October 17, 2025 • 36 mins
This week on The Work Podcast Greg and I kick things off with some gym-talk about muscle control, ear-wiggling, and why you can’t really flex a muscle until you’ve built it. Then we dive into the Olympia weekend — big shout-out to my client and friend Joe Davis for crushing it on that stage. We also touch on the massive divide between enhanced and natural bodybuilding and why I’ll always believe natural bodybuilding is one of the healthiest sports you can do.
From there, we pivot to a little life balance — I share some lessons from “Squirrel Camp,” unplugging in the woods, recharging, and getting a few divine-intervention-style insights for what’s next. We also talk through our brand-new Glazed Donut Keto Brick (aka the “Glizzy Dizzy”) launching this Sunday — tallow-based, warm, doughy, and downright delicious. Easily one of our best yet.
We cover some nutrition talk, fasting tweaks, and why alternate-day eating keeps things interesting. Then we get into a real-world rant on modern healthcare, the broken insurance system, and how platforms like Crowd Health are flipping the model to actually reward people for staying healthy.
Toward the end we lighten it up with stories from our team dinner at Texas de Brazil, plans for a Keto Pizza Night, and a serious reminder about safety after my brother’s recent motorcycle accident — helmets are cool, folks.
Glizzy Dizzy drops this Sunday at noon CST — mark your calendars, grab one while you can, and we’ll catch you in the next episode!
Greg Mahler is also a lifetime natural bodybuilder, and can be followed on Instagram
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Tag team back again. Check the directive.
Let's begin Party. I'm party people.
Keep going, man, Keep rapping. I don't know the rapping lyrics.
How are you doing? Good, good.
Yeah, just popping your pecs there for the camera.
That was a weird twitch. Yes, When?
How old were you when you realized that you can make your
pecs bounce? Once I had decent muscular
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development in my chest, then I realized that you could flex
them. Yeah, but you you don't have
that ability until you actually gain some muscular development.
It's kind of like lats, like a lot of people have a hard time
engaging their lats and like opening up, but like you can't
really know how to do that untilyou've trained your lats and
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know what it is you're supposed to be feeling in the first
place. Well, when you actually train
for hypertrophy or strength or whatever you're training for and
you develop larger muscles, you actually create more motor
units, right? So I think your ability to
control individual muscles just evolves as you train.
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I concur. I concur.
So like I when I was younger, I had glasses and soon as I
started wearing glasses, I somehow just evolved into having
the ability to wiggle my ears because my glasses would go back
behind my ears and. One day.
Yeah, nice. One day I could just like.
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I can wiggle my ear. I could like.
Wiggle my ear to make my glasseslike right up my nose a little
bit and then now I can wiggle myears.
It's weird anyhow. Can you blink out of both eyes?
Yeah. One at a time.
Or wink, I guess. See, I can't do that.
I can only wink out of my left eye.
That's weird. I can't do my right eye.
Yeah. Can you move your nose?
Yeah, I can move my nose like when I'm breathing and stuff.
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Have you seen those little clipsthat are going viral, the
magnetic ones on social media? Sound of a weird ad?
I mean, it's a good ad because you see how different it is, how
much it opens up your nostrils. But it's kind of a weird ad
'cause you're just looking at people's noses, you know,
looking at your nose. I've heard it's good.
It's good for. Well, a lot of people have a
deviated septum. So like when, when I'm running
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and I try to inhale, 'cause I'm just trying to do nasal
breathing when I'm running and I'll, I'll be able to tell that
when I'm breathing harder through my nose, my nostrils
flare open. You know, like race horses do
the same thing. But like a lot of people have a
deviated septum where it like collapses and when they try to
breathe in, like it actually closes.
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So totally impairs additional oxygen flow.
So something like that. I mean, people that have that
swear by those things. I've never used one or felt the
need to use one, but my brother's got a deviated septum,
so he would probably benefit from it.
Interesting. Yeah, interesting.
So last weekend was the Olympia.I was out of town all weekend.
Actually during started during the week.
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Yeah, started during the week for the amateurs.
Joe Davis killed it. He competed on Wednesday, which
is pretty awesome. One of my clients, friends and
just good buddies stepped on theOlympia stage.
It was pretty sweet seeing him on.
Yeah, watch some live streams. Pretty cool.
And that was like a dream of his.
So I'm just proud of him and he's he's doing it without like
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abusing all the drugs that otherpeople are using.
Some he was in the amateur category and the people that got
the first call outs were very evidently abusing performance
dancing drugs, of which he's not.
So it's just it's like 2 different sports man.
It's crazy. There's such a difference
between bodybuilding naturally and enhanced.
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And I don't think anybody would argue that enhanced bodybuilding
is optimal for health. There was a post made yesterday
on Twitter and I responded to it, but it was like statistics
of the like fivefold increase ofathletes in the sport of
professional bodybuilding, fivefold increase from amateur
to professional of likely cause of death or increase in cancer
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or whatever the stat was. I didn't really read all the
details but the the comment was his argument was this was the
least healthy sport in existence.
Bodybuilding in general or unnatural bodybuilding?
Well, he just said bodybuilding.So then I chimed in on the
comments and I said I think you would have to differentiate
between natural versus enhanced bodybuilding because I would
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argue that natural bodybuilding is the healthiest sport anybody
can do because I mean, bodybuilding.
I'm making a post on this today,but bodybuilding is defined as,
you know, a concerted effort of exercise and nutrition to build
1's body. Like that is what we all
inherently know we should be doing to improve our health,
longevity, everything involved, whether you decide to compete
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with it, you know, in a competitive aspect, is like
taking it to the next level. But bodybuilding in and of
itself naturally is, I think is pretty much understood to be the
healthiest sport anybody could do.
It's going to be less taxing than running, more accessible to
all, like it's full stop the best option for anybody.
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And then since I personally am very passionate about the sport
of bodybuilding, I've taken it to the next level to compete
with it. But everybody would benefit by
thinking of themselves and living as a bodybuilder.
Absolutely. The the Prep maybe isn't the
healthiest part of it, but yeah.But you can be a bodybuilder
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without going through the prep. Bingo.
For a competition. Bingo.
Bingo. So shout out to Joe for sure on
that. Nice job, Joe.
I did not see, I think the the actual open Olympia for
professionals like the Mr. Olympia title that was on
Saturday or Sunday, but I was out of town.
But I believe Derek Lunsford wonfor the second year now, I want
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to say. So kudos to him.
I don't know who won Classic. Yeah, I think Dino won Classic.
Since Bumstead it's no longer competing.
Yeah, I wish C Bum was still around.
He was my favorite but all good.All good, but I was gone because
I was at Squirrel Camp. How was Squirrel Camp?
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Again killed. Did you camp with some
squirrels? Didn't camp with some squirrels,
but I haunted some squirrels. Pretty LAX.
Lackadaisical though. I mean I went out Saturday
morning, shot 2 squirrels, but was just outside.
I was out in the woods. I like sat down underneath the
tree listening to the world wakeup around me.
Read a parenting book. You got to recharge.
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I got to recharge a little bit and I recharge on the drive down
there because most of the drive down there is out of
self-service is through nationalparks.
So like, I was just unplugged from the majority of the time
once I left and had a couple epiphany moments, couple
insightful thoughts that will bemaking their way into the
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content that I produce in the very near future.
So I'm stoked about them. But then it was just good to get
down there, see the family, see the friends, and then just be
outside. I did.
I did definitely recharge a bit which was much needed.
The weather has been pretty awesome here it we're creeping
into the middle of October and we're still seeing temps in the
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70s, eighties and crisp, cool mornings, beautiful afternoons.
It's the. Crisp cool mornings is my
favorite Me too little sweater sweater weather.
The leaves are starting to change and drop.
It stays dark a little bit longer in the morning.
I don't necessarily like that I like having the daylight, but I
do like the cooler temps for sure.
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I don't like it when it gets dark at like 4:30 in the
afternoon. No, that's that's.
That's a drag. Less desirable.
Because then by the time I leavehere, it's like almost night
time. It is night time, so that's not
cool. We'll.
Do some hiking this weekend. Where you going?
I don't know. Maybe Devil's Den?
I haven't been there in a little.
While are you able to link up onSunday?
I was. Thinking about heading up to J
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Street for morning lift. What are we doing Sunday?
That was a launch that noon, right?
Yeah. I don't know if you want to meet
up coffee shop if that permitted, if not, no big deal,
but possibly because we got a pretty big launch going down.
