From Club Scene to Clean Machine: Ryan Bradshaw's Journey

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Speaker 1 (00:14):
So I have amateur bodybuilder okay online fitness
coach and content creatorextraordinaire, ryan Bradshaw,
here at the RespectingPerspectives podcast at the
Watermelon Room in Baltimore,maryland.

(00:35):
Hey man, thanks for being here,dude.
Thank you I appreciate it.
It's awesome to have you here,man.
Tell the people a little bitwho you are.
You know, kind of dig a littlebit.
Let them know what you're doinghere and how you got here and
any information that might behelpful for them to understand

(00:56):
your journey.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, so I mean, we know each other, we're homies.
Yeah for sure.
Um, but the reason I'm on thispodcast is hopefully to give
people my perspective on mygrowth and kind of uh, where I'm
at, with how I can help theworld.
Uh, you know, I think everyonewakes up every single day kind

(01:21):
of, you know, wondering how theycan offer a better version of
themselves to society.
And ultimately, that's what'sbringing me here, cause I feel
like doing this kind of talkingabout my journey, talking about
just my endeavors and, um,getting people maybe generally
excited about their futurethrough my story, uh, I think

(01:42):
that's probably what brings mehere generally.
Um, so, yeah, I I would sayit's probably where I'm at yeah,
nice, yeah, I mean me and ryan.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Ryan and I have known each other a bunch of years and
I think we've both kind of wentthrough, uh, a few
transformations in that time andhe's going to get into a lot of
let's see here the history ofwhere he was in pre-fitness and

(02:21):
where he is now and all thethings that he has, um, you know
, going on.
So why don't you, why don't you, tell us a little bit about
some of your childhood, uh, and,and some of the inspirations
maybe, where you grew up and, uh, you know, give us some of the
things that that kind ofinspired you as, uh, as a kid?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
yeah, so so I would say, definitely being a kid is
like what I did.
As a kid gave me my biggestperspective on life and I feel
like I still hold to that Someof my biggest inspirations
growing up.
You know, back then it was justso different.

(03:04):
We didn't have access to a lot,so we kind of were spoon-fed
what society decided to give usright um, I was super into
cartoons.
Uh, you know, growing upwatching pokemon, dragon ball z,
um, all of the new cartoons.
Uh, you know seeing superjacked guys on, uh, dragon ball

(03:27):
z and just like hightestosterone.
Um, like video games, like callof duty, halo 3, halo 2, the
original halo, all those, uh,james bond and, like you know,
just like the multiplayer era ofgames was some of my biggest
inspirations.
I mean we had like WWE, like Iremember, you know, pay-per-view

(03:53):
was so fun I would go over andI'd like do pay-per-view with my
friend and we would just watchthese crazy fights and then we
would play the games after allnight and then eventually that
turned into computer games.
I played starcraft, war, worldof warcraft.
That's probably the mostinfluential game of my childhood
.
Um, and that kind of like issome of my biggest inspirations.

(04:19):
Next to like the music culturelike, while I was doing that I
was, you know, into the walkman,into um, mp3 downloading
limewire, you know the wholelike I.
I liked, basically I liked alot of alternative rock, like
lincoln park, nice, you know,papa roach stuff like that.

(04:42):
Um, and then I liked rap, Ithink.
Uh, eminem was probably myfirst rap album I ever bought.
Which one was it?
Um, I think it was aself-titled slim shit, the slim
shady album.
Yeah, it was my first likeuncensored record that my mom
was like I'm buying you a cussword album and I was just like,
oh, this is sick oh, dude,that's like, that's a, that's uh

(05:02):
, that's probably a monumentaltime yeah, I think I think I got
that.
I got a sum 41 album and then ablink 182 album.
Those three I bought thosethree I remember the same day.
They were my first three cussword cds.
Oh dude, so I still wish I hadthose, but uh where?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
where do you?
Did you get them from, like SamGoody or something?
Dude, I got them from.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh my gosh.
It was this place calledBabbage's which turned into like
electronics boutique, and thenI think that eventually became
like FYE for your entertainment.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
So that's where I would get the.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I know right, remember where, the places where
you could get CDs, that was athing and then you'd just be
like searching throughout theseed you could.
You could spend like hours,dude yeah, in places like that
it was it was cool um, that waslike, probably like that time
period.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I call that the montage time why so?
Because that's when we were.
It's kind of like music whenback in the 80s, when they were
getting into like drumprogramming and kits and like
learning equipment.
I feel like we were learning alot of visual equipment through
the like 90s and early 2000s,like commercials, like in, like

(06:18):
montages, like showing what ayou know like car commercial
style stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Right showing what a you know like car commercial
style stuff, right like just thenew way people cinematic and
shoot yeah, make people looklike a badass, you know, just
like yeah, and so showcasinglike the best of someone you
know what I mean, and that's,before social media, the
shiniest of something, or likethe, the, and I think it had a
lot to do with the angles, andnot just that, but the ambiance,
the atmosphere that it was in,exactly.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
And it was like an exploration period.
So, you either consumed it oryou kind of explored new, you
pioneered new ways of just likemedia.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, isn't it wild Like theage of media?
I, I guess.
So that's my biggest inspo's.
Um, I still feel like I try torepresent myself as that, uh,

(07:13):
being at the age that I am 33,um, I don't even feel 33,
honestly nice.
How old do you feel?
I feel 23, yeah, I feel 23,yeah, nice.
That's good to hear, you know,and that's really important
because it's like your, you knowyour, I feel 23.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, I feel 23.
Nice, that's good to hear andthat's really important because
it's like your body, I'm sure,and that's up and down.
You know different personally,different days I'll feel
different ways, you know.

(07:58):
But I do think that you know,as long as you try and keep your
mindset young, you know, andnot even just like your mindset,
half of our life was livedwithout a cell phone and then
most likely half of our lifewill be with the cell phone.
So we're kind of on that cuspand I think we're lucky to have

(08:21):
been able to have that timebefore, lucky to have been able
to have that time, you know,before.
So we, we did really get to seethe beginnings of most uh,
media, you know, other than likethe, the radio itself, but like
, yeah, when you knowcommercials, you know, think
about, like the budgets forcommercials, what they probably
used to be, and then now, dude,you got like super bowl

(08:42):
commercials that are likemillions of dollars For 30
seconds.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
For 30 seconds, dude.
I don't even know what it was.
Eight million Right.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
And that doesn't even count the money that they need
to spend to make the commercial.
Yeah, you know, but sorry tokind of go off on a side note
there, but um, other than likechildhood inspirations, let's
see here, um, I kind of want to,I kind of want you to to help

(09:11):
everybody know you know whatstarted your fitness journey and
um, what maybe prompted youknow you to to start making some
, some changes to to your bodyand your mind throughout
throughout that time yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
So I mean honestly, it's like so cut and dry, it's
uh, in a good way I so I feelgreat now.
When I was 23, I didn't feelgreat.
I was, um, in like a, you know,I was in like a club scene and
in like a a you know very of theentertainment scene and I, you

(09:48):
know, I DJed.
I had all my friends were DJsor band members or through club
events or did something of thatnature, and so obviously,
recreational drugs happened andI, my life was pretty consumed
with that.
So, you know, waking up, you,you know, going to bed at four,

(10:09):
waking up like to go to work thenext day, when I was that young
, uh, it still felt like crap,even though I was what they call
.
You know you're invincible inyour 20s, but I wasn't.
I, I acted like I was, but Ifelt like crap.
So I think COVID took a turn foreveryone, like everyone, you

(10:31):
know, did not think that thatwas going to happen and then
took maybe advantage of theopportunity or they did
something right.
They did something with theirlife and at the time, initially,
I just got out of a badrelationship and it kind of
forced me to one of likerecreate myself, okay, and I, I
got my door kicked in by thefeds.

(10:52):
I, you know, I I sold drugs andI, you were that pusher, I was,
I Pusher With a whole bunch ofother guys.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Now you're pushing me .

Speaker 2 (11:05):
We were doing it and I don't regret that time period.
I had a great time.
I definitely burnt tons ofbridges, which I regret, but I
think that is the defining point.
And, like throughout my wholelife, I always wanted I always,

(11:26):
you know, kids are so influencedwhen they're young.
I understand that now, um, Ialways wanted to like people,
please, or like share withpeople, or, like you know, just
just be accepted or feel like Iwas doing something, benefiting,
like, like benefiting the group, benefiting society, right,
yeah and um, I wasn't reallydoing that.
In the scene that I was in,there was a time period I

(11:47):
remember I didn't even reallylike the like music that I kept
going to force myself to listento, and I was like, oh man.
And then, like, I started, youknow, an e-commerce business
that did that, did great,towards the end of the
relationship I'd gotten out of.
And then the woman I was withwas like you're spending too
much time doing this.
I was like, oh man, like youknow, I do have an addictive
personality, but at least it'snot drugs.

(12:11):
Like I got to just force it out.
So I knew that was thebeginning of the end.
And with COVID, you know, Itook the good stuff from my
partying days which was kind ofexpanding my mind and and I was
like you know what I need to dothis with my body?
I need to.
You know, I I kind of was alittle kid Love that.

(12:32):
Um, saying to myself I alwaysI'm going to be jacked one day.
I was like I'm going to befucking shredded to the gills
ripped.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Gonna do it now it's not the time, I don't care.
You know I'll get by through mylife just being goofy and being
charismatic.
So that was always in the backof your, your mind.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh yeah, like I had a friend in high school who um
won like mr maryland body, youknow I mean yeah, I still talk
to him here and there.
He does not lift anymore,unfortunately, but um, he he was
a full-fledged bodybuilder likehardcore, loved arnold, you
know all love beforebodybuilding was as big as today

(13:11):
, you know, because it didn'thave the spotlight on it like
social media gives it right, andso I knew one day I was like,
and so I knew what bodybuildingwas the whole time like I just
knew the ins and outs to anextent, just because I had a
friend who did it uh-huh, so, um, but I didn't know like how to
work out like one or anything.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
So I was just like I'm gonna get jacked but I'm
gonna figure it out.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
So I feel like this begins with every guy.
They begin with uh, I justwanted to get abs in in 90
minutes and they realize that'slike a snake oil it's never,
never going to happen.
And then it goes down this justlike they're.
You know, you know me, fiveyears in the making of really
working out hardcore and butstarting out with no goal.
When you start out with no goal, you, you literally can get

(13:56):
sold anything like drink waterat 11 AM and you'll get jacked
Like right, just just right,just just, it's insane.
So wait, then the whole 90minute ab thing like what?
What?
I did those?
I was at co coven.
I was in my room doing like youknow, shout out to brent and
scotty uh, they we did, we did apush-up challenge and and they
will hold it to.

