What are your best and worst traits as a lifter?

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I think I know the answer to
this question already. But do you guys

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get on top of the the iOS
updates and stuff. Oh no, I

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read some of it. I did
it. I don't think I didn't get

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offered it. I got it.
Well, I didn't either. I just

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got into the settings and forced it. M hmm. I I like to

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be on the bleeding edge of a
technology that can fail me. It's how

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I lived dangerously. It's my only
thrill seeking behavior. Another question I have

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is why anyone thinks that a've just
very obvious fishing bullshit spam email is ever

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going to work. I just got
one that's it says ups shipping, but

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it's you dash PAS S dot s
H exclamation, exclamation, I I P

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I n G exclamation On what planet
would I open that? And what?

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They're just trying to ask for info? I don't know what they want,

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but I'm not going to find out. It's have a repeated one that's uh,

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but what is it? I don't
know. I have a repeated uh

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geek squad one They keeps saying,
yeah, I'm not going to do that

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on I have a couple of ancestors, a couple of ancestors. It might

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be sending us money from Africa.
We're currently getting one on my my business

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email that is a spam thing for
Chase, which we do some banking with

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Chase. But it is so obviously
and completely a spam message. You have

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a subscription a geek squad that keeps
running out and they want me to repay.

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I almost zelled someone money. Oh
no, Yeah, kind of dumb,

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particularly Zell, isn't I mean I
didn't really know a Zel was.

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Yeah, it's I mean it's supposed
to be part of the way that banks

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send money to each other, like
institutionally, and then they you know,

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there's like a consumer component to it. But Mike, my Zell only works

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with I can only do it through
my banks app. I can't use the

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Zell app. Yeah, that's where
I was, like, where am I

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on this app right now? Zella
is banks version of cash Up. Yeah,

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essentially. Yeah, there's a ton
of them. Now that's what I

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was confusing, you know, like
that's where you almost want a monopoly in

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one sense, because you want everyone
to be able to if you have Zel,

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I have cash app and she has
Venmo. Yeah, we can't send

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each other shit then you have twenty
apps. I went to college. That

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was a scam. College is a
scam. You actually got the ultimate scam.

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I was just thinking about that this
morning. I'm gonna go visit family

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I haven't seen in like twelve years
and then and they're all great. So

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this isn't about that by any means. But just like when Dad died,

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I met like so many people I
didn't really know that were like Dad's friends

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or old friends or business people,
and like some of the advice these people

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giving it was crazy, Like every
not everyone, but there's one particular man.

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I'm not gonna mention names. He's
not listening him out. That's true.

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He's smart, successful man, you
know, like lots of money,

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a lot of businesses, all this
listening. Yeah, and like uh would

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just like like frilled me for not
going to college. And I'm like,

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in the hindsight, like that's the
worst advice you probably could have given me.

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Yeah, you know, like not
that college is the worst advice ever,

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But for me at that time,
being like twenty four, like imagine

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then I go to three four five
years get my masters. Then I hit

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the fucking pandemic and I got two
hundred k debt, like the worst timing

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of that. Plus like the nature
of going to college right now, unless

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you're a specialty, right, unless
you're a doctor, lawyer, you have

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like a real specialty, you're just
not getting jobs anymore like you did.

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No, I think the biggest argument
for going to college is a kind of

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mind expanding one. It's not necessarily
that pays off in a lot of different

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ways around, like seeing the big
picture, cultural understanding, problem solving,

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stuff like that that I think is
where the value is, particularly in a

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Badelor's degree. But there's routes.
There are other ways too, Yeah,

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ways to most people don't don't who
aren't going to school, don't do that

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though. Yeah, yeah, but
traveling internships, yeah you can if you

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if you put it your mind to
it, you have Well that's what makes

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you advice bad. Right as I
was traveling, I was working, I

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was getting internships. And then he's
like, yeah, I just go go

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to school, do the smart thing, Like, well, where am I

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going to end up? Then,
well it's not. In the eighties,

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it was guaranteed. You know,
my graduated in fucking seventy eight got straight

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into a six figure job literally from
college. Recruited. That happens like less

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than one percent. Now, Yeah, it's just not the same landscape of

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like careers anymore. Well, I
went to a state school for everything that

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I got a degree from. I
went to a lot of other schools before

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that. But I thought I would
come out with the bachelor's and get a

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job right away. And it took
months, and I got a shittily paying

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job. And then I got a
master's degree and came out and got a

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different still shittily paying job, not
shitty as shitty as it was before,

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but still shitty. And went into
a culture where where everyone was kind of

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all the like management of people were
were East Coast or Midwest, like Ohio,

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because you know, a bunch of
people had come from another company in

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Ohio and they did give a shit
about my degree at all. Yeah.

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Yeah, my boss don't care about
my degree either. I don't care.

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There was a and who knows,
right, because there's a million like typos

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and ship. But someone posted the
other day, I think it was on

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Twitter, like a job a job
ad and said something like master's degree necessary,

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quick job description fifteen dollars an hour. Yeah, no, right,

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but that but that's my point of
like, you know, oh my god,

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it's just where we're at. It's
just where we're at right now,

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you know, Like and and in
some ways I agree to it because like

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it should be more on the person's
skill, experience and what the person can

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bring, right, rather than what
this degree can bring because how many you

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know, there's just so many dumb
people degrees. Is there's smart people with

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degrees. There's just so many dumb
people without degrees. Is there's smart people

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without degrees. Like, it does
show your dedication, and you definitely learn

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some skills there, like some office
skills and some basic work skills. But

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there's a lot of fucking people I
would hire with one and a lot of

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people I wouldn't hire with one.
Yeah. In California, there's a push

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by the governor to drop the education
requirements for a lot of state positions,

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which makes a lot of sense for
sure, Like you're not fucking free thinking

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like crazy to know analyze some data. A lot a lot of state jobs

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are kind of drony, you know, And so you don't necessarily need to

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have that background if you have experience, yeah, or if you have teamwork,

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if you have like customer service skills, Like that's the shit that's way

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more important to me. Yeah,
yeah, actually gets ship done. I

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would agree. I will say that
I was not. I was a very

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streaky student until until business school,
until I was doing my masters. I

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mean I got great grades, like
universally great grades working on my master's.

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Master's. I was just in and
out high school. I was in and

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out, you know, of of
just being engaged. You know. Sometimes

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I had some shitty ass teachers too, people that just roll make you question

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all of your life choices because they're
so bad. Yeah, do you have

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good grades? You probably good grades. I have good grades, but I

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had to work really hard to be
like average because I'm stupid and I work.

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I definitely work harder not smarter,
which is something that I probably picked

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up from my dad, and I
still do that sometimes try not to.

