Ever wondered what it's like to transform the cacophony of a noisy bar into the disciplined silence of an athlete's focus? Or how the personal hurdles of addiction and the search for mental peace could lead to an inspiring career in fitness? Join us on a revealing journey as we, together with our guest Tim Welsh, delve into these transformative experiences. From sharing the woes of living beside a boisterous bar to discussing the disciplined life that shaped my college athlete days, we traverse the complex landscape of personal growth and societal challenges.
Sweeping through a multitude of topics, we offer raw reflections on the societal impact of COVID-19 and discuss the urgent need for education reform. Our conversation takes a critical look at the pressures associated with alcohol consumption, the complex dance of handling taxation and technology, and the ways we're navigating the division in today's world, all while stressing the significance of forming robust relationships and the art of communication.
In this episode's heartfelt wrap-up, we underscore the essence of accountability and the transformative power of listening in personal development. With Tim's vivid contributions and the undeniable influence of mentorship and community impact, we paint a tapestry of life's enigmatic struggles and its vibrant triumphs. So, tune in for an authentic dose of life lessons and advice, and be sure to like, share, and subscribe for a more connected and educated you.
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Ever wondered what it's like to transform the cacophony of a noisy bar into the disciplined silence of an athlete's focus? Or how the personal hurdles of addiction and the search for mental peace could lead to an inspiring career in fitness? Join us on a revealing journey as we, together with our guest Tim Welsh, delve into these transformative experiences. From sharing the woes of living beside a boisterous bar to discussing the disciplined life that shaped my college athlete days, we traverse the complex landscape of personal growth and societal challenges.
Sweeping through a multitude of topics, we offer raw reflections on the societal impact of COVID-19 and discuss the urgent need for education reform. Our conversation takes a critical look at the pressures associated with alcohol consumption, the complex dance of handling taxation and technology, and the ways we're navigating the division in today's world, all while stressing the significance of forming robust relationships and the art of communication.
In this episode's heartfelt wrap-up, we underscore the essence of accountability and the transformative power of listening in personal development. With Tim's vivid contributions and the undeniable influence of mentorship and community impact, we paint a tapestry of life's enigmatic struggles and its vibrant triumphs. So, tune in for an authentic dose of life lessons and advice, and be sure to like, share, and subscribe for a more connected and educated you.
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Oh my God, it feels so weird to put headphones on again. It's been a little while since we ripped the cast. See, the problem with where I live is I live right next to a bar, and because I live right next to a bar, you get all the college kids, especially during breaks and whatnot, and you get all these people that congregate around that area, and you know how bars are. It's not just they're inside, and then outside in the front they hover around. There was what was it? It was what holiday was it? Oh, it was Thanksgiving Eve. Yeah, it's Thanksgiving Eve.
Speaker 1:I'm just, I'm chilling, I'm fucking playing Xbox, I'm hanging out. It's like 11 o'clock at night, which is pretty late for me, and then I said you know what? I gotta go to bed, I gotta go, I gotta go get on with my day tomorrow and shit like that. But it was so loud outside I usually put a noise maker on. I get to like enjoy the peace and quiet. He enjoys it too. My mom gets him like the Zen mode Every time she comes over and then she leaves. If she leaves my apartment, all I have on is like the dog music YouTube channel. So it's like a bunch of just fucking dogs sleeping on the TV. And the dog comes over to me he's like drunk. I go what the hell is wrong with you? Would you take four shots? Oh no, you just been listening to Zen music for the last six hours. Yeah, it's very good, it's very peaceful. I've fallen asleep to it a couple of times now.
Speaker 1:But during Thanksgiving Eve I go to sleep and then you hear the people around your house. So you hear the people kind of walking through here and there and you're just like whatever. But then there were dudes that were pissing on the bamboo trees that I have in the back of the house. It's more so my neighbor's tree, it's not mine, but it's close. I got right outside my window. I was gonna be like I'll put that small thing away. But there's like a balance where you can talk shit and tell people to get the fuck out of here before it gets like angry and they get nasty with you. And then I get irritated, like why are you getting nasty with me? You woke me up and then, like you've been taking shots of Cuervos and seven o'clock at night who's a loser? You start like playing tit for tat. It's just not even worth it. So it comes with its own interesting trials when you live next to lively areas like this. I never did. You know college. When I went away to college it was remote, I mean, the bars were-.
Speaker 2:Where'd you go?
Speaker 1:I went to Quinnipiac so the bars were just in a totally different area. We used to get bused down to New Haven, so we would. I mean there were maybe a bar or two in the area of Hamden, connecticut, but generally there was nothing fun going on. So you'd hear the drunks come home and actually, funny story. I'm riff with this funny story. So I was in prep when I was away at college. Oh God, I was in prep and it was my second year and I just-.
Speaker 2:Where's timing, man? Where's timing Does it do? Affordability too.
Speaker 1:You know what man it was. I think it actually was the perfect timing. When I look, when you look back on it, it's not that I have regrets, but I wish I kind of let loose a little bit here and there. I was so regimented and so structured. But that's why I think it was the best, because, as opposed to derailing myself and getting in the worst shape of my life like a lot of college students that aren't athletes, that can't hold themselves accountable in that area nutritionally and physically, I was forced mentally because I had a show to do and I wanted to win and I wanted to prove myself. So, because of those monumental tasks that I had to achieve and get, I was structured. I wake up, do my cardio every single morning, go to the gym, hit something light, come back, eat my first meal like, go to my classes, get my water in, go train at night Solid routine, right back to it, right back to it. So it was really something that kept me in line versus allowing myself to just, oh yeah, we got this party, we got that party.
Speaker 1:I was actually like a friend of one of the frat houses. I actually would stand at the door and take money to let people in and I had a meal, like I wasn't drinking at all, I just I had a meal in my hand of ground beef chicken. Whatever I was eating, I just had a meal and I'd just be sitting there like, yeah, you're good, you're good, you're good, just the biggest dumb meathead ever. But that was my life. So I do believe that that helped me a lot. But the adverse side of it, which is negative, is you get the drugs that come home. Now. I was a crab. If my roommates listen to this, I'm sorry, guys, I was a crab, I mean, but I mean, listen, what do you mean by crab? I was just angry, I was just the oh crap, crap, yeah, no, no, not crustacean, not crustacean.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, yeah, I'm talking about like a little hermit, like you're just stuck in your room.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I socialized. Hold on one second, you're good. Oh, little coffee, little coffee crack, and my man's enjoying a nice rainstorm. Cheers for you coming down. Oh, love brother.
Speaker 2:Oh love.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I love a nitro cold brew, anyway. So if the dishes weren't done you know cause I had to cook my eggs in the morning If they came home too late and they were loud and obnoxious, I had a problem with that. I have to get up at five am, six am, to do my cardio. We all live in the same home. Like, well, one of my I can't I'm not gonna say the name, but one of my roommates. He'd bring girls back and if they wouldn't hook up with him, you'd hear him just like flip out and just be like all right, get the fuck out. Then, like it's like broke, oh my God, we would be dying laughing. We're like all right, well, I guess, guess he's not getting any tonight. So I'm just, I was so regimented, so on task that I had to get my sleep A lot of times.
Speaker 1:If my roommates were hooking up with girls, they would go to their rooms cause they didn't want to bring them back to mine cause they're probably like yo, the fucking gremlin at the house, he's gonna flip out if we're too loud, so anyway. So there was a guy who he must've been two or three floors underneath us and we lived in a pretty big, high rise building at Quinnipiac, I think it was like five or six floors, and every time the drunks would come home from the bus he would scream out the window with a megaphone Loud, yo, tim Tim, loomy, loud, very loud, obnoxious. He'd play music through that thing. Oh no, no, no, dude, it's like three in the morning, bro. Oh no, no, we're not doing this. So I go home for Christmas break and for Christmas my mom gets me a megaphone. So I could yell back Like thanks, mom, you're a real one.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you. Mom really did look in the aperture.
Speaker 1:Oh, mom Arrizal's hooking it up. So the first night we're back for the weekend. Megaphone man starts to scream out the window again, uh-oh, and we probably had a verbal battle. For God, this had to have been for hours.
Speaker 1:Nah, you know what it was like. It was a solid like 20 minutes of just going back and forth and then he just stopped and he never did it again. That was like it. That was it. It was like the craziest fall off. He might have just fucking died in New Haven. But he might have just fucking died in New Haven, I have no idea. But never spoke out of that window with the megaphone ever again. And that's my story of college Tim. Welcome to the podcast. As I'm sweating my ass off again in my studio For those that are watching, I'm actually gonna take my hoodie off my Cameron Haines keep hammering shirt and my Cameron Haines hat, which I'd look like the biggest fanboy ever.
Speaker 1:And my Cameron.
Speaker 2:Haines shirt. I had the fucking shirt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's great Dude, I'm so.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1:Bro, I'm sweating my ass off.
Speaker 2:It is so hot. It's very glossy right now.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so hot in here. I don't know why Actually, I do know why they do the AC and the heating for the whole unit, and then it gets cold for one day. So they go, oh shit, we should turn it up. And they turn it up to 900. And then all of a sudden, oh, we're back to 50 degree days again.
Speaker 2:And you got the sun glaring. I knew the whole morning and afternoon.
Speaker 1:Yep Southern Facing Windows. We talked about this when you first got here. Not a fan of Southern Facing Windows, but anyway, Tim, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:It's an honor.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you, dude. We've been in contact through Instagram for a long time, just going back and forth this and that, and I'm glad that we could link up. We have a lot of acquaintances that we know through Amanda Tom. We have a lot of like Shout out guys. Yeah, shout out to the homies and the people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially shout out to Amanda Her giving me the shot to also train at her gym too and to really work on my craft and basically kind of perfect my one-on-one and also be able to expand my brand. In general, she has been an incredible mentor as well, because in the future I do plan to open up my own facility. It's gonna be some years down the road because the biggest picture around it basically becoming a full-on mind, body and soul place where people can train being the first level of an actual gym, second level being a place where people can go to therapy or they can actually do a little bit more meditation red light room, all that stuff and then the third level be anytime anyone wants to do that type of spiritual healing, because it's also mind, body and soul. So then eventually get the profits and starts giving out scholarships towards my community, because Brentwood had I come from Brentwood Brentwood gave a lot to myself and my family growing up and they were there for me throughout a lot of situations that life had brought.
Speaker 2:We had a house fire back in 2013. Started when I was sleeping and they donated money to my family to help get us back on our feet for a little bit, which was an incredible gesture from them, because from the years of me just promoting anti-bullying at from when I was in my middle school, they donated an additional $1,500 to my family as well. So I was just like the whole. I wanna say the community itself is very wholesome and it's a very one family once you come very close with them, and all I just wanna do is really get back in a way of not only having people be able to train their mind, body and soul, but also then eventually start handling some problems for some families that can't financially afford to send the kids off to college, or the kids may not be the best in school, so they're not gonna get that scholarship. So I'm looking out for students who are necessarily, like I was growing up, just struggling with middle-class family in an area that not necessarily is the most affordable for you to be living here on Long Island. So my family did exactly what they had to do for us growing up. So again, it's everything I wanna do for my family.
Speaker 2:I'm from a community at the same time and both learning from Tom and Amanda on them being amazing gym owners and them promoting their brand and being successful at it. I couldn't be more thankful to have such mentors like that, because they're individuals who are literally doing exactly what I wanna do, and around my age group as well. That's what I'm trying to surround myself around, because growing up that's not what I really was around. Growing up, I was around a lot of individuals and a lot of things of what not to do, of what not to be and what not to become, and never really had the exact role model of what I'm looking to do for my life, and just so happened to be that fitness helped me down this route. Once I especially got out of the military back in 2018 and I was honorably discharged after doing three years with the US Army National Guard military police corps. Shout out to the 442 and shout out to Bravo 795. The 442 MPs also. There's some good people still there that are leading.
Speaker 2:But once I got out, I was at my heaviest. I was weighing 289. I had a really bad drinking problem, Really really bad drinking problem, and I almost had lost my battle to mental health and to my depression on June 26, 2018. So the day after that is when I really decided to get my shit together, Because I looked in the mirror. I was tired of what I was looking at. I was tired of what I was feeling. I was exhausted from just living the life I was living. The lifestyle I was living in itself, between eating like shit and drinking like shit and not even doing any type of work positively towards my life. You finally just wake up and then you say, all right, I'm done with this shit. So the whole transition into then falling in love with the gym wasn't too hard for me. In general it was actually an easier way. Because of addiction, Because alcohol addiction I had already run in my family. I seen that growing up and also shout out to my folks we're nine years sober now. Nine years sober.
Speaker 1:Shout out to them. I haven't had anything since March. It feels great. I was never an abuser of any type of substances, which I'm very happy that. I guess I never just fell into the loophole of that. I could go out and have a couple drinks here and there and that was it. I never really wanted to just get hammered and shit like that. So when I hear about people that had addictions, when I hear about people that had alcohol and drug abuse problems and this and that I feel for you because I never experienced that, I never know what. I don't understand how hard that is to kick, because it is excessively hard for people to actually get that out of their life. So for me I just decided that it wasn't serving me. I wanna be at the top for my.
Speaker 2:In a greater feeling, though in an integrated feeling, when you just wake up the next day and you don't feel like you wanna hit yourself.
Speaker 1:I just feel good, man, I just feel good, and I don't think I ever used it as an escape from life. There's a lot of people that do.
Speaker 2:I mean I was guilty of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah and listen, it's okay. You have to be real with yourself, what you are. You have to be real with yourself. You have to understand that once you come down from that high, or once you come down from that euphoric feeling of alcohol whatever you reason that you're drinking the buzz, whatever it might be all your fucking problems are still there, your weight is still there, your life is still there. And the escape pod technique of using these substances to just escape, it's almost like there's a malfunction and it brings you back to the home base After six hours in the trip. So it's a tough thing for a lot of people and that's one thing that I get very irritated by with our government, with just the world, that there is a not only coddling but there's a oh, it's okay, like you have a problem.
Speaker 2:The reason why these soldiers are also killing themselves at the same time.
Speaker 1:Veteran stuff and we're gonna talk about that. Veteran stuff is very touchy for me. I can't stand that shit. Like not veterans, obviously. I can't stand the way that they're treated, the hey, thanks for your service, and then like the boot in your back, just kicking you into the back into America. It's like, well, what am I supposed to do now? I just put my life on the line, I just did this, I just did XYZ. So you know, back on the topic of substances, before we get into veteran stuff cause I do, I want, I really want to touch on that, you know it's. We just get roped into it as a society. We get roped into it as a society. You're shown alcohol on every fucking ad. You're shown alcohol as a young boy, girl, whatever, like you're shown it in movies, movies, music, tv.
Speaker 1:Every single family gathering, Weekend, Weekends oh, mom just poured a vat of fucking scott of wine in her glass and dad's having a half a bottle of scotch, just because it's Friday night and they have to unwind. I don't know. Go do some fucking cardio. Go do something that actually benefits yourself, as opposed to just like not only packing on more weight over time but slowly and surely killing your brain, your organs, everything. I mean just drinking. I think it was. The study was from Dr Aiman it's three drinks a week or something like that. Dude, three drinks.
Speaker 2:We know people that put away probably 10 a night on a Friday night, I was pounding down anywhere between 12 to 15, and it wasn't going to be one night.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. So it was like just three a week significantly decreases the gray matter in your brain. That is fucking crazy. You're literally poisoning yourself, dude, like when you think about that is. I have this debate with a lot of the fitness people. This is gonna kinda now you understand why when you listen to go all over the place.
Speaker 2:That's the order podcast and order conversation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have this debate with a lot of the fitness guys. I have a lot of guys that are super hell bent on competing and getting their pro card.
