I'm an expert in my domain, by no means an expert in how to do any of this stuff. So, I can see the value in it and I guess that's what drives me forward. So, that's the first thing I'll say. I apologise if it's not technical enough for you, but perhaps you'll see how it is that regular people can engage with vocabularies and use them to actually produce something of value for the department. So, I'm a user researcher, a quantitative user researcher, and came into the user researcher team and they said, oh, can you please just give us some insights from our spreadsheets and they gave me a whole bunch of spreadsheets and none of them were all, they all measured different things and talked about the same thing in different ways and there was no standard. I did used to work in metadata management and so, of course, the very first thing I did was I thought, oh, I think I need to make some standards apply here. And then I need to find a way to actually get all that, so they use qualitative data, so they're talking about videos and photos and handwritten notes and I need to somehow make a way of making this discoverable and searchable. So, the best way for me to do that is, of course, to take my unstructured data and make it structured and by unstructured data I really do mean incredibly unstructured, not just data that isn't in an architecture, I mean stuff sitting around in space. So, the problem that we're trying to solve, that I'm trying to solve right now, is that I've got a lot of research artefacts. I need to make them discoverable. We are working in an environment where people need us to be able to provide them with some insights very quickly. So, being able to actually search something is crucial. The research data itself that we create is not reusable or able to be re-analyzed because it's all qualitative data and essentially the analysis is sitting inside the person's brain. I have a particular passion for ontologies and so I can see that if I can actually look at the links between the things in people's brains then I can perhaps help them to understand how it is that they're actually doing things in a much more ordered fashion. So, this is just something I sent out to the people I was trying to convince that we needed to make a library. So, we decided to make a research library. We decided to order and structure the research. That's a very difficult thing for the qualitative researchers to do because what they're doing is a creative process. So, mostly they're concerned that I will stump on their creativity with my order and whatnot. So, we're trying to make it very usable and I'm doing a lot of user research and making it user-centred but at the same time trying to meet with certain standards and whatnot. So, the stuff that goes into the library, research notes, audio, video, photos, some demographic data which we pull out a lot of data all the time and re-analyze it from data.gov.au or from the ABS and then once it's being used for a particular purpose it's then discarded. It would be nice if we could actually store that somewhere. We've got completed artifacts of research. So, obviously the reports that are produced and also we've got some raw data. So, we're creating data collection tools based on the vocabularies that we're creating to enable the researchers to input their observations in a way that's actually standardized. So, for example, they might note that a person speaks a particular language and in the past they would have just made some kind of note in whatever way they wanted to make it. They might have written down Italian or they might have written down Fiorentino or something like that. But the way that we're producing forms for them so that they can type in IT and it automatically brings up the ABS Australian standard language classification data. So, that just makes it easy for them to meet standards. Then the complexities of creating a library of data about people is that we've had difficulty doing it because we can't purchase, there's no library platform that we're allowed to buy. Department of Human Services doesn't support purchasing of any library platforms that exist in the cloud. Where we could use it in the cloud, the cloud needs to be in Australia. It's very difficult to even get that. There are obviously legislative requirements around records management but in addition on top of that we've got the National Human and Medical Research Council's guidelines that we also need to adhere to. So, there's ethics considerations and obviously every single person has a different level of consent that they complete. When they do a consent form they'll tell us what they're consenting to and so each individual person that we're tracking may have a different level of consent. So, that creates complexity. Essentially creating discoverability requires a well thought out and robust structure to support it and that's why I'm sitting here today talking to you now. So, what we're doing is, this is a list for me to tick off essentially. So, we're working on a draft taxonomy. So, how are we describing, what are we observing? We've actually done this as a whole of government project. So, user research is done across many different government departments and so we have 16 different agencies that we're working with who are doing user research and creating research and qualitative data that they need to store and none of them are really sure how to do it. So, we're working out a taxonomy and that taxonomy needs to incorporate all the different things that the different departments are doing. We're then having each of the members go through and do a qualitative assessment of how have we gone with describing this thing. So, if we're describing, for example, a service, if I've described it in my way, are you happy with, does it meet your needs as well? And I'll show you in a moment what my daggy spreadsheet looks like in relation to that and obviously they're making additions or changes or suggestions. So, we're doing that in an ontological way so that we can, because in recognition of the fact that it's most likely that I'm going to need to have, hello? Hello? Hello Brigitte, we can hear you fine? Oh, someone was trying to talk I think, anyway. So, we're also at the same time checking existing vocabularies. So, we've been using obviously the Research Vocabularies Australia last night. For example, I was watching TV and at the same time going through Research Vocabularies Australia and trying to find things that had already been defined. That's a long process that we're currently sitting on around about 1200 individuals that we're putting into the taxonomy. Once we've done that, we're then going to look at existing properties in ontologies. Well, if we've already, you know, if there's a URI already in existence for something that's already been described and is out there in the world, we would like to obviously reuse that rather than use our own, where it might be broader or narrower than what we're looking at, where we're noting that and obviously putting into my decades spreadsheet. You know, we've chosen not to use that one because it doesn't quite meet the right definition. Where something's not necessarily open or where something's not necessarily defined with a URI, but may have a data source that we would like to connect to. For example, a lot of the ABS data obviously has there's a large bank of, you know, they have their data spine that they're creating. It makes sense for us to connect to that rather than perhaps connecting to something else that's out there in the world that might meet our needs. But if the ABS one has an existing data set behind it, we can consider what we're defining and work out whether or not we could use the ABS one rather than using the one that's out there in the world in which case we might create our own new URI for a term. Obviously, we need to have a look and see once we've worked out what already exists in the world, then we need to look at what needs new definitions or if we actually make an entirely new vocabulary. And that's what we're hoping that we might be able to put that up onto that research vocabulary study database so that others can use it as well. So we do, as I said, we've got 16 different agencies, but there's more than just 16 different agencies that are doing user research at the moment. So once we've done that, that's sort of when we get to the end of what I know what to do. And so then I call Nick and go, okay, I think I've got my list now. And I think we've worked out what we're going to do and we've worked out what the definitions are. Can you help us with actually going and doing the thing and making it into an ontology? So that's when I'll be calling Nick. So in terms of working with other government agencies, we can't ever put our libraries together at the moment because legislation doesn't allow that. There is the capacity to create consent forms that where a person has said, yes, you can share across government, in which case we could actually create a whole of government user research library. There's two benefits to that. One is we do work together with other departments. So Department of Human Services, for example, are always working with other government departments on different projects. Because user research is part of the digital service standard. Everyone needs to do user research when they're creating something that is a digital platform now. If we can actually interrogate our libraries and know that your library is the same as my library, when we're looking at things that we've defined, then that will help us to pull out insights much quicker. The other thing we can do is if we can actually create a whole of government user research library, then we'll have enough data that we could actually have a look and see whether or not the patterns that our current researchers are applying are actually represented in the data. At the moment, people who are doing the work, the researchers, are anthropologists and ethnographies. They all have a lot of experience in the field, but they're still relying on what they intuitively see as the patterns. It would be great, I think, to actually be able to use a large dataset to actually look at it and say, well, who are these people really and what are the things that are really connected? That's a really big part of the work that I would like to get to in the end. User research relies very heavily on two different things. One is personas and the other is archetypes. A persona is saying, here's an example of a person who is of that particular cohort that you're interested in, and we're saying that that's representative of that particular cohort, but we don't really know, for sure, because we haven't ever got the data together to actually look at that. The other thing we use are archetypes. Now, if I wanted to use myself as an example of an archetype, I'm a 42-year-old woman and I have two children. Facebook uses an ontology to represent, you know, work out what ads it's