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I don't know if it's bad working
harder and not smarter. I think there's

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times in place for both, because
I think I do too much of the

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other. Sometimes, m I'm too
smart. I'm too smart for my own

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good. You're out smart yourself.
Well, just like find I try to

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always find like the best ways,
and sometimes you'll spin your wheel or sometimes

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you'll skip steps. I just get
afraid that there is an obvious way that

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I'm missing, you know. Yeah, That's why I showed you guys at

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all a CIA interview of like the
four or five different animals that plays like

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a huge role on how you think, right, Like the cheetah is like

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the one that just does and they
don't think. They don't need to think,

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oh, we want to start a
podcast, but they just start talking.

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Aids, Well, they just start
talking. They don't even know like

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where it's going, how to record
it, and they just start talking.

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Or little Matts a cheetah? Uh
is he? I don't know. We

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had this conversation me see Bass,
Matt and Daniel were we were kind of

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all over the place. Matt might
be a cheetah. Yeah, what's what

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we were saying, Actually that might
be a cheatah And then they're not like

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perfect lines, no, no,
no, but cheetah. He's definitely he's

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just he does. He's a doer. Yeah yeah, just like just shy

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of actually being impulsive. Yeah yeah. Some cheatas are impulsives. Yeah yeah,

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some are very Yeah, he's impulsive
and then he gets addicted to whatever

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he starts, like climbing, Yeah, climbing cars, cars Yeah, yeah,

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might be Cheatah, we're talking about
one of our members. She was

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also one of our friends. Your
friend, he's my friend. I don't

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want that kid as a friend.
He hugged me every day at least twice.

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How can I not be his friend? Yeah, you pity the guy.

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It's okay, pity hugs. What
are you? GEO thinks I think

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it was. Is it a bear
relationships? Yeah, that the communication relationships.

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And then uh, there's a fox
the Yeah, I think I'm a

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mix of a fox and is that
the organized I think I think the fox

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I don't quote because I forgot,
but I think the fox is like the

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thinker, the idea or guy,
and then the lion is the organized,

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planned situation or whatever. And uh, yeah, I feel like I'm probably

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a mix of the bear and the
fox, although the bear isn't always like

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what I like or want to do, you know, like being the social

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guy, Like it's a skill of
mine, but it's not like what I

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enjoy. What do you enjoy?
Ideas? Probably ideas because I can do

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it alone, you know, and
like I can see it come to fruition

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or get it. You get lost
in your brain just like a tons of

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ideas. Yeah, I can build
things out that way, and I think

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pretty good that way. I think. I think I'm creative enough to like,

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like problem solved. You're creative.
I'm not creative. I don't have

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that. Yeah, you're You're definitely
in the fox or not the fox the

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lion range. Shall we just break
these down because I just brought it up.

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This it's from the my Relationship Center
dot org, the Center for Relationship

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Education. Uh, lion, it's
the quote is our motto is let's do

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it now. Lions are born leaders. Lions like to accomplish things with immediate

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results. A lion. I don't
know if this is the same Uh,

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it's from the same thing. The
other one was CIA. Yeah, I

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know it's the same thing though,
got lions, otters, golden retrievers,

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what beavers? No, no,
I don't think a think no, no,

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no. Now, this is this
is just one method that the CIA,

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that's what I google, tries to
form their team and its fur animals.

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Yeah, there might be different versions, obviously, but the interview I

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was watching was that he only brought
up four and then and the four made

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sense and he said you can have
six sens, foxes, cheetahs, bears.

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Yeah, I think that's it and
so and again like there's overlap.

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But if you want like the fullest
functioning team, you should probably have at

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least one of each, but you
can function with Is this do you feel

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like this says more salience than say
Myers Briggs, which is bullshit and made

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up and totally I love these things. I think I like eneograms. I

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don't know if you guys heard of
one. Yeah, better than than Myers

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Briggs one. I don't know if
I say I like any of them,

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but I think some of them make
sense in team building. I mean some

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of the other ones are just trying
to like categorize people, where this one's

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trying is like very applicable, right, Like you need an idea, you

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need someone to organize the idea,
build a plan, you need someone that

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can put that plan into the community, and you need someone that can put

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rubber to ground. Like it just
makes sense functional way of using it.

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It's very logical a team of people. And in these like different websites that

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have these tests, they do have
I have seen like that there is something

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that you can purchase for work like
for a group of teams, like people

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like a team. Well, I
did a ton of them in like high

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school and even junior college and stuff. Are our counselor is pretty good at

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them. And then and then they
would try to even shove you into jobs

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from that. Hey, this type
of personality tends to work good in this

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group or this industry or whatever it
can. It can. But you're just

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like two young, understanding eighteen so
like even what you are, right,

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No, for sure. The other
one that I was looking at seems to

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cross tab over more to what I've
heard from the wolderff world, which uh

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is choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine,
and melancholic. Yeah, yess like Shakespearean.

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I don't know. So the lion
is is choleric, yeah, ambitious,

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confident, leader, aggressive, impatient, phlegmatic is peacemaker, calm,

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steady, accepting, rational, Sanguine
is social, outgoing, charismatic, fun

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living, impulsive. Melancholic is detail
oriented, thoughtful, organized, cautious,

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pessimistic. There's the four of us
right there, pretty much, one,

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two, three, four, Oh
lady, Happy birthday, Aby birthday.

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This just what we were waiting for, Oh my god, waiting from Matt,

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who we were just talking about.
Enjoy bring it over. I'm twenty

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five of age, quarter century,
quarter life crisis. We just want to

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talk about a quarter life crisis.
No nuts, no nuts, guys,

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enjoy gaps on, Matt. There's
like two extra fancy ones. Have you

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have a fancy one? Are there
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have some. This is excellent radio. Yeah. Anyway, it just come

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on, just just come on,
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We got milks, we got thank
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napped I have one of them fancy
bitches. Crownut? Dude? Are that

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fancy crazy cronut? I don't know. They're supposed to be chronicut somewhere.

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They probably missed it all. They
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might forever to get here. These
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in the car. Yeah, I'm
sure, door dash, Where are these

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from? Coffee and donuts? When
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for coffee donuts is pretty good?
That's crazy. He just stole the birthday

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girls donut. That was actually obscene. Thank you Server, would be a

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little something extra in your pay envelope. How's your cronnut? I just do

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like a donut really kind of.
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it's not really it's not crispy whatsoever. Is there anything chocolate in there at

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all? I'm sure there's something.
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cinemon roll of saying maybe you got
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you gonna do cereal? It makes
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much despised food or nuts. M
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All right, Oh my god,
this is okay. So the thing

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I was thinking about, actually,
this came out of a conversation that I

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had with our remember Jerry. It
was pretty jacked and I and I asked,

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and this isn't probably a question that
we could ask anybody who is kind

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of jacked in our world, is
like, what was the easiest like easiest

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muscle group to grow? What what
got stronger or bigger fast? And then

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I started thinking about that in terms
of personality, and it's like, well,

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what what do you like your best
at as a lifter as a person,

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and then the things that you're maybe
worst at as a lifter slash person.

