Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 685: Bachelor Parties, Car Accidents, Rotisserie Chicken, Mind Pump's 72 Hour Fast & More Randomness

Episode Date: January 15, 2018

This episode is a throwback to Mind Pump's earlier days when Sal, Adam & Justin would sit down behind their mics and just have a conversation. Yes, it is a bit random but we hope you are not only entertained but informed in some small way. Can “electronical” be added to the Webster’s Dictionary? (2:57) Kids need to learn how to lose. Find out stories from the guys on this topic. (4:26) Do your animals have human personalities? The guys share funny personal stories. (9:00) Dogs key to human evolution? Hear Sal’s perspective on this deep topic. (17:15) The legacy of the rotisserie chicken: The guys talk highly palatable foods. (20:47) Thrive Market plug (23:50) The Oprah backlash for running to President already beginning? The government infringing on our liberties? The guys discuss fixing our voting system and government’s control over us. (24:36) Wearing seat belts vs. not, airbags, car crashes and more. The guys give their thoughts and share stories from the past. (35:45) The science of lying, breaking up and ghosting. Is there a playbook? Come hear stories from the guys. (46:28) What would go down at Adam’s bachelor party? Destination wedding? The guys talk marriage and bachelor parties of the past. (50:05) 72 hour fast: The guys talk preparation, how they are doing so far and their ultimate goal. (1:00:24) The dos and don’ts coming out of a fast. The guys give their recipe for success. (1:18:20) Related Links/Products Mentioned: Submission Form: The Open Dictionary | Merriam-Webster The dog-human connection in evolution Evolution: Library: Evolution of the Dog Thrive Market (MP sponsor) One FREE month’s membership $20 off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) Free shipping on orders of $49 or more Episode 682: Sam Parr of The Hustle Rotisserie Chickens: The ’90s Gift to Supermarkets That Keeps on Giving Why Costco Will Never Raise the Price of Rotisserie Chicken Rotisserie chicken sales are still hot for retailers Privacy and Property Rights Seattle's new tax on sugary drinks kicks in on New Year's Day Why Our Founders Feared a Democracy Seat Belt Statistics | How Many Injuries & Deaths Per Year 11 Signs Someone Is Lying To You Very Bad Things (1998) Intervention Full Episodes, Video & More | A&E Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system Dizziness - orthostatic hypotension Fasting The Effects of Calorie Restriction in Depression and Potential Mechanisms THE Fasting Mimicking Diet Page Fasting-like diet turns the immune system against cancer Intermittent Fasting Survival Guide People Mentioned: Sam Parr (@theSamParr)  Twitter The Hustle Valter Longo Would you like to be coached by Sal, Adam & Justin? You can get 30 days of virtual coaching from them for FREE at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Get our newest program, MAPS Prime Pro, which shows you how to self assess and correct muscle recruitment patterns that cause pain and impede performance and gains. Get it at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Also check out Thrive Market! Thrive Market makes purchasing organic, non-GMO affordable. With prices up to 50% off retail, Thrive Market blows away most conventional, non-organic foods. PLUS, they offer a NO RISK way to get started which includes: 1. One FREE month’s membership 2. $20 Off your first three purchases of $49 or more (That’s $60 off total!) 3. Free shipping on orders of $49 or more Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Get your Kimera Koffee at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Get Organifi, certified organic greens, protein, probiotics, etc at www.organifi.com Use the code “mindpump” for 20% off. Go to foursigmatic.com/mindpump and use the discount code “mindpump” for 15% off of your first order of health & energy boosting mushroom products. Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Also includes 20% if you purchase! Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts! Have questions for Mind Pump? Each Monday on Instagram (@mindpumpmedia) look for the QUAH post and input your question there. (Sal, Adam & Justin will answer as many questions as they can)

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this random episode of Mind Pump, make sure you hang into the end because we get into some really good health and fitness stuff when we get towards the end, but we definitely might piss some people off with some of the political shit there. Adam, Justin and I actually have no direction in this podcast.

This is not a Q&A, we just go off. Well, it's been a while since we just lit the mics up and just talked about what's on our mind right now, huh? Yeah, that would be a good time to throw all past it. We're all clear minded. Are you sure it's not throwback Thursday? Yeah, it went crazy. We talked about winning and losing.

Adam had a funny shit story. We talked about winning and losing. Adam had a funny shit story. We talked about, talked about dogs. Our accidents. Yeah, dogs value to human evolution. We got into politics. We got into Adam's bachelor party. We talk about our fast. Then we end on the fast. We talk a lot about the 72 hour fast that I'm starting just in an atom. Actually, by the time this airs, we will have been completing this fast. Doug is doing it too. And I think our girlfriends and wives are all doing this too.

So it's kind of cool if you listen to the variant, we kind of talk about synergy. What we're doing during the fast, a lot of it involves not eating, how we're gonna get out of fast, what we hope to get out of this pretty complicated, this whole process. Also, you are in

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What's that? So there's apparently, there's a, I don't know what it is, it's like a website or something. Find out words that are coming in the future. What, no, not quite, but it's a way to petition. So you set up a petition for a word, like a new word, like this is a word that we would like to be put in the Webster's dictionary, whatever. Share with them, Sal, tell them. One of the words that is being

petitioned is Electronical. Boom! E-lectronical! Boom! This is for all you fuckers talking sh**. So what I was in this other people in the world like you. Well Adam may actually be so brilliant that he's not making words up, Justin. He's just speaking from the world like you. Well, Adam may actually be so brilliant that he's, he's not making words up, Justin. Just he's just speaking from the future. Wow. I believe this is true. Amazing.

Amazing. Yeah, that's it. In the future, they're gonna drop the R from library, and they're gonna take it out and just be library. Wow. You know what I mean? That's one. It makes way.

Electronicals the other one. They're not gonna use the word craze anymore And I know it's another one and a dope like these are all futuristic words. What are the other ones? Everybody loves to point out. I don't know. I love whenever as soon as someone gets an opportunity to everyone's just Like I don't know Like I don't know dude. So so last night I watched my son's basketball game again. They're undefeated, dude. Wow. Was that 6-0? Yeah.

He's really getting into it. It's like 4-5-0. So, he's made a couple baskets, which is cool. It's exciting. There's one guy on his team that's really, really good. But I can see how the coach does such a good job coaching them, because you can see all the moving parts. Everything as a kid, man.

If you've got a good coach, it really separates. Like, I can always tell when I'm watching little league type games with that, like the team that's just like, whooping their team. It's an oiled machine versus an individual. Cause at that level, at that level, the kids aren't really separating themselves yet.

Like you said, you could tell there's one kid who's really good. But I mean, for the most part, he's not like so dominant, he could take over an entire game. Like when you start getting into like high school and college, that's where you really see the separation. At that age, he's not like so dominant, he could take over an entire game. Like when you start getting into like high school and college, that's where you really see the separation. At that age, it's really, do you have the ability to organize these kids together

and get them to focus on simple little goals? And that's what they do. Like you can see how they're doing the zone defense and they're all like, it's been hammered into their heads. Like this is what you do, don't do anything else. Right. And this is the plays that you do, don't do anything else. So two of the players score most of the points on my son's team. So, we get to the half,

wait, what is it called? Half time. Thank you. And we, oh, here's the other thing that's, here's the other thing that's in the left. Here's the other thing that's annoying, by the way. I'm not quite sure what the lead is, but if you score so many points more than the other team, it's a mercy role. They stop giving you points. Oh, they just started in basketball. But they keep them playing. Wow.

They keep them playing, but you can't score anymore. You can't be more than that. You did that at T-ball. Do you know how stupid that is? Well, I don't think it's stupid to have a mercy role where you just end the game. No, they didn't end it. But to keep it going and then to stop the scoring counting is kind of lame. It's ridiculous.

Plus, here's the thing like Let let the other team receive the beating that they're gonna get Let them get the shellacking so they know it real life is think of the valuable lessons you get Oh, yeah, you know, you know many times it's happened to me. Oh Not only that but I think it's also there's also something to be said about the kids that are doing giving the ass beating Yeah, because they're also learning a lesson like look at when you guys run the system when we play together There's a team we whoop the shit out of these kids. I can't wait This is what I would hope is that you know all the people on the bench out there. It's like a good all-time

Yeah, I can't wait for them like let's say they dominated these teams and just blew them out of the water And then the encounter team that that doesn't happen and they're challenged and their characters challenged or they lose talk about a great opportunity you know I'm saying right but you don't get that when you don't let kids get their asses kicked you just don't I remember when I was in YouTube on there forget this dude I'm doing Jiu Jitsu this is towards the end of my you know whatever you want to call it Jiu Jitsu career when I close to when I start when I stop so I put this point, I've been training for, I don't know, five and a half years, I have a purple belt or just got a purple belt.

So when you get to purple, you can kind of teach class and you're, you're pretty good. And in my school, I was legit, I was pretty good. I didn't compete on like these crazy levels, but I was pretty good in my school. This dude visits from Brazil, and this guy comes over and he's a black belt. Now at this point, I could go against other black belts, and although I would usually lose,

I could kind of hold my own, especially when it was no-gui. So this was no-gui training, and this guy comes from Brazil, and he's about my size, so he's a pretty big guy. And we go no-gui. And usually when I go against black belts, I can, like I said, I can hold. And we go no-gui. And usually when I go against black belts, I can, like I said, I can hold my own, especially no-gui, and sometimes I'll win. This guy, he beat me so fast and so often and so easily,

it was the biggest ego check of my entire life. But I learned so much from getting my ass kicked by this guy, but I'll never forget where I, like, you guys have never done Jiu Jitsu, but like I'd put my hands on him and tap out. This applies it all sport. Like as soon as I put my hands on him, I'd have to be prepared to tap out or I was gonna get because you're so fast and so accurate with his positions to the point where towards the end I was laughing because I couldn't do anything and then he would start laughing. So then I'm like you need to teach me what you're doing.