Speaker 1:Okay, we get it, bro. Like we get it, it's cool. And guess what? You can get it. It's attainable, especially now more than ever, because it's a fucking business and they're not just giving out a pro card a year like they basically used to. Now it's a fucking business for them and they want to get as many people on that pro stage as they can, because guess what? That's a three to $400 a year renewal. It's okay, bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's what I'm extra yeah you're good, bro, it's a three to 400. Sometimes fucking Kendrick just sit up and howl it's okay, it's a three to $400 a year renewal just to have that card, whether you compete or not. And if you don't, then you gotta re-qualify. Oh my God, I guess I should just keep paying for my pro card.
Speaker 2:But you gotta pay for your pro card.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, you gotta pay for it every year. There's a renewal fee every single year. Maybe they changed it, but from what I remember, it was an annual fee that you had to pay to keep your pro status. So it's like I'm an IFBB pro. So, like, for how long, less 50 years? How many times you compete Three times? Oh, okay, so you've just been paying however much money every year just to say that you're an IFBB pro. I don't know. I used to have such a love for that sport and I've really fallen out of love with it because of the people in it, the tricks of the trade, the photo shopping, the this and that, and you know what. Thankfully, I can pat myself on the back. I've never been guilty of photo shopping. My photos make someone look bigger, smaller, whatever, like make them look more grainy at every show. It's like, bro, these people look amazing on stage. It's still hard work.
Speaker 2:It's still all hard work.
Speaker 1:Even if they take a massive amount of steroids. It is still a lot of hard work and I would say, I would argue, that a majority of the regular population of the world, not just the United States, can't do that With all the gear that they take, with all of the vitamins, with all of the regimented workouts, with all of the. That's what I'm saying. It is so difficult. So I can't take that away from anybody. I really can't and I don't. But my issue with the sport is there's the guys that will sit there and be like I'd rather live 40 years as a lion than 80 as a sheep. It's like bro. And then when you have fucking kidney failure, you're sitting there complaining and saying, oh no, the steroids did this and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like bro, just like you knew what you were doing, so like. The same thing has to be held accountable with people that drink massive amounts, that do drugs, like the people that we have to revive with Narcan. I feel bad because maybe they didn't know that it was cut with XYZ, but guess what, man, you're still doing an illegal drug where you purchased it from this place or this, and that there's outliers, there's arguments in both areas that say, oh, maybe he bought it legally, maybe it was legal weed and it just happened to be cut that way. Okay, still a drug, it's still a drug and you're still using it to escape the world. Do whatever you wanna do with it. You know, whatever it might be, maybe it's for anxiety. Well, guess what? The studies show that it actually makes you more anxious over time.
Speaker 1:The use of marijuana. So my cousin, she uses a pot all the time. She smokes a lot whatever. Okay, cool, she's always anxious. I don't know, cut the pot out. These seem like simple tactics, just to maybe trial and error, like when you're giving a client a diet, right, and the client's like, oh well, I don't know if these foods are working. Okay, well, we're gonna do an elimination diet, we're gonna take this food out, we're gonna take this food. And how do you feel after like four or five days of doing that? I feel better. There you go. Those foods might not work for you If you're smoking a ton of pot and you're still fucking anxious.
Speaker 2:Or you're feeling very depressed also if you're keeping yourself down, like I was guilty of using it for so long and it wasn't until, like I wanna say, really around September, october that I was like I needed to have my own little awakening as well.
Speaker 1:When was that this past one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because once I got out of the military, so you stopped.
Speaker 1:So you've been sober from drinking for eight years or nine years?
Speaker 2:No, I've been sober from drinking since my parents have been sober from drinking for nine years.
Speaker 1:Oh, your parents okay.
Speaker 2:I've been sober from drinking fully since July 4th 2022. Okay cool, that's awesome bro. No alcohol, no nothing. And then I just stayed California sober, for the most part because it was a way of I was. Also when I went on antidepressants and I went on anti-anxieties and all these other pharmaceutical medications. All it just did was enhance every that's what I was gonna ask you.
Speaker 1:How did it make you feel? It made it worse, I assume.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those pharmaceuticals I even got blood work done and the majority of because they now have this blood test that you can take that you're able to basically figure out exactly what medications are good for you for as far as what can you have and what can you not have as far as your blood type and all this other stuff with it. And majority of the medication I was not responsive to, I would not be able to, I wouldn't have the best reaction to in general whatsoever. So when being told that, it was like, okay, well, that makes sense now, and then getting a little bit more comfortable with not only just smoking weed but then also CBD, and then as well as getting a little more affiliated with companies like Canobalix, where I was actually able to get a little bit more quality information on the proper uses of it, which even I fell fully into it because it was something that it was like, oh, I kept convincing myself this is the most natural way that I can really relieve everything. But the blunt truth was when I fully stopped you know, smoking for a little while, cause I also caught pneumonia, so I physically I couldn't even smoke if I wanted to, so it was. Then it was like, okay, well, let's see how these next two weeks play out. Okay, let's see how this next month plays out, let's see how, you know, going through Christmas, let's see how going through the new years Cause every single new year I always hadn't, you know, I blunt in my hand, basically with the family, and it felt incredible and still feels incredible.
Speaker 2:So actually I want to say, put a lot more focus now into just living my quality life and really taking therapy a little bit more serious and as well as finding my other routes of dealing with not only the depression but the anxieties as well. And the biggest thing that it came from, you know, completely just transforming my whole vision on everything else about myself when it comes down to pulling myself away from weed was really being able to now fully commit into my trainer life, and I'm the first one out of my house at 4.30 in the morning and I don't get back home usually until about eight, nine o'clock at night now, and I'm spending all day between two gyms basically, between Unique Fitness in Holbrook and Apex Fitness in Farmingville.
Speaker 1:Shout out Apex Fitness.
Speaker 2:Shout out guys, shout out all you good people who have really helped me out and developed my training career. Cause, when I first started this thing seven years ago, it was nowhere near what I was doing now at $75 to $50 every two weeks for a year. That was my paycheck as a trainer when I first started this.
Speaker 2:This was where Retro Fitness down in Bayshore, but it wasn't through Retro Fitness, it wasn't exactly Retro Fitness, it was through a freelance company that they brought in and I would stay there anywhere between looking like how I do now, between 10 to 15 hours in a day.
Speaker 2:And then it came to a point where then I had to work overnight, because it was how do I continue to make a living for myself?
Speaker 2:Well, I could still train in daytime, but it's gonna require me to now basically sacrifice the thing called sleep, which is something I don't recommend doing, because once I finally got my sleep right and I got my sleep routine in, I started to see max results, not only just physically but mentally as well, but having to work overnight then for Planet Fitness. So I'd work from 10 pm to 6 am, and then I would train clients from 6 am till about 10 o'clock, and then I would sleep from 11 to three, and then I'm up, I eat and I went right back into my gym and trained or attempted to talk to people from five o'clock all the way until, yeah, about nine, 9.30. And then I put my Planet Fitness gear on and I'm out the door and then I worked the overnight. That was my life for about two years and then COVID happened and obviously the gym is all that shut down. But even when they-.
Speaker 1:The liquor store stayed open. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, the liquor store stayed open. Yep, and the heroin injection sites where you can have your heroin usage monitored no state open. In case you overdose in front of one of the nurses, they can revive you right there. Those stayed open.
Speaker 2:That whole timeframe. In general, I still forget some days of just like how much of a we literally lost a whole year of our life. We lost more than a whole year. We lost two to three.
Speaker 1:We lost two to three years of our life.
Speaker 2:So it doesn't feel like it's like 2024. Doesn't?
Speaker 1:feel like that Ever since COVID happened, the world feels different and I talk to a lot of people about this and it feels different on a lot of different ways and scales and whatever.
Speaker 1:I believe that there was a grand scale awakening of a mass populace of people. I believe that there's a lot of people that saw what the government will actually go to the lengths of doing to not only suppress people from talking and this goes for COVID and the elections, this goes for everything. I don't care what side you're on, it doesn't matter. They do it for everybody and fucked up because at the end of the day, they're gonna make sure that their candidate and their hands are gonna continue getting greased and they're gonna keep getting all the money in the world. But it taught us a lot about what actually goes on in the world and having that idle time to sit home, be actually bored as a civilization and look around and actually analyze things. There's a lot of people that never woke up. They actually went to sleep further, in my opinion, but there's a the ones that are still wearing masks right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, the ones that are still wearing masks in their fucking car. Yep, I used to not wanna talk about this shit, but let's be very clear If you are still wearing your mask in your car, you need to go to therapy. Like, really, you need to go to therapy. You have to get out, you have to live your life. Like it's not that serious. It really isn't. It really is not that serious.
Speaker 1:You wanna talk about numbers and you wanna talk about oh, COVID killed X amount of people. Listen to that blah blah. Oh, it was targeting the African-American community even more. Oh yeah, the virus was intentionally targeting African-American communities. Come on, bro, Like what the fuck are we talking about as a people?
Speaker 1:Stop constantly using the tint of melanin in people's skins to make excuses for things, to do this and that. Yo, we have to be all unified. It doesn't matter what fucking color you are, but guess what? Scientifically, if you wanna talk about, what actually goes on is people that have more melanin in their skin. They have less vitamin D saturation. And because you have less vitamin D and lower vitamin D, there was an 80. And then let's talk about the obesity rates. So then you have obesity rates, you have lack of exercise. You have already low vitamin D. Well, stats are stats.
Speaker 1:You can't get mad at facts. That's what Andre says whenever he comes to the podcast. Can't be mad at facts. Like it is what it is. You can't be mad at facts. You can sugarcoat it whatever way you want. You could pretend like things don't exist because you wanna run a narrative that you want, and the unfortunate truth is that there's a lot of people out there who just believe shit like that. They won't actually do their own research. Do your own research. No, everyone's lazy when it comes down to that. Well, you know that from training. Unfortunately, you know that from training people and just from speaking to people about that medically need to lose weight because of their health, because they will fucking die and they're just like, yeah, I can't stop eating this or I can't stop drinking or I can't stop doing that.
Speaker 2:You can't stop, or you stopped.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? You can't stop, no, no, no. You can't stop breathing. You'll die. You can stop eating Big Macs on your lunch break. You can go to the gym. You can stop drinking. You can stop drinking. It's not that big a deal, you can. You can't sleep. Get a club soda when you go out If you want to pretend like you're still drinking. So people don't judge you and fuck those people if they're judging you.
Speaker 2:Let's be straight up and Fuck the opinion of people in just in general.
Speaker 1:Exactly who gives a shit. So it's like you want to play the game of like, looking as if you're drinking. So this way you don't feel like you're being judged. Have a club soda, it's not that serious, you're a fucking adult, we're going to get through it.
Speaker 1:And guess what? The people that are going to be judging you, the people that are making these accusations about you, these wild claims, whatever you want to call them they're fucking losers and their opinion doesn't matter to you and they don't care about you, because if you die, if you die in a year, they'll write on your post oh, I'm so sorry, it sucks and then they'll go on about their life. So just be good Post. Shit's too fucking real right now, man. It's just like this is the fucking world we live in. So, going back to just COVID and everything like that, there was a grand scale awakening and there was a large populace of people that woke up and said I'm not going to allow the government to continue to give me this false advice of what nutrition guidelines are, of what exercise guidelines, because they can even hold them fucking selves accountable.
Speaker 2:Most politicians are overweight, drinking and smoking their cigarettes still.
Speaker 1:Well, what I find hysterical is like you see, the people that are in charge of the health departments and everything like that. They look horrific. So that's like my point that I made with who is it? Sammy Siegel, my boy Sam, when I got lit up for saying that from some people, a lot of people agree with me. I would say 90% of people agree with me. 10% of people disagree with me. When I said if you are a doctor, you lose a lot of credibility in my mind if you're going to tell me how to live my life and how to drop weight and how what I shouldn't shouldn't be eating and you're 40 pounds overweight, busting at the seams out that lab coat son son I don't want to do what you're doing.
Speaker 1:So, no, do not tell me what to do. If I'm obese on the BMI scale but I have more muscle than the last 20 people that came in through that fucking door, you need to ask me what I'm doing. What are you doing? What are you doing Cause evidently it's working. Your blood results came back great, except for your cholesterol is a little high. Oh gee, I wonder why, Like runs in the runs in the family, I eat, and I eat higher fat. It's going to happen, but guess what? I don't need a lot of sugar, so generally that cholesterol isn't going to clawed up in my artery lining, because that's actually that actually is one of the main factors that occur on why arteries clog up. I learned this from my coach. He's a functional medicine doctor. Some real doctors will roll their eyes, but guess what? He's caught 99% of the shit that I've been feeling off with than all the other doctors that have real degrees. Let's call it that real degrees.
Speaker 2:Real degrees signing documents for which is another pharmaceutical company, so they get their bonus.
Speaker 1:Just like Kenji's vet has real degrees, because they know everything about Kenji and they push, they push, they push, kibble on him when he's sick, as opposed to eating raw, which is going to be better for him. Let's, let's, let's be, let's be completely honest. Oh, no, no, no, he'll get salmonella, really, Cause he's four and he's been fine for four years of eating bones and all, and many times I got told, though he's a chicken foot, he's going to have a blockage. Anyway, one of the one of the one of the main.
Speaker 1:There's a million ways that it can happen, but one of the main ways that your arteries get clogged up is if you're having a high fat, high sugar diet. Sugar goes through the arteries and, in layman's terms, quick, concise, which is how he explained it to me Sugar goes through your bloodstream from consuming it. And if you're having high fat as well, the increase in LDL and all the other cholesterol markers increase the cholesterol. What is cholesterol supposed to do? It's supposed to clot and it's supposed to bunch up. That's why it clots up arteries. Sugar goes through your arterial, your, your, your arteries and your veins and everything like that, and it causes micro cuts and tears through it from the inflammation from all of the extra bullshit that's in sugar. What is the cholesterol? The increase in high fat cholesterol? What is that gonna do? It's gonna pass through and it's gonna start clotting in those areas. Listen, that's what he told me years ago. It makes a lot of sense. I've looked it up, you know.
Speaker 2:So I'm sure there will be some people that say no, that's not true?
Speaker 1:it's not true. Okay, whatever you say Then keep living your life as you're down your coke and eat your stuff. Exactly, you keep living your life. I'm gonna live my life. We'll be okay, we'll live 50 years as a lion.
Speaker 2:Anywho, yeah, go on. So one of the things we talk just a little bit more about alcohol in general, especially when it comes down to veterans, the biggest thing on base is there's usually a larger alcohol section than there is an actual health food section.
Speaker 1:And real quick on there, and I wanna get your take on this, which I heard from other people why do we have to call foods that are just good for you health food? What does that make regular food?
Speaker 2:Yeah, bad food. It's fucking insane. Yeah, food should just be food at the end of the day.
Speaker 1:It's insane that we have to label things. That's a health food. What does that mean? So then, what's everything else? That's just food, but then food is bad for me.
Speaker 2:What is?
Speaker 1:that it's so crazy that they have to have separate sections. Everything should be combined. This is food. It nourishes the body, it fuels you, it keeps you healthy.
Speaker 2:It shouldn't make you fat, it shouldn't make you break out, it shouldn't make you develop all these other diseases.
Speaker 1:It shouldn't wreak havoc on your gut microbiome. It shouldn't wreak havoc on your brain, your organs. He's stretching out behind you. I was like what the fuck is he doing? Sorry?
Speaker 2:But you're saying the health food.
Speaker 1:The quote unquote health food section is smaller than the alcohol section, and from my people that are in the military. All of them say alcohol is a huge part of the military.
Speaker 2:Well, when I say huge, it's hand in hand with also dipping and cigarette smoking and literally everything that's. There's more dominoes, pizza huts, churches, chickens and all these other things on military basis for our men and women in boots. But you're not gonna find not anywhere close to like a whole foods, or you're not gonna find someplace where they can get quality, actual, organic food to help actually fuel your soldiers and get everyone in best shape and keep themselves in best shape. And but they'll bitch and complain when they have soldiers and half the Italian is fat and overweight because all they're doing every single night is going out, getting fucked up, having anyway between six to 10 drinks on top of that, going back home while stopping on base and eating all this Taco Bell and eating all the shit food as well. So they gain a weight a lot faster. And it comes to a point where somebody, even the leadership, was at a point where they can even look down to barely tie their boots and they can barely see their own dicks. So you mean it's?