(14:16):
And I let them tell the story.
They're like yeah, we, I gotryan into bodybuilding, we
started a push-up challenge andhe just took off so it was
around the same time period, butit was a candle that was
burning in my.
You know, it was a burningdesire of mine for a long time.
And um, and ironically, rightwhen covid happened, I got in a

(14:36):
jet ski accident and broke myleg.
I literally text my buddy whowas a power lifter and, uh, the
day before kid, I grew up withchris chu and, um, I was gonna
just pay him to show me thebasics.
Yeah, because I didn't evenknow.
I was like, okay, well, if Idon't have a goal, I need to at
least learn how to squat right,bench and deadlift.

(14:59):
There, you know, and I knewthat that was a thing, okay
that's what we learned in highschool.
So I was like I'll begin there,okay, and boom broke.
My leg went into another likedepressing hole of.
Like holy crap, I was gonnawork out and like really start
this journey.
And then now I'm back on my assplaying world of warcraft.

(15:20):
Um, during covid sidetrackedagain, sidetracked again,
sidetracked again, and I waslike screw it.
I got some time Played World ofWarcraft with a bunch of people
.
I had a great time.
And then something clickedwhere I achieved all my goals in
a video game and I was like Ineed to gamify my life.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, I like that way to say it Gamify my life.
I love that.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
And I was like I'm so good at this game and there's
so many little metrics that thisgame encompasses.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
that's just real life .

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Like money, health, just everything, resources.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Well, I think the coolest thing, about a video
game.
You know like they, they havelike I forget what it's called
exactly, but where they have allthose little.
You know the, the metrics oflike, or let's just say like
with a car.
You know it has, like the speeditself, or like the um, um.
You know the uh, what's itcalled?

(16:21):
Um the endurance.
You know there's all thosedifferent different aspects.
Stamina man yeah all the, all,the, yeah, yeah, all those
things, and you're like, okay,how can I get all of them to be,
as, as you know, as full aspossible?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
exactly right and so, like I was, you know, something
is a.
When something becomes a wasteof time, it's when it feels like
it's a waste of time you knowwhat I mean.
You could be like, oh, you'rewasting your time, but you could
be having literal the time ofyour life.
Right, like that is not a wasteof my time, right for sure.
And video games did that for me, became a waste of time.
I realized there was so muchmore I could do.

(16:58):
Um, you know, there are so manymissed opportunities I missed.
I was spending bitcoin on drugsmissed that one.
Uh, I did great on the dropshipping e-commerce thing and
kind of ended it just because Igot out of relationship and
covid basically china shut downtheir manufacturing, so I
couldn't.
So I just took the time toinvest in myself and, um, when I

(17:21):
, I'm competitive as crap.
So I was like, oh my gosh, thisis like a never-ending me
versus me battle.
I love working out.
So I found just this crazy lovefor it.
I felt like you know, whenyou're like so broke that you're
just like willing to doanything for money.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
You don't care, you're shameless bro.
I think we've all been there atsome point and so like that's
how I felt in the gym.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
I was like I got no muscles, like I'm just gonna get
in there and like just beat itup.
You know what I mean?
yeah, and so that is literallywhy I say it's eat sleep
intensity, not eat sleep andtrain, because if it was eat
sleep and train, I'd be readinga book while I was right right
sleep intensity yeah, becausemuscle growth is just getting

(18:14):
your muscles to a point wheregrowth can occur and then
getting the heck out of the gym,eating, sleeping, getting on
with your life and recoveringand being living a stress-free
life.
So, and when I started out withno goals, like directionless,
so like so you didn't have likea mentor or something and I
didn't even know that.
That's how it worked, I thoughtyou know, the more reps you did

(18:36):
, the better right and then nowI'm over here doing like two
sets per per like like movement.
You know, like uh-huh dumbbellflies.
Maybe I'll do like a set tobegin with, but then just two
intense sets.
Gotcha right, gotcha um.
And that's just because studiesand what like, uh, what has
come out and just.

(18:56):
But I still do believe you gotto look at the old people that
said it.
You know arnold lou ferrigno,the guy who played the hulk back
in the day, like.
You know lee priest, all thesecrazy.
You know dorian yates, allthese people that invented all
these.
You know different types ofmovements and had crazy
physiques.
Like if they did it back thenwithout the the science we have

(19:18):
today, it was intensity, right.
So right.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I guess if you look, if you were to pay attention to
it in a particular way, I'm sureyou could describe it in a few
different ways, but that makes alot of sense though, and so,
like no goals, I got injured and, in the gym and just doing like
you know, dealt flies orsomething's really.
Wait, you got injured in thegym.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, just being in the gym and not having a
personal trainer and just likeyou know, slamming your body
around.
Um in like, in your late 20s,you're like well, this is the
time to do it, to slam your bodyaround, but also I don't know
what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, and um, when let me ask you this when you
would have these injuries, likewould it be something that you
would feel, like instantly, likeit would happen, or like would
it be something that you wouldlike, over time, start to to
feel, oh my gosh both, both,yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
So like I I got to a point where my my tendons felt
so weak but my muscles were kindof strong, so like when I would
do, like you know, curls, uh,and it's just over.
It was over working out my bodyokay, where my tendons were
kind of like just just sore.
Yeah, so that's like thelong-term effect of just not
training properly, and then, uh,some of the instant injuries

(20:32):
would be like doing the legpress wrong or like doing uh
something too far of like arange of motion to where gotcha
and uh, yeah, I've literally hadto walk out of the gym and like
, whoop, that's it, I hurt myleg.
You know what I mean, right?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
so were there.
Did you ever get any injurieslike that where you were like,
yeah, like this is, this is notworking out, like this is this.
Is that maybe like stopped youfrom from working out for any uh
particular uh amount of time oranything?

Speaker 2 (21:03):
well, when I got back on my feet from getting injured
I recontacted my buddy and Idid the squat bench deadlift
with my both my boy, uh, thoseare like some of the first
videos I have of me like liftingany weight at all, gotcha and
um.
After when I did that I kind ofwas coming out of a hurt leg,

(21:25):
so I knew what uh pting a injuryfelt like, I guess you know
like internally yeah, I knewwhat.
So um the injuries, they wouldalways come unexpected, but it
never was like, uh, oh, I'mimmediately stopping
bodybuilding.
It was just a crap.
Now I can't do my favorite thingit's like if it rained every
day and you were a skateboard,like you skateboarded like you

(21:49):
can't go out there insidesomewhere yeah, you're gonna
figure out a different way tosomehow get better, of course,
and if there's a couple hours ofno rain, you're you know, you
might still go out let me askyou this you know, when it comes
to that, that early mindset,you know what were some of, uh,
the goals.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
You know that you had , um, and did you have like a, a
particular like physique thatyou wanted, um, did you have
like a particular amount of timethat you wanted to, uh, you
know, spend in the gym and thenlike, maybe kind of give me some
like short term, you know, andlong term maybe, then goals and

(22:26):
even like some goals that youhave, you know now yeah, yeah,
no, that was good.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I um yeah, like when I finally was like, okay, um, I
I'm getting into, I want to bejacked.
I don't know how I'm gonna getthere.
That's the goal.
Somehow I don't even know like,what type of jack that I want
to get.
I didn't know that, like youknow, lower body fat meant that
you might not be as strong atthat moment and that your body's

(22:50):
always changing.
So, like, right, you know,everything's temporary, you
can't just be jacked forever orwhatever.
So when I dialed in kind ofyeah, I'm gonna get jacked, I
don't know how, um, I wasalready past the, I got into
fitness for to get rid of myaddiction and depression phase,
like that I had already likeyeah, that's something that we

(23:11):
didn't even really.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I mean, we touched on it a little bit, but yeah, I
think that's a really good pointto make.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
I mean, you know, falling out of a relationship
that I was in, that I really youknow the person that I was with
I cared about a lot, um, and Ididn't see the damage I did till
it was already you know,walking away, gotcha and um
between that and losing friendsand then a world crisis, that
kind of changes up.

(23:41):
Um and I was, I was, you know,doing drugs like every day.
Yeah, like club drugs and juststaying up and doing parties,
just just being a degenerate,like going and dropping two
grand at horseshoe casino on amonday right uh, and going to
the bathroom and just like doingcocaine and drinking yeah, and
like, yeah, just being crazy.

(24:02):
So, overcoming that addictionand depression, that kind of
showed me that I can go into thegym and if I'm not feeling good
that day, there's a place I cango and kind of just like
physically exert some force andthat I feel like is important to
people Right.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's my.
It's like me with the studio.
100%.
It's like someone was like Ifeel like it's important to
people Right.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Um, that's my it's like me with with the studio,
100%.
It's like someone was like Ifeel like it's like some people
like diary or they like writeout their emotions or whatever,
Like, um, I like just putting onsome good music and like, or
you know, they say, like peoplewalk around, they go on a walk
and throw some weight around.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, I think it has to do with your outlet, right?
I think everybody needs anoutlet, and it's hard to find
that outlet that really helpsyou grow.
At the same time, I feel likethere are some outlets that only

(25:05):
allow you to, like, get thingsout, but, like with what you're
speaking about, like you know,you're also able to, like you
know, build something inside,like at the same time.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, and so, like that's what led me down the road
to like understanding how tobuild a physique.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
And then, with social media, I just started following
people that I was like I likethe way they look, I'm gonna
follow them yeah, how, um, uh,important was social media, um
itself to, to what you that thatbeginning, uh, phase there and
like was it like what?

