Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 756: How to Use Drop Sets to Kick-Start Muscle Growth, Talking to Kids About Divorce, Surviving an Asteroid & MORE

Episode Date: April 25, 2018

Organifi Quah! iTunes Review Winners! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about the benefits of using drop sets and the best time to incorporate them, how to talk to kids when moving out during a divorce, whether they crumple or fold toilet paper and if they would like to survive an asteroid impact or be vaporized. The guys talk about their “sexy” weekend, being sensitive to their partner and the power of having compassion for you. (4:35) Content war in the Rap World and the value/expression of music. The Rapture documentary, poppy trends and the parallels to the fitness industry. (20:38) Future of food. Butcher Box, Whole Foods/Amazon and cutting out the middleman. (31:19) Selfies Kill More People than Sharks Do. Find out how our perception has changed. (33:12) Earth Day Predictions that Were “Spectacularly Wrong.” Don’t count out our ability to innovate and find solutions to doom & gloom predictions. (40:00) How to rid the homeless epidemic. (45:00) Quah question #1 – What are the benefits of using drop sets and the best time to incorporate them? (50:53) Quah question #2 - How to talk to kids when moving out during a divorce? (1:05:28) Quah question #3 – Do you crumple or fold toilet paper? (1:20:26) Quah question #4 - Would you like to survive an asteroid impact or be vaporized immediately? (1:26:31) Related Links/Products Mentioned: Rapture | Netflix Official Site Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction – Book by Derek Thompson Butcher Box Selfies Kill More People Than Sharks Do | Psychology Today Chinese city opens 'phone lane' for texting pedestrians The Case Against Human Driving 18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day In 1970. 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The first question that we answered was, can we talk about the benefits of using drop sets and when to use them? So drop sets are where you lift weight for particular amount of reps and then you immediately shift to a lighter weight and continue the set and you do this two or three times to do an entire set, well otherwise known as a drop set. The next question was, this was a personal one,

this person wanna know how I talked to my kids about my divorce, what were some of the things I talked to them and what about the transition of moving out, very difficult time, definitely think there are better ways to handle it and worse ways to handle it. And I talk about that in this part of the episode. Then we get a very important serious question.

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So fresh and so clean. So we were all sharing stories over the weekend. It sounds like everybody had great sex weekends. Yeah, man. Let me take you on a sex-gapating. Yeah, everyone did. Although I fucked up, dude, on the, on, I think it's gonna be so mad I share this right now.

So we kind of got into it a little bit this weekend because I've been feeling good lately, man. I've been feeling really good as far as my libido and shit. It's been, I haven't, we haven't talked about it. Your hormones are coming back. Man, I'm, I'm pretty excited right now. This is, and I don't want to jinx it. Oh, morning would.

I don't want to jinx it, but it's finally feeling back to my normal self. I'm motivated to work out. Like I'm excited. Like I know when I'm back to me, is because I actually, I don't know if you guys do this, but like when I'm in the groove

and I'm like training and dieting and doing well and stuff like that with my fitness, like I'm thinking about my workout the next day. Oh yeah. Like I'm like really excited about. It's fun. Yeah, no it is. It's really, but it wasn't like that for the last couple months.

So it's finally got back into that and I'm starting to see the libido change and everything like that and just been feeling really good man. Had incredible sex this weekend and afterwards we're kind of laying there and she's just like, you know, it was mind blowing, right? And she's just like, man, what is she's like, she's paralyzed. Yeah. She's laying there and she's like, she's like, what do you, what do you, what do you think that was right there? And I'm like, it's fun. I kind of chuckled. I'm like, I'm unpacking it right now. Right? I'm like, in my mind, I was thinking about like, damn, what's got, what got into me, right today?

And I thought about everything that happened. So I'm sitting there and she's like, waiting for me to respond and I'm really like thinking about it and I totally led with the wrong thing completely. So I take full responsibility. Well, because I led with this, literally this sentence, I said, well, the crazy part is it's not you. Right, right.

No, dude. Right, but the honest part about me was that's not what I met. It's like it's not that she's not beautiful. And my point was in what I said after that was, well, you're literally saying it wasn't you when it was bad. Exactly. So what exactly, but what I should have known better was to say that to my girl during this time of the month

and that knowing that that was coming, right? And knowing that this is probably gonna trigger her to be like, you fucking asshole, right? Like, wait, hear me out. Yeah. So I'm like, it wasn't you, you know? So I was just fucking history. It's like, yeah, it's like you, baby.

I could have been horny no matter what. But what I was trying to say to her was, you know, we're seven years deep into this relationship and I'm like, I'm just as physically attracted to you as I was day one. And the sex is just as amazing since day one. In fact, we have moments like this where it's like, oh my god, that was the best sex of our life, type of deal. I said, so that's still is happening.

And so my love for you is not changing. It hasn't changed. If anything, it's only grown stronger. But what just happened right now, if I'm being completely honest, was it really wasn't about you. It's really about myself. And it's really, if you think about what happened.

So earlier in that day, that just happened to be the same day. So this was Friday or Thursday, can't remember with day. But it was a day when we were all in here and we were talking about revenue and the numbers and the projections and my pump's killing it and doing well and, you know, we're finally going to start being able to really pay ourselves. And like, it's just, it's just a really good time for the, and we just, Taylor was reviewing

all the sponsors. We crushed all the, we did so well for our sponsors. We're doing better than any of their podcasts is for all the sponsors that we have. So all this great like financial news, my work, I just had an incredible workout. I'm starting to kind of feel myself a little bit. I'm feeling my shirts out again. So I'm just, I'm feeling fucking great, right? And I told her how much of that. It's crazy that these things are so important to me that I have all of it in place because I know that I'm loving myself. And if I'm truly loving myself, it allows me to love you at full capacity. And I know that I'm loving myself. And if I'm truly loving myself,

it allows me to love you at full capacity. And I know that even when I'm not loving myself, I still love you and we're still a great partner and still a great team. But I know that when I take care of myself and I take care of all the things that are important to me, that it allows me to love you on another level

that you deserve. You gotta, you back up a little bit, you know, I know how you feel about your girl and you consider her a very special, the most special person in your life. So if you have someone like that in your life that you consider that special, you wouldn't want to give them something that you didn't think was awesome. So if you don't think you're awesome, if you don't love yourself, you're not taking your care yourself, you can't think was awesome. So if you don't think you're awesome, if you don't love yourself, you're not taking your care yourself,

you can't possibly love that person to your full capacity, because if you don't think you're good, well, why am I gonna give this piece of shit to this awesome incredible person, and this is how people fuck themselves up, and that's where it makes sense when people say, you have to love yourself first

before you can love someone else. I used to think that was bullshit. Like, what do you mean by that stupid? It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. No, it makes perfect sense because if you really care about somebody, and you think of yourself as somebody who's not, who's worthless or garbage or lazy or unattractive or whatever, that's bad, why would you, how could you possibly give yourself fully to someone?

In fact, you probably, you, it would be terrible. What if it's good? It's so, so important probably, it would be terrible, it would be good. It's so, so important. And I see this in relationships all the time now. Oh yeah, it's super common. It took me a long time, you don't know this one, you're young. I don't know very many people who know this until they're like in their late 30s, 40s, even.

It just takes a long time to figure it out. And some people never figure it out. Oh right. But once you figure it out, it's magic because then all your relationships with all the people you care about, including your family, your kids, you know, you can't be great to your kids if you don't think that you're worthy of for them, right? How can I be a good father if I don't think I'm a great person? Well, it's a direct reflection.

I always look at it that way, like the state and the temperament of the house is such a reflection on what I'm bringing in every day. And like, what kind of energy I'm waking up with, what kind of energy I'm coming home with, what kind of things I'm contributing towards, you know, and like thinking outside of myself, but also like, you know, make it sure like internally, I'm presenting myself as like you know excited and and motivated and you know trying to you know better everybody along with me and kind of bring everybody up. But yeah, it's like it's funny because I had the same thing. Great weekend, awesome weekend. But that happened as a result of something previous to that right. We tried, we had a date

uh you know earlier in the week and I was so excited because we hadn't had a date in like, like a couple months, like this is, this is bad. Like I hadn't, hadn't actually scheduled it out or made it happen, like a deliberate date where it's like me and my wife and this is just our time, you know, and like we're going to go do something specifically to us. And so we went out and it was like, we're catching up and we're trying to do this because we had like a block of maybe like four hours, right? Because like my parents watched the kids. And so it's like, yeah, we get this time and we're catching up and we're trying to, you know, it's like we're trying to rush all this this momentum and trying to make things happen.

And of course, my end I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, like, I got to smooth it off. Let's get to the good stuff. I know, you're brainwashed. It's totally fucked up, you know, like, my stupid male brain, you know, like, I just would make a comment, because I like to have fun and, you know, make jokes and stuff. And I just made a joke that just did not get. It's like a sexual, yeah, yeah, a sexual reference.

So she's trying to get all, like, connect and let's talk to each other. Well, she's like, yeah, she's actually one of your boobies. Yeah, exactly. Like, almost on that level. I felt like such a dick, dude. I was like, Did you rail the whole thing? Yes, yes.

It just totally just blew up in my face. It turned into a fight, right? Yeah, it turned into a fight. We never get these four hours. I was like, well, because she made a reference that I thought was like, I thought she was joking and like trying to be like, you know, like reference her body about something.

And so I made a joke and, you know, she's being serious and like trying to like, you know, tie it into like something. So we got home and big old fight, like big old ordeal. And I'm like, ah, this is not how I want this night to go. You know, she's like me either. Like, we're so frustrated and then I'd wait the whole week. And then I didn't think, you know, I was like,

I don't know when we're gonna get another date. I was like, oh well, you know, we'll figure it out. Like I was already planning like trying to, you know, get her flowers, do all the stuff. Like on the outside, the scene's just to like, you know, I don't know, sure that I'm trying to work on something and like, you know, make up for it. And thankfully, she got a call from work over the weekend was like, oh my God, I'm not working.

And my parents had already told me they're going to take the kids for me. Sometimes they'll do that when I'm by myself, but you know, over the weekend and they took them overnight. And I was like, oh my God, we have all night. And so we went out, we had, we took our time, we went to this restaurant, we watched all the crazies at the beach through this place of Aquarius, which is amazing. There was live music. And then, you know, I took her after that to go play pool and she gets all the anxiety around like doing stuff. But I was just like leading the whole thing like we're doing this we're doing that and she was just like oh yeah like she's totally stoked that I was like taking her through all the old steps we used to do and yeah and then there was the

drive home which fun stuff happened on show. That's so insane. That's a lot of fun. When you push your girl to limit, like when it gets to the heated moment where you guys are fighting or angry, so is there a sign that you know, like, oh fuck, this is not gonna go really well. Like for me, like herning point. I get quiet, like that's what, like I'll just,

she's like, oh, you're gonna just get silent on me. Cause I get so frustrated inside that I can't articulate my point well enough for her to get it, that I'm like, I'm done. I'm done having this conversation. And then I'll just get completely quiet. And then she's just constantly in my ear, right? And I'm just like, I'm not engaging in this right now.

