Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 934: Optimizing the Stress of Exercise, Getting Loved Ones to Train, the Best "As Seen on TV" Fitness Equipment & MORE

Episode Date: December 29, 2018

Organifi Quah! In this episode of Quah, sponsored by Organifi (organifi.com/mindpump, code "mindpump" for 20% off), Sal, Adam & Justin answer Pump Head questions about exercise as a stress to the body, the best way to get a girlfriend to start resistance training, how gut issues make it difficult to lose weight and the best gimmicky “as seen on tv” fitness equipment or programs. Get your Felix Gray glasses with your FSA/HSA account, the importance of blue light blocking glasses & why quality matters. (4:49) The truth behind the statement ‘You get what you pay for’. (11:33) How most toys we grew up with could ‘take your eye out’. The crazy things the guys used to do for entertainment. (15:23) How the tech companies are becoming more responsible before the potential backlash behind screen time use + how the guys police their own kids. (23:47) Takanakuy: The Christmas fighting festival of Peru. (36:18) The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else. (40:30) The NEED to get back to real journalism. (45:00) Will Adam purchase the new Nike self-lacing shoes? (49:11) Dollar Stores Feed More Americans Than Whole Foods. (51:40) #Quah question #1 – Exercise as a stress to the body or relief? (57:04) #Quah question #2 – What is the best way to get a girlfriend to start resistance training? (1:04:37) #Quah question #3 – Can gut issues make it difficult to lose weight? (1:16:06) #Quah question #4 – If you were able to only purchase one gimmicky “as seen on tv” fitness equipment or programs, what would it be and why? (1:20:26) People Mentioned Dr. Joseph Mercola (@drmercola)  Instagram Dr. Michael Ruscio (@drruscio)  Instagram Dr. Stephen Cabral (@stephencabral)  Instagram Products Mentioned: December Promotion: Enroll in Any MAPS Program – 1 Year of Forum Access for FREE! Mind Pump Free Resources Felix Gray   **FREE Shipping & FREE Returns** FSA / HSA / Vision insurance – Felix Gray Organifi   **Code “mindpump” for 20% off** Blue-light blocking glasses may help sleep after screen time MVMT | Premium Watches, Sunglasses & Accessories Arsenic, Lead Found in Popular Protein Supplements Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Book by Adam Alter We finally started taking screen time seriously in 2018 Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia Takanakuy - Wikipedia Seattle Cops Allow 'Mutual Combat' - Patrol - POLICE Magazine The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else HumanProgress.org Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes Are Coming to the Masses Dollar Stores Feed More Americans Than Whole Foods Healthy Gut, Healthy You – Book by Dr. Michael Ruscio Best Diet To Improve YOUR Gut Health (TRY THESE!!) Dr. Ruscio | MIND PUMP Brain Fog? Here's Why You Need to Heal Your Gut (DO THIS!!) | MIND PUMP Is Gluten Bad For YOUR Health?? (Dr. Ruscio) | MIND PUMP 3 Best Secrets - How To Live Longer (DO THIS!!) How to Balance Your Hormones Naturally! (Testosterone and Estrogen) Mind Pump TV - YouTube Joovv **MAPS Prime w/purchase of $500 or more and free shipping**

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mite, ob-mite, ob-with your hosts. Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. In this eromatic episode, or cowbell, Doug. Is that because of the smells in it? Um, my pump. Gotta have cowbell. So for the first 52 minutes, we talked about fun things,

not any fitness, so if you don't like, if you like fitness, fast forward, 52 minutes in, otherwise, be prepared to be entertained. Watch out. We started out by talking about Felix Gray, blue blocking glasses, and now they are FSA and HSA, eligible and pre-approved. That's right, you can pay for your Felix Ray glasses

through your health savings account. Now, we are sponsored by Felix Gray. So if you go to Felix Gray, that's Gray spelled, GRAY glasses, FelixGrayGlasses.com forward slash mine pump, you'll get free shipping and free returns. Then we talked about getting what you pay for. It's usually the truth, right? Usually talked about getting what you pay for. It's usually the truth, right?

Usually you do get what you pay for. Pretty much every time. And that led us on to a conversation about protein powders and supplements and how much we appreciate, organize, because of their products, quality, incredible quality. They are one of our sponsors.

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Yeah. We talked about limiting the downside of technology. Then we talked about, I hope I say it right, Takanakui in Peru. This is a festival in Peru that is a good time, apparently, people beat the crap out of each other to get over themselves. I think it's a good idea.

Then we talked about some good news. The world's poorest people are getting richer than any other category of people in the world faster. In other words, they're all moving out of poverty at an accelerated rate, very, very good news. Then we talked about putting the extreme views of the vocal minority into perspective. Maybe the world isn't as crazy as we think. And then we talked about dollar general,

that's the dollar store company. That's actually giving people more food than Whole Foods. They're selling more food to people than Whole Foods. That is alarming, so. What kind of food do you buy at the dollar store? I don't know. That's crazy. Yeah, cans.

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And you'll get a free maps program, a maps prime program with the purchase of $500 or more and free shipping. Then we get into the fitness stuff. The first question is, it's said that exercising stress is the body, but this person's also heard that it can be also a great stress reducer How do we ensure that it's reducing stress and not just adding stress? Next question, what's the best way to get my girlfriend to start lifting weights apparently Telling your girlfriend she's fat isn't working anymore. We give you better advice try again The next question is can having gut issues make it more difficult to lose body fat?

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Blue blockers they are FSA and HSA approved or whatever. That's what I was talking about the other day. So they could get pay you could you could get them covered If you have a health savings account or flex what is it called flexible savings? Oh, that's that access amount of money from the insurance company that people like get at the end of the year to spend is that what that is? Exactly, right. I'm not quite sure Doug. What what how would you explain an FSA? Or as you say account well if you don't know what it, you probably don't have one. I don't know. Or maybe you do, and you just aren't taking advantage of it.

Right, I don't know. Yeah, I'm no expert on this, but these accounts allow you to put pre-tax dollars into an account that you can use towards healthcare type of expenses so that you're not paying taxes on the money you're making. But you're only allowed to spend that money

on specific things. Right. So, for example, the Felix Gray eyeglasses and sunglasses are all FSA and HSA eligible and pre-approved. Pre-approved. So there you go. That's what it's done. So you can basically you can buy your Felix Gray glasses with pre-tax dollars, which means you're essentially getting a discount. Yeah, right? Exactly. Because it's significant. There's a way around it. Yeah, because what's the average American paying in tax to 30% or something like that?

Yeah, somewhere around there. So it's like 30% off. Yeah. Did I do the math right? Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. There you go, math teacher.

I brought this up, I think, on the last commercial or before on Philly's Cray. I didn't know this and I had one of my buddies who was asking about the glasses and I sent them over our link and then he followed up with a picture of him wearing them when they came in. He says, Hey, by the way, he goes, you know, you should tell your audience that they, if they have the FSA or the HSA with their company that they can use that money towards that. And so I totally found that out after I reached out and called them. Are you having your kids wear them at all, Justin?

I am. Mainly at night when we're watching TV together, they'll put them on. But yeah, I've actually been thinking about that. And I know that you've said that, mentioned that a few times with your kids and that. I picked up on that and was like, oh yeah, I thinking about that. And I know that you've said that, mentioned that a few times with your kids and that I picked up on that and was like, oh yeah, I might do that because I know Courtney and I have just now made it more routine

that we both wear our Felix Graze around the house and when we're doing stuff on the computer especially. So yeah, I have my kids wear it, especially after there was a study that I read that showed that wearing blue-blocking type glasses increased melatonin production by something like 90% Yeah sleep. That's a big deal naturally. Yeah, because you see all these supplements that have come out from melatonin and And for you to be able to produce it naturally just by wearing the glasses

And that's all tied to goryth hormone and all that stuff You know how important sleep is. You know what I found with them? And my cousin and I were actually just talking about this over Christmas is you didn't realize what the computer, the phone, and the TV constantly, really was doing until you get them and you wear them and then you don't wear them.

And then you realize like, oh shit, like you feel the eye strain then, you feel the headaches, you feel the fatigue. Like I didn't really, I didn't really connect it until I started using it and he brought that up to me and I was like, no, that's exactly how I feel about it. Like now it's like, you see me wearing people who are like, oh, you wear them all the time now.

That's exactly what I was trying to pitch to my good friend that I bought him for for Christmas present. And she was like, oh, okay, I was trying to give her the rundown of the importance of them. And she's just now getting back to me like, oh, wow, I'm feeling a different. I didn't, I was skeptical.

It was the first thing. It's like, oh, cool, yeah, like blue blockers, like it sounds like kind of a gimmicky thing, but once you actually start using them and seeing how much you actually are on your phone and doing all these things in front of blue lights, pretty crazy. Well, I did it right before the holiday. We went to the mall when it was super busy. And one thing about the mall that I've always noticed is if I'm in the mall too long, I start to feel almost like a headache. I just don't feel good. I thought it was because there was a lot of people. And so this last time I went,

I put on the glasses and wore them the whole time. Didn't feel that way. And I'm realizing it's all those fluorescent lights. It's all the, yeah, bright-ass fluorescent lights in the mall that make me feel like shit. And so now I wear them. Well, you know, it's interesting too. We had a call with Felix Gray last was it last week and we were talking about stuff that they got coming up in the future. That's really cool. And one of the things that I brought up in the call was,

I wanted to ask them like, well, how do you guys compare to a lot of these companies that are coming up now and competing? And it reminded of the similar conversation that we had with Juve with red lights because this whole blue blocking it's like going crazy. Yeah, it's going crazy. Everybody's starting to do it now.

