The Johnny Salami Podcast - Nick Tribs

Episode Date: October 5, 2020

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined once again by Nick Tribelli. We talk about Nicks transition away from powerlifting into Jiu-Jitsu, how Nick has changed over the past year, and most importantly we talk about the most effective way to wipe your ass.

Alright, what's going on everyone? Welcome to a new episode of the Johnny Salami Podcast. Today's guest is Nick Trebelli. Nick, thanks for coming back, man. Yep, glad to be back. One of the original guests, dude. Yep, thanks. Technically, you were the first guest, dude, because your brother, he was like, yeah, take that shit down. Oh, really? Yeah, he was like, take my episode down. I was like, alright, man.

Yep, technically. Yeah, man, a lot's changed, dude. You look good, dude. No homo. Thanks, bro. A lot's changed dude you look i mean you look good dude no homo um thanks bro a lot's changed though right like you uh oh yeah i mean i think it's been probably about a year and change since i came on so yeah dude you're doing more like um i mean you don't look smaller obviously you just look like a like a supple leopard dude like if i saw you like whole foods i'd be like all right yeah i think last time i was on here i was probably like 15 pounds heavier really yeah so like what uh competing for power lifting what changed your mind though because i know i mean obviously like transitioning from um

power lifting to more you know what you're doing now is obviously like uh like what made you do that oh man it was kind of uh it was kind of a slow burn. I was competing in powerlifting for three years, four years, and, uh, just came to the point where pretty much every year I was like, man, like not excited about training. And the people in the community were like really grinding away at me, even though I, um, I really shouldn't have like let that uh you know kind of dictate my piloting career yeah but yeah you know i grew up wrestling and every single time i'd compete in a competition i'd kind of be like unsatisfied with like you know i'd have a good performance or i'd win

yeah oh yeah i'd win or have a good performance something but i was like oh man like performance or powerlifting yeah oh yeah i'd win or have a good performance something but i was like oh man like i don't know you go out there and you lift once nine different times so you have three squats three benches three deadlifts and afterwards i was just like man like i don't know i just didn't really do it for me and i was always kind of like juggling like oh man i really want to get back on the mats i want to get back on the mats but like i'm the more i waited the better i was getting at powerlifting and like, like, I was, you know, getting pretty competitive at one point. Yeah. So, I mean, I was, like, I did a competition in February 2020,

and then the next day I just signed up for a jiu-jitsu gym, and it's been that ever since. Yeah, but do wrestling and did you catch on? Like, what was your first day like? Because I know, like, I mean, jiu-jitsu is kind of, like, a fad now. Like, obviously, like, there must be a lot of people who come in on the first day and then they just leave because they're like, mean jiu-jitsu is kind of like like a fad now like obviously like there must be a lot of people who come in on the first day and then they just leave because they're like i can't fucking yeah dude there's so many people who like i'll just be kind of warm i go up there

early i'll warm up i'll kind of you know see who comes in usually it's like the people who always are always there and you know you should shoot the ship for the training a little bit but uh i'll just see like this new guy come in i'm just like this guy's not coming back and like a lot of times they'll come in and like they've they're like really trying to prove that like they're tough or whatever then they tell you that they've like done mma training or like they're yeah he's like years of boxing or whatever and you're just like okay man like you know it's okay you don't have to prove anything yeah but you know you think like uh like the people who are usually there like when they saw you walk in they were probably thinking the same thing right or um or did you kind of catch

on quicker not really honestly because like when they first rolled me like 30 seconds in they were like okay like you're a wrestler huh and i'm like yeah you should wrestle yeah like so then they kind of put it on me really hard because they don't want they don't want someone like on the first day to kind of uh get a big head they really like yeah like have an ego yeah it'd be shitty you know i mean i don't know much about jiu-jitsu but like how does it like it compare to wrestling, though? It's honestly a lot different because wrestling, the mentality is forward pressure, grind them down, literally break your opponent's will to be in that match with you.

Really break them down. Whereas jiu-jitsu is, usually the matches are a lot longer than wrestling matches so you kind of have to pick and choose uh when you're gonna like really use bursts of energy so you have to be more efficient and if it depends if you're in gi or no gi because when you're in if you have a gi on you you know you grip each other and it's like really thick cloth so you can really kind of do more well you can just kind of stall out in positions for like a few minutes where you're really not like you're not you're not really getting that tired but you're really just it's a game of inches what are uh like what are tournaments like though is that gi or no gi or does it just depend oh really yeah but like uh when you um like if you were in a tournament or whatever like even at just

like going to jiu-jitsu practice like are there like takedowns or you just kind of like choose what position you want to uh so depending on how crowded the mat space is yeah like if there's like uh usually jiu-jitsu gyms are pretty small so you know if there's like 20 or 30 people in there i'm just thinking about like you know you don't really want to start on your feet because a lot of a lot of times you can kind of like if you're trying to take someone down a lot of times like you know you'll you'll run off the mat or like if someone's driving in on double leg and some guy's sprung like you would like you know go over some guys so a lot of times you start you start in positions or on your knees

but like like in competition you start from your feet. Yeah, so how do you transition to that, though? So, like, I'm laughing because I'm thinking about, like, I'm thinking about, like, you on your first day just doing, like, a legitimate, just, like, double leg, just fucking slamming someone. Like, that would be bad, right? Like, in jiu-jitsu, like, you don't want to, like, slam someone, right? Well, that's the thing. That's what I did.

someone right well that's the thing that's what i did i got like the thing is dude like i i was so kind of just jaded from like the powerlifting community and just like i was really unsatisfied with powerlifting for a long time and uh i think like where i was mentally compared to where i was now like i let things bother me like a lot and you know i was like super just uh man like i just like wasn't a happy person like every day i really wasn't yeah so like when i first got into jiu-jitsu like my mindset was like pretty bad like i was going out for blood like every single time dude and like the professor would just like send forth like the best guys just to like beat me down and like break me down but i used to like you know get deep on single leg switch to a double and i would fucking lift people flare their legs slam them and i remember

i remember like my professor would be like what the fuck like what the hell is this guy doing but you you can you can do that and you did too really yeah it's not necessarily like a slam i mean i kind of went a little overboard but you know, I was just carrying all the weight of like, you know, I don't know, like now I'm a lot more calculated and I play from like my guard a lot more. And, uh, yeah. So you must have like a preference though. Right. So like, like do some people like prefer, um, like to, you know, just take people's back or like, yeah. So, um, you know, some people like playing from the top. Some people like playing from the bottom. Um, when I first started probably

the first like three or four months, all I did was take people down and then I would try and pass their guard, um, past several months, three, four months. Um, now I've, I've really been trying to improve my bottom game, but, um, I, game, but I always look for the back. I'm always attacking for the back. Yeah, I can see you doing that, dude. Yeah, it's my style. But now I'm not trying to take it by force. I'm doing calculated entries, like inversions.

Yeah, dude, you do look happier, dude. I remember like... Oh, wicked happy. Because when I was wrestling, was like you know i loved it man i was like i loved it you know i go home every day we were in a lot of that we were in a lot of the same class together like you definitely loved it but you also hated like cutting weight i feel like there was no like if there was no cutting weight you'd probably enjoy it more well yeah i mean well like there's a lot of people for me um you know, the more I progress into high school, you know, like, my name started to get out there. You know, like, coaches and other people on the team, like, were saying, like, oh, you know, Nick, like, you could be one of the best guys in the state this year, at least in that.

Yeah. I didn't, admittedly, I did not do a good job of managing my stress and, like, the way I put pressure on myself. Granted, I was 16, 17. Yeah, you were also ripping weed brownies in class, too, dude. Oh, yeah. But, I mean, I don't think that matters because my conditioning is, like, super good right now. Mm-hmm. And I smoke weed every night.

Do you have asthma or no? No. You never had asthma, right? I did, like, as a kid. Because I was born with, like, fluid in my lungs or some shit. And they had to, like. Oh, same here, dude. I almost died as a kid.

