In this episode of Mind Pump, the world's top fitness, health and entertainment podcast. We're a world class, Al. We answer fitness and health questions, and these are asked by our audience. So we pick some questions and we answer them on this podcast. But the way we open the episode is with a 45 minute introductory portion. This is where we talk about current events. We bring up studies. We talk about our lives. Sometimes we mention our sponsors. So let me give you the rundown of this whole episode. We start out by talking about black belts in martial arts versus world class martial artists. There's a big difference there, which led us to talk about Bruce Lee and his legendary fight with Wong Jack. Apparently, there was an actual fight that happened between the two of them. One was using the Wong methods. Dang, that's pretty good. Am I right? Then we talked about Cracker Jacks. Oh, that's offensive. Did they change the name? Then we talked about Chris D'Elia. He was a comedian I thought was hilarious. There's news coming out that he might just be a terrible creep, but there's more stuff coming out. He might not. We'll see. Which led us to talk about Epstein, the world's creepiest, most disgusting person. That is a bona fide creep. He didn't kill himself. Then we talk about aliens. There's probably aliens out there. So new studies show that the odds are much higher than we thought before, which led us to talk about magic spoon cereal. It's high protein, no sugar cereal that tastes amazing. No joke. Flavors that are either fruity, chocolate, peanut butter, birthday cake. It's cereal like when you were a kid and it's made with high quality milk and whey protein. Again, no sugar at all. I'm not joking. A decent serving of the cereal will give you almost 30 grams of high quality protein with no sugar. It's off me. Anyhow, look. Is it company that sponsors us? 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Yeah, you need to wait as you're on hold. Are we good, Doug? Spee-boop, bee-boop, bee-boop, bee-boop, bee-boop. Do this with your kids, Justin. They'll love this. You guys ever get telemarketing calls on your phone and you can see it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I do that with my kids. I'll get it, and I'll answer it on speakerphone and then just have fun to see if my kids laugh. I did that once. So I got, I answered it, hello, and they're like, huh, is, and I always know, because first off, I see the number and no one can say my name. Is this Mr. DeStefano? Is Sal DeStefano here? And I'm like, yeah, absolutely. Can you hold for a second? They're like, okay. And then I go, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.  Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. And then they have a good time. Yeah. Dude, did you see the guy outside yesterday, Adam? I did, I saw the story. Oh, I forgot about that guy. I saw the story. I saw you guys getting all fired up. No, we have tinted mirror windows or whatever. And so people like to look at themselves in it when they walk by. And there was a dude like full on mask and everything. Yeah, he had a backpack with like a boom box. Yeah, and he was like doing some weird stuff. So Justin was just jamming with him. Oh, jamming. I feel like he was like mentally hyping himself up for some shenanigans. You know that Rachel saves those, right? You guys know that, right? They're on the highlights of the IG story page. So on the IG, the main one, she highlights. All the characters that come by. Yeah, all the ones that we've done. She's been collecting them. It's pretty funny. I went through actually not that long ago just to see like how many she has.  That's great. That's it in front of there. Yeah, that guy was a little suspect. I saw a woman and she, it was questionable if she was homeless or not. Just by the way she appeared. So I don't know. Pretty large. She walked in front of the mirror and then she looked in the mirror and she was looking at her teeth. And then she pulled her pants open. So she didn't pull them out.  Yes, she did. A check, huh? Just a little quality control. She did a smell. She cares, you know? Better than someone who doesn't care. Oh, that's so gross. That's the most disgusting thing. When I saw it, I was like, oh, you made it worse, Justin. I have to. Too far, bro. I was already sick. It's not. It's never too far.  Yeah, Doug is too far. I have to represent Doug, for sure. Dude, I was watching this video yesterday on the internet. I sound like an old guy when I said on the internet. On the interwebs. Yeah, I was on social media. And there was this Olympic-level black belt in Judo. And he went against 10 other just normal black belts, one after another.  And it reminded me of the difference between world-class and experienced. You know what I mean?  No, but so this is what it's like, right?   Right, right. You would be a black belt in basketball. But that doesn't mean you're an NBA-level, you know what I'm saying? Good analogy. Have you guys ever done that? Have you ever gone against global class? No, we've talked about that. When Justin worked for me, we closed down. And I think we've brought this up on the show. I felt like a toddler. We closed down.  They were world-class football players. But just because that just shows you the level difference, the athleticism of them. I mean, all of us guys had played basketball. Not none of us were anybody, even division one college players. But some guys played in college. A lot of us played. I mean, that was awesome. We all like to think we were pretty awesome. My layups. And we played five of the 49ers. And dude, we just got lit up. And they weren't even that good, but they were just so on another level athletically that the stuff, the way they could get up the core and rebound the ball, the things that really matter, saying they could do that. Dude, they're making shots from half court. Yeah. It was like, whee. I'm like, what is happening? And then you can't stop them running to the paint. When I was doing jiu-jitsu really consistently, there was this guy that came in totally new, had no experience with jiu-jitsu. Big dude. He was like, 340-pound white dude, tall. And I remember when we're doing the warm-ups in jiu-jitsu, they make you do things like you do judo rolls, and you do cartwheels, and you do all these drills and stuff.  And you don't assume that they can do all this stuff, right? Yeah. This dude was doing one-armed cartwheels, and he didn't know how to do a judo roll, saw one, decided he would try it, and did it. And I remember looking at him like, what is going on here? He was a Canadian. He played pro football in Canada. So he wasn't even NFL. He was just a pro in Canada. But I couldn't believe how athletic he was. And then when you would go against him, and jiu-jitsu is very technical, so he didn't know what to do, so he would still get beat by black. But he was so strong and athletic that you knew, as soon as he learned a little bit of something, you were in trouble, dude. Super dangerous. Yeah, there's been a few football players that have crossed over into MMA. I remember when Herschel Walker was doing it through Strike Force, and just demolishing people. And he's like, was he like 50-something when he got in?  I've gone against world-class jiu-jitsu and judo guys. And I only got up to purple. I wasn't even a black. But I was decent. I was decent in my club. But I wasn't world-class or anything like that. And I remember going against some of these guys, and it was like, they would just touch you, and you would hurt. They were just so exceptionally good.  We all agree. Yeah, like your level of guys within your community that are all doing, rolling around and stuff, is there a clear difference between purple and black? I mean, is it like that? Is it as clearing as what you just explained with the black belt to the world-class black? So the thing about jiu-jitsu that's interesting is that it takes a long time to progress. So it would take you of consistent, good training. And I say consistent, like three days a week or more, all the time competing. Take it anywhere between three to five years to get a purple belt for most people. Sometimes people take longer, but if you're really good about three years, the exceptional jiu-jitsu guys, maybe a little bit faster, those are the world-class guys, but usually it's around that long.  Whereas other martial arts, you could get a black belt in that period of time. Okay, so then what's the timeframe now to go from purple to black? Just to go from purple to black would be like another three, four years. Wow. Yeah, and these are the belts. It goes white, blue, purple, brown, black. There's not very many belts. So it takes a long time to progress. The difference between a purple and a black belt is just finesse, a black belt is setting you up three, four moves in advance, whereas a purple belt is kind of forcing their setups a little bit. And then there's a big difference between a purple belt who's just got one and one who's had one for a while. Now, is it done so well? Like, is it so accurate you feel that it's very rare that you see a brown or a black belt lose to a purple belt? It's not super rare, but it's not super common either. Because of course there's levels, right? So you could be, I've beaten black belts as a purple belt not often, but I have beat them and usually it was because I was just stronger. So my strength, I was able to add that to the mix. But usually I would get, I'd say eight or nine out of 10 times a black belt would take me out. And I would imagine, so when you're rolling around like that, you're not talking about competitions where you've met black, you'd be black belts because you would be in your weight class, right? Yeah, yeah. And that's the other thing too about jiu-jitsu is because it's so full contact and your training. When you progress, even if you don't compete, you fight, you're fighting all the time. So you're good.  