Next question is from Nicky the Vizsla. How did you guys get connected to Start Mind Pump? Do you remember what Sal used to say? We've not talked about the story a long time. Do you remember what Sal used to say all the time, every single time? Swipe right. Yeah, the tender. I missed that joke. I remember, I think Doug finally said something. I swiped left. I think you should tell that story different because you share that every time. That's not what happened. I'm gonna bring it back though because you hadn't said it in such a long time. We didn't see each other on Grindr or whatever. I picked this question because we haven't talked about it in a long time. We have a large new audience, especially on YouTube. They ask this question quite a bit in the comments. It kind of goes way back, but it really started because back in the day, I managed gyms, I worked for a very large fitness company, probably considered a high performer, and you would always hear about other high performers in the company. It was a large company. This was 24 Fitness, and in those days, I think the company had like 300 or 400 locations. And you knew about the other high performers by name, the people that would be mentioned. And I would occasionally hear Adam's name being brought up. He was a fitness manager and he was one of the top ones in the company. You were also in the same, not district, but the same region. And so I'd hear your name pop up here, but that was about it. Nothing else. But then as the years went on, it was very strange. I would have people come up to me who knew Adam, and I remember the first time this happened, it actually happened with a trainer that worked for me. His name was Amber. You know who she is. And she comes up to me and she goes, have you ever met Adam Schaefer? I'm like, no. I think I know who he is. I think I've heard of him. Oh, you guys need to work together. You guys should meet. Oh my God, you guys will work great together. It was a weird thing to say because I never knew him, but I said, okay, well anyway, this happened maybe five more times with five other people. It happened with Jason, it happened with Larry, and a couple other random people. So his name stuck in my head because of that. It's a very strange thing to hear from anybody. Oh, you got to meet this person. You guys should work together. Very strange, right? So anyway, fast forward years later, I had my private personal training, kind of health and wellness studio. And at the time I was really doing lots of research into the medicinal effects of marijuana. I had a family member that had cancer and I was trying to help them and help alleviate some of the issues with the chemotherapy and that kind of stuff. And on Facebook I saw that Adam was on there, and this is when Adam, you had the cannabis clubs. And so I've been like, oh, let me ask him some questions. I was doing lots of research. So I messaged him through Messenger on Facebook. I don't even know if it was Messenger back then, but I messaged him. And then him and I talked about marijuana, strains and cannabinoids and stuff like that. And I thought that was kind of cool. Like, oh, we have kind of similar background. That was rare back then too, by the way. I think that's a point. Nobody in fitness. Yeah. You were the first person that I met that I respected in the fitness space that I thought was very intelligent and then also was kind of pro-cannabis. It was kind of taboo in our space. Yeah. And that was it, right? That's kind of ended there. And then I met Doug. And Doug actually came into my gym and offered me as his trainer. And long story short, he had back problems, was referred to me by a chiropractor. And I trained him and I trained Doug. Doug was not inexperienced. Doug was actually very experienced, very knowledgeable, probably one of the most knowledgeable clients I'd ever worked with in fitness because it had been a passion since he was a kid. But I had flipped a lot of what he had known on its head and he came to me and I said, I'm only going to train you twice a week. That's all we're going to do. Let's start with that. And I remember your reaction was like, just twice a week, like, do I need to do more to build muscle? I said, no, no, let's start with that. We're going to do full body. We're going to focus on these basic exercises. We're not going to train to failure, all the stuff we talk about on the podcast. And as I was training Doug, his body was just, and Doug literally thought he was a hard gainer. He's like, I'm a hard gainer. I don't build muscle. Well, if you know Doug now, you know he's not a hard gainer. You know he's got, he's a really strong guy. And he responded very well. And he came to me probably six months or a year into this and he, he came to me once and he goes, you know what Sally goes, if you ever have something that you want to try to sell online, let me know, because I could put it together for you. I think it would work really well. I like the way you present things and you communicate fitness. And that stuck with me. And I thought, God, you know, I've always wanted to write a book. This is what I wanted to do. I wanted to write a book, but I went home and thought about it. And one day I was up late and I'm reading these studies. And I, this is when I created MAPS anabolic. And I bring it to Doug and I said, this is the program I think I want to sell. But I want to test it on people. I'm going to test some of these theories on you, on other clients. I'm going to send it to other trainers. Doug took it, took it and created this online platform. And he talked me into doing, you know, instructional videos, which I had no intention of ever doing.  So I did it. And we did this huge sales video and this, all the stuff. And we had all the stuff together. And I said, I want more opinions on what we're doing. And then I remembered Adam said, you know what? Adam, people have been telling me to work with him forever. He's obviously a high performer, smart guy. He's in fitness. And he definitely came across as very blunt and honest back then, which was a very accurate, you know, just assessment. That hasn't changed. Yeah. And so I figured if it sucked, he would tell me and I appreciate that. So I sent it to him and then Adam called me on the phone and then invited me to his house. And then we all sat down and met. And literally that's how my impulse started. We all sat down and met. And from the gates, literally as soon as we sat down, it was nonstop conversation about the fitness industry, the misdirection of it, all the crap that's in it, how we communicate fitness and health, you know, why we would want to do podcasting because there were low barriers to enter and nobody would tell us what to do. We didn't have to sell a product just to, you know, mention what we wanted to. We could say whatever we wanted. And so literally that's how we started. And then I remember telling him, you know, Doug, my partner, he's got recording equipment because this was a hobby of Doug's. I think we could do this. And we literally started it, I think, like the next week. I think it was the next weekend that Doug said, hey, I've got the stuff. We could just try it and see what happens. And we started it in your house, literally recorded it. And I think it was at the kitchen table or the counter. And Doug put up the camera and that was the first mind pump episode and that was it. One memory that comes to mind was when we launched the podcast, I think we dropped, how many episodes did we drop at first? Was it five or? At least three. Was it three? Yeah. We dropped the episodes. I'm training my clients. Remember, all of us had our day jobs or whatever. And I'll never forget, I had my phone in my pocket and it's just buzzing like crazy. And I look at my phone and it's Adam and I put him to voicemail, put it back in my pocket. Starts buzzing again. Pull it out. It's Adam again, voicemail. This happened like three or four times. I was with a client. I'm like, shit, man. So I tell my client, hold on one second, I got to get this call. It's obviously important. I go outside and Adam's like, bro, go to iTunes right now. I'm like, okay. And he goes, check new and notable. So I go to the section and we were right there and listed as a new and notable.  