(25:43):
What was what was big?
Was it just facebook or waslike was it like what was big?
Was it just Facebook or waslike Instagram?
You know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
I deleted my Facebook around COVID because I thought
it was boring.
I don't know why I was gettingso much spam and it was like I
don't know, I just didn't likeit.
So Instagram is, I would justdoom scroll on Instagram and I
didn't download TikTok.
I was kind of late on that game, um, but I used instagram.
I just consumed so much of it,um, you know, following models,

(26:14):
liking music, just like whatevera bro would use like instagram
for yeah um, but it wasn't until, like I followed fitness people
that I realized like there wasthis big world of like content
creation.
Honestly, right like, like I didbecause I like knew music and I
knew, just, you know, raving,yeah, and jam bands and the

(26:36):
festival scene and kind of allof the things that encompass
that.
Um, and I understood contentcreation.
You hop on on YouTube, you seeeverything, right, yeah, but
there wasn't like an inspiringsector of which I was like, oh
wow, this is interesting, gotcha, and a bunch of people are
displaying their physiques, andso I instantly knew that I was

(26:58):
like, all right, pulling it outof the backlogs.
Young Ryan wanted you know, I'mpulling that ticket for young
Ryan.
Right.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
We're getting jacked.
We are becoming a bodybuilder,and so there was just like a
switch, that just kind of.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, I like ordered bodybuilding clothes that you
know looked horrible on me.
Whatever.
I followed every bodybuilderman, female.
I like watched Pumping Iron,learned I was texting people
that I even knew touched aweight and was like what
supplements do you like?
I was just on all ends, justlike getting.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
You were firing off on all, firing on all ends in
the fitness industry.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
I made it my whole personality, which was
interesting, cause I didn't evenhave like a physique.
So I feel like that's.
I respect that, becauseeveryone comes from different
angles when they're into stuff,like some people I know they're
they be.
They're like I'm a bodybuildernow and they do a show in like
two months.
I'm five years bodybuilding.
I've like well, three and ahalf really dialed in like a

(28:05):
bodybuilder Five just liftingweights to become jacked.
Okay, I haven't even done ashow yet but that's not the plan
.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is that something you plan on doing?

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, for sure I was going to do it this spring, but
I think I'm pushing it.
The urge to always want to bebigger, yeah, and I stay pretty
lean and I kind of with contentcreation, I like to keep the
content creator body.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah for sure.
So you know, it just works forwhat I'm doing right now.
Gotcha.
As far as goals, let's see herewhat are maybe some of the yeah
, some other, maybe likelong-term you know, goals that
you kind of see yourself eitherlike wanting to achieve or
hoping to achieve.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
So I mean, dude, 200 pounds lean and shredded.
I'm trying to do that there yougo.
I think I'm at like almost 180.
I'm at like 176.
If I eat some food I'll weigh alittle bit more.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
That's how much you weigh right now.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, Like after a poop just with my boxers on in
the morning fasted.
I'm 176.
Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Now let me ask you this how important is I?
I knew there was a point in mylife where I really focused on
my weight, you know, and and, uh, it was at one point, uh, a
downfall for me because, like Ihad to be, you know, at, like

(29:37):
that, that particular, um, youknow, uh, size, uh, do you have
any?
Maybe a feedback, or like,maybe some challenges, you know,
that came along with with that.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
The weight on the scale, it doesn't matter because
like you could weigh 190 pounds, workout for three months and
still, at the end of it, weigh190, but you converted that fat
into some muscle, or you knowwhat I mean.
So there are recompositionphases like your body will go
through.
Through.
Like I'm not someone who'sgoing through recomposition
phase because I work out all thetime.
I've already done it, yeah,you've already gotten past that,

(30:14):
yeah, but I understand, like,how much you weigh depends, you
know, it's all in conjunctionwith how tall you are, okay, and
how much body fat you have.
And if you're like man I gotaway under 165, or else I, you
know, you could be thirsty, youcould be dehydrated.
You got to drink some water,like you know.
Or you, you know, you eat a lotof salty foods the day before

(30:36):
and you're holding more waterthan usual because of the sodium
or whatever it is.
Um the body weight, itshouldn't matter.
Like from a day to day, youshouldn't get upset from day to
day.
But from week to week or monthto month.
If you're trying to trend andI'm trying to gain weight or
lose weight, that's going tomatter, of course.
You can gain and lose around ahalf a pound of weight a week,

(30:57):
depending up or down.
Gotcha, I would say, that'slike safe, that's like your safe
way of doing it.
Gotcha, safe, that's like yoursafe way of doing it gotcha.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
So so when you say, um, let's see here, let's get
back to maybe some of thoseother what or maybe some other
goals that you have other than,like you said, 200 um, yeah,
like I mean, dude, I got crazygoals, dude, I shoot for the
stars, nice.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Um, so I mean you, if you want to hear the crazy
goals yeah, let's hear it.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I mean, what have you got?
I want to.
I want to help you, you know,realistic happen so, so
realistic goals.
I mean, obviously I want tohear the crazy goals.
Yeah, let's hear it.
I mean what?

Speaker 2 (31:27):
have you got?
I want to, I want to help you.
You know, realistic happen.
So, so realistic goals.
I mean, obviously I want to domy first bodybuilding
competition, I don't care whereI'll place.
Uh, I mean, I know I havedecent posing, I'll do men's
physique.
That's the category.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, that's just how many different categories are
there?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
there's men's physique.
There's classic whichencompasses like arnold's, look
like the the old school lookokay and then, uh, open
bodybuilding, which is, like youknow, the biggest.
Okay, just anyone.
And then there, well, there'slike a 212 division where you
got to be 212 max weight.
No, it's for shorter people likeliterally just shorter guys, um

(32:02):
, which those guys?
I've seen guys go into openfrom there and still do as great
.
So size doesn't matter becauseit all comes into, like how
you're, the package you bringthat day, your conditioning, how
you look.
Yeah, there's a whole, a lot offactors so.
But so doing a show, that'spretty easy.
It's just a goal that I canjust.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I know eventually I'll do um, but what's the
timeline on something like thatwithin?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
within a year.
Yeah, yes but I've been focusedon my content and just I want to
just build a.
You know, I like teachingpeople how to work out, yeah,
and I like to do it in amotivational way and I like to
add comedy, because that's whereI came from before, before any
muscles, you know, any lick ofconfidence I ever had, it was

(32:49):
because I was like funny andcharismatic, close, close, clown
.
So I've just been building myplatform to hopefully attract
young men and hey, if there'slike the, the two women that
enjoy my content out there,that's great.
Yeah, but it's really just toattract where I came from.
So I want to I feel like I putmyself in that mold young men to

(33:10):
, um, figure out what they wantto do in life.
Nice, like, straight up, likethat's it, like I and I think
going uh to the gym and justdoing general fitness and having
a goal in that fitness,understanding that you're not
just happy lifting weights forfun, like you know, you're
someone who's like you know I'mgonna train for this 5k coming

(33:31):
up, even though it's, you know,just something I'm doing,
whatever it is, yeah, uh, kindof.
Like you know, having fitnessin your life elevates your life
and that shows perspective thatit elevates everything else in
your life for sure.
Sure, and like you won't takeno for an answer for some things
now, or you'll like.
Just you know, you just startto treat yourself with more

(33:53):
respect, right, and thereforeyou carry out situations
differently in life.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, and you treat those other situations with
respect, exactly as well.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, treat those other situations with respect
exactly as well.
Yeah, like, in so long term,it's to build a, you know a
community, uh, through my socialmedia platforms, um, to help
people in that way, help guys,um, um.
But but, dude, if I had likethe craziest you know and go, I

(34:25):
really just want to be able tomake a living off of my full,
you know fitness.
I feel like I have a uniqueability to help people with
fitness For sure.
So if I could make that mycomplete full-time job, that'd
be great, right, you know so.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
How long?
What's the timeline forsomething like like that?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
do you think within a year, two years, because I've
been, I've been hit the groundrunning on it, you know what I
mean.
I uh left where I was working,um, about five months ago and
kind of figured out what I wasdoing.
So it's been like since the newyear as a resolution, right?
to uh kind of pump it up and seewhat I can do for myself.
Uh, I have like other thingsthat will help supplement the,

(35:13):
the income of all this, that arekind of intertwined with
fitness.
But okay, you know, bigoverarching goals of life.
Um, it's the community to helppeople.
But I mean, lately I've been, Ifeel like I'm, you know, I'm
like ADHD, so I get like sohyper fixated on certain goals

(35:35):
and I have to like realize thatabout myself right, you know
what I mean your goals are goingto change exactly as they go.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
no, dude, I think you did a great job of pointing out
some of the things, and I'veknown you for a while now, so I
really do think those are thegoals that you're living by
recently.
Let's talk a little bit aboutthe gym itself and your
relationships.
Yeah, I really want to kind ofdig into that.

