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004: Deliz: Rules That Actually Make Life Better
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Nothing derails a good day faster than a bad night, and we keep coming back to one simple rule that fixes more than people realize: go to bed on time. We talk through why "nothing good happens after 10 p.m." hits so hard; how sleep consistency affects your mood, learning, recovery, and immune system; and why most "night owls" are really just overstimulated by screens, caffeine, and nonstop input. If you care about better habits, better mornings, and fewer self-inflicted problems, this part is pure gold.
Before we get there, we take a wild detour through gift card scams and retail fraud, from a Home Depot gift card balance shock to the weird ways gaming and prepaid cards get exploited. We also share what stores did to slow it down, such as cash-only or debit-only policies, and why waiting months to use a gift card can be risky.
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Reset Breath And Father’s Day Talk
SPEAKER_00Alright, guys, we are episode four of your daily dose brought to you by KPTZ. I'm your host, Luther Palmer, in San Diego, California. Podcast all about, you know, your dose, whatever it is. Dose of controversy, daily inspiration, whatever it is. All but what I want you to do is take a nice big inhale and let's count together and inhale to five, four, three, two, and hold at the top, and exhale. That's just a nice reset breath. Settle in, adjust that posture. If you're running, walking, at work, whatever you're doing, listen to the podcast. We appreciate you. And yeah, let's just jump into it. Like I said, it's your daily dose. Daily dose of what? Anything that you get out of it. Anything that you get out of it. And I got Deliz again here. What's up? What's up?
SPEAKER_01Hello, everyone. It's Deliz back at it.
SPEAKER_00How many people did you uh tell Happy Father's Day today? Two. So pops and who else?
SPEAKER_01Richie.
SPEAKER_00Richie, hell yeah. Yeah. I always like try to um, especially like new dads, like uh Richie will get uh Richie will get happy Father's Day forever for me, honestly. But like some like some friends of mine that are that are pops, I'm just like happy Father's Day, until I think you're like teenager, then I'm like, okay, dude, you did it. Unless you reset and have a new one, you you're no longer getting happy Father's Day. I'm not hating on dads, I love them, they're great. We need them. We need moms too. But like moms always get happy Mother's Day. Dads, come on. You're fine. Oh, you're fine. New dads, for sure, for sure. Because you need all the support you need as a new parent. But um, once you pass in your teens, you're like, okay, pops, you get it. But it's so different, right? I feel like Mother's Day is um you know, it's so it's not like it's it's uh marketed to not be forgotten.
SPEAKER_01I feel like that's how it works.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, like it should be like a uh a very mem memorable moment. You should um do this um attraction or dinner or capture this photo or go here and take pictures here because this is Mother's Day 2026. But I think Father's Day is just like, hey dad, what's up? You want a beer? You want pizza? Hey, let's hang out, let's talk sports, or hey, I bought you um a tool, some socks. I got you a pair. I've outside, I got you a pair of Wranglers, some pants. Or it's like a dinner, and that's it. Like, boom. For sure. Yeah. Like you you get an Instagram post. That's good. People did a little collage. I'm like, cool, awesome. Well, like, cool, that's that's it. You don't need a damn, you don't need uh, you don't need a gift more than a hundred dollars. I'm sorry. You are fine. Like dudes don't need a lot. They don't need a lot at all. You need some time outside, that's what you need. That's all.
SPEAKER_01One one year we gave my dad a Home Depot
Home Depot Gift Card Scam Stories
SPEAKER_01gift card, right? And it was Anna. I I don't think a cating pitched in, but it was Anna and myself, and we're like, okay, we're gonna split it, we're just gonna put in a single gift card. And I want to say it was either a hundred dollar gift card or a two hundred dollar gift card, but one of the two. And we gave it to my dad, and my dad has a tendency of getting gift cards, putting them in this little shelf, and then kind of forgetting about it. And you know that scam they were doing with Home Depot gift cards where they would just they they would get cash. So my dad goes to Home Depot maybe about a year later, shows up, he wants to get a new tool for his father's day gift card, and it only had ten dollars. And he said, like, my daughters split this, and I was assuming I was like, We give you the card and it had it said it had to say the amount, and he's like, No, I show up, it was so embarrassing.
SPEAKER_00I was just about to say that. I bet you he was embarrassed. One because that's just what parents do, like they're just like embarrassed for they're either pissed off or embarrassed. Oh, he was both, absolutely. But like if you're a parent, like and like your kids involved in any way, that's in a situation like that. There's two things if it goes happen. It can't just be like, oh, what's going on? There has to be an honest mistake. They're like, they tricked me, or what's happening? Yeah, no, no, I know about that because that happened with me. Yeah, yeah. Remember, like you told everyone just to get me a Home Depot gift card, it's like 50, no, 20 bucks. Um, I was we'll talk about this much later in another podcast, but uh I love sandbags. God, sandbags are so incredible for strength training. Um they are they are just fantastic, and I have a lot of sandbags. And at one point I had over um God, like over close to 3,000 pounds of sand in the backyard, which is insane, guys. We don't have enough space for it. I don't even know how I did it. But yeah, with the help of Home Depot gift cards, we got there. But also, the reason why I know about this scam is because I went to go pay for some sand, and it was supposed to be like a $20 gift card or something, and it had nothing on it.
SPEAKER_01No, it had like a it was an odd amount. It was like a dollar with 10 cents.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I think it was like 70 cents or something like that. Or like a dollar 70. It was something weird, and then the guy did something, and it showed us some code that was um what had parallels to like his like you've been scammed or something, right? It like went went up a number. Gift cards are so weird and tricky. I used I worked at Best Buy for a little bit, and um God, there were so many weird things with gift cards during the holiday season, especially with um gaming cards, like uh or um not like gift cards, like Visa cards or whatever, but yeah, same thing, but like redemption money. So like Xbox, PlayStation, uh Wii, um Play Store. But the big thing, it was like Facebook market coins or something. Oh I I remember this a lot like like because it was such a crazy scam. Like this these people would come in, they would get the entire, like you see, all the gift cards. Like there's a hundred gift cards in a single rack. They would like like Pokemon card grab them. Like, I'm taking all of these gift cards, and then they would take their credit card or something. Oh god, I'm trying to remember. It was something with a credit card, and they'll put $300 on all the gift cards, right? And they'll buy like 30 of them, like so much, max out the credit card and put it on the gift cards, then claim something on the credit cards, and then so they got the money back from the credit card company and got refunded or something. So they got like they got like it was just crazy. So you see how like they just stole and like some people were still in like in the like tens of thousands of dollars.
