In this episode of Mind Pump, the world's top fitness, health, and entertainment podcast, sometimes comedy, we answer questions asked by listeners like you. And we also do an introductory portion where we talk about our lives, current events, we mention our sponsors. So let me give you a rundown of this whole episode. So in the beginning, the intro portion, which is 45 minutes long, we start out by talking about books and family dinner time. We're all fathers. We all value being fathers. So we were sharing stories about things we like to do with our kids before bed. Then we talked about the movie Parasite. That movie was awesome, but took a hard left turn. It gets dark real fast. It's kind of hard, a hard dark one. Then we talk about how soup, the demand for soup is up 140%. No soup for you. So Campbell's making more money right now with everything that's going on. We talk about the explosion sales of pools and trampolines, probably because people are at home more. 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That's hi it 50 no space for the discount. Do you know what I like to see? What?  Every night, when we're working at a town, you call your son, read a story to him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I like to make, well, that's been, it's cute. That's nice, dude. Well, I don't know. I mean, I guess this is my first go-around as a dad and I don't know if that's a thing for other fathers, but for me personally, it's been my favorite time is to read to him. It's not a t-shirt time. Storytime. But we do say that about bath time. It's bath time. It's your favorite time that day. Yeah, so we do that Is he like really paying attention to the stories and stuff? Yeah, yeah.  He picks one? Yeah, so he'll pick one and he's starting to get. Does he pick like a favorite? Yeah, Katrina hates it. He likes all the daddy ones. Does he really? I love my daddy. Jimmy Fallon data book is hilarious to me. I think I brought it up before in the show. It's like literally all it's is, you know, it's an animal. And then with the animal noise it makes and then it says data, like the whole book is that, but he loves that. And then at the very end of the book, it says, you know, now together we say it one more time. And then you turn it open, it says data real big and he's figured that out. And so then before I open that last page, he gets all excited. He gets all excited and he says data. So it's pretty awesome. Yeah, no, it's actually something that I don't know who knows how long, you know, I'm going to try and make this commitment that I forever read with him at night. And when he gets to the age when he's probably no, not interested in reading data books anymore. And he wants to read other books that as a family will sit and read, you know, Katrina can read what she wants to read. He'll read. Oh, it's just quiet time. Yeah, yeah. I like that. Yeah. So I'm going to try and continue that. Like in part of that, if I'm committed to doing that right now, then it starts, I think first with me staying committed to, you know, reading to him now, even when I'm out of town. So Katrina will normally FaceTime me when, when he's, and there's been a couple of times where, you know, it just didn't line up because we were working or something. And so I've missed out on it. But very, very, I think I can definitely count on one hand. Since he's been born, I have not read from him read to him at 630. Oh, yeah, if you're consistent, it'll remain. That's what I hope. Yeah. So like my daughter, she's 10 and still, she doesn't go to bed unless I go to her room and give her a kiss.  So she'll, she'll, she'll get ready, be in bed and she'll wait there with her light on. And if I take too long, she'll call me, bye-bye, bye-bye. And I go in there and I give her a hug and a kiss and I hope that never changes. I know, me too. And that's kind of what I'm hoping. And I, obviously I realize that one day he'll get tired of reading those types of books. But then I would think that it would evolve to other types of books, right? And it all continued to read to him or with him as much as I can. I just think that it wasn't something that we did too much. My mom, I remember a few times, we did evening devotionals as a family for a while, which obviously was probably good for us. But I remember as a kid, when we were implementing that, it was later in my, you know, young or early adulthood or whatever.  So I'm hoping that I can implement that early. And it's something he looked forward to and he wants to do. And I can just stay, stay consistent with that. Because I wish I did read more when I was younger. That didn't really kick off for me until my 20s. Yeah. These are the things that you're consistent with. They tend to become a part of your, your family culture. Like in my family, it was very important that we all ate dinner together. We never ate dinner separately. And this isn't judging other families at it, but just, I know, and I didn't know any different as a kid. Everybody waited, you know, the dinner was the table be set and we'd sit and wait for everybody to sit down before we start eating. And so we do that now with, you know, so my kids grow up that way. Yeah, we do the same thing. Yeah. So they don't know. So we just transitioned to that right now. Right.  Make a thorough shift. Yeah. Yeah. So we're there now. Right. And that was something that Katrina and I agreed on. She was raised that way. I was raised. That was another thing that I think my mom did really good was we always had dinner at the dinner table. And we couldn't watch TV at the same time. He was in a different room and it was, you know, and we as kids set the table and we had our dish night and everything. So yeah, I, and we, it's funny because you actually see he behaves better and, and, and actually eats better when we all do it together. Yeah. So we've even picked up on those patterns when, you know, maybe there was a time where, because when Katrina, it took a little while for her to kind of like figure the timing out of like when he's eating and when we were going to make our dinner for when we first were transitioning into feeding him whole foods, you know, we were actually eating at different times.  And instantly when we made that transition to just feeding him by himself, making the diet in your kitchen area on his high chair to all of us sitting at the table and eating, he does. Well, you find, especially when the kids get older, there's not a lot of time where everybody's together at the same time. So it's like, you have to designate and why not have it make, you know, be dinner. Yeah, it's important. It's important to have family time like that. Going back to like reading stories and all that, like, we just got a bunch of those really cool illustrated kind of sciency books. Have you ever heard of like Animalium or what's the other it's like Historium or No, I haven't.  Is that kind of like a member of world books version of that child? God, what was it called? Did you guys ever have a world book growing up? Oh, you guys didn't have the encyclopedias that were all? It was like, yeah, I was a lot like that, like the Britannicas and all that. Why can't I think of the name? That's going to drive me crazy. I mean, that was the name of the encyclopedia. Was that the name of it? The Funkin' Waggles. I think it was like the Great name. It was the cheaper version of encyclopedia Britannica. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. It's like my mom buying the Molto meal. The knockoff version, the Molto meal. Yeah. So I was reading the boys, you know, I was trying it out. I was trying to go a little bit more, you know, detailed information, because I always read them like silly stories and, you know, try and ad lib and do all this kind of stuff. And so, and they were getting into it because it's really interesting and fascinating to see all this stuff. And I'm reading, it's a very like descriptive, you know, type of content. And as I'm reading and kind of really trying to get through this, Everett kind of looks up to me and like stops me and he puts his hand over his mouth and goes, to his board. Yeah.   It made me proud. That's adorable. Yeah. Dude, Jessica sent me videos the other day of her belly moving. You can see. Oh, that's certainly happened now. Yeah. It's like overnight. It went from, it couldn't be. Isn't that trippy to watch? Like, yeah, you just see the little, you know, like a bump kind of move around. Yeah. Right now it looks like little flutters or little whatever. So she like Katrina was hardcore and like all the apps that talk about like each stage of development where they are like when they could start actually hearing things outside the belly, what phase that is. Are she following all that? Oh, yeah. Both of us. I mean, I love that stuff. And I'm talking a lot to the baby now that, you know, I'll go down like belly level and have a little conversation with my kid and I'll say things indirectly to Jessica. I'll be like, your mama's acting crazy right now. No, I don't do that. Just passive aggressive.  I'm sorry, you're in this person now. Just plant seeds. No, it's adorable. I absolutely love it. I'm loving the whole thing. Dude, you missed last night.  What'd you guys watch? Oh, that's right. You weren't there, Adam. You guys always make weird choices. Bro, no, no, no, no. We had talked about watching this though a while ago. Remember Parasite? Oh, yeah, I've seen it. Oh, yeah. That's a good movie. You liked it? It was crazy. Great movie. Bro, at the end, that twist that I was like, what's happening? Yeah, but it was so good though. What? It was such a good movie. It went, got dark right away. It was like light, fun, light, fun, dark. Oh, I thought it was well written. So well written. I thought it was too, but I was not expecting it to go dark. Oh, it was nothing like what I thought either. Very thought provoking, for sure.  