You are listening to the number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Now in this episode, we answer fitness and health questions at the end of the episode. In the beginning of the episode, we have a lot of fun. We talk about current events and studies and make fun of each other. It's a good time. Today's intro was 37 minutes long. After that, we answered some specific fitness and health questions that were asked by our audience. I'm going to give you a rundown of the entire episode though. So we open up by talking Adam's baby soft skin. It's gorgeous, shiny, and beautiful.  This is a company we work with. Skin products you can put on your skin that will rejuvenate your skin, make you look more youthful and amazing. He's super handsome. You should check him out on YouTube. By the way, there's a huge discount because you listen to Mind Pump. Go to CalderaLab.com. That's C-A-L-D-E-R-A-L-A-B.com forward slash mind pump, use the code Mind Pump, get 20% off. Then we talk about aliens. Apparently a top official from Israel said that aliens are among us, but they made a, I guess they made a pact with the US government not to tell anybody. Yes. This sounds super legit. This is weird. It's happening. Then we talk about a survey that just came out of the UK, alarming survey, almost half of men between the ages of 18 to 30 or 30 to 60 years, 30 to 60. Sorry. Yeah. Suffering from erectile dysfunction. We need like a sound effect there. Oh man. That's real bad. So we kind of speculate as to why that might be happening. Then we talk about unsolved mysteries on Netflix and the Japanese tsunami episode. That was really crazy. Crazy. Then I talk about the Hungarian politician, the anti-gay Hungarian politician. He's hungry for something. Who got caught in the 25 man orgy. This is a true story. Really crazy. Then we talk about these corporate offices you can order on Amazon and build in your backyard. This is really cool. 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Again, you can find all of these bundles at mapsdecember.com. I don't know, Adam. If it wasn't for your beard, I'd be like, why is there a baby sitting over there? Your skin just keeps getting younger. You know what? You're bringing up the caldera because I look shiny and I look good right now. My skin, yeah, youthful. It's like it's supple. Okay, so let me tell you how cute elf. I was nervous when we took caldera on because I'd dug, I'll get back in my seat. I know you're trying to adjust me. Sorry. Well, hold on, let me first do this and then I'll get back to our caldera commercial. So I got something for you guys. Oh, what'd you get us? So yeah, commercial paused here. This is for you. Wow. Yay. This is for you. Why are we all wearing these? And you guys, and you have to. Adam's really in the spirit. I am, you didn't notice that? I know he's always like that. He goes all in. Why am I wearing this? Because this is in lieu of our 12 Days of Christmas. That is, I believe, starting tomorrow. Hold on a second. Let me get it off. So I want you guys to wear hats every podcast.  So every day on our Instagram, there'll be giveaways. We're doing 12 Days of Christmas leading up. I believe it starts tomorrow. And so make sure you're paying attention to the Mindput Media IG, giving away cool stuff with all of our partners. Awesome. Wear these hats every day because you're giving away stuff. All right. So is caldera one of our first ones? Oh, so they're not one of the first ones. But back to that commercial that I was starting to do there and did a terrible transition over to Santa hats. I know. Yeah, let's talk about your skin. No. So, no, I was really nervous that we were not going to be able to perform for them because you guys don't use it as much as I do, if ever. And I loved it.  Well, I'm just oily, naturally. Maybe that's why I'm gatery. Justin actually needs it the most. I get it from Adam by Osmosis. Refuses to do anything like that. He's like, anything beauty related. Just refusing to do it. He's too attractive. That's why I want him to do it, though, just for a few weeks, just to see if he gets compliments.  That's what'll happen. I might get more hairy, but they reached out and they want to sign for all of 2021, obviously, which means they're getting their ROI.   So I imagine there's a lot more people that are enjoying the product. But everybody that's purchased it seems to love it. And so our audience has been enjoying it. It works. Well, I think the other part of it too is we now record the podcast on video too, right?  And it's obvious how more handsome it's just it progressively you, you are now moot, you're just continue to get even more youthful. That's how it is. Yeah, just more and more handsome. Yeah. Well, I got evolution. I complain about the dry skin thing all the time, right, with my psoriasis and stuff like that. And so I already am big like lotion guy all over myself. But this stuff has been incredible. So I'm a big fan. I was a big fan even when we weren't sponsored. So there was a long time there that we weren't. And I was, I remember hitting Rachel up all the time, like, you got to get Caldera back because I use it every day. By the way, are these new? Are these new hats? Or am I sharing with someone else? Brand new hat. I had Gary order you guys all brand new hats. I don't want to get lice again. No, no.  Have I ever had lice? Yeah, dude, when I was a kid. Did you never had lice? No. Really? No, but you had flatties you are. You had flesh eating bacteria. They're scared. Yeah. Yeah. That's the move. Who's the kid on Charlie Brown that has like the dust cloud that calls her? Is that Linus? Oh, pigpen. That's who it is. Linus carries his blanket. That's right. When I was a kid, I did. I got lice and all my brothers and sisters got lice. Oh man. And my mom.  No, dude. We're not. It's not the industrial revolution. What's that powder they throw on you? Yeah, no DDT. Yeah.  And I didn't because I was so young, I didn't realize what a pain in the asset was. And then my daughter got a while ago and she's gonna listen to this one day. She'll be so mad. Anyway, she got it. She was a kid. She got it. You have to like everything. You throw stuff to animals in plastic bags, leave them in there for a while.  Everybody gets checked. And you know me, I'm like, I don't like, I get the heebie-jeebies, whatever that feeling. Like right now I'm getting it because I'm talking about it. Yeah.  Just a little crawler. Speaking of heebie-jeebies, so my buddy sent me over an article that apparently, I think Israel said it, the chief guy, executive dude over there with their space program.  You know, I'm terrible.  This is the New York Post, which is basically like the national inquirer of right now. Donald Trump knows that there's aliens out there. This is what it said. Yes. Yeah. And they made a pact with the US government to not say anything until we're ready. Yeah, because they want everybody to start getting along again. Now, are you guys ready for this? What? The aliens? The alien invasion? What's your thoughts on this? Before Justin, you before, just so you know, we, Doug and I, I don't know if Sal was in here. Was Sal speculating with us, or does this mean you? I love that you are bringing this up. I know. That's it today. I'm giving you a softball pitch right now. Yeah. What do you think, Doug? Was it just me and you? Maybe, yeah. I don't remember Sal saying anything. No. Are you in here? We were talking, here's the thing. I just want to, okay, let's pretend. Let's pretend this is a real thing. Yeah. There's aliens. I like this. How do you feel about this? I want to know more. I want to know what experiments they've been doing. I want to know why they haven't solved our problems for us, because they're so smart, like what the fuck? I love that you come with all these demands. Hell yeah. This species that is obviously as intelligent or more intelligent than us, that could get to our planet, we couldn't get to theirs. Yeah. And are you from Sirius? Sal has demands. Yeah. I want to know this. I want to know that. You'll be the first to get eaten. Are you responsible for everything that Ancient Aliens TV show is talking about? Yeah. Yeah. I want to know that. Like pyramids, like come on. No, really though, what's your guys'... All right, would you guys be scared, excited, nervous? Like what's the feeling that you would get if this really came out that there is? I wouldn't believe it, first of all. No, no, no. It's real. Let's say, yeah, let's get rid of the possibility that it's not real, and let's just say it's real. There's aliens that have been here. How do you feel? I would... Justin, you, not you. Oh, you first. I don't want to hear your bossy attitude with your interview. First they need to say this. With this world leader, honestly, I would trip out on it for a long time. Like it would take me a long time to process it. I would go back and revisit a lot of all the different theories out there, and how we've come along in society with technology and all this kind of stuff. And then, yeah, at what point did they come? Like I would not want to know so we could start going back in history and redo history. Yeah, I like that. Now, what if the aliens came and then they were just like, hey, like a whole swath of people. Yeah, that thing you believe in, that religion, totally wrong. Here's what's going on. Oh, government over here, you guys are wrong. These guys are wrong. How mad would people be? Think about that. If they came out and they're like, global warming, or if they said, yes, or what if Jesus also went to Mars? Well, yeah. You know what I mean? Hey, how long do you think it would take before people tried to have sex with them? Wow. Of course, that's where you go. Yeah, I know today's age, not very long.  I mean, the little gray guys, I'm pretty sure we'd want a law pass to say it's okay.  