Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 733: Tips to Improve Your Mind Muscle Connection, How to Prime for a Full Body Workout, When Sugar is the Healthier Choice & MORE

Episode Date: March 23, 2018

Kimera-Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Kimera Koffee (kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about if sugar could actually be less detrimental than artificial sweeteners, tips/techniques to improve mind muscle connection, if you should prime your whole body before a full body workout, or focus on what you will train first then prime the next section of your body before you continue training and the biggest misconceptions fans have about them that aren’t true. Feel so exposed to the world. Sal shares his latest trip to their community bathroom. (6:03) Uber's self-driving car death. Are the guys surprised or not? Listen to their thoughts. (12:05) Leave your family with money and not bills. Get your life insurance with Health IQ. (16:08) Trust in the system. Facebook Stock Drops On Cambridge Analytica News. The guys react and discuss how informed Facebook is of their users on a personal level. (17:26) Platypus milk aids fight against antibiotic resistance. This the next antibiotic? The guys share their thoughts on the antibiotic revolution. (28:04) Early studies of male birth-control pill show promise. Listen as the guys share their personal take on the matter and if they would take it. (35:16) Quah question #1 – Do you think that sugar could actually be less detrimental than artificial sweeteners? (41:50) Quah question #2 – What are some tips/techniques to improve mind muscle connection? (56:12) Quah question #3 – Do you prime your whole body before a full body workout, or focus on what you will train first then prime the next section of your body before you continue training? (1:08:31) Quah question #4 – What are the biggest misconceptions fans have about them that aren’t true? 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If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this episode of MINE POP! Sal! Justin and I, we get into some conversations, we have some fun. Yeah, great conversations, Adam. In the beginning. Yeah, great conversations, Adam. In the beginning, hijacked.

Now, the first thing that we cover is the possible health benefits of urine. Love that you find out if you should drink your pee more nugget bombs from over here. Right. And then we move over into Ubers self driving car fatality. Finally, U's killing people. Are the mischains are attacking, right?

And then of course we go and mention our sponsor, Health IQ, listen, if you're gonna die, make sure you guys cover your family, right? Get in, get in, get in, insured, you can go to health IQ.com forward slash mind pump, make sure you guys fill out the quiz find out how good this insurance take care of your family for goodness sake right don't you love them or or live show them you love that right and then we move over into face books data

scandal find out what what information face book is given away scandal also uh oh and then just and drop some uh knowledge on the platypus right the duck bill platypus and the milk and it's possible antibiotic properties. That's it, right? Got to milk those platypie. Love that puss, milk. Is it platypie? Platypussees?

I don't know. Something like that. It's speaking of pusses, then we move over into male birth control pill, right? So. So. That is a great transition, Adam. Yeah. We want to stop getting people pregnant. Yeah. So that is a great transition, Adam.

We want to stop getting people pregnant. Yeah, milk control. I'll head it back over to Salis, where the hijack is in tune. Thank you, that was amazing. That was really good, actually. I did a good job and we almost did it. You guys did it, right.

Then we get into the questions. The first question was, there was a study that I brought up on Insta Story, on my Insta Storyory, that shows how artificial sweeteners can contribute to fat gain and insulin resistance. Now, what do we think? Do we think that sugar is better than artificial sweetener, or should you stick to artificial sweeteners instead of sugar?

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and unilateral work, what are some tips and techniques that we have that can teach you how to improve your mind to muscle connection? That's when you connect to your muscles through the power of your mind. The next question was, do you prime your whole body before I work out or focus on what you're going to train first and then prime the next section Your body before you continue training. How does priming work? Why is it so important and why don't you own maps prime yet? You moron go to my my puttmedia.com I

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Yeah. Lots of misconsetions. Misconcession. You're gonna haul out a bunch of people that are waiting for that. Man. In this episode. Also, look, this month, you can get access to our forum or private forum.

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i have a bit of that literally we just revealed he gets one year that says he got one last year this is one that's a lot of it's the beginning of the year dug it's a lot of pressure to go rest away can we can we call these the dugagans not a lot of work now to try to get the dole games that uh... all the game all again what's it like a apocalypse dog The Dougigans, no, it doesn't work. No, it doesn't work. Try it again. Doug Dolegans. Like a molligan? Yeah, it's like a molligan. What's it, like a apocalypse Doug? Dougop, apocalypse.

A apocalypse? So I'm not bad. I know, it's more like a molligan. I'm just saying, just in the right track there, it's just like, it's a hiccup. We give him a few, you know what I mean? It's a dug up, dug up, dug up. We're gonna, we're gonna re-drum this energy.

So what happened was, he says, oh guys, we're on. So we start talking. I literally reveal the secret to fat loss. You raised. I can't share it again. Sorry guys. Don't even remember that. That was too hard to recreate.

It came out, it can't come back. Now you have to tell the audience here at your piss story. Oh my God, I'll share it again. So I could, I go to the bathroom and the landlord, the guy that owns know owns the building or whatever nice guy I'm so he he's I don't know this but he's in the hallway in front of the door to the bathroom So he's kind of see me in his way and from well finish. Let's just describe our bathroom Just like it's always open like any like how awkward is that when you're in there taking a dump or a piano?

It's like you feel so exposed to the world. Yeah, they can see your feet. Yeah, for sure. It's like, come on. So, and you can tell too, I don't know if you guys ever noticed when you watch someone's feet when they're pooping, if they are flat-footed and then they go up on their toes a little bit, they're wiping. That's the one.

That's the one, dude. I didn't want to think about it. You actually watch that. We'll think about it because they're raised. Well, some people, or maybe they're just pushing harder though Some people some people wipe while they're while they're still seated. I think it's I think they're putting one You saw up an L up and L up and pivot. Yeah, I can see up and pivot up and turn Because you have to expose the the the the cheek and hole area anyway, right anyway

That's not part of the story. So I'm in there, peeing. So he sees my back, the doors open, cause whatever I'm peeing cares. And I pee, you know, pull my pants up, turn around to walk out without washing my hands. Sorry, ever since years ago, by the way, I learned this from Adam. Yeah, you washed it at a time.

This is a true story. I don't wanna get a dirty day. Years ago, in old school mind plumb days, Adam Went to the bathroom and walked out and washed his hands. I called him out on the show I'm like, dude, you don't wash your hands when you take a pee. Yeah, he's like no We go as my dick is clean. He goes I wash my hands before I pee and then I was like I think I've all applied that sense. Yeah, when Adam died, if you died before me, Adam, I'm gonna say that.

Adam taught me something. It was brilliant. Piece of knowledge. Blue mind. So anyway, I didn't wash my hands after I peed, because like Adam said, take his clean. It's in my pants, not doing anything, right? At least not now.

So I turn around and I see the landlord, so I go to shake his hand. Like, hey, what's up, man? And he reaches out to shake my hand and as he's his hands coming towards me I could tell it's registering his head like this guy didn't wash his hands So his hand as he's coming out it curls and Benz into a stump so if he hides his hand he stumped you and he points like but he doesn't stop the shake He just you just curls his wrist like somebody who's having a terrible seizure, right? Right?

Right. And he does. So I just grab his little stump. And I walk, and I walk in here makes like for the more awkward exchange. Most awkward thing ever. I think it's more awkward for him than you, though. I think it's okay. You know, I'm saying, so I was telling somebody this other day that they, I got caught, dude, I every time I get caught and there's somebody calls me, I'll explain to him, like, oh my, my dick's the cleanest part of my body. Why would I wash my hands after I touch that? That makes no sense to me.

You don't wash your hands every time you have to touch your face. Your face is dirtier than your hands are after you touch your clean dick. And you have a dirty face. Well, and they go, well, what if you shake it, it drips on you? Well, I'm not disgusting. I wash my hands then asshole, but 90% of the time,

I'm out, good. I'm good, I don't really know. But even to take it a step further, and we're just speaking objective science now. Okay, so I'm not saying this is what I do, but this is objective science, unless you have a urinary tract infection, P is sterile.

It's void of people drink it. Bacteria, so even if you were to pee on your stomach. Wow, what happened Justin? I just know that. People drink their own pee. Yeah man. Why? I think there's some wacky people out there that have ideas that it's like healthy to drink

your own pee. Well, isn't there something to do with the, if you get stung by a jelly face, you're supposed to piss on yourself? We should. We should look that up, Doug. It's like, I know you're supposed to piss on yourself if you get stung by the dirt. Well, I know that.

I know that, but I don't know about it. Because it's clean water. It's a sterile, that's what it is, right? Or is there something special in your end that fights the steam? Dude, you're the science guy. Justin, I just work here. Listen, I don't pee on jokes.

I just know like hippie ideas, and this is one of those hippie ideas I saw on like some taboo, like, show, where they're showing some people's habits and they justified it. I saw on what's it called? What's the man where he does the survival guys? Yes, yes, what's his name?

Fuck, I don't know. You know what it is? No, I don't know. Bear girls? Yes, Bear girls. I saw Bear girls drink his piss. Yeah. Because he had to. He was like, yes, everybody. It's drink his piss. Yeah, because he had to. What he had to do, he was like, yes, or my- It's called Euro Therapy.

Thank you. Yeah, it's an alternative therapy said to cure everything from cancer to acne. See, cancer to acne! I'm telling you, they make all these wacky claims. These are the same people that will anima just for everything. You know, like, yeah. I just got a cold.

I was just like, when I was talking to you. This is like with a collection of like three old retired doctors get together and know, like, yeah. I just got a cold. I'm just like, when it comes to my ass. This is like with a collection of like three old retired doctors get together and they're like, hey, let's, I have some hella funny. Let's put this out. We'll back it up with a little bit of science and she like that will get all. This doesn't work. Let's do the breath of terry and thing. I think it's just a, I think it's just a fucking joke.

No, I think what it is, is, people do this shit. You know, it's funny. I'm gonna look into this and then it's, does he sharpen for vacuums again? Yeah, no. His ads are coming up. If if I find any science supporting this it's gonna be hilarious, right? Yeah Here's what I think it is. This is what I think okay, so I'm gonna use another story to illustrate what's happening here with people Drinking their own pee or at least promoting that you drink your own pee. Okay, so

There's documentaries that are out there drinker on pee. So there's documentaries that are out there that really try hard to sell you on the supposed fact, it's not, it's false, that eating animal meat is so bad for you that you need to be vegan. Now, that's false. Now the reason why that's promoted is because there's an ulterior motive, it's people who want to save animals, they don't want anybody to be animals. So they make up a story and says, animal protein's bad for you. Okay. Here's what's happening with this. There's a lot of people like golden charers.