going to display to me and what things it thinks I might be interested in. And, you know, quite frankly, the things that Facebook presents me with are not always things that I'm actually interested in, and I suspect that's because the patterns that they're using aren't always representative of me. So, I think it would be great if we could actually look at the archetypes that we're using in government. So, for example, we use an archetype of or a cohort, for example, of an Indigenous person and we might represent them in a certain way and I think it might not actually be how things really are in real life. So, I'm really excited and interested to see what the library can do to help us understand people better. So, this work needs to be done in DHS and it's something that needs to be done in a whole, a broader whole of government. So, it's just a piece of work that we're working on very slightly. None of us have any money to do this work. We're just doing it in a spare time because we all feel that it's worthwhile. So, the way we're doing it, this is my daggy whiteboard where we started and so the thing about this project that's quite different for for us is that what we've discovered is we've got two different domains. So, we've got the domain of government and the services that we use and so obviously, a gift is something that we're using a lot to describe that but we're also, we have this domain of the user or the person and what we're interested in is how they interact with us and so the things that are of interest there, you can see a lot of them are already represented in ABS data. So, income distribution quite clearly has a standard that we can apply to that but other things such as biases are something that's not really mapped very well certainly in government. There is the behavioural bias codex. So, we've used that one for example. We've loaded that into our architecture. So, this is obviously very much from a Department of Human Services perspective but when we're looking at how people interact with us, we're finding that their environment and their social and their personal aspects of their life are really core to how they're interacting with us. So, we're having to define those things. So, the challenge for that of course is, as I said before, is trying not to destroy the creative process and so, as I said before, we've been loading, we've been creating data collection tools for researchers and talking to a professor at UCLA on Sunday, she tells me that that's quite groundbreaking that hasn't really been done before, which is interesting to me. But anyway, she's started to do it for her research and she thinks it's a great idea to create just some things that we know researchers are noting and use standards to sort of automatically input the stuff for them. So, we've been talking to ABS, for example, to say how should we word this question and what are the standards that we can sort of insert in there? So, for example, DHS has a different idea of what disability is to the ABS and so, we've worked through that and decided that we will define a payment and one of those payments might be disability support pension, but we'll also define disability and we use the ABS version of disability and that allows me to actually connect the ABS data on disability with DHS data on people who are on a disability support pension and so, that's a fabulous thing to be able to do. So, we're creating a three tiered library essentially so that we can create the environment that meets records management standards. So, we've got and also meets the consent forms. So, we've got a space that's just for the researcher that has all of the identifiable data that we have completely locked down. Then, we've got a space where the vocabulary sits, which is in a space that's accessible by the team or hopefully across government eventually and then we've got the third sort of part of the library, which is where all the big reports go and where we've done some analysis where we put that analysis. I thought this would be more interesting to you guys, so I don't normally show the qualitative research as this, but this is a bit of an example of how we're looking at the modelling. So, we've been, one of the data collection tools we're creating is one on digital literacy because there's no standard, well there's actually no way of measuring digital literacy in Australia at the moment and so, I've pulled information from the UK and from the EU and created a survey for people to take out to the field and actually get the people to fill out and of course, each of those questions has a taxonomy behind it and so, we've modelled that there. I don't know if you can probably don't know how to make it bigger. My mouth is too fast. Sorry, I don't know how to make it bigger, but I can send it to you. We're still working on it clearly. Actually, this is a user domain and I've been working on that for the past couple of weeks, so working on the levelling of this and so, it's quite substantially different from what it was. Had lots of internal questions with myself about whether or not opening a business is a service event because we're thinking about it from a government perspective or not and other sort of little struggles with self, but anyway, just show you where we're up to. So, it really is just a taxonomy at this stage. Once we've actually worked out what the links are between the things then, of course, we can start looking at coding it as an ontology. So, I think that's about all. I do put on there some thanks. There are lots of people who've been helping us, obviously. As I said, I'm not a specialist about any stretch of the imagination. So, we've had DHS Metadata Management and Ontology's team have been going through our DAGI spreadsheets and helping us, which has been fabulous. Our internal data architecture teams have also been helping us to link the internal MI with our external qualitative dataset. Nick has been helping me. Department of Health has been going through and looking at who owns what, which has been very useful. Obviously, some people in the community, I've made a whole of government working group, use research library community and some people there, like there's one individual in particular who just is really passionate about it. And so, he sends me emails at all kinds of times of the night thinking about levelling and whatnot. Roy Zett has been giving me some great advice, like don't make an ontology of the entire world. And of course, each of the government departments themselves have been providing us with their DAGI spreadsheets. And they're all feeling very embarrassed about that, but I'm like, it's fine. We've all got DAGI spreadsheets. And if we put them together, then we can, we can sort of work through how, what we're calling things and why, and how we might like to define them. So, yeah, so that's, that's, that's it.


Congratulations! You found the world's number one fitness, health and entertainment podcast. You're doing great! This is Mind Pump. All right, in today's episode, we answered four fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience.  But the way we open the episode is with an introductory portion. So the first 40 minutes, we talked about current events. We mentioned our sponsors. We bring up scientific studies. We have a lot of fun. After that 40 minute period, we answered those questions. So let me go over what we talked about in today's episode. By the way, we reference our show notes a few times in this episode. You can find any videos and things that we reference in our show notes at mindpumppodcast.com. So if you want to look up the video that we talk about or whatever, just go there. It'll be there. So we open up by talking about some crazy facts. Justin and I drop some knowledge bombs all over Adam's face. It's a good time. Then Justin talks about Shannon's number. 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Go check them out. Go learn more about this bundle at mapsfebruary.com. That's M-A-P-S-F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y.com. Hey, Justin. Yeah. Let's hammer at them with some facts. Some tasty facts. You want to learn some facts? Give it to me. Crazy facts. So I just read this one this morning. I thought it was crazy. Okay. Ready for this? Yes. A single human male. So just a regular guy by himself in two weeks. Okay. He produces enough sperm to impregnate every single fertile woman on the planet. Wow. Two weeks. He's got enough sperm. Just white gold. White gold? Just there. Every man has the ability. White gold. White gold. That's Justin's wrestling for the world. He's got a white K-pop. It's like Twitter. I could do that. What's this special move? When he drops a load. Drop a load. I could get real nasty. Yeah. Change the world of wrestling forever. All right, Justin. What's your fact? You said you're going to top that fact. I can't top that one. I mean, it's not that great. It's okay. So the top shop-lifted book in the world. I mean, you guys probably could guess. What do you think? Top shop-lifted book. So the number one book that's been stolen. The number one book that's been stolen. Yeah. Out there. What do you think? That's interesting.  I want to think about this one. Yeah. It's okay.  Keep thinking. Well, is it like, I mean, is it the Bible? Because the Bible is the most sold book. There it is. Oh, yeah. So that was an easy one. I know. That was kind of, it was too much of a layup. Do you think people stealing it are like, it is the Bible? That's the thing. I mean, does it count when they put it in hotel drawers and then people just take it? Remember when that used to be a thing? That probably does count. Yeah. It used to be a thing, right? They used to do this. There was a group. There was a specific group that that's what they did. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I thought the hotels provided that. That you mean there was a group that went around and called the Ninevites? No. Gideons. Gideons. Ninevites. I just made that up. Narnia. I'm combining. You watched too much fantasy. No, that's a Minecraft and something else. I'm trying to mine this Ninevite. I can't get any more. Ninevites. It's a new cult that I've just made up. So Gideons, huh? Yeah. What is that word come from? It sounds, they believe in like, kind of laughing in the background a little bit. Do they still do it? Doug, do you know? I don't know. Doug was like, I've seen it. Yeah. If you've gotten hotels, if you pull that first drawer open. Yeah. I haven't seen that in a long time. It's been a long time since I've seen that. I've only seen it in like Motel 6. Yeah. Like CD motels. You know what I mean? And I think they do that on purpose. You know what I'm saying? They're like, well, people come in here. It's such a conflating thought. They're about to steal this. Like I feel like they're probably okay with that. Maybe they feel like they're forgiven. You know what I mean? Like, it's the Bible. So God's not, he's going to be okay if I stole this. He'll be cool with that. Didn't you have another fact about elephants? I thought that was fascinating. Oh yeah, elephants.   