(36:04):
Yeah, I really want to want tokind of dig into that.
Um, yeah, tell me, tell me alittle bit about, um, maybe
either like some of therelationships that you've like
built, like through the gymitself, or, um, just
relationships you know in ingeneral yeah, no, uh, this is a
great opportunity to explainthat.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
You know muscles don't just automatically get you
things.
Um, yeah, right, I, I so, um,you know, I want to build my
social media platform so I'malways posting crazy, you know
thirst trap photos.
You know abs, you know whatever, whatever I'll post anything.
There's some humorous stuff,there's advice on there, but, um

(36:43):
, dude, my dms is basically, youknow, when I get dm'd like some
weird things, it's always likeyou know, same sex, always like
a gay guy or just some likecreepy girl from the woodworks
dude, like just just coming fromthe floorboards, like um, and

(37:06):
so, luckily, like that doesn'thappen all the time and I've
managed, like the dms, to likeseparate them, uh, but uh, the
reason I'm saying this ismuscles like, does, like, yeah,
oh, you know, the woman of yourdreams would probably like you
to be in a, in a good shape,yeah and um, I kind of realize

(37:26):
that there's personalities ofyou know other people where they
don't want their partner to bein better shape than them oh,
right, right, right but like.
Then there's some people thatthey don't care.
They're like, yeah, I want tojack the guy, I don't care, and
like, yeah, so so people like it.
But muscles just show that youput in the time that you didn't

(37:49):
buy it right, you can't buy itlike you can.
You know you can buy bbl orwhatever you can buy muscle
insurgents, but to have like areal robust looking physique
takes time and effort and likedelayed gratification.
It shows delayed gratification.
Oh, I like.
That's the biggest one.
And if you can tie that in withyour personality and being

(38:10):
funny, and you know like womencare about, like when someone
walks in and they're like, ohhey, well, like everyone says hi
to him, like everyone knows,like he's a good guy, everyone
care took the time to say hi tothat guy.
Muscles don't equal women, butmuscles can help put yourself in

(38:33):
a better position.
You're just looking good andconfident, right, it helps it
ties the whole package together.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I think you actually made a good point there at the
end, there with confidence.
It also, i'm'm sure, reallybuilds confidence.
So whether or not, uh, you knowit helps.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
You know, like what you want, you know in life, yeah
yeah, 100 and like and likesome people they work out just
because they're into fashion andthey want their like.
Um, yeah, yeah, show a littleshoulder here.
I got this little bodybuildersshow the action but people work

(39:12):
out just for fashion, like somelike I know guys that have been
like I'm not really intobodybuilding, I just want my
shoulders to be bigger you knowwhat I mean, straight up yeah,
they're just like you know, likeseriously, so I think that's
kind of that's kind of cool.
Yeah, you know that my firstlike the ex that I didn't work

(39:33):
out with or wasn't into, rightbefore COVID, she wouldn't touch
me with a 10-foot pole.
Now.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Straight up, Wait.
Why do you say?

Speaker 2 (39:43):
that I just, she just would not.
I've talked to her, I've askedher for, like hey, can you give
me the pictures of when I was askinny little bitch?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, right, right, right.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
And she's like don't say that you look great, and I a
skinny little bitch, yeah,right right, right.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
She's like don't say that you look great.
You know I was like yeah,because you dated me.
Then you don't want me to saythat I look like shit, but well,
at least she cared about you.
That she, you know that'sactually.
You know the fact that shecared about you, you know when,
when maybe you didn't even careabout yourself is uh honestly
well said.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
You know that was so.
I I mean my, my nextrelationship.
I met her at a power, the guywho taught me how to bench.
He had a little powerliftingcompetition and I met her there
and then the rest was kind ofhistory with that.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Are most of those events kind of like multi, you
know, multi-site?

Speaker 2 (40:30):
This was just powerlifting, so no posing, not
what I do, no bodybuilding, justguys lifting their one rep max
but then?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
but there's girls there too.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, there's a whole um women division gotcha.
Yep, women competing againstwomen, do you?

Speaker 1 (40:48):
do you feel like, um, do you feel like now, uh, kind
of to tie into the relationshipthing there?
Do you think that now, or doyou feel like now, um, you know,
your girlfriend has to besomeone, or relationship has to
be significant, other has to besomeone who goes to the gym,
dude no, like okay, I'm into thelike thick muscle mommy.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Look like I don't mind it, like I I got, like okay
, I have a type and I'm not evengonna explain the type, right
like whatever, it doesn't matter, everyone's got a type.
If you want, everyone's got atype, you know but like when it
comes to your talking to theworld here, dude true true, yeah
, but listen, I do got a typeladies, find out, find out his
type all right, but when itcomes to body type like that, my

(41:38):
type can exist in many bodytypes.
That's what I mean, right, yep,and so I just like a girl that
would appreciate herself as muchas I do when it comes to the
gym so it doesn't mean she'sgonna have to work out like a
bodybuilder.
If she wants to um, like, by allmeans do it, I'll help you.
If you want to even lift like aguy, if you're like nah, I'm

(41:59):
trying to build my traps, rightyou know what I mean.
I'm like all right, but um, I,it's not like a must, um, but I
like a fit girl, you know, um, Ilike, I like the part of body
positivity that is, you workingon yourself, not just you
accepting you for the crap ofpile you want to be.
You know you are.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah and I'm not saying that, that's how it is
but you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
It's like yeah, I don't think I gotta say any
other, no, I like that, I lovethe way you put that actually,
um, so, what about like, whatabout like gym culture itself?

Speaker 1 (42:36):
um, yeah, you know, because I, I guess there's,
there's, there's, you knowthere's like the inside, the
outside looking in, you know,and then like the inside looking
out, um, you know, like, tellme a little bit about like,
especially with, like socialmedia, like nowadays, you know,
um, I feel like there is thereare some people who kind of,

(43:01):
they just use the gym as liketheir way of like showing, you
know, people that they are, youknow, doing things like that
when, like, maybe they're notactually putting in.
You know the proper time and,and you know the proper time and
and you know I'm not speakingabout anyone in, you know
specifically, but, like, youknow, give us a little bit about

(43:22):
like gym culture itself andlike, maybe, like the do's and
don'ts, you know, yeah, thingslike that.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Yeah, no, that's a good question.
So gym culture has been.
It has gone at an acceleratedrate and I feel like it's
multi-faceted.
Uh yeah, like me being a raverand then becoming a gym bro,
like now.
I'm literally like a rave gymbro do you know?

(43:52):
You know what I mean like butbut I also like the like you
know I was telling you about mychildhood and like listening to,
like emo and metal and I'm likea alternative metal rave gym
bro.
You see what I mean I think youjust, you just like, created a
pocket there and that is, I feel, like the algorithm like, like,

(44:17):
slaps that, like, like, likethe algorithm pushes that, like
you know, there's gym culturehas gotten to a point where,
like you know, because, becauseI think it's because of tiktok,
okay- because, before instagram.
Instagram was good and you hadjust like people like, you know,
like doing the ad, or likeshots, or just like bros taking
selfies and or product placement, and, and I feel like other

(44:40):
than vine, there wasn't likevideo to audio, yeah, and so now
you can create this like texthook, video, a video hook and an
audio hook, so within the firstthree seconds of people turning
on their phone, you can throw,you know, something that was
just an image.
It's now way more catchier,right, right.

(45:02):
So TikTok now, and then theyhad the whole like.
It changed the music industry.
It changed how people viralityof songs.
It used to right before that,in which it's still its runner
up.
I'd say it's getting your songadded onto Spotify, right, like
certain playlists and stuff andyou know I'm not an artist, but
I would assume it's that.
And then, but having a song goviral on TikTok, people pay

(45:24):
money, people pay me to makecontent for their song on TikTok
.
I enter those things all thetime, yeah, you know, even if
it's just 50 bucks or whatever.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
I've seen that personally and I don't think
I've ever paid an influencer orsomeone to use my music,
although it was always like athought, but I see it happening.
It's a real thing.
So how are you able to do that?
Do you put your name in somesort of database and they see

(46:03):
your profile and they're likeall right, this guy is doing
this.
I think you pay TikTok.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
I think you pay TikTok to do a campaign event
for you.
Okay, and then they either dishit out to like affiliates or
content creators okay, um, cananyone do that?

Speaker 1 (46:21):
do you know if I think any?

Speaker 2 (46:22):
artists can do it.
I think, yeah, yeah, I'm prettysure I need to look into yeah
yeah, we can.
We can look into it.
Yeah, let's, yeah, um, but Ifeel like tiktok set this new
standard for gym culture towhere you got like anime lifters
.
You have, like you know, goldenera bodybuilder lifters.

(46:43):
You got power lifters that areinto anime.
Now you got power lifters thatdon't like anime.
You have just metal heads.
You got like people that knowthey lift.
They're like they like drake.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
They're in there.
That's all the place, that'sall they play is drake 207.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
They live right and so like gym culture has gotten,
or some people, they listen tono music at all.
They listen to tiktok, likehype up montage videos.
I'm dead serious, you'll seethat.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
I mean, I could see that Maybe not even TikTok
montage videos, but just like-.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Inspiration yeah yeah , inspiration.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Oh, I could see that, for sure, yeah with music
playing in the background.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Sped-up versions of songs and stuff.
Yeah yep, yep.
And so because of all of that,it's changed my taste in music.
I've added some stuff that I'mlike dude, I can't believe I've
added this, my spotify, but I'mlistening to it right, and uh,
so gym culture has kind of takenthat and it's there's.
There's different gym.
So I feel like back in the dayyou just buy like nike for

(47:44):
sports or you buy like you knowspeedo if you were a swimmer, or
like you know there's maybelike that one company for the
sport.
So they got like like you know,gymshark for gym or whatever.
And then they got like Young LA, which is like more street wear
and more you know kind of whatis popular everywhere outside of

(48:07):
the gym, like literally that'swhat they do, like baggy stuff
and kind of like like yeah, likestreetwear, and so there.
And then there's even moreacute like um, really like this
whole cyber sigilism, likealternative punk, like this new
sigilism means sigil is, likeyou know, like a sigil, like a
symbol or like a crest orsomething sigilism, I guess,

(48:31):
cyber sigilism.
It's like this new cybernetic,like morphed look that a lot of
people are like rocking.
There's this company calledBreath no, breathe Divinity,
okay, and they just, you know,I'm not sponsored by them or
anything.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Not yet.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Yeah, true, but they have, like you know, like this
very, you know, low-exposure,dark, dark, like type of vibe,
oh cool um because most of thetime you'll see like brighter
colors, yeah, stuff like thatexactly, exactly, and so it's
like they.
There's cult following gymclothing.

(49:07):
Yeah, I see that.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
You see this.
Who do you think who were someof the the earlier um gym
clothing?
Uh, let's see hereentrepreneurs.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, oh, dude so like back in the day, like z's
is like the rave bro, you knowhe's the guy that does the like,
that's the pose, uh-huh, likethrows the two fingers and the
fist and uh, you know he ravedand was just like.
Honestly, he has the story.
Most people are.
They're like I'm just trying toget jacked and get girls,

(49:41):
literally.
Yeah, and so z's, you got uhdavid laid from jim shark.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
He's like one of the biggest models he's the one who
started jim shark he didn'tstart it but he's one of their
biggest models, gotcha, um anduh.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
There's a guy I like from young la, and these are
just models that I'm naming thathave kind of pushed.
I feel like those because Ifeel like if you started the
company, you maybe had a outlook, but, like most of these owners
that own the gym brand, the gymclothing brand, they're not
like super accomplished in thebodybuilding world.
Really.
Yeah, they're just like a guythat wanted to start a fitness

(50:15):
clothing company and yeah, someof them are.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
They're not like super accomplished in the
bodybuilding world really, yeah,they're just like a guy that
wanted to start a fitnessclothing company, and some of
them are.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
They're more business guys which dude, you don't want
to be a broke bodybuilder.
Being of that broke body likethe chicken and rice broke
bodybuilder lifestyle sucks,like you know.
Spending all your money on likeall the things that are just
probably going to kill you inthe long run.
Like you know, people use peds.
Diets not um, or cheap, it'sjust like so much.