It's becoming hip and trendy to do it. And rightfully so, I think there's a lot of health benefits just like the red light. I think there's plenty of health benefits and I think people should take advantage of it. But what also it opens the door for a lot of fucking people that call the snake oil to come in and make them, there's a company, was it MVMT that's huge on social media.

They start out with watches. I remember. Yeah, watches, now they're doing the blue end. They are taking a page out of the shreds model of getting tons of these big influencers, lots of branding and imagery looking like a cool brand, but come to find out a lot of their products is flipped from Ali Baba's shit. Just bought cheap ass watches, cheap ass glasses.

Really? How did you find this out? Just jumping in on the screen. When I was talking to them. Oh, right. Yeah, this is one of the things that they, because I asked like how can they, how can they price it so much cheaper?

And that's, it feels great. The reason why they don't do a discount is because they're already giving it at the lowest price they can to make the company still be able to run. The margins are not, it's just expensive to make them something that high quality, just like Juve. Juve isn't cheap because it's expensive to make something that high tech, just like Juve. Juve isn't cheap because it's expensive to make something that high tech at that level right now.

Well, they actually did all the R&D that's required to create a premium product, you know? And like they took the time and spent all the money to actually produce the premium product. So it's tough for the consumer because they don't see all the steps that leads into that direction. And you know, the amount of sacrifice and money

they have to put up themselves to be able to produce something. There's definitely some truth, not all truth, but there's definitely some truth in the statement like you get what you pay for. Yeah. And as I get older, I've learned that lesson many times. Now, however long I've been on earth. And I learned that with supplements,

relatively recently, when they came out with the protein powders that were doing the amino acid spiking. And so here you are buying this big jug of protein powder, and you're like, oh my God, I got the best deal on this protein. It's like 100 servings for 30 bucks, and it's way protein.

And what's the difference between one way protein to another and this was the best or whatever. Then they then somebody, you know, an independent laboratory goes in and studies it even closer and finds actually it's not 30 grams of protein per serving. It's 10 and then you guys sprinkled in some, you know, nitrogen or amino acids to make it look like when they did these other tests. You were a chock full of protein. When in fact, the reason why it's 30 bucks

is you're not getting 100 servings, you're getting more like 20. And I've learned that lesson over and over and over again with supplements. So point now, where if I take a supplement, the quality's above anything else. I don't care about who's selling how cool it looks, what the bottle looks like, whatever.

I'm gonna do my homework, I'm gonna see, because I'm putting this in my body. I wanna see the quality of the product because here's the thing, when you get natural food, if I buy a natural food, quality is also important. But to some extent, like, you know, if I get a steak, you know, it's not processed. There's not a lot of shit they can hide.

There's a lot of things they can definitely do and definitely grass fed organic is gonna be a better quality than the other stuff. But at the end of the day, it tends to be a stake. When you're getting a supplement, that's a bar or a powder. Who the hell knows? Who knows what's in there? Well, especially if it falls under the supplement thing

where there's no real regulation. I mean, it's the wild wild west. Remember that whole article that came out a while ago, and I was like, I was at organified. I was like, the heavy metals. Yeah, because they've been one of our longest lasting sponsors, and we really like working with them, and they're very, very transparent with their quality.

And then these articles come out where they were testing all these vegan proteins. This is just for the audience who doesn't know. And big names too. Big name vegan proteins. Big names like Viga, I think it's the name, just for the audience who doesn't know. And big names too. Big name vegan proteins. Big names like Viga, I think it's the name one of the name one more. Vega, Vega.

Vega is one of the way. So it was Garden of Life. Yeah, those are two like the biggest monsters. And they were just, they were high in these heavy metals that you don't want to be ingesting, which is not good. They build up in the body, they can become very, very bad. And it was on a lot of these organic plant-based proteins.

And part of the reason is the, if you can't use synthetic pesticides, the organic ones tend to be high in these metals. So you buy organic and plant-based, the odds that it's going to have a lot of heavy metals is not pretty good, right? So I was like, you guys remember, I was on our organifi right away. I wanna see the results, I wanna hear the testing. You were already considered dropping them

before we found out, I'm like, whoa dude. It's been a lot of chance. First, yeah. No, and they came back good. Organifi is very extremely, they were, their results were amazing. Yeah, they're very, very dedicated to having super high quality,

you know, obviously products. And so I just keep learning that lesson. You know what I mean? Price, it isn't always mean it's better. Right. But a lot of times, a lot of times it does. You know, because the markets are so competitive, like why would you want to charge more?

Yeah. You would want to charge as little as you can to be competitive, but there's only so far you can go. And especially when you're ingesting something, you want something that's high-quality, you don't have to take as much of, right? Like I want something that I could just take a premium amount of something,

and I'm not like constantly having to flood my body with something just to get like the amount that's required, you know, just because of the volume of it. Absolutely, you know what? I'm looking at these disc shooters that we have on the table just to change the subject here. And they're very different from the ones that we had when we were kids.

Do you guys remember the ones we had when we were kids? That were shooters like this? They were similar. So these have discs. So these are those guns that you shoot. You're harder, right? It was like a harder plastic. Yeah, this is like, these are soft like soft foam.

Yeah. The disc shooter I had when I was a kid. You're woosey. You cut your friend with it. You shoot him. You cut your friend. It would be like a little sharp plastic dip. Like sticks in your skin.

That would like, it would leave like a little mark on you. Like these aren't, they don't. This is great. This is my mom's gift to us here. Why don't you give you guys the Dischuder? Because she knows Justin and I are like children. We're cool. Yeah, we're shooting that we would play with it.

Yeah. Trying to occupy you guys. And then she's trying to get you to get you to read CS Lewis. I see what she's doing. Yeah, and she's trying to ease you in. Yeah, slowly easy win. Yeah, distract you guys. Yeah, he's tiptoeing.

Let's fully immerse him. Right, distract you and I with the toys. But I remember the dish shooters when I was a kid, they shot the hard plastic ones. And if you blasted your friend close enough And I know this because my cousin and I had a good time with these will do it leave a mark Let's just be honest like most toys we grew up with could put you know, like that was like the big Fear of everything was like this could put your eye out. This is like gonna mess you up. Oh, bro

What about lawn darts? Yeah, remember lawn darts? What are lawn darts? You never played lawn darts? What is that? It's a fucking spear. Spear. Yeah, it's like a it's a dart this big and it metal tipped and you throw it and you You have like circles in the grass or whatever try and you didn't pale someone. I didn't know that was a thing. I don't remember. Imagine your mom come on dinners right? Ah! I don't remember those. Yeah. come out. Dinner's right, ah! Yeah. Sorry mom, I don't remember those. Yeah, why do you call your mom pirate? Yeah. Look at these right here, watch ducks and a pull up.

Yeah, they are. Oh my god. So great with like a little, oh, you know what? They banned those, oh, jarts. I do remember these, that's your dangerous hell. Wow. Bro, I'm telling you right now, that landed on your foot, if you had a shoe on, even, it would go through your foot. It's so funny, because'm telling you right now, that landed on your foot, if you had a shoe on, even it would go through your foot.

It's so funny, because I just, for Christmas, I got my oldest, a pocket knife. And I was just like, you know, it's time. You know, he's eight, he's almost nine, like. It's a real knife. It's a real knife. Like, it's a legit, like, fold out knife.

And I'm like, You're gonna have child protective service. Yeah, I'm like, trying to put all these parameters around it. Like, you can only use it in this situation. I have to be there. Like, don't be showing it to your friends. Like, back in the day, like, there was no conversation. It was just here.

I'm be like, yeah, and then I go out and stab stuff. Dude, and people freak out. Yeah, I, I, I, oh, see, look at this. Lawn darts became a, they were banned and became illegal. In 19, 18. Illegal? Yeah. Yeah, illegal.

You know that if someone gets illegal, like somebody killed somebody. Yeah, somebody killed somebody. Some happened. No, I don't think so. Things got illegal all the time. Oh, yeah. I was like, so,

do that. You don't hurt anybody. I know. They're so weak. I was like, oh, you could shoot that directly. I got like one good one. I still blink and have that weird reflex.

Let me tell you something. I could open my eye. You could shoot it right on my eyeball would do nothing. That's how weak that thing is. Yeah, are we making ourselves too sad even flinch? Yeah, that's what I feel. When I was safe and plugged in like crazy. Did you guys have sling shots when you were a kid?

Yeah, wrist rockets. Like the real one. Oh, I bought my youngest one of those wrist rockets. I got them on the dangerous shit this year. Oh, like a real one. Yeah. Did you get them the little metal freaking no, I mean give them the babies with it, but I got them targets. So I will see. I for now it's like the little pine cones is a good start and then we'll work to the babies. Dude, what about the what was that game that you said on sitting spin and you you spin it with your friend. You guys have spin each other so fast you fly

off. You remember fly off you remember that Oh What do they call that one read spin them in the playground? Yeah, they banned those Oh Yeah, no, it's still American around No, everybody gets on everybody throws up you. You hang on and you spin like crazy. Yeah, you'd run and you push push push push and you jump on. It's still called a merry go round. No, no, merry go round is the one with the horse.

That's a carousel. Oh, maybe you're right. I think I am. Look up, look up, yeah, look it, let's look it up and see. Merry go round. You might be right. Have you ever been launched off one of those? I used to, we used to jump.