I think we have something. So it was really, really good time with that. One more cool thing to add, I think that it's unique to the four-way partnership is that Justin, I think God, I don't remember what year it was. Justin, maybe 06. Would you go out of your way from college? Yeah. Yeah, somewhere around there. Yeah. So Justin, I got him fresh out of college with his kines to come work for me as a trainer. And we just, we connected so well because we are actually really different. Like he had a lot of success as a trainer for the opposite reasons that I did. I would say that the areas that I was weaker in as a trainer, I found those were his strengths. And so we made just a really good team together and he quickly became my right-hand man, assistant at the clubs. I transferred to another club and took him with me. And we went on to do some really great things in those places. And then we went our separate ways. He left the company, went on to do his own thing privately. And I went on to Marijuana to do my own thing. But always remained in contact, just checking up on each other. And he was always like, wanting to do something with me. He's like, come on, we should do this. And I'm like, ah, I'm digging this male. I'll pull him back into fitness, dude. I knew I would at some point. Yeah. He was always coming down and pitching me on the new idea that he wanted to do. And I'd say, yeah, I like that. Just keep it closer. Yeah. He would always be showing up and telling me this stuff. Well, we used to crush.  It was like just constant fun. But I mean, we put numbers out there that like the company hadn't seen. And it was just like the culture that was created and just working with Adam was always like, really super fun. And it was like, but we got after it, you know? And it was, it was, it was remnant of when I was on a really, you know, a championship team. It was very similar to that. I had that same dynamic. And so I guess that, I think I just always wanted to, you know, bring that back and figure out a way that we could like, you know, resurface that somehow. So I was just like, Adam, what are you doing?  And ironically, we eventually did, right? But what, you know, what ended up happening was about two and a half years or so, somewhere around their give or take, I got, I got tired of marijuana. And I've shared this story before where I had reached this, this financial goal that I always had. And I was actually really unhappy. I just had deep pockets, but I had relationships falling apart. The girl I was dating had just cheated on me, which had never happened to me before. My life with my, my relationship with my family was in disarray.  So I was really like unhappy. I didn't like, I no longer liked what I was doing. And I missed fitness. And at that same time, Justin had this like fitness app idea. And I had been kind of toying around with something similar that I wanted to do. And so, you know, he would always be hitting with these ideas. I was like, you know what, let's go have coffee. I want to talk about some things. And so when we first met up, I was like, I was in a position at that time to be able to kind of financially support our idea. And I was like, all right, you kind of run this. I'll be the finance, the finances behind this. And let's see what we could do. So we started with the intention of building an app. And then my goal was, Justin was going to build all the technical stuff. And then I was to go get the audience. And so I instantly turned on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, like the next day up into that point, I didn't have any of those. And the sole intention of starting all those platforms up were to gain an audience, to build an audience of people. So we had people to potentially sell this app to. And that was real. And we were in the thick of that when you guys had already built maps and when we all got together. So it just seemed like great synergy. And the crazy part about this, we all went into business without even laying out like who was going to get what money, like if Sal and Doug sold this program through maps, would it be our money too? Or your money? Or if we sold this app, would it be our money? There was a lot of respect. Yeah. The irony is like what we were actually doing back then, we still do on a lot of levels too. So there's a whole page devoted to exercises and descriptions. And we were creating all that kind of stuff that you see in our maps programs. Now, Sal had come up with the concepts that were very unique. That people haven't focused on the real main things that get you success. And so it was like, oh yeah, you figured that part out. And it just became this total synergistic contribution. I liked Justin obviously right away. He's very likable. But I know I had to win him over, I think. Early on. Early on. He's like, who's this flashy fast talker? I'm a tough one, dude. Especially if you got verbal skills like you do. I actually liked you more for that. Because I know that's who you are.  And if somebody has to win you over, which was... Yeah, it was a really interesting dynamic to see four serial entrepreneurs, all leaders in their own right come together.  And then it just... I mean, that's why I'm the one who... Or we all do believe this way, right? I just believe some things were meant to be. And I think we broke all the rules as far as how you start a business. I don't think we did anything the way you were supposed to. It was one moment, at least for me specifically. I've said this before. I haven't said in a while, but for me that was really pivotal. And it was one... We had another partner when we first started Mind Pump that we were going to do this with. And we recorded, I don't know, 12 episodes, filmed them, edited them. Remember, we were new with this. So this was like a big deal. It was hard work. We had this nice backlog or bank, I should say, of episodes ready to launch. And this partner of ours who had the largest social media following, by the way, Adam had a small following at the time. I think he had like 20,000 followers. Not even. It was only like 10 back then. Yeah, and this other person had something like... I don't remember what, it was 100 or 70 or something like that. So we were relying on this person's social media following. And he comes out and he was sponsored by a supplement company. And I think he sent some of the episodes to the supplement company. And because we were so honest and raw and whatever, they said, I don't think it's a good idea. Super raw. That you work with these guys. And so he dropped out. He dropped out through text. Hey, guys, can't do this. We had to scrap 12 episodes. And I remember, I literally remember the day I had my phone in my hand fully prepared to get on the phone and motivate Adam, Justin, and Doug to continue with Mind Pump. Because I thought for sure they'd want to stop. And I'm like, no, I got to get them motivated.   