Yeah, me too. Yeah. I got some, like, scar on my foot where they, like, fucked up the injection to, like, save my life. And they had to do, like, another emergency one. But. Yeah. My dad always tells me this story, like, yeah, like, don't ever get too hard on yourself. Because, like, you know, you survived, like, a 10-day icu and you almost died yeah like okay yeah yeah that's pretty

cool my man yeah like i said man you definitely look happier but like i remember like i was thinking about this today dude like i remember back in the day like uh i think it was like colin fleury or something like said something to you like wicked aggressively we were like we were like kids i think we were like 15 16 and like you didn't live in this neighborhood nobody really like nobody really knew you that well at the time but like i remember you just said something like wicked aggressively to you and you just fucking like hip tossed him dude oh yeah and like nobody like nobody like i was eating sunscreen in the background like nobody even knew what just happened i don't even remember that but nobody sounds like something i would do yeah because nobody knew like nobody knew what just happened. Like, nobody. I don't even remember that, but it sounds like something I would do.

Yeah, because nobody knew, like, nobody knew what, like, hip tosses were. Like, even if you did, like, a single, like, people would be like, what the fuck's going on? Yeah. I think I might remember that. I probably just tossed the hell out of them. Yeah, we were at Haley LaRue's house, dude, and he said something to you. And I remember being, like, fat as fuck. Like, I was literally, like, probably eating a donut in the background, dude.

And he was, like, screaming at you or something, dude. And you literally just didn't say anything and just hip tossing dude and you could hear like all the air just gets sucked out of his mind well well here here's the thing was when i was piloting for many years i would walk around the grocery store i'd walk around work i'd walk around places and I would think about doing that to people really? yeah because I missed it so much and I think maybe that was why I was kind of bothered I just really want to train that way again

and now that I do that to people on a daily basis you don't think about it as much? no I get it out of my system it's ok if you do man seriously I'm like super level much no i'm i get it on my system it's okay if you do man i mean i like like no i'm not dude seriously i'm like super level yeah especially like i work in construction now too it's like you know you got people yelling at you all the time i got people telling me to fuck off and stuff oh really yeah so like you get to like take it out at the end of the day yeah but i'm like i don't

even get mad like someone could tell me to fuck off to my face but i don't even care anymore like yeah because i know i think about like oh well there's not someone on my back right now trying to you know cut off the blood supply to my brain trying to put me unconscious so like nothing's really a big deal to me anymore because i know every day there's going to be somebody i'm gonna get put in a position where you know the room is closing or my elbow is really about to pop if i don't tap yeah dude i was like anything happens i'm just Because, I mean, I've been your friend for a while, dude. So, like, I mean, I think it's, like, obviously funny. Like, just thinking about you, like, taking someone's back is just, like, funny to me.

Just because I, like, know you. But, like, I remember, like, being on my couch, dude. And, like, all of a sudden, I get, like, a bunch of voice memos from you, dude. You should tell the story again. But, like uh so what happened again like at the gym like i was like crying laughing dude you sent me like a bunch of like what happened at the uh the top strength like you almost like fought some guy oh that was like that was pretty good my last straw um before fully transitioning to jiu-jitsu but i think

some guy squatted like six seven hundred pounds but he did it in briefs like a suit yeah for so someone who doesn't know about powerlifting like there's these super thick canvas like they call them single ply or multiply suits that basically like spring your body like it basically you fold yourself onto that super yeah i've seen it before yeah but this guy was like yelling he was like super fat jacked and like wicked out of shape but he was like yelling and like you know kind of like puffing his chest out like before yeah you know he only did one rip and he did it to a box yeah he didn't even do it like to full depth he sat on the box and then he sprang back up with a suit and reps.

And one of the spotters came up to me and was like, did you fucking see that shit? Oh, so it was a spotter, wasn't it? Yeah, it was one of the side spots. Oh, I thought it was him. I didn't really know the guy or like him just by looking at him. And when I'm, like, in the zone at the gym, like, I'm, like, pretty much everything that I would monitor, like now yeah it's out the window so he

came up to me he's like you fucking see that shit fucking 600 700 pounds and i was like yeah i didn't see shit dude i saw him squat uh to a box with with wraps and a suit and he goes oh i don't fucking care like you know six seven pounds that shit would break you in half and i was just like i was like i don't it wouldn't break me in half, but if you want to step outside, like, I'll break you in half. Damn, dude. And, like, he kind of walked away, like, flailing on his arms. And I went to go talk to my brother Ben about it.

And he was just like, yo, calm down. Like, it's all good. And I just left because I was like. Yeah. I felt like my neck fucking swelling and I was about to do something bad. Yeah, dude. I was fucking, I was on the couch, like, literally crying, I was about to do something bad yeah dude that I was fucking I was on the couch

like literally crying laughing yeah like you didn't even text me to me now like the way I think now I'm like man that was fucking stupid you know

like that's yeah yeah the way I handled that was like really like immature and stupid yeah like right now I didn't like

I would've just been like awesome man like you know nice job yeah because realistically that guy's an idiot you know nice job yeah because realistically the guy's an idiot you know he i think he left after the gym doing one rep with all the equipment really yeah it's like you're good good job man yeah i mean yeah you're definitely better than that um

yeah i don't i'm not like proud that i did that or anything i don't think i'm like tough because i did that but yeah i think i think realistically it's all about like i think it's okay to have those thoughts man like yeah i mean dude like i'll see somebody like talk like with their mouth open like while they're eating dude and i'll just think about shooting up propane tanks and uh but like that's my thoughts i'm not actually going to do that you know externally it doesn't mean you're crazy you're a psycho whatever because everyone has those thoughts. It's just whether, you know, it's just how you deal with them. Yeah. You know, if you go and tell a person, like, hey, I'm going to fucking kill you or whatever. Dude, like, surprisingly, I was kind of like that, like, in college.

I was like that a lot. Just, like, everything I was going through, dude, I remember, like, I would always need an outlet. And, like, rugby helped me a lot with that. Yep. But then I would see, i would see like what would actually happen on a rugby field and be like holy fucking shit dude like if that actually happened to me like like dude if you're on a rugby field like sometimes you just see shit where you're like dude what the fuck am i doing right now like i saw some kid get hit like in the air and i'm like i like vividly remember it this dude gets like

literally fucking leveled in the air falls to the ground and just like like just lays there and like everyone's like oh fuck like is he dead like yeah dude he got fucking leveled like dude it wouldn't been on like a you like a like a rugby highlight tape dude you probably got cte from that yeah like he's dude he was like and then we like, dude, he was, like, and then we found out afterwards, like, he was internally bleeding on the ground, and if he, like, played again, like, he would have died. If he, like...

Even if he, like, if he played one more play, dude, yeah, he would have died. Like, he literally would have died. It's fucked up. Like, his body would have, like, eaten him alive. It's wicked fucked up. So I'm, like, like, as much as, like, I was, like, using rugby as, like, an outlet,

because, like, dude, I always like using rugby as like an outlet because like dude I always need an outlet like where there's like everybody everybody does dude you know um but like at the same time like even if you've ever been in a fight dude like if you get punched in the face or something like that's when like shit starts to like you know you hit reality and you're like holy shit dude right that's kind of like the thing is like um you know at that moment in the gym like my blood pressure was like super high i was seeing red like i had heavy music in my ears i was in the middle of a workout so i was in the zone but you know i wasn't in like fighting shape or anything like yeah in that moment i thought like i thought like oh man i'm just gonna kill this guy but it doesn't work

out that way it's grind grindy. It's violent. It's tiring as anything you've ever done in your life. You know, it's not like, yeah, I know I'm super angry right now. It's just going to be one punch. Like, it's going to be bad. Yeah, it's going to be really bad. If it ever were to happen. But it won't, obviously, with, like, laws in place and people, you know, exercise their conscience and stuff. But, yeah.