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I think that's a good Abbey question. Best thing as an athlete,

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worst thing as an athlete personality yeah
yeah, yeah, rather than yeah,

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just my squad's weaker than my bench, Yeah yeah, more I don't know,

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habits, personality, et cetera.
I think when it comes to like

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maybe outside of power lifting, maybe
like communication overall for both. This this

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leads into like in an outside of
the gym analysis, I analyze things,

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kind of weird analysis, very weird
over analysis. For sure, sometimes do

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a fault, but obviously, but
like in the grand scheme of things,

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I think maybe it helps ease my
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like more recently, or maybe it
helps cause the anxiety because you're searching.

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Yeah, that vicious circle. This
brings up another topic of like inner monologue

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and how some people don't have it, which is like what goes on in

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your brain. Then yeah, I
try to bring up that that to somebody

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smart I forgot who it was,
and they don't think that's true. But

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I'm like, dude, I've read
that everywhere. Read that a lot of

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people don't have an inner monologue.
It's like only thirty percent of people have

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an inner monologue. That's that's what
I've read, but I forgot who it

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was. It was someone like smart
in the psych ish world and they're like,

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nah, I just don't know,
And I was like, well,

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yeah, then they're like, well
what do they have? I was like,

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well, then they just have what's
in front of them, which actually

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sounds kind of peaceful. On Reddit. On Reddit, you can like find

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people who describe what it's like,
Yeah, well, I mean, why

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would you? Why do you think? And obviously mindless scrolling like the doom

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scroll is helpful for everyone's brain because
it's just constant stimulus. But if you

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don't have an inner monologue, that
seems like the most peaceful thing on the

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planet, right right, Oh,
if you're not actually thinking about it,

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well, it's say you can't help. Look, so I walk down the

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street and I'm talking to myself.
Right, If you don't have that,

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and all you have is the stimulus
in front of you, and the stimulus

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in front of you is boring,
like a paved road, what would satisfy

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the monkey brain? We have more
than scrolling and fucking just being fed constant

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data, right, So like that's
satisfying for everybody. But if you have

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no winner monologue, that has to
be scratching the ultimate itch. Yeah,

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that's the ultimate itch because you're like, oh shit, like what's in front

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of me is so important. Like
what's in front of me is important too.

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I like movies and shit, But
I can also just sit there and

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my brain runs like a roller coaster. That's actually a lot of people's impediment

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to meditation of any kind. Yeah, mindfulness is that like when you slow

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down, your brain goes fast and
you can't pull it down enough to Yeah,

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my brain can't slow down. And
but that's the beauty of meditation too,

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is that to learn how to let
thoughts go. I it's really difficult

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watch them come and go, like
passing ships in the dark night, Okay

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Shakespeare. Yeah, probably I was
deep in a meditation for a bit.

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I think, like the over analysis
thing starts from me being a very highly

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stressed person and then over analyzing everything. I started doing that in college undergrad,

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like leaving home and everything, learning
more about myself and stuff like that

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or whatever. A lot of like
self reflection of like childhood, childhood trauma,

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fun stuff. And then I learned
like about myself, like, oh,

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I am this which is different from
like I grew up in this environment,

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and now that I'm brought out of
it, I see the different varieties

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of personalities that have been molded from
different backgrounds. Right. And then I

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realized, well, mine is specific
to me because of ABC and D And

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I'm like, well that's pretty cool
because now I know where these things are

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from. Instead of just saying I
am this person, I can now say

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like, Okay, I know what
this is. I know why or how

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it's been cultivated by who, like
in my environment growing up, and now

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I want to work on it and
fix it because they're now it's like a

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I know what I need to work
on. It's like a fresh view because

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otherwise you're just in Itwise you're in
it, yea cooked spinach, right,

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And I don't like spinach. You
don't figure that out till you're gone,

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exactly. So learning that and then
I just started to over analyze essentially everything.

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But that makes me feel like I
I've learned a lot about myself and

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I've been able to over this like
the past several years and even recently,

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I've done a lot of like self
growth because of it. I learned how

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to analyze or identify feelings and emotions
and be less like hyperreactive and that shit

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takes so long to work on an
actually change, like to make any permanent

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changes to these kind of core values, like these are reactionaries, they're subconscious,

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they're subconscious and reactions that you can't
really control. But I've I've I'm

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trying to, like, yeah,
get in all that. Anyways, hyper

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analysis translates into lifting, obviously,
trying to be the most efficient. You

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know, type of form equals function, So lifting efficiently is like, that's

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how my brain works with powerlifting.
I know that's not the case with other

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people. Some people don't think at
all. So then is it actually bad?

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Though? So say you didn't have
that, Like, say you shut

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your brain off and lift, because
sometimes an analysis is good and needed,

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right, It's like, are you
a better lifter if you shut your brain

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off? I? For me,
I am definitely not a I don't think

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I'm a better lifter if I shut
my brain off. Obviously, you don't

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want to over analyze and overthink things
that that gets into and you're over complicating

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it, and then analysis maybe you
short circuit yourself. But in the training,

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that's when you practice that, right, It's like finding that perfect balance,

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and there it gets to a point
where I do it so often that

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sometimes my brain isn't there that day
and I can just do those motions and

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still perform well. So like that, Yeah, it is from the practice,

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but the over analysis also helps not
only with my own training, but

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me as a coach. Yeah.
So I think that's the biggest difference is

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over analysis by a coach isn't necessarily
bad as long as they're not putting it

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on the athlete, right, learning
how to communicate that which like yeah,

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like filter it to an answer,
then tell your athlete. But as an

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athlete sometimes it could be too much. Like the best athletes just listen.

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You don't want to overwhelm. You
don't even want to think. Yeah,

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as an athlete, right, you
just want to do coach says x y

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z. Even if x y Z
isn't perfect, if you do it with

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confidence, you're going to be better
off, right, Yeah, Yeah,

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what do you think your best part
as an athlete is brain? I think

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that was my best Then what's the
worst, Then what's the worst? Oh,

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where's confidence? I lack confidence.
I'm I'm confident in the things that

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I I'm sure about myself. The
things that I'm not, like, I'm

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just not. I don't know.
It's really weird because I feel like I

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don't have confidence in myself. But
then like when it comes to who I

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am and what I think, my
personality, what I know, my opinions

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I'm very confident about. That doesn't
make sense. Yeah, I don't know

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that makes any sense a little bit. I mean I think that's where like

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the culture now, it's in a
lot of sports. You know, it's

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in soccer, baseball, football,
but like historically, I would say a

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lot in the eighties and nineties is
in basketball, where like swag came about.