SPEAKER_01It's kind of doing like a burner phone because you can't track those gift cards.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So how we uh handled it was like uh we couldn't, if you wanted to buy a gift card or any type of gift card, you had to pay with in cash. That's it, or a debit card. No, I actually think it was just with cash for a while, and then it became a debit card.
SPEAKER_01Debit card is harder to like file a fraud claim or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00Fucking crazy. How do people like I have never figured out a um like a fraud, fraudulent thing, and was like, I'm going to expose this. Like I'm trying to honestly think about it. Like, um if you think about like I love video games, so I grew up playing video games. You would figure out loops or glitches in the game and expose it. Yeah, that's fun. But in life, in this game of life that we live and play every time we blink our eyes. Like, I've never did any credit card fraud. Like me either. You know, everyone that was like, we read about it, like, and it was massive in California. The um unemployment, like pandemic uh scheme thing. You work the entire time, so you can even you couldn't even participate in that.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Or like the small business loan, like people like I don't have a business. Now you have a business, never had a business, and they're saying that they need to apply for all that stuff that was happening. Yeah, I no.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, for us at that time I was working at a hotel, it's like the amount of people paying for their room stays with their unemployment debit cards.
SPEAKER_00I was yes, the blue and uh yellow card or whatever, whatever it was.
SPEAKER_01Whatever color it was, I was just like, it's insanity. I was like, why are you here? Go home.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I've never like I've never I don't think I've ever exposed a like a system or something like that in life. I just try to live by the rules.
SPEAKER_01As we all should.
SPEAKER_00Like, what's wrong? Like some some rules are crazy, trust me. I feel like, oh man.
Retail Fraud Loops And Debit Only Rules
SPEAKER_00Now I just think some rules are just like we pay, and this is gonna be sound like super weird, but okay, if you're a responsible adult, let's let's just start there. Or, okay, so no no no, this is how I'll break it down, and then then I think everyone will just get me. Someone will won't agree, but I think you'll get where I'm coming from. If you've ever been to Vegas, you're allowed to just grab your drink if you're drinking and walk anywhere, kinda, and just do what you want to do. I feel like why can't I do that here? Like I pay too much in fucking taxes to like not have that liberty. Like, I'm not asking for a lot, but I feel like why can't I enjoy my beverage? Like, why can't we? I'm like, wouldn't it be just nice if we just had a neighborhood beer? What you know how like a nice like let's just crack this beer and take a walk around a neighborhood, and like no one's gonna be like, whoa, bro, like oh, that's an alcoholic, dude. You can't like or it's just normal, and I swear, if it was legal and uh there was no cop or strutiny, because everyone drinks beer. We we live by breweries. Oh, yeah, we live by multiple breweries. We're in San Diego, California. It's insane. There's so many breweries here. God, I don't know how many breweries are there here.
SPEAKER_01I have no idea. At least we're around our area, let's say our zip go, I would say like 20.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Crazy. Everyone drinks beer here.
SPEAKER_01I think it's also because we live close to the water.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but like let me walk around anywhere with a beer. I think it is it I should be able to like, hey, at a bar, let me grab a to-go. Boom.
SPEAKER_01Then there's drinking and driving.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, well, that's that's that's drinking and to going. Like, I'm just driving, I'm going to to go. Yeah. Yeah, like I'm just saying, I don't know. I just feel like that rule, like, I love I love living by the rules, honestly. Like it keeps people online, it's great. But damn it, I really should be able to listen, be able to walk around with a beer in my hand and just do my thing, and it's okay. Like, I'm not gonna get belligerent, but I I know, come on. I was in the military. I've seen I've been belligerent, I've seen people just fit go blackout. Of course, this is gonna happen. It's gonna happen anyway. It's happening anyway. It's happening anyway. Let me take my neighbor, like let me. I'm just honestly, let me just take my neighborhood walk with a beer. I will love that.
SPEAKER_01I think walking and drinking should be okay, but driving.
SPEAKER_00No, no, I'm not saying driving, God. Not not not one point that I say driving.
SPEAKER_01No, but I think that's where people are gonna like gravitate towards. They're like, well, if you have the ability, who's gonna know that you're driving?
SPEAKER_00But you do it in Vegas. There's spots in like Florida, like there's spots in Hawaii that you can just walk and um and drink. Like, why can't that just be normal? Like, okay, like why can't it be normal? Yeah, but yeah, I I guess that's like a silly rule of mine, but I think about it often, trust me. I'm just like, come on, like when I'm when I'm just walking to decompress, like just trying to get some movement in life in life, shaking the legs out and everything. And I'm just like, dude, this walk's great. And we're living in San Diego, the weather's crispy, the the air is amazing, we're by the bay, like we're right there. What would make this even better? A beer. Yeah. And like now, yeah, we you have all these advanced koozies now.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. I
The Case For Walking With Beer
SPEAKER_01love our koozies. They're great. I like the smaller one too, though.
SPEAKER_00What is that one? Ice Buddy or whatever Frost Buddy. Frostbuddy.
SPEAKER_01We're not sponsored, by the way, but they're cool, they're nice.
SPEAKER_00No, we won't know. We purchased it with our money. It's great. Uh it was awesome.
SPEAKER_01If they want to send us a few more, I wouldn't, I won't say no.
