If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go Mind pump, mind pump with your hosts, Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer and Justin Andrews In this extremely motivating episode, you can't do it of Mind Pump For the first 33 minutes we talk about a few fun topics. We talk about Canna sexuals Yeah, what is that married couples and sex we actually talk about our own personal Sex lives. We did. Yep. That was pretty much I would say the first half was like all of our personal sex Adam and I had a lot to say Then we talked about sexual sexual drive And then we get into I guess the topic of the episode motivation Is it bullshit? What's up with all these motivational speakers and you got to get motivated do everything you need these guys barking at you all day long Yeah, also look this month maps anabolic is 50% off all month long. What did you say 50% off what? Basically you take the price you cut it in half. That's what you pay. Wow. 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No, these are people who like to use cannabis for sex, but in particular it's women who like to spray or use cannabis-based Like oils or sprays or whatever on their vagina Vigine.  Is that what's going on? I'm reading this article and it's talking about how these women like to use it because it helps them get Orgasms, but doesn't that because it numbs it.  They don't need it. They don't need it. That's for men. Men need to numb their stuff. Women can go all night if they want to Yeah, that necessarily not all women like to have 10 orgasms. No, I'm not all like that Adam looks at me. He's like listen, so a lot of them told me it's too much Trust me. I mean it's it's over cat. I have a problem. Yeah. Yeah Women don't like it when I do that to them all the time every day Exhausted all day. They don't like that. No, no, they put it on there They put it on their vaginas or in the vaginas Because I feel like I threw an R in or around the vagina. Yeah, it's because it it it this is what one person says I feel a warmth in comfort down there that I wouldn't without it. Okay. Yeah, I think I think we're gonna see lots of stuff With cannabis start coming out, you know, here's what it's already, you know, it sucks.  Yes We're gonna have to start using heroin like It's already getting uncool.  Yeah, so Here's the thing about some studies like this because they'll do a study. They'll be like, oh people who use Cannabis spray on the vaginas report having Localized right there like is that like the effect? I mean if it's like a Lube or like something like that. I don't know about that. Plus it takes a long time I'm like, is that true? Plus it takes a long time to hit you So what do you spray it and then you're like listen, how can you localize it right there? It goes to your bloodstream. I I don't know it might have a local effect But it takes a while. So what do they do like and then they're like, all right, honey Listen, we're gonna watch TV for an hour. Well, that's why I said numbing That's the only that makes sense to me because we used to make like this these rubbing alcohol for like pain and stuff like that And you could rub it on the skin and it would it would it would actually I don't think it works Yeah, no, you know why because when you're rubbing it on a local area It has to go through the the skin and then it doesn't go just to that area it goes systemically Now cold shit or like what is it called like menthol and stuff right right now tie inflammatory stuff Well, no, no that that works but not because it's doing something directly to the area that you're putting it on But because it distracts the central nervous system and it confuses the signal So it feels cold instead of pain and so you're like, oh, it doesn't hurt That's how that works. But but here's a deal with studies like this. The reason why I think they're crazy is Let's say you do take a poll of people. Yeah, that was one person you mentioned. No, no That was just a quote. That was just a quote So it worked for me let's end of study studies show one person Well, let's say you did you did a study right or not a study a survey because they didn't done studies of the surveys They said women who reported using Cannabis that vaginal spray report 50% more ag orgasms than women who don't here's why that study is terrible Because I feel like the women that are likely to use a spray on their vagina before sex are the kind that are probably More likely to be relaxed and have orgasms, you know I'm saying like imagine if you're gonna hook up with a girl No, no, I could totally say if you got a girl who's already like very insecure or scared She's not gonna be like hold on say pretentious and she's and she doesn't want to do certain things and like yeah Like the last thing you're gonna do is be like, hey, why don't you spray some marijuana on your badge? You like she's gonna be like, oh, yeah, that's a great.  I think I think when I think women who are like and people people who are more likely To do these things are more likely to have good sex and it's not necessarily the thing that they're doing It's the fact that they're willing to do them What a Doug, you know I'm saying random question here. You can Google for I'm I know I'm putting you to work today, dude How many? Could you captain captain? I want to know that the the how often the average married couple has sex Once week is it really? Oh, I think it's three to four times a month something like that three to five times a month Something like that once yeah, I know this I know this because I use this in arguments Are you above or below average Justin? Wow above? Okay. Good. Yeah. Well, we'll actually see the what's see the average is first Then I can ask well based off of Sal's right there. Yeah, let's see what's that 54 times a year or a little more than once a week It's almost as if I can't be wrong Or we just happen to talk about all the things that you Google So once a week is the Average right around Wow, yeah, baby.  Yes That's how it always starts man. Yeah, that's how it's yeah, you don't have kids. Oh me Yeah, dude, it's not this is not your same playing field. Hey, bro.  We're in a great relationship still Still going like this.  Oh mine mine and my my marriage There you go, that's the thing yeah, how many married couples get that sex to a lot Well, you know why dude because it's an important part of relation. I think people start to you know, I don't want to talk about What go ahead finish your sins here I'm really good to say about this here's the thing sex is not that important and unless something's wrong with it Then it becomes very important. Otherwise a healthy relationship can be a lot of sex that that much sex But but if there's a problem with one of the people in there Yeah, then it becomes an issue and happy because it's yeah because it's very individual like you're okay That's the average, right? You know what that means that means half of the married couples have more than that and Half of the married couples have less than that because that's them. That's the average, right? So, you know, you could be in a marriage where you know a guy Which that's actually really crazy to me because obviously there's a lot of people that are doing it two three times a week That probably fall in the category of where I'm at, right and who knows where are you at? Where are you at right now right now? Yeah, Jesus Christ We know where you were at when you guys first got in your relationship. Are you still keeping that pace? You know we do we go in in insane spurts So so look at it a month. We won't have so don't so don't look at like a we won't I don't know It's hard to catch. So we they'll be they'll be like a day or two where we don't have sex And then it's like we should all track for the next 45 days a bunch all day. We should all track for 45 track That's like that'd be easy for me. I could probably predict it I Have a lot now see I I'm a very sexual person So for me once a week would be too little but here's the deal. I know I'll take that back I wouldn't mind once a week sex if it was good. In fact, I don't care about the frequency as much as I care about the quality That's the truth hundred percent.  That would be fine It's got to be that the quality is more important when I was younger quantity was important Yeah, that's a moulder. I definitely go about the enthusiasm. I go in spurts like you're saying too But I would I when I say three times a week. I would say that's my average, right? Yeah, because we have a we'll have a week where it's crazy It's five or six and then we'll have a week where it's two or one, right? Yeah, so I don't want I don't know one one I'm getting a lot of shit if they if it actually if it's like a crazy. Are you the one giving the sympathy sex? I'm not gonna answer Set me up like that No, no, they'd never I would never give my girl sympathy sex But I definitely for sure if it was up to her we would consistently be somewhere between five and five and seven I'm just too tired for that. Yeah, I mean, I try hard man. I lift a lot of weights I do a lot of things my mind's working a lot Yeah, that's a lot to ask it is a lot because I bring it every time too.   I mean every time I mean I know I texted Hey, bro, I talked to you real quick. Yeah, I was talking to your girl. Yeah No, I think Quality is so much more important than quantity quantity is important too, of course I mean, I said the once a month thing and now that I think about that probably would be too little but Once a week really good. I would be so I would be happy, but it has to be like really good Can what makes good sex? How about that? It's a better question.  Good, where you're like wow that was that was quality. It just has to be like like very enthusiastic You know like Like I'm into this what a great adjective Yeah Let's do this honey.  Was she what clicked shoes? She played volleyball. She was an athlete Yes, she's an athlete kind of I mean she wasn't like super competitive like she didn't like play like Basically, she was like really good But like was disinterested in it because like the coaches and whatever or she was like not into it But yeah, she was athlete and hung out with athletes and stuff. So not cheerleader or no She was in the her sister which is kind of strange to me because her sister or older one is Very fiercely independent, you know has her own business is like a lawyer and like She was a cheerleader and I was just like what like I don't know There's just like this there's a stigma that comes stigma. It's just a different like I Didn't see that in my mind, you know, so that would that kind of threw me off See, it's kind of funny to find that out at our school. We probably had like a 50-50 split We had like half the cheerleader girls were following the stigma right of the kind of did see whatever, but the other half were actually the You know AP classes smart girls. Oh, yeah, there were some smart girls for sure Yeah, it was something like enjoyed doing but yeah, so an enthusiasm is what you look for you Yeah, what about you Adam for me it's like and and there's and I know when we hit this point, right? There becomes a point where you you lose track of time and everything else like and it's literally you feel like It almost feel like you're having sex with yourself No, I'm serious. Like you become one Adam. What's the best kind of sex? I like banging me When when we when we get connected like that it literally feels like there's there's no Wrong move or turn like you literally feel like one person When you when you when you get that connected nothing's better than love that to me that to me is the But don't get me wrong like there's I also feel like there's times like you know Like if her and I have been stressed and frustrated this and that and we're going back to mash it out Right, then there's definitely the pull the hair She wasn't ready for type of deal Pagging sash This is a thing dude where a girl puts on a girl puts on a strap on Yeah, there's a term for this. There is a term. I just thought it was like a girl puts it's called paging paging P. E Gigi Sounds appropriate for what it is. Can you Google that real quick just Adam a dog? I want to see what we know I'm just kidding. No, that's what it's called. So anyway, so you're talking about making love Yeah, I mean I Mean how do you define that right like for I don't know if that's the well making love is is like well You're it's like I think what you're saying. I think making love is is defined by each person individually, right?  