Speaker 1:not like the Hurt Locker and everyone's just shredded the bone.
Speaker 2:If that was, yeah, no, it's to the point where it's like it's honestly disturbing Cause, coming from somebody who I was actually getting my, I became my heaviest while I was still serving the military.
Speaker 1:Isn't that crazy. You should technically be your lightest and most in shape had a basic training.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, when you've become a fresh out of basic training and your AIT training for the army at least, you should be coming out like a twig because you're getting fed three square meals every single day and but you're eating quality food for the most part and you're actually getting some real nutrients within your meals. But after that, now it's all up on your own choice. We got one or two choices in the military. You have one you take steroids and you become a very huge ripped hurt locker.
Speaker 2:Or you become a overweight alcoholic who just loves cigarette smoking and will take any nap at the can throughout the day, instead of taking the time to either study or to actually bond with your soldiers and or to actually even develop any type of real relationship with your team, because at the end of the day, you should not be any. You should not feel any type of disconnection from your team, especially if you're leading them. If you're somebody in a leadership position in the military and you are not connected with your squad, that is one of the as someone who was under that you do not find any type of positive results in the future that come from that. There's a lot of resentment, there's a lot of points of I really want to just knock this motherfucker out, and I have. Wouldn't feel no remorse about it, but come out into the battlefield or go out downrange. You're now having to try and put all the petty bullshit aside that everything happened because of this leadership and now you have to basically do your orders and do your job no matter what, and this leader will then still cower behind you because now you're stepping up a little bit more.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of false leadership that's out there right now and there's a lot of toxic leadership out there and just because they could run good, just because they can shoot well, just because they know how to do PT doesn't mean they know how to lead. And there's a lack of leadership in general right now and everything and everything in this country right now. There's a major lack of leadership in general and it's disturbing when you have people who are leading by little dick syndrome more than actual leading by example and leading by actually sticking by you through your hardships, getting you through your shit, making sure you're always good Even when you're on your worst days. There are people that you can depend on, no matter what.
Speaker 1:They're supposed to motivate you, they're supposed to lift you up. They're supposed to make you excited that you are part of that team.
Speaker 2:Still hold you accountable. Oh yeah, still hold you accountable, but make you feel like you're actually part of your team. Make you feel like you're part of your relationship. This goes for everywhere. In general, leading by example is the best representation of success, because you've been through this shit multiple different times and you're setting the barrier Like as trainers in particular, when I see trainers right now not to complete switch away from the military, but we'll go back.
Speaker 2:We'll go back to that when I see trainers right now who are just doing these bullshit simply extraordinary Instagram workouts for their clients, but yet they have yet to even try it at all whatsoever. They're putting their clients through workouts they've never done. They're giving them advice that they would never follow if they're in their shoes. Like, there's such a what's the word I'm looking for here? Just a lot of numb nuts who are trying to train these people and live a better life, and it brings such a bad name to the trainer world. It brings bad name to trainers because people will look at it as like, oh well, I got bad results from this guy, I got bad results from this one because they're going off of Instagram, because they're going off of YouTube, because they're going off of what looks trendy so they can record it and put it onto their Instagram.
Speaker 2:You look down on my Instagram. All my stuff is very simple. It's very easy. Not, I would say it was very easy Let that be another statement with the macework especially, but the Well most people don't even know how to swing a kettlebell properly.
Speaker 1:It's the craziest thing to me. It's one of the most simple pieces of fitness equipment. Not to derail you from your conversation, but like it's the one of the most simple pieces of fitness equipment in the world and something that is so versatile.
Speaker 1:It's very versatile to use it's so versatile and there's so many applications that you can use for just hit work, strength work, conditioning work, just everything. And people don't even have to fucking swing it. It's like no, no, no, no, no. You're not supposed to use your arms to hike the bell up, Like you can with certain movements, but you're trying to do a swing. Don't do a front raise. Stop using your back. Yeah, it's all hip hinging. It's all hip hinging, Push through. Even people. Just teach people how to hip hinge right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's very difficult, but that's you know. And that goes back to I'm not gonna say the world as a whole, but that goes back to the lack of education that we have throughout the schooling systems, throughout the life sectors. These are simple things that we need to be teaching young kids. Physical fitness is fun. You need to be able to do this. You need to. You should be doing pull-ups, you should be doing push-ups, you should be doing XYZ, and instead we're just continually breeding these soft fucking kids. Nowadays I call them the coca-mellon babies. Coca-mellon babies. More fucking kids that are just gonna be in the way on the LIE when I'm irritated because they're doing 20 in the fast lane. More of those fucking people. I don't want those people on this planet. I don't and you can take that as mean or whatever, but you know what? Like, get the fuck out of the way, dude. Like we got shit to do. So you know not and not able to be.
Speaker 1:That's what we're all about on the rage, not able to be self-sufficient. It's crazy to me that these are not. These are the things that we are not teaching people. You know, it's hard enough for me to understand how the schooling system has stayed without true reform for this long. Because, my God, do we need some changes in the schooling system Just as a whole?
Speaker 2:I mean this whole Common Core shit. Right now it's only like clients who are teachers Fuck Common Core. They tell me all this shit Fuck all of this stuff.
Speaker 1:We need to go back and we need to reevaluate everything that we teach children, not only on history, math, all these useless fucking things that I never, I never had to know past when I graduated. I don't need to know any of this shit. I need to know how to balance a checkbook. I need to know the struggles that are gonna come with starting a business, whether I'm gonna be an entrepreneur or not.
Speaker 2:How to do taxes.
Speaker 1:How to do taxes, how to properly file taxes, how to properly budget the difference between a 1099 and a W-2.
Speaker 1:How to live life the real way, not this bullshit indoctrination of just go get a job. Yeah, go to the rat race, get a job, sit in your car, go to your job, sit there all day for fucking nine hours, drive back home, eat shitty food, drink alcohol, smoke, weed, go to bed, do it again and then on the weekends you rage because you've just been so contained with the monotonous bullshit schedule that you've had all week. I don't wanna learn about that. I don't want my kids one day to learn about that, and there has to be real conversations had throughout the entire country on what we're teaching these kids.
Speaker 2:And also teach them all the same way this place in America is gonna be teaching this.
Speaker 1:Across the fucking board. It doesn't matter about budgets. We should be teaching kids the same exact way across the board, and I'm sure that there are reasons that we don't to some extent, but it's a bullshit excuse. It's very simple. We have to get on collectively as Americans.
Speaker 2:Are the United States? For a reason.
Speaker 1:We're not, though we're not, it's fake. We are not the freest country in the world. We are not the best country in the world. It hasn't been that way for a while. And guess what, I lean more right because of policies and whatnot. And what I see on the news and what I see and when I say the news, I mean all sources when I do watch, I watch everything. I don't want just Fox, I don't want just CNN, I want independent, I want radio. I wanna actually know the story. I listened to a lot of vets. I listened to Tim Kennedy, I listened to a lot of these guys who's been flagged for misinformation and all kinds of shit.
Speaker 2:They were talking about that the other day.
Speaker 1:Mike Glover. I love Mike Glover. I wanna go to some of his training seminars out in Utah. If you wanna come, let's do it, bro. Mike Glover's a gangster, guess what? Because he said that we need to form tribes of men and like-minded people in our communities and really be able to count on each other. He was deemed a domestic terrorist. I don't trust our government at all. I don't trust our government. They have not had our best interest involved. And guess what? Whether Trump gets in or anybody, well, whoever you wanna vote for, guess what? Maybe the prices come down on certain things, maybe it gets better, but this is a lifelong issue that we've had in this country that we need to rectify as a community. It starts with us. Unfortunately, government we've allowed government to get out of whack. It's like leading by example. Right, they're not leading by example, they're not.
Speaker 1:No they're taking our they're far from it, dude. They're taking our money. They're doing whatever the fuck they want, because then they just threaten us with jail fines up the ass and guess what? Most people can't afford any of that shit right now. So we have to. What Andy Frisela says I've said this on a couple of podcasts I fucking love I'm not Republican, I'm not Democrat, I'm not a conservative, I'm not I'm American.
Speaker 1:I'm pro-freedom. I'm pro-freedom. That's what this country was founded on. I'm tired of living this fake freedom life. He says people revolted over 10% tax. How much do we get taxed nowadays?
Speaker 2:We get taxed on everything. You get taxed on your paycheck, and you gotta pay tax on your food, and you gotta pay tax on that tax, and then you gotta pay taxes at the end of the year too as well. So-.
Speaker 1:If I sell something, if I sell my car, I'm gonna get taxed on that. I buy a new car, I get taxed on that. Bro, we've allowed it to get so out of whack and so out of check and these fucking politicians just continue. Why do they go in making $300,000 a year and then all of a sudden they're making their net worth is like 40 million.
Speaker 2:Well, a lot of inside trading on that one too.
Speaker 1:Interesting. Aren't they not supposed to do that? Oh, why do we let them allow that to happen? Why do we sit here with our fucking dicks in our hand or just sitting here staring at them like, ah yeah, that sucks. Nah, man, as a people, we have to smarten up and this is like. I can't stress this enough. This is for everybody. This is for fucking everybody. We can't allow us to get taken advantage of anymore If we want our kids to excel in this world when we're gone the next generations and this and that we have to get shit serious. Because guess what? What was it? I think it was Mike Lover's podcast. He said like the war is already here. These things right here in every fucking person's pocket.
Speaker 2:Don't get me started on these things.
Speaker 1:Whatever you want to know, yeah, bro.
Speaker 2:I will literally. These things here have literally crippled us in both different ways.
Speaker 1:The dude that was on Mike's podcast said that. These little anxiety boxes, I like that. You know I'm guilty man. I check my story 50 times a day to see who watched it and this and that see if there's any potential clients. Bro, I'm addicted, it's bad, and I've set time limits, blow through the time limits every day, every day, every day. But since I said the business owner, you kind of have to though. That's the problem. It's tough for me. I want to break away, but I can't Podcast clips. They have to go out Content for my clients. I got to see what's going on. I have to be able to see trending music and put trending music out. I have to learn new techniques. I have to, you know, keep up to date with new gear. You know, what's trending.
Speaker 1:It's very tough, but the war starts here. With doom scrolling and social media and all of that bullshit. It just it keeps us locked in to an unreal world and a fictional world of a screen. Bro, pull the battery out on this fucking thing. Without anything in the background. We're staring at glass and metal, Just staring.
Speaker 2:You got your reflection basically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was a campaign a long time ago. I forget what it was called, but the guy basically took all the phones out of everybody's hands, photoshopped them out. It's fucking weird if you see people that are just like like this, taking selfies, this, and that the war is already here. The war of our minds, of our bodies, of our spirits, everything it's already here. I put my phone on airplane mode every single night. I don't want the fucking, the 5G waves and shit like that. Oh, it's safe, really. I'm told that fluoride in my water is safe too, because it's evidently good for your teeth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1:But it's actually shown to shrink the hippocampus I forget which part of the brain. I'm good on that, bro. I filter my water, I remineralize it, baby steps. I put my phone on. Do not disturb. I don't want the thing blasting my brain all night over my nightstand. I don't even like it in my kitchen because God forbid there's an emergency or something like that. I don't want to have to go and get it, I'd rather it just be right there. Airplane mode off there we go Okay, Wi-Fi's bad enough.
Speaker 1:I'm sure the Wi-Fi isn't great. That's blasting me 24 fucking seven.
Speaker 2:Constant radiation all day long, all night long.
Speaker 1:Oh, but you know the trials with rats and everything else that we tested it on. They were fine. They didn't die, only in high levels.
Speaker 2:And then the people that will do their research. They'll look at these studies and they'll read it as if they were actual human studies. But no, they were done on fucking rats, which are a little fraction, just because they have similar ways of our brain working in their work, and, yeah, we also. It's easily get put into that rat race as well for us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, it's scary. It's really scary because we can get taken advantage of as humans super easily. We talked about this a little bit before and it's a grand scale taking advantage. It's a. You get taxed on everything and you just keep living in this slavery type fucking cycle, fucking bad man. And then the division. The division kills me because they want us divided. They want me to look at black people like they're a problem. They want black people to look at me like they're, like I'm the problem. We're not. I love my black friends. I love black people. I love everybody. I really do. I don't give a fuck what color you are. It does not matter to me. If you are a good person, I fucks with you. That is it. It don't matter to me how much melanin, how yellow your skin is, how fucking gray your skin is. I don't know. I'll find a hang out with an alien. We'll hang out chill podcast it up.
Speaker 2:I respect what, why not?
Speaker 1:Hey, bro, we'll podcast it up. We have to stop falling for these fake fucking narratives.
Speaker 2:Especially for the Democrat and Republican shit. Like at the end of the day, we're nowhere near and our DNA is and you're gonna find any of that whatsoever you're not gonna see in. Your blood is red and you're like, because you're a Republican, your blood's not blue because you're a legitimate, like a Democrat.
Speaker 1:Bro, associating your entire psyche and personality with a political affiliation is insanity.
Speaker 2:It's insanity. It's literal insanity. When I see people represent I don't give a fuck who it is at the end of the day when you wear a politician on your shirt or you have politicians on your hat and you're proudly just representing a fucking politician.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, a person who actually doesn't give a fuck about you. And until they actually show that they care, I don't believe anybody. I don't believe anybody. So we have to get back.
Speaker 2:Question everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, question everything but you're not allowed to. Why? Why I can't say why You're not allowed to. You can't question anything because then you're a denier, You're an anti-vaxxer, You're everything. You're all kinds of negative labels if you question something. Wasn't this isn't the world, don't we only advance as civilizations when we question things and come to solutions and problem solving together.
Speaker 2:Because, at the end of the day, we're all still human and we still basically all have our own different mentalities, and some of us may see something's differently. Like this because you see a six and I see a nine on the other side, does it mean that I'm wrong and you're right? Does it mean you're right and I'm wrong? At the end of the day, maybe you see this, oh, maybe we'll go to the side and oh, maybe it's not even either what we saw? Yeah, it comes down to that division. They don't want us to unify, they don't want us to actually sit together and be peaceful. Growing up in Brentwood, I literally saw everything All races, all faces, all genders, all beliefs, everything else that you guys you know. I literally saw everything.
Speaker 1:Meltonpot. That's what you need. We need everyone to hang out with each other. That's the whole point.
Speaker 2:When I went to basic training and I had guys who had never even met a black man before. That's crazy. That should blew my fucking mind. That's crazy. That blew my fucking mind. That's what you just see him on TV.
Speaker 1:Like what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they literally.
Speaker 1:that's it, Because it's all different Magazines to Instagram and TV.
Speaker 2:It's a small white town. That's all it is. It's a small white town. They have no interracial background. They have no understanding of how maybe culture even works in general, whatsoever. And they were some of the most. Oh, as a New Yorker, oh my God, some of these motherfuckers. I swear it took every ounce of me to not just swing on a motherfucker because of how they were talking and how they were reacting, just because someone was, so it's so different to them.
Speaker 1:But that's the part of the problem. That's part of the problem of not allowing everybody to intermingle together, and then we create this divide, and all according to plan. Let's be really honest. There's a lot of coincidences that can happen, but after a while you have to start looking at coincidences and go really.
Speaker 1:That really coincidences, how many coincidences am I gonna see before I go. Maybe this is planned, Maybe this is orchestrated, Maybe this is something that has been in the works for a long, long time, but once again you go back to. Well, you're fucking stupid if you think that. You're dumb if you believe that.