These guys are the guys that I think I want to work with. And this is going to be pretty awesome. And there's been more stuff that's happened since then. Yeah, but to that point, that is probably... That's the root of it all, though. Yeah, because when you think of, when I explained this to people, there was no doubt that none of us, none of us thought we were good at this.  Like, we're going to be great. And it was like, the thing that we all had in common and that we had built in all of our previous years of experience in building other businesses was that we're probably going to suck. We're probably going to fail a lot. And you know what? Like, let's just outwork everybody. Let's do it a lot. Let's do it a lot. And let's get back up and just... And so when back then, it was advised you do like one episode a week and start slow, and we came out the gauge just, let's see how much we can put out there because we knew that the reps were... This is where we were going to get better. Like, we knew we were terrible, but we could get better if we just poured everything into this and just kept going and kept going. And really that's a testament to how this thing was built was, by no means do I think that any of us were talented in this arena at all, but we knew that. We were very well aware of that going into it. We were all willing to just be sucky for a while. That's the key right there.


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Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in. Here is my Beretta APX carry I just got it back from customer service yesterday on September 1st. I had some issues with it I made a video on March 25th explaining what was going on. It took me completely by surprise I had no issues with this gun prior to being at the range that day I had many people saying hey, when are you going to follow up with that? We want to know how their customer service was so that's what this video is about But if you did not see the video on March 25th I'm going to go ahead and play a few clips with that now and then come back and talk more about the customer service experience The problem that I'm having is light primer strikes. So check this out Nothing. So maybe that's a tough primer. Alright gun is in battery and then another problem Nothing and then nothing. Let me get rid of that round gun is in battery Everything's fine and then nothing that it has a very light primer strike I'm not sure the camera will pick that up, but that's what's going on with the Beretta APX a little disappointing but we'll have to see how the Customer service is with Beretta. Alright, so it was clear that I was having light primer strikes I contacted Beretta immediately But that was right during the shutdown and so they said they weren't taking any firearms in until May 1st and then I contacted them on May 1st But prior to that they said they are working remotely from home every voicemail. They would Respond back within 24 hours. I left several voicemails and never received one phone call back from Beretta I just wanted some direction, you know What is the process for sending this in? They said you have to do everything on their website. Well, if you look at their website It's not the easiest customer service areas to navigate, you know, it took a little bit of thinking and working it through to actually create a report about the issue and even then it was ignored Mainly because of the shutdown, but they said they would contact back and they never did I continued to leave voicemails now the email that I used was not my YouTube email, you know the firearm guy It was my personal email because I didn't want any special treatment because I make videos I thought you know what? I'm just a regular guy just like you guys But I happen to make videos, but I don't want any bias toward me positive bias because of that So I use my own personal email and I gave no indication at all That I made video reviews or that I posted a video on March 25th, okay now that that's out of the way I made the report and They actually created the label and sent a UPS guy to my house like two days later Took me by surprise and this was shipped out on May 18th I received it back on September 1st, which was approximately three and a half months I had no idea this was coming back when it did You know, I was very much surprised that it was on its way and the communication from Beretta to me was horrible, but my communication to them was pretty consistent and I continued to Reach out to them. I received no information back They kept saying go check the website. So I checked the website and they would say you know It's it's in progress. That was about all I got it was in progress Then it was waiting to be inspected now prior to all this people said Why don't you just clean out the striker channel? I could have done that. That would be no big deal However, I wanted to check out their customer service and this gun really did not have a lot around through it I went ahead and took it to the range to Function check this and I brought a couple different types of ammo to see what was going on and I have to say I no longer experienced primer strikes, but I had a couple other issues. Let's take a look at what happened Here is the Beretta APX carry with the eight round magazine These are my first shots after receiving it back from their customer service. I am running SMB brass case 115 grain ball ammo Let's see how it goes So far so good Here we have tool steel case 115 grain 9 millimeter. Let's see how it handles these Not as accurate as I would like, but it's running all the rounds Here we have a hundred twenty four green self-defense ammo made by LTCH enterprises I've got the six round mag for this. Let's see how it does. We'll start with the center circle All right sticking with the six round magazine. I alternated brass and steel case ammo And I'm going to rapid fire the APX carry We'll try that Tube stone down below. All right, one of the brass cases didn't eject and A round popped out when I went to lock the slide back Let's try that again Another failure to eject Lock the slide back drop the mag that last one went Six rounds SMB brass case Let's try rapid fire All right, there we have a double feed We'll lock the slide back drop the mag Failure to eject was the issue Same thing right there. I am not Going lightning quick here See if that'll come out All right looks like two or three more and that's it After all was said and done there was more said than done I don't care that it took three and a half months Okay, I understand that the whole country was shut