(50:40):
Like, if you're gonna dobodybuilding, be financially
stable, yeah, straight up, yeah,um, I mean you can still kind
of get away with doingbodybuilding stuff.
But if you're, like, going tocompete in full-fledged commit,
yeah, it's gonna be hard.
So of course I think so.
So some of the biggest I think,being a business owner kind of
should go hand in hand withworking out, which is why I feel

(51:03):
like some of these companieshave gotten so big.
Yeah, because, like you see,just you know every, you know
regular joe schmoe wearing the,the stuff that I'm wearing, jim
shark now we're wearing right,and so yeah it's.
I'm at a weird sector in mylife where I I respect the grind
and the grit of these companies.
I just don't wear a lot of themnow, because why is?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
that or like well, maybe not, why is that?
But like, have you ever um, isthere any brands that kind of
like?
You know that you do uh,support uh more than others yeah
, I'm.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I think that, like, if you're going to start a
clothing company, there's no wayaround fast fashion.
There's just no way you're likethere there's some unethical
strings that are going to bepulled to getting clothes.
I know it's just how businessis.
Yeah, so the only way to not dofast fashion is the freaking

(52:01):
thrift, right, right.
And so, like a lot of the timesand this kind of comes back
from the person I was beforemuscles and everything is like I
don't like making a bigfootprint on more than I like to
.
I live beneath my means.
Like, yeah, I might drive likea tesla or whatever, but, like,
dude, I don't own a house.
Like, yeah, and I'm 33, Ieventually will because I

(52:23):
screwed up my life and I'mrebuilding it, but I am someone
who's I don't like to livebeyond what I need to, and part
of that is like clothing, and Ilike to look good and feel good
when I'm looking good in myclothes.
But clothing, dude, fashion, isa silhouette, it's not a brand.

(52:44):
It's not brands.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Say that again.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Fashion are silhouettes.
It's like what you look like.
It's not just the clothes,but's the, the person, and and
the clothes, yeah, together andso I that's why I don't like
wearing a lot of logos and stuff, because it's like free
advertisement, yeah, and andthere are like three things I
treat my like.
I told myself at the beginningof 2025 how I was going to live

(53:08):
my life.
Treat myself like a commodity,like I'm a stock, like I'm brand
.
Ryan Bradshaw.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Nice Right, I like that.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Two is do everything, and this is hard because
sometimes you just can't.
But the real answer is to stayconsistent.
But two do everything.
Like a gun is being held toyour head.
Oh, shoot, okay, because ifsomeone was like hey, you're not
posting three times a day onTikTok, you know yeah.
You're going to find someonewas like hey, you're not posting
three times a day on tiktok.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
You know, yeah, you're gonna find a way to post
three times, right?
Yeah, it's, it's motivation.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
And then, third, I just said, it's a living beneath
my means and I feel like thatgoes like you see, billionaires
live beneath their means and uh,but not real, but you know, and
just like the way they dress orwhatever I guess I don't really
like adam sandler, like guyslike that you see rich people
live beneath their means andthere's not a lot of them.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
It's possible, though it's yeah, it's possible.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
And I feel like, if you're trying to become
successful and you want tosplurge, one day and you know,
if I was elon musk I would notbe in politics, I'd be sitting,
you wouldn't even know who I wasanymore because I'd have so
much money, right like you're,I'm gone that's a good point
though so.
But kudos to him for having theyou know, psychotic nature to
wanting to, you know, be in thelimelight of that.

(54:21):
But I'd be like jeff bezos justsitting here launching rockets,
you know, trying, you know thatlook like a penis trying to
fuck the sky.
No, I mean, that's what he'strying to do.
Sorry for all the kids and allthe cussing, but yeah, jeff
bezos seems like he's enjoyinghis money.
So I mean I would love.
I don't.

(54:42):
I'm someone who's not likescrew the rich.
Of course I want to be rich andI don't want to work.
That's like ever.
There's no one in life that hassaid I want to do more work and
less.
I want less money, right?
you know that's good.
So, yeah, I want to do no workand I want all of the money.
Yeah, but um, to get there yougotta live beneath your means,
you gotta have some morals andyou gotta have a code that you

(55:03):
gotta follow.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
And do you feel like also, um, to kind of go back to
the whole um culture of it, doyou think, do you feel like it's
it is expensive though, like toto, yeah, live like that?

Speaker 2 (55:18):
um, yeah, especially if you're gonna go like the
content creator route.
Um, it's expensive.
Just health is expensive.
There's the health tax onthings, right right, um, and dig
into that a little food is themost expensive, the amount of
food that I eat and because Ilike quality food.
Um like, I weigh 176 pounds.

(55:42):
I try to get around 200 gramsof protein in my body each day
and how do you track that?
um, I use cal ai.
It's's actually a super coolcalorie tracker that uses AI.
You can take a picture of, youknow, like pancakes with
blueberries on it, and it'llregister every blueberry, really

(56:03):
you just take a picture.
Yeah, and you know, if you hadpulled pork but it was pulled
chicken, it might not registerthat it was chicken but, you can
go in and change that.
Okay, but you get it.
And then, once you've takenpictures of your meals, if you
eat that same meal, you can justre-add it again, re-add it.
So I use a calorie tracker nice.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
How long have you been using something like that?

Speaker 2 (56:22):
I've gone through so many, so probably like two,
three years I've used them niceprobably like three years so and
that's proved helpful.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
What about um?
Yeah, what are some other umtips?
I or tricks to eating healthyand not spending, maybe?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Or getting the right calories your physique.
So going to the gym is like 10%of your physique, really.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
You think it's that low?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Yeah, dude, yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
So what's the other 90?

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Because eating what you eat, what you put in your
your rest, in your stress levels, in your cortisol, and like,
like uh what is cortisol?
It's so.
It, cortisol, is a hormone inyour body that raises, as um,
you start to get like fatigued,or your central nervous system
starts to get basically fried.

(57:09):
As you get more stressed and asanxiety rises, cortisol rises
and it's like a part of, likeyour, your fight or flight uh
mechanism, um, but it'll preventmuscle growth.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
So and you won't sleep well, you'll hold more
water, you'll feel lethargic howdo you know if if cortisol is
is high or low in your body?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
um, I mean, that's a good question.
Uh, you can just get.
You can go and get it tested.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
But uh, so what?
You go to the doctor and yousay, hey, I need, you can get a
whole test you can get a wholeblood panel of your hormones and
, like your, yeah, yeah which,but that's what would be listed
under your.
If you get your blood tested,that's what it would be under
their cortisol.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Yeah yeah, yep yeah okay, and um, I mean, I take
ashwagandha.
You know I got little gummiesright here that I take.
Um, nice, yeah, they're great.
And lowering your cortisol willdebloat you.
You know you'll be less bloated.
Uh, because you'll be holdingless water, okay, um.
So, like any, like you know,like this, like stubborn, like

(58:16):
water hole that's notnecessarily fat um water around,
like your face, like you can,you'll feel more puffy when
you're when your cortisol ishigh.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
So huh, yeah, have you ever felt like, like that?

Speaker 2 (58:28):
oh yeah, dude, all the time, um, and what do you?
Do yeah, a a lot.
What type of activity Caffeineraises your cortisol?
Sleep, a lot of sleep, a lot ofsleep.
And just and like dudemeditation, just like get your
mind right.

(58:49):
When you become stressedphysically, it means you know
that's your body sending alittle red bubble notification
to yourself saying right, oh youneed to go, you need to chill,
you need to listen to music andread a book, or you need to go
eat healthy and chill.
That's a good point.
And so, yeah, I would go to thegym like I wouldn't even take
rest days and just my cortisol.

(59:09):
I wouldn't be, it'd be.
You know you can go to the gymtoo much and not build muscle,
and that's why I say going tothe gym is like 10% of it,
because 90% of it is stressmanagement, all your
relationships.
If you're broke, your familydoesn't like you and you don't

(59:32):
have any friends, you reallyexpect to build the most muscle
that you can, if all the otherareas of your life aren't
providing for you, then how doyou expect one of the other ones
to?
Exactly, and your body is goingto realize that and notice that
you can't lie to yourself.
I feel like cortisol is thegood Right Damn that's pretty
well.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
What about, like let's talk about, like, mental
health itself and kind of likeyou know, the building of that
and like how you've been able toI don't know or what you know
having the confidence you knowthroughout what you've been
doing here.
You, how has that helped your,your mental health and and, um,

(01:00:14):
you know, from like in thebeginning, when you said you
were kind of, you know, addictedto certain things, um, yeah,
how have you been able to shapeyour mental health in a positive
way?

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
I um, I mean, I I still think going to the gym on
a day that it would might betteryour, your mental, is worth it,
but I don't.
I think, you know, going totherapy and talking to people is
also, you know, beneficial, um,yeah, but I don't, you know,
it's hard like with the, withthe whole you know.

(01:00:50):
I guess, like mental side ofthings and it's it's kind of the
gym has pushed me to be on thegym to kind of do other things,
okay, um, like become morefinancially, uh, successful and
uh, to maybe like return.

(01:01:10):
You know, you know, I, I think,like the, I would love to
retire.
You know, you talk about biggoals.
I would love to just retire.
My parents, like my parents, arepretty well off but I think
it's such a flex, oh yeah, tolike, like, just sign like a
five hundred thousand dollarsover to your parents or
something, or like.
You know what I mean, and soand and and.