Yeah, man yeah that's pretty crazy dude i've never like um those thoughts like never crossed my mind like i'm never like thinking about fighting someone but it does bother me when i see other people who are like thinking that way like especially at the gym like you know guys who are like puffing their chest and like you like emphasizing their ego like that's like one of the reasons i'll wear like big and tall like polos to the gym because i just want people to be like you know this is like a make-a-wish for this kid like just yeah and that was like that was probably another big reason why i wanted to go to jiu-jitsu because i would be you know when i was powerlifting i was really strong for my weight you know it's

when i'm like i was like 180 i was like repping out like 400 plus pounds my back for you know five six reps and then i get all these guys like looking at me like you know they want to do something and then i would just say would it bother me so bad that this person's like looking at me like you know yeah like why is this guy like he puffing his chest at me because i'm like smaller than him and i'm lifting my weight than him like so i don't know just like just dealing with other people whether you try to or not they're just going to kind of infiltrate in like your headspace so i was like i don't want to just don't know. Just dealing with other people, whether you try to or not, they're just going to kind of infiltrate in your headspace. So, I was like, I just don't want to be involved with it anymore.

I want to be surrounded by people who are on the same wavelength as me, which is at a jujitsu gym. Yeah. I mean, dude, if you think about it, though, if I think about a powerlifter, I don't think i'd ever i've ever been like intimidated by a power lifter like if someone lifts like six or seven i'm not like i'm like dude that guy's stiff as shit yeah right like exactly and at that point in time i was you know i was like all i did uh for five days a week was you know heavy heavy squat bench deadlift volume yeah like in my head i'm scared of the guy who's doing like 100 pull-ups dude like he's doing like ab circuit stuff like that like maybe even doing like some kettlebells like i'm more scared of that guy than i am like the guy who's like smashing deadlifts like screw

like yeah right and he's like but you you know you can think on a deeper level you know like a lot of these guys in the gym like i don't even i don't know man they're just like it's, like a lot of these guys in the gym, like, I don't even, I don't know, man. They're just like, it's very like a shallow level of thinking. I mean, that must be like their way of, that must be their outlet though, dude. You know what I'm saying? Dude, they're just like guys who are trying to prove whatever in this small, like, you know, it's the small gym in Rhode Island. you know, it's the small gym in Rhode Island. Like the world is much bigger than you trying to, you know, assert your dominance over this one guy who's smaller than you lifting more weight than you, you know, like there's so many different countries and places in the world, like really going to get caught up about, you know, lifting more weight than a powerlifter at a small gym

in Rhode Island. Like, yeah, take it easy dude yeah you kind of i mean it's easy to get caught up in the medicine too man like eric when i you know i went to get my because i've had knee problems for a while i think everybody knows that but like i just came to the point where i was like dude i'm like i'm so fucked up right now like i gotta figure something out dude yep and like i mean eric eric travers shout out eric travers dude yeah it's my strength and condition coach yeah i mean twice a week he definitely helped me a lot but like not only I mean, Eric Travers. Shout out to Eric Travers, dude. Yeah, he's my strength and conditioning coach. Yeah, I mean, he definitely helped me a lot. But, like, not only did he help me, he kind of, like, he was like, dude, like, you're stiff as fuck.

Like, you're a board man. Like, you know, you need some sort of mobility. Yeah. And, like, dude, my mobility is, like, it's only been, like, a month, dude. And my mobility has, like, increased dramatically. Yep. That's good. It's only been like a month, dude.

My mobility has increased dramatically. Yep. That's good. When I first went to him in June or July, I was moving decent, but I wasn't moving great. Yeah. He was my wrestling captain. We grew up wrestling together. We were close, but he told me straight up, hey, man, you're not moving too well right now but we'll get you there you know he's an honest guy but sometimes you you need to slice a humble pie you know yeah it's not all about just fire emojis

clapping hands and yeah keep it up bro it was it was hard for me to find someone too who like would just tell me like how it is like you see so many people who are like so-called experts so like this is what it is and it's like that's the thing about the fitness industry is that you know most of it is you see online so anybody can claim anything yeah and claim that they're an expert in anything and you know for population, they don't really know what it takes to be an expert. It's also tough, dude, because a lot of physical therapists, they don't even lift. You know what I mean? It's hard to find a physical therapist who's a doctor of physical therapy who also lifts.

Yeah, they're not in the trenches with their clients. They're not really practicing what they preach, so to speak. That's why I like that's why i like eric so much because he he's not giving you any workout that he's never done and some of the like the conditioning stuff he gives me is grueling you know it takes me like 20 minutes for me to even think about like eating afterwards because i just feel like my nervous system is just like shocked really what type of like stuff though like what are you doing because i don't even know like like super super grueling um assault bike rounds and um he'll have he'll have me do kind of like combat sports related um

like circuit conditioning but it'll be after like a whole entire hour of like you know um like dynamic moves power strength how long do you work out for about an hour really yeah that's pretty good yeah man i uh it's like non-stop you know yeah i mean that definitely like like obviously translates over to jujitsu and stuff me dude it's Me, dude, it's going to take me a while. It's going to take me a while to, like, do. Yeah. Well, the strength and conditioning that he has me do, I went to him because I knew he wrestled D1. And, you know, he got exposure from, you know, Olympic-level coaches.

Yeah. So I'm like, oh, man, like, you know, jiu-jitsu is my main focus. But they work really well together because, you know, I get better conditioning. I get better conditioning every jiu-jitsu is my main focus, but they work really well together because, you know, I get better conditioning, I get better conditioning every jiu-jitsu practice I go to, so I can perform better at strength and conditioning, and then I perform better at jiu-jitsu

because every single time I step out of strength and conditioning, you know, I just did like a fucking crazy workout, and, you know, yeah. But like,

as far as like the future though, like, do you see yourself like, obviously you see yourself like competing in jiu-jitsu right yeah i'm competing in three weeks from now really yeah shit is it like it's like a tournament yeah or is it it's in tingsborough mass oh really yeah what uh like what do you expect from that i'm not really expecting much man i just like i'm just really hungry to like compete honestly like i i just love it how does that work like is it just like kind of like a wrestling tournament like they have mats set up everywhere and then you're yeah yeah pretty much is it like winner moves on or

um so there's so there's so many uh different federations you can compete through in jujitsu and grappling in general and the rule sets are all different time limits are different yeah there's like no time limit submission only matches and no gi there's gi like five six minute matches and it's based off like a point system but this is i think it's five minute matches um it's kind of like pretty standard rule set i I'm doing no gi at a white belt level. So you're only competing against white belts? Yeah. Okay.

So I don't have much expectations, honestly. I'm just going to go in there and I'm just going to be hunting for a submission the entire time. Yeah. How many matches do you think you're going to partake in? Do you know? I don't really know probably like five oh really that must be exhausting man yeah not really can you make any

money well it's gonna be really tiring but i mean i do it like pretty much every day yeah can you make any money in jiu-jitsu or is it just like yeah you can i mean you're gonna have to make like the top level of uh you have to make the top level of sport and like the top level of sports are people who legit sleep on mats and practice really two three times a day you know i've been doing for years but yeah you can get through like sponsors and like cash tournaments and instructional videos you can sell and stuff like that but i don't think i'll ever get to that point because uh you know you don't think you will after like 10 years or something? No, because I'm never going to make it my full time job.

Oh really? What, um, I don't, I don't plan on it right now. I mean, you never know what the future holds, but yeah,

I've always known what's the difference between like a black belt and like a 10th planet black belt. It's 10th planet. Like, so 10th planet is, is 10th planet like so 10th planet is a no gi submission is it's a no gi system so check those dudes weren't so like a traditional brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt is going to be well versed in gi and no gi so um 10th planet eddie bravo is the guy who founded 10th planet and he developed a system for jujitsu and mma yeah so it's a lot of like rubber guard um like high guard

um like lockdown half guard from bottom and stuff like that. It's a lot of weird things. Didn't he beat some legend from Brazil? Yeah, he beat Hoyler Gracie in the ADCC finals. ADCC is like the Abu Dhabi Combat Club. It's the highest. So he's like a god, basically. Eddie Bravo? No, that guy. Oh, Hoyler Gracie?

Well, yeah, he was useless. He founded like... He was the son to... He was one of the sons. To Henzo? No no who's henzo henzo is on the other side of the family oh really he's a cousin of hicks but their family is just like the big swinging dick right yeah they are the family that pretty much came over from brazil and made it big in america like hickson and I think Horry and Gracie. Whose son is in the UFC?

