August 21, 2025 • 23 mins
Ever found yourself stuck at a rest stop, staring at rows of fast food options and wondering if there's any hope for your nutrition goals? Fear not! This episode tackles the eternal challenge of eating well while traveling.
We dive deep into practical strategies anyone can use on the road. From the magic of pre-portioned nut packs to the underrated power of dried fruit (dried pears might just change your life), we share our go-to solutions that are affordable, convenient, and genuinely satisfying. Want to know which cuisines offer the healthiest restaurant options when you're away from home? We've got you covered with surprising insights about Mexican food (yes, salsa absolutely counts as a vegetable serving) and why Greek/Mediterranean tops our list.
The conversation takes some fascinating turns as we explore emerging food innovations like cricket flour protein and Japan's fiber-enhanced Diet Coke. Could these be the future of nutrition? We sample some unconventional options so you don't have to—though our $30 Japanese Diet Coke experiment might have been a bit extreme even for us.
Most importantly, we emphasize the balance that makes healthy eating sustainable, especially during travel. You don't need to finish that entire donut if you're satisfied halfway through. You can enjoy your road trip treats while still making choices that support your health goals.
Whether you're planning a cross-country adventure or just looking for better options during your daily commute, this episode delivers practical wisdom wrapped in our signature laid-back conversation. Hit subscribe and join us for more nutrition insights that actually fit into real life!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another late night episode of In
Moderation Episode.
I don't care, I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
In Moderation After Dark.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It takes forever for Liam to get Oakley to sleep.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh, yeah, I feel like our podcast, though, is kind of
in this nice situation whereit's already after dark, like no
matter what time we talk, it'susually the topics we bring up
are pretty much the ones that welearn to talk about after dark,
so our after dark episodes getus fined by whichever company,
whichever governing bodymonitors podcasts.
(00:34):
Wait, hold on a second, I don'tthink there's anything like
that.
You just do whatever you want.
This is why podcasts are such aproblem and why you shouldn't
give it to white people, whitemen too often.
Bad things, bad things happenat this point.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We could just go get ai to do it for us.
We'll just make her have you?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
oh, come on.
Have you seen the ai babypodcast?
No, actually oh, come on, bro,come on, okay.
So there's a everybody,everybody's listening yes,
everyone listening is like oh,I've seen this.
How has rob not seen this?
It's, there's um a podcastwhere they literally use ai to
make a baby talk to its dog,like, and the dog is talking
(01:12):
back, and they're both kind oftalking about how like their
experiences as a baby or a dogand it's fantastic, like
somebody wrote it.
And then you know they just useai for me to make this ai baby
and dog.
It's so I'm going to send it toyou.
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh, and it's doing so well.
It's funny.
It's like a regular podcastBoring.
I want to see a baby talk to adog.
They're both talking about likeshitting in the house.
It's great, man, I'm sayingit's so good.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, that's fantastic, like it's a whole running
series, I mean, I feel likethat's something that we'll end
up talking about at some pointis shitting in the house.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Uh, eventually, yeah, I mean, we all get there, right
?
You poop in the house at thebeginning and at the end that's
what happens, and the end itcomes sooner for a lot of you
never know, right knock on woodanyway.
Well, if I sound weird, it'sbecause I'm literally on my
phone because I was going to govisit my family this weekend in
New York, but then Oakley got acold virus and couldn't go to
(02:13):
daycare and so we're like, allright, we're just going.
So we just got in our car andwe just drove.
We just drove like eight hours,got to Utica at like midnight,
slept for a few hours, got backup, got to albany, saw the
family did things.
Now I'm here.
So, yeah, I wanted.
(02:33):
So I what I want to talk aboutis, uh, because we always get
asked about like eating healthyon the road.
We've talked about this before,but we've also done 8 000
episodes by this point point.
So, like who remembers anything?
I don't, so I feel like peopleneed a reminder of this.
Anyway, you know what I'mtalking about.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
One of the episode options was we were going to
reminisce about our favoriteepisodes and then we were both
like we don't remember anything.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I remember definitely certain parts, especially with
Mike.
Mike slash needs a plan likethat.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, it's hard not to remember parts with Mike
because Mike's been on 20,000episodes.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He's been on a few of them and he's always just kind
of unhinged and that's what'sfun about it.
But so you didn't like here,here, you know what I did.
So like we're like.
We're like OK, we just got togo Right.
So I had like no real planning.
I was like, ok, we just got togo Right.
So I had like no real planning.
I was like, ok, what can Ibring?
So I just got like a cooler,didn't throw an ice pack in it.
(03:29):
Why do I need the cooler?
I don't know, but that's what Iwas carrying stuff in, who
cares?
I threw I had a bunch of apples.
I was like, ok, I need to usethose up.
I had a bunch of avocados.
I was like, by the time I getback, those are just gonna be
bad, so I need to take thosewith me.
(03:49):
I threw some bananas in thereand, um, oh, bunch of uh peanut
packets, bro, like they gotthese, like at costco.
It's like different flavors.
They got like chili, lime andlike spicy ones and these
japanese style, like peanuts,and they're like, yeah, like 200
to 250 calories somewhere inthere.
You know, obviously like theselike seven, eight, nine grams
protein, whatever it is, andthey're really good.
Like those are just like such anice little because it's
(04:11):
already pre-portioned.
People say like oh, not so manycalories, and it's like all
right.
So I got my nut packs, I gotmultiple nut packs, so I'm all
set.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Don't be laughing at my nut packs my nut on the topic
of being on the road, as wellas reminiscing.