So then he would do this thing where he would do a countdown on me, which is fucking humiliating, but it's great. Oh, I count down before he does the move to you or whatever. Bro, you would tell me what he was going to do. He said, okay, the next thing I'm going to do on you is I'm going to, I'm going to arm lock your right arm from the guard and you'd say, ready, go. And he'd go 10, nine, and I'd see what he was doing and I couldn't stop him and he'd get me in a fucking arm lock. But great, you then afterwards he taught me

and I saw what he did and I learned my positioning. So, that's legit. Yeah, let them lose him. Dude, I have a story for you guys last night. So listen to this. So I felt Katrina, I love my girl, man. She is right now, I'm about to make fun of her or something like that. But, I had a preface with all that.

That is a sandwich going on. Right, right, right, because- Before I say this, Well, listen, I mean, this woman right now, aside from everything that she does at her own job, where she works ridiculous hours on top of helping me out, you know, with our business, and then on top of that, I've got what I'm going through

with the testosterone thing. I got what I'm going through right now with the torn Achilles right now. And then I get really sick last week. So she is just waiting on me hand in foot. And you know what, for the most part, she does run the household. But I think this last week or so,

she's realized like there are some little things that I actually do do. She's missing like the caring and the groceries and all this stuff. And we have two stories, right? So she's constantly like running up and down the stairs and doing things for me. And I hate that as it is. And so last night we finally get settled in and we're sitting down to watch a little TV. It's like eight o'clock at night. And you could just, she plops down.

She's got me served, she got my meals done, the dogs have been fed, everyone's taken care of, finally finished wrapping up work stuff, it's eight o'clock, we're gonna sit down and just relax for a second, she sits down and like, ah, catches her breath. We're there for maybe about 15 minutes, getting into our show and Bentley comes walking over

and he's kind of like putting his paws up on the couch and you know, I can just tell when the dogs are trying to get your attention. And they've got wild personalities and I look at it and I go, did you feed the boys? And she's like, yes, I already fed the boys. I could tell if she's art, she's just like once to unwind. And I'm like, well, there's some, Bentley's, I think he might have to go to the bathroom then, huh? And she's like, and that's going all the way downstairs, letting him back out.

And she did that already a few hours ago. So she's like, no, no, he's fine. He's fine. I'm like, I don't know, huh? And I think he has to go to the bathroom and she's like, no, no, he's fine. He's fine. And I know that part of that is really, she's just fucking tired. So I just, okay, whatever. I leave it alone. No big deal. About five minutes later, Bentley walks over in front of the TV or watching, looks right at us squat down and shit Straight and he don't even he don't ever shit

He don't shit in the house first of all. He definitely knows shit in front of the TV like that on wood floors Like I warned you. Yeah, here it is. He walks right over. I'm laying up there my legs elevated She's icing me and stuff like that Bentley walks in front of the TV looks right at at us, and then squast down and leaves the biggest shit ever. Oh no. And I just start fucking laughing. And she's a great sport, because I know inside she's pissed because she knows you gotta get up

and be the one to clean it and shit, right? So she's like, fuck. You know, gets up, shakes her head, has to go clean her head and bounce. How do you clean up a dog shit like that? There's little, there's, I mean, it's not that hard. It leaves, yeah, in fact. But you're just gonna blast it There's a little... There's... I mean, it's not that hard. It leaves, yeah.

But you're just getting a plastic bag. Well, so it's hard with floor, so it's actually easy to do it on the hard with floor. So you get in the correct... The aromas there, though, for... Yeah, that's the real pain in the ass. Yeah. Now the aromas there, in sense of running away. I think you guys reference the shit smell as aroma.

Isn't that like... It's for barnacles of shit flying around you. But when I think of a aroma, I think of food. You know what food You know, I mean only a poop what yeah, like a Roma, but leaves it's a better word. Yeah, smell Leaves it leaves a shit smell We got one of those fans that Exhaust fans in the house so those work pretty good actually for heat and for smells like so if I got like a bad smell Or if I got something going on in the house where it's really hot you switch that exhaust. They're funny man.

Yeah, they are. Yeah, that reminds me of when my when my daughter was little my daughter's got this personality where if she's she can be a little terror if she wants to be she's eight now so it's a lot less but when she was really young she was a little terror and so I'll never forget she was in her high chair eating and When she was done with her food she had this habit of throwing the rest of her food on the floor That's how you knew she was done. She just she'd eat and she was done She'd go and just knock everything over and I tell her don't throw your food on the floor So she's eating her food and I can tell she's about to do it and I said hey

Don't throw your food on the floor and she like has her hand kind of halfway about to do it. And she looks right at me and she does it real slow. Good. It is like I'm doing it anyway. Just wipes it all on the floor. And I'm like, ah, beatings. Kids, edgy. The bulldogs are the closest dogs.

I've had dogs my whole life. But they're definitely the closest dogs I've ever had dogs my whole life, but they're definitely the closest dogs I've ever had to have like human-like person out there. What kind of dogs have you had before that? Oh my God, I've had retrievers, labs, shepherds, rot-wilers. Is the bullies your favorite? Yeah.

They're my favorite. They're the most work. So by far, they're not like an easy dog. So if you're somebody who just like wants a dog that you can just put in the backyard and then go throw a ball with it on the weekends, like it's not the dog for you. It's like having a little human. It really I think that anyone who's thinking about having a kid having a English book on for the same way. Really? Well they need a lot of exercise too. Well they need all that and they follow you around everywhere. Oh I like that

though. Which is great. Dude I love it. Like's like, it turned into one of those things that I love about to breed. But yeah, dude, I've been going through the same like, like, just like trying to, to make sure like, everybody's on the same schedule of how we're like training, you know, this puppy. And that's been just like quite the fiasco, you know, cause I have a way of doing things and then trying to get the kids to like understand how to, you know, get them from not like just chewing on everything and chewing on them and, you know, like getting him out when I asked them to get him out. So the only time he's even, he's been really good though

so far, but the only time he's had accidents cause like I told, we're trying to sleep like an extra couple minutes, you know, the kids are up and kind of watching TV. And so they're focused on that. He's right next to them. He's taking a shit. And he's like, you like whimper's and he's like, shitting right next to my son didn't

take him out or anything. And oh my god, I woke up so pissed off. No. I used to have. So I grew up with American Pit Bull Terriers. So I love bully breeds, all bully breeds, whether it's a bulldog or a pit bull or whatever. And we grew up with pit bulls and we had one that was 90 pounds and he was extremely, like most pit bulls,

extremely muscular and athletic. This dog used to jump and hang on the fence with his legs and just watch people walking by. So we used to get people would ring our doorbell all the time and be like, because you'd freak people out, cause it's big old, yeah, he's got this big old pit bull head

and he would just hang and he'd watch people walking by and it's like, oh shit. So at one point, so when I was a kid, when I was really young, we had the first pit bull that we ever had, and the mail man stopped delivering our mail. He didn't do anything to the dog, the dog didn't do anything to him, but it was because,

he was just scared of, and this was in the 80s when there was like that whole fervor about pit bulls, was this big deal, and everybody was scared of him, whatever happened. Yeah, and it's so ridiculous, the media made such a big deal about that. We wouldn't even get our mail. We had to go to the post office to get our mail

cause we were afraid of our dog. Oh man. Which is ridiculous. My brother, my little brother had a dog, at least in my step brother, his parents house, that it was a bull massive, right? Those are massive. Oh, they're massive.

And when they stand on their feet, stand up all the way, they'll be over six foot tall. And so this dog could actually stand up and look over in eight foot fence. So you would walk up and he would just be the same idea, except he's not hanging there. Like you said, he would just put his paws up and he'd look over like somebody

would come walk at the dog from the sand line. And he's massive, dude. Talk about like the best like detour for people trying to go in. Yeah, you ain't going in there, right? You know, I know people like animal lovers, especially people like vegans, they put all they like to say that all animals

are should be treated a particular way. And there's no hierarchy, but I can't agree with that, man. I think when you look at animals like dogs in particular and horses, they're a little higher on the frickin' totem pole, if you ask me. These are animals that were so domesticated. Well, no, they're just little higher on the frickin' totem pole if you ask me. These are animals that were so... Domesticated. Well, no, there just, I mean lots of animals are domesticated, but horses and dogs were

key like components to human evolution. If we didn't have dogs, for example, I don't know if humans would have made it at all. And same thing with horses. What's your theory on that? On dogs? Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, so very with human evolution, I'm curious. Oh, so it's a very interesting relationship. A warning.

Yeah, it's a very interesting relationship. So dogs came from wolves, obviously. And the first wolves to figure out that if they, if they hung around and kept, you know, other danger away from us, that humans would throw the scraps to them. They would give them scraps to them. And so what happened is through selective breeding where the wolves that were not so afraid of humans and didn't attack us, they stayed around, they bred, had other pups

or whatever. And little by little, we turned these wolves into these domesticated type of animals that we would feed. They would help us hunt. They would protect us. They would bark. And they started to happen. Yeah, and they started taking on the characteristics of puppies. So like barking, lots of barking.

That is a puppy characteristic. That is not a mature wolf characteristic. But the reason why dogs have these puppy characteristics is because humans find them cute, and so they evolve to be cute. They would hold into, yeah, what we like determine basically. And they have a very interesting genome

where you can take, because think about it, like the smallest breed and the largest breed, you know, all didn't exist not that long ago. It was very, very short per time when we turned the wolf into all the crazy breeds that we see now. And that's because there's something in their genome that allows them to evolve very, very, very quickly, where we can specifically breed them to turn, you know, dogs into expert, you know, rat hunters or, you know, the point whenever they see something that we need to go get, or they're good at swimming,

and they love the water or drugs. Or yeah, or exactly. So they were a lot like, it's like that symbiotic relationship. It's like fish that have cleaner fish that eat parasites off of them and all that stuff. It's like you're almost like paired to another organism and you both evolve together.