We do have a big launch. We've got a flavor coming out
that we've never messed with before.
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Tallow based. A brand spanking new flavor.
Yeah, and it's crazy because thelast we've had a few new
flavors, but they've all been kind of tallow versions of prior
flavors. So peanut butter Hallelujah, one
of my favorites. That is a tallow based version
of the original peanut butter right Tallow cookie dough.
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Also very good. That is simply a tallow based
version of the milk and cookies Keto brick.
Prior to that, what was their other new flavor?
Well, we came out with Primal Fudge cake.
But. Those are standalone new tallow
carnivore flavors. But this, but we came out with
those a while ago. Like prior year.
Yeah, this bad boy is brand spanking new.
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No rendition. No separate version of this
thing is hot off the press. Brand spanking new.
And it's glazed doughnuts. Yes, and it's delicious.
And it is. We call it Glizzy Dizzy.
Here we call it Glizzy Dizzy. Yeah, it's Glizzy Dizzy.
Yeah. So if you go around telling your
friends you got the Glizzy Dizzythen you'll be on the Inside
Scoop Club because we'll know what you're talking about.
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We have gangster slang sometimes.
That are gangster slang, but it it tastes like a freaking
doughnut. You know, we haven't had a
doughnut in over a decade, so I can't recall what a doughnut
tastes like. But like Jonathan, we sent some
of them. Say we sent a bunch of
influencer bricks out. Yeah.
And his daughter, who's four years old, tried it without
seeing the packaging, without knowing the flavor name.
And he asked her, what's this taste like?
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And she's like a doughnut, you know, So it tastes like a
freaking glazed doughnut. So this would be pretty optimal
for like, your morning coffee orthat after dinner, a little
treat, yeah. And it's interesting, like the
tallow. So it's tallow and it's a whey
protein and it's got macadamia butter in there that creates
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this creamy texture. But because of the rendering
process of the tallow, it's almost got like this subtle,
like bread, like bacon delirio. Yeah, it's like it.
It tastes like something that came out of the oven, like you
would think, a doughnut. Doughnuts are fried.
I guess technically I don't evenknow how to make a doughnut.
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It tastes like something that's been prepared from dough.
So I'm getting that. So it tastes pretty good.
Lizzy Dizzy Lizzy Dizzy Sunday the 19th.
This is probably one of my favourites.
We say that every time. Every time we roll something
out, it's like, oh, this is definitely taken in the top
three. This is.
Just magicians in the keto brickkitchen, ma'am, Magicians.
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What's your least favorite on your personal level?
I I would eat any of the keto bricks but I have a few that are
like bottom priority. Which one's your least?
Favorite. Well, coconut cream was not a
good one for me, but we've discontinued that one.
Yeah. But the no bake cookie, which is
very similar to the coconut cream except with tallow.
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I freaking love that one. But there's a butter extract in
that one too. Yeah, that has a whole different
flavour profile. Yeah, I would say.
I would say I'm not a huge. I'm a less huge fan of malt
peanut butter, mocha. I do love malt.
That's Crystal's favorite flavour.
The peanut butter one is hard tobeat when it's like fresh off
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the press. Well, that's true.
And then mocha. I don't eat mocha very often,
but every time I do eat a mocha I'm like man I forgot how great
a mocha tasted and then I love it again.
And then it's right back on. Yeah, Top 2.
Yeah, there's not any that I dislike me.
Either I would eat them all definitely.
The glazed doughnut is definitely one of the ones that
I would eat. I'm going to eat that after we
can record this actually, so. Lucky I can't fit one into my
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macros today. How are your macros treating?
You pretty good, Pretty good, but I'm finding that my hunger
is gradually titrating up. Well, your metabolism is ramping
up, yes, because you've been eating more.
So that's going to have a. My lifting sessions have felt
awesome. I've been pushing some weight.
Everything just internally is kind of resetting.
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It's coming back up. What is your?
What do I have your macros at this week?
I don't know how. What is this mine or yours?
This mine? It's 2400, we're at. 22/23/24
somewhere in there I think. 170 ish. 165 ish on both fat and
protein. It's pretty much a one to one,
pretty close for all intensive purposes and.
No more refeeds. No more refeeds, but an intake
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that is more manageable. Yeah, So you don't feel like
you're starving necessarily? No, I just feel like I'm well
fed, but I could eat more. Yeah.
So I do usually do like a fatty coffee in the morning, you know,
a couple 100 calories, hit the gym, try to do 1000 to 1100
calorie lunch, 1000 to 1100 calorie dinner or just whenever
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those two meals fall in the day.And that's about my day 2
primary meals and, you know, a little coffee.
Sounds like my day right now I'mtrying to target right around
3000 to 3300 calories and every other day.
No, when I when I do it every other day, I eat like 55 to 6500
and then. OK, so you're back.
The next day, so now. Daily.
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Yeah, I mean, I like the alternate day fasting and it
works well. But what I've noticed is if I on
the days following a feeding day, I just feel like because of
my schedule, most of that intakecomes in at night, which I, I
like going to bed feeling full. But then I feel like I have a
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little bit more joint pain when I wake up the next day because
I'm having just so much protein in a bolus dose right before I
go to bed. And I feel very powerful the
following day training. But like my runs are a little
bit more hindered because my joints are a little bit more.
And then on the days following afasting day, I feel really good
from a joint standpoint. I feel light, I feel springy, I
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just feel hungry, you know, obviously.
So I like that what I'm probablygoing to do because I don't want
to fall into any one thing for too long.
So I'll probably just kind of flip flop between alternate
daily fasting and and when I do the alternate day fasting now,
since my weight is pretty much where I want it to be targeted,
I do alternate day fat fasting. So I'm still having calories on
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my fasting days just coming fromheavy cream in my coffee.
So I got some calories coming inthem and then all alternate
between that versus just like a standard 3000 to 3300 intake,
which is a pretty good, you know, slight surplus intake for
me and just see how I feel with that.
But I've been feeling pretty good here lately.
I've been thinking about throwing in a multi day fast
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soon because I typically do a few of those a year and kind of
as my intake increases and we hit somewhere towards the peak
I'll probably do one of those. I've got Clance Wah doing a
sardine fast for lack of a better term right now.
Clancy is one of our guys here. Nancy is one of our guys.
We call him Clance wah. We got a lot of slang.
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A lot of slang. Why is he doing a sardine fast?
Well, his his doctor, so he's like diabetic.
And type 1. Type 1 But it's kind of
frustrating man, because his doctors have not given him any
insight and they're just throwing prescriptions at him
so. Welcome to the wonderful world
of America. Yeah.
And like, they didn't even run AC peptide test on him to verify
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that he was type 1. And when he passed out that one
day, I think it may have been because his body had
spontaneously produced some insulin that was, you know,
counteracting with his exogenousinsulin.
That's what sent his blood sugardown crazy low.
So I'm like, first and foremost,let's get AC peptide test done
on you. So I got him AC peptide test, He
got that and he had trace amounts of endogenous production
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of insulin. So not 0, but not high,
definitely low. And then he's got he's, he's
brought in all of his blood workto me, but it's like not very
comprehensive. Like they were prescribing him a
statin literally based off of 1 test, which was just a simple
basic lipid panel that measured total cholesterol, LDL and
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triglycerides. That was it, one test.
Let's prescribe him a statin. So I'm like, OK man, let's
actually get some comprehensive testing done.
And he hasn't really known what to do from a food consumption
standpoint. They just put him on an insulin
pump, but he might not have thatinsulin pump for very long now.
So I'm like, let's just let's just remove variables.
Let's give you a simple intake of something that's going to be
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incredibly nutrient dense that is going to check all of your
micros. He's gone back and forth with if
he responds poorly to eggs, but he know he responds well to
sardines and I'm OK, let's get some sardines and olive oil.
Eat those until satidine. Don't have any extra food coming
in any variables. Let's just get a full
comprehensive blood panel done in a week of consuming then, and
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then we'll actually see what your markers look like when all
the inputs have been pretty wellaccounted for.
So that's what we're going to do.
We'll sit down sometime today and figure out what tests we're
going to pull and then we'll actually get like a
comprehensive panel done. But it's just crazy man 'cause
like I can buy these tests for him cheaper than he's getting
them through his insurance and it's much less hassle because
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I'll just get it through like private MD labs and then he'll
go to a Quest diagnostic center,get the labs drawn in like 5
minutes and then have the results within 24 to 48 hours.