Yeah, we kind of go back and forth and then we both get silent because we know, like, okay, if I say anything more, like this is gonna take this much longer to make up, you know, it's time to road. It longer to make up, you know, underroads. Like, we have that sort of level now where we just divide. So Jessica and I were so similar in so many different ways. And a lot of times, that's awesome.

That we're very, very similar. But sometimes it's a bad combination. And we're both very sensitive. So we can get our feelings hurt. And then we're both, like, we need to express and communicate. And so, if she feels like I'm not understanding her, she'll keep going. And if I feel the same way, I'll keep going.

And it can escalate, and escalate, and escalate. And then, of course, the situation by which I met Jessica was right after my divorce, and so I'm already hyperersensitive to fighting, and in particular, if I feel like somebody is acting like a jerk, if I feel like you're being kind of mean to me for no reason, if I start to perceive that, then I'll jump the gun, and I'm very, very defensive, because I, like, the last 10 years of my marriage

was a lot like that, right? So we'll be going somewhere, and if I feel like she's being anything other than, you know, normal or whatever, then I start to like get on top of it and it's like, it just turns into, we had a blowout on Friday, it was a huge blowout fight on Friday

and then it led into a great weekend though. Then after that, we had a great weekend. We hung out, lots of sex, had a good time and it's just, it's hilarious. When you go, when you hung out, lots of sex, had a good time. And it's just hilarious. When you go back up and try to break it down, and you just see the breakdowns and communication, you're like, God, it's so hard when you're in the moment, and when you're feeling emotional,

and you're feeling emotion, it makes it almost impossible. And I also have a very difficult time with anger that's expressed. So like any kind of raising in your voice, any kind of like that, which makes it, can make it very difficult time with anger that's expressed. Any kind of raising in your voice, which makes it, can make it very difficult to someone who's expressive. And I'm just hypersensitive to it.

Raise your voice, I'm not going to talk anymore. And then that just takes it to a whole other level, type of deal. So what was it that triggered it? I mean, what set it off for you? You know, it's, I mean, I know I led with the wrong sentence. Yeah, sure. If I could go back and do it all over again, I would have started with all the, I love you stuff and how amazing you are

and how great a relationship is. And then what's going on with me. So I mean, I guess I could go all the way back, you know, and think like, okay, what was the thing that caused it? But she was, you know, she was very energetic and getting a little hyper. And I was feeling like, I was feeling like, Oh, wait, she said, what do you mean? like, like, she's just running around the house like

also and she's jumping on the couch. Just like, like, lots of ideas, lots of whatever. But you can also, it can also come across as like, you're maybe feeling irritable or something like that, which I may perceive it that way. It might not even be the case, but I just perceive it that way because it's crazy. Well, it may be, right? And so then my reactions start to reflect that. And so we were driving to Santana Roe and she was telling me how to drive. Like hit your brakes. Go over here. Oh my god. That's cosfighting. Which yeah. Which yes. This is a this is a male. I think it's a male thing. Yes. I think this is just something we don't handle that. No, no. And so I'm like, you know, I said, I told her. I told her. As much as a man like me, like you need to be sensitive

to a woman the week before her period, a woman needs to be sensitive to a man when it may as well. Oh yeah, yeah. If I go the wrong way, I meant to fuck go the wrong way. Yeah. So we're driving or the plan. That was yeah.

So we're driving and she's doing this. Like, oh, hit your brakes. Oh, go over here, whatever, whatever. And so I told her, I'm like, listen, I'm like, can you, you know, while we're driving, can you not tell me like what to do, what to drive? And so her response to me was, well, yeah, I'll do that if you can drive better.

Like, oh, right. Right. Ah, ah, ah, ah. So, and you know what? You know that's a soft spot for you because you know your terrible directions to say. So, so, so, so, yeah. And it wasn't exactly like that.

She was saying something like, well, it's a hard nipple twist. She's like, well, it's like a hard nipple twist. She's like, yeah, she's like, don't hit your brakes at the last minute. If you can stop doing that, then I won't say this thing. And so I'm like, you know, so I'm frustrated with it. So we went back and forth a little bit. Kind of let it go, had dinner.

Everything was kind of okay. On the way back to the car, I'm like, do you want to drive? Yeah, I'm like, you drive. So she's like, what do you want me to drive? I'm like, I just listen, I don you want to drive? Yeah, I'm like, you drive. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So she's like, what do you want me to drive? I'm like, I just listen, I don't want to drive. And really what's happening is I knew how I was feeling

and I knew if she said anything about how I drive, it would cause, I would make me want to. This is the way to defuse it, right? That's what I think. That's what you thought. But the reality is that was the worst. So now you're feeling in the passenger seat. No, it's the worst because now she feels like

I'm bringing it up again. Oh yeah, or she feels like now you're gonna, you're gonna start to pay attention to that's right. That was water over the bridge. Yeah, and that's like, why are you doing so over? So over.

So then she does that. I said there's a new one. It's a new one. It's fuck. So she gets, you're like, why are you bringing this up? I thought we settled this. Like you said you would do this and I would do that.

And I'm like, and so then she raises her voice a little bit because she's getting upset too. So then I replied and I'm like, I said something like, here we go again or something like that, right? Which is the worst possible thing to say to anybody, especially your girlfriend or wife, when they're starting to get angry. Because then it sounds like, would you mean here we go?

What do you mean? So just turn to this big ass fucking stupid blow blowout, you know, for no reason. But it was good, we made up afterwards. But I got a hand at tour, you know, she didn't enter into an easy situation with me. I came out of a 15 year marriage, so that alone, I'm probably gonna be more, and it's hard to say because I'm in myself, right?

It's hard to observe in yourself and reacting. But for sure, right? If you end a long relationship like that, especially with kids, you're probably going to be hyper vigilant. You would assume, right? So I'm probably hyper vigilant in that particular case in a lot of different types of cases. Then on top of it, she went from being alone to dating someone who has kids, and now she basically has kids also. And so it's just all these different challenges, so I got a hand at tour, she handles things exceptionally well and sometimes it's difficult, but anyway.

Oh, there it is, man. Everybody made it through. It was a good time. Hey, you know what, I wanted to bring something up to you guys, and it's been a, we talked about this like, I don't know, we got to know a little debate over it, maybe about a hundred episodes ago, when we talked about rap,

and you guys were giving me shit about like, new rap and it's all it's this, but I've been doing some homework. Right, didn't you just watch Rapture? I just watched Rapture. What is that, is that documentary? Yeah, it's on Netflix, so series, yeah, they kind of go through new rappers

and I think the next one was Nas that I was watching, but the first one I was watching was with Logic. And I just started getting into it and was like, wow, man, I was very, I don't know, I guess I was just very impressed and hadn't really dove into any of his work yet or any of his music and just the way that he writes and like his message and his positivity and just the way he flows. Like he flows in a way that's like, it's in sync with the beat, which I hadn't realized that till,

like he had described that and I started listening to his songs and I was like, oh shit, like he's exceptional artist. His last album is Fire. It's one of my favorite albums that I've been listening to. That one is one of my favorite albums right now that's out. Jake Holst, newest one, is fucking badass. His last song on there, 1985, for sure, is Superfire. And what he's rapping about is he's talking shit about all the young rappers that are coming up now. And basically what he's talking shit about in the song is he's

talking about how all they're doing is writing trends, snare drums, poppy tag lines, just what everybody is doing because it's what's trendy and what's hot and what he's rapping and saying is that, that's what made you hot and what made you pop when you're young, but let's see where you're at in five, six years and stuff like that. And cause he's 33 years old and he's been doing it

for a long time. And he's saying that like if you don't have any, you don't have a real message behind your rap and shit, you're going to die with all the time. That's where you get the one hit wonders. Yes. That happened a lot in the 80s. There was a lot of one hit wonders in the 80s with because music had changed so drastically and synthesizers became a really, really big thing in this new age.

And so you had a lot of bands that were hairspray. Yeah, that would play like like one or two songs that would be hit and then you'd never hear from them again. So you know what's popular now and what's happening is with this ability to upload and get music and get stuff up and out there to your, all your people so fast. Now it's like it's a content war,

even in the rap game or in the music. Yeah, so these people are just putting out a lot of shit. And it's just, it's constantly trendy poppy stuff that's getting released every week, you know, putting out a new song, new song, new song. You just throw some shit together, make sure it sounds cool, put it out there, and you're constantly hitting your audience,

and then hopefully one at every 10, you hit something that's catchy and trendy, and then it makes it in the night clubs, and now everyone's talking about it. That's what they're trying to do right now. But what, you know, Jay Cole's rapping about in this album is that it's short-lived shit. That's what's hot right now for a few years.

And if you don't have a real message behind what you're saying and it does have some deeper meaning and value to it, then you're gonna wash away as all these people grow up. And it's so true when you're 19 years old, like the stuff that you're kind of into and doing. And then at one point everybody grows up. And the funny part, I was throwing a tailor this morning, there's so many parallels to the music industry

and the business, and even in our business, which you see, I see the same thing in our space in health and fitness. Like, to me, the way people, some of these people get fame and get traction is through these poppy, trendy type ways by posting half-nudes or the mere selfies or doing cool shit that fucking is over the top or posting all the cool cars.

It's like that gains a lot of traction right now. It's cool, but what are those people that are thinking that's cool? They're 17 to 23, 24 years old. What happens when those 24 year olds are 35 and 40? Like, does that shit still attract them or they still, probably not? And so if you're not adding any value to those people's lives You don't have a real fucking business all you have is a million eyes on you right now And anybody who's got a million eyes can turn you know a t-shirt line a supplement line you could turn around

Maybe here and there but right yeah, but long term why are those people gonna stick around because once they're over that Trand or why why they're following you right now if you're not adding value to their life, then it's going to be like, why I'm bringing back to music. I think that's why I'm always seeking something that sounds unique and challenging on some level. Like it might not be like a super comfortable beat that you get into right away, but it's interesting as fuck. And I just, I miss the artistry.

I miss the weirdness. Like there was a period I think that why I'm sort of, like in a time capsule with, there was this period where like you had bands that came out that were really like weird. You know, like they were weird. They had weird sounds. They had like, you know, like a stage presence in a show

that was like, you know, kind of trippy or different or I just want, I just, I look for all the actual artists that still exist, you know, that aren't just like trying, you know that they're just hustling to, you know, to be popular and gain traction, you know, based off of that. There's a total, like, you can just see it. There's definitely a difference between artists

and performers. Sometimes you get, sometimes there's both, right? You have an artist who's a great performer. That's when you hit, that's when you hit it out of the ballpark. That's when you get like a, like Lady Gaga's kind of like that, or a Madonna or whatever. Artists who's also, as great as those two. Those are true.