Actually, one of my favoritelife hacks was when we had Dr
Terry Simpson on and he talkedabout getting a bag of baby
carrots to munch on while you'redriving.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, the baby carrots.
That's right, that was a goodone Nutrition and helps keep you
awake.
And you know what?
No-transcript?
God damn, not nuts.
Get out of here, you stupidit's the internet.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You have to be correcting somebody oh, my god,
the um.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Actually it's just.
But now you know what?
I just leaned into it because,like I have to, and you know
what it's good it's.
All comments help the algorithmand are much appreciated, thank
you.
So you just gotta go with it.
Oh, and I you know what else Igot?
I grabbed a giant bag of driedmango.
There's like no sugar addeddried mango.
That's not this crack, it'scrack man.
(05:21):
It's so good, kroger, if youhave a kroger.
They just started selling, uh,these mixtures of it's just
dried fruit, but it's a bunch ofdifferent fruit.
It's pineapple, it's plums,it's like apples, I don't know.
I think there's apple.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, there's like that question mark.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, not apples, it wasn't apples, it was apricots.
But it also had pears and mywife and I have been fighting to
get the pear.
She just goes in there.
I come, I go into the kitchenand she's just got a bunch of
the pears out of there.
I'm like no, no, no, you can'tjust pick all the best ones out
of there.
I go in there.
Now all I have is fuckingprunes and apricots.
I'm like this isn't fair,that's.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's bullshit, yeah that's some bullshit.
You can't just pick the onething out of the bag.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Pears.
The pears are really good,though they are like they're the
best one in the pack.
I don't know Dried pear, whyare dried pears more of a thing?
I'm telling you go get yourselfsome dried pears.
At least the ones in this packwere like really good, and
there's again no sugar added, soit's like awesome.
It's just a fruit.
It makes it so easy.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I think people underestimate the power of dried
fruit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Dried fruit and fucking Oakley is just smashing
grapes and raisins.
She doesn't care how much waterare in these grapes.
There could be lots of water inthe grapes.
There could be no water inthese grapes and just be fucking
raisins.
She loves them either way andthose are great and they're
super cheap too.
I love that she loves raisinsbecause, like, they're a lot
cheaper than grapes and I canjust buy like for like two,
(06:43):
three bucks.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You have the people that are like um well, they're
dehydrated, so they don't havewater content, so they're higher
in caloric density, and it'slike, well, just have some water
drink something.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Hey, bro, have a glass of water, that's great.
Yeah, like it's, it's.
And plus, you can get theraisin packets.
That's what I give oakley, andshe sits in back in the back
with a little packet of raisinsand she smashes that shit like,
and you know, for her, like atthis age she's always wants the
welch's fruit snacks and, likeyou know, I'll give those to her
, but I try and get her to eatthe fruit, so like whenever
(07:19):
she's like hey, raisins, sure,don't eat as many as those.
We'll cut up an avocado, justput it in a bowl.
She'll just eat it with herhands.
I'm like, shit, that works,that's fine, whatever.
And then we stopped.
I think what cuisine would yousay is like the health is the
easiest to just like eat quoteunquote healthy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What cuisine?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, like you know, you got like Italian, you're
going to get like Chinese food,that sort of thing.
What would you pick?
What would you go with ifyou're like I'm trying to eat
healthy, so I'm going to pick?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
this cuisine.
Well, I mean, it's kind of acopout answer, but I would have
to say Greek.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Greek's good actually .
No, that's a good one.
You got like the differentvegetables.
They got like the Greek saladsand stuff like feta and tomatoes
and cucumbers and all that shit.
That's actually really good.
And they have like falafelsGreek right, it's Mediterranean,
falafel's kind of Mediterranean.
So I was like that's Greek, Ilike fal, I got, I think I also
(08:38):
got a burrito.
It's like oh yeah, there'sbeans and burrito too.
Perfect cheese, awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And hey, just be careful with the beans if you're
driving a long distance andyou're not used to the fiber and
you're not used to it, I canhandle it, no problem.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But like, yeah, people have people have issues
with that.
Was this big argument goingaround?
Um, you know, like tiktok aboutsalsa, salsa is 100 percent a
vegetable.
People are like salsa is notvegetable.
I'm like, excuse me, tell mewhat's in salsa right now, rob,
tell me what's in salsa, whatgoes in salsa um tomatoes,
(09:08):
tomatoes, and I've never made asalsa, so never made a salsa.
You can okay think about asalsa.
What?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I think what else does it have celery in it?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't think it's.
Usually it's like peppers andcilantro and like you know that
sort of stuff, right yeah?
So like a bunch of vegetablesit's literally a bunch of
vegetables like chopped up,pureeded up, whatever.
So how is it not a vegetable?
And like, so you know, like,hey, you get you.
(09:41):
Like, oh, sugar chips, whateverI got my, I got my side of
vegetables.
Right, guacamole, fuckingguacamole, just avocado.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Come on, mexican man, it's one of those cases where,
if we had each of the individualingredients, they'd be healthy,
but as soon as we combine them,people are like no, that's no
longer healthy.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'm like, okay, you had chips.
I get it.
Chips are in calories, but youstill get your vegetables, man.
So that's what I'm saying.
You go to like I got my dietsoda, because of course it was
Diet Pepsi.
Was I sad?
Of course I was sad, but yougot to roll with it, so at least
I had my diet soda.