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You know, people are dressing a
certain way, they're talking a certain

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way, they're wearing certain sneakers,
flashy cars, like all that stuff is

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to like continue to build your confidence. Right if those obviously things are into

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which just goes hand in hand with
the culture. But if you look at

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certain and that's why I like clothes
because like, I'm not confident every single

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day and every single thing I do. But I truly do believe if you

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if you walk with confidence, step
with confidence, make decisions with confidence,

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you're better off than tiptoeing on something
you don't believe in. And obviously goes

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for lifts, right if we load
the bar regardless of you can do it

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or not. If you go unconfidently, it's going to go worse than if

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you attack it confidently. Yeah,
so that's why you know powerlifting is starting

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to get it too. People were
in different clothes and different singlets and different

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pre workout routines whatever that might be, is just almost I don't want to

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say fake confidence, but build a
routine of confidence into motion. It's like

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creating a supportive environment for yourself.
For sure. I think I'm confident in

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like who I am, but not
confident in what I can do in respect

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or relative to like other people.
Yeah, strength, I think, and

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that probably comes from not wanting to
create an expectation of me for others and

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then fail. Yeah, I let
yourself for them down because childhood trauma.

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Yeah yeah, yeah. Maybe Like
I supposed to be a doctor or something

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and then third year into college,
I'm like, shit, I'm not going

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to be a doctor with the like
what I've never thought about what my plan

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B was because it's kind of like
what I've been told since I was a

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kid. And that's when I realized, like, oh shit, like try

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to break it. You guys,
like, yeah, I don't want to

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do that. Yeah, like I
can't. It's just not I don't have

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that. So and whether you or
not you would actually be good at the

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endpoint job, you probably just don't
want to go to the process of getting

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years and years and years of school
right and the way that that challenges you.

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You know, I know it opens
a whole fucking dark yeah box.

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But I kind of do think the
job should choose like us in a way,

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you know, like I don't want
the government or colleges to make decisions

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for us by any means, but
it's better that we end up in a

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job that we're suited for rather than
hypothetically. If you really want to be

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a fucking doctor and you work hard
enough, you can be one. Whether

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you're going to be a good doctor
or not. Yeah, whether you have

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the communication go to the Caribbean and
get seas, would still be a doctor.

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Yeah, well even here, even
here, right, if you work

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hard enough and you withstand enough and
you take enough loans, you can end

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up being a doctor, whether that's
good for your personality, your skill set

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or not. And I think that's
like not good for society. But because

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our society values a certain jobs doctors, athletes, musicians, now content creators,

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everyone wants to go down this route, whether it's what they're like,

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good at, responsible enough to handle, et cetera, et cetera. And

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content creators a big fucking red flag
one, Like everyone wants to be one

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because you're if you can build money
and fame at the top. Yeah,

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and it's easy, but then like
you got the most irresponsible motherfuckers climbing the

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ladder because wildness wins, and it's
only getting wilder. I've been watching some

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degenerate ass content and like, if
you enjoy it, I do? I

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do, I think because it's so
opposite of who I am. It's a

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guilty pleasure of yours. Yeah,
I don't even feel guilty because I admit

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it. I feel a little old
sometimes I'm like, damn, what are

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these motherfuckers doing? But some of
them are old doing it. You know,

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they're in their thirties doing it,
and they're just fucking degenerates and they'll

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literally do anything for views. It's
just desperate. When it's just so opposite

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to me. I think that's why
I want it. Same with like I

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used to watch Live PD, which
is like the live version of cops and

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uh and it's actually like live and
like I've I've never been arrested, I've

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never been in trouble. My last
speeding ticket I was sixteen. Like it's

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so opposite to me that that stuff
kind of interests me as well. What

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about these thirty year olds doing these
crazy things, do anything, like they'll

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go try to buy crack, Like
they'll do literally anything just to okay you

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know what I mean, to be
able to like vlog it or whatever.

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Yeah, yeah it. And and
it's because there's money and fame that comes

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with that, and because reality TV
is boring and scripted that now these people

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will go to any lengths to entertain
and I do I swear we talked about

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on the podcast eight years ago.
I said it was going to come to

407
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:45.680
this. I say, it's it's
gonna push to it because first it was

408
00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.480
like, all right, lifting weights
is cool. They followed us, and

409
00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:52.240
I'll teach them how to deadlift deadlift. Then it's like, well, now

410
00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:55.279
my plates have to be on fire. Okay, now it has to be

411
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:56.319
a world record, they have to
be on fire, and there's got to

412
00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:00.599
be a girl in a bikini behind
me. Then I was like, eventually

413
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.400
it's gonna get We're gonna be so
numb to the stimuluses of normal shit,

414
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.920
it's going to become illegal. And
now like the degenerate as shit I'm watching

415
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:12.480
is like illegal activity to give us
or fights or whatever the fucking bum fight,

416
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.920
whatever it is, it just gets
so extreme, you know. But

417
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.799
long story short, I think that's
the same with these other jobs. Because

418
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:23.720
we glorify these jobs, everyone wants
to just go do that whether than it's

419
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:27.519
like what will make them happy,
but they're actually talented at what like their

420
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:30.839
skill sets may add to society.
And I don't want to sound like some

421
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:36.200
hippie dipty because I don't think that
the government or college should choose our past

422
00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:40.119
for us. But people choose these
pass without having the self awareness that you

423
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:45.319
had. It's like knowing the like
knowing what your purpose is is really I

424
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:48.400
think that's important and very difficult to
find for some people. Some people know

425
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.440
it since they're like when they're young, which is crazy. But these people

426
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:55.599
are doing the crazy things. I
feel like they never found their purpose.

427
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:59.720
But because this is something that gives
them attention and people like watch it,

428
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.319
they feel like, oh, this
is my purpose and it's easy enough to

429
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.920
go do some stupid shit, right
really, because no matter if it goes

430
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.240
well or it as planned or if
it goes bad, it's great. That's

431
00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:11.079
my issue with it too, is
that, like I have what's good.

432
00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.039
I always want people to like deserve
their success. That's something that's super important

433
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:19.720
to me. And yeah, like
doing crazy shit is easy, right,

434
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:23.240
It's you think it's hard and it's
ballsy, and I guess it's ballsy,

435
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.319
but like that's just because like you
have nothing to win and nothing to lose.