What? Do you know about this? Purposes? There's like a, like a, I think it's like a type of, I don't know the name, it's like a sea manatee of some type. What? What? The sea cow? Something like that, because this is true. Oh, look at stuff, Doug. I want to see if this is true. I mean, it's going to be another time when I show you. I mean. Because the genitals of this particular sea manatee looks like the female genitalia, so they would literally capture this thing and then they'd sleep with it. What? Okay, explain to me what you're reading when this comes up in your feed. What are you, yeah, exactly, what exactly, what exactly are you googling? At my normal. To get an article like that. Because you've heard of like goats and, you know, like these lonely shepherds and what not. We've heard stories, right? But sea manatees? Well, this is, oh no, no, I know I read this because they think that this may be where the mermaid myth came from. Oh, you've been banging all them. The manatees in creating mermaids? I mean, Doug looks either confused right now or he's not finding anything. He's not finding anything definitive about sighted. The firewall blocks it. No, it's there. I don't want to stop and look. I'll find it later. But I'm serious. It'll be in the show notes, right, Jackie? Because we'll send you a link for all the animals. Anyway, that's crazy to me. Wow. Speaking of sex, by the way, did you guys hear about this huge survey that they did? I think it was in the UK. Did you hear about this? No. This is kind of sad. I'm going to find it right now because it's kind of sad. So they did a huge survey in the UK. And apparently almost half of men in their 30s suffer from erectile dysfunction. Half? Yes. In their 30s? Yeah, that's what it says. Half of men in their 30s, this is in the UK. Wow. Yeah, struggle to get an erection. Studies have shown. Surprised polling reveals that this age group is most likely to struggle with keeping it up. So what? How do you? Almost a third have broken up with their partner as a result. This is crazy. What's happening over there? Wow. Wow. Nearly half of men aged 18 to 60 across the UK are suffering impotence with four in 10 main men blaming stress, followed by tiredness, anxiety, and boozing too heavily. All right. So what do you guys think the problem is? Why do you guys think these young men are having issues with their testosterone levels? What's happening over there? You know, I have a theory. Yeah. I do have a theory. I do think that it's the overuse of pornography. I do. This issue didn't exist before. You know what I mean? Young men never had issues like this. I think they're just desensitized like crazy because all the stuff that they Yeah, I don't disagree with that.  Yeah.  Just like they had to have cornhub. Yeah, exactly. What are you doing, guy? They got it up for the animal. You know you have this on your phone, right? I gotta do something with this, guys. I'm sorry. I get too many of these. I gotta take care of this. It's kind of crazy, though, that 40 or almost 50 percent. How do they measure that, though? With the ruler. No, like, yeah, it's a survey. Like, so these are just people saying like, oh, yeah, I have problems with that. It could be, too, being distracted. Just imagine, I mean, we now have this- Distracted. No, like, declining health factors, too. I mean, I'm playing video games right now. You laugh, but I mean, yeah. That's an example of a younger boy. But even as a man, having a cell phone now that is like another limb of yours. And don't tell me this- Activity levels, I'm sure. Tell me this has not happened to you guys before. I mean, this has definitely happened to me, or at least I'll admit it, there's been nights where I know that Katrina was probably in the mood. We're having dinner.  And I'm just not in the mood. I'm not in the mood because I'm irritated about something like that, and that doesn't make me want to do that right away. And so- I don't know if that's the same thing. I think what they're talking about- Well, that's why I asked, how do they measure this?  No, I think erectile dysfunction- You're trying to get up and you want to. Yes, you're like, I want to- That's why I want to know how they measure this. Yeah, I think that's what it is. Like, I want to, but it's not working. Not- But again- I don't want to. How many times have you guys noticed this too, though? When that happens, when a scenario, it's normally because you're somewhere else, right? Your mind is somewhere else because you're not in the present moment. Well, they said stress was a major factor, that they were all consistently saying that, right? Yeah, but I tell you, if you look at the numbers, erectile dysfunction is exploded among young men. This was a category of the population that never- Or deflated. I'm going to say pornhub and distractability, the two of them together. I would say, yeah, I'd say it's pornography and probably poor health. Yeah, poor health. A lot of these guys, yeah, they're just not- They're not exercising, not lifting weights. They're probably- I mean, obesity is so high now. Yeah. You know that, even in the UK, Europe is suffering now from obesity, like almost like the US is, so probably what it is. Yeah, I imagine there's just a lot of lack of activity, you know, in general. It just seems like there's been a massive decline worldwide of activity. Yeah. When was this done? Was this done recent too? Recent, this just came out. Oh, I mean, I wanted you to take into account COVID too, right? Everybody being at home right now? Well, stress is at all time highs. When do you think all that stats going to come out, right? Like, nobody- You see little stuff coming out, right, with depression, suicide, alcohol. I just read a study that mental health among adults in the US has reached a 20-year low based off of- My buddy just- You know what, my buddy just gave me a test. What's the pregnancy rate right now? I don't know.  Because normally that would like move numbers way up, right? Yeah, right. Your rectile dysfunction cancels that. But then that- Yeah, exactly. So he evens it out. He evens it out. I don't know, but what I would predict is typically what you see is a boom in pregnancies after a terrible event. Oh, yeah, that's true. So like World War II, and then it's over. The baby boomers. Everybody's having, yeah. So I would imagine that once we feel like we're out of the, you know- The thick of it. Exactly. Then you're going to see a lot more babies being born. I wanted to share with you guys what my buddy sent. I'm trying to find where he sent it in a thread talking about that somebody, or I forget what country just said that they had more suicides than COVID deaths. Oh, Japan. Oh, yes. Thank you. You did see that. I did. Should have known you seeing that. Yep. That's crazy. I know. Total, right? They're not counting any of that stuff. They're not even considering any of that stuff. Now, here's the thing that I want to be clear to is that, okay, let's say that they don't do government lockdowns. Does that mean that nobody's going to suffer? No, we're still going to suffer. Still going to be a lot of problems. I think it'll be less potential, less problems. And or at the very least, people aren't going to, you know, blame or wait for government to tell them everything they do they tend to act. Was it Sweden that they basically did that from the very beginning? There's no lockdowns. They're doing lockdowns now. They're doing lockdowns now. Yeah, they're starting to kind of reverse now a little bit. Really? Yeah. Yeah, they are. Well, that's unfortunate. Yeah, I know. There goes that example. Can't pull from them no more. Okay. No, you brought up Japan. Did you guys see Unsolved Mysteries where they... Oh, wait. The tsunami? Yeah, the tsunami.  Yeah, where they're all seeing ghosts. Dude, that is weird. They were tripping me out. That is super weird. Like, the cab drivers would be out, you know, like picking people up and they'd get in their toll. The thing is that they could measure this because, you know, they actually had a running toll.  That's weird. Yeah, dude. Trippy. That is very strange. It's the video of the tsunami that they're showing on that and then the stories that they were telling. Yeah. Oh, it's heartbreaking. Oh, I couldn't even do this. One man talking about his kid. I couldn't even do it. Oh, my God. Yeah, the whole thing is just... It really brings perspective to something like that. Like, you're just... You see it on the news and you're like, whoa, that's crazy. Whatever.  If my family's stuck there. Oh, we get out of dodge. Well, okay, you say that quick, right? Like, because we saw the aftermath, right?  Yeah. And I would think there was... What was I just... I was watching some documentary of somebody who stayed through one of those and filmed the whole thing because they've been through so many storms. They just... Yeah, like they got numb to it or whatever. It just happened. It was a regular thing.  Like, what's the thoughts on that? I don't know. For me, I just don't value things that much in terms of the lives and the lives around me. Like, who cares? Like, I'll start over again. I guess you kind of had this similar thing with the fires. Exactly. What did you bring? Did you bring anything?   Courtney was like trying to... Just like, we got to get these. We got to get these. Yeah. I was like, whatever, like pictures and photos of kids and wedding album and all. Stuff that you can't replace. Yeah, that's it.  I'd be gone. Yeah. I'd be gone. Because I'm like, you wouldn't grab anything. I'm not attached to it. Um, I don't really have anything. So what would you bring? Yeah, I live with my car. I just drive my house. I would just... By the way, the animal? I got to get those new ballot shoes. By the way, the animal people that the sailors would bang was called a dugong. Dugong. That sounds like someone got you. No, D-U-G-O-N-G. Look it up, Doug. And then we can... And they look up sailors' bang. I'll be watching the videos later. No, this is what they used to... This is what they used to do. You still didn't answer my question, how you came to Boutland, bro.  You know that. It just doesn't work. Well, the other stuff makes sense because it's around our field, right? You're searching things. Like, I know how you get... I looked up animals you could have seen. Pirate sex. Best animals to beg. Lonely at sea, you know, dugong. What are my options? What happens if I get trapped in the ocean? What if I would have sex? What do I do? Yeah. What do I do? I got to do this. Shark, no, not shark. No, that's... Dolphin teeth, man. Dolphin teeth. Too fast. Dolphin's too fast. I need some slow and fleshy. I can catch it. Slow and fleshy. That's what I do. Which one's going to feel like this? Anyway, back to the tsunami. I'm just taking people on an emotional roller coaster right now. Yeah. Back to the tsunami thing. That's the worst... That's my biggest... Like, if I had to pick the worst, biggest fear, like, way to die, like, the worst way to die, drowning. Can you think of a worst way? It is pretty horrible. Yeah.   I thought somebody told me, Doug, maybe you... I thought that's supposed to be euphoric. I thought, no, I'm serious. Like, the feeling you get when you, like, you take in all the water, I think it's supposed to be euphoric. You get this chemical release. I've heard freezing to death is the way to go. Wow. After the initial cold. Doug's been researching it, by the way. Yeah, I just been thinking about this a lot. Look up drowning euphoria. I think that actually... Well, it sounds terrifying. I feel, I agree with you, that, like, drowning sounds terrifying to me. But I think when it actually happens, it's nice.  Burn to death is worse. Burn to death would be worse, bro. Well, I've heard with the burning to death, at first it hurts, but then your nerves are gone, and then you're just... That's it. Yeah, but how long until you get to that point? I don't know. And, like, excruciating.  Yeah. Like, oh, your whole body, dude? Yeah, I don't scream like that, though. Well, thanks. I do. That's a weird transfer. You do you. That's not how I do it. Well, I mean, okay, have you guys ever been... Burn to death would be worse to me. Totally. Yeah. I can't... I mean, I would rather... I don't know. I think it's a little terrifying. Drowning has, like, if you're claustrophobic, right, that there's a little bit of that, right? That, to me, sounds a little scarier than, like, fire. You could be on the open, right? That's not as scary. Just burning just sounds... Yeah, I don't know. Well, okay, so have you guys ever been choked out? Like, have you ever been put to sleep by a joke?  