Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 719: Ideal Number of Times to Work Each Muscle Group Weekly, Food Sensitivities & Their Role in Fat Loss, How to Dump Friends You've Outgrown & MORE

Episode Date: March 3, 2018

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Current events of the conversation. Listen to Sal's incredible transitions. We talk about the death. Yes. Of Snapchat. It's dying. It is. We talk about DoorDash.

All from a Kardashian. The gig economy. What is that? Justin brings up furries. Yep. Yeah, I know. They're a topic. One of his hobbies.

We do, we talk about weight watchers. That's when I do my smooth transition. We've some nice things about these guys. Adam does the worst four-sigmatic mention of all time. Four-sigmatic. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

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you will get one month free membership, $20 off your first three orders of $49 or more and free shipping. If you guys would have to say, if you guys would have to pick one of our sponsors as your all time favorite, who would you say? That's a lot of pressure. That's a tough one. You know, I really like thrive market. Two, three, I like thrive market. I just like what they stand for. I like what they stand for. I like what they provide.

I think it's an incredible stuff. There's a lot of variety in their products and stuff. And they just do, they go the extra mile to really kind of like, they might be when we keep for a lot longer than anybody else. But I do like, I do like the people that are identified to you. They're really, really nice to us, really. No, they've always been so good to you.

But I mean, I think Thrive's one for me, or Gantathise is close to. Yeah. So then we get into the questions. The first question was, do we have any tips on how to outgrow people gracefully? Now, I don't think they're talking about bicep growth. I think they're talking about personal growth. What do you do when you grow and the friends around you don't?

How do you break up with your friends? Find out in this episode. The next question was, take them to dinner. How many times per week should women hit each muscle group? Is it different than it is for men? This is an interesting topic that we cover. The answers may surprise you. The next question was, do we think food sensitivities play a role in fat loss? In other words, let's say your calories are good, your macros are good, but you're eating a bunch of foods that you have intolerances to. Can that prevent you or slow you down from losing body fat?

And finally, the last question, how do we define failure? Now they might have been talking about momentary muscular failure if failure was a way. If that's the case, we went way off. We went in the other direction. And we talked about, I didn't think about that until after we got going to that weighty second. It might have been talking about that. It's like two reps short of failure.

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You get access for free if you enroll in a bundle this month only find out at mine.pumpmedia.com You know what dude Here's what I think Here's what I think I think This is a clusterfuck you guys. I'm just gonna say it. Oh, so I shouldn't have kids, huh? No, just I'm gonna push Katrina if you do have a have a have a have a like a full-time Nanny that's where I'm trying to manage is the whole thing I'm trying to get so much money that I have a full-time

Where's the fucking boat of money nanny? Nanny and I can handle this that's my goal That's why I keep trying to help your junior is it's mad at me because I'm working all time like listen woman If you want something to take care of our kid fold the laundry and cook for us all time like let me do this If you ever if you ever want your girl to stop listening to you the way you start a sentence is listen woman Listen here woman It always ends up poorly. Yeah, I never it doesn't go my way when I tell you that I never ever so well dude. I got always start with honey. Yeah, exactly I'll go my way when I tell you that. Dude, I got two.

Always start with honey. Yeah, exactly. Permission to speak. I got two messages from, so you know how one of our recent podcasts, I speculated that if you have like inflamed gums or they bleed or whatever, that could contribute to food and tolerances.

Right, right. I got a message from a dentist, an MD, a dentist, who wrote me and he is like, this is exactly what we're researching right now. Oh, really? Yes. In fact, somebody wrote a book on it, and then I got a message from a gastroenterologist who said, absolutely, this is something that we're looking into and we think this is the case.

Your self-sufferant, self-sufferant, so brilliant, self-s self-organist so brilliant South Thomas yeah, or up with theories that usually pan out or Sometimes they don't here's what I think what I think it is. I'm just in it I He denies those ones Remember that dumb idea the one that I'm at If it doesn't work out that's right on the fall at. You know what the, if it doesn't work out. That's right, I'm the fall guy. You know what happens? You're me. You're the other option.

You're the other option. I'm thinking like, wow, that's crazy that I came up with that. And then I think to myself, what if I read an article about that? I forgot. It's just like stayed in there. All I remembered was that that happened. It's probably, that's happened to me before.

That's probably the truth. I'm so brilliant. Do you need a minute? Speaking of things that we brought up on the podcast recently, so I brought up Snapchat. Did you guys hear the fall of Snapchat? Yeah, there's stock drop. One point. Yeah, one point three billion.

Do you know why? So I, what's the reason? Kylie Jenner tweeted that nobody uses them anymore. Yes. That's the reason? Bro, get the fuck out of here. So I think I told you guys I don't know how to say the power. I don't remember but I was talking to Bradley Martin

he told me his snapchat views went from 50,000 that people to 5,000 overnight. I don't think it was her that did it. I think she just I mean why? I don't think she's one of the most influential people right now. I know that but they changed the algorithms or something. No, that's what I thought. That was my now. I know that, but they changed the algorithms or something. So that's what I thought. That was my speculation. Well, that's why she said that. You know what I'm saying? I bet you she's not.

No, no, no, no, she said it. Her statement was does anybody even, yeah, does anybody even still snapchat anymore? Yeah. Well, I feel like too, she's saying what a lot of people were inherently thinking, but they were still had it, you know. Well, so here's the thing that I trip on is that why haven't these companies figured this out?

And you see this in the shoe game where you're starting to get these shoe companies that are attaching themselves to influencers. Why are not these tech companies figuring the same piece out too? Well, some of them have. I mean, so you'd like, you mentioned the Kardashians. Like, did you see him like Kim's stupid app?

Like, that's worth almost more than anything else she's done. Oh, really? Yeah. You know what, I haven't. With hundreds of millions of dollars made off of some stupid ass app that I don't know. It's just like, her shopping or something. I have no fucking idea.

It's horrible. But people, like, but just shows you how much influence they have, right? That's a big deal. If somebody can, imagine how scary that is for an app company. Yeah. That gets huge, right? Yeah.

They can just talk bad about it. And then, well, this goes back to that book hitmaker is that that Tom turned me on to back when about how important that the, the, the, this whole viability that everyone talks about, it's like, really, it's not viral. And it's not like that. It's that somebody of major influence has put millions of people onto it. And so then it's like really it's not viral and it's not like that, it's that somebody of major influence has put millions of people onto it and so then it seems like it explodes

and then if you have four or five people that have millions of people attached to them, you have this huge like. Look at that, you know, what Joe Rogan did. Yeah, very, right. Like just for that reason alone, I saw him, I was like, oh, then I checked it out and then I was like, oh, so this is legitimate.

You know, otherwise I probably wouldn't even have paid attention to it. I'm really interested to see. I wonder if he got paid to do that. I don't know, I don't think so. You know, I mean, he's a smart business guy. I mean, sure, he's. Yeah, but why would he add a nowhere to make everybody check out this new social media?

Well, I think everybody likes the idea of it. It's really targeted towards our generation. It's not targeted towards the inner interface. I mean, it's kind of time for a fresh update. So I read an article on it, right? And what they talk about is that, you know, it's really targeted towards the businessman and woman and our age group because you have this ability

to separate your friends, your acquaintances, and then your family, right? So I think it, I mean, if we had Vero, if this thing goes where it's at, I would have rather had that than Instagram for the simple fact that I would be able to separate my business in personal life. Yeah.

I would be, I would be more, like you see me now, I rarely share any of my family and very close friends and even Katrina, where if I was able to share that with all my close friends and family, I totally would. I would post my friends and even Katrina, where if I was able to share that with all my close friends and family, I totally would. I would post my friends and I would post pictures of my cousins and family and stuff like that. If I knew that I could keep it to just,

oh, what's brilliant about that is now you cut out Facebook, right? Because like Facebook is where I usually interact with family members. I don't do it on Instagram. So now if you have like something like that Where's a platform where I could sort of siphon off like which group I'm talking to that way like that I mean I can just use one one place for everything

So here's here's another cool one that's going on right now that I'm really fascinated with that squeaking people by the way They thought it was my dog You would know you tell the, you got your puppy. Yeah, I got my puppy. He's just a ball of energy. And so, yeah, we got him in studio. It wasn't my squeaky shoes. That was making that sound.

No, he's having that as toy. So a company called SoftBank invested in DoorDash. And DoorDash is now valued at 1.4 billion. And the same company had already acquired some shares in Uber Eats. So they're making a huge play right now on this space. It's fucking brilliant because we all see these DoorDash type of companies that are popping up everywhere.

But even so, only 5% of our food is ordered online through these things. So the theory is that this is going to grow to 25% or potentially more people as it become more aware, more accessible. I think it would, I think I would totally support that 100%. I mean, how big was delivery for pizza? Right. Like delivery for, like it made pizza. One of the the biggest foods in America because they would deliver. Oh, just because of that. How many times

it as a kid growing up, at least I know that my family ordered pizza just for the simulphacalyl was going to get delivered to now. And the problem is if you're a restaurant like because a lot of restaurants will you know, when pizza started getting really popular with delivery, other companies of the restaurants looked into that, but the logistics and the cost of it just didn't make sense. The cool thing about this is if you're a restaurant, you don't have to invest in any of it. So you automatically now can reach out to a larger audience by having a middle man or whatever

pick up your food and deliver it. So I mean, we're gonna see more of this happening. That's the gig economy They call it the gig most of the job. Yeah, most of the jobs added to our economy are now gig economy type jobs Where it's like people kind of work for themselves, but they kind of don't you know because they either deliver food or they drive Uber or You know, they rent out their home with Airbnb or whatever. Like this is the new, it's creating more entrepreneurial spirit out of this new generation coming up.

More so than when we were kids for sure. Cause the barriers to enter that are very small. Like if you wanna. Dude, when I first had my car, there's a teenage there. Tell me you wouldn't have done that. Oh, I would have Ubered the fuck. Oh, you kidding me, I would be like, what's the age restriction to that? I don't know. That seems kind of like, you wouldn't have done that. Oh, I would have ubered the fuck. Oh, you kidding me? I would be like, what's the age restriction to that?