Is that Hickson? Hickson Gracie's son, Krohn. He fights at featherweight, 145. Yeah, and he's like... Krohn Gracie? Yeah, he's a 2013 ADCC champion. Yeah, I think I saw him. He lost his last fight, but he is... Like as far as jiu-jitsu Yeah, I think I saw him. I think he lost his last fight.

Really? But he is... Like, as far as jiu-jitsu goes, though, like, he just fucking kills people. Top of the food chain, dude. Top of the food chain. I think I saw, like... He's in the same camp as Nate and Nick Diaz. Oh, yeah. So they walk out together?

Yeah, and they do triathlons together. You know, they've got the whole like fuck you energy like i always post pictures of them like smoking weed like when they're training and doing triathlons yeah dude i forgot i was watching that on youtube like crazy because hickson his dad is like super traditional like respect yeah honor crazy name and cron is kind of like he's still without the food chain as far as you know his grappling skills but he his mindset is a bit different which i i prefer you know i i kind of like like the fuck you mindset um well not really but he's just he's just his own person he's an an individual. Yeah. And he's really passionate about what he believes in.

And he doesn't, he's not letting anybody in their opinions infiltrate his mind or what he believes in. So, you know, he'll post a picture of him, you know, smoking weed with gloves on or something. And, you know, he doesn't care what anybody has to say. But, you know, that's the mindset you really need because, you know, once you let people like, oh, you know, you shouldn't be doing has to say but you know that's the mindset you really need because you know yeah once you let people like oh you know you shouldn't be doing this shouldn't be doing that like you start second guessing it yeah you know that's when you start to kind of crumble i think whereas yeah that's true man i mean like you could you could i feel like you you could drink smoke weed every night but as long as you're not like overthinking it or you know

like a lot of it's mental yeah like the mental endurance yeah like you know think about like you know let's say you were a wrestler and like you smoked weed every night but like no one ever told you that that would affect your performance yeah like do you think it would affect your performance probably not probably not yeah i mean it could but you would never know it and it would never be like a it would never be like a roadblock in your head but like you know growing up you know like health class they'd be like don't do it it's like destroys your cardio destroys your body you know you know yeah man it's uh just like propaganda

yeah when i when i used to do it my biggest thing was like i'd be like oh shit like what if it's gonna mess up my training right no it wasn't like a it wasn't like a dare classroom thing it was like oh fuck like what if this person finds out like i'm doing this but the reality was like nobody even nobody could tell like nobody even people people could think like watching right now i'm on like legit heroin like they have no idea you know i mean yeah yeah but like but like you know i could smoke weed every weekend like i don't i don't smoke weed but like even if i did like nobody would probably know you know what i mean yeah so like growing up wrestling you know i was i was good you know i was you know placing the state whatever but you know a lot of times like i'd smoked weed a lot like in the season and like a lot of times

i'd be like fuck dude like my practice is gonna suck tomorrow you know like it's gonna affect me like you know i'm gonna i shouldn't be doing this right now now i do it pretty much every night and uh i don't ever like think about we say you do it every night like you're talking about like a little bit or you just get like like violently stoned like what do you do like do you laugh that stuff like because i felt like oh well for me right now i mean i for since every single day pretty much except for most weekends and uh since may i wake up at like 4 a.m yeah drive to a construction site 4 6 a.m work like 6 to 3 6 to 2 30 go home sometimes i go straight to strength conditioning with eric and then literally suck down water protein shake some gatorade if i can i drive straight to jujitsu by the time i get home it's like 7 30 8 p.m and for me to get eight hours of sleep i have to go

to sleep at 8 p.m so i'll just go outside smoke a joint and just like try and unwind but i never have the time to and when we sacrificing sleep but i mean ever since i was growing up i've always just loved weed i love the effects i love the way it makes me feel yeah maybe we just have some like really good times together yeah man you know and like since i've been doing it all the time now that i'm out of the military i've like reconnected with like friends that I haven't seen in a while. Yeah. I mean, I think at this point,

if you're, if you're still like looking at weed as like a bad thing or like, you know, only like idiots do whatever I think you're fucking like really stupid. Yeah. A lot of people do it, man. What?

A lot of people do it, man. Like I'm taking 19 credits right now online and I'm doing it while working 40 hours a week. So I take my classes like while at a construction site and I'm juggling, you know, strength and conditioning and jiu-jitsu. And I'm like passionate about all four of those things. And I've got straight A's right now. Smoke weed every night. You know, I do well every day at my job.

Yeah, man, it really, it really just comes down to the way you, you know, perceive everything and the way you let it affect you. Like if you smoke weed and you're like, Oh my God, like I feel like crazy right now. Like my next day is going to be fucked up like this, that, but I mean me, like i just feel good i don't know you know helps me go to sleep good for you man yeah i think dude i think weed's awesome man like for me it was never like i wasn't like dude this is gonna fucking hurt my body it was just like i think i would just scare people like genuinely when we get high together you know because like if you see me high dude like i'm just saying like the most wild shit hilarious yeah so like the only reason like, I'm just saying, like, the most wild shit. This is hilarious. Yeah.

So, like, the only reason, like, if I'm just being completely honest, like, the only reason I ever did it was primarily just to fit in. Like, I just wanted to make people laugh. But internally, like, I was eating myself alive. I mean, I think for me, like, you could tell when I was, but it never, like, really changed that much. I just, like, laughed a bit more. Like, I remember, like. Like, right now, I do it all the time, and I'll, like, go grocery shopping for just like laughed a bit more and like i remember like like right now i do it all the time and i'll like go grocery shopping for like a couple hours oh that sounds awesome man and like you know or whatever i'll like i'll i'll do it and then i'll go work out for like two hours in my backyard i'll do i'll do like a couple hundred pull-ups and i'll do some

like you know jujitsu moves like stoned i don't go to practice yeah like stoned or anything because you know it's so intense. Like I'm just going to sweat it out in like 15 minutes probably. Yeah. There's different components to it, man. Like the one thing with me, like I think with weed, I would never like do it in moderation. I'd always be like, yo, let's get like violently high. And I just wanted to just like laugh.

Like that's all I wanted to do. I mean, I don't necessarily do it in moderation. Like I usually like smoke a whole joint to my face every night yeah i mean like but i mean like i just i when i like you know i'm the type of guy where if i'm doing something i want to like i want to really immerse myself in and i want to get the full effects so when i when i drink coffee i drink it it black, and I find ways to brew it really well so I can get the effects of the coffee and really appreciate it for what it is. So for weed, I was never the type of guy to be like, okay, I'm good, guys.

I'm high. I'm like, okay, come on. Yeah, dude, you would get violently high. I'm like, let me feel it. Let's see what it's about. Yeah, let me let me like paint a picture for you dude okay me and you do we're hanging out right just like the old days right we're in your car dude you whip out a bong we just take massive hits right yep you're wicked high dude in your head you're having like the most positive thoughts ever. Like, you're just thinking about it.

It felt amazing. Yeah. Not worried about anything. Yeah, dude. Having the fucking time of your life. Yep. All of a sudden, dude, I fucking rip one. And I'm like, yo, dude, what if I had six dicks and drove through this house?

And then all of a sudden, you're just like, all those good thoughts, dude, just vanish, dude. And you're like, what? Why would you say that, man? I remember one time we both agreed that we would skip a class. Yeah, it was social studies, yeah. We were like, yo, we're going to skip this class. We're going to go behind DHC, which isn't even there anymore. Diamond Hill Convenience.