Yeah, well, you just growth in the same like wavelength Yes, same. Yeah, like alignment and and it it seemed less at that point It's I think everybody like has experienced that anybody that's ever, you know, or if you're into dancing, right? It's like when you dance like you're dancing with somebody who just literally vibes with you completely and no pants dance Yeah, it's the no pants dance. So that's that's to me. That's what I think is epic great great sex That's good, right.  Um I like like animal noises. Yeah, that's what I feel.  Yeah, you get the Western oil Yeah, it's there's when when there's no boundaries when it's you know boundaries what I mean by that is where you feel safe words You feel very do you guys have a safe word? Is it? No, I don't have a safe word. Yeah, we haven't had we just we haven't we haven't hit something that needed a safe word So far. Yeah, all right.  That's why I feel like those that's the kind of sex where disagreements big arguments That's the kind of each other. This is it. I'm done with you. I'm finding someone new. Oh, I'm just kidding I love you. Yeah, no, that's that's the kind of sex where afterwards you you think to yourself like Oh, I don't know if I could bring that I gotta take a shower.  Do you is there certain feedback that you're looking for like is there like well when she tells me that like I I know? I did it see Mike. Oh, yeah, me and my girl are very similar So she's vocal like I am so I know I just know the noises. Yeah, I'm like, oh hitting a good spot Keep driving now This has nothing like that Keep driving driving in on that signal I think I'm all rough dude. I'm super super sensitive dude, bro. I have never seen you be Like that with anything I've seen how you eat food Fair enough, I do think I do I do have that ability ability of both. I do believe that I do believe there's a correlation between How how men eat and how they fuck? Yeah all over oh my god, yeah, no it's But yeah, it's it's so different from person to person no complaints one of the worst things I could only imagine is if you're with somebody who has a low sex drive and you have a high sex driver vice versa Right because you could have everything else be healthy, but how do you well? That was one of you bring those that was one of the biggest challenges that we went through in my relationship was You know going through this whole hormone thing like I also happen to be with probably I would say Katrina is Yeah, she's probably Yeah, I don't I don't think I've ever dated anybody that wants to have sex as much as she does So to be with the girl that that wants more sex than any woman I've ever been with at the same time that I'm going through the Hormonal challenges like that that really definitely hurt. I think her and her and Jessica have that have that in common Yeah, cuz I have yet like I At any given moment my girl could be like, oh my god my head hurts I don't feel good and I'd be like you want to do it like yes, like I've never My my now when I was married it was not like that the stars had to align the planets had to be in the right But was it like that before I kids yep It was it was it was like that for most of the time. Yeah, what's I mean? It's like what you guys are describing after he was like before yeah before kids after kids It's all over verse.  What do you think? It is about that that really causes them to go from being because obviously the the main drive is probably because they have this You know to reproduce right inside and that's what probably drives that crazy sexual drive then they do do you think that's what it is? It's because they've come elated that's like, oh, I really did. Yeah, this is what I've accomplished it, right Right, there's a lot of things you're pretty much. You're pretty much useless now There's a lot of things first of all first of all I got what I wanted. Thank you. Thanks man. Go take a seat. No, no think about think about it this way Okay, how would you've been through injuries and hormone changes, right? Okay, you go through a pregnancy first of all your body's not yours for nine months.  You're not getting Good sleep. I wouldn't want to have sex either. Yeah, okay I wouldn't either and then afterwards while your breastfeeding your hormones stay a pretend It's almost like menopause while your breastfeeding and this is because your body is trying to prevent you from getting pregnant right away again So there's that that's going on then you have the kids they grow up Hormones take it takes a while for them to get back most the client the female clients that I would train would tell me that would take them About a year or two to start to even feel Normal again, but then on top of that you have the added stress and the added all the added stress from having kids now And then of course you may be more self-conscious of your body because a lot of women's bodies You know, even if you take care of yourself and stuff There's certain things that happen that you may not have control You know what I was having my buddy last week. This was hilarious.  I was like, I don't know I probably it's so it's such a good thing that women have babies and not men Yeah, for sure because we would just blast each other Like for sure if I ever into a water yeah, if I got pregnant I'd come to work and you'd be like doing something You wouldn't even be like For sure we blast No, it's it's a challenge. It's funny to when they do when they do like surveys and stuff on married people with children They find it's such a catch-22. I had this conversation with Jessica the other day people with kids to report less happiness and more Anxiety and more like all it's like it seems like it's all bad, but then they get to the question of yeah Like they feel more fulfilled more fulfilled the meaningfulness and purpose and it's yes Yes enriched and yeah, whatever term you want to throw out there. It's such a different but it's it's such a dichotomy I can clearly see like for sure without kids I'd probably be having more fun more excited yay more relaxation I was a but then for sure I wouldn't have as much of the yeah of the you know now fulfillment Have you guys have you guys notice compromise a correlation between? Exercise and your guys is sex for example like for me for sure I notice a huge difference in just this one both of us are my my sex drive How good the sex is and and how good of shape that I'm currently in so if I'm I'm consistent on the diet I've been training like everything's on the rise sex is is up as far as the amount of it And then how good it is all that's on the rise and if I'm like kind of like whatever I'm inconsistent with that My sex drive my sex reflects it completely for sure. That's the go-to. Yeah, if things are a little bit rocky It's like let's get back to the gym. Yeah, right. Let's work on ourselves Yeah, if I'm feeling strong and healthy then I'm definitely more definitely more sexual definitely more horny and her too It's the same it's you just want them like you want to feel good And you want to be able to bring that into the relationship and you know if you're working on yourself You feel a lot better Well, I was always told this was like a chick trait like I thought it was a girl thing that you know girls Have to feel sexy in order to want to have sex Was it talk about it? Yeah, I feel that way like if I'm if I feel down on myself, or I feel like I'm not a Section you do with the lights off. Yeah You know Katrina makes totally my man boobs. Yeah. No, absolutely. It's it's like it's some it's I'm not even like Consciously doing it subconsciously.   You know what I look good. I like see I'm not looking at me Yeah, no, I'm probably I forgot you have sex with yourself I Like I like I'm not talking about I know what you mean you you feel self-conscious right right I'm talking about you guys and your sex drive not rough the correlation between your girls being in shape and working out I'm talking about just you yourself like there's a direct correlation for me like when I'm in shape when I'm feeling good Sex is up not anything to do with her everything you think it has to do with the visual or the fact that you just feel better for I think both yeah for sure both right because obviously and we've talked about this with my hormone levels as soon as I started lifting heavy again So by that there was an instant spike in testosterone So that helped and then as I've continued to progress over the last month or two Watching the physical change happen to my body and stuff like that is made me feel that way too And then I do I feel myself walking around the room naked and stuff where before I would leave my clothes on longer before I take them off and stuff. So no, I like always ready. Yeah, so you don't like lights on either, huh? I do lights on now, but I don't know.  Yeah dim lights pitch black can be fun, too Though yeah because then it's mysterious.  How do you turn? How do you get your girls in the mood? Well, I mean you probably the other way around. Yeah, how did well? Let's say you you want to have say you just go up to your girl and say let's do it.    Yeah, I am I'm definitely more complicated. What does she do if you were to ask her you she probably tell you She's still trying to figure it out. She probably tell you like, you know slip She's definitely drink what dirty talk doesn't work No, no, you know in fact the more she tries the less The less I want to so if I for me I think the still the the male side of me still wants to hunt and you want to pursue her I do I do want to pursue still so she can't just and so my girl when we first started dating She was you know, the she thought there was like, you know, you just grab my dick and like I'm gonna be in the mood It doesn't work for me. I'm saying that doesn't that doesn't it doesn't turn me on, you know I'm also not like oh don't touch me there. I'm not that guy either, but you know at the same time I'm like that's not gonna I feel like I need to chase her a little bit So she she'd be chocolates or something. She knows to play.  She showers, you know I'm saying already.  She does a little look back over her shoulder to see if I'm looking so like I see you dude I see you don't trip no for for me I just I just have to say something or just take my shirt off. That's the funny that take my shirt off I'm like, I better get ready to have sex For my girl to get me in the mood I mean she'll do it if she just grabs me usually that'll that'll probably work But if I'm kind of like stressed or whatever and that's not really working Just she just has to start talking dirty when I was when I know how she does it too She'd be like, you know, I was thinking about the other day and I'll be oh really what what were you thinking about? And it'll be like the filthiest thing ever.  I didn't expect that.  If you I'm saying Works on everybody is talking about, you know, like a great question to prompt or ask is like their their favorite times With you right the favorite the over some of your favorite moments or favorite things that we you've done about fantasies You ever ask your girl try this ask your girl What is the most naughtiest fantasy you've ever had in your own mind? Yeah, no holds barred no boundaries.  