They're leaner as body fat percentage than humans. Really? Yeah. By average. Humans are, I think we're probably, we're like huge, aren't we? Yeah. So you would call somebody an elephant. They get offended. I'd be like, yeah. Yeah. I am an elephant. I'm stacked. Speaking of that, I think I need to apologize and back off the fat comments with both of you guys because now it's bleeding into YouTube and people are starting to believe it. Dude, can I just tell you guys something? Can I say something? Is that where they're coming from? I think I said it so much that people are starting to believe it. No, that's not what happened. So, well, maybe YouTube, our YouTube channel with the podcast. YouTube comments are so nice. They're always like that. So we put the podcast on YouTube and we've been doing this for a long time. Well, recently it's really started to take off. So we're getting a brand new audience on YouTube. These are people who've never listened to the podcast. They find this on YouTube. They just discover us. Obviously it's a visual platform and, you know, we don't look like the typical meathead fitness guys. We're kind of regular dudes that work out, been trained for a long time. But anyway, the comments are hilarious. One comment's like, oh, this is great. Three out of shape guys lecturing me about fitness. I was like, wow. I started crying.  You guys are in great shape. I want to point that out. I just want to shout out to you guys for looking good. I appreciate that. Thank you. The camera adds like, I don't know, at least 60 pounds. This has got to be a factor there. Just a little bit.  Oh my gosh. So harsh. But then like someone loaded that day, someone who listens to too much bread that morning, someone who listens to the podcast a lot. Inevitably we get underneath and defend us.  They're really good. They're not totally fat. It just makes you feel worse. Thanks, mom. I appreciate you. It's my aunt. Thanks. Thanks, Aunt Margaret. I had another one though. So the Shannon number, like, so I feel like you would know this, the Shannon number. I don't know. No. Okay. So I don't know who Shannon is. What's your phone number? It's from like math, a mathematician that basically, so the number of variables for a game of chess in terms of the amount of moves, basically, like there's more possible variations of that than there is Adams in the known universe. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So there's that many variations. There's more possible moves than there are Adams in the universe. Yeah. That's insane. It's something like 10 to the 120th or something. Wow. Now is either one of you good at chess? No, not good. I played, you know, my brother for a while and I'd kick his ass, but that's not say much.  I wanted to kick him a little bit, like in junior high, earlier high school, but that was it. But I wasn't like anything good. Now, like with not the level of good, like you see now, like it's crazy. I never competed or anything. My son's really good. He plays and he got into, apparently that's like a thing now in high school. I don't know. Maybe just him and his friends. No, it's always been a thing. That was a thing when we were in school too. Like, yeah, there's always a chess club and there's always like a group of people. I think it moves back and forth between like the cool kids diving into it a little bit and up, but there's always chess. And they don't like to lose so they're out. Yeah, they're all pissed. Yeah.   So I picked up my, well, I had my son here, right? Because he had to do some testing at school. So we're on our way to the grocery store before I'm coming home. I get a call from her and she's FaceTiming me. So I answer it and I hear the baby crying in the background. Can you come home right now? Please, please come. I'm like, what, what happened? Whatever. She's like, I was cutting the baby's fingernails and I cut his finger. Oh no. And this happens to almost everybody. If you've ever tried to cut a baby's finger, which, and the reason why you do that is they scratch themselves or whatever. Oh yeah. And it's like every week you got to do it all the time, right? So he moved or something and she cut is like the tip of his finger and baby's hands are very vascular. So it just bleeds a lot. It looks worse than it is. So she was like trying to stop it and he's crying and I'm like, and she felt terrible because she felt like she heard him or whatever. So I come home and we're doing the whole thing where I'm like bandaging a little finger and whatever. And so she just, even today, she feels terrible. That was yesterday? That was like, that's so crazy because yesterday Max cut his finger for the first time too. Did he really? Yeah, he was playing with me and I don't, what were we doing?  It was like, he didn't even know. And the only way I knew was I was putting him up in his high chair and like there was like blood all over the high chair and I was like, and I made sure to not make a big deal about it because Katrina hadn't seen it yet. And so I'm kind of wiping up and I was like, oh, Max is bleeding and she's like, what, what? And I'm like, he's got a little cut on his finger now. He's fine. It's like, it was like almost like a hang now or whatever on him. And yeah, I mean, it was bleeding everywhere. It looked way, but he didn't even know what was going on. He's like doing stuff. Well, that's just it because once he stopped crying, he was watching, she put the cartoons on and she never, Jessica's really good about this. She does not put TV or electronics in front of him, except for when there's a situation like this. I guess it makes it more effective too, right? So she put cartoons on, he's just watching like, this is cool. But meanwhile, I'm holding his thumb up in the air, trying to get it to stop bleeding or whatever. But you have to apply pressure, direct pressure for like 10 minutes. And if you don't, it just, it won't stop. So we don't even use the clippers on him. We use the filer. Even with the file, you can keep going too far. And you can even kind of hurt them a little bit. I mean, she's never cut them yet with that. Like I did it with playing with them and something like that. But the file, she swears by how. But I felt so bad for her because she, you just feel guilty, you know?  I can't believe I heard of it. So I'm just like teasing her. You know, I'm like, there's more moments like that to come. Oh, I told her, I said, I said, honey, this, if this is the worst you ever do to him, you'll be crushing. I said, you're going to damage him way worse than this. At some point, emotionally or something.  I'll reveal the things I've done to my kids. Anyway, we got to talk about this. How crazy what's happened with Robin Hood and Wall Street and all that. AMC and GameStop. Oh, my God. Okay. So I'm like, I have mixed feelings around breaking, right? I have mixed feelings.  You know, this is cool to watch. This is cool to see happen. You know, the little guy winning and being able to manipulate the market like taking on the hedge fund. Like the one percenters have been doing forever, right? So there's a part of me that's kind of like, yeah, but then there's a part of me that goes, wait a second, this is kind of like disrupting something that has been normal for a very long time.  I don't know how much I like this. Well, so let's talk about it, right? So people who don't know what's going on or what happened.  So shorting is when you're betting that the stock is going to crash. Okay. So you're, you're betting on the price of the stock in the future that it's going to go down significantly. And if it does, you make a lot of money. If it doesn't, you lose a lot of money. And if it, in the inf, it can go infinitely in the opposite direction. Well, isn't it, isn't it also a very smart way that these hedge funds hedge their money, right? Because nobody is buying GameStop right now. It's basically the blockbuster of video games. So I think almost anybody could guess the company is going to dissolve eventually. Right. So it's a safe, but nobody is investing in it thinking it's going to go up. So they've got all their money invested. These other companies, the way they hedge to protect themselves from that potentially losing is by you short those stocks. In 2008, when everything crashed, there were a couple of people who saw what was going on with the how the housing market was being traded on Wall Street. And they shorted a lot and they made a lot of money when everybody else lost a lot of money. But anyhow, so what happened is they shorted GameStop. And a lot of people, there was this page on Reddit called Wall Street Bets. And they're upset about this because they were shorting GameStop, AMC, which is the movie company. And they're mad because these companies are tanking, not because the market necessarily saying they should tank, but rather because of forced lockdowns. And so they were like, this isn't cool. They're making money off of these companies that we love crashing. Let's all buy stock, which of course, we'll drive it up. Now this, this Reddit page has got, I don't know how many millions of people that look at it. So, so GameStop went up 1000% or something like that in value. I think it was more now. It was crazy. Maybe more. Yeah. Meanwhile, these hedge fund managers lost in one day. It was like a $14 billion. Didn't you say it was like three million people they got to invest? I said that. I was just using that as an example. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I didn't see actual numbers on that. But I was just saying that the, what it would take, right? Because you're going up against somebody, hedge funds that have billions of dollars in order to move that needle to make a stock. A lot of people. A lot of people because they're all investing thousands, hundreds, you know, I mean, there were some stories. Yeah. Some people are throwing 50 grand. Yeah. That turned their 50 grand into millions, right? Well, it's impressive how they were able to get everybody to organize to all do that at the same time. Well, these hedge funds lost billions and billions and billions of dollars because they got squeezed. It's called a squeeze, right? Right. Because of this thing. Now here's the crazy part overnight, overnight, all the trading platforms shut down trading for these stocks. Essentially, even Robinhood shut it down. NASDAQ, the CEO of NASDAQ said, she said, we are going to watch now social media and online chatter and stop trading. Just to go, just goes to show you how much power is this legal. That's the thing. Is it illegal for people to organize themselves and to say, let's all buy a stock? I don't know. I don't know how they're going to find a way to, to, to hammer them. But it is interesting that how do you stop it from happening again? Exactly. You can't stop it. Exactly. And that's what, that's what just shutting down the trade. I was going to say, and them shutting down to kind of prevent them, are they like acting in a legal manner? It's almost like they're protecting these big, these big dogs, right? Right. So, what's crazy to me is how quickly they acted, how quickly Ameritrade and E-Trade and even Robinhood. Oh, sure.  