But the same thing though, the difference between world class and just your regular, I'm good at my club, whole different, whole other universe. The whole term world class. My favorite is these entertainment trainers out there that are mainstream that when they announce them, world class trainer, they just got like their one certification just to protect themselves. They're like, no, you fit the part. You're world class now. Now ironically, now that's more common the other way. It's rare that you see, you meet a world class trainer and they're truly a world class trainer. Never. Yeah, that doesn't... Nobody calls themselves that.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't say that. Creator of urban cowboy hip hop class. He's world class. The most popular DVD sales.  You know why? Because real world class trainers, or whatever I hate that term, but that we're applying it this way, but real world class trainers would be boring because you know that, you know what I mean? They wouldn't be super exciting. Like, I wanna lose 30 pounds. Because they've reduced it all to the simple things that actually work. All right, here's what we're gonna do.  We're gonna do an assessment first. Then we're gonna do some correctional exercise for about 20, 30 minutes. He's world class. I don't want you to get too sore, right? And then as far as diet, let's worry about that in about a month and then let's see what happens. Zero, you know, zero media. Oh my God. Did you guys, speaking of like black belts and whatnot and all this stuff like so, have you guys ever seen, man, I was trying to remember his name, Wong Jack versus Bruce Lee. So like, or heard about it, I should say.  Oh, I know about this. I have heard about, so Wong Jack, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm trying to remember because I was a huge Bruce Lee fan when I was a kid. He was traditional Chinese Kung Fu. Yes. And Bruce Lee was teaching Kung Fu but he was teaching his brand, which was very, it was not traditional. Yeah, it was more Wing Chung, I think. No, it was, well, he called it Jeet Kune Do but he would integrate boxing. He would integrate some wrestling moves and just like the dancing that he did with this, that he learned, that footwork he learned from boxing and they didn't like that. So there was a challenge and whoever won got to teach or whatever. So there, yeah, so there's some like debate as to like, only because like both camps have different stories, right?    Bruce Lee.  And to the point where the guy like basically got up and like kind of like ran away. And so later on, and I guess like Bruce Lee was like, man, that wasn't effective enough. Like his techniques weren't effective enough and it like promoted him to like go learn more like techniques and then incorporate like more of a. Yes, I do remember those styles. And I guess this is when he got into fitness because it exhausted him. He got too tired. That's exactly right. He got too tired so he became a fitness fanatic. You know, he, Bruce Lee would work with bodybuilders of the time to learn bodybuilding techniques, weight lifters, boxers to try and learn the different, you know, and he became like a bodybuilding, like a fish and auto. He loved lifting weights. He trained his forearms like crazy. That was a big body part that he liked to work on. Pretty cool. There's a book called The Towel of Jeet Kune Do. I don't know if you guys have heard of it. It's like the philosophy of Jeet Kune Do. Really, really cool book. I read that one.  Where did you see it? No, this is all, this is an article I read. It was like, you know, all that's interesting. And so like it kind of went into the backstory of all that. That was like this underground fight that like a lot of people were supposed to know about. And I think it's a little more like saving face because he was like a real legit like black belt master, you know, in Kung Fu. So what do you guys ask? Were you guys big fans when you were kids? Oh yeah. Bruce Lee was like one of my favorites. Really? Yeah, I was a big fan.  No, I don't think I even got introduced to him till way later. I think I saw Enter the Dragon like, I want to say like after high school even. Wow. Yeah, yeah. So I really didn't follow. You know, I don't, just my friends weren't into that. We weren't into it. I was never, I, where I grew up there was, there was, I grew up small town. So there wasn't even like a martial arts studio. So it's like my school that I went to, like there wasn't kids that were doing that. So it wasn't even a thing that you talked about. Dude, Bruce. As Kato, I was always like, what the hell? Like, why isn't he the main superhero?  Oh, you watched the Green Hornet? The Green Hornet, yeah. It was silly. He was, I was a huge fan.  It was so awesome. Yeah, then a game of death. Was that the one with Chuck Norris in it? Which one was that? Yes, no, the one with Chuck Norris was.  Yeah, like levels of it, right? Okay. No, Return of the Dragon I think is the one where he fights Chuck Norris. That's where they present the different fighters. That's where he grabs his chest there and like pulls his chest, rips it out. Yeah, you know, and he was, I mean, I thought he was super jacked, right? I mean, he was obviously a small dude, but he would do the lat spread. So when he would like prepare for his fight to do this big lat spread or whatever. Apparently, he Flex Wheeler was inspired by Bruce Lee. Oh, Flex was inspired by him. Yeah, I was inspired by him to become a martial artist. I loved reading about him and his training and his philosophies. He was the first, I guess, the original mixed martial artist in the sense that he would, I know he watched Muhammad Ali and learned from his footwork. So if you watch some of his martial arts films and the way he dances and moves, he picked that up from boxing. That's not a kung fu, you know, a way of moving. Interesting. And in Jeet Kune Do, you guys got me going now.  So he would do these short kicks and punches to stop a kick or punch from coming towards you. Pretty cool, pretty cool stuff. Yeah, I know. I was into a two-sal, don't worry. I know, it's super cool. No, it was cool. I just didn't, I didn't get introduced to it till a way later. And if, you know, that's, I think doesn't that matter as a kid? Like, at what point in your life does something make an impression on you? Yes. Like, I was already too cool, you know, with myself by that time to like fall in love with it. But if I came across that when I was like in sixth grade, probably when you guys did, it probably would have made this huge impression on me. Fist of fury, that's another good word. That was a great one. Anyway, did you guys hear that they're changing the name of Cracker Jacks? Yes, I did, dude. They're changing the name of everything right now. That's gotta be a joke. Uncle Ben's Rice is getting changed and Jemima's getting changed, Cracker Oats is getting changed. Yeah, so now they're changing Cracker Jacks to Caucasian Jacks. Yeah, too offensive. That is not real.  Super Mario Brothers. Oh. Come on, man. Yeah. Yeah. Plumber with a big mustache. Plumbers, yeah. The hell's going on here. Anyway. I'm like whatever. I'm like whatever about all of it, dude. It's like, I guess, if you think it's necessary to do it. I'm talking about Lucky Charms, dude. Yeah. That's the worst. That's also terrible. Now this whole thing's going on. Did you know the history of Aunt Jemima? I read this. I don't know if this is true. Maybe Doug can look this up. So apparently she was a slave. Yeah. She then was freed and then I think she was one of the first African-American millionaires and because she sold her company to whoever owns Aunt Jemima. She wasn't the first because I know the first. One of the first. Yeah, I know the first was the girl that they did Netflix and a documentary on it. Oh yeah, the hair. Yes. What's her name? I'm Adam. I know who you're talking about. Yeah, that was really good. Did you watch that series? I did. She's a hero of mine. I can't believe I forgot her name. Yeah, that's rude. It'll come to me. It'll come to me. But yeah, so she was a very successful business person apparently. And then she sold her brand. If I'm not mistaken, maybe Doug again. So why would you want to remove her from the brand? I think it presents, the argument is it presents a stereotype. So that's why they're trying to. I wonder if the family gets a say in that. I don't even know if they still make any money off of it or if they just sold. They just sold the whole rights of it. Oh, it is owned by somebody else. Oh, you know what I think? An Abisco or something. No, Pepsi I think owns it. I think Pepsi owns them and Quaker I believe. Oh really? I think I read that. So you're probably right. But still I feel like it's the family's name. I would hope that they would. And the history behind it? I would hope they would be able to have some say in that or at least be able to voice their opinion on that. Like I don't know. All of history is being twisted and changed.   Madam C.J. Walker was the other one by the way.  It just is. I don't care. This is the truth. There's no convenient. Yeah, you can't just cherry pick. You gotta take it all in. Here's the problem. If you go back, so if you believe that humans progress, we progress our idea generally.  But if you look at the whole continuum of human evolution, we tend to progress the way we think. We tend to progress the way we treat people and treat each other and the way we think about things.  You know what I mean? Like you, go ahead Doug. I was gonna say Aunt Jemima is actually not a real person. Oh, okay. So the woman that was the first model for the brand was a former slave. So yeah, I don't think Aunt Jemima ever existed, nor did Aunt Jemima make a lot of money. Oh, she's definitely. That was totally. She's definitely one of them. I think we debunked that one. I got trolled big time.  There's a lot of really bad people that are revered for other things. Well, most, I don't know. That's what you have to be careful of too, right? I mean, there's a lot of things. I mean, and this is a different analogy we're talking about history, but think of it like even in sports, that's why I always think it's weird when we just try and defame and tear somebody down because they're not a great person.    