That's what I think the drowning is supposed to be like. Yeah, but I don't know if that's the same, so that's a blood show. Are you checking me right now? Yeah, I'm seeing it. I think you're right. Thank you. It says, deathologists, which happens to be a profession, say drowning is perhaps the best way to die. Boom! That a euphoric sensation supposedly blankets one's consciousness right before losing it. Wow, there you go. Look at that. There's two facts that we brought. Man. Adam brought the death by drowning. I brought the sex animal in the sea. It's your turn. What do I got? What do you got for us, dude? And he ran away. What do you got for us, Justin? I was thought I was going to bring the aliens, and then he totally, like, jumped in front. Oh, speaking of alien stuff, those monoliths keep popping up all over the place. Yeah, so did you see the four? There's a set of four now that looks just like the fifth element. Yeah. And I'm like, come on, dude. It's a movie. I guarantee you it's movie marketing, and it's brilliant. Whoever came up with it, it's brilliant.  Like what? For math programs. Just put a random dumbbell. Imagine if it was doing a drive everybody to Mindput Media. Just put a random dumbbell somewhere? Yeah, dude. Nobody cares. Or like a massive one, like overly sized. So people are like, what is this, a giant's dumbbell? It's a giant's.  Just leave them around. Just leave them. Lead them. In the middle of the middle of the night. Yeah. In the middle of the desert. In the middle of the desert. Yeah. Oh, my God. The giant's are real. The giant's. Oh, my God, bro. I don't know. Dude, I saw a show about sales to the roof. Yeah, like giants. Did you watch that at all? Chance, there was like, they were trying to prove that giants existed. Like this whole thing back in the day. Oh, where they find the skeletons? Yeah. And they found some of the mounds here in the North America that they found like gigantic heads and gigantic bones. But then mysteriously they vanished, you know, and like people have collectors have taken them out of circulation. It's not very unrealistic, right? So what are some, I mean, there's, we have records of like really tall, like 12 foot tall people, don't we? What's the tallest? I don't think 12. What's the record for 12? I just threw it out there. Maybe 10. It's crazy though. It's definitely way over seven. Well, I know, doesn't the Bible have stories of giants in the past? Yeah, they do. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, from what I've read, those old stories are accurate. Nephilim or is it the Nephilim? Yeah, it's something like that. Well, think about it this way. Well, okay, now when you're talking about stories, telling something like a seven foot man looks like a giant to me. You're right. And especially back then, when you think about it this way. When you never saw that. Yeah. Right, we see the NBA, so we see giants all the time.  And you're malnourished. Which, by the way, is very, would be very common, right? If you didn't have television, when was the last time you saw a seven foot five person? Never. Okay, so now imagine seeing that person for the first time you're 40 years old, you write about it and be like, I saw a giant. Yeah, it would be weird. Yeah, so apparently, according to like myth and lore, right, I think like angels banged humans and created giants. This is part of like the mythology. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. What are you looking up right now, Doug? You giving me the tall person? Yeah, so there's been nine feet right there. Yeah, nine feet, two inches is the tallest discovered. Okay, skeleton? Yeah, Catalina Island. Wow. Ooh, Catalina wine mixer. Motherfucking Catalina wine mixer. That's a good time. Wow, so that's legit. Was it a real skeleton? Or is that like, is it just hearsay? Yeah, it could be real. I don't know. Let's see here. It says some people have accused him of exaggerating, but I don't know if that's a fact or not. Interesting. Yeah, I think there's a lot of people that want it really bad, you know, and so there's been a lot of articles and some some fuckery out there with like archaeologists trying to make, you know, piece bones together to make a giant, but I mean, it is likely like, of course we've seen dinosaurs, right?  We know really nothing about them. We just keep like drawing new things on them and, oh, now they have feathers. Oh, yeah, of course. No, now they say they don't. Now they don't have feathers. Yes, yeah. So that just changed. I'm not closing on that yet. What, dinosaurs? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Aliens put them here. Yeah. Trick us. Trick us. See, more things I want to ask the aliens, right? Yeah, that would be weird to see aliens. That would be, I think, do you guys think that would totally shake up society in a big way? I don't know. Yeah, like. I think we're ready for it. Of course it would shake things up. I mean, because then now all of a sudden we want our alien friends to use all the answers. I mean, if they were just, listen, if they were just another species that got here, so they're definitely as smarter, smarter than we are. Oh, smarter. They got here. Right, they got here. Smarter than we are. They don't want to harm us.  They don't have any desire to move. They think our planet sucks compared to theirs, but they're just traveling. Is it really going to be that big of a deal? But according to that article, they wanted to work with us because they. Well, there you go. Yeah, they're friendly. Well, okay. So here you're trying to do their experiments and figure things out. Now, here's a legit problem. Let's say you're head of the CIA or the KGB or whatever, some leading government agency. And these aliens came to earth, obviously with far superior technology, the ability to travel through space at speeds that are beyond light speed because in order to travel far distances in space, light speed is even slow.  Because if I have this technology, we are the superpower of the world. You see what I'm saying? Like I feel like that would be the. I feel like they would be evolved past that. They wouldn't allow that to happen. They wouldn't be like. They'd be like, when I gotta tell you. Yeah, exactly. If that's your, if that's your thoughts, then I guess we're going to leave you out. Yeah. Yeah. What if they're like us?  You know what I mean? I feel like if they were, they would have done something, right? Maybe not. They would have dropped the bomb or something. Well, they've obviously crashed, right? If they've crashed. So they're not great pilots. Yeah, exactly. Maybe they're not the best. Idiots. Yeah. Dumb aliens. Hey, speaking of idiots, did you guys hear about this politician? I gotta look this up, dude. He's just the right.  Oh no, this is the best that I've, that I've ever read. So there's this Hungarian politician. Okay. He's an anti-gay Hungarian politician. So he's like super anti-gay marriage. Wow. Like he likes policies that are. Where's he at? Huh? Hungry. Yeah. If he's Hungarian. Well, that doesn't, just because he's Hungarian doesn't mean he's necessarily in Hungary. He could be in the United States. Hungarian politician in China. No, he's, he's in Hungary. It's, uh, so. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So he's super anti, but we've seen in the past what these people are really doing with their super anti-something. You're right. But continue. You are right. And he's, no. Anybody, anytime someone's super anti, like something like that, you always gotta think, huh. I wonder what their extracurricular activity looks like. So his name is Joseph Sezier. I think I'm saying it right. So cops. Caught him. Yeah. Fleeing a 25 man orgy. He went hard. He went real hard too. He went really hard. Yeah. It was a 25 man orgy. There he is. And he was, he was fleeing. I guess the cops saw him running out through the window. So he was, he wasn't just, you know, doing, he wasn't just, you didn't just do gays done. No, he's hard. Well, what's he's hard win.  It's just with male prostitutes. Yeah, male, in politicians, same thing. It's just like, it's a big cover up of like, I don't know that was happening with a TV in Vengell, in Vengellicus.   Yeah. There was one, I don't know if it was in Vengell, but it was definitely for me. I hit that fucking. Evangelicist. Evangelicist. Evangelicist. Damn, nice one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Evangelicals. Evangelicals? No. Evangelicals? I don't know. Evangelists. Evangelists. Thank you, Doug. Yes. Wow. When you have heavenly testicles, they're Evangelicals. Televangelists. Check them out, everybody. Televangelists. Yeah. No, there's been a couple that have been caught. There was one guy that got caught with a male prostitute because he was traveling, and he said, oh, no, I hired him to hold my luggage for me. That was his story. Oh, yeah. I did not know that. Yes, dude. Yeah, there was one that like, so one politician or, I don't remember if it was a church figure or whatever, like had this whole like pray the gateway thing and they had like a whole camp where they were like sending people and stuff. And then he was totally sleeping. Oh, my God.   Yeah, I mean, I would be a little suspicious like, all right, it's only guys. We're all going to go in the woods together. And we're going to get rid of the gate. Yeah, get rid of the gate. Let's get it all out. Everyone take your clothes off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just drain the gateway. Get it out of your system. Just get it out. Remember when you got caught with cigarettes when you were a kid by your dad and he made you smoke like five packs. That's the strategy. We're going to go in the woods. Over exposure. And we're just going to keep going until we get this thing you've ever seen. Ever. We don't want to do it anymore. Okay. Yeah. Keep going until we don't want to do it. You'll never want it again. Oh, my God. It's totally going to work.  Yeah, for sure. I know, dude. Yeah, save me. I know. It kind of cracks me up. Hey, Adam, did you hear about these? I want to ask you, because this is something that's up your alley. Did you hear, and this is legit now. I know. I know. I don't believe it already. Let's hear it. No, no, listen. You can order these office buildings on Amazon. Have you heard of these? Order an office building on Amazon. Yes. So maybe Doug can look this up.  Yeah, you order them on Amazon. Let's see it. And they're exploding in sales right now because so many people are working from home. And so they're putting it in their backyards or on their land. And apparently they're inexpensive and they look pretty damn good.  