Like you spend and get all the speed and then you jump. just like you used to do with the swing. So I told you guys like what was it just a month ago? Katrina and I were walking through the park and we decided to get on the swings. Yeah. Yeah. There you go, bro. Mary go around, right Doug? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Oh, wow. They still have one in Campbell. They do. Let's go. And Brianna when she's a little girl, I could dizzy. She got. Oh, no, I got thrown from that thing. I got damaged. I get so dizzy.

What do you mean she got damaged a little bit? I could got her big old bump on her head. She hit the steels. It's all steel and spinning fast. Oh yeah. They're death trap. I know. You don't want to end up under one of those things.

Yeah, the irony of it is, if I had little kids, I'd be like, can't play on that. Yeah. I know, it's our fault. Yeah, everybody's in soft. I'm making a bunch of things. And the ground at playgrounds now is made out of this composite material that you could,

like the softest spongiest. Yeah. Do you guys remember what our playgrounds had? Tam-Bark was with who we're lucky. Tam-Bark? Tam-Barker Sand. Oh, that was an upgrade. Tam-Barker used to do sand and what we would do is we go to a chatsel poop in it.

We go to the park at, you know, late at night with no kids were there. And at the bottom of the slide, we would dig like a good four foot deep hole. And then we would put sticks and then a newspaper and then cover the top with sand again. It's just like booby traps. What a dig. We did that in the forest. We booby trap. We put like a bunch of like water balloons and everything

at the bottom, so somebody's stepping like spray it all. Yeah. You guys catch any boobies? We got some boobs. It was a good day. The things that used to do for entertainment. I don't know. Did I ever do anything like that?

I broke somebody's ankle. Yeah. I used to make spears and then throw them at squirrels. That's what I used to do. That's kind of mean, I know. Squirrel hunter. I'm just, that would be hard to catch. Oh yeah, I actually said that.

I never hit a squirrel. Yeah, that's it. It's been half your childhood trying to get you on. Yeah, that's the flaw. Although I will say this, I had an interesting experience over the summer. We took the kids on a hike. I think it was, it was the pinnacles or,

I think it might have been the pinnacles. And there was this one path we went on, big boulders, and we sat there and we were eating, we took a break and we were eating, what is it, trail mix. And the squirrels, I've never seen this before, they were coming all the way up to us and they were coming up and eating right out of our hand. You ever have a squirrel that close to you? Did. That's the funniest thing ever, so we're at my parents

and next door neighbors had trained one of those squirrels like would feed it all the time. And so it was like accustomed to people and was like real friendly and would like come up and actually would like climb up on people and everything. We didn't know this. And so we were there, I'm picking them the kids up. And this squirrel just like, is you know,

coming down the tree and like, oh, look, they're just scrolling, whatever. And we keep talking, the squirrel makes its way, crawls right up Courtney and like sits like on her shoulder like this and it's like grabbing her hair and stuff. And she, like you look at her face, like she just saw a ghost, like she's like frozen completely. And was like, like, ah, like you might help, you know. And, and they's like frozen completely. It was like, like, like, like, like, people help you know?

And it's all, and they're like trying to, I forget the name of the scroll, but they're all like, yeah. Like, oh, it's friendly, this and that. And then it finally like went back down, but it had little like marks and everything it left on her and like scratch your whole backup. And it did.

It was, yeah. The difference between a squirrel and a rat is a tail. Very slim. There's the out of the same. It's just got a fluffy tail. It's got all it is. Squirrel The difference between a squirrel and a rat is a tail. Very slim. There's the other, the same. It's just got a fluffy tail. That's all it is. Squirrels are like cuter. That's the only thing.

Yeah, it's like cuter. Okay, imagine a test though. Yeah, I imagine this right now, because I live in a neighborhood with a lot of trees, and there's squirrels all over the place, and there's this one that's this dark gray squirrel, and there's this black squirrel, and this brown one that we see all the time,

and they all play or whatever. And one day I was sitting out there, the kids were were playing and I was just looking at the squirrels and I was Trying to imagine if they were rats. Yeah, and I'm like boy would people have a different reaction I mean if the rats running around oh my god. Yeah, the pantonium Everybody's like it's the squirrel Squirrels are they're just as terrible. Squirrels are just as terrible. You know what I mean? I was just reading this article that Jackie sent over

and it's one from TechCrunch. And it's nothing new that we've talked about in this podcast, but I feel like you guys kind of owe me apology a little bit. And that's because when I read the book last year that I think I pushed on their audience, irresistible, I don't know, 20 times. I don't know, yes.

So great, you remember the author's naming him, but you guys, if we got paid for talking about that book, Adam. I just think that it was, I mean, it was what, I think it was last year, it wasn't even this year, it was last year, I think when I read that. 2017, yeah. When I read that book and it was last year, I think when I read that. 2017? Yeah. When I read that book and it was a very powerful read for me.

And now I'm seeing all this stuff come out and now everybody's all talking about it. It's like become a big fucking deal now that in all these studies, all these universities are starting to do screen time, they're finally paying attention to. Yeah, did you see the response? Almost every app now has a monitor system now. So, yeah, did did let you know. That was kind of their way of responding back to that. But, you know what's cool about that?

Is if you look at the fast food industry, they exploded in America. McDonald's became this incredible brand and then there was a backlash. And that was because of obesity and they were blamed on it. They were blamed for obesity for a long time. I, what I think what the tech companies are doing is smart. What I think what they're doing is they're trying to

appear to be responsive and give you other tools. Yeah, so that they don't get that same kind of backlash because I've called technology in apps kind of the fast, the processed food of this generation, where we don't really know what the detrimental effects are until later on, let's look what happened with processed food right, feeding everybody this processed food and then later on we're like, oh crap, it's causing those problems. I think they're trying to appear to be responsible and smart, you know, so that when the backlash comes, Facebook's in net, I mean,

all these companies in reality, though, it's like the warning label that cigarettes put on there. You know what I'm saying? It's like, we do it so we can send another calories. Everybody has the post now, you know, at restaurants. But in reality, all the R&D goes into, how do we make this thing more addictive? I mean, because that's what sells the app, that's what makes people use the app,

that's how they make their money off the app. It sort of covers them a little bit. Yeah, that's all I know. Well, we're telling you guys, you know, what where you should be safe was, but I was gonna ask you guys what, you know, now that we've talked about this, you know, so many times, you know, when you guys have a holiday,

like Christmas going on or no, do you find yourself having to tell your kids to put the phones down and kind of interact with the family? Do they naturally do that? Or do you find them kind of sitting over in the corner, glued to their phones and iPads? They take it away. You do.

Yeah, we're trying to make more of an effort now to, because you know, I told you guys about the four hour a week, you know, limit, and then I got loose with it. And I'm trying to tighten up the rain, because I just notice, and it's scary, man, I notice a distinct personality change in my kids. When they're on electronics all the time, versus when they're not.

They're different children. They're way more interactive. They make better eye contact. They have more fun. They talk to adults. When they're on electronics for longer than an hour, it's like I have little zombies or they're irritable. It's really strange.

Yeah, it's tough because I definitely noticed the same behaviors, they get, man, they freak out. If I know that electronics have been there frequently and then you remove it, there's like a certain kind of response you get. It's not a good response. And that shows me like right away, like, okay, I need to do a better job of getting outside and starting at least the momentum there or downstairs or, you know, like we played with just Legos and like made that a thing.

And just doing something creative wise or like physically it needs to start and I need to do a better job of at least like establishing that so it becomes you know part of more of a frequent thing that they do too. I take my, I started doing this, I started taking my phone and putting it in Jessica's purse. Yeah. And I'm just off of it. You know, that's the move. And I'm not, I don't check it. I of it. You know what? That's the move. And I don't check it.

You know what? It makes me feel better too. It's funny. They're starting to shame me now. That's good. It's crazy. It's good. But you know what I mean?

I'm on there and I'm responding or whatever. And then they're both like, you're on your phone. You're always on your phone. And then they like, talk shit to me. And I'm like, whoa. Yeah. It's crazy. So yeah, no, it makes me and I notice my kids play together more.

What I used to do is I used to think I had to keep a mockupite. So like, okay, kids, take go off your electronics. We're going to do something or whatever. And then, you know, it was Jessica. She's like, you know, kids can be bored too. Like they have to figure it out. You know how many times there's probably a lot, a lot of good from allowing them to be bored

and figuring out what to do. I mean, that's like half our childhood. No, right? I mean, isn't that, it was half our childhood was being bored. No, it could be boring. It would figure something out. Yeah, you would, and you would do things

that sometimes are so incredibly simple, but there's gotta be something to that that is valuable for them to learn. It's like, maybe I shouldn't help them along the way and say, hey, try this or do this. Maybe I should just say, no, you can't do that. Let's figure it out. I'm not saying you can,

there's a lot of other things you can do if you can figure it out, figure it out. And plus, never underestimate the power of being able to use a tool that, let's say there's something that your kids are really into, that is an opportunity for you to have something that you can take away from them, that you can use as a motivator.

So now that we have, when I'm more strict about the time that they're on electronics, I can use it as a bargaining chip more. I can say things like, hey, you didn't do that, there goes a half hour off your time, or do you want an extra half hour on your time? Let's do this or whatever. And it's more powerful.