The characters and like how, you know, they're kind of con artists and all this stuff.   I don't like this roller coaster of feelings. Oh, you guys didn't lie. I loved it. I thought it was a great one. I liked it. I just thought it was, it was, it was took me off guard. Yes. You know, I don't know if I like the feeling of, and I can appreciate it, but I don't mind emotional roller coaster movies.  To a real dark place. Yeah. Like, to me, that's a sign of a really well written movie. If it can invoke emotion and especially when it can invoke really opposing emotions, like happy, then all of a sudden you're really sad, then you're scared, then you're, like when you get, a good movie can take you all over the place. And what I loved about that is like it's not predictable. So if it can emotionally move you in all different directions, it's not predictable. Well written movie. I thought it was a great movie. It is, it was definitely original. JoJo Rabbit did that to me when it got dark in that movie too. I was like so mad. I'm like, why? You know, but it was, I mean, it was awesome. Yeah, that's another really, really, really good movie. Didn't it win awards, Parasite? It did. Yeah, both of those movies. Yeah, really interesting. I've never watched a Korean film before, but I appreciate it. The humor was... Oh, yeah, it was really funny. I was dying through the first part.  I looked up some crazy news today. There's all kinds of weird news. Well, all the news is crazy right now, so I looked up alternative... What side of the crazy are we going to expose? Alternative crazy news. So apparently a porn star in Spain is going to get charged with murder or manslaughter because she did one of those mystic rituals with this man where they inhale psychedelic toad venom and apparently killed the man. So she's now going to be charged. Wait, wait, wait.   Different. Oh, sorry. Yeah, prostitutes don't get filmed. So she didn't have an active shaman license? No, exactly.  But why is she the one held accountable for it? Because I think she gave it to him. She gave it to him and then he died. Wow. Damn. I didn't think you inhaled the frog venom or I thought they just like pokey with it. Dude, I had a friend that did. Actually, she rented space in my studio back when I had a studio, so she was all into that kind of stuff and she came into work one day just to grab some stuff. She had taken the day off. She was a massage therapist and her face looked like... All swollen.  I'm like, what happened to you? She's like, oh, I'm cleansing my body. I'm like, what? So she shows me her arm. Oh, you feel great after you're done. Yeah.  And she's explaining it to me. She's like, it's cleansing my body. I'm like, well, what happened? She's like, well, my face is swelling has gone down. I looked at her like... Oh no.  And she's like, but now I'm starting to feel amazing. I'm like, well, I mean... The logic to that... The contrast probably... The logic behind that seems very similar to someone being like, oh my God, my right arm hurts so bad. And then grabbing their left arm and breaking it. How bad do your right arm feel now?  I think you had a contrast. Oh, I feel cleansed now.  Anything's going to feel better after that. Yeah, dude. So... Well, in other news, I think I brought up the... We were talking about all the different markets that are up in the Campbell soup, 140%. So that's been like skyrocketing as everybody's... Really? Oh man. Everybody's buying canned foods. Here's the one that tripped me out though. I was reading this. Above ground pools are like impossible to get right now. Yeah, I was telling you guys like... I remember my brother telling me about that. Like he was... He just got something... He got like one of the last ones, but it's like, you can't find him anywhere now. Nowhere. Is that because people are all at home? Yeah. So trampolines was the other one. And I think you brought that up, Justin, is... So people are trying to find ways, obviously, one to stay cool and play or entertain their kids and public places to go do a lot of the stuff is still shut down or will be shut down. And so yeah, so pools, even like the sand to try and level the ground out to put a pool on it. It's just like impossible right now to get a hold of. What an interesting market to get into. Weird, huh? Do you know they used to call trampolines jumpolines?  Hey! Sorry, I've been holding that one for a long time. Who's that referred to? I've been holding that one for a long time. I gotta know if I can get you back to that. NBA's coming back, dude. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. So they did... They're doing the 22 teams. So they're... What sport is that again? Yeah, basketball. Oh, okay. So that not all teams are back. So unfortunately, the Warriors won't be playing. How come? Didn't have a good enough record. So they took basically the 22 teams with the best record, because we should have already had... Oh, I see. Yeah, we should have already had playoffs and everything. Pretending like they're continuing from a season that didn't exist? Yeah, so it's going to be an eight-game season, and then it'll move into a single- and double-elimination playoff, and it'll all be played in Orlando, Florida.  But yeah, 22 teams will be allowed to play. They'll play eight what they consider season games, and then it'll move into a tournament style for playoff. It sounds like we're starting to see that now. It looks like sports are coming back. I bet you the viewership's probably going to be through the roof with everybody. Oh, yeah.  So many people are watching replay games. Yeah, I know. I'm a diehard sports fan, but even I'm not that thirsty to where it's like I'm watching games that were five years old and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Well, Santa Clara County's starting to open up stores and shops now. Yeah, I just got a text from Courtney that my barber just opened back up with appointments only.  Oh, thank God. Oh, thanks, Al. I know. Hey, it's not bad right now. Is that mean Supercuts is open? What? Is Supercuts open? I hope. I don't know if we should have Doug Google that for you. Supercuts in San Jose is open. Come on, the hair doesn't look bad right now. I figured out a way. I kind of combed it, slicked it a little bit. I gave you some my palmade. You're good. Somebody said I look like the guy. What's that beer guy? What's his name? Interesting man in the world. The most interesting man in the world. Of course you would have connected. Yeah, they say of course you would connect to that. Weird. How about I share the other story? We tell every, you know, every like week or so, marketing team will message over to us, especially Sal and Sal does most of these. Hey, I need a promo video for this. We're running an ad for this or whatever. And so Sal does it. And then I get a message. Why does Sal look like a homeless person? No, he doesn't.   Dude, the other night I ran out of protein, so I went and got another plant protein over at the grocery store. I forgot how easy the organifies the digest versus the other. I don't know how you forget that.   You know what I mean by forget? Like you just kind of, you just, because you get used to something and then you use something else and you can tell. And so I was trying to figure out why I digest it so much better. They add enzymes. They actually add digestive enzymes to their protein. It's something I never really paid close to. Is that not normal? Some proteins will do this. I've seen some whey proteins do this as well. Well, they'll include like proteins in there, which is the enzyme that breaks down protein. And that can help with breaking it down and with assimilation. Well, this is the first trip that I'd have to say that I used the least amount of Organified Green Juice. I only used it one time this time that we were together because we stocked up. We were so bad normally. Well, we actually prepared this time. We brought our own food up. Yeah, which helped a lot. And Doug doubled down because I went grocery shopping for us and Doug made a list, but then maybe he didn't trust that I was going to get enough greens because I think I got like four or five of those massive heads of broccoli plus asparagus. And then I saw what Doug met up with us. Like he had all that asparagus has really been doing a number on my pee, man. Oh, yeah. You know, that's just an aroma. You know, that's a genetic thing, right? Is it? Yeah. So some people don't make that smell. No, I thought I was universal. I thought so too. I've never met somebody that happened to you, but that's what I've read. I've smelled a lot of pee. Really? I thought that was like just a universal thing that everybody eats. Some people's pee does not smell when they eat asparagus. Now that's interesting to me. Like what is it inside their body that doesn't cause it to make it smell like that? I have, I think, I actually don't know. I think it has to do with the way we, whatever the compound. Whatever the waste is they use somehow. I don't know. Mark it down. Mark it down. I've used, I don't have an answer. Now I ate some of those protein balls, Adam. How do you like those? Really good. Now that was way protein. That wasn't, have you ever used the Organifi protein?  