And I'm like, let's actually just get the good data.
And then if we need to talk to adoctor that actually knows what
they're talking about, let's take that good data to them and
then we'll get some action steps.
But it's just I hate it for him because he's trying to do what's
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right so that he can feel and function better.
How many people in this country are exactly like that?
They're at the mercy of medical professionals who hold all the
power. Yeah, and it's just like most
people, and I've talked about this on my podcast numerous
times, and most people that are in the health, nutrition,
medical space, I feel like they're in there for the right
reasons, but they're in a brokensystem.
So their hands are kind of tied.They can't they can't spend the
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amount of time with their patients that would be necessary
to give them a comprehensive overview of what's actually
happening. And they're not incentivized to
do them. And then they are incentivized
to get them through, shuttled through in a very rapid manner
and prescribe medication. And it's just like none of this
is doing what's right by the patient.
And yeah, it's just frustrating.It's making a lot of money for
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Big Pharma. It's frustrating.
So and a lot of them, they just don't, they don't have the time
or the willingness to just continue learning.
So they're just regurgitating things that they were taught in,
you know, a very short segment from school 20 years ago, 30
years ago, right. So yeah, it's just a broken
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system. It's terribly broken.
My mom called me the other day and she saw on the news that all
the healthcare premiums, health insurance premiums, everything's
skyrocketing. Everything's going nuts.
She's like, she called 'cause she was like, are you worried
about your health insurance going up?
If yours is going to be really, really expensive, I'd be happy
to help you pay some of that. And then I said, mom, I don't
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even have health insurance. She she freaked out a little
bit. So they have crowd health.
Crowd health is the bomb. The bomb diggity.
Yeah. So if anyone's not familiar with
crowd health, it is not a healthinsurance provider, but it is a
crowd funded group of I guess. Healthy people.
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Healthy people, we had to take afasting insulin, DEXA scan, few
other markers to be allowed intothis crowd health group.
So they're not dealing with people who have a thousand 1000
prescriptions. They're not diabetic, they're
not just terribly overweight, blah, blah, blah.
Well, I told my mom of crowd health and I, she's like, what
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the heck is crowd health? Is that OK?
And I explained it to her and she was like, wow, I never even
knew anything like that existed.And she's like, OK, I'm not
worried about it anymore. So.
But yeah. Health insurance is going up.
I think when I first moved here,I cancelled my Blue Cross Blue
Shield from Minnesota and enrolled in Blue Cross Blue
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Shield here in Arkansas. And for me, my standalone
premium by myself, no health ailments, no prescriptions.
I don't even go to the I don't even have a doctor.
I don't even have a primary carephysician because I don't need
one. I would go get a yearly physical
and pull panels and all that kind of stuff, but I have no
recurring visits. My rate I think was almost $500
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a month for just myself and thatis the highest deductible,
lowest coverage, smallest network, literally the cheapest
path because I just needed like major medical, you know, in case
something crazy happens and you have $100,000 medical bill, $500
a month for just one single male, doesn't smoke, doesn't
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drink healthy works out. Is that just absurd?
It's. When I I'm the same thing for
me, I had to ambetter as our healthcare for Crystal Rigel and
myself before we had Hayes and and I was paying I think it was
either 1100 or 1200 bucks a month.
Again, never cover anything thatI needed only cover stuff that I
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didn't ever use and lowest like the whole 9 yards.
And I'm like, this is ridiculous.
So we switched over to crowd health and then we had Hazen and
I was kind of worried like, hey,what's this going to be like
from a pregnancy standpoint, From a standpoint that'd be good
there and super simple, super straightforward, covered
everything, no questions asked. And I just feel way better about
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the the model in its entirety because it's funded by people
that are healthy taking care of themselves in the 1st place.
And if some freak accident happens or something happens
that needs coverage for people that are trying to do better, I
have no problem helping them cover that as a member that's
contributing to that pot as well.
But like I have a problem payingfor people who are gaming the.
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System. And, and selfishly not taking
care of themselves. If something happens to people
that are trying to be and do better, I will go out of my way
to the end of the earth to help them as well.
And I feel like this is how thatmodel is built in its entirety.
So yeah, it's, it's way better. It's way more cost effective.
And it's just, it's just better.So what is your guys's family
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premium with crowd health? I think mine is like I want to
say like 70 bucks a month. I want it to.
Be in the group and then there'sa cap for what they ask you to
contribute each month. Yeah, I want to say for the four
of us now, even when they ask usto contribute addition
additional, I don't think we ever pay more than 500, OK,
something like. That, and that's pretty awesome
for a family of four. Yeah, and that's less than half
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of what I was paying with Amber,so 100% better.
And they've even funded, like I sent them a DEXA scan, they
reimbursed me for a DEXA. They they've reimbursed me for
blood work. They have these incentives to
keep you healthy. Like they want to see you.
It's almost like it pays to be healthy.
Oh, weird. It's funny how that works.
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Oh gosh. It's kind of like health should
be like the fundamental baselinethat everything else is built
on. Health as well.
Yeah, interesting. Weird.
We got a lot more content on that coming out soon.
I wonder. Yeah.
It kind of makes you wonder why mainstream health insurance just
so upside down, so weird. Oh, it's it's driven by profits,
that's why. Something like that, man,
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Something like that. Crazy.
I think at the end of the day, people should just strive to be
self-sufficient in whatever way they can so they can serve
better. But like, when you're just, you
know, a Leech on the system, yeah, nobody wins.
Nobody wins. Everyone just pays more money
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too. Yeah, so we're going to be
talking about that at length. I've been.
This kind of ties back to that epiphany I had when I
disconnected. I was going to say this weekend.
Ironic. Loop.
Yeah. But I, I have a called divine
intervention, but I have a very clear path for the messaging
that we're going to be taking going forward that will impact a
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lot of people in a positive way and just bridge the gap for
them. So I'm excited about that and
too, I'm talking a little. Bit about it yesterday.
Yeah, it's gonna be good, man. It's gonna be good.
But we're just teasing it right now.
We're teasing cuz I'm trying to get all my thoughts organized so
when I present it, it's organized in people's minds from
the get go. So yeah, what else is new and
exciting? We went to Texas de Brazil last
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week for a team day. This was before Clancy started
eating just sardines. Yeah.
How many? There was like 14 or 15 of us.
It was 14 of us, of which there was 10 adults, I believe, a
couple kiddos. Yeah.
So we did Texas de Brazil, team name Texas de Brazil, for those
of you that didn't know, is a Brazilian steakhouse here in
Northwest Arkansas. But everybody here has either
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been in a prep, competing or, I mean, you competed, Ralph
competed, Ellen competing. So they've either been in a prep
and been sacrificing their macros or they've been involved
in some form of fashion with theshow, with everything because
we've all been a team together. Yeah, So it's OK.
What can I do as the leader of this team to show my
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appreciation and provide a ton of great quality food?
So Texas de Brazil was the answer.
And we ate a lot of meat. Yes, we did, and we appreciate
your appreciation, so thank you.I had a ton of meat.
Yeah, I think you and I both probably put down a good three 4
lbs of different cuts of steak and pork and chicken and lamb
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and all that. I.
Didn't do the lamb. I'm not a huge fan of Lamb.
I ate your share of lamb for sure.
I ate a lot of lamb. The the lamb Pecania man.
Like did you even try it? No man, you're missing out dude.
Lamb, Pecania I. Did a lot of red meat and some
of those bacon wrapped and parmesan crusted chicken.
Was there anything you didn't like?
No. Nothing you didn't like.
Everything that I tried, I wouldeat again.
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There was one thing. I didn't dislike it, but it was
really, really dry. I think it may have been pork
tenderloin. It was, it was white meat but it
I think it may have been like parmesan crusted or something
like that but it was like super dry.
Mine was good, yours was good, but everything else was really
good. I didn't try the pork ribs cause
those typically have a sugar glaze.
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They did, yeah. I didn't realize it was such a
sweet sauce on those, but the beef ribs did eat one of those.
Beef ribs were good. Everything was good.
I went to the salad bar like twoor three times, got a whole
bunch of cheese and meat. Do you like goat cheese?
A. Little bit.
Yeah, my hack is I'll get goat cheese.
I get a big plate of goat cheeseand everybody's steak I'll have
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I'll just put a little dollop ofgoat cheese on it and just so
good. So good.
But yeah, that was tasting. Our next team name is going to
be Keto pizza night at my house and we're going to bring our big
projector. We might like watch a movie on
the lawn of the weather's getting better.