And I think what they're trying to do is close other people to drink. They're pee. They're pee. It's good for you. You know what I'm saying, man? So you think that's who's the one to put the story out? I think that's who's making up.

Oh my God. Who's making up the story? She's here, speaking of stories, you guys hear about the little Uber incident the other day. Somebody bad first. We don't know the details. Well, we know a part, yeah, we know that somebody got hit by car.

We don't know if it was the pedestrian's fault. Doesn't matter. It was inevitable, right? It was inevitable at one point. This would happen. We knew there'd be casualties. This was like two days ago, right? Yeah, just a little.

Two days ago, two days ago, a self-driving Uber kills someone. We don't know the details. Do you know what else happened two days ago? What? Milldriving Uber kills someone, we don't know the details. Do you know what else happened two days ago? What? Millions of people were hit by cars. Yeah, I know, I know. Okay, so with other people driving. So it's all relaxed.

Wait a minute, it's all really millions. How many? How many? Not worldwide, I don't think it's millions, but it's definitely more than one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet you at that exact moment, something like a thousand people got hit by cars, by people too, you know.

Right, right. So everybody needs to fucking relax, okay? A shark could, it just ate somebody. Yeah, everybody called me. That was my response to everybody that sent it to me. They're like, oh, check this out, look what happened. I'm like, well, I mean, I thought that was inevitable. It was gonna happen as soon as we started testing

these things, it was gonna, someone was eventually gonna get hit. I mean, come on. We have idiots that hit each other that are driving their own vehicles. I will say this if you're Who I didn't even think of this if there's people that are out there that literally try to Get hit by cars so they can collect insurance money or sue a rich person

Fuck me uber's rich is hell. Yeah, you can't tell me they're not gonna be like oh no I felt you see that on those those cams You know on the dashboard cam you'll see people just jump into cars well I see I think I think crazy no doubt when they do these automated vehicles in the future whether the the Current models have or not but for sure when they have to think about that liability reasons So there will be cameras around everywhere on that car totally and if some asshole jumps out of a side curse, crossing a crosswalk and jumps in the car, you're just gonna look like an asshole. You'll see, you get a broken leg and they're like, uh, sorry sir, they're just, they're

pushed to get out. Oh shit. Oh, man. Two birds of one star, boy. It's, uh, yeah, no. There's people that actually do that. They actually let, like like try to get hurt, which I think is just, it's mind boggling.

You're a slime ball. Yeah. Did I ever tell you when I saw that happen in the grocery store? No. So, so I set the grocery store as young too. I think it was like 14. And there was a sign that said like,

what did you say? What did you say? Yeah, it said in Spanish. Peace, Omaha, though, or something. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I'm saying it right. Anyway, this lady. It's something a burrito order you just did.

It did, I don't think that was, it's slippery when it was delicious. It's not delicious. What am I trying to say? I'm gonna look it up, make sure I'm right. But anyway, the lady walked by, and she saw the sign, she walked back around, walked by again, and had the fakes fall

I've ever seen in my life Oh, yeah, you ever see a comedian she'd do like oh Yeah, she like she like you know like slow and awkward. No, no she she basically like Squatted down and then like fell down. Yeah, and I remember telling my mom. I'm like that lady didn't fall unless you passed out slowly She literally stopped and she like sat down and like, oh, it looks like legs up in the hands. It's up in the air. Oh, God.

You know what I wish? I wish, I wish that with somebody. Right there, there's your, see, told you. Peace all, see, yes, that Mohado. Yeah, you're close. Yeah, I don't know, that's your real close. I was right, dude, everybody calm down. I know Spanish.

I managed the 24 sentences. You got one of the words. Yeah, peace out. So, I'm on it. So yeah, I wish, like, you know, people think karma means like you get what's coming at, that's not how karma works. But I wish it was, I wish someone who pretended to fall fell down for real the next day and hurt themselves.

That'd be cool. That's fucked up, bro. What? Come to the other cool. What do you know? How do we know it's not like some, that's like your, this is their last resort, right? Like this is the primal instinct to survive.

Oh man, maybe feel bad. That shit's the feet. Right, that kids the feet, everything they're like, you know what, I'm gonna sacrifice my whole body to get some money for my kids and I'm going down, at least the longer than I am. Speaking of your children, we're supposed to do a mention here for Health IQ, good idea to get life insurance

if you have kids. In case you try to do one of these spills and you can go down this. Don't go that route, go this route, right? Yeah, let's get to it. Don't be sure. Leave your money, your family, excuse me, with leave your funny with your money your family. Excuse me With money and not with bills right? Die and if you're gonna attempt one of these

Slippery when wet caution signs and following and hurting yourself make sure you got your life in church first Damn, oh, yeah, we don't condone that no not at all, man Have you guys been getting I haven't got anybody that's taking the test lately to see how they've done. When we first did that, the very first health IQ commercial, we kind of put it out there, and there was a ton of people that surpassed, you know, the numbers you guys were putting down. Oh, our numbers? Yeah.

I wasn't trying. Yeah, I know. I think they studied like that. I made a realistic so people could pass it. So people could pass it. Doug beat us too. Yeah, as if it was too high. Yeah, that would just be a deterrent.

You know what it is? Can I say what happened? The questions I got wrong. South copy. Health IQ got them wrong. South copy. I got them right. Yeah.

So it's actually I got 100% health IQ is the one that got 97% good to their test. It's always a good figure. You got to fix your fitness information. Health IQ. Just kidding. No, I don't remember what it was. You guys see what happened with Facebook

36 billion dollar And fucking yeah, what was that all about so they have this I think some of their shit was mind right? I think that's what the the verbiage days. Oh So I know the story. Oh, you do know that you do. Yeah. Oh really this just happened right so yeah It's I'm gonna read it to you guys because there's there's a lot of info on this Facebook stock took a beating yesterday falling nearly 7% which was it's a 36 billion dollar hit market cap following 50 million user debt a 50 million user data scandal So supposedly somebody some company was

Mining out this information so they can use this for like their political agenda and marketing reasons and so That information now it not only did Facebook take a hit but then Google shares went down 4% Amazon went down 2.4 and Apple dropped for us in the system So what happened was there's this company UK based company that does the Cambridge Analytical. Yeah, and the do political campaigns for people. Right. Syops. Yeah, and they said that the way they sold themselves

and they helped Ted Cruz get elected and someone else, right? So they were effective. And what they said is, hey, we got this special sauce where we can figure out the psychology of the people you're trying to sway and we can advertise to them better.

And by the way, this is not new, this is fucking politics, okay? Right. Let me just be clear. The last presidential election advertised to them better. And by the way, this is not new, this is fucking politics, okay? Right. Let me just be clear, the last presidential election surpassed a billion dollars to get either Trump or Hillary elected.

So, that's a lot of fucking money in a short period of time. So don't think for a second that they're not spending at least hundreds of millions of dollars, if not most of that money, on figuring out how to convince people to vote for their person in all ways possible. So they've been politics is a great way to understand human psychology.

If you see the way politicians talk to people and whatever, that's all planned and structured and because they understand human psychology because there's a market for them, right? So anyway, this company, what they did was, is they created this app that you downloaded on Facebook. Now, when you got the app through Facebook, through the app, they got all your information. They were able to get all your Facebook information, your likes, your friends, your whatever,

which is against Facebook policy. You're not supposed to be able to do that. So they Facebook found out apparently, this is the story right now, and this company said, oh, we didn't know that we did it, or that we didn't know that this was wrong. We're gonna, we deleted all of it,

and we're not using it. We didn't use it, we deleted it all. It doesn't even matter now. Evidence is coming out, that they didn't delete it all and they use it all. So really, it's not that it's shady in the sense that this is what they've been doing forever. It's shady in the sense that they went around

Facebook's policy or they broke Facebook's policy and were able to easily do it and mine all this information. Now here's what you need to know, and this is why it's scary. This is why I have a thing with Facebook. It is voluntary, so you are voluntarily doing your own shit and stuff like that. So it's not forced, and I get that.

But if Facebook were a country, first and foremost, would be one of the most populous countries in the world. They have over how many billion users they have now. Just a few. Yes. It's over a billion, for sure. Yeah, I think it's over a billion for sure.

I think it's over two. So it's one of the most populous countries in the world. Right. And by far, nobody comes close. Not any space, no spy agency in the world. That's as much information. Not the CAA, the KGB, not the Chinese Communist government. 2.2.

No, but 2.2 billion. Nobody in, nobody in the world is as informed in detail as Facebook is of their population. So of their 2.2 billion people, they know more about you than anybody by far. And it's all volunteer. It's all by what you read, how long you read, what you click, what you like, what you post.

What you share, all that stuff. What you share, everything. So that being said, if another company can go in there or the government can go in there, that's a lot of power to know how to fuck with you. It's a lot of power. Well, it's less about fucking it. What it is is they now know how to market specifically

to these people, right? So they know there are hot buttons. Like if you're somebody who reads all these papers that are on a specific topic, I know that's a hot spot for you. And so they can now, they can start to spotlight these specific groups of people that they want to market and target a certain way

to influence them towards their campaign and or to sell you something. I mean, that's what we're seeing right now. I mean, it blows my mind the way. Stuff follows you around now, like with all the social media platforms. Like, if you've liked something on Instagram and on Facebook and on the reason why it was engineered, it's like,

it's silly to me that people think it was like, the infrastructure of it was just for user interaction. You know, like, how cool, like, this is where I can talk to my friends. Facebook for creating such a cool platform for me. You're not going to use this information at all. Yeah, right, dude. It's of course, like they're getting all your likes. They're getting all your interactions.