This is why I keep both. And this is why too. Why part of the motivation personally for me of like us working with both Organifi and Legion is I use Organifi when I'm just making a shake. And that's it. And if I'm using a fruit shake. So I noticed like when I do like blueberries, strawberries, banana type stuff, it pairs really well with Organifi stuff. If I do something more savory, peanut butter, peanut butter balls, chocolate Nutella, and I make a shake or a dessert that's like got protein in it. I find whey goes much better. Yeah, but it makes sense. But I've tried both. Like I've used both and like pancakes. When I make pancakes, I prefer the whey, although I have made them with the Organifi. So I keep both in my inside of my cupboard. And I do notice that I do feel better from Organifi's protein powder than I do the whey. So that's why I try and like, you know, minimize how much of the way I am in comparison. I notice I'm less gassy is what I notice. Because the whey protein, man, that still has that effect, you know, the old protein fart adage, right? I only notice it if I'm doing it a lot. Like if I had like a, for some weird reason, a shake and a bar in a day or something, the two products. So the Organifi doesn't do that to me? Yeah, it's very, very easy to digest. It is. I just found out about the asparagus pee right now. Oh, okay. I got to fall up to the protein fart after that. Okay. So I was wrong. Actually, it's not that some people's pee doesn't smell. It's that some people can't smell that odor. So it's there. It exists. 40% of study participants, there was a study where they did this and 40% of them said they could smell their urine after eating asparagus. 60% said they could not. So there's something in the odor itself some people can't detect. Well, that's similar to, you know, you Justin transition for you. I'll help you out here.   Farts can't smell, bro. Yeah, it smells.  I was like, yes.  This is validation. So this is from the journal of medicinal chemistry communications. It sounds legit. Katrina and I, 10 years, still going strong.   Prolong her life.  I'm like, it's time to start hotboxing again. Yeah. Let me tell you, Courtney and Jessica are going to live a long time. Yes, absolutely. You need to start blasting your wife. See, depriving your poor... We'll see what she thinks as she listens to this. She still hasn't heard you fart ever? No.  Yep. What? Still, 10 years, dude. Why? 10 years. And you know what's funny? People listening that are like tripping on that, it hasn't been hard. Really? Yeah, it's not a hard thing to do. To just prevent... And maybe that's maybe... You're just not being yourself. Well, maybe because we started dating after I really honed in my nutrition, right? So, if you...   Oh, yeah, you guys. It's like, because your nutrition's great all of a sudden. You still aren't like crazy. My point in saying that is it was probably a lot more... He has righteous farts apparently. Uncontrollable in my 20s when I was eating a lot of...  And so probably back then, there's no way I could probably contain it. But now, you know, the amount of farts that I have in a day are so minimal that I just make an effort to leave the room when... Must leave the room all the time?  It is not that often. Out of the three of us, I am the least. I don't know. No, we're not. It's pretty frequent, dude. Dug, chime in here. Yeah, chime in, Doug. I don't know. I haven't taken a survey. Honestly, I try not to pay. Ah, we got Switzerland over here. Whatever, Doug. This is like fart elitism here, you know? I know, man.   That's it. I paint toilets. I'll admit that. I do paint toilets. This guy's the worst. Come on over here. That's not the way I'm not even the worst. Dude, you want to hear another crazy story? I love looking up weird news sometimes. So a Pennsylvania woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly keeping her dead grandmother in a freezer for 15 years while the family collected her social security checks. She said that they're poor, that they needed the social security check, so they just kept their grandma died. So they just put her in the freezer.  Well, what happens? What's the charge? I don't know if they can prove that. They didn't murder her. Well, I guess fraud, right? It would be fraud. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what do they get them for? Do you get mail fraud for that too? Like, how many things do you get? That sounds like a weekend at Bernie's kind of a movie in the making. That's crazy, though, 15 years. So imagine collecting 15 years of social security. What's crazy to me is that as old as we are, and then the crazy news that we all read and see, I've never heard something like that before. Like, the thought that crossed someone's mind, like, grandma dies, and the first thing you think of is, oh my god, we can't tell anybody. Let's put her in the freezer, because our social security checks are going to end. Dude, imagine having it. Dude, imagine having it. It's almost like they just find out she's in, they're all, like, you know, depressed about it. And all of a sudden, like, a mailman comes by and, like, drops off. Right, it had to happen like that. That's the only way that... Wait a minute. Click. Yeah, that's the only way that had to happen, right? Are you guys familiar with how... Who was that one hit man for the mafia? Was it the... They call him the Ice Man, I think it was. He used to freeze. He'd kill someone, freeze the body. Then he would let it defrost, and then he would dump the body somewhere. And what it would do is it would hide the time of death. Because he'd freeze them right when they're dead. Then, like, he'd wait, like, six months. Does that really throw that off? Or do we have... Are we further on in forensics now? That's what he used to do, and apparently it worked. I don't know, that's a good question. I think he got caught because someone didn't fully defrost. They saw ice crystals. And so then they pieced it together. But before that happened, they couldn't identify the time of death. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, so he would just freeze them. That's really crazy. He's the same guy that would put them in. The Ice Man. Yeah, and he would also put them in a vat of acid to boil off the whole or whatever. Groosome. That's disgusting. Groosome.  Yeah, no, there was actually just a great... Yeah, no, there was a funny, it's actually true. There's like a lot going on right now with... Well, there's this huge spike in athleisure wear because so many people are either one, not working at all at home, or two, can work from home now. That weren't able to work. So they actually just had this article talking about Viori and labeling them as like an indie brand in comparison and like Champion and Nike and all those.  I mean, Viori had 1100% increase year over year in sales. It was the women's jogger or something like that. Yeah, the women's jogger's like the most popular. It's like they're $80. It feels like they're getting threatened by their market share. It's good news, they're making waves. Well, I mean the big brands are getting threatened by the upcoming brands. Well, a lot of it too is I just think it's the future of how business is done. And what I mean by that is, Viori started as a direct consumer first, then moved to brick and mortar. And so they have already established how to scale and grow a business without a brick and mortar at all. So then in a situation where all brick and mortar is closed, it was a very natural pivot for them and they already established a very good community online. And then you have brands like that are older, Nike, Champion, et cetera, that started back when and so they started brick and mortar. It was a more of a challenging pivot for these massive companies to switch over to that. Imagine how much they're all getting hit by having stores that are sitting still and they still gotta pay leases. Yeah, they're in a very good position. Yeah. They make clothes that are comfortable but look good, so perfect. You could wear them at home, whatever. They're positioning themselves well with their online sale. Yeah, and even the handful of, because they do now have some brick and mortar, they very small space, right? It's literally like a showroom. They don't keep a lot of stock inside there. It's literally so beautiful. Which I think is smart to kind of keep that so that way you could go in, because clothes, it's such an experience of how it feels, how it fits, how it's tailored to you. And that's the thing about viewer is just how much better it feels in comparison to the others. Well, I think this is what we're going to see with many businesses going forward. I think a lot of people are rethinking the way to start up. In fact, I always, I think it's interesting when I see someone who doesn't think this way and they want to open up a facility. Even though our audience, right, we have a lot of entrepreneurs, we have a lot of people that like open gyms or want to open a gym.  