Well, I can imagine. So you know me. I'm always… I mean, it's just smart. I look at properties all the time, right, for us. So I'm looking at these properties that have, and you're seeing this pop up right now more than I've ever seen, is they're converting like their backyard sheds and stuff into office spaces. Yeah. And that makes a lot of sense. Like they're putting like a little portable AC in it and then they trick it all out to…  So you don't have like kids and everybody else like people coming through the house. Exactly. Distracting you. Yeah, that is kind of crazy. Let me see them. I want to see them. I'm trying to find them too right now. Oh, here we go. All right. I'm going to look it up right now. I can imagine those shipping containers would be a good option. Like a rich roll. Yeah, Doug, I'm going to… Rich has three of them, right? He lived in those things. I've seen those converted a lot. Oh, there you go. Look at that. So, Doug, I just sent you the link because the link that I'm sending you has got pretty good… Oh, Wayfair has them too, huh? Yeah. Backyard Studio, $10,000. That's open. Does it come with children? That's expensive. That's Wayfair. Show me. That's so bad. Okay. Show me that $6,000. $5,991. I'll check what you're getting. No, no, no. So, look at the one. So that's the one I just sent you. Okay. That's ridiculously expensive, though. Bro, it's 113 square feet. It's under 20 grand. Amazon ships it for you. 20K. It's really nice. But you look, if you don't have to build anything, it has AC in it the whole deal. Oh, it does have that too? Yeah, dude. It's all decked out. It doesn't require you to build a foundation for it, apparently. So, look at that.  It is, right? Most people have a backyard space that you could put that in. Yeah. Totally. And I'm telling you… Interesting. Right now, there's so much stuff is starting to change because people are working from up. For example… Wow, what a good… Look at… Let's see if there's any publicly traded companies that are making these. Well, you know what's interesting. This is popping off. And then also the sprinter vans that they're converting into offices. Also like recording studios and media. People are all buying these vans in this whole van revolution. Well, dude, it's changing so many things. Jessica's family lives in Las Vegas, in Nevada, right? Rent and property values are exploding over there. Why? Because people from California are moving over there in droves. Rent is going up like crazy. My mother-in-law is like, my rent's going to go up a lot if I, you know, the next time I have to renew or whatever. She said it's all these Californians. And they're all coming over and paying a year in advance or buying a property cash or whatever. So it's changing quite a bit. So I can imagine this would be a huge boom. I mean, this is interesting to me how we could use this. I mean, for 20 grand to have a… I mean, this studio costs a hell of a lot more than that to try and build. Who's got a backyard? Yeah, right? Justin. Justin, yeah. Yeah. You want to build a studio? Could you have redwood trees? Yeah, I do. How cool would that be? Man, that's not bad. I don't know. I don't want you guys on my property. We'll see all the weird stuff. I mean, but for… You said it's got a… This is AC built in this too, Doug? Because that's why that sounds fishy to me. 20 grand and you have an AC alone cost eight to 10 grand. It's got, listen, it's got panoramic view, two glass walls. What else has it got in there? You can do classrooms. People are building classrooms with these. Maybe I made up the AC part. Yeah. I think you did. I can't help it. Because that, I mean, that would be the part that I would think would be the most annoying for us and the most expensive, right? Because a box, yeah, would do. Yeah, one of the chintzy ones. I mean, it's not a huge space to cool down. True.  I can't tell though. You can put it on top of the ceiling. I do. Over the roof.  Geez, I can't speak today. No, no, no, no. Yeah, help me out. How's that stroke going? What is it? It's goddamn coffee. We've got to wait for it to stop. Coffee is not set in, man. Oh, yeah. Speaking of coffee, so you guys know how we get stuff sent to us all the time, samples of supplements or whatever. I mean, I don't because I usually don't see it. I take them. Yeah, exactly. I take them all. Anyway, company sends us pre-workout powder. And I'm not going to say the name. I don't want to call them out. Just company. Yeah, just a company. And it's your typical pre-workout powder that relies heavily on stimulants. So it's like, every stimulant, you can imagine that's in there. So I'm like, all right, I'll give it a shot. I think I know what I'm going to feel. But let's do this.   I was shaky. I didn't feel good. It really makes me appreciate when someone makes actual pre-workout properly, like Legion, for example. They put theanine in their pre-workout because it balances out the caffeine. But I can't believe some. I think people have fried their CNS so much with the amount of caffeine that they take that they require something with an insane amount of stimulants just to feel. No, I think that. Because that didn't even take the whole thing. It was way too much. It was not good. I saw that raptor or bear attack. I'm not going to say the name. Yeah. But did you try to throw somebody on the bus right there? Raptor attack. It was a name like that. Yeah. It was just extreme. I just saw something. Like blow your brains out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. This is like meth, you know? Yeah. I saw an ad that Mike had that was running right now. Did you, is it true? Is he the number one sports performance supplement that's out there right now on Amazon? I didn't know that. On Amazon? I think so. Wow. So it's not like when you go to a coffee shop and it says the best coffee in the world. It could be. I'm going to have to ask Mike that. I'm like, bro, are you the best coffee in the world? Is that what you're doing right now? Is that what's going on with these ads? Are you really the number one sports performance supplement company? Well, I mean everything he puts in this. Self-nominee. Everything he puts in his products has a lot of literature behind it. That's the one thing I like. You never put stuff in there that's like, oh, this is the cool thing everybody's talking about. It's like, okay, do we have the studies? How many studies? Are they good studies? Yeah, the right dose. Right. Put an efficacious amount in there. So that's why, I mean, obviously, why I appreciate what he does or respect what he does. First question is from Todi Crudeau. Do any of you integrate different proteins such as whey, casein, plant-based for different purposes throughout the day or week? Is casein before bed just bro science or are there legitimate benefits to utilizing various proteins differently? Who pays this one? I did. We haven't crapped all over this in a while. Yeah, I know. So this is a context matters question. If your protein intake is low, then the type of protein you eat does matter quite a bit. So if you have low protein intake or below what would be considered ideal for performance in building muscle, which studies show is about 0.6 grams per pound of body weight all the way up to about a gram per pound of body weight. If it's below that, then you're going to want to have a protein source that is high in branched chain amino acids. Whey protein is really good. Animal sources are superior to plant sources. And studies will show that those sources, build more muscle, contribute better to performance and recovery and all that stuff. If your protein is high, if you're eating a high protein diet, 0.6 to one gram per pound of body weight really doesn't make that big of a difference. In fact, it almost doesn't matter at all because when you're eating that much protein, you get a lot of amino acids and it doesn't really make a difference. Now you might be wondering why supplement companies will tell you to eat this protein at night, this one during the day or whatever. Because if you're a successful protein company and you're selling a lot of whey protein, you want to sell another type of protein. You've got to figure it out. Yeah. How can you sell another protein without getting them to stop taking the one that they already take? Well, you tell them that the one that they buy and take is great for... So they're great for... Yeah, exactly. That one's good for post-workout. This one's good for nighttime. This one's good for travel. This one's good for whatever. So you hear a lot of that, but this is really splitting hairs and if your protein intake is high, it really doesn't make a difference. Now that addresses the whey and the casein, but what I will... And I don't do this like on... Like I'm not scheduled about it, right? But I'm just aware of it, right? So I do rotate and I think we all do this, rotate our foods and where the source is a protein. So I'm not always going to get it from chicken thighs. If I found that I had a week where I had a lot of chicken thighs and I didn't have any fish, the next week I'm trying to make sure that I implement more fish into my diet. If I'm never getting it from beans, I'm trying to get it from beans every once in a while. Like I try to just rotate my foods all the time. So I'm also picking up all the other micro nutrients that you're getting from different types of food. So I do think there's a tremendous amount of value. I think any articles that try and sell you on why this type of a protein, whether it be from food or a protein shake, is better than the other, is splitting hairs. So long as you're hitting your intake, right? So if you are hitting the number of grams that you should be hitting for your body to build muscle, the maximum amount, which is somewhere between 0.7 to 1 gram per pound of body weight. If you're hitting that, where it's coming from is not really going to make a difference on how you change the look of your body composition. But I think for health purposes, I think it's ideal to chase that protein number through whole foods and to rotate those whole foods as much as possible. Yeah, that's the best advice that I would say. And look, they've done studies. They've done studies where they compare plant proteins to animal proteins. And when protein intakes are lower than what we just said, the optimal amount, animal proteins are superior. They just are.  