They're getting people that are loosely affiliated with, you know, that network that is just like this inner tangled sort of like connection, like they're getting every single data point they possibly could. That's why it's so powerful, like over even Google, Google just gets search terms, they get like, they don't have nearly as much. Not even close, dude, this is on a personal level. So it is very interesting to see where Facebook goes because it's like,

you know, it was an NSA, it was already tapping into the shit, you know, since day one. Yeah, and everybody's pissed off that, you know, some politicians had information to sway, there's no force, by the way, but to sway users, nobody's angry that the NSA steals the shit all the time and has the power to throw you ass and jail forever. Right. I'm interested to see what's gonna happen when, like right now, it's kind of the Wild Wild West with Facebook and everybody that used to do like Google words and shit in the past have now moved over to Facebook because the, you know, sense per click when it's costing.

It's so much cheaper and it's all active. All that business. Oh, they just, you know, they swooped it up real quick. So what I'm wondering is when it becomes the most dominant platform for marketing and advertising, like, what are we gonna see prices look like? I mean, what it, I mean, advertise on it. Think about it,

it's gonna be more powerful than, you know, advertising on the Super Bowl. You know, the Super Bowl is so amazing because you have X amount of people that are watching that on television at the table. Guess what? But all you know about all those people is are watching that on television at the table. Guess what? Basically, all you know about all those people is that they like to watch football.

Exactly. Right? So you market chips, beer, this, and hopes that. And it's habitual. So you know when they're actually gonna be on Facebook. You know what I mean? Versus Google, it's like it's random. Like you're randomly looking for some shit.

It's like, they know that, like as many times as you look on it and what time of day you look on it, like all that shit, I think it's gonna become so specific. Like, let's use our business for example. Like, let's say over the course of the next couple of years, we now have five years of data on our own clientele, our own customer base, and we see exactly what the, you know, 80% of what the age group is,

the things that they're into, the things they don't like, everything from their political stances to their open-mindedness to the way they wake up in the morning. Yeah, everything. And that we've honed in on that, like we know our avatar so well, then we can go to Facebook and say,

okay, find us all these, I mean, fitting it to a T. These are the people that tend to buy this thing. I'll create that or whatever. then we go to Facebook and say, okay, find us all these, I mean, fitting it to a T. These are the people that tend to buy this thing, create that or whatever. And then that's exactly what it does. Yeah, so do you guys remember the movie X, Muckena? Yeah, okay, great movies. Awesome movie.

And that movie's about this AI robot that is super human and extremely intelligent and incredible movie, right? Great twist at the end. But there's a part where the guy figures out that this robot is like, this robot's kind of like, he's developing this connection with this female robot. And he realized that in order to create the body and face for this robot, for him to be so strongly a tractor that they mind this guy's porn searches and they knew exactly the kind of girl that he be most attracted to and he got pissed off he's like fuck you were like looking through and I was thinking about that like you know what of course they're doing

that dude think about that do you know how long do you know how long the CIA fuck during the gold war cold war you know the CIA and KGB would always try to fuck with other people through prostitutes and stuff, all the time. And for sure, they try to pick the right, perfect girl. Bro, I remember when I was talking about them, sex dolls, the sex dolls the other day.

How crazy they look. Imagine this, imagine if you could take all my data of every like, you know, everything you like. What she was built like, what she was shaped like, what her face looked like, her everything. And also, you have, everything you like, what she was built like, what she was shaped like, what her face looked like, her everything, and then also, you have to take this,

all of them combined, like built into a section, and then it's advertising. And then it's advertising. And then it's popping up in your feed. Fast forward, you know, when technology gets really good, they can also make the personality exactly, you know, the kind of personality. That's what I'm saying.

You have all this information of the stuff that you're reading that you like and you're into, she's going to be all the same stuff with each other. They're not going to humans are not going to bang each other anymore. Yeah. That's what's going to happen in the future. But that are we just we do it for reproduction reasons only. No. You're not going to have sex to do it.

And then they'll just harvest it. Yeah. You'll bang the robot. It'll have this little. It'll be built in a little tube. It's like a sperm deposit. And then yeah, either that or the robot itself. It'll be built in. It'll be built in. It's like a sperm deposit. You mean, we sell it. And then, yeah, either that or the robot itself

stores it in the picture. Deposit it to an artificial womb. And then babies grow on the womb. And then people just live this life of the, we just go, wow. Creepy. That's even more. It's gonna be creepy even more weird than the matrix.

You imagine that? Like some, you know, some woman's at home with her husband and she's like, oh, it's like, yeah, you're an asshole. You're an asshole. Yeah, fuck, you know, and then she can't wear it in my hand. Where's my kindal? Yeah, she can't wear you going home. It seems like it would be one of those things

that I think a lot of people would adopt and love it at first, but then it reminds me of the story you just recently told of the, you know, the heaven and hell of like getting everything you want, right? Having this robot who has all the things you like, but then there's no adversities, you never flaws. Right, there's no flaws, you never talks back, there's never an issue.

Maybe they program or two. Right. Maybe the programmer to be a little, you know, fucking little feisty. Yeah, like, hey, you're watching too much TV over there. Slap TV, like you bitch. I wish I had a transition for this, but I don't. It's, you guys are familiar with platypus, the animal. Yeah, you know what's weird?

That thing is very strange. That is your transition right there. Yeah, we're talking weird shit. So this is really weird, right? So he's all speaking of pus. Yeah. Have you guys heard that? He could have pus-

Platypus. That would have been a moty- Platypus. That would have been a moty transition. The mix. Damn, I missed out on that one. So it lays eggs and it also creates milk, which, you know, it's like got

like these mammal characteristics too, but also like lays eggs, right? So it's very interesting. So they actually are finding that this might, like the bacteria, antibacterial properties that the milk produces, like they might actually be able to use that, you know, as far as like getting advancements from that.

Like some antibiotics. Yeah, for like antibiotics. Platypus milk. Platypus milk. What is so unique about that again? Because it has... Oh, what's unique about the animal is it seems to be like there's a weird,

there's a weird, there's a weird kind of a protein that they found this like unique like Protein it's like all spiraled that has very unique characteristics and properties to it that they're studying right now It's an Australian animal. They have all the weird animals and Australia by the way. It's like yeah, so they're like of course something weird out of this You know that they're so there anyway, they're studying the milk right now to find new ways to approach antibiotics. How we found anything yet? I mean, is there any, like, any problem? They said that there's promising leads

in that direction, but it's just weird. Well, I'm reading it right now. Science alert, the milk of Australia's weirdest animal could help us fight antibiotic, antibiotic resistance. So apparently there's something in there, their milk, that's got antimicrobial protection that they're trying to look at and say, okay, why is this so effective against bacteria

and how come bacteria haven't evolved to overcome it? Interesting. Platypus milk. You know, that could be the worst thing that I've been trying to do. Platypus. Yeah, poor platypus. I don't know, maybe it is.

Probably isn't even have teats. I don't know if I've ever seen one before. I'm trying to think if I've seen one in a zoo before. Have you guys seen one before? In a platypus? Yeah. Uh, I think I saw one at, uh, is there a difference between, is there, is it a duck

build platypus and then a platypus or the same thing? Uh, that's a good question. Are they? That's a good question. Are they? That's a good question. I have no idea. Oh, the cook cute there, we're gonna little. You know what the fuck? You see that squirrel with the cat face?

That's a Photoshop atom. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Did you see that? Good Photoshop. Yeah, Platte. At least.

You know, antibiotic resistance is scary. Yeah. I don't think people realize that, and this is by scientists are calling this a potential catastrophic. It's a big problem in, looming problems. Like a catastrophic epidemic.

What is, say again, what? Antibiotic resistance. Resistance. Yeah, cause of how much, I mean, when did it get really popular and when did we really start taking them like crazy? Oh, I mean, we've been taking a, like crazy for decades now.

That's what I mean, when? That's what I'm asking you. You know, like is it fucking 20 years ago, 40 years ago? So, it wasn't more than 50 years ago. Penicillin was, when was Penicillin, Penicillin's still invented 1940, something, maybe Doug can find out. So, we've been using antibiotics for decades,

for a long time. Which, actually, it's not a long time. It's not a very long time to see how all the adverse effects, I think we're just now starting to see a lot of the bullshit from it. That was my point of asking you that if it's something that's only been around since, oh, 1928. Ooh, 1928.

Yeah, so, but antibiotics, I think it was just an inject, that's when he discovered it, when it was turning to actual medicine might have been a little bit later, but nonetheless, oh yeah, you're right. So I live in 1942 First patent boom bitch. Oh, yeah, you thought I was wrong for a second. Here's it. I believe it here's a thing Bacteria evolve very quickly. So you're right. It's not a long time But for bacteria that's enough time bacteria evolve fast Because they multiply so so the faster that something can multiply and

die, theoretically the faster it can mutate or it can evolve. So think about it this way. You have an antibiotic that kills most of a bacteria because when you take an antibiotic, it doesn't kill all the bacteria, it kills most of it and then your immune system tends to do the rest. But those bacteria that survive are the stronger ones. They reproduce and so on and so forth. So over the course of decades, antibiotics, we've had to phase some out and introduce new ones and new methods because bacteria just stop responding to them.

Now we're running out of antibiotics. We're literally running out of antibiotics where we have no answers. People are dying right now of staff infections that we have no, we have no... Because antibiotics don't work. Nothing that we have. Nothing that we have. Nothing that we have works.