436
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.319
Its stupid. Yeah, yeah,
it definitely can be. And and

437
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.200
I don't even know if it has
to go as deep as like your life

438
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.200
purpose. Obviously, if you find
that and you find what fulfills you amazing,

439
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.640
but it could be like something like
I'm really good at just go do

440
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.279
it. And the issue is is, well, again, what we glorify

441
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:44.839
in the world. I think what's
difficult. It was difficult for me.

442
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.440
I remember in college. When I
was like in that third year, which

443
00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:49.559
is like kind of late to change
your major phase, I was asking people

444
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:52.759
around like what's your major? And
like why, how did you know?

445
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.279
Like I was trying to look for
that so hard. Probably didn't know,

446
00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:59.519
or some people do or like I
don't know, they just enjoy this stuff

447
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:00.440
and like they they get into it, and I'm like, damn, I'm

448
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:06.039
trying to find that too. But
like I mean, eventually, I've always

449
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:10.359
had a knack for fitness, and
in college, you know, when I'm

450
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:11.559
not in classes figuring out what my
major is supposed to be, when I'm

451
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.319
supposed to graduate with, I was
in the gym and I would help my

452
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.200
friends out when they train. They
would introduce me to their friends, like

453
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:19.640
who's trying to get into lifting?
And I would kind of help them out.

454
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.000
So like I was that person and
like people said like, oh,

455
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:25.960
I could see you being a personal
trainer, and I was like, oh

456
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:27.720
me, no, don't think so. I mean even now, like now

457
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:30.319
it's kind of cool in our space
to be a coach or personal trainer,

458
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.720
but like when I was doing it, it was like almost like a McDonald's

459
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.240
job, you know, it was
like, oh, you could your deificate

460
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.680
you're a trainer. Yeah. And
I remember early on when I was with

461
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:47.119
Reebok, they had a higher up
marketing lady from Germany because at the time

462
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:49.759
Reebok was purchased by Adidas, so
they had a lot of different German sheet

463
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.720
flew over and I had a big
meeting with her as I was like signing

464
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:56.279
or something, and she said one
of her goals. I don't even remember

465
00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:59.680
her name. I think she left
the company kind of quick, but she

466
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:01.240
up an impact. She didn't leave
an impact. And I don't even know

467
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.279
if this is fucking true what she
told me, But what she said in

468
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:12.960
Germany and other countries or other countries
in Europe that personal trainers and coaches are

469
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:17.440
seen as like almost pre medical in
the instance that and it makes so much

470
00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:21.799
sense. If you go to the
gym and do the right things and are

471
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:24.480
healthy and fit, then you're much
less likely to need a doctor for some

472
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:34.200
crazy shit ventive care proactive right and
one obviously literally we know it is true.

473
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.680
But then two she said that they
were treated and paid in that ballpark,

474
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.480
which we do not do, not
even close. I mean personal trainer

475
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:44.720
a commercial gym Europe somewhere. And
again, I don't know if this is

476
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.960
true. All my European UK brothers
listening. You can go to Discord and

477
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:51.279
tell us. But she said that
was one of her goals running the fitness

478
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.079
pros at Reebok, and that's why
she was signing somewhere. She's like,

479
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:58.440
I want to make that cultural impact
here. Yeah. And if there's a

480
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:01.000
country that knew up her hands and
went home, if there's a country that

481
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:07.079
needs it more than any other country, it is America. Donuts are not

482
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:10.799
gonna eat itself. Like like,
there's obviously tons of health issues that yes,

483
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:17.319
weights cannot fix, but you know, the the real issues in America

484
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:22.039
can be fixed by nutrition and moving. Yeah, and so why wouldn't we,

485
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.440
you know, put on the people
that actually have the knowledge of that.

486
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.440
But then again it loops into my
other issue of social media and what

487
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.079
we glorify because I even did a
video today. I started the kid I'm

488
00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:37.119
ripping on TikTok, but like the
kids lifted for six months, he looks

489
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:39.559
it. He's twenty one and he's
given out all this fitness advice and you're

490
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:43.799
like, hang on, yeah,
and and not that it's like super detrimental.

491
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:46.759
There's people doing much crazier things than
this kid, But like that's just

492
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:52.640
you can't just go out there and
give legitimate advice on human bodies when you

493
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:55.039
don't know anything, right, and
we should have a standardization for that,

494
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.680
and we don't, and we should
have some kind of respect for that and

495
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:00.960
we don't. Yeah, that's why
I like working with gen Pop, like

496
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:07.200
nonpowerlifter specific, because well, when
lifting nowadays, it's like you don't know

497
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:13.079
some people just it's very cloudlifter based
and like I don't. I got into

498
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.960
this sport because I enjoyed it,
like actually doing it, and now you

499
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.639
don't know what kind of athlete you're
going to get, and that, you

500
00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:22.320
know, reflects on the coach athlete
like relationship. But anyways, with gen

501
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:28.360
Pop, it's just like your day
to day anyone like I have, like

502
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:34.320
people who work from home, people
who are nurses, and it's just you're

503
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:40.400
these people who want to get better
and be stronger, healthier, and they're

504
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:43.800
doing it for the right reasons.
And then they're also taking that on the

505
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.639
outside of the gym and making sure
that they're eating properly, and like ninety

506
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.400
percent of that is them doing it
themselves, you know, like they want

507
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:57.719
to, so they do, and
they they they they say that it's necessary

508
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.199
for them to make this progress.
If I am, they're along with them

509
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:04.840
to give them guidance, like that
is non negotiable for them. So they're

510
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:07.880
willing to pay for this service.
And I'm glad to be a part of

511
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:13.400
that because I mean when I see
that the amount, like the timbers I'm

512
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.920
providing for them to get them to
where they want to be is like when

513
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:21.599
that comes to their goals are coming
to fruition, it's very fulfilling. It's

514
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.079
real value. And it's like that's
just because they themselves want to do it.

515
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:29.719
Coffee baristall electrician, like she just
you know, she's tired of feeling

516
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:31.800
this way or looking this way or
blah blah blah, and now she's more

517
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:37.559
confident and she's strong and she's this
is in that and like you know,

518
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:38.960
if you're a powerlifter, that makes
sense, like you came into this sport

519
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:44.000
to do this, but when you
are working at a copy shop, you

520
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:49.280
don't necessarily need to, right,
So I don't know if has grown so

521
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:52.360
like almost too fast for its own
bridges and the type of people that compete

522
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.599
in there just because they don't have
like any athletic background. I feel like

523
00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:00.199
the intent behind what they're doing is
jaded, whether they want to be,

524
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:01.840
whether whether it is cloud based,
or whether it's just like, well,

525
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:06.599
I want to win Nats. Like
all right, bitch, like fucking slow

526
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.079
down, you know, let's like
lift for a while, Let's hit a

527
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:14.400
pr and then let's do multiple meats
and continue to hit prs, and then

528
00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:15.440
we'll see where we end up in
the end of the year. There was

529
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:19.079
actually I don't know who it was. I wish I could shout him out.