down for a while and they may have been overloaded The lack of communication was poor the lack of information About what happened was poor and the fact that it's still not running that great is Disappointing now they did send back this in the in the box for shells of nine millimeter tells me that they Shot it four times and sent it back to me And as you can see it's still not running that great So, you know, I I give bread a D perhaps a D minus on their customer service I was expecting more from such a reputable company and they make great guns But their customer service doesn't live up to their firearm reputation If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Right, don't click away, don't do anything, watch this video. Today we're going to be talking about the can wild technique. This is a modified version of the wild waiting juice lucid dream. And look, if you're new here, if you can't lucid dream, don't listen to this video, go and watch one of my other videos, which are linked in the description. Or if you see me in the related sidebar, click one of those. Or just go on my channel. So this really is for you guys who can do the wild technique already. Or you've heard, at least heard about it and you just want to improve it, or you're looking for something else that could work. So the can wild technique involves using sound. And I really like this technique because it's different to pretty much all the other ones in the sense that you're using sound and you're relying on the fact that when you listen to sounds in waking life, or you know, if you're sleeping and sounds happen around you, they tend to infiltrate your lucid dreams and normal dreams in a way that's very subtle. And I do like this sort of approach because it reminds me of the film Inception where they use the classical music as a kick.  And it transcends through the dream and enters into their awareness, even though it's happening outside of the dream and in the real world. This has happened to me naturally loads of times. Before I'd even heard of the can wild technique, I'd have loads of these lucid dreams where I became lucid because it was raining in the dream. And that made that sound, the sound of the rain made me think, oh, hold on, it was raining before I went to sleep. And then obviously instantly I realized, hold on, before I went to sleep, oh, so I must be dreaming now and then I become lucid. It's pretty, when it happens like that, it's really cool because it makes you just think, oh, well, sometimes it can be easy. You know, sometimes you can have spontaneous, really happy, random lucid dreams without putting any effort in. And that's, you know, that's, I would say that's the goal for a lot of people. You just wanna have these random confidence-boosting lucid dreams because when you do have one like that, when you have a random experience, it really boosts your confidence. It makes you think that it's possible, it encourages you, you get your motivation, rises, and it's just good all around, right? What you don't wanna happen is you don't wanna be trying for months on end and nothing is working. And you know, no matter what technique you could try, nothing's working, that's gonna discourage you. So, I'm waffling again, aren't I? So the can world technique is it works like this. So much like the wild or the way back to bed, you're gonna set your alarm on your phone to go off after four or five hours. Now, the reason behind this, I won't go into it too much just because you're targeting your REM sleep, which is when most lucid dreams happen, which is typically after four or five hours of normal sleep. So you're gonna set your alarm to go off after four or five hours. Okay, now a couple of things. Firstly, you want your alarm tone to be really relaxing. You don't want it to be something really shrill that's gonna shock your wake and make you feel angry and alert and all that stuff. You want something that's gonna blend into your dream. Imagine the sort of sounds you wanna be going for are these soft soothing sort of sounds where you're obviously aware of the fact that it's a new noise, but you're not so aware of it that it shakes you into being awake and makes you completely wake up. I hope this sort of makes sense. I'm gonna play a few samples in a second or maybe just one sample because I've got a favorite, which I'm gonna show you. But the idea is you wanna pick a soothing tone or sound. You want to set your alarm. And there are various apps to do this. I won't tell you which apps because you're gonna wanna research your own, everyone has their own preferences, right? But you wanna find an app where you can set the alarm to go off and to sound for a few seconds and then just turn itself off. You don't want an alarm that keeps going and going until you wake up and turn it off. You wanna have one that automatically turns itself off. And you can search around for this, just type something in like automatic shutoff alarm app or something, you'll find loads of them. They're constantly being updated. But the idea is you wanna have something that you can set the alarm tone, the relaxing alarm tone.  After that five seconds, it turns itself off without you having to move. Auto shutoff alarm, okay? And what that's gonna do is normally with an alarm, you set the alarm, it goes off, you have to physically move and turn the alarm off. Now by physically moving and opening your eyes and moving your arm, you wake yourself up, at least a little bit and it makes it that much harder to fall back to sleep and it makes way back to bed hard. Really the holy grail here for lucidreamers is you want an automatic alarm.  Okay, so that's really the key here. You want your whole body to remain asleep so that you can lucidream. Okay, so the alarm's gonna go off, right?  You don't wanna open your eyes, you don't want to move anything. Even, you don't even wanna turn over, okay? You wanna get to the point and it might take some practice in waking life to do this, right? You wanna get to the point where you don't move anything at all.  And then you instantly, the alarm will turn itself off after a few seconds. You instantly focus on going back to sleep with the intention of lucidreaming. Now, this is where the magic starts to happen.  What will happen is, just like with a wake back to bed in a normal wild, you'll fall asleep fairly quickly, especially as you haven't moved or opened your eyes. Now, I actually missed a step, so I'm gonna go back a bit here. When you set the alarm, you should set it to go off after five hours of sleep and then after it's gone off the first time, you want it to repeat every 10 to 20 minutes. This is quite important and you're gonna need to find a specific app that can do this, okay? But you're gonna need to, so it's gonna need to go off again every 20 minutes with the same sound and with the same automatic shutoff feature. Now, this might sound a bit complicated. I guarantee you there are dozens of apps out there that can do this. You just need to look around. I'm gonna be sharing, I've got an upcoming project for an app which is in the works at the moment. I can't share any details about it yet, but I am working on something that can do this quite easily and it'll be something which I'll be releasing very soon. But for now, just look around, there are plenty of apps that can do this. You wanna have the app remind you or go through the alarm tone every 20 minutes.   