Humans needed dogs and dogs needed humans. To the point where they do these studies where they'll take a person in a wolf and they'll put food underneath particular types of hidden under bowls or whatever. And the wolf will try and search for it. And if it doesn't find it, it just keeps looking. A dog will come in, will look,

and then after a certain point it stops and it looks up to the human for help. It's almost like it's just bred into them where they rely on humans for cues to help now explain to people. I'm still trying to figure that one out. I like cats. I mean, they're all right, but you know, it's not like a cat versus dogs.

Do cats are, please, what's your argument? Bro, cats are wild. You've ever seen a regular cat outside, please, what's your argument? Bro, cats are wild. You ever seen a regular cat outside, what do they do for us? Yeah, cats are cool. I find you. I don't have any give a shit about this. But I'm much for companionship.

No, no, no, no. They're about their own deal, you know what I'm saying? No, dogs are legit, very important for human civilization and horses are the other one. Horses are extremely important. Oh yeah. And then all the other. They've got us everywhere.

All the other work animals like oxen and stuff like that. But dogs for sure, so I placed them on such a high pedestal when it comes to other animals that, I look at a dog and I look at them almost like a human. This is an animal. And everybody shits on insects. Yeah, fuck that's just this. That's what we're gonna end up eating.

Eating, I just read this article. So the hustle guy, we just had him in here, Sam par, right? So I'm super fascinated with his business. I subscribed to his newsletter and the article yesterday that was in there was talking about rotisserie chicken. Did you read this by any chance? Oh, yeah, I also read the tech. Yeah, so this is pretty fascinating.

I think we do, I think I read $250 million a year in rotisserie chicken as sold. And this is something that knew it happened in Boston market like back in 1990 something or 2000 something where... I used to be all about the Boston market. We're Boston market came up with this idea where they sell you like the whole chicken. That was brilliant.

And it went bananas and like it completely revived the business. And that's how Boston market like survived during this time. And then you see later on, now Safeway, now Costco is going to school. Yeah, everybody. And it's just because it's such an incredible deal. You get $4.99 and you get this whole chicken, right?

There it is, Doug, thank you. So this is, oh, $625 million, I was wrong. So $625 million rotisserie chickens at grocery store chains across the country. So Costco's got their hands in a Boston market in 1990s. 1994 is what it says, thank you, Doug. And I didn't know this either. They actually pump it with a half a pound of salt water.

Oh yeah, to plump it up. Yeah, to plump it up so it weighs more. It looks like you're getting a lot more in there. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. To use juice here. Bro, do you know how much shit they do to your food? To increase the injector.

It's palatability. Even food that you think is all natural and whatever. Just to change the look and the texture of it because they know you'll eat more of it. It's a fucking game. I found that about like my favorite tritip that I always used to get from Costco and like they just totally inject it with all the saline

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That's what they did it to save the business because they found that if we got people here to buy this chicken for 499 That we're not really making any money on it's kind of a wash that you would end up buying other things while you were there. Dude, that's the strategy a lot of grocery stores do. So like, whole foods now that Amazon has bought them, I've noticed that they've lowered the prices of on a lot of key products. For example, bottled water.

So you know the big gallon bottled water that you'll get like the crystal guys or whatever. They used to sell it for like $1.25. Now it's always 98 cents. 98 cents, 98 cents, and I find myself, I remember not going to Whole Foods specifically because the water was more expensive, even though it's super rational when I think about it,

because it's only another 20 cents, everything else is so expensive, right? But now that I know that it's 98 cents, which is cheaper than anyone else, I tend to shop more Whole Foods, I caught myself doing that. I'm like, fuck. That's a smart job.

They've got me. Well, in a sense, Thrive Market kind of does that with the whole membership concept. Their prices are so damn low, you gotta be like, there's no way you're making that much money off this and they're not, but they know they're gonna get you on the membership every year. That, oh, because we have this many people

at the shop. Well, I think what they're doing is they're getting, they have better margins on their bread too. That's gotta be the big one right there. Oh, absolutely. So supplements stores do this also. That's the same hustle with them is, you get a supplement store and you try and offer

every supplement on the market and you keep your margins extremely low so you're not making a lot of money there, but then you have your own line there and hopes that, hey, 25% of the people that walked to this store will try out our brand and if they try out our brand, we're making 75% or something ridiculous, right? The margins are incredible that way. Well, hey, you know, I got some messages today.

Remember, we know we did the episode and we talked about how Oprah was running for president. And I was joking around that people are going to find all kinds of shit on her. Yeah. Sure enough, man, they're posting pictures left and right of her. Already? Of her? Because, you know, listen to posting pictures left and right of her. Already? Of her? Because you know, what's the name?

Harvey Weinstein, the scumbag. She fucked up. That ever talking to him. Well, she was like a good friend of his. Like very, very good friends. And there's pictures of her. Like a really good friend or so is a picture of her. Oh, like a good friend.

And just pictures of her with him. And then her with him introducing like young actresses to him. So now they're going to say, oh, look, you are an enabler. You got to stay out of that business. Just mention you might run and you get fucked. Well, you can mention you might run, but if you actually pose a threat, because I can mention I run, I can run and nobody can do shit. Oprah is definitely a threat.

Oprah is a big threat. Well, didn't you say that they already did some polls and they actually said that they well I mean and I and I believe those polls are shit though, right? Usually they're not but they were such a waste well, and all the polls were wrong with Trump winning so wrong Yeah, so it's not really a big deal, but who fills out polls? You know, I mean like where are they getting people to the filled out? It's just random quite though. We talk about how how fucked up and stupid I think our voting system is? Why? I just think it's silly.

I just don't. Here's a, I would you like, how would it should it be? Well, I think that you should have to pass a test. Really? Yeah. No, and part of the test should be you should be a citizen who, or you should be a citizen. Pays or taxes, right?

I think you should have to pay your taxes and be a citizen to be able to vote. And I also think that you should be able to pass a very basic test before you decide if your vote goes in on who's going to be an awesome one. So here's what. Because let's be honest, okay? 90% of the motherfuckers I've ever met that tell me in vote and they start arguing their point. It's like, I'm listening to them going like, you don't even fucking know what you're

talking about right now. You heard some shit on CNN or you heard some Some emotionally based read one fucking article or you heard some someone slammed that person so you're taking sides Nobody really understands. So here's here's why and that's an overgeneralization very few people. Here's why that doesn't exist First off who administers the test and who determines what's on that test? That is a big if and who and what. The second you give somebody the power to create a barrier to voting,

you have given somebody an incredible power and with that power now, they can persuade you one way and they're correct. Oh, they can decide who's gonna pass the test and who isn't, all right, here's some questions we're gonna ask. Then they can say, on certain demographics, they can say groups certain

Demographics like what they can target it based off of like oh this Stamped information don't make it crazy then go back to like what you contribute to our society or maybe make votes worth different things I don't think the fucking kid whose eight just turned 18 years old doesn't know shit about anything should have the same Say as the guy who's 60 years old, started three businesses, is way more educated and informed. Should have their vote, should weigh the same. You don't want to give more power to somebody based on arbitrary whatever.

So let's say you determine, okay, if you've done, if you contribute more to society, first off, what does that mean? But let's just say, fine, you've started three business or whatever, you have more votes in the sky over here. You're just throwing random shit at the best thing that's what it is. You are accelerating our path towards an oligarchy.

You're accelerating the path of the powerful now, run the country and, which it already kind of is that way, but it'll get much, much worse. That's number one. Number two, the problem isn't who gets the vote. The problem is that we've allowed our fundamental liberties to be infringed upon. What I mean by that is the constitution and the Bill of Rights was designed to prevent tyranny in particular tyranny

of the majority. So tyranny means that somebody can steal from you, somebody can hurt you, somebody owns your body aside from yourself. That's tyranny. If I came over here and I said, hey, you have to do what I say, or I'm gonna throw you in jail, and you have to give me this,

or I'm gonna throw all that stuff. So that's what the billet write, that's why it exists, and that's why we're a constitutional republic. What that means is, we are a democracy in who we vote for, but there's certain things you can't vote for. For example, the majority of America should not be able to vote to steal your property

or to infringe on these liberties. The problem is, we've done that already. The problem is, we have taxes, which are an infringement on liberty because if I don't agree to pay something then now you can through threat of force take from me which means now theoretically 51 percent of the population can vote to take 100 percent of my property and I can't do anything about it. So the problem isn't who gets the vote. The problem is we've infringed all these liberties so now it's like fuck now you have you know, 47% of the country who pays no federal taxes and if that ever becomes a majority, well now you're fucked. And this is what happens to all pure democracies throughout history.

If you do your study history, you'll find that pure democracies always end in ruin because at some point the majority starts to vote themselves, everybody else's stuff, and then you run out of stuff and then everything goes to shit. So then how would you deal it? How you would do it is you would stick to the Bill of Rights. The problem is we've fucked it off. We've totally fucked it off and it's crazy. And I think part of it is that people are so spoiled and we've been in through, we've been now

in such good times for so long that we take things for granted. Like for example, right now, and I'm not sure when this episode is gonna air, but right now, there's something going through Congress that, and I believe Rand Paul might filibuster this. I don't know if you guys know what that is, but. Yeah, I do. Where the government will be able to

survey you, listen to your phone calls or look at your emails without due process. Now this has been a problem in the past, but they have to renew it or whatever. Like, that's a major assault on living. In addition to the Patriot Act, because that was the start of all this, right? The big brother. Well, that's part of it, I think. The other Patriot Act, you have the NDA, the National Defense Authorization Act,

and these types of things basically erode your liberties. And so when we have those things, they didn't matter, now it matters all of a sudden. Here's another good example. They passed a soda tax in Seattle, I don't know if you guys saw this, where soda has now have to pay an extra tax. So now if you buy a 12 pack of soda, the price went up like 50, like a ridiculous jump in price. And the rationale is this is going to make people healthier, blah, blah blah blah blah blah. You know, they're just gonna create a black market.