I don't know how he talks to his kids. I don't know what his beliefs are. Like, I'm not gonna like stand by someone and if he's not a bad person, okay, maybe I don't buy his jersey now and you can voice it, but to like try and tear someone down or destroy something because of that, I'm like, I don't know. I just, I don't get on board. Well, I think you're human beings. I think if you go in that, and again, there were a lot of terrible, historically speaking, and especially in the context of today, there was a lot of terrible shit, but if you go down that road, nobody's safe. There is no historical figure that's safe from that kind of scrutiny. And again, I don't even know if any of us are safe. You know, if everybody was followed around by a camera, if everybody's text messages and conversations were recorded.  Yeah, in what? Well, it's all, what? Yeah. I mean, that would say a lot. It would tell a lot. I think so. I mean, for sure, right? Variety. Yeah, but you know, I think you get my point. I mean, look, you know what the human nature is that if somebody's good at something, we like them before it, and then we tend to think that we like them. Then you just elevate them on the pedestal. Well, look at- It's called the halo effect. Yeah, it's a true thing. Look at Chris Dalia. Yeah. Look what happened with him. And Chris Dalia, I loved as a comic. I've seen him twice live. I think he's hilarious. Then when I hear about this stuff, I almost find myself instinctually wanting to- You wanna like, yeah. Defend, justify, yeah, anything. But yeah, you don't know all the details. You don't know, you know, the character behind these people. Like, you just don't know that. So, but that's why I too, like when somebody gets accused of something, I still want to, I wanna hear all the facts as they roll out. Well, he finally came out, right? He said something in response to it, and the response was that he got catfished. Really? Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how everything unfolds. Yeah. You know, I have my own bias, dude, against celebrities now. It's starting to become like a terrible part. I automatically think celebrities are terrible people.  If you become the greatest at anything, or one of the greatest, or world class at anything, the amount of dedication, the amount of hours, energy, effort, brain power, thought that goes into becoming this world class, whatever, actor, world class athlete, whatever you wanna say, it has to be almost impossible to not give somewhere else. You know, you didn't do a lot of development on your personal character, your communication skills, your relationship skills.  Right, you know, more than likely, you cared so much about being great at that thing that you give up a little bit in the other areas. I think that's almost always, right?  I mean, those are the people that go down in history forever when we talk about, but that's so rare. I think it's more common the other way that someone's great at something.  Well, I mean, people or humans are super flawed. There's a lot of bad people that are out there, but like going back to Chris, you know, Delia, when I heard about all this stuff, first of all, if it's true, like I've obviously a terrible creep. I mean, if any man talked to my daughter that way at the age of 16, you know, God forbid I find the guy, right? Right.  I think he's hilarious. I've watched all of his specials, and so I have this without realizing I create this mental bias.  I would love to hang out with him. Now you gotta check yourself. Yeah, he's super cool. Then I read this thing, and immediately I wanna defend him. Immediately I think to myself, like, this can't be true. Christalias, he's hilarious. Well, of course it could be true. He could be a funny creep. I know.  And I've just seen that knowing like a certain comedian and seeing certain things and allegations and things come up with that, you know, in that area. But yeah, dude, it is, it's tough because, and I'm sure everybody has that. You know, everybody has that person that they're just like, oh, I love that. And they just wanna ignore all these other things going on. Well, it's not even that it's ignored. You know, the book that I'm reading actually gets into this. They do a cool little test and they're talking about it for an example of like, okay, they give you, so the ideas are gonna give you four adjectives, but they release two of the first adjectives for you. And then your job is to say what you think about this person as a leader, right? So the first one is, you know, strong and highly intelligent, you know, do you think that person will be a good leader?  And then the next two adjectives are corrupt and, you know, manipulative. And then now do you still believe that person's a good leader? Now your brain all of a sudden changes your opinion on that person because you have two new facts or adjectives about that person. That's what's happening is right now, the only two adjectives you have is funny, you know, likable. You know, those are the two things that you have of him because that's all the information that you've been presented. It also takes those two adjectives and now makes them like almost like tools for bad. For example, you said strong and intelligent. Now that I know that the person's corrupt. Exactly, strong and intelligent to be corrupt. Oh, wow. They're gonna be even more corrupt. Right. Crystallia, right? Would you say funny and likable? Oh, that's great.  Oh my God, he's using those skills to talk to these girls. Exactly. And now it makes him even worse person. That's what's more devious. That's what's fascinating when you think about how the brain operates and works and so, you know, you can only get so mad at people for thinking that way because that's, we evolved to do that.  And you rely on that first system of the brain to get you through your day.  You wouldn't be able to move. Exactly. You would never get to take a first step. That's why it's so easy to just join camps, to join biases and to join groups of people that think just one way and you're like, oh cool, yeah, they all think this so it's gotta be the way I think too. No, it's totally true. One of the reasons why this country worked so well in the early days when literally if you came here, you were an American. There were no, it was so open, right? This is back when people from all over Europe and other countries would just come in and they would just let them in. And you figure different religions, different peoples, Germans, Italians, Jewish, Irish, people think, oh, they're all white. They were very different. Remember, Europe had two world wars. So they were not at all the same just because they had the same skin color. How did they all get along? Because they all valued one common thing which was this concept of liberty, which was don't bother me, I won't bother you if we wanna work together. If I wanna work with you, we can work together. We can agree on these different things. That's why it kind of worked because you have to have that similar, one similar thing that you agree on. Otherwise you make lots of assumptions and then, oh, you run into a lot of different problems. But I don't know, man. My assumption now with the celebrities is to throw all, and I'm trying to check it, but as soon as I see a celebrity, I automatically think, yeah, it's tough. You're a, did you know that, I didn't know this, that sex traffickers, how many of them have been getting caught and arrested in recent years? Oh yeah, I actually did see it. I saw the stats on that. In fact, it was, I don't remember, what, what else? Tens of thousands. Yeah, yeah. Like they're doing crazy. This is before it was in the hundreds, right? It was a hundreds or a thousand a year. Now it's like 10, 20, 30,000. Like they're apparently there.  There's a huge crackdown. Which is great. Which makes me, did you guys, the Epstein documentary, did you guys watch that? Yeah, yeah. Oh my God. I didn't make it all the way through it. That's a tough one to just be like, oh, I'm gonna have some popcorn.    Well, that's the part that tripped me out about that documentary was, how this fool got the FBI to turn it off. Dude.  You know how?  And so then you've worked something out to where you're like, you know, we're boys, you take care of me and it's local.  Yeah, that's great. Bro, you know how that happens? This is how it happens. You find somebody that wants to be as disgusting as you are. Yeah, that love. And now they're in on it with you. Now you got something on them, they got something on you and you protect each other. And that's how they did it. And he killed himself.  That's such the stupidest thing I've ever done. I can't handle myself anymore. Yeah, that's gotta be the, that's such, nobody believes that. Why isn't anybody losing their mind over that? You know what I mean? I don't know.  Because it's not promoted in the media.    Have you seen the flight logs to his little island? Yeah. Have you seen this? Dude, Bill Clinton was on that flight, on a plane to his island. I don't know how many times, I think over a dozen times, several of which were his, he signed off- Royal family members from overseas. He signed off his secret service to not come. You know that? You know that?  Something like a dozen or more times, you're right, one of the royal families, major hedge fund managers, politicians from around the world, religious leaders. Dude, there is a web there. It's disgusting, that's what evil is. That's what evil looks like. Everybody wants to shy away from that topic, but that is evil, right there in favor of you. Do you guys think that maybe there's some, something's about to be dropped about all that?  It's like, it is, they made that documentary to make him look like a puke.  Maybe one of the most connected presidents we've ever had as far as knowing people, and people have got that of great power.   So for people who don't know, of course, election times in November, there's something called an October surprise where they tend to drop some crazy news or whatever to swing votes one direction or another. That's why there's a name for it. With everything that's been going on this whole year, this surprise is gonna have to be- How can you get more crazy? Yeah, like, what are they gonna say, dude? Well, that's why I think that.  