And then, yeah, I have my sideof vegetables and salsa and
guacamole chips.
(10:21):
And yeah, I got like a beanburrito and that's.
You know, I like listen peoplegive shit, like I order the
vegetarian stuff.
It's also cheaper when I getlike just like a bean burrito
with like rice and beans andthen you know, know, like a side
of fajita, it's like 10 to like13, it's not bad at all.
I'm trying to think of what thatwould be in canadian.
(10:42):
Who knows, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Uh, it's 10 celsius yeah, about that, that sounds
about right and then, oh,afterwards, we stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
There was a caribbean uh, not restaurant like the
grocery store next door andoakland.
I went over and we got somelike little beads, like these
jamaican beads they're supercool.
And, um, sugar cane.
I bought sugar cane.
There was five dollars for likethis 12 foot sugar cane and
they're like we can cut it upand I was like that'd be very
nice.
That would make it a lot easieron me.
(11:10):
So I've got a whole bunch of thecar although I mean we have the
suv, I would have to like stuffit in like you do like, like
when you get planks from homedepot or whatever it's like all
the way up to your windshield.
It's fine.
But I would have done that shit.
I wouldn't even have that sugarcane.
It was like five dollars.
So, yeah, I have a bunch ofokay, and I remember when we
were in jamaica they would likechop it up and give it to you.
(11:31):
It was so good.
You just like nom on it.
It's just sweet, but it's like.
Of course it's sweet like it'ssugar cane, but it's got just
this slightly earthy thing to it.
That's so good, man, if you'venever had just like sugar cane
biting it off like you know thecane.
Whatever is good, that's good Ican't say I have totally worth
it and like, yeah, like theyimported it is, it's pretty
(11:52):
cheap I've had coca leaves rightoff the plant have you.
I've never done that.
I want drugs.
Oh, speaking of drugs, the bestdrug, the what's the best drug
in the world?
Rob caffeine caffeine, exactly.
Yeah, it doesn't affect you, wedon't care for everyone else,
it's the best drug in the world.
So, um, I load up on mycaffeine.
(12:14):
I love it, like Like when Iespecially you're we're driving
and like it's like nine and ahalf hours we're going to go.
So I definitely.
Oh, I was pissed, though I got.
I went to Starbucks and I got.
I was like I just wanted acoffee with milk.
I opened the ship.
There's no milk in there, itwas just a black coffee.
I was kind of mad about that.
(12:34):
But then we went to this co-ophere and we got some good coffee
.
So, yeah, coffee and caffeineand coffee have been shown to
help decrease the risk ofAlzheimer's and dementia and
shit.
Caffeine is just awesome.
10 out of 10.
If I was given, if there wasany drug that I would give a 10
out of 10 to, it's 100% caffeine, especially a long long card I
(12:58):
think most people are going toagree with that right.
I mean I know like there'salways guys.
You got here, you got yourcocaine fans, get your marijuana
fans.
Obviously different groups ofpeople typically, they don't
generally intertwine too much.
But me, I'm over here, I needmy caffeine.
You get in my Coke Zero too.
When they actually give youCoke Zero instead of Pepsi
(13:24):
no-transcript, where it's gotthe caffeine and it's got the
cocaine in it Just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Listen, I'm not saying I'm going to be a coke
head, but I would 100% drink anold school coke that had that
just little bit in it, wouldn'tyou?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I'm sure we could find some on the dark web.
You have to make it.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Can you make it yourself?
Do you just get we're going togive tips and shit?
Do you just get a little bit ofcocaine and add it to a Coke?
But like that's, it's not thesame, Like it's, are they doing
the same recipe?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Shit, I don't know.
We're talking about dark weband cocaine.
We are now officially on allthe government lists.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It's after dark.
We should have was after dark,so it's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We did say it was after dark.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And now we're starting about caffeine and
cocaine.
So it's fine, it's fine, Iwould totally drink one.
I want one.
So bad, that's got to be sogood.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It would be an experience, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I drink a few also.
But yeah, then we're here andlike what else do we get?
Because, like, once we get here, then we just kind of like have
to order out.
I like to go subs we went towhat was it Just now.
I like Jimmy John's, get thetuna man Tuna.
Give me all the veggies, giveme the jalapeno.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Give me the banana, peppers and spicy stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Tuna's a hack man.
Tuna hack Tuna.
Jack Skip Jack.
There's a joke Skip Jack Tuna,skip Jack Tuna Hack.
That's it.
That's one of the excuses.
Get your Skipjack tuna hack.
Oh man, I'm going to make myown brand of tuna.
It's called Skipjack tuna hackand it's going to be all protein
.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It would fly off the shelves.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, I make protein powder.
I make protein powder.
It's tuna powder.
No wait, never mind, that'sterrible, that sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Have you seen who started making all the protein
powders, as well as flour, withcrickets?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh, the cricket flour is cool, man, I've seen that I
never bought it.
So if anyone will listen,there's like the future, man,
the future is crickets, becausewe're not going to have cows and
pigs and shit, so we have to beeating crickets.
So there, pigs and shit, so wehave to be eating crickets.
So there's like these farmswhere they just have a ton, not
like a farm like you think ofnow, but like little farms
because the crickets are smaller.
(15:34):
What is this?
A farm for ants?
No, it's a farm for crickets.
So then you know like it'scrickets and they grind them up
and they turn them into a flowerand like I don't think you can
do like a one-to-one substitutefor like wheat flour, but like
supposedly you can take like aquarter of the flour or whatever
and use your, your cricketflour and it's like super high
(15:56):
protein, because what else arelike in crookets?