It can create a black market, but here's the argument for that. We think we should be able to tell you what you eat and what you can do because now we're paying for your health care, and that makes sense. Now that I'm being forced to pay for your shit, well now I should be able to tell you what you can and can do because otherwise you're gonna cost me more money, and you go down that slippery slope. Now if we back up a little bit and we say,

you fuck yourself up man, you pay for yourself. Like if I wanna help you at my own free will and if there's charities and people wanna help you out, there's nothing wrong with that. What's happening? But I shouldn't be forced to do it because the second I get forced, now I should have a saying in terms of what you do

and now we go down that path and we don't wanna go down that path. Nobody wants to go down that path. Nobody wants to go that path. So it's just, fuck, man, it's just the direction we've been going for a long time. When do you think it really started that direction? Because when you think about it, that's how we built this. That's how America was built. It was built that way.

Well, if you talk about federal taxes, there's been this argument for a long time. A lot of people have gone to jail over this, but they've made a pretty compelling argument that it was never put in the Constitution. It was never ratified by all the states. So federal taxes are actually like you don't legally have to do them. In fact, people have gone all the way to super, I'm not sure. I think they've gone to the Supreme Court to argue that. Doug might know better than I do, but this has been an argument for a long time. We used to put things as a amendment in the Constitution when we thought they would infringe on a liberty.

So you can actually change the Bill of Rights, you just have to go through this long hard process, but nowadays they don't even do that anymore. A lot of that comes from when we're scared. So like World War II comes around and you know, you've got, you know, we need to get, we need to seize all the gold, everybody's gold, this is a law now, or, you know, if you're Japanese, even if you're born in America, but you have your parents or Japanese immigrants, we're

going to put you in these internment camps for our safety. Like these are all major infringements on Liberty and it's all because people get, you know, they all get freaked out. Like right now, like the government isn't monitoring the internet, it doesn all because people get, you know, they all get freaked out. Like right now, like, the government isn't monitoring the internet. It doesn't control the internet, it's pretty free, right? Well, let's say tomorrow there was a major cyber attack. Let's say everybody's bank account,

all of a sudden got erased. And it was this huge like crazy calamity. And then the government comes out and says, hey, we need to fucking make sure everybody's safe. We need, we're gonna pass this, you know, internet safety act, although they'll name it something that sounds good. So we have all 100% control the internet so we can make sure this never happens again. I guarantee you, majority of Americans would vote for that shit and then we lost our freedom

with our inner. And that's just the game that- Don't you think that that were to happen though that then we would just create another internet that was free. I think that we'll always have that. Don't you think that would happen though that then we would just create another internet that was free? I think that we'll always have that. I think the rebellion will always live. Yeah.

Yeah. Right? Don't you think Rebel Alliance? The Rebel Alliance will always exist, right? I mean, that's why these stories keep coming out. You get the matrix, you get this overwhelming force that's controlling everything. There's people that are always gonna oppose that.

Dude, it's like we take so much for granted, like a DUI stop, the automatic DUI stops. Here's a controversial one where no matter who you are, you have to stop and they stop and they check you to see if you're drunk. And most people are like, well, that's a good thing because it keeps people, no, that's a search, there's search and seizure

without due process or anything. They're just stopping you without any probable cause just because you're driving through this intersection. That's probably not a good thing. Seatbelt laws is another one. Like, there's a law that says you have to wear a seatbelt. Like, this is like mandating it. Yeah.

Yeah, no, I think it's a good idea to put on a fucking seatbelt. Of course, it's a good idea to wear one, but it's like you forcing and like taking money for not wearing one. Like, I don't understand that. That's your own decision. Right. But then we go down the other path of, well, if he gets in an accident and gets super injured, it goes to Hollywood. Yeah. Cause we got a hospital bill like you to your earlier point that we'd have to pay for it, right? In a sense, if we look at it that way. Yeah, but isn't there, isn't there stats on that anyways? Like the difference between wearing a bell or not wearing a belt? Um, I don't know. I think it's pretty safe to that way. Yeah, but isn't there stats on that anyways? Like the difference between wearing a belt or not wearing a belt?

I don't know, I think it's pretty safe to wear one. Yeah. Yeah. No, I actually don't think, I think the stats show that it's not that much safer. Really? Yeah, I don't think it's that much, it's not as crazy as you think it is.

I mean, yeah. I mean, there's kids. I gotta look at it. Dude, I watched a video, so you know what Jessica does in the car that really gets on my nerves, and she's okay, if she hears this guy tell her her all the time she puts her feet up on the dash. Yeah.

When I'm driving, do you know how dangerous that is? Oh yeah. If you get an accident, the air bat, so I watched this video on YouTube where they were test they had these dummies with that were like that they used to test like ballistics and shit and it has like fake bones and like flesh, that's like a human or whatever. And when the airbag comes out, it fucking shatters. Shatters the legs.

Shatters the lower body. Yeah, how many PSI's that? It's a ton, huh? Dude, it's crazy. Have you guys ever hit an airbag? I've seen, I've seen somebody get launched from an airbag. Remember those old jackass sketches? Like they literally put that underneath somebody's

like sitting on the couch and it would launch them up into the air. No, no, no. It's fucking crazy. No. You got that much power, huh? Yeah. Dude, it's like hitting my friend hit an airbag with her face and she said it felt like

if someone took a really pumped up basketball and just threw it as hard as it could at your face. Damn, like that. Like overhand throw, just boom, right to the dome. Damn, that's crazy. I don't know, was that bad? Look, Doug just pulled it up, C-Pel, it says 15,000, 13,000 lives a year.

Or saved. That's not a lot. Yeah. I'm not impressed. I'm not impressed. I'm not impressed, I'm impressed. Yeah, how many accidents are there, though? You know what I'm saying?

How many, I don't think it's, I think that's a bullshit number. That's all right. How do you figure that number anyway? Yeah, I know, right? Cause cars are so much safer now. Right, and how do you know? It was because he was wearing a C-Bot always safe.

That's bullsh**. When I'm on the engineering now, it compresses like all the support to stupid law. Every car like totals now, even if you get a scratch. Yeah, that's true. Like, yeah, they just like fall apart, right? Yeah.

The old school cars are like tanks. Yeah, like my truck, when I used to drive that, it was just like, I get like one little dent in the fender and the, any other thing in my path is just gonna be great. Have you guys ever been in a major car accident? I have. Not a major one, just like some minor one.

You've been in a major one? Yep, well, pretty major. I was T-bone in my, it totaled my uncle's Mustang. I was 17. God, my and it totaled my uncle's Mustang. I was 17. God do this fucking going down memory lane here. I'll never forget this night This is one of the scariest nights in my life. I was 17 where it was Mid-high school right? So I'm a senior in high school Friday nights was football nights and we go watch the football game Then afterwards it'd be the after party and my cousin and I are at a house party and we start having a couple beers and we decide

that we want to go to a different party. That's like kind of out in the country a little bit, like maybe 10 minutes away. And he's driving his dad's Mustang Mach 1, It's like a 1969 or so. Oh, that's a nice one, huh? Yeah, it's a badass. It's not like super nice, but it's nice still, you know, for a couple of 17 year olds. Yeah, yeah, right. And it's all beefed up and stuff, so it's cool.

And he's got it. And my cousin had had like three beers, and I had one beer. And so I say, hey, man, you've had more beers. Why don't I drive? I'll drive. I don't have one beer. So I'll drive. And I really want to drive the Mustang is what's going down, right? And so he's like, all right, it throws me the keys and we take off. Well, we throw three cases of beer in the trunk and we take off to this other party. And the house that we're heading to, I've never been, been to this

house. So we're in its dark and we're out in the country. And we're, we think we're coming up on the road in the address and it's like this long, you know, country roads out in the middle of nowhere. And it's just a two lane, two lane road. And there's a truck that's kind of barreling down behind me. That's an old Chevy pickup like Justin's. And I'm getting ready and to turn left into this driveway. And the guy behind me must think that I turn my blinker on and I turn my blinker on to go left. I remember right, but he must think that I'm turning right

and he speeds up to go around me. And so I turn and he was already barreling down on me. So he hit me at going like a good 45, 50 miles an hour minimum. I don't remember what they estimated based off his skid marks and stuff. But I go to turn in and he locks him up and it doesn't matter. He straight, whack, T-bones, right in the side of the Mustang.

Thank God it was an old, old Mustang like that because it hit my driver's side, the side that I was on. I was totally fine. I mean, I banged up a little bit, I'll cut on my head and this and that. He got out of the car and his entire face was covered in blood. And he comes over to us, like kind of freaking out, trying to blame it on us.

Like, what are you talking about? That was your fault. And we're fucking scared of death because. You drank two beer. I drank a beer. I got a cousin of beers. We're all under age. I got three cases of beer in the trunk.

And this guy, it's a Friday late night. So this guy we think was drunk himself because he's bleeding. He's with his girlfriend. He's freaking out and he's like, I gotta get out of here. I'm like, well, you can't leave. And he's just like, here's my driver's license. I gotta go. And he just, they take off and they leave us.