(01:01:31):
To do that with like, something, like.
Social media is like a slipperyslope with fitness because you
can get body dysmorphia, you canget.
You know, there are these crazydark sides of PED use and the

(01:01:53):
pressure of physique inflation.
Like your body, like dude, what, what people thought was a sexy
, you know, ideal body back inthe day, like, think of, like
Tobey Maguire from right, that'shim from Spider-Man, you know

(01:02:16):
and like Wolverine, like thoselike dad bods still jacked, but
like, or like all the old likewrestler bodies.
Yeah, like, if you look at nowbecause of social media, if
you're not like super, likedavid, laid like diced to the
gills right, right um they'relike yeah, that you're, you
ain't shit.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Yeah, it's always like the guythat doesn't post anything,

(01:02:37):
that's like you know, whatever.
Who says that?
But their physique inflation isa thing and that leads, you
know, people down, especiallythe younger generation who wants
to feel accepted, right downthis dark road of like, um, bad,
poor dieting.
Um, because dieting has beenlike the main, people start to
realize like dieting is reallywhat's going to affect your body

(01:02:59):
, them, this whole looks maxinggeneration of trying to, you
know, mewing.
And what's mewing?
it's when you put your tongue atthe top of your mouth and, uh,
it's when I can't do an 11, butit's when you uh fix your
jawline by oh wow, you know okayno, it's okay, I'm I'm

(01:03:21):
exaggerating it, but it's just away of breathing through your
nose and out your nose andkeeping your tongue at the top
of your mouth in order to changeyour facial features over a
long period of time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
And you're basically just trying to change, like your
jawline, basically yeah, yeah,which I mean, if you work out
and you see healthy your body'sgot, your face is going to
change for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Yeah, which I mean if you work out and you see how
healthy your body is, your faceis going to change for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Yeah, but I feel like there are some people who will
go through some pretty let's seehere pretty strange lengths to
get certain things.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Yeah, it's getting crazy.
So it's, I mean, but there'severy like.
I think that as long as youjust do it in a healthy way
again, I do believe in the wholemy body.
My choice thing, like PED useis rampant in bodybuilding and a

(01:04:21):
lot of people don't understandwhere it even starts or come
from.
People think you could justtake steroids and just get
jacked or whatever.
Um, and there's natural guysthat literally look almost
better than there's.
You would be surprised aboutthe amount of people that are at
the gym that are on some typeof gear, uh-huh, and they look
like no, you would never thinkthey look like dog shit, really

(01:04:43):
Dead serious.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
And it's because of the poor diet.
Okay.
So, ladies and gentlemen,steroids does not just mean
you're going to look amazing orbe big.
It's actually going to be theexact opposite.
It's going to be you'll haveside effects before the good
effects, and until you do yourresearch and dial it in and you

(01:05:05):
commit down that path and youhave a full understanding of
what that entails, I would notchoose to do it right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Let me ask you this back to like the diet itself.
Do you feel like?
How do you feel like?
You know not, how are you ableto not spend all of your money?
Cause you said it's expensiveto eat um, healthy, um, and I I,

(01:05:37):
you know, have found thispersonally as well, because
there was a time where I, um,let's just say I spend too much
money I got you right, supereasy it's, it is dude and like.
There'll be times where, like,I'm looking at my account and
I'm like you know, how did you?
And?
And it doesn't help with, likethe the price of food, food,

(01:05:58):
yeah, you know, no matter what,whether, no matter what the food
is, uh, these days, we all knowwhat eggs cost these.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Yeah right dude yeah, exactly I love eggs.
I eat so many eggs, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
So, like, do you have any advice on, like, how to
budget properly with diet?

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
yeah, dude, I'm sorry , I, like you, asked that
question.
I didn't even answer it.
Um, no, it's okay.
Yes, uh, there's 100.
So if you're trying to eathealthy and you want to spend a
lot of less money, I literallyhave general guidelines and I'm
trying to like.
The reason I'm fumbling mywords a little bit is because I

(01:06:37):
don't want to give you justsomething that you get stuck on.
This is super general.
That literally will give you90% of the benefits.
Here it is First off, you'retrying to save money.
Definitely give you a 90 of thebenefits here's.
Here it is first off, you'retrying to save money.
Definitely get like a sam'sclub, bj's, costco, right like,
and I'm not saying foreverything, but we're gonna
start bulk here, okay yeah um,and the next one is gonna be

(01:06:59):
seasonings.
Okay, right, because we're gonnabe eating so simple that you
know, when it comes to carbs,for example, potatoes and rice
you could probably live offthose as your carbs for a very,
very long time, right?
So buy in bulk.
Buy potatoes, but buy, you knowbulk items, but just season

(01:07:20):
them different, right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
season them all, your different ways, different
ethnicities.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
You know, watch some YouTube, right, right.
Another thing is if you havethe right equipment, like a big
air fryer, a big rice cooker,like, invest in that, because
then you can keep your food, youcan cook bigger batches of food
, uh-huh.
And if you can cook big batchesof food-huh, and if you can
cook big batches of food, thenyou don't have to spend as much

(01:07:47):
time each week.
You don't have to spend muchtime each week.
More time is more money.
It's, you know.
It's just you got to setyourself up for success here for
sure.
But another good tip is beforeyou shop in between the aisles,
get all your groceries on theoutside, so like on the out, the

(01:08:08):
outer rims of the grocery storeokay and that's where, like all
the fresh produce is, that'swhere the meat, if you think
about it that's where, like thedairy is, and then the meat and
then so you're gonna eat healthy, like literally, that's where
90% of the healthy food is Right, you got all the canned crap
and all the sauces andeverything in the box crap.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, and so chips and stuff
like that are in the middle.
Exactly, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
And then so that.
And then the third, like youknow.
So club card shop around theoutsides, obviously, season your
crap, but that's pretty general, unless you just like to eat
bland food.
But um, when it comes to likeprotein sources, that's like
going to be your most expensive.

(01:08:54):
Um, you're going to have tosettle.
You know, choose 90, 10 groundbeef instead of, uh, like leaner
whatever angus top sirloin orfilet mignon or whatever.
I because that's what I eat, alot of filet mignon and I like,
I like ribeye too.
But um, I try to eat a littlemore filet mignon because it's
it's more lean but it's stillsoft.
So it's got you, but um, it'sexpensive as crap, dude you know

(01:09:17):
.
So I, um, I do the like.
I get the big back on B, backon my bullshit tubes is what I
call them, and that's those bigthose big 10 pound tubes from
Costco of 90, 10 ground beef forlike 40 bucks, right, so nice.
So there's, like you know,there's cooking in bulk is is

(01:09:41):
probably in in living underbeneath your means, just being
like, yeah, I'm not gonna pullover and get chipotle because I
have that same exact proteinsources at home.
Yeah, um, I feel like that'sthe biggest.
Uh, so I eat.
You know, I eat like 80 cleanand then 20.
I actually eat out, like I havecheap meals and stuff and I

(01:10:03):
like to eat out and when I do,I'm taking advantage of every
freaking reward.
Dude, if I'm at McDonald's, I'mdoing the mobile order thing
and I'm editing the thing towhere, just for the one item,
because you can't add more thanone deal, I'll do the deal again
.

(01:10:23):
I'm multiple customer yeah, so Ium, if there's money to be
saved, I'll do it.
I'm like you know.
There's no shame in that yeah,so sure so that's what.
When it comes to saving money,um like, or when it comes to
just for fitness, don't spendevery dollar on trying to look

(01:10:46):
your best.
Yeah, right, right like,because you're not going to look
your best.
So we're going to go right backto cortisol.
You can get the cortisol highbecause you're broke now and
you're living a shitty life.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Dude, I think it does it comes down to like.
You do have to like also likebe happy with, like, the food
that you're eating.
You know, like it doesn't justhave to be like this regimented
um deal to where it's like oh, Ihave to do this, you know.
So you do have to kind of likespice it up, I'm sure, and make
things a little bit different.
Um, let's, let's, uh, let'spivot a little bit.

(01:11:18):
Um, let's talk about um socialmedia itself and what some of
your either like how you kind ofevolved with social media, with
what you're doing here, and Ithink I do want to kind of also
I want you to kind of segue aswell into like what you see for

(01:11:39):
the future, and I want you totell people how they can
possibly, you know, be a part ofthis community.
You know that you're, uh, thatyou're, that you're trying to
build.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Yeah, so, um, you know, I I've basically I'm all
in on social media.
Um, I started just throwinglike skits at the board or like
just content ideas at the board,just mimicking what other
people have been doing, and uh,um, and it's wild how algorithms
work.
One video that does well oninstagram won't do well on
tiktok, and it's just aconsistency thing.

(01:12:12):
And, um, and you know, thealgorithms are there to help you
and figure out who you are sothat they can take your
information, put it in a vehicleand drive it to the right
community like, right people,right like.
And so, if you can like, alwaysmold your content around your
niche audience.
Yeah, I feel like it doesn'tmatter.
As you know, you know you get200 views.

(01:12:34):
200 views is a.
200 people is a lot.
You know yeah, right now, rightwhen you think about that so and
and you know, I know peoplethat are making a full-fledged
living off of and I'm not, uh,off of online coaching off of
you know just five thousand.
You know a thousand followers.
Oh, wow, they've converted.
You know ten of those peopleout of their a thousand people

(01:12:55):
following.
Yeah, that's not anything.
Yeah, you know, to.
That's a good point because youcan build a huge following and
none of those people canresonate because you don't have
anything to offer.
You got viral off of, like youknow, a dance that you did or
something.
So I always try to tie my stuffback in to.
You know, I'll go a little outLike I've had.

(01:13:16):
My most viral videos havenothing to do with content.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Yeah, nothing, I'm sorry, nothing to do with gym
content.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
They're just funny, which nothing, I'm sorry,
nothing to do with gym content.
They're just funny, which isfine because they still do,
because it's either like meeating or like, and I'll
incorporate, and then rightafter that I'll post gym stuff,
because I'm like, now that Ihave you here, uh, that's smart,
you know, so I like that youknow what?
you know, one of my biggestvideos has been like me just
hanging around with this gothgirl.
Literally, I've just beenhanging out with the with this

(01:13:43):
uh goth chick and, um, I'll justlike post her with me.
Include jim and goth, becausewe talked about these weird
little you know personas thatare created in gym culture.
The goth mommy stomp on me, jimmommy you know, babe, that's a
thing, so like there are guysthat like that.