Speaker 1:I dare you have an open mind, yeah well, you know and it's funny because I talked to Karrith a bunch of episodes ago shout out to Karrith, karrith the homie, love him. We were talking. We got on the topic of like the moon and flat earth. Anybody that brings up, anybody that thinks that people that believe the earth is flat are stupid, I go. I don't know. Have you ever been to space? So you just believe in what you've been told? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Evidently we went to the moon and the president called the astronauts live on TV. But when I drive through Dick's Hills I have no cell phone reception. Okay, I'm not saying that didn't happen, but I'm not saying it happened. I don't fucking know. I wasn't there. Were you in the space capsule with the astronauts? Were you up there? Were you doing a space walk? Oh, no, so you just believe what you're being shown on. So we could have showed you Jurassic Park, since you were little, said it was real the whole entire time. And then you went no, no, no, no. That actually happened. John Hammond unleashed the dinosaurs on the island.
Speaker 2:And the TVX actually saved their life.
Speaker 1:And you sit there and you go. Are you fucking stupid? This is what I've been told from when I was little. So you have to have an open mind. You have to be able to say like I don't think it goes on like that. Religion, everything, question everything, talk about everything. Nobody fucking knows. Nobody knows what's going on. I'm figuring life out as we go. You're figuring life out as we go. My mom is still figuring out life as we go, because it's ever changing, it's ever evolving.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure they never saw what happened over the last couple of years, 20 years ago, 30 years ago.
Speaker 1:Bro, and the last how old are you?
Speaker 2:I'm 28.
Speaker 1:Okay. So you're right, I'm 32. And let's just say in the last 30 years there has been very few generations that have experienced so many catastrophic type events in secession. Yeah, you had the war, the World War I, okay, but then it was peacetime generally.
Speaker 2:Generally, but then Great Depression comes in.
Speaker 1:Great Depression, it was life Okay then we had that and then what I'm saying, it was more spaced out. But now, with the spread of information, things have to happen quicker and we're seeing everything live and we're experiencing it emotionally and we're seeing people around the world through their camera as they hold it like this, as if we are watching it through them. That's why, when you watch TikToks and this and that and all these different things and you're scrolling, scrolling, you're taking in so much information in such a short amount of time. Overwhelming amount of information, very overwhelming, and that can fuck you up mentally as well, that can make you depressed, that can make you feel a type of way, I didn't realize how much of a day you just wasted scrolling away on that damn phone and seeing meaningless videos 20 minutes goes by like that.
Speaker 1:20 minutes goes by like that, and I'm guilty of it, we're all guilty of it.
Speaker 2:Last night I got home and then immediately I was on a Zoom call. But then I opened up my phone and I'm looking down my phone and say one thing after another and it was like, oh shit, I just missed like 10 minutes of this fucking Zoom call. Let me just throw this down and let me actually hone in on this conversation that people are having right now. It was, and actually even the other day, I literally threw my phone across the room onto the couch and said I'm not looking at that thing anymore. The rest of the night I'm done, I'm not looking at this thing because it was two and a half hours had gone by and I literally did absolutely nothing. I procrastinated the hell out of my day and I was pissed because I wasted my time.
Speaker 2:We're talking a little bit about before how much we just hate our time being wasted. That's the number one thing I cannot stand the most Can't get it back. That's the one currency you cannot get back. You can get back a possession and also you can't get back people once they go Yep, animals Can't get them back and you can't get back your time.
Speaker 2:So if your time is spent having meaningless conversations, also with meaningless people on an app and also if they are having meaningless videos and all the stuff that when you're actually having quality people around you that you could be spending time with or doing something that you're a little bit more passionate about, putting that effort a little bit more baby into the gym, putting that effort towards your hobby, write down something, read something extra that's actually valuable and you can actually retain information that's gonna be usable for whatever you wanna do with your life, or even just opening up your mind and expanding your overall brain in general. When it comes down to the books that you are reading Like, it's still to this day one of my favorite books of all time and I could read this whenever I really wanted because it's such an easy read. For me now it's just a clinical spritum from Draco Willink.
Speaker 1:That is hands down. Actually, I wrongly said that because I was gonna put his flag up in here. I'm trying to figure out where, because I have discipline equals freedom flag. I think I'm gonna put it over on that wall hanging down because it's from the side. So it'll say just, it only came with two grommets because it's supposed to go on a flag, an actual flagpole.
Speaker 2:Okay, I was gonna hang it like that.
Speaker 1:And then I also have Cam Haynes. I have keep hammering. I'm gonna put it over there probably.
Speaker 2:Dude, those motherfuckers man. It's people like that will go back to just reading in general. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then there's other books out there that, if you really wanna understand anxiety from point of view, is like another one that I recommend people. That's. Another easy read is Shook Ones by Charlemagne the God, another very controversial figure, a very controversial person, but when it comes down to like understanding anxiety and the way like panic attacks happen, as well sounds like he's talking to you. Then there's other books. I'm reading one right now man in Search of Meeting by Victor E. I'm gonna fuck up his last name, but the first name is what's it called? Man, man in Search of Meeting, and I'm currently reading it right now because it was gifted to me for Christmas by one of my clients.
Speaker 1:Man's Searching for Meeting Victor E Frankel.
Speaker 2:Yes, frankel. How did I forget that last name? Because my neighbor was Mr Frankel. Yeah, that was. So basically those are the really known story about that. It's written by a Holocaust survivor, so it's a whole different sort of like the stories that he's telling in there and then also the experiences and then hearing it from other men and what they were going through with their time frame and their mentalities during that time frame it was.
Speaker 2:It's a book that really makes you also challenge. The way that you are also viewing everything as well is like. Is hitting that pothole and having a flat tire and having to repair that tire because you have a flat tire that much of a bad day that you're gonna take the rest of that day and then you're gonna turn it into complete shit because it happened early in the morning? No, you should take that time frame to actually say okay, well, yeah, that sucks, now move on for an emote and keep going with your day. Like the people that it teaches you a little bit more not to dwell and people who will just dwell on certain situations, like some of them are so minuscule, like you had an argument with someone in the morning and now that's gonna affect your energy the entire day.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm gonna be real with you, man, I would get a check engine light and it would ruin my fucking life.
Speaker 2:I have a check engine. That's a whole different life.
Speaker 1:I have a check engine light right now and I'm like I don't give a fuck. I'm so I don't care.
Speaker 2:Riding into the dirt.
Speaker 1:There's so many other things that I could care about. I don't care about this, I'll figure it out. I'm just like whatever that's it.
Speaker 2:You're just blowing it off Like you're blowing it away and you're focusing on the rest of your day.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what man. I've said it a lot of times and people are gonna think I'm a broken record. Apologize is what it is. Since I started Jiu Jitsu, it has calmed me out in a very different way than I ever thought it would.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it humbles you.
Speaker 1:I am very calm now and, don't get me wrong, I get angry but I'm just. There's a lot of things I could give a fuck about and I just I don't care. It has definitely helped me with the anxiety with Kenji and his medical issues which, knock on wood, he's been great, but there's just something about that sport that makes me feel at ease with everything else because I'm doing something extremely hard. And let's talk about biology as a man, you feel like a man when you practice Jiu Jitsu and you're I mean martial art in general, just like this is-.
Speaker 1:I would say martial art in general, yes, but-.
Speaker 2:Jiu Jitsu. Yeah, I know what you mean the rolling aspect you're face to face, it's physical chess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with another human being generally a man, that's more so than not. I grapple with girls here and there all the time, because it's tough, because it's a balance, because I don't wanna be a douchebag. There's a couple of things I don't wanna be inappropriate. I'm so over-conscious when I take pictures with most girls I do the Keanu Reeves, the handout like this yeah, I do, I'm telling you, I do that I try to be so over the tops, not sensitive, but hyper aware of boundaries, especially if the girl's got a boyfriend, stuff like that. I'm just super-.
Speaker 2:She's disrespectful.
Speaker 1:Super aware of shit like that. So with Jiu Jitsu, it's like when I start, when the girls are just sitting there and they're getting irritated because the guys won't roll with them, I'll be like, okay, let's go. Like you know, let's do it. And there's a balance of being appropriate, being not a bully, because, let's be honest, a lot of these girls are like 130 pounds, 120 pounds, and I'm weighing 189, but I'm used to tossing around dudes that are 210, 215. So it's like I can't use all my strength. But then you know, if a move isn't working you wanna move, you just move on.
Speaker 1:With a dude, I'd muscle that shit. Like I'm getting to do an Americana. I'm like, oh bro, there's no way this arm isn't going to the mat. Like we're gonna be here for a minute, like we're pushing, cranking the arm. If I'm doing it for a girl and she just tightens up and she like puts her hands in the middle and she's not letting me grab an arm, okay, let's go north-south or let's go, let's flip around to the other side and work the opposite side and get used to working the positions that we're not used to and it's also a good practice for them. But it's like-.
Speaker 2:Yeah, women definitely didn't even do more Jiu-Jitsu. Oh, they have to, they have to, without question they have to.
Speaker 1:My friend Katie, she's gonna sign her daughter up for Jiu-Jitsu. She has to. You gotta know it. God forbid there's a dude that's about to rape a girl or he's about to. You know you're not supposed to say that, evidently, because they'll flag you just for using the word. It's a fucking word. But evidently, if the dude's gonna like sexually abuse a woman or this and that she has to know how to create that distance when he closes the distance to them, that's all grappling, that's all body manipulation, that's all understanding how to sub Listen, put that motherfucking Snap that shit and run Like you gotta know these things and it's super important that you do know these things. If I have daughters, they're going to Jiu-Jitsu. There you go, day one, yep, enjoy. Yeah, you're gonna get your ass kicked, sucks, but guess what? It's gonna teach you a lot of shit.
Speaker 2:You need to learn that, though at an early age, you need to be okay with getting your ass kicked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in that manner, though In that manner, and then you're gonna be chill, you're gonna be like, oh shit, okay. And then, god forbid, they're ever in a bad situation. Oh man, I've been here before. We're okay, everything's gonna be great, everything's gonna be great. I'm gonna let this dude punk me, Absolutely not, like we're not getting down like that. So anyway, as a man, though you know you, there's a camaraderie with Jiu-Jitsu, with schools, there's like a tribe mentality of dudes and people that are just trying to get better at a common sport and a common ancient practice. We can call it, even though it's not that ancient, but let's just call it like an ancient practice. And you know, you go back to being a man and having purpose. A lot of people have anxiety, depression, because they don't have purpose. They're stuck in the rat race, they're working for other people, they're not building things up for themselves, they're not.
Speaker 2:Giving themselves in hardships, not being able to afford certain things Exactly, and then themselves down and out and then not really giving themselves an opportunity to crawl out for themselves as well.
Speaker 1:Exactly so honing your mind, honing your body to now best an adversary that you're going against, even though they're teammates. When you're rolling, you're going against them Like it's either he's tapping or I'm tapping, but you could still be respectful, which I am. You always be respectful, because nobody wants to roll with a guy. That's an asshole.
Speaker 2:I'm a talker. I'm a street talker. Oh, I talk when I'm rolling with you. I'm a talker, so I'm like damn.
Speaker 1:Dude, I tell people I go oh shit, that sweep was fucking sick.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, all right now I gotta get out of this shit, and then they'll get me in something. I'll be like I gotta be honest with you, I don't know how to get out of this. So there we go, let's start over. So it's just having the purpose to be to bond as men. Let's just put it as men. Men be physical with one another Like the old Spartans, let's just say like old Coliseum type shit. Be physical, but at the end of the day we can still be gentle, like there's multiple areas and sides to us. But it's that testosterone, man, you gotta be able to get that out and into a controlled manner of a martial art, of a specialty.
Speaker 2:It's actually ego also at the end of the day.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, dude, I went in there no, I went in there and I wanna let you talk. I went in there blank, Like I knew I was gonna. I'm not assuming anything.
Speaker 2:That's the best way though you could've. That's the best way.
Speaker 1:I'm not assuming anything and even though those days I have to check myself because testosterone, you look at somebody and they start besting you a little bit, you're like, oh, I'm not letting this mother. But then you start fighting and you're fighting an uphill battle and you just go chill, bro, just tap, it's not that big a deal, Cause you'll get injured, you're not competing right now.
Speaker 1:You'll get injured, you'll do this and that which I was actually gonna compete tomorrow, I was gonna slide into a tournament tomorrow but my, I don't know what it is. Dude, I gotta be honest, like right, my guy, nick, and Scott right there kills.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I saw you. He was scraping you the other day, correct, right.
Speaker 1:Ooh, oh, dude, I'm beat up.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm beat up. I'll hickey it up. Yeah, I'm beat up. Which that's where that training also could come into play as well.
Speaker 1:I want to. So it's tough because let's talk about Maystaff. I don't know. Let's get into Maystaff. Yeah. It's tough for me because I have a full gym at my mom's house, but my apartment I have no room there's. No, I can't swing a mason.
Speaker 2:That's where a club comes in, then. So there's a mason, and then there's clubs.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've used the clubs at Tom's before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, once again, shout out to Tom, because Tom is a little bit.
Speaker 1:Shout out Tom to Julie.
Speaker 2:That man right there basically awakened a whole different aspect of my own training in general. When I went there for the first time last year cause they were not last year actually, it was yeah, 2022. Yeah, 2022 was it because it was a month after I had another near fault with depression because of the alcohol, like that's again whole another topic for that part. But I went there for the first time and for those who know Tom and have never met Tom, he comes across his Instagram as basically like the most angriest lifter, the most cold, dark, angry person. But that man, if you actually talk to him about your shit, like that man will actually sit down and listen. That man will actually give you quality advice if you really ask him to. And if you're new to the whole kettlebell game, if you're new to just strength training in general, like yeah, it looks intimidating at first, but that man's gym in general is something in the way he walks you through everything.
Speaker 1:Strength factory in Baldwin.
Speaker 2:Yes, shout out to strength factory and shout out to all the people at the strength factory. Shout out to Pooch.
Speaker 1:Hard ass. Pooch is a fucking monster. Dude. Pooch is a beast. Pooch is a monster. Love Pooch. I love everybody there. I love Eric.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's Eric, and-.
Speaker 1:They're all dope humans, man, and that's, it's cool. Once again, you go back to a tribal thing. You go back to a collective meaning of a collective good of All like-minded individuals. Yeah, everybody just trying to get together and do cool, heavy shit together overcome adversity Adversity, that's great English. Jesus Christ, my God, Overcome all these things and then just be one with each other. It's really a cool, cool environment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it basically is from learning shit from there. Man, Like that place is some place that I have dreamed of eventually having the kind of impact that it had on me, onto my clientele in general. But I completely forgot where I was going with that part and with bringing him up Masons and clubs.
Speaker 2:Masons, thank you. So the very first time I even picked up the 100 pound club, that was the very first time I even picked up anything heavier than the personal ones that I swing, which is the heaviest I've swung at that time was only 52 pounds, but even just loading that pitch up and holding it right here I'm like holy shit, it's 100 pounds in my hand right now. But the club training in general has. That's how I started and you're gonna see the club workouts in there. Shout out to Frank D'Amico.
Speaker 1:Shout out to my man for bringing this for me. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. It's a gift. It has basic, very easy descriptions. That's him right there. He is a shout out. He's also thanking for his service. He is a paratrooper as well. He is an army vet. He's somebody that, if you're really understanding of what it means to jump out of a plane and face your fears and all that shit Frank did it, I think, over 100, 200 times, if I'm not mistaken. But you're gonna see simple descriptions. You're gonna see a QR code as well that you can scan and it's actually going to break. Basically show you a little video demonstration of the workout in itself, but they have the club workouts in there as well, and there's also something called an arc that is from At-X. So shout out to people over at At-X clubs and Maces, shout out to IG, the creator and founder.
Speaker 1:Are those the Maces and clubs you like?
Speaker 2:My personal favorites just because they are adjustable. Now you can make it anywhere from 6.3 pounds all the way up to 52.5 pounds, and just recently they dropped a called Mastadon kit where you can bring it all the way up to 84 pounds basically. Then they have the Gladiator club. That is a 100 pound club basically, so you can get that a completely separate purchase as well, but when a what are the advantages that you've seen with Mace and club work?