I remember we smoked out of my bong that i kept under my car seat like a high school idiot like that was stupid yeah dude my car always reeked um but i remember we had we like got to our high and i i remember like driving and like the right lane i'm like i look at we was like hey man what if i just like whipped into the left lane and got in a head-on collision we were both like we will start dying laughing like but to us at that point you know in our high school minds like that was hilarious yeah i've seen how that's fucked up to think about but i mean that was actually a phenomenon do you know that what like you ever just drive down like um you ever just like driving down

like the right side you're obviously on the right side of traffic but you're like what if i like at any moment i could just like kind of tilt my hands left and i could get in a head-on collision yeah like that's a like all those types of things are like phenomenons that like everyone kind of thinks about here and there obviously you'd never act upon it but you know the thought like crossed your mind which is like pretty crazy or you're like on like the top of like a 20 story building you're like if i just stepped off right now like the top of like a 20 story building you're like if i just stepped off right now like i would die like that that's a possibility yeah uh for me it's more like uh if i'm driving down the road like a lot of the times when i see like bikers and shit i'll just

think about fucking absolutely fucking hauling ass through all of them just like emotionless dude and i could probably do it like if there was no repercussions, like I fucking hate cyclists, man. Really? I can never do that. I feel no animosity towards them. Dude, I was driving down. I honestly don't think I could ever. I don't think I would ever buy one or ride it.

Oh, a cycle? Unless I like move to like New Hampshire or Vermont. No, I get it, dude. It's fucking awesome. Like I've been cycling, dude. It's a great workout, man. It's like really peaceful. But dude, sometimes it's like cyclists who will literally just ride in the middle of the road.

Oh, you're talking about cyclists? I thought you were talking about motorcycles. Oh, no, dude. What the fuck? Oh, cyclists. I would never do that, dude. Anytime I see a motorcycle, I'm like, dude, just back off. Like, yeah, if I ever saw, like, a motorcycle crash, I'd have, like, PTSD.

Oh, so, like, so cyclists, dude? I'm talking about cyclists, dude. You know what? I hear a lot of people always say stuff like that. They're, like, they're like really like bothered by cyclists but for me actually like when i see cyclists i'm like dude i stick my hand out of my window i'm like fuck yeah really yeah because the way i think about it is dude there's so many people who get angry at cyclists but like the way i think about it is like this guy is electing to choose a

bicycle right now and like be healthy and like really good workout and he's like you bike a long time dude you know it's level changes and this and that like dude it's gonna be tough you're gonna burn a lot of calories oh dude it's i dude i respect the uh i respect the passion dude i respect i really respect the passion dude it's just like dude if i'm like if i'm driving down the road and you have like it's an ego thing it's like dude you have all that fucking room and you're gonna be be a dick right now, bro. You know what I mean? I think they're so in the zone.

Because what if they're on their like 20th mile? Like do you think they're thinking about the car that's in the lane? Yeah, I've also talked to like multiple cyclists too on the side of the road when fishing. And I've had like really bad altercations with them. Like I would be fishing, like having a good time. And they'd be like, you know, you can't fish here, right? And I'm like, eat my fucking balls, dude.

Yeah, no, for me, I'm just like, dude, I'll, you know, if it means I have to go like 20 miles per hour for like five minutes, I don't even care. Really?

Because I'm just like... Good for you, man, honestly. Dude, for whatever reason, always, man, whenever I see them, I'm just like, fuck, yeah. I don't know where it is, man. I think it's a mixture

of the altercations I've had with like fishing because me and you, I mean, I see them, I'm just like, fuck, yeah. I don't know where it is, man. I think it's a mixture of the altercations I've had with, like, fishing. Me and you, I mean, I don't know if you still like fishing. Like, I used to love fishing. Like, it was kind of an escape for me. No, I haven't fished in years. Yeah, I mean, I haven't either, but, like, back in the day, like, these altercations would take place all the time. They'd be like, you know, you can't fish here.

And I'm like, yeah, I know, but I'm going to do it anyway. And they'd be like, no, no, like, you can't fish here. And I'm like, dude, can you just, like... Well, I mean, that was Reservoir Police. Like, that was their actual job. Yeah, exactly. It's like, dude, just let the Res Police like you can't fish and i'm like dude can you just like well i mean that was it was a reservoir police like that was their actual job yeah exactly it's like dude just let the res police you know take care of it dude just like oh you mean like the cyclist yeah oh okay yeah i never i never had a cyclist tell me like not to fish in a certain really yeah maybe it's just me man like i was driving i was driving down res road once and i actually saw a cyclist get hit and he was like trapped under the car dude and i

literally just drove by laughing wait seriously holy shit dude i was fucking with you i didn't never happen no i honestly might laugh though dude like i would stop obviously but i'd be like oh this is kind of funny as long as he was okay you know like no limbs were hurt i mean i think if he's trapped underneath the car he would not be okay in any capacity any stretch of the word okay he would not be yeah no no he'd be he'd be like probably bleeding out and like close to i guess i guess it depends how hard he got hit dude sometimes you know you can just fucking if he's under the car he's probably got ran over and got stuck there yeah but i mean dude he might have massive quads, dude. He might just take, like, a man, dude, fucking ride that shit off. Well.

Honestly, yeah. Dude, I mean, back to the whole weed thing. Like, I do remember that, man. I'm just saying, like, with me, dude, it's like I never want to be the guy to, like, ruin someone's positive vibes. That's, like, a fear of mine. So, like, if someone's having, like, a really good time and I'm just, just like if i'm stoned and i'm playing the what-if game with an intention to laugh and like someone's like whoa dude what the fuck man like you know that's that's hilarious like on paper but like internally dude that's gonna eat me alive for a while you know what i mean but i think that's like why i think that's why people wanted to get high with me when i was younger because i would

just say like wild you know wild stuff but it's like I mean it was all in good intention I never meant to hurt anyone I never think about like the things I say you know ruin someone's high or whatever I mean if I'm hanging out with a person that would ever

like there were moments where we would get high and you'd just be like dude what the fuck man like i can't deal with this right now i think probably not but definitely maybe not with you dude dude i'm like yeah not you it would be with ben it would be anything to me yeah i would never ben was kind of like that though dude i'd be like blasting like love so so like laughing my ass off and he'd be like dude just stop right now i can't do this right now but like with us dude i remember i'd yeah did you remember this this is like one of the best moments of my life dude we were at uh we were at the bike path uh smoking marijuana and we ran across the stop and shop parking lot dude do you remember that? Yeah.

Dude, I literally thought I was in, like, 300. Dude, I thought you were wearing a Spartan cap. Really? Legitimately, dude. I vividly saw you with a Spartan cap on, dude. That was, like, one of the best moments. I just remember, like, running across the parking lot and, like, screaming. Just, like, kind of being really in that moment, you know?

Oh, yeah, dude. That was... It just goes to show, man, like, you know, if you, like, really just, you know, don't overthink things and just fucking live in the moment like that, like, you just have a great fucking time. Yeah, you really can, man. Okay, because in that moment, like, we were high running across the parking lot. There was nobody in the parking lot, but in our heads, like, we thought we were sparring

wars. We thought we were going to war, dude. Yeah, it was just, like like felt like this crazy feeling you're like wow that was great yeah dude i'll don't i'm gonna tell my kids that dude like i vividly remember that dude i don't really remember that really like in my head like i remember like you raised me up by josh groban was playing like in my head dude i thought you had like a spartan cap on oh shit and i thought we were like i thought we were meeting up like another like another general you know what i mean about to like talk shit with him dude but uh yeah nice yeah i don't know dude i mean i uh sometimes i think about going back to it i just like i actually almost smoked weed

before coming on here but i was like oh really probably bad idea should have been that'd be funny well i figured you weren't going to be so i was like i don't know if that's a good idea yeah i mean why are you thinking about that dude huh why are you scared dude well i don't know like you know we're it's just two of us on a podcast i want us to kind of be on like the same like wavelength yeah i mean i probably wouldn't even notice to be honest probably not i might at some point but like i wouldn't be like... Depends how much I did. Yeah, definitely. Depends how much I would have done.

I know what you mean. I would never... I'm not that person to be like, dude, are you fucking high right now, man? Oh, of course not. I wasn't worried about that, but I was like... I don't want to be crying laughing at myself for no reason. Oh, that'd be great, dude. Yeah, that'd probably be funny.