It's very true, but what you have right now is you have, and it's been like this for a while, it's not just right now. It's, you have a lot of performers. So these are people who are handsome or pretty, they dance really well, they can sing really well, and someone writes their music for them and creates their persona, creates their wardrobe and tells them what they're gonna do

and how they're gonna sound, and this is what they're gonna do. Oh, this is in that, it's this is. Artists have no choice. Artists are just who they are, and many times you can tell because they're fucking weird. You know what I mean? They'll get on stage and they'll perform. And I don't know about you guys,

but I enjoy seeing a singer or a rock band or a performer who you can tell is awkward on stage. Like when they sing, they don't look polished. Like they don't make good faces or they don't move very well. And it's like, oh, that's somebody who's just, they're just feeling the shit. They don't even know what they look like. They're just going.

Well, today's generation of artist and even in our spaces, this hacking the algorithm. That's what it's all about. It's all about hacking the algorithm and like, what gets more views, what gets more likes, what is people gravitate towards because it resonates with them or they remind them of something else. So that book, the book hitmaker gets into this. It's really good, a really good read along these lines of what what we do. It's natural for us to gravitate towards things that seem familiar to us. So, you know, it does as well. Bruno Mars. Alright. Bruno Mars, you hear a lot of his

music. And you're like, well, that sounds like Motown or that sounds like 1987 Michael Jackson. Yeah, because he brings that familiar, familiar. That's another band though. He just went on that track with this band that was like a funk band. Yeah, but that, I mean, that track, I love that track. The other hack is they feature all kinds of artists. So that's one thing too that I love about Jay Cole

is like, that's like his thing is like, I don't feature nobody on my album, right? It's always him and it's always his music that he writes, right? Where some of these artists, if you think about it as a podcasting game, right? When you have another big podcast, come on your show, it's inevitable, you're gonna get X amount of people that come over.

So what these rappers do and not just rappers, I mean pop stars, everybody does this, is they feature all these other people at their level To remember you got a million people. I got a million people. He's got a million people She's got a million people smart business feature you all on my album I'm gonna get an X amount of your artists are gonna come over and listen to my album just because you're on it And so a lot of these guys do that But again like these purist like a j cool type of artist or just like fucked up

That's wack that's weak, that's hacking the system, that's hacking the algorithm, just so you can get more traction. And the youngsters that are doing it are kind of like, fuck you, I'm getting paid. Yeah. So that whole 1980, that 1985 song is about that. It's kind of touching.

Do rappers today, because I know what happened to rock and pop and all that stuff is used to be most performers wrote their own music. So most performers were artists and then it changed and now most performers don't write their own music. They just perform it and sing it. Is it like that with rap, Tuesday? So most rappers don't write their own. What was interesting, I think that's why I was so impressed with Logic when I was watching

the whole thing is because he can even sing. He writes and his own melody and like he works with the sky. Like Anno does every day. Yeah, this DJ who's constructed all the beats like with him alongside him. So it's like they're both, you know, together like producing it themselves, which is pretty fucking impressive. How crazy is it that we or how interesting I should say is that that we value the ability to entertain us and sing and do that kind of stuff so much

That some of the highest paid people in the world are These these performers and artists when you actually break it down you think about like well, what are they doing? They're not making anything. They're not creating a more efficient, you know, way of getting water or food They're not creating shelter or clothing. They're just they're expressing how we feel through music Yeah, and it's how much we value that crazy, right? Yeah, well, no, they're just, they're expressing how we feel through music. Yeah, and how much we value that, it's crazy, right? Yeah, well, no, there's something about it for sure. I mean, I'm not saying it's not valuable, obviously, is valuable.

Yeah, which is interesting. Oh, it's extremely valuable to us. I mean, if there's nothing like listening to a great song that, you know, part of what I always realize, like the songs that resonate with me or that I'm listening to, it's because where I'm at in my life right now. Sure. You know, like that song right now, I kind of have the same feel about looking

at everybody in our space. Like you out here trying to get all this attention by doing all this funny shit. So that meanwhile, I'm over here, bustin' our ass trying to build a legitimate business that provides values for people's life. Sure, you may be popping off right now and everybody knows who you are

because the things that you're doing, the way you're getting attention, but that's okay. I'll be here in 10, 15 years. And so that should, it gives me, just even saying that gives me goosebumps because that's what the song is all about. So when you connect with music like that,

that I think that, and there's another good song on their photograph, which is basically talking all about Instagram and like, and that whole hype and what that's all about. So when you write about stuff that I think speaks to how you feel and you connect with it, I mean, that's where these artists are really talented, really good. And this is where it brings really good value. Then you have the other side, which is the poppy, trendy, the beats, the sounds, the things that,

like, I'm drawn for, on at least on the rap side of music, I'm drawn to the lyrics. I'm drawn to the message behind what you're saying, like, that's really cool to me. Like, there's certain genres that I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. And cool to me. Like there's certain genres that I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. And there's certain stuff that there's certain times I just want to hear angry loud music in my ear because I'm going to go rip up some weight and it doesn't have to have this deep meaning behind it, right?

Oh, I forgot. I got to tell you guys. So I had bought some steaks, some grass fed steaks from Whole Foods and I had some from Butcherbox. Were they now, are they that, did they just say grass fed or they grass fed and grass finished? foods and I had some from butcher box where they now are they that did it Just say grass fed are they grass fed and grass finished grass fed grass finished expensive as hell, okay? Very much the two together, so I just made a bunch of them had some people yeah hung out with some people You do a taste and uh-huh you did dude, hey, I don't butcher boxes wait. It's good. Yeah, I know it's good

It's very good grass fed meat. I'm already getting people inboxing me that after the first commercial that we did with them have now ordered and got through their first stuff. Dude, it's good. And the price is good for the quality. It's ridiculous. I hope they're gonna be one part. I've been grilling burgers up like crazy.

I did the one where you get all the meat, you know, all the beef. And they threw an extra hamburger with it too. So it's like, it was awesome. I got to just eat that with my kids all week. It's the future of food is fascinating to me right now. What's going on? Here's the other one.

I just was at Whole Foods earlier because I stopped by there to get some academia. And that's on my way here. And there's a sign out there. I didn't know that I haven't done this, but you know that Amazon partnered with Whole Foods. You can order groceries and it's in your house in two hours. Oh wow.

Two hours. Three, free, by the way. That's crazy. Won't cost you any cash. So I told you that, I think this year end of this year or next year that we're going to start seeing, you guys know that we're going to start seeing all the Whole Foods convert half the registers to Amazon Go. Wow.

So it's happening. It's, I don't remember if I was told that it was, and I don't know if I'm supposed to be sharing this, so I don't remember that I was told that it was and I don't know if I'm supposed to be sharing this So I won't use names. So who it was supposed to happen either the end of this year or next year We'll start seeing half the registers will be Amazon. They're ready for the protests. Oh, dude. It's coming You're gonna get a lot of pro serious on you get yeah, you're gonna get a lot of employees protesting Oh my god, I can't wait to not be stuck in a fucking grocery line Dude, dude totally off totally. It's around the corner I can't wait to be stuck in a fucking grocery line forever.

Dude, dude, totally. Oh, totally. It's around the corner, man. That's so rad. So I'm going to read you guys, I'm going to give you guys a little quiz here. I see what you guys see if you guys answer correctly. Which of the following kills more people per year? Okay.

You guys ready? Yeah. Toilets, shark attacks, taking selfies, selfies, has to be selfies, selfies, kills, more people than shark attacks. Wait a second. Where did you get yours? Why did you put toilet in there? Because because you could also look that up and people slip off the toilet and die. That's happening. Yep, it happens a lot. I guess.

So it's really old. So, yeah, selfies will kill on average something like eight to 15 people a year and shark attacks are usually around seven or something like that. But how funny is it that the selfie pandemic? I have zero fear of taking a selfie, but do not get me in the ocean where my feet don't touch the sand. And I'm for sure think I'm gonna get attacked by my Crazy that our perception so fucked up, you know what I mean a shark attack is so much scarier than it's getting out of control What the phone thing isn't it? Oh?

Yeah, yeah, so I seriously have seen people holding their phone out like this like face timing while walking through an intersection Dude, so what the fuck? I'm reading this article and talks about how like someone fell off the Grand Canyon because they were backing up. They fell off the cliff. You, how shit is that dude? Oh my god dude. You're like backing up.

Oh shit. Like wait a minute, I don't have all of it in it. Yeah. And you just fall off the cliff. Some kid DM me when we were talking about it the other day where I talked about is it happening over in the Midwest and stuff and he's like, oh no, I forget what college he goes to and he's like

It's just as bad over here. He goes in fact. It's so annoying. He said that he'll be somebody he'll be not he won't be on his phone Somebody will be like on their phone walking straight form and he says he doesn't get out of the way. He'll intentionally Let them run in each other. He goes it's human being. Yeah, I was like physical world here. It's crazy, man Well, I told you guys before I was this was I saw this article Shit a long time ago when that when we this all started happening is over in China. They have lanes They have walking lanes like we have car lanes They have walking lanes for on the phone or off the phone like you and you can get ticketed if you don't fucking no way Yes, you get it to make so much sense. Yes. You get like it's in the city right think about it

I mean it's heading that way. I mean, God, now I look too when I'm in traffic. I'll look to my left, right in front. I mean, it's everybody, everybody. On the swivel, dude. Yes, everybody is on their phone, dude. Everybody is striving. Self driving cars will help. Hopefully we'll solve a lot of stuff.

It will. And that's still gonna take a long time to get all that going. So. It's gonna take a while. It's gonna be a lot of selfie deaths. It's gonna be, at some point, it'll be illegal to drive your own car,

but it's gonna take a little while to do that. Yeah. How fast do you think that will take that, because here's what, here's what's tripping me out. So I was up in the city, visiting my brother's got a new place, he's renting a car. It's a great view. Oh, yeah.

It's awesome, dude. He lives in this like, and it's ex-dood. It's a two bedroom apartment, okay? Two bedrooms. So him and his cousin. Him and his cousin. They're both in their early 30s. They're both bachelors.

So it's gonna be a great time for them. They both make a shit ton of money. They're both very successful. But still, two bedroom apartment in this building is like six grand a month. Oh, my God, he's pointy right in the nuts. For two bedrooms, dude. That's over a million dollar mortgage, man. But he, but we, you know, he's pointy right then that's for two bedrooms, dude. That's over a million dollar mortgage Yeah, but he but we you know, it's great the buildings incredible. Let's take a resort

Then you go up to the top floor and there's freaking barbecues and fire pits and all this other so it's getting it's bad Ask it's bad as with six grand six. Oh my god. Absolutely insane. I don't remember what direction I was going with that. I don't know, just that. What you're asking about how long we think it was to take cars to the shelf driving. Yeah, so when we're there, so my brother, who's a car aficionado, he's like, yeah, dude, he goes, I'm getting rid of my car.