Now if they have free reign, I don't have that. I can't use it. Oh, totally. There's no power behind it. I mean, it's a lot like dessert for me. It's like a similar concept in terms of looking forward to something and having it sparingly versus that's like, well, I, you know, that's a given right. You know, like, no, this is not a given right that you have and you won't

have, you know, until you're out of this house. Yeah, we were on a long car ride. It was about three hour car ride. And I told my kids, going into it just to set them up. I said okay guys you guys get about 45 minutes of Electronic time and then that's it. Now we're gonna turn it off and there's not gonna be an electronics and then we're all gonna You know talk to each other play games or whatever together as a family So I let them know ahead of time and then I let them know all right guys. There's 10 minutes left Because I've noticed to it makes a big difference when you set it up versus you go turn it off right now You know, I mean a little of something or you know whatever right so I started doing up versus you go turn it off right now. I mean, the middle of something, you know, whatever.

Right. So I started doing that, then they shut it off and then we played like the dumbest shit, like we played I spy. Like the dumbest game in the world. And then you start having fun in the car playing this dumb game. And then we played another game where I started out by telling a story and then it stopped the story and then the next person would have to take over and make up more of the story and the next person would have to keep and we would keep going

see how long we go making up the story and it got pretty funny. Dude I started playing like mouse trap. Yeah sorry I saw you put that together. Yeah. Was that a trap fun? Did you buy the new one or is that an old one? Yeah it's a new one but it's I mean hasn't changed. Yeah no it's the same for decades.

One of those things called Rubbe Goldberg machine Yeah, machine. Yes. I've always tried remember the name of that. Yeah. Yeah. I used to watch those like I remember like when YouTube first came out, that was like all the videos I was watching. I love that. People like set these elaborate, you know, things up and you're just like it's so amazing to watch like how people's minds like put all together I was watching the goonies with my kids and the in the very beginning when chunk comes over to visit his buddies And he goes open the gate and they're like do the truffle shuffle and he does it And then he's like okay open the gate that whole that whole thing was a Rube Goldberg remember to get the gate to

All right, yeah, all these things had to sort of domino their way up there. I was surprised that my daughter knew what that was. She's like, that's a Ruben Goldberg machine. I'm like, she knew that? You know why? It's cool, must have. No, not school. She's nine years old.

It's from YouTube. Oh, YouTube, they do. Yeah, she watches. Of course. The videos that I let my kids watch more of. So if they want more time, then I'll... Educational. Yeah. Yeah. And there's these science channels and stuff on YouTube that, man, my kids watch more of, so if they want more time, something I'll- Educational. Yeah.

And there's these science channels and stuff on YouTube that, man, my kids are absorbing. Yeah. So well, and they're like educating me on shipping. That's where I think I would be a little more flexible on the time like that, because there is something very powerful and awesome about the generation now that has this ability to Google search anything, watch a TED talk

or anything, watch a YouTube video on something that's informative and educational. I think that there's a lot of value in that, so I would never want to, you know, deny my kids of that time to do that, because it's just another form of education for them, and if they're wanting to grow and learn on their own, I would hate to do that.

So I think policing certain types of activities on there and limiting them like, hey, you know, gaming and modern warfare games where you're just shooting and killing each other. Okay, that's fine. Have fun doing that. But then you are limited. You have a lot of this much time. But if you're watching Discovery Channel, National Geographic type of like informative type of educational channels and things like I could I would totally be flexible a tool is only a tool is only worth anything in regards to how it's being used like a hammer can be a very valuable tool or it could be a tool that's worthless depending on how you or dangerous right depending on how you use it and

The internet and technology is the most powerful tool that we have yet to ever discover. It's the most powerful tool up until now, period and of story, which means it can be used in remarkable, remarkable ways both for good and for bad and for complete waste of time. And so that's the way I look at it. So you're like, like you're saying, Adam,

if it's something educational or whatever, then I'm much more apt to allow them to spend time on it. If it's, you know, bullshit stuff, then no, we're sticking to our four hour time, you know, per week. Yeah. I just feel that I mean, for the most part, they're going to have plenty of exposure at school. Yeah. Like they're getting plenty of electronic time. I don't think that there's just a lot of parameters yet and barriers established for how are teachers handling that right now? Do you guys, they're all in? They utilize it. Yeah, it's utilized as part of the, they're using it to teach kids and work together, but the kids are not allowed to have their phones

all in. Yeah, there's firewalls and all that in terms of what they can search, but that's about it. So what do you mean? So, okay, I'm a sixth grader and I come to class, is my phone a lot to be out? No. Not my kid's school. Okay. Yeah, you can't have your phone. Has the phone has to be on silent in your backpack, you can't take it out.

If you do, then you get it taken away. Okay, so then they're not able to, I mean. No, but they do have- I know some schools have iPads specifically for the school, or Chromebook. Yeah, Chromebook. Yeah, my kids have a Chromebook. Well, I would get that.

I understand that. I mean, they don't allow them to full their phone down and use their phones. No, but you know, kids do it. No, and they can do it. I would assume that they can do that during recess, right? During break times that they allow them to do that. You do see that.

My kids, my school, the kids schools not allowed either. Oh, they're not allowed at recess. So that's what I was wondering. I'm like, what does that look like then do kids like rush out of class? I don't think a lot of school is going to, you know, when we are kids, as soon as that bell rang, like you were hoping you were lined up with this,

so we used to do this. I don't know if they still do this today. You know, recess is about to happen. Your cool teachers, teachers that you really liked allowed you to line up the door, like the two minutes before the bell rang. And when that bell rang, you were out the door as fast as you could get

because you wanted to either get to the four square, the tether ball or the basketball court to claim it, first to be playing first on it. I remember that. Yeah, that was it. You were, I mean, boom, racing. Or you'd send your friend, that was the fastest friend, to get there. I mean, that was it. You were I mean, boom, racing. You or you'd send your friend. That was the fastest friend. Yeah, to get to get there.

Go to your first spot. Right. Yeah. Get there as fast as you can. So we're the first ones on the Tetherball court. And you know, you're not waiting in line. Tetherball. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, so we all, you know, recently celebrated Christmas. But did you know there was another holiday on the 25th of December that is kind of the opposite of Christmas.

Festivist? A little bit. No. No, it's called Takanakui, which means to hit each other. And this is an annual established practice of fighting fellow community members by the inhabitants of the Kumbivilkas province near Kuzkol in Peru. So this is in Peru, and this is a celebration where people get together and they fight each other to get their grievances over. So like they're pissed off at each other and they just beat the crap out of each other. This is men and women. I do this.

And you can actually look this up. If you look up pictures of this, it's Doug, I'll spell this for you, so you could try looking at this. So is there any like, referee in this process or they just like pick a spot and they do get out? Well, so here's how it works. So there are preliminary drinking days before the celebration.

Of course. On the day of the celebration, the people of the community get together, have breakfast and drink before the fighting starts. After the fight, fighters will drink more alcohol to numb the pain. And they beat the shit out of each other. Oh, there it is, right there.

And men, women, they'll have women beating the crap out of each other. Look at this, it's like a big party. Wow. The festival is punching. Yeah, and they'll put on like gardening gloves it looks like. And pummel each other. It's actually quite funny. Little kids are getting on it.

Fast forward to Doug, let's look at some of the... Oh, here we go. They just beat the crap out of each other. What? Yeah. You said, oh, bingo. That's it. Wow.

Isn't that great? That's so great. Yeah. Now I wonder why this started. I don't know. I wanna know what the history is behind this. I'm gonna try and look up the history behind this. Do I think a young kid's going out at everything?

Oh, he's throwing some knees. It's to settle conflicts with an individual, friend, family member, or to settle territorial conflicts that may have come up throughout the year. Oh, yeah, that's crazy. So 2017, you go, or 2018, you look back and go, okay, who are all the people that I had some conflict with?

Yeah. And we meet here. Yeah. To make sure that I call you out. Well, I could be like, imagine this. Imagine like we're all in this office right now. We're all like, no, the fucking, we need to spend this, this, this on me on this marketing. No, we got to do this market.

And we're like, all right, fine, we can't agree. Yeah. 25th. Let's just punch. Yeah, we're just going to fight each other and then we'll see what happens. And go get my garden gloves. I'll meet you in the center ring. Yeah.

You know what I think, I think, I think these things are a good thing. People think they're bad, but it's a, it's a way of controlling, it's controlled violence. No, like, and the guy, the guy just knocked the guy out, ticked him back up. Tick him the hugs. They're in smiling and laughing, so it's not like this vicious violent thing, you know. It's, no, it's controlled violence

because you'll find in societies like this, this was their way of preventing larger scale conflicts or you know, bigger, bigger problems. Yep, he got banged up pretty good too. Ooh, nice big cut right in the year. I mean, I, well there you go. That's a way to go. There's no more pent-up resentment.

Well, I'd hit all out. You know, it's funny because of the internet, this event has spread and now is in different provinces that are nearby. So now it's becoming like a big thing. Really? Yeah. I mean, that was pretty big. They were in a, what, a bullfighting ring and look like that. different provinces that are nearby. So now it's becoming like a big thing. Really? Yeah. I mean, that was pretty big.

They were in a bullfighting ring and look like they had a whole audience of people. I mean, it's not small. They're still there. They can have to attract them and they were all painted up a certain way. Was it Seattle that allows for person to person like a conflict?