530
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:21.719
There's a bodybuilding coach, and maybe
I won't shout him out because I

531
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:23.519
don't even know what his real deal
is. But the clip was really good,

532
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:27.880
and basically what he said is he's
like, he's like my favorite clients.

533
00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:30.519
He's like, my least favorite clients
are ones that come in and say,

534
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.440
hey, I'm gonna be mister Olympia, where some people love that ship

535
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:35.519
right, they're like, oh,
they're so driven. He's like, my

536
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:37.960
favorite clients are the ones that come
and say, hey, I'm willing to

537
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:40.599
do whatever it takes to see where
as far as I can take myself.

538
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:44.400
Yes, yeah, right, And
this reminds me of my clients, like

539
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:47.039
the ones that I enjoy working with
well, because like they want to get

540
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.320
better and they want to see where
this vessel goes. And and that's almost

541
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:54.840
an admittance of, like of being
humble to say that I don't know what

542
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.760
this machine can do. Genetics do
play a large role. I'm aware of

543
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.159
that, but I'm gonna do what
it takes. And let's see, I'm

544
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:05.280
willing to push myself to where,
like whatever, because you really don't know.

545
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.480
Yeah, you don't until you powerlifted, like really fucking hard for three

546
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:09.840
years. You don't even know.
If you're a national levela lifter. You

547
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:13.719
can't just show up. There's some
freaks, right, there's the Ed Cones

548
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:15.599
who just grabs a deadlift far.
I had a weird dream, shout out

549
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:17.559
ed. I haven't talked to him
a long time. He was in my

550
00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:20.559
dream last night. I hugged him. I don't know that was weird,

551
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.719
but we had clothes on. I
should text him. I haven't talked to

552
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:27.360
him in a while, but he
hugged me in my dream. He didn't

553
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:29.119
hurt me that time, So that's
how I knew it was a dream.

554
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:32.119
Yeah, hugged me like try to
gouge my eye out or something. But

555
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.079
he like he deadlifted for the first
time ever when he's fucking eighteen and pulls

556
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:38.760
five hundred pounds or something crazy right
there, that's one in a trillion,

557
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:40.880
right right, and that's why he
is the greatest of all time. But

558
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.719
even other guys have probably even me, you know, I've deadlifted something decent

559
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.079
and my first deadlift was like two
twenty five, so, but I didn't

560
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.639
know until I dug in hard for
three years, even before I came to

561
00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:54.760
super training, I squatted five polls
five fifty. I'm like, all right,

562
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:58.159
maybe I'm decent. Yeah, seriously, Like that's that's kind of my

563
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:00.119
mentality to everyone always asks like what's
your goal with this? What's that?

564
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:06.239
And I'm like, honestly, like
I even last year's NAT's I got there

565
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:08.599
without I don't want to say without
trying, but kind of like I didn't

566
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:13.559
know I was aiming for that.
I remember before I even left to Nationals,

567
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.320
I was telling my friends like,
guys like, don't hit me up

568
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:19.360
so much, like it'd be I'd
be lucky to be top ten even like

569
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.760
you don't know the pool that I'm
competing against, and here I am bodium.

570
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:25.360
You know, like I did not
expect that because it doesn't It almost

571
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:29.079
doesn't matter, you know, Like
we talked about this before. Yeah,

572
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:30.599
because you can't control who shows up
or what's going on. I could control

573
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.199
my training, I could control how
eating, how consistent I am, and

574
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.599
even other sports. And that's my
point is like a lot of parlifts just

575
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.320
didn't play other sports. Other sports
are slightly different because you know the team

576
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:43.280
are going against, but you didn't. You don't get to go against that

577
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:45.599
team until you've worked your way up. Right. You don't just play basketball

578
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.760
for a year and then all of
a sudden you're playing Lebron James. You

579
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:51.119
have to play and then get on
a team and then do well, and

580
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:52.480
then your team does well, and
then you advance advanced. Right, Like

581
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:58.480
it's the same steps, and you
don't know if you're going to be world

582
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:01.920
class, state last national class,
or just the best in the rec league

583
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.639
until you've actually gotten good and putting
in the effort. Some people swear they

584
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:08.920
are, though, yeah, without
any like what it was showing for that,

585
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:12.679
how do you know well and you
just won't get anywhere. And if

586
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.280
that's like your mentality, your mentality
has to be one foot in front of

587
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.199
you because if yeah, because if
your next step isn't first place, then

588
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.320
what you're crying about it? You're
like kicking your feet about it. You're

589
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:25.280
disappointed, you're blaming your coach,
you're doing this in that like it's it's

590
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:28.679
like every step of the way,
if you think you're going to be this

591
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:32.519
next whatever by tomorrow, it's just
like every step after that and one after

592
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:36.880
the other, it's just going to
feel like what you're what we're walking further

593
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.559
away from it. Yeah, I
think the line is you can have dreams

594
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:44.800
and you can have goals, but
those can't be like your mentality, right,

595
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:46.559
Your mentality has to be different.
The mentality has to be based on

596
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:51.360
work logistics day in and day out, and that's what gets you there potentially,

597
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.119
right, And you can dream and
goal to be an IPF champ one,

598
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:57.679
But if you're if that, if
those get too cloudy, yeah,

599
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:00.760
now you're probably not going to go
nowhere. And that so sucks like a

600
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:02.719
lot, Like that's difficult to teach
for sure. I don't even know if

601
00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.159
I don't know if you can't yet, because yeah, i'd try to joke

602
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.280
and like, you know, humble
people. You can't really humble people know

603
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:12.880
they're going to do it themselves or
not. I humble myself. I humble

604
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.639
them by just trying to be humble
myself. Yeah, stop dot like pound

605
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.440
for pound, like I'm stronger than
you fools, like, but I'm not.

606
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:22.440
I'm not stomping my feet around saying
that I'm not stealing the bar from

607
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.400
you because I think I'm better than
you. Like, No, I'm just

608
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:28.880
doing my own ship. I'm getting
my training in period, like I'm focused.

609
00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:31.400
That's it. I think the people
who come in saying I want to

610
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:35.159
win whatever whatever, and they've been
doing it for six months or whatever.