Stopped, stopped it. So, you can see the writing on the wall, too, that what's to stop this happening tomorrow and the next day into other stocks. They've only, I think what they've done is they've only emboldened them, is now that they're trying to force it down. Right. So, now they're going to be more aggressive about it. So, there's a part of me who's invested in the stock market that is worried. There's a lot of theories that this is going to, there's going to be a lot of people afraid that they're going to get screwed and everybody in the, almost anybody who's been invested in the stock market the last year and a half is winning. At least I don't know anybody. Like, I don't know much about this. It's so inflated. Yeah, it's so inflated that everything is going crazy. And so, you're going to have a ton of people right now that see this. And if this keeps happening over the next couple of weeks, you know, stock after stock after stock and blocking people from trading things, you're going to start to get, you're going to start to see a lot of fear come out and then everybody's going to start bailing on stuff. Well.  So, I have two ways of looking at this. One is, yes, but maybe that is what they're telling everybody. Like, we can't let this happen because it's going to scare everybody from investing. The reality is they're not driving a stock down. So, they're not doing what a lot of, sometimes people in these hedge fund managers will do where they'll manipulate things to drive a stock down and short it. They're driving a stock up. So, I don't know if that's, you know, necessarily as bad. I don't know. I mean, if it's being manipulated, I guess that's not a good thing. But the stock market's been, it's funny because I'm seeing people post like, oh, the wrong people manipulated the market. That's why they're coming down on them because, you know, they always manipulate it. The big dogs do it. Right. Right. But now these other people are organizing and, oh, it's the wrong people. That's just what it smells like to me. It's like, you know, they're using their same tactics against them. And so, it just, it sort of turned the table upside down. Well, and I think there's a lot of people that are like rooting for this right now. I'm just, I'm a little, I'm a little nervous to get too excited about it. Like, I feel like you're poking the bear right now. Oh, it's, it's chaotic. Because what's to stop all these hedge funds, okay, that have billions of dollars to group together and say, okay. Right. They can now snuff you. Exactly.  Yeah.   It's like, I just worry now there's going to be even more crackdowns and regulations and things that we're going to have to deal with just whole social media. 100%. I mean, check this out. So here's what, these are the things that are trending right now, right? Here's what, this is a tweet that's trending. I'm assuming that the next time a hedge fund starts to make too much money shorting and destroying a business, that they will be de-platformed from their Bloomberg terminal and throttled by Prime Broker in the name of orderly markets.  Robinhood placed a freeze on everything and then is now seizing capital on accounts that they suspect of market manipulation per SEC order. So this is the stuff that's happening right now. And I agree with you, Justin, because what we've seen now in the last few years started in 2016, when everything started coming down, that they blamed social media for Trump winning the election. Then they were blaming social media for shutting down conservative. So now you have the Democrats, the Republicans both pissed off at social media. Now you have Wall Street pissed off at social media. These are all the people with power. It's a matter of time before they drop as many hammers as they can. My question is, can they even stop anything? It's cats out of the back. Toothpastes out of the tube. Yeah, bro. It's too late now. They'll find other ways to communicate and rally together. I mean, you've organized that many people to do that and you made a splash like this. Like you said, it's only going to embolden them. I think more people are going to jump on board with the next time that comes around. So I don't know, dude. And it seems- It's a whole new thing to consider now. From where we're sitting right now, it's like, you know, and I'm talking to my buddies that are into stocks, right? And they're just like, it's kind of funny.  But I don't know, dude. I don't know how much I want to celebrate it or say like, oh, this is great because this could really make me nervous. It makes me really nervous, too. Especially with the current administration, because they're all, you know, they're always talking about regulating Wall Street even more. Elizabeth Warren, I'm sure she's foaming at the mouth right now thinking, this is her opportunity to hammer down even more. Because now you can paint a really nice narrative, right? Now you can paint this narrative that it's so corrupt. It's so bad.  We need to, you know, hammer even more regulations down on it. So that's what I think.  But it's like, dude, there's a lot of people that fall in the other percent that are in the middle of that. How many people's retirements? Retirements are all 401k. Yes. That's what I'm saying.   But you're also hurting a lot of people in the middle that, like you said, they have their retirement title in that. There's a lot of downstream effects happening. But you know, this is it. This is what technology and the Internet was bound to disrupt everything. It's such a powerful force for decentralization. I mean, it disrupted the early on the music industry, which was impenetrable. The music industry looks nothing like it used to. Then as technology improved, it's now going to decentralize entertainment for movies and TV shows. That's happening.  I can't think of a single market that's not going to be extremely disrupted by technology. I still keep going back to what Tom Billu said years ago on the show, the first time he ever came on when he said, anything that can be free will be free. And we're moving in that direction, just to your point. Like if you can get a 3D printer that can print, you know, all you'll have to pay for in the future is the materials to get it to print it. I agree because let's look at other markets that were untouchable. Now we look at it and we don't think anything of it. But, you know, 20 years ago, like the taxi industry was, you could not mess with the taxi. It was a cartel, right? They're gone. They're totally gone. Hotel industry, they're under attack with Airbnb. You have companies that allow you to rent your car to rent whatever you want. Parking spaces. It might even be at some point where owning stuff isn't going to be worth it when everything will be easy to rent or trade or whatever through these decentralizing platforms. It's really weird. Yeah. Well, that's what interests me too about the Bezos and Elon Musk race right now with the satellites that I brought up the other day. Like that's what's going on with, they're going to disrupt the entire internet service. I mean, that's pretty much controlled by a handful of people that are running that right now. I mean, what's going to happen? Now, are they saying that they're going to give everybody just 5G free? There's nothing that says they're going to give it away for free. I don't think that. But they're going to disrupt it. Right now, there's a standard of how much you have to pay. You can only go through a handful of services. I mean, what are they? AT&T, Broadband? Verizon. Yeah, there's not a lot. Yeah, because they all follow under the telecom, the old rules, right? Oh, my God. Yeah. We're comcasting that because, dude, let's get it. Their day has come. And think about how expensive streaming and internet and phone stuff has become. I mean, it's crazy. That's like a serious bill for most people now, and they're going to go in and blow it all up. Just wait until it's next to nothing, just to have all that access. Here's another industry that's going to get, that is on the horizon, is about to get super just disrupted is Big Pharma. Because they have, right now, average consumer could never get this. Mark Cuban. But they actually, well, besides that, right, they actually have 3D printers right now that can print molecule by molecule and theoretically. Formulate it right there. Theoretically, you could download your drug and print it. You can print your medication because of these 3D printers. That sounds dangerous. Yeah, it sounds real. That sounds crazy for black market reasons. But I mean, if you could lock out the machine based off of your prescription, they would have to have some serious barriers there. Good luck. What do you think? I know, good luck, but it's like. How easy is it to steal music right now? It's crazy. How powerful is the music industry? Right. Can you steal music right now still, if you wanted to? Yeah, of course. Super easy. And they're very powerful.   I need my medication. So let me print whatever I want. It's going to be crazy, dude. And this is just the beginning. Sorry about that. I can't think of the last time Wall Street was like, because I have a lot of family and friends that this is what they do for a living. And you should see the way that they're talking right now that they're, they're totally head in the sand.  This is like just the beginning. Oh no, nothing's going to happen.  You think that that move's going to go away? Yeah, but why do you think that would actually get rid of their position? Because there still be people that don't know how to invest their money that are looking for somebody who knows how to invest their money. I don't see why you think that would ruin their position.  