(01:14:05):
You know, jim girl, that's likea goth girl.
So so so I just leaned in onsome of the films and they went
well, and then now I'm tryingother stuff.
Am I going to stick to that?
You know, I don't want that tobe who I'm entirely based around
and that's not going to attract.
So I just make sure that I amalways aligning, like with my

(01:14:27):
niche.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
So you know and you know my name's Ryan Bradshaw.
You can find me on Instagramand.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
TikTok, we'll put your information at the bottom
here.
Yeah, spell it out, though, foreverybody.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
So Ryan R-Y-A-n and then x, ryan x bradshaw, because
you know we're coming from thehardcore alternative era.
There you go.
Ryan x bradshaw, nice.
Um, that's b-r-a-d-s-h-a-w,nice.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
No relation to terry, unfortunately, um now and also
hey, why don't you?
Uh, I know you say you had some, you had some products here,
that uh, yeah yeah, that uh, youwanted to, kind of, you know,
show people that you have I um.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Part of my content is um.
You know I do.
I do tiktok shop and um.
This is products I use everysingle day.
Uh that I've had the pleasureto share the world with um.
One of them is a good caffeinegum.
I got neuro gum right here umyou got several cameras, you can
yeah yeah, check it out, guys,neuro gum.

(01:15:38):
Uh, it's great.
I mean, look at this, so it'shealthy.
Yeah, it's l-theanine andcaffeine, okay, and I chew it
basically whenever I want like acup of coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
And L-theanine helps me focus.
I have bad ADD and L-theaninehelps.
Okay and L-theanine's in matcha.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Oh is it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
So if you're a smooth , chill matcha guy, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
I don't drink coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
I'm a matcha guy, who ain't you know?
So, um, this is.
I love this.
This has been like, I'm a hugeadvocate for this.
I do it.
Um, I basically wake up whenI'm at the gym I'm chewing a
piece.
Right before this podcast, Iwas chewing a piece.
Right, I'm always chewing it.
And so do you drink coffee too,I do like coffee?

(01:16:26):
I do like coffee, but I, youknow, I, I care about myself,
you know, honestly, I care aboutmy teeth I like I don't like
the like.
I try to keep my teeth kind ofwhite and, um, so coffee's yeah.
And so I've always been a gumchewer.
Okay, because, dude, I feellike gum is kind of like a
resistance band.
You're kind of like workingyour jaw out oh, for sure, for

(01:16:46):
sure.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
So this is like that same piece of gum for like three
days exact dude.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Yeah, no, seriously man, seriously.
So, um, I do love this.
And um, so, basically,companies I will reach out to
companies that I feel like I'veused your product and I really
resonate with.
So this has just been somethingI use every single day.
I love it.
And then cortisol right, wetalk about cortisol Dude.
I have ashwagandha gummies.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
Oh, yeah, so what the cortisol is in ashwagandha?

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
So ashwagandha lowers cortisol Lowers Okay yeah, so
these are like.
I love these Honestly.
I'm going to eat two right now.
Yeah, hit it up, dude.
Let me rip them up.
I'll take one.
Yeah, dude.
Yeah, well, two's a serving bro, two's a serving.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
You got to eat two, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
And they taste like normal gummies, but these are
something, so gummies are just afun way to take a supplement.
Right, they make pills of this.
But goli ashwagandha I haveashwagandha in my tea in the

(01:17:49):
morning.
Yeah, good, yep.
So this is like the ksm 66,it's like their best ashwagandha
.
And, um, is it good you like?

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
yeah, you're right, awesome dude but um they taste
yeah they help me relax.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
I use them.
As you know, a lot of peopleare like ashwagandha will do all
this crazy stuff for youbeneficial.
I use it as a cortisolregulator.
Yeah uh, so I can go to bed isashwagandha um, it's a plant
right, yeah, yeah, it's a plant,it's a root root, yeah, it's a
root extract.
So I really like it.

(01:18:20):
Um, goalie is goalie nutrition.
Uh, you know, this is a 60serving bottle.
Uh, I'm pretty sure, like on mytiktok shop, it's like six or
eight bucks.
It's like eight bucks a bottle,like normally these are like 16
at like cvs gotcha.
So pretty cool.
Um, I definitely, I, I use this.
I would not even be puttingthis up here if it wasn't a

(01:18:41):
thing.
So this is another one.
And then ooh, ooh, Ooh, ooh,we're good, we're good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
You're good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
So my third.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
Oh, yeah, what else?

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
you got.
This raises your cortisol, haha.
No, I'm joking.
So this is a pump product, thisis a pre-workout and I just
love this flavor.
It's watermelon grape.
It is a tiktok shop exclusive,oh exclusive.
So they sent it to me um.
I sell it on my tiktok shop um,and you can only get it there,

(01:19:16):
no I can't get it in any othersupplement store.
Um, I do have other flavors onthere, but I just thought I'd
bring the cool one yeah, so forsure and, uh, I love it, so I'm
gonna actually use some of thislater.
Uh, after, after the podcasttoday so nice um, but all of
these products you can literallyget on my tiktok.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
Okay, super easy like we'll put that all, all that
those links uh below here tiktokshop is crazy, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
like it's better than amazon.
You think it's gonna be it's?

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
it's gonna be the biggest competitor because it's
like qvc it comes as fast asamazon the packages and it's
like I agree, I believe that um,you don't think that there's
any um harm at all with, likethe, the, you know the like the
political parts of the, of likeof tiktok or just not even that,

(01:20:09):
but like having yourinformation um have you know
buying something through tiktok,putting your credit card on I
feel like because, uh, the mostrecent, like january 19th, like
how they brought it back orwhatever, uh-huh, I feel like
it's more safe.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
you think, yeah, I feel like it's gotten more safe
just because it's more acceptedin terms of like it's here to
stay, like I don't think nowbecause it's tiktok survived its
third ban, yeah, I don't think,um, it's gonna, you know,
there's gonna be any more Gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Do you hear that?
Do you hear that noise?
Oh shoot, okay, okay, yo.
Who's this?
This is the OG Ryan Bradshaw.
Oh well, dude, I got somebodysitting right next to me right

(01:21:03):
now who wants to have a, uh,conversation with you.
All right, be a.
Be nice to him.
Be nice to him, all right.
Here he is.
Dude.
This, this is you.
This is your older self, dudehello, dude, you're loud as shit
.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
You need to tone down that vote.
Yo, where are you?
Yo get out.
Yeah, move away.
All right, there, you go.
There, you go.
Yo, what's up?
Man, your voice sounds a littlehigher and, uh, I don't know
what you're listening to, butthat's not what I listen to now.

(01:21:41):
It's crazy, dude.
Are you who?
Who are you there with?
Are you still selling drugs?
Nice, you sound fucked up.
You sound pretty messed up.
You sound messed up.
Um, listen, man, if there's acouple pieces of advice I could
give you right now, it's thatthat next bump that you're gonna

(01:22:04):
do probably won't be worth it.
Um, and whichever girl you'rewith, she might be wasting your
time, unless, unless you got itall planned out ready to rock.
I'll be honest with you,because that's just in your
nature you're.
You're someone that's gonnaalways you know waste your time
with other people.
You, you're going to soonfigure it out, though, but if I

(01:22:24):
tell you now, you'll save a lotof time.
That's one thing.
Also, dude, all that Bitcointhat you're spending on drugs,
just pocket it and run with it,because eventually you are,
you're going to work for Applefor seven years too.
You don't even know that yet,but you'll do that one.

(01:22:48):
But, yeah, man, you're jacked asshit.
You're jacked, that's great.
You're confident, right, andyou've proven to yourself that a
lot of things that you neverthought you could accomplish you
can, and you did it inhealthier ways that you thought
thought you could accomplish youcan and you did it in healthier
ways that you thought that you,you know you couldn't.
So, you know, if I could tellyou anything, it's to focus more

(01:23:15):
on yourself, you know, don't?
You know there's no hater thatis doing better than you.
You know the there's no haterthat is doing better than you.
Um, because the people at thetop are collaborating and, uh,
it's good to be competitive andto have the grind and the grit,
uh, but to stay in your lane and, uh, stay the fuck in that lane

(01:23:38):
.
No, stay in your lane,seriously no, because you're a
little shit.
So, yeah, man, I, seriously, no, sure, because you're a little
shit.
So, yeah, man, I, I, I hopethat you know you've taken the
time to listen to me on all thisand you walked away from the
crappy music and the the loud,uh, you know area that you're in
, uh, but yeah, man, I, uh, Iwish you the best, live long and

(01:24:03):
prosper.
Right and listen.
Ufos might actually be soonerto be seen than you realize.
So that's another thing,another thing to think about.
So, all right, bro, keeplistening to techno, though I do

(01:24:24):
like that.
Tell them you love them, I love, hey, I love you and uh, you
know, hug your bros at night anduh, whichever girl you're with,
bro, just actually treat herpretty nice.
Okay, she might be a waste ofyour time, but just treat her
better than you are.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
So all right, dog, you, you end up being, uh, being
, a stand-up guy.
All right, and yo, he wasn'tlying, you are jacked dog.
Yeah, yeah, we're talking likearnold.
All right, love you, bro, peacenice.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Nice isn't it awesome ?

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
that is, that's good, that's good uh, all right, hey,
I got, I got a few, uh, rapidfire questions for you here.
All right, you didn't get tosee these, okay, so, um, we're
gonna go right into them allright now.
You got to be quick with these,okay, we're ready all right,
like like right off the dome.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
We're not thinking about it.
No, no, it's going to be whatcomes natural.
Yeah, yeah, straight off topAll right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Do you like the music your parents listen to?
Yes, okay, all right.
Name something that always putsyou in a bad mood.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
People that wear their sunglasses at the gym oh,
that's too funny.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
What do you think the world would be like in 20 years
?