But aside from that dude like uh i've always wondered like what type of foods do you eat man like oh you guys aren't vegan not just because you're vegan man i just feel like um no homo the uh the acai bowls dude like i took me a while to figure those out man yeah um because you said uh you know like you need to freeze the banana dude i would just throw the banana in like warm and it would really yeah freezing the banana so and really like in any recipe or like anytime you're like doing it because the recipe is it's kind of just like a proven experiment if anything if you will so like in any experiment like temperature always matters you know like temperature things always matter and um when you have a frozen banana as opposed to a fresh banana like that frozen you know that

frozen temperature it's gonna it's gonna make the acai bowl like a lot colder kind of give it like that ice cream yeah it's essential though yeah and the frozen banana gives it a much much different texture than a fresh banana. Game changer. Yeah, like thicker, yeah. Way thicker. You want that thickness and you kind of want that coldness. That's what I'm saying.

Almost like that ice cream consistency. Yeah. It's rough, man. You have to have a good blender. You have to have a good blender. I have a blender where the blades are vertically on the actual... Don't you have like a Ninja? Yeah, but what you really need is, like, a... Fuck, I forget the name of it.

A Nutribullet? Not a Nutribullet. It's a... I can't remember the name, but... You just need a blender where the blades are on the bottom, and you have, like, a plunger. Because if you have the blades on the bottom, and you have a plunger,

you don't need any liquid. Like, you can just put frozen acai and frozen bananas in there. When you say a plunger, like you have to like stuff it down, right? Yeah. Because it's so, because it's so cold and there's no liquid that. Yeah. The top, anything on the top won't go down to the bottom and catch. So you force it down with a plunger, but it gets super thick and super cold.

And it's like the consistency like you want whereas like my blender i have to i have to add like a splash of water and then i have to mix it and then i have to like push it all down but i have to take the cover off i have to take cover off push it all down add a little more water push it all down add a little more water okay and i because i'm adding so little water, I still get the perfect consistency. But it takes a lot longer, and it has taken me a lot of tries for me to perfect it. Yeah, man. You told me about it, and I'm pretty sure I lost power for 30 minutes once I started the blender.

There was just absolute ruckus. And then when I was done, it was just fucking water. So I was like, all right, I fucked up. But you also have to put it on slow dude i put it on like high speed with a warm banana really you want to hire fuck dude don't you want to like blend like nice and slowly though well the fast if you keep it on fast maybe it maybe it was the timing maybe i just kept it in there for too long keep it on high it's gonna you know it's gonna give you that nice like like kind of ice cream consistency really maybe i just kept it in there too long and then i like it was like really emotional man like when i when i was done dude and i fucked up i was like oh i mean dude i first

got into making my own acai bowls because i would go pretty expensive man if you get them at like a regular shop dude that's why I stopped going. Yeah. I was like, I love, I saw you bowls, but I'm just going to make them myself. And I like the first ones I made were trash. Like it fucking sucks.

I went back to the shop cause I was like, I was making my own, but I wasn't getting that satisfaction. Yeah. I don't want to have to go into fucking coffee connection and then be like, you know, this is a kid who fucking lit his farts on fire. They know you as that?

Probably, yeah, dude. I mean, I don't know, maybe. They definitely know me. I used to go there all the fucking time, dude. Well, it's also local, so. Yeah, I would go there all the time, dude. Probably know one of the workers or something. Yeah, I mean, I don't know them personally, dude,

but I'm sure they watch, like, the videos I make, and they're like, okay. Yeah. Just, like, but I'm sure they watch the videos I make and they're like, okay. Yeah. I'm just eating a salad by myself. They're like, this is fucked up. I pretty much exclusively go out to eat alone. Really? Yeah, for years, dude.

You have to find the right restaurant, though, dude. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, when I was living in different states and stuff, in the military and stuff, I would always go out to eat alone. I'd go to movies alone. Really? I've been to a movie by myself. What? The only movie I ever saw by myself was The Joker.

Dude, I went to go see that alone by myself, too. But going alone to a movie is fucking sick. Yeah, it really is, man. Because you don't have to, I mean, not saying I don't like to go to movies with other people but you don't have to worry about like having side conversation cause no matter how close the friend is

like you know you have to you know because you guys are like hanging out you've gotta like obligate like some side conversation

yeah you don't have to worry about the fat chick next to you fucking munching down popcorn dude well you still have to worry about that cause you're still in the theater

and there's gonna be other people that's the part that really fucking bothers me if you go on a weekday though dude in the morning nobody's ever there you could other people. That's the part that really fucking bothers me. If you're on a weekday, though, dude, in the morning, nobody's ever there. You could fucking, dude, you could spank one out. Yeah, I mean, you probably could, honestly, if it was an empty theater. I mean, obviously, there's a lot of risk involved in that.

Yeah, you got to kind of run the risk versus reward. Also, it depends on the movie. You know what I mean? If you're spanking one out to Joker, you might want to see someone. You're probably going to get arrested. Yeah, no doubt, dude. But, yeah. I, dude, going to movies is tough for me because that's probably, like, my biggest pet peeve is the smell of popcorn and the crunch it makes when people eat it.

Like, dude, I used to be way worse as a kid. people eat it like dude i used to be way worse as a kid like as a kid i used to i used to have to i used to lift up my bowl or plate of food from the family table and i would go eat in a side table because like the chewing of other people would bother you fucking dude running up a wall yeah i mean dude chewing in general kind of bothers me a little bit but i'm way better with it now but dude a popcorn man like the smell of like that fake butter like the butter yeah the smell of like that oil and like the people just i just see them like fucking like rushing you know rumbling their hand in the giant bag and like throwing in their mouth and it's all oily and shit i was like fuck what's fucking bothers me dude yeah i don't know why dude there's a one smell that really gets me

going dude is like the smell of fresh grass. You enjoy the smell of fresh grass? Oh, dude, if I... The smell of fresh grass is fucking... I work for Amazon now as a delivery driver. Oh, really? And I deliver in like Southboro, Massachusetts, so it's like a pretty nice area. Sometimes, I mean, the majority of the time, it's usually like a really large house. Yep.

And they'll just have fucking Scott's Turf Grow, dude. Dude, the second I step foot on that grass bro it's good feeling i'm rock hard good feeling like if their family's outside like it's over man it's a good smell it really is man that and like uh fucking dude if you if you walk on scott's turf grow like somebody who has sprinklers man like fresh cut grass if you walk on that barefoot dude you just get like a tingling sensation, man. Yeah. I mean, walking barefoot on grass is sick.

Dude, that's right. When I was a child, like, you know. I go on my backyard all the time, walk barefoot on grass. It feels so good. Oh, dude. Have you ever, like, sat on a sprinkler as a child? No. No?

Missing out, dude. Sitting on a sprinkler? Dude, when I was younger you know how I was like morbidly obese you weren't morbidly obese you were pretty fat yeah

dude these used to be my favorite man going to like like birthday parties and just sitting on sprinklers dude your shorts get all wet yeah dude

but it's the best feeling dude if you like yeah man do you have a bidet a bidet like a like a toilet that shoots water up your ass yeah i mean it sounds like the same thing to me no dude it was just like uh i don't know man dude you know how i like it would it feel good like you liked the feeling of your shorts getting wet or what

it was more like my gooch like my gooch would get like soaked dude that sounds terrible because you have to walk around the party the whole time with your It was more like my gooch. Like my gooch would get like soaked. Dude, that sounds terrible. You have to walk around the party the whole time with your shirt on. Well, I already had a bathing suit on, dude. Oh, the bathing suit. You never ran through a sprinkler, dude? You're like in a line and you take turns? Okay, listen, dude.

Running through a sprinkler and sitting on a sprinkler are two way different things. Yeah. Running through a sprinkler is something that anybody would enjoy. Way different things. Running through a sprinkler is something that anybody would enjoy. Sitting on a sprinkler is not something everybody is considering. They're not looking at a sprinkler. Most people are looking at a sprinkler and they're like, I want to run through that.

Not many people are looking at a sprinkler and saying, yo, I want to sit on that, let my ass get soaking wet. Dude, but the reason they're not thinking that is because they haven't tried it yet. Dude, you need to install a bidet in your toilet isn't that like a japanese thing that was in japan right uh i believe i don't know about i don't honestly know about asia i think it's mostly famous in europe really yeah i've never i've never used one to be honest with you i was just i was just saying like i've got one to be honest with you. I was just, I was just saying like, I've got one in my toilet. Really? Yeah.