And we're freaking out. Like, oh, fuck, what are we gonna do? And this, of course, it's one of those nights too, where off and they leave us and we're freaking out like oh fuck what are we gonna do We've and this of course it's one of those nights, too, where we lied to our parents where we're at So we're lying where we're lying where we're at we're at our Outdoor under age which right so it's in it cops are coming sooner or later, you know So we don't know what to do so we're like we get rid of the evidence of the beer so we get the beers out and we just start fucking Huck them out. And I remember like thinking about that stupid. I was the dumbest idea. I mean, it's really like 70 70 beer. Like 70 beer silver bullets, right? It's the fucking Koolers light cans, right? Start throwing them. And we just start. And we're like,

throw them further, throw them as far as you can away from the accident. And we chuck these beers out. So to this day, I've always wanted to know like whoever owns the property of this old orchard or whatever that came out one day and found 70 beers. He's like the beer fairy came by. Sprite out everywhere. And so we had a third buddy in the car.

It's my best, it was my other best friend Justin. And he took the fall. So he was the only one who had no beers. So I had a beer, my other buddy, my cousin had three beers. He's in the passenger seat, my best friends in the back seat who didn't drink at all. And because the accident happened, I'm freaking out that I had even one beer.

And so my buddy steps up to the plate and says that he was driving. Said he draw, and the cops come down. I remember, I've never felt like this before when telling the story to the cops and knowing that we're lying. My knees were hitting each other. I was shaking so hard. I was so scared that my knees were knocking against each other. I remember like having to grab them and hold still while I'm like, oh, this guy's going to know for sure. And we luckily we got away with not getting in trouble with

the whole drinking thing. We got out and the guy they ended up finding the guy at his house. They found him hours later. I think it was like eight to ten hours later so they couldn't prove that he was drunk either. He was too out of it to realize which one of us was drinking. But we ended up having to go my we ended up like a year later having to go to court, small claims court. And my best friend had to stand up to the judge and lie and say, explain how he was driving and do all of it. Dude, that gives me anxiety just hearing that. And this is my best friend Justin, you know who he is. Like, he, my poor buddy out forever and getting for him for that one.

That's funny, man, because, especially when you're a kid, that's a worse accident. That's an idea. That's a good fella, he took one. Oh, he did. Bro, you get so scared. So, I've never been in a major accident, That's like good fellas, you need to take one. Oh, he did. Bro, you get so scared. So I'd never been in a major accident, but I thought somebody died one time. I was me and my cousin were coming home from the gym. We were actually lifting weights, and we're both, I want to say we're both 17 years old at

the time. So this is before I even worked in fitness. And I had a VW VR6 golf, which at the time was kind of a fast car for 17 year olds, like 170 something horsepower, not that fast today, but back then it was pretty quick, and he had a Dodge neon that he put like, he put an exhaust and headers on it, whatever,

not that fast, but for back then it was like a little rice rocket, it was a pretty fast little rice rocket and Anytime we went anywhere we raced didn't matter where we went We always race and I told you guys about my driving history. So we were Stupid we were maniacs and we were done So on the way home from the gym. This was a ritual. We'd lift weights and on the way home we'd race Now my car was faster than his especially especially when you got into the higher speeds. So all the way home from the 24-fitness on Hillsdale, which is off of the Camden exit, and

my exit is off of San Atreesa, all the way down, we're 100 to 120 miles an hour. And every time he would catch up to me, I'd hit the gas and hit it 120 and he would kind of fall back because his car couldn't go as fast as mine could. So this is on and off, right? I'd slow down to 100, he'd catch up, I'd hit 120 and leave them and then just keep doing that. So I'm pulling up to the exit that we're supposed to get off on.

So I'm slowing down because we're at the exit and I see him behind me and he's not letting off the gas and I know why it's because he wants to win. He wants to cut in front of me last minute when we get off the exit so he can put on his hazards Which means you know I win the race or whatever and laugh So I'm thinking am I I think there's a great idea? I'm like, oh, I'm gonna wait till he starts to pull up next Me now. I'm gonna gun it again so he can't pass me so we're pulling up to the exit I'm slowing down

I see him start to come up and he's about to come around me and I hit the gas so now he has no room, but there also was a car in front. So we had nowhere to go, but hit a left and go off of the fucking, like off the freeway into like the ditch or whatever. So all I see in my river mirror is his car spin, go off the freeway and dirt fly all over the place. Oh shit. And I'm like, he's dead, like my cousin's dead. There's no way he survived that. So I park my car and I run over there. And I have that, like, you know, that fear that you get

where you think something really, really bad happened. And I run up there and nothing bad happened. His car was in the mud and there was dirt everywhere and he's standing outside his car and we both start laughing and crying. Oh, they do my hug. And then he stuck and then the cops pull up and we both look at each other

and we make up a fucking bullshit lie. So cop comes up and he's like, oh, the floor was wet and I remember lying to the police, big, the ground. At your first assist, the kids lie, he's driving on the fucking freeway. The floor was wet. It was wet.

And you know what's funny is, you know, when you're getting good grip. You know when you're lying and you're so scared that you're lying that your mouth gets so dry, that your words that want to come out, I was trying to talk to about my mouth was all dry. And my cousin's like trying to do this thing and I'm like, this is terrible.

Such a horrible, horrible experience. I find that really fascinating how we have these mechanisms in our body that do things like that when you know you're lying. And I'm always fascinated by the people that can do that, like that you can just lie so well. This is like easy. They're asking, do you guys practice? I just can't do that.

It's how it is, it's a practice. You just gotta keep lying over and over. Because I have been awful. I've always been awful at lying. My mom's told me that since I was a kid, like as soon as you lie, man, you've got a big little sign on your head. Just looking at my way from people. I've always been awful at lie. My mom's told me that since I was a kid Like as soon as you lie man, you got a big little sign on your head looking away from people I'm like, yeah, it's like trailing off and like talking to something else the secret the secret is to believe in your life You have to really believe it. Yeah, the really believe your life to convince yourself own it. You know, I'm saying

I think that's what I really have I think that's what it is because I have a couple buddies that I have it without a couple I got a buddy who's like a pathological liar bro like he just and I'm when I look at him I'm like this I'm looking at him telling him why he really thinks what he's saying right now He believes this shit right now, and I've of course all the years we've been together I've called him out plenty of times when you call him out. It just goes down a new deeper lie Yeah, I just get deeper like I can't do this so stressful. That's so strong. It is too much I just like give up. Thank you, I just like entertain the story, like, no way.

You're sheating me. Tell me more. And then what? Yeah. Yeah. Funny though, that same friend, he's a great friend of mine. And I planned for sure reach out to him when we actually, when I actually have a wedding and have my groomsmen

or whatever, I would still consider him that because we go back over 20 years and I have so much love on it, but we don't really communicate very much and we had kind of a hard following out when we got older because you know, I just, he still lived at home with his parents, he was telling all these lies all the time still and when we get together, we would just share these high school stories and And I was just, yeah, I was, at this point in my life, I'm like, and when we had the following out, wasn't that long ago, I was like, about 28 years old. And I'm like, bro, man, we've been talking about

the same stuff and I still would entertain it. And then it got to a point where I remember he didn't, he was like the last friend to get a cell phone. He called me from his landline. And I was like, I'm already at this point in my life, I'm already like over answering phone calls. I don't answer phone calls, you guys know that, right? It's like text me, dude.

Fucking send me a text or DM me or fucking message me on Facebook like the rest of the world, you know what I'm saying? I don't, it's not high school anymore. I don't have time to sit on my phone and start to a girlfriend for an hour, right? Mrs. Anderson's home number. Yeah, not to mention, he would call, and we talk about the same things.

We talk about our sports teams because we do have that in common, and then we talk about high school stories. And I just got to a point in my life, where I got older that I just didn't have the time to do that on a regular basis during the week. And I remember it really hurt his feelings, man. It really hurt his feelings,

and it was a really tough time for me to like explain that to him that, man. Did you actually say that? Did you actually break up with him, or just ghost him? No, I didn't do either. I didn't like officially break up with him him and I didn't ghost to me there. He got really upset at me because he finally got a cell phone. Because I feel like that's what girls do, right? Girls like break up with each other.

Yeah, it was, you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't consider it. I don't do that. I just kind of stop. I just kind of do. I do your thing. I'll do mine. Yeah, I just slowly fade away. I'm a communicator, right? And I'm a very, you know, you know, become a very blunt, straight forward guy. And so I had the conversation that I'm having with you guys with him saying, hey, man, it's not anything about,

I love you, bro. I always love you, I always consider you like family to me. But when we get together, you know, most of what we talk about is just sports and sharing high school stories, which by the way, I love to do. I enjoy that. I enjoy coming back every once in a while,

having seen you in a while, having seen our boys get together, have some beers, we talk about the good old days, and it's cool, but I don't wanna do that every day of the week. I just don't have that in me right now. There's other things in my life right now that I'm like- See you invite him to your wedding, is that what you're saying? No, he would be in my wedding, I would.

Yeah, I still can- I can't wait for you to get married. You know why? Fade yes, you know? Yep, yep, yep. Let me tell for you to get married You know why? Yep, yep, let me tell you something dude a lot different than going to see you don't let me tell you something A bachelor's a bachelor party cuz I've been married before right a bachelor party when you're young in your 20s with your other Single buddies. It's fun. Don't get me wrong. It's fun But a bachelor party when you're older and all your friends come to the bachelor party are married.

Somebody might die. That chick could go off. Somebody could die. Well, I expected someone to die. What was it? What was the movie? What was that movie? It was with, I think, Christian Slater. Was it an interslaider? Christian Slater and Ari Gold, what's Ari Gold's real name?