This is known as dream chaining. I've used this technique to have handfuls of lucid dreams in any given morning because you're combining the best of all the worlds. You've got your REM sleep, which is at its longest during that period. So you're gonna have deep meaningful dreams.  You've also already had your main deep sleep for the evening, right? You've had the four or five hours of deep sleep, which is where your REM cycles are shorter and you're having your restorative sleep. So it shouldn't make you feel that tired if you do it right. And so that is it. That is the CanWild technique. The only thing I would say that you need to do with this is you need to make sure that you get that specific app that can do those things.  This is where most people go wrong.  It's just, it's not gonna work, okay?  If you're looking for an example, the one I like to use is, it's a really weird soundtrack. It's quite an old one as well. It's Sky Cathedral by Hunt for the Breeze. And let me play you a little clever bit. And it's just this really like dreamy, weird background, noisy track. This is track. As you can hear, that's all you need. You need like a few seconds of that. You don't even need to download the whole song. You just need to record just enough. Like four or five seconds worth. And ideally you wanna have a fade out as well. So instead of it just going full volume and then cutting off after five seconds, you wanna have like a three to five second fade out. Now, this technique might sound like a bit of effort, you know, certainly more effort than some other techniques, but I guarantee you it's worth it. Like this stuff is really effective. This is definitely one of my preferred techniques when I can be bothered. Like, you know, I have a lot of other things to do. But you know, when I have a nice day that I want, you know, I plan a lay-in for, I'll use this technique because it's really effective, it's fun.  It feels like you're entering a dream much like an inception. Anyway, that's today's video. Go ahead and subscribe and I'll see you next time. Done.


free will is such an interesting thing. When it comes to dating, it might actually be that we're wired and programmed to date specific types of people. And in this video, you're going to do a little bit of a test that might determine why you pick the people that you pick. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about helping you improve your mental and emotional well being. And a lot of that has to do with relationships. I am somebody who has been in a billion terrible relationships. So if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So we just hit 15,000 subscribers. 15,000 subscribers, that is absolutely mind blowing. Like I don't know, maybe I'll make another video just about like doing work and hustling and doing things that you love and are passionate about. But just so you know, like at the end of the year last year, I wasn't even at a thousand subscribers. And like I just always question, do really do people really care about mental health? But people do all of you do and I love that I love that people want to improve themselves mentally, emotionally, spiritually, whatever your jam is. So thank you to all of the new subscribers. You are all amazing. I love just spreading a message of hope. I used to be in a very dark place. Now I'm an amazing place. Anyways, I'll quit all that sappy stuff now. So a lot of you, a lot of you came over because you saw one of my videos about Trisha Paytas and Jason Nash and talking about borderline personality disorder. And I mentioned in that video a worksheet that helps determine not it doesn't help determine but it kind of enlightens you and it shows you why you date who you date and kind of why you behave the way that you do in relationships. So one of those sayings that I mentioned in a video the other day is that that old definition of insanity, right? And one of my loyal subscribers who's been here since the beginning psychedelic feline, she pointed out there's not an actual like insanity definition of the DSM. But an age old saying is the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over expecting different results, right? And some of you might realize that but some of you also might not see what you're doing. You might wonder like, I'll use myself as an example. I always find that's the best way to do it. I kept ending relationships in a heartache, right? Over and over and over again. And I'm like, why? Why?  But like, there was a reason for it. I kept picking the same type of woman. You know, it was the same candy, just a different rapper, if you get what I mean. So this worksheet is actually it's not mine, right? And I actually got it from my mom. And it's not hers. I actually just called her on the phone. So those of you who don't know, I don't think many of you or any of you have met my mom yet. She's awesome. I need to do some videos with her, but she lives in California. But she is a psychologist. She got her doctorate in psychology while being a full blown alcoholic, but she's coming up on 13 years sober. She is amazing. I love that woman. And our dream someday is to open up a treatment center together like we mesh really well when it comes to all this mental health and addiction recovery stuff. Anyways, my mom does this relationship workshop.  She was the first one to point that out. And I sat in on one of her relationship workshops. And that's why I saw this worksheet that she had people go through. And it's crazy like I was working in a treatment center. For the last three years, I'm about to start at a new one. We're getting that rolling. That's exciting. I'll tell you guys more about that soon. But anyways, um, yeah, like I would give it to clients like so many people so relationships have so much to do with our mental health. And for addicts and alcoholics, relationships can be their downfall. It can lead to relapses. But a lot of people too, like, you know, people who came from the tritipatus video, I know a lot of people have borderline personality disorder and things like that. And our emotions just go all wacky and zany and stuff. And it can lead to depression and anxiety and fear of abandonment and fear of rejection, just so many things. So this is very important. Now, I will say this, okay, this is like an experiment because usually the way this works, okay, this is two different worksheets. They're short, they're simple, takes you maybe 10 minutes to do. Okay.  