Mutual combat? Mutual combat agreement. Yep. Yep. Well the cops will actually watch the fight You said yeah, I guess I think that's great. I think that's great. Opps present So you tell the cops we're gonna fight, you know the cops will watch Yeah, and then they'll let you just throw down that'd be cool be a cop. I'm like sure. Yeah I'll get the popcorn I was gonna watch the UFC later, but I'll watch I'll watch a really sloppy version of it, you know? So, all right, so some good news now,

because I just talked to you guys about people fighting each other, so here's some good news. Gotta follow that up. So, this is the headline, the world's poorest people are getting richer, faster than anyone else right now. Yeah, you know, we always hear a lot of this, about the 1% and about the wealth disparity, whatever.

Yeah. But the reality is when you look at the numbers, the world's poor have dropped so quickly, it's actually unprecedented. In fact, we've exceeded the United Nations projections by something like five years in terms of shrinking the world's, the percentage of the world's poor. So here's some numbers for you, ready for this. In 18, this is all adjusted for inflation. In 1820, 94% of the world's population

lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. In 2015, 9.6%. Whoa. That is a very, very fast. The masses dropped. Yes.

And this article, it says, if it takes you five minutes to read this, another 480 people will have escaped the shackles of extreme poverty. And the reason why this is is because of the liberalization of markets worldwide. The industrial revolution, excuse me, kicked it all off, and you're having, especially starting in 1990

with the fall of the, you know, Berlin wall and the fall of the Iron Curtain with the, you know, Soviet Union kind of falling apart or whatever, you have markets liberalizing and becoming more and more free, which of course, great, now is prosperity. Mobile phone, a big contributor to that. That's all part of it, see, people like to point to inventions and say,

oh, that's why. And they didn't. But those things exist because markets are more free. Those things were invented and were allowed to exist because markets are more free. And so we've had just this huge reduction in the world's poor, which I think is pretty freaking awesome. Yeah, it's amazing.

Yeah, I think that's very, very good news. Yeah, I think that that just doesn't get highlighted ever. You know, you never get that. I thought I heard someone talking about a news channel that does all positive news. Is there such a thing? Isn't there a thing on that? Probably nobody watches it.

I know, well that's what we don't know the name of it. It's two of lifting. I thought we talked about this before and somebody. There's a website. Somebody, oh there is. Yeah, know the name of it. It's too of lifting. I thought we talked about this before. And somebody, somebody, oh, there is. Yeah, progress, humanprogress.org. Maybe that's what it was. Maybe it was that's what I heard. Because I was like, man, it's really unfortunate

that you can't find a channel that gives you like all the positive things that's happening in the United States versus, you know, oh, there was a rape over here. There was a riot over here. There was a murder over here. And it's like, oh, here it is. good news network. That's not it. Is it? Now he just looked it up. No, it's human progress dot org is the one I'm talking about

You know in someone in our forum brought this up a while ago, and I thought this was really really smart Advice they said you know instead of watching the news and freaking out Turn it off and just look around you and many times you'll be like oh, yeah, I don't see a lot of the crazy shit that you see watching the news and freaking out, turn it off and just look around you. And many times you'll be like, oh yeah, I don't see a lot of the crazy shit that you see in the news in front of me. They only highlight the extremes. Like, that's what is eye catching and that's what's going to get ratings. And so it's only logical that they would gravitate towards people with really extreme

points of view. The other thing to consider too is that politically speaking, the left and the right now are using social media in quite effective ways. And so one way that they'll use the media is, let's say you're on the right and you want to demonize the left. What you may do is you may find a tweet from an extreme, you know, liberal, someone who doesn't represent really the left, but someone who says they are on the left and they're crazy, they'll take that tweet and they'll post it and it'll get shared because it

sounds so crazy. It's like somebody saying, you know, like that one article I read you or people say that Santa Claus or father Nick needs to now be person Nick, right? Or something like that. Like, not a lot of people really think that, but they'll take that and they'll use that in a way to make people think, oh, the left is crazy. Well, all you need to do is say that. Yeah, and I wonder, I seriously wonder how many people are just trolling to see how many

people will be subscribed to an idea. That's right. You know, like, I guess, was it 4chan and Reddit? And so there's a lot of people that actually, it's been sort of like an underground joke to start certain hashtags or movements to see what idiots will follow suit and carry it on and really activate it.

Did you guys see that there was a thing that was trending a couple of weeks ago on YouTube was this kid came on and totally trolled a CNN reporter and he was like, I forget his handle name, but it was something smoke guy and he's into the vapor smoke thing. And they interviewed him and he was just talking, he was trolling the CNN and lady. I mean, she was trying to do this interview on, you know, cause this guy's out claiming the benefits

of the vapor. And you could tell, I could tell at least that he was just fucking with her. And she's having this real, try to have this real interview. And it's a thing that everyone's doing now. It's like, can you get these people to share this stuff or to spread news that's bullshit, just to fuck with them. And so it is a big movement that's been happening because things spread so easily.

Think about it too, this is totally my personality as a teenage boy. Like if a tool like this came out, I know my friends and I would be like, let's see what we could come up with. And he said, see how many idiots share it and make it a real thing. Oh my God, look at this. People actually believe this. Right. So, no, there was one on Reddit that was created.

I can't remember the name of it, but it was like a two silhouettes. One was like a grown man and one was of a child. And it was like the man, the adult reaching out to the child and it's like, love knows no age. And people were sharing it saying, look, they're trying to make pedophilia, you know,

like a normal thing. And it was created on Reddit to see if people would actually, it's not a real thing. There is no real organization like this or whatever, or like the one they were just picking, but people were sharing it and saying, oh my God, they're, look what they're trying to do. And they're like, you fell for it.

Yeah, no, it's bullshit. It's interesting. And it, yeah, oh my God, look what they're trying to do. And they're like, you fell for it. Yeah, it's bullshit. It's interesting. And it, yeah, it's interesting to watch because you see like legit journalists really scrambling. You see this sort of need for people to really vet sources and get back to like real journalism of like, okay, well, who, like, they can verify like the true origin in the source of a lot of this like information, it's like, we need to get back to that.

It's gotten way out of hand. But they're, the political right and left are using this media, new media, to fuck with each other. You know, they'll take a tweet from some idiot on the right or the left that doesn't really represent the majority and they'll highlight it. It'll get shared because it's crazy and then it'll benefit them because like the left will take a racist tweet for example that most people, the vast majority of just Americans period would disagree with but they'll say, oh, this is from the conservative individual and they'll paint them in that way to demonize that side.

And they'll do it on the left. And so what I've started to do is I've started to take a step back and be like, I really, a lot of people really saying this, or is it just a few people that are crazy? Because there's always a few people that are insane, and stupid, that's always been that way. But is it really indicative of a problem or is it really just a small amount of people

and we're freaking out over nothing? And there's really nothing that's going on. Yeah, we're just feeding into it. And if everybody stops feeding into it, it wouldn't be as big a problem. Yeah, like I said, how many people really think Santa Claus needs to be, you know, that's fucking Agenda-less like most people can give a shit. They get out of here with that shit

Yeah, and how many people really had a problem seriously? How many people really had a problem with that song? Maybe it's cold outside. Nobody. Where there really was a really a lot of people that wanted to band that song or was it just some Some weird agenda somewhere. Yeah, it was a some just bored people looking to get offended at almost anything who really don't represent They're barely represent a tiny fraction of people that we then blew up and made a big deal about right and said oh my gosh Look what they want to do. They went to band this classic song. Does anybody really want to do that? Probably not you know, I bet what you're hoping is real Adam though, is the Kupa Troopa X from Nike. Oh, that's so smart.

You see the marshmallow looking chute? Dude, it's got wings and everything. It's like Kupa, that is not real. The Campy Real, I saw it. I saw it. Like marshmallow's soul stuff. Like I know, like they get really loud with their fashion in whatever these days, but that was like I was like this can't be real

Well, the new ones that are big right now that I'm in I am interested in is the auto lacing ones are cool those are out Why does it just take too long? Lace upper shoes? I mean I don't even lace my shoes. It's real short, but I still think it's cool I think it would be very cool. So it hasn't worry push your buttons. I don't have a pair, so I don't know exactly how it works. But I'm gonna say it. Because I was at CES and they had like an example of it and it on the bottom of the shoot, so it has like this, this sort of machine that will, it like winds the shoelaces. So basically you hit a button on the tongue of the shoe

and it goes like, and it like just syncs up like a wire, that it's basically a wire that goes through your shoelaces and then it just pulls them to the bottom of the shoe. Which I had that, if it's broken. We had that, we had that, oh my God, it goes through your skin. Now they're pretty smart.

Like we had the, I had the manual version of that for my wakeboard and snowboard boots. And it's a, you had a wind and you just, you know, you slide in the boot and then you just, you cranked I'm thinking it sucks all that it has a wire that runs through the laces and that's what it does. It just, it just sucks the laces. Sintes everything out.

