Hello, I've been gone for a long time, but that's because I was watching SpongeBob DVDs after my Joey decided to destroy itself, right after 5.30pm and March 30th 2006 happened. But now, I've discovered two unmarked VHS tapes with two different effects. Okay, I can already hear someone typing in the comments. Oh no, another VHS cliche.  Nothing can be further from the truth. Let me explain. According to the two tapes, both of them are recording from separate bates. One is from November 10, 1999, during the airing of Hall Monitor. While the last one was all the way in 2011, during the airing of Midlife Crystation. Now that we've got the important info out of the way, let's continue. I was digging through my VHS box, when I found two tapes wrapped in tape. I pulled out a pocket knife, and carefully cut through the tape. As I opened the two, they were recording VHS tapes, since one was from Maxill, and the other was AT-12. I inserted the first one, November 10, 1999, and rewound the tape. It took quite a bit before it stopped, and was ready to play. The tape started during SpongeBob's speech in Hall Monitor, where he mentioned, Things seemed normal, up until SpongeBob said, When suddenly, it cuts back and forth with the punishment line, before a warning moved so fastly. You had to pause it, but I was able to do so. It says, Turn off your television set immediately. Do not turn your television set afterwards. Destroy any VHS recordings of this airing. This material is prohibited. After many back and forths with SpongeBob stuck on saying, Punishment, SpongeBob's frame is blacked out with a deep voice saying, Which was the original voice line from the episode. Afterwards, it stopped immediately. I took out the tape, and quickly inserted the 2011 interruption tape, Rewound it, and then pressed play. In this one, it cuts immediately to where Patrick and SpongeBob say, Are you ready?  Before the screen suddenly stopped on Squidward, Slowly fading out before text appeared. In the current Nickelodeon font, it says, You thought this was all real. Don't be foolish. Find the data DVD. After almost three seconds of black, text came back in a different font, saying, Things were not always this way. This is all your fault. Fix it. Now. It stayed on the last lines. Fix it now. Before the tape abruptly stopped. Fix it now. The data DVD. What's going on? So many thoughts spiraled in my head. I kept thinking about what happened before the gorilla scene paused. Squidward chanting the word, Kelt for brains in a loop, and now two new events. I took the tapes and placed them back in the box. Here I am now, sitting in my bed around 12.30pm. Keep thinking about what it said. The data DVD. What does it mean? I kept thinking about the supposed Sponge Boy toy pilot, But that couldn't be it. Although, I've got sources to prove I'm not crazy. The rabbit hole kept digging deeper and deeper.


The traditional Japanese summer garment, the yukata, is a common sight during festivals in Japan, but it's a bit more unusual to see them at fleet activities yukosuka. Today we're having like a cultural exchange between the ladies here that are working or living on the base. Then we brought our students here from Yoyogi, Shinjuku, to do hair, makeup, and kimono. This is the first time we've ever done something like this here on base, and it's been wonderful. Oh, it's so nice. I feel like I can really endow myself with the culture I get to experience, but I didn't realize how many pieces go into it, how much work it takes. I said, hey, this sounds amazing. Let me try it out. I am having so much fun here. This is so great. I mean, who doesn't love to be pampered for free? After the fittings, participants had the chance to memorialize the moment and experience this important piece of traditional Japanese culture, petty officer Jacob Allison, yukosuka naval base, Japan.