I don't know. That's seems kind of like, I wouldn't want an uber driver that's like 16 or 17. I'm out of here dude. No, I think it's legal in some states anyway. It's probably gonna be 18 and then yeah, some states still are fighting it. So it's not everyone.

That's a good question, Justin. I don't know what uber. Dude, if you're a college kid and you're, I don't know how, you're right, it's a good question because if you're old enough to what I don't know what you're if you're a college kid and you're I don't know how you're right it's a good question because if you're old enough to do that and you're going to school it feels like a perfect job. I would have loved that. Yeah, because I mean I I would have sucked to get lost. Yeah, yeah, because well, think how many of your your peers at your college would be picking up rides from you. You know what I'm saying? Dude, I used to valet cars. I mean that was my

easy job that I did while I was in college and dude, I if I would have just had one card just showing people around. After all the fraternity parties, everyone's drunk, and so yeah. I mean, it's, you know, one of the things cool is besides the money side of it too, is I believe like drinking and driving is down at significantly.

Because of that. Yeah, that's fucking awesome. That's so rad when you think about that. It's like, in the past, it was this, oh, I got to drive home or this is that because you didn't want, you were worried about your car, but it's like, man, it's so easy now you think about that. It's like in the past it was this Oh, I got to drive home or this is that because you didn't want you were worried about your car But it's like man, it's so easy now to Uber from anywhere that I mean it just eliminates it. So 21 I just looked it up 21 is the age. Oh, it is 21. Yeah, 21 but You have you heard about people calling Ubers instead of ambulances? Yes

Hospital, oh, yeah, that again, Could you guys, you brought up your adubers of dudes like, you know, expense shot, shot in the side, leading out? Could you give me to the ER, man? Get a foot to fucking ambulance. Oh my God. Well, I mean, it makes sense because an ambulance costs how much?

Like a $1,000,000. How much do you want a bet that we're gonna start seeing medical style pickups that are kind of like that. And this is but are like like control through. Of course, of course, because they're even looking at the luxury like, you know, limo type services too. So it's like why wouldn't you why wouldn't you contract a nurse out who could typically or who could Potentially be someone who could handle somebody and keep them safe like a first responder. Yeah, first responder to person who's got the certifications has the experience

You pay you pay them some sort of a percentage of the ride or a little crash cart right? That's it. I think this is gonna get hilarious. It's weird. How many jobs are gonna be because it's everything Everything is so regulated if you look at that like you know, letances and you know that's why I cost so much yeah it doesn't make any sense that your ambulance picks you up and takes you the hospital like well you kind of want it to be sterile yeah I mean but then again like I'll give you like a

poor like rating you know you get two star I got I got steps yeah exactly like you get like gang green because some fucking Uber driver was trying to like you know let those surgery on you if that were to happen to be the last time he gets away with it You lost your job buddy. He was well. You lost your leg. I thought he was giving me CPR, but then I felt tongue Yeah, I know so I read I read an article the other day that cracked me up I saved it here. Let me pull it up here for you guys.

So I'm gonna read a term to you and you guys have to guess what it is. So there's something called, God, what is the name of it? I gotta find it. This is a proctophilia. Eproctophilia, do you know what that is? It sounds like sexual, bacteria.

Yeah. You guys are pretty fucking close. You're very close. If proctophilia is fart, fetishism. Wow. These are people that love me farting right? These are people that pay money for other people to fart on them.

I'll do that for free for you. Or fart on their faces. Again, my brother made a lot of money. Yeah. So I do it on command. Yeah, so people pay a lot of money to do this apparently. Wow, I didn't know this was a thing. You know, I get blasted in the face. Yeah, like they get they get.

See, I just I have I don't understand why kids these days complain about finding a job. Like it's so easy to find a job. If you can fart, right, you got a job. Marsha muscle worship, right? If you can fart, you got a job. Marsle worship, right? If you can get some muscles, you can flex online for somebody, you can fart someone's face. You can Uber drive them somewhere.

I mean, come on man, we live in a great time right now. How fucking it's that hard to make some money man? No, there's opportunities everywhere. Stop being lazy dude. I don't, I get out there and fart on someone's face. What's wrong with humans are so complex that we do such weird, yeah. Like, I don't, get out there and fart on someone's face. What's wrong with, what's wrong with, humans are so complex that we do such weird, yeah, I don't know. It's like, you know,

what I find fascinating is that it's, you know, 20 years ago, this type of stuff wouldn't exist because these weirdos are spread out all over. They couldn't find each other. Yeah, they couldn't find each other, but now that there's, you know, they're, hey, there's probably a thousand of these weirdos.

These are your conventions. Oh, right, all over the United States. Tensions. I'm like, but now that there's, hey, there's probably a thousand of these weirdo career conventions. All right, all over the United States. Tensions. I'm like, there's that many of you. Yeah. Is there really that many fun things? Yeah. You do.

I told you guys, I ran, like some reason, they're always in Santa Cruz, you know, in some walk. What do you mean for some reason? That's like the home of weird people. Yeah. No, that's what I love about Santa Cruz. Like for just people watching purposes, like we just flopped down on a bench

and just watched people, but yeah. I've seen so many furriers come through there. Furriers come through. It's like a career. I think you call furries. Whatever they are. You gotta get it right, Justin. They're fucking weird.

You're gonna get it. No. You're gonna get it right, you're gonna get jump by some. Get jump by some. Get jump by some. Hey, oh my god, dude. Yeah, I'm gonna say something now. It's attack me. Oh my God, dude. There.

I'm gonna say something now. That's the least intimidating game of all time. Yeah, but you know, I'm not talking shit, but if I saw a bunch of mascots running at me, I don't think it'd be a free, like, care bears there. Yeah. You know, though, that would be the most embarrassing ever

to get your ass kicked by a giant rabbit. I would suck, too. You just, I would, I don't wanna bring that on would never let you live that down. All right, so if we have to pick a furry for each of us now. So like Adam, if Adam was a furry, what are the options? What are the King of Roo? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, have like some cool, like I can still, you know, like it chicks with whatever costume. With my furry costume. Yeah. Yeah. So it's got to be like some kind of Tomcat, like Ali cat or something. Well, you know what, we could actually combine two of them. Yeah. So what we could do is we could make like Adam could be a kangaroo. Okay. Furry. Right. And then Doug could be a little Joey. Oh, yeah.

We could put him in Adam's pouch. You know what I'm saying? It's brilliant. There you go. There you go. Yeah, Justin would be there. I don't know what Justin would be. I'd be a bear. I feel like you'd be like a rhino.

That's what I was, that was exactly what I was saying. A rhino. Yeah, you got a big ass. Or like a bull. Yeah, big old rung tree. A big old buckberry. You know what I mean? I can see that.

I don't know what Sal would be. Sal would be like a bird. A bird. Like an owl. Like a wise owl. Oh, I love owls. Yeah, I can see them. You know what owls are my favorite?

It turns your head just like, brrrrr. Owls are one of my favorite animals, by the way. Really? Yeah, they're so incredible to look at, aren't they? Yeah, they are. And they're vicious. They're just savage.

You know, when I was a kid, there was a movie called Clash of the Titans. You remember that when I was a kid, there was a movie called a clash of the Titans. You remember that movie? Oh, the Gold Bird. Yeah, the metal one. Do you remember his name? Fuck.

Yes! I got one on it. I got me. Booba. Booba. Dude, how do you remember some of this, bro? I don't know. I wouldn't have got that.

Yeah, he was a little metal bird or whatever. Look at all those stats, Doug. I'm talking all over. He's been. This is a real deal right Doug, I'm talking all firsts, man. This is a real deal right here. Yeah, they're everywhere, dude. Doug, can you look up for furry porn? Is it, is it, is it?

Now I'm under the impression that it's a sexual thing, but is it not always a sexual thing? Is it sometimes, I think it's both, I think. They just hang out and then I think part of it's like, I don't know, they go through like the weird creature animal. So there's furry sex stuff where they have sex but they don't actually have sex. So they keep their costumes on and they just...

They just run by each other. Yes, and then there's where they actually have sex with the furry costumes on but they have holes in them. Medjou sweaty, you would get inside that thing? Well, here's the thing too, Part of the allura furism apparently, I think I just made up that term, is that if you're a guy, you could be a female furry and vice versa.

So now we're mixing, now it can be weird, right? Now you're like, oh, I'm gonna have sex with that furry over there. It's a dude. Wow. You know what I mean? You don't know that. You know what'd be fun?

Is the fuck with what? Like right now the Arnold Classic is going on this week and how? Show up as furry. Yes. Yes. Yes. You know what I mean? You don't know that. You know what'd be fun. You know what I'm saying. Right now is the Arnold Classic is going on this week and how? Show up as first. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Can we do that? Mad Mike Furrier. Are we secure enough with ourselves to do that? To dress up for you. Or are you guys worried that somebody would try and like hump your legs? So I'll have to wear that one unitarred that like covers your whole face and you know.

What? People do that too, right? To be anonymous. Who you're seeing that? Well, we do the big, the big, yeah, we have that. That's We have the green, screen suit thing. Yeah. It's too tight, man.

Yeah. It shows too much. It'll be able to see my stuff. It'll look great on you. That's what we're thinking on. You're selling it. I'm glad you thought about that. All right, so some cool current events.

I just read this headline the other day. Why do you have to transition that way? I was already talking about current events already. Oh, some more. Why do you have to announce it that way? You got to give him shit because you guys give me shit with my my stark transition. I was just calling out a bad transition. There's like no loo but all of a sudden I'm just like transition. Tell me what you got to say. So listen, I read this headline the other day and this is a huge signal that the market is shifting in a big, big way.

So Weight Watchers is now shifting from Weight Loss to Wellness. That's a trip. What? Healthy is the next, is the new skinny. That's exciting, actually. Isn't that kind of cool? That's so nice. That's crazy.