So you're in the hospital, you got fucking staff infection to have to cut your leg off, because we're like, we can't kill it or if it travels up in jail. Now is that just for some cases or is this in general? What do you mean? And for some all staff infections are turning into an amputee, right? No, some some strain, some types of is it more the type of the infection or is it more that this person is already taking so much antibiotics for the person? It's just the bacteria now So, and we're seeing this much, you know, more and more and more. And this is the result of us just over,

just over using antibiotics in our food, in our feed, in our animals. And so this, and people don't talk about this. When we talk about like, oh, how is a human race gonna end? Asteroid, nuclear war. This is up there. Yeah. Maybe that end, you want to talk about like a super virus or something We're not a virus, but even bacteria. Yeah, like the bubonic plague killed

fully one third of the known world or the world that was infected one third imagine that Imagine right now of everybody. You know one third of them dead Because of an infection well, you know, we could be headed down that path if we don't figure this out. And so what they're doing is they're looking at all these natural antimicrobial compounds. One of them, what you said Justin, which I didn't know was platypus milk. Another one is cannabinoids. Yeah, there's, there, cannabinoids have been shown to be Yeah, there's there there cannabinoids have been shown to be Effective and I can't remember which one it might be

Might be cannabis chromine. I'm not sure which cannabinoid, but it's one of the cannabinoids found in in marijuana One of them has been shown to be Effective against antibiotic resistant staff. Hmm Right, so this could be this could be a huge thing. That's a great. Yeah. One of the reasons, one of the reasons why I invested in marijuana stocks back in back. What was, I remember a while back, there was some article about cockroach milk. What was that? Like the properties. I thought that I'm joking. Okay. You brought that one to the table. I think. Did you? No, I don't think you said something else. I think you said something about milk and a

cockroach. I could have sworn. Well, yeah, I have to, because I thought it was ridiculous, but it was actually a real article. Science brings us good stuff. Yeah, here's another thing. Here's another thing. Science is bringing us in 2018. A male birth control pill has shown promise in early human trials.

Good, because I don't want to, I don't want to do, because I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. How do you think it works, dude? Can you guys take a guess? Without killing your bone? No, it doesn't kill the bone, but it kills the sperm, I'm sure, before it even leaves you. Well, it's a pill that would make your body stop making sperm, right?

What makes you stop making sperm? Am I a shoot blanks? My testosterone? You get testosterone? You stop your body's production of sperm and testosterone. That's a stupid idea. So with that, well this is the fucking, this is the male everybody's like, oh my god, it's a new discovery. No, it's not bitch. We know for a long time, you take testosterone, you stop making sperm. So the pill is a testosterone and progestin pill. They call it diabetha angiolone. Diabetha angiolone.

Sounds like a cool steroid right now. That's right. It sounds like hard core. Some T-Baw right there. So people taking this, it's suppressed. There, oh, and of course some of the side effects include, you know, increased mood and sex drive. You're giving them steroids, you're just dumb shit. So they're not producing sperms anymore.

And the study was a month long, which is not any longer one than that. What do you guys think about that? What do you think about a man- Just give people steroids. I mean, I like the idea of we could come up with with something that didn't require us to actually go in and snip it away at us.

I think that would be cool, but I can't imagine what you would do without either one killing it or stopping the production of testosterone. So I have no idea. Maybe something you could take that would neutralize it, maybe I don't know. You know, here's, I don't know how that would work. Here's the thing,

women have been taking birth control for a long time, right? In masses since the, at least since the 70s, probably since the 60s, right? And it's part of the sexual revolution, it's part of the women's movement. It liberated women from the, I hate to say burden because it's not a burden, but it can be, right?

Of the responsibility of bearing a child. And it changed things a lot, gave women a lot of power over their own bodies because before that, if they got pregnant, it was like, my God, it could really be just their problem, especially if the guy decides to fuck off or whatever. So, but what we don't, like birth controls hormones. And when you take hormones,

first off hormones are signals in your body. Whenever a hormones tell your body to do certain things. So you're taking hormones, which means you're sending a signal to your body and your body to do certain things. So you're taking hormones, which means you're sending a signal to your body and your body adapts to that hormone by reducing or changing its production of its own hormones. So when women go off birth control, and more and more people are talking about this, this was a little taboo to say a year ago because it was so tightly tangled with the with the feminist movement that if you said,

hey, taking birth control might be bad for you, you get hammered because they were like, fuck you, I'm gonna take it, whatever. But the reality is, first off, you should have it, it's your choice, it's your body, do whatever you want to. But number two, birth control, fucks with your hormones. You go off birth control, you could talk to lots of women.

Many of them, it takes a long time to get back to normal. Some of them never do. Most of them do normal. Some of them never do. Right. Most of them do, but some of them never do. And there are risks associated with birth control because it's a hormone. Same thing with men. You give men to testosterone. Fuck, man. If you're, if you're taking, if men are taking, if they're going to take this,

think about it this way. When do, uh, girls start taking birth control? Typical. 16 years old. Yeah. Or like 18 or like 18, 19, 20, right? I don't know about that. That's probably the average.

I don't know. Doug, maybe you can look at most girls in high school. Probably start taking. Can you look at average age that women take birth control, start taking birth control? I guess it would be six years. I guess it would be six years. 16, 17, 17. I don't think that's the average.

I think the average is probably higher. But there are a lot of girls 16, 17. I don't want to say at least 18. So let's say you're fine. So let's say 18, right? Let's say a bunch of got, let's say men now, or they have this option, take a birth control pill because they're having sex.

So all these guys are gonna take pills that shut or lower their testosterone so that they don't make sperm from the age of 18. What do you think's gonna happen when they go off that pill, when they're, they wanna start a family and they're 27 or 30 years old, like, okay, I'm gonna go off birth control now. Your body's not gonna make testosterone again, or you're gonna be, you're to start a family and they're 27 or 30 years old. Like, okay, I'm gonna go up Earth control now. Your body's not gonna make testosterone again.

Or you're gonna have a year of depression. What are they saying though? Are they saying that it's a safer bet than for the men? It hasn't passed all the trials yet. Yeah, I mean, there's always side effects to these things. It's totally up to you.

Of course, a side effect of unprotected sex is pregnancy for some people too. So, you know, that could end up pretty terribly, I think for somebody. So. We just need like a little, I just think people like a little cap that goes on the head instead of that full,

like a full car. It's a little cap that hugs it really well and then it has the small shower cap. Yeah, a little shower cap. It's a little one, just right over it. So you feel it on the rest of it. Right. And it has like the spermicide.

So as soon as it hits it, it's killed no matter what. And then it's just like right on its little smile. That won't, that technology's, yes, that's, I agree with you, Justin. You're, you're smiles. Yeah, smiles. You're doesn't, uh, you're no, my degree. Oh, that's, uh, I can make it talk. You're just, uh, don't, don't, no, it's, uh, you know what? I mean, maybe I'm getting old, but fuck, man, just teach, you got gotta teach kids to be a little bit responsible. I don't know.

Pull out. Yeah, but now it's like work on them or don't have sex, you know, unless you're more kids. I don't want any more kids, and so now I'm like, I guess the only thing I can do is go get it snipped, you know. Or just pull out. You don't do the pull out method? Dude, I don't trust that method.

It's a, you know what? I trust the method. I don't like it, though. There's nothing worse. I feel't trust that method it's it you know what I trust the method I don't like it though there's nothing worse I've always thought my buddies that are like you that do that I think it's so weird to me because the best part of the orgasm is being inside when you have that you're cutting yourself short yeah if you do the plot method consistently and you're good at it yeah it's safe that's pretty good sure can we totally say know, I think it can't be. I still get an STD. I just, so.

You got to, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to make sure I give the right advice. It's different. I don't want some kid to listen to this, you know, Sousa, pull out. Oh God, bird, save us, please. We call it a plan. We call it a plan. We call it an era call. Today's call has been brought to you by Kai Maricopi.

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do you think that sugar could actually be less detrimental than artificial sweeteners, including Aspertaim and sucralose? Do you think consuming sugar and moderation could be a better choice than artificial sweeteners for performance health and You put this question. Let me you know, this is a perfect opportunity for me to address something I've been wanting to address anyways. This same question that word word for word was sent to me in my my DM Oh, yeah, and I already answered it so my I want to answer this for our audience But I also want to tell our audience right now. It's inevitable at one point.

It'll be impossible for the three of us boys to be able to answer every single DM. Right now, we take a lot of pride on making an effort to do that and push really hard. What makes it harder is when somebody copies and pays a question and they send it to all three of us plus they do on the quaw Because we're all trying to we're trying to answer every single one of them So that's a question that now two other questions could have been answered from somebody else because you've you've sent it to all three of us So just as a courtesy I would appreciate when you guys saying questions of quaw is always the first place like that a sandbagging right right It's just not I mean it's it's kind of fucked up when you think about it, when it's really hard for us

to get to as many questions it is. And then if you do that, all of us read those things. So you've now took up time of Justin, you've took up time of Sal, you took up time of me, and then on top of this right now. And now you've taken up time on the podcast. Right, right. So like, I mean, just be mindful of that.

That's all I ask people. I know, I know you probably people do that and don't even think about, think about there's probably fucking hundreds of other people that are trying to do the same thing too. And that's so, this question, I didn't even know you probably people do that don't even think about think about there's probably fucking hundreds of other people They're trying to do the same thing too, so and this so this question. I didn't even know you picked this question I I recognize this question to like I fucking literally answer this question

It's what you say it's verbatim no absolutely sugars of natural sugar is gonna be the better route 100% of the time but even then you got to be careful because that will sneak up on you too. Like, it doesn't take, what's it, what's a tablespoon of sugar amount to? It makes the medicine go down. You're all right. It's all right. All right, Mary Poppins. My bad.

Nobody knows what that is on the podcast here. No, it's that for my 40 year old. You're a big thing, man. You're a big thing. Right, right, right, right. What are you talking about? Yeah. But you know, so it's,

all the stuff that came out on artificial sweeteners, it used to be sold to us that it's a healthier alternative for somebody who's trying to lose weight. It's a great way for them to have something that's calorie free or lower calories because it's artificially sweetened. But I'll tell you something right now,

those things are addicting as fuck. I find myself more addicted to artificial sweeteners than I ever felt to real sugar. And it's just because they've made it super hyper-palatable. And it's like 20 or 200 times more powerful and strong as sugar is. So to your brain, it sends off this like, it's like, what would be better for you to have one or two cups of coffee or snorting an aligna cocaine. It's like, it's that strong in comparison to regular sugar.

And so your way better off having real sugar. Artificial sweeters are like cocaine. I did that post to you. I did that post like two years ago, the baby snorting an aligna cocaine. Oh my God, I forgot you did that. Yes. Hell early in my public. Yeah, I was always doing the little baby. Oh yeah man, the baby snorting a line of cookies. Oh my God, I forgot you did that. Yeah. Hell early in my pocket. Yeah, I was always doing edgy shit.