Next question is from Grant Satterswaite. When following a program, when is it advisable to go off script for the sake of fun? Oh, well, fun is great when it comes to exercise. Even if it slows down your progress in the short term, if you learn to enjoy exercise, the likelihood that you'll do it consistently in long term is much higher. I mean, I used to use this example with my clients all the time because they would always ask me questions like, what's more effective, like riding a stationary bike or walking on the treadmill on an incline or what's more effective, working out in the morning or working out in the afternoon? I said, okay, I said, look, here's the deal. Let's say waking up at four a.m. and swimming in a cold lake was twice as effective than going for walks after work with your kids. Does that mean you're gonna do it more consistently? Is it gonna be more effective or are you gonna stop doing it because it's four a.m. and it's a cold lake? So when it comes to having fun, that's a very important component with exercise. If you enjoy what you're doing, again, you're more likely to keep doing it. And so I think if you're thinking long term, going off the script to enjoy yourself, probably always a great idea. Now, if you have a timeline, if you're an athlete, if you are gonna compete at a particular time, if you have a very specific goal, sometimes going off script for the sake of fun might not be a good idea. If I'm a bodybuilder, I'm gonna be on stage in four weeks and rather than going to the gym to work my back, I'm like, you know, it'd be more fun if I went mountain bike riding. Maybe not a good idea because that'll hurt my score on stage. Otherwise, I think this is a good thing for most people. Now, what we typically recommend is for most people, for example, let's say you signed up for one of our workout programs, the first time through, follow it like it's laid out. The second time around, start making changes, listen to your body, do things you might find a little bit more fun, start to learn your body. That's such an important part of longevity when it comes to fitness. I think that this is off the script and fun is how I train all the time. The only time that I was like following something to a T was competing. And for the reasons that you just alluded to was, you know, I had a timeframe. I had to improve my physique every single time I got back on stage and I had a small window between every show and so there was every day counted. Every, everything I ate counted, every workout counted and that's what makes it like a sport because I'm competing against other people. Anybody else who didn't treat it that way probably didn't do as well. But for real life and enjoying the gym and training, I think it's important to do this. I think you should do this more often than not. You just got to know that. It's okay that if, and then we talk about this on the show a lot, right? Sometimes a workout for me might be literally the whole hour is centered around squatting. Me getting down and doing some 90-90 stuff and then going doing a set and then assessing how my movement is. Then going back and doing some combat stretch and then going back to the squat and then assessing how my squat is again and then maybe doing some single leg stuff to prime or doing some jump block stuff to get me right and playing with an exercise for an entire hour to see how I can improve it and really pay attention to where my breakdown is like, I like that, I enjoy that. Or an exercise like the Turkish getup which some people think is a waste of time and we talk about all the values and the benefits of getting good at it. So maybe my training for a while sometimes is all about the Turkish getup. Like everything about making the Turkish getup which means I'm doing all that and anything else that I do is to compliment that. So for example, if I go to do a Turkish getup and I lack good, my shoulder is not, I'm not holding the kettlebell above my head right because of my shoulder mobility. So then the other exercises I'm doing is to get more mobile shoulders so I can be better at my Turkish getup. Now, training this way, I know I'm not building the most muscle I possibly can that week or I'm not burning the most body fat. But what I do care about is that it's benefiting me, it's giving me a new goal or a focus and it's fun. And it's what keeps me always coming back to the gym and it makes it easy to be consistent because it doesn't always have to translate into the scale and my body fat percentage and how much weight is on the bar. So I think this is a very important aspect of training. I think most of us should train in the fun place but I do agree with Sal that I think it's very important that everybody follows something that's been written by a professional first. So you understand like what good programming does for your body if you wanna make quicker or faster changes and how your body should feel when it's exercises are programmed correctly and sets and reps and you cycle in and out of phases. So you know what that's like. And then after you got a good concept of that then I encourage this way of training. Yeah, the truth is people who constantly work out to hit a goal are not nearly as consistent long-term as people who work out because they enjoy the workout. So remember that for yourself. It's great to have goals, it's great to wanna hit those goals but what's gonna keep you consistent long-term or forever is that you enjoy what you're doing. Well, it's a difference with really like turning that into a lifestyle or not. And again, I can't help but think it's sports like going into it like looking at a very specific thing that I have to do. And so you're very rigid and being disciplined because it's all riding around this type of work that you put into now to then perform. If you don't have that kind of restriction and that kind of timeline and temp, like it's crucial to add fun things to mix it up just because it's all about frequency. It's all about constantly moving your body and that's what's gonna pay off long-term. Excellent.