But then when they take a lot of protein, it doesn't matter. It's equal in terms of the results. Now, here's the deal. There's a huge individual variance between people in terms of which protein sources feel the best. And for me, I stick with the protein sources. I digest the best. So whey is a great source of protein. I don't digest whey at all. So I never have it, right? But there's also beef protein, right? So this is something else, too, that I always forget about that. And then egg protein. And so there's other various sources. But yeah, that's one of the big considerations is really how that's affecting your digestive system. What you can process the best, what resonates the best with you. That's something that I would lean towards. And sometimes that changes, too. Like even if I'm inundated with dairy, I might even feel it a bit to where I'll probably try some plant protein and rotate it kind of like what Adam's saying, too. But it's just important to kind of move things around so you don't get too inundated with one source. Yeah, beef, for me, is the easiest to digest. If I eat a lot of beef, my gut feels good. My body feels good as a result. That's my favorite source of protein. Second would be chicken. Third would be fish. Lamb is up there, too. Other sources of protein can bother me. Plant protein's okay. But if I push that too hard, that can start to bother me. Dairy, I can't eat either. So think about that for yourself. Like what makes you feel the best? And then hit your protein targets based off of that. Next question is from official JPJ9. What is the best way to fix muscle imbalances? All right, so first let's define a muscle imbalance because there's a couple of different ways we can look at this. One is from the aesthetic standpoint where you look at a physique or you look at yourself and you say, okay, I like the way that this part of my body's developed but it doesn't seem to match this other part of my body. So I want to bring that weak body part up. And then there's the way personal trainers look at muscle imbalances which is maybe your right side is not as strong and stable as your left side or your pulling strength is not at the right ratio to your pushing strength or your quads are overpowering your hamstrings when we do certain exercises. So those are the ways that they tend to be defined. Now, one of the easiest ways, in my opinion, aside from really doing an assessment and individually, I mean, if you really want to fix the muscle imbalance, you get a program like Maps Prime, you take the compass test and then you do it for your individual body. But if kind of general, not nearly as effective but still will give you some benefit, unilateral work tends to do a pretty damn good job where you work one arm at a time, one leg at a time, use dumbbells, start with the weak side, and then copy that with the strong side and wait for things to catch up. I think that's the best broad stroke answer for that. I think finding your way back to optimal posture in general will cover a lot of that. And you'll find areas of your body where you're out of balance and where you're not starting at the right point. And to be able to find your way towards that is everything. It's crucial to do that. And then also assess, do I actually have range of motion? Do I have function in my joints like I properly should? And that's usually where I like to start there with all like a joint check versus just like, from a strength perspective where, well, I feel like this muscle is very much overactive. This one's weak. And we could go from a muscle perspective after that. But I like to just get people to come back to proper posture and balance and function and then really work in the strength after that. Next question is from Jameson Doug. Can you talk about salt? Is it good or bad? Sal loves some salt. Yeah. You know what? First guy I ever met, they used to carry salt in his purse. You know, everywhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The first guy you had a purse. His mercs. You know, okay. So this is, when I would talk to clients about salt, I mean, you would be shocked at how much your sodium comes from processed foods. Yeah.  Look this up, Doug, for me. Sorry, Sally. No problem. But I want to highlight what you're talking about because there used to be this great article that I used to share. It was, look at like one fast food. How much salt is in one fast food meal comparison? Something like that, Doug. Because I used to share this with clients to give this perspective that you're talking about right now. Like you eat out one time in a week and it's like more than your salt intake that you take three days or something. Right.  You wouldn't even come close. Yeah. You couldn't put, you would be gross. If I salted my whole natural foods the same way that processed, it wouldn't taste good. So it's processed food is where you start to get an issue with too much sodium. And really this is only for people who have high blood pressure. Here's an interesting thing. We've demonized salt way too much.  If you're an athlete, this is a big deal. It's a performance enhancement for athletes. Big time. In fact, I used to tell my endurance athletes to take a small pinch of sea salt and put it in the water while they were running or doing their endurance sport and they would notice performance benefits. If you're a low carb dieter, salt is very important. In fact, sometimes when people feel foggy from going low carb or from fasting, it's not necessarily a lack of carbs or calories. It's the fact that their sodium is low. Throw some salt on your food and then, you know, see how you feel. But that's really the big thing. If you eat whole natural foods, you pretty much don't have to worry about it. That's how I tell clients to keep it simple, right? Instead of trying to measure and figure out exactly how many milligrams of sodium that you should have.  That's what I said. Season it how you want. Salt it how you want. Enjoy it if it's whole foods. And if it's processed foods, pay attention to how much you're consuming. The article Doug pulled up, it's not the one I was looking for, but says one meal of a processed food has got more salt than six times a regular meal. So you figure you eat six meals that are whole foods and it's going to have less than one meal that's processed. So that's where you just have to watch out for is how much are you eating out. Right. Now, I would like to hear what you said because you probably managed your sodium more. Definitely. I don't say probably. You definitely managed your sodium more than I ever did because you competed. What was that like? Well, so I did it different than a lot of competitors. In fact, there's, again, a shout out to Lane. This is another thing that how I found Lane. I was like researching this for myself like when I was first getting into competing and trying to figure out like, I remember hearing about this common practice that competitors would really start to reduce their calories, their carbon take, and their sodium intake and water. And again, I was like, God, that just sounds like a recipe for like death. You know, like that doesn't sound smart at all what you could potentially be doing. And the deeper I read into it, the more that I found that it was a lot of bro science, this idea of pulling all this sodium out of your body before you go into, in fact, it's probably counterproductive. And so I didn't do that. What I did was load during my prep and then went down to a normal amount when I got into peak week. So I got my body used to pushing X amount of, and I don't remember what the milligrams were off the top of my head. I first measured, found where my normal was. And then all I did was add like two deal pickles a day. So like I used dill pickles to shoot the sodium up. Oh, that's smart, because you're not really getting the calories. Right. And exactly. So, and then I liked them like, because I was dieting, so it was like something I could snack on. So I would add, I would add pickles into the diet, do my, and I would season my food all normal. And then as I got into my final weeks, I would remove the dill pickles and stuff and pull down. And that was enough to reduce the sodium. But I was still getting enough sodium that I think was healthy. But yeah, there's this myth around competitors needing to pull, because salt pairs with water. So the theory is this, is that if you have all this salt and sodium in your body and you're drinking all this water, that the water pairs with the salt and it lies between your skin and muscle and gives you this kind of like watery or flat or bloated look. But if you've taught your body to flush that out, it'll, it flushes it out within hours and for certainly in a day. So there's, you shouldn't be stressing about that. And so what I would do is teach my body to have more sodium, more water. Because it regulates it. Exactly. So then it would adapt to that new level. And then when I pulled it, then I knew I would really pull it all out. And then I also was not in fear of like being like super low in water and super low in sodium. So we all don't need to convert to flavor God. Yeah. Yeah. My God. No, that's, you know, so like businesses popped up because of that. Yeah. And that's a great, that's a great point. And that companies like that, and I think that's ridiculous. And I mean, competitors that I was coaching, they would ask about stuff like flavor God that became really popular when I was competing that brand. And it's a, you know, it's a one of those seasonings, zero sodium, seasoning flavored things and everybody loved them. You know what, I will say this of all of the things that you need to be careful for from processed foods, the sodium is actually probably down the list, to be quite honest. That's how not big of a deal sodium is for most people. The only people that should be careful of sodium are people who have high blood pressure issues and the doctor literally has ordered you to reduce your sodium intake. In which case, you probably have a poor diet to begin with. Well, and getting leaner will probably solve some of that. And to the point of that, of many times, that's because somebody's got a heavily processed food diet. If that same person did not salt their food and just switched from eating McDonald's every other day to eating, you know, a salty steak, they would be fine. It's that the doctors, what the doctor sees is that they're through the roof right there, tell this person to cut their salt out. And so those people think, Oh, I gotta, I'm gonna stop using table salt on my food. And it's like, that's not where you're getting. They're still eating the burgers. Yeah, you're getting like to the article that Doug pulled up. You're getting, you're eating one meal out that's equivalent to six meals, whole food meals, as far as sodium. I mean, they add sodium to everything, like instant oatmeal. You don't, you know, the oatmeal isn't salty, right? Look at instant oatmeal, added so added sodium to anything that. So yeah, and that's something, a good point too, right? It's all like even Chipotle, places that are considered like healthy fast food. You got to be careful of that. Any, any restaurant that you go to is loads or full of food of sodium. So it preserves the food longer. So they do that, right? So you can, so they can keep it out, you know, for longer and for more days. So they can serve it and make money off of it. So just because you're going to a, a healthy restaurant or a healthy fast food place, doesn't mean that it's not loaded full of sodium too. Now make your food yourself, you're fine. Yep. Next question is from KDC. Have you guys ever fallen out of love with fitness? What made you love it again? You know, this is a good question. What was it? I, I've never not liked fitness. I've definitely, there's been definitely times in my life where I've enjoyed it more. I enjoy fitness the most when I'm feeling my best, when I'm training at a high performance level and I'm feeling strong and I'm feeling aggressive in my workouts. But I didn't dislike my workouts when that didn't happen. I think that's because for me at least, and this is something I used to try to