It gets attention. It was like a little baby. There's like a, there's a mirror and fucking cocaine in front of it. This equip me, I attached some study to it about, about artificial sweetener and sugar. Somebody got mad, they're like, why don't you stop the baby instead of taking a picture

of them doing drugs? Yeah. Kind of a person are you watching the baby do cocaine? I dare you. Want to see what would happen. You know, here's the thing. I hate questions like this. I hate the, which is better, both suck questions like, hey, what would you rather get kicked in the face or punch in the face? Like, well, here's the thing. Context matters within, with a question like this. And what do I mean by that is, let's say the biggest health issue you have

is being overweight. That's the biggest health detriment to you. And cutting or switching to artificial sweeteners means you're gonna cut 400 calories of sugar out of your diet. Therefore, you'll lose weight. And can it promote weight loss? And that's weight, yeah, I can. The side effect of that being better health

because now you've lost weight, does that mean that the artificial sweetener was better than the sugar? And that context, perhaps, it does mean that. What if that doesn't make that big of a difference? What if instead of choosing either, or you do neither? I mean, we kind of are in this situation where people want their cake and they wanna eat it too.

So they're like, hey, I want all the effects of the super harmful, whatever, without any of the harmful, you know, whatever. And it's like, it doesn't always work that way. You know, avoid sugar, you avoid the calories, but now you're taking in artificial sweeteners, and we know that artificial sweeteners don't really affect the microbiome very well.

We know that they could produce or promote internal gut inflammation, which down the road might not be a good idea. We know that artificial sweeteners also promote fat storage and epigenetic changes in your gut, which later on the line down the line make you less healthy We know some of that stuff. It's a little bit more controversial to say that but the science is starting to come out more and more in support of that for me personally, I don't consume products that are highly processed that are sweet very often at all anyway.

So when I do, which is rare, but when I do, I'll pick the sugar one. Right. Just because it's not that often anyway. And I mean, if I had it every single day and I was really overweight, it would be done. I could see a benefit that maybe artificial sweeteners

might be better, but again, context matters. And here's a thing when it comes to, you know, I did an interview this morning, and one of the questions the guy asked me was, what one food like sets you off into the frenzy of eating. And I used to understand that, but now it's a little bit different. Now the way I understand it is, you know, when you say to yourself, when you're something that you crave, and then you say to yourself, like, I can't have that, you know, when you say to yourself, when you're something that you crave, and then you say to yourself, like, I can't have that,

you know, I can't have those gummy bears. I can't eat those. In reality, first off, you can, obviously, eat those. Nobody's forcing you but you, and what you're doing is you're acting like a child who another version of yourself is telling you can't do something so you feel like you're being forced and so you say something like I can't. The reality is you don't want to eat those gummy bears.

In fact, you don't want to eat them so bad that you created this dual side of yourself that is going to tell you what to do and you're going to be the child that has to obey and eventually you rebel and you give in and this is why when you start eating it, you're like, yeah, I'm giving it. I'm rebelling and then you go nuts and you do gonna be the child that has to obey and eventually you rebel and you give in. And this is why when you start eating it, you're like, yeah, I'm giving it, I'm rebelling and then you go nuts and you do a frenzy. For me personally, if I'm gonna, if I eat something, it's because I wanted to. It's not, and it's no longer this,

oh my God, I can't control myself. I understand now that I either want to or I don't. Now that doesn't mean I don't identify the fact that it tastes good, that I'm gonna enjoy eating it, that it's gonna be fun to eat. I know all that, but in spite of all that, at that moment, I still say to myself, yeah, I know it's gonna taste good.

I like the taste of it, but I don't wanna eat it. So I don't, or sometimes, maybe it's worth it, and I say I do wanna eat it, and I do. When you get, when you start to understand that, you start to eat these kinds of foods less and less, or at least they have less power and less, or at least they have less power over you, or at least they cause less stress. And then you don't have to come up with this like alternative like, either war. Yeah, either war, it's just sometimes

I eat it because I want to, because the circumstances are right, and I'll choose the real shit. Yeah, just sugar. Really, it just has no weight. You know, like I feel like this conversation with like artificial sugar or sugar and this about, like to me, it just has no weight. I feel like this conversation with artificial sugar or sugar and this about, to me, it just has no real relevance in my diet. It's something that I'm like, yeah, I ate some cookies or it's like, I'm not condemning myself for eating some cookies or I'm not fixated on that. It's not something I focus on you know that therefore It's not appealing and it's I just feel like if you're in that state of mind where you're battling whether or not one's good versus the other but it already That's something that you need to kind of internalize and deal with and and you know figure out why that's such an important part of your diet

And why that's like incorporating your lifestyle so frequently well I can tell you all the people that I coached that for sure sugar is the number one culprit that I have to like teach people to pull back on. Yeah. Especially since a lot of people don't know. It's an everything to you. Exactly. A lot of people don't realize that a lot of the foods that you consume that you would not

think have sugar in it have sugar in it. So you get all of a sudden you're daily and I think I want to say that the basic RDA for sugar is around 25 grams, somewhere around. I don't remember what the average is or whatever, but roughly that. And it is rare that I would evaluate somebody's diet. And what I always do with people is I tell them don't change your eating habits. Don't try to impress me. Just eat for a week normal on track. It's so I can kind of see your habits and what you do. And when I do that, it's every time, at least 90% of the time

every time, at least 90% of the time, that people are either over-consuming sugar by double, or quadruple, or more of what they should be having in a day. So we are grossly over-consuming just sugar in general, whether it's fucking fake or real, we over-consume sugar big fucking time. Especially because of liquids. And most people are just sedative. Right.

Like I could see some sugar consumption if you're active and you burn it off. Right, if you're a 17 year old boy or girl who's playing sports and you're outside, and a lot of fruit and stuff like that, or whatever go for it. Right, so there's an example. So you, somebody having a serving or two of fruit a day

already hits like their daily intake for sugar. That's it. That's it. Like that's all you should have. And so that means everything else in your diet should be eliminated from sugar, it's like they're daily intake for sugar. That's it. That's all you should have. That means everything else in your diet should be eliminated from sugar, because that is the best source of sugar I would say

is to get it through fruit because you're getting the benefits of the fiber with it. I think that everybody needs to evaluate their sugar and take and then scale back on it, but which is worse for you, the artificial sweeteners, I think there's a... back on it, but the, you know, which is worse for you, the artificial sweeteners, I mean, I think there's a...

This is a big thing in supplements because many of the supplements that you take promise to give you some kind of a, like an effect, right, like a pre-workout, okay, it's going to be stimulant base, you're going to get this hyper-feeling, there's stuff in there that's supposed to increase the pump, which is like largely bullshit, but whatever, that's what be stimulant base. You're gonna get this hyper feeling. There's stuff in there that's supposed to increase the pump which is like largely bullshit, but whatever, that's what they're telling you. So you have to take this powder, but it's also got a taste good, right?

Because otherwise, people don't like taking things unless they taste good. So then they need to flavor it. However, because you're into fitness, well, that would be stupid for us to give you a thing with 40 grams of sugar in it. That's a pretty workout. Plus, you probably feel terrible.

So they got to create something that tastes good that doesn't have sugar. So supplements use a shitton of artificial sweeteners. They're the most artificially sweetened category of food. If you could call a lot of the supplements, the food that you'll find. Everything from bars to powders. And that's because people take, We can't even read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff.

We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. We can't read a lot of the stuff. while you're taking a supplement. There's a purpose. The purpose isn't to have a tasty meal or a tasty snack.

It's just the me. That's just the way I understand it. If I'm taking a pre-workout, it's because I want an effect from it. It's not because I want to taste something good. If I want to taste something good before my workout, I just get some Hawaiian punch or some high C or whatever and drink it.

And I'm fucking dumb with it. But no, the reality is, why am I drinking a pre-workout? I wanna get hyped. Cool. That's the real reason. Not to make it, not to have this delicious tasty drink. So ironic though, but that's how we mark it. That's how we sell it.

100% the reason why extend branching amino acids, the reason why the most popular pre-workouts are the most popular, the reason why the most protein, the popular protein powder is the most popular, it's cause they taste the best. 100% that's on the top of the list. If you look at all the money that's spent on protein powders, the vast majority of it goes towards making it palatable.

Very little goes into making a quality protein powder supplement. This is a fact. This is a 100% fact. I know because I have friends in the industry and I know what sells and what doesn't sell. And you need to make, if you make a protein powder, it has to taste really fucking good or you can forget about it and care what's in it

or how awesome the protein is, has to take good. Now I was always like, look, I got to a point when I took supplements where I'm like, man, I just want I'll plug my nose and you know. Yeah, I just want the best. I've taken protein because I want protein. I want the best protein. I want this other stuff. So I would take the one that I thought was best and however tasted was whatever. I just had to best. I've taken protein because I want protein. I want the best protein. I want the other stuff.

So I would take the one that I thought was best and however tasted was whatever. I just had to deal with it. So now that all being said, supplement companies have gotten pretty good with the non-artificial route. Organify for example, like plant proteins never tastes as good as the way protein or dairy protein. They just don't.

Dairy proteins just taste better, right? Organifies the first like plant protein that I would say is pretty close or on the level of a lot of the way proteins that I've had. It's actually pretty good. So they did do a really, really good job with their taste and which is one of the reasons why I think they're successful. But they also spend a lot of money and time on their quality

and they have nothing in there that's artificial. And if you are one of these people that consumes supplements on an everyday basis, which a lot of our listeners do, then you're probably better off going the not artificial route. You're better because it's just so much. You know, I mean, if it's every once in a while fine, whatever. But if it's, you know, five days a week or every workout or whatever, go the non-artificial route because what we know about artificial sweeteners that's coming out is not really the best thing for you.

Next question is from Scott Capri-Sun. Besides slow negative. What's that drink? And do you know the lateral work? What are some tips, techniques, to improve mind-muscle connection? Mind-muscle connection. That's a very important thing to have, what is that?

