Table Topics: Goals, Concerts, AI takeover, and more!!

We spin through six topics—smarter training tweaks, the magic of live shows, where AI helps or harms, who should control national data, and how to plan family time during busy seasons—then set a bold growth goal for the podcast. Real tools, real tradeoffs, and a clear push toward intentional choices.

Tidbits from the episode:
• new workout additions that boost consistency and leg-day buy-in 
• best live events and why tangible moments matter more now 
• AI as coach versus AI as counterfeit connection 
• sovereign cloud and national control of critical data 
• planning for seasonal work, family presence, and time blocks 
• a reach goal to grow awareness and attract standout guests

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Transcript

Welcome And Sponsor Perks

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Hey, I'm Bart.

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Zen Spin: Favorite New Exercises

SPEAKER_02 2:16

Yeah. Be a better you, enjoy this show. On today's episode, we are doing a Zen spin topic. We have our craziest, not so crazy, six topics that Bart and I will spin and discuss. Bart, give it a spin.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

All right, I'm up first. I'm excited. It's a big spin. All right. Hey, starting off with a favorite uh workout exercise that you might have added.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

This is not exciting at all. Well, I'm promised exciting, Bart. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Yeah. So I'm gonna go ahead. So this is one that I learned from um from James, uh my strength coach. So it's it's basically a tricep skull crusher and a pullover at the same time. So you lay on the bench with uh with a barbell or like a you know easy crowbar. But instead of just going down to your your head and doing kind of a skull crusher, you go down and then you reach all the way back, like as far as you can, and then you extend up and then fully, so you're getting like full range of motion on the on the skull crusher, and you're getting a big deep uh shoulder stretch, which is pulling on the long head of the tricep. And man, I love it. I just you know, you still it's still super hard, so you probably need to go a little bit lighter than basic skull crusters, but you know, you can get a huge stretch, and then you really activate all of those the tricep and a little bit of the lat um and serratus in there. So anyway, that's my new tricep exercise. My arms are already kind of big anyway, so I'm like anytime I can kind of incorporate nice humble brag there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

My arms are really already huge and awesome. They are though. Uh so my favorite addition to any workout I'm doing is I hate legs. Yeah. I hate doing deadlifts and squirts.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Two-thirds of all your people.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Uh so what I've done is to get my workout going, my wife got a hex bar.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

And it's the cheap way of doing any leg exercise. I always start my workout with a hex bar workout.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

So whether it's you know 245s on the side or I go a little heavier, but I try to keep it like three sets of 10. That's how I warm up now.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

So like on a squat or like a deadlift, like with the hex bar.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Yeah, the hex bar you just holding in the middle, yeah, squat down, and it's really activated my qual my hammies, my butt, my glute, all that stuff, and it really makes my legs pop no matter what outfit I'm doing. So that's been my new favorite. That's no like new technique. That's great. It's just like, I think you you taught me this, and now I've incorporated this. Start with something you like, and just like this morning, my daughter got up, she's trying to get you know, more fit, and she's working, you know, just driving. And my wife couldn't wake up. She promised that she was gonna wake up and work out with fee. She was just too tired. So I got up and I was like, you know what? I don't want to lift, I just lifted, but I start with that, and then I'm like, all right, well, I'll do my shoulder workout, right? You know, and and so that's been a nice incorporation, like practical.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Okay, cool, like it.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

I like that.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

All right, you want to spin?

Best Live Event Memories

SPEAKER_02 5:19

Yeah, my turn. My turn. I just popped a Zen, so let's spin the Zen. Best live event you've ever attended.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Ooh, this one's good.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Do you have one?