But before we watch the movie inthe lawn, we're going to film or
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we're going to watch all of the filmed promo videos that we've
made for all the different keto brick flavour launches over the
years. Those little commercials that we
film, which we've got 1 coming out for Glaze Donut that I think
would be pretty funny. Lizzie Dizzy.
Lizzie Dizzy's gonna have its promo video.
But we'll just all sit down and watch those little minute 2
minute clips over the years before we watch a movie and eat
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a bunch of keto pizza. Cause Ellen makes this keto
pizza that I haven't tried, but every time she brings it right?
Chicken crust. Or what if it's cheese or
chicken crust, but it looks phenomenal.
Yeah, and Crystal makes a bomb diggity keto pizza, so that'll
be good. That'll be tasty.
I'm excited for that. It'll be funny watching those
videos because some of those arepretty old.
Yeah. And like, Bryson looks like
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he's, you know. 12 years old. Hasn't even hit puberty yet, you
know, just a youngster. So that'll be good fun.
Yeah, I'm excited about that one.
The Bell's Brownie 1, Chip was the voice over guy for that one.
And there's like a pig that comes in.
There's like all these animals that come in that are talking
because we're like in a mirage or something.
And Chip did the voice over for all the animals.
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Oh really? Have you seen that one?
I don't think so. Yeah.
It's pretty impressive, actually.
Nice. So it'd be funny.
Anything else exciting we want to touch on?
Man, that's that's about it thatwe can talk about and public
setting. We got a ton of stuff going on
behind the scenes. Oh my, I'm talking about my
brother real quick. I made a newsletter post on it.
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People have been asking about itvia that e-mail, though.
So my brother. So Thursday, last Thursday, I'm
feeding Diesel. My mom called me my dog.
Yeah, my mom calls me and says, hey, I'm on the way to the ER.
Your brother was just in a motorcycle accident.
And I'm like, OK, give me some updates.
And she's like, I don't know anything yet.
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And he wasn't responding becausehis phone was dead.
And Dad was in New York for a conference, so he didn't know
what was up. So I tried calling Tyler's
phone, and his neighbor answers because his neighbor was with
him. And his neighbor said, can't
talk right now. There may be spinal issues.
And that was the last I heard because then my mom, you're
panicking. Yeah.
So I'm like, freaking out. Like, do I need to drive 3 hours
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down to Little Rock and help? What do I need to do?
And I hear from mom at 1:30 Friday morning, so middle of the
night that he and he couldn't walk at that point, he couldn't
move his legs. So like it wasn't looking good.
He can wiggle his toes, which isa good sign, but he couldn't
move his legs, couldn't raise his legs.
So I didn't know what was going on.
I didn't know if he's paralyzed or not.
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So 1:30 in the morning, she calls and said he's not
paralyzed. He just got done with the CT
scan and he broke the transversesomething off of the L4
vertebrae, which is where all the like, if speaking in terms
of butchering an animal, all theback strap muscles connect to
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the spinal column. So didn't damage the spinal
cord, but broke one of the bonesoff that kicker of the L4 that
all that muscle attaches to. So his back was all swollen.
He had Rd. rash everywhere, couldn't really move, can't bend
over any of that stuff. So he's going to heal up and be
fine. No surgery necessary.
But pretty freaky, man. Yeah, pretty freaky.
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Apparently he was going around aroundabout and he had old tires
and lost control of the bike, laid down.
And then he went 40 miles an hour with his back hitting a
curb. And that's what caused the
brake. But, man, motorcycles will,
Yeah. Wreck you up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Scary.
My dad. Dad used to ride a lot and we
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didn't know this until quite a while later, but he was in a
pretty bad wreck. And at the time he was riding a
trike. When he had him and my mom we
used to ride, he had a pretty sweet Harley-Davidson trike,
like all decked out. He swapped a ton of parts, all
this stuff. He was out cruising around on
that and I don't remember if he said he hit a deer.
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I think, I think he hit a deer or had to avoid one or swerved
or whatever. And he actually went over in the
ditch and it was like it was a big, big, big deal.
And had he not had safety gear on, a helmet on probably
wouldn't wouldn't have been a good result.
So motorcycles are crazy. Like he also was an RN in an
emergency room and he said he has seen some crazy accidents of
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people that were too cool to wear helmets and brains coming
out of their ears. Their eyes popped out, skulls
half deformed like. Not worth it.
Not worth it. And I, back in my younger years,
I had a crotch rocket. And there'd be days where we
were just going to like, oh, we're just going to zip around
town, go downtown, go to the beach, whatever.
We just, you know, leave the helmets behind.
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We thought we were cool. Throw our sunglasses on and, you
know, pick up the chicks, whatever.
Not worth. It not worth it.
Remember the first time I went snowboarding I was like, man,
I'm too cool to wear a helmet. I'm not going to snowboard with
a helmet on. I'm just going to wear my hat
and look like I know what I'm doing after I busted my ass
enough times, hit the my head really hard on a hot, hard patch
of ice and like was hurting for a good while.
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I'm OK. Helmets coming on.
I'm not too cool to wear a helmet.
I ain't, I ain't, I ain't down with this.
Yeah. Safety.
Being safe is cool being safe. Cool safety equipment.
Nowadays they do. You can buy a pretty cool
looking helmet. You get a helmet with a Mohawk
on it, Yeah, you know. Absolutely.
You throw some stickers on thereand decals and.
And it's like, not even what youdo.
Like I thought about getting a motorcycle just from here to the
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house because it's like 10 minutes away and I could just
Country Rd. super low traffic. I mean, it would be a pretty
drive to do in a motorcycle. I thought about getting the bike
for that. So I'm not driving my big truck
to and fro every day. But it's like you, you have to
worry more so about the people. Now that's worse.
Than your own. Yeah.
I mean, like everybody's lookingat their phone while they're
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driving now. And if you're on a motorcycle
and you're looking at your phoneor somebody just driving and
looking at their phone and they like get over in your lane and
take you out like you're out, you're out.
I mean, they can look real quickand you might be positioned
right behind the the A column oftheir window and then they don't
look again. And then, yeah, I mean, you're a
smaller thing, smaller object toC from a distance.
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And you know, you got sand on the roads, you got grass
clippings on the road, all that kind of stuff.
And I'm not for total risk aversion.
Like I think risk is good. I think men need risk in life.
I feel like you need to have a battle to fight.
That's why I go hunting off the grid.
I mean, there's risk involved inthat.
But like there's a pretty big payout too, you know, like I get
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a lot of meat that I can put in the freezer.
I, you know, have moment of solitude out in the woods, out
in pristine nature where I can do something that has risk.
But the payout is very grand as well.
But like speeding around, breaking laws, driving without a
helmet, like there's not really any payout at the end of that,
you know? So not really worth it in my
opinion. I remember one night, well, I, I
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lived with a buddy at the time and he bought a crotch rocket,
you know, a sport bike. And I was like, oh man, he's
going to be cruising around on this all summer.
I need to go get 1. So I went down and got one.
Then my other friend went down and got 1.
So there's a group of us that all went and got sport bikes and
I had my, don't think I had the actual motorcycle endorsement on
my driver's license yet. So you have to get further
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credentialed in order to ride atnight, ride with the passenger,
all these different regulations.I didn't have any of that.
We're cruising around in the middle of the night with
passengers without helmets, justbeing dorks.
And we had to outrun or I had tooutrun the police.
And I'm thinking, holy cow, thisis not how I envisioned my
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youth, like breaking laws. Oh, yeah, you, you had to stay
off the highways. That was another thing too.
You had to stay on only side streets.
Speed limit of 30 or 45 or whatever it was.
Here we are zipping down the highway going 60 with
passengers, no helmet at night. And you're trying to evade the
police. Officer Yeah, we, we did.
We had to zip, like we had to cruise through the middle of all
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the residential areas and zigzagup and around all these blocks,
and pretty soon there's more than one squad car running
around and we're like, throw them in the garage and went to
bed like, no more, Yeah. That's not good.
Tell you what though. And that happened to my brother.
Like I was dealing with all the stress of getting ready to go
for the weekend, getting stuff done with the the business
before I buttons up shop. Like when that happened, like
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instantly you know where your priorities are.