I was just saying like the mixture of like running through the grass barefoot while sitting on a sprinkler, dude, like those two combined, that'll, that'll make for a good birthday party. So my parents actually installed one in the toilet. Was it pricey? No,

it was like 70 bucks, 80 bucks, but we installed it because when covid first hit like everybody was going crazy for like paper towel or paper towels and toilet paper so we were like fuck it we're just gonna order a bidet and we don't need it does it take a while to get used to that though like the first shot like you just kind of like uh it's not like it's not like that crazy is it like is it like a power washer aggressive or is it just kind of like a little shoot like shot it's it's constant stream like really yeah you just like is it like a motion sensor you have to like hold it down no it's just like you position the nozzle

like where you need it oh you can move it yeah you can move it with like a lever like goes back and forth and you can kind of like wherever you need it every ass is and then yeah i mean every ass you just turn it on and it's like pretty high pressure okay so it's like medium pressure it's not like a power washer dude think about think about this if a bird shits on your face when you're walking down the street are you gonna wipe it with a towel are you you going to wash it with water? Think about it. Yeah, I was just going to say I'm going to eat it, but that was fucked up. No, you're not going to eat it.

Yeah, I'm not going to eat it. Yeah, I would want some sort of moisture. Yeah, obviously, yeah. I don't like a wet wipe. If you take a dry towel and you just wipe the bird shit off your face. It's going to make it worse, yeah. You're going to smear it down the side of your face yeah realistically what's the difference between you doing that to your ass when it has shit on it but dude is there uh you're just you're pretty much just spreading the shit around your ass you're not actually you're not really cleaning

until you step in the shower so the bidet literally like cleans your ass and then you can go about your day so do you do both though do you do you use the bidet and wipe or you just use the bidet literally like cleans your ass and then you can go about your day so do you do both though do you do you use the bidet and wipe or you just use the bidet and then you just fucking move well yeah like it's still wet and i use like a i use like a towel to like dry my ass i don't want to waste toilet paper and when your ass is like soaking wet the toilet paper just breaks up when you say towel like do you mean like a white towel i mean it doesn't have to be white it can be whatever color the towel is but i use like a hand towel like a like a face cloth towel i just like doesn't have like a skid mark on it afterwards no because your ass is clean dude okay your ass is completely

clean from the bidet completely It's completely clean. Yeah. So, yeah, like, I mean, yeah, if you took a shit and then you use, like, a hand towel to wipe your ass, like, yeah, it's skid mark on it. But once you're, like, you use the towel once your ass is, like, sparkly clean. That way the only thing on it is water. I was confused for a second. I was like, dude. I mean, if you take a shit and then you use, like, a towel to wipe your ass is like sparkly clean that way the only thing on it is water i was confused for a second i was like dude i mean if you take a shit and then you use like a towel like it's gonna have a shit all over it like yeah that's fucked up that's fucked up dude yeah that's wicked fucked up then you have to throw it in the you have to immediately wash it yeah throw it away dude you

know i'm not gonna wash that dude if you wash that with other clothes, like... So if you ever shit your pants, are you throwing away those pants or are you gonna wash them? Oh, dude. Those pants are never gonna be the same, man. Dude, you know what's been happening to me? I mean, I've never shit my pants, but I probably wouldn't throw them away. You can wash it out. It's shit, dude. I mean, dude, if you see some of the shits I take, dude, like, recently I've actually been going through underwear pretty quick because I've been putting holes in my gooch, like, the part of my underwear where my gooch is, dude, like, I don't know what it is, I don't know if it's from exercising, like, maybe my mobility's increased, and that's what it's happening, like, or it's just, like, my ass is

just, like, a fucking, it's just, like, unknown territory, dude, and it's putting holes in my underwear, but, like, I've noticed, like, I've been picking's putting holes in my underwear but like i've noticed like i've been picking on my underwear and i'm like dude there's a legit hole where my gooch is and i don't know what it's from dude i don't know if it's from farting it could honestly be from farting like the pressure because i fart a lot during the day or it could just be from like mobility i hope it's mobility but like you're squatting like super deep now and i'm not really squatting that deep. I'm just doing, like, a lot of, like, different exercises that I've never done before that involve spreading my legs apart.

I don't really wear, like, cotton underwear, so I don't know. I wear, like, the compression kind, so it's, like, compression underwear. Yeah. Dude, we're talking about, like, immense power. Like, we're talking about, like, a lot of pressure. pressure i don't know this is hard for me to picture yeah dude i mean i've been thinking about it a lot like i haven't googled anything yet but trying to like make sense of this but like it's just like not making sense in my head what i'm i think it's honestly like my ass is just it's just naturally wet during the day because i'm like

walking a lot so i'm sweating So I think it gets sweaty, and then when, like, the farts come down, that just fucking, it's just, like, a mixture of things, dude. So it's, like, ass, sweat, farts, and then working out, and you just combine all those together, dude. It just makes a whole...

Yeah. Like, it's not even, like, a whole, it's, like, a ripple, dude. So you can tell it's, like, wear and tear over time. Like, this wasn't a one this wasn't a one-time occurrence like this took this took a lot of fucking effort right yeah man uh dude we were actually talking about like food to eat i don't know how we got into this but uh dude so besides i'll say eat balls like i actually like because like dude like now that i'm a delivery

driver like like during the day like i've been going to this protein place like they make acai bowls but i i need to like start packing a lunch and like bringing like some healthy snacks but like i mean dude if i have like a fucking uh like a crunch bar or some shit like that that's like 500 calories man you know i'm saying yeah so i need i need like, you know, to put in containers throughout the day that are refrigerated. That'll like fill me up, but also like, you know, not make me lactate. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I pack my lunch every day.

But like, dude, you got to give me some options, man. Like, what are you eating? Because you always make videos where like oh like you probably think the typical vegan just eats a fucking cucumber and goes to bed newsflash you know i mean for lunch honestly i pack um like a couple bananas and i'll eat those like throughout the day i'll have i'll pack fresh fruit and like a tupperware so usually like mid-morning i'll have like a tupperware like pineapple or mango or watermelon whatever i have you eat more fruits than vegetables no i eat a lot of fruit a lot

of vegetables but i'll have like i'll pack like i don't know like a cup and a half two cups rice and i'll have like uh like a tofu and like or tempeh with like um a vegetable mix and i'll have it like spiced like sometimes i'll like spice it like with indian spices or like asian spices or sometimes like jamaican and like i'll just yeah pack that throughout the throughout the uh the week yeah and i'll have like nuts or i'll have like a cliff bar do you think like honey roasted nuts are bad for you honey roasted nuts are bad for you are they no that's what i've been eating at uh they have this uh why would they be bad for you they have this supermarket in massachusetts called hannaford and uh they sell like honey roasted uh pecans okay so i'll have those

but i'll eat like the whole container i mean there was a lot of fat and nuts but good fat though right yeah i mean but like if you well the thing is that if you have there's good fats but if you have you know this let's say there's 16 grams of fat in you know one serving of peanuts or pecans or something and you have 10 servings of nuts without knowing it you just had 160 grams of fat yeah so you know one gram of fat is nine calories 160 times nine that's um 900 was was nine times 60 54 that's 40 yeah that's four that's 1440 calories right there you just added nuts so what else you're gonna eat throughout the day yeah that's true you're gonna have 2500 calories and other foods in the day you just had 400 calories now

are you using all that 400 calories yes okay then you know it's not bad for you you're using all of it but you know if you think like nuts are healthy but you're eating like giant handfuls of it all day because you think it's healthy but you don't realize like the amount of fat you're getting then yeah like you're not using it like you say work a desk job and you don't do anything for the rest of the day like exercise wise you know take like 2 000 steps for the day like it's not yeah probably not yeah i gotta figure it out man yeah i can't be uh i can't just be honestly like since um since kind of getting away from powerlifting and going to jiu-jitsu, I realized how much food you really need. It's not as much as most people think.

Like how many calories? 2,500? It depends, dude. It depends on the person and their activity level. Yeah, dude. I mean like... You're taking less than 1,000 steps a day. You're taking 10,000 steps a day.