What's his name? He was in it. Remember, and they, they're four buddies. They're our older and one of them gets married They go to Vegas and it's like we're gonna this we're going off the wives are out of town. This is what we're gonna do and They end up killing the stripper remember they kill Yeah, they they were not gonna kill a stripper You don't remember and they had to cut her up with Tom Hanks that the cutter up in pieces

You guys ever seen this? They bury in the lost biggest desert like they're in all in. I kill you guys. I had to see this movie. Oh man. I can't wait to check that on. It's your way to your your bachelor party. I don't know if you're best man. You know, I do know. I might it's my childhood the best friend of mine who goes back to furthest with me Jared. So it would for sure be him. Oh very bad things. Thanks Doug. Have you seen it before Doug? Oh see Doug knew it. He knew it was. You guys never seen that before? No, no, it's got chainsaw. Oh, very bad things. Very bad. Thanks Doug. Have you seen it before Doug? Oh, see Doug knew it. He knew what it was.

You guys never seen that before? No, I never seen it. He's got chainsaw. Oh, classic movie, dude. So you're going to, so, so good. But he's going to need assistant to just set up the bachelor party. Well, he's like me and just.

I feel like me and Justin should be a master of Katrina. I think the way Katrina and I, I know. And I'm going to ruin it for you. I know. I think, well, this is what I have one together. No, no, no, I was gonna say that. Oh, thank God. Like some sage and it'll be over.

I was about to quit mine, Pup right now. But what we would probably do, and we've talked about this, because her and I are not into the whole bait. I'm not, and no offense to anybody who's listening to this, that this is their dream, this new effect, where you do the big white wedding, and you spend 100K, and everything, and there's 400 people there.

Like those are cool. At one point in my life, I thought that would be cool to do, but when I started to see how much I thought, no guy thinks that's a good idea. Distress behind all that. I'm one of those kids, I thought it was cool, right? But now I go like fuck that.

And because I have a rad girl, that thinks like I think, we're like, you know, if I'm gonna get married, and we're gonna thinks like I think we're like you know if I'm gonna get married and we're gonna spend some money we're gonna do a fucking badass trip and yeah destination for the friends of ours that can afford to do that yeah fucking will come and the ones that don't love us enough to fast the move to spend five grand to go come on some crazy stride down right and we do some badass shit for like some week so we go somewhere yeah awesome awesome over Thailand yeah and we just go get, I don't know about Thailand,

but somewhere, fucking really cool. Some super exotic islands. Yeah, yeah. Somewhere where they can't, there's no laws. You know, if you were to get married again, if both you were to get married again, what would it look like? It would be pretty similar to that.

I mean, I definitely like the whole destination thing. And just that being, you could minimize. You could minimize it as far as a lot of people shown up and butt hurt feelings from relatives and all these types of things, which inevitably anybody that's gone through the process knows how that goes and it's always there. So yeah, totally I highly recommend a destination way

or just go into the court, which ironically actually did that with Courtney before we even got married. We went down to the court, we got married, and then, because that way I could get my surgery. And so we got that covered through her insurance and all this kind of stuff, but I didn't even tell my parents about that.

Oh wow, well you just put it on there, now hope you're good. Yeah, hey, mom and dad, you're in your insurance fraud. Yeah, no, whatever that insurance fraud. No, what are you married? No, they're married. It was legal. That's all you need is the legal papers. Have you guys ever been to a destination wedding before? Yes, I've been to a few of them.

My favorite one of my best friends, Mark, got married in Jamaica. And dude, it was badass. We went to the resort we stayed at was called the Royal Plantation in which in my opinion is probably one of the best ones on the entire island as far as like how nice it is. And that was back when his wife was cutting the hair for Cindy McCain, so John McCain's wife. And the Royal Plantation I think only has like two or three hundred rooms. They're all oceanfronts. It's like a,

it's like a little V of a private beach that you get on the side of that is where all the famous people stay. And it's this even more private and secluded beach. Plus you get this, you know, three story villa with an infinity pool and your own like M 16 security guards, like there's like five or two. Right. And so he had the president, or he was John McCain was running for president at that time. And Cindy McCain were supposed to come to the wedding.

And so they rented this villa out. And it was like, I wanna say it was 50 or 70 grand for the week or something like that for this villa that in there. And last minute because of it's stuff going on with him running for president, he couldn't come out. And so as a gift, they just gave it to the wedding party. Oh, wow.

So it was pretty, yeah, it was pretty good. So we got to stay in some, and it was like, and anyone's been to Jamaica, for sure, one of my favorite tropical places I've been. And really because of the service, I've never been somewhere in my life. I've heard that about you, me. Oh, they don't take tips, right?

So they refuse tips. And you just can't, you cannot go somewhere or sit down somewhere without having somebody that works somewhere on the property, running up to you, like getting you things. And I mean, to the point where, you know, we would, we, as soon as our foot would hit the sand, someone's running up to us with a towel,

with a water, with a chair, escorting us there, asking if we wanted food or anything. And if I said something like, do you guys have like scars? And I'm like, no, but give me a minute. What would you like? And they would run to the store. Go buy a floor. Yeah, go to the store buy it.

They come back like shit. Like that was just, it was fucking insane. See, when I got, when I got married, I did the whole, you know, old school, traditional Italian Catholic wedding, like 200 something people. Oh God, sit up, stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down. Got married at the cathedral, did the reception, did the whole like real traditional

old school wedding. And now after I got divorced, like for sure, never in a million years will ever get married again. There's no reason for it to have kids and all that stuff. But what's funny is, you know, now that I'm dating someone and I'm in love and all that stuff, you start to entertain those ideas again.

Now, Jessica's also divorced, and both of us are both like kind of against marriage, but we like the idea of whatever that means, like a union or whatever. So if we ever did anything, and I'm not saying we ever would, because me and her so anti-establishment that, I doubt it would make up your own thing.

We would probably do the weirdest ceremony of all time. I'm just letting you guys know ahead of time, and it would be a surprise. Naked yoga and the whole way. Yeah, you guys were getting invited, we'd end up somewhere, yeah, there'd be some weird dude and everybody. Well, I'm drink this ayu, Haska, everybody, whoa.

I'm somewhere in the middle there with that because I'm also, I'm the same way. I'm an anti-establishment, fuck the government getting involved. I don't need them to get involved in my fucking relationship with this woman that I love already. I might do some weird, just let's just tie some rope together that signifies that we're together. I don't need to fucking just sign some shit and get some paperwork to prove it or something. I feel the same way. I don't know if I could ayu shit and get some paperwork to prove it or some I feel the same way I don't know if I could I'll ask it up and do naked. No, I'm joking, but it would definitely be it would either be super Different out there weird or it would be

Super nonchalant like I'd walk in one day and be like oh by the way I got married yesterday Yeah, you know, I mean like I'm not gonna make a big deal about it, but yeah No, but if I did get if I did get married again I would definitely want a bachelor party. I definitely would I know I didn't get one. Oh you didn't know I never got one I feel about it. But yeah, no, but if I did get married again, I would definitely want a bachelor party. I definitely would. I know I didn't get one. Oh, you didn't.

No, I never got one. Yeah, I didn't. Well, yeah, I didn't really have that one either. I feel like you did, but you can't say it on air. I was weak. I was like, was it weak sauce? What did you do, Justin? I don't remember what you did.

Dude, I just went to Tahoe and you know, tried to get a stripper and all that and it was like, there's no talent, you know. Yeah, that's true. I didn't talk to him. Oh, come on. Bro, we had terrible strippers. The biggest part was I get away from me.

I didn't even want her near me. Yeah, I mean, so. But that makes it fun. I mean, it was a fun story. That's my fun. Yeah, that's not, I don't know what part of you are going to, like getting an ugly stripper is not a fun situation. You just wait till you see the way we start.

You got a stripper that was sent to you at 24. Oh God. The old lady. That was from my boy Mark. That was the funniest thing ever. You just see Adam's face. I think it was 25. That was my 25th birthday.

Send it to the work. And really old stripper? She was old. 60 something years old. No bra on in her lacy. What's your name? Lacy's Yeah, it was 60 plus for sure I think she was only 60 because she smoked she was literally okay She pulls up in like a a

Mishibishi like little pickup truck that looks like somebody took a sludge hammer to it all the way around like beat the fuck up Right, she rolls up. I remember the city of my desk and she parked in front, right? And I see her cigarette hanging out of her mouth. She gets out, she kind of like fix her dress, because it was kind of up a little bit from sitting in the truck. And it's this like silky, thin little red, like lacy-looking dress that she's wearing with no bra on or anything underneath it.

And she's got a fucking cigarette hanging on her mouth. And she throws on the ground, steps on it, gets her little boom box out of the truck, and then walks up, and I'm watching the whole thing happen, like it's so emotion, and I'm like totally entertained, but this is hilarious. Look at this chick who's coming in right now, right? You know, she walks to the front desk,

and then I hear over the last speaker, Adam, you have a guest at the front, and I'm like, what the fuck? Me? What's this? And I'm like, what the fuck? Me? What's this? And I'm like, looking kind of weird and she, and then they point over to me and she comes walking over and she goes, are you Adam?

And I'm like, yeah, and she puts the radio right on the desk and then hits play. And it doing happy, so they do get this raspy voice from the cigarettes. And I'm like, oh man, it was so, it was magical, so embarrassing. And my buddy just got a fucking huge kick out of it. Called him right afterwards and said,

did you asshole, bro, I'm getting you back for that one. Hey, you guys ever watched the show on A&E intervention? Yeah. That's super pressing, right? Yeah. So intervention is where they'll show like the story of someone who got really addicted to something. And then at the end of it, hopefully they end up

going to rehab. And what they always do before they go to rehab, every episode is like this. It's like a total, it's totally consistent when someone finally agrees to go to rehab is that they get smashed on their drug of choice before they go and know they're not going to use it anymore. So like if I'm an alcoholic and I'm about to go do 60 days of sobriety in this, you know, house or whatever, I'm going to get smashed one more time or whatever. So, you know, today we started our fast. Sounds me last night,

dear. Yeah. I was like, I'll intervention. Last night we had dinner and I just ate just a, no stuff I normally would eat like French fries and make sure we're out. Yeah, I went out to this barbecue place. Yeah, I did not do it right. And I had like, yeah, I had like a pound of tritip and like, I think I even had a beer to go with it. Oh, yeah Oh, dude, it's just like we're going on rehabs and then I went you guys and then I got these these coconut ice cream like chocolate Popsicle things. Oh, I'm too of them. I didn't think about dessert. I had a tablespoon of peanut butter I was totally dysfunctional eating last night. This is to prepare for the fast the 72 hour fast. Yeah

I think I'm feeling so far right now with that. Because by the time this is gonna air, is this gonna air when we're done? This will air on the last day of our fast. Yeah, cool, because we're all doing three days. Right, that's cool. I guess the goal is 72. If I break it 48, I'll still be happy with myself. See, I feel like you're setting yourself up already.