SPEAKER_00Then hey, I'm so down for uh stuff like that. If the podcast gets like that, I am so down. God, Thomas says he's working six days a week right now. What the hell is he doing? Oh, that's gonna be fun to do a podcast with Thomas. That's gonna be really fun. But yeah, back back to it, back to it. Um, hey, what what are we? We are 15 minutes in. Let's adjust our posture. Take a nice little reset breath. This is your daily dose brought to you by KPTZ. I'm Luther. That's the Liz. Thank you for listening. Hey, if you know a friend that's into uh podcasting, running yoga, lifestyle, um, just random stories, kind of like what we're talking about today, share the podcast. We'll really appreciate it. All right, so let's cue up some breath here. So with a nice inhale starting at five, four, three, two, one, hold at the top. Then get a little more and open mouth exhale, easy breath out. Awesome. Adjust that posture, squeeze that butt, put some energy in that spine. Just telling you to really just to sit upright while you listen to the podcast. Okay, back to it. Yeah, rules are great. Short, short, um short way to say it is I really just wish um I could just drink on my um my morning walk. Um yeah, and it's okay to drink before whatever. Who cares? Yeah, who cares? A morning dude, a morning beer is amazing. It really is. It like it like cleanse the soul sometimes. Especially like when it's um, and I'm talking like beer before what is that, like one noon? Okay, noon. We can say that. Yeah, so I was trying to say like the latest beer would be like uh like I think 11. Like you get everything done. I'm talking every every email sent, all the things done. Now work is literally just moving the mouse, staying present, listening to some music in the background, and um just making it to the finish line, right? Crack that morning beer, so good, so good, so good. People are gonna think I'm a fucking alcoholic, but I'm not, I'm not at all, I'm not at all. But yeah, no, rules are great. I really enjoy rules. I wish people um would um understand why rules are there in our life, and that's funny that rules kind of popped up in this conversation.
Go To Bed On Time Rule
SPEAKER_00Um oh, you know what's so crazy? I printed it out. Hold on. One second.
SPEAKER_01Something about rules. Okay, let's let's take a look here. Okay, let's look at this printout together.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so I just had to step away because I'm subscribed to um this guy, Alex Hermozy. Just Google him, then you'll figure out what he's all about. But he does this like uh Mosey Minute um email uh subscription lists, and he just like sends out these like nice emails about basically how I don't know, it can be like self-help stuff and stuff like that. But anyway, this email is said set to alarms. That's that's the um the subject line. Mosey minute set to alarms. I won't read all of it, but he says, I'm obsessed with finding single behavior that creates multiple good outcomes. Here's the most underrated one I found, and this is very true. This is very true. Go to bed on time, and this is just kind of how like the rules things, kind of how I'm bridging it now. The a rule, like, hey, just go to bed, just go to bed on time. And he sent out this email. Who was this? Um today's the 21st. Yeah, so three days ago. And he's just saying, Hey, I'm obsessed with finding single behavior that creates multiple good outcomes. Here's the most underrated one I've found. Go to bed on time. Sounds obvious, but bear with me. If you go to bed on time, you don't drink, so no DUIs. You're not innocently doom scrolling or just watching the third episode in a row of some trash TV. You're not walking around at 2 a.m. So you don't get mugged. You're not driving tired, so you don't wrap your car around a pole. TLDR, nothing good happens after 10 p.m. Alright. That is so true.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. You you don't put yourself in that situation.
SPEAKER_00It is but it is so true though. It's like you know, when I read that three days ago, and I was like, okay, how how do I want to communicate this or how do I want to accept this? Um, what he's telling me, and that's something that I've been like really thinking about. Because I think, you know, when you read something, you can think about it right. When you read something, you want to tell someone when you want to do it. Yeah, you want to share it. When you read something, you want to like go into um let's Google, let's like ponder about it, let's research. You don't even like look at what you read, you try to go to the next thing or where it's leading you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the curiosity kind of sparks.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And where I I've been like, okay, how do I want to like take this email? So I thought about time and I don't like to think about the past very often, like at all. Because hey, it's there, boom. Today, tomorrow, today, tomorrow. Today, tomorrow, future, future, right? But I I if I could go back and tell myself anything, like the most I'm talking, you know, how you don't want to go back and say this one thing because what if it happens and then I don't meet you? That's terrible.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's that's sad. But it's that that butterfly effect of like you don't you don't know what you could mess up, right? But I would literally tell myself this. I would be like, hey, dude, listen to me. It doesn't matter where you're at in life, go to bed in time.
SPEAKER_01At what age would you tell yourself this?
SPEAKER_00Oh, the no, like doesn't matter because I would at any age. Yeah. It it will literally be like, hey, do like if you're you're obligated to work, if you're you're working a job that's you know, it's not the uh in the email he says nothing nothing good happens after 10 p.m. If you work past 10 p.m. you understand that that's true. Like like and if you make it through the meat grinder of the club phase of Your life of the drinking phase of your life, you understand that that's true.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Because where are all those friends at? Where's crickets? Come on. Where's all those? Uh hold on. Do we have crickets? We have a soundpad. One second. Oh no. Nope. Nope. Okay. We don't have crickets.
SPEAKER_01But they can laugh about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Where are all those friends at? Where are all those experiences at? Like you don't even think about them. You just laugh at them, right? No, but yeah, it's so true. And I was thinking to myself, like, damn, dude, I honestly, because you know, I'm here, I'm excited. Um life is hard, but it's supposed to be. It's life. Uh but this is something that I'm because I have you noticed, like, I I've actually been trying to go to bed like earlier. Like I've tried I've made an attempt to be like, okay, I have last night I did not go to bed early. It was like one in the morning.