And I'm like, well, you know, your work isn't super close, like to walk every day. He goes, you don't need to, dude, he goes, these freaking electric bikes are everywhere. It costs $2 to turn that fucker on. And I think like 15 or 20 cents a minute, just like those scooters outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know how fast these bikes go? Like 35, 40 miles an hour. So you just, you pull up your app, and that's what they do every day to go to work. They pull up their app, they, oh, there's the nearest one, they walk to it, which is like a two minute walk because they're all over the city. They hop on the bike, they cruise to work,

which is like a fucking motorcycle. What was the car that Dr. Molly got into the car? It was like the zip car. Yeah, it's a dead of company, but it's like a zip car. But these are bikes when what's great about the bikes is, because parking's a pain in the ass. Do the, that's brilliant. I didn is because parking is a pain in the ass. Oh, do that. That's brilliant.

I didn't even think about that. They're everywhere. They're everywhere. They're orange and they're these orange bikes. You can pedal them so you pedal them to get started. Then you hit the... I wonder if they have they fixed the problem with all the buses because like I know that used to be a big concern because all these tech companies that moved up into San Francisco

like they would shuttle people in these humongous buses. I don't know. And like just take up like all the parking spots, like everything gets so pissed off. Yeah, I have no idea. But, but I was asking them about that because my cousin Alex has lived in the city now for maybe five years. So he's been there for a while. So he's pretty, he's like a local and I've been there for a long time.

And he goes, dude, he goes, it's taking over. These electric bikes are taking over. He goes, everybody uses it. I told Katrina that. I believe that this, because we're right in the middle of like deciding if we're gonna buy a new car right now or not. And I told her, I'm like, if we do, I said, I really believe this is the last car we buy.

Yeah. I'm also, get the one we want. Get the one we really want. Oh, it's really, really want, because this is, I don't see us buying another vehicle or two after the next. Maybe each of us have one more and then that's it because I think in the next, because a vehicle gets you good 10 years,

you know what I'm saying, if you take a care of it, and 10 years, if this is what it looks like right now. Yeah, I feel like it is coming. You know what's interesting though, too? I guess there's a group and there's a whole petition and signing already for human rights as far as driving is concerned. So they're like, because of, let's say,

you're in one of these automated cars, to give you the right to take over and drive it, let's say something happens with the government or whatever and everything gets shut down where they tell you can't drive. So it's like almost like trying to preserve human rights to drive, which I'm like, what? I'm trying to wrap my brain around. I don't know. That's very interesting. I could see something like that. What always worries me and this probably will be a movie, I'm sure, where everybody's in

these self-driving cars and just one hacker gets in there and just can cause just to see all that too. Yeah, like that. But yeah, do these electric bikes like little scooters, you get on it, 35, 40 miles an hour, you go through traffic, you're in the city, you get there way faster than if you drove, like how freaking amazing is that? It makes, it makes a lot, especially in the city, it makes a lot of work.

So it's so cool. So I got another cool article I wanna, so let's see, Sunday was Earth Day, you guys need that, right? Yeah, I saw a little bit of Earth Day. I didn't know that. It's not on Instagram, everybody's like, oh was Earth Day, you guys knew that right? Yeah, I saw a little over Earth. I didn't know that. Not on Instagram, everybody's like, oh, mother earthy. So, Earth Day obviously, you know, conserve the Earth

and make sure to say all that stuff. So, I was reading this article about the first Earth Day in 1970 and some of the predictions that the scientists made on that day. One prediction was that the scientists made on that day. One prediction was that the population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. And they predicted that the death rate will increase

until 100 and 200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years. Never happened. Another person, other people predicted that we would have a great ice age never happened. Another person, other people predicted that we would have a great ice age never happened. These other people said that there will be between the years 1980 and 1989 four billion people will die. Another person said, yeah, other people said that by 19, remember 1980 something will reach peak oil where

we'll be able, that's it, we're not gonna be able to get any more oil, and that'll cause catastrophic collapse of the world. Now, let's look at what's actually happened. Oh, and then some people said that they predicted that life expectancy will drop down to 49 years because pollution will get so bad by the year 1990. So let's look at what happened.

Life expectancy went up. Far less people are starving. The world's poor has dropped more in the 20th century than it did in all previous, all years combined for humanity. And most of it happened in the last 40 or 50 years. Pollution has actually decreased in developed nations. Oil, not only did we not hit peak oil, but we have more oil today than we did back then

because new technology allows us to access it all. So it's just a reminder for people when we hear these doom and gloom predictions, especially from these environmental scientists who tend to look at things that way. Don't count our ability to innovate and become efficient. Don't count out that there is a market for things to be clean and there is a market for efficiency. We tend to be improving in most of these areas.

I just want to remind people of that because I saw a lot of these posts, and there's definitely bad things that have happened and bad things that tend to happen, but a lot of these posts are like, oh my God, everything's gonna end, and the whole world's gonna end, and the chicken little. Well remember, Al Gore, you guys remember,

you guys remember in communion truth with Al Gore, right? We talked about by right now, actually before, I think by 10 years ago he predicted that the polar ice caps would be completely melted, that sea levels would have risen so much that coastal cities would be under water. Of course that never happened. So just be wary about these kinds of predictions because many times are wrong, but sometimes

they're also motivated politically, because if you're a politician and you can scare somebody, then you can get them to vote for you. And that's just an old game. Not saying they're always wrong, not saying they're always right. Just saying, pay attention, because... Well, and I think, too, like, if you see, like, gross somebody that's a gross polluter, you know, like, what attractive... If you're a business owner and you're just like, like negligent and you're just like polluting and just frivolously getting rid of all your shit, like what is that gonna do to propel your business forward?

Like people are gonna catch onto that quickly. I just don't see that being the mentality. I know that people wanna add, you know, like sort of demonize and put certain people in a certain light. And it's just like in today's date and this today's climate, you just can't get away with that.

No, and you have to understand like if people want something that means there's a market for it, do people want, nobody wants that. Yeah, do people want clean air? Do they want clean water? Do they want clean land? Then in the answers, yes, people do that, they do want, in fact, you can, here's your evidence right here.

Just look at the market for products. It's now a selling point to say that this has less waste, that this was produced with less CO2, that this is recyclable or recycled or whatever. And people will spend more on that kind of stuff. So it shows you that there's, and by the way, that comes from wealth. It doesn't come from, so the more money people tend

to make, the more they tend to value, or at least have the money to, because when you're poor, you don't give a shit if something's made out of recyclable container. You're just like, I just need food. I can't afford to spend another dollar on something that's eco-friendly. But people kind of want that.

Now, I do understand that there are things where there may not be a market for, for example, things that may happen 100 or 500 years from now. So I understand environmental protections and those types of things. So I'm not anti necessarily into that kind of stuff. But there is a market for these kinds of things. And here's another great example. We've had conversations on the show several times, and there was one recently where we were

talking about if society was voluntary, like poor people would be left to die, or homeless people would be left to die, and all that stuff. I just read this, I just watched this, it was just like a short documentary on reason, which is by the way, great Facebook page to follow. And there was this man who, you know, he had been homeless a few times growing up,

and so he had a real soft spot in his heart for people who are on the street. And L.A. right now, I don't know if you guys know this, there's an epidemic of homelessness. I think it's like over 25,000 homeless people. Oh, it's a lot. There's tent, like whole areas are just like tent communities.

Tent communities like crazy, right? And so this guy's like, man, we need to figure something out. So he built. Oh, I saw this article something out. So he built This article so he built these little homes out of like plywood She by four years right no, they were just no he built them they cost them $1,200 to build They were solar powered so you could actually charge your phone in there. There was light in there There was a bathroom that you could use but you'd have to empty just a very small temporary house

Yeah, but better than a tent and you know much cleaner safe because so you could use but you'd have to empty. Just a very small temporary house, but better than a tent and much cleaner, safe, because so you could leave your stuff there, go try and find a job, come back and your stuff is installing or throwing away or whatever. And so he built one for this lady, that was a homeless lady that was outside his house that he became friends with, and then other homeless people came and approached him

and said, can you build one for us too? So he started a GoFundMe campaign and within a short period of time, like a week he generated $100,000. Wow. And built a whole bunch of these little homes or small homes, right? I think they were called.

Like molecule homes. And he put them out and he put them out on private land. So like parking lots were, you know, a resident, like a business says, yeah, you can put a couple over here or churches, a lot of churches said you can put them here, and also under big overpasses with big sidewalks where they put them. So he built a whole bunch of these homes for these people.

So what does the fucking city do? The city collects all the houses, kicks everybody out, collects them all and goes and fucking demolishes them. No way. Yes. Yes. And this, this has happened when people have tried to feed the homeless people.

You know many times there's been situations where people have tried to organize, where they just, you know, they get a bunch of people and the city comes in and shuts them down. And so when people tell me we need to have, we have to have government in order to provide these things for homeless people because if we don't, nobody will take care of them.

Bullshit. Yeah, it's the comparable shit. Try and help them and watch what they do. They'll shut your ass down. They'll make it illegal. There's a lot of cities where it's illegal to organize feeding the fucking homeless unless you get, you go to the city, get all these permits, and all these regulations. And by the time you're done, fucking, you know, it's costing you twice as much or twice as much headache. It's absolutely made me so angry to see this. I'm like, why would they do that? And there is a market people want to help other people.

There's just, I can't believe that there's hurdles. It's insane that they would do that. That's so fucking fresh, right? Yeah, it made me so angry to see that because it was a good thing that he did. A hundred thousand dollars of GoFundMe that he raised. And you know what would have happened? Let's say he did that and it was successful and it got a little bit more attention.

How much you want a bet? He would have gotten another 100,000 in a go fund me. That's just a guy that had a good idea, you know? I mean, you just wanted to help it. It's not like, and that's the thing. It's like, we talk about cherries. It's not just like driven from church or community. It's like, just one person was like,

oh wow, I could help this situation here. I have this great idea. Who wants to help me and back me? Guess what? People respond. They don't need the fucking government to come in and mandate those things. I've always had this idea for, at some point, I want to start

a non-profit, at some point, and I'm not quite sure who I want to help, but one of the ideas that I came up with was, if you're homeless or if you're disenfranchised, one of the most difficult things to do is initially get a job. And part of the reason why it's hard is because laws have made it illegal to pay people less than a minimum wage. Which, and I know why they try to do that, but if let's say minimum wage is $12,

a McDonald's or whoever isn't gonna pay someone with zero skills who may be homeless or maybe have a prison right, they're not gonna give them pay him $12. They're like, they're gonna pay someone with zero skills who may be homeless or maybe have a prison right, they're not gonna give them pay him $12. They're like, they're gonna pay someone else $12 because that person's not high-rebel at $12 an hour. But if we made it possible for them to hire them at, let's say, $4 an hour or whatever, they may do it. And in return, that person builds skills and proves

that they have the ability to do what they can. And it gives them some momentum too for themselves. And so I, one of my ideas, and I guarantee it would, they would never have, it would be very difficult and almost impossible, would be to create a business where we could produce something of value and I can employ people for a lot less than the minimum wage therefore it allows to sell the product for less

so we can at least profit to continue running this business but also give people an opportunity to build some skills so you can come here and say, look, I'm homeless, I have no skills, I've been on drugs and this and that, but I'm going to prove to you and in return, you can pay me whatever, six bucks an hour and I'll prove to you and I'll say no problem. Well, you do this and I tell you what, in six months, you show me you're doing a good job and we'll give you more opportunity or you can take your resume and now now go get a job showing that you've had one for six months and done a good job, but you can't, you

can't fucking do that. They would never let you do that. They know what would happen. They'd say I'm exploding people. Oh, you're exploding them because you're paying them less or what. It's just crazy how many hurdles there are in front of us to try and help people and it makes me so angry. It makes me furious.