Speaker 2:So not only with the shoulder mobility and shoulder strength but an insane amount of calorie burn. So anytime I finish a workout which is strictly doing Maces and clubs and maybe in a little bit of kettlebells, I am burning anywhere between 1200 to 1800 calories just within my hour, hour and a half. But then also bulletproof shoulders, man, when I tell you full range motion in my shoulders after having a couple of parts of my lathe room torn and this one, and then a partial Do you have surgery?
Speaker 2:Nope, no surgery at all needed after my car accidents. So I had a car accident that basically back in 2021, the seatbelt had completely jammed up into my shoulder and it created shoulder impingement, and then I had a couple of different micro tears in my lathe room.
Speaker 1:I think that's what I have. I think I have an impingement. I don't think that.
Speaker 2:If you weren't able to get past here. So that's what I would take a guess at oh no, I can get past.
Speaker 1:Oh so no, I have full. It's just right there. That hurts right.
Speaker 2:No PT, no doctor, but it could be either an impingement or it could just be micro tears.
Speaker 1:Right there, that's where it hurts.
Speaker 2:How did you hurt it?
Speaker 1:No idea, it just started. It started getting a little bit worse, but I have full I could work out.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's even better then, because with a club, then at that point you're still able to rehab it and you're still able to get full range of strength too.
Speaker 1:They were saying it was bicep. They were saying the bike, cause I was getting, I was getting. My arms were locking in the middle of the night too.
Speaker 1:So my arms would basically and I wanted I'm sorry, but You're good my arm basically would I'd sleep like this, sometimes on my side or whatever, or I'd sleep on my stomach and I'd sleep like this and then I'd wake up. No dude, I'd wake up and I'd go like this I'd have to actually push my arm past cause it felt like it was breaking my elbow and I was getting super crazy tendinitis pain in my elbow area.
Speaker 1:So I'd be careful if you're gonna swing heavy with the club just because Well, I gotta buy a club first, and I will not just be swinging heavy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll tell you first hand my own personal experience when I, the very first time, I went really heavy, heavy with the 52, I definitely didn't embrace properly when it comes down to activating my lats and pulling it over and I just yanked it over from my joint. Oh man, that's an that hurt like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I've done them at Tom's. I have done them at Tom's. We did them along with the kettlebells and they were good. I just didn't ever. It's weird, tom was the first one that I started really doing more functional stuff. Then I went to OG after like a year or so at Tom's. Then I went to OG and I stopped really going to Bevs and I tried a couple of times and just it didn't really. I'm just not into it anymore. I'm really not into the bodybuilding side of things anymore. I'm not into the.
Speaker 2:That's functional, getting strong, and I don't do a fuck, I don't care how big I am anymore.
Speaker 1:I just wanna stay lean. I wanna stay healthy, I wanna stay active. I wanna keep doing, I wanna get fucking. Nah, I mean, I'm already decent for my amount that I'm going. The competition classes on Sunday have definitely not only kept me humble, but have taught me a ton Cause. Then I go back to the white belt class and I'm just like rolling over dudes Certain dudes, I'm just like I'll do a sweep. They'll be like where'd you learn that? I go competition class, Like I learned all these things. What time is competition class?
Speaker 1:on Sundays 10 am and we usually roll until like 1130. So we'll usually get like I wanna say, anywhere, if Gary's feeling Sometimes, so just we'll just go right into matches, no drilling, no warmups, we'll just be like all right, regular matches go and I'm like, oh, okay. And then we're cold and you're just trying to warm up, you're like, oh, I don't pull my shoulder like that, but we'll probably get anywhere from six to eight five minute rounds. Wow, yeah, wow, oh. Dude, you're fucking toast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're a whole mess and a half oh you're toast and I'm going against guys that are generally blue and higher. I mean there's a couple of white belts that I roll with there that are dope human beings. Shout out to Sean. Shout out to who else is a white belt that goes there? I think Sean is like the only white belt that goes there. Oh no, shout out to Simba. Simba's the homie. I don't think Simba listens to the podcast, but regardless, shout out to Simba.
Speaker 1:He's a good dude and yeah, that's why they wanted me to compete, because they said you know, you have that window right now. You're a white belt. I only have two stripes, so they're like now is the time to compete because you'll roll over a lot of dudes, but once you become a blue belt, now you're going against guys that are probably anywhere from just getting their blue belt to three years in to get a purple belt. So it's like you could probably do well, maybe if you keep it up and you know you learn more as you go. There's no saying that just because I they're better, they're more advanced to me, that I won't win, but you're going against dudes that are way more advanced now.
Speaker 2:Which. I do now anyway, but still it's different, but that's how you learn.
Speaker 1:There's a difference between, like me and you rolling together at the comp class and going hard but being respectful, and then a dude at a tournament that's about to be a purple belt and he rips my fucking arm in an arm bar, trying to tear every ligament in it. Like there's a big difference between those two factors, even though they're both hard and they're both difficult challenges. For me, there's one that's more risky than the other. So I'd rather be more methodical with things. And, like I said, I wanted to go compete tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Everyone was like oh, slide in, just slide into the tournament, slide in. And I just said you know what, man, with how my shoulders are right now, with how my elbows are, I'm a dude. They are the crackiest fucking elbows I have lately. It's just everything. It's not just Jiu-Jitsu, it's all the physical, it's the quality of life, it's double training, it's not taking recovery, it's not getting body tissue and work done. Last time I was at PT was when I had another injury, like three months ago. It wasn't regular visits where they can open up the fascia and make me feel good. By the way, amanda did the fascia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was about to say did you go see Amanda for that?
Speaker 1:She did it in my leg. She did it in my quad when I was having quad and knee issues from Jiu-Jitsu, when I first started and I felt great. Afterwards I felt great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're those who don't know what we're talking about, my fascia release is one of the most deepest webbing in your body. And, amanda, from what I've been told so far from numerous people and seeing it firsthand too, seeing people's relief and seeing how they get off that table, it's like wow, like I genuinely feel like a whole new human being. That's something that's also. She took her training route and now she's expanding around that route as well, so another reason why I emulate around her, because she's a never ending learning machine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's dope, she's dope. Love it, man, she's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah for the clubs.
Speaker 1:So yeah, go back to the clubs please.
Speaker 2:So especially from Ad-X is. The reason why I promote them a lot is because you get anywhere between a 3.5 pound club and it goes all the way up to 27.5. How do you spell that A-D-E-X? A-d-e-x? Hold on, I know what she said. It should be pronounced.
Speaker 1:Ad-X T-S-E-N-G texted me another storm tonight, with rain and gusty winds.
Speaker 2:So phenomenal, more flooding. Let me check that out. Yeah, so Ad-X clubs. Shout out Dany G. My cousin actually helped him develop that company, basically not to the point where it's at right now. He basically gave him a baseball bat and then he welded some plates to it. My cousin's a welder. Shout out Sal, that's not it. How do you spell it again? Ad-x clubs, a-d-e-x. Oh, you have to put clubs also, my bad.
Speaker 1:Oh, Ad-X club.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ad-x clubs, so they're based out of Deerfield, florida. They have an actual storefront over there where you can even see the 100-pound club and swing the 100-pound club as well.
Speaker 1:I highly encourage you to come to Florida area. They look like the donuts that you used to put on the bats Back when you did it like literally to warm up before you went out, like those round. That's what it looks like. It looks like a bunch of donuts underneath the club handle. That's cool.
Speaker 2:And especially for baseball players, baseball players and quarterbacks or tennis players. Anybody who really needs to go into multi-polliner movements moves from yeah, malilla, I can speak English, sorry. I can't speak English.
Speaker 2:Multi-polliner movements. So you want a multi-polliner meaning full 360 motions, not just pressing, not just pulling, not just going straight back. You're going in a full 360 motion because, at the end of the day, that's your shoulder. Your shoulder is a multi-polliner joint. You should be training in a multi-polliner fashion, basically just putting up strength behind your mobility. Yeah, you can have loose shoulders, yeah, you can have strong shoulders, but can you have loose and strong shoulders at the same time?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I was just concerned about pressing the 150s back in the day and doing all that and I did it. But I mean, okay, great, but can you move that weight around besides just here? Yep, no, and I injured myself. I was actually talking to Nick about it. I injured myself years ago doing shoulder presses and it was this shoulder, so it could be a re-agitated injury. You never know.
Speaker 2:That's where the shoulder it's very easy to re-agribate things as well.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm telling you, man, I'm surprised that my shoulder didn't rip in fucking half. I am shocked. Long story short. I wasn't pressing 150s above your head. I wasn't pressing 150s on that one, but it was 90s. But basically, long story short. What happened was I was training at Apple, I was getting ready for a show. I worked at Apple, I was getting ready for a show, a bodybuilding show, and I went and trained shoulders. Before my shift at Apple, I had a 930 to 530 shift, whatever it was. That was like the best shift you could have. There was a two to 10 shift. That was dog shit. Nobody wanted that shift. That shift is horrible. Two to 1030 actually. So anyway, yeah, horrible, but I seem to always get it, but anyway so.
Speaker 2:I was running late there. Fuck at 5 am to 8 pm.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude. So I trained shoulders and my buddy at the time calls before work. My buddy at the time calls me after work and he goes yo, what are you doing? I said I'm gonna go home, just chill, watch TV. He goes oh, do you wanna go train shoulders? I said, oh, I train this morning, come on, come on, come on. All right, fine, I go to the gym with him. We go train shoulders, we're training, warming up, doing shoulder presses again.
Speaker 1:I get up to the 90s and as I'm pushing the 90s, I see him grilling somebody in the mirror because we're at a new gym by just trying it out. He's grilling some dude in the mirror like literally staring him down, being a fucking douchebag, and all of a sudden, dude, I put the weight up. It was like the eighth rep. I'll never forget it. I put the weight up, it goes up and it's my right shoulder that did it. I don't wanna do it with my right and it locked and it went all the way back with the 90. And I just I knew it was gonna fall and he wasn't paying attention, he wasn't spotting me. Bad spotter, bad spotter. So I pulled it back forward with the 90 like this, and then I dropped it in front of me.
Speaker 1:All you dude, all I heard was that was all I heard. Great. So I called my coach I go, yo, I think I fucked my shoulder up pretty bad and he just goes. What are you doing, bro? You know, didn't you hit shoulders this morning? I said, yeah, he goes. How much like what's?
Speaker 2:the deal. As a coach, I would have smacked a shit.
Speaker 1:He said, well, he's in Florida, he's the functional medicine guy. He goes just curious. He's like how many, how many, how many different steroids are you taking? I said none. He was exactly. You're not recovering to train the same body part twice a day. He's like are you fucking stupid? What are you doing? So he had me do like the go up against the wall and then like, just push your hand like this, just like this against an object and he said if it hurts in the middle, that's a good indication of a rotator cuff or a labrum tear or something like that, because the force of it you'll feel the pinching. So luckily there wasn't anything. It was pretty difficult to sleep for a couple of weeks and then it just went away. But it could be that.
Speaker 2:You know I trained It'll be a re-aggravation, yeah.
Speaker 1:I trained very linear Eight, or would it be a linear? Or you could say what's the other term. Fuck man, now I'm forgetting it. I was gonna sound cool and intelligent as fuck for saying that. I was gonna sound so cool and so tough, and by tough I mean intelligent intelligent.
Speaker 2:My goofy ass is about to say sagittal. But then, yeah, good trick, binary. Thank you, okay, okay, jesus.
Speaker 1:Wow, you and I. English is not our good side today Especially?
Speaker 1:no, not at all, but yeah, very binary A to B, one to two, like just very just that way. And training with Tom. It opened my eyes to train differently and with the kettlebells and the maces and this and that. So I say all this to say A lot of words, to say this. But I say all this to say I bought a bunch of equipment in my mom's garage during COVID. I can't really do anything in my current apartment, but when I have my own home at some point whether it's here, whether it's Austin, whether it's a different state, because I've been looking at different states just in general in the next like three to five years I'm gonna make a decision I'm staying or I'm going Figure it out. So by then I'll know if I'm staying, I'm staying. If I'm not, I'm out.
Speaker 2:Three to five years is a solid win. That's what I'm saying. I wanna take my time.
Speaker 1:That's solid, make my money, build the podcast up, hang out, make connections. But go travel and visit the other places and see, right, but I live here. Maybe, maybe not, but I wanna create in the garage. I wanna create a training area. I have a Monster Rogue rack that I bought during COVID. It's fucking top of the line rack. It's so dope. It's got the fat bar pull-up bar. It's humongous. It's got all the landmine attachments on it. It's got everything.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, that's one last thing. It's less piece of equipment you gotta buy then for that, yes, exactly, so I have that already there.
Speaker 1:Right there, I wanna put some jujitsu mats down, I wanna get some sandbags, I wanna get kettle bells, I wanna get some maces and that's it. Dude, we're talking like tank status. That's all I wanna do. I don't wanna do this fucking-.
Speaker 2:I mean, look at Tom and John. The man is throwing a 330 pound sandbag over his fucking shoulder.
Speaker 1:I think what's insane about Tom is that he just has no stop. I think that's the part that's been so amazing to me is that he has no relaxation mode. No, he has no, like he has off days but he doesn't, which I find funny because he yells at me all the time about training at OG in the morning and then drolling jujitsu at night.
Speaker 2:He's like how many times am I gonna tell you?
Speaker 1:Don't train twice in a day. It's like what the fuck are you talking about, bro? You're like train all day.
Speaker 2:Literally, literally, and he'll say because I'm different, because it's me, I'm built different, which I mean not from nothing the man really is big.
Speaker 1:Hey, hey, real talk, he is different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that man is different, just humbly. It took me a couple of times to go in there to not throw up after my workout or in the middle of my workout. The very first time I got there I puked my brains out.
Speaker 1:It was one workout that was just horrific. Me, gabe and Tyler we all trained there pretty regularly for about, I'd say, six months. We were training there this is before he had his spot strength factor. We were training at Hithouse with him, oh shit, yeah. So we were training there and man, there was one workout. We left that night. We were like holy shit. All of us were in the parking lot I think I got a Kenji here on my face. All of us were just looking at each other. It is a challenge to not throw up right now. Yeah, we gotta keep this bitch in it was.
Speaker 2:I tried my hardest to keep that shit in, but it took me until I wanna say my seventh or eighth visit down to the factory that I actually was able to hold down my whole entire life. Yeah, it was finally. But every single time Tom will come out. Tim you good, yep, I'll be back in one minute I'm doing, okay, just leave me alone.
Speaker 2:I run back in, finish up the workout though still no excuses, you know, because that's exactly how the environment is over there. I'll never forget the first day when I was there and then I went out and puked. I'm thinking, oh man, I should take it a little easy. And then Tom's there screaming like what are we doing? Let's go get back in the gun, let's get back moving. But yeah, he really opened up my eyes to a couple of different things with that.
Speaker 2:But I would just bring this up I highly do encourage getting an ad-ex club, just because of the function. Now you don't have to buy 10 different clubs at five different weights. They can just get one club that is literally anywhere between 3.5 pounds up to 25 pounds, depending on how much you want to put on there as well, and you can get a phenomenal shoulder mobility, and you can also get a shoulder pump and as well as a very good cardio workout as well endurance and focusing on your grip strength too. Equipment like clubs, maces, kettlebells and sandbags do nothing, but just also improve your Jiu-Jitsu game as well. You know I'm not speaking from someone who I'm still also a wipeout as well.
Speaker 1:We got to roll together, bro, we got to get it done, dude.
Speaker 2:I'm absolutely down for that. I am absolutely down for that. The, but basically the whole unconventional training style, is a major cater towards that game or just martial arts in general. And the stronger you make your shoulders, the stronger that you make your body overall, like density-wise, and be able to work on your endurance and push past those limits mentally is more that's going to translate onto the mats, is more that's going to translate into life in general too. You know, when I was basically first introduced to sandbags in general, I had never even touched a sandbag until last year and, I'm sorry, until 2022,. Yeah, keep your camera in 2024 now.