So they have recorded, maybe this is the October surprise, they have recorded these radio signals from like 500 billion miles or light years away or something like that. These radio signals that seem to be coming from maybe life? Wow. Yeah. Like from the serious star. So there's a repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown, excuse me, unknown source outside of our galaxy, 500 million light years away. And it's consistent in the way it's repeating itself. They're really having trouble trying to attach it to a natural phenomena. Dude. So they're- What? You know what's unfortunate about that? That would have been insane-o news. Like way back in the day with that movie came out like signs or a signal or with Jody Foster, that whole thing. That was like, they're so passionate about trying to like find contact. It was contact. Well, yeah. Good job. Yeah, it just came to me. Well, along those lines, a professor of astrophysicists at the University of Nottingham, his name is Christopher Consolis. He said that, as this is quote, there should be at least a few dozen active civilizations in our galaxy under the assumption that it takes five billion years for intelligent life to form on other planets as it did on earth. So they're looking at it as in terms of evolution, but on a cosmic scale, and they're using a calculation they're causing, they're calling the astrobiological Copernican limit. So according to this, and some scientists are giving this a lot of weight, they're saying, well, according to this, there may be around a dozen, you know, life forms, intelligent life forms in our own galaxy. Crazy. So- I'm blowing.  Because I know that they had found bacteria on a comet, and they had found that there's certain strains that can live in the vacuum of space, and they can be just fine. And then once they hit a planet, it's like now the whole process starts over again. Panspermia. Panspermia, they've already shown that that's a very, very likely scenario. Well, think about it this way. What would unite the world right now? Because everybody's so crazy. Aliens.  Let's all become friends. We forget about all of our other stuff going on. Let's do this. We are, it is independence days around the corner. Oh, what a great movie that was. That was a great movie. Yeah, Will Smith killed it in that movie. That movie was awesome. So what was this talk about these new flavors of magic spoon coming up? I ordered immediately. What is it? Immediately. They have honey nut, which, okay, cool. Peanut butter, bro. Dude, peanut butter? Dude, now we got peanut butter, but we can mix with chocolate. Oh, wow. Oh, dude. In these days, you would be that guy to make chocolate milk and peanut butter. I am that guy. I would be that guy. I am that guy.  How many grams of protein? Well, so I don't do like the servings of them. I'm trying to hit like 30 grams of protein from a bowl though. So I'm doing, I think that's like two, that's like two and a half servings or two servings, I think is what'll hit that. You have a bowl or a box. Yeah, let me see here. This says that three quarters of a cup is the serving that they're using. Right, so I do about two to two and a half of that to get me up to 30 something grams. Okay, well, let's check this out. So three quarters of a cup of Magic Spoon cereal has- Which is not enough. Not small, right? But that's 12 grams of protein. By the way, this is good protein. This is whey protein isolate, milk protein isolate. So it's high quality protein. So that's 12 grams of protein, eight grams of carbs, zero grams of sugar, six grams of fat. So if you double that, you got 24 grams of protein, 16 grams of carbs, 220 calories would be a double serving. And you have, and if you put milk in it, right? If you use actual milk in it, you've got more protein than that. That's like a bodybuilder like dream snack. You see what they're doing though. I mean, they're going through the Rolodex of all the most amazing cereals. They're like reproducing.  They went that direction. They got, you know, the peanut butter. I can't wait for when they combine it, like the rhesus version of it, you know, or something like that, or like the Lucky Charms.  Put cereal on like bread and add like- That's weird. Yeah, you never did that? That is weird. I was a stone before I had weed.  Yeah, you remember that. You want to hear it? You put Lay's- You didn't do that? Yeah, yeah. You want to hear the grossest sandwich I used to make? That's like poor stuff. So I would get- I know. I feel bad when I make fun of Adam because I- I know. I'm like, yeah. Adam didn't have a lot of- Like I had spam and they're like, oh. He didn't have a lot except his parents bought horses. He had ponies. But he ate like bologna sandwiches. That's why they didn't have a lot. They bought horses. What are you guys doing? We got no power, Bob. I ate them a peanut butter and jelly, dude. That was my jam.  I didn't have a lot of say at 12, you know what I'm saying? Hey kids, we're all going to skip lunch for a couple of years, okay? But we got horses. Don't worry about it. We got top ramen and we got horses. Yeah. No, I used to make a sandwich. This is gross now. White bread, mayonnaise, American cheese, laced potato chips and spam.  No. It's actually pretty disgusting good. It's good, but disgusting. Like super salty. Yeah, it's good, but it's- That's like the closest thing to a bologna sandwich, wouldn't you say? Yeah, what is spam? It's just like, ah, it's just like, I don't even know what kind of ham that is, but I feel like it's like ham-ish, you know? Like they've smashed it all together. Well, isn't bologna where they like, they dice up like the cartilage and all? It's like everything, right? Like a hot dog. Yeah, it's like hot dog mush.  Nowadays, everybody's like promoting collagen protein so much. That's bologna.  What are the ingredients to spam? Let's see here. It's salt, water, modified potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrate. Oh, the first ingredient is pork with ham added. Hold on a second. What's pork with ham added? What's the difference? Yeah, that's weird. That's like having beef with cow added. It's a substance called pork. We're gonna put some ham in there to make you think it's still part of it. When I went to Hawaii, I'll tell you what's delicious. I'll stand by this right now.   It's hella good. Yeah, it's a big Hawaii thing. It's hella good. Speaking of meat. Speaking of hella good. Let me tell you what I did last night, Doug. What'd you do? I was the only one that has the Instapot too, right? Do you guys have the Instapot? Yeah. No. I still crockpot. So I pulled, over the, on Sunday, yeah, on Sunday I pulled ribs out to defrost and I was in a barbecue and like Monday got busy, Tuesday got busy. So Katrina tells me, she's like, hey, we need to cook those ribs. I'm like, fuck, I don't have time to smoke them. Those take like four hours. She's like, you know, I found a really good recipe on Instapot. I'll try it out and see what you think. And I'm like, Instapot ribs? I'm like, I don't know. And that was like all we talked about it. She just did it, right? And I came home. Because she don't do what you say. Yeah, right. She don't listen, right? Yeah, she's good. Good for you. She does the ribs in the Instapot.  Not only good, I think she was, she did it in 30 or 40 minutes. So ribs don't only take me like four hours. There's smoke.  Yes, like. Oh, she's the liquid smoke in there? Does it taste like that? No, you didn't, no, you just lather it with your favorite barbecue sauce inside the Instapot. That's it? And yes. Oh, wow.    It was amazing. What kind of ribs? Damn. Butcher box. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, amazing. Speaking of which, butcher box has got a wait list. Yeah. They've got a wait list right now because so many people are signing up. Well, we did.  So if you sign up for butcher box, get on the wait list. And I'm not sure how long it'll take, but then you don't. Oh, so worth it, though. But then they'll get you your order. Well, so this is what happens. So our audience hasn't really heard us talk about them for a long time because they, when COVID hit, they exploded. And they, like more than they ever could have imagined to the point where they had to shut it down and turn people away. So they called up and asked us like, hey, I know we're in contract right now but we can't even get anybody, we can't even help anybody more right now. Can we do something? We worked out something to where we can extend their contract and all of stuff, but they are now able to start adding some people from the wait list. And so they said, okay, we can resume back to commercials because we're starting to knock people off the wait list. But so if you've wanted to get a butcher box or get in on it, make sure. I tell you what, that has been one of the biggest game changers for me with this whole COVID thing going on, why everybody was fighting over the Meads and it was stressful to go to grocery stores. I mean, being able to get my box. And what I used to have, I used to have it every three months because we are still going shopping and ourselves. And we just, we cranked it up to once a month now. So do I. So I literally have to pick up. I do a two, I do $200 box and I get all this grass fed meat and steaks. And I do throw some chicken in there. They're pork. Have you guys done their heritage pork chops? I've done everything. You've talked about it. Dude, the pork, I'm not a huge fan of pork. I'm not a big fan of pork chops. Jessica said, why don't you try it? Let's try these out, throw them in there. Let's see what happens or whatever. I mean, they're amazing. And it's the heritage pork has got a different flavor, doesn't it? Yeah.  Yeah, I'm a bit of a filet snob, too. We cooked them up two days ago. And I, my kids like, they're starting to eat more like steak and stuff because like before that we just get them burgers and things like that.  And Everett was like, oh my God, I want to try that.   