communicate to clients, exercise and workouts and fitness really is a tool to, to, to compliment my life. So through stressful times in my life or times when I wasn't feeling so good or whatever I'm, it's definitely not as fun to go workout. But I still enjoy the workout because I'm going there to make myself feel better. But I've never really fallen out of love. I think that's the one most consistent thing I've done since I was 14. I really, for, for me at least. I have a few times. Yeah. Have you, Justin? I've gotten like, I'm trying to think of the word but it was really like, I got turned off. Yeah. I got fat. That's the word. I'm trying to think of the politically correct word. I got fat. Yeah. That just happened. It was weird. Yeah. No, like I, I got tired of, of kind of beating myself up. And this is because I was training wrong for a period of time because I was always trying to compete to be the strongest in whatever team setting that I was in and I was in groups with people like, again, this is where the whole thing with groups is sort of like near to me because it's, it's about the individuals, about the individual experience at the end of the day groups. A lot of times it's great because you kind of feed off momentum. But for me, it was, I got, I got to a point where I just felt like I was just, I was just beating the hell out of myself. And I was, I just needed to like take a break for a while. And so it wasn't that I was falling out of love. It was just like, okay, I'm more into music now and I was just like drawn to another passion but then realized right away. I was like, Oh, I don't feel good physically. You know, like I feel like my energy levels dipping like all these things started to happen again. And I hated that even more. So I was like, right back to fitness. I feel like it's similar to, you know, the the house cleaner who doesn't ever want to clean their own house or the construction worker who never builds his own home. Like it's similar to that. I had moments, but it was for different reasons, right? So my first experience of falling out of love with it was training. I trained so many clients the first couple of years of being a personal trainer that I got burnt of training people. Like I, so I didn't lose my love for fitness as far as like me having a passion for the industry or liking to work out or like I also and I fell off and didn't work out again. It was something I was so excited about when I first got into it. And I got burnt. I got burnt of like training so many clients and trying to solve problems and failing a lot. I mean, let's be honest, the trainer-client relationship is a majority of time of failure.  That's not a reality. We're more like baseball. You know, we're batting like 300 if we're lucky that we're getting our clients results. So the consistent failure of not getting people to their goals and trying to help them all the time and like all I did was speak fitness all day and then when I was off I was in the gym lifting. So I did have a moment of being burnt out. That was also the same moment that led me to realize that oh, I like teaching trainers more than I like teaching clients. So that was that first pivot. Then I had another one where I was really upset that this was like, I've talked about this in the podcast before where I was really upset with where I was at in my career. I wasn't moving up as fast as I wanted to move up. I left. I took off. I took a couple of years off of fitness. This is where I pursued medical marijuana. You know, but that was also what made me realize how much I did love it. You know, I left it. I was pursuing, I realized that oh, maybe this space is not going to provide the lifestyle that I've always wanted and the money I wanted to make. So I left it, pursued that, accomplished that, and then realized, oh, wow, it wasn't about that for me. I really do miss it and came back. And then I had a little taste of that again, not that long ago, after competing. You know, and the funny part about competing, I'd love to compete. I loved being jacked and strong and looking amazing. I actually didn't like how I felt about our audience, how they thought of me, that bothered me. It started to bother me that I was kind of pigeonholed into the, because we started the podcast when I was in the middle of it, that I was this bodybuilder guy and I totally never identified with that guy. Like I was never that guy to me. I became that guy to help build what we did. And so when our audience like thought of me as that all the time, like I was like, so there was a part of me that kind of after being done and like accomplishing what we did, I was like over it for a while like, I don't want to, and that's why I was like all in a mobility and like hang up the man key. Yeah, dude.  Yeah, oh yeah. Damn it. Oh my God, so hard. Too much. So women whistling at me as I walked down the street. I remember that. I remember that. I remember that. Dude, this is crazy. We were all walking. What were we doing? Oh dude, yeah, we were down. Some chick whistled at Adam. I'm like, what the hell's going on here? It doesn't happen to me. This is weird. This is too much. Yeah. I could see how that could get totally.  But I like this question because even though Sal's answer, I thought was a little bad. It's true. It's not bad. That's the truth. No, no, it is a truth. And you are the most consistent. He's the most in love. Yeah, I should say. Yeah, he's got like googly eyes. Well, when's the longest? I guess you didn't work out. Right, right. So I've gone a month before without lifting or two months even in a row. Oh, okay. That's not bad. Sure. A couple of months? Yeah, yeah. So I'm definitely, but that's why I like this question because we are all everybody's lives. Can I come and go in seasons? And there's definitely seasons of my life where I am all about fitness. All I do is talk about. I mean, obviously I competed, right? So that's like a full time every single day, all I think about is fitness. And I did that for three, four years and how to blast doing it because I love fitness. But then I have times where lifting weights and training is only one part of the whole health sphere. And real easily, the other things can get out of whack. And I've realized that now in two decades of being a personal trainer that just because my body looks cool on Instagram doesn't necessarily mean that I'm really addressing all other aspects of health in my life. And so as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at that more holistically and go, okay, sure I'm not in the best shape of my life, but what other aspects am I really drilling home? And that's made me re-fall in love with what we do. I stopped, well, I didn't stop working out, but I did, I was only lifting maybe once or twice a week, but that's because I was doing jiu-jitsu at the time. So when I did jiu-jitsu for about six years. Because you're doing something else fitness. Exactly, so I never really stopped. And I do, I just love it. But I've changed it so many times. I mean, I went through a very, very tough period in my life, years ago when someone close to me had a rough battle with cancer. And at those times I would go into the gym and it was, my workouts were about alleviating stress. It was about making myself feel better, taking care of myself. It wasn't about building muscle or strength or having the blasts. It was like taking a break is what it was. Let me get in here, take a break so I can go back and help out. And so, but I've always used it as a tool. And I do, I just, I just enjoy it for that. But honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's just the discipline of doing it. There's definitely times when I'm doing the workout and I'm not thinking to myself, I love it. You have good balance though. And I think that's the answer to this question is what can happen when you, when you get so focused on a goal or a modality, like maybe you're in a CrossFit and a competitive side or whatever, it floats your boat. Oh, I've definitely been obsessed. I know what that feels like. Yeah, and that leads to burnout. Totally. And I think that's, and so, and I've done that to myself, right? I've become super focused on a goal or a pursuit of something. Went hard at it and then you accomplish it and then you're like, oh, I'm over it, right? And that was kind of like bodybuilding, right? For me, it was just like, it was such a, it was probably one of the biggest accomplishments as far as my fitness pursuits that I've ever done because of how long it took. And then when I got there and kind of achieved what I was going for, it was like, eh, whatever. Anything you do for a long period of time, you're gonna go through periods of really enjoying it and through periods of not enjoying it. But what gets you through that is the discipline. Look, I'm a dad. I love my kids more than anything. I don't always like them. There's definitely times I don't like my kids as other times when I like them even more. And I'm gonna be their dad for the rest of their lives. It's a long relationship. Same thing with fitness. There's gonna be times when you love working out and it's great. Don't fall in love with that feeling because it's gonna be very hard to stay consistent when you, at those normal times, when working out isn't as great, when it kind of sucks, when you're not as strong, when you're not feeling great, when it's not as fun. If you want to stay consistent, it's that discipline that's the important thing to focus on. I think the key is, too, is to not look at, I love that they use the word fitness, too, because that encompasses so much. Just going and lifting weights. Like, sometimes that is spending time with my partner and my child. Or sometimes that is, you know, strengthening the relationships with my friends. Sometimes that is health. You're talking about health. Yeah, exactly. Sometimes that is, you know, reading more or, you know, practicing meditation or doing more sauna work and more inward type of work. Like, I think that's the key is to make sure you're always in pursuit of bettering yourself in the total sphere of health. It doesn't always have to be this, I'm going to the gym and hammering the weights three days a week and I'm following the MAPS anabolic program. Like, sometimes it just looks different and being okay with that so long as you are always moving in the right direction. Personal development. If you're always trying to improve yourself as a person, then fitness will probably find its way into your life most of the time. Look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio. Come check us out on YouTube. Mind Pump podcast. You can also find us all over social media, Instagram and also now on Parlor. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Sal, Adam at Mind Pump, Adam and Doug, the super elf at Mind Pump, Doug. Sonality. I didn't go into it thinking that. What ended up happening was I hit it out the park with a few of those clients and then those ones start referring other friends like them before you knew it. All of a sudden I had my schedule filled with a majority of that client. That's a great point.  That's the thing.