I would build a community online first. That has the similar values, has similar things that you have in common and that's fitness related. And then you, then from there, I take that community and then I would consider building a brick and mortar. Versus, I really want to have a gym. I want to start my own gym. And then you don't have much of a followings on online. And then you go straight into trying to, just really hard not to say it's impossible, but it's. I think that's the move. Yeah. I do think that's the move. It's an interesting economy right now too. You're seeing like mixed reports of success in some areas and damage and others. The stock market definitely is not reflecting. Stock market makes no sense. Dude, okay. So you have tons of people who filed for unemployment and hopefully a lot of that changes now that things start to reopen. I'm sure there's some permanent damage, but there's, I'm sure a lot of it will get reversed. But even with all this unemployment stuff, new home applications for mortgages for new homes is up 17.5% compared to a year ago. So with all this stuff going on. Yeah. And I think it has the interest rates are low. And also I read the article and it said how there are lots of households that didn't get affected because they work in tech or, and what they're doing because they save their money as they see opportunities to get houses that are maybe a little cheaper right now with good interest rates. So houses sales have gone up, which I did not. I didn't anticipate that at all. No. What I wondered though, that's just the initial, right? And we are remembered too. We are right now in year over year. This is the hottest time to buy houses, period. This is when everybody moves. This is when everybody makes it. So when you get into June, July, August months, they're the most popular months for the, for housing to climb anyways. So when I, and so, and then you add in all the opportunities that are jumping in right now because of interest rates. So the question will be what happens at the end of this year going into next year if we eventually see some sort of a decline. I just can't imagine that it continues to move this direction. No, I don't think so. Especially in the Bay Area is always an enigma though because it's so expensive where we live. I'm always thinking it can get more expensive. Well, the reason. And then it does. Well, the reason why that does is just because you can't build anymore. There's no more, there's just as many people trying to get jobs over here and you have all these startups and tech and there's no more places to move into. So that's what drives that. Right, right, right. So you just low inventory and a lot of restrictions on building and whatnot. So it makes it much more, I guess, much more difficult. So Adam, I really liked the, what you said. I think it was in the forum about, you know, how if everybody who posted the, you know, that black tile on Instagram, if everybody did that, they just donated. I thought that was such a good point.  Or I don't know what they did outside of that, right? Like you could have put a black square up and you could have been part of the marching and you could be doing things at your dinner table with your family and having really important conversations. And that was one of your ways of expressing and showing that. I just know, and we've talked about on this show before, that, you know, two of the, I think most powerful things that we can actually do to make great shift and change is to vote and to vote with our dollars. And since right now, like there's no voting going on in California for us, there's not something that we can go out and do right away voting. But we can vote with our money and we can put it towards organizations that are trying to make a good and I was just making an observation that, you know, there was 28.9 million black squares that were posted and imagine if all those same people just donated $1 towards a cause that actually is taking action to change these inequalities.  It was because people didn't understand why I didn't, you know, and because we had already had a conversation around what we were doing well before the black square thing even happened and felt good about it. And I felt that I saw a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of people, especially people with big voices like ourselves in our space that we know of, that it came off more like virtue signaling, like, look at me, I too, you know, and instead of taking action and doing something. So for me, that was what I was trying to explain was imagine how powerful that would have been if, you know, and by the way, a lot of that, the black square thing ended up hijacking, you know, Black Lives Matter content. Did you hear about that? Yes. Because people were, I kind of wonder if that was like a way to get to kind of prevent the protests from happening because they needed to kind of shut down social media because what you did is you'd go to the hashtag Black Lives Matter and then you'd just see a bunch of black tie-up. Which, by the way, was posting videos of cops hitting people and doing things that people should be aware of, but should see and promoting where people were organizing and getting, I mean, that's a powerful hashtag for people to be able to use as a resource and a tool and now it was flooded with these black tiles because what happened was some, you know, artist, because it started with music industry, put it out there and then everybody just followed suit really quick without really paying attention or really thinking about what they possibly were doing. And I felt like I got shamed because we had actually thought about it before it even came out on things that we wanted to do to take action. Well, one of the organizations that we're donating to is the Center for Policing Equity and they use real data to change discriminatory practices. This is important because these days there are no, I can't think of any explicitly racist legislation, meaning it's not in the actual law like the old Jim Crow laws or whatnot in the past. So these days it's much more underground. You have to pay attention to the numbers and the data to see if racism is being used within the system and that's what they do. They look at the data and if things look at a balance then they do an investigation and then they put safeguards to change that because unfortunately we're in a situation where we're trying to change the hearts of people and in doing that can be very difficult. I think forcing them doesn't work. I think we have to find other ways and when it comes to policing, I mean, and I want to say this too, I have family members that are cops and friends that are cops and they're very good people, very, very good people. They're not racist. They have lots of integrity. And like my brother-in-law right now, he's going out to work in San Jose and he's asking for family members to pray for his safety and then he comes home and 2 a.m., 3 a.m., he checks in with the family. Hey, I'm at home. Family members are waiting for that text middle of night so they could reply back. Thank you. I'm so happy you're safe. So there are good police out there and I think that that organization I just mentioned helps work within that because you're going to get some people. I don't know if it's ever possible to get all the bad people out of any position.  So look at the hard data. I think that's very important. So what we wanted to do is to act, not talk a lot. And look, I know voices and talking and that stuff, it can also have an impact. In fact, right now you're seeing more fundraising for this movement than ever before because it's on everybody's mind. So that's a very good thing. Politicians, of course, are going to start talking about it. Hopefully pass legislation or eliminate legislation that contributes to racist outcomes, for example. So I think that's very important. But we wanted to promote peace, unity, because there's a lot of anger and hatred going on right now, a lot of innocent people getting hurt. And so we thought, okay, let's talk about that.  Let's donate to an organization that's actually doing good work. The idea was to say less and do more. That was really the message behind all of it. I mean, all of us feel very, very confident in who we are as individuals. I don't feel I need to post a black square to prove to people that I'm not racist. Like, I know where my heart is. I know where all of your guys' heart is. And the best thing for us to do was to do something else. I'm frustrated with the fact that what I see is more division happening. And that breaks my heart. I feel like we have come a long way. It's a lot of pent-up. It's a lot of pent-up anger. Fair, fair. Yeah, and I think it has to do with, because these days it's not explicitly blatant in the term, like it was in the, let's say during the civil rights movement. There were actual laws that said, black people, you have this water fountain, white people, you have this water fountain. You can't go to school together. And that's a very clear target. What we're dealing with now is racism in people's hearts. And that's a very difficult thing to tackle. It's much more difficult. It's much more insidious. But I think it's important to talk about and bring. And then on the other side, a lot of really, really good, honest, law enforcement are fearing for their lives. I have a friend who used to work with me at the gym. He became a police officer. And so we're still friends on Facebook. He's got teenage kids. His teenage kids were getting threatened by other people. Here's the problem with what you're saying right now.  