Well, cause there was two of them. There's one for me, one for Courtney.  I get that too, but I prefer filet. But so I let him have mine and I, you know, and still the, the rib eye was amazing. But you could just see his face. He was like, oh, like he was so stoked that he got like the prime cut. That's what my box is. My box is the rib eyes, the filets, the ribs and chicken and then the bacon. Those things like we eat that. So, cause it took me a while to kind of figure it out. I haven't had the filet yet. Oh yeah. So I was trying to find the combination out, right? Cause you get a, like a variety box of different things and there's only so much, you can't fit a whole box of nothing but chicken with that. You have to, you have to spread it all out, right? So it took me a while to figure out what, like, what's the perfect combination of what meats do we eat on a more regular basis to justify it being shipped to our house and like that.  I'll tell you what, and this has been observed by many, many strength coaches and bodybuilders and that for a long time. I don't know if there's really any science or studies to support this, I should say, but anecdotally, if you want to increase your strength and muscle growth, red meat is one of the best foods you could consume. And so if you ever want to do an experiment with yourself, and grass fed is good, grass fed's better, right? Especially if you need a lot of red meat, you ever want to do an experiment with yourself, try eating more red meat, replace some of your other meat with red meat, eat it on a regular basis, see if you don't notice a benefit in terms of strength. First question is from Logan Tyler V. I'm in the last phase of maps aesthetic and I noticed my form breaking down in some of the later reps. But I also feel like lowering the weight is not beneficial either. What suggestions do you have to remedy this? Form over everything. Yeah, lower the weight. Yeah, I think this is a good question because I know that I remember, I remember being in this predicament and I think for many years, I like refused to lower the weight. I was so, I wanted to lift more. So you want progression, I want to get more. That I would sacrifice the form a little bit to just be able to keep pushing the same weight, so or even sort of drop reps. So what you'll see in all the programs is, and there's a reason why this is like we give ranges, six to eight or three to five or eight to 12. And the idea like when you're falling a rep range is, I'm trying to fall right in the middle of that. And the reason why, so it gives me a little bit of a buffer because I know sets three and three and four or two even sometimes is gonna, I'm not gonna be as strong as I was on set one or set two. So hopefully that I can stick with about that weight. So I no longer have to do, if the rep range is six to eight and I'm gauging like for a seven to eight range, that gives me, oh, I might have to do seven on set three and oh, on set four, I might have to do six or maybe even five, like one rep less, I give myself that kind of play of like my rep range is six to eight. I'll keep the weight as long as I can, during that set, those sets, even if I can just still do five, five's close enough to my six to eight. But if the weight's getting so heavy, I gotta drop down to three or two. I'm gonna reduce my weight. I'm gonna pull the weight off the bar so I can get closer to the rep range I'm trying to work in. Although it's important to pay attention to how much you're lifting, just to kind of gauge progress and strength and see how well you're doing, you gotta always compare it to the right context. So if I'm going much higher reps, I'm going to use much lighter weight. If I'm gonna go deeper in my reps, of course I'm gonna be using lighter weight. And weight is largely arbitrary when it comes to getting your body to respond. Again, you wanna pay attention to notice trends, but it's okay to go much lighter. This really became a big deal for me when I stopped working out in gyms and I started working out in my own studio and then my own garage. I noticed when I had to work out, and then I noticed this much later, of course in hindsight, when I had to work out in gyms, it was a bigger deal to me to have the big wheel on the bar or it was a bigger deal for me to use a certain amount of weight. So I would sacrifice form for my ego. When I started working out in my studio, this is back when I had my personal training studio, middle of the day, I might have one or two trainers training clients, really don't care if they see me lifting X amount of weight or whatever.  Same thing now that I work in the garage, I grab the dumbbells or I use the weight that allows me to perform good form with the target number reps and that's what's gonna give you better results because bad form with heavy weight is not as effective as perfect form with lighter weight. So this whole, the second part is question, I feel like lowering the weight is not beneficial either, that is your ego talking because it is beneficial if it makes your form better. I remember when I also pieced together the importance and what a game changer manipulating my tempo was and when that light bulb went off for me too, that's my thought process would be, and I used to teach clients this. If I hand you a weight and let's say I say we're working 12 to 15 reps and you realize on rep 12 already that this is still pretty easy, you could probably do 20 reps. Like instead of repping out 20 reps or getting even heavier weight, those last three reps slow your tempo way down. Make it harder. Make it harder. You take it, if you're doing a cadence, right, through the first eight to 10 reps and the cadence is about the same, like how fast you're moving the bar up and down, right? And then all of a sudden you realize it's still pretty easy for you as you're getting close to that range you're trying to get in. Slow it way down. Slow it down to four, five, six seconds on the eccentric portion of the exercise and watch the benefits you get from that. And what's great about that is that because you've slowed that tempo down and you don't have to add weight to that, you're increasing the intensity. That's the signal the body recognizes. It doesn't know that there's 75 or 125 on the bar. It takes the perceived stress that it's getting from the body. You can manipulate that progressively overload that like the episode we talked about by manipulating the tempo. So just simply slowing down, keeping the lighter weight and slowing the tempo down for the last two reps is a great way to increase the intensity. Yeah, you know, for me, going through hypertrophy type training, I've always looked at it more as practicing those movements to make me better going into, when I change it back up to like the one to five rep range where I'm really doing like full force output to try and like move some heavy weight. So, you know, some people don't go through that and try to get a nice pump and like that's, you know, their identity is trying to like lift heavy weights within that range. But I mean, that's never been my thing specifically, but I know the benefit of it. So I honestly, I'll take my time, my sweet time, you know, like lower the weight substantially. So that way I'm paying attention to every little compensation that happens along the way. So I'm really just honing and refining and practicing, you know, these movements. So I get more effective, more efficient then going back into my favorite rep range. Yeah, I mean, I'll give you an example, right? I could do a set of curls with let's say 45 or 50 pound dumbbells and I can give myself a good workout. I could give myself a great workout with 20 pound dumbbells. I could do it in the same amount of reps too. I could slow them down, squeeze, concentrate, make the weight feel heavier. This is a very important skill to learn if you wanna train long term. If you want long term results and success, you gotta learn this because sometimes, many times it's smarter to go lighter than it is to go heavier. And of course, changing and mixing things up always gets the body to respond better because always pushing weight, weight, weight, at some point you're gonna hit a limit and what's gonna end up happening, hurt yourself. So this is an important skill to learn. Next question is from Connie Chiwa. Similar to mini cuts, can I alternate short periods of HIIT training with more traditional resistance training sessions to keep my body from adapting to the intensity of HIIT over time? How frequently would you rotate HIIT training through your programming? Yeah, it's a good question and I know it's popping up. Hello, Doug, Connie Chiwa. Yeah, you said it wrong though. Yeah, Connie Chiwa. I know this is coming up because we have, you know, MAPS HIIT is half off so we're getting a lot of questions around high intensity interval training and also because high intensity interval training is very popular for fat burn or for calorie burn. In a 25 minute HIIT session or 20 minute HIIT session, you're gonna burn as many calories as you would with a 50 minute traditional resistance training session or hour resistance training session or an hour of steady state cardio. It's just very effective at burning lots of calories and it's a great fat burning method of training. So a lot of people are asking questions about this and they're worried about the adaptation that happens from HIIT. You can definitely alternate HIIT with traditional strength training but we, I mean, I tend to make the argument that it's better to stay in one, get good at it and then move to something else. Now our program MAPS HIIT's about six weeks long. I think you can focus on HIIT training from anywhere between three to six or seven weeks and then you're probably a good idea to move out and try another form of training but let's say you wanna do HIIT all the time. Can you throw HIIT in occasionally to get those calorie burning effects? Absolutely, you definitely can. I would not recommend doing HIIT, it depends on the person but I wouldn't recommend doing HIIT more than once or twice a week in place of other traditional resistance training type workouts. I, you know, and here's the thing that's cool about this, I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer in this situation. Like, you know, the key that you just need to remember is that any type of modality of training, right? Your body eventually gets adapted to it and you need to move out of it. That's the key. And the main people I wanna communicate this to are the ones that gravitate to this training. They love this training. I mean, we waited to release a program like this for as long as we did because we know that. We know that a lot of people love this. Short, fast, harder, like this, and I sweat more. I feel like, and so they tend, clients tend to gravitate towards the circuit training because they feel like it's more beneficial because, and all the research that talks about the fat burning benefits like Sal's talking about. So I first wanna caution those people. Like, if you love it like that, you know, don't do it longer than about six weeks, phase out of it and completely go into something else. Now, personally, if you have a really good relationship with understanding like how you should move in and out of modalities and not stick to a type of training for too long, if you already understand that really well, I personally like to use HIIT when it's necessary. Meaning, today I have a crazy amount of calls back to back and there's a window where I have about 45 minutes.  