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Ah! All right, our first question is from the training hour. Ooh, you know, you guys know that? Who's that? Dude, she's fucking hot. Yeah, she's super hot. Yeah, I've been following her lately. I'm gonna have sex with her later.

Whoa, hey man! Hey! That's my, it's Jessica, every time. Oh, Jessica. Wait a minute, you were just talking. Sorry, oops. Oops. I didn't know.

It was all from the different angle. I don't know. Can you guys talk about the benefits of using drop sets and the best time to incorporate it? Oh, dude, I just did this like two days ago. And I, you know, who's, you know, who encouraged us to do, or I don't, I don't know if this happened to you, but after we hung out with Robert Obers because he's

talking about doing drops that's what I think that's what is in my hand I was feeling myself you know I'm like I've been in a little rhythm but hit my workouts feeling strong room like and I do this all the time let's press and yeah press it a little a little too much and I'm definitely a little more sore than I need to be right now for sure. You should try the turmeric. No, I have to. Okay. Actually, when you brought it up the other day,

what I hadn't been doing. So I know the goal juice has it in it, but I've actually been taking the four pills a night right now. On nights where either one, my keelies is really inflamed and I can feel that because it's still up and down as far as inflammation. It actually works dude.

No, I've been meaning, I've been meaning to bring it up and tell you that after you had brought that up, I started using it like that and I do notice the difference. I actually, if that's what the main reason why I'm using it is just for inflammation and trying, I like using the pills even more than I like using the juice. The juice I like is like a regular thing

or a taste really good. It's got other stuff in it too. Yeah, it has other things in it. But if I'm purely just trying to just knock the inflammation down, I think there's a higher dose of turmeric in just the pills and there is in the gold. Yeah, so I'll go up to eight pills a day because I'm messing with it to see how it affects. So I know the other thing about turmeric is it's very, so it's it's systemic inflammation so if you have irritable bowel syndrome if you have headaches if you have Inflamed sinuses or you know joints or whatever it balances out the inflammatory response

So and they have a really good quality one. So I like the the the ingredients that they use so as far as Drop sets are concerned so drop sets are I'm gonna kind of explain what they are first, and then we'll talk about the benefit. So a drop set is when, let's say I'm doing a shoulder press, and I grab the 35 pound dumbbells, and I'm doing overhead shoulder press. And let's say I did eight reps, and that's my set. What I would do with the drop set is I would do my eight reps,

I drop my 35 pound dumbbells, and then I would grab with the drop set is I would do my eight reps. I dropped my 35 pound dumbbells and then I would grab a lighter set of dumbbells without any rest and go right back into shoulder presses. And so what I might do is I might do 35 pound dumbbells, then when I can't do any more, put them down and grab 25 pound dumbbells. And then when I can't do any more, I might grab 15s or 20s. You can go down in small increments of five pounds, you can go down in larger increments, you're going down 10 pounds or cutting the weight in half. That really doesn't make a huge difference, but what Dropsets are doing is they allow you

to do more reps at higher intensity. I hypertrophy, dude. Yeah, big time pump. And also you don't need a partner to help you do these, so they're really convenient on your own. Whereas, if I'm trying to like rep something out, do whatever I might need to strip a bar or I might have to have someone do four straps and all these other high intensity techniques, a drop set, you just drop the dumbbells, grab another pair. And in terms of like strength endurance, because that's what I get from this, from

a performance standpoint, is that strength endurance. If I want to have the strength to last in a set, that's like 15 or 20 reps, or that kind of strength endurance that you might get from football, for example. Football is a great example of strength endurance. It's not pure endurance because how long does a play typically last, right? Average pay, yeah, 30 seconds, maybe a minute if it's a longer play. And then you take you know 10 to 30 seconds before doing the next play sometimes longer. And so you got to be able to repeat that, you got to be able to repeat that exertion over and over again playing football. And so what you develop with a sport like football, something called Strength and Durance, the ability to go hard, take a quick break and then repeat that.

And drop sets tend to do that for performance. As far as body building is concerned, drop sets are probably, I would say maybe the top or at least one of the top three advanced pump. Yeah, producer. Wouldn't you say that Adam, it's probably one of the top three. I also think it's one of the things that you're building top three.

I think it's one of the things that gets a lot of people in trouble. They just get, and I'm for sure somebody who was like this too, you, when you do a drop set, there's no denying the fucking pump. You have to do it. The way you feel and the way you look. I mean, if you, and anybody who's like training in a strength phase where you're three to five reps, you could do three to five reps for a whole hour workout and never feel super pumped.

I can definitely do that. I can do a full hour workout of strength training and not feel this massive pump in my muscles. Where if I'm drop setting, super setting, and training high reps, you get this massive pump and you've got all this in your drink in your water, you know, I'm saying, so you've got blood, you've got water rushing into your muscles,

you look fucking probably bigger than you've ever looked working out or that muscle looks the most developed for you. And so it does this psychological thing to so many bodybuilders and then they get stuck in that phase. And I've seen this happen to so many of my peers and I too have had this happen to me where I fall in love with the burn, the pump, the look that I have right there that it plays this like, it puts this like psychological twist on

you thinking that, oh my god, like look at me, like I look good right now even though that all deflates and goes away in about an hour or two. And there's some benefit to it. Absolutely. There's benefit to it. That's why it's, it should be something that's incorporated intermittently. So typically when I teach it, I teach it when I'm also teaching somebody in a hypertrophy phase. So like in our phase two or three of maps, I would tell somebody like, hey, because we don't have drops, I don't think we have drops in any, we have an in black. We have an in black.

Yeah, we have it in black, but we don't have it in red. But even someone could use it if you had red. In phase three of red. Yeah, and we're already in a hypertrophy phase, so we're already chasing the pump in phase three of most map programs. So hey, why not throw some drop sets in there here and there. My body's not used to it's different. It's only going to enhance that.

So that's typically when I teach it, but there are no rules on when you use it. I think the key is to just not get stuck doing it a lot and using it intermittently as a tool to kind of like shock the system. And then sometimes personally, because I've been doing this for a long time, I'll even throw it in a strength phase. So maybe I'm three weeks into a lot of heavy five rep, five rep stuff, everything I'm doing is heavy and low reps.

And it's like, hey, you know what, I've been in this type of training for three weeks. Today, I'm going to deadlift, and then at the end of my deadlift, I'm going to do some sort of a drop set with it, because I just would never do that after strength. And I would start with five, and then cut the weight in half, and cut the weight in half again, and just get this massive pump. But I wouldn't recommend somebody going to do that. No, this is a best intermediate, but most more likely in advanced technique. I wouldn't even somebody going do that. This is a best intermediate, but most more likely in advanced technique. I wouldn't even recommend this to beginner. And there's some exercises that lend themselves

very well to drop sets, and others that not so much. Like deadlift's not a good example. Yeah, no, I wouldn't do so like drop sets. When I do drop sets, it's things with dumbbells typically. It's a lot of single joint movements, probably better, overhead presses, sometimes I'll do drop sets. I did one time, I made the mistake of doing a barbell squat drop set. And that before.

Oh, dude. So, and this is, let me tell you, when this happens, it's never when I'm having a smart workout. It's always when I'm working out with another dude and we're measuring our dicks basically. Who see you, who can go out and do the other guy? Yeah, so this is what happened. I worked out with DJ and Ryan,

you guys remember DJ, my friend Ryan. And all fit dudes, all very strong. And we were gonna do legs. And I came up with the idea, I'm like, hey, what if we just did a bunch of drop sets for squats and everybody laughed and nobody wants to say no, right? Because you don't want to be a pussy.

So we loaded up the bar and we used a bunch of small plates so that we could strip it down like five times. And let me tell you, dude, I'm thinking like, yeah, we're gonna do this for like an hour. No, we might have done two sets or three sets each and then that was it. And that was it for a while. I couldn't move for a long time and I'm pretty sure I damaged my muscles.

I think it was like a week, baby, we could have to recover after. Oh, so it was a little brutal. This is also how, if I was gonna do something like that, like a perfect time to do something crazy like that is when I know I only have 10, 20 minutes to work out. It's like, and Arnold used to say this, like I could come in and do one set,

you know, more effective than someone's entire work. And that would be an example of that, like listen, I'm limited to only 15, 20 minutes today. What can I do to forget the most bang for my butt? This is where I might do some of this. Now that a lot of guys will do, so they still got their hour workout ahead of them, so they... That's the Mike Menser approach with the heavy duty

what he wrote in the 1970s was, you do one absolute all-out set per body part, once per week. And I do wanna say this real quick as I go into this. Here's a quick rule. There's certain laws when it comes to resistance training. None of them are real laws, like nothing works 100%, but there's general laws. And one of the general laws is that most techniques will

work for most people if they're new, if they're novel, and everything will not work forever. So if you've never done a drop set and then you do a drop set, you'll probably see some change. Will it work forever? Nope. And a lot of you won't work more than two times, or maybe more than one time. And so you do get these changes when you do these things.

And so Mike Menser's book was, go into the gym, one all-out set to failure and beyond, and then you're done. If you've never trained that way before, and you try that every once in a while, you may actually get some progress out of it. Like Adam says, I only have 10 minutes. All right, let's go in there and do this all-out, drop set,

and then leave. If you never do that, you might actually see something. I really think there's a place for everything, but not to sound like a broken record, but I think where everybody goes wrong with all of these types of tools is they just overuse them. And it, what the psychological part that's hard is that you see some sort of result,

and the reason why you see some sort of result or change or difference is because you just haven't done it. So somebody who did that and never done that before, they see this great result and it's like, oh shit, that was that works. I'm gonna do it again, and I'm gonna do it again works. I'm gonna do it again and I'm gonna do it again and I'm gonna do it again. And the next thing you know, you love drop setting

and you're drop setting all the time in your workouts and it's like, well, you know, the first three or four times you did that, you probably did see some really good change. Your body did see the signal do adapt and you got, but now it's starting to get so used to that. That it's not so, these types of things, the drop sets, the training to failures, the pyramid sets,

I mean, all these different types of tools, I love to intermittently throw them in my routines, and I absolutely will do that. And a lot of times it is just a test, like that I did it the other day, I overdead it a little bit, but it wasn't like that, that wasn't me fucking up or a failure,

it's like that kind of let me know where I'm at right now as far as my muscle conditioning. I'm just, I'm not up to that much volume and that much intensity to where I need to do that. I see the, like, where I'm at right now, this sounds like really appealing. You know, like I'm totally gonna go do this, you know, because before that, like you said,

if I only have like certain amount of time, which this is always something I'm battling, my go-to would be be I'm gonna do a squat and then I'm gonna do an overhead press. And that's just it. I'm gonna do those two things. And then the next time I'm gonna do a deadlift and I'm gonna do a bench press.