What is that? And then they're like, yeah, I don't have any no they have they have them They're just afraid that they're gonna get judged trust me.  I'll work on me. I'd be like really tell me about all my friends We'll have an argument later first-reven sex No, you ask and see but they I think people have to feel safe.  Yeah Dark what's your dark? What's your mood? What's your move? What's my moves to kind of get it going? Pour him a drink. Yeah drinks are good, right? I feel like I feel like I could picture you at your house and like Courtney comes over she like pours pours some scotch for you You're like oh, it's Usually that's that's an indicator like she'll have me go to the store and get something because it's I think it's more just to like lighten the atmosphere a bit and like relax it and so it I know it's gonna be successful based off the conversation. We have on the couch and that's like Once the kids are down and like we're relaxed and we're chill and we're watching like a good show or something like I'm and it's usually I mean Probably 90% of the time when I'm not Thinking about it or trying and then I'm just really fucking in tune with what she's talking about, you know I'm just like I'm really paying attention to her.   That's a thing. That's the problem. Oh, it's changed. It's true. It totally changed now So I have to be a lot more swavane Oh, so there's shit So why would you guys see our defensive Katrina got when we brought the massages and where my massages down from when we first met Yeah, you are spoiled. I have to side with her. I'm on her side Yeah, you were complaining that she's the massage you every day And now she massages you three days a week. Yeah, oh tough poor guy if full-body massage by pro a professional massage therapist.   Yeah every night you conditioned. Yes, right? And you're like and I don't so and she we didn't talk when we didn't talk about this yesterday when we're all together But I remember like vividly like having a conversation with her like you got to stop doing this.  I love to do this. I love to do this.  Are you supposed to say no to that? Right, and you know in her defense That was back when she ran the clinic and she didn't have to get to work till 10 o'clock in the morning And you know, we were living the life at that time and so she closed you man Oh man, and then and then so and then now and here's the thing too. It's like again back to the chef reference You I'm sure somebody who's been with a chef like that can tell when they really get down in the kitchen versus when they Kind of throw something together like warm it up in the microwave. You know I'm saying like that's what you're getting the microwave massages No, honey, I don't think they're microwave massages Not at all. You'll say they're still there and they're still way better than I'll get anywhere else So that's it is tough. It's like out back. It's like it's fast food, but it's okay. That's steak Maybe that's a better analogy It's still good like I'm not complaining right, but it's but I can feel in her hands I can just feel the difference when she is doing it like when she's okay. I'm gonna put it down busy.    I'm saying ha I knew it'd be horrible. Yeah, it seems like that.  Yeah, that would sting a little. Yeah, right if your girls hired a yeah, yeah Yeah, so I'm sure I like Steve. I'm sure it's like that So you were saying about about motivation earlier. Oh, yeah, you know And I and I try not to like I don't want to sound like I'm a hater on it But I like it. Let's get going. Yeah. Well, I just the let's start the hater train Let's go. Well, I just hate parade I just feel like so is it really motivation, right? Like so you see a lot of these people on on Instagram, especially Instagram right now Because I guess the feed so fast, right and because I follow a lot of fitness people So my feet is just flooded for these like inspirational quotes and inspirational monologues that these guys and girls do and It's just a bunch of fluff to me and it and I think that and I think a lot of people think they Really like it and are drawn to it because the the initial reaction you get because even I do too I mean nothing gets me fired up more than hearing like Ray Lewis give like a two-minute like Motivation speech like that. Yeah, it gives me goosebumps. Sometimes I would listen to some of that before I go to the gym But I feel like so many people tune into that stuff in order to give themselves motivation to do something and It's always short-lived when you when you do that, you know I'm saying of course Yeah, because it's not how can you possibly? Motivations of feeling it in like all feelings they they come and they go it literally is a spark and that's about it That's it and when you get it. Here's a here's how I like to use motivation when I feel very motivated I get in this state of of hypomania where I Consume as much information as I possibly can I produce tons of it content I come up with new ideas and it's just it's fun and it's addicting and it's exciting and I can see why people want to chase it And I've had several times in my life where I've stayed in these states for months on end And it's just you're you're you're unstoppable But but they but they come and they go like any other feeling and you have to have the other side because Well, here's a thing a feeling doesn't mean anything if there is no contrast in other words Happiness is nothing without sadness, you know light without dark like the only reason why it's called something It's because it's contrasted from something else you have to feel other ways and so sometimes you're gonna be motivated and Sometimes you're gonna be normal and sometimes you're gonna be unmotivated is the key to be to try to chase the state all The time I mean I guess you can figure out things that help get get you motivated and that's cool There's nothing wrong with that, but you're still never gonna be motivated all the time What what do you do when you're not motivated? Because the problem with trying to be motivated all the time is you only do stuff when you're very motivated And I know a lot of people like this. Oh, it's very much the on and off the wagon mentality, right? It's I have to have this Driving mechanism. I have to have this like energy that's all Narrowed into this one direction and if I don't have it, you know, then well I guess I just have to wait until I get that feeling to come back and People just it becomes this perpetual trap.  I feel like it's the same thing when it's like you don't want to have to Be told every time you need to go to the gym like buy and some the reason why I think I feel so passionately about this is because Many many clients that I train That didn't see the long-term results were the ones that hired me for the motivational piece Yep.  Yeah, they want me to yell at them. They want me to count loud They want me to push them just drain you of all of your energy and everything suck the life out of you Meanwhile and it took me years into my career before I really realized that I was not helping these people Yeah, sure I was helping them for that one hour to get through that workout But I really wasn't installing good habits and teaching them good behaviors and really getting them to understand nutrition and programming What I was doing was hyping them, you know, like let's do this. Let's work and I can do that very well I got really good at that. I could do that for a lot of people, but it doesn't it's not a long-term strategy at all I like to use those when I would manage gyms or when I would use that for specific events or for specific times Like look normally we're consistent. We work hard today is different today's the whatever It's the final day of this or it's that we're competing with now We're gonna use the motivation to push us over the edge But consistency is what wins the race consistency is what develops. It's all about good patterns good behaviors It's about finding meaning and purpose behind what you're doing.  Yeah, you have no idea which and it's not it's just not effective Well, it's just it's so generic like the advice that they're putting out there like nothing is very specific as to Like am I am I getting something out of this am I getting a real tool that I can use and apply to my life versus just Somebody sort of barking at me and getting waking me up and getting my attention I just I I get really irritated and listening to a bunch of general Statements being thrown out there that it's like yeah, no shit, right? You like no shit like like tell me something applicable Like give me give me some kind of substance and then I'll pay attention to you What do you guys say to somebody that that actually that would like disagree with this right now and be like I why I love that stuff and that when I love listening to motive motivational videos and quotes and so do I it helps me out right I do too yeah, so like what do you say to that person who Thinks that it's it is worth it. And why would you say it's not I don't think it's not worth it I think you know, I enjoy watching those things. I love reading motivational quotes I love reading stories about people who overcame Difficult odds that you tremendous things. I love all that stuff, too I think everybody does it's a it's a it's existential, right? We all enjoy that the the problem that I get is is when people are led to believe or when people just Falsely believe that that's the key. Yeah, that's where it stops. Yeah, like this is it I got to be like this all the time. Yeah, which well, I think of it like this like I mean exercise is exercise science. It's a science, right? It's math and science combined and Motivation would never get you through the most complex mathematical equation or figure out how to do something scientifically so That's you need to have this the formula right so that that to me it's like it's it would be like seeing some this complicated math problem and Doing something to pump you up to try and answer it like as that says your practice to try and learn versus like I keep Believing I can do it right right if I believe hard enough great Right if I find that it hard enough But if you're not you're not taking the actual steps to learn how to solve the problem or learn on how to create this as a Habit or behavior and so then you're just really just kind of running in and that's so that's what I feel about the motivation Is I feel that it's because we're talking about something unique like I like motivational speeches for an Athlete who's getting ready to go into battle right you're it's about you're about to walk out on the field You've practiced all week.  