And then without seeing the second worksheet, then you give them the second one. And then you use the first worksheet to fill out the second one. And then you kind of have a discussion about it. So I'm doing this via YouTube. So this is a little bit different. So what I have done down in the description below is a link to both of these sheets that I'm about to go over with you. So what I would recommend is I'm going to talk about the first worksheet, pause the video, print it out, whatever it is, I uploaded it to Google Drive, print it out. Or if you can't print it, like I don't, I don't even have a printer, just open up the document and then write it down in a notebook or on a piece of paper. It's really easy. You'll see in a second. But pause the video and fill that out. And then start the video back up as we go over the second worksheet. If not, you're cheating and you don't gain anything from this. So you're wasting your time. But yeah, like, I really don't care if you cheat on this. It's not like the SATs or something. But this will help enlighten you. And I'll tell you an interesting story after we're done. All right. So this first one, this first one is basically, so it's split up in columns. Actually, I'm probably showing it on the screen right now. All right. So you'll see it's divided up in Mother, Father, Other. So it says in the column below, write positive traits or characteristics of your primary caretaker. Use words such as loving, caring, always there, nurturing, sense of humor, intelligent, hardworking, playful, etc. All right. So your primary caregiver. So if you had both mother and father in your life, you know, fill it out for both of them. Other. So if you were raised by your grandparents or adoptive parents or uncle and whoever raised you, okay. Oh, and by the way, like you can like pause it after each section if you want, if you need me to kind of explain it a little bit. So here's some examples that I would put. All right. So my, my mother, all right. So growing up, my mother was an alcoholic until I was 20. There weren't, if I'm being honest, like when I first got this worksheet, there weren't too many good characteristics I could look at, right?  So my dad pretty much raised me when I was growing up. All right. Next section. In the column below, write negative traits or characteristics of your primary caretakers. Use words such as never there, critical, anxious, angry, controlling, cold, distant, preoccupied, depressed, hard to please, et cetera. So for like my mom, it would have been a lot of those things. It would have been, you know, never there. Mood swings, angry, depressed, suicidal, just outrageous emotions. My dad, who raised me, it would have been some things like, you know, even though I put hardworking as a positive one, hardworking would have been a negative one too. My dad worked a ton. My dad, you know, we didn't really show emotions that much and things like that. So those are the things that I would put under the negative traits for my mom and my dad. So the next one. In the box below, write things that you needed the most and didn't get from your caretaker, takers. Use words such as more time, acceptance of who I was, encouragement, affection, understanding, respect. So things that I would put and you can kind of lump these together. You don't need to write, you know, specifically for mom or dad. You can if you want to, but like my mom, like the things I needed, like what did I need for my mom? I needed her to be sober. I needed more time of hers, more love, more affection. I needed her to care. I needed her to just be normal. I remember just wishing that my mom was normal. For my dad, I would probably say like, I wish we had more money. I wish I had a normal family and all sorts of stuff. So D, list three childhood frustrations, what you felt and what you did in response. All right. So for example, so there's in three columns, right? So what's the frustration, what you felt and what you did, right? So when I would go visit my mom in California and she'd be drunk. Okay. So I would just put like, mom was drunk. What I felt, I felt like she didn't care. Okay. And what did I do? I got angry. Like I got angry and sometimes I would yell at her or scream at her or whatever. Sometimes I would act out something else, a childhood frustration. One of my biggest child frustrations coming from my mom or dad, I hated this as a kid when they said, because I'm the adult, right? Like I hated this kind of just, you know, this, this power play, right? And when things got like that, what I felt like I was an angry kid. So I felt anger. But like, what did I do? I shut down. Like I'm the type of person where it's just like, whatever, and I'm done. Okay. So fill that out. That's the last one. All right. I'm expecting that you're following along here and you've been pausing and writing and everything like that. So now you can go down below, get document number two, and either print it out or write this section down in your notebook or scrap piece of paper. Okay. So let's get rolling. All right. So this says my unconscious relationship agenda. So imagine this is your unconscious speaking when you were in the mate selection process. So the way I preface this, the way I preface this to my clients when I do this with them, for a lot of them, I'm like, it's like a freaking magic trick. Like it is just crazy.  I'll touch on that after we get through this. Okay. So imagine this is your, your unconscious speaking when you're trying to pick somebody. Okay. When you're in the single dating pool, this is why you pick who you pick. All right. So one, I am trying to find and or get a spouse or life partner who will be insert positive traits from section A. So like that, that loving or caring or hard working. All right. So these are some of the positive qualities that you're looking for in that person. Number two, but I won't really fall in love unless he or she also has at least some of these traits. All right. Insert from column B. So these are the negative things. So you might start to see that you are picking people, whether it's a man or a woman, the people you are picking have some negative traits of your parents. Now section two, when I find someone with a blend of both positive and negative traits, I will get really interested in him or her and may fall in love and form an intimate commitment relationship. So this next part three, in my relationship, I will struggle to get my partner to have only the positive traits so that I can finally get an adult version of blank. All right. So those needs that you needed, right? What did you need from your mom? Or what did you need from your dad? So this is, this is interesting. I'll let you fill out the last one until I, and then I'll come back to this. So number four, in my relationship, I will sometimes tend to stop myself from getting these needs met by doing an adult version of these behaviors. All right. So basically, like what you're, what you're doing is the action that you were taking in that last column, like what's the adult version of that.  