Speaker 1:It goes by quick.
Speaker 2:It goes by way too fast it goes by quick.
Speaker 1:That's why you gotta enjoy it. You gotta enjoy the journey.
Speaker 2:It goes by quick. I'm into seven years now and it's like I remember starting, like it was nothing, and where I'm at now I'm incredibly thankful for. Incredibly thankful for because also dropping 106 pounds and then putting on 20 pounds of muscle over the last six years has been the most best shape I've ever been in right now, but it's all really thanks to that lifestyle as well. Like, I barely hit pretty boy muscle and I get shit for saying that. You know, I get shit for saying I'm working on pretty boy shit today and I'm doing bicep curls or I'm doing chest press and all that stuff too.
Speaker 2:Like, yeah, it's a good compliment to add towards everything else as well, but it shouldn't be the only main source of training. If you're really looking to get a nice strong, lean physique, you should be focusing a lot more on adding unconventional tools, unconventional workouts in general, like Turkish getups with a kettlebell or Turkish guys with a sandbag. Oh, lean boy, full lean boy, that was the pretty boy muscle for me. Good God, yeah, you are literally fucking 150. And what is that? Like the fucking 2% body fat.
Speaker 1:No, I was like dude, honestly, I was probably like seven, seven or seven or eight. No, no fucking way, I swear. I was probably about seven. Where was the fat in your ass, cheeks and your fucking thighs? I had it, man. It was crazy. It was like, but that was the lowest I've ever been. I'll never get that, ever again. I felt horrible.
Speaker 2:See, then that's the other part I wanted to get to as well.
Speaker 2:When I was at my leanest, when I went from 289 to 184, that was, hands down, the most sickest and the weakest I had ever felt in general, going from 289 to 184, I sat there and I could not believe how much shit I had felt like, but then also how much of a mental setback it was, because I thought this was what I wanted. I thought I wanted to lose all that weight. I thought I wanted to look this lean and feel this strong, but reality is I wasn't happy at all with the way I was also feeling, so regained muscle now comfortably sitting at 202 to 205, pending on a day and pending how much I eat. It wasn't until this last year, where I also reintroduced creatine into my life, and creatine has done nothing but phenomenal wonders, and as well as she legit, I take a natural, she legit as well, which is basically helping my body with the folic acid and also enhancing a little bit more of my lifts and getting me a little bit more stronger.
Speaker 1:I take methylated vitamins. I started taking those. That helps with folic acid. That helps give you actual folate. Oh, no shit. Yeah, Gary, I'll send you a link. Yeah, it's very good. I'll tell you what man I've been sleeping better since then, since I've been taking it. And I'm not really an anxious person. I am when I I'm a deep thinker, so when I start to think very deeply, Very easy to overthink.
Speaker 1:It's very easy to overthink about just life and just everything, so that, I believe, is the main cause of anxiety that I have. But since taking the methylated folate, I feel very calm and at ease. I think it's a combination of jiu-jitsu fitness getting my diet down to where I need to be.
Speaker 2:It's a full circle because I had nighttime too is when those thoughts really start to creep in and it's just like what is death and what is it gonna feel like when this person's gone and that person's gone and all those other things start rolling into your brain.
Speaker 1:It's like why is this happening? We're getting older, our parents are getting older.
Speaker 2:You start going. Ooh okay, how much time have I wasted? Oh my God, I wasted so much time on this person. I wasted so much time doing that. I wasted so much time. This is the time, holy shit, I'm gonna start eating. I don't waste any time on people anymore.
Speaker 1:No, my relationships are like science infections they're in, they're out. I'm over it. This is the first fucking second that you show me that this is a bad thing. I'm good on it. I don't waste any time anymore, I feel bad for this generation dude.
Speaker 2:I genuinely feel bad.
Speaker 1:I have been single since 2018. I've been single since 2018 and I'm so okay with that, because I look around and I see everybody jumping into relationships, jumping into engagements, jumping into weddings, jumping into having kids, just because they feel like the age marker has defined that they've hit a certain point in their life that they need to get to that Boom. And that's not what it's about. It's about loving somebody. It's about being with somebody that you respect. It's about seeing their core values and how they believe in the world, how your views align, and even if they don't align, maybe you're yin and yang, maybe you not in a positive or negative way, but maybe your thought processes balance each other.
Speaker 1:You don't have to agree on everything, but you can have maybe some good debates. You could teach each other things that the other person didn't know, and then maybe, if you guys want kids, you have kids. Instead, everybody just fucking without condoms having kids, and then they're looking at each other like who's gonna raise this little motherfucker? Well, you guys are and you hate each other. So good luck. Yeah, let's try not to fuck the kid up.
Speaker 2:Let's try not to. But it's also creating it's a whole generation of broken individuals. Again, we're coming from another generation where our generation growing up necessarily was I feel like the 90s was the start of it where the broken households, the broken families, and it led to that family. It leaked into this child. Now this is going that child that's broken and that child's gonna broken, they're gonna make another broken child.
Speaker 1:Yeah, until the cycle ends. And it ends with. It ends when you decide it ends. It ends when you decide that you're gonna stick around as a father with the child, no matter how hard the consequences and the circumstances are. You're going to be there. That is your child.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and at the end of the day it's gonna be men.
Speaker 1:And I got exactly be men.
Speaker 2:Men need to be men but that doesn't mean it'd be an asshole and all that shit. It means you'd be you stern, you're kind, you're loving, you're listening and you're also able to be a savage when you need to defend your family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and when you have to defend your family, you're gonna be some dude. Commented on my TikTok. I found it very YouTube short, very funny that when I put a clip up saying that you are a role model for your family Don't be the fat dad, don't be the dude that's out of shape and this and that your kid's looking at you set the example like you have to.
Speaker 1:I heard that on a couple of podcasts with John Berndthal, the dude who plays the Punisher, his podcast, this dude, nick super Greek last name, he's awesome, he's fucking awesome. But he said that shit, he's like yo be the fucking example. Your kid's looking at you, your kid is looking at you set the fucking example. And I basically said that I want the better for my lineage, I want my child to have every opportunity, isn't that? And then the person commented my, my, my, my, my, all about you. No, it's about the kid. It's like are you fucking stupid? Are you out of your mind?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is about the kid. You're fucking idiot.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm saying I want the best for the kid. I don't wanna be a weak dad. I wanna be able to teach them values and core values of life and how to be a good human being, but be firm and not get taken advantage of and protect my family. God forbid I ever need to. You know the response time and Tim Kennedy said the response time for the police in Austin is eight minutes. Eight minutes, you're gonna be fighting somebody off. He said we're doing five minute rounds in a padded air conditioned room.
Speaker 2:That he's not even really literally trying to kill you.
Speaker 1:That is somebody holding back Eight minutes you're gonna be fighting somebody off until the police get there. It starts with you. Don't let it start with the. Don't let it start with making a phone call, because that's your first fucking mistake. You have to be able to defend yourself and your family. So when we talk about dads that are out of shit, that disappear listen, I stopped talking to my father recently. I stopped talking to him Thanksgiving. We had a bad fall out. He's talked shit about my mom again my dad. My parents have been split up since I was two. I've always had a friendly relationship with my father. We are not on the same brain wave. My dad has MS. I've always had a soft spot for him because he's sick.
Speaker 2:Right cause you feel bad and but I hate his family, his family, is nothing but miserable pieces of shit.
Speaker 1:They've done nothing but twist his mentality. They've done nothing but manipulate things, and just they're nasty human beings. They've just always been nasty.
Speaker 2:And just because they're family doesn't mean you have to keep them around, though Exactly but my dad is too stupid to see that.
Speaker 1:So that's his own journey that he failed at. So that's his own lessons that he is bringing.
Speaker 1:If reincarnation is real, my man's gonna have to come back and do that shit all over again. So good luck, brother, good luck in the next one. So I stopped talking to my dad because he said some shit about my mom again and I told him. I said yo, dude, watch your mouth. I'm not playing with you right now. Watch your mouth. You haven't been a part of my side of the family, the Rizos. You haven't been a part of that family in years, since the early 90s. Oh fuck. So don't say anything about my grandmother, my aunt, my mom. Keep their fucking, keep their names out of your mouth. Don't do that shit. And since then, as a father, he should have had the balls to call his son on Christmas, call his son on New Years. Hey, listen, I was wrong.
Speaker 2:I fucked up.
Speaker 1:I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry, it's not nothing. So guess what? Have fun rotting in the chair, brother, I can't help you. How old is he? I don't even know. I think he's like. I know he's in his 60s but truthfully I don't even know. That's that generation in general too.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. They have a hard time apologizing for shit. They just wanna dust him in the rug and move on.
Speaker 1:They have a problem, same thing with our generation, because it's almost as if they trickled down from them. They have a problem with accountability. They have a problem with saying yo, I said something and I was wrong. You know how many times I say things on the podcast when I go. I said it a couple of times already. I could be wrong, you can be. I'm not a fucking. I'm not a medical professional, I'm not an expert on all things.
Speaker 2:We're not perfect human beings no.
Speaker 1:I know things about, a little bit about everything, a little bit about a lot of things, but when it comes down to it, it's like be accountable. I fucked up. I'm gonna say one of my clients recently. I was supposed to shoot horizontal photos for a job site. I was supposed to shoot horizontal photos. I didn't forget. They just didn't look good horizontal, so I shot a bunch of vertical and there was a lot of finger. I was just like it was me. It didn't look good horizontal, so I shot in vertical. Sorry, I'll accept the blame. Yeah, I'll accept the blame, but I mean creatively, this is what you hired me for. They look better like this. That's it. I'm not gonna sit here and be like, oh no, the camera just wouldn't let me do it. Nah, bro, it is what it is. We hold the accountability, we talk about it, we do this that.
Speaker 2:It also gives you freedom as a man, like at any day. It just shows that you're an honest person, that you're truthful to yourself and you hold yourself accountable to the best of your people.
Speaker 1:It's so easy to lie, it's so easy to fib, it's so easy to make excuses I've been there, we've all been there and then just at some point you have to just think about it and go. I have to be accountable for everything in my life. Everything my body, my mind, my soul.
Speaker 2:It's very easy to point fingers, my actions, Very easy to do this and say I'm not here because of this person and that person quoting Rocky right now.
Speaker 1:Oh, I got fired from this job, so it's their fault that I now had to go rob these people. No, that's you, bro. Go get a new job, you'll be okay. Go get a new job. No, people don't think like that. So anyway, on the top, I don't even fucking remember what we were talking about.
Speaker 2:But again, the art of podcasting, it goes around in full.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it goes everywhere bro.
Speaker 2:But it went all the way from club training and everything.
Speaker 1:Club training club training to fuck dad that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Man. But the biggest part in this generation that I really do hope that the next generation of men do start to really do is holding themselves accountable, but also basically become better versions of their family and better versions of what you're meant to be, is take the lessons of what your parents and your family did not do and where they failed at, and taking their lessons and turning it into lessons. Yep, because at the end of the day, you're also watching everything from when you're very young, so you can do one or two things. You can either fall online and become exactly who they were, or you can see exactly what not to become and what not to do, but then take the successes that they had. Meaning, like my example is you know my parents. We never struck, never did anything else like that, and we're physically abusive alcoholics. There was nothing like that whatsoever. But there was still something about when you're. You know it's 10 o'clock in the morning on Saturday and then you're seeing your mother and father starting to argue over who drank the last sip Like that was and seeing them buy a new bottle and let it open it up at 11 o'clock. So now having a relationship I have with my parents and my family in general. You know, having them nine years sober, you know it's a completely different feeling when you are trying to put together the right words for it.
Speaker 2:But when you develop a different kind of relationship, when seeing exactly what not to do now seeing exactly what they can do, which was when my mother went away, got herself cleaned up, my dad kicked it on his own. He stepped up to the plate, he became a man and said you know what, if I really want my wife that bad, if I really want to change up and I really want to save my family, I'm going to make the change. So that's what I saw. And then that's what made me even a little bit more closer to my father in general and closer to my family, because they actually made the changes that was needed to make. And then there also was a visual representation of hey, if you really want to make those changes, you can make those fucking changes, regardless of what it is.
Speaker 2:You know and also my prime example of it as well, anyone that had met me when I was in my early 20s first off, I am very sorry. I am very, very sorry. Even still now, I still make mistakes. I still. You know, I still fuck up, but at the end of the day I take accountability for my actions and I learn from my lessons and I turn those lessons into blessings, just because of being able to look at that view. What up, buddy? Yeah, all right. So one thing I want to say before. He is a lot bigger in person. I know you get that a lot. He is a lot bigger in person, but he is such a motionist. He's so soft too.
Speaker 1:For the audio listeners. My man is Pet and Kenji right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm glad to have Kenji back in the studio, because for a little while there I'm glad too. Yeah, for a little while there I was leaving him out from the podcast because of the seizures and the epilepsy. I was leaving him at home because my office was 30 minutes away. It was just like too much, but now that it's right here with everything, it just makes it so much easier. I just bring him and we just your vibes. That's it, he's part.
Speaker 2:He literally fits the vibe he's on the thumbnail of the episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you love it. That's a failure. Head and neck You're such a good boy.
Speaker 2:You are a good boy. I know you are such a sweetheart. He is so beautiful. He's such a beautiful dog. Such a beautiful dog. He's a good man. It's been real on here.
Speaker 2:Man, this has been something I've been wanting to do with you for a while, just because we have very similar, like-minded and very similar ways of viewing life, and then also just our habits and what we do for our having clientele and stuff like that. It's an honor to talk to all the people who, like Tom, like Amanda, like yourself, who are doing exactly things that I want to do with my life and future and do things that, as far as like making the connections I want to make with connections and leave an impact on people and that's where I'm coming back to this part of well, who I am now versus who I was, even just five years ago, is a completely different. Even where I just was last year is a completely different person. And if you are not changing every single year for the better, you're just holding yourself back from experiencing the best moments of life when you can actually achieve certain levels of growth and be able to hold yourself accountable, but also take that accountability, turn it into something where you can also now teach somebody else how to be accountable, or learn from your mistakes and teach somebody how to not only just be accountable, but maybe somebody just needed an ability to look in with themselves, be able to say like, oh, I can hold myself accountable, but I don't have to be a complete dickhead to myself and treat myself like shit and say you're an asshole, you're a fuckface and all the stuff in the mirror, but you just basically give yourself an ability to now love yourself into a deeper manner, like it's a deeper form of self-love when you actually hold yourself accountable, when you actually make yourself do the right things and you're doing the things that are gonna be not only just better for you but better for your future family too, like fitness in general, eating right, drinking right and, at the same time, just being an open listener to your family and being open listener to those that you care as well.
Speaker 2:The art of listening has become so forgotten now that people just listen with the intent of replying and not with the intent of fully understanding. When you actually take the time to fully understand, maybe, where someone's coming from and you don't fully agree with them, well, that maybe that six that you're seeing couldn't be the nine that they're seeing, or you're going around opposite way around with that. It's something that you really have to be aware to, as well as like am I really just now, if I don't wanna talk to somebody, I'll write just like shut them out. Or I'll talk to them. I'll walk away and say I appreciate the conversation but I'm good here because you're the only thing that you're talking about or meeting with things like you're going out tonight you're gonna go hook up with the X amount of people. Meanwhile I'm trying to get around people who are just talking about growth and being able to learn from their lessons.
Speaker 2:It being able to listen to where people are talking about, not only their problems, because then, who knows, maybe down the road you end up with that problem and now, just because you're dealing with that problem now, you have no solutions. But if now you have somebody that's been through that and has proper solutions now to that, now guess what that person I was just listening to, maybe not even giving them advice. Maybe you just want someone to listen for the art of listening, just being able to vent off things. It's even just venting. That's basically what therapy is, but just non-biased information, non-biased advice.