And that's those two things. And so it's like, I know I can hammer those out within 20, 30 minutes, get a real solid workout as far as my skill and like depth and like, you know, what I'm trying to do mechanically and load it up properly. But yeah, let's flirt with that. When I'm in a pinch like that, so it does make sense.

Do you guys have a favorite exercise for drop sets? Like is there one exercise you like to do drop sets the most for? I mean, I like arm stuff. Dumbbell bench. Yeah, I like arm stuff. Dumbbell bench is so fun. drop sets the most for. I mean I like arm stuff. Yeah, I like arm stuff. Yeah. For me, I like I like doing biceps biceps stuff for triceps stuff. Laterals. Yeah. Laterals. Yeah. That's my favorite to drop sets. Laterals. It's so easy, right? You just go down the aisle. Yeah. I

called it. We used to call it running the rack. That was a and that was a term that was used in the probably 80s. Now they say drop set, drop set, strip sets, run the rack, those are all mean the same thing. But that's what I just call run the rack. And what you do is you start with your heaviest weight and you would go down dumbbells. Literally until you hit the, man, this is where you see the 24 hour fitness

like fucking apocalypse like Adam blasting me about the other day. We're all the dumbbells. We're just all on the ground. Cause the fuck, your arms just fall off. I can put them all back. Hey, did you guys see that? And speaking of 24 fitness, one of their, I think as an area manager said that he has his trainers, all the trainers listen to him.

Yeah. No, I'm getting that more and more now. It's a fact we have a huge like 24 fitness influence. You know what? Now that you, I'm glad you brought that up because we're already, I don't know if I told you guys or not. I know we now that you, I'm glad you brought that up because we're already, I don't know if I told you guys or not, I know we're scheduled or we're scheduling right now. It golds and a 24 because I, two fitness managers,

one GM and one FM reach out to me and I think most all their trainers listen to the show already and they listen and I said it earlier, and I don't know if I've said it on the show. So if you're listening and you're a GM and FM for any of those franchises and you guys, especially if you're in California, because we're always up and down California, but if you're around and you guys want us to stop. Oh, man, this makes me so, I love to do this stuff.

So then sort of the point of it. This is like full circle. Yeah, man, I would, and so a couple guys called me out on that and reached out and absolutely were making time for them as we're, we got a West court West Coast tour happening right now. And so we're going to drop in some of the, the golds and 24s that reached out would love to come, come by, see the trainers. We could do like a little live Q&A with them and talk to them. So if you're a manager for one of those facilities and you listen and your, your listens Would love to stop by next question is from Eddie the coach How do you talk to your kids when you and your ex were getting a divorce and in the transition of moving out?

Oh, I'm assuming this is a little bit directed. Yeah, so you know, I sat down with my kids and I'm like hey listen You know, you don't clean your room. I'm out of here. No, I'm sorry I'm like, hey, listen, you know, you don't clean your room. I'm out of here, and I'm just, I'm just, terrible. You know, I had to break it. I had to break it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's your fault, no.

No, I told you that I love your mom. Well, I don't. No, no, no, no. You know what, when you're, and this is just, I mean, this is, this is, this is, this had to have been really tough for you because, oh, so tough. When you're going through something like this,

I mean, it's already, I'm sure a fucking, I mean, like you said, probably the hardest times of your life. So personally, you already have so much that you're internally dealing with, and then also she's probably crazy and I deal with her shit, and then I'll tell that you got to think,

now how do I, you know, convey this to my kids? Here's the thing. That allow me my emotions to get involved. Here's, and I did a lot of thinking, a lot of meditating on this. And here's the thing, when you're as a child, a child will naturally blame themselves for some major challenge or trauma in their life. And the reason why they do this,

especially when it has to do with their parents is, it's easier for them to think that they did something wrong than it is for them to think that the person who takes care of them. Yeah, you guys are the superheroes. Yeah, superheroes don't do stuff wrong. Yeah, and so they internalize a lot. And so I was very cognizant of that.

That was something I was thinking quite a bit. And I thought to myself, well, it's happening. Okay, so I can't shield them from this. It's gonna happen. I might as well be as honest as possible. I might as well just be very, very honest. And of course, you want to make sure your language is appropriate and how you discuss the things as appropriate for their level of understanding. I mean, if I was getting divorced and my kids were 1920, we can get into more depth about what happened with the relationship and the marriage and all that kind of stuff. But you know, you're talking to little kids. relationship and the marriage and all that kind of stuff.

But you're talking a little kids, you want to talk in language that they can understand. But you want to be as honest as possible because it's difficult regardless. But what we'll make it more difficult is if they have false hope by saying, well, we're just going to try things out or I'm going to do this or sometimes things don't work out. You want to be as honest as possible. What I told my kids, we both, we both sat down. I think that's also very important. And this is not always possible for people.

But if it is, I, you know, my best recommendation is both you and your, you know, your ex or whatever, sit down and talk to the kids together so that they can see. Because another thing that I was worried about is I was worried that my kids would view us no longer as united in raising them. So yes, we are no longer together as a couple, but we are still united as your parents. We're still on the same team, which means when you need something, we're both a team. And when you do something, if something need something, we're both a team.

And when you do, if something goes wrong, we're both a team. And if she says something, I got her back. And if I say something, she's got my back. Because if they start to view you as separate, that can be a tremendous stress. It can be a tremendous stress. If you don't know what to expect, kids will start to work you. They'll start to, you know, and you start, and all that guilt and stuff starts to kick in. So we were just super honest and we sat them down and said,

look, you know, your mom and I have decided that we're going to be getting a divorce. Now this is what that means. It means that we're not going to live together anymore. So, and then they're like, well, where are we going to live? And say, well, you're going to actually have two houses now and you'll have two rooms and you'll be living sometimes here, like you normally do, and sometimes you'll be living at a new house, which I'll be living in.

But what I want you to know is we're still a family. And this was the big theme of the conversation that we had with our kids was, this doesn't change the fact that we're a family. We're still a family. And let me tell you, when you're going through divorce, you don't wanna hang out with your ex. You just don't, obviously, you're divorcing them, right? But when my kids have something, when they're doing something,

when it's a sporting event, when it's a dance recital, me and their mom show up and we show up together and we've brought our new significant others as awkward as it may feel or whatever, because it's important that the kids see that, oh, all these people care about us and all these people are united and working together. We also told them it's gonna be very consistent.

I said, look, the same rules that you have now are gonna be the same rules you have in the new house. And, you know, or their mom and I, we talk about these things all the time. We just thought, we discuss bedtime, we discuss food, we discuss when they do their homework, because it can be very stressful moving from home to home, and what we wanted for the kids was that it would be,

make it as seamless as a transition as possible, in the sense that they know that it's the same rules. Like, okay, not a situation where, my mom's house, I can leave my room a mess and I do my homework before bed. And then my dad's house, I got to do it right after I go home from school and he lets me stay up late or whatever. It's the same. It's the same.

We're all, we're a family still. We still work together. The only difference is two houses, two different places live. And we're just very, very honest and we answered their questions as honestly as possible. And the questions your kids will ask you are gonna be fucking hard, very difficult. They're gonna ask you things like, do you guys still love us?

Do you still love each other? Do you still, these are very tough questions to answer. And so they did ask us, do you guys not love each other anymore? We said, well, no, actually we care very much. And I told my ask us, like, do you guys not love each other anymore? We said, well, no, actually we carry very much. And I told my kids, look, I said, your mom is your mom. She's the mom of the children of my kids. No matter what, I'm always going to care about your mom.

That's a very special thing. And we're always going to work together. We just don't want to be married anymore. And then, of course, my youngest did understand that. Because they're like, well, what's the difference? Why don't you guys just be then of course, my youngest did understand that because it was like, well, what's the difference? Why don't you guys just be married then because they don't understand that whole,

that other whole aspect of it. So that was a tough one, but you just gotta be as honest as possible with your kids. I try not to sugarcoat her. I think the United Peace is the important, the fact that the mistake that I've seen with friends of mine that had divorced parents, I had divorced parents, is the parents that, and it's very, very common.

It's more common that you see this. So common. That you see mom and dad break and divorce because they don't like each other anymore, whatever it may be or something bad happened. And the partner or the mom and dad have resentment for each other. And they speak through the kids about it. It's such a terrible mistake. It is a huge mistake.

And use competition between the two. And I've seen it and I've seen what happens to the relationship with those kids and the parents that are now adults and their relationship. I mean, I see it in my own family. My sister, who's only a year different from me, has zero relationship with my stepfather, and part and she just, she absolutely hates them.

And she hates them a lot because my mom hated him. And my mom talked so bad about him so much that it's been ingrained in her head that way. And I've seen that, she's done that with multiple people in our family relationship where, and my sister and I were so young, you're seven, eight, nine years old. So if mom says, dad's an asshole, dad's an asshole,

you know what I'm saying, her dad's a jerk because he won't pick you up on time, or dad, she would express how she was feeling with what was going on in their shed. And that is a huge, fucking mistake because it's inevitable. And I know Sal can speak to this. I guarantee his ex pisses him the fuck off sometimes but

you cannot let the kids see that right if they see that and they see you bad mal thing their mother at all even in the slightest bit like then you show that division. Honesty is extremely important so I could say something like well I'm you know I'm upset with your mom right now or I I'm upset with the situation. But what you have to understand with children, especially when you get divorced, you have two parents, is that that other parent is the other half of the child. So what I say about my kid's mom to my kids, I'm saying about them. This is how they internalize it. So if we're sitting there, and I'm telling my kids, your my kids. I'm saying about them. This is how they internalize it.

So if we're sitting there and I'm telling my kids, your mom is this, your mom is that, and she's this and she's stupid or whatever. You know what, my kids would be feeling? They'll be like, oh, like that's me, that's half me. I'm a lot like my mom because other people are gonna tell them stuff like, oh my God, he looks so much like your mom.

Oh, so now they start to internalize it. And one of two things will happen. Either they'll start to hate themselves, or they resent you, or they pick a side. And the last thing you want ever to do, and I've seen parents do this, and it's so crazy to me, where they'll have young kids, and then the last of the kids, who do you want to live with?