They're not like, they're notfatty animals, fatty insects,
whatever they are.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
They're pretty much pure protein.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So it's just protein, exactly.
And you just got your cricketflour.
I, I mean, boy, I feel likemarketing that to America is
going to be the challenge.
Yeah, that's kind of been, Ithink, the problem so far.
We just need to like revamp it,though, into more like a
protein thing.
We need to because, listen, jimBros will eat fucking dust if
(16:26):
you tell it's high in protein,you know, like sawdust or
whatever.
We just need to, we need tomarket it to them.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I think, starting off , gym bros will also dry scoop
pre-workout, if you give thembigger gains cricket, cricket.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
There's, I'm gonna have to come, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna have to workshop thecricket thing.
But like, yeah, I think that'swhere you start off with that.
But no, I haven't had any.
I haven't had any crickets orcricket powder.
I've kind of kept to the, youknow, more normal stuff like
sandwiches.
Oh, you know, I just got though.
Um, I ordered, uh, coke, dietcoke from japan, diet coke joke
(17:05):
from japan because, japan.
I'm gonna try it tomorrow somaybe when people listen to this
the video will be out.
But, like, I brought it with meto film while I'm here because
it's um diet coke but with a tonof fiber added to it.
That's basically all it isreally.
Yeah, and I was like dude, thatsounds awesome.
But you know how much I paidfor it, like 25.
(17:26):
It was like close to $30 forone, just for one, holy crap.
Yes, because they have toimport that shit and I was like
well, I'm not buying any morethan one I'll tell you that much
but I'll buy it to try it for avideo.
So we can maybe like convinceCoke to start producing it here
because, like all we pop andshit, listen all the people I
(17:54):
speak to, all the pop and shit,listen all the people I speak
about, all the pop and like allthat stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I'm like I'd like it, but like it's more expensive.
Can't coke just be like yeah,we also added some fiber to our
stuff.
Here you go.
It's hilarious, all the uh, theum, maha people convincing for
the.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What a cane sugar all this time they've been
convincing for fiber.
That would have been, that wouldhave been amazing honestly, if
you just take like even regularcoke and just added some like
some soluble fiber, that wouldbe better.
Because that's what they alwayssay like, oh, juice and soda
has no fiber, all right, well,we put fiber in there, is it
perfect?
No, but it's better than justswapping out those corn.
(18:25):
It's corn syrup for table sugar, which is almost the same thing
.
Yeah, exactly so I would love adiet, or, yeah, like to do Diet
Coke or Coke Zero, just addfiber to it.
Why don't we have that, likeOlipop and what's the other one?
Poppy are doing that shit andthey're charging like two, three
times the price.
(18:46):
Yeah, give me that fiber Coke,give me the Coke fiber.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Give me Coke with caffeine, cocaine and fiber.
All together.
I want all three.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I want my insides to fight it out and just see what
happens.
That's what I want.
Who's going to win?
Imagine someone who's not usedto fiber having a Coke that has
cocaine, caffeine and just fiber.
All together, I have to callout of work for two weeks.
Oh, that would be great though.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I wouldn't want to be near that bathroom.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh man, she just handed out at work.
Oh dude, I would pay to watchinstead of cameras.
We just handed it out at theoffice.
But yeah, other than that, justlike the simple shit, right,
like I got you know, grab thesimple shit, right, like I got
you know, grab your snacks andstuff like that.
You know you go to restaurants.
It's totally fine.
And also, you know what else wehad, fucking, my dad brought
(19:36):
some cinnamon rolls.
I just had some cinnamon rollsand I had it also picked up a
donut and I had some.
I didn't even finish it becauseit was like really sweet, it
was like a lot.
That's the thing.
Like you don't have to finishit, right, like I didn't eat the
whole donut just because it wasa lot.
It was just like really like itwas good, but it was just like
butter and sugar and I'm like Idon't know if I just want like
(19:57):
this whole entire donut, so Iate like half of it, but it was,
you know, delicious.
You don't have to force yourselfto finish it yeah, we really
have to get past that I feellike people need to be reminded
that, yeah, like you really needa reminder that like you don't
have to finish it, it's finelike I ate.
I ate like half and I was likethat was good, I'm good, I eat
the whole thing.
(20:17):
I probably, you know, it mightnot feel like as good.
I feel good now, like you havethe donut, so like it's totally
fine to have that stuff, andthen I just try and get my other
you know snacks and all thatstuff and my my diet fiber cokes
.
That's what's life's.
That's to pay your 30 fibercokes.
That's what life is all about.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's okay, next time I go to peru I'll bring you back
some coca leaves I mean, listen, I'm joking, but I'm not joking
.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'll give you my address I can't imagine like
just chewing on the leaf.
It's got to just be like alittle bit of like a stimulant
right, Just like that little bitof a just like.
Ok, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, they use it for when they're going up to higher
altitudes that you want it.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah right, because if you're like hiking and shit,
like you're going up and you'relike going all day, a little bit
of cocaine, just like thetiniest bit of cocaine, like not
like you know, you knowdistilled, and like you're doing
all that extra stuff, just chewjust you know living life,
chewing a little bit of theleaves.
Is it legal there?
Is it?
I mean like, do they like tryand get people to stop or are
(21:23):
they just like nah, this is justwhat we do, man.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
If you go, like we went to Rainbow Mountains and
they were just handing it out,it's like here have some coca
leaves.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's so cool, man.