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
uh, robots are doing our laundry and our dishes and
cooking food for us, and we'reliving our lives at a?
Uh, more, a better version, andwe are just being better.
We are, um, living for a higherpurpose.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Oh, like that would you rather be able to speak
every language or play everyinstrument?

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
oh, um, okay, so quick, both.
If I want to be super rich,every language, yeah, because
you're an ultimate negotiator,oh.
But if you're doing everyinstrument you could like, you
could literally like, impresslike anyone yeah, like you could
literally like and which couldkind of put you in the same
position as both, so I'd have togo with instrument nice

(01:26:36):
instrument.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
I agree.
If you could be good atsomething overnight, what would
it be?

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
one thing overnight yeah, dude, becoming a wwe
performer.
If I could tomorrow become awrestler like a like a, like you
know, rowdy ryan bradshaw,whatever the heck is that what
your name would?

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
be honestly, that's not that bad no, that's not that
bad, no, but I, um, I have toget back to you on the official
name.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Okay, man, maybe I should do that.
I should go down the route youshould.
But yeah, that would be it nice, nice.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Would the world be better or worse if no one
carried around phones?

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
oh, you know what I think it's going to be.
I think it'd be the same.
Yeah, because without phones wehaven't been able to see as
transparent of things.
There's been more lies and moresmoke and mirrors without
phones, right, but because ofphones there's more access to
more BS, and so I like the morephone.

(01:27:37):
I think that the world is abetter place with phones.
I'm on that optimistic aspectbecause we wouldn't be here
today doing this if it wasn'tfor phones.
Oh so great point, yeah, and Ithink that it's getting better
nice all your clothes have to beone color forever.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
Which color would you choose?

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
dang uh.
Gray different shades of graynice, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
What's the first thing you notice when you meet a
new person?

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
um, dude, they're well, I'm a bodybuilder, so
physique and smile and like eyecontact, like demeanor, like how
someone like looks at you andtheir reactions to things so
like when they laugh, who theylook at.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Yeah, just little stuff like that yeah, so yeah,
can a person have several bestfriends or just one?

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
no, bro, you can only .
Okay, you can have a like acrew, you can have like like
some bestie westies right, youknow what I mean the besties
westies but like nah, if you, ifyou're like he's my best friend
, like that needs to be yourlike ride or die.
Like your best friend bro, likehe's gonna be your first man,
he's the guy that like you knowhe, you know you, you seen his

(01:28:49):
dick bro.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
No, but like yeah, it's a requirement of a best
friend these days.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Come on, you know that like inadvertently it's
just a best friend and dude, Idon't, I don't necessarily have.
I'm on the the tight-knit crewside.
I don't have like that oneperson that's like my best
friend, best friend.
But I got like three or fourhomies that um always know my t,
they always know the bs that'sgoing on and um, they just know

(01:29:17):
what's up.
So yeah, good one.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
Would you rather burp , glitter, glitter or fart
fireworks, Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
I feel like fart fireworks, baby, because that's
just fucking, that's Americanbaby.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
That's American man.
There you go.
If you were given a robot, whatwould you program it to do?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Dude my laundry meal prep for me.
Um answer.
Answer some emails.
Uh, basically all the stuffthat, like I that's just
automated, that I can automatemore to make my life better.
Save some time, love that Do.
Aliens exist 100%.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Yeah, yeah.
If you could have anysuperpower, what would it be,
and why?

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Honestly, a mind reader, yeah, a mind reader man,
that's a good one dude.
Because all the other ones are.
So cop out like strength andflying and teleportation and
invisibility.
Yeah, You're messing withsociety too much doing one of
those.
But if you're a mind reader,yeah, you're messing with

(01:30:28):
society.
But like you can do it at yourown discretion and no one sees
the power, oh, shoot, they don'tsee the power You're just
proving it to them and, at theend of the day, they don't even
know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
They don't even know you know, damn Crazy.
If you had the power to makesomeone not famous anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
Who would you choose?
All right, dude, like that one,there's so many hot seat
candidates for that.
Yeah, but like not even to pushhim down further.
But Drake, drake, dude Guysmake their whole personality.
There are some guys you knowthere's that archetype, they
make their whole personality.
There's some guys you knowthere's that archetype, they

(01:31:06):
make their whole personality.
A Drake fan, especially witheverything Drake's just in the
spotlight for and just like Ijust know him as the Degrassi
kid.
So like no hate, I'm not like Ihate him, but like if I could
just defame someone, might aswell completely knocking down
yeah, more than just knock down.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
So what describe what you think your life will look
like when you're 85?

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
oh, so I'm hoping health advancements are to the
point where my skin won't be aswrinkly as people are at 85.
But I'm hoping that at 85, I'mjust with the love of my life.
I have a great family, I'vemade a living to where I can

(01:32:00):
pass down all of my.
I put it this way I want that Ihave a defensive living so that
I can take more offensiveswings at life.
Oh, I like that, you know, justbeing comfortable and being at
a point where my futurelivelihood, whether I have kids
or not, is doing well, and Iknow in my heart that I can, you
know, die at peace Nice.

(01:32:21):
So, yeah, love that you know 85.
And I hope I'm still jacked onthe beach, I don't know, in
italy sipping wine someplace, um, you know.
And if I'm not with the love ofmy life, then hopefully I'm
surrounded by, you know, acouple of good-looking girls or
something or some friends atleast exactly it'd be cool to.
It'd be cool to be, uh, an oldguy and be like we all made it

(01:32:44):
with all your buddies.
Right, you know what I meanright, right, y'all ride off
into the sunset with shoppers.
Oh, you know what I mean.
So, uh, love that dude.
I would hope to do that.
You know 85.
You have so much money.
When you know you're it's yourfriend's birthday and you're
like did you like the rolex Ibought you?
Oh right, you're just at theend of your game.
It's like friend's birthday andyou're like did you like the

(01:33:05):
Rolex I bought you?
Oh right, right, you're just atthe end of your game.
It's like you got nothing else.

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
You're just out there .
You're just out there.
You're just like living, yeah,having a good time, yeah, that's
like that's what I do.
Love that dude.
Well, dude, hey, man, I of yourjourney and I was able to learn
a whole bunch of new stuffabout you and just like your

(01:33:30):
fitness journey, and I think alot of people are going to be
able to take some tips and sometricks from what you said.
Have any last minute forms ofinspiration for anybody or last
minute thoughts that you want tokind of put out there and tell

(01:33:50):
people again, maybe, where theycan find you and how to be a
part of the community thatyou're building now.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Yeah.
So I know I said it within thepodcast, so I'm going to
reiterate it.
So, like this could be like aclip or like you know, whatever
Clap it.
So, and Triple H told DaveBatista this, so it's good to
you know this is all WWE record.
But, like I said, three thingslive, live beneath your means as
you're grinding and gettingyour goals in order and and do

(01:34:23):
shit with a passion, likeliterally like a guns being put
to your head, like you know thedo it tired, do it hungry, do it
sleepy, like seriously, likegive yourself that time, but
just get it done.
Don't lie to yourself, becauseyou're gonna.
If you lie to yourself, you'regonna get used to that and you
don't wanna let yourself down.
That's a good point, right?
And then, third is, treatyourself like an asset, like a

(01:34:44):
commodity, like a stock, like apersonal brand.
I think personal branding isthe future.
I think no one likes thesemanufactured big commercials and
celebrities that push thesebrands.
I think people are readingbetween the lines and realizing
that they want to relate topeople and, um, they want to see
their story within those people, um.

(01:35:06):
But so those are the three.
And then, and then you knowsomething that I'm living my
life by um, because I used to belike, uh, you know, everyone's
just the same, but do lean intothat thing that people make fun
of you for, like, lean into thething that people tell you to

(01:35:29):
stop because they don't thinkthey you can accomplish, because
that's just them thinking theycan't accomplish.
Yeah, um, be exceptional that'swhat it is, because being
exceptional is being of theexception and going down the
road less traveled, and you'llnever know, unless you go down
that road, if, if it's going towork out, so you might as well.

(01:35:50):
Uh, because that's the lifethat you want to live.
If you choose the other one,you're choosing the life that
you're not going to live.
And if you just go down thatunconventional, less traveled,
exceptional route and it worksout for you, well then people
are gonna see.
You know, people only like tosee your accomplishments, not
how you got there, right?

(01:36:11):
Yeah, and that's kind of sad tosay.
No one likes to dig in a mineuntil they know that diamonds
were found there you know, youknow what I'm saying so it's
like.
That's like that persistence andgrit is just if you're going to
be the exception, like leaninto that stuff that you're like
not confident about becausethat's going to make you who you

(01:36:32):
are.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
So man love that yeah .
Great Dude well said, Well said, Dude.
I appreciate you having me man,no problem man.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
No problem.

Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
Appreciate you coming through, tell everybody your um
, your social uh socials.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
One more time so I am , uh, it's ryan x bradshaw.
Uh, okay, on everything, oneverything.
Yeah, on tiktok youtube.
Uh, I do long form stuff onyoutube, like diary style, uh,
kind of experimenting with that.
But, um, yeah, ryan x bradshawand everything.
And yeah, follow me for comedy,motivation, gym advice, dm me,

(01:37:12):
uh, if you need help, send mevideos.
If you need help with your form, I have, um, I'm actually
looking for a couple moreclients.
So nice, I think I'm gonna do agiveaway and have two clients
like like uh, train two peoplefor free for three months, um,
for some testimonials.
So I'll probably do a post inlike, uh, maybe a couple we'll

(01:37:34):
see like a week or so.
I already have one guy, um,that I one of my clients that
he's willing to be a testimonialfor.
But, uh, but yeah so keep a lookout for that dope.

Speaker 1 (01:37:43):
Yeah, love that, love that well, yeah, thank you, man
, I really appreciate you comingthrough and, um, this was
something that I've been lookingforward to uh for a while now,
and I'm glad we were able to uhto make this happen.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Yeah yeah, I get a little bicep flex in there.
You really get it in there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Well, hey, man, I and I appreciate everybody, the
Respecting Perspectives crew outthere for tuning in and until
the next episode, we'll seey'all on the flip side, peace.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Peace.

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