So basically is saying that it's not just about losing weight, it's about being healthy, we're gonna focus more on wellness measures, like blood pressure and other things. So pretty awesome. I think they'll probably change their approach to how they count points and stuff like that for food. Yeah, this is what I would, my question is,

does anything really change other than you just, the marketing? Yeah, the marketing, like that. I mean, a company that big, that valuable, that large of a customer base already, do you really change everything up or do you just put a new dress on the... Start introducing things? Yeah. Or is it just another new dress on a pig?

Well, it is the same thing. You know what? Say what you will. No matter what, it makes us look cool because we say that. Either way, at least they're talking about it. Well, say what you will. Weight Watchers is a major, of course, national global, you know, diet brand of,

you know, where you hire them and you basically count macros or calories or whatever, just through their own point system. Say what you will, they're not terrible. They're really not super terrible. No, they're not. They're better than a lot of other. A lot of other ones. I've had clients who've had good success and have looked at what they've done.

They really do what they do. They oversimplify the hell out of everything. That's why it's so good, which is probably why. No, no, no. And I do like how they, you know, it's not this. You can only eat these foods with if that they give them the flexibility, they just make it, they were I. They were I.I.F.L.A.M. before I.F.L.A.M. They are. It really is.

I.I.F.L.A.M. is just an evolution to that, which I would argue that I.I.F.L.A.M. is a little bit better than Weight Watch. I would say Weight Watchers are good step in the right direction, then I.I.F.L.A.M. and then obviously after that, you need to evolve to where you can intuitively hopefully do it someday.

So, but I get it, you know, I get to simplify it for people. But what it doesn't do is it's just another reason for you to not put the work in, and I think the work is necessary. Right, I think it's just another way for you to be disconnected from, like, if I don't... If I don't be a stepped of work,

right, if they're providing a service versus like teaching them how to, you know, well, when you go to, they have meetings and stuff. So when you do Weight Watchers, and I'm not super privy to them, okay? So this is just from my own second hand experience because of clients, but when you do the full experience, if you will, you do, you have meetings and you talk about

that's what they did. So part of what they did better than everybody else was that was they created an incredible community and accountability system within the groups. And I actually had lots of clients that did weigh what I had clients that were paying me to do their nutrition and train them, but they still would go to their weight watcher group. Yeah, because they like the group because they like the support because they like the group. Because they like the support. Because they like the way. So they have to weigh in, right? Every time they come to a group, right?

Every time a group meeting, it's like an A-A-A-Me. Or they show up to a meeting. They weigh themselves, they keep track of where you were before. So it's this accountability piece, all these other people that are going through the same process. So you know, you know, kudos to them for building a really good environment like that. I don't have anything to knock on somebody who's...

No, and the fact that, I mean, because remember, there's such a massive company. So when you have big companies moving in this direction, you gotta keep in mind, they're not trying to be trendsetters typically, what they're trying to do is read the market. And so the thing about this that excites me is that a company like Weight Watchers,

which spends, you know, who knows how much money on market research on trying to predict where the market's going to stay relevant. When a company like Weight Watchers is saying, we are now focusing on wellness, and they're using the word wellness. Like that was a, that was a, that was a kind of a small segment of the health and fitness and weight loss, you know, market. Like there was wellness and then there was weight loss and, you know, market, like there was wellness and then there was weight loss and then there was muscle building and then there was whatever. So the fact that they've even chose the word wellness and said that that's the direction

that they're moving is a very good reflection that the market is moving in that direction. What you've been talking about, you know, we've been talking about that since the day one, right? Yeah, household brands like that to use that kind of terminology and like thinking that direction, it's a big deal. It's a very big deal. I think it's a good thing, but of course, what comes along with that is the perversion of that word,

where what does wellness mean? It's gonna be the new functional or yeah, like one of the buzz turns. Yeah, it'll say tricks cereal for kids. Wellness cereal isn't enhanced. Yeah, wellness enhanced say, you know, tricks cereal for kids, you know, wellness, you know, cereal. Well, this enhanced. Yeah, wellness enhanced. We threw some probiotics in there and, you know,

you just re-graged over that, but that's exactly what it's for. Oh, no, probiotics on everything. Cause we see that already happening. Yeah, I was just so sure. I just saw who is it? Someone posted there with a, a cam with a kombucha pill.

Kombucha pills. Yeah, I was like, that was fucking great, dude. That's that kombucha you fucker. That's a hell. That's a supplement. Yeah. That's that kombucha you fucker Packed with kombucha so great. It's a little bit of kombucha juice It's all yeah each capsule captures of fragment of the scoby. They even used the the scoby which is the That's the mushroom that you put or whatever the fungus or whatever you do to grow. There's fungus. I mean, there's mushrooms inside of, is it a mushroom?

No, it's a, Doug knows he makes his own. Yeah, it's not a mushroom. I make it duck to kind of fricking deaf fungi. Well, the scoby is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. There's no, so could you have you ever thought about like using like one of our brands like Forsecmatic

and blending it into like the, would you, could you do that? It's not a mushroom. So it wouldn't go well. I don't think it go well yeah no I mean it brewed the same way though right you brew it like tea is that how it works no so you have to make it you have to know from done that makes it you don't fucking make it you actually you brew an actual tea know it all I hear from Doug yeah I use a black tea and a green tea and some sugar the sugars what feeds the scoby.

And I put the cold tea into the pot or the croc with the scoby, which is the mushroom like thing, but it's not really a mushroom. And you let it sit there for a week. Dude, let's fuck around and put some of the our four-sigmatic quarter-steps in there, man. Why?

Why not? I don't know. I guess you can throw it in whatever you want. I would put it in afterwards. So after you brew it all, then you just put it in afterwards. I wouldn't. Here's why I wouldn't make it a super you can throw it whatever I would put it in afterwards. Oh after you brew it all then you just put it in afterwards I wouldn't yeah, here's why I wouldn't I don't know what the anti if there's any you know What's the word? Anti microbial effects or anything from what may be in force or Maddox and mix with the

Oh, you think that it could have a bad read not bad, but it might negate some of the effects or just be a waste of You know mixing I don't know I'm gonna take it. Yeah, it's close my creative you might create a scoby-baw probably don't try. I'll never know scoby Speaking of four-sigmatic my cousin who's been having anxiety I told him to do the chaga Raishi And he said it's a great relief for anxiety, which is what I also get from that mix also. Yeah, no, you definitely you hog all the four sigmatic, but okay with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So good.

Justin, you don't use it really that much as much as Sal does, right? A quarter-step, I did for a while, which I liked, you know, for endurance and cognitive function, but I wish they would make a horny goat weed. That's why I've been drinking that lately. Horny goat weed is not a mushroom, so how's a horny goat weed working for you? Why can't for you a horny goat yet? No, not really. Just a goat.

I do feel a little bit of a neutral goat. But I actually like the taste of it. I like the taste of the horny goat weed. What? What are you doing the tea? Are you doing pills? Tea, what does it taste like? I do tea.

It's actually really good. It's got a chamomile type of taste to it, you know? They take what they do is they take a goat. That's horny. They jack it off. Inside. Oh, you had to go there. In a bag and you make it into a sorry duck.

Doug, we almost said it. We almost said it. We made it. Oh, did I blow it? No, the goat. I was sexual. The goat blew it. Yes.

And we met everybody I don't apologize. We mix it in a tea and then, you know, there you go. And you know, it's funny, because the first time I gave him the horny goat we'd see him and Adam was like, this tastes familiar. I'm like, it's actually. Yeah. It's actually not.

Sal led me down that path. It's his fault. Anyway, hey, by the way, asshole, here's a study for you. Who you referring to, Jason? Yeah, which's a study for you. You're referring to Yeah, which one would you think I'm talking about? Yeah, who's the asshole tolerance for loud noises decreases with age You know why remember we had this argument about this. Oh, yeah, that's right Well, what do we have an argument about well cuz Sal wanted to turn down the the music and we're giving him shit

I was talking about how yeah, like and you like oh no, I wouldn't stay young because I'm, I resist being older. So that's how I said it. Well, no, I'm just, I'm just, he's still in his, reading the underlining, underlining, so that all that you be, I had, I'll never forget

I had this trainer who worked for me and his parents had protected his ears since he was a baby and taught him to like, keep ear plugs in. What? Yeah, no, check this out. I'll never forget this kid. Is he autistic? You, he is. since he was a baby and taught him to like keep ear plugs in. Yeah, now check this out. I'll never forget this kid. Is he autistic?

No, you could scare the hell out of him. He was an odd brat, but he got in my car one time. And I don't, I mean, I listen to my music loud, but it's not like crazy, like, deafening loud, right? And he got in my car and I never, he screamed and he covered his ears and then I turned down my autistic bro. And yes, that is what it sounds like. That is exactly what it sounds like. You think I'm making a joke,

but I'm not. Well, maybe why would his parents cover his ears since he was a kid? Probably because it was literally like they were taking his head, but I mean like they got him. They kept him away from it. And they said it's because we tend to damage, damage our ears so bad with the way we do, listen to music and concerts and the thing, and the way we yell and we're so loud. And so to protect him, and I just think he had a fucking helicopter parents, that's what I think.

Maybe. I don't think he was autistic. Or maybe he was, because back in those days, we got miracle here. Yeah. The helps with when you get deaf. Well, so here's what it says.

You know why, as you get older, certain things are too loud for you. It's because we lose our ability to perceive higher sounds, like higher frequency sounds, but we still hear the lower frequency sounds, so it distorts the sound, so when we hear music, it sounds more aggressive. Yeah, like bassy.

Yeah, and we don't like it. Do you ever think we're gonna get fucked because we're sitting here with it this in our ears? What? I know my hearing is gonna be affected. So dude, I used to play in practice in a band with drums, a bass in like guitar at full like cranked up volume and it was in a basement. And so all the walls is the sounds bouncing off all the walls without any ear plugs. Like an asshole. I just hope that since I got the psoriasis and the balding thing, I'll be the first one that's I just hope that like like the eyesight and the fucking ear thing. So I got bad news for you.