Oh yeah. And like, what's actually
important in life? Everything else can go back
burner. Yeah, everything else can go
back burner, and I feel like it.It's unfortunate that it takes
something severe like that to just recenter you, but it's
crazy, man. Like people spend so much time
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on things that don't matter. Or maybe they do matter, but
they spend so much time on things without ever thinking in
the context of what does truly matter.
But when you're reminded of it, it's like, man, let me let me
give that the attention it's duefor sure.
You take a step back for a minute.
Take a step back for a minute. All right, that's a wrap.
So we got Glizzy Dizzy Glazed Donut Tallow launching Sunday
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the 19th at 12 noon Central. That's the big news on the
pipeline. And then we'll leave it at that
for this podcast. We got some other stuff to talk
about, but we'll save that for the next recording.
Stick around, stick around. For the next one, Toodaloo.
Adios.
Tag team back again. Check the directive.
Let's begin Party. I'm party people.
Keep going, man, Keep rapping. I don't know the rapping lyrics.
How are you doing? Good, good.
Yeah, just popping your pecs there for the camera.
That was a weird twitch. Yes, When?
How old were you when you realized that you can make your
pecs bounce? Once I had decent muscular
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development in my chest, then I realized that you could flex
them. Yeah, but you you don't have
that ability until you actually gain some muscular development.
It's kind of like lats, like a lot of people have a hard time
engaging their lats and like opening up, but like you can't
really know how to do that untilyou've trained your lats and
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know what it is you're supposed to be feeling in the first
place. Well, when you actually train
for hypertrophy or strength or whatever you're training for and
you develop larger muscles, you actually create more motor
units, right? So I think your ability to
control individual muscles just evolves as you train.
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I concur. I concur.
So like I when I was younger, I had glasses and soon as I
started wearing glasses, I somehow just evolved into having
the ability to wiggle my ears because my glasses would go back
behind my ears and. One day.
Yeah, nice. One day I could just like.
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I can wiggle my ear. I could like.
Wiggle my ear to make my glasseslike right up my nose a little
bit and then now I can wiggle myears.
It's weird anyhow. Can you blink out of both eyes?
Yeah. One at a time.
Or wink, I guess. See, I can't do that.
I can only wink out of my left eye.
That's weird. I can't do my right eye.
Yeah. Can you move your nose?
Yeah, I can move my nose like when I'm breathing and stuff.
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Have you seen those little clipsthat are going viral, the
magnetic ones on social media? Sound of a weird ad?
I mean, it's a good ad because you see how different it is, how
much it opens up your nostrils. But it's kind of a weird ad
'cause you're just looking at people's noses, you know,
looking at your nose. I've heard it's good.
It's good for. Well, a lot of people have a
deviated septum. So like when, when I'm running
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and I try to inhale, 'cause I'm just trying to do nasal
breathing when I'm running and I'll, I'll be able to tell that
when I'm breathing harder through my nose, my nostrils
flare open. You know, like race horses do
the same thing. But like a lot of people have a
deviated septum where it like collapses and when they try to
breathe in, like it actually closes.
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So totally impairs additional oxygen flow.
So something like that. I mean, people that have that
swear by those things. I've never used one or felt the
need to use one, but my brother's got a deviated septum,
so he would probably benefit from it.
Interesting. Yeah, interesting.
So last weekend was the Olympia.I was out of town all weekend.
Actually during started during the week.
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Yeah, started during the week for the amateurs.
Joe Davis killed it. He competed on Wednesday, which
is pretty awesome. One of my clients, friends and
just good buddies stepped on theOlympia stage.
It was pretty sweet seeing him on.
Yeah, watch some live streams. Pretty cool.
And that was like a dream of his.
So I'm just proud of him and he's he's doing it without like
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abusing all the drugs that otherpeople are using.
Some he was in the amateur category and the people that got
the first call outs were very evidently abusing performance
dancing drugs, of which he's not.
So it's just it's like 2 different sports man.
It's crazy. There's such a difference
between bodybuilding naturally and enhanced.
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And I don't think anybody would argue that enhanced bodybuilding
is optimal for health. There was a post made yesterday
on Twitter and I responded to it, but it was like statistics
of the like fivefold increase ofathletes in the sport of
professional bodybuilding, fivefold increase from amateur
to professional of likely cause of death or increase in cancer
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or whatever the stat was. I didn't really read all the
details but the the comment was his argument was this was the
least healthy sport in existence.
Bodybuilding in general or unnatural bodybuilding?
Well, he just said bodybuilding.So then I chimed in on the
comments and I said I think you would have to differentiate
between natural versus enhanced bodybuilding because I would
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argue that natural bodybuilding is the healthiest sport anybody
can do because I mean, bodybuilding.
I'm making a post on this today,but bodybuilding is defined as,
you know, a concerted effort of exercise and nutrition to build
1's body. Like that is what we all
inherently know we should be doing to improve our health,
longevity, everything involved, whether you decide to compete
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with it, you know, in a competitive aspect, is like
taking it to the next level. But bodybuilding in and of
itself naturally is, I think is pretty much understood to be the
healthiest sport anybody could do.
It's going to be less taxing than running, more accessible to
all, like it's full stop the best option for anybody.
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And then since I personally am very passionate about the sport
of bodybuilding, I've taken it to the next level to compete
with it. But everybody would benefit by
thinking of themselves and living as a bodybuilder.
Absolutely. The the Prep maybe isn't the
healthiest part of it, but yeah.But you can be a bodybuilder
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without going through the prep. Bingo.
For a competition. Bingo.
Bingo. So shout out to Joe for sure on
that. Nice job, Joe.
I did not see, I think the the actual open Olympia for
professionals like the Mr. Olympia title that was on
Saturday or Sunday, but I was out of town.
But I believe Derek Lunsford wonfor the second year now, I want
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to say. So kudos to him.
I don't know who won Classic. Yeah, I think Dino won Classic.
Since Bumstead it's no longer competing.
Yeah, I wish C Bum was still around.
He was my favorite but all good.All good, but I was gone because
I was at Squirrel Camp. How was Squirrel Camp?
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Again killed. Did you camp with some
squirrels? Didn't camp with some squirrels,
but I haunted some squirrels. Pretty LAX.
Lackadaisical though. I mean I went out Saturday
morning, shot 2 squirrels, but was just outside.
I was out in the woods. I like sat down underneath the
tree listening to the world wakeup around me.
Read a parenting book. You got to recharge.
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I got to recharge a little bit and I recharge on the drive down
there because most of the drive down there is out of
self-service is through nationalparks.
So like, I was just unplugged from the majority of the time
once I left and had a couple epiphany moments, couple
insightful thoughts that will bemaking their way into the
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content that I produce in the very near future.
So I'm stoked about them. But then it was just good to get
down there, see the family, see the friends, and then just be
outside. I did.
I did definitely recharge a bit which was much needed.
The weather has been pretty awesome here it we're creeping
into the middle of October and we're still seeing temps in the
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70s, eighties and crisp, cool mornings, beautiful afternoons.
It's the. Crisp cool mornings is my
favorite Me too little sweater sweater weather.
The leaves are starting to change and drop.
It stays dark a little bit longer in the morning.
I don't necessarily like that I like having the daylight, but I
do like the cooler temps for sure.
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I don't like it when it gets dark at like 4:30 in the
afternoon. No, that's that's.
That's a drag. Less desirable.
Because then by the time I leavehere, it's like almost night
time. It is night time, so that's not
cool. We'll.
Do some hiking this weekend. Where you going?
I don't know. Maybe Devil's Den?
I haven't been there in a little.
While are you able to link up onSunday?
I was. Thinking about heading up to J
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Street for morning lift. What are we doing Sunday?
That was a launch that noon, right?
Yeah. I don't know if you want to meet
up coffee shop if that permitted, if not, no big deal,
but possibly because we got a pretty big launch going down.
We do have a big launch. We've got a flavor coming out
that we've never messed with before.
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Tallow based. A brand spanking new flavor.
Yeah, and it's crazy because thelast we've had a few new
flavors, but they've all been kind of tallow versions of prior
flavors. So peanut butter Hallelujah, one
of my favorites. That is a tallow based version
of the original peanut butter right Tallow cookie dough.
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Also very good. That is simply a tallow based
version of the milk and cookies Keto brick.
Prior to that, what was their other new flavor?
Well, we came out with Primal Fudge cake.
But. Those are standalone new tallow
carnivore flavors. But this, but we came out with
those a while ago. Like prior year.
Yeah, this bad boy is brand spanking new.
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No rendition. No separate version of this
thing is hot off the press. Brand spanking new.