Drugs are cool is basicallywhat I'm trying to say.
Caffeine, coca leaves, Listen,in moderation.
What we always say to you isdrugs in moderation.
I mean we say caffeine, youknow, limited to this many
milligrams or whatever.
So we are telling you to dodrugs in moderation.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean.
A lot of people forget thatcaffeine is a drug.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Exactly, and so as long as you do it in moderation,
it's not only, not only drugsare OK If women are.
Ok in certain instances, likecaffeine, drugs in moderation
are actually good for yourhealth.
We're a health podcast, right.
We talk about healthy thingsand helping people with that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It's after dark, anything goes.
Welcome to another late night episode of In
Moderation Episode.
I don't care, I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
In Moderation After Dark.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It takes forever for Liam to get Oakley to sleep.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh, yeah, I feel like our podcast, though, is kind of
in this nice situation whereit's already after dark, like no
matter what time we talk, it'susually the topics we bring up
are pretty much the ones that welearn to talk about after dark,
so our after dark episodes getus fined by whichever company,
whichever governing bodymonitors podcasts.
(00:34):
Wait, hold on a second, I don'tthink there's anything like
that.
You just do whatever you want.
This is why podcasts are such aproblem and why you shouldn't
give it to white people, whitemen too often.
Bad things, bad things happenat this point.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We could just go get ai to do it for us.
We'll just make her have you?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
oh, come on.
Have you seen the ai babypodcast?
No, actually oh, come on, bro,come on, okay.
So there's a everybody,everybody's listening yes,
everyone listening is like oh,I've seen this.
How has rob not seen this?
It's, there's um a podcastwhere they literally use ai to
make a baby talk to its dog,like, and the dog is talking
(01:12):
back, and they're both kind oftalking about how like their
experiences as a baby or a dogand it's fantastic, like
somebody wrote it.
And then you know they just useai for me to make this ai baby
and dog.
It's so I'm going to send it toyou.
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh, and it's doing so well.
It's funny.
It's like a regular podcastBoring.
I want to see a baby talk to adog.
They're both talking about likeshitting in the house.
It's great, man, I'm sayingit's so good.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, that's fantastic, like it's a whole running
series, I mean, I feel likethat's something that we'll end
up talking about at some pointis shitting in the house.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Uh, eventually, yeah, I mean, we all get there, right
?
You poop in the house at thebeginning and at the end that's
what happens, and the end itcomes sooner for a lot of you
never know, right knock on woodanyway.
Well, if I sound weird, it'sbecause I'm literally on my
phone because I was going to govisit my family this weekend in
New York, but then Oakley got acold virus and couldn't go to
(02:13):
daycare and so we're like, allright, we're just going.
So we just got in our car andwe just drove.
We just drove like eight hours,got to Utica at like midnight,
slept for a few hours, got backup, got to albany, saw the
family did things.
Now I'm here.
So, yeah, I wanted.
(02:33):
So I what I want to talk aboutis, uh, because we always get
asked about like eating healthyon the road.
We've talked about this before,but we've also done 8 000
episodes by this point point.
So, like who remembers anything?
I don't, so I feel like peopleneed a reminder of this.
Anyway, you know what I'mtalking about.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
One of the episode options was we were going to
reminisce about our favoriteepisodes and then we were both
like we don't remember anything.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I remember definitely certain parts, especially with
Mike.
Mike slash needs a plan likethat.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, it's hard not to remember parts with Mike
because Mike's been on 20,000episodes.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He's been on a few of them and he's always just kind
of unhinged and that's what'sfun about it.
But so you didn't like here,here, you know what I did.
So like we're like.
We're like OK, we just got togo Right.
So I had like no real planning.
I was like, ok, we just got togo Right.
So I had like no real planning.
I was like, ok, what can Ibring?
So I just got like a cooler,didn't throw an ice pack in it.
(03:29):
Why do I need the cooler?
I don't know, but that's what Iwas carrying stuff in, who
cares?
I threw I had a bunch of apples.
I was like, ok, I need to usethose up.
I had a bunch of avocados.
I was like, by the time I getback, those are just gonna be
bad, so I need to take thosewith me.
(03:49):
I threw some bananas in thereand, um, oh, bunch of uh peanut
packets, bro, like they gotthese, like at costco.
It's like different flavors.
They got like chili, lime andlike spicy ones and these
japanese style, like peanuts,and they're like, yeah, like 200
to 250 calories somewhere inthere.
You know, obviously like theselike seven, eight, nine grams
protein, whatever it is, andthey're really good.
Like those are just like such anice little because it's
(04:11):
already pre-portioned.
People say like oh, not so manycalories, and it's like all
right.
So I got my nut packs, I gotmultiple nut packs, so I'm all
set.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Don't be laughing at my nut packs my nut on the topic
of being on the road, as wellas reminiscing.
Actually, one of my favoritelife hacks was when we had Dr
Terry Simpson on and he talkedabout getting a bag of baby
carrots to munch on while you'redriving.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, the baby carrots.
That's right, that was a goodone Nutrition and helps keep you
awake.
And you know what?
No-transcript?
God damn, not nuts.
Get out of here, you stupidit's the internet.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You have to be correcting somebody oh, my god,
the um.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Actually it's just.
But now you know what?
I just leaned into it because,like I have to, and you know
what it's good it's.
All comments help the algorithmand are much appreciated, thank
you.
So you just gotta go with it.
Oh, and I you know what else Igot?