But things like Robin Hood, that app, has allowed everyday people to just trade, just to trade easily. Very, very simply. Gamble, yes. You know what I'm saying? So what, what does that have to do with your family though? It does, I don't see them like not having a job because of that. Well, I think when algorithms and the technology becomes very easy to access, I think it's going to be a game. It'll be an easy game or an easier game. I think there's going to be a place, but I don't think it's going to be like they have now. Yeah, I mean, I doubt I won't argue with. Like it's going to disrupt things. It's going to change the landscape of it, but I think there still will be a need for that. It's just like the training space we talk about. There's still going to be a need for coaches to help one-on-one people. But yeah, now you have access. Just 10, I mean, part of why we do what we do. We saw an opportunity to be able to communicate long form, the same things that we would communicate to our clients. We offer these digital programs. We don't think, we tell people, listen, they're not cookie cutter. The idea is that you learn from the things that we talk to you about. So now people have access to what would cost them. The amount of information that we've put out on this podcast, if you were to calculate all that up with what you would, a client would have to pay to get all that from you, tens of thousands of dollars, way more, right? So now people have that for a minimal price from us. I think it, so you're going to see district, but that doesn't mean that we eliminated trainers. We didn't put all trainers at a job by doing that. No, but I mean, okay, played to play devil's advocate. And of course this, I don't think this will happen in our lifetime, but let's just fast forward. I don't know how many years in the future. An AI trainer that comes across like a human. I mean, theoretically that could happen. Well, now we're talking way forward. Well, we're not talking about that forward, actually. We're building towards that. I mean, the idea is that- Yeah, but to give you the same personal attention. Well, it'll never be, exactly. That's why it'll never completely eliminate that. There'll always still be this individualized person who can customize things to you by the minute, right? I don't know if AI could ever- Or just give you the connection. Right, but I mean, it's going to disrupt it and continue to disrupt it. And what we're building towards is that ability to kind of do our job even better. I mean, that's what we're doing on the back end with customer service. But just imagine you get this app or whatever and it follows algorithms. It's got this whatever.  You give it permission to trade for you to make, do whatever. I could see that happening and I could see that being very successful. I really could, especially if he can act very quickly. Computers can go, they can jump real fast and make a trade or sell very, very quickly based off of whatever. Yeah, I don't know. That's interesting. I don't know what it's going to look like. I definitely agree with you. It's going to disrupt that. I don't know. I don't see their jobs being at risk anytime soon. I think that's going to take a while. All this stuff. I think really, really what it is is when I said that they're coming for you, what I really meant was the regulators. They're going, the Wall Street is in the crosshairs right now. I don't see how they're going to win. One way or the other, one side is saying screw them. This is what they get. The other side is saying, we can't let this happen. The result of all of that is a heavy regulation. Yeah, more eyes on everything going on there is not going to be good for everybody. Well, personally, I'm betting on Wall Street because Wall Street and when you look. They hold the strings, don't they? They hold the strings. They're the most connected to all the people in political power. So when it comes to setting regulations, they're going to set it to hurt the Robin Hood guys. They're not going to set it to hurt the hedge funds. They're going to protect those guys because they're protecting the billions of dollars that all these politicians have their hands in. Now, what's to stop a company to sell portions of their business and not go public? Not be traded on NASDAQ. What's to stop a company? What if the company said, we want to raise money? We want to sell 100 shares of our company. It would be 10% of our company, but we don't want to deal with the SEC. We don't want to deal with all that. We just want to sell it to private buyers what's to stop them from getting on some kind of easy technology that allows that to happen. In fact, I know of a company that's doing that. I was going to say, isn't there one doing that? There are. There are companies that are doing that. So there's not laws and regulation in place to stop that from happening?   Yeah, and then they build the interest in, they get the interest from your purchase, something like that. Yeah, I've heard that. Yeah, I think I brought that up a while ago. Yeah, a long time ago. Yeah, it was like a year or two ago. I'm trying to remember what the name of that was. I wonder how that's doing. Do you remember that, Doug? Do you remember when we talked about that? I do remember that now, Justin, when you brought, I remember bringing that. It was a while ago when I brought that up. I forgot about that. Yeah, I remember the conversation, but I don't recall the details. Yeah, that's smart too. Yeah, anyways, it's interesting. What do you think is going to happen with markets like clothing and apparel?  I don't know. I mean, yeah, possibly. I think artists still have a chance. Like designers and artists, I think that the creativity in general, I think people, if they could steer more in that direction and being able to come up with unique content and unique design, there's going to be a lot of opportunity to be able to sell that. That's what I think the future is going to look like. Someone designs the blueprints. And you sell it for a premium price. A company like Biori, we work with. One of the things that I love about it is it's not just, right now it's really popular in the fitness space. I mean, there must be a thousand of these brands that are popping up that are just generic joggers and shirts and things like that that they're ordering from China or Alibaba, then they're flipping their logo on it and they're trying to, and they're actually, some of these companies are doing decent. I mean, I know I've hammered Gymshark for being like one of these companies that have done this and done very well with it, but I think that those are the types of companies that will get buried with 3D printing. The ones that will stand are the ones that have real design behind them, like the material, the way the zipper is, the way the buttons are. Yeah, but the designs can always get copied, stolen. So, okay, here's the deal. It's hard to predict. Yeah, but you would trademark that, just like you would anything else. Well, and...  Good luck. Okay, so... You don't stop one off here, just like us. We just work to gather all these very specific materials and things. So, I would think that that's going to be a part of somebody's service. Well, I think the best way to predict, because it's hard, I'm thinking about all the different variables, the best thing we could do is look at past markets that have been affected this way. So, look at the music industry. The music industry was totally disrupted, and today you can steal music, but do people still buy it? Yeah, but here's the problem though. That's what the reason, they do, right? And now why? Exactly. What do you mean why? Why do they still buy it? So, they're not breaking the law?  It's because it's easy. I know I can buy on Apple a song for, and I got it, it's clean, it's easy, I don't got to do a bunch of, I don't have to go jump through a bunch of hoops, but music is still stolen like crazy. It'll, in my opinion, it might look like that. Like people will still, you know, buy it from the retailer, because it's easy, it's clean, you're not going to get a virus, it's you don't need to go jump through a lot of hoops. So, that's what I think will happen. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. 100%, they're not going to be able to charge the same amount, it'll have to, it'll totally change. I don't think it'll make them obsolete, and I think that what will make them most valuable is the design to Justin's point. That's where the artist, and I actually think that you might see a spike in that even, where, because it'll be even more rare.  Ed Hardy's a great example of this. When Ed Hardy came out of LA originally and was designed from like a famous tattoo artist, that's where someone had this brilliant idea of like, let's have these tattoo artists create this artwork, then we will put that artwork on t-shirts, and nobody was doing that at that time.  The target start carry, yeah. No, TJ Maxx, then they sell the brand out, they go to, now, from the company's perspective, it took, I mean, it still kept going up because now more people could afford to buy it. They lost their edge, though. But it lost its edge.  How many shirts did you have? But they're, oh, God, I had a lot. I had a lot at one point. I had him so mad about this.  I had a lot at one point. Have to throw him all the way down, huh? Yeah, right, for sure. Dude, I have to have Doug pull this up, though that was another one of my notes, was there's a Louis Vuitton came out with these jackets that were like skyline jackets, they're 3D like cities, basically.  You have to see the visual of it to really take it in. So Louis Vuitton did? Yeah, Louis Vuitton. So what? Look how uncomfortable he looks. Wait a minute, that's not, you know, sometimes, you know what they do, I think they think. That's not real, Justin, is it? It's real, dude. I mean, but it's high fashion like runway stuff, right?  You know, it looks like some like reject superhero from like some comic book, I Am City Man. That's a real thing. Well, have you ever seen some of the stuff they do on these runways? Yeah, that's what I mean.  You ever seen that when they do the hairstyle ones, where they go on runways and they like, there was one woman who had a helicopter in her hair. Oh yeah. I saw some show where they had like some competition where they were like, you know, making all these like crazy extravagant, pieces on these people's heads. That's why Zoolander hit it out the park with that, because it was such a great, I don't think before that, you had seen anybody do like a really good spoof on that. No, such a great movie. Oh, that's one of my favorite. Hey, you know what, back to the music though, you know what I was thinking too, is with musicians for a while there, they were making so much more money selling albums. And now because people buy music piecemeal, one at a time, musicians have gone back to making a lot of money, merchandise and touring, being live in front of people.  Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. So I don't know, man. I wonder what it's going to look like for clothing brands. Well, you know, the difference though, and I have to bring up with that argument you're making, is that music, once you create the music, like it's done, it's now you're just streaming, you can sell a million of it and it doesn't cost the company any more money or the artist any more money to produce it. Right. With clothing, there's material that's involved in that. Right. But if they're just selling the plan and you're printing it at home, Right. And it's similar. So then maybe what it'll be like is that getting a hold of the material or knowing what the exact material is. I think there's going to be way. They'll get all specialized with it. Exactly. And I think what will make it different and separate it from that is how unique all that is, how uniquely it's designed, the material, how unique that is. That's how they'll be able to keep their prices up higher. But then if you just want to print a t-shirt, like everybody's going to see that. Well, hey, speaking of Viori, did you see the new joggers they have, the new colors? Oh, dude, they got some rad colors. They just did that with almost everything.  