Yeah, so now they've just auto, uh, made it automatic, right? So they look cool though. I mean, it does look cool. And I'm sure eventually if they don't have it yet, they'll become an app because I would love that. I would love to have my shoes unlaced and then just hit my app and go lace up You know because they're because as a guy who wears unlaced shoes a lot a lot of most my shoes are unlaced Because I like them for comfort just like a second to lace up to go shoot some

Well, no like this weekend. Okay class example Katrina's family extremely competitive with ping pong so am I So you know, I'm got my unlazed shoes and you do standard grip where you do a, yeah, no, I do, I do a, I do a standard handle, handle. And I, but I had my shoes are unlazed and you know, I'm losing a little bit of traction cutting left and right there. So I wish I had my little laces. I could go, yeah, because fuck, you could have, you know, I mean, you know, you could have done, you could have just tied your shoe laces. You could have been told for a judge. What am I going to do? I don't know what

to do here. I went, they need to admit an automatic shoe. What was that article you want to share earlier about the dollar store or the dollar general? What's going on? Dollar general apparently sells more food than whole foods and they have more locations than I believe it's Walmart and McDonald's combined wow more food at the dollar store what are you buying at the dollar store so that was Mercolas article that he correct that he just released Christmas and The scary part that you're, what he's basically alluding to is that,

I mean, it's, what makes it so cheap and affordable is that it's canned, processed, shit food, and super processed. And it's beginning to feed more and more Americans than a comparable product like Whole Foods, which would be more ideal. You know, it irritates the shit out of me too. Is that a lot of these people own iPhones and computers?

There's no value being placed on the quality of your food. It's just food. You know what I'm saying? But they'll spend money on nice shoes or technology. That's kind of frustrating. Yeah, they're everywhere. And they actually, they target, especially like the dollar general. One of my good friends, his family, was lobbying against them because they had property

in a store that basically ended up shutting it down. And they lost. But what they do is they go in and they, they, instead of going into a competitive place where Walmart would be up and the way Walmart does, I mean, they look at area income, population, and that's what dictates if a Walmart comes into your town. Like Walmart doesn't go into like my small town that I grew up in, too small of a town, not enough people to suck up all the cash. But these places actually look for more rural type towns that has like one hardware store, you know, one little grocery store market,

that's not even like a big one like Safeway, and they go in there and they become the hardware store, grocery stores, undercut everything. Yeah, there's like a mini, like a smaller, smaller, shittier version of like a Costco, and they basically put all the small businesses

out of business and provide a service. Like you said, solid, it's cheaper, it's better. And you could argue that it's better for the economy, but you could also say that it fucks up a little ecosystem that's been created potentially for 50 years. It's a disruptor. Yeah, 50 plus years.

This is a family hardware store. It's been passed down for two or three generations. All market disruptors are answers that the market desperately wants, but hasn't had a solution for. So then somebody comes up with a solution and some of the ways that these stores are able to make a profit is the way that they distribute the way that they, you know, they're able to purchase things at such a low price that they can sell them for a lot lower, which is better for the consumer, but they've solved problems that a lot of these other stores

couldn't figure out. And that's what makes them disruptors. Anytime something gets events like when the car got invented, it was a big disruptor to people who sold wagons and horses and stuff, it completely disrupts the market. Uber is doing that to taxis. We were seeing that all over the place in dollar stores or part of that, but I think it's crazy that they sell more food than whole foods. That is crazy.

But I mean, what are they telling that? Chips and chips. I mean, that's all food. That's what they're doing. They can't get foods and chips. The example that I'm using for you guys. So, this place, there literally was one hardware store there. And there wasn't even a grocery store.

There was a mini market. That was like a gas station and with it, like if you go to like a really nice shop. Yeah, ampium or chevron where it's like about that size, where you can get chips, beef jerky, milk, your eggs, your basic communities there. They had a little deli in there too. You know, this town had that.

The next like, we're safe way, or luckies, or a big grocery store was 45 minutes plus away. So the dollar general comes in there and then now supplies as much if not more food, for less, and supplies, hardware, and orchard supply type of stuff, you know, like, so yeah, they're just kind of a one-stop shop

for food and tools and things like that yeah, they're just kind of a one-stop shot for food and tools and things like that, and they're just mopping up. And then, and because they're a big franchise, like you said, they have leverage to buy this stuff by the crate distributed amongst all their multiple stores, and you just, it's a game over. You can't compete with that. You just absolutely. They really started to take off was after the crash of 2008 When that when the great recession hit then those dollar stores Yeah, it really did very well Wal-Mart had a career had a like a record breaking year that year I remember reading an article back then when after Everything was in recession and everybody was every business was hurting Wal-Mart was actually

Having one of its best years ever. And that's because exactly it provides a lot of things for a lot less and people now are shopping there and we were probably buying higher end products before. This quaz brought to you by Organify. For those days you fall short on getting your organic veggies or whole food nutrition, Organify fills the gap with laboratory testedtested certified

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It said that exercising stresses the body, but I've also heard that it can be a stress reducer and aid in addressing issues like depression. How can you ensure you get that workout high at the gym? Wow, this is really similar to the question. The right dose of stress. It's got to be appropriate. Well, it just has to be appropriate stress. Getting stress relief and workout high

are completely two different examples of what a workout can do in my opinion. Like when you are working out to relieve stress, I like to use like the term that I know, Paul Checkcoin, which is the working in. And your workout is dictated by how you feel and it's way more recuperative. So it looks more mobility driven. It looks more with getting blood flow and flexibility and you're not pushing to strain yourself. Then when you look at an endorphin rush or a workout high, I think of more of a high intensity,

breaking a sweat, massive pump type of feeling, which is for endurance a fun. And so both of those can have their benefits, right? I think there's definitely benefits to stressing the body to a limit that causes the endorphin release like that and creates an adaptation because you're pushing your limits. But then there's also something to be said

about workouts that are nothing like that and that are completely geared around working in and recuperative and healing and feeling better inside out, and they're not the same. They're completely different and I think the mentality that you approach the workout should not look anything like each other. Yeah, when there's a couple of things that happen when you work out, first off, there's definitely a stress relief that happens in a workout, if you're present in the workout.

And this can happen with any workout. And sometimes it's easier to be present with the really hard workouts because you have no choice but to be present. You have to be focused. You can't bench press 400 pounds and not be thinking about the way. If you're doing 20 reps of squats

and you're doing a hit workout and you're just really breathing hard and working hard, then you're in the moment. And being in the moment is always stress relieving, at least acutely or in that particular moment, because if you think about stress, it's very rare that the stress that you're feeling is a result of something that's happening right this second. You know what I'm saying? It's usually something you're thinking about, like, oh my gosh, it's either the future or it's the past,

something that happened, and those are the things that stress us out. But in this moment, I'm working out hard and if I can forget about all those stresses, that gives me a little bit of a break and that's a stress reliever. The other side of the stress relief effects of exercise come from the adaptation

that the exercise creates, not the workout itself, because the workout itself is a stressor, in the sense that it causes some damage to the body, tears muscle down a little bit, causes you to get sore. That stress tells the body, hey, we need to get more resilient so that next time, the same insult won't create the same amount of damage. And so your body adapts and actually becomes stronger. That strength, that, and I don't mean just

stronger in terms of like lifting more weights. I mean stronger in all aspects, right? More endurance, more strength, you know, the ability to withstand more of this physical type of stress, that makes your body more resilient to everyday stress as well. I mean, if you were to take a version of you that was 30% stronger physically, healthy from a good diet, healthy from an immune system perspective, and compare

that to a version of you that was weaker, not as healthy, less sleep, and put you both through difficult times. The stronger, fitter version of you is more likely to be able to handle the difficult times. The person who goes into those difficult times with a poor diet, not active, not good sleep, the stress is gonna, you're not as resilient, it might break you down. And so that's what you wanna consider. But the stress needs to be appropriate.

You know, I use the example of getting a suntan, I've used this example a million times, but I like using it because I think it makes a lot of sense. If you're never out in the sun and you're very, very pale, you don't need a lot of sunlight to cause your body to want to get a tan. Just a little bit of sunlight is enough stress to get your body to want a tan. Now on the flip side, if you're very tan, going out in the sun for two minutes, is it going to cause any change?

So the stress has to be appropriate. It has to be appropriate to your fitness level. It has to be appropriate to your body's capability to adapt, which includes your entire life. So if you're in a very, very stressful situation in life, let's say you're going through a death in the family or a divorce or you lost your job, you know, some of the most stressful things that can happen, you probably don't want to go to the gym and Constantly and consistently beat the crap out of yourself. You might want to spend a lot of time in the gym Being in the moment, being recuperative, taking care of yourself, just so you can handle this crazy stress. Yeah, you just have to listen to your body and

Figure out what the right dose is. It what for that particular day because it changes all the time based off of all those factors, environmental factors, you know, what's happening with your family, you know, relationships, all these things are going to affect you going into that next day of now. What do I do in terms of movement? The thing is, is we're wired to move. And when you don't express movement, that to me, even just sitting too long it creates more anxiety than not.

And that's something that is, I mean, it's almost the irony of it being, if I'm trying to avoid stress, I actually get more stressed. And for, there is a right dose that we, if you're to listen to your body and to actually express yourself in a therapeutic way and understand how to do that,

which I think it takes practice, especially for a lot of people that their go to is to go hard and to really treat the workout like it's, I'm gonna tackle, I'm gonna conquer this workout versus like what does that workout consist of? What does it look like? How can I alter it to really benefit me the best for that particular day?

Cause it changes all the time. What a great point, you know, if you're somebody who's really stressed out because you're super physical all the time, then it may be a good idea to relax by doing nothing. But if you're like most of us and you're sitting down at a desk, and you're on your computer, and you're working,

and you're feeling very, very stressed out, it might be a good idea to move. Yeah. That's it. I'm like that. I know when we do long road trips, or when we get in the plane, and we do these long, these trips,

like I need to get up and move. Like if I don't move, I'm gonna drive myself crazy. I'm more anxiety from sitting still. So to relax, to go somewhere else and lay down again, it just wouldn't work for you. I'd have to move to feel that relaxation from, you know, that I'm looking for.