I grabbed a giant bag of driedmango.
There's like no sugar addeddried mango.
That's not this crack, it'scrack man.
(05:21):
It's so good, kroger, if youhave a kroger.
They just started selling, uh,these mixtures of it's just
dried fruit, but it's a bunch ofdifferent fruit.
It's pineapple, it's plums,it's like apples, I don't know.
I think there's apple.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, there's like that question mark.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, not apples, it wasn't apples, it was apricots.
But it also had pears and mywife and I have been fighting to
get the pear.
She just goes in there.
I come, I go into the kitchenand she's just got a bunch of
the pears out of there.
I'm like no, no, no, you can'tjust pick all the best ones out
of there.
I go in there.
Now all I have is fuckingprunes and apricots.
I'm like this isn't fair,that's.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's bullshit, yeah that's some bullshit.
You can't just pick the onething out of the bag.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Pears.
The pears are really good,though they are like they're the
best one in the pack.
I don't know Dried pear, whyare dried pears more of a thing?
I'm telling you go get yourselfsome dried pears.
At least the ones in this packwere like really good, and
there's again no sugar added, soit's like awesome.
It's just a fruit.
It makes it so easy.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I think people underestimate the power of dried
fruit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Dried fruit and fucking Oakley is just smashing
grapes and raisins.
She doesn't care how much waterare in these grapes.
There could be lots of water inthe grapes.
There could be no water inthese grapes and just be fucking
raisins.
She loves them either way andthose are great and they're
super cheap too.
I love that she loves raisinsbecause, like, they're a lot
cheaper than grapes and I canjust buy like for like two,
(06:43):
three bucks.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You have the people that are like um well, they're
dehydrated, so they don't havewater content, so they're higher
in caloric density, and it'slike, well, just have some water
drink something.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Hey, bro, have a glass of water, that's great.
Yeah, like it's, it's.
And plus, you can get theraisin packets.
That's what I give oakley, andshe sits in back in the back
with a little packet of raisinsand she smashes that shit like,
and you know, for her, like atthis age she's always wants the
welch's fruit snacks and, likeyou know, I'll give those to her
, but I try and get her to eatthe fruit, so like whenever
(07:19):
she's like hey, raisins, sure,don't eat as many as those.
We'll cut up an avocado, justput it in a bowl.
She'll just eat it with herhands.
I'm like, shit, that works,that's fine, whatever.
And then we stopped.
I think what cuisine would yousay is like the health is the
easiest to just like eat quoteunquote healthy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What cuisine?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, like you know, you got like Italian, you're
going to get like Chinese food,that sort of thing.
What would you pick?
What would you go with ifyou're like I'm trying to eat
healthy, so I'm going to pick?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
this cuisine.
Well, I mean, it's kind of acopout answer, but I would have
to say Greek.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Greek's good actually .
No, that's a good one.
You got like the differentvegetables.
They got like the Greek saladsand stuff like feta and tomatoes
and cucumbers and all that shit.
That's actually really good.
And they have like falafelsGreek right, it's Mediterranean,
falafel's kind of Mediterranean.
So I was like that's Greek, Ilike fal, I got, I think I also
(08:38):
got a burrito.
It's like oh yeah, there'sbeans and burrito too.
Perfect cheese, awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And hey, just be careful with the beans if you're
driving a long distance andyou're not used to the fiber and
you're not used to it, I canhandle it, no problem.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But like, yeah, people have people have issues
with that.
Was this big argument goingaround?
Um, you know, like tiktok aboutsalsa, salsa is 100 percent a
vegetable.
People are like salsa is notvegetable.
I'm like, excuse me, tell mewhat's in salsa right now, rob,
tell me what's in salsa, whatgoes in salsa um tomatoes,
(09:08):
tomatoes, and I've never made asalsa, so never made a salsa.
You can okay think about asalsa.
What?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I think what else does it have celery in it?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't think it's.
Usually it's like peppers andcilantro and like you know that
sort of stuff, right yeah?
So like a bunch of vegetablesit's literally a bunch of
vegetables like chopped up,pureeded up, whatever.
So how is it not a vegetable?
And like, so you know, like,hey, you get you.
(09:41):
Like, oh, sugar chips, whateverI got my, I got my side of
vegetables.
Right, guacamole, fuckingguacamole, just avocado.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Come on, mexican man, it's one of those cases where,
if we had each of the individualingredients, they'd be healthy,
but as soon as we combine them,people are like no, that's no
longer healthy.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'm like, okay, you had chips.
I get it.
Chips are in calories, but youstill get your vegetables, man.
So that's what I'm saying.
You go to like I got my dietsoda, because of course it was
Diet Pepsi.
Was I sad?
Of course I was sad, but yougot to roll with it, so at least
I had my diet soda.
And then, yeah, I have my sideof vegetables and salsa and
guacamole chips.
(10:21):
And yeah, I got like a beanburrito and that's.
You know, I like listen peoplegive shit, like I order the
vegetarian stuff.
It's also cheaper when I getlike just like a bean burrito
with like rice and beans andthen you know, know, like a side
of fajita, it's like 10 to like13, it's not bad at all.
I'm trying to think of what thatwould be in canadian.
(10:42):
Who knows, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Uh, it's 10 celsius yeah, about that, that sounds
about right and then, oh,afterwards, we stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
There was a caribbean uh, not restaurant like the
grocery store next door andoakland.
I went over and we got somelike little beads, like these
jamaican beads they're supercool.