And because you can't share a story with me right now where somebody's been discriminated against because of color. So that's why you have to be careful about how we voice our opinions on here because of that right there. That's the thing that you, why we wanted to say less is because even though I understand where your heart is coming from and you're sharing a very real story, but there's people that are now listening that are, what about the person of color that was discriminated against? It doesn't discredit any of that. I know, but it does for somebody else. I know. Well, I think too that people are just going through a lot of the different stages of emotion with how to really deal with it. And I think that we're seeing this in a lot of different directions and how people decided to act upon these emotions that got stirred up. And that's why it's difficult because that's why I think that kind of less is more right now just for us is a good strategy and where I think we're just going to have a more deeper conversation about it a little bit later on when it's not so charged and when people kind of come back to understanding what they really, what their core values are and what authentically they want to present out there. Well, I think if this sparks a better conversation, I think if it wakes people up, I think it's going to be a good thing. I think if it raises money and actually changes things in effective, objective ways, it'll be worth it. If it causes division and more hate and violence, that's not going to help anybody. And so I just, that's what I call for, you know? Yeah, it was really, what's really interesting to me is like there is nobody that supports any of the four cops that did with it. No, that was so blatant and obvious and terrible. Absolutely terrible. Thank God all of them got indicted. And that's why too, I find it really interesting with the retaliation of violence and that that's happening in response to that because I think everybody agrees. Well, it's really weird that we're dividing each other right now and we're fighting when we all look at it and go like, holy shit, this is wrong and something needs to happen. Nobody's not saying that. Everybody's been cooped up too. I mean, we forgot about like the last few months of being inside, not ever being around other people. Like there's just so much tension even prior to this. So I think it's just like an eruption. And this is something that's like, it's difficult because the emotional outburst of this one incident is so powerful that it brought back all these feelings. Well, I have a lot of friends and family that were marching with the Black Lives Matter protesters and they were saying how peaceful they were. And there are reports that a lot of the violence and the rioting and the looting is being instigated by outside forces, outside nefarious forces. This is something that's happening. There are people on both extreme sides they look at this as an opportunity to cause massive instability. Don't think for a second there are extreme right white supremacist groups who don't enter into these protests where people are definitely angry, civil disobedient, not being violent, not breaking things, and then they'll start it, they'll start it off. They'll throw the first brick or they'll chant the wrong thing or whatever to get people to do things that discredits their movement but causes lots of instability. There's extreme left movements. There are outside, China, Russia, other countries are constantly looking for opportunities to cause instability. Don't think for a second they're not looking at peaceful yet but angry intense protests and saying this is going to be something we can manipulate. So we have to be very careful how we paint this whole thing. In my experience from the people I know, the Black Lives Matter movement largely if not all peaceful. But there are elements that are moving in that are causing some serious problems in division which is why I want to call for peace. Civil disobedience is a big part of this country. It's a good part of this country. We're free to protest and I love that. It's a right every American shares. And I love that. I love it. It's caused incredible changing growth in this country for many times whether we were protesting for women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, gay marriage, ending the draft. This is all very important. But violence and hatred doesn't unite very, very well. So pay attention.  If you're on the other side protesting, pay attention, look around. Who are the instigators?  Because that's going to misrepresent you too. So that's why I say peace, love, and unity. And let's all do this together. First question is from Katie G. Hart. What is your opinion on finishers? Are they necessary or helpful to build strength? Ah, yes. The happy ending of fitness programs. The finisher. I don't feel satisfied. I need to be finished. So finishers refers to exercises that people do at the end of their workout. These are made up. Right. Why are you validating it? I'm just explaining, right? They're isolation movements. They're designed to add more volume, give you a better pump, that kind of stuff. I get why people do it. They want to squeeze in more sets without creating much more damage. But there is a much better way of increasing volume over time with your workouts. That's just it. If you were to take, that's right. This question feels like deja vu for some reason. Yeah, weird. Weird.  And you get your total volume. So let's say it's chest day. And you multiply that out and you've got 15,000 or 10,000 pounds of total volume. That's probably some totally inflated number. But let's just say for argument's sake, 10,000 pounds of volume that you're moving of weight on your chest. And you saw Jolie Swoll's Instagram and he's talking about the latest, greatest finisher exercise that you should do. Best content. For chest day, right? And normally finisher, quote unquote, exercises are cable like Sal's alluding to isolation type exercises to kind of get the pump off or finish your workout. Okay, if you take the same scenario, and instead of doing a finisher of three to five sets of these pumping exercises and you added one more set of your incline barbell press that day and one more set of your dumbbell chest press exercise that day, you will get way more bang for you. You'll get more gains from that than just adding a finisher exercise.  I followed Jolie and I did his finisher thing and it totally helped my chest. What, for two weeks? And then your body got adapted to that because all you did was add volume to a workout. The body responded, changed, grew, got stronger, whatever, adapted. And then now it's plateaued again. Until you figure out what you're actually doing that's causing the gains or not, it's just, it's silly to me. And I don't like validating these things because I think it just confuses people on how to program design. Well, let's look at the value, right? The value is more volume, less damage. If that's what you're looking for, there's a better way to add finishers. Not at the end of your workout, do them on the days off in between. That's when I see lots of value of doing these isolation movements and getting the pump on the days. What we call frequency builders. Exactly. So like trigger sessions or focus sessions, those are found in maps, anabolic and maps, aesthetic. Those are frequency builders. They add volume, their lower intensity and the exercises that make up those workouts would be considered finishers if you did them at the end of your normal, long workout. So the way I like to do it is do your normal, regular, heavy workout. Then on the days in between, when you're off, when you're not training that body part, throw in a few sets of some of these finishing exercises. Do it that way and watch what happens. Now, if you want to add something to the end of your workout, add, excuse me, isometric movements. Squeeze the muscle really hard at the end of the workout. Do that for 10, 15 seconds. Hold the squeeze, rest for 30 seconds to a minute. Repeat, try that five times and watch what happens. Next question is from M-Tino 10. How important is having a lower back arch when chest pressing? Are there ways to improve having a stronger arch? Well, since Justin has the best. M-Tino 10. Justin's always working on his arch. Yeah, since he has the best one, we should ask him. I'm gonna get a tattoo. Yeah, watch out, you guys. This helps with booty picks more than anything else. No, so when you lay on your back flat, you'll have this natural arch in your low back. Don't try to flatten that down.  Now what that does is it allows you to bring, or helps you bring your shoulder blades down and back and stabilize them so that you can press heavy weight. It actually is safer for your shoulders to press this way. It works the chest better as well. So this is, that arch in your bench press is an important part of the form. Now power lifters will exaggerate that to shorten the range of motion or to maximize leverage. If you're a power lifter, totally fine.  That is part of form. I actually don't like queuing this at all. I queue the shoulder blades. That creates the natural arch. If you tell people about the arch, they think about their low back more than they think about what you really should be thinking about. This isn't about your low back. This is about your pulling your shoulder blades back and down. When you pull your shoulder blades, anybody listening right now can do it in your car or sitting in a chair or whatever you're out there. Pull and squeeze your shoulder blades back and down. And when you do that, you'll feel that your low back naturally arches. Don't think just about arching the low back. That's a bad cue. And I think it's a bad way to teach somebody this. Everybody has a natural arch. Yeah, lay flat on the floor. You'll naturally have it. Yeah, and some more than others. But by you queuing the shoulder blades back and down, it's going to put a perfect arch in your back. That you don't need to be focused on it any more than that. And the only reason to focus on getting a more extreme one is if you are in the sport of powerlifting and so you're trying to create more leverage. It will give you more leverage to get an excessive arch, but that doesn't compute to more gains. More leverage. Definitely everything you said, but also don't forget the leg drive. And that's just to be more effective with your distribution of force and to be able to generate more force. And the more stable your body feels in that position, yes, you're going to have a natural arch because of exactly what Adam said with, you know, bringing those shoulder blades back and down, but also too, you want to be able to support everything by adding in your legs as another component. All right. Next question is from Kahn Nielsen. For athletes, what is a good balance between cardio, resistance training, and mobility training? This depends on the sport. It does, right? If you're whatever sport you're doing, most of your training should be practicing that sport, playing that sport, doing scrimmages. Splort. Yeah, I said that way too much. I cut that because that is vocabulary. Sorry, what is this word? It's so foreign. No, I've trained athletes.  