Then you have the other then you have this Motivation stuff in the fitness right now or these people are just hyping people up to get after a workout And nobody's approaching it the right way and in fact I think it promotes people to go after it the wrong way because when you get hyped like that you niche and you Naturally gravitate kill the intensity. Yeah, you know, it becomes that like you're you don't quit go after it push harder Go further which again, there's places for this right so in relationships, you know The way I use motivation now and like I'll use it with a client where I'll talk to someone I say listen like so I've been training somebody for about two months right now and You know and I've told her like she comes in and sees me one time a week That's all I can do right now, right? I don't have that a lot of time to train clients or anything But I'm helping her out and I see her once a week and I say let me be your pace car And I said so in other words You I do not want any of your workouts to be pushed beyond what I'm doing So when I do when I take you through a workout the next week until I see you That's your level of intensity and then so when she comes in for the next week and you know And not always it depends on what I got going on calorie wise what I'm teaching her But every once in a while say to her like okay today's workout I'm gonna stretch you a little bit, you know So this I'm gonna do it this way like I'm gonna push you a little bit more here volume And we're gonna cut maybe rest periods a tiny bit right here And so I'm preparing her that I'm going to stretch you just a little bit and so be right And so when it gets to that point of the workout where normally I let her stop or she wants to stop I go okay. I'm gonna push you here and like and then there's the motivation for the minute I'm gonna hyper up or come on three more or two more or whatever and that's it But it's very Methodical about how I approach it. It's not just let's get this let's get this workout You know from the beginning to the end well motivation is a feeling and it's also typically attached to a goal So like I'm really motivated to lose this 20 pounds or I'm really motivated to get stronger I'm really motivated to Perform better, but part of the problem is a it's a feeling and it can go away and be Let's say it doesn't go away, and then you hit your goal Then you tend to have to make another goal And this is where people over they burn themselves out to the point where they don't want to do that that particular thing anymore Like you can't keep getting stronger. That's impossible. You can't keep improving in your workouts. That's impossible So that when you tie motivate motivation typically is tied to overcoming or or Achieving new goals and so that becomes a big problem now on the flip side of that You know if you're working out and you're trying to be fit and healthy and your goal is to remain that way hopefully forever You can have bouts of motivation where you have different goals Like I do I do that all the time like sometimes I'll have a goal like okay I want to be able to deadlift 550 or I want to be able to do this now I get that but what keeps me going forever is I have found I have found the enjoyment in the Workout itself with no goal with no need for motivation that I have the joy the joy is in the act and When the when the act when you find joy in the act when you find joy or fulfillment in the process Then you don't need motivation because let's say I feel shitty today Let's say I'm feeling like really good. I just feel down.  Longer the person who it's normal to have off days Yeah, the person who enjoys running the person who loves running for the sake of running or the person who's running to Get faster all the time honestly The answer is quite easy right the person who likes doing it every single day is the one that's gonna do it every single day Now what do you think this is on the rise though? I feel like it's and I don't know if it's just because we're so easily connected now And so maybe that's why in my 15-plus year career I feel like it's it's more predominant now than in the space than I've ever seen it before Now do you think that's because of social media do you guys really think that like is it on the rise like this? I think this need to do people need to be motivated like this No, it feels good dude It feels good because motivation is like it's dopamine right dopamine is quite strongly associated with with motivation and it feels good It's addicting look they look at the studies that they did with Like drugs like Ritalin and Adderall right now These are drugs that will raise your dopamine levels quite a bit and they did these studies To see if do these drugs actually make people smarter because people say that they take them they get better grades They study more and they feel like it's a Intelligence enhancing substance now when they did the studies and actually tested people on their intelligence Were they improving their cognitive function? Were they thinking smarty smarter the results came back? No, they were the same the difference was when people took the drugs They just felt like they like they wanted to do what they were doing more because of that motivation chemical Popping into their mind because it feels good. So although they're doing the same thing and they report like oh, I am smarter They're not it's just they want to do they want to read now or they want to because that dopamine so it's addicting So of course, it's gonna be popular like I said, I love watching that should do It's a great feeling to hear someone talk or speak have something resonate get that feeling inside of you like Fuck yeah, let's do this. You know, do you think it's it's it's for some people and if not for other people Yeah, I definitely do I I honestly think that it's kind of like I guess politics in a way where I feel like I'm Must be interesting. I don't understand how people think or are so swayed by like somebody's Opinion, you know, like why are you so affected by that? Why don't you think for yourself? Hmm and I feel like motivation is very similar in Where they need to draw off of somebody and they need they need somebody to do something significant for them to find Significance in themselves. How about them? How about the people that actually are giving the motivation like how exhausting? Oh, yeah, how exhausting bro there I I feel like half those people are not speaking cocaine. Well, I feel Let's be honest, maybe I feel like half the time Right like it's a fair fair guess I feel like a lot of them preach what they're preaching and they're saying it to themselves really like they're on the stage being like You gotta do this. You gotta they're talking to themselves. I believe that a lot of them are talking. So I believe them I think that's why it comes out really good That's why it probably works really well because they that's all they are that they're speaking their heart But it's really back at themselves like I need to do all these things and that's what makes me say all this shit There's a whole mark. There's a big market huge. It's a huge market. It's annoying.   It's the same story. I lost millions of dollars.   In fact, there's a formula for it Literally has happened time and time again.  I don't want to hear that I'd rather hear say like wow you said something and it totally just impacted my life or I had to read a fundamental way Yeah, I just had a girl with someone like one of the last quads we did I don't remember the question that she talked about it had something to do with Cardio kickboxing or teaching multiple classes and I was calling out the people that do that and you know That it's it's terrible if you're trying to build muscle I don't remember the rant that I went on but she was like, you know I was the one you called out and she thanked me and I'm like to me that's like I know that that person I hit something I hit home for that person that she was doing that was probably not helping her and I just gave her something that Hopefully will forever fundamentally change her. She'll never approach her training. I don't I don't mind motivational speakers if they're Providing real like tangible value. How do you measure that? Yeah? Well, there's there's certain ones like there's fluff And then there's yeah, there's real gyms.  He's not a motivational speaker, but guess what he does he ends up motivating a lot of people Some of the stuff he says different I think we get that a lot of time for people Let's say that because we're definitely not motivation speakers for sure But people are motivated to work out and exercise and be back because I think we're growth minded and we share our Process of of trying to grow and be better and therefore that then well You're all motivated by other people as well Like it's a different thing when you see somebody doing something significant where you're like, oh, wow, they're doing that That's awesome. That's impactful like like that that charges me up Well, here's a significant thing that that I heard him say that I thought was Brilliant that I've said for a long time to clients and one thing he said is look You know you improve yourself today and if you're having trouble with that It's because you're not aiming low enough and I thought about that like well That's exactly that's exactly what happens a lot of people people come to us and I've talked to clients like this I'd say the second half of my career This was what made me far more successful as a trainer than my first half of my career People would come to me with these goals Need to lose all this weight need to get healthy totally deconditioned totally unhealthy and I would say things like Okay, here's your meal plan. Here's your exercise. Here's your whatever and they'd be excited because I've given them the solution and inevitably it wouldn't work because it was too much later on what I realized was they came to me And I used to I would aim way lower. Here's what I want you to do today I want you to drink five glasses of water. Let's start with that and they look at me like well No, that's not now and then I would ask him. Well, how many glasses of water are you drinking now? And they'll say oh like one maybe a half the rest of soda and it's okay. It's an improvement You're better. So that's what we're gonna start I used to I'd asked somebody what their goal is and this would always happen, right? They'd give me a picture of someone or show me what this girl looks like. I want to look like this That's my goal. I'm big. That's not your goal I said what your goal should be before you even set a goal like that is how about just for a week like tell yourself You're gonna track your food. Yeah, like have you ever just wrote down what you ate for an entire week That's a better goal set that goal Accomplish that goal and and that's saying and then set another one that stretches that a little bit further And that's what and that's the meaning behind you're not aiming low enough Right because a lot of times people say well, I'm not gonna do that because that's not enough That's because that's stupid That's not gonna make that big of a difference aim for the stars Yeah, that's the moon land on the stars. No, it's it's literally aim low enough to where you're making a small change And then stick with that and then aim low again and make another small There's a lot of brilliance in that statement very brilliant. There is that's a gem That's and that's that's different. It took me a long time to piece that together as a trainer because you you know Your client comes in they pay for you they hire you they tell you their goal Who are who am I to say? No, that's not a good goal You know I'm saying my job is to get like you said give you the formula for that goal I have the formula for that goal problem is, you know 80-90% of them will never execute it ain't gonna work because it only works when you're highly motivated because if a client comes to me Hyper let's say they just came from a Tony Robbins seminar or someone really you know motivational and they came They're like that's it. I'm getting in shape Sal.  