SPEAKER_01I think it's also we ate food pretty late.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, taco shop's so so good. Yeah. But that's the thing, like we wouldn't have ate taco shop. Why would we yeah? Oh, well, we we're working though. That's that's the difference. We're working. Um, but yeah, just go to bed on time. Like it's truly, unless, like, obviously, if you're working or whatever, but honestly, I don't think people everyone is so different and so unique. I understand that. But there is 90% of us that are not night owls, and there's like in that 90% of the not night owls, there's those special rare people that are truly night owls. Like they uh I've met a few of them, they operate truly like when the moon is out, when the sun is down. They cannot stand the heat. They know, they are truly night owls, boom, or night crawlers, whatever you want to call them. That in that 90% that you you you think you're night owl, you're not. Stop it. You're you're over-caffeinated, you're overstimulated, you don't like, and I'm talking not about like stimulation as in uh caffeine or whatever you're doing to your uh cigarettes, whatever you're doing to yourself to keep yourself awake. I'm talking about you're on your phone, screen time, this and that. Uh you're you're talking to this, you're talking to that, you're listening to this, you're stimulating your brain. That's why you can't sleep. That's so you're not a night owl. You're just overstimulated.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_00I bet you that's like 50% of that 90% of people that believe that they're like, I'm a night owl. I'm like, no, you're not.
SPEAKER_01You're like, I can't sleep because I'm doing I'm trying out that new I don't know, magazine that I found that's amazing or me, coloring. I was like, that new coloring book, I gotta try those coloring pens. I'm like, why am I trying this at 10 30 p.m.? I should be in bed. I should be showered, teeth, teeth brushed, and in bed tight.
SPEAKER_00Pass out. Rules, man. Rules. Yeah, but I'm I'm really gonna try to um apply this rule as as um as hard as possible, honestly. As driven as as possible. Because one, only getting older, um, I see people that are much older than me and that have a terrible sleep cycle and how they're recovering and how and you know, there's something about I always look at people and how often they get sick.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_00And I consider a couple things with that. Uh body weight is the number one thing that I consider. Body weight. Um, that is just like uh man, you can just go all into that, but um body weight first, then level of activity. Or like are you just getting outside? That's it. And then age. Age, sleep, and then uh I'm so sorry, uh, sleep cycle, sleep cycle.
SPEAKER_01Like a sleep consistency.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Especially if I like know them and I'm like, bro, you need to you need to go to bed. Like, what are you talking about? And like I'm telling you to go to bed. I'm the people that are listening to this. I am in the top percentile of worst sleepers on this earth, I promise you. Um you think you uh can't sleep, and then you meet me. So like I I am a terrible sleeper.
SPEAKER_01And you're a really light sleeper too.
SPEAKER_00I guess horrible. But I don't I don't get upset when I get out when someone wakes me up. I hate like light sleepers that like get like so mad when they get white awaken. I'm like, dude, you're a light sleeper. Like, what the fuck? This world is loud. Sorry, like shut up.
SPEAKER_01I'm a heavy sleeper. Yeah, but I get grouchy if you wake me up way too early. I was like, if I
Sleep Consistency And Whoop Age
SPEAKER_01have not had eight hours of sleep, I'm like I'm grouchy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I I guess I'm like, dude, I you've accepted that you're a light sleeper, so you're like, yeah. Well, I accepted that I was gonna wake up anyway.
SPEAKER_01Okay, fair enough.
SPEAKER_00I think that's where it is what it is. I think that's that's honestly what it is. I've just accepted that I was gonna wake up anyway. But yeah, rules are nice. Uh rules are nice, and I really want to uh implement this rule of like a sh like honestly, a strict bedtime for for uh for me, for us, honestly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my whoop says I'm 0.8 years older because I have a terrible sleep consistency.
SPEAKER_00Oh wow. My you know, um when I was really deep into half marathon training, my whoop age was like in the 29. It was like 29 point something. I was like, whoa.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I want to share how old my whoops is. I'm 38.1. Whoa. I'm 32.
SPEAKER_00Whoa, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's that's not good.
SPEAKER_00That's not good.
SPEAKER_01It says sleep consistency, I'm at 60%. Hours of sleep, I'm good.
SPEAKER_00And hold on, let's backtrack. We're not saying if you're 38 or older, it's not good. You can be 38 or older and be great. We're gonna be there one day. You should be closer to your age. You're 32, yeah. Yeah, 32. 32. Yeah, you should be closer to your age. That's the whole point of the whoop thing. For example, my whoop age is 31.6. I am 31. There you go. Should be closer to that, closer to the age, yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, for me, it's mostly about movement. I definitely don't move enough. But sleeping, hours of sleep, it's like green, beautiful. Eight hours of sleep. Yeah, yeah. I know I need eight hours of sleep to be functional though.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think, oh man, sleep. I don't know. I don't know. I have no clue. I have no eye I have no idea what I need. I just know it needs to happen. And if it happens, it's good. So that's just where I'm at with that. I wish there was some rule I wish I could tell my body. Like, I'm like, if you if you can do one thing, oh, I don't know. That that'd be kind of hard. Um be like every time I I'm supposed to sleep, I get eight hours or at least six hours, or every time I can eat anything and I um it doesn't like hurt my tummy. I would love that. I would like love that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I think for for sleep, I think for everyone it's different. People are definitely functional with more sleep, less sleep. It just depends what your body needs, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, so in the same email, he continues to say, on the other hand, if you sleep at the same time every night, so your sleep quality compounds, and that is true. That's like, you know, like fitness, um, and that's why oh god, it's kind of like building habits, is what I'm getting out from this email. Yeah, but um well, he's just talking about like your your sleep quality compounds, yes, you gen but general health compounds, like that's why it's so important to yeah, it is very important to let loose and have fun, but to really understand like let loose correctly, I'm down to let loose and drink, and um, especially if you're drinking like well, you know, if you're drinking some light beer, IPAs are a little different. Uh duckfoot beers are great because they're gluten-reduced. Um what I'm getting at is uh people that go crazy and like ice cream cake, candy, and like gorge themselves. Like that shit takes so long to get out of your body, and you you feel like shit for three, four, four week probably, and then it fucks up how you think and everything too. Alcohol, you know, it's in and out, sauna, sweat, go on a run, hot yoga sesh, depending on what it is. That's why I was like, if it's IPA, it's a little different.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. More like a blonde.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Eat some mushrooms, you know, as long as you don't go crazy, you know, a couple hours, you're whatever. But that's not really letting loose, I guess, unless you're I guess you're going to a little festival and having having a little dance party. But what I'm getting at is um health compounds, like health truly compounds. And I'll and he's saying that your sleep quality compounds because if it compounds, and he lists some uh benefits, your body composition improves. It means you get leaner, start seeing a little muscle tones. Um for women, that that back or your back starts to become defined, belly a little flatter. Nope, nope, nope. Your ability to learn increases. That is true. Healthier brain, you live longer, you're physically stronger, you're less likely to get sick. One behavior, dozens of disasters avoided, plus dozens of benefits, and it's true. So he's listening that if you just go to bed on time, nothing could happens after 10 p.m., which I truly believe that you know Thomas actually told me that one time. Really? Yeah, we were. I think I was um trying to, I was just trying to pressure him to go out or and I'm like, hey dude, let's go get drunk, like let's do something you know, destructive, like destructive, right?