Practice your sport most often. That's where most of your workouts should be placed. Now, as far as strength training is concerned, depends on what you're doing. If it depends on what your season looks like. If you're doing lots and lots of practice, I strength train with athletes once a week sometimes, because they're doing so much other work. Mobility work daily, and not intense daily. Some days are intense, some days are easier, but every single day we'd be working on mobility because mobility done properly really attacks the main reason why athletes' performance may decline, which has to do with just poor movement patterns and injury. Dude, 100%. If I could go back and redo my entire programming of my athletic career, I would place way more emphasis on strength and movement. And in terms of building a solid base, it's really important to build that foundational strength. And so that has to be what you really focus on in the very beginning. But also, once you get to that point, it's about how well, how effectively you can move, how explosive you can move, and how quickly you can stabilize on command. You have to have an even higher level of command over your body and healthy joints to be able to pull that off. And nothing addresses that better than quality mobility practices and really focusing on strengthening your range of motion. This is one of those questions. This is really hard to answer because there's such an individual variance, like many questions that we have to try and answer. And you do, you have to really look at where your shortcomings are as an athlete. Because if you have a weak gas tank, then I would have you do more cardio. Let's say you're carrying an extra 15, 20 pounds that is not helping us out in your sport. Your sport is not a sport used with leverage, like maybe wrestling or something like that.  If you're somebody who doesn't lack there so much, then it's going to be less emphasis there. I agree, I think, with both of you on the mobility thing. I don't think anybody can do too much of that. I think that's something that we can all be better at. And I think it's an area that a lot of athletes neglect. But again, still, it really depends on how much of a limiting factor that is in your performance of your sport. And every sport is very different. So it's a tough one to answer. Now, if you're just a person who considers themselves athletic because they like to go pick a ball up every once in a while and play a sport or they do athletic things, but then I also want to build muscle, then I also have different advice for you. You have to understand there's going to be a give and take in everything. If my sport is the number one focus, then like Sal alluded to, I might be only training you one day a week in weight training because most of the time it's going to be geared around getting you better at your sport and your skill. But if you're somebody who's just like, hey, I want to be an athletic person, but I also want to build a physique, well, then I might have you training two to three days a week when weightlifting with intermittently using cardio and using different drills to keep you athletic and mobile. And mobility is the one thing probably that we all would say in common of that just needs to be in there on a regular basis for sports. Sport. Next question is from Tanner Sorals. What was each of your biggest client pep peeves when you all were trained? I got one off the top of my head. I used to hate having to explain or debate fads, fitness and health fads constantly. I'd be training a client for a year, two years, three years. They've learned a lot. We've gotten real far. They've gotten great progress. And then they'd come in and be like, hey, my friend just lost 30 pounds. She did this HCG diet. Yeah. Have you heard of it? Okay, let me look it up. And I look it up like, all right, here's why it's not good. But she looks really good. How did she lose that weight? I'm like, well, it's 400 calories a day. It's not has nothing to do with this HCG that they're injecting. And I have to have these discussions and debates. And I would get annoyed because that almost, it's almost like you're, you want to tell your client, like, you should know better. Yeah.  But that was one of my pet peeves.  Lying to me. That was like my number one pet peeve. You got me clean on clients lie.  That's the biggest lie for sure. You lie. No, I mean, they do. When they track their food and stuff.  They sneak around your butt. Oh yeah, they would. I catch them. You know what I'm saying? I catch them doing things.  And then we wonder why things aren't going to according to plan. The other pet peeve of mine too, and this is my own shit that I struggle with is, because unfortunately, I just don't have this thing. This is one of the attributes that Sal has that I wish I had is that.  Oh my God. You just hit him out the park today. Yeah. We would notice because you were in shorts. My bad. Yeah, sorry. No pants today. No, I don't have a photographic memory and I am the worst. Like I will read a study two or three times and it will take me at least four or five times trying to explain it before. I think I can explain it really well. And so when I would get, you know, challenged in something that I know I know I'm right. Like I know that I have the right information, but then I couldn't articulate it really well. And I know that Sal can't relate to this because he doesn't, he is the opposite, right? He's really good at this. Probably what made him really good as a trainer is that you could probably, someone could question him on what he's doing and then he could break down the study to support it. I on their hand read the same studies but couldn't regurgitate it. So it was more like, just trust me, God damn it. I knew, I knew. Why it? Yeah. So that was a pet peeve. It would frustrate me when you would hire me as a professional and then I lacked the ability to, again, again, I know it's my own shit, right? It's not like I, it's a mad at the client, but it was a frustration, right? Or a pet peeve of mine of like having to like prove that I knew that I was talking about it. It's like, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't know what I was talking about. So that drove me crazy spending a lot of time doing that. One of my biggest pet peeves was when I would take all of the time in the world to explain like exactly why I was programming, the way I was programming and going through all these steps and trust the process and all that stuff. And I find out later, like they signed up for all these extra classes that they were doing besides our sessions. And it was just like, it was always never enough, which is a battle that I was constantly having with clients. And then inevitably we get to a point where they realize they're just spinning their wheels and because I would have other people listen that would gain progress.   But like it's always better. It's just always better. And that's a hard argument to unravel and show somebody that they're wrong. Yeah, here's another one when I would go out to eat with a client, which wasn't super common. I did maintain a professional line, but after you train people five, six, seven years, they'd ask you to go to lunch or come over and meet my family. And you do it and you would see them change their eating behaviors just because you're there, like, oh, I'll make sure we go somewhere healthy.  And I've been training you for years. Like it's not a big deal.  Yeah, you could have a glass of wine and we could have pizza or you ever run to a client at the grocery store. It's happened to me a couple of times where I see a client with their cart and then they see me. Don't know that I saw that they saw me and then they turn around real quick. We'll leave the cart? We'll leave the cart? Yeah. Because it's all like frozen food. It's so embarrassing. Yeah, I know. I don't know whose this was. So weird. I thought it was mine. It just jumped in here off the racks. But I mean, trainers are regular people too, and you're more effective when you, the person is honest with you and then you can work together. And I think sometimes as a trainer, I might have made people feel like they couldn't be totally honest. That's on me. It's like I'm following along your lines, Adam. That was on me pretty much. I mean, I think that's important to note, right? With any pet peeves, frustrations, we're sharing them and having fun with them, but I'm also a person who totally believes that it's a mirror of ourselves, right? So if I'm frustrated with anybody, I stand by that. If I'm mad at another person or frustrated, and if I'm emotionally charged or irritated about anything that really isn't about the other person, it's really a reflection of myself. So yeah, we're having fun with these pet peeves and all. Oh yeah, like I could have communicated way better and would have absolved all of that. Right, yeah. Now look, Mind Pump is recorded on video as well as audio, so you can actually watch and listen to Mind Pump also on YouTube. So it's the Mind Pump podcast. Go check it out. On there, we actually break up the episode with questions, so you don't have to listen to the whole thing. And they're easy to share, of course. So you can check us out there as well. Also if you want to find us and talk to us, you can find us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump Justin. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam.