Well, I guess I can, let me see if I can explain it simply. It's the ability to fully extend and fully contract a given muscle that you choose you want to flex. So. Motor unit recruitment. Yeah, so body builders will say, or control a muscle through its full range of motions

and other way to say it. Yeah, so like if I'm gonna, if I wanna like do a pull down, and I don't have a good mind muscle connection, I can still pull down, I'm still gonna activate the muscles that are doing it, but if I have a really good mind muscle connection, let's say with my lats,

I might even be able to pull the bar down without activating too many other muscles, at least weakly activating it. You might compartmentalize it though. Yes, and bodybuilders are incredible. They're probably the best of them. This is where, and this is why I'm a big fan of isolation exercises. It's a great role. Right, for a majority of this podcast early on, I think we kind of pooped on a lot of isolation

exercises, just because I think a majority of people are missing the big compound lifts. And I think we all agreed that most people will benefit the most from incorporating more of these types of lifts. But, man, some of the best I ever felt as far as being connected to my body, being able to develop muscle, no aches and pains was when I was body building. When I was doing all these isolation exercises that were these small movements where you're focusing on just a couple muscles, a small muscle group and trying to contract and move it. So there's a lot, and I think this person already noted what unilateral work.

So I think unilateral work is incredible for this. Well, it's interesting you guys bring up the bodybuild of an angle, but even still like now, even going through the FRC, like they completely have, the beginning of it is to understand isolation first, isolating each individual joint. And so they make a point of that,

is like that's where they build off of that. And so that you a point of that is like that's where they build off of that. And so that's that that you understand how to articulate and control the joints, you know, in the function that they're supposed to produce. And so it's very important. It's very important to establish that first. And then we start building off that and and and get into the compound lifts. So God, you just you actually just said something that really was kind of mind blowing right there. Is that maybe it's in our best interest to learn to isolate each muscle or joint like you're saying and control the joint through its full range motion, through isolation type exercises before moving to compound lifts. Because you're right.

Think about what you did as a trainer. I'm sure you did this. Yeah, we all did that. Yeah, you did that. You had a lady and she's trying to do a standing squat and you can tell, oh, your hips aren't firing the way they should. What's the next thing you do? You go and you have her primer hips or whatever, fire her glute muscles so that they can

activate more as she does a squat. The reason why bodybuilders are so good at this, by the way, is your ability to fully contract and activate a muscle is very strongly connected to your ability to develop it. So if you have a poor connection to a muscle, and it's not really doing everything that it can, then it'll be very difficult to develop that muscle. So you'll find yourself doing barbell squats, and let's say you have a poor connection to your quads, which is rare, but let's just say you do. You're doing barbell squats and you're just developing glutes and hamstrings, or you're doing a bench press,

and instead of your chest getting developed, you're developing your delts and your triceps, because you don't have a good connection to that muscle. And your recruitment pattern then follows that and you develop this pattern now, where you're using less of that muscle you don't develop it. So here's a couple interesting things. We had a great podcast with Pekolsky Ben Pekolsky Ben is a huge advocate of this. He's a huge advocate and it might be, I mean, for bodybuilding it makes sense. Now you can go too far on this direction and make that about everything because there is lots of benefit to be able to use all your muscles. Obviously. I feel like I was saying back to my bodybuilding days was, I was in some of the best aesthetic shape I had,

the least amount of pain, but then I didn't have the greatest range of motion and mobility and... Functional. Yeah, it was functional. I wasn't very functional even though I looked cool and I felt good. So there's definitely a give and take to every mode out.

Yeah, there is. So what he said, which I thought was fast things. First of all, he said, there are no weak body parts. I'm like, what are you talking about? Of course, I have a weak body part. And he says, no. If you can develop, and one muscle really well, you can develop all your muscles that

well. So, I partially disagree in the sense that I do think that there's muscle fiber density and shape and stuff like that, that is genetic, that will help dictate whether or not a muscle develops as much. But he's also partially right. If you have a, let's say your muscle building, general muscle building ability on a scale of one to 10 is a seven, it's probably around a seven

for your whole body. It wouldn't make sense that it's a seven for your whole body and then, oh, your glutes, it's a fucking three or a two. That doesn't make any sense unless you start to understand and oh, your glutes, it's a fucking three or a two. That doesn't make any sense, unless you start to understand that perhaps you have a poor connection to that muscle.

And that's why it's a three. And what he said, which was very fascinating, he says, one thing you'll notice is all like weak body parts, they have a very tough time being strong in their most shortened position or most contracted position. And I thought of that. I thought of that real hard after that podcast

because I know what my weak body parts are, what my body parts don't, which body parts I have that don't respond as well as my other body parts. One of them is my chest. My chest doesn't respond as well as my delts do. And I thought, hmm, how do I feel and it's most shortened contractive position

fighting against resistance. And I actually tested it at the gym, and I sure as fuck found that, yeah, I do see that I lack connection or strength in that most shortened position. So muscle connection in the shortened position is a great way, excuse me, training yourself in that shortened position

or learning how to connect in that shortened position is a great way to connect to that muscle. So figure out what it is to get that muscle in a shortened position and then try to contract it as hard as you can. And that position, you'll feel it. This is where an old school bodybuilding technique and I used to implement this into my training is,

you do these squeezes and holds at the end of a set. I'm on my four set. Or in between reps. Yeah, chest, you know, peck deck, flies, or what about that. And at the very end of it, I do the squeeze and hold, isolation hold for 30 seconds or however long I can hold it. And all I'm really doing is mentally concentrating on squeezing my chest as hard as I can

until I start to feel it bleed over into other muscles. And then I release, right? So I think too, like somewhat important as hard as I can until I start to feel it bleed over into other muscles and then I release, right? I think, too, somewhat important that distinguish the difference. Within training bodybuilding, so I'm isolating the reason why I have certain issues with machines and isolating muscle groups is that now we're basically turning off the rest of the body and we're isolating based off of positioning and so now like all the forces are just You know in this one limb or this one joint versus I have to I have to intrinsically be able to stabilize

And I have to be able to provide like anti-rotation and all these and I have to be able to provide anti-rotation and all these compensations that would happen if I don't have a machine in placing me in a fixed position in a sense. So, as far as body man, there's a way to do that without machines. You guys are talking about these techniques that doesn't require machines,

but you can have the same effect. I just find it more applicable to then building off of that and then bringing that into like a compound lifting. Well, it does, it doesn't, from a functional standpoint, but if you're trying to build a muscle that you already have a poor muscle connection by you adding stabilization, anti-rotational,

and your body weight without a machine, it's, you've just made it more complex. Definitely. You've made it more challenging. So if I have some, like let's use Sal's an example, say Sal's a client of mine and he's just like, man, I'm just having a hard time developing my chest, I'm not as connected to it.

And so I decided to do all these freeway exercises with him. Well, fuck, that's not, that's gonna be really tough for him. If, especially if he already understands how to work out, he's already created these poor recruitment patterns, adding more stuff like anti-rotational or full body to wear. Yeah, everything else. I'm complicating that process for him to get connected to a muscle.

He already has a hard time being connected. So putting him in a very stable, isolated position in a machine, I see value to that. And that's where I think that it gets neglected and probably underused by people that I would 100% do I would not put him in a in a a compound lift where he's having to stabilize and do other things I want him to know now now this now that being said if you're If you're training a client your number one goal I know they say they want to look a particular way, but your goal is to be able to get the move really well so that they don't hurt themselves.

Then focus on the aesthetic type of stuff because if you don't place any focus on getting them to move better, you may end up creating a well-developed aesthetic injury prone individual, which happens quite a bit. You see this quite a bit with the guy in the gym that's all about. You see a lot with guys in the gym that are like what we would call like a

a week in warrior bodybuilder, right? The guy who it's just, you know, Justin Biceps always, but you know, Mrs. Legs every now then isn't doing coreways and doing, right? He's sitting kind of the beach muscles all the time. Like that's really gonna fuck you. And if you're doing all machines, but I mean, if you're training like a Ben Pekolsky or like I think I was as a bodybuilder, there's not very many muscle groups that are getting touched.

It's just getting them to move altogether and pretend it works. It works energetically together, right? I mean, that's ideally gonna be creating doing something functional in there, but. It's all valuable. It's all valuable. It's all valuable. That's the thing.

Like isolation movements. Yeah. In a correctional standpoint, if I'm trying to correct an imbalance or movement, I use isolation movements quite a bit. If I'm trying to get your scapular to retract, I'm not going to put you in a bent over barbell row to do it. If you've got forward shoulder, you try to get someone with forward shoulder retract and depress their scapular with a barbell row.

Good luck. They're stabilizing their body. It's a free weight. No, it's gonna be a bicep and low back exercise. No, what I do is I have them sit on a fucking chest pad supported machine or cable. And I focus on- So you get the feedback, so they understand

what it feels like first. Right, but then you have to transition them further to progress that. So they internalize it. So I guess that's the sort of the point is it's training wheels. Now if you're a trainer and you have a client and you want to improve their connectivity to a muscle, there's a few things you can do. Put them in a stable situation where there's less for them,

like Adam was saying, less for them to worry about Machines and cables are great for this. Number two, some use a mirror Many times if someone can see a muscle that they're trying to activate, they can feel it This is why so many people have such a tough time activating their back muscles because they don't see them So sometimes you could use a mirror if possible and you could tell them, see, watch your scapula pull back. Now watch, you also have to understand the function of the muscle. So if the muscle's job is to, excuse me,

depress the scapula, well then you focus on depressing the scapula. The third thing is touch the muscle while they're moving it. So they have that feedback, they can feel it. Your finger on it helps them you know Activate it. Yeah a lot like I've had a lot of clients really like wow I you know I feel a lot more responsive and just just an external like

Stimulus like that a lot of times is what was neglecting because I didn't even know how to turn that on so unless it's their glutes Yeah, they are inner thigh. I can feel weird that you can feel this working You'll get fired or not supposedutes, yeah, they're inner thigh. I think it's a weird that way. You can't feel this working. You'll get fired. That's supposed to do that too. No, sorry. Yeah. Next question is from Priming Glory. Do you prime your whole body before a full body workout

or focus on what you will train first, then prime the next section of your body before you continue training? I wonder if we're all the same on this or are different. Well, so here's the idea behind effective priming. Now, can you prime an exercise? Yes. Can you prime your specific body?