That's gonna give you the lifelong if you can't master that one small thing and you want to just skip ahead Well, that's this is also how you create self-motivation too because every time you accomplish one of those goals It becomes more motivating you get one win then you get two wins you get three wins next thing You know you become very confident you're confident because you're winning all the time you said goals and you're accomplishing them all day So what if they're small goals? That's it If they're improvements and you're a better version of yourself today than you were yesterday You're on the right and contrast sometimes and sometimes Sometimes all you need to do because sometimes people like well I don't know where to start like what do I do and of course from the outside I could tell you a million things you could do yeah everything from you know get your car washed Organize this your drawer or small things that are just better than you were yesterday But people sometimes self-trouble so you can reverse it and say okay I bet you can name ten things that you do right now that make your life more difficult Like there's ten things you do right now that are making it hard for you to be fit and healthy Right, so why don't you just stop doing one of them how do we figure that yeah? Just stop doing one of them take one of them off and so like okay every night before dinner I have some ice cream so I think I could just stop that you know and you just and that's it But that's not motivation. That's value. That's real value because motivation is not I guarantee you action Well back back to my math and science analogy I mean it's you're learning the formula like you're literally learning how to solve the equation versus just like throw Shit at it like let's just get after it and we'll figure it out along the way It's like yeah Let's methodically break this big equate because it's a big equation to get yourself into this like crazy shape that whatever or Whatever goal you have it's a major equation So let's break it up into smaller ones that are easier for you to understand and then we can build on that It'll compound and that's why most fitness programs that are sold or Products that are sold on the internet are these 30 day Blast your body gets you in shape quickly because what they sell you on is that motivation you go to this site There's this video.    I'm hyper motivated they buy that meanwhile you have mine pump is like hey We have a super bundle.   It's their behavior And so really it's just making it a part of what you do learn how to enjoy it for the I used to tell clients this all the Time they would come to me and be like Sal. What's the best most effective form of cardio?  So just pick the one that you enjoy the most that's it I'm still waiting to see a motivational guy.  Yeah, no, you know and again, it's addicting. It's fun And there's nothing wrong with it The other thing is too is that it's the feel that people get right because they feel like when they they train hard like that Like and you get this immediate feedback and that of that immediate feedback doesn't necessarily mean it's the right It's not it's not our good feedback, right?  You should leave and be like wow I feel really good. My body feels calm when you're testing yourself Yeah, you save those moments from your fresh and then you're gonna test yourself But the rest of the time you're training. That's a training is a totally different thing That's a lifestyle.   I just go on. It's like this is my this is one of my favorite Do you think a part of the reason why a lot of people too are drawn to the motivation hype stuff is because they don't have the self-belief? Do you think because they they deep down they actually truly don't believe that they can do it and so the Hype and the motivation gives them that artificial feeling like they can for a minute, you know I think that and I think I think part of it is is when you perceive something as work We tend to not want to do it And that I think has happened a lot with working out like exercise I mean shit work and isn't the word working out So like if you tell like if people are like, oh, I have to go do this really hard work It tends to diminish it. There's a there's a there's a term for it Where athletes who play because they love playing Start to lose their love for what they're doing when they start to get paid to do it or when it becomes their job Yeah, all of a sudden they start to lose the the same excitement. Oh, it's very common Yeah, yeah, that's why some people there's a lot of people that are probably listening that are more fans of Plaint watching college sports than professional sports for that exact reason. Yeah, they're since there tends to be more passion In collegiate level out because they're trying to make it right because they're making it to the still somewhat pure Like the intention behind yeah a lot of the play and what you see on the field being expressed versus like somebody trying to keep their job And survive right this is why I'm actually so there's a lot of controversy right now with the NBA And what's happening with all like right now the trade deadlines are going on and all these players are Switching teams and like never we've never seen this in the NBA before like where all these players like typically like an NBA season So let's go back 15 years in the NBA During the offseason you see like maybe you know five or six moves player gets traded or free agency or whatever and Maybe out of those five or six moves one or two of them at most or like a big deal like a big player goes to another big team Or something like oh shit so-and-so is in this team now. This is crazy Where now the last couple years and definitely especially this year has been the most There's players That are all get moving all a big-time players with big names moving all over to all different teams and getting on the same team and The only way that's possible because these guys all the teams have a budget that can work with you Can't just buy any player you want doesn't work out. Yeah, you have a cap So but for the first time ever which is what I I and I'm pro all this There's a lot of people that hate on it because they're saying that these teams are stacking and it makes it shitty for the rest The NBA, but I think it's great because what you're seeing is you're actually seeing players Take less money so they can play together And I think that's a really good thing for the game is to see that because for a very long time I felt for about 10 some of them are chasing a championship Yeah, they want to win they want to win again and that that's becoming more important than an extra 10 or 15 Right right an extra 10 or 15 million dollars like that some of these guys can go out because they're superstars Go get what they call a max contract where they take like one guy like a superstar like a Durant for example, right?  He's still making really good money But that I mean that's you know It's easy for us to say because we're not making 50 million dollars or what about that? Oh, what's the big deal if you don't take 50 you take 40 But if you're somebody who's used to making you know 50 million dollars and now you gotta take 40 million dollars Well, that's 10 million dollars less that you're used to having like who are we to say that's not a big move So I think it's really cool a lot of people think that's ruining the NBA That's not true because all stats are showing the NBA as far as the Headlines and the the conversations that's happening and the people that are viewers that are watching it. It's increasing But I think it's really cool to see these guys doing it's creating more of this team atmosphere where I felt like it was a Lot of iso ball just ten years ago was about the money It's about me and that kind of killed the sport How much I could like you know sandbag my stats and all that kind of stuff so that way I get in the hall of fame because this And that so they're just shoveling the person that one guy the ball the whole time just so he could just put points Well, that's cool It shows that people are more or more interested It's about the game and winning maybe building a legacy building up people around you and and what's cool Is that like so and the Warriors is why it's so fun to talk about them right now is that they are an example of Like how incredible a team can be when like almost all the players are unselfish like that And that's what makes them really scary and dangerous is it's not just one or two guys Like making like a like a big move like that and say hey, I'll take less money It's like the whole team collectively saying like I'll take that role I'll come off the bench even though I could go start for another team and I could be the man somewhere else like I'll come off the bench because I want to play with these guys like that's fucking cool And everybody that wants to hate because you're not a warrior That doesn't get you excited all just a little bit actually no actually it's it is enthralling to hear I don't know anything about it, but it's but when you're talking about sounds good. Okay good So my motivation, but I know LeBron moved and I think la yeah He's trying to it's trying to create a legacy right? He wants to win the championship. Yeah, he has he won. Oh, yeah He's already won. Yeah, he's no no, but he's trying to he's always getting ragged on by not having as many as Jordan Right, right. So he's so maybe this is him trying to build his lock lock the legacy I mean in my opinion, it's already there for him, but you know, but it's just a it's a number Yeah, I think it would I think the way he probably feels and a lot of people feel that if if and when he probably will pass The championships that that's the last like thing that the last thing anybody can throw right because there's I mean You guys the most championship is is it Jordan? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no no no most championships total like as a player No, no Jordan really I Think chamberlain my Google that Doug Robert Ori has seven which is somebody who you would never worry. Yeah, cuz he was part of the Lakers Yeah, so he was he went from he bounced from team to team that was winning championships during that little era that he was running around So there's there's some players that have I think Bill Russell has a ton I don't know what you know what I find what I find motivating is the understanding that Regardless of how I feel whether I feel pumped hyped and motivated or I feel down tired and And in you know depressed. I'm still going to move forward. Yeah, I'm still going to Get up and I'm gonna do what I need to do.  We started mine pump while I was going through a divorce as I was going through that divorce I had to do that. I had to get up and I had to Move forward when I was very unmotivated probably some of the most unmotivated times of my life and I think that might be more of a key than seeking out motivation Oh hundred percent, you know, oh hundred percent. I think that's it. Well again That's like I'm gonna move no matter what well because you create self-belief That's why I say motivation is bullshit self-belief is everything. That's it And I think you being down not wanting to work out under that getting there accomplishing that working through that You know, that's what gives you that self-belief.  Well, you know, so check this out. We have free guides I believe there's 12 of them some of them teach you how to train particular body parts Others teach you how to do high-intensity interval training properly. 