611
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:40.760
I think that those people are very
suggestible from strong voices, people who say,

612
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:45.440
you know, you could do whatever
or whatever. Whatever. You know,

613
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:47.079
their mom, their mommy loved them. Yeah, maybe too much,

614
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.840
maybe too much. I don't know. I don't know. I was never

615
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:54.480
that guy. As as a lifter, I never felt particularly competitive unless it

616
00:40:54.679 --> 00:41:00.440
was a fun thing in the gym
lifting. I didn't care in meats,

617
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.440
I don't know. I didn't have
high expectations I just like wanted to have

618
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.199
a good time and not bomb.
That was like the big thing. Say

619
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.440
that was your mentality, But then
you actually do become like actually competitive with

620
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.679
this. You could have that mentality
and be competitive with the sport doesn't make

621
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:16.239
sure? I think, yeah you
could. Yeah, but that's where the

622
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:20.480
genetics play. Yeah for sure.
Yeah, right, and some people do.

623
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:22.880
I mean I kind of went in
like that, right, and now

624
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:24.239
now I have to be competitive.
Ye. If you put in the work,

625
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.280
you end up where you end up. You can't put in like extra

626
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.440
work, especially with this sport.
Like that's the main difference between this and

627
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:31.679
that sport. Like you can't hang
out in the gym for five hours and

628
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:36.480
actually get better. You can't rush
the process basketball and other things. You

629
00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:37.920
kind of can. You can you
can hit fast forward because because you don't

630
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.079
get as like literally systemically fatigued,
right, So you can shoot a lot

631
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.360
longer, so you can try to
get better longer. At some point you're

632
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.280
going to be, you know,
digging into cement. But you can go

633
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:51.280
for a while lifting. You literally
can't. You can't hit fast forward,

634
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:54.199
right. You have to have the
time to build the build the strength and

635
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.920
the skill exact sleep. You got
to get out of the gym, you

636
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.639
gotta gain some masks. Yeah.
It literally is a patience game and that's

637
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:04.519
the beauty in it. But some
people aren't just ready for that. Yeah.

638
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:08.400
Also, I sort of just concentrated
on being good from a technique standpoint,

639
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:14.559
yea kind of regardless of how strong
I was, wasn't like over time,

640
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.000
as long as you're progressively overloading following
a program, your strength will like,

641
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:22.679
like, chances are your strength is
going to increase and improve skill and

642
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:24.559
technique. It's like, that's what
I like to focus on because that is

643
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.599
kind of within my control day to
day. However strong I am that day,

644
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:30.920
who knows, this might feel heavier
sometimes three sixty five doesn't move off

645
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.679
the ground, you know, And
that's okay. But if my technique was

646
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:39.360
there, Yeah, if my technique
was there, like, then great,

647
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:44.119
that's as much as I can control
in this instant, you know. So,

648
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:47.159
and then if you're strong but your
technique is shit, then like that's

649
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:51.480
the one thing holding you back.
If you had good technique from the bottom

650
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.079
up, then nothing's stopping you except
time. And now you're ignoring the one

651
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:57.320
thing you can fix, right,
And now I get to break it all

652
00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:00.679
back down, bring your ego down
to the floor again, and like start

653
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:05.639
with weights. I allow you to
perform with better technique. I learned that

654
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:07.800
through injury. It's just like,
wait, why why am I trying to

655
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:12.599
rush the weights? Why don't I
just like do everything properly? Now you

656
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.599
know? So, yeah, good
question. We're talking about over analysis.

657
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:21.360
I'm an over analyzer as a person, not as a lifter. Like,

658
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.800
the only time I ever got caught
up in that is, you know,

659
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:31.960
trying to take a prewritten program and
and think I was perfecting it in some

660
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:36.480
way, or like take aspects of
some other thing that I liked and throw

661
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:40.679
it in there or whatever. And
you can get really stuck doing that trying

662
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:45.239
to figure out what the best Yes, that's for like people program hob or

663
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:46.360
coach hop right, because they're like, well, if I don't have the

664
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:49.360
best coach, I'm not gonna have
the best progress. But it's just like

665
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:52.519
not the case if you have like
if you have like an okay coach,

666
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.000
you're already ninety nine percent there,
like the top coach versus like the middle

667
00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.519
of the pack coach. Sorry,
all my buddies who are like top coaches

668
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:01.679
because they are. I have a
lot of buddies that are very top coaches.

669
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:07.360
But the differential that you can actually
look at data of a lifter,

670
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.719
say we have a clone lifter,
intermediate, whatever, and we give him

671
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.079
to the best coach in the planet, and we give him to a pretty

672
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:16.960
good coach, his progress is going
to be one hundred percent the same.

673
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:21.159
Yeah, you know what I mean, like the one percent difference, Like

674
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:23.719
just because that coach gave him a
three by three and that coach came a

675
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:27.960
three by four, Like, ain't
shit going to be different? And vice

676
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.440
person, you got the best coach, but like you're not built for this

677
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:34.960
sport, And dude, it doesn't
mean it's a bad coach. Yeah,

678
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:37.920
exactly, That's exactly my point.
Like there's definitely a difference between a bad

679
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.760
coach and a good coach, but
between a good coach and a great coach

680
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:45.039
in powerlifting, there's very little difference. And so for like you trying to

681
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:46.440
hop the best coach, and obviously
the best coaches in the world are gonna

682
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:49.880
argue that point because they think they're
the best in the world. But it's

683
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.039
just fact, like you're the progress
you're gonna make is so because the variables

684
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:58.840
are so minimal. Yeah, you're
just you're not gonna progress any faster with

685
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:01.920
a new program or a new right, maybe a mid day thing if someone

686
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:06.800
is really good at making those kinds
of decisions, you know, the reality

687
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:09.840
stuff, but very very good observational
coach, you know, yeah, or

688
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:14.239
the mentality stuff, you know,
how you communicate to people. Yeah,

689
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.159
there's intricacies for sure, but like
it's not going to take it from a

690
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:20.360
four hundred pound dead to a five
hundred. No, you can't coach somebody

691
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:25.679
into a you know that day gigantic
pr even over time. I don't think

692
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:29.480
a lot of Yeah, a lot
of it is just based on the athlete

693
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.360
itself, Like it's what you put
into it, genetics and all that stuff.

694
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:36.199
Yeah, or effort and showing up, how many reps are skipping,

695
00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:37.840
how many accessories you're skipping, how
you're eating, how you're sleeping, Like

696
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:42.679
so much more is on you than
on Again, this good coach versus a

697
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.880
great kuy just reminds me of like, I don't remember how long ago this

698
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:50.280
was. It was training in here, and I just like, man,

699
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.800
there are sometimes some days you just
really actively don't want to do it.