SPEAKER_01 5:31

Uh yeah, so it's we it's all I'm at two that I'm so the first one that's not is is BC Boys Run DMC, sixth grade. It was the first concert I ever saw. That was incredible, but I was a little young. When I was a junior in high school, I went and saw the Black Crows before they were big. And it was in this little like uh little hall in uh at UC Davis. Uh-huh. And it was me, my, my, me, and one other guy that we went together, who the only two they had heard about Black Crows at the time, and there happened to be like all these really like amaz, like some of the older, like seniors, good-looking senior we girls were there, and they were into it, and we were all like kind of dancing, moshing, and like freaking like four feet from from the stage, and it was that whole first album. Yeah, and it was just like what a good album. I mean, I think it was really the first time I just felt completely free. You know, you feel like those moments where I just like I just let loose, I let go. I I didn't, you know, it just it was a beautiful moment. And like the music was just no, the uh black crows. Black crows. Black crows. Black keys is like 20 years old.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

Yeah, I know. I saw the black keys recently, so I was right after our powerlifting competition. So I'm like, dang, we saw the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Yeah, the whole hard to handle, like shake your moneymaker out.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

So good, so good. Yeah, black crows are legit. Uh yeah, I think that sounds like it's a situational environmental situation. So growing uh being in the event production side, I've never really enjoyed an event or a live event that I've ever created because I'm so serious about making sure everybody else has the best experience. So I have some really cool like behind the scenes stuff, you know, like when I went hung out with Jelly Roll, but that was like I got to see the concert, but I was focused on business, right? Right. Um best show I've ever seen where I was like moved by it was Damien Rice. He is this guitarist, singer, songwriter. He's I want to say he's Irish or Scottish, one of those, but they would be pissed if I said he's Irish. And uh my brother took me before my wedding, and we were at Broad Ripple in Indianapolis, and it was this this theater, and he was playing acoustic mainly, and it was just the coolest show I've ever seen. Where I'm just like, this is the most amazing show I've ever been a part of, and could never repeat. I mean, just incredible. Um, and he doesn't perform ever, and he and he hardly ever so like if you know Damian Rice, you know he is just very limited, he's just in his head all the time, so it's not like he's touring, he doesn't. But I got to see him live in Indianapolis at Broadway Ripple Theater, and it was just an intimate, close experience. I was with my brother, and it was just kind of like a coming of moment where it's like as an as adults, we never really hung out, really, and that was the moment. Um, and uh I'll always be grateful that he brought me there. We got some beers before, and we'd never drank beers together. Like it was just a really cool, like full-on experience, you know. And then I'm getting married the next week.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

So that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Yeah, it's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Damien Rice.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Damien Rice, look it up, dude. He he'll make you he'll make your heart sing or cry. I love it. It'll make more sense when you listen to him why I'm the way I am.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Good to know. Here we go.

Will AI Take Over

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Spin in the Zen. All right, we got uh When will I take over? When will AI take over? When will AI take over? It's my dyslexia. When will I take over, Bart? You know what's funny?

SPEAKER_01 9:13

It's like I there's there's two scenarios. One scenario is AI becomes so helpful that like you can literally do everything from just like your couch console, or you know, you can already order food and and do a bunch of things, like, but if you just you know, they've had some movies about AI like kind of personality, like her and some of those things where it's like there's an AI assistant that kind of has a personality and the guy kind of falls in love with it. But I I feel like more and more there's going to be like AI buddies that just are so they can do everything. Yeah, you know, like you you they it gives you affirmations in the morning, it reminds you to pack your you know your clothes for the day, it creates a lot, you know, they're just it's gonna be more and more and more valuable to just like like being successful and in the the thing that you want to do, you know. Because some you know, if you're like your goal is to be a marathon, you know, like the you know, to you know, get a sub-three marathon or something like that, and and it's like you could literally at some point have an AI buddy that's just like all right, today this is our program, this is what you're doing, don't forget your shoes, we're gonna eat this, this, and this in the morning to get you prepped. Like, and just like being your your virtual coach 24-7. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

And I think at that point, time to go to bed, buddy. You're gonna wake up at five, and you can't. Only one beer.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Only one beer.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