So let me just go back to my drinking days and stuff like that. Like me acting out as an adult is me getting really drunk. Okay. That's me acting out. The other one, me shutting down, like giving my, my girlfriend the silent treatment. All right. So that's what that means. Okay. All right. So, so yeah, basically, like, I don't know, like I really want you guys to leave comments down below. I really, really want you to, um, because basically what we're seeing is, is that we're finding, we're finding potential mates who are this combination of our caretakers. And the reason that is, and I can do entire videos on this, the reason is, is because that's where we feel comfortable. So for me, I was only comfortable dating chaotic women. I was only comfortable. I would not date women who were normal or calm or had their stuff together. I didn't feel comfortable. And what I was trying to do was I was trying to get them to meet the needs that my mom didn't give me as a child. Do you see what I mean? But like the other part is what we start seeing and especially number four is that we're, we're doing a lot of childish behaviors as adult. So like when we look at this, it's like no wonder why our relationships go south, right? We're not looking for the perfect mate. We're looking for someone who has the same flaws as our caretaker, as somebody as when we were a child. This is why children of alcoholics or addicts, for example, are like extremely, extremely likely to marry an alcoholic or an addict. This is why children who are abused, whether it's verbally or physically or sexually, they might date somebody who fits that. And this is on your unconscious. And it's absolutely insane sometimes. But I'll never forget one time I did this with a group at my treatment center. And afterwards this young woman came up to me right after and she's like, Chris, Chris. And she's like shaking. And she's like, she's like, can I come outside and smoke with you? I'm like, okay, sure. And we go outside and she breaks down in tears. She breaks down in tears.  Oh my God. Now I see why I keep dating these men. Oh my God. And she's like freaking out. And I'm like, listen, calm down. Like the first step towards solving any problem is recognizing that there is a problem, right? So if you can relate, like if this like shed some light on some stuff for you, like that's awesome. Now you know what to look for. Now you can say, Oh, I'm attracted to this for a reason. And that's unhealthy. You can change that. You can break that cycle. I am a living example of that. My girlfriend and I have been together for almost two years. And she is not really like my mom, like at all. And this is like the first woman who is like, pretty much nothing like my mom. I was actually talking with her in the car about this worksheet and stuff. And it's interesting because people change over time. Like my girlfriend was saying, you know, she she used to have some of those traits that I mentioned, but she's outgrown them, right? And I'm a much different person too. So I will just in the video with this what I've noticed what I've noticed with this, I've seen some people who like this like did nothing for them. It didn't shed any light. Like they're like, no, I don't look for people like that. What I have found just and this is just personal theory. I found people who who keep getting into toxic relationships. So mainly young single people. I've seen that a lot. But like, I don't know, like married couples. I've seen like I've seen I've seen quite a few. But like, I don't know. It's hard to explain. But for some people, this is like not accurate. But this is very accurate for some of us who for lack of better words are kind of mentally or emotionally unstable. But doing this is going to help you find a better relationship. Or like I mentioned in my Trisha Paytas video, like this is why some of us just need to stay single for a long time and be like, okay, I am attracted to the wrong type of person. That's why this video is going in my playlist called the broken picker. Some of us just have a broken picker and it can get fixed. All right. So anyways, this is a long video. I hope you enjoyed it. Leave comments down below. Let me know like what your revelations were. If you could relate to this, like if this matched up and everything, let me know down in the conversation in the comments. Let's have a discussion. All right. Anyways, that's all I got for you. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up.  Make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. 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About 1 in 3 Americans take some multivitamin. Is that helpful, harmful, or just harmless a waste of money? In 2011, the Iowa Women's Health Study reported that multivitamin use was associated with a higher risk of total mortality, meaning in effect women who took a multivitamin appeared to be paying to live shorter lives. But this was an observational study, meaning they didn't split them up into two groups, put half on a multivitamin and see who lived longer. They just followed a large population of women over time and found that those who happened to be taking multivitamins were more likely to die. But maybe they were taking multivitamins because they were sick? The researchers didn't find any evidence of that, but ideally what we'd have is a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial, and thousands of people have followed for over a decade, half given a multivitamin, half a placebo, and see what happens. And that's what we got the following year. In 2012, the Harvard Physician studied, too. And after a decade, no effect on heart attack, stroke, or mortality. The accompanying editorial concluded that multivitamins are a distraction from effective cardiovascular disease prevention. The message needs to remain simple and focused. Heart disease can be largely prevented by healthy lifestyle changes. They did, however, find that for men with a history of cancer, the multivitamin appeared to be protective against getting cancer again, though there was no significant difference in cancer mortality or cancer protection in those who've never had cancer before. Still, though, that's pretty exciting. It is just one study, though. Ideally we'd have like 20 of these placebo-controlled trials and then compile all the results together. And that's what we got in 2013. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, 21 of them, covering more than 90,000 individuals and no influence on mortality either way. Some found more cancer mortality, some found less cancer mortality, but all in all, it was a wash. And that was heralded as good news. I mean, after the Iowa Women's Health Study came out, we were worried multivitamins could be harming millions of people. But instead, they don't appear to have much effect either way. The accompanying editorial asked, should meta-analysis trump observational studies? I mean, Iowa Women's Health Study followed tens of thousands of women for nearly 20 years. Well, what if we put all the studies together, the big observational studies, along with the experimental trials? And that's what we got in December 2013, concluding that multivitamins appear to offer no consistent evidence of benefit for heart disease, cancer, or living longer. Why, though? Aren't multivitamins— I mean, aren't vitamins and minerals good for us? Well, one explanation for this result could be that our bodies are so complex that the effects of supplementing a few components is generally ineffective or actually does harm. Maybe we should get our nutrients in the way nature intended. The accompanying editorial concluded, enough is enough. We should stop wasting our money on vitamin and mineral supplements. Americans spend billions on such supplements. A better investment in health would be eating more fruits and vegetables. Now, imagine if we instead spent those billions on healthy food. This is not the aisle we should be getting our nutrients from. With the money we save on pills, we can buy more of the best multivitamins on Earth.