Speaker 2:Coming right back to you, finding people that can also listen to you and make you feel heard. That's another part of this life that it's sad that it's not being as taken serious as people just looking for a celebrity or people just looking for being surrounded by so many different people. Meanwhile, there's people that are in your life, good people, that there are individuals that maybe you're not given the time of day too fully, but they can be some of the most sweetest, nicest people because they just want to hear your day and listen to you. Just listen. I went on a full tangent there and I did that 10 different circles, so my apologies for that part there, so guilty of doing that on my own show.
Speaker 1:I do it all the time. Actually, what is your podcast? Oh, oh, so literally you have to give me the just shoot me the episode link and everything like that. I'll put it in the show notes too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a WelshCare podcast. You can find me on YouTube looking to expand out and onto Spotify and everything else very shortly. But are you not on the other ones? No, because again I haven't had the time to sit down and because by the time I get home it's shower, eat, sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you're already recording it, so you just have to put it out, put it on like one of the hosting sites and then it'll push it out to all the sites automatically.
Speaker 2:It does that. Now what I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Listen, I'm not a tech site. I'll show you. Yes, I'm 28 years old and yes, I'm a little bit more of the younger side, but I'm nowhere near tech savvy and I'm somebody's other people too.
Speaker 1:I'll show you. I use Buzzsprout, but Buzzsprout's really good and you basically host it on there and then you upload your episodes there. It pushes it out to all the RSS feeds throughout Spotify Apple.
Speaker 2:I did not know that.
Speaker 1:Tutti, radio, all that stuff, and then I usually just share the Apple podcast link and the Spotify link and then your YouTube video separate, because it's video, so are you recording audio separately?
Speaker 2:No, it's literally all in one set.
Speaker 1:So then just pull the audio from the video, just export the audio by itself, without the video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do have a separate audio and a separate video because I was recording on Zoom for a little while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's what you do, yeah.
Speaker 2:I did not know that I got you.
Speaker 1:I'll show you when we wrap up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course, dude. Come on, man, listen. I'm cool with giving game to people that actually deserve to get the game. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of people that ask me for free game and I talk about that often. It's tough for me because I get paid to do this Not the podcasting quite yet, it's soon but the video work and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:I've had to teach myself all of this, every piece of equipment in the studio. I never knew what the fuck any of this shit did. I had to learn. I didn't call anybody up and go hey, bro, I know you use XYZ. The only person that I ever asked any advice from and I'll say it till I'm blue in the face is my boy Sam. My boy Sam shoots car videos. He's fantastic, but he's been shooting videos since we were in high school. I've only been shooting videos since like 2017, 2018. So he's phenomenal, unbelievable. He works with Lexus Racing Team. He works a lot of big names in the car, in the automotive space and in business space as well.
Speaker 1:But when I first was buying a camera, I didn't know anybody else that knew cameras. So I called him and I just said, hey, should I buy an icon or a Sony, sony. Okay, maybe a couple of questions here and there. You know along the line, nothing too crazy and that's it. That was my free game. But the people that I mean I get people to fucking hit me up and they're just like hey, can you just like walk me through the entire process of how you record a podcast, how you edit everything, how you put it out there, how you distribute it, how you edit clips, how you do that Like what? Who are you? No, bro, I can't, I can't. You want to pay me for a consulting fee? I got you, but I can't just Free game like that.
Speaker 1:Dude, I can't just stay there for two hours and explain everything to you and then the next person that calls me in the same week and the next person, and the next person. Doesn't work like that. So yeah, so I will happily show you that when we wrap. I did want to talk a little bit about the military.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So basically, right now, the biggest problem that people the veterans are having right now when it comes down to just readjusting it to civilian lifestyle, but it is also their addictions and their problems are now converting into their civilian life and then they're ruining their families and they're also ruining their own mental health. You know, it wasn't that long ago. I want to say it was about three weeks ago. Four weeks ago now, right before the holidays, I had to take a friend to the hospital because he had called me saying he was not in the right state mentally. You know, we didn't serve together. He was someone I knew from high school and then he wasn't feeling right at all whatsoever mentally. So I did the same thing that I did for myself, where, when I wasn't feeling right, I brought myself over to St Catherine's Hospital and that's where I took him. I took him to St Catherine's Hospital, I let him check in and then we stayed in contact basically every single night.
Speaker 2:Since, you know, after he got released, basically after he got released, we've been in contact every single night and making sure that he is good. You know he hasn't drank, sits, he hasn't done anything else since. And the biggest problem with the military right now is just there the lack of attention towards mental health with them. Because when you are in the military, yes, they do promote you. You know talking to your leadership and talking to your higher ups when you're going through your struggles mentally, but it doesn't really mean anything. It's really done about it Most of the time, especially if you say you want to hurt yourself in the military and you've been in for a little while you literally are then turned away from training and then you have to go sit around and just wait around and then become basically isolated. You know, it's what happened with me.
Speaker 1:So I want to interject real quick. Yeah, dr Amon is a psychologist who studied, does brain scans. Yeah, I'm familiar with him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dr Amon is dope. So you talk about depression and all these different things, especially with veterans that have PTSD and go through a lot of shit throughout the military and throughout their service, and Amen clinics has five scary ways that alcohol damages the brain. So I'm going to summarize this. I'm not going to read the entire thing for each one but number one is it shrinks brain volume. So people who drink just one to seven drinks per week have smaller brains than non-drinkers, according to a 2008 study at Johns Hopkins that appeared in the archives of neurology. This same research found that people who have two or more drinks per day have even more brain shrinkage.
Speaker 1:Changes in the brain can occur early. A 2020 study in scientific reports found that moderate drinking was associated with lower total brain volume in early middle age ages 39 to 45, in both males and females. Research on adolescents and alcohol consumption and developmental cognitive neuroscience showed that those who became heavy drinkers between the ages of 12 to 17, compared to those who did not drink alcohol, started out with lesser brain volume and lost even more brain volume over time. Number two is it lowers blood flow to the brain. The brain scans of heavy drinkers show reduced overall blood flow to the brain. The brain uses 20% of the blood flow in your body and it's critical for a healthy brain function. Number three is it causes atrophy of the hippocampus. Drinking one to two glasses of wine a day, which is considered moderate drinking, leads to atrophy in the hippocampus, according to a 30-year study of 550 women and men that was published in 2017.
Speaker 1:The hippocampus is a critical brain region for learning and memory. Number four is it reduces the number of new brain cells, so excessive alcohol consumption lowers the generation of new brain cells, especially in the hippocampus, according to animal research presented at neuroscience in 2009. In the study, monkeys that consumed alcohol experienced a 58% decline in the number of new brain cells formed and a 63% reduction in the survival rate of new brain cells. And number five, it increases the risk of dementia. So, compared with non-drinkers and light drinkers, moderate to heavy drinkers have a 57% higher risk of dementia. According to research in the journals of gerontology series A, drinking can literally make you lose your mind. Sorry to interject, but I know Dr Aiman has really great tips as you start to talk about that. And then we wonder now you're mixing all the things that you have depression-wise on top of all the traumas. Now you're drinking excessively and you're affecting the main organ that's going to tell you that everything's okay.
Speaker 2:And again guilty of everything else when I was drinking at my heaviest, when I had my last episode back on July 4th well, technically it was July 5th because it was the next day and I felt completely like shit. I felt horrible mentally. I felt the worst I had ever felt since my first suicide attempt back in 2018. I basically drove myself over to St Catherine's because of how unsafe I felt, because of how unhealthy I felt. So having to take my boy there, yeah, I had a lot of lost memories of like. As soon as I walked in, I'm like okay, yeah, shit, I know exactly where you're at dude because I know you're in a safe place here. When he got out, he immediately just gave me the biggest hug and started to cry on my shoulders, basically saying thank you, because no one else answered.
Speaker 2:And that's where it becomes like if someone's calling you two or three o'clock in the morning, maybe it's not just the fuck. Maybe it's somebody that's telling you that they need help or they're going through something that only they trust you with, and that's a very heavy burden. It's a very heavy burden for you to have, but that's something that you really shouldn't even take for granted either, because you have somebody that now really looks at you as like. I can trust this person with everything and with my life, and it's exactly what you're supposed to be in the frickin' military. You need to be able to trust your buddy to the left, your buddy to the right, the buddy in front of you to the right of you diagonal. You need to be able to trust your people that are in the same exact uniform and boots as you. You need to be able to have that feeling of like okay, yeah, this is the buddy system and I can really trust my buddy.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of fucking people who want to fuck themselves. They want to fuck other people over with simple shit while they're in the military as well, because they think they're going to get a higher up on somebody and that's just goes in. That doesn't go in for the military. That just goes in real life in general in itself. But the biggest thing is that a lot of these men and women in boots, they really feel that they ignore the run because they've been so trained to basically turn off their certain emotions or to also drink them away or, to you know, to fuck them away or to smoke them away. They weren't trained to actually deal with it and feel the heal and actually focus on things in a way that you're going to be able to improve your brain, not only just for yourself, but again for your family.
Speaker 2:Because the amount of broken households that also come from the military, the amount of divorces that happen within the first couple of years, the amount of, you know, broken children that also become out of the, that come from those broken households too as well and then the alcohol just enhances everything else as well it's heartbreaking. When these are the people that we also, that are serving our country, at the end of the day, we'll have to sacrifice everything to just go anywhere where it's needed, you know, or defend our country, if God will be a weed to become intact. You know, these are the things that it's very, very real right now, because even once the veteran, once they leave the military, they then have a feeling of like oh well, and I have no idea what to do and I'm stuck, I am out, I don't know how to actually, you know, be a civilian. A good friend of mine who recently got out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then one of my good friends who became an ultramarathon runner, you know not Cameron Haynes.
Speaker 1:Damn.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately not, but he's someone who also does emulate, you know, cameron Haynes lifestyle, because this man I'll shout out, I'll shout out, matt Cristamana. Photos by Hewling is his Instagram as well. He's someone that basically also gave me a good hindsight of when, you know he was deployed three different times, two times to Afghanistan, and you know, you got basically, you know attaches, some really shitty units that you used and abused him for his time, which he would be up again at 4am, but then his day was supposed to be done at, you know, at 1800, which is six o'clock, but then it would go all the way until 20, 21, nine o'clock, 10 o'clock at night, and then he has to be up again for PZ and everything else in the morning the following day as well. So he found his purpose after he got out, with running and fitness in general. And what I do like to do with people who just gather the military is I try to transform their brain a little bit when it comes down to developing better coping mechanisms when you are going through your depression episodes, where you're going through PTSD episodes, where you're going through all these other things that you literally have physical, no control over right now, because you have no idea what you're feeling. You have no idea what you're trying to even, how to. Even especially with the panic attacks coming from the at all. It's a little physical shock in the heart rate races. They think they're having a heart attack but at the end of the day it's just something that's stuck up here that they can't fully process and heal from. So, giving them the ability to unload everything because what I said, what they say to me, won't be used against them Just being again coming back to the listening with the intent of understanding, listening with the intent of actually trying to help and heal, not just listening with the to say, oh, it's going to be okay, that happened.
Speaker 2:For this reason, everything happens for a reason. Don't tell somebody everything happens for a reason. When they're in the middle of that kind of an episode, that's the last thing they want to hear, with that. They already know that, but they don't want to have to hear that out loud because they don't want to feel like that, feel like they're not being heard.
Speaker 2:Communication is key, yes, but comprehension is the biggest key to not only just being able to unlock certain things with people when it comes down to relationship and what comes down to being there for somebody, but it's also really big when it comes down to fully understanding someone's perspective. So this way, hopefully, you get understood as well in the future as well, because everybody wants to be understood. Everybody just wants to talk to the open air. And then everyone says like at the end of the day they think, oh well, I just wasted all my time, I wasted my breath, all that talking, because it comes back again to lack of well, hating having time wasted, because if you're wasting all your time talking to somebody who is not really fully understanding, it makes you feel like even more shit. So, just practicing that art of listening and comprehending what they're saying, no matter how much I don't understand.
Speaker 2:I have another good friend of mine that was in. He's a couple of years older than me. He was a ranger and had his leg blown off, and not blown off completely. He had to get an amputate, basically. But he then became something afterwards as well Very successful welder now, very successful at what he does for cars as well, a mechanic and somebody that is doing very good for himself after that you climb that mountain right when it happens.
Speaker 1:It's hard, it's fucking hard.
Speaker 2:That's why you need a team. That's why you need a reliable source of people around you. You can't just rely on this person and that person. You did have a team of people that you can trust and rely on when it comes down to, if you're not feeling too good, if this person is not answering, give a call to this person. Give a call to that person. I don't like to keep my phone next to me when I sleep, but that's one of the reasons why I have to.
Speaker 1:It's tough man. As you're saying this, I'm thinking about it. I'm like fuck man, my phone's always on, do Not Disturb, but it is always. I mean it's on Wi-Fi, so if I really need to, there's a FaceTime call or video that I can receive. If they have an Android, it's not control, so it becomes tough man.
Speaker 1:It becomes tough because you want to be accessible to people that need it, but you also need to be able to. You don't want to be overly accessible to people that need it. You don't want to be overly accessible, but you also want to have boundaries as well, because you have to respect your own time. There's a fine line between helping a lot of people out and then being the unloaded, wishing well that everyone just constantly unloads on, and then that affects you, so you have to. There's a balance of it.
Speaker 2:Can't pour from an empty cup.
Speaker 1:At some point you have to say yo, you got to go to therapy, you got to do this. This is the advice that I have to give to you to better yourselves. This way, we're not continually in this cyclone of emotions, because we all get there, we all have panic attacks, we all have issues in this, and that Is it dietary? Is it because of the traumas that you've experienced? Is it a lack of purpose?
Speaker 1:Finding the root cause can be a lifelong thing sometimes, but it's important, like you're saying, to take baby steps and really understand where am I feeling these things? How can I best these things? How can I get out of the hole and then start to build back in a more productive way for my whole body, not just my muscles, not just my brain, not just my health, everything Spirituality, just everything as a whole. Because once you start getting everything aligned it sounds corny, but like in a very zen flow Everything's just kind of going and you're operating at optimal levels. You just feel good. It takes people a long time sometimes to get to that level, so you do need those good, positive, reinforcement people around you. I cut friends out all the time. It's not because I don't fucking love them. It's not because I don't miss talking to them and hanging out with them.
Speaker 1:It's because I can't continually do the same vicious cycle of anger, of shit that's wrong, of fuck my girlfriend. I can't stand there Fucking. Leave, bro. I don't know what to tell you, dude. Like then leave. I'm tired of hearing about it. That's some point.
Speaker 1:I've given you all the advice I can possibly give you and there's nothing else to give. So you have to now take that step. There's only so much that, as an external source, I can do. I can't live your life for you. I can't make these decisions for you. I can give you all some of the answers.
Speaker 1:Whether those answers are correct or not, that's on you to decide. Does it make sense for your life? I don't know. This is what I would do in your situation, and if you want to take that advice, take it. If you don't, don't. But if you're going to continually be in that same repetitive behavior, that same cycle of the same shit over and over again, then obviously you didn't take my advice, or you're going to continue doing what you were doing, and that's the problem. But I can't till. I'm blue in the face. What do they say? You can't lead a horse to water, but you can't force the drink. So there's, I'm 1000%, I'm with you. There is a fine line, though, between that point, that crossover point of like I'm not your therapist, I can't continue, can't solve every single issue, yeah.
Speaker 1:I can help you with XYZ when you need me and you're down bad, I got you. But if that down bad is once a week, twice a week, three times and we start building, we got to do something, dude. Yeah, we got to do something. Sometimes they listen, sometimes that outside voice helps people, sometimes that external, that external, that's plenty of times it's beyond.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes that external opinion helps people. A lot of times it doesn't, because people need to actually learn to lessen themselves. You know, you have to actually be able to take the information that you're seeing, that you're being given, and actually use it and utilize it and change, or people just keep having to make the same mistake over and over again. It's like the not so much military and not so much veterans that have gone through traumas, but it's like it's different type of trauma. It's like the girl and the guy or the guy that keep going back to the same ex, like her ex beats her but she keeps going back.