So so people who have more than one thing that happens to them or more likely to have more things to get out of here. I grabbed him out for like two seconds. I'll fuck. I got a spell for this. I got a wrecked out of this function. That sucks. So, just check out this other study that I picked up here. This was published in on November 6, 2007, 2017, excuse me. And the Oxford Academic, they used cannabis, so CBD and THC with a particular

type of chemotherapy on people who had multi-formed glioblastomas, which are a type of brain cancer. And the survival rate after one year was 83%, and by the way, this type of brain cancer and the survival rate after one year was 83% and by the way, this type of brain cancer is terminal, right? Many times it's very terminal. 83% survival rate after one year compared to the control group who didn't get the cannabis, 44%. So double. Wow. Double man. That's a big fucking, that's a big fucking deal. Do you guys know the first time that cannabis was observed to have anti-cancer effects? What, like year?

Like right around what time, like how long ago we knew this? No, I don't, I'm gonna say 10 years. Nope, 1970s. So the government had invested money in investigating cannabis and its effects on its potential for causing cancer. And what was coming back was that it was actually preventing cancer. They shut the study

down. And yeah, shut it down because it didn't fit with the narrative. And they shut it down. And then it was right after that. I think it was 1977 when Richard Nixon, you know, then really went hard on the war on drugs to go after the, you know, the counterculture But the government knew that there were potential anti-cancer effects from cannabinoids Right before they did that. How fucked up is that? Sometimes I'm Sometimes I think that they know we have we have the cure and we just don't let anybody have it It's way more cost effective

Don't you think that don't you think that sometimes? I mean, the shit that we've accomplished and we've created, I have a Tim foil hat on, I don't know. Well, we have the Tim foil hat. Sometimes I do on these type of topics, you know what I'm saying? Cause it just baffles me that we just can't figure

this cancer thing out. We figured out all these other things and I just feel like. Well, so I did a lot of, by no means even near an expert on the subject. I've just done a lot of reading on it because I had someone close to me who had it. And, you know, here's a thing.

I thought that for a second. Like, maybe they had, maybe they know how to, how to really cure this, but they don't want to, because there's more money in treating it, rather than curing it. But the reality is, you know, I thought about this too. Imagine if someone had the cure for cancer, you'd make a better.

That should, it would be worth a lot of money. Trillions of dollars, you know what I mean? Yeah. The other thing too is that. Yeah, but you know what though, the counter argument to that is that there's trillions of dollars in the ongoing treatments and pills to patients. Well, here's what I believe.

You'd make a trillion dollars up front of like curing everybody, but then you, then the business would be dead where it's an ongoing trillion dollar business now. Well, here's what I believe though too. I believe that, well, not that I just believe it, there's some evidence of this. When you look at the way that pharmaceutical companies

invest their money, when you invest your money, if you're a pharma company and you wanna come out with a treatment for something like cancer, you know it's gonna cost you around 10 years of testing and trials and to get through the FDA because to get, make a drug legal, we have so many regulations it's insane. By the way, many people believe that more people die

because of our regulations than are actually saved because we're not able to get new breakthrough drugs because it's too expensive to even explore them. So if you're a company and you're invested and you wanna invest, and you want to invest, it's probably cost them more like half a billion dollars just to get a drug approved. You don't want to bet your money on something

that is way out there. You know what I mean? You're not gonna say, okay, let's take half a billion dollars and look at this potential cure. What you're probably gonna do is say, okay, let's try and create another type of chemo because we know chemo's got a market.

You know, we know it kind of works. Let's try and create a type of chemo. Because we know chemo's got a market, we know it kind of works, so try and create a chemo with less side effects. And so what ends up happening is we end up seeing something that kind of works and more and more money goes in that direction, less money goes into exploring new potential types of treatments. And then on the flip side,

like cannabis is not a patented product, it's a plant, so there really isn't a lot of money in how to create this into a drug that can potentially treat cancer. But since then, there have been, and it's, by the way, it's on the cancer.gov website. It's the government website. They actually talk about, in there, when you look up cannabis, how studies have shown that animal studies in particular, and some human studies have shown that cannabis

has a good effect on cancer. In other words, it kills cancer. There are some cancers that are more sensitive than others. So I think liver cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, for sure, like the places where there's the highest concentration of cannabinoids. But I mean, who knows, man? How crazy will that be if we, at some point in the future,

we realize that, oh shit, here's a, here's a crazy treatment that is super effective in conjunction with other things or maybe on its own. Well, I think we're figuring that out right now. I think it's only a matter of time and we're seeing it. I mean, you're seeing it happen. I mean, it seems like every, it seems like every other day,

a new state gets on board with, with its new laws with cannabis. I know what I would do is, I would, if seems like every other day a new state gets on board with its new laws with cannabis. I know what I would do is I would, if I were terminal, there's a couple things I would do, one of them would be fasting, the other one would be cannabis. Those are the two things I would do for myself. I wish I didn't have such a bad taste in my mouth over the industry because there's so much potential business-wise, just all the opportunities that will pop up, but I just don't, you know, I love fitness too much. And the cannabis thing, we're just kinda like, wha, wha, wha, wha.

Too bad. Did you guys see President Trump's terrible economic policy, you just did, or economic move? No. He is going to, you know, here's the thing, dude. Are we gonna get into debate about this again? No, it's not a debate, it's just, I mean, I'll tell you what he did.

You let me know what you think. Okay. He's going to be slapping a 10% tariff on aluminum imports. So again, is more of his nationalism kind of ideas. Yeah, it's just going to make everybody pay more money. Yeah, but don't you, this is the same move as the last one. Don't you, don't you think that this could potentially, don't you see him do potentially setting it up to,

this is just one move, it's not the final move. I think you're looking at it like. On steel too, by the way. Okay, so, but it's the same thing as the last argument we had about that when we were in Austin, right? Here's what it was, what was he taxing? Solar. It was solar panels. It just makes it more expensive

It's all does it makes it makes it makes whatever Product what it does is it's adding a tax to it. Yeah, so he's trying to control and force people to buy here right inside of here Which you're right it doesn't do anything economically for us right now But what if there that's this is that's the short move right now. There's a long play well there no Short long whatever if accidentally it turns into something good great This is, that's the short move right now. There's a long play. Well, no, short, long, whatever. If accidentally it turns into something good, great, but really all you're doing is you're taking, you're making people spend more money

for something that could have spent less money on. So it's not, and where's that tariff going by the way? Who's getting that money? The government. There's no different than a tax. It's no different than him saying, we're gonna raise taxes on something. The only difference is he's telling it. If he's It's no different than him saying, we're gonna raise taxes on something. The only difference is, I don't know.

If he's gonna cut back on taxes like for entrepreneurs and corporations to grow and get bigger, and he's gonna take that, because he's cut taxes there, he's gonna slap it on other places that are transporting goods from out of the country. It doesn't sound like that bad of an idea to me.

It sounds like nothing. It doesn't sound like that bad of an idea to me. It sounds like, it sounds like nothing. It doesn't sound like anything. The first part's great. Payless taxes, I like that. The second part doesn't justify it because the first part, it's not like he's making a deal. It's just moving money around and who's getting that money, who's the winner, who's the loser.

Listen to his tweet. He goes, our steel and aluminum industries have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy. What the fuck does that mean? With countries around the world, we must not let our country companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want fair and smart trade. And so what he's doing is he's appealing to this nationalism and just raising the price of things and saying this is to help the American worker. What's happening is he's doing these subsidizing American jobs with other people's money where

you might not want to have spent it. So for example, the cost of beer is probably going to go up because all things in cans, all things in aluminum cans are probably going to go up now. So we'll see that right away. Right after he implements this, you're gonna go buy a Coke or a beer or whatever and you're gonna see an increase in price because the can is more expensive

because the aluminum now... I have less of a problem with taxing things that aluminum cans, solar and stuff like that, then I think with the way we make it so difficult to even start a business and the amount that we heavily taxed companies. I mean, I agree with you, you know, but at the same time, trying to plan an economy

from the top never worth. Well, the real question is, is it even possible? You know, could anybody come in and actually, in the state that we're in right now, you know, could any fucking president come in and actually with the state that we're in right now, could any fucking president come in and make all the right fucking perfect moves? And make everybody happy. It's just not possible. No, no, it's just, I think the nationalism parts, the one that always worries me, just because I've seen nationalism come through, like countries like Germany, and I saw what that did.

So it's just like, it's red flags for me that I don't want this to become a divisive thing of us separating us from the entire world where it's like, you know, that we're creating conflict for no reason. He's pushing for a military parade, like a huge, which is nothing wrong with, you know, celebrating our, you know, veterans

and stuff like that, but we haven't had a military parade in a long time. And it just, when you think of a big military parade with tanks and stuff like that, which I don't know what this one's gonna look like, it just brings up images of... Yes. I think North Korea, so we can...

Don't you feel like he's just kind of posturing with other people? Totally, yeah, totally. That's how I see it. But that's the thing, that's the thing. Like I get it on, yeah, if it was just that, but this is like increasing with momentum. Well, Obama was such a pussy.

I'm okay, I'm kind of okay with, he was, you know, and now we're the other way, right? We went from a total pussy and a pushover to now the guy who's like, oh fuck, he could push the red button any day. Well, you know, here's the deal. I'm sorry. Obama looked like a pussy,

but he actually bombed more countries with drone strikes than bush it. So that's, it's all about, that's a pussy move still, by's a pussy moves, yeah, maybe. Yeah. I think it's just the public, your public, you know, who you are or whatever. I don't even, I might have been different

had he not followed Bush who was such a hawk and you know, going to war with everybody. But nonetheless, it's just, you know, Trump does a lot of things, some things that are good and for economically speaking and some things that are just, and he's supported by his base because he's a Republican when that is against, it's supposed to be, it's against free and open markets.