SPEAKER_01Shut down the bar.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and he was and he told and he looked me in my mind and he's like, seriously said, nothing happens after 10 p.m. Nothing could ever happen at 10 p.m. And I was like, dude, what and I remember like vehicly, like I was like, I cannot believe you said that. You I because I you don't know how much fun I've had after 10 p.m. And I and at that time, and I have had a lot of fun after 10 p.m. But I've had more fun, more productive fun, more things from that getting up at 6 in the morning or even 5 in the morning, and like just having a day long of activity until like you know, 8, 9 p.m. Like sure. I I've definitely I e like even all the craziness, the bars, the whatever, the OB nights, having so much fun in OB. Oh, yeah, like so much fun, but God, dude, yeah, it's half of those nights are like, wait, what happened? Yeah, like like he says, uh the TLDR here is nothing good happens after 10 p.m. And it's just true. It's just true. And Thomas tried to warn me, I didn't listen, but I know now, I know now. But what what you what do you think is another rule
One Small Habit That Helps
SPEAKER_00that um someone could implement that would cause like a an effect of like, hey, it's one change, a ton of benefits.
SPEAKER_01What's one thing? Okay. I think like how you said to be kind with yourself, if you could tell yourself one good thing. It doesn't have to be about you. It's best to be about you because it kind of brings your mood up. But just remember or jot down something positive to start your day. Because it's gonna change the way that you see the rest of the day and event because a lot of people focus, like you mentioned, on the past or on something negative, and it's just like that affects how they see life, how they see their day, how they go about it. So I think that's something positive, something good that people can do. I feel like it's something achievable.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm thinking about a more actual habit for me. Like the going to bed on time is just it's such a you gotta stop everything and you have to go to rest. So it makes you not do all these other things. Overeat, eat, eat late at night, um, text that person you're not supposed to text. Like who knows? Who knows what people do, man? What people do. Or, you know, feel like um, you know, when you know when you're up at night and you hit up the old Instagram, you're seeing your buds like just having a fun time and the FOMO sinks in. If you were in bed, eyes shut, snoring, you wouldn't have seen that, so no FOMO or whatever. You know, I think um I really I really really wish, and I don't and I don't know why. I really don't know why. I have people know me. I talk about this often, like in private conversations. I try to um encourage people to do it when I just see them and I don't even know them. I'm like, dude, you just got like you have to uh work out, and whatever that is for
Move More And Yoga In The Park
SPEAKER_00you, as in if it's some nice incline walking, like going on a hike, if you're attacking a mountain three days a week, like in San Diego, if you're out here in uh San Diego, California, if you're um hiking uh Cow's Mountain, uh what is it, potato chip at the back, Woodson, you're going on uh like a nice and I'm I'm saying these walks because there's some incline involved. And now that we've involved running into our training, I feel like there there has to be something that makes the heartbeat a little more than just walking. Like if you were like walk in a very, like a very, very um what am I what I'm trying to say, uh like a furious pace, but uh just a very fast pace. I can get that. But uh you gotta get that heart a heartbeating. And um maybe, maybe that's what I want to say. You need to get your like a rule that you should have three days a week. You should get your heart elevated in that zone two, zone three, if we're gonna use those categories. Um I would love for your for oh, and here we go. This is where we go. Uh podcast, the reason for a podcast is an advertisement for I teach yoga Monday and Wednesdays at a park nearby in San Diego, California. If you want to know, you can follow me at TrainWitSand on Instagram. Just hit me up, say you're interested in uh attending a yoga class. I'll drop you the location 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. So yeah, I would love some people to do some yoga. Like to find like a slow flow hata style or a power yoga. Um you know, and just explore explore that. I think just something physical to get your heart heart up heartbeat elevated.
SPEAKER_01And there's options for that, it doesn't have to necessarily be swimming. Yeah, swimming is great. Swimming's great, man.
SPEAKER_00A dance, dance classing is too something, but like really like don't break that rule. Like, because people go hard. I I've seen it, and that's where I really have a beef with um like like uh workout plans, like workout programs where they're like eight weeks, eight weeks long. Dude, we we're we're animals, like, and people need to understand that we we are habitual animals. Like if we look at something like that and we're like, oh, we have an eight-week program, eight-week program, eight-week program, we look at fitness as just eight weeks. Hey, I just need to go to this eight-week class, I just need to dedicate eight weeks, three months uh to fitness a year and just do my little things or whatever. No, it's a it should be a daily thing, and daily should be, but people you can't dedicate it to daily, and I'm not saying you have to lift or work out or do a strenuous workout, but just do a little bit of something every day. But three days a week you should work out, three days a week. You should go to your local gym, you should find a trainer. There's trainers everywhere that are wanting customers, I mean, wanting clients. They're like, they are googling right now how to get you. Think about that. I'm doing it, I'm thinking about that. Yeah, so you just need to go to a gym and be like, hey, you're a trainer, do you want a client? And they're gonna be like, Oh my god, is this really happening? And then you're gonna tell them, Hey, I'm new, I'm shy, or if you find someone that's teaching yoga in the park or whatever, or join a run club. Start off just trying to do two days a week and then try to work towards that third day. And then if you really like this damn thing, go go go four, go five, but don't push yourself because people, this is what I was getting at. People go so hard for eight weeks, or they go so hard for a extended period of time, and then they're done, and then they're done, and they're like, Why didn't it work out?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's uh you have to keep doing it. Consistency is key here.