Welcome to Issa Gaming. These are my top 10 Nintendo Switch games for 2020. So in 10th place I am actually putting 2-point hospital. It may come as a surprise to some people, but I have been loving this game ever since I first played it on the PC when it was released. And it is now ported to most consoles.  And you get 3 stars on each level.  It plays very much like that. It is an excellent simulation game. Top-down where you have the control over how you want your hospitals to look and run. It is also very original and funny.  It's funny diseases like Mockstar. You walk around as a rockstar and you gotta go to Psychiatry for that. With this game I completely lose track of time. Highly recommend to a point hospital. So that is why it's making its way into my top 10 Nintendo Switch games. If you've heard any questions, first ask is... Now on 9th place, actually, I am going to put Xenoblade Chronicles 2 combined with Torna. There are two games built on the same engine and the same gameplay, minus a few changes to the combat when you play Torna compared to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. But as one of my first Switch games, I actually already feel nostalgia towards Xenoblade Chronicles 2. And I remember I loved this game when I got it. It is a massive fantasy RPG where you play as a Cloudsea salvager.  That is the world that you play in.  This game is really big. Easily it can take you 80-100 hours. And it's a really long game, really long game. So you may actually get gamer fatigue from this game, but it's actually how big it is. So like I said, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Torna, they're two games. They're both good. You can check out my really old video, my review video of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 if you want to. Link in description. In place number 8 we have Super Mario Odyssey. I had to think long and hard about this top 10 list and this is what I ended up with and it felt correct for me. So, highly personal list, definitely. Super Mario Odyssey is like the king of 3D platforming. This game is also massive.  Just fantastic 3D worlds to explore and collect moons in.  This is a fantastic 3D platformer. It is the king of 3D platformers, absolutely. This game truly shows the good old Nintendo magic and simply makes you happy by playing it. It has a great variation in the levels. It's such a cozy family game. It's very good. Also very good to play alone and when you are an adult. So yeah, definitely. Super Mario Odyssey. An excellent tackle. Now, in place number 7 we have Nino Cooney. An older game that is ported to the Switch, but it is one of the best games. RPG-wise, cel-shaded, anime-style RPG games on the Switch, in my opinion. I've probably seen my review of this and if you haven't, the link to that will be in the description. It is a good old traditional adventure RPG with Oliver and his friends on a quest to save his mother. It's a very touching story and this game has awesome graphics. I love the graphics in Nino Cooney. They are so colorful and crisp. It's like a huge fairy tale. It has a big map and you can fly your dragon around on this map or sail by ship. And you can also collect the 400 familiars in this game. They are like Pokemon-like creatures that you fight with. Highly recommend Nino Cooney. Now, at number 6 I am putting Fire Emblem Warriors. Actually, one of my first games for the Nintendo Switch, this one also. And it made an impact on me. It is a hack and slashy Musou game in the Fire Emblem universe. And you play as the Royal Twins. I fell in love with the gameplay in this one and the story has many surprising twists and turns. I was absolutely addicted to this game and it is better than Hyrule Warriors in my opinion. And the reason for that is, in the gameplay of Hyrule Warriors, sometimes the fast combat comes to a halt when you have to fight Dodongos. And that was so annoying in the long run. And when you are playing a fast-paced hack and slash Musou game, you don't want the speed and the flow of the game to come to a halt often. So I prefer this game. It is the best Musou game on the Switch. On my fifth place is actually My Time at Portia. Another game I fell head over heels in love with. And it is a 3D life simulator where you can do whatever you want, actually. Whether that be crafting, exploring, racing, livestock, fighting, mining, or bonding with the townspeople. You should watch my review of this game as well, link in the description. And it is a life simulator. It is a genre that you can totally lose track of time in. But the Switch version has some lags and some struggles. So if you can play this game on the PC, I want to say play it on the PC. It will be much more of a smoother experience. But if you don't have that option, the Switch version is okay. Either way, I recommend this game. In fourth place, Dragon's Dogma. I always think very fondly back on Dragon's Dogma. This is a fantasy, open world RPG with dragons and magic. Exactly what I like. The controls are tight. The world and atmosphere is awesome and the combat is just sick good. I did a review of this game as well. I highly recommend this review. And if you think this game looks good and interesting, watch my review of it. I go into super hardcore details in most of my reviews. I hope I do so anyway, that I'm helpful. That my reviews are helpful, I mean. Okay, so in third place, Animal Crossing. It is a game unlike any other. The charm of Animal Crossing is hard to explain to someone who has never experienced it for themselves.    And there is also crafting in this game and it has multiplayer, online multiplayer. It's really good. A bit long loading screens, but really good. I have played Animal Crossing for over 100 hours and that is for good reason. It is an excellent game. Well done Nintendo. Now in second place, I gotta say, Zelda Breath of the Wild. And I'm gonna tell you my personal take on this game. This game could just as well be a shared first place, that is how good it is, with what I have on first place. This is my absolutely first Nintendo Switch game and I hope it is your first Switch game as well. And I will just love it forever because it changed me in a way. My time with this game was nothing but magical for my entire time spent in this vast open world. My favorite gaming series of all time as a whole is the Legend of Zelda. But Breath of the Wild truly branched out of the series while still remaining true to the series' legacy. This time with the biggest open world Link has ever traversed in and it is open, open world. Super big open world. It is a time sink where 200 hours easily go by with never a dull moment. It is a game that will be remembered forever. It is truly special, truly special. Now it may not come as a surprise, but my first place is Skyrim. It just is a Skyrim. And I thought long and hard about this and just this. I am putting Skyrim at my number one because I have a true and everlasting love story with it. It is the game I always return to. It is the game that always amazes me and each and every time I sit down with it, I discover something new even when I thought I had seen it all. It is the game I am drawn to, to the point of repurchasing it for my sixth time. That truly tells us something about this game and the longevity and the replayability. Because it truly has replayability. And for every single time I am buying this game again, I end up playing it 150 hours each save file. It is an open world fantasy RPG heavily focused on freedom to the player. And I love that.  The soundtrack gives me chills, for real. It makes me so emotional, I could cry. The soundtrack is really emotional. This entire game is really emotional for me. So I am just head over heels in love with Skyrim. It did something special and it is sort of rare to come by that sort of specialness. So finally I made my official 2020 top 10 Nintendo Switch games. And I wanna hear what the best games you have played actually are. So leave a comment down below and subscribe to my channel if you haven't. And you know just read the description box, everything is down there. So thank you for watching and I hope you have a wonderful day. I will see you later.