Who do you want to stay with? Wow, like, and I understand sometimes those situations require that, but like that is it, you're asking this, a young kid now to hurt someone's feelings and choose someone else, and that can cause a lot of having, and that's what happens when you say terrible things

about their parent to them. Now you can be honest, if you're, if your ex is a degenerate, if your X doesn't show up when they're supposed to and doesn't support and all that stuff, you can be honest and say, look, they have a tough time being consistent or it doesn't look like that they're responsible with this. And just be honest, but don't, the vitriol,

the negative evil comments, the anger, like keep that for yourself but don't, the vitriol, the negative evil comments, the anger, like keep that for yourself, don't, you get to pull your emotions out of it. It's a, it's a, be able to speak the honesty and the truth of what's happening with the same time too, take out the emotions and the feelings that you're feeling of resentment, anger, bitterness.

That's right, that can't come out in your conversation with the kid. One thing is for sure, like my kids know that their mom and dad are like, we may not agree on a lot of things, but together we're a fucking team when it comes to raising them. And when my kids ask me something like, my son will be like, hey, can I have a new phone?

And I'll be like, did you ask your mom? And the reason why I'll ask is I wanna make, if you didn't, then okay, well then maybe I'll answer, but if you did, what did she say? Because I gotta back her up. and she'll do the same thing. Because I want them to know, like okay, they're a team. Even though they're not married, I still have two parents that are a team.

And you have to set that foundation now because it's inevitable when they become teenagers. They're gonna try and work the system. They're gonna know. Yeah, they're gonna try and work the system. What they want. Yeah, you go ask mom these questions, you ask dad that they'll know who to ask what and they'll play you guys against each other. And they want. Yeah, you go ask mom these questions, you ask dad, that they don't know who to ask what,

and they'll play you guys against each other. And so you gotta be, you gotta have established that solid foundation early. Be a fucking mature adult. Like don't be a fucking kid, man. Like don't be a, don't be a, be an adult. Like here, I'll tell you what, we have, there's obviously, there's holidays,

and you have to split the holidays, which is tough for a parent. Like, you know, they're not with me on Christmas, so they're going to be with their mom on Christmas, or they're with me on Easter, so they're not with her. And that's a difficult, especially the first ones, right? Those are real tough. So what we do, and we don't do this on all of them, but we've done a couple times, especially for the more difficult ones like Christmas, where they were with me on Christmas.

And their mom was kind of having a tough time, and I could tell. And the kids were kind of like, oh, are we going to see mom on Christmas and their mom was kind of having a tough time and I could tell. And the kids were kind of like, oh, are we going to see mom on Christmas and that? And here's the other side of it. I have a girlfriend also who, you know, we live together. So it's also her house. So I don't, I'm not trying to impose anything because I also want to respect, you know, Jessica's space as well. But luckily I'm with someone that is also extremely mature and wise.

And so what does Jessica do? She calls my ex. It says, hey, look, I know the kids are with us on Christmas, but if you'd like to come over, we're going to have hot cocoa or whatever. Watch the kids open their presents from Santa Claus and hang out a little bit. And I know for a guarantee for my ex, that's not the most comfortable situation to come over with my house and my girlfriend's house and whatever.

But you know what, she did it because, of course, she want to see the kids, but she also wants the kids to see that we're beyond, like that stuff's there, but what's more important is that we're all a team. That's huge. That she did that. Oh, and we've done that now for several holidays and it's getting easier and it ain't easy.

It's, I'll tell you something, I was fucking not, you look, the first time we did it, I remember where we were. We went, oh, we went, it was my daughter had a dance recital. And so I brought my girlfriend, my ex brought her boyfriend. It was the first time everybody met. My parents were there, my ex's dad was there, cousin,

so it's also other extended families now that are seeing these other people. And so we all showed up and everybody was cool and the kids saw us all together, it was all good. On Easter, we all went to, you know, we all did the church service together because you know, my kids go to the Catholic school. Afterwards, you know, I did this, this was my thing Well, did the church service together? Because my kids go to the Catholic school afterwards.

I did this, this was my thing, and I said, hey, let's all take a big family picture. And I said that loud and from my kids, so they could see everybody's fucking cool. And we did, we took a big picture together. And that's all it. And it's, again, it's not perfect, but just be honest, just be totally honest,

and be mature adults about it, because I firmly believe the damage that's caused from the divorce is in small part, the fact that there's a big change where the two parents aren't together, but I think it's a large part to the shitty way that parents tend to handle those situations.

There's a lot more in your hands than you think. Good habit to practice is, because it's inevitable that your ex will piss you off. That's just how it's inevitable. That will happen is when those moments come Do not communicate with your kids. Just separate yourself from your children for a while Let yourself cool down. Let yourself process what you just went through with them Swear in your room go to your friend tell them what a bitch. She is do all that stuff with to the people that you can talk to

Then fucking gather yourself and have your conversation when your kids when you have to, but do not punching back. I think that's the biggest mistake I see people have is they get fired up emotionally because the X is an idiot. They always, that's why they're your X. And so I know, I know people, I know families where they're divorced and everything and dual custody.

So it's not like they're like one of them degenerate, whatever, but they hate each other so much that they'll roll up to the house and they'll fucking just drop the kids out. They don't even get out of the car or anything. Like peace, and it's like this, what they don't realize they're doing is they're creating this imaginary division.

They won't even say hi to the other person. You know what I'm saying? Where I'm 100% honest. I don't wanna say hi to the other person. You know what I'm saying? I'm 100% honest. I don't want to say hi to my ex at all afterwards. I want to hang out with her. But you better believe I dropped the kids off. I go up, say hi to her. Hey, how's it going?

Great. Because I want them to see, oh cool, they communicate and they're all together. They're on the same team. It just takes another level of maturity, but I think it's worth it. Next question is from the Girls Gone Wad Podcast. Oh, yeah, it's friends. Yeah. Very important question.

How do you fold your toilet paper? Do you crumple it or fold it? That's what. Wow. How are you a folder or a crumple? Apparently, like the wipe standing up or sit down, can I have it? Apparently, this is like a big, like there's a big division. There is. Really? Yeah, well, are you guys folders or crumpler apparently like the wipe standing up or sit down apparently this is like a big like there's a big division

There is really yeah, well are you guys folders or crumplers? Uh, I'm trying to I'm very serious about my bathroom toilet paper time So yeah, I'm a crumpler. I do the the whole roll thing and then I smash it. Yeah, you're a folder aren't you? No, no, I'm a crumpler. I'm a two-time crumpler and two wiper. Well, what do you mean? So I do two crumples? Oh two wipes. He's a prince do you mean? So I do two crumples. Oh, two wipes. He's a crumpler. Yeah.

And then I get two wipes. What if you need an extra wipe? It's always two and two. Two and two is a hard. That's it. That's a hard. What if there's a lot of stuff? That's two.

See, sometimes I only need one. I'm saying, sometimes one's only like, you know, if it's a, if it's a crumple. I always go for an excessive amount. A clean break means one, one and one, but that's the two and two is like the norm. So the wipes, you know, that's the thing that you introduced to us change your life. Yeah. And you know what? You're welcome. That's probably why you got some roadhead.

You know, I'm just I'm sure it's contributed. And thanks for outing that. I was trying to like scoot around that. Yeah. But I just I Oh, I just, I just got a love. I just guessed. I mean, you're driving the car and you're pulling it right. You guess that's all. Yes, my foot, he's my foot, he's my driver. I read that I read somewhere that the day. I read somewhere that the wipes aren't, are they not good for the environment or something?

Well, of course they're not. So either as fucking flushing toilet paper, nothing's good for the environment anymore. I don't know. What the fuck is good for the environment? Is this bound to be degradable? Kind of. Or they plug up toilets and stuff like that. I don't know. Maybe some, is going to be viral? Is this viral degradable kind of there? Or they plug up toilets and stuff like that?

I don't know. They have some forward-thinking companies making it. Yeah, the someone was saying, here's an article, what wipes are a huge environmental problem? Huge. Yeah, really? Yeah, I think plastics a lot worse.

Well, I think selfies are worse. Yeah. You know what though? This is such a classic thing, right? Consumer society. You know, the last time we talked about this, I is such a classic thing, right? Consumer society. You know the last time we talked about this, I did get a bunch of DMs from people. You know, you really shouldn't flush those.

No, twin. Oh, dick, go fly a kite, bro. Stop taking it. Yeah, but have you stopped? You stopped me, selfies, all stop using my wife's. See how squeaky clean my ass always? It's right, dude. But you know what we should do is make bidet's popular again, dude.

Oh, there you go. Like, or not popular again, popular because those, that's a big thing in Europe. So quite a few of the houses that we've been staying at. By that never caught on. Well, actually a lot of the houses that we've stayed at have had them. Have you used them when you're in?

Yeah. So I'm gonna confess, I've never used them before. I can't be too strong. Yeah, I just imagine this. I've never used like, how does it work? How does it work? How does it work? What does it start to finish?

What do you do? You wipe first with paper? Yeah, do you go straight into the... No, no, no, no, no. You still do your normal process over there, then they have it right in the toilet right next to it, then you hop your butt right over there, and then there's a hot cold and then a nozzle thing, and you... The thing that sucks is when you're getting on somebody else's that you've never been

on before. I've noticed, since we've been in all these different houses, there's probably been, I would say, all the houses that we've traveled to, there's probably, I've had. It's just like a sink or does the water spray up? Spray spray straight up. So you have to sit over it.

You have to be right on it right because you could shoot shoot up, shoot up a little far up the front or up the back. So you've got to, you got to hone in on the target there. So it just spray straight straight up. Straight up. If you were to, if you were to, And then you use your hand with soap and everything, or you don't't even touch it hand. It's enough. Well, I don't know Justin. I've never done this before. It's enough pressure. Okay, you're sitting. Imagine if

you're sitting there soap or just water. No, it's just water. It's just the water wash. Yeah, it's just a water. That's why you still need to do the power wash in your ass. Exactly what's happening. That is what it is. So you stand over, you squat over it. You don't yeah, it's what's happening. So you stand over you squat over it You don't sit on it like a toilet. Oh, so you still sit on it and when you sit on it, you know You're I mean I imagine I haven't seen a camera view But I'm imagining if I sit down and probably naturally spreads my ass cheeks a little bit Yeah, and then the the nozzle part is you know lined up with your your butthole Yeah, and then you turn it on there's warming cold Yeah, so people really like it

And then you turn it on there's warming cold. Yeah, some people really like it. What did you say? It's a little deep clean. Yeah, it's a little deep clean. It's so weird for me. But no, I mean, I'm for sure when I actually customize their house. Isn't it like poop in it then afterwards? Wow.