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Mornings can be a real murder. I love Halloween and I love creating crafts and more than anything, I love sharing with you how to create crafts step by step. In this video, I will be showing you exactly how to create these DIY funny serial killer bowls. But remember, once you're done with your breakfast, make sure to wash your evidence by hand. All right guys, who's ready for Halloween? I think I am. So we're gonna do a quick video tutorial on how to make these serial killer bowls. I've been seeing them everywhere and I thought, you know what, I'm gonna put my own take on these. So I purchased these two SCG files from Etsy. I will leave the link below in case you're interested in them. But I don't really like the serial bowl here. So I think I'm going to do a couple different things here. I'm gonna get rid of the serial bowl and I'm gonna put the hand prints behind it. And then I'm also gonna find another serial bowl that I like. I don't really like this. It kind of looks like a soup bowl to me, does it not? And like ladle. So I'm not really liking that one too much. If you like this one, please go ahead and use it. Otherwise you can try to do it or you can do what I'm gonna do. So I'm gonna go up here to the ungroup button really quick and I'm gonna get rid of this. I just really do not like that. Next thing I'm gonna do is grab the serial killer and I'm going to go ahead down here and click the weld button. So before I forget to do anything else, I like to do that first. So I clicked weld so that all this would be together when I cut it out. Now I'm going to go into the images up here and I'm gonna type in serial bowl or I typed in bowl before. So maybe we'll see what comes up with that. I did find one, but I wanted to show you guys how I find it. So I'm just looking through here and I'm just looking for a regular old serial bowl. Like I don't like these. They just look like a soup bowl to me. I don't want that in there. You may, but I don't. There was one, oh right here. This one, this one looks more like a bowl to me but I'm just gonna keep looking. All this really depends on if you have the yearly or the monthly subscription. As you can see, it says subscribed here. I have the yearly subscription since I used this quite a bit but if you do not, you're going to be have to pay for this. So that would be something I would look into definitely if you do not have the yearly or monthly subscription to design space. So I have that one image. I'm gonna click insert image and then it's gonna bring it right here. So here it is a little bit bigger. We're gonna make it bigger. Doesn't that one look so much better? I think it looks a lot better. So I'm gonna do this one a couple of different ways. So now I'm gonna do the same thing and I'm gonna get a spoon. So I'm gonna go up to images again and I'm just gonna type in spoon and see what we find here. I'm just looking for a regular old, maybe I could type in table spoon and see if I can, well, we'll use this one here. I like this one. So says it subscribes, we're gonna click on that one. Just kind of looking to see. There's another one I'll take and see which one we like better. They look exactly the same to me. So we'll use the white one. So you don't have to use a spoon. You can use a spoon, you don't have to, whatever. You can also just flip it, kind of put it in if you want and kind of work through it that way. Like if you wanted to put the spoon in like that. You don't even have to use a spoon. Maybe I won't even use a spoon. We'll make it a little bit smaller. But we gotta have it proportionate, right? You know what? I'm not really liking the spoon. I'm gonna get rid of it. I'm just gonna work with the bowl. So now I'm just gonna make it a little bit larger to kind of fit here. And since I already welded this together, it's one whole piece. I can grab both of these here.  That look kind of a bluish color.  So that will center the bowl for me. So now I can go back and do something with these hand prints. I'm not really sure how we should do this. I was thinking I make it a little bit smaller. We'll kind of see. And maybe we can, well, my bowls are white. So I don't really want white on white. So I think I'm just gonna take this away for a second. I'm gonna duplicate this right away. So I'll have two of them, in case I screw one up. So I'm gonna put this one down here. I'm gonna take this one and just shrink it up. You can put these wherever you want them. I mean, you could even put it on here. So you can't see it, but you just gotta go up to the range, move to forward. Oops, move forward. Do we not do it? There we go, move forward. So there it is. That's kind of cool too. I don't know, I guess it's kind of however you wanna do it. And then I was gonna do this part the same way, but also just use the serial killer and not the bowl. So I'm gonna take this, I'm gonna duplicate that one as well. And see now I have this one. So now I can shrink this up. And I'm thinking of maybe putting it over here. See what it looks like. We're gonna do the same thing. We're gonna arrange it and then move forward and see how it looks. Yeah, I don't really like that. I thought that would be kind of neat. Maybe down here. Or you could always move them away from each other. But I see that they are connected together. So maybe you guys know this, maybe you don't. But since you can't ungroup this and there's no detach button or anything on here, the way you can get rid of this is two ways. You can always grab a shape over here and kind of put a circle over here and go that way. But it looks like I can just go in the contour button. So before I go on the contour button, I'm gonna duplicate this so I will have both hands. So I'm gonna work with this one, click on the contour button and I'll show you what this looks like. If you guys are not familiar with this, this is an amazing, amazing button. So here you see your image here. Now I just wanna work with one. So I'm gonna get rid of everything on the left hand here. So I'm just gonna go ahead and click on every one of these. I'm just gonna wait a second for my computer to catch up. There we go. And as you can see, when I click them, it goes lighter gray and that's what you want. That means that it's going away and then you won't see it anymore, but my computer's going a little bit slow. We're gonna try to grab this. And most of the time it comes up on the side here, but again, my computer is lagging. I do have four children at home and they are on the internet. So sometimes it doesn't always help. So I'm gonna show you that really quick what it looks like. All right, so here you go. We see we have these two hands here and we still have this. So I missed this part here and this part here just because my computer is lagging. I'm gonna show you another way that you can finish this up if you don't wanna go to the contour button. Over here to shapes, you can click whatever shape you want. I'm just gonna grab a circle and we'll put it right over that. And I'm gonna grab all my images here, slice it. Now we have this hand here and I can get rid of all of that. There you go, see? So we have one here. You could kind of looks the same. I'm trying to see if they just flipped it, which I think I might actually try to do. It looks like it's the same hand, but they just flipped it. We're gonna try it. So I have this one here. I'm gonna duplicate it again and we're gonna flip it once and see if that's how they did it. So we're gonna flip horizontally. I think those little buggers is that's what they did. Yeah, okay then. Well, this one we don't need. So if you didn't catch that, instead of going in and cleaning the right hand one, so we have, or actually cleaning the left one, so we have the right one, I just took it and flipped it. They're exactly the same image, but whoever created this just flipped the image. So there we go. Now we have two separate hands. You can do whatever you want with this. You can also like put it up here if we shrink it a little bit. You can go over the words like this and maybe even tilt it a little bit. So it looks like it's an actual serial killer. I don't know, I kind of like this one better. But I mean, you can do it that way or you can bring them down here, but I kind of like it up here a little bit. But I'm looking at the size. One hand looks a little bit bigger than the other one. So what I'm gonna do is get rid of this one. We're gonna duplicate this guy. Now he's exactly the same size. Now I'm gonna go ahead and flip them. So go to the flip button, flip horizontally. There, now they're exactly the same size. So they don't look silly. So there, here we go. Wow, I really like that. So you can go ahead and make your own serial killer words or you can just purchase them off at Etsy, which I see two ways. That's you're helping a local business and you're saving yourself some time without having to go and try to figure out what font this is. So I love doing it that way. I really love this one. I'm not so sure about this one. We'll see how it turns out. The last thing I wanna do is just select it all and then change it to the size of your bowl. I actually bought my bowls from Walmart. They are the Better Homes and Gardens one. It does say dishwasher and microwave safe, but once you put vinyl on it is definitely not dishwasher or microwave safe. So if you're gonna sell this, please put that on the disclosure that people don't put this in the dishwasher or in the microwave. So what I do is just take a regular green mat and I'm holding it up to my bowl to see how large I want it. So roughly mine is going to be two by four maybe. So roughly around there. I don't wanna go too much over the edge because once you get to the edge, it kind of curves. That didn't sound right. Once you get to the bottom, it curves on the bowl. So I don't wanna really get to that curved part. So I'm gonna do it. We're gonna try a two by three or two by four and see what that looks like. So I have the whole image here. I'm gonna go up here. Actually I wanna unlock it first and I'm gonna change it to three and then we'll try two, three by two. Well, it's not too bad. I kind of like that guys. So we're gonna do the same thing with this. Grab both images, unlock it and change it to be three by two. Kind of see how it looks. Wow. Yeah, I like these. I do kind of like the hands like that. I mean, you can move them wherever you want. Doesn't have to be right next to each other just so you can kind of see the cereal behind it. Yeah, I like these. So what I do is I love making doubles so then you're not cutting this out later. So what I'm gonna do is select all of it. Actually go up here and duplicate it. Now I will have four of them. So I'm gonna go to the make it button and I'm gonna show you what it looks like. So here it is. Here's my cereal killers. So what I like to do is kind of try to organize it a little bit. Leave myself a little bit of room in between that I can get my scissors in there and then I'll pull these guys over my little bowls and then I'll look here and here are my hand prints. So this one was together. I'm just gonna move it over. So we have a little bit of extra room to cut in between. That's up to you if you guys wanna do this or not. I always just do it. So I have a little bit of scissors room in between each one. So I love how these both look. I'm gonna push continue.  I'm sorry if you guys like it. I have not had any luck with it. So I buy whatever was on Amazon. I'll leave all of my supplies in the description below if you're interested in this. People ask me about my transfer tape. I absolutely love the Frisco. I think that's what it's called, transfer tape. I'll leave it in the description below. And then all the other supplies that I use the scraper, my mats, everything. So in case you're interested in it, I will leave everything down in the description below. So here are my base materials. As I said, I really don't like Cricut. So you can see it in here. Iron on heat transfer, non Cricut. Okay, so that's what I always use for my HTV. When I use my regular vinyl or Oracle 651, I always use this stencil vinyl. And the way I found that is I just went into browse material. And you can type up here like vinyl or whatever you're going to be using and kind of find it and then put a star by it. So that's all these stars are the ones that I use all the time. So that's how I got these up here. So I'm just gonna click stencil vinyl. Don't have to do anything else with this. You just have to get your mat prepared. So I'm going to save time on this video. I'm going to put the transfer, the vinyl onto my mat. I'm gonna cut it out, I'll weed it out and then I'll show you how to apply it to your bowls. If you guys have any questions about weeding, let me know. I did actually just do a video tutorial showing you an even easier way guys to weed. Honest to God, it saved me so much time when I found this tip. Go back, I will leave the description below.  