There is human donor meat, so you eat animals you eat pigs Human human meat space at the same bro This was actually a this was Bob So basically we've we've got a new brand called she meet Human donor meat consenting humans much more ethical than murdering animals much better for the environment We're gonna see if the public would eat, you know consenting humans seeing is their Usually happy to eat non consenting animals who are murdered against their will these humans have been euthanized with permission To donate their bodies in order to help animals in the environment. So let's see what people think.  They're from human donors in Europe mostly Sorry well Yeah, I mean so basically Can some concerned citizens feel that like if their bodies Are just gonna be put in the ground why not use them?   Yeah humans are animals too. Yeah So No, I was guys Don't trust some brother.  But you already animals But these are these humans consented to being killed the animals you eat they didn't want to be killed You know I'm saying like so it's more ethical like to kill someone who to eat someone who wanted to be eaten Yeah, so we just think it's just better than eating animals in terms of ethics, you know I mean It's better for the environment It's it's almost identical because it's almost identical to animal flesh People say it tastes like pork. I don't know.  You can have a little trough Do you have any allergies?    I like where you're coming from anyway What's your name, bro? Louie good to meet Louie just You know No worries brother take care mate see mate So basically these humans give their bodies to be eaten for consumption because they don't want animals to be harmed because it's animal agriculture is very cruel to the animals so And it's very bad for the environment as well So some people will just prefer their body to be used for human consumption But it's been treated So that it's fit for human consumption, you know house that they process animal meat similar to that But these are from consenting humans and instead of eating non-consenting animals Yeah From human animals, okay Was it funny sorry Yeah, of course, but see you guys eat animals You're a vegan So you eat you will eat animals see those animals, right? They didn't consent to being killed, but these human animals did they said I want my body to be used for burgers And it's uh, it's got iron protein Yes From people who gave their bodies for a good cause No, this is shum meat. Yeah, shum meat TM.  Okay. Yeah, we'll see if people don't want to be vegan, right? Because being vegan is better for the animals environment things like that We all know that but if they don't want to be eaten, they want to eat consenting humans who've given permission When you eat pigs they get stabbed to death. They don't want to die.  What's the difference?  Why not the ones that people tell you should eat Yes Who taught you that animals are for eating? They don't want to be eaten Apples are for eating grains are for eating or human meat that people consent to is for eating So basically, oh here take a pamphlet She meat It's basically She meat is a revolutionary innovation that offers donor meat from the bodies of consenting humans For as a resource for human consumption Yeah, but therefore so like let's just say you wanted to sign your body over right to be eaten Because like, you know, you've got enough meat on you to last me a few weeks Like but then what you're essentially doing is you're making sure that you know animal agriculture isn't being funded Lot of people against cruelty to animals It is so basically it's they've created a system that renders human meat edible without you contracting curu Um, so Yeah, it's been formulated in a specific way Yeah, would you eat human?  Yes, so you're essentially eating Well, yeah, they just can't speak but they a sentient feel pain And they don't want to die those animals But these humans they're fine with it. Wow interesting. I'll have a read. Thank you, but also take this mate because we're just I'm actually trying to get people to think about the animals they eat Because a people don't would happily an animal that got stabbed against their will and murdered This is a it's this is a vegan burger You know that moving mountains burgers, I'll show you it before you eat it You got any allergies? This is what it really is. I'm doing an experiment social experiment. It's not human. It's not I'm tricking people. Okay.    Wait, wait, would you have a problem eating a human? No, but I Depends depends. Do you eat me I look tasty Yeah, if I get the let's say the human gave permission to be eaten, right? Let's just say I gave permission for you to eat me Yeah, it wouldn't be unethical would it because I've given commission Probably be unethical that I'm eating it But with the animals right think of that like pigs cows chickens fish, right? They don't give them they don't give consent to be eaten do they? No, so eating a human that consents is more ethical than eating a non-human animal that doesn't That's human. That's not bad. It's very tender Hey, you know look at these moving mountain burgers They're vegan burgers. Do you like them? You said you liked it And no one had to get stabbed to death Executed killer It's a plant-based burger Do you have any allergies because it's got plants in there Pine protein Moving mountains burgers Wait, let me give you let me give you a Did you like it? Take this. Thank you. No worries So I'm worried. Did you actually feed me humans? No, brother Oh, I'm trying to get people to think about is it a real thing though? Like people actually want to do no, I want to make it realistic as possible.  They're getting murdered.   Yeah, but you don't see them get no choice. They got no choice So Interesting the burger was all right. Thank you. No worries, brother. Thank you. Thank you. I'm already very good. Oh, yeah, excellent No worries It's really good Bob is really good. Thanks, Bob Mmm, that must be his calf Or his thigh I reckon Wow, Bob full of b12 High in protein Bob must have had an a really rich plant based diet because he's got a lot of iron in his flesh See what I mean? Am I getting in trouble? Am I well? I'm just trying to find out what you're actually doing Just uh doing a little social experiment social experiments. So you're not protesting No, no I'm not protesting brother. No, no, that's fine. Well in that case did I have to ask you to leave? Oh really? Yeah, because you actually need permits Is this humanry? You actually excuse me, sir. I'm actually talking to him at the moment Yeah, human donor meat.  Just say I like the officer and get him to come out and have a chat to you. All right. Yeah, if you want. Thanks, bud No worries, buddy. Thank you Yes Human donor meat is true. What's more extreme really putting up a sign or putting animals in gas chambers and killing them


Hello and welcome back to theCUBE, where we're now over in our very mobile and agile press room set right at the moment. So excited about this next guest, got to meet him yesterday and hear him talk about his stories and his journey with Databricks. I think really very relatable, even though the industry may not be the same as the industry that you're in, we got Alexander Booth, who's with the Texas Rangers out of the Major League Baseball. You may know them, again my beloved Red Sox are at kind of the basement of the AL East. You guys are at the top. Just such a great story about how data is really changing all of these athletics in particular. And you're on the baseball operations side, right? Yeah, that is correct. I work in baseball operations for the Texas Rangers. And so you're not dealing with the fan experience and stuff like that. You're more, hey, what are the guys doing, the players, and how are we getting them better in things of that nature? Yep, we're working with the players. We're looking for how we can develop them, how we can make them better. We work with the amateur draft, which amateur high school and college players do we acquire. We have the trade deadline coming up. How can we maximize the team? Really put together a world series caliber roster. It's surprising they let you out to come over here with the trade deadline coming up in a couple weeks. I know, if this conference was a couple weeks later, I don't know. July's our busiest month of the year. Draft, too. Draft is the same month as the trade deadline now. Yeah, and really, baseball gets real when the weather gets hot and everything like that. And I think that was actually, it was funny. I think one of the comments you had during the press event yesterday was around climatology and weather and the weather forecasting and influencing and checking all of that. Yeah, we know that certain stadiums have played differently because of weather. So Denver, Colorado, a mile high city, right? Balls fly further, there's always more offense, more likelihood of hitting a home run. But we have never really had that at the batted ball level until now. So that's on the individual hit, individual pitch, how does the wind, how does the air movement kind of affect the trajectory of the ball? So it's a crazy new data source. Yeah, I think it's awesome to see. I think it's changing how people approach it. Some people love it. Some people are like, hey, it's too much. But I think that you can never have too much data for these teams and things like that. But you were saying, and I think we were talking about this, it's not like they have this data at their fingertips necessarily inside the game unless it's preloaded or something to that. Right, during the game, we do provide reports that are looked at before the game. So if you actually watch a broadcast, you may see a player take off his hat, check the inside of his hat, or the catcher trying to check his wrists or arm bands. Those are preloaded with reports that we've generated using kind of our data and visualizations. So the hat one is the defensive positioning. They look at where they should be standing in the outfield for every batter. And then the catcher's arm band is very complicated, but it basically helps them communicate like in a two strike count, we should throw like a breaking ball or something like that to the pitcher. That's pretty amazing. I did wonder, I figured it was something defensive on the cap, and it's like always interesting.  