And so it's like, I will definitely can't get a full hour workout to get ready for my workouts. Probably take 10, 15 minutes to do my mobility stuff. Shit, I mean, I only got about 30 minutes. Great time to do like a HIIT. If I'm gonna train, if that's gonna be my window of training today, I would adjust like, and what I should be doing or what I'm scheduled for is a more maps anabolic. I'm following a routine like that right now. So I should be doing like a full body hour, good hour long routine. I just, I may not do that. If I do that at that time block, I don't have it. So this is a perfect time for me to intermittently throw in a workout from like the HIIT program. That's how I like to use it personally, but it doesn't mean that it's the better way. It just means that that's kind of how I like to use it is it makes sense when I don't always have an hour or two hour window, you know? It's kind of funny like how it shifted now. Like I mean, I used to gravitate towards HIIT training quite a bit and mainly in the off season, like going back into playing sports, but now I look at HIIT training as like my sport. And it's mainly because I enjoy moving my body, you know, ferociously and like being able to still have athleticism. So I like to throw it in there like probably more frequently now than I did, you know, before that. But still, I'm still leaning hard on my strength training and then also my mobility practices to reinforce, you know, the stability of my joints and everything's in check, which is something that you just need to constantly consider that and check in on, you know, the quality of your joints and are you able to support your body in these, because this is more intensity. This is more stress that your body's, you know, gonna go through like with the impact of these types of workouts. So if you keep that in mind and it's something that you really enjoy, there is a way that you can incorporate it more frequently. You just have to be able to know how to weave in and out because you will get adapted, your body will not benefit as greatly from it as you would initially. Next question is from Emily Powell, 79. I'm at a point now where I don't always wanna be cutting and bulking. How do I set my calories to maintenance? What's the best way to maintain and how do I know I'm staying on track? Well, first off, what we believe to be maintenance is a little bit of an illusion. Your body is always gaining and losing a little bit and over time, if it evens out, that's what appears to be maintenance. So I don't always wanna be cutting and bulking. It sounds like you don't wanna do the aggressive cut and bulk, but ideally the best way to maintain is to figure out how many calories you need every day to kind of stay the same and sometimes eat a little more than that and sometimes eat a little less than that. And now the reason why I'm saying that is because I feel like that's a healthier approach to nutrition versus saying 2,500 calories is my maintenance.  Nobody lives that way. Well, not only does nobody live that way, that's impossible. The metabolism is free flowing. Your metabolism is changing day to day.  Right. And in fact, you probably rarely ever hits an exact calorie amount like 2,500. It's always moving up and down based and stress changes that sleep changes that your intensity of your workout changes that. I mean, so many things are going to change how you were eating the last three days versus, you know all these things are gonna keep are constantly moving and changing the metabolism. So, you know, trying to stick to a number ever like and just say that this is my maintenance when I'd be around there. I mean, what I consider maintenance is this like I would consider I'm in maintenance right now I'm not really tracking my calories. I'm not really tracking my food. I pay attention to what I'm eating. Like I know, like to me, I know what like not enough protein kind of looks like what plenty of protein looks like. And so I tend to focus on that since it's an area it's hard for me to hit. And so, okay, I'm watching to make sure I get that. And then I'm the feedback I'm getting on if I'm in a quote unquote bulk or a cut at the time is if I'm putting on body fat. And I'm like, okay, I'm definitely eating in a surplus right now. And oh, well, it's okay. I'm probably getting a half a percent, a percent. Okay, now it's been 2% body fat I probably put on. And I give myself like this, you know, four to 5% ability to fluctuate. Like I don't care if I can stay between a, you know, 12 to 15% body fat range by not having to track and weigh all the time. Like to me, that's I'm maintaining. And then if it starts to go too far one way or the other I just course correct. And that's what I consider maintenance, but it's not a calorie number that I'm even paying attention to or watching. I'm allowing myself to intuitively eat with knowing that, okay, there's a good chance I might be over consuming because I'm putting on body fat, that's okay. If I put on one or two or 3% body fat, I'm not out of shape or unhealthy. And I know I can recourse correct really quick and go the other direction. All right. Next question is from forever strong Cairo. Should food stamps be banned from use on junk food? Well, this is actually a fair question because you're already giving people money and telling them that they can only buy one type of thing with it, right? So when you get a food stamp that literally says it must be used on food. So it's a fair question, but here's why I still don't like it. I don't think, I think if we're gonna give people money it should just be money to spend on whatever you want.  And this is again, more attempt at control, right? So, oh, we're gonna give you food stamps, but you can only buy it on this kind of food and not that kind of food. And giving them just money means that they're gonna even have more freedom.  Maybe they're gonna use it on education. Maybe they use it to start a business. Maybe we'll use it for daycare. So, no, I'm always in favor of less control. I don't like food stamps to begin with. I think people should just get money if we're gonna give them anything and make them spend it. But since they already have food stamps, I don't think we should add an additional control. Plus, what is the government going to decide what junk food is? If you don't think that they're being influenced by companies or something. Yeah, by certain brands, yeah. This brand's considered healthy, just because they call it healthy. If it's this many grams of saturated fat or this many grams of sugar, it's considered not junk food or it's considered junk food. I remember they considered pizza to be a vegetable because there's tomato sauce on it at one point or whatever. I don't like this at all. It's way too much control. Already we're controlling people just by giving them money and saying you have to buy just food with this when you don't know what people really, really need. Everybody's lives are very complex. If we're gonna give them anything, give them money. By the way, that would save us money. It would help us eliminate the bureaucracy that administers all this control money. Just give them a check. Here's your money. Spend it how you want. That's why I always lean on charity. Like in terms of, that's how I look at it too. If I'm giving and supporting something, obviously I'm gonna do my homework to see if the foundation, the organization is legit and they're not just scamming people. But at that point, allow people to do what they're gonna do with it. Have the individual freedom rights to spend it. However, they feel fit for their situation, their upbringing, whatever. Allow people to be adults and to make decisions for themselves. Obviously you want them to make healthy decisions. This is something that we're passionate about. We try to educate people what those healthy decisions might look like. Wherever you're going through what you're trying to do, lose weight or gain muscle mass or whatever, we try to provide information that is best to get you towards those goals. But at the same time, you're an individual. You have the freedom of responsibility of yourself. And I feel like that's what really needs to be highlighted with this kind of stuff. Well, not to mention that, but also consider this, if you're on food stamps, you're probably in dire straits. Like you're somebody who is at the brink of not surviving and that's the idea of food stamps is government help and support for somebody who can't get by, right? You can't even really feed themselves. They're not making enough money to give them food. And the truth is, a lot of junk food goes a lot further than some healthy foods. Go buy a good steak or chicken, buy the pound. You can buy a box of something that'll last in your cupboard forever and is, as a tent, twice as many calories, which that's what they need, is calories to live and survive. And you can get a lot more of it. If it's some freaking corn syrup-based garbage, it's gonna be a lot cheaper. And so you gotta, if the person who is in real need of this that's getting that support is trying to survive and live and making a choice or making them force them into only using it for healthier foods, which potentially could be more expensive, is kind of defeating the purpose of it. Now, I'm also in the camp of like Sal or probably even more hard about it. I don't like it at all. And I'm somebody who had food stamps. So I'm not pro food stamps. I'm not for food stamps at all. I think that we're pretty creative human beings. And when we're forced into those situations, I think that we find a way to overcome. And then of course, this is my own bias. I understand that in my experience with my family and the people that I've seen around me in this situation, I saw more manipulate it or use it and didn't need it than the other way around. I didn't have as many people in my life that I knew that, oh my God, if they didn't get those food stamps, they might've died.  