No, no, because you've done a good job of getting the serious stuff on the first the first go around So when you when you when you first you still why it's just like the film Yeah, I mean, wow So it's a thing it gets sort of dingle berries you know saying you sit on before they become ding a dingle berries Or because people let that shit fucking dry up on their shit and it's disgusting. That's why I'm always been a wipe guy Like you get rid of all of that all the lingering stuff otherwise Maybe you get a shave that asshole right or that, all the lingering stuff, otherwise. And you get to shave that asshole.

Right, or that, one or the other, or both. Let's go there. Yeah, no, I think Badez gotta be the way to go, because you know, not to throw things away, there's no waste, and it would be, it would be an ideal. It's cleaner. So everybody knows that all the fuck. I know women love them for after sex.

That's a big thing. In Europe, it's like, oh, after we have sex, we can't wash ourselves. Right, no, that would be excellent for that. I didn't even think about that. for after sex that's a big thing like in Europe is like oh yeah yeah yeah wash or so right no that would be excellent for that I didn't even think about that perfect for that should make a mind pump a day mind make it popular mind today that's all I got for that one that I can't give you anymore I can't tell I can't give our girls anymore than that but I'm a I'm a crumpler because I think that creates edges so like if you fold like people hard poop man you need to

scrape it up fold look like I mean they're doing origami with this no no like creates edges. So like if you fold like people like hard poop, man. You need a straight up. What would a fold look like? I mean, are they doing origami with this? No, no, like a fold is like just a normal, perfect fold that's just thick, right? So it's like wiping your butt with like a, you just double it up, double it up. Like a cloth, you know, because it's so,

it's like our blanket, because it's so soft. So some people like that, but I want some edge to mine. Who's the most likely to plug the toilet? Justin. Come on, easy, to plug the toilet, Justin? Easy. Come on, easy, not easy. Easy, easy. I think he's too much paper. He's a lot of paper.

Oh, do. What? Why? Because I'm paranoid. I don't get all of it. So you just have shit ton of paper? I don't want it on my hand. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways. Who picked that question? I shouldn't know where to go. Had to, the girl's gone wild. Anyways. Who picked that question? I should know where to go. The hats are the girls going wild. Yeah. All right, our next question is from O'Rourke Q. An asteroid impact is imminent.

Do you want to be vaporized immediately or survive with 10% of the people left on the planet? And if so, where do you go for a safe haven and how well could you survive? Dude, that thing's hit me in the planet. And if so, where do you go for a safe haven and how well could you survive? Dude, that thing's hit me in the face. I'm going out like a G. You'd rather just die automatically. Ah!

No, this would be fun. Take me. This is exactly how I would start my nation, my community. Yeah, you can't wait. Everybody dying, I'd rise up. Everybody, follow me. The squat society.

Oh, great leader. Yes, squat and deadlift society. It's crazy. What a terrible question. It's a hard one to think about, but think about all the things that we've gotten so accustomed to that. I can't even think about watching TV or phones, the cars that we drive. Like I can't build a car.

I couldn't build a TV. I can't build a phone. Like a lot of these things that we do. You know, you never need a hot thing. Yeah. Yeah. Not going to start over again. I can't build a phone. Like a lot of these things that we would be horrible. Yeah, I've been hard over again. Yeah, just think about all the things that we have and that we've become accustomed to using every single day

of our lives to the point where we don't even understand how they work. Like that's how like crazy it's beautiful. Oh, it'd be Stone Age. It would. It would be Stone Age right away. Like I'd be fucked. Like I would, I mean, I could survive.

Like I feel like, I feel confident enough. I don't, I think most of us would die. Oh really? Yeah you know you have to make batteries at a lemon. Bro the net yeah but how? Here's a thing the natural I know that much random facts. You can make batteries at 11. That's how it's all ancient. I've seen it. Yeah. You here's the thing that people understand the natural state of humanity is is terrible grinding poverty You know food scarcity. It's that's the natural state the way we live now is not natural

We have created a society it's a miracle where all these people have somehow worked together to create a situation where We don't have to worry about a whole lot. We're so soft. Everybody would just get demolished. Take away, look, you don't even have to destroy 90% of the world. Just take away electronics. Did that show ever last the one that was,

I know you didn't afraid. No, no, no, no. I know you've watched it for sure because I think we talked about it a few years back. It was last month on Earth. No, no, no, they actually had a reality show where I think 10 people get dropped in. It was based on some area in LA, some out, or out right outside of LA. And it was basically they had to build their own little community.

And there was like a, you know, there was like one doctor, then there was like an engineer guy, there was a construction guy, and they all had to kind of work together to build, and they had nothing. You had no outside resources whatsoever, they had to kind of put together this, and they had to figure out how to generate power. Oh my God, you just reminded me, yeah.

Right, you've seen that, right? Yeah, I don't think it only lasted like a season if that. I know I watched at least one or two seasons of it. Think about how many people who are super highly skilled that there's skills will be so worthless. Oh, totally. Like us, like I'm a good trainer. I don't fucking care about getting in shape, man.

I'm just gonna survive, like how could you help me? I wanna be a blacksmith. You know what I think? I have something like this. That scares me about this question because I'm thinking like I love you guys, right? I love the four of us here just, I feel like we can't pick any of us. I know I wouldn't. That would be fuck. I wouldn't pick myself, you know what I'm thinking, I love you guys, right? I love the four of us here. Just I feel like we can pick any of us.

I know I wouldn't. That would be fuck. I wouldn't pick myself, you know what I'm saying? This is not a strength of mine. Look where we live in Silicon Valley. All these tech geniuses would be worthless. They would know what to do. Their stock goes way down.

Their skills are worth nothing. That would be a terrible situation. But humanity has been through some insane, like the plague. Do you know how many people the plague killed in Europe? One third. One third of the entire planet. Imagine that right now.

One that of every three people that you know died. I just guaranteed one of us from an illness. Okay, I heard about this documentary on Netflix about rats. And so I'm definitely gonna watch it because I guess like, they went into like New York and they showed just communities of rats and like how insanely, like how so many of them still like pervade the entire city,

like make up more of the population than people. And let's just think if like, and they're all carrying diseases, the whole kinds of different diseases, like who's to say that can't all of a sudden become an epidemic again if all the power goes out. You know, now everybody's fighting for food and the rats are fighting for food.

Well, you take away power, you take away clean water, you take away sewage removal. So imagine that, now what that causes, you take away medicine, you take away obviously information Every system that we have that supports us is relies on other system you guys remember right before why 2k We're worried about yeah, we had my my family had fucking all kinds of canned food We really we had too much water tons of jups of water underneath under the house in the shade like it was crazy We had all kinds of shit. Did you really?

Yeah. I feel like that was a, sometimes I feel like these are like conspiracy theories to sell like canned food. Totally. Well do you remember what the big scare was? The calendar. Yeah, the calendar. Yeah, the calendar.

Nobody had thought further like, oh shit, how are we gonna go into the next, into 2000? It doesn't make sense. Like, no one had thought to program it out that way. We've gone beyond You know the thoughts of the agents. Yeah, awesome. No, I think the biggest threat I mean asteroid is a pretty big threat mainly because we wouldn't we have one that just recently just either just missed us Yeah, I saw well when they say just miss us. Oh, it sounds like it just it's like millions of miles

Yeah, it's not near our moon. It's not even close enough to hit our moon or anything like that Yeah, I mean the thing about asteroids is that we wouldn't see it because we're not necessarily looking out at everything. It would be hard for us to... It's very likely that we wouldn't even see it before it was too late. And if we did catch it, we could probably come up with a plan to derail it with some nukes or something like that to get it kind of off, you know, off orbit. If an asteroid hit our moon, that would be crazy. I was gonna say, what happens if, yeah, if the moon just destroys and, you know, you know, what does that do to the tide? The cycles.

Oh, yeah, all the tides get fucked up. All kinds of crazy shit would happen. Of course, bits of the moon would fly into earth. But don't you think we devolved though, right? Without a moon. Or we might cook up too much or, I don't know, like, what was that, was that dude? I don't know, man, it's, yeah, but as for we wouldn't see, there's a good chance we wouldn't see an asteroid coming until it was too late. And then you gotta, no, no, because we don't,

we don't have like mass surveillance of all this, you know, hard it is to catch things that are coming until it's too late, like at some point we'd be like, you know, hard it is to catch things that are coming until it's too late. Like at some point, we'd be like, oh shit, there it is. But there's not much we can do. Yeah, but if an asteroid hits Florida, how the fuck do my-

Cause they're not like on fire all the time, right? Those are my years. You're saying like an asteroid like the size of the United States coming or like bigger. Oh dude, an asteroid the size of like a, definitely the size of a city. If that hit the earth, that would be catastrophic worldwide. Absolutely.

I mean, the immediate blast would destroy a lot of people, but then it would cause so much shit to fly up into the sky that it would cause this permanent winter that would last for like a hundred years. What? Yeah, because of all the stuff that flies up, so all the debris and dust. A block all of a sudden.

Blocks out the sun. So this is what happened in the dinosaurs. The asteroid came, killed a bunch of people, but then what killed, excuse me, dinosaurs. But then we killed, the rest of the dinosaurs was the fact that the earth cooled down and plants died and the plant eaters died and then, you know, just down the food chain, right? If it hits the ocean, it could cause catastrophic deaths in the ocean. So we're all connected. And again, the problem is that we wouldn't necessarily see one that's coming. So, I don't know.

That's the thing though, that's like a potential that could always happen. But it's like, do you really want to sweat about it and think about it? Would you? Well, let me ask you guys this. What are you going to do about it? What do you think would happen if the government saw an asteroid and they're basically like, there's nothing we could do. Yeah. Do you think they would tell us? No, they would all get them at. They would all occupy all the rockets. They're going to Mars. That's why, you know, they're

flying. Tesla and Elon Musk is like, let's figure a way to get the fuck out of here. They like orbit Earth. Yeah. Until they're the come back. I'm bringing my favorite car. Yeah. God, would you want to know? Would you want to know? Like if there was like 48 hours, like okay, 48 hours, you're basically everyone's gonna die. Would you want to know?

Would you rather be kept in the dark? I don't want to know. Cause I feel like there's certain things that you could potentially do. Don't you think? I kind of want to know and like, like have some like epic place where I just like, watch it come at me. Yeah. Oh shit like that

Come for me. I don't know how many people would be like an armageddon scene. I maybe I'm gonna Many people would instantly instantly become spiritual and religious. You know what I mean? Oh Everybody was listen. I know I've ignored you my whole life Everybody let me in, he let me. And you'd almost be a full not to believe whatever you want. I believe whatever you want. You'd probably have like half the world would be super like, good to each other, religious spiritual.

Oh, totally. The other half would be like, everybody fucking take drugs. I was just like, you see like something happens. I've said everybody becomes patriotic. Yeah, it's the meat. Yeah, it's the same thing. So check this out. If you go to the app store, you can get the Mind Pump Media app,

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