And it's glazed doughnuts. Yes, and it's delicious.
And it is. We call it Glizzy Dizzy.
Here we call it Glizzy Dizzy. Yeah, it's Glizzy Dizzy.
Yeah. So if you go around telling your
friends you got the Glizzy Dizzythen you'll be on the Inside
Scoop Club because we'll know what you're talking about.
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We have gangster slang sometimes.
That are gangster slang, but it it tastes like a freaking
doughnut. You know, we haven't had a
doughnut in over a decade, so I can't recall what a doughnut
tastes like. But like Jonathan, we sent some
of them. Say we sent a bunch of
influencer bricks out. Yeah.
And his daughter, who's four years old, tried it without
seeing the packaging, without knowing the flavor name.
And he asked her, what's this taste like?
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And she's like a doughnut, you know, So it tastes like a
freaking glazed doughnut. So this would be pretty optimal
for like, your morning coffee orthat after dinner, a little
treat, yeah. And it's interesting, like the
tallow. So it's tallow and it's a whey
protein and it's got macadamia butter in there that creates
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this creamy texture. But because of the rendering
process of the tallow, it's almost got like this subtle,
like bread, like bacon delirio. Yeah, it's like it.
It tastes like something that came out of the oven, like you
would think, a doughnut. Doughnuts are fried.
I guess technically I don't evenknow how to make a doughnut.
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It tastes like something that's been prepared from dough.
So I'm getting that. So it tastes pretty good.
Lizzy Dizzy Lizzy Dizzy Sunday the 19th.
This is probably one of my favourites.
We say that every time. Every time we roll something
out, it's like, oh, this is definitely taken in the top
three. This is.
Just magicians in the keto brickkitchen, ma'am, Magicians.
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What's your least favorite on your personal level?
I I would eat any of the keto bricks but I have a few that are
like bottom priority. Which one's your least?
Favorite. Well, coconut cream was not a
good one for me, but we've discontinued that one.
Yeah. But the no bake cookie, which is
very similar to the coconut cream except with tallow.
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I freaking love that one. But there's a butter extract in
that one too. Yeah, that has a whole different
flavour profile. Yeah, I would say.
I would say I'm not a huge. I'm a less huge fan of malt
peanut butter, mocha. I do love malt.
That's Crystal's favorite flavour.
The peanut butter one is hard tobeat when it's like fresh off
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the press. Well, that's true.
And then mocha. I don't eat mocha very often,
but every time I do eat a mocha I'm like man I forgot how great
a mocha tasted and then I love it again.
And then it's right back on. Yeah, Top 2.
Yeah, there's not any that I dislike me.
Either I would eat them all definitely.
The glazed doughnut is definitely one of the ones that
I would eat. I'm going to eat that after we
can record this actually, so. Lucky I can't fit one into my
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macros today. How are your macros treating?
You pretty good, Pretty good, but I'm finding that my hunger
is gradually titrating up. Well, your metabolism is ramping
up, yes, because you've been eating more.
So that's going to have a. My lifting sessions have felt
awesome. I've been pushing some weight.
Everything just internally is kind of resetting.
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It's coming back up. What is your?
What do I have your macros at this week?
I don't know how. What is this mine or yours?
This mine? It's 2400, we're at. 22/23/24
somewhere in there I think. 170 ish. 165 ish on both fat and
protein. It's pretty much a one to one,
pretty close for all intensive purposes and.
No more refeeds. No more refeeds, but an intake
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that is more manageable. Yeah, So you don't feel like
you're starving necessarily? No, I just feel like I'm well
fed, but I could eat more. Yeah.
So I do usually do like a fatty coffee in the morning, you know,
a couple 100 calories, hit the gym, try to do 1000 to 1100
calorie lunch, 1000 to 1100 calorie dinner or just whenever
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those two meals fall in the day.And that's about my day 2
primary meals and, you know, a little coffee.
Sounds like my day right now I'mtrying to target right around
3000 to 3300 calories and every other day.
No, when I when I do it every other day, I eat like 55 to 6500
and then. OK, so you're back.
The next day, so now. Daily.
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Yeah, I mean, I like the alternate day fasting and it
works well. But what I've noticed is if I on
the days following a feeding day, I just feel like because of
my schedule, most of that intakecomes in at night, which I, I
like going to bed feeling full. But then I feel like I have a
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little bit more joint pain when I wake up the next day because
I'm having just so much protein in a bolus dose right before I
go to bed. And I feel very powerful the
following day training. But like my runs are a little
bit more hindered because my joints are a little bit more.
And then on the days following afasting day, I feel really good
from a joint standpoint. I feel light, I feel springy, I
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just feel hungry, you know, obviously.
So I like that what I'm probablygoing to do because I don't want
to fall into any one thing for too long.
So I'll probably just kind of flip flop between alternate
daily fasting and and when I do the alternate day fasting now,
since my weight is pretty much where I want it to be targeted,
I do alternate day fat fasting. So I'm still having calories on
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my fasting days just coming fromheavy cream in my coffee.
So I got some calories coming inthem and then all alternate
between that versus just like a standard 3000 to 3300 intake,
which is a pretty good, you know, slight surplus intake for
me and just see how I feel with that.
But I've been feeling pretty good here lately.
I've been thinking about throwing in a multi day fast
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soon because I typically do a few of those a year and kind of
as my intake increases and we hit somewhere towards the peak
I'll probably do one of those. I've got Clance Wah doing a
sardine fast for lack of a better term right now.
Clancy is one of our guys here. Nancy is one of our guys.
We call him Clance wah. We got a lot of slang.
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A lot of slang. Why is he doing a sardine fast?
Well, his his doctor, so he's like diabetic.
And type 1. Type 1 But it's kind of
frustrating man, because his doctors have not given him any
insight and they're just throwing prescriptions at him
so. Welcome to the wonderful world
of America. Yeah.
And like, they didn't even run AC peptide test on him to verify
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that he was type 1. And when he passed out that one
day, I think it may have been because his body had
spontaneously produced some insulin that was, you know,
counteracting with his exogenousinsulin.
That's what sent his blood sugardown crazy low.
So I'm like, first and foremost,let's get AC peptide test done
on you. So I got him AC peptide test, He
got that and he had trace amounts of endogenous production
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of insulin. So not 0, but not high,
definitely low. And then he's got he's, he's
brought in all of his blood workto me, but it's like not very
comprehensive. Like they were prescribing him a
statin literally based off of 1 test, which was just a simple
basic lipid panel that measured total cholesterol, LDL and
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triglycerides. That was it, one test.
Let's prescribe him a statin. So I'm like, OK man, let's
actually get some comprehensive testing done.
And he hasn't really known what to do from a food consumption
standpoint. They just put him on an insulin
pump, but he might not have thatinsulin pump for very long now.
So I'm like, let's just let's just remove variables.
Let's give you a simple intake of something that's going to be
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incredibly nutrient dense that is going to check all of your
micros. He's gone back and forth with if
he responds poorly to eggs, but he know he responds well to
sardines and I'm OK, let's get some sardines and olive oil.
Eat those until satidine. Don't have any extra food coming
in any variables. Let's just get a full
comprehensive blood panel done in a week of consuming then, and
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then we'll actually see what your markers look like when all
the inputs have been pretty wellaccounted for.
So that's what we're going to do.
We'll sit down sometime today and figure out what tests we're
going to pull and then we'll actually get like a
comprehensive panel done. But it's just crazy man 'cause
like I can buy these tests for him cheaper than he's getting
them through his insurance and it's much less hassle because
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I'll just get it through like private MD labs and then he'll
go to a Quest diagnostic center,get the labs drawn in like 5
minutes and then have the results within 24 to 48 hours.
And I'm like, let's actually just get the good data.
And then if we need to talk to adoctor that actually knows what
they're talking about, let's take that good data to them and
then we'll get some action steps.
But it's just I hate it for him because he's trying to do what's
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right so that he can feel and function better.
How many people in this country are exactly like that?
They're at the mercy of medical professionals who hold all the
power. Yeah, and it's just like most
people, and I've talked about this on my podcast numerous
times, and most people that are in the health, nutrition,
medical space, I feel like they're in there for the right
reasons, but they're in a brokensystem.
So their hands are kind of tied.They can't they can't spend the
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amount of time with their patients that would be necessary
to give them a comprehensive overview of what's actually
happening. And they're not incentivized to
do them. And then they are incentivized
to get them through, shuttled through in a very rapid manner
and prescribe medication. And it's just like none of this
is doing what's right by the patient.