Yes. Which one is a priority? Your body? So what I mean by that is there are specific movements I can do to prime the average person for a Bench press, okay? But there are much more specific movements I do to prime an individual with say Forward shoulder or you know when elbow flares out

Compensating. That's right. So the way you prime your body before your workout is specific or at least it should be specific to your body, your personal body. Like for me, one of the things that I do when I work out my body is I prime my hips. In particular, I prime my ability for my my hips to or at least my femurs to press out a little bit, especially as I descend, or am I at the bottom of a squat? In other words, to activate my gluteus medius a little bit. And I've noticed for me, for my body,

that takes away the hip pain, low back pain, it makes me feel much more stable. Is that the same priming I would do for another individual who may have a completely different problem? No, that may actually make them much worse. So priminging, there's general priming where you can do like, you know, like general priming exercises before your workouts. And that's really, you know, that's super generic, it's better than nothing, but it's super genetic. And like a generic, excuse me, and like anything that's super generic, it's not going to be nearly, not even close

to as effective as priming your individual body based on how your body moves. This is why when we created Maps Prime, it was, man, this was like three days of us racking our brains. Like, how do we design something that someone can take and then figure out their own body to be able to prime? Because we knew that was the key. Like, yeah, we could have written, we could have written a prime program with like, here's how you're prime before you bench.

Here's how you prime before you do it. The warm up though. That's right. That's the difference. Yeah, the difference being like you mentioned, these things that we tend to catch ourselves compensating towards and yet to be able to identify those first and foremost.

And so like having a quick process to be able to even identify that, you know, my shoulders don't fully retract while doing this. Well, this is why prime was made. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So that way, you know, you can test it, and you bring that into your priming session. So yeah, for me, too, it's like, you know, I need to, I need to add, you know, rubber bands, I need to add ducts, you know, I need to add rubber bands, I need to add ducts. I need to do all these things. I need to do to get a better squat session in ahead of time because I know what my body's gonna naturally gravitate

to fall into these hardwired patterns. Here's a super basic, by the way, example. Let's say we have two individuals. Both of them are doing barbell squats. One person, their glutes just don't fire the way they want when they squat. They've been squatting for a while. Their butt just isn't developing.

And when you watch them squat, you can see, like, okay, your glutes aren't really firing well. The other person does lots of squats. The opposite happens. They get a big ol' ass, but their quads just don't develop, which sometimes you see in men, or in bodybuilders sometimes, right? Where they're like, I don't squat,

cause I just feel it in my butt. Those two people would have two completely different priming sessions. Super basic, super basic prescription. The person with the glute issue, I would have them prime before doing squats with maybe hip thrusts off the floor, with bands around their legs,

so that they abduct and activate the gluteus medias and squeeze their glutes at the very top. Do a few sets of that, really activate the glutes, then go squats. Boom, you feel in your glutes. Boom, your glutes are more active. The other person, I may have them do leg extensions or sissy squats or something to really feel the quads, squeeze and contract. So when they then go do their squats, now they're feeling the quads, squeeze and contract. So when they then go do their squats,

now they're feeling the quads fire the way they should and they're not so reliant on their hips. No, I agree. So if you're paying attention to my Insta story right now, I'm on day four of my kind of journey back and I'm sharing my priming exercises, my sauna and red light protocol and then what exercises and movements I'm doing.

And the way I look at it is, especially being 36 years old, I've got a fucking ton of things that I need work on. I need ankle mobility, I need better hip mobility, I need better shoulder mobility. I'm starting to get this forward head now with all this damn phone time. I'm starting to see all these things about my body, I've been in traffic and drive. I have to compensate for that. Right. Right. So there's all these things that I'm seeing that's going on with my body. Currently, then I have an injury that I'm dealing with right now. So what I'll do is like I pick and you'll see right now, there's normally two, three, four prime movements that I'm doing.

And I look at it like a like this sliding scale. Now in a perfect world or an off day, what I do right now, I'll spend a whole hour doing all these types of mobility drills and movements and priming or what we call fortification sessions. But then when I'm actually getting ready to do a lift, right, I'm gonna pick like the three biggest ones

that are making the biggest difference on me or that I need the most right now. So you see me using a lot of mace and Indian clubs right now. I'm doing my wall presses, which is just like our zone one test. So I'm doing a lot of this zone one test because I'm starting to feel my rounded shoulders and forward head really bad, even to the point where I've had to regress it

and get on the ground and prime it. And then I'm doing a lot of combat stretch because of my ankle and my Achilles. So, you know, there's a lot of other, like I'm not doing any of my 90, 90 right now, I'm not doing any of my lizard with rotation. Those are all big, those are big nuts or bolts for me. But what I'm doing is I'm focusing on the areas

that I know will help me the most right now. And then I'll build upon that. Then I'll start to add more into my arsenal to where I'm starting to do these other movements. But 100%, I'm not thinking about, okay, I'm doing these clubs or I'm doing this wall press, so I can get a better bench. Now, I think I do because of that, I think because I get my shoulders in the right position, I get right into my bench press, and I think I have a better approach, but I'm not priming going like I need to get the most out of my bench. I'm priming my

posture because I know I'm not in really good alignment because of what I do all day long. And so I think really priming should be more about your body, where are your biggest deviations, where you fucked up the most, addressing those in that order, and then of course applying all the other ones that could carry over into improving your bench. It's a good point to because like your body inevitably is going to need like two nuts, right? So like, depending on what your patterns have been established because of a change of work or, you know, environment, you know, you have to kind of assess all that too. And that's why it's good to revisit, you know, the testing process and then see kind

of like how that, that could have all changed a little bit. Oh, bro, it's it's I'm kind of tripping out on this right now because I've been I've lost all this muscle put on this body fat become really deconditioned where I'm at right now. And then I'm now I'm coming back to moving again as far as exercise is concerned. And the 90 90 and the deep squats and doing all that stuff those were like must from you for. But I actually because of all the hard work that I put into that, I've created these really good recruitment patterns.

And I'm stronger in that now. Yeah, and it's comfortable. I can get right now in a baby position and sit there all day, no problem. I don't feel stiff, I don't feel tight. And so something that was a staple in my priming and my off days and my mobility work has now become a secondary movement

for me because I've done so much, but I have noticed that because of the time on the planes and the car and on the phone so much during this downtime, oh, I'm getting forward head. I can feel it. Like when I go do our zone one test, fuck, man, getting my neck back. Yeah. Oh, man, it's been, it's been very, very obvious to me. Pulling that nodule in the back of his head to the wall. What an issue that is attraction.

Yeah, I've seen a major, major difference in that. And so sure, now I have one area that's doing better, but then I noticed this. So, I've completely flipped my priming on its head based off of what I think needs to be addressed the most. And I think that is the idea of maps prime was to give you guys the tools, to simplify it as easy as possible. So the average person can take this test, break it up in zone one, break it up in zone two,

break it up in zone three, and then give you some just actionable items for those specific areas if you fail on those. Literally, as a test, you need to be revisiting. All the time. All the time. All the time. All the time.

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It's that big of a difference, and I just took it for granted because as a personal trainer, I did it for my clients. Well, especially if you're 19 years old, you know what I'm saying? If you're 19, 20, you may not, at that, this point in your life,

like you may not see as much of a difference, but bro, you start pushing 30 plus. It's a game, it's not all right, game changer. It's just, it's a game changer and it's a necessity for me now. Now it's like, I have to do these things before I train and it makes a world of a difference when I do. And if I neglect it, it makes a world of a difference. Next question is from Tim Sherone. What are the biggest misconceptions fans have about you that are not true? That are not true. A lot of people think Sal's really smart.

Totally not true. Toilet, this whole time, he always has to be pre-selected. Yeah, information. Justin and I get all the information for him. We provide it, then he reads it off. That's right. He reads it off a teleprompter. This whole time you guys study with Salah Smart.

Hold on, let me look it up on the internet. No, okay, here's one. There's this weird misconception that I'm not good at sports. I'm like, that's out of me. Oh, no. Do people actually believe that? No, that's actually a true one. That's a true one.

Have you had one? I'll go because I could think of something that was, it used to bother me when we first started. I remember we talked about this on the show a long time ago. We early on we got coined as the, was the nerd, the ego, and the, what was Justin? I have a fucking fine name. The nerd, the ego, and the athlete, or what's like, it called me something. I don't remember the other guy.

It was the other guy. It was the other guy. It was a quite guy. The other guy. The other guy. Oh, but so I, you know, so I don't know what it was at what cause it. I'm sure what caused people to call me yeah, oh, no, I mean, I came, I, I came off as this uh, ego maniac.

Yeah, and it's statements like that that probably didn't help the cause. Right. Yeah, right. Exactly. So this is what happened was early on. I became known as like this ego maniac in and coined as the ego on the show. And I think that it's so ironic because it couldn't like that's this is where I this is where I'm most red like

you want to talk about like what I'm into like psychology, neuroscience, understanding all that stuff. Like I'm very fascinating that topic. I pride myself on being somebody who's very self-aware. And so to coin me is like this ego maniac guy is kind of funny to me because I think it's really the opposite. I believe that I'm extremely confident. And I think a lot of times confidence gets misunderstood or people think that it can be arrogance or can be cockiness or can be ego.

But no, it's not at all. I've always been a very confident person. And I think that was a lot of people have this idea of me, which is also why too, a lot of times when I meet people in person, they're just, I think they go, like, oh, you're not what I thought you were gonna be like. I think people expect me to be kind of like this cocky, arrogant guy, and it's so again,

it couldn't be further from the truth. So, I don't think we'd work with you if you were. You know, for reals, right? I don't think anybody would last if we all had,. You know, for reals. Right, I don't think any of us would last if we all had, you know, we had assholes, egos, like serious for real. Yeah, that's what I mean. If any of us were ego maniacs,

I think, and we all are our leaders type A personality, but then, but nobody possesses that, you know, unhealthy narcissism or ego, you know, ego maniac, like nobody's like that at all. I don't think you would ever want. Again, it wouldn't last. Not in this kind of a, not a problem. a, not a, not a, not a, so I know that's the first one that comes in mind

because it was an early one that I remember just involved in. I can think of one for mind-plump that is a misconception. And part of it's our fault because we joke around, we laugh, and all this. I think people think that we're like party maniacs. Like, I can't. I feel like, I feel like fans think that like,

because we openly talk about drugs. Yeah. But I think if they're like, oh, if I'm gonna hang out, my pump, we're gonna fucking go crazy. Like rock stars and it's like, no, we go to band and fans. I love that misconception about us though. I feed into that whenever I get it.