How many times are you working outside of that? You're sitting at a desk all day. Then you go taking 10,000 steps a day? How many times are you working out outside of that? You sitting at a desk all day? Then you go home and you sit in a chair until you go to sleep? Yeah, the thing with me, man, I don't eat like a lot of vegetables like I try to. I eat a lot of broccoli, but besides that, I don't really have many vegetables. I think probably the easiest way to get more nutrition in your diet is just add more vegetables. I'm just saying, sometimes it gets boring, man. You know, like, if I walk into the supermarket and I look at the produce, like, I don't even

remember, like, my mom does the shopping, but, like, I feel like it can get kind of boring sometimes. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like sometimes you got to mix it up. I don't know, man. I mean, I look at the produce, I'm just like. Yeah, you're about to tear shit up. I'm like, fuck, look at all this, dude.

That looks amazing Yeah but dude Cause you have so many options Like for me I'm just like Oh there's some broccoli dude Fucking throw that shit in there Why aren't

All those options for you Cause I don't know Like what to mix what with Like especially in terms of Vegetables You know what I'm saying Well there's no That's the beauty of

Cooking dude Is that there There's no guidelines Yeah So you're talking about Whatever you want Yeah I do I throw combinations of stuff all the time together that isn't necessarily a dish or a recipe just yeah but like for me like the combinations are a huge deal you know i'm saying

like because i'll eat fucking i'll eat that whole container of honey roasted nuts dude and then i'll chug a monster dude and i'll take a fucking shit at david's bridal you know and then emotionally i'm just fucked for the rest of the day yeah i mean i think i'd be pretty distraught after that too that's what i'm saying though dude like if i mix those honey roasted nuts with like some fucking you know like some peppers and some broccoli and shit and i eat that and then chug the water dude emotionally so like roasting an array of vegetables on a pan and then chug the water, dude? Emotionally? So, like, roasting an array of vegetables on a pan and then putting some, like, nuts over it is, like, pretty fucking good. Yeah, like, what type of array, though?

Like, peppers? Like, a pot roast? So, like, you could put snap peas, carrots, broccoli, onions, peppers. This could just fucking... You could roast that all on a pan and then you could put some, like, peppers. You could roast that all in a pan and then you could put some sliced and half cashews on there. That's what I do sometimes.

You literally just throw it on a pan or do you put some olive oil on it? I don't really put much oil in the pan but I put some nonstick spray. So you're just using the pan just to heat it up, mix it together? No, I'm just use the pan? Put some nonstick spray. Okay. So you're just using the pans to heat it up, mix it together? No, I'm just using the pan so the vegetables can sit on something in the oven, dude. What the fuck?

Dude, I don't know how to cook, man. I literally don't know how to cook. I put that shit in. I mean, dude, like... It's so... You're really just roasting vegetables, dude. there's not much to it yeah i really uh i gotta watch like um put some salt and pepper on it and you put some olive oil on it and like literally any vegetable could just be roasted that way on a pan yeah i'm gonna have to like

do some research man i'd fucking dude i'd throw a bunch of shit if it's a root vegetable like they're a bit more meaty so you have to kind of cook it for longer like if it's a potato or a beet or like if it care if you're cutting the carrots like super thick like it's going to take longer than like peppers or whatever but yeah i mean i just don't want to like i don't want to take like a fucking pot put a bunch of veggies in it and then put it in the microwave for like 40 minutes and like my fucking house blows up dude i mean because like that's something i don't think i would ever cook anything in the oven for 40 or in the microwave for 40 minutes yeah but like dude i'm clueless when it comes when it comes to cooking man like especially in terms of timing the resources out there nowadays on like

youtube and yeah it's all timing though like so accessible you gotta time it right though dude you know yeah but i mean it's not like you don't want to overcook anything it's not like at 40 minutes you're good and then 40 minutes in one second like your house blows up like dude you know yeah but i mean it's not like you don't want to overcook anything it's not like at 40 minutes you're good and then 40 minutes and one second like your house blows up like dude you know what used to scare me is like uh what was it yeah you have to but think about think about like a crock pot though like my mom used to use a crock pot right and she'd be like don't touch it till it's done and i would always open it and then close it and it would fuck everything out yeah because it needs to keep the temperature like the temperature and like the steam has to stay in there yeah if you

open it you just release all the time you fucking ruin it dude that's what i'm saying though like i mean like if you do it once you you're not gonna ruin it but like every 10 minutes you're opening it you're gonna fuck it up yeah so you just kind of like peek through and you're like well i mean like when in a crock pot like you know the water is gonna like evaporate to the top of the lid so there's gonna be so much condensate yeah you can't see you can't see but but like in the oven though like when you're when you're throwing those veggies when you're throwing dimes i don't constantly check it like i'll check it like once i think it's gonna be done but i'll never set a time or anything yeah do you like i like look at i look at like my phone okay it's 9 25 i know in 25 minutes like i need to at least see if it's done yeah like um i gotta do my research man what i feel

like there's like a special touch you have to have to be like good at cooking you know what i'm saying well the thing is dude is that if you don't ever do it because you're like scared that you're gonna fuck it up like you're never gonna you're never gonna fuck it up and then learn from your fuck-ups that's true yeah it's like anything else yeah would you and i started cooking on my own dude when i moved like moved into my own place like i was making some fucking terrible tasting shit really yes but i was like well i'm gonna keep living on my own for like three or four years you know or however long, like I'm going to have to figure this shit out at one point.

So yeah. Yeah. I'll have to do some research, man. And by no means now, am I like a good cook or anything, but I can cook some, I can cook some things that like somebody would eat and they'd be like,

all right, this is good. Yeah. You know, they're not going to, they're not going to serve it at a restaurant, but you know. Yeah.

I'm just saying like, when you think about, uh, I mean, I'm just saying, like, when you think about, I mean, I'm not saying I think this. Like, I know you make some pretty cool shit, but, like, sometimes when people think about, like, being a vegan, they're like, oh, fuck, I can't, like, that seems, like, wicked boring. Or if they're like, yo, I'm doing a weight cut and I'm not a vegan, they're like, oh, dude, I can only eat fucking chicken. When realistically, like, there's so many other options, you know what I'm saying? They're just not aware of the options. only eat fucking chicken when realistically like there's so many other options you know i'm saying they're just not aware of the options yeah i mean well i think for most people when they think about

like not being able to go vegan it's not because they think the food's gonna be boring they just think like oh they're gonna like have these health complications if they don't have meat yeah when like that's not gonna happen yeah it's not i'm just saying i'm not fucking i want to show up to work dude with a fucking uh like a fucking cooler backpack that i got from walmart and just be stocked up dude you know what i'm saying and i just want to take some shits what's stopping you from doing that just fucking uh preparation yeah just me being a fucking fucked hard um but that's that's the dream dude to walk in with like a fucking satchel yeah basically just working with people who have like one tooth every day with like yeah like 1500 calories of like good shit dude that's

that's the dream man yeah to just walk into the lunchroom and be like three or four like glass glass like containers of like shit like i'm feeling good yeah imagine having like a cooler backpack just walking in the lunchroom you have to prepare yeah imagine that walking in lunchroom just be like y'all my bitches you know what i'm saying yeah like that's a dream dude to just be fucking stacked up dude people are looking at you like these kid lifts. Well, the thing is, you're saying it's a dream, but it's, like, not very hard. Yeah, it's not far-fetched. It's not far-fetched at all. It's really just, it would probably take you, like, 10 or 15 minutes. Yeah, I could do that today, yeah.

Yeah, you could do that today. Yeah. I just throw some things in a lunchbox, put it in the fridge, and then the next morning I just dig it out. Legend, dude. Kid's a fucking legend all right man um well dude thanks for coming in dude honestly man um this time was a lot different dude it really was man you look dude you look fucking good man yeah me neither but no the first one dude like we were just starting off dude like the audio was kind of fucked everything was new it's kind of like the first time we're cooking man like everything was fucked up and

now like we tried again man everything was better dude i mean you look you look happier man you look better that's all that matters dude yeah all right man thanks for coming though yeah i appreciate it