And then it got them on, got them up on their feet and then they got a job and then they got themselves going and then they got off food stamps. I don't have a story to share with you that. I have plenty of stories to share on the other of examples of people that got it and utilized it because it's something that they can get for free.  They knew they could get these food stamps and they'd be fine. That's what I experienced in my life. So I'm not even a fan form period. And if we are gonna give them, okay, which we do, I definitely don't agree with trying to regulate it even more. I just think that it's just a bunch of control. It's more and more and more control. I have no problem with people receiving help and I have no problem giving people help. I think that the test of a good society is how they treat the people who need the help the most. I'm a big believer of that. But if you look at the whole system, if you look at all the benefits that people can receive and you calculate them out, it's actually quite a bit when you add everything up, all the different subsidies and you add in all the different types of help and food stamps and all the other things, it actually amounts to a decent chunk of money. But what people don't realize is to administer all of that through the complex bureaucracies that we've created to administer all of these. Costs just as much, if not more. It's a waste of money. What if we took all of the money that we spent on that and instead of paying a bureaucracy, we said, you're all fired. We don't need a bunch of government officials handing this out and tying people. I'm saying this is for education. This is for food. This is for... Here's your check, spend it however you want. And then we gotta be okay with people deciding on how they wanna live their lives. Now, what's that's gonna look like? Yes, I'm sure a lot of people are gonna make bad decisions cause people make bad decisions. But I also think a lot of people are gonna use that money much more efficiently.  I really wish I had this money so I could spend it on some childcare or I really wish I had this money so I could help myself start a business or pay for some education for myself so I can make more money. But I can't do that because I have to spend it the way that they say or I have to use it the way they say. I think that's totally silly. It's just more control. And I tell you what, let's just go down that line and see what that would look like. Could you imagine what the government would start to decide what is considered junk food and what is not considered junk food? Yeah, they've done it real good with the food pyramid. They, terrible.  Good job. And you don't know from case to case what somebody needs. You know, like Adam said, you know what might be considered junk food is processed food. Processed food has some value. It's got a long shelf life. A very, very long shelf. Maybe that's what that person needs more at that moment and we're gonna tell them that they can and can't spend it on whatever. I say this, if we're gonna help people eliminate the bureaucracy, that already saves us a ton of money. Give the money to people. We'll figure out whatever that number is. Spend it how you want. It's up to you. It's your exactly and see what that looks like. But this, yeah, controlling people this way, further controlling them. Yeah, and I'm not a big fan of it. Anyway, with that look, go to mindpumpfree.com. You can check out a lot of free guides and resources to help you with your fitness, your fat loss, your muscle building. There's lots and lots of different resources. Go check them out. Again, they're all totally free. You can also watch the podcast. You don't have to just listen to us. You can watch us on video. Go to YouTube, Mind Pump Podcast. All of our podcasts are audio and video recorded. And finally, if you wanna find us on social media, you can find all of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump. Justin, you can find me at Mind Pump Sal, Adam at Mind Pump Adam, and Doug, you guessed it, Mind Pump Doug.


Chances are she's probably not. Our ability to change everyone else's emotions is more consistent than the Ferrari. So the world around you is chaos. You've got no control over that. You've got no control of what people are thinking. You've got no control how they're handling stuff. What you do have control over is your reaction to it. The only thing you have 100% control over in your life is how you react to things. So when I'm in a situation, I'm always thinking whether that's a conversation, whether that's an interaction, whether that's doing something crazy, I'm always thinking how can I make this fun? How can I take happiness from this? And the secret is to play. In 1913, Eleanor H. Porter wrote a book called Polyana. And the point of that book was there's a little girl and her life was all about being grateful for everything that happened to her. Now in the story, all she wants for Christmas is a dolly. Someone screwed up and she got crutches. Now that would be okay if her legs were broken, but they weren't. So she took the crutches and she looked at her dad and her dad in the story is like, oh my God, it's like very good. And she says, you know what, I'm really grateful because I don't need them. So she chose to react awesomely. Every situation is just a perspective. Anything that happens to you from one angle could be rubbish. From another angle could be the best thing ever, but it's your perspective that determines everything. And the way you get that perspective is habit. So when I talk to people, I always have lots of energy. I'm always playing. And whenever I go into a conversation, I always think this is even gonna go really well or it's gonna be really fun. The reason is because it always is when I look for it.  If you've ever done an exam at school or you've done your driving test, you know, my driving test was terrible. I remember getting in the car, sitting there and thinking any second now I'm gonna fail. It was just like this guy with a clipboard, just looking at me and I was like, oh my God, if I get this wrong, I've screwed. For me, it was a black and white result, one or zero. I could either succeed or I could fail. My advice is get rid of the fail box, cross it out and just write really funny story because you'll find out. A friend of mine has 100% consistency in talking to people. Now what I mean by that is he always has a good result. And I said, how did you get that success? And he said, because every conversation I have had has always gone really well. And I thought, well, I'm a charisma coach. Not every conversation I have goes really well. I screw up all the time. So what's he doing? So I studied and I looked and I found out the only thing he was doing was he was just taking every conversation he had and just thinking that went well, that went funny, that went great, that went funny. And it built up 100% consistency. So he knew that every conversation he was gonna go into was gonna go well, it was gonna be funny, it was gonna be awesome. There was no other reaction. There was no other result. We've forgotten how to play. We grow up and we lose our playful edge. When we're kids, we problem solve by playing, by having fun. Remember all that stuff you learned at school when you're in the first few years of school? How to talk, how to read, all the important stuff? You know, the basics of maths, the stuff that last year, your lifetime? You did it through playing. And then when you get to adult school, all the play goes out the window. It gets replaced with logic. About the age of 12 or 13, you joined senior school and you don't play games in the playground anymore. You play adult games. And you look to people how to act. Because I remember my first day at school, I didn't play tag and running around. I was looking at other people thinking, okay, I play football now because that's the dumb thing. And if I don't, I'm gonna stick out like a sore thumb. School raises you to be a logical thinker. It takes away from your playful creative side and moves you to a logical side. And that's great because you need to be logical to problem solve. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to do business. You wouldn't be able to work.  What's the time?  I don't know, is it gonna be built? Or if you order some bricks and you say, right, we need 50 bricks. And I go ask you, how many bricks do you need? You say, a billion. This place ain't getting built. It's gonna be really huge. So you need logic to function in the world. The trouble is we forget to be playful. But it's when we're being playful that we're almost emotive, that we're connecting with people in the most engaging way. When we're having fun. People ask me, how do I start conversations with strangers? Sometimes I walk up to them and talk about something I've seen, but more often than not, it's having fun. I was in a coffee shop two days ago and I was in the line and there was a girl and she was buying some coffee, some tea, whatnot. And my client said, how would you talk to her? And I thought, well, I said to him, I said, look, what's fun? And he said, I don't know. So I looked at the situation, she just opened her bag and I thought, this will be fun.  