I know that. I love the Sunday joggers. I'm big on their jackets. The ripstop jackets. It's almost like a flannel, but it's like a one solid color. Yup. It is awesome. Yeah, Viori is still crushing and I'm seeing them being mentioned in more and more mainstream media. Talking about that. Well, I brought it up last time that we had a commercial for them when Chokey did a story and she did the whole this or that. I was blown away by, I mean, Lululemon's a brand that's been around long enough now that it's like known as like these. It's like a standard. Yes, right. Exactly. And so to see that, I mean, I want to say 98% of those circled Viori over Lululemon, which is really cool to see. I mean, they're taking over now. They're making waves for sure. Now, speaking of our sponsors, so I'm making tri-tips from Butcherbox and I think I'm not nearly as good, especially as you, Doug or Adam. I know you guys are super like barbecue masters or whatever, but I figured out how to make tri-tips just amazing. Okay, let's hear it. So here's what I do. What's the formula? So here's what you get. I know I'm almost, I'm almost scared to tell you because you guys are gonna be- I order it from- No, I'm scared to tell you. Oh yeah, is that what you do, Sal? So it's basic.  Assault and then I cook it. Yes, that's it. No, I get the real kind of coarse salt and I crust both of them really nice. I leave them out for a little while. Then I go olive oil. Then I go garlic powder. Then lots of rosemary on both sides. Then I get my cast iron skillet and I sear both sides so that it makes like a nice brown, almost kind of crust. Then I put it in the oven and then I use the thermometer. Oh, comes out. Incredible. That's not bad. Really? Yeah, yeah. Are you just saying that? Sounds legit. Yeah, that sounds okay. Is that okay? Yeah, yeah. All right. 30 to 60 minutes. That's about all you want on the putting- I don't even time it. You know what I do? There's no seasoning. There's no seasoning part. What do you mean? That's what you only want to put it for about 30 to 60 minutes. When you're doing like a dry rub, like that, like when you do- Well, the olive oil makes it a little wet, but is that the same? Yeah, you're still doing- Your main thing you're doing is your salts and your rubs in there, right? Yeah. So when you're doing rubs like that, it's like 30 to 60 minutes, right, Doug? It should be about 30 to 60 before.  Worchester, Worchester. How do you say it? Worchester. I have no idea. Worchester, no? No, it's Worchester. Worchester. Worchester. Worchester. You know what?  Yeah. You blame me. I knew how to say it. So if that's the case, I'm going to blame it on somebody else then.  So that's what I'm going to do. It was the best of shires. It was the worst of shire. Worst of shire. Worst of shire. Oh, worst of shire. I put up a bean. I put up a bean the other day. Oh. Yeah, what is- That sounds right. What is that, anyway? What is that made of? Is that gluten? Is there gluten in that? Isn't there gluten in that? I have no idea what's in it. I don't know. But Duggar, am I not right about the rubs, the dry rubs? No, I'm no expert on rubs. Oh, OK. No, no, no. He's a rubbing expert. He's a wet rub. But not the- Yeah. I'm pretty sure that I'm right about that. I think it's 30 to 60 minutes if you're doing dry rub. If you're going to marinate it, you can stick it in the refrigerator or whatever for over an hour. OK, give me a good marinade on the air right now for the grass-fed tri-tip. I get my tri-tip from ButcherBox grass-fed. What's a good marinade to leave in overnight? Can you do it on the spot? Oh, that's a tough one for me. I mean, I'll use sometimes like a red wine and some soy sauce and some garlic. And then you just soak it in there? Marinate, yeah. OK, that sounds good. I haven't done an overnight marinade like that in a long time. I normally do rubs, just quick and easy. Yeah, I like rubs. Because then you pull it out of the refrigerator, I do a rub on it while I'm getting the barbecue already and so like that, and then you're good. You know what I haven't tried? It's like crusts. Yes, yeah, I like that. That's good. You know what I haven't tried? That I don't know if it'll be good, but you keep selling me on it, Justin, is the coffee. Oh, yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. So it's just coffee, garlic. Well, yeah, there's a lot of other little spices in there, but yeah, coffee is like, it just changes sort of the texture of it somehow. So I told you, Trigger has a good, I have. I'll let you borrow it.  No, no, no, no, no. It does. Not at all. Yeah. It doesn't taste like coffee. Do you get all like, do you get all caffeine from it? No. Doug, what is, you know, you brought a butcher box. They have a special, another special going on right now and what is that they have a different types of ribs? Is it not what we normally would order from them? St. Louis ribs. St. Louis ribs. I mean, there's two types they have, the baby backs and the St. Louis. Oh, I haven't tried the St. Louis ones. Yeah, they're good. Oh, good. Have you? Yeah, I've, in fact, I think that's the ones I've been buying for the last while. Oh, really? Yeah. I've only done the baby back from them, which I absolutely love. I mean, it's like fall off the bone when I use those. Like I've got the timing for that, those ribs and that size down better than anything else. So anytime I've kind of gone outside of that, I haven't put barbecue sauce on them. I'm in. It's this, cheese. Speaking of meat, man, I tell you what, no matter what, this is just how I am. If I try to reduce calories and maintain a balanced macro profile, am I okay? So if I have my carbs, my fats and my proteins, but I just cut it down, my appetite just goes too high. It's way more effective for me personally to cut my calories by cutting carbs. Of course. My appetite does not. I've always said that, dude. It makes a night and day. I even noticed like, so yeah. So if I cut carbs, I'm not nearly as hungry. If I cut everything and my carbs are still there, it's like. There's that satiating.  No, I'm the same. I've always been. I'm in fact, I use eating carbs early to boost my appetite. So I did that day in the life thing last week, right, for our Instagram page. That morning I get up and I have, thank you, I get up and I have oatmeal and within two hours, I'm starving. If I don't do that, I can easily go till we get here and eat that same egg and bacon sourdough breakfast that we have. I'm hungrier when I actually eat the early oatmeal breakfast before I go into that. Oh yeah. And I did this when I was competing. I would have, because I had to get so many calories in. I found that if I started the morning with that carb, like a high carb with a bunch of oatmeal and fruit to start my morning early, I had more of an appetite for meal number two than if I just didn't eat anything. If you'd like steak and eggs. Yes, everything on. It's wild to me. Dude, it's just, it's just not satiating. I can't do it for me. Now I've worked with people who do okay with cut with just reducing everything and they're more balanced. And I get the pluses of that. Obviously if I have more carbs, I tend to perform sometimes a little better in the gym. Although adding more salt to my diet per the episode from Walt Wolf is really making a difference. I'll be honest with you. I think that's maybe one of the reasons why I noticed a drop in performance when I cut carbs or whatever. But yeah, my appetite. So when I'm trying to get leaner, it's cut the carbs down for me because my appetite is much easier to manage.  Then I just go overboard. First question is from The Last Flare. Is there any value in strength gain by working in many sets but decreasing weight with each set to maintain form? No, no, this is a really, really easy way to lose all your muscle. Oh gross, stop it. I used to, I love doing this. This is great. I actually, so I love this question because I don't think we've addressed this and talked about this, or it's been a while since we have. This is how I trained for a really long time. When I first became a trainer, one of the things that I became very meticulous with my form, the importance of form and technique, that when I would do sets like this, I think the old traditional way when I was a kid growing up was keep loading the bar more and more and more to see how much you could move. I went the opposite way when I got all my training certifications and started getting into training people and realized how important form and technique was. And so as sets would go on, I would decrease weight and just keep perfecting my form. If the weight was a little light, then I would just slow down the repetition. I actually think more people should do this, especially when you're really getting into weight training and trying to get the mechanics down. Yeah, I think there's so many different ways to manipulate the sets as you're going through them. Of course, there's a pyramid, right, where you work up in the weight and then you work down in the weight. There's what they call reverse pyramid.  And the benefit of doing this is it adds novelty, variation to your lifts, and it changes your focus. Always focusing on the same thing all the time is a great way to lead, to go to plateau. It's a great way to cause potential injury. One of the best things you could do is change it up. Once your body stops responding to one way of training, then you try moving into a different way. And like Adam was saying with this, it's excellent because the focus is entirely on form. I mean, you're doing 10 reps, and the goal is, I'm doing, I don't know, let's just say I'm eight sets. I'm doing eight sets of deadlifts, 10 reps. I want all 10 reps of every single set to be perfect, which means by the time I get to the fourth and fifth set, I'm probably going to have to start to go higher. Probably you have to. Who do you know that can do 10 perfect form on sets one and two, and then sets five and six there? Well, besides me, I can't do that. No, you see this with professional lifters, Olympic lifters. Like, you see this because sharpening their technique and form a lot of times will provide even more opportunity for them to lift heavier weights. 