And if you're a conservative and you stand for those things, you should not be, so I don't give a shit who's the president. I don't care if it's on your side or the other side. If they pass some shit that, like he, nobody just did with, with the, you made a comment about gun control. And he said, you made a comment about gun control and he said you know take the gun first follow due process second process later. Whoa.

Come on dude. Do process that's the due process is first that's why it's called due process. So he says a lot of shit that really worries me that was alarming for sure. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that he does that kind of worries me a little bit. He hasn't I don't know hasn't necessarily in terms of policy been like, again, like I look at the policies, right? I look at like, you know, the National Defense Authorization Act

or the Patriot Act or things that are really fucking scary. And sometimes the presidents come out and they sound really good, but then you look behind the scenes. Trump sounds a lot worse than he is many times. Many times he just tweets and you're like, oh my god, he sounds terrible. And then you're like, well, he's just,

no, I think that's the buffoon. I think that's part of mind behind all of that that is pretending to be his voice I don't think the motherfucker tweets did you ever watch you're the fucking president I barely have time to tweet or Instagram if I was a president I would find that I know man sometimes some of his tweets I'd fire whoever wrote no I see I think that I think that's all on internet there's like a guy there's a very specific guy that was behind a lot of his campaigning No, I know there's a Netflix series on trying to remember the name of it, but it's like called

Whatever his name is and and like I watched the whole Trump family one. I saw that one Okay, there's a different one, but like yeah, he's responsible for a couple different like campaigns politically and I mean who's to say he's not still orchestrating things like he said. I just, I think it would be naive of us to think that you get all the way up to presidency and you lack some sort of brilliance like that. You can hate someone, love them, praise them,

talk all good all about them. But bullshit, okay, let's see, you go become the president and see what it takes to do that. Oh, and never in a million years that I want to do that shit. But, okay, let's see you go become the president and see what it takes to do that. Oh, and never in a million years that I want to do that shit. Right, right, like, you gotta be a motherfucking gangster to get all the way to that point. And I tell you what, your five steps ahead

of 99% of the population, whether they think it or not. And I know there's a bunch of fucking really smart people who are like, ooh, okay buddy. You see, well, to be able, just to be able to handle the scrutiny with being in a position like that. Fuck that stress. I'm gonna want, I envision this.

I envision like you win the presidency, you just went through hell. Everything was just focused on you. Half the country absolutely hates you because I don't care what you do, half the country's gonna hate you. Then you're sworn in and you're like, oh this is great, I'm the president now,

let's get to work. Then they bring you in the office. They sit you down, close the doors, and I'm like, all right, we're the ones that run. Yeah, here's the deal. Here's the deal now. Yeah, yeah. This is how shit is.

Right, right, right. Aliens invaded Earth 50 years ago. They controlled the warpnoth. There's lizard people under control. That's what Tom DeLong would say. You just go downstairs and bowl. That's all you're allowed to do. That's what Tom DeLong would say. You just go downstairs and bowl. That's all you're allowed to do. That's all you're allowed to do, bro.

Here's what you're gonna say today. You're looking at me like, I don't wanna say that shit. It's terrible. Everybody thinks you're an asshole, so we're gonna tweet that way. So just we're gonna stay. We're gonna keep going with this asshole there today. Exactly.

You're gonna have to be that guy. I do, dude, I believe that, man. I believe it's, I mean here, look at, we're talking about it. You know what I'm saying? Like, we're talking about it. You know what I'm saying? Like we're talking about it. And to me that is what he's in search of. And that's how he got to where he's at right now

is people talking about him. And, you know what this guy's gonna, you know this guy's gonna make so much money when he's at home. Oh God, of course. He's gonna start like a series or a TV. And if he works, no, no, no, that's what he's gonna do. A news network.

Mark my words, media company. Mark my words. The real news. Yes, he's gonna do a news network my words media company mark my words the real news Yes, called the real news fake news. He is going to start a news network. I guarantee it about money on it That's a pretty smart strat. You know, is there like a thing when you sign as a president though You can't do certain things like that for X amount of years. No, I don't think it's like no With our country and our government right I feel like I feel like you shouldn't be able to do like a newspaper and use network. I'm not. I do.

I believe with all the connections that you had, I can be like the dirtiest fucking play ever. Trump's real news network. Real news. All the time. Like the biggest mistake we did was like taking him out of office. You know, now he's really fucking us. Right.

At least in office, he's not really doing anything. Right, we're keeping him busy. The best thing a president can do is get an office and shrink government and do nothing. Let everybody take care of what they're supposed to do, let the market do what it's supposed to. Just don't throw any wrenches in the machine. The problem is, you know what that sounds like?

That sounds like if somebody came in, we hired a CEO for MindPump and they come in, they're like, you know what? sounds like that sounds like if like somebody came in we hired a CEO for mind pump and they come in They're like you know what? I'm I love this company mind pump and I'm gonna reduce the income Say like no one of these motherfuckers want to do that the all pretend like it You know say when they all come in they see all the revenue all the opportunity like fuck this I'm gonna reduce I'm telling you right that's that's oh my god. That's exactly what happens So don't you do the same thing and that would be the same attitude You would never see a CEO come in take over this company look at the revenue streams and go you know what I think I think we're gonna shut some of these revenue streams off. I'd love it. I'd love it

I thought somebody yeah somebody got up there and was like oh you know what I'm doing now Everybody in Congress. This is your last term because everybody can only serve a couple terms now and then you can never do it again Yeah, and then boom assassinated. Yeah, you're done. All right. We're doing an unboxing. We are. Thrive market unboxing. Speaking of sponsors, one of our favorite. I love throwing it out, dude.

Arguably the one we use the most. It's for sure. I mean, they're just, they're getting better too. They're getting better with how they section their stuff, the products that they have in there. No, it's, it's a dope brand, dude. Very practical brand. Everybody can use it. What do we got here, Doug?

Sal put out a list here a week or so back and I ordered a bunch of things off that list. Oh, yeah, thank you. Now, one of the big things that he asked for when he put his list out there was bone broth. And I will say that the theme of this box is Bombra. Okay So we start with our epic Bombra, Turkey cranberry saved. I like the epic brand Very good. Very good. Yeah, they make good jerky too. So this is some ghee Organic Valley. Oh, it's not Bombra. Why is it in the can't pass it over here? That's different than my own. It's not a can. Oh, it's not a can. It's a jar. Oh, I was gonna say look at a can from here. Hey Justin

Can I get you to help me with this? Yeah, these things are so well wrapped. Justin's gonna just in it. Oh, yeah, you're gonna mess everywhere now. You're gonna make a big old mess. Gonna bite it to they, they are rafts. You got another bone broth from Epic. This is a different flavor. He tripled it up on the bone broth. Oh yeah.

And now I got a three pack of Frive Market Bone broth. Poor bone broth. Okay, so you were so bad. So boring. This is, my list won't look like this. Chicken and turkey. Okay, so the Frive Market Bone broth

is actually my favorite one so far. Okay, no joke. And then the last thing on the list here. Yeah, coconut oil. Was some peppermint, Dr. Bronners. Organic. Oh, thank you. And peppermint, Dr. Bronners. Yeah, Dr. Bronners.

And some coconut oil. Oh, Dr. Bronners, man. Dr. Bronners, coconut oil. I didn't know that. They sure do. This quaz brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, sure do. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I dot com and use a coupon code mind pump for 20% off at checkout. Alright, the first question is from Katie Gasman.

Do you have any tips on how to outgrow people gracefully? I have friends who my care for deeply because of what they meant to me in the past, but we no longer have things in common or aligned with goals. Is there a way to keep them in my life or do I need to cut them out and totally move on? What a great question. Yeah, it's a tough one. You know what?

This is a question that I've had to ask myself several times throughout my life. And I think everybody goes through this, especially if you're a growth-minded individual. And what I mean by that is growth-minded individuals tend to want to improve and change and find new things that influences the way they live, and they get new information, and they change how they do certain things. They're trying to evolve.

You're trying to evolve, and I think everybody evolves, of course, for a certain degree, but there's a lot of people who kind of stay stuck and rigid in a particular way because growth is scary and change is scary. But here's what I've come up with for myself. And I don't know if this is the right answer, but this made sense to me when I first came up with it. There are going to be people that you encounter in your life that you're going to connect with over things, events,

and hobbies. So those are gonna be people you're gonna connect with who they're into the same things as you. So if you're become a coffee aficionado and you make a friend who's totally into coffee and you guys bond over coffee. What a random thing for you to choose. I was gonna say alcohol because that's,

but I was trying to get a coffee. It's like, what you to choose. I was gonna say alcohol because that's, but I was trying to say. I was like, what is that? I love that. You know, you have a friend that you just, you would her just love coffee. And you just don't want to break it up. A lot of people like coffee on them. Yeah, no they do.

But you know, I think you get what I mean. Like there's something that you're interested about it. Maybe you and your, yeah, I thought sports. Yeah, maybe a sport. You played on a team together. Or you know, you're out and you're trying to pick up on girls and you meet a guy who's into picking up on girls and you guys go out together and that's what you bond over. I like your style. Exactly. Pick up your chicks. Exactly. Yeah. You know, and those, there's those people that you

meet and you can great, develop great relationships, great friendships, have great memories. And you're going to meet a lot more of those kinds of people versus the second kind of people who you're going to connect with over the fact that you're both growth-minded, that you're both growth-oriented, that you're connected on a more core level. Those are the rare ones. And those are the ones that tend to stick around. And it's usually like a couple people. Everybody else falls in the first category where I had friends that I, when I was doing Jiu-Jitsu, we would bond over Jiu-Jitsu or when I was in school,

because we went to school together or because I liked a party or whatever, and we would bond over those things. But then when I change and grow, and my interest chain, I no longer bond with these kinds of people. I mean, you know, I think a lot of guys have experienced this when they get married. You know, they've got their buddies that they go out and drink with and party with, and

then they need a girl, they fall in love, they get married, they have kids, and then they still have that buddy who never got married or never really grew past it, and still wants to go out and party and drink. That was a bad one. And you just don't have, you just don't, you can't connect with them because you don't do that same thing anymore. And it's okay, there's nothing wrong with that.