So that sounds awesome, but also like the scariest thing. Yeah, like a like a like a like a coach slash. So here's here's a weird, like freaky thing. So I use AI all the time. Chat GBT is the way to go on almost anything I experience. So I use it very dumbly. I love the AI buddy side, but one time I was looking through my daughter's iPad, and there's this app that gives you like an AI boyfriend, AI girlfriend, AI. I don't know if she knew what she was at, but it basically was like you can talk to this AI like it's your boyfriend, and you can ask it questions and you can get comfortable. It's like what we're doing, what AI has become, is just like the AI buddy, it's like there is no sense of real. Yeah, and that's why I think it's interesting we started with the first live event because everybody talks about all the jobs we're gonna lose with AI, and all I said was, I'm glad I'm in a live event production because everybody is going to desire and drive to live events, yeah, because they want something tangible and real, because everything else is virtual, everything else is bots, everything else is AI. So I'm not worried about it. I think it's awesome, it's convenient. That'd be huge, that'd be awesome. We haven't even started talking about getting a neuron chip in your brain, right? You know, like let's go, buddy. I want to get metaglasses.

Sovereign Cloud And Data Control

SPEAKER_01 11:59

So Yeah, it's the that's the thing. I think there's so many useful things if it if it's like only if it's as if we compartmentalize the use of AI. Yeah. Um, and there's about to be a big uh, you know, um countries have their entire cloud, like all their information on the cloud or in these data centers that are owned by a company. Yeah. And so there's a new thing that's about to roll out called sovereign cloud or sovereign AI or something like that, which is is is gonna help um companies or not companies, countries have a s like have a safe approach to house all of their data without like a company, you know, like what if what if uh not to bring up Trump, but what if what if Trump's like pissed off at at some country in Europe and he's like, Microsoft, shut down like their their their access to your to your cloud or or Google, like and you know, like a country countries cannot live in a world where like a company who's all who's then beholden on another country is can in control of all of their data, right? And so you know, I think what we're gonna start seeing is cun each country is gonna try to like control a certain amount of like data, AI, uh cloud, all that kind of stuff themselves so that they're sovereign and they're not beholden to others, yeah, right? Especially as the world gets a little slightly.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

The truth is Google's probably already doing that for each of the countries because that's how it works. But it's also corporations do own us. Like America is a corporation. So I'm surprised. I I feel like we're 10 years behind what technology actually is because they're they're slowly boiling us. Like, how do you boil a frog? You do it slowly, you do it gradually. So all the stuff that we're experiencing now, it's like, oh, this is awesome, it's so convenient, but it's already like so far down the road that once they start introducing I I had a buddy that was working in technologies, and he told me that he was in charge of the toll booths in cali in California. And 15, 20 years ago, they'd say, shut off all the cameras in the toll booth. So you go on it, shut it off. And there were just autonomous cars driving the toll booths, trying to they were testing the autonomy. Yeah, that was 20 years ago, but now we're like, Waymo, that's crazy, you know? It's just funny. So all right, I'll spin it. Sorry, too much time on topics.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

I mean, that's a that is a that is a deep well of like you know, it's so crazy.

Q1 Goals And Family Balance

SPEAKER_02 14:42

We can go deep. Uh, what I want to see in quarter one of 2026. So, what in the next few months do you want to see accomplished? You have something in mind particular?

