, in my opinion,
and I'm not saying that this is Brett at all,
but people who were successful in the fitness industry,
who like, you know, they were just selling protein shakes online
or whatever, like who didn't have the steel in the walls.
I'm like, what the fuck, man?
Like this guy's making this much on his YouTube channel.
Like here I went to school like an asshole.
Like, and you know, you try and be a jack of all trades
and there's one guy that has like a catch phrase
that makes a lot of money and it's like,
just put your swords away.
And that's the one thing I kind of learned
is like if you just kind of approach people
and be a little bit more open-minded,
like that, Brett, I was a little worried.
He's not small.
He's like six four.
He's like a pretty imposing guy,
and I was like, man, maybe this guy's just gonna,
like, invite me to his glue lab,
and we're just gonna do it out.
Like super inviting, super friendly,
super, our podcast, like,
it was a little bit more on the nerdy side of things.
And I slam you.
Yeah, I just booty-clap me.
And I tested him on a few things.
Like I called out one of his research articles
that I thought was flawed and we like hot it out
but it was very professional.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, so I think just that allowing for like a free
and open discussion between people with opposing viewpoints
and it's okay to disagree with you.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
And I think a lot of people, once ego gets involved,
it's like, you know, we've had
some video evidence this morning of what happens when ego gets involved and it's like, listen,
you know, everyone present their case and then it's then it's Darwinism like, let's see
what rises to the top.
That's what I really like about podcasting is it's what my favorite thing in sports of
all time is when Michael Tyson used to come
out for his title fights.
You know what he used to wear?
He used to take the hotel towel and cut a hole.
Oh, that's right.
He put it in his neck.
The reduced essence of that, like you have a Pac-Yout and me weather in these flashy
kids and the Conor McGregor with the fuck you pins, right?
And it's like, you look across the ring and you see that guy coming at you and just rips
the fucking towel, puts it over his head.
It's not like the Mexican flag and he's not trying to be
like, because he knows, like, this guy just said
he's gonna eat your fucking children.
Are you serious?
And I just love that, like, and podcasting
that reduced essence of the conversation where it's real.
It's just, it's archived.
And I think there's, imagine in history,
like if we had this ability to archive conversations,
because we've been listening, I mean, this is, to me, this is tantamount to like the
Gutenberg printing press, where it's like, you're seeing the ability to have these conversations
between these people, whether it's, you know, they're within the same echo chamber, they
oppose each other, like, just imagine being a fly on the wall to some of like the great, and you just get third hand documentations
of things that have been written,
but even just being able to audibly hear it,
I think to me is really interesting,
and that's why I've gravitated.
I haven't listened to, I mean,
I don't even know where my radio presets are anymore,
because since I've been introduced to this,
all I do is listen to podcasts.
It's growing, yeah.
It's growing very quickly,
and it's a good thing.
Yeah, it's a good thing.
Super exciting man. Fuck yeah man, thank yeah man thank you coming on yeah always a pleasure
having you in here man I love it yeah yeah yeah always yes check it out go to
YouTube we should have some new videos up soon actually with yeah we just
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