And I think the challenges, I know the challenge for me was, I felt like I wasn't honoring how important they were to me or how awesome they were at a particular time of my life. So it's almost like I wanted to stay friends with them because I felt like if I didn't, I wasn't honoring what good people they were. But in reality, it's actually more of an honor to acknowledge it and also acknowledge that you're different now. And you just do different things.

I don't think you need to break up with anybody. I know, I've had friends that were girls who tend to do this with other girls, like, I can't hang out with you. Which I think is kind of weird. Guys don't really do that so much, I think. You know, we just kind of, I've slowly stopped doing that. You broke up with the guy. Absolutely, absolutely. I just, in fact, what did you say?

In this last year, I've actually had this conversation twice. Would you say to break up with the guy? Well, first of all, it normally leads to this. Like, so I try and, I wouldn't say it's over dinner with music instead of, first of all, it normally leads to this. So I try and I wouldn't say it's over dinner with music. No, no, no, no, it's been like talking in person. This is the last time we're going to do it. No, no, no, it's like this. So here's a deal. I think that when you look at all the people that you surround yourself with, like the friends that have been with you forever and they're a part of your growing up in childhood or adolescence.

And then you have your friends, your adult friends that you have now. And when you look at them collectively, there tends to be in most groups that I know, there's a handful of people in your circle that you've start to learn that they are not feeding your flame, you're not, they're not into maybe where you are or they're not growth minded

like you are. And in fact, they could potentially be somewhat holding you back. But yet, you're torn because fuck, I had 10, 15 years of childhood with them and my mom still talks to them and they love, they're like family to me. So I kind of look at it like they're, they're, they're family, but I don't hang out with all my family and even talk to all my family on a very, very regular basis. And so if you're looking at your friends, like the 80% of the people that you're spending the time with should be the ones that are feeding your flame.

And then the other 20% could be like, in which to me, that means once every couple months I'm catching up with some of these close friends that go all the way back to childhood. But what I started doing was I didn't make a big deal about it at first. I just, I went, I had friends that I literally hung out with every single weekend, like every weekend. We were all single dudes, we weren't in relationships. It was always about drinking or playing video games or just fucking around every weekend. And, you know, that, those, that's those set of friends are still friends of mine. I just spend about you know 80% or 90% less of the time with them And I just what I stopped doing was I I stopped making myself available for those same weekends and eventually that Started a conversation or a hey bro, what the fuck? You know we used to get together every single weekend and when and when that opportunity arose a corner

You like that then yeah, it would be so. Oh, so you have to have that conversation. Right, I thought you were like calling them up. Yeah, I guess I need to have a talk with you. I've had that happen, but it's just been more of a natural, like, you know, I'm moving past, like certain groups of guys used to hang out with where it's just like, did it. You know, I have all this stuff going on

where I didn't have to really explain it anymore. It was just like, I'm not available. I'm not available like I used to be. You know, and it's no bad feeling or like I'm moving away from you purposely. It's just that it doesn't make sense, you know, for me to, you know, be in that space anymore. So listen, radical honesty is always the way to go in situations like this. And it's hard sometimes because you're worried about their feelings, but I had another friend that was,

you know, reaching out to me because he wanted to go fishing all the time. And I kept turning it down, turning it down, turn it down. And he finally was like, you know, hey, man, what the fuck? Like, you know, we're best of friends. And I go and do things sometimes that with you that you that I'm not into as much. And I said, listen, you know, I've come to realize that all of us are very busy

guys. We've all grown up and out of a lot of the hobbies that we used to do together, although we still love some of these things, snowboarding, wakeboarding, basketball, these were in sports. And so we have that still in common. But now we've grown older and now we're into other things like fishing and golf, you know, and I'm more into like business and breeding and shit like that. So, you know, we have these different interests. And I said, listen, I don't expect you guys to come up

and go get a workout with me, because you guys have no fucking desire to do that. So I'm not gonna bug you or ask you about it, but I also don't hold that against you and think that we're less of friends because of that. It's that our interest have changed as we got older. And I'm okay with that. I love that you have found this passion for fishing

and you're fucking really good at it and you love doing it. And I don't wanna take away from that. And maybe sometimes if everything lines up, I'm gonna come, but I'm most certainly not gonna go out of my way to go fishing. I just don't want to. You know, I just don't have a desire.

What's hard? Now I have a desire to see you. And so I'm sure if I hadn't seen you in a really long time, that I would probably take up a fishing opportunity just to see you. But to be honest with you, I'd rather not. You know? Yeah, but have you guys ever been in a situation though where you've changed and grown and then you all of a sudden, not that you don't like the person like I don't like you, I hate

you, but just like all of a sudden like, wow, I'd get nothing out of you. Even hang out with you, no matter what. So I just had a friend that I told you guys that I went and went to the OKC and the warrior game with. He picked up a lemon to a, I hadn't hung out with him in over two years. And we kind of had this breakup thing. And you know, when we saw each other, it was nothing but love. And I told men, I love you. And, you know, I hope you're always in my life somewhat, you know. But I don't hang out with him. And part of the reason why I don't hang out

with him is because he kind of got stuck in our hometown. And, you know, he was kind of into the same shit that we were into when we were 15 years old. And, you know, he started to make up a lot of stories and tell a lot of lies. And, you know, he started to make up a lot of stories and tell a lot of lies and it always was weird to me because I was like, man, I love you for no matter who you are. I don't need to story tell. And so I literally just kind of cut him off

from conversation. He would call me during the week and he'd wanna talk on the phone like for hours and half the conversation when he sports, the other half the conversation would be some made up story to impress me. And I finally just told him, I said, man, hey, I don't, I don't have time right now in my life

to have these types of conversations all the time and kind of ghosted him, man. And I think that because I was honest with him and I said that to him, I think at first, he was a little kind of like blood hurt, but over time we have mutual friends and I would always tell, I would always speak highly of him and say, I love him, man. He's like, he's like family to him. I think at first he was a little kind of like blood hurt, but over time we have mutual friends. And I would always tell, I would always speak highly of him and say, I love him, man. He's like family to me. He's like, he's like that cousin that you know you have no business fucking hanging out with.

Like he's fucking around doing drugs. He's doing stupid shit, but he's still your cousin. I was saying, so I look at it like that. Like he's still family to me. Like the guy's been through a lot with me as a kid. I've just grown out of him. them. I've had to deal with that. Like some of my friends from high school that were kind of like your tough guy, you know, like the tough guy thing. I have no place for the tough guy thing. And so like I've definitely kind of eliminated that kind of energy that's around me anymore. It's just like it doesn't serve me in any fashion anymore.

Like some people that still hold onto that and like try to posture and we go places and be a certain attitude. Oh, bro. Get the fuck out of here. You know the movie, you know the movie Goodwill Hunting? Yeah. Like, that's my crew of boys. Literally to a tee.

Yeah. Just like that. Fucking around. All right, and together in the car and shit like that. Calling each other names, talking shit to each other. Oh, then we go beat up somebody. You know what I'm saying? Say like that was literally like, the crew I hung out with.

I think the, I think really what starts to happen, really if you peel it back is, you are not being your own real true authentic self, and so you connect with people with this, maybe not authentic part of you, or this like posturing, like, you know, we all go through it when we're kids, like trying to be tough,

or trying to be the guy that does, but it may not be a real true authentic self, and you're putting that out and you're connecting over it, but then as you peel back these layers and start to become who you really are, it's such a visible insecurity. Well, it's ridiculous. If you look at your friends that you know

you're not supposed to be with, that's a huge reflection of yourself. Then I'll give you an example of what I mean, but with the friends that you know you're not supposed to be with, that's a huge reflection of yourself. I'll give you an example of what I mean by that with the friends that I was just saying about that we get in fights and we used to, that was because I had this thing that go to all the way back to childhood. My father, I don't have my father after seven years old, a lot of moving around. I didn't have a lot of so loyalty meant everything to me.

So these guys that I would hang around with that I knew that if we got into a brawl, they would take it your back. They would get my back. They would take a bottle over the head. They were family to me. They were blood brothers, you know. So I and that was this is my own insecurities. This is my own childhood stuff that I would I'm attracted to that. And I grew out of that because I figured that out. So if you are showing, you're proving your own loyalty. Right, right. So if you have a circle of people that you have a hard time

breaking free from, partly why you have a hard time breaking free for them, is they're providing or they're feeding an insecurity of yours that's probably rooted back to childhood that you're still trying to either work through or maybe you've worked through it, but you haven't learned how to cut that off from. Here's a good sign when you know that you're hanging out

with someone that you're probably kind of over when you meet up with them and the only things that you guys can talk about are the old times. Or other people, old shit. Old shit, like we get together and it's like nothing about now or moving forward, it's all about all the shit that we did before and then you're done telling stories and then you're like, you know, now what?

I mean, like I said, for, there's a few people that I honestly connect with on a very core level, and really it's, we connect over character, we connect over growth. So I know because we connect over growth, no matter where we grow, we're always gonna connect,

versus connecting over things or events or insecurities or are inauthentic selves. So consider it a good thing, not a bad thing. And it can be tough because it's a little bit scary, especially when I have a friend right now that's going through this. She's got a bunch of friends who she hung out with a law. And this friend of mine now is growing, learning a lot of things about herself, learning a lot of things about the world and is really

radically changing how she viewed things. I mean the reality is she didn't fully believe in the same things her friends did, but she just kind of went along with them. But now that she's where she's at now, she's looking at her friends and she's like, we don't connect over anything. So she's got like five friends and she's like, we don't connect over anything. So she's got like five friends that she no longer connects with. And she know, I was talking to her about it

and she's like, this is really tough for me and we had this conversation. I said, yeah, but you've made these other new friends that you now are connecting on different levels. She's like, you're absolutely right. So it can be a scary thing, but I don't know if there's necessarily an easy way to do it. I think the best way to do it is to be honest about it.