And, um, sugar cane.
I bought sugar cane.
There was five dollars for likethis 12 foot sugar cane and
they're like we can cut it upand I was like that'd be very
nice.
That would make it a lot easieron me.
(11:10):
So I've got a whole bunch of thecar although I mean we have the
suv, I would have to like stuffit in like you do like, like
when you get planks from homedepot or whatever it's like all
the way up to your windshield.
It's fine.
But I would have done that shit.
I wouldn't even have that sugarcane.
It was like five dollars.
So, yeah, I have a bunch ofokay, and I remember when we
were in jamaica they would likechop it up and give it to you.
(11:31):
It was so good.
You just like nom on it.
It's just sweet, but it's like.
Of course it's sweet like it'ssugar cane, but it's got just
this slightly earthy thing to it.
That's so good, man, if you'venever had just like sugar cane
biting it off like you know thecane.
Whatever is good, that's good Ican't say I have totally worth
it and like, yeah, like theyimported it is, it's pretty
(11:52):
cheap I've had coca leaves rightoff the plant have you.
I've never done that.
I want drugs.
Oh, speaking of drugs, the bestdrug, the what's the best drug
in the world?
Rob caffeine caffeine, exactly.
Yeah, it doesn't affect you, wedon't care for everyone else,
it's the best drug in the world.
So, um, I load up on mycaffeine.
(12:14):
I love it, like Like when Iespecially you're we're driving
and like it's like nine and ahalf hours we're going to go.
So I definitely.
Oh, I was pissed, though I got.
I went to Starbucks and I got.
I was like I just wanted acoffee with milk.
I opened the ship.
There's no milk in there, itwas just a black coffee.
I was kind of mad about that.
(12:34):
But then we went to this co-ophere and we got some good coffee
.
So, yeah, coffee and caffeineand coffee have been shown to
help decrease the risk ofAlzheimer's and dementia and
shit.
Caffeine is just awesome.
10 out of 10.
If I was given, if there wasany drug that I would give a 10
out of 10 to, it's 100% caffeine, especially a long long card I
(12:58):
think most people are going toagree with that right.
I mean I know like there'salways guys.
You got here, you got yourcocaine fans, get your marijuana
fans.
Obviously different groups ofpeople typically, they don't
generally intertwine too much.
But me, I'm over here, I needmy caffeine.
You get in my Coke Zero too.
When they actually give youCoke Zero instead of Pepsi
(13:24):
no-transcript, where it's gotthe caffeine and it's got the
cocaine in it Just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Listen, I'm not saying I'm going to be a coke
head, but I would 100% drink anold school coke that had that
just little bit in it, wouldn'tyou?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I'm sure we could find some on the dark web.
You have to make it.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Can you make it yourself?
Do you just get we're going togive tips and shit?
Do you just get a little bit ofcocaine and add it to a Coke?
But like that's, it's not thesame, Like it's, are they doing
the same recipe?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Shit, I don't know.
We're talking about dark weband cocaine.
We are now officially on allthe government lists.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It's after dark.
We should have was after dark,so it's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We did say it was after dark.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And now we're starting about caffeine and
cocaine.
So it's fine, it's fine, Iwould totally drink one.
I want one.
So bad, that's got to be sogood.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It would be an experience, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I drink a few also.
But yeah, then we're here andlike what else do we get?
Because, like, once we get here, then we just kind of like have
to order out.
I like to go subs we went towhat was it Just now.
I like Jimmy John's, get thetuna man Tuna.
Give me all the veggies, giveme the jalapeno.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Give me the banana, peppers and spicy stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Tuna's a hack man.
Tuna hack Tuna.
Jack Skip Jack.
There's a joke Skip Jack Tuna,skip Jack Tuna Hack.
That's it.
That's one of the excuses.
Get your Skipjack tuna hack.
Oh man, I'm going to make myown brand of tuna.
It's called Skipjack tuna hackand it's going to be all protein
.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It would fly off the shelves.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know, I make protein powder.
I make protein powder.
It's tuna powder.
No wait, never mind, that'sterrible, that sounds awful.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Have you seen who started making all the protein
powders, as well as flour, withcrickets?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh, the cricket flour is cool, man, I've seen that I
never bought it.
So if anyone will listen,there's like the future, man,
the future is crickets, becausewe're not going to have cows and
pigs and shit, so we have to beeating crickets.
So there, pigs and shit, so wehave to be eating crickets.
So there's like these farmswhere they just have a ton, not
like a farm like you think ofnow, but like little farms
because the crickets are smaller.
(15:34):
What is this?
A farm for ants?
No, it's a farm for crickets.
So then you know like it'scrickets and they grind them up
and they turn them into a flowerand like I don't think you can
do like a one-to-one substitutefor like wheat flour, but like
supposedly you can take like aquarter of the flour or whatever
and use your, your cricketflour and it's like super high
(15:56):
protein, because what else arelike in crookets?
They're not like, they're notfatty animals, fatty insects,
whatever they are.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
They're pretty much pure protein.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So it's just protein, exactly.
And you just got your cricketflour.
I, I mean, boy, I feel likemarketing that to America is
going to be the challenge.
Yeah, that's kind of been, Ithink, the problem so far.
We just need to like revamp it,though, into more like a
protein thing.
We need to because, listen, jimBros will eat fucking dust if
(16:26):
you tell it's high in protein,you know, like sawdust or
whatever.