700
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:57.559
Yeah, it's me every day.
Yeah, you're like telling me, like

701
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.840
go and I'm like, okay,
that's me every day. I got a

702
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.960
bench after this, I don't want
a bench. Yeah it sucks. I

703
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:09.400
don't. I don't love lifting alone, and I've mostly done that except you

704
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:15.800
know, during the kind of early
ish as two years until I got you

705
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:20.880
know, more, more of my
effort was going behind the camera and I

706
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.559
would lift after and so I would
be often by myself or somebody came in

707
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:29.320
late or whatever. When I was
in the mix of several people lifting in

708
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:31.800
a group or whatever, that was
kind of the most fun and and and

709
00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:37.000
that that worked for me. Lifting
alone sucks to the point that I it's

710
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:43.199
like completely demotivating. Sometimes I like
lifting alone. Sometimes it depends it can't

711
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:45.639
be for too long of a period
of time, like I can't do that

712
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:51.519
for weeks on end, But like
I don't know. There's definitely a beauty

713
00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:53.159
in both, right, because you
kind of get energy from the people around

714
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:57.519
you as well, even if you
are training by yourself an empty gym versus

715
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.000
like a gym full of people,
but you're everyone. Everyone's trending on their

716
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:02.679
own. Yeah, I even made
that meme on TikTok just because I know

717
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.239
it's a meme, But what is
the meme of people liking? It's not

718
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:13.760
even a meme, Like what's the
whatever? What people love loving an empty

719
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.719
gym? Is that like commercial?
Is that commercial gym? People? Maybe?

720
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:20.480
But even that at a commercial gem. If I walked into a commercial

721
00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:22.599
gym and it was dead empty,
I'd be like spooked, especially because they're

722
00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:28.599
like typically like a large Yeah,
be spooked out. Like I do understand

723
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:34.079
the concept because so many people on
TikTok or Instagram go to huge gyms with

724
00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.360
one squat rack or two squat racks
and they can't get what they want to

725
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.480
get, or they can't and they're
too scared to work in or go to

726
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:43.639
gird street bar belt. Yeah,
I understand that concept, but that's such

727
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:47.480
a huge online trend or meme.
I'm like, dude, you don't actually

728
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:52.079
want to empty gym, do you? Ecause it's like weird, Like I

729
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:55.719
trained I trained in here for a
year literally alone at fucking six am or

730
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.599
eight am or whatever. Like that's
weird. It's not fun. And obviously

731
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:04.039
he was depressing because I was wanting
members to come to gym, so there's

732
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.920
multiple layers, but rying in between
sets, yeah, yeah, and us

733
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.519
sure, I just crying to myself. So like there's obviously different. But

734
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:14.480
even again, if I go to
a commercial gym and when I'm traveling and

735
00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:15.800
stuff, like, if it's empty, it's going to feel weird. I

736
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:20.440
want other people getting after it.
Like obviously over the crowded sucks anywhere too,

737
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:22.000
Yeah, but just working with people, I would much rather have it

738
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:25.159
over the crowded than dead empty.
I agree, we would, I say

739
00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:30.760
before I said something smart, I
think the crowded gym's different than a packed

740
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.880
gym or something, or maybe the
opposite. I don't know. I had

741
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:36.239
two really good words. Yeah,
because like all overpacked sucks right where people

742
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:38.679
aren't doing anything, they're not sharing, they're being assholes. That sucks.

743
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:43.119
But like having a lot of people
in the gym is good if they're good

744
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:50.519
people. Yeah, I agree,
And we have more people lifting together in

745
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:54.800
a group than we have had before. It used to be all, you

746
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.920
know, a whole gym of lone
Rangers's friends. Now that yeah, everyone's

747
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.679
making becoming friends, but we would
probably not see not that we're ever getting

748
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:06.639
rid of equipment, but we would
need less qui equipment if if everyone was

749
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:09.800
lifting in cribs. Yeah, we
have over We have over killed equipment for

750
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:15.000
sure. If you put three people
on each squat rack, which is very

751
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:19.599
normal, yeah, totally, then
we have room for hundreds of people.

752
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.639
How was that like a I guess
a commercial gym. I don't know.

753
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:29.679
It wasn't a commercial like change gym
or anything, but it's just the energy

754
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:34.079
sucked like they're playing like music,
and maybe it was like some rock,

755
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.719
but it was like library level quiet. The entire gym was like you couldn't

756
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:42.440
really talk as loud as we are
without like everyone else hearing your conversation.

757
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:45.880
It is so strange. Fibe is
real. Man. As I've been traveling

758
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.920
more, I've kind of like,
uh, picked up on Well, I've

759
00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:53.440
enjoyed visiting gyms. Well, I
don't know. Back in the day,

760
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:55.960
I wouldn't as much because I would
only go to people's gyms, I know,

761
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:00.239
and I had a squat bench dead
goal, so I would only visit

762
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:01.519
gyms where I could really you know, fight a dead leaf bar. Where

763
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:05.599
now I'm just trying to like move, So I'll go to any gym and

764
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:08.960
vibe is so real, Like people
can have the nicest equipment in the world,

765
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:13.400
they can have even loud music,
Like there's not like a factor,

766
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:16.159
Like it's so intangible, like music
plays a role and equipment plays a role,

767
00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:22.400
but there it's so spiritual. There's
something. Yeah, there's something.

768
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:23.800
I can't put my finger on it. But there's some places you go to

769
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:28.800
and they just ain't got it.
Yeah, And the nicest equipment and in

770
00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:31.639
loud music and jacked people and they
still there's something in there that feels like

771
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:35.719
stale. Right, I don't know
that's why. And it came back it

772
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:37.280
was like, oh my god,
this feels so nice. You missed us.

773
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:43.119
I don't. It's yeah, it's
a weird feeling. But it's definitely

774
00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:46.159
like very comfortable here, and everyone's
starting to get to know each other more

775
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:49.920
and it's like cool to see.
Yeah, we've had a lot of members

776
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.119
now that aren't been here over a
year. Yeah. Yeah, and the

777
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:55.639
circles are kind of overlapping now,
yeah, because people train at different times,

778
00:50:55.719 --> 00:50:59.719
they get different work schedule, a
different school schedule, see each other.

779
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:04.079
Yeah. I'm always happy when I
see people who don't look like they

780
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:08.480
would in any other context to be
having a conversation, Yeah, but totally

781
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:12.800
having a deep conversation here. Yeah, I agree. In school, yeah,

782
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.719
are working in with other people,
You start to see them like they

783
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.960
used train on their own and now
they're working in Yeah. There at least

784
00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:21.800
ask the first spot where they used
to be in a corner and they're in.

785
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:23.639
After the pandemic and everyone spent so
much time alone, they starting to

786
00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:27.400
realize, oh, you know,
people actually being around people not the worst

787
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.239
thing, at least not for two
three hours a day. Right, if

788
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.239
you're totally in your control, how
much much time you're spending with the jewels.

789
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:39.840
Yeah. Uh, we wandered off
the point, but we made plenty

790
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.440
of other points. I say,
we just put a bow on this one.

791
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:47.400
Where can people find you Avy on
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792
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793
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794
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795
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798
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799
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