I know. It sounds like see, they're going to say, we'll have like some big name guests and other fire join up right? Yeah. Yeah, I think they want so. And a lot of times they freak out, It's out like see they're once so well. We'll have like some big name guests and other fire join up right Yes, if they want so and a lot of times they freak out or sometimes they they partake and then they think it all weird They're all weird because they're not used to being like our level Like mind pumps like idea of you know, it's funny. We have yet Let's see three years working together have we like party hard together now. We have it now never right

I don't know well We're out somewhere and we haven't. No. Never, right? No, no. Well, when we're out somewhere and we have some free time, you know what we ended up doing? Watching the movie on TV. Yeah. That's our, that's our, like, hey guys, guys, we got some free time to that.

What do you guys want to talk about? That's what you guys are going to say. Most of the time, it's work related stuff. We're not really partying. That's kind of a big misconception of all of us. You don't think there's been one with you? I'm trying to think right now. You know what?

I have one for you. I think, and I think it feeds right into what we're talking about the whole, the nerd, the ego and whatever, the other guy. I think that the whole nerd thing, I think you're not a real nerd. I think a lot of people when you think of nerds that they attach this like awkward and...

Yeah, you're not that at all. You're somebody who, yeah,, awkward, bookworm, just not somebody who's really social. You don't have hardly any traits that I think the typical nerd would have at all. And I think that people call you that or we say that about you, but I don't think that's true. Well today, you know, this is why I didn't say that one. I think it's because today the name nerd has a different, it's got a different meaning. It's kind of cool.

Yeah, when we were, it's not a bad thing. Yeah. When we were kids in the 80s and 90s. You should get wedgies thrown in the locker. A nerd was like, nobody wanted to be a nerd. That was like a leper. Like you did not want to have. It typically meant you were socially awkward. You did something really weird, like you picked your

nose or whatever. Nobody wanted to hang out with you. And then also, you were probably really smart. So that was one of the other things that was part of being a nerd, right? Today being a nerd is like, you're just really smart or you're into, you're really into something. So now they'll say you're a nerd, and it's kind of become cool. So now if somebody says I'm a nerd, like if it was 1985, I'd be like, well, fuck you man, but now I'm like, oh cool, thank you. Cause it's kind of, and plus the powerful people today

that we all think are awesome. Like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and all these guys, they were all tech nerds or whatever, and they're cool. I'll got one for you, here's a misconception. Although people know this now if they listen to the show, but this was a misconception for a long time. People would always ask me where I got my education.

This is happening all the time, no train clients. I would train clients, they'd be my clients for like a year and we'd have all these great conversations, like, God. so where'd you go to school? Like where'd you learn to be like, Sanitrisah High School? What's high school? Like what do you mean you go to, no, I don't go anywhere. So that used to be a misconception that I used to be embarrassed about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You used to embarrass me. That was a major insecurity for me for a long time. But then it became a superpower. Yeah, it became something that I was like, and that crazy how that is, that was a major insecure,

that was something you and I were very similar. I was super insecure that in my early mid 20s. But I think when that light switch goes off, that like, wait a second, I don't have to go to some university, continue to educate myself and grow, right? I don't know what age that really, that switch went off for me. And what I found too was that a lot of the,

my buddies, the people that I was closest to, that actually pushed through the four or six or eight years of college, when they were done, they were done. I got a lot of boys right now that have masters, even some PhDs, and they don't want to fucking touch a book. Well, I like the, they're like,

they're like, they're like, they're like, they're like, they're like, they of that. Right, you know, and like, to my kind of contribution, I like, I hear you guys like bringing up books and like, I'm so like, to me, I'm like, I've read so many fucking books, dude, like I got burned out, you know, and I just, I was uninterested. I was not like, like, ignited to learn.

And the academic process just like totally killed that for me. And I'm just now getting back to that. Yeah, just now kind of feeding it again and benefiting from it. But yeah, man, it was like, I think that's a lot more... I was a slow death for me. I think that's a lot more common than people think. At least in my circle, I can literally, I can think of a handful of friends right now that all have, you know, like masters, PhDs, or just regular degrees.

And every one of them, man, every one of them are none of them are big readers. And my friends that are the biggest readers are people that are self-educated that were like, okay, pick up and they go. And what I attribute that to is I bet I would feel the same way too, if you forced me to go through my early 20s and late teens in a school

where I had to read every single day and I had to put all these, I would just be like, as an adult, I'd be like, I'm done, I did it, I don't need to do it anymore. I could see myself pushing away from that and not wanting to, so it's kind of funny how that works. Well, there's this, I can't remember, I'm trying to look it up.

There's actually a psychological term to describe a process of which, I'll give you an example. Let's say you're a writer for fun. You love writing, it's like your favorite thing to do. And then you get a job and you're forced to write. You're forced to write on a schedule, your boss is like write this article, write this, write that. You start to dislike the thing that you used to enjoy doing

because you're being forced to do it. And then you end up not liking writing. This happens to a lot of child athletes. You'll have a child who's a prodigy in gymnastics or swimming or ice skating or whatever that shows promise and loves it. And then they are forced and they compete and they push them. And then the kid at the age of 16 is like, I never want to fucking do that again. And they stop forever.

There's a real psychological phenomenon here where if you're forced to do something for a while, you start to fucking hate it. And this happens with education all the time. Like, like Justin said, like you just get burnt out because you were forced because you had to, although you love learning, obviously, it's like you're burnt out by it

because of that whole, that connection you've made with it. What do you think you're your big misconception? What do you think? I was trying to think of it. I pretty much where, who I am on my sleeve, it's hard for me to distinguish what the perception is of me. I don't think a lot of people really know.

I think who I am. I think that that might be the misconception is that like people, people kind of like think I'm, I don't know, like I don't vocalize like my points or my opinions or you know as frequently for them. So it's like, they don't really get as much of an insight about the way I think. I don't know. That's just me speculating. But like I, for me, it's always been like, I think one of the things is that I'm sort of introverted and I'm quiet and all this kind of stuff, which is not the case at all.

No, no, like I definitely, if I'm in a party, I'm like the first one talking to everybody. Oh, that's a good one. That's a great one. I think a lot of people would think that that's not true, which is 100% true. We've been places before and Justin is by far as outgoing, if not more outgoing than any of us. Yeah, very, very, very social. Yeah, but it's the dynamic of like we're working for me too. And like I analyze a lot. When I'm work mode, I analyze the fuck out of everything. And I listen to, to, to, you know,

where it's going in the direction and like what your guys points are. And you guys have really good points that I'm trying to like bounce off of. to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to,, if they understand me, it's like, I'm kind of a role player in that sense, you know? Well, that's the, I think that's an attractive quality about both you guys that I've always appreciated is that nobody in here cares about being the front or the lead man or whatever. We care more about like the conversation or the interview or whatever that we're doing. We care more about the audience and how they receive it than we care about our own personal self worth or whatever that we're getting out of it.

And I think that you exemplify that. I think you're somebody who, I mean, I can't imagine, I couldn't imagine a third person with Sal and I, like you did would just get gobbled up. But the fact that you don't allow that, I think is amazing and I think that it's so cool. And I think a lot of times people think that, like, oh, you guys never let Justin get a word in. You don't know this, I'm like, no,

Justin is who Justin is. Like, there's no, right. If he wants to put his trust in me, if there's a topic that we cover that he has an opinion on, he's not gonna be one person. Well, come right in. Yeah.

I don't have any like reserve about that. It's just, I appreciate when you guys talk and you have like, you know, little debacles between the two of you, like I sit there. It's fun for me. You know, like I like to listen to it. Like I just like to fan. I don't know.

Sometimes you get a little nervous over there. No. Sometimes when I get fired up enough, I can look over and you cross through. He's in a lose, whose side he's supposed to be on. Well, that's the only part where I'm like, are they gonna manipulate me again? Like one side versus the other,

whatever, you just pick out of him every time. Like that awkward, he always picks the right guy. That awkward YouTube moment where they maybe pick Sal as the closer. I was like, are you a sentimental person? I feel like you are. Yeah, but I bury that shit.

Like I don't want anybody to see that, but I've seen you with your kids. I don't think you bury it as good as well as you think you do. Oh, yeah. Who's the most romantic out of three of us? Romantic? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sal.

Sal, huh? Probably, yeah, definitely. I don't, you know, here's a point. He plays rubber gloves on my face too. I just feel like I could step that part of me up a bit. You know, I don't know if that's true. I just feel like I could step that part of me up a bit. You know, I don't know if that's true. From what I know of you guys and how you talk about your significant others,

you're both extremely romantic or respectful and you speak very highly of them and openly. So I don't know if that's the hint. Well, she listens to the show. I'm sure she hears you say that shit every episode. I don't know. I mean, I think we're all kind of like, yeah, no, I mean, we definitely, I mean, I definitely acknowledge, you know, what my wife does for me and everything like all day,

all the time, but at the same time, you know. Do you tell her stuff like, you're beautiful? Are you like, every day, all the time? It's just more of like a doing very specific things. You know, like planning, I'm terrible at planning events and organizing things. In that sense, I'm horrible at that. So I feel like I don't get, like, you can't label me

as like the romantic, you know, because I'm not like doing picnics and shit, you know. I don't think I know. I don't like it. I don't like doing picnics and shit, you know That's me too be very grateful I'm here. Oh, I'm the same way. Hey, what do you think about this that and the others? I'll be there I don't know just remind me exactly text me before That's pretty much it let me know about your surprise. Yeah, check it out go to your app store get the mind pump media app. It's 100% free Go check it out. I was doing a little dive a deep dive into Greenfield yeah, but Ben Greenfield's podcast the other day and what I realized is he has a

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Yeah, I'm supposed to be this health expert, and I see the way this guy, and he lives it at a next level. And so he's the person who I want to ask those hard questions on, especially when you're talking about Chinese medicine, because there's so many people that when they present it, it comes off very woo-woo. It then has a very scientific approach about everything that he does.

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