November 25, 2024 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features fitness guru JD Shipley.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Remember kids, a public water fountain is also a homeless
man's Beday. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks so much for
turning on your radio today. A unique week of broadcasting
because it's a holiday week. We're gonna do things a
little differently this week than what we normally do. And
as a matter of fact, my guest at the bottom
of the hour today is my strength training coach. We're
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gonna talk a little bit about health and fitness and
RFK Junior. In this new incoming administration, what actually means
for Americans who want to live long enough to you know,
see their kids graduate from high school, that kind of
things to stick around for that. We'll get to all that,
but before we start with anything else, I feel like
I have to begin the show with this Breitbart dot
Com today reporting on something Kamala Harris did that is
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both good and bad. Apparently it's what she's speculating she
wants to do now here's the bad news. Kamala Harris
is apparently very seriously considering running for president again in
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But the good news is.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Kamala Harris is apparently very seriously considering running for president
again in twenty twenty eight. With the early primary polls
on her side, Democrat party insiders say she is actually
not kidding about this.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
She's gonna try to run again.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The Daily Mail has a report that says this all
is courtesy of well connected Democratic strategists, adding that Kamala's
ambition is the only one thing driving this decision. Despite
some hesitation, Harris has generated a lot of sympathetic reactions
from professional Democrats in Washington. They describe her campaign as
being near flawless. Say she struggled to separate herself from
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Joe in his record. Yeah, you think he kept telling
everyone she gets credit for all my accomplishments. When they
did that, I don't think they considered that he was
going to suck and that was going to hurt her.
Or maybe that's exactly what the plan was. One strategist
compared her to the backup quarterback called in to win
the football game after they are already down. In the
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fourth quarter, he said she did the best she could. Look,
there are pluses and minuses on her side. I'll admit
just being objective here. On the plus side, the Democrat
Party bench is pretty weak right now. Kamala did win
more reported votes than any presidential candidate in history, they claim,
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except for Joe in twenty twenty and Donald Trump in
twenty twenty four, if you believe that, right. So, there's
also the fact that we live in a fifty to
fifty country, and anyone who wins the nomination as a
fifty to fifty chance of winning the presidency.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kamal already came pretty close.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Now on the minus side, idea is I guess everything
else about her, basically.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Her obvious lack of political skills.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
When it comes to anything off scrip, she never improved,
not even a little bit. Repetition did nothing to elevate
her ability to answer questions or deal with an unscripted situation.
It was like watching someone throw a football at a cat.
No matter how many times you throw a football at
a cat, the cat will never get better at catching
that football. I've never seen a human being incapable of
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getting better at something through repetition, but then there was Kamalum.
Now some Democrats seem to understand this. One Democratic communicator
in this report said that her rapid rise from a
district attorney to the Senate and the Vice President of
the United States was partially to blame for her struggle
as a candidate. This is someone who had a meteoric rise.
Her achilles heel has been not having her own political identity.
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It created this blanket of caution that really screwed things
up for her. That's not the word he used, but
you get what I'm driving out. For Harris to win again,
should we need to finally define herself outside of her
ambition and put to rest any questions about what she
really believes in? What does she believe in? Nobody actually knows.
I think another sticking point would be her primary process.
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No one is going to hand her the nomination in
twenty twenty eight like they did this summer. She never
got any primaries the last time there was a Democrat
Party primory, she never got a single vote. Okay, she
earned forty one percent of the Democrat primary support. According
to a Pole She's thirty three points ahead of second
place Gavin Newsom according to a pole, but she flamed
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out in her twenty twenty presidential run before even a
single voter voted. I don't see her making it through
the twenty twenty eight primary. She might very well walk
in as the favorite, but the moment she's challenged, she'll
fall apart again, and primary voters will be reminded of
what a lowsy candidate she is, and they're probably not
going to want to take that risk. Can she improve
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between now and twenty twenty eight? Guys, She's sixty years
old and she hasn't improved yet, so I seriously doubt it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It would be fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
At the very least she could, I don't know, maybe
like adopt a fake British accent. Isn't that the only
accent she didn't adopt during this last election cycle. That way,
she could spew all the same word salad stuff but
actually sounds somewhat intelligent. You ever noticed how when a
British person says something, even when it's stupid, it sounds
kind of smart. Live from Texas Broadcasting across the People's
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Retropic of America.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This is perceives of how it is Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
With Ken Webster Junior Akay producer Kenny keep it here.