Thus, and she went, she had an accident from Canada or somewhere.  I'm sorry if Canadians don't talk about that. But I said, look, I said, you come over here, right? You think it's one rule for you and one for the natives who live here. And she laughed and she punched me in the arm and we had a conversation and it was fun. So if I wanna start a conversation with a random person, I'll see how I can make it fun for myself. How I can be, you know, amused by it because I always will find that. It's more fun to start a conversation up with somebody in the supermarket, not by going, wow, that looks like you've got a lot you're gonna cook tonight. It's more fun just to throw a banana in their shopping basket. You know, who just random banana throw a person or as I like to do, take your basket, walk up to their basket, go, I don't wanna be weird or anything, but, and then just take something out of the basket and put it in your basket. Now you have to laugh afterwards. A client of mine did that and went and ran off. She's like, come back here. She did fill an emotion though, but that's what I'm getting at. If you can make people fill emotions, you're different from every other person in the room. You get those emotions by feeling them first yourself.  The only control I have is how I react to them. It's not about their reaction to me. It's about my reaction to their reaction of me. My reaction is always gonna be fricking awesome. You know, the other day I was a friend of mine. He said, listen, I need some help. Can you put up some shelving? Now I know I'm a charisma coach and I'm talking about shelving, bear with me. I said, yeah, fine, I'll do that shelving job for you. And I got his shelves and I took him out of the paper and I was shocked. They were glass, they were wire, possibly some UFO technology in there as well. I just didn't know what to do with it. Now what I didn't tell him is I'd never put up shelves before and this thing was monstrosity. But I thought, okay, I'll give it a go because I'm reveling in the challenge. Play is all about finding something that's a challenge and knowing you've got the skill to do it. Now rather than knowing I had the skill to put up this shelf because I'd never put up a shelf before, I just assumed it would be all right. It'd be fun.  On the way home that night, I must admit, I won't lie, I was sitting on the train and I was having a little sort of dream about, oh, those shelves I put up were great and I was thinking about them. And I thought to myself, if I did that again, how would I put the shelves up differently? And I thought, oh, I would drill the holes slightly closer together so the shelves just sat in some sort of harmony rather than being a little bit skewed with. He never knew they were the first shelves to put up, sucks to be him. And I realized that's the secret of all skill. All natural skill that you build doesn't come from you reading it in a book.  But when you get good at anything, it's because you come away from every challenge and you think, what went really well then and you revel in it and what could I do better next time? What could I do better to improve? The reason you ask that question is because you want to improve. I wanted to put my shelves up better. I tell you what, I had a bit of a fetish going on because I want to put up shelves all the time now. I'm enjoying it so much. But yet many people I talk to hate the fact or hate the feeling of going to talk to strangers. Hate it so much. It's because they look at it as a challenge that they don't have the skill for.    When we go and talk to somebody, if we have an expectation of what's gonna happen, if I had an expectation those shelves were gonna be brilliant, I would have been screwing because they weren't going, they didn't go great. I was drilling holes in all the wrong places.


Hi, I'm Megan. Hi, I'm Izzy. And today we're going to be going around asking people what their favorite Christmas cracker jokes are. Yeah, we are. Did you actually hear that, um, Santa can't go to the gym anymore? Really? Yeah, it's been banned from the elf and safety regulations. Oh, for elf sake? What's your favorite Christmas cracker joke? What do elves eat for breakfast? What's the play? Why did Santa's help her see the doctor? Because he had low elves, Steve. Who never eats a Christmas? Who? The turkey. It stopped! What happened to the turkey at Christmas? I don't know what happened to the turkey. It got gobbled! Well, Megan, I think we've established that the DCO have a fantastic sense of humour. I agree with you. Do you see that green creature helping our animals to the elf? I missed that. Yeah, it was a mistletoe.


Well, and not only that, she actually has an unrealistic appraisal of her sexual market value. A woman who's young, beautiful, and very online can actually hit above her weight class. By that I mean to be able to be sexually involved with a man who'll exchange a relationship to have access to her. And by the way, the same guy is now moving on to younger women. She's been replaced. And again, you have her slipping into this new age Spencer Dunn syndrome. Women have privileges because of the youth vibrance and the value of sexuality in our society. Men have it a different way. We age differently, our status rises later.


Hi, I'm Deirdre McGlashan, the Global Chief Digital Officer at Mediacom. I'm really looking forward to coming out to Mumbai, India for TechManch 2018. That's on the 27th of June 2018, and I'll be there to talk about the digital marketing trifecta, the combination of data, creativity and effectiveness. And I hope to see you all there. What is business transformation? Business transformation is to become relevant to your customers. Therefore, what has changed through digital is the focus has been shifted from the manufacturers to the consumers. So once you start listening to the consumers, digital medium is the only medium which allows you to listen and then talk back to them and then see what you can do and how you can serve your customers better. So that's the biggest transformation which is happening. And then today if you see all the companies are focusing on the consumer and then having a dialogue with them and understand them, what they are doing, what do they like and what do they don't like, that is the real transformation. If at the start of the decade, if I would have told you that digital is taking over, it would have definitely been controversial. But now it's happening. If you read the recent e-market years report and average Indian spends around 1 hour and 13 minutes on the digital interface and that is expected to grow at least 2.8 times faster than the traditional conventional media. If you read the BCG report which talks about that consumers, 50% of the consumers are going to walk into the digital revolution from the rural markets, which means the disruption is happening all across the geographies. So therefore as business owners and market years, we have to make sure that digital becomes an integrated strategy in our day to day operations when we reach out to the consumers.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Chronicles basketball hangar box Number 29 with a big eminent spot being given away at the very end in a different dice roll But we're gonna do the break itself first big. Thanks everyone here for joining There's all the teams right there do the break first. Let's roll it randomize it five and a one six times for names and teams one two three four Five and oh one sixth and final time. We got Gretchen down to Danny five and oh one six times for the teams one two three four five and Sixth and final time after six we got the Clippers down to the Rockets So there's the first group right there first half of the list Kobe Chan with the Pelicans and What else? Where's the gris in this? Oh and Jay with the Grizzlies. There's the second half of the list right there. All right, so No trade windows in these little filler breaks. So let's just print and rip Got the Marta Rosen right up on top. So apparently the spurs Someone was telling me just before I started this video for parting ways with the Marcus Aldrich Let's see where he ends up. I don't know if the leakers have the assets for to make a trade with him What's that? Oh trading deadline end of the month Like the 28th or something like that. So late Lakers might have to make some moves. They need a little defense They need a little Anthony Davis backup Need a little three-point shooting They can find one player that can do all of that. That'd be nice. You know what no offense to Brandon Clark. All right RJ Barrett, there's Giannis Kobe White, Moriannis, Silver, RJ Barrett, Kendrick Nunn And green Jarrett Culver at the back right there There you go Not too shabby. RJ Barrett playing some good good hoops right now And I think we've got two basketball games on the slate today. What time is it right now? I think in about 30 minutes will be our first NBA game and I think that half an hour after that there'll be the second game that starts and a huge slate of games Tomorrow, so that should be a lot of fun as well. Join us for the games. We can discuss the games Break break some hoops while we're doing that and hang out and have fun. Kobe down to Sean and everyone in between Let's get all your names here one very happy person and 29 very sad people after nine at times on the randomizer This is for the eminent spot. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time after nine times Oh Go up not to the side all right Congrats to Kobe Apologies to Gretchen so close Kobe Chan you're in after nine times You got a $3,700 eminent spot. We gotta do some more of these folks Maybe sell some spots straight up too, but let's give it a go and pop open some eminence tonight. Thanks everybody I'll see you next time for the next one