SPEAKER_00It's everything, it is everything, it it is the only thing. This this um this game, that uh a fitness or whatever you want, uh finance, whatever you want, it's all about how can you endure the program and how long can you endure it? That like that's it, and that's it, and then correctly pushing yourself. But yeah, if you just honestly, if you find like a local, I'm pretty sure uh YMCAs, they have cycling, yeah, like a cycle class, something, something now. If you want to get strong, though, if you want to get really strong, if you're looking for something, um if you're looking to be something, like uh I'm talking, you're you're looking at some bodybuilding, you want to look a certain way, find and and this is where I think comparisons are really good. Find someone that looks that way, watch their content or interact with them in person. If they're kind, approach them, and I promise you, they're gonna be more than likely to be like, dude, this is all I ever want to talk about. Yes, I want to help you. I wish people like knew that too.
SPEAKER_01Because a lot of people are intimidated. They're they see somebody fit or they see somebody big and they're like, ooh, scary.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but think about it. You want that, and look how much you have researched to get there. They have that, so they've already did the research and the work, and they're already on the journey a little more. So you just gotta go. Like, I just want people to to move, honestly. Moving's good. I need to move more. Oh, I oh, or should I say, you gotta I just went, oh, we're like we're 42 minutes in. Hell yeah. Hey, if you're in the long run, this is a good podcast for you.
Camping As A Quarterly Reset
SPEAKER_00Continue. We've probably got like 18 minutes left, probably go for an hour to wrap up. But I was about to say, maybe another rule is um, because I recently just did the B-day camping thing, was God, I think more people should camp. I really enjoy it. Be outside, it's yeah, so weird. Like, it is so you're still around a bunch of people. Like, we were at a campsite that had a ton of like I showed you the map, and what'd you say?
SPEAKER_01You're like, There's like 80 something like individual areas for people. It's like that's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and but that's like a lot of campsite, and you're still kinda on top of each other, but you're not every because it's camping, you know, everyone has the camping rules, courtesies, the rules that everyone should know. Hey, we're gonna park here, you're gonna park there, whatever. But you're still lit, you can still hear the other group over there laugh or their music or whatever. But for some odd reason, like if I'm on a beach, I fucking hate it. I'm like, yo, oh, like I get so like, what is this?
SPEAKER_01Do you think 'cause it just it's such a big, I guess, blob instead of like concentrated small group.
SPEAKER_00Maybe, maybe.
SPEAKER_01Like there's still privacy, I feel like, when a beach is just open.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Or like if we're at a park and someone's like there and I'm like, Why are you so loud or lo you know? Come on, like I why should I have to hear your conversation? I'm not trying to be rude, but I don't need to hear your conversation. You shouldn't be that loud. But it in camping, I don't care. I don't know why.
SPEAKER_01Like just a vibe.
SPEAKER_00Because I want to be loud. I want to have fun and all that. I love camping. I th and I think everyone should do it. Because um, I don't know, it just makes me feel very, very like I guess the word zen mellow put me put me in a really good spot. I really enjoy it. I like everything about it. I like the I like getting there. I like the anticipation of getting there. I like how every campsite or wherever you're camping, if you're going, we've we've camped way out there. Oh my god. I was like, yeah, there's no way I'm getting back. Like I've made it here. There's no way the car is making it back. So that's just the reality of it. And those are just so much fun. But then you walk around a campsite and you discover all these little things or these um these viewpoints where the sunsets and and all that. And then everyone has these different camp camping treats. I'm like, what is this snack? And it's so different.
SPEAKER_01For us, for me, I have not been a camping person as an adult, but growing up, it was something that we would do every year. So I want to say it was a group of like six families or so. So it's like some relatives, some family friends, and they all had kids around the same age, so we would just go out there, we would camp, and it was for me growing up, that was awesome. It was great, you know. Me as a kid, I would always look forward to it. Because we would do I want to say it was Palomar. So there was like a lazy river, we would take our little doughnuts, go down the river, and parents are chilling. They're I can't really remember how long we would stay there for, but it was always a great time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, I think the the magic uh time is two days, two, two, three days. Uh especially if it's at like a campsite like that. Now if you're out there, oh man, I can say like a week, honestly, ten days, truly. Um yeah, I know I like I think we should definitely camp more. I wanna get I wanna camp I definitely want to get one more camping trip um in this year. Like, well we have we have Yosemite on the calendar for September, but that's more gonna be um it could be a camping trip. Honestly.
SPEAKER_01What time do they I know they close Yosemite sometime?
SPEAKER_00Well, they close um I don't know if they close the park entirely, but they close half them, right?
SPEAKER_01Gotcha.
SPEAKER_00But I think they close half them. When I think they close certain but areas, right? But you can still go to like little I think I think you can still go to like well, you know, I have not been back since the pandemic, and I know that changed so much. So but back to it, I definitely want to want to go camping more. I definitely I love I love how it feels. I really do, and all the camping gadgets and all that. God, but we need more space. But yeah, I think that's my my I if I had to get two rules for you or three, I agree a hundred percent with this. Go to bed, go to bed on time, and truly nothing good happens after uh 10 p.m. And uh to everyone that's listening to that 10 p.m. You know, 10 p.m.'s um what if someone's 10 p.m. is worth they work the night shift. No, no, no, I was gonna try to be all like that 10 p.m. can go to 11 or whatever. No, I actually think it's right. 10 p.m. is a really nice hard cut cut off. You shouldn't eat past 10 p.m.