Because you're not doing anybody any favors by you're not doing yourself any favors. That's for sure. I don't think you're doing the other person any favors by pretending or trying and being inauthentic. Next question is from Jen Kinzerley Realtor. How many times a week should females, assuming it is different than for males, hit each muscle group? So it's not different for females. The biggest difference is in individuals. So, you know, if we look at the individual, you can see that

beginners obviously don't need to work out each muscle group as frequently as more advanced people. The funny thing is the old bodybuilding adage was actually the reverse. So the old, you know, when body parts split routines were getting real popular, or at least the ones that showed you trained each body part once a week, what they used to say was, when you're a beginner, you work out the whole body three days a week, and then as you get more advanced, you go to a split where you hit each body part once a week and you train like chest on Monday and back on Tuesday and so on And you do lots of volume. I remember literally reading articles and articles and articles and muscle and fitness and

Flex magazine that said that exact thing. The irony of that like a lot of the information we get in fitness This is the complete opposite. It's actually opposite is true. When you look at the actual studies, they show that the muscle building signal, the adaptation signal peaks and then starts to drop after about 48 hours in beginners. In advanced people, that shit drops after some studies have showed 16 hours. So more frequent training is probably more beneficial, the more advanced you get, and less frequent training you can get away with a little bit more

as your beginner. Now, my experience as a trainer completely supports that. 100% and my own personal experience with myself. The more consistent I am with my workouts, the more frequent I can work out, and the more frequent I need to work out to continue to get my body to progress. When I'm work out, and the more frequent I need to work out to continue to get my body to progress.

When I'm like taking a week or two weeks off or I haven't been training very hard, then less frequent, like then becomes, probably better because two frequent than is too much. So I used to break it up in a month, right? So when I would be, and I'm gonna about to do this right now again. So I would look at,

that's right, you're back into working out? Yeah, I'm only two do this right now again. So I would look at... That's why you're back into working out? Yeah, I'm only two days in right now. So I'm back to that and it's extremely low amount of volume right now. And of course, I'm being very sensitive with my Achilles because it hasn't fully even healed. But what I'll do is the first, this whole first month, so I've got the Fitbit back on,

I'm tracking my need, I'm paying attention to how many sets, my total volume per muscle group. And I'll look at that in the entire month. And I'll look at, okay, I hit the shoulders this many times this month. I hit the chest this many times. And I'll go through each muscle group. And I'll look at that. And then when I lead into the second month, I'll now start to slowly increase the frequency on each of those. So it doesn't always break out into this perfect week a lot of times. I think everybody wants to go, oh, I'm going to hit the muscle one time or two time or three times a week. But really, the body doesn't work on this 24 hour or seven day a week, perfect

clock. So I like to look at it as like a big month. I see how many times, or where my frequency is for each one of my muscle groups, and then I slowly increase that. And I think that the biggest mistake that I see anybody that is looking, you're searching further, how much frequency I should do with a muscle group is they go from not hitting it very frequently to all of a sudden hitting it two or three times because you hear on my pump that we encourage more frequency.

But I still stick with always trying to do as little as possible to elicit the most amount of change. And so the first month, it's all about doing that as little as possible to elicit some sort of change and tracking that and kind of seeing where I'm at and then building upon that. I mean, if you're somebody who the first month goes by and you only hit the chest, five times total

of the month. Well, the next month, I'm going to take it up to six or seven, which means maybe one week I'm getting it two times or I'm rotating it every five days or so or one of the math works out to increase to six. That's the strategy that I personally use myself and I've taught, especially competitors and clients that really care about progressing consistently. I think that's the key is that if you're somebody who is really trying to sculpt and shape your body, setting a plan and being consistent is number one.

We said this on the show in a long time, which was such a great statement that South set a long time ago, which is even a crappy program done consistently is superior to the best program in the world done inconsistently. So first being consistent and tracking what that frequency and what that looks like, and then slowly increasing it, that would be my advice. Absolutely. And you know, when it comes to, again, it depends on the individual, like Adam saying, star, slow, and see how your body responds. But you know, it comes to again, it depends on the individual like Adam saying star Slow and see how your body responds, but you know as you get more advanced you can work on more frequently

Here's the and here's the thing. I think a lot of people think we're anti body parts split routines What we what we're anti is the concept of the super low frequency and super high volume right that's some of them advocate for because the split can work just fine if you know how to utilize frequency properly. The old splits are all the one body part per week and you're reasonable about your volume within that workout. Yes, yes absolutely. I mean, I think I mentioned the recent study that shows that muscle damage isn't what causes or sets muscle growth in motion. And in fact, we actually reduce the amount of muscle growth. And it's so funny because when you do this long enough, you just start to learn things

and you start to ignore the issue. You just see what works and then science catches up. Did you talk about that? You post it on the forum. Speaking of the forum right now, I just want to let everybody know this all month long that the forum is free with any of our Abundal purchases and this is the type of stuff that goes on our forum every single day. I post all these studies on top of that. I mean too So I've been trying to focus a little bit more on you know the apparel side of things within the business and what's great is like I've been getting a lot of ideas and

People that want certain things they'll suggest them on the forum and guess what? I read it. So, you know, if you guys ever wanted any kind of specific merchandise, I have ideas, whatever right now we have women's tanks available, which I know a lot of women have been like demanding and they've been like really looking forward to it and so far. And when you're in the forum, you get half off on all the teachers. That's it. So it's all like all this stuff is, we definitely pay attention to that group.

So it's free all month long with any bundles. Next question is from Eat Pretty Food. Do you think food sensitivities can play a large role in the inability to lose fat? Is there a test you would recommend? Definitely food sensitivities, excuse me, can play a large role in your inability to lose fat. Of course, it depends on how intolerant you are

to a food or how big of a reaction you have to that food, but consider this, right? There's from an inflammation perspective. Well, yeah, I mean hormones, right? So they have these things called continual glucose monitors, GSMs. and you can put them on and they will measure your glucose level levels in real time. So you can eat a food, you can look at the device, and you can see like, oh, there's my blood sugar going up, and there's the crash,

and you can start connecting it to how you feel and that stuff, right? So since they've had these devices and they've been running tests, they've found that some interesting things have happened with some people where somebody will have a higher insulin or glucose spike with, say, oatmeal, then they will with a cookie. Things that you don't expect, right? Because the glycemic index says quite specifically that sugar is going to give you a higher spike than say, you know, a more complex carbohydrate and yet some people are the reverse. Or some people would eat something

that had no, and no carbohydrates in it, or you know, or very little protein. It's something that you would think has no effect on, you know, blood glucose. And yet they're insulin is spiking. And yes, yet they're glucose will spike. And so it's like, what the hell is going on? Well, what's probably happening is they're in spiking. And yet they're glucose will spike. And so it's like, what the hell is going on? Well, what's probably happening is they're eating something

that's a food intolerant, that they're intolerant to, I should say, they're getting an immune reaction to it. So it's a stress response in the body. That spikes cortisol. Cortisol tells the liver release sugar. Because remember, your liver stores the vast majority of the glycogen in your body is stored in your liver, or a lot of it is stored in your liver.

And when your body is in fight or flight, it releases all the sugar to give you ready energy. So anytime you're stressed out, right? Like, if you're in a room and a burglar walks in with a gun, you're going to have a spike in blood sugar. And that's good because it'll help you move fast and react to whatever danger is there. Well, it reacts like that to any stress, including, you know, two intensive exercise or, you know, a thought, but also a food intolerance.

So if you have a food intolerance, your blood sugar levels are rising and dropping much more so than they would without the food intolerance. That can contribute to the inability to lose fat because we all know what happens when your blood sugar rises and then crashes. You typically get a huge appetite boost. It can also cause inflammation which then further exacerbates the issue. It can cause water retention. I've seen people remove food intolerances from their diet, not change their calories, not change their macros, and lose water weight, but then also find that it's much easier for them, of course they feel better and a lot of stuff, but then it becomes much easier for

them to eat, quote unquote, healthy, because they feel better and a lot of stuff, but then it becomes much easier for them to eat quote unquote healthy because they're not getting these wild fluctuations in autoimmune type reactions. This is the type of stuff that I wish that I understood and knew when I was a young trainer, man. You remember having clients where you're like, fuck, dude, they're doing everything they're supposed to be doing a while and days.

Yeah, they just, they come in, they're heavier, they're complaining about being bloated. Yeah, just not seeing results, and you can't put your finger on exactly what it is, because you're looking at all the basic stuff. You're looking at the macros, and you're like, I wish our big rocks. Right, that's important.

Right, right, and you're looking at your programs, but there was always that exception, the rule that it just didn't add up. It's like, why is this person? I used to sometimes think they were lying. I saw a lot of times I did. And I feel bad now, because back then, I just figured like, oh, this client isn't ready for real results

In success yet because they just haven't made that mental switch yet to really be disciplined And now I feel bad because I think back like man probably a good half of those maybe more because there of course There are some that were being fucking lazy and probably lying. I mean that's just bottom line They're still are you know, but they're probably more the outliers and there was probably a lot of people that struggled with things like this that just didn't know, and I think we're seeing it, it's more common now than ever. Yeah, I mean, think about it this way. Do you think your body is going to be more effective at adapting in positive ways, building muscle, burning body fat if you're healthy versus if you're not as healthy?

Yeah. Right? Yeah, it's substantial. And I think that, too, even going through my own little process of like, oh yeah, what did you, you've removed some foods recently? Yeah, yeah, I have, I've removed a lot of grains in my diet. And to be honest, I've been trying to really get my

digestive rituals down a lot better. So that way I'm like chewing my food, you know, I'm not drinking cold water with it. Like you said, it's suppressing the acid to maintain its normal function of breaking down foods. And so my biggest issue was that I was sort of bypassing all that natural process. And so then it turned into where I would be inflamed all the time

and I would have acid reflux and I didn't realize what a substantial impact that was making just on me retaining water and also feeling like my metabolism and what it used to be. So it's interesting to see, like I know it's all very much of a placebo or anecdotal, thank you. But at the same time, I know it's all very much of a placebo or anodotal. Anodotal, thank you.