And I'm like, okay, he's checking to where he must be for this person. So there must just be tons of data that you have to bring in. Right, and the coaches do have this in the dugout too. One of my claims to fame is when they do like a little pan of the dugout and the pitching coach is holding a report that I helped make. I'm like, ah, I made that. He's using it, it was just great to see. You know it's getting actually used. You want your work product to be used. Exactly. I think that's always great. And you've been building this on top of Databricks. You guys have transitioned over the years and how did you really get started with Databricks? Absolutely, over the last couple of years there's been an explosion of new big data sources in baseball. So I already mentioned the weather data. Every five seconds we get the wind, the humidity, the temperature, and then we model kind of the stadiums now in almost like a fluid dynamics way to see kind of how the ball moves through the air. But the other big data source we've now acquired is biomechanical data. So we have pose tracking data coming from markerless motion capture systems that track the movements of the body for all the players. So every pitch that gets thrown and every swing that gets made, we can see how the players' arms are moving, how their legs are moving, how their hips are moving. Okay, really tracking their head, shoulders, and knees, and toes. Yes, I like that saying that you used yesterday. And I think it's really interesting because again, with the trade deadline coming up, with all of the draft later in the year, you were talking about how there's a lot of unstructured data that you're turning into structured data. And that seems to be a big theme for you as well. Yeah, absolutely. So these large data sources, these large unstructured data sources of kind of the biomechanics data, of the wind data, that has to be transformed into an actionable insight where we need to make that data available so our players and coaches are able to get meaning from it. And so we found that our other solutions weren't like working with this new data and Databricks came in when we did our POC with them, worked on the how we could scale up kind of these processing models, really using Databricks for that transformation layer. It was just a natural fit. You guys have used other things before other solutions as well. Yeah, so this is also where it's like, even though we work in baseball, we have the same data problems as everybody else. So we started with an on-prem system and then that on-prem system couldn't scale. We moved to the cloud. We had some issues with our traditional data warehousing, data replication issues, governance issues. Now our team has doubled in size and our data has only gotten bigger and bigger and bigger and we naturally just moved to Databricks to kind of facilitate all of that. I would assume governance is a big piece of it as well and within the organization who can see what when. Yeah, absolutely. So governance, we take that in many ways at the Rangers. So the Rangers, even though they're headquartered in Texas, we have clubs in Arizona and North Carolina and the Dominican Republic and we have teams there, our minor league teams are all there and we have analysts across all those teams as well. And then as you said, we need governance for kind of the players and coaches access as well as kind of our apprentices as well as our kind of senior executives like who should be able to see what data. And yeah, as we communicate with scouts too, like they need to see certain metrics but maybe not all the metrics that we have in the warehouse. Has the MLB come down and said here's how you use AI yet or are they still trying to figure it out as well? Yeah, not quite yet but I know that they're definitely interested in the product and kind of trying to keep all the teams on an equal playing field. But I think that being cutting edge with AI, adopting these new machine learning models, exploring use cases for LLMs, being at the lead of that I think will be a competitive advantage for us against these other teams. Yeah, no trash cans needed or anything like that. So I think that's not that I had to take a shot down the street from you guys but when you start to look at it, I think that all of this data coming together, it just enables your team to go into, and it's not like, I mean, again, I think a lot of teams are doing this, I would assume and trying this, maybe not in the same ways that you guys are doing it but all the way back to Billy Bean and Moneyball when he's doing it more in spreadsheet oriented things which is crazy to think about back then. Absolutely, but that's what this data is. It's the same idea as Moneyball and Billy Bean. We want to find new ways of analyzing players to find a market inefficiency to be able to construct a winning lineup first. And so all this data that we're trying to make available is going to cause that disruption. The win data, the time mechanics data, someone, some team, maybe us are going to figure out how to make metrics from that. That can be used to evaluate players and perform and optimize those inefficiencies. So are you using a whole bunch of the different products, the Lakehouse products and data warehousing products from Databricks? Yeah, so in Databricks we utilize Delta Live Tables and Unity Catalog for all of our governance. We've sped up a lot of our workloads with Photon and we're pretty heavy users of Autoloader too. Okay, what was the most exciting thing you heard about today kind of in the keynote? Yeah, there's a lot. I think the Lakehouse apps is really cool. I think being able to use kind of these startups and being able to get that integrated and be able to try out new things is going to be huge. And of course Delta Lake 3.0 with all those new additions in kind of, we do have some applications that utilize things with Iceberg. So being able to just reference Delta Lake objects is gonna be really cool too. Yeah, and it seemed like that the way they're going with being able to kind of be the control plane over that data would be interesting as well. Yeah, absolutely. And this is also just only on the engineering side, like we haven't even touched too much on some of the machine learning models we're using on Databricks and some of the new stuff with MLflow. I think, I don't know if they announced it, MLflow 3.0 today. They talked about the MLflow extensions that they were doing, which was, and I'm trying to remember back to, there was two that they were open sourcing. And bringing out, which is, I think for me and we travel around to a lot of these different conferences and we were up in Vancouver most recently at the open source summit. Oh nice. And so when you start to, and you know, sparks there, Trino, Presto, all of the data mesh folk and then all the Linux folks. And I think, you know, our whole thing is open has won and will continue to win, which is, I think for me, sitting back in my analyst chair and also thinking of, you know, way back in the day when I was in, you know, IT in an organization, I was in financial services, I would want to be using my models or being able to bring an open source model in to versus using a third party provider model. No, yeah, we love open source. That's one of our new tenants for our modern data strategies, invest in open source as much as we can. So it's just great seeing that community. We've submitted bugs and the community has fixed them for us and a couple of different products, which is exciting to hear. So yeah, I truly agree. I think open is one. And as Databricks investing in open source and contributing to open source, then the minute that they do has been awesome to see in our partnership. Yeah, I mean, I think for me, it's almost mandatory at this point that you have some component of open source that you're contributing back. But I also think it's even more important in AI because of transparency. Right, absolutely. And that's also an interesting kind of segue too into some of the machine learning models and communication that we have at the Rangers. So like transparency is huge. Players and coaches want to know where the state is coming from. They want to know where these predictions are coming from. So transparency in the technology and transparency in the models are really important tenants too. Well, it sounds like you have a lot of fun dealing with the data and all the kinds of data that you have. I really appreciate you coming on. And I really thank you for coming here and bringing this knowledge because I think it'll be very helpful to people see that your industry is not too unlike their industry. Just different data. Honestly, it's been absolutely my pleasure. But yeah, every single game of baseball now, you can look up so you can spot those cameras around the stadium that's doing all those tracking and then think about the player movements maybe a little bit more. Everything is data driven now and baseball is no exception. Absolutely. And maybe we'll get out of the cellar and see you guys in the playoffs or something like that. We'll see. We'll see you at Fenway. Yeah, if you're ever up there and let me know, we'll stop by for a beer. But I want to thank you, Alexander, for coming on and really helping us again. Definitely, I think it always helps you when you put things in that context to really shift how you're going to watch the game. But it's also the data behind the game. So thank you also for watching and we'll be back shortly. This is The Cube from Databricks Data and AI Summit 2023.


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The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is facing the opioid epidemic head-on with their first-ever opioid response summit. Reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about their strategies. For some time now, officials with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe have been finding ways to tackle the opioid epidemic head-on. Today, they held their first-ever opioid response summit to talk about the issues and find solutions. I have a council, myself, we're all concerned about our membership here and people have been crying out for help and we want to do what we can to help our people heal.  We see that opioids are just kind of a perpetuation of that whole system. The summit featured a number of professional speakers from all over the country. There were also panel discussions and live demonstrations. The summit was planned with a cultural aspect in mind. Just knowing that we have identified our keynote speakers, and then magically putting it all together using our smudge and using our drum and using our elders, our spirituality, and our language. What you see today is only the beginning for the opioid summit. In the future, they hope to grow their audience and grow their vendors. We want to keep this dialogue ongoing so we keep talking about this education and awareness so we can kind of start getting this message out to our communities and our families on how concerned we are about what's happening to the young people these days. The main goal of today's summit was to find solutions, but the panel knows it won't happen overnight. The next step will be taking the information gathered from the summit and putting it to use in the community. I think that's probably the main focus is how do we bring wellness into the community? How do we heal the family? How do we heal the child? How do we heal the parents? But the community as a whole, how are we healing the community as the main focus? Reporting in Walker, Sheryl Moore, Lakeland News. The opioid response summit will continue tomorrow at the Northern Lights Casino in Walker. It starts at 8 30 in the morning. All are welcome to attend. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.