We just need to, we need tomarket it to them.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I think, starting off , gym bros will also dry scoop
pre-workout, if you give thembigger gains cricket, cricket.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
There's, I'm gonna have to come, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna have to workshop thecricket thing.
But like, yeah, I think that'swhere you start off with that.
But no, I haven't had any.
I haven't had any crickets orcricket powder.
I've kind of kept to the, youknow, more normal stuff like
sandwiches.
Oh, you know, I just got though.
Um, I ordered, uh, coke, dietcoke from japan, diet coke joke
(17:05):
from japan because, japan.
I'm gonna try it tomorrow somaybe when people listen to this
the video will be out.
But, like, I brought it with meto film while I'm here because
it's um diet coke but with a tonof fiber added to it.
That's basically all it isreally.
Yeah, and I was like dude, thatsounds awesome.
But you know how much I paidfor it, like 25.
(17:26):
It was like close to $30 forone, just for one, holy crap.
Yes, because they have toimport that shit and I was like
well, I'm not buying any morethan one I'll tell you that much
but I'll buy it to try it for avideo.
So we can maybe like convinceCoke to start producing it here
because, like all we pop andshit, listen all the people I
(17:54):
speak to, all the pop and shit,listen all the people I speak
about, all the pop and like allthat stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I'm like I'd like it, but like it's more expensive.
Can't coke just be like yeah,we also added some fiber to our
stuff.
Here you go.
It's hilarious, all the uh, theum, maha people convincing for
the.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
What a cane sugar all this time they've been
convincing for fiber.
That would have been, that wouldhave been amazing honestly, if
you just take like even regularcoke and just added some like
some soluble fiber, that wouldbe better.
Because that's what they alwayssay like, oh, juice and soda
has no fiber, all right, well,we put fiber in there, is it
perfect?
No, but it's better than justswapping out those corn.
(18:25):
It's corn syrup for table sugar, which is almost the same thing
.
Yeah, exactly so I would love adiet, or, yeah, like to do Diet
Coke or Coke Zero, just addfiber to it.
Why don't we have that, likeOlipop and what's the other one?
Poppy are doing that shit andthey're charging like two, three
times the price.
(18:46):
Yeah, give me that fiber Coke,give me the Coke fiber.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Give me Coke with caffeine, cocaine and fiber.
All together.
I want all three.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I want my insides to fight it out and just see what
happens.
That's what I want.
Who's going to win?
Imagine someone who's not usedto fiber having a Coke that has
cocaine, caffeine and just fiber.
All together, I have to callout of work for two weeks.
Oh, that would be great though.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I wouldn't want to be near that bathroom.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh man, she just handed out at work.
Oh dude, I would pay to watchinstead of cameras.
We just handed it out at theoffice.
But yeah, other than that, justlike the simple shit, right,
like I got you know, grab thesimple shit, right, like I got
you know, grab your snacks andstuff like that.
You know you go to restaurants.
It's totally fine.
And also, you know what else wehad, fucking, my dad brought
(19:36):
some cinnamon rolls.
I just had some cinnamon rollsand I had it also picked up a
donut and I had some.
I didn't even finish it becauseit was like really sweet, it
was like a lot.
That's the thing.
Like you don't have to finishit, right, like I didn't eat the
whole donut just because it wasa lot.
It was just like really like itwas good, but it was just like
butter and sugar and I'm like Idon't know if I just want like
(19:57):
this whole entire donut, so Iate like half of it, but it was,
you know, delicious.
You don't have to force yourselfto finish it yeah, we really
have to get past that I feellike people need to be reminded
that, yeah, like you really needa reminder that like you don't
have to finish it, it's finelike I ate.
I ate like half and I was likethat was good, I'm good, I eat
the whole thing.
(20:17):
I probably, you know, it mightnot feel like as good.
I feel good now, like you havethe donut, so like it's totally
fine to have that stuff, andthen I just try and get my other
you know snacks and all thatstuff and my my diet fiber cokes
.
That's what's life's.
That's to pay your 30 fibercokes.
That's what life is all about.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's okay, next time I go to peru I'll bring you back
some coca leaves I mean, listen, I'm joking, but I'm not joking
.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'll give you my address I can't imagine like
just chewing on the leaf.
It's got to just be like alittle bit of like a stimulant
right, Just like that little bitof a just like.
Ok, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, they use it for when they're going up to higher
altitudes that you want it.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah right, because if you're like hiking and shit,
like you're going up and you'relike going all day, a little bit
of cocaine, just like thetiniest bit of cocaine, like not
like you know, you knowdistilled, and like you're doing
all that extra stuff, just chewjust you know living life,
chewing a little bit of theleaves.
Is it legal there?
Is it?
I mean like, do they like tryand get people to stop or are
(21:23):
they just like nah, this is justwhat we do, man.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
If you go, like we went to Rainbow Mountains and
they were just handing it out,it's like here have some coca
leaves.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's so cool, man.
Drugs are cool is basicallywhat I'm trying to say.
Caffeine, coca leaves, Listen,in moderation.
What we always say to you isdrugs in moderation.
I mean we say caffeine, youknow, limited to this many
milligrams or whatever.
So we are telling you to dodrugs in moderation.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean.
A lot of people forget thatcaffeine is a drug.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Exactly, and so as long as you do it in moderation,
it's not only, not only drugsare OK If women are.
Ok in certain instances, likecaffeine, drugs in moderation
are actually good for yourhealth.
We're a health podcast, right.
We talk about healthy thingsand helping people with that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It's after dark, anything goes.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
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