Next question is from Kyle Grangs. What is the best way to get a girlfriend to start resistance training? Oh, that's easy. Tell her she's fat. It works every time. Like a charm. Tell your girlfriend, hey, look, to get fat. she's fat. It works every time. Like a char. Tell your girlfriend, hey, look, you get fat.

That's a quick way to get a new one, too. No. I'm liking those new love handles you got there. Oh, wow. Yeah. They're just all great advice there. Yeah. I'll tell you what, in my experience, most people

want to spend quality time with their significant other. And this is especially true for women, where they just want to spend good quality time with you. My advice, take her to the gym and work out with her, but actually work out with her. So this may not be your workout. You may not want to sacrifice your workout because if she's new especially,

you're gonna have to help her out with the workout. But take her to the gym and make it a good experience where you're working out together, you're laughing, you're having a great time. And so she may view this as time together and then that may help her, I guess, develop a good relationship with exercise. That would be my first, I guess, my instinct

would be to go there first. I also think too that you have to really evaluate where this falls on your non-negotiable list. And if you've never done this before, I think it's important for everybody who's in a relationship or thinking about being in a relationship and possibly committing to a long-term relationship, is what are like the five things

are just non-negotiable for you to for a partner. Things that you're extremely passionate about that you want to share similar values with your partner. And for me, and this took me years of dating before, I recognize that this one was much higher than it was being completely honest and transparent when I was younger. Much of those values, my values system was based around look. So I wanted this girl to look a certain way and that was so important to me. And I chased that for a really long time. And as I got older, I started to realize that looks fade

no matter how hot of a girl that you're dating, that newness feeling, that novelty wears off. And car smell. Yeah, the new car smell goes away after about six months. So you get a pine fresher. And then you're stuck with this car, hopefully you love it and it does all the things that you wanted to do here. And a lot of times you find out that this relationship was built off a lust and physical attraction

only and there's a lot of things that you like to do that you guys may not have in common. So for me, it became very, very important as I got into my late 20s and early 30s that anybody that I would have date, the one of the number one priorities had to be that they cared about their health and fitness as much as I did because I knew that I was human too,

and I fall in my slums where I'm not motivated to go to the gym a lot, and I wanna eat off the radar a tiny bit, and I like to have a partner that cares about it as much as I do, so we kind of balance each other out when those moments come around. There's lots of times where Katrina and I,

where one of us is just in a slump, maybe just got injured, or or dealing with a family loss or our mind is not on our health and fitness and so we're wanting to be lazy, eat bad, but then the other partner's not there. And so, and that one tends to pick that one up and the other one always ends up thinking that one later on because, hey, honey, you know, I know I said I wanted this,

I'm so glad that you convinced me not to eat that and you convinced me to go to the gym because I feel so much better about myself and I love you for that and I appreciate that. I really, really value that in a relationship. And I've been in relationships before where I'm trying to get my girlfriend into it and get her as excited about being healthy and exercise as I am. And I was really good at it. I like to think I'm a to get my girlfriend into it and get her as excited about being healthy and exercise as I am, and I was really good at it. I like to think I'm a good closer,

so I could convince any girl that I dated to lift and to get into exercise, but it never stayed there, and she never influenced me. And what I realized later on is I want a partner that cares about it as much as I do, because I want her to be able to influence me when I have those moments of being down. So I would challenge you also to reflect

on how important resistance training and health and fitness is to you. And if it's in one of those non-negotiables, then you have to really ask yourself, is this the partner for me too? You mean, is it, how important is it for them to be with someone that it's important for them? Right, like is it like because because you can be in if you're trying to convince somebody to do something

Even if you're successful at convincing to do that You're only hope then is what that she catches the bug and have you guys dated girls that weren't into fitness and then did you ever? Well, so am I where are they at now? Look at those girls now that they're dropped them. Yeah. And none of them are still in a fitness. If you were a girl and you dated me and you weren't into lifting weights and I got you into lifting weights, you lifted weights while we dated and then when we went our separate

ways, you stopped. You stopped. Yeah, I say, I mean, when I was married, my ex wasn't into working at all. I was into work. And we know where that went. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, done. It's my first divorce, too.

That was the whole reason. No, I mean, it's important for me that I can work out. It's important for me that my partner also consider health to be important. Now that I'm with somebody that really likes to work out, like Jessica loves the lift weights, she loves the eat healthy, she probably is even more into it than I am from a holistic perspective, it's fun.

It's a lot of fun. Well, and tell me now that you have that and you've been on both sides now, you know, being married to someone that wasn't and then now having that, tell me that that's not a non-negotiable. Like, let's say Jessica, no, having forbid you and Jessica work out,

but let's say you Jessica, move on. Would that now become something that you want that in a woman? Yeah, because it's such a big part of who I am in my life. It would be very difficult to be with someone that didn't value those things. It would be hard, I think, you know? And it's so fun. Like. One of my favorite things to do

is to wake up early in the morning and work out with my girl. And we have these great workouts. And then when we talk about nutrition, we talk about things that we're excited about. And hey, I feel like I'm kind of in the mood to go low carb and maybe see if I can get into ketosis. And she's like, oh my gosh, me too, let's do it. Or, hey, you want to try adding some more bone broth

to our diet. And yeah, let's do that. Sounds great. And we have these conversations. Like she just started making bone marrow, which is a very healthy source of healthy fats and minerals and stuff like that. And if I was dating someone that didn't care

about nutrition, they would really mainly be interested in making things that tasted good right right now It wasn't about you know, and that's I have dated girls that are like that are amazing in the kitchen We're cut it's all about taste right. It's all about taste where Katrina's drive is to find things that are healthy and find a way to Make them taste good and I value the shit out of that And that's something I just wouldn't have valued when I was younger and I hadn't experienced that Once you experience that if it's one of your Your your non-negotiables that you value it that much because I could be answering this question for somebody who doesn't really give two

Shits about resistance training. They just want to know if they can get their girl into it whatever, but like maybe they maybe he doesn't work out at all Yeah, I just like I want my girl's right I just want her hotter right you know But I mean if it's something that you really value, I think, I don't know, there's certain things we don't think about, I think that often when we first get into a relationship. I think you're right, dude. I think you're right because if you think about it

in modern life, being fit and healthy is, it's a way of life. It's not like a, oh, I collect stamps. You know what I mean? Like if I have a hobby. Yes, it's not a hobby. No, it's not like a, oh, I collect stamps. You know what I mean? Like if I have a hobby. Yes, I have a hobby. No, it's not because it's all the time. Like what I eat, it's how I sleep, it's how active I am.

It's a lifestyle. It's like a religion. It'd be like, it's almost like if you're super, super religious, would you be able to date and marry someone that was not at all or atheist? It's so, like, diametrically opposed to you, right? Right. It'd be very difficult because fitness and health

is a lifestyle. So I think... Well, there's gonna be many... Many, many times in our relationship where we're driving home and we're tired, you know, and I, well, I'm real quick, I want to pull in somewhere fast and make a bad choice. And because she cares about it, she helps bout, no, no, honey, wait till you get home,

I'll make you something, I'll make you something that's better. And I love that I have a partner, but I've been in other relationships, that same conversation has come up. And she real quick to pull in the fast food restaurant real quick with me. And I'm real quick to give into that

because at that moment of weakness for me, I'm like, whatever, fuck it. But having a partner that cares about it, it really allows me to live something that I value a lot, which is that healthy balance. And I do believe in, and we're both her and I, too, are the same way where if we both feel like, hey, we've been on our workouts, we've been dieting clean,

we also have that balance, too, we're like, hey, let's go enjoy ourselves tonight. Let's go have some wine, let's have a nice dinner, let's spoil ourselves. And then it feels great, we can enjoy it. And then in the next day, we're in the gym working out. I feel like you're enjoying it even more. Yeah, I do.

I highly suggest you get to a point where no topic is uncomfortable to talk about with your significant other. To where it's like, I could say, like, yeah, you know, you've gained some weight or like, like, I could be like honest with you. Like, well, let's, let's look at that. What have we been eating?

You know, how much movement have we been doing together? How much have you been doing? Like, in excess of that, how much, you know, have you got into weight training? Like, all these things, like, just have an open, honest conversation about it. And if you can't do that with somebody, that's a problem. Bro, you gotta have a really,

first of all, you have to feel very, very secure with each other. Yeah. Like you gotta know that your takes work to get to that point, but I, you gotta know I'm bringing that up is like that should be like a goal. Like why, you're right.

Why, why make it all weird and uncomfortable? Like I can be like, I don't know if you got a little bit fat. Okay. Let's just be real. You're coming from the old married guy, right? Yeah, yeah. She tells me, you know, like it's,

fuck it, you're right. Yeah. Like I'll own it. No, you gotta be very secure with each other knowing that you're, no one's going anywhere. So we're very secure. Then you have to have a healthy ego. I think you're right.

That's the place to get to because when you can talk to each other super openly, that's when you have great understanding. And the best thing with this, I got a question on my Q&A that I do on my Instagram about getting your dad or your parents into resistance training and exercise like how do you do them. At the end of the day, like the best thing that we can do is put the energy that you would put trying to convince them to exercise, put that energy into yourself even more and being able to even cradle it.

Yes, and being a greater example, be even more of example, that same energy that you're fighting with them and telling them that they need to do this for their health and all this shit like that, that they probably don't give a fuck about right now. Take that same energy, pour it back into yourself at being a better example and let that be the light for them.