And yeah, it's just frustrating.It's making a lot of money for
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Big Pharma. It's frustrating.
So and a lot of them, they just don't, they don't have the time
or the willingness to just continue learning.
So they're just regurgitating things that they were taught in,
you know, a very short segment from school 20 years ago, 30
years ago, right. So yeah, it's just a broken
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system. It's terribly broken.
My mom called me the other day and she saw on the news that all
the healthcare premiums, health insurance premiums, everything's
skyrocketing. Everything's going nuts.
She's like, she called 'cause she was like, are you worried
about your health insurance going up?
If yours is going to be really, really expensive, I'd be happy
to help you pay some of that. And then I said, mom, I don't
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even have health insurance. She she freaked out a little
bit. So they have crowd health.
Crowd health is the bomb. The bomb diggity.
Yeah. So if anyone's not familiar with
crowd health, it is not a healthinsurance provider, but it is a
crowd funded group of I guess. Healthy people.
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Healthy people, we had to take afasting insulin, DEXA scan, few
other markers to be allowed intothis crowd health group.
So they're not dealing with people who have a thousand 1000
prescriptions. They're not diabetic, they're
not just terribly overweight, blah, blah, blah.
Well, I told my mom of crowd health and I, she's like, what
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the heck is crowd health? Is that OK?
And I explained it to her and she was like, wow, I never even
knew anything like that existed.And she's like, OK, I'm not
worried about it anymore. So.
But yeah. Health insurance is going up.
I think when I first moved here,I cancelled my Blue Cross Blue
Shield from Minnesota and enrolled in Blue Cross Blue
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Shield here in Arkansas. And for me, my standalone
premium by myself, no health ailments, no prescriptions.
I don't even go to the I don't even have a doctor.
I don't even have a primary carephysician because I don't need
one. I would go get a yearly physical
and pull panels and all that kind of stuff, but I have no
recurring visits. My rate I think was almost $500
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a month for just myself and thatis the highest deductible,
lowest coverage, smallest network, literally the cheapest
path because I just needed like major medical, you know, in case
something crazy happens and you have $100,000 medical bill, $500
a month for just one single male, doesn't smoke, doesn't
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drink healthy works out. Is that just absurd?
It's. When I I'm the same thing for
me, I had to ambetter as our healthcare for Crystal Rigel and
myself before we had Hayes and and I was paying I think it was
either 1100 or 1200 bucks a month.
Again, never cover anything thatI needed only cover stuff that I
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didn't ever use and lowest like the whole 9 yards.
And I'm like, this is ridiculous.
So we switched over to crowd health and then we had Hazen and
I was kind of worried like, hey,what's this going to be like
from a pregnancy standpoint, From a standpoint that'd be good
there and super simple, super straightforward, covered
everything, no questions asked. And I just feel way better about
(21:54):
the the model in its entirety because it's funded by people
that are healthy taking care of themselves in the 1st place.
And if some freak accident happens or something happens
that needs coverage for people that are trying to do better, I
have no problem helping them cover that as a member that's
contributing to that pot as well.
But like I have a problem payingfor people who are gaming the.
(22:16):
System. And, and selfishly not taking
care of themselves. If something happens to people
that are trying to be and do better, I will go out of my way
to the end of the earth to help them as well.
And I feel like this is how thatmodel is built in its entirety.
So yeah, it's, it's way better. It's way more cost effective.
And it's just, it's just better.So what is your guys's family
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premium with crowd health? I think mine is like I want to
say like 70 bucks a month. I want it to.
Be in the group and then there'sa cap for what they ask you to
contribute each month. Yeah, I want to say for the four
of us now, even when they ask usto contribute addition
additional, I don't think we ever pay more than 500, OK,
something like. That, and that's pretty awesome
for a family of four. Yeah, and that's less than half
(23:03):
of what I was paying with Amber,so 100% better.
And they've even funded, like I sent them a DEXA scan, they
reimbursed me for a DEXA. They they've reimbursed me for
blood work. They have these incentives to
keep you healthy. Like they want to see you.
It's almost like it pays to be healthy.
Oh, weird. It's funny how that works.
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Oh gosh. It's kind of like health should
be like the fundamental baselinethat everything else is built
on. Health as well.
Yeah, interesting. Weird.
We got a lot more content on that coming out soon.
I wonder. Yeah.
It kind of makes you wonder why mainstream health insurance just
so upside down, so weird. Oh, it's it's driven by profits,
that's why. Something like that, man,
(23:45):
Something like that. Crazy.
I think at the end of the day, people should just strive to be
self-sufficient in whatever way they can so they can serve
better. But like, when you're just, you
know, a Leech on the system, yeah, nobody wins.
Nobody wins. Everyone just pays more money
(24:06):
too. Yeah, so we're going to be
talking about that at length. I've been.
This kind of ties back to that epiphany I had when I
disconnected. I was going to say this weekend.
Ironic. Loop.
Yeah. But I, I have a called divine
intervention, but I have a very clear path for the messaging
that we're going to be taking going forward that will impact a
(24:30):
lot of people in a positive way and just bridge the gap for
them. So I'm excited about that and
too, I'm talking a little. Bit about it yesterday.
Yeah, it's gonna be good, man. It's gonna be good.
But we're just teasing it right now.
We're teasing cuz I'm trying to get all my thoughts organized so
when I present it, it's organized in people's minds from
the get go. So yeah, what else is new and
exciting? We went to Texas de Brazil last
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week for a team day. This was before Clancy started
eating just sardines. Yeah.
How many? There was like 14 or 15 of us.
It was 14 of us, of which there was 10 adults, I believe, a
couple kiddos. Yeah.
So we did Texas de Brazil, team name Texas de Brazil, for those
of you that didn't know, is a Brazilian steakhouse here in
Northwest Arkansas. But everybody here has either
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been in a prep, competing or, I mean, you competed, Ralph
competed, Ellen competing. So they've either been in a prep
and been sacrificing their macros or they've been involved
in some form of fashion with theshow, with everything because
we've all been a team together. Yeah, So it's OK.
What can I do as the leader of this team to show my
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appreciation and provide a ton of great quality food?
So Texas de Brazil was the answer.
And we ate a lot of meat. Yes, we did, and we appreciate
your appreciation, so thank you.I had a ton of meat.
Yeah, I think you and I both probably put down a good three 4
lbs of different cuts of steak and pork and chicken and lamb
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and all that. I.
Didn't do the lamb. I'm not a huge fan of Lamb.
I ate your share of lamb for sure.
I ate a lot of lamb. The the lamb Pecania man.
Like did you even try it? No man, you're missing out dude.
Lamb, Pecania I. Did a lot of red meat and some
of those bacon wrapped and parmesan crusted chicken.
Was there anything you didn't like?
No. Nothing you didn't like.
Everything that I tried, I wouldeat again.
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There was one thing. I didn't dislike it, but it was
really, really dry. I think it may have been pork
tenderloin. It was, it was white meat but it
I think it may have been like parmesan crusted or something
like that but it was like super dry.
Mine was good, yours was good, but everything else was really
good. I didn't try the pork ribs cause
those typically have a sugar glaze.
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They did, yeah. I didn't realize it was such a
sweet sauce on those, but the beef ribs did eat one of those.
Beef ribs were good. Everything was good.
I went to the salad bar like twoor three times, got a whole
bunch of cheese and meat. Do you like goat cheese?
A. Little bit.
Yeah, my hack is I'll get goat cheese.
I get a big plate of goat cheeseand everybody's steak I'll have
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I'll just put a little dollop ofgoat cheese on it and just so
good. So good.
But yeah, that was tasting. Our next team name is going to
be Keto pizza night at my house and we're going to bring our big
projector. We might like watch a movie on
the lawn of the weather's getting better.
But before we watch the movie inthe lawn, we're going to film or
(27:24):
we're going to watch all of the filmed promo videos that we've
made for all the different keto brick flavour launches over the
years. Those little commercials that we
film, which we've got 1 coming out for Glaze Donut that I think
would be pretty funny. Lizzie Dizzy.
Lizzie Dizzy's gonna have its promo video.
But we'll just all sit down and watch those little minute 2
minute clips over the years before we watch a movie and eat
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a bunch of keto pizza. Cause Ellen makes this keto
pizza that I haven't tried, but every time she brings it right?
Chicken crust. Or what if it's cheese or
chicken crust, but it looks phenomenal.