So just coming up to 10 o'clock then 24th of March 2021 and it was just going to have a quick comment on the Aussie dollar. And it's something I'm watching which I wanted to comment on because there's a few things going on on a broader top level geopolitical level, namely that of US and China, which I'll go into explanation of in a moment The key theme being is that Kiwi dollar and Aussie dollar are trading it in a very similar pattern of late understand me. So the entity and currencies do tend to mimic each other to a certain degree over that region. Now, before I look at the Aussie and going to that in detail, the interesting thing about the Aussie here is that this is looking at a daily continuation and that market has held on its 100 DMA, which was the previous Feblos. So it's held up a key level of technical relevance. The Kiwi has broken that level. Now the Kiwi was set up in exactly the same way. You've got the round handle, you've got 71, you've got the March Feblos year to date lows in that pair. And then you had that news come out just the last 48 hours where they're looking to tackle the ongoing kind of housing crisis in New Zealand and that was the news catalyst for weakness in their domestic currency. And that was a trigger point which has led to a decent, a decent move lower, you know, over a full point now in that last kind of day or so, and actually technically if you look at it, we closed yesterday below in the Kiwi the November December lows. And that being the round figure of 70. So I think technically that's quite interesting still has a fairly bearish setup there. So this is almost, for me, a litmus test of what we could see here. Now for here then the straw that broke the Kiwi back was a news catalyst on the housing market earlier this week. For the Kiwi, what could that for the Aussie what could the news catalyst be? Because I think if we get a break here, I think we get a further extension of that price decline and perhaps targeting lower levels. 74, you know, a decent near two point move could be on the cards over a multiple day situation. Amid the dollar strength we're seeing. So you get into a spread. So before we get to that the main thing then I'm watching for and then you talk maybe a little bit about this is that there's this ongoing friction at the moment between US and China. Now as I discussed in the briefing, that friction is leading to then hostilities increasing on the Korean Peninsula. Now, historically through episode of 2018-19 when Trump, before he broke a peace agreement with North Korea, what was happening was an increased intensification of ballistic missile testing coming out of North Korea. Now, what tended to happen there was that North Korea is an issue that really is quite unsolvable for the US, because they cannot militarily intervene in that region. There's been an immediate reaction from China. So what do they need to do that the US needs to work and lean on China to control them the peninsula situation. It's very important then for strategic relationships within a very contested region, because the US has important allies in Japan and South Korea of which they have then paralleled military bases situated with these nations. It's very important there for their military geographically to have a home base there. And so that's why those relationships quite key. Now what's happening here is we have the first level top level Alaska meeting between first time Bidens administration and G team, as we know that had a pretty frosty reception to kick things off. The thing that I'm watching here, and the reason why I'm looking at the Kiwi as a potential example, the catalyst here it could be a retaliatory effect through the proxy of Australia that China could penalize the Aussies through what's called the quad. The quad is the new group now that Biden has formed with basically Japan, India and Australia. So US, Japan, India and Australia are now called the quad. And the quad have a unity formed on the basis of anti China, basically, or protectionism against China. Now this is problematic for Australia obviously because Australia is almost entirely dependent on expectation of raw materials to China. China then could play out then then express in a proxy against the US further penalizing Australia on say coal imports or things of that matter, which they've already done multiple times in recent months and years. And so one thing I'm looking out for here is North Korea ramping it up. What you can have then is when you're having these ongoing negotiations, you can then have this kind of, you kind of leveraged position where you know what the US want, and then you can say, okay, you've just got a stronger hand to play if you're the Chinese so here then I'd say there's a probability of a moderate outlook that Australia could get hit with some kind of Chinese retaliatory measure, and that could be the straw that breaks that Aussie. And what we saw with the key we was, we were a key strategic technical level, a break means we spill over, and we start to fall quite quickly in the Aussie under those conditions.  That's fine. China is a manufacturer exporter. But if the world declines the customer declines will the activity needs to decelerate a little bit short term if we do get a COVID wave. And so that in itself is already going to impede, let's say short term demand for a lot of those material based materials out of Aussie. You throw this in the mix. And short term it could be a key catalyst to look for.


Carl Polani died in 1964. My mother then cared for the literary legacy, the translations and publications. Quite a few translations, French to Spanish and so. But when my mother died that responsibility came to me. I have no brothers or sisters and nobody else and so I really considered that I were now concerned myself with the letter. Literary legacy of my father and I have been doing that ever since. My mother has her own history and it is a history of eminent participation in the revolutions which put an end to the First World War 1918 specifically the Hungarian Revolution and she is known for her activities there and when she died the Hungarian Embassy in Ottawa asked whether they could please Buddha permit them to have a funeral and give her semi-state honors and be buried in Hungary. I was totally amazed at this request and I said well certainly not. However eventually I know my mother and my father will wish to rest in Budapest but first you must honor Carl Polani as well as his wife Ilona. Probably the best way to do that is to organize some event respecting his scholarly work. And with much negotiation this is exactly what happened. We managed to have a centenary conference in 1986 that is a hundred years from the birth of Carl Polani. By this time I had invited a former student of mine, Marguerite Mendel, whose thesis was about the work of Carl Polani to work with me. She assisted in organizing that conference in Budapest. Incidentally the politics were that I could invite all the international participants but they at that time would invite the local Hungarian participants. At this meeting it was really a moment of reflection. I was very conscious of the rise of neoliberalism in its worst manifestations. This was the era of Thatcher and Reagan respectively implementing those kinds of policies, abolishing progressive taxation and all the rest of them you know what they are. And I said how can we continue this? This can't be a one-on-one once-only conference. And Marguerite Mendel undertook to propose to her university at Concordia whether they would consider hosting an institute and that is what happened. And so that institute was set up at Concordia University. I made available on a lone basis the document and many years later I think in 2017 I decided to donate this collection to Concordia. It was a very nice event and there is a video in which I explained why I donated it not to Hungary or not to Vienna and not to McGill but to Concordia. And incidentally it is I made illegal provision in that donation that they would continue to support the institute for another 10 years for at least 10 years. So we have that but other than that I have no position no formal position in the institute. People assume that because I grew up in this home and with always a close relationship with my father and a person we always had with both of my parents a good relationship that I learned something since I was so high from my father. We were following his footsteps of course. That really is not how it happened. I must have read the great transformation but it was not the kind of revealing event that it was for many other people. I really began to appreciate my father's work much more from the time from the 1980s on. Partly because I became much more familiar with it but it is also because I think the time is let us say for all the same reasons that many other intellectuals within the social sciences or in other areas have come to appreciate the work of Carl Polanyi. I joined them in that appreciation. This book is a collection of essays that were assembled and put between two covers of the book in 2013. And by that time I really had noticed that the growth of the financial sector, finance, insurance, real estate within the economies of the advanced countries was disturbing. Growth of various kinds of financial assets including derivatives of original assets and so forth was of a scale that was I think significant and that is why I coined this phrase of great financialization. I think since that time it has become increasingly recognized as the Ong Tan report of 2018, 17 and 18 pointed out that the global economy is driven by global finance now. That to quote it is not trade or technology but rather finance and I'm quoting more or less from the Ong Tan report that has been driving the world, the global economy for the past three decades quote unquote. Now when I coined that word I was not aware I think of the significance of having coined this phrase of great financialization. It has increased it because what this is doing it in my view it has for instance destroyed the what used to be the classic American corporation, classic American corporation used to produce products and and sell them on an ever-increasing scale. It incidentally employed a lot of people and incidentally satisfied a lot of consumers. That was a classic corporation of the 1950s, 60s or 70s but increasingly this has become financialized. Increasingly the shareholders are financial conglomerates of various kinds, pension funds, investment funds, other kinds of financial funds and it has come with the maximizing of shareholder value as the metric of success of a corporation was what could be more financial than that and it has had that effect of financializing the cooperation but it's goes beyond that as Polanyi explained if you if an economy is driving the society the society then reflects that our society's households have become financialized, the degree to which yes households are dependent on finance. Pensions are no longer based on some average of the last years incomes they're based on the earnings of the pension funds with all its ups and downs. We know about all the mortgage indebtedness and student loans and all the rest of it without going into detail. The fact is that whether it's the non-financial cooperation or whether it is the household sector of the economy they have become increasingly financialized and then we come to the government and one of the problems particularly noticeable in Europe is the degree national governments have become dependent on the bond markets and in the case of Europe they don't even they can't even print their own money anymore they have the euro you have an economy that is increasingly as I say financialized in the society that is increasingly short-term views and that goes along with the information technology and with this with the consumerism and the shortest desire somehow of young people particularly to have immediate results but not young people only for everything to be immediate and that is in my view there is closely related to financialization.