SPEAKER_01Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00You know, or you couldn't you shouldn't really drink past 10 p.m. But uh yeah, so I agree with this. Go to bed on time. I would love to go. Uh I think you should definitely if I had to put a thing on it, I would like to do four camping trips a year. Like one every quarter. I would like to go once a month, honestly. If if I had the time, god, it'd be so fun. There's so many places. There's too many places. You can just go out there, pitch it like and I'm and when I'm saying camping, car camping, I'm not trying to sleep. No, I'm past that. I'm past sleeping on a tent, dude. I I've done my time with that stuff. Hell no.
SPEAKER_01Tent, and then it's always so wish when you show up and it's missing a piece.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I can do I can do some, but I can do some backpacking. I want to get into backpacking, but yeah, anyway, for me, I agree with the bed on time. Definitely camp. Camp more, camping more for sure. And then um, what was the other one I was talking about?
SPEAKER_01Movement.
SPEAKER_00Movement. You gotta move. Gotta get that heart rate up.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00Gotta get that heart rate up. And you said be kind to yourself as in starting your uh daily, your uh, your day off with a daily affirmation, like a like a like a self-help or a positive affirmation.
SPEAKER_01I think it's just something positive, whether it's something it'd be like, today it's gonna be a good day, or today I'm gonna wear this outfit because it's gonna make me feel empowered, or whatever it is. It's just something to start your day on a positive note to just kind of set the mood for the rest of the day.
SPEAKER_00See, see, I wonder if dudes think that. I wonder if like dudes think no, no, no, no, no. No, it's it's funny though. It's so funny. It's like I I have never thought about like, let me wear this outfit and I'm gonna kill it. But there has to be some people that like, hey, every time I wear these shoes, like I've met people like like Richie when he's like, I if I wear these socks and the charges are playing, yeah. So I get it, but I I've just never been like a um see that with the sports fan, that's superstition, right? Yeah, would that be superstition? Superstitious for hey, I'm wearing this outfit to feel better. No, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01I don't think so. I think it's just sometimes you have to guess I definitely felt good.
SPEAKER_00Like when we like when we go to a wedding and we're like super dressed up, doing a couple photos, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, we look good.
SPEAKER_01I feel we cleaned up, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, I feel good there, but I that the thought is to never uh wear it to feel good, I guess.
SPEAKER_01Okay, that's a good way to see it too, I guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Hey, if you're if my other male listeners, please uh comment somehow. I don't know how. Um leave us a five-star review on Spotify. Yes, please. That's uh some people told us to say that.
SPEAKER_01Like, subscribe.
SPEAKER_00But um, yeah, leave a comment. I I want to know, do you guys have a uh as a male, do you have like a like an outfit just to make you like if when you put it on, you're like, okay, this is gonna make me feel good. I guess mine would be like gym clothes. Like I'm about to go work out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So that's it.
SPEAKER_01But just subjective to each person, whatever makes you feel good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but just when you said that, that's the first. I'm like, I have net like is that a female thing?
SPEAKER_01Like it could be. I can see that. So funny. Yeah, there's definitely some times where like I'm gonna wear that specific vest because I like how it sits in my body. I feel empowered. I'm like, I'm gonna walk I'm gonna kill in this event.
SPEAKER_00Oh, there you go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm more so I'm trying to even think about job interviews.
Interview Vibes And Agents Of Chaos
SPEAKER_00And whatever. But I'm probably uh you know, I've always thought I I really wish this is just on a a whole different we're branching off somewhere here. Uh I really wish uh like um how do I say it? You could get like an honest take about how your your uh your interview went. Look, we're all human. There's some people that's listening to this podcast that has definitely participated in a hiring process or a screening. Oh yeah, we have some people, yeah. Right, but I'm just saying, and you know to yourself, you're like, yo dog, I am not hiring this person. Exactly, but on the report, you have to, you know, you have to do your thing. You're like okay, professional. Obviously, you have to be professional, but you can't just be like day cray cray, or you know, like they don't fit the vibe, yeah. Because I I've definitely been like train like not in a hiring process, but like they've made it pass and been like, hey, I have to train this person in some jobs. I'm like, and you get to know them like the first hour or the first two minutes. I'm like, yo, how did you make it? Same.
SPEAKER_01We had one where this guy did not know how to write emails. I'm like, that's part of her job description. What do you mean? How did you make it six months in?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm not even talking about like technical difficulties or um tech limitations, it's just more so um you know, never judge a book by its cover. Uh, you know, I'm not about that at all. Everyone has layers, you gotta pull them back. But when some people just come out the gate hot, we're like, whoa.
SPEAKER_01I was not expecting that.
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, we're like, okay. Like, I remember I were working at this at this job, and it was my second day, and I I think I had an extended lunch or something because we were waiting to do something or something in a system or whatever. And the guy was like, he was literally, he was like, Hey, uh, so that bar over there has strippers in the back. You wanna go? What? I was like, what?
SPEAKER_01And it was not like uh let me prank you or something like that. It was serious, 100% serious.
SPEAKER_00No, you gotta like and and this is something you know, like so when two dudes are getting are together and you you just know when a dude are like it's like a guy thing, or like he he's he's probably he's just you want do you want to be an agent of chaos with me? Like do you like do you want to just like say like hey, I know it's an hour, but I've only been working here for two weeks, and I kind of know how it goes right there. I live right around the corner. We can go here, get and he because he was talking about a special, like there was like you can get two dollar tequila shots or something. And of course, I'm like in the navy at the time. I'm like, you know what? I'm along for the ride. Let's go for it. So we go into this um strip club bar bar thing. But this is wait, how how how are we getting to this? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm like, how did you make it through the thing? And this is okay, my alcohol tolerance right now, I cannot drink to save my damn life. I like three, four beers, I'm good. You give me two shots, I'm like, what is happening right now? Can't do it. Back in my days, though, in the military, I could drink a lot for some odd reason. I had a lot of repetition in it. So I'm over here drinking with this guy, and I can clearly tell you he he's like a super lightweight, and whatever. And he's like, Yeah, man, I just got this job because something something. I and people are gonna listen to this, they're like, What is this podcast about? Again, it's your daily dose, you get anything out of it, something in it for someone, for anyone and everyone. Um, this is a true story, by the way. He's like, So he was working at this job before me for two weeks. I get hired out, and he's gone through this process, so they're like, Hey, can you just help him do this thing? I'm supposed to have he's on a 15-minute anyway. It gets extended to an hour lunch because I'm also whatever. Go to the bar, he's talking about the strip club or whatever right there. Obviously, it's fucking 1 p.m. There's no strippers there.