Yeah, and Crystal makes a bomb diggity keto pizza, so that'll
be good. That'll be tasty.
I'm excited for that. It'll be funny watching those
videos because some of those arepretty old.
Yeah. And like, Bryson looks like
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he's, you know. 12 years old. Hasn't even hit puberty yet, you
know, just a youngster. So that'll be good fun.
Yeah, I'm excited about that one.
The Bell's Brownie 1, Chip was the voice over guy for that one.
And there's like a pig that comes in.
There's like all these animals that come in that are talking
because we're like in a mirage or something.
And Chip did the voice over for all the animals.
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Oh really? Have you seen that one?
I don't think so. Yeah.
It's pretty impressive, actually.
Nice. So it'd be funny.
Anything else exciting we want to touch on?
Man, that's that's about it thatwe can talk about and public
setting. We got a ton of stuff going on
behind the scenes. Oh my, I'm talking about my
brother real quick. I made a newsletter post on it.
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People have been asking about itvia that e-mail, though.
So my brother. So Thursday, last Thursday, I'm
feeding Diesel. My mom called me my dog.
Yeah, my mom calls me and says, hey, I'm on the way to the ER.
Your brother was just in a motorcycle accident.
And I'm like, OK, give me some updates.
And she's like, I don't know anything yet.
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And he wasn't responding becausehis phone was dead.
And Dad was in New York for a conference, so he didn't know
what was up. So I tried calling Tyler's
phone, and his neighbor answers because his neighbor was with
him. And his neighbor said, can't
talk right now. There may be spinal issues.
And that was the last I heard because then my mom, you're
panicking. Yeah.
So I'm like, freaking out. Like, do I need to drive 3 hours
(29:32):
down to Little Rock and help? What do I need to do?
And I hear from mom at 1:30 Friday morning, so middle of the
night that he and he couldn't walk at that point, he couldn't
move his legs. So like it wasn't looking good.
He can wiggle his toes, which isa good sign, but he couldn't
move his legs, couldn't raise his legs.
So I didn't know what was going on.
I didn't know if he's paralyzed or not.
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So 1:30 in the morning, she calls and said he's not
paralyzed. He just got done with the CT
scan and he broke the transversesomething off of the L4
vertebrae, which is where all the like, if speaking in terms
of butchering an animal, all theback strap muscles connect to
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the spinal column. So didn't damage the spinal
cord, but broke one of the bonesoff that kicker of the L4 that
all that muscle attaches to. So his back was all swollen.
He had Rd. rash everywhere, couldn't really move, can't bend
over any of that stuff. So he's going to heal up and be
fine. No surgery necessary.
But pretty freaky, man. Yeah, pretty freaky.
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Apparently he was going around aroundabout and he had old tires
and lost control of the bike, laid down.
And then he went 40 miles an hour with his back hitting a
curb. And that's what caused the
brake. But, man, motorcycles will,
Yeah. Wreck you up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Scary.
My dad. Dad used to ride a lot and we
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didn't know this until quite a while later, but he was in a
pretty bad wreck. And at the time he was riding a
trike. When he had him and my mom we
used to ride, he had a pretty sweet Harley-Davidson trike,
like all decked out. He swapped a ton of parts, all
this stuff. He was out cruising around on
that and I don't remember if he said he hit a deer.
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I think, I think he hit a deer or had to avoid one or swerved
or whatever. And he actually went over in the
ditch and it was like it was a big, big, big deal.
And had he not had safety gear on, a helmet on probably
wouldn't wouldn't have been a good result.
So motorcycles are crazy. Like he also was an RN in an
emergency room and he said he has seen some crazy accidents of
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people that were too cool to wear helmets and brains coming
out of their ears. Their eyes popped out, skulls
half deformed like. Not worth it.
Not worth it. And I, back in my younger years,
I had a crotch rocket. And there'd be days where we
were just going to like, oh, we're just going to zip around
town, go downtown, go to the beach, whatever.
We just, you know, leave the helmets behind.
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We thought we were cool. Throw our sunglasses on and, you
know, pick up the chicks, whatever.
Not worth. It not worth it.
Remember the first time I went snowboarding I was like, man,
I'm too cool to wear a helmet. I'm not going to snowboard with
a helmet on. I'm just going to wear my hat
and look like I know what I'm doing after I busted my ass
enough times, hit the my head really hard on a hot, hard patch
of ice and like was hurting for a good while.
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I'm OK. Helmets coming on.
I'm not too cool to wear a helmet.
I ain't, I ain't, I ain't down with this.
Yeah. Safety.
Being safe is cool being safe. Cool safety equipment.
Nowadays they do. You can buy a pretty cool
looking helmet. You get a helmet with a Mohawk
on it, Yeah, you know. Absolutely.
You throw some stickers on thereand decals and.
And it's like, not even what youdo.
Like I thought about getting a motorcycle just from here to the
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house because it's like 10 minutes away and I could just
Country Rd. super low traffic. I mean, it would be a pretty
drive to do in a motorcycle. I thought about getting the bike
for that. So I'm not driving my big truck
to and fro every day. But it's like you, you have to
worry more so about the people. Now that's worse.
Than your own. Yeah.
I mean, like everybody's lookingat their phone while they're
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driving now. And if you're on a motorcycle
and you're looking at your phoneor somebody just driving and
looking at their phone and they like get over in your lane and
take you out like you're out, you're out.
I mean, they can look real quickand you might be positioned
right behind the the A column oftheir window and then they don't
look again. And then, yeah, I mean, you're a
smaller thing, smaller object toC from a distance.
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And you know, you got sand on the roads, you got grass
clippings on the road, all that kind of stuff.
And I'm not for total risk aversion.
Like I think risk is good. I think men need risk in life.
I feel like you need to have a battle to fight.
That's why I go hunting off the grid.
I mean, there's risk involved inthat.
But like there's a pretty big payout too, you know, like I get
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a lot of meat that I can put in the freezer.
I, you know, have moment of solitude out in the woods, out
in pristine nature where I can do something that has risk.
But the payout is very grand as well.
But like speeding around, breaking laws, driving without a
helmet, like there's not really any payout at the end of that,
you know? So not really worth it in my
opinion. I remember one night, well, I, I
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lived with a buddy at the time and he bought a crotch rocket,
you know, a sport bike. And I was like, oh man, he's
going to be cruising around on this all summer.
I need to go get 1. So I went down and got one.
Then my other friend went down and got 1.
So there's a group of us that all went and got sport bikes and
I had my, don't think I had the actual motorcycle endorsement on
my driver's license yet. So you have to get further
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credentialed in order to ride atnight, ride with the passenger,
all these different regulations.I didn't have any of that.
We're cruising around in the middle of the night with
passengers without helmets, justbeing dorks.
And we had to outrun or I had tooutrun the police.
And I'm thinking, holy cow, thisis not how I envisioned my
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youth, like breaking laws. Oh, yeah, you, you had to stay
off the highways. That was another thing too.
You had to stay on only side streets.
Speed limit of 30 or 45 or whatever it was.
Here we are zipping down the highway going 60 with
passengers, no helmet at night. And you're trying to evade the
police. Officer Yeah, we, we did.
We had to zip, like we had to cruise through the middle of all
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the residential areas and zigzagup and around all these blocks,
and pretty soon there's more than one squad car running
around and we're like, throw them in the garage and went to
bed like, no more, Yeah. That's not good.
Tell you what though. And that happened to my brother.
Like I was dealing with all the stress of getting ready to go
for the weekend, getting stuff done with the the business
before I buttons up shop. Like when that happened, like
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instantly you know where your priorities are.
Oh yeah. And like, what's actually
important in life? Everything else can go back
burner. Yeah, everything else can go
back burner, and I feel like it.It's unfortunate that it takes
something severe like that to just recenter you, but it's
crazy, man. Like people spend so much time
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on things that don't matter. Or maybe they do matter, but
they spend so much time on things without ever thinking in
the context of what does truly matter.
But when you're reminded of it, it's like, man, let me let me
give that the attention it's duefor sure.
You take a step back for a minute.
Take a step back for a minute. All right, that's a wrap.
So we got Glizzy Dizzy Glazed Donut Tallow launching Sunday
(36:31):
the 19th at 12 noon Central. That's the big news on the
pipeline. And then we'll leave it at that
for this podcast. We got some other stuff to talk
about, but we'll save that for the next recording.
Stick around, stick around. For the next one, Toodaloo.
Adios.
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