SPEAKER_01 14:55

I think it really culminates for me with like uh you know, just keep staying with like family is my like main focus, is you know, the spring break for AISD is like the third week of March, which is kind of the end of the third of the third month. And just really like doing that week really well. Not like that doesn't mean like spending a ton of money and going on some lavish vacation. It's just like really saying, okay, this is if Jack is in sixth grade, we've got sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, he's got seven more spring breaks before he's off to college, right? Like what if what if we looked at each spring break as like a special, you know, kind of like moment and like really trying to capture, capture uh like a uh just an experience together. I love that. So that's what that's my that's my goal.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

That's very cool. I think in the next few quarters or the next few months. I don't know if I have one. I'm trying to think of like what I want to see in the next few months. I think this is my problem, and this is what we talked about probably last episode too. Because I just it's so hard for me to see more than just what the forest for the trees, if that's a better way to say that you know, my work now, once March hits, it's it's spring, it's where you make your money. So I'll be working seven days a week and I'll be focused on making money. And so spring break's not even a thought. Spring break, good luck, kids. Like, have fun. Maybe you and mom can go somewhere, you know. Like that's so I I think for me, I think I'd really like to see what I'd love in the next few months is to find a balance for what that'll look like in in spring. Like going to the soccer tournament my son has. I need to go to it because I won't be able to see a lot of the soccer games going forward. So very focused on it's okay if I take time now because I'm gonna be fully focused on one thing because that's when you make your money. Right for the family.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

But it's and that's important, you gotta know the season, right? Like the season of of the sales cycle for you for your business is is spring. And so, and you're setting your summer vacation up in March.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

Yeah, and summer's yeah, that's the other thing, is like we have to plan out now more to go, okay. Well, if we want to do something, we gotta plan it now so that we can just set, hey, in July, when business is slow, we're we're doing something. What do we want to do? And what do we want to spend? And let's start thinking that so it does create a lot of more intentionality, I think, with all of it, exactly what you said. Is like maybe my goal in the next few months is to really figure out the best ways to maximize time. That's why I feel like on my days off, it's like I feel obligated to certain things, but also like how do I maximize this time here? And how do I not maximize it, but more of like how do I not let it overcome me of like I didn't do enough?

SPEAKER_00 18:09

Yeah.

Reach Goals For The Podcast

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Like sometimes it's okay just to like blow off a day, you know? But uh I think really kind of in my next few months, I want to find a balance so that when the busy season happens, I'm not overwhelmed with feeling like I'm not doing all the things that we just said we were gonna do last episode.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Right. Well, and I think too, like if if this is not the busy season in January and February because the weather is is, you know, we're in the winter, is this maybe the time to plant the roots of like your family presence, like your presence of your family and and setting the the tone and the and the expectation that hey March, April, crazy town for for my business. But you know, you've already established that line of connection and trust and and presence that that that you don't then have to you're not gonna lose, you're just gonna have to be a little more intentional.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

That's good. I like that a lot.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

All right, we got our last one. What's our reach goal? Which kind of goes along with it.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

Oh, yeah, goes along with it. Reach goal for the year.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

I mean, yeah, I mean this is yeah, I I think I mean you know you have the goals.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

What what is your reach goal?

SPEAKER_01 19:16

I'm gonna set one for the podcast. Yeah. Like I really want at some point this year that we're that you know that we're getting some some just local awareness around like people are reaching out, like, hey, we've heard about your podcast. We'd love for you to you know do this or interview. I because I with with the mindset forge, I I got big enough where I was every every few days I would be getting like a bio from like a somebody who has a new book out, then they were on it wanted to get on that podcast to talk about you know their book. And like I feel like you know, I'd like to get to that level with with dad bods where people are reaching out to us that we're not. Not directly like you know asking for a you know like that that want to be on the podcast because they've heard about this podcast and they they've seen the the numbers and the results. That's good. So that's a that's a reach goal.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

That's good. I I like that too. I I think I'm on the same page. And not to make the podcast about this podcast, it's kind of convenient that we ended on this. Uh is the fact that I really do want to see something like this that makes me better, that makes me want to be better, and then I've had a lot of positive feedback for hey, when we were on our hiatus for over the hey, when are you are you guys done? Like, is there gonna be more? Like that I got enough of those conversations. I'm like, this matters. Yeah, so let's let's crush it.

Closing And Sponsor Reminder

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SPEAKER_01 22:14

Oh, yeah.