SPEAKER_01So it's just the tequila shots.
SPEAKER_00Yes, just the tequila shots. And he gotta make their money somehow. He could not get over the fact that there was no one there at 1 p.m. But you gotta, we're in the small town in in Washington. There's no what what it anyway. Anyway, we're like three shots in, or three shots in, and he starts telling me, he's like, Yeah, man, so yeah, I'm gonna quit actually in a couple days. Um I only get this job because he's on probation, so he has to have a job or something. But he does this thing uh earlier in the podcast, we talked about scamming or loopholes, right? Where he worked a certain amount of time just to draw unemployment. That was his whole thing.
SPEAKER_01Makes sense.
SPEAKER_00So he would work the whatever amount of time, and then he would and then something would happen where he wouldn't quit, but he would something, and then he'll get terminated, and he'll like he was telling me to a T that he did this multiple times, everybody, everybody's wild. And I was like, How the fuck did you get through this process? Like, how do you like through the whole like work history interview, this and this, this and that, or like the vibe shit? Because like when I met the guy, I was like, oh, like uh uh, uh-uh. But yeah, yeah, wild, wild, um, yeah, you just don't get the vibes, man. Some people, I don't even know why I told that one. I didn't because I I just remember getting a lot like a weird like uh feel, and then getting in the car and we're supposed to go to this um for lunch. This place called Montezumas or something. Montezumas or something terrible. I lived in fucking San Diego, California for three and a half years before going to Washington State. In any Mexican spot I tried out there, there was some good Mexican food. I'm not gonna say it wasn't. There was some great Mexican Mexican food. There was a lot of white wash stuff, bro. I was so upset, so upset with the salsa and all that other stuff. But we're supposed to go to uh go there, and then that all happened, but he got so drunk. Oh man, I'm not even telling the full story. God, so I told you he has he's like he he telling you the story that he's gonna quit. No, he quits and whatever, but he he lived in an apartment. Oh live in an apartment like a like nearby. You know what? Actually, no, no. I'll I'm gonna stop the story here. I'm gonna stop the story here. It's just so dumb. It's just so dumb. Agents of chaos, man. Agents of chaos. When there's 1 p.m., you're wanting strippers, you can't get strippers, so you drink more alcohol. He's trying to keep up with me, and he just went ballistic. Ballistic. I can tell you that he did not make it work. Back to work. He didn't make it back. No, I did. No.
SPEAKER_01You're like, I got this.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god. Oh my god. What a I don't even know how to it's like those old time margaritas. Oh my god, what a what an insane, insane day. That was so crazy. Let's tell the story and then we'll we'll let's talk about rules here. I'll I'll give you a rule that you probably shouldn't break. Uh, probably no alcohol until if you're gonna consume alcohol. Oh god, I don't know now.
SPEAKER_01After you're done working, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'm trying to well, the thing was we were both done working because you were off work.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was off work. I think the
Margarita Math And Closing Thanks
SPEAKER_01mistake was we got extra large margaritas and we asked for an extra shot.
SPEAKER_00Here we go. There we go. That's the rule. When you get extra large margs, you don't need an extra shot.
SPEAKER_01It already comes with extra shots in it.
SPEAKER_00But like, even if you think you need the extra shot, hear me out. Have them bring the extra large mar margarita first, drink a little bit of it. I'm talking not just a sip, give me 20, 30%, and then determine if you want to go down that road. Because what we did, we were like, oh, let's get these extra large margaritas, because we saw there was these big cactus cups, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I assume it was like when you order a coffee, when you order order a larger coffee, they don't give you extra shots of espresso unless you order them. You know, but that's not how it works when you order alcohol and margaritas, they're already in there.
SPEAKER_00And imagine like a margarita glass, cactus um themed, it's great. Normal size, and then an extra large is probably just two margaritas in one, right? Probably. So you're probably drinking two shots, three shots, really, because they pour a little heavy at this at this place. Well, we decided to order an extra shot, and boy, did we and like the food took forever to get there, right? Yeah, get there.
SPEAKER_01So the empty stomach.
SPEAKER_00The margaritas came first. Of course, they the chips and salsa was there. So you're smashing chips and salsa. Oh, I'm thirsty. Drink the extra large margarita, and next thing you know, you are drunk. Oh my god, you are so drunk. You were so drunk. Yeah, so that'll be that that'll be a nice rule.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I had to call Tia to come pick me up. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00What a fun, what a fun and fun day.
SPEAKER_01Shout out to Tia Letty. Jesus came in clutch. Jesus God.
SPEAKER_00Uh I was gonna say a rule of like you shouldn't day drink or don't drink until after 5 p.m. I'm sorry, day drinking, so fun. You know what's funny? They they listen to episode one, two, and three. They're like, oh wow, this uh this podcast is so healthy, it's so encouraging. There's some yoga, there's some bad suspicions. No motherfuckers, we got comfortable. It's still Luther San Diego Yogi. But we like the party too in a responsible manner, yes, and we like to be kind to ourselves. But I want to thank each and every one of you for making it an hour and some minutes into the podcast. This was your daily dose. D deuced your daily dose by KPTZ. That's the Liz. I'm Luther. You'll hear the next podcast sometime soon. Like, subscribe, tell someone that you know a bud that teaches yoga and has a podcast in San Diego, California. Follow us on train with sand. That's trainwit sand on Instagram if you want to support us and all that. But yeah, that was it. Peace out. Mm-hmm. Peace out.