So the Cardinals are more likely going to lose this game. The Cardinals seem to turn things around. They are in first place in the NL Central. How good are we feeling about St. Louis right now?  They still have power in the middle of the lineup with Ozone, Zuna, Fam, and company. I love their athleticism. They're catching the ball a little bit better. And when you have Martinez and Walker re-emerging the front line guys, they can shut down anybody in the Central and in the National League. So there definitely going to be some competition going down the series. The Cubs are not just going to be able to run away versus it. I think it's going to be back and forth between a bunch of ball clubs in the Central because the Central has turned out to be pretty tough. Let's see. Yeah, there's three and a half games separate four teams right now. So I think just in general, I mean, the loss of Yadir Malina is definitely going to be big. I mean, he's the heart and soul of that lineup. When he's behind the plate, their ERA is 3.9 with him not in the lineup. It's a 4.10. So that's over a half a run difference when you don't have that man behind the plate. Obviously, Matt Carpenter and Dexter Fowler have to get going. But for this team to be where they are right now, without getting contributions from some of their star players, I mean, I thought the Cubs were going to run away with the division early in the year, but now I'm jumping on the St. Louis Cardinal Train. All right, Malina was getting it done at the plate as well. But of course, he's going to be missed the most behind the plate as you mentioned because that pitching staff really going to struggle without him more than likely without him calling those ball games. So then that's with the 1-0 lead there. They won 7-8 after a slow start. They all seem to be turning things around. Are the Nets now who we thought they would be at the beginning of the season? Yeah, man, they look good. And I don't necessarily know if it was moving Bryce Harper into the leadoff spot, but either way, man, they seem like they got a little fight in them. They had that series at home against Philly Delphi and Philly's who, I mean, it's a team, no joke, man. I mean, Gabe's got them boys playing over there. But for them to fight back and to win those last two games the way they did, it seems like it's giving them a little momentum moving forward. Obviously, first year manager Dave Martinez, he's starting to figure some things out. He's learning his guys and they're starting to gel a little bit. Love the move for Harper to the leadoff spot. It lets him get his timing. He gets his swing and goal aggressively at pitches. And it gets his slagger back. When Zimmerman, who was huge for them last year, almost MVP type season, he came out the gate struggling and the team struggled offensively because they had a bunch of injuries. Radone still down.  And they're the best 3, 4, and 5 in all of baseball. When they are healthy, so they need to get some time and buy some time. They have the pitching in at the front line with Gio Gonzalez, Strasburg, Scherzer. Those three guys can beat anybody in baseball. So we knew they were going to be fine. I never lost faith in them. And especially in this division, we love Atlanta. We love their style, but can their pitching grow up? That's the same question for the Philadelphia affiliates too, have great offense, great athleticism, but can that pitching sustain that and go up against some of the tougher offenses in the National League remains to be seen. But again, this is going to be a fun division, but I think they're going to be at the top of it all of a sudden. Yeah, no doubt. When it's all said and done, all you had to do is list off those three pitchers he listed for you a second ago, man. And that team is right where they need to be. Obviously, Bryce Harper still hasn't hit his stride. I don't know if contract talks or anything have been kind of the lull for him. You know he'll come around. Yeah, I mean, obviously, he's one of the best talents we have in our game. And to see him and the leadoff spot, man, to say, hey, he's unselfish enough to be like, you know what, if this helps my team win, then I'll do exactly what he needs. Can't pitch around them. Still the team to beat the NLEs, but Arizona still the team to beat in the National League. Oh, for sure. Oh, yeah, yeah. Diamondbacks got my vote all day long, man. They're fun to watch. They have lineup depth. And ultimately, you're going to have to go through the Diamondbacks, and that's a tough lineup, especially a starting pitcher to navigate because anybody in that lineup can beat you. And they still don't even have Paul Goldschmidt going yet. Paulic has been the best player on their team. He stays on the barrel. And you notice every time he gets hurt, it seems to be that that's the downfall of their season. So he's the huge part of their lineup and the Calisthen lineup. They continue to keep him hot. They're going to continue to win. All right, we'll keep you updated on what the Nets are doing and San Diego throughout the show.