100%. You know, and if they don't do that and they don't get the technique and master it, they're not going to achieve the potential that they could have otherwise. So this is just another way to add a whole new set of tools in your toolbox. Yeah, there's even this, you can even try something like this where you pick a weight, and let's say it's about 80 to 90% intensity. It means it's hard, but you're not going to failure. And you say, okay, I'm going to do six reps of this exercise. And you do six reps, pretty intense. And then you say to yourself, for the next five weeks, I'm only doing six reps of this exercise. Even if I feel stronger, I'm only doing six. At the end of the six weeks, I'm going to add weight. There's another technique like that where you get so good at the exercise, but that by the time you add weight, the weight you add is quite significant. So again, there's so many different ways to do this, but this one that was just asked is one of my favorite ones for sure. Next question is from Joel Muitari. Is the Sissy Squad bad for the knees? I hope not.  You know, when I first became a trainer, I used to think there were a lot of exercises that were just bad. If I saw somebody do a Sissy Squad now, or I mean back then, I would have freaked out. Totally. I thought as a new trainer, oh yeah. Yeah, behind the neck presses, never do them. Behind the neck pull downs, never do them. Don't go all the way down with a dip or with a bench press or whatever, because it's bad for your joints. Here's the truth. And I'm going to make a blanket statement that's completely true. Any movement, any movement, any exercise is safe so long as you have the strength, mobility, and stability to perform it. Any movement, the craziest movement you can think of as long as the person performing it has the strength, stability, and mobility to do it, that movement is safe. That's the key. So is a Sissy Squad bad for the knees? Depends on who we're talking about. If you're strong, stable, you've got good technique, good mobility, good form. No, it's not bad for the knees. It's great for the knees. It's a great exercise. You have the capability. That's really what matters. The same argument for a Jefferson curl.  Well, obviously it's not for you. This is something that's a very advanced technique for gymnasts and whatnot, but there's always a case you could actually make for a certain type of a movement. It's just the amount of load they're using or the control, the strength they have to perform it safely and properly. That's what you have to evaluate. No, there's no such thing as a bad exercise. There are exercises that are performed bad, but there's no such thing as a bad exercise and it's a routine or lift. You can do, like your point, if you have control or you're stable, you can do anything. And that's also why I tell trainers, I caution trainers to not judge when they see somebody else doing something because you have no idea what the application is for that. You have no idea what that client's goal is and if they're performing it with good technique and form, you may think it's a stupid exercise for your goals and what you're trying to achieve, but you have no idea what that person's trying to do. Right, now to be fair, some exercises have way higher risk to reward ratio. For example, Olympic lifts are far riskier. That doesn't mean they're bad, it just means you need to have really, really good technique and really, really good form and good control in order to perform them in ways that don't injure you. So all exercises have this, right? Like a dumbbell curl, very low risk compared to a barbell squat, which might have a lot more of a risk. So Sissy Squats is one of those. Sissy Squats is, I would say, it's probably in the middle in terms of risk for the average person, but if you're strong enough to do it, you do it right, you've got good mobility, it feels right to you, you've got good form. It is a phenomenal exercise. And if I compare to Sissy Squat to a leg extension, both people having, like I said, those prerequisites, right? Good technique, good stability, good control, good mobility. The Sissy Squat is superior. It's just more functional. It activates the muscles, in my opinion, in a better way. I don't do leg extensions ever again. Ever since I did Sissy Squats and I did them right, I was like, leg extensions as well. Did you do a good YouTube video on this? We did. We have, right? Yeah, so Jackie will link that in the show notes. To me, this is just one of those things that, like, I didn't know how to do a Sissy Squat. Like, I'd never had somebody teach me. Like, and if I saw somebody doing it, I'd be like, that's absurd exercise. Very rare, you're going to see it. Yeah, it is. It's very rare you're going to see it. And then if you just see it for the first time and think that you're going to be able to go do it and with proper form, you're going to want to be taught. So you're going to want to have a coach, I think, that teach you or a trainer teach you, or watch like a tutorial that we've done on it where you explain the details, because how you do it matters. If you just, if you see someone just get on their tippy toes and rock their knees forward and then try and come back, and you don't understand how to move, I think it could be a really challenging exercise and not ideal for a lot of people, especially if you're somebody who has very limited ankle mobility. That's a really tough exercise to perform correctly. But man, if you do that, I mean, I eliminated leg extensions. I haven't done a leg extension since I learned how to do a Sissy squat properly, because I just, I feel way more in my quads. It's way more functional. Oh, way, way more functional. Next question is from Alexx837. Any tips to increase mind muscle connection for the back? Oh yeah, this is a big one that I would have to really focus, pretty much every new client that I had, this was the hardest area for them to feel, probably because they can't see it, it's behind you. We're not really familiar with the feeling of a muscle, the back contracting. So there are a couple of tricks that I used that would help. Now as a trainer, one of the easiest things I could do is literally touch the muscle. I want the person to feel. That outside feedback helps the person focus on feeling the muscle. But if you're doing this yourself, there's a couple things you could do. One thing you could do is focus on pulling with your elbows. And that sounds weird. But if you're doing a row, imagine you're pulling with the elbows rather than pulling with the hands. In fact, what you might want to try with that is a lighter grip. So rather than gripping really, really tight with your fist, you grip with kind of the ends of your fingertips. Obviously you're going to use a lot less weight in order to do this. And then you imagine that you're pulling with the elbows and you might be able to feel more of a connection to the back with doing that. Then the second thing you can do is to pre-exhaust the back muscles with an isolation movement. So a pullover or a straight arm pull down, start your workout with that, feel the muscles in the back a little bit with that, then go do your rows and your pull downs and stuff and it should make it easier. The only problem with that is that if you already have a really poor connection and you don't understand how the back works and activates, I think that you go over and you do an isolation exercise and you just do a point. The reason why I think this is so difficult for us is that we just are never using those muscles. We're so anterior driven. We're so rounded forward.  Nobody types on a computer behind them. Nobody is answering their phone behind them. You're doing everything in front. So we can't help but have our bodies kind of shape that way. And the worse you are, the more difficult it is for you to activate it because everything is in the position of the shoulders. If you can get, so for me, like teaching a client as I would, I would go in and manually take their shoulder girdle and move it back and be like, okay, look at when you take your shoulders and we move back here, now we can engage the back.  So it's all in that shoulder girdle and getting them to understand that that needs to pull back in order to engage the back muscles. That's where I find that that's the most. Heavy emphasis on posture. In the very beginning too. It's definitely a lot of times the shoulder is getting in the way of that. And two, it might sound simple, but a lot of times like I'll just, I really want to focus on one at a time, like one side at a time. I know that a lot of compensations happen when we're adding both arms and we're trying to pull simultaneously. A lot of times people don't, can't like hold themselves and stabilize themselves properly and really understand like that connection and feel it as much. And so I'll do like laterally and then we'll really kind of hone in on the posture of it and trying to drive it in and drive those shoulders back. Yeah, one more thing too is how you prime before your workout can make all the difference in the world. One of the best priming movements before a back workout is prone cobra. Prone cobra requires no equipment. And if you follow the movement, if you do the movement properly, in other words, you just copy the movement. And we have a video on prone cobra. So we'll make sure to link that in the show notes as well.  It should be easier to feel them in your back workout. And literally it's a spend five minutes doing prone cobra, move into your back workout and then you should have a better connection. Next question is from Catherine Health Journey. What are your diets looking like now? Oh, yeah. You really, you're the one out of all of us. I think that's changed the most recently, most recently, correct? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what you guys are doing. But I just recently now, breakfast is I've tackled with breakfast. So what I do with breakfast is I've eliminated carbohydrates from my breakfast and it's mainly protein and a little bit of fat with breakfast. Lunch and dinner are very similar to how they were before. So I tend to do that. I tend to move kind of in phases and breakfast is the easiest one to tackle. But I'm high protein, moderate to high fat and moderate to low carbs right now. So my carbs are probably around, I would say 150 grams a day, 100 to 158. For me, that's moderate to low. When I go real low carbohydrate, it's around 50 grams a day. That's for me personally. Wow, that is really low.  And what I've learned myself personally is every time I think I know what I'm eating and I go and measure it, I'm always off.  