So go and check that one out. So I'm gonna go ahead and finish this up. I'll cut it out, weed it out and I'll show you the next step. All right guys, so I finished weeding these out. I did a whole bunch of them because I hate going back and making more and I know these are gonna sell really well. So there are the serial killer ones. Here are the little bowls. And then here are some hand prints. I will tell you these hand prints were very hard to weed out. I'll show you it really quick. I was having a hard time even with the reverse weed that I show you in a previous video. I will leave that in the description down below. It was still hard just because there's so many little tiny pieces on here. So I have a few cut out right here ready to go. And I'm gonna show you one that I already did, which I love it and I think it turned out absolutely amazing. So serial killer and then I put the two hand prints right next to each other. So I'm just gonna show you it really quick how to do it. So you wanna take a bowl, you can take any bowl that you want. I bought these from Walmart. These are the better homes and gardens ones. You can take this off if you want or leave it on. Let's take it off for the video really quick. So they are the better homes and gardens one. This is dishwasher or microwave safe, but again, I would definitely not put this in the dishwasher or microwave after you put your vinyl on. And if you're gonna sell it, I would say that in a disclosure for people to know that. So the first thing you wanna do is actually clean this off with some alcohol, which I already did and I let it dry. So you wanna have a nice clean surface to put it on. And then you wanna take a piece of transfer tape, which I love this transfer tape.  I love this transfer tape because I can use it so many times over and over and over and it's still gonna be really sticky. So this little piece will go a long way. So what you wanna do is just put it over your vinyl and then take a scraper or even this. I have a roller here and I like this roller a lot better. Not only because it's really easy to do, but because when I use it to put vinyl on my mat, I'm not scraping it and scratching it so it doesn't have, the vinyl doesn't have scratches on it. So once you have it on here, I like to flip it upside down and then work backward so I can see if anything comes up. And you can just kinda push it down with your thumb and push anything back down on the transfer tape if it's coming up. So there, just like that. So here we go, we have serial killer. So you just wanna take your bowl and then just kinda put it, try and do this so you guys can see it. Try to put it right center in the middle. I'm trying not to go too far down because it has a little ridge on the bottom. So I'm trying to go right in the middle and make it nice and centered. So once you get it on like this, you just take your thumb and push on the vinyl. And it's okay if your vinyl or your transfer tape kinda, I don't know if it shows up bunches on this side here, that's okay. As long as your vinyl is nice and straight on here. So just wanna take your fingers and get it on there and then carefully pull back the transfer tape, leaving just the vinyl behind. I love it. What do you guys think? You guys like this so far? I really like it. So the next part you wanna do is take your hands and I already have this on the transfer tape because of the reverse weed. Again, I do a video on that.  I was getting really upset about all this just because I couldn't do it. So I have, my first one I have, they're kinda in the middle here. So I'm gonna cut these two apart actually and put them separate from each other. So I'm just gonna take the first one and kinda, you put it wherever you want. It doesn't have to be the same as mine. But I might just put it over here a little bit just overlapping the R a little bit. And then again just take your thumb and press it on really hard. And then carefully peel back your transfer tape. And then the same with this one here. Kinda put it, doesn't have to be like straight with each other, you can put it however you want. It's kinda the fun part about it. But now that I'm looking at it, what did I do guys? What did I do wrong? Can anybody tell what I do? So this one is the wrong, this one's facing the wrong way. I want it to go the correct way. So I'm actually gonna save this one and you know I'm always honest so if I make a mistake I'm not gonna pause my video. I'm gonna show you guys I made the mistake. So very carefully I'm gonna peel up this red part. And the only reason it's coming up so easy now is because with vinyl and you're putting it on a surface you have to let it cure for about 24 hours. Once this cures this is not gonna come up this easy. But because I made the mistake I went ahead and pulled it off right away. So if you guys didn't catch that I just put the wrong hand that way. So now I'm gonna take the other one that I had and go ahead and place it where I want it. There. So like I said I'm a very honest person. I show you guys if I make a mistake so you guys don't make the mistake I do. So I just wanna make sure it sticks on really well. And like I said this is a permanent vinyl. So it's gonna come up fairly easy if you wash it or if you push on it or anything right now. You have to let it sit for the 24 hours and then it will be permanent. You will not be able to get this off that easy. So I'm gonna go ahead and actually find another pair of hands on here. So like I said I have all of these and I'm gonna cut it off of here and then just replace this one on the side here. See I can't even though it's homemade and you screw up on some things I really could not leave it that way. There's no way that would drive me nuts like my OCD would go crazy. So there's the second one. And just take your transfer tape and peel back making sure you're leaving all those red parts of their hands. So there it is just like that. So I have this one, then I have this one.  And actually again to be honest with you I didn't really like this cereal bowl part. So I don't think I'm even gonna use these. You can if you want kind of put it under it. But it's already in a bowl so I really didn't see the need for it. So I'm gonna finish this up and do a few more. People will probably ask, do I seal this? I am not going to seal this. I know that there is Mod Podge out there that is dishwasher safe but I don't like using that. I just tell people, you know don't put in the dishwasher hand wash. Don't soak it and don't put it in the microwave. So I always leave something on the middle just saying that to them. I think to finish this I might actually go to the dollar store and just get a couple bags of cereal and put it in here and then I'll put in a bag and then I can sell it that way. So I'll show you what it looks like in the end but wasn't that really easy to create these and they are kind of creepy if you think about it. So again, I love Halloween. I love showing you guys how to do things. Give me a thumbs up if you like this video. Please hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. Stay tuned to see what it looks like when I'm all finished and have it packaged up. All right guys, how did I do? How did these turn out? I think they turned out amazing. I cannot wait to sell these at the stores that I'm at and gift a few of them myself and actually leave a few for my kids as well for when they start school and they have breakfast in the morning. They may get a kick out of it. I hope you liked this video tutorial. Please give me a thumbs up and hit that subscribe button if you're not already subscribed and happy crafting everyone and ask any questions if you may have any.


Next presentation is also from a colleague from Facebook of the previous presenters. It's about the, I always have to make sure I say it right. It's not the cellular community manager, it's the community cellular manager, which complements of course the open cellular hardware that was just being described. I hand over to Umar. Thank you. So talking to you about community cellular manager, now what it does, it's a tool that empowers individuals and communities to set up and maintain their own network infrastructure. It ties together a stack like Osmocom and gives you voice services, user management billing, network monitoring, and a simple way to integrate it with the PSTN. So what does it do? It's a solution that reduces the technical requirements necessary to deploy a network, a mobile network. We've been through, this is a fairly technical audience over here and even looking at all the configs, it's like hard to keep track but imagine putting this out in a community. We want to abstract away what it takes to actually operate a network on the day to day. So when receiving this box on the fields, a community member, all they have to do is take the hardware serial ID and put it into a dashboard. So there's a cloud component and a client side component that's in CCM. They put it into the dashboard and automatically the device will start pulling configurations and start providing voice, SMS, and data services. So the client side application has local breakout. It runs on NidB and can provide local services that are disconnected and uses the cloud for managing your billing and looking at network KPIs, notifying for downtime, looking at usage trends, and also it's a multi-tenant system so this is meant to be providing a core as a service for network operators and the operator of the cloud infrastructure can charge an interconnect fee. So this model has implications in that it reduces the operating costs of actually running and maintaining a network. There's like built-in auto-reset systems that detect outages and it has been deployed in rural communities and running for a few years right now. And the operating costs that it enables allow us to economically, to deploy networks that are economically sustainable where we wouldn't be able to do that with traditional centralized networks. So CCM was designed with a few set of criteria and use cases. We wanted to be able to operate our networks on standard commercial satellite links because enterprise ones are so expensive. So the problem with that is that backhaul goes down all the time so we wanted to be able to still provide services and allow these network operators to continue running their businesses even if the backhaul is unreliable. So all the functionality of the network actually sits on the edge and we have things like local SMS applications that can continue to work so retailers can still sell credit even if the network is down. And when you're sending outbound messages, those are queued for delivery as soon as we reconnect. So the basic day-to-day operations are not severely impacted with network outages. The other thing is that we wanted to make it really easy to interconnect to carriers. In the cloud, we have the ability to interconnect with VOIP providers like Nexmo, but we've also done carrier interconnects. So the cloud provides the interconnection and a BSS OSS-like functionality. So whenever one of these clients is connected to the cloud infrastructure, they can send outbound traffic and it also synchronizes with the cloud to replicate subscriber information for business purposes, upload device metrics so they can tell if the network is healthy. And it has a very small footprint. It synchronizes every minute with this ping messages around 500 bytes of traffic. And the last use case we wanted to support was cross-site connectivity. So if I'm a network operator, I'm running a business and I have a number of communities that I'm covering, I can give one set of SIM cards and build my credit transfer infrastructure around all these communities and move from one community to the next seamlessly. And the HLRs are synchronized across all sites. It can even operate without an internet connection as long as these different sites are on the same network. And as soon as... Like, things like