And if they don't end up jumping on board, they probably never would have jumped on. And you want to attract somebody better. Right, so there you go. All right, next question is from Art of April. Can gut issues make it difficult to lose weight? Yeah, can you, is it easy to lose weight when your health is poor?

It's very difficult. It can make it almost impossible. Now I wanna rephrase this sentence, can it make it difficult to lose body fat? Yes. Will you lose weight with gut issues? Yeah, you'll lose muscle and all kinds of, you know, you're not getting enough calories.

You're not getting enough nutrition, but you know, when your gut is inflamed, when you're reacting to food as if it's a virus or a foreign invader, because that's what happens when you're got some flames, your body starts to look at food as a foreign invader. You're in this fight or flight kind of response. Cortisol's chronically elevated, other hormones are out of balance.

Your body isn't thinking about burning body fat. It actually may want to store body fat because body fat is one of your body's insurance policies. Okay? A body with more fat on it is more likely to be able to survive a famine or a very stressful situation than one with very, very little body fat. For obvious reasons, it's stored energy. And so if your body thinks that you're just under this kind of low to moderate level of stress because you have gut issues and every time you eat, there's inflammatory response. Yeah, good luck burning body fat and good luck building muscle.

I can speak personally. I know for myself, and this is just, I look at it as a blessing because it really is part of the reason why I'm so in touch with how my body reacts to things and it's part of what created my voice on the show. But I'll tell you what, when my gut is off, I am not the same athlete at all. I am not strong.

I don't build as much muscle. I don't feel as good. I'm not able to communicate as effectively on the show because I don't feel as clear. When my gut is healthy, my strength goes up. I feel better, recover better, I burn more body fat, I just look leaner, I look more, if you look at me in my face, I don't look as gaunt. You win more games of horse.

I win more games of horse. Still undefeated. World champion. Your poop stone stink is bad. They don't stink is bad, Justin. Is that a jab? Huh? It's called a new one. But no, for all joking aside, when

you're in any poor state of health, and this is something that I try to communicate to the extreme athletes out there, it's like, you know, I understand pushing your body to the extreme levels that you can push it to to compete in a high level event. But at the end of the day, most of your life, you're going to live in a, you want to live in a high level event. But at the end of the day, most of your life, you're gonna live in a state of optimal health because a state of optimal health means you're gonna be relatively lean and have a decent amount of muscle and strength

and it's gonna be that way easier. Then if your health was poor, if your health is off and poor, makes all those things more difficult, makes it much more difficult to get your body to adapt to anything. That's right.

Have a healthy gut, have a healthy butt. Healthy gut, healthy butt. That's, is that part two of Dr. Ruscio's book? Yeah. Healthy gut, healthy you and then part two of Twine. Actually, that's a great, great book. I'll plug his book real quick. A lot of our listeners have read his book

and it's helped them quite a bit. Yeah, it's healthy gut, healthy you, Dr. Michael Ruscio. So if you have gut issues, it kind of goes down and teaches you how you can address them your own issues. You've got a lot of good videos on YouTube too. So if you really go to Mind Pump TV and just search Mind Pump gut health

and you'll see a bunch of videos that you've done with Ruscio and Dr. Crabral. I mean, there's some good info that we should always be step one is the heel. To get yourself an optimal health and then everything else performance wise and things in the gym will really take off Well, it's part of one of your systems, right? And I just think that that's it goes back to what we talked about the day of you know the entire body works together and

You know if if one of the systems is getting beat up or it's under attack and it's inflamed 100% it's gonna affect the other systems of the body and if your goal is to lose body fat, your body doesn't always agree with your mental goal. Your body wants to survive and it will do whatever it takes to do that and if it's under attack, it's not gonna operate the way you want it to operate all the time. So take care of it, heal it first, and then the results come.

Next question is from Rabbi. If you were to only be able to use one gimmicky as C-N-TV fitness equipment or program, which would you choose and why? Oh, man. Could you Google Doug top 10 as C-N-TV fitness? Yeah, because we could go down the list. All the ones that come to mind are shake weight

into the thigh master. I can't. Yeah, thigh master. There's, what was that one horse? That was a seat? That was a cell. Yeah. That was an as seen on TV.

Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah, a gazelle, Tony Little. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like you're, Oh, the gazelle. No, I'm thinking of the, the one from Japan that was like a horse seat that was like, it was basically a saddle that would just move up and down

and keep seeing that. Are these all as fast as it? Yeah, go to Ascene on TV, because those are other things that are popping up right. I would do the total gym. Yeah, total. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, total gym would,

I'd do the Bowflex pry, because you know, I've used the Bowflex before. It's not bad, it's got a decent resistance. I'm telling you the Chuck Norris one, the total gym. Yeah, that's what you said. Yeah, both flex is better It's not on is both flex on there for a little bit. Whoa, hold on go up. What is that look at this? I'm so mad at and come up with your stuff stem on your butt. I am so mad at and come up with this So oh, let me just let me just tell the audience real quick. This is like the ab one for your butt.

Yes, dude. So, electronic stem machines. So hot again. Electronic stem machines have been around for a long time. These are devices you attached, you stick them on your skin,

they shoot electrical pulse, and it makes your muscle involuntarily contract. And they've been around for like 50, 60 years. Bruce Lee used to use them on his body in between his workouts because he thought it would improve his athletic performance. They're old. They have very, very little application for muscle size, strength, fat loss or for recovery or performance. Very little like the only application you may have with these stem machines is in a situation of rehab where you're immobilized. You literally can't move. And so it's your established and neuromuscular connection.

Yeah, and it's better than nothing. That's about it. But otherwise, it ain't going to do anything for you. And they've, every year, they remarket one for your apps where it's a belt. You put it on your apps and it flexes your apps and do a thousand sit-ups while you're watching TV or whatever. You're gonna do the sprang sweat to make it look hard. Yeah, and it's just a, you put it on around your abs and it flexes your abs and do a thousand sit-ups while you're watching TV or whatever. Or do the sprang sweat to make it look hard. Yeah, and it's just a belt you put on, the electrodes, touch your abs, you turn it on and make sure abs flex and you do your job or whatever and you're supposed to get a six pack,

doesn't work. But every year they come, it's been, they've been selling it since 20 years ago when I was a kid, reading bodybuilding magazines. Now they have one for the butt. And all they've done is repurpose this bullshit technology to these like look like wings that you still and of course the ad itself is appealing because it's a butt. Well, yeah, it's a sexy. It's a great butt. Yeah, sexy picture. And

I never seen it marketed this way. Damn it. Of course. Why didn't they? Of course. God, whoever did this is they're gonna sell. That is this, they're gonna sell tons of these things. You know what I'm saying? I want to buy it for some weird reason right now. You just want to see Katrina walking around with her about a flexing. I could be that. I'm gonna go to the sun.

I'm gonna go with the total gym, dude. That's my, everything that we just scrolled through and saw, I'm gonna go with the total gym as my, go to my go to here. I think I mentioned the tower 200 body by Jake. That one's pretty sweet. Yeah, dude, you hang it up over one of your doors and it has these nylon cords that act like it's almost like a free motion,

but with nylon stretchy cords. This one's for Justin. That's the... Ab answer. Yes. It looks like a grill. You wear it over yeah. Ab answer. Yes. It looks like a, I need that. It looks like a grill.

You wear over your stomach and it presses in. It's almost like, you put the cookies like in a certain mold. Look at the fan. Put a mold of a six pack on you. The fan for the chopsticks. Yeah, this is an imprint. A fan for chisels.

It blows your food. Okay, so I'm going, I don't think Doug pulled up one better than the total gym. So I'm going to go with total gym. You can actually get a decent little. No, Francis, I use the shake weight. I use that. That's a joke.

I use it like crazy. Let's terrible. I didn't have a shake weight though. So I just did the movement. Yeah, good. Yeah, worked out my arms a little bit. Yeah, terrible. Terrible.

Yeah, yeah. Have you seen the tug toner? That's one of my favorites. It's fake, obviously. Yeah, it is, but it's a great commercial. So, you know, it's funny. I'm glad I have integrity. Because if I didn't have integrity,

I'd be a, kind of makes me mad. I'd be a millionaire by now, because I would have made up some bullshit and sell it. Like, when I first saw the shake weight, I laughed and then I cried, because I knew I'm like, yeah, it's gonna buy this. It hurts my soul a little bit, dude.

Even like the bend or ball and all these things, it's like just like, they repurpose like one thing and then just attach a little bit of science. Yeah, little science and graphics. It's really heavy on the graphics. I came up with a home exercise device that I still have yet to mark it or put together, but I think would work. It's just, maybe I'll tell you guys, that's what I'll do. We'll close off, I'll tell you to mark it or come or or or put together, but I think would work.

It's just, maybe I'll tell you guys, that's what I'll do. We'll close off. I'll tell you guys what it is. It's cheap. It's inexpensive and- I'll tell you audience. And it would sell. We just couldn't, we wouldn't be able to connect it

to my pump because it's not super great. We wouldn't approve. No, no, we wouldn't approve, but if it would sell. If someone else did it for us, we're silent partners. Yeah, we'll talk off air. Then it would sell if someone else did it for us Silent partners. Yeah, we'll talk off air then it would work all right So check this out if you'd like a free fitness guide just go to mind pump free.com go check those out also You can find us all on Instagram. We all have personal pages on Instagram

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