So, and I'm eating whenever I feel hungry. So that's kind of how I'm doing things right now is, is if I'm hungry, I'm going to eat. And when I eat, I'm going to make a good choice. I'm going to target my protein first. And I always rotate sources. So I'm going to have beef last night. I had, I got, I got fish ordered and on the way right now, eggs, like chicken. So I'm always rotating my meats, my go to carbs, oatmeal right now and rice are probably the, and then some potatoes. Are probably my three staple carbohydrates and every meal has pretty much a balance. So I'm getting very balanced right now. I'm not cutting anything. I'm not really trying to bulk aggressively or anything. I'm eating when I'm hungry. I'm making pretty damn good choices when I, when I eat. The main thing that I'm focusing on, if anything is just making sure I'm hitting protein because I think I've said this nauseam on the show that the thing that I lack is getting enough protein. And I was noticing, in fact, I just bumped it, right? Even though I'm not tracking, I made an effort to get an extra meal in or double up the meat in another meal because I've been sore. I've been really sore a lot more than I usually am. And so I'm trying to increase my protein take in even, even more than what I'm at. If I had to guess, I'm definitely not, you know, doing like one and a half grams per pound of body weight. I mean, I'm eating four meals and they're probably averaging on the low end, 35 to 40 grams per meal on the high end 60 to 70. So it'll give you kind of a range. So are you trying, you're not trying to cut, you're not trying to do it. You're trying to maintain while worked out. Yeah. So my group, my real goal is to actually, so what I love to do when I'm at this phase, right? So I'm, what am I a month and a half in of real consistency right now is I just, I don't want to see the scale really go up or down. I want to kind of hover right around where I'm at and see this nice even exchange. And so, and I'll keep doing that and kind of staying to that protocol until I feel like I've hit a plateau. I feel like week over week, I'm still improving, you know, especially the weeks where I've been really consistent. When I just came off the week and a half ago or whatever it was when we went to Vegas for four days and that was a first four day break I've taken since we've been consistent. So I won't count that week as progress, right? Because I don't, I didn't see Mitch progress right then. So this week will be another really good week for me. At the end of this week, I'll kind of assess where I see myself. If I still think I'm progressing, I won't really change much yet. I like what I see until I start to see either strength gain slow down or body composition change slow down. I'll probably kind of keep eating that way. And then what I haven't decided is will I push calories and try and put on a lot more lean body mass or will I cut and try and lean? And what will dictate that is how I feel. Because like I said, a little achiness here and there and that tends to happen when I start pushing 230 plus pounds which is where I'm at right now. So I may switch gears and go leaner, but I am also enjoying kind of filling out my shirts again and feeling big. So I haven't decided completely what I'll do with the diet yet. Yeah. So initially I was trying to get my metabolism all revved back up and adding in breakfast consistently and increasing carbohydrates. So I was doing that particular in the morning and then for dinner with rice, potatoes and things like that. In the morning it was mainly like peanut butter and like things like that. I'm adding to my protein shakes and whatnot and fruit. And then I would have like this second breakfast with the scrambled eggs and bacon. And so I wasn't used to eating that much volume in the morning. So this has been something that I've done because my activity massively increased again. And so then I started to fill all this energy surge. And so I wanted to fuel that process. And now I'm like at a point where I'm reducing carbs again a bit. So I'm just really just focusing on the morning. And then at for dinner, I've actually reduced the amount of carbs I'm taking to just mainly just getting it sourced from vegetables. I think it's a good opportunity to share with the audience that we're starting to do this. In fact, I just did it last week for the first time. Chokey is organizing this with all the founders, right? So Doug included. So Doug, Justin, Sal and myself. And then I know she did it. We're going to... I think it's Wednesday. She's going to do this is every Wednesday. We'll do a day in the life. So you'll actually get to see like I just did it last Wednesday. So if you were paying attention, you saw... And I'm posting every single meal, what I have and at what time I have it at. So you guys can get an idea. Like if you want to visually see what everyone's eating. Awesome. Yeah. So all you guys on YouTube out there, watch the transformation.  Watch what happens. And then we'll see what happens there. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. So come find us on YouTube, Mind Pump podcast. You can also download some of our free guides and information.  Go to mindpumpfree.com and download our guides. They're totally free. They cost nothing and they're very valuable. Go check them out. And finally, you can find us on social media, Instagram is the place to get us. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam. Wrong. You can speculate on what's going to happen in the future and how it's going to suck. No, no, no. Don't do that. Just literally take the energy. It's just energy. And just shift it about three feet over here and start looking at how you can make this work for you. It's just.


Hello everybody, welcome back to another AI video. In this one, I'm going to show you how to create videos using chat GPT-4. And not only that, all you need to do is use one prompt and the rest is done auto-magically. Let me show you here. You'll see here that I said create a video of a rocket going into space. We'd use the chat GPT plugin called Vistula and then it gave me the title description tags and a link to the video. Now the video is not great. It's not bad, but it's not great, but it's got a voiceover with some AI voiceover type stuff. It's got, you know, it's got some stock footage in there and it's a faceless video. So you can monetize these on YouTube if you do it right. So let's just go ahead and click play. Actually, I'll turn the volume down first. I'll show you what we got out of the box and I'm going to show you how to make some changes to it to get rid of the watermarking and all that nonsense. So let me show you. So that's the kind of style video you'll get. You'll do note that this is watermarked with story blocks on it, but there are ways to take that out, which I will show you. So I'm going to go ahead and click off this, turn it off here. And let's just start from scratch, just in case you're new to chat GPT. So click on new chat and we're going to start a new chat. Go to GPT four at the top here, go to plugins. I'll try not to go too quickly here and then make sure that the Vistula plugin is selected. If you don't see it, go to plugin store, go to search plugins and then type in Vistula and make sure that that is installed. Once that's done, you can now go ahead and do the one prompt video. So create a video of a, I don't know, volcano exploding. We've done that one earlier. I tried that one out earlier. I saw it on Twitter and I'm going to give it a crack and let's see if there's a sea in volcano. There is. Come on, go ahead and click that. Now while it does that, take a look at this. You're going to see here that it's working because it says using Vistula and if we click this little down arrow while it does its little thinking, you're going to see here in real time what it's doing. So video content of volcano erupting. Here's the video idea, video tone, documentary, aspect ratio, I mean metadata. It's all in there, description, et cetera, et cetera. So you can see exactly what you're getting and then here it's going to cook up the details. So your video has been successfully created. Here are the details. Come on, Nele, the power of nature, description, tags, and then most importantly, a link to the video. This is what we want.  So there we go. The power of nature volcano eruption. Click on that. Let's see what we got. Oh, it's creating our video. So it's going to take maybe up to a minute or so. So I'll come back when it's done. And then we'll go in a little further. All right. So that only took about 10 or 15 seconds at the most. That was pretty quick. So here's our video. I'm going to go ahead and turn the volume off. I'm going to turn it down really low so you can see kind of what we got here. And it might be too low. All right, here we go. And I'm going to hit play and then I'll show you how to get rid of all the watermarking and stuff. In the heart of the earth, a force is building up. As pressure mounts, the volcano awakens from its slumber. The ground trembles as molten lava surges. Okay, so not great, not bad. But let's just go ahead and make some changes. So the next step here is you want to go save to edit. And now we're going to start editing it. But before we do that, we got a copy and paste in that code that we got right here. I'm going to go ahead and copy and save that video. And now presto.  So I just clicked on the intro box here, click on those three dots, delete the scene. It doesn't add any value. It's just free branding for Vistula or whoever. I'm going to go ahead and click on this one, click delete scene and presto. We're on our way. Now we can scrub through this. And this is the first scene. So we'll just go through the first one. Join us on this captivating journey through the life cycle of a volcano. Okay, so we have some options. If we want to go to the audio, we can remove the voice over or we can generate an AI voiceover. So we can go ahead and do that. We have the ability to add in different music and things like that. I'm going to just avoid that. But just keep in mind that you can do that. This isn't my favorite video editor from being on us. It's not as good as like Clipchamp or Premiere Pro. So I'm just going to go ahead and skip through that. But I want you to know that it's there. We're going to go ahead and click on export. And when we do that, we get two options. Upgrade to export premium stock without watermarks or regenerate with free stock. We're going to regenerate with free stock because I want this to be done for free. So it's going to go ahead and put us through that creation stuff. I'm going to come back when it's done and show you what we got. All right, so it's gone ahead and done it, but it's quite loud and we've lost a little audio button. So I'm just going to clip through a few of these. So this is all done with free stock footage. I'm going to click on export. And then that's it. We're going to go ahead and get a copy of this video. And then we can put it either into YouTube. We can put it into our video editor to make adjustments to it. I'll come back when this is done. It's almost done.  All right, welcome back. So it's gone ahead and finished it up. I'm going to click on play. There we go. Again, so it's not the greatest video you'll ever see, but it did come in at a cost of free. And if you want to go ahead and save it, I believe you go right here to these three dots, click those three dots, and then just click on download. And then you'll see that it begins it's downloaded in a few seconds here. And then done. There we go. So I'll click on that in the heart of you. That's it. That's how you create free videos using chat GPT for. Thanks for watching.