But at the same time, I noticed me just working on that has already paid off as far as me leaning out and then it's easier. It's easier. Thanks. Yeah, I've definitely grown, inches. Yeah, it's, here's the question I like to ask people. When they say, when people will debate me about this, right?

Like, oh, no, food intolerances. Somebody debates you. Yeah, I know. Crazy. I thought I'm gonna, I thought I don't know like crazy. No, they'll be like, you know, food intolerances don't have a big role in fat loss. It doesn't play a big role at all.

And I'll say, well, do hormones play a role in fat loss? Mm-hmm. And of course, like nobody's gonna deny that. If your hormones are off, your fat storage is different, you'll store it differently on your body. You may store more body fat. Like if you're a man and you have low testosterone, you're going to store more body fat than if you have

higher testosterone. Oh, I can't attest to that. Yeah, I think you were commenting on that, right? No, it's a trip, man. It changes how you just put it in. Yeah, it even changes how I carry the weight. It's a fucking trip right now. To watch what my body went through the last six months,

it's like, it's a wonder I didn't jump off some bridge, bro. It's fucking hell of depressing. So you got to show it. No, it's very depressing. It's actually, and I definitely can relate to any man that has gone through that. And I think it's given me a ton of empathy for it because, you know, it wasn't just as simple as, okay, let's try and fix these hormones.

There was a major psychological piece. And as a man, when you won, first of all, have been kept yourself in really good shape, most of your life. And even when I kind of fell out of shape, I still was in decent shape. And then to see myself put body fat on, that's one thing, that's already challenging. And then to get hurt, and then to see how my body started to add body fat, it just, it created this kind of pear shape that I've never had.

Like even when I would put on weight before, I'd get like this little bit of a tummy, or I would lose, you know, I get softer, you know, or I get a little back fat away, but I've got like these like, it's fucking weird as perish-y, dude. Like, it's so weird, dude. It's so not fuckable, bro. It's like, it depends, though. I thought you were looking kind of cute.

Yeah, he's getting some hips on him. No, but it changes how, you know, hormones play a role. I can concur. Hormones play a role. So can food sensitivities cause changes in hormones? Definitely. Next question is from Zilezniak Vera. How do you define failure?

It's the first step to success. If you can't learn to lose well, you're never gonna to be a good winner. That's it. That's it right there. Okay. We're done. Yeah, that's it. For me, for me, failure is not learning. So if I do something, if I take a step towards something, if I start a business or if I make a decision on something or if I try and do an exercise, and I, quote unquote, fail at achieving my goal, and I don't learn from that, then that's a failure.

How we should have defined, is this muscle failure? Is this like so broad? No, I think it's total failure. Like you said. Well, I think, yes, I was it's total failure. Like just failure, like you said. Well, I think, yeah, that's the way I was going. Because I was interpreting it too, like as far as like how I, maybe if I react emotionally or something first is like my go to response, you know, then I failed,

you know, where I, you know, sometimes I guess, I don't know. You've been a failure, a lot of you actually have talked about this. I have, I have failed a lot of things. So, it's part of the natural process. No, let me take risks. How does the quote go, right?

On the other side of failure resides success, right? So I truly believe that it's, if you're going to have true success, I think failure is necessary. And that's what I meant by, if you're going to be a winner, you have to learn to lose. And I think where the growth happens is in the losses

and in the failures. The growth doesn't happen in win. I've never wanted something or succeeded, something like that, and grew. That's not when I grew. I grew along the way, failing, trying to get to a success. And so the real gyms are hidden within the failures. And I think that's what teaches us the most about ourselves.

Come on, life is a great teacher. Yeah, I mean, failing, for me, it's like if you get like knocked down, but you just get to a place in a space like mentally where you just feel like, well, no, I give up. That's it. You know, that's the last draw. Do you know what I, like, I don't know what, I don't remember how old I was. I get knocked down. I get back up, man.

I made this switch where not only was I okay with failure, but I embraced it so much that I almost seeked it out. And not that I would approach something and say, like, hey, I'm gonna try and fail at this, but I was so comfortable and okay with it. And the way I looked at it was, I know the answer now. You know, if I failed at it, the answer's no now. You know what I'm saying? I know what not to do. Yeah, I know. I know. Try something else. Right, I know, I know the answer now. You know, if I failed at it, the answer's no now. You know what I'm saying?

I know what not to do. Yeah, I know. Try something else. Right, I know, I know that's, I thought that was the right answer. It's called learning. I put my, I put everything I had into it. I busted my ass towards it. I wanted it to win.

I wanted to succeed. I failed. But guess what? I now know that that is not the path to success for whatever that was and I was trying to do. So now it's technically success. What are some of the hardest lessons you guys have had to learn hardest failures?

Yeah, like, well, what I mean by that is have you ever had to learn a lesson like two or three times before you're like, okay, I get it, fuck. I keep making that same, is it anything like that ever happening? I'm sure it has, I'm trying to think of it. Yeah, an example for you. I think just, yeah, like swinging the bat

and like going pursuing ideas and you just learn a lot from going all in on something and then if it turns into something completely different than that, and it's all about how you respond to it. So sometimes you'll nail it, but you'll never nail it right out of the park at the very first time. So it's hard for me to look at things initially as a failure, as like you guys are saying, like it's a teaching moment, but there's the point where it doesn't, it doesn't make sense anymore to keep pursuing it. And so that's the line you have to find.

Here's a lesson I've learned. I had to learn twice, and then I finally learned it. I'm a very, I have an old school mentality towards business in the sense that, you know, when I make a deal with someone, or if I say something to someone, it's, I can't, I'm not gonna go against what I said. Even if there's nobody in the room, it's just me and another person.

Well, your word is your bond, right? Yeah, like so much so that it would be very painful and destructive for me to even go against my own word. Like, even if I said something that later I regretted, I'd be like, well, I said it, so now I'm gonna stick to it. And the problem with that was that I assumed or felt like the other side was that same way. And that it was a painful lesson

I've had to learn a couple times where I got to the point where if I did a business deal with someone and it's almost like, here's a deal like, you know when you have to, like, let's say we make a deal with each other we're like, okay, we're gonna do this business, we're gonna split this 50-50 and we all shake hands and I got lots of integrity. Pulling out that piece of paper, that contract and then signing it to me felt like an assault on my integrity because it's almost offensive.

What do you mean, sign that? Of course, I'm not gonna break my bond, right? Not that I consciously thought that, but subconsciously it just felt weird, and it only felt weird because I know how I am, and I'm extremely like, I'm gonna fucking stick to my word. But I had to learn that lesson a couple times where the other person all of a sudden

comes up with something different and then we go back and forth and I'm like, oh shit, I never, I should have had them sign something and I know this is like modern business, right? People are like, you're an idiot. Of course they have to sign something, but I had to learn that and so I did that with somebody. I actually went into a potential business venture

with a friend, and we went into it together, and I, you know, as much as I trusted them, and as much integrators had, I said, you know what, I don't wanna have to learn this lesson again the hard way. So I actually wrote out a contract, and I had them sign it, and I saved that contract, and what did you fucking know it?

Six months later, this person tried to back out and owed me like $6,000. And that contract, luckily I brought that out and they still tried to go against it and we had to go to Small Claims Court. And I got my $6,000 that they owed me. But man, that was a lesson I've had to learn a couple of times. I was actually. Yeah, I was a lesson I've had to learn a couple times. I was actually.

Yeah, I was just thinking I added a really vague answer. So I wanted to be a little more specific to, you know, like what we actually talked to Ben about when we were in Tampa to the fact that like he couldn't, once you start something, it's like you can't quit. Like that goes against the grain for you, right? And so that being a driving mechanism for me too, and I really identified with that, that's been something that has been super challenging when it comes to allowing something to die,

allowing a pursuit to die. And what does that even look like? Because I didn't even know what that looked like. I sat the bench my junior year, I think for baseball because I didn't make any of the practices in spring or this coach valued it. And I sat and went through the entire season sitting the bench and been miserable and fucking hated it

and all that just because I don't quit. Like that was like everything like revolves around not quitting something that I said I was doing, which gave me no out. And when to benefit me sometimes, like even more and like my family and people around me would be to, you know, like let one part, like let this pursuit die, feed more into this pursuit, right?

So that's something that's really hard for me. That highlights your character because you believe so much in integrity that you wouldn't even, like it's your word to yourself almost, right? And it's like, I'm not going against what I said to me. Right. You know, to my own self, which I think failure arguably could be the greatest teacher ever.

I think it's the only teacher I really do. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't have any. There's a lot of teachers at universities and so, I think that's the only teacher. I really do. I don't. I don't. There's a lot of teachers at universities and so I mean, literally, though, I think I think that, you know, the more you get this and you embrace this, and again, like that's why I meant by like, I would seek it out is because nothing will teach you more than pursuing something, whether it be a goal or a business plan or a relationship or an idea, and then failing at it. Nothing will teach you more than that.

Nothing, because sometimes I feel like we're blinded by our own ego, our own insecurities, our own distractions. I feel like so many times that you have a goal or an idea that you want and you and you You fall so much in love with it that you marry it without having any real perspective and sometimes you need a big Fucking slap in the face called failure to wake you up and go like no, dude You weren't really looking at that correctly. You didn't think about this. You didn't think about that

You forgot about this. You didn't plan for that and then there's your lesson right there. You know, so I think where people make the mistake is when they hit the people that fail, and then instantly want to put blame on everybody else. They've never learned shit about themselves. And so then failure is nothing but a poor bad habit for that person, but I think if you truly look at every failure as an incredible teaching opportunity, then fuck, bring them on, man. Bring them on, because you're going to grow faster that way. Absolutely.

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