No, no, because I believe it's gonna happen the way you said it's going to happen, which is once I get to about day two, it won't be as bad. I think today will be the hardest for me. So far, is it hard? How do you guys feel right now? Yeah, it's a little tough for me. And the morning it was a little tough,

then I was like, good on engine. Now I'm like losing energy a little bit. Like I'm like, ugh. So I get, like I'm hyper. I'm hyper the whole time, and my appetite is pretty much gone. I know if I tasted food right now I'd be Ravinness, but I feel still pretty good and I've got that sympathetic feeling, you know We're it's like almost like I'm on stimulants or something. Yeah, but so far I'm I'm good

We'll see what happens sleeping will be interesting sleep. Yeah night like you yeah That's the thing if I don't have dinner and then I'm going to sleep right after that It's gonna be the cranky cranky. Yeah, no doubt the thing. If I don't have dinner and then I'm going to sleep right after that, it's gonna be the cranky, cranky guy. No doubt in my mind tonight, I'm already planning for it being the toughest. Tonight will be the hardest. There's always a hardest. Now, why are you guys, do you have anything in particular you're doing this for? Is there something like, because I know what I,

well, trying to accomplish out of it for me. For me, I want to see how my body is able to heal itself, like as far as some of the internal stuff that I'm dealing with, and heartburn, all these things I'm trying to control, and attack this year, so maybe this will help to boost immunity and boost the overall metabolism. I just want to see how I feel going out after that, and then how much I really need to intervene

with taking these supplements and pills, I just want to see how I feel going out after that and then like how much I really need to intervene You know with with you know taking these supplements and pills and all these kinds of things Yeah, I so I I've read some animal studies that show that you can Pretty much replace your immune system all the immune cells in your body with a 72 hour fast I don't know how true that is for humans, but I do know prolonged fasting will recycle quite a bit of your cells Mm-hmm So I'm interested in that I've never done a longer than 48 hours but I do know prolonged fasting will recycle quite a bit of your cells. So I'm interested in that. I've never done a longer than 48 hours,

but I do remember after 48 hours, it was very interesting dude. It was a trip, like the first day was hard. After the 48th hour, I almost felt like, oh, I don't need food. I'm cool with that food. That's what I'm hoping happens to me, and then I'll push to 72 no matter what.

But even if I don't, then I've told myself, well, at 48 hours, that's already more than I've ever done before and so I'm curious to just... You may notice hypotension. So this happens to me when I fast-pronounce that if I'm like on a low surface and I get up really fast, I'll start to get dizzy because your blood pressure actually will drop.

Oh, I bet. And so you'll get that feeling. So that was the one negative effect. And then, are you guys planning on exercising at all? Yeah. I'm just just light exercise. So I'm going to do some light movement and I'm just gonna do hardcore mobility work.

Just stretching mobility, stretching mobility, stretching mobility. Body weight stuff. Yeah, because I start to notice that my inflammation starts to get really low as I get deeper into the fast I just feel like my joints don't bother me whatsoever. So I don't take advantage of it You know, it's kind of an interesting thing and I'm sure this is why you know religion has sort of taken a Hold the fasting and kind of it. I'm not a super spiritual person to begin with like I I

It's there, but at the same time, I'm not super focused on it all the time, but this is one of those times where it's like, you just get super reflective. Yes. Because there's not this urgency in, I don't know, your day just kind of flips on its head, you're just like, okay, now what am I going to do? And then you start thinking about things. It's funny how much we surround everything around our eating time. That's right. It's such a ritual. It is. It's funny how much we surround everything around our eating time. That's right.

It's just a ritual. It is. It's crazy how we do that. And when you take that out for a day, because I've done this before, I fast for full day, even then it's weird. It's like, you know, the natural thing for me to be thinking about right now is like,

oh, you know, hurry home saying, well, should I swing by and pick this up or is Katrina calling Katrina and we're talking about, hey, what are we gonna make for dinner? You're gonna be, you know, saying like, none of that will exist today. And she's doing it with us. So her and I are, we're on about, hey, what are we gonna make for dinner? You know, saying like, none of that will exist today. And she's doing it with us. So her and I are, we're on it right now.

Oh nice, yeah. It's funny because Courtney wasn't, and then like I started, you know, this morning, like I was about to grab some baking because she made it for the boys and I was like, she's like, you're on the fast. I was like, oh man. Yeah.

Like, oh, you're right. Is she doing it too? She's gonna do it starting tomorrow because she already kind of ate, so she thought she, like, you know, might as well just start from scratch. Well, when did she breakfast? Yeah. Oh, so she can just do it so that she didn't have breakfast.

That's what I said. Yeah, because technically we started last night. Like, a lot of last time, we had a lot of meals with this. Yeah, so the first meal, so we started, so Friday night was the first meal, right? No, no, no, no, excuse me. Today is Friday. So the last meal was Thursday night, so Sunday night will be the first meal right everybody. Yeah, for me This is going to

Kickstart a lot of stuff that and that's kind of like what I'm doing this for is I've been completely off my Training regimen. I've been completely off my diet right now. Everything has been completely centered around my testosterone and really focused on that and I'm starting to get better. I was sick all last week. We know what's going on with my Achilles now. So I plan to do the 72 hour fast. I am looking at some things like I'm paying attention to inflammation. I'm paying attention to my psoriasis.

That'll be interesting. I'll be honest. Yeah. So I'm watching things like that right now. I'm paying attention to energy level and how mental clarity clarity you'll probably do some good meditation during this time but really it's to Transition me into my diet next week. So I'm gonna come out and I'll probably be running something similar to a keto type of a diet I won't be falling from here. Right. So I plan to run I have been it's been a while since I've ran a keto style diet.

I've been enjoying carbs for all the holidays and stuff, so this is gonna be me transitioning into a keto-ish type of a diet, and then I'm going to get back into my training regimen and start tracking that, and then I've also finally Got all the herbs and supplements. I've got the Juve like going. I've got everything Going for my testosterone. I'm finally starting to see a little bit of an increase from that. I feel prepared now to give people some really good feedback from me. Once I get all that stuff in line, then you'll hear me talk more about, okay, these are

the herbs that I'm taking. This is how many times a day I'm doing this. I'm going to go over the whole protocol. I've been waiting. Those of you that have been listening, I've got a lot of DMs from people asking me about the whole, increasing my test austro and getting back into that, what am I doing eating wise,

what am I doing with my, nothing has been super consistent until now. And so then I feel more comfortable with sharing with you guys what what I'm going through, what I'm noticing, because before I just I'm just not a fan of people that do bullshit like that, where they speculate, oh yeah, I feel this and I feel yeah, but okay, meanwhile, your diets off, your fucking workout regimens off, you got your sick, like, come on, get the fuck out of here with that. You can't get me real good. No, I'm objective advice. I'm looking forward to the consciousness altering effects

of a prolonged fast, because they legit, I mean, what you're mentioning just about the spiritual side of it, it's been in all religions forever. This is the, here's the thing, man. I find so fascinating. You know what? I don't, you know what?

I don't find it fascinating. The only reason why it's fascinating is because we've decided that, you know, our new modern Western medicine methods are the only methods that are valid and all the old stuff is bullshit. But when you see something that is shared across civilizations and countries that never communicated

with each other religions and fasting exists in some form in every major religion, it exists in some form in every ancient medicine. Medical practice. Yeah, medical practice, whether it's aeravetic or Chinese medicine or some of the old Russian medicine systems that you see in that area. It exists in all these areas for a reason,

and that's because it's been observed to have lots of both physical and emotional and mental benefits. In fact, this is crazy, because whenever I get into something, I just like to read about it, right? I get all into it. So fasting now is being studied and being shown to be an effective, get ready for this, antidepressant, a very effective way. I could say that. Where when people, not while fasting, when they go back to eating, they all of a sudden like, whoa, my depression's gone and I feel better. So right after they've fastened, reintroduced food that elevates the mood.

They just, but like, there's, this will be interesting for me to pay attention to it. And anxiety, and anxiety. And it makes a lot of sense. Because I'm going through a lot of those feelings of depression right now with what I'm dealing with with my hormones and stuff. And then also being banged up, injured, and watching all that happen. So that's something I feel like I can speak on

after going through this process. If I do feel this mood change over, because I definitely feel like, the way I feel right now is like this dark cloud is just kind of over me. And considering all things Katrina we were laying a bit last night literally and she said I don't know we're watching a modern family. She goes are you happy? So what do you mean am I happy? Of course I'm happy they're crying right right? She loves to do this

It's not your fault and I and I go right right yeah, she did one of those things on me right I said and I paused the movie because I was like what are you okay? It was are you happy and she's like yeah, no, no, I'm asking you. Are you happy? And I said, yeah, honey, I'm happy. I love you, man. I said, but you know, I'll be really honest. I said, you know, I'm fucking going through it right now.

Like this is probably up there with one of the hardest times for me. And you just, I'm just not the type of guy that's like, feel sorry for me. And like bitch about it, moan about it, and just gonna carry on. I identify with that on the same way. Right.