Speaker 2:for some reason she's so comfortable and she's so comfortable in the toxic ways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the, the. The rapport is already there. You already know what your evening's going to be. You already know what he likes in bed and what you like in bed, and he knows that. He already knows that you like your rigatoni al dente. You know it's like whatever it might be, but he but. But the second that the cork hits the floor, he starts swinging on you. Oh, but, for some reason, I just I can't, I can't leave. Yo, you're going to keep getting in these situations with the same person. You wake the fuck up.
Speaker 2:And there's a lot of, there's a lot of people who will go sleep past those issues and they refuse to wake up just because of the level of comfort that they feel within the toxicity. They don't know what it is to have a healthy relationship.
Speaker 1:There are people that I know that are married that fucking can't stay in each other. It can't stay in each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that too. I know I know quite a few people like that we stay together because of the kids.
Speaker 1:What does that mean? What do like what? What does that mean?
Speaker 2:Like they could see a toxic household be developed and then they could see what not to be also.
Speaker 1:Even if it's not toxic, let's just say it's like pretend.
Speaker 2:Why are you pretending your life away?
Speaker 1:You're fake. You're fake. Y'all don't want to be together. Don't be together, pretty simple, I mean. I mean you know, figure, yeah, okay, what you want to. You're worried about alimony, or you're worried about all this other extra shit child support, stuff, like that, okay. Well, guess what? Do you want to continue living in the home with somebody that you can't stand or that you just don't click with anymore? Doesn't you have to be animosity of not being able to stand somebody? Do you want to continue living in a home and pretending that everything is all good, or do you want to just move on with your life and get to the next chapter, because by the time you're 70, 80 years old, you're going to be sitting there going. I should have just fucking dipped, but instead I stuck it out. I was miserable and look where we're at. I wasted my time.
Speaker 2:Yep, and we go right back. What do we not like, tim? We hate our time being wasted.
Speaker 1:I fucking hate my time being wasted. Don't waste my goddamn time. Don't do it Exactly, don't do it. Don't waste my time. I don't want to fucking have it wasted. I wasted myself on video games. I need you wasting it on me. It's tough man. I have a. So on veterans, though, I have a very source. I have a big source source spot for veterans. I have family that served in the Korean War, that served in Vietnam.
Speaker 2:I have family.
Speaker 1:dude, crazy shit, man Tough. I have friends that have served in Iraq. You're one of my friends that I know that I served as well. I didn't deploy.
Speaker 2:I didn't deploy.
Speaker 1:They still just served in general. Just served in general. And as I grow with the podcast, with finances, the business life, veterans, giving back is huge for me and if there's something that I can spread more and more awareness on, it's that and it's the fact that, especially with right now, because it's a current topic the illegal immigration and the open borders and all of this shit, whether people want to hear it or not, that's a fucking problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there should be no homeless beds at this point.
Speaker 1:It's a big problem for a number of reasons. Mainly, though, my biggest issue with all of it is why are these people that are here illegally getting golden treatment from our government, when we have veterans that have limbs blown off, that are mentally not okay, that are sick, that are deal Go to the VA? The VA sucks. From what I hear from all my veteran friends, the VA fucking sucks. So you're going to give everybody else top tier Once again, putting other people before America first. I am all four people coming to this country. Let me just make that very clear, because people will take that very.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't be here if my family didn't come from Italy. I'm third generation Italian. I love immigrants. What I don't like are people that are coming here illegally and cutting the process, when there are people that are waiting for their visas, that are doing the process the correct way, that still don't have their green cards. That I have a problem with. And then you know, the other problem is obviously the mixture of actual criminals, that people are unloading their jails in other countries and then allowing them to come through our border. So I wonder what kind of problems that could cause. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Shaggy and Scooby, what do you think Can we figure this mystery out of what's going to happen? Oh, do you think they're just going to be law abiding citizens when they get here? Okay, yeah, let's just use our fucking brains Once again. Stop drinking. You're shrinking your brain. You're shrinking your brain. You're not able to actually critically think. So Veteran care and afterthought by our government is disgusting. It's disgusting how they fucking basically put a boot in your back after you're done serving and they go hey, best of luck, go do your thing and if you need anything, hit the VA up.
Speaker 2:And wait in line.
Speaker 1:And wait in line. Yeah, what was this Canada? Oh, we have free healthcare up here, oh yeah, but just to get my liver checked I gotta wait a fucking year and I'm probably just gonna die while I wait. Like what? What do you mean? Wait in line?
Speaker 1:One of my neighbors right over here he's a veteran, Fucking love him Shout out to Jeff, Jeff's the homie. He was having problems with his shoulder Bro, it was like two months and he still wasn't able to get an MRI. Waiting, waiting for what? Get the guy in? Get him, fucking MRI. We're supposed to be the best country in the world, right, Right, right, Supposed to be the best country in the world. We can't get our veteran who's having shoulder problems. We can't get him an MRI quick. Okay, yeah, Keep lying to the people. There are a lot of people that will believe that I will not. Once again, if we're quiet about these things, nothing changes. When we're louder about these things and we have more eyes on them, they can't ignore it, and if they do, then we have another. We have another issue on hand that we have to take care of.
Speaker 2:And it comes to a point where I just genuinely hope that it happens sooner than later, because I know plenty of friends who are right now still struggling with their health in general, not only just physically but mentally as well, who have served this country, who have done their time and they are still struggling harder than ever and they do not deserve that treatment at all whatsoever. Like I did my time, I did the basic stuff, yeah, but then I know people who really went overseas and struggled and it came back even more messed up. So those are the people that really do need the treatment more than anything else, and I pray again that they get something a lot sooner than later, because a lot of them are just waiting around, and waiting around as a reason why that number 21 or 22 was floating around for so long, the amount of suicides.
Speaker 1:I had a buddy of mine I had my buddy Matt, who's a veteran as well. He said that that number was debunked as not being real because I put it in my post that one day, 22 a day, is too much, or something like that. I was like all right, whatever, even if it's one a day, that's still too many.
Speaker 2:That's still too many. I don't care how many fucking it is, it doesn't matter how many it is.
Speaker 1:If it's more than zero, it's too many.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no one should be in that state that where they need to take their own life.
Speaker 1:Oh, you mean this individual who went overseas or signed up to potentially go overseas and potentially take a bullet for our bullshit politicians, wars and all of their?
Speaker 2:That they're not even physically fighting Of course not.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, man, we need to go to like a fight ring type scenario where all the leaders just fight each other. I mean, we're losing right out the gate. Let's just be fucking very clear, especially in state right now oh my God, we are losing right out there. Putin's got to fight people. It's over for us. Hey, that motherfucker. He will rip skulls off and just be sitting there just eating borsch and whatever other heavy Russian soups they have over there. Yeah, well, he's still in the pocket.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever he's got over there. Just I don't know if there's a message and it was a literal spy. Bro, that dude's KGB. He was ready to kill motherfuckers and I'm sure he's killed a lot of people, A lot of people. Anyway, I think that there needs to be changed. That's to be the fucking episode title. There needs to be change.
Speaker 2:There needs to be a lot of things that are addressed in the next couple of years, oh, you mean say just throughout this year, like we have an election coming up this year.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. This year I made a podcast about this. I made a short podcast about this. This year is shot. It's gonna be a very bad year Not bad for business, for people and stuff like that, even though it's already very challenging for people right now. I mean, listen, every time you go to the grocery store it's $80 to $100. And for one bag of groceries Minimal. It's ridiculous, dude, minimal. It's ridiculous how much I'm paying for groceries. It's absolutely absurd. I actually say I do very well, I'm very thankful of that. I really do. I don't know how people do it with families right now. I don't know how people do it with kids. I don't.
Speaker 2:I genuinely don't know.
Speaker 1:I just look at these costs of everything and I just go.
Speaker 2:How do you survive? I would be able to survive, but I'm like do what I want to Put myself through that and also eat just basic, like you know, canned sausages and tuna and toast and like that's how you want to survive. That's not the experience that we should be experiencing in this one life.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be a very difficult year because we're gonna see a lot of bombshell shots from both sides and it's not gonna really affect them, affect the people of this country and the division and all this stuff. We have to end it. This is like the final notes. Really honestly, this is like we have to end the division. We have to stop looking at everybody and allowing these news outlets to race, bait us and all of this stuff.
Speaker 2:It's so I want to go watch something like Breaking Points. Breaking Points on YouTube is a non-biased. They are one person as a Republican, one person as a Democrat. They both debate, but they both have the same common word, which is basically unifying this country. That's what we need to do.
Speaker 1:And if we don't do it, we are fucked on a grand scale of things. All these countries are joining bricks. If you're not aware of that, that's basically them phasing the dollar out and saying fuck the US dollar, we don't need it to be back, we don't need it to be a standard for the world anymore. There's a lot of moving parts going on right now, and not that you need to be anxious, not that you need to be upset about these things, but you need to be aware. You have to be aware of everything.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Politically world everything. You just have to understand what's going on and then you can make your own thought processes based on the information that's given to you. But it's important that you actually at least have some of the information and get it, like you're saying, from a wide range of people, not just one person who believes in one thing. If you're constantly watching the same news site because they constantly reaffirm your thought about I believe in this and that's what I believe in, and they're like, hey, you're right, and you're just like I know I'm right, oh great, and it's just like a big circle, jerk, that's all it is. Just you sitting there playing with yourself. Don't do that. You have to understand everything that's going on. Open your mind. Yeah, exactly, Open your mind and don't get irritated. Somebody doesn't believe in what you think of. They're not idiots. I mean maybe some of the stuff. If it's like really fucking bad, like pedophilia, they're idiots and they need to go on a fucking island not Epstein Island, an actual island. Just go over there and die slowly.
Speaker 2:But yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, very, very, very slow, yeah, not the fun.
Speaker 1:Not your idea of a fun island. We want you on a one that you're a rod on. But anyway, you have to understand these things. You have to be able to be well, well versed in everything. That's where I'm leaving that off. I did want to say one thing, though I did write it down. It's funny that you said grip strength. Go right back to that, ms, fucky hysterical. You said grip strength with the maces and everything like that.
Speaker 1:There was a study with the NIH and it basically summed up that. Where's the abstract Introduction? The study basically says that grip strength is an indispensable biomarker for older adults and that your longevity and health is equated to your grip strength. Okay, yeah, it's a lot to go over. I wish I had like a summary. I don't think I have a summary on this. I'm going going, going, going all the way down. Future outcome Grip strength is a predictor of numerous future outcomes. Mortality is probably the most widely studied outcome, with studies published as far back as the 1980s and at least three meta-analyses supporting the association of weak grip strength with all cause mortality in the general population. In one of these meta-analyses, rijek et al summarize I guess that's maybe the person who brought this study forward 22 articles addressing the mortality rate. Their pooled hazard ratio for mortality for categorical variables was 1.79 to the 73rd power. Gonna be completely honest with you guys. I may sound fucking super smart. I don't understand what the fuck you're talking about there, but I can't say that I understand the most either.
Speaker 1:But the next thing says grip strength is also supported as a predictor of disease and disease specific mortality, with much of the literature focused on cardiovascular disease and cancer. So grip strength as a whole is associated with better health in the longevity and especially older age. So get your kettlebells up, get your maces up, hit my man Tim up. Come on, bro. What are we doing out here?
Speaker 2:Especially, if you really want to test yourself, go out to the Strength Factory out in Baldwin. See my man, tom DiGioli, over there giving you the best work out you'll ever feel. You think it's? Gonna work, giving you the full work, the real work.
Speaker 1:The real work.
Speaker 2:And if you really can't make it out to the Strength Factory, come out to Unique Fitness in Holbrook or come out to Apex Fitness in Farmingville and come find me. I am not that hard to find. I am a very tall motherfucker that you will see in this Jim.
Speaker 1:You know what? He is very tall and when I do the podcast, I said this before my mom stole this chair from her office. Shout out to mom. It's the only way anybody gets a Herman Miller without paying for it. You have to, like, steal it from your office. I've been renting from them for 20 years. I'm just taking this. All right cool. But it's broken, so it doesn't stop, it won't lock.
Speaker 2:Oh, so I thought you were just no but I also, I got one point no, but I also.
Speaker 1:it also like doesn't hold staying up high. So I always feel like a little person when I'm like keep going like this, stop it. So you're not only are you tall, but I'm also trying to like stay level headed with you on the podcast table.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to, you know, also keep myself a little shorter and close into the microphone as well. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1:Very responsible of you. I appreciate that We've been going for almost two hours and 20 minutes. Can I yeah? That's right yeah dude holy shit yeah can you do me a favor, can? We're gonna have you back. You're gonna come back on. We're gonna talk about more stuff.
Speaker 2:I absolutely love to be back on.
Speaker 1:Can you tell people how they can get in contact with you? And then I'm also gonna put your information in the show notes.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. First off, you guys can either find me on Instagram Actually, yeah, only on Instagram. I don't have TikTok. I don't have any of that as well, unfortunately, but you can find me on Instagram.
Speaker 2:Welshcare W-E-L-S-H-C-A-R-E underscore tails T-A-L-E-Z it was like tall tails is what I used to tell but so the whole Instagram that you'll see on there is a bunch of my workouts and my stories. You're gonna see me work with my clients. I actually have a couple of highlights in there. I've seen the clientele that I work with, and you can also see a bunch of highlights with the mace, with the clubs and everything else. Go to my tag section.
Speaker 2:You're gonna see a bunch of video demonstrations that I've done recently with unique fitness in regards to kettlebell work how to properly string a kettlebell, how to properly do a two-handed clean, all that other stuff, too, as well. Feel free to look over there If you're looking to schedule a session with me at any point. You can either schedule me over at Unique Fitness in Holbrook or you can come out to Apex Fitness in Farmingville and we will be able to get you some work regarding of whatever your goals are read fat loss, weight gain, mobility, whatever it is I'm the trainer for you when it comes down to whatever goal you need, because I have a wide variety of expertise when it comes down to this field and I've been in this game for about seven years and I'm very thankful to be where I'm at. If you wanna check out the YouTube channel, it's WelshCare, that's all it is. It's W-E-L-S-H-C-A-R-E, yeah, and that's where they can find out the podcast.
Speaker 1:Excuse me the links of everything and I'll just bam paste it right in the show notes. Awesome. My man. Tim, I appreciate you coming hanging out Episode 83, chopping it up with me, you to homie 83, wow, impressive 83. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:That's what's closing on 100, dude.
Speaker 1:Closing on 100. You know it's crazy because I had the three, I had my third podcast, so I had two for four and I was like 70 something with my boy, john, and then Tyler and I were 11. So altogether I've done over 100, well over. But now it's like this is fine, love this still. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now there's like this would be the official marker for it, but Truly do appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 2:man, appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1:Dude, just good people chopping it up, hanging out, learning, talking, swapping ideas that's really what this has meant for. So I appreciate your time, I appreciate everybody else for listening in on us and if you have any comments you have any concerns, anything that I said that you believe differently in, please comment below. I'm open to talking and dialogue and everything. So Absolutely Episode 83, like, share, subscribe all the bells and whistles down below. Yeah, don't forget man, because that's how I can continue to keep doing this, growing this thing and hopefully impacting people's lives.
Speaker 1:Somebody commented recently saying that I just want the validation of the internet and all this stuff, and I really don't. What I really want is for people to think outside the box and hear people's stories and hear some of the things that we talk about and learn from it and maybe share it with other people because it impacted them in a positive way or maybe it impacted them in a negative way, and they said look at this, I want to talk about this because this struck me XYZ. Whatever it might be, there's conversation to be had and life lessons to be learned. Learned it from it. So, on that note, I appreciate all y'all for fucking with us. Peace Later.