subscriber balances can get out of sync when you're using on one network and going to another and there's no backhaul, but we use... It's designed with that in mind, but when it connects back to the cloud, it will eventually reach consensus. And there's no roaming. So this is different from, like, real roaming. There's no 3GPP roaming and carrier carriers can't... Other carriers can't use this network. So there are two major components in CCM. The first is the client, which says all this local breakout, caching of messages, auto support, and auto-reading remediation during downtime. And there's the cloud. So the client can run on a variety of different radio gear. Actually can run embedded in open cellular gear, the new RAN 1.5, and we even have it running on fairwaves gear. So this is how it's sort of broken down. All traffic into the network is carried over a VPN to mitigate some of the network address translation issues that you run into with VOIP and also to offer some level of security. We have a service that manages subscriber presence. It uses the new GSUP implementation for the HLR and allows us to extract location updates and all signaling from the network. And we can take this information and synchronize it upstream. And it also provides a generic interface. It uses protobufs, and it provides an RPC for other applications on the system to access subscriber data, regardless of what language it's implemented in. There are a few services that manage the client. We have a soft switch for directing all VOIP and SMS traffic. It uses Osmosip connector and a free switch SMPP extension. And using some Python scripts, it talks to the subscriber DB. It queries things like balance. Can we make calls? Should we send it out of the network? Which base station should we send it to? And DAGA-D is managing device registration and lifecycle. It does these periodic pings every minute. It will also do health checks on the base station every minute. And if it detects that we haven't been providing service for the past four minutes, it will drop to zero. It will perform an auto-reboot of all services to restore connectivity. And the last service is Federer. It's a server. And it handles all inbound push notifications from the cloud, things like messages that need to be delivered immediately and actions that we need to perform for management, like restarting a service or so forth. So those are the outbound interfaces for the clients. It all runs on top of Python and DAGA core. And that abstracts away portions of the GSM network, giving you access to things like subscribers, BTS configuration, SMS composing from plain text and handling all the transcoding for you. It abstracts it into modules that can be implemented on top of like CISMCOM. So we have a Python library that can speak with VTY, which shouldn't be doing control interface. So it manages the Nidbi stack that way and pulls out load information and other usage information from the Nidbi, which gets synchronized back to the dashboard. So it's a collection of packages that you can download. We're actually hosting them for Debian and Ubuntu. Just install this set of packages, and you can run it in a VM, and every device has its own unique identifier. I don't know where my second screen is. Oh, there it is. Okay, so you have this is the device unique ID, and I can connect it to the dashboard bottom left. Oh, there we go. Okay, there we go. So here's my tower. This is all in a VM. And I see it's active. I can see the subscribers on the network, so their presence, which base station they've been last been seen on, their balance, usage in the network, and activity. So on the cloud side, there's a few tiers of service that handle traffic and management. The first is in Dogo Web that exposes the GUI that I just showed you, as well as a bunch of APIs that the clients in the fields can check in with. That's just written in Django. There's also a self-organizing module component, so when you actually deploy a new site, it records it in a database. You can request a set of channels in a location that haven't been registered, so you can do your own network planning there. There are tiers for voice and interconnect with operators. It's just free switch, and it has some logic to determine which route or which base station to send traffic or an incoming call to base off of the subscriber number. We use Cano for SMS. You can also use Nexmo. Then we have an async tier. Another big problem with communicating with clients in the field is that they go down all the time, so we queue messages for delivery using asynchronous jobs, and it will retry to deliver messages until they come back online. Now, this is all deployable in a VM, this entire infrastructure where you can test out everything, or you can deploy it on Amazon Web Services, and there's stuff in the repo to automatically do that for you. As I mentioned, there's a few industry partners that have started implementing this, and we are rolling it out with Globe in the Philippines. We have a trial deployment over there, so yeah, it's a very active project. If you want to use portions of it, there's a GitHub repo, so development on it, you don't need any hardware. The only thing I'd recommend is 16 gigabytes of RAM or more, because there's a lot of VMs, but you can virtualize the radio component and test everything else out, but it works great with the Sysmo BTS. It's configured to work out of the box with that. I'll try to set up a demo later. Future work, there's a lot of work we're doing on building out role-based access on the cloud and allowing more of a business organization to manage a network, have a dedicated person doing network configuration who doesn't have access to subscriber data, for instance. We're also building out data billing, so we do have data support, but we want to be able to enable and disable traffic selectively for individual subscribers and build them for it. And enable the ciphering of calls. So there's ongoing work, plenty of ways to contribute back and happy to help anyone get set up on the stack and open it for questions if there are any. Okay, thanks Omar. Do we have questions? And if so, from where? Yes, I have a question regarding HLR synchronization. So how do you synchronize HLRs in the case when you have several sites in one network? Good question. We use a data structure called CRDTs, which allow you to maintain multiple ledgers across base stations. So you're recording traffic for which base station you've been on, and every single time you reconnect to the network, these balances get reconc... They get consolidated, and they reach a terminal state. So it's like, the data structure is mathematically designed in a way that it will reach consensus regardless of when you sync them together. I guess the source code is out, so... Yeah. Okay, more questions. I think there was one more question back. No questions? Well, okay, yeah. Peter first. I just want to know what license you've released this under. It's BSD. Straight BSD? Useful as first. Okay. Straight BSD, we see patent grant from Facebook, like use in other projects? There is a patent clause. Shoot. This is way something. But I don't even know what it says. I guess you're not the lawyer? No. Yeah, additional grant of patents, yeah. Yes. It looks like that. And there is a license contributor agreement that if you want to upstream changes, it's like, yeah, we waive liability and things of that nature, but you're free to use it and do what you want with it. I would like to know if you do anything to optimize the bandwidth on the uplink, the satellite uplink, or you just pass RTP in the VPN. We do two sets of optimizations. So we transcode traffic into... I'll have to look at it. We do transcode at the edge and I send it back to the cloud and re-encode to whatever our interconnect needs. The other thing we do is our check-ins. We only send incremental updates. So if there's a configuration that's coming down from the cloud, we only send the value that's changed and we only synchronize subscriber information that's changed. So proto-buffers have field masks that you can use to send selective fields, but the proto-buffers are not used for things like configuration. So eventually everything will get to proto-buff. This is a new RPC that we're using, but everything was designed over HTTP in the beginning. So we have our own delta compression algorithm and then we compress all the traffic. Yeah, so just in general, why does Google build self-driving cars? Can you say something about why does Facebook build GSM infrastructure? We believe in building tools for individuals to communicate with each other. We want to make the world a more open and connected place and this infrastructure has gotten cheap to the point that it's possible for communities to offer services themselves that they have not been offered by incumbent carriers. So by all means it falls under what we're trying to do and get more people communicating. Maybe sort of a comment to that as far as I understand there's no intention of Facebook to be operating any of this, right? It's certainly, yeah, just to be clear on that. Okay, more questions? Okay, well, thank you then, Omar.


Let's hear from Aaron judge. Aaron, did you think that final at bat that ball had a chance to get out there? No, off the bat. No, and I just got underneath a little bit. I knew right when I hit it that it wasn't going to make it, even though I went to the track. I just, just underneath a little bit. He's got a good fastball that really plays up in the zone and just wasn't able to get on top of it and scored DJ there. Aaron Boone said that Stanton tweaked his hamstring. It's most likely an IL situation. How much of a hit is that just to your lineup, knowing the way that he started the season off?    A lot of guys had alternate sides that are, you know, chopping the bits to get the opportunity. So, you know, Stan's going to be missed, but I know there's a lot of guys that are, you know, waiting for the opportunity. What did you see and hear transpire in that fifth inning with Dick Carpazo? Just a lot of yelling. I really didn't hear too many specifics. I really didn't know what happened. Also, we got one guy tossed, another guy tossed, and by that time I'm out on the field, you know, so I didn't hear too much. A lot of yelling. I really didn't know why somebody got tossed there. So, weird situation. Thanks, Aaron. Take the next one from Brendan Cuddy. Hey, Aaron, thanks for taking the time. There was a lot of yelling coming from your guys dugout. It seemed like it was directed at the mound for the raise. How did you guys feel about them coming up and in twice to DJ, once to Geo? Yeah, I think it was more just about the history. Having somebody throw it, Roman's head a couple years ago. You know, you don't usually forget stuff like that, and then continue to continue to throw up and in, throw up and in. That's tough. We got a lot of big hitters up there, and we know they're going to throw in, but to miss that far up and in, not how many times you're going to get a little parking from the dugout. Does that kind of supersede just this game, though? It seems like this season you guys have seen a lot of up and in, particularly to boy to you. Yeah, it's just a lot of we have, you know, we got a lot of big power hitters that can drive the baseball. So a lot of teams are really going to try to back us off the plate.  So it's just something we got to deal with, you know, but I know our pitchers are there to protect us. Thank you. Ken, David, please unmute. Yeah, when you talk about the history, talking sort of about Kid Ridge, who was one who was with Romine, right? Who he pointed to. So that's what we're talking about. Yeah, you threw it. Romine said a couple of years ago, you know, anytime someone throws it, somebody said you usually don't, you don't forget that.