I'm just, you know, I'm wearing it. You know, I'm wearing it right now. I'm soldiering through all this and I know that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I think we've been through the darkest hours of it already during this whole process. And I just, I feel blessed that I have a partner like you that's so understanding and that doesn't make

the situation harder because I tell you what, any other girl I've dated in my life If I was going through this right now. Maybe taking a personal, I would have fucking launched her ass for sure. I've been through way less before and launched a relationship over over some of this and the fact that I have a partner That wants to understand what I'm going through and cares and stuff like that. You're gonna come out of this dude and you're gonna be so grateful that you went through it,

just from the growth that it forced. I'm very similar to you when I go through, you guys saw me go through a divorce. And if I, I'm the kind of, I'm like, I don't really show it, I don't really show it. And if I communicate it, if I say to you, hey, I'm really going through something right now, it may not feel like it, like you may hear me say that,

and you may think to yourself, like, oh, he's saying that, but he seems okay. No, no, for me to say that means it's a big deal. Yeah, and I'm trying to tell you because I can tell that you're maybe not realizing what's going on. I would communicate that with Jessica and she used to tell me, like, you know, she used to tell me, she's like, it's really hard to see like that you're going through a tough time because you don't really show it.

And I'm like, I know I don't, but if I communicate it with my words, like take it literally, like I really mean, what I'm saying, I'm the same way, man. I typically don't complain. I don't like telling people that, like whoa me or whatever. But afterwards, the growth that comes from it is just,

I mean, I wouldn't trade it. I really wouldn't, it's crazy saying that because it was such a difficult time. So you're gonna look back and you're handling like a fucking champion. I know what you're going through, I can see because I've known, now I know you well enough to tell, but it's some monster.

You're gonna come out of the other end and you're gonna be a better version of yourself. And I think that's the key because I've had people ask me like, how you deal with it and I say, you know, we've talked on this podcast before or the I really do look at obstacles in my life as growth opportunities. I really do. I know that I always come out better on the other side. It's just hard to see that when you're in it, you know, and I think that's what people struggle with is.

That's when you're in it. Yeah, when you're in it, you can only see two feet in front of you. You know, when you can only see two feet in front of you. You know, when you can only see two feet in front of you, and it seems like all you have is obstacles in front of you, it's really tough to be positive and be joyful about things. And I'm probably not very positive and joyful right now, but I know dummy, and I know that I bit, and I know that the harder something is that I've been through, the greater the reward is when I make it through it too.

So I understand, so there's a part of me that is constantly having this, you know, self talk all the time where it's just like, okay, you feel like shit, this is how this, this, this, this, I'm like, okay, the good sign is that when I persevere through all this shit, like I'm gonna feel like a champion when I get through it. You are, and the thing that helped me a lot is that,

because I hate, I hate having to rely on other people, I really can't stand it, but that was a learning lesson for me too, because why? Why do I hate to rely on other people so much? Sounds noble, right? Sounds like a good thing. You shouldn't have to rely on people, but it's not necessarily a good thing when you're surrounded by people who care about you, who you should be able to rely on, because at some point you are going to go through some shit

and that's what life's all about and if you can't, if you go through life thinking I can't rely on people you're going to be fucked when the shit hits the fan because you're stronger together than you are you know alone so that was one of my learning lessons was okay I'm going to be able to rely on these guys I'm working with and rely on my girlfriend and rely on people helping me through this process and then I come out of I'm way more grateful for the people around me on these guys I'm working with and rely on my girlfriend and rely on people helping me through this process. And then I come out of, I'm way more grateful for the people around me. And I'm typically very much there for people when they need me, but I'm even more so now knowing how important something like that is.

But yeah, I'm interested, you know, after this fast to see just to remember how food tastes after fast to remember. I know it does a really hard reset for me when I do this, it's like all of a sudden, healthy food is so much easier to eat. I don't wanna eat these other foods. That's another thing I love about a fast right there is, I mean, you know, it sounds so good right now,

a fucking salad. It was like a salad sounds good, right? When you get to the point where you've been hungry for two or three days and you want food, it's amazing how good, like something as simple as that taste, or it's just a bowl of vegetables would be awesome. Well, this is a test for me because I did 48 hours. This is a 72 hour fast.

And after I do this one, I plan on scheduling once a year, a five to seven day fast, which I'm gonna do, which is, I know it's a long time, it sounds like a long time, but, you know, I'm doing my research and whatnot. These prolong fast when they're used and medisantly are typically 21 days long. I'm not gonna do a 21 day fast,

because I don't want monitor, I don't wanna be monitored, because I feel like if you're going that long, you wanna be monitored and all that stuff. But I do plan on doing like a five to seven day one. I couldn't have fasted you. I couldn't have fasted you I couldn't have had you. I couldn't have had you.

I couldn't have had you. 21 day fast, bro. That's not really. You know what I'd like to do after that. Bro, watch that documentary. That's what they do. I know. I don't know.

I've been watching that. What's his name, Walter Longo? I would like to do like the mimicking fast. So I kind of know the gist of it because I did some research on it. So it's a five day fast and you consume basically no carbohydrates whatsoever, extremely low protein, mostly fat and you have under something like six to antercal or today. That's it. And what they're finding with that is that they're calling it fasting mimicking because they're

finding that the benefits you get from a water fast and that are very similar. They're trying to actually find differences right now. Which I thought to me, I don't know, though, we'll see. I'm gonna get through this or not. I feel like that would be easier for me to do, and it'd be natural just to be. Might be harder.

I know. That's a lot of thinking. Not if you're eating all fast. I'm only allowed to eat a little, yeah, well, because I know it's a huge difference when I've tried to be really low calorie or fast in the, or and, or I allow myself to only have fats where I the difference of 300 grams or 300 calories coming from all fat versus

300 calories where I have some carbohydrates in there, 90 different soon as you get them carbohydrates, I can feel my body. Oh, appetite spikes and now I want more really bad. And pay attention to if you have any herxheimer effect, which is any die off effect or what people call detoxing or whatever. Sometimes when people do a prolonged fast, the first three days or first four days is the worst, then afterwards it gets awesome.

So, you know what, there starts to feel shitty that might be what's happening. There's a lot of people right now that, so this is going up Sunday. So a lot of people will be coming off they're fast when they hear this because we did have a lot, I have a ton of people that also.

Dude, I did a post on Instagram. And within three hours, I had like 140 comments because people want us, you know, follow along and do it. So what I think we should talk about right now is actually some of the do's and don'ts coming out of the fast. A big mistake that I've made in the past

and I've seen people make is you think because you have an eating for two or three days and you're going to be so hungry or you're gonna wanna eat and you're so excited to eat so you plan this big meal. You'll end up wanting to throw up afterwards. Very few people will be able to down it. So I normally have like a set of a bowl of vegetables

or some of that with a little bit of fat. So I'm gonna go into like I said a bowl of vegetables or some of that with a little bit of fat. So I'm going to go into my ketogenic diet so that fits perfect. I'll probably do things that are super easy to digest. Bone broth is probably a good idea. Oh yeah. Ramp your way up. So bone broth is good. Soups are good. Well cooked vegetables are good. So if you're going to have some vegetables, make sure you boil them so that they break down and they're really really easy to digest. Have a small meal that's easily digestible. Wait an hour or two, see how you feel, and then eat a little bit more. So Sunday night will be my first meal. It's still going to be a very light meal. And then next day, I'm

going to slowly ramp myself into, you know, a regular diet. But I'm not going to go, because I've done that before, where I go heavy, that's terrible. Your eyes are bigger than your stomach. And your thoughts on macro profiles, regardless if you're a keto person, or not, I'd still recommend probably the high fat version, right?

Would you? Oh, you're gonna be, after 72 hour fast, you're gonna be in ketosis. So if you wanna stay in ketosis, if you like the way you feel, go high fat, moderate protein, very, very low carbohydrates, and then see what happens. But that'll maintain high ketone levels

even though you're eating enough calories. And that's pretty much it. But like I said, I'm ramping myself to be able to do a once a year long fast that is going to be kind of like an anti-cancer immune system regenerating protocol that I do of a year and you know mainly for me in particular to benefit my gut health because I feel like that's an autoimmune issue so I want to hammer that and there's lots of studies showing that prolonged fast have a profound effect on autoimmune issues so that's my main reason for doing it. The second reason

is I still have a little bit of a fear around cancer having witnessed somebody very close to me die. So this is something that I think is the most anti-cancer thing I could do besides regular nutrition and exercise. It's just such a great preventative health thing that you can control yourself. I think that it empowers people to either recharge, restart, or just take the time out to focus on you and your body. I feel like that's so overrated these days, just being able to kind of get in tune with your body again. And this allows for that focus to really happen.

So that's what I really enjoy out of it. I just enjoy it, like getting reconnected and kind of listening to those signals. So reintroduce things, you really can see how your body responds because it's gonna be hyper aware of all that. So now, and we have a fasting guide. So I'm gonna wanna make sure I mention this

on the podcast, nowhere in the fasting guide do we mention anything longer than 24 hour fast. That's the longest fast that we recommend in the guide. I think if you go longer than 24 hours, you need to be very healthy. If you plan on doing a 72 hour fast, I know I have to say this, but you should probably check with a doctor. It's a weird infrasition.

Yeah, and we have to say that. So I haven't consulted with anybody myself, but that's on my own personal anecdote But a regular intermittent fasting where you're going 18 to 24 hours has its own health benefits We actually highlight in the fasting guide. I think like six different ways That intermittent fasting can be used. It's super inexpensive. I don't know how much do we sell the fasting guide for Doug? It's like $27. It's on our mindPumpMedia.com site. So if you want to start fasting, I don't recommend starting with a 72 hour fast. I think you should probably do like an 18 hour or 24 hour fast

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