Did y'all know fourteen percent of Americans plan to consume
over three thousand calories this Thanksgiving, or, as Jelly Roll
calls them, slackers. Welcome back, my speaking of fitness and health,
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and we're going.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
To talk about that. Coming up. My buddy Jad's coming
here in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He's actually one of my coaches at Starting String, which,
for whatever it's worth, people often when they see me,
we'll say, Kenny, you look very different than you used
to back before you were married or before you were
divorced years ago, three years ago, four years ago, I
was very out of shape and now I'm not. And
so people often, what's your secret. Well, the short answer
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is get divorced. No, I'm just kidding with the but
all jokes aside, divorce does do something people makes people
get a little more serious about the fact that maybe
they're not going to live forever. And I don't know
if it's because of desperation or loneliness or just a
reminder of your own mortality, but that's the thing that
seems to happen to a lot of people. So for me,
what I did was I went to this gym on
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Shepherd here in Houston called Starting Strength, and I completely
transformed myself. I started lifting weight to getting real serious
about it. And after I did that for a few months,
I found that I was starting to see big gains.
And then after a couple of years, I've become a
completely different person. So we'll talk about that coming up.
Stick around. I promise it won't be boring. Even if
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you're not into fitness stuff, that's okay. Apparently MSNBC is
very interested in making you believe that that person that
murdered Lake and Riley is a victim. Jose Obara, I
just read this report from John Nolty detailing how the
illegal alien murderer, the guy that murdered twenty two year
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old nursing student Lake and Riley, poor guy just never
stood a chance. According to MSNBC, they describe it as
political controversy. Now, just so everyone understands what happened and
why any sane person would see this as a legitimate
political controversy.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
The now convicted.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Murderer is an illegal alien and a member of a
notorious street king called Trenda Arragua. This murderer crossed the
US Mexico border near El Paso, Texas September of twenty
twenty two, and at the time, Biden and Kamala Harris
released Ibarra into the US with parole, citing a lack
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of available detention space.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
At the time, there were eight thousand detention beds available. Later,
Ebarra ended up in the sanctuary city of New York City.
He requested and was granted a humanitarian flight to Georgia.
A few months later. While in Georgia, he murdered Lake
and Riley. So Obarra applied for a work permit. It
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was granted in December, even though in July of twenty
twenty three, before securing the work permit, he reported Immigration
and Customs and Enforcement's agent for the ICE agency for
a biometric appointment where he was fingerprinted. The result of
those fingerprints showed a Barra had a prior criminal history,
and on September fourteenth, twenty twenty three, he was arrested
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again for acting in a manner that could injure a child.
Despite all this, he was not prosecuted. His arrest was expunged,
and then in February of twenty twenty four, this monster
brutally stalked and murdered an innocent nursing student.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Out for a run. Guess what her name was. Here's
about a line.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
This guy's a gang member, he's a murderer, and he
was allowed into our country by Democrats. Now he wasn't
a murderer at the time, but at least not that
we know of. But he certainly was a gang member.
He was allowed into the country, he was allowed to
stay in the country, and then he was flown to
his desired location. Democrats let him in, Democrats let him stay.
Democrats let him tour around the country. On your dying taxpayer,
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you paid for this guy to fly to Georgia. Sof
our government's own depraved indifference to the safety of its
citizens is not a political controversy. Nothing is. But this
isn't about jose Oh Barro. It's about MSNBC. Because MSNBC
sees Lake and Riley as a necessary broken egg in
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the social justice Omblin. They are dedicated to flying millions
of unvetted illegals into swing states to create future Democrat voters.
Georgia happened to be one of those places. So here's
MSNBC's had line. On the news that Jose Barra had
been convicted. They said headline. The headline was this quote
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Lake and Riley's killer never stood a chance. End quote.
There's a sub headline too, sub headline quote. For all
the political controversy surrounding Jose Abara, the outcome of the
trial was never in doubt.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's interesting with her own government conspiring against her, the
only person who never stood a chance was I think
Lake and Riley. To even imply this murderer was convicted
for reasons other than the fact that he is guilty
of murder is outrageous. That is staggeringly cruel towards the family.
The family is still dealing with this tragedy. They're still
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trying to heal from it. They'll probably never get better.
If there is any room to point to political shenanigans
in this case, it worked to this murderer's benefit. By
way of Democrat Deborah Gonzales, do you know who that is?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Thank you for asking. Deborah Gonzalez is the local district
attorney guests who helped fund her campaign. She's an elected official. Obviously,
turns out that would be George Soros. She refused to
push for the death penalty in this case because it
might cause anti quote collateral consequences to undocumented defendants.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Wow. Thankfully.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Earlier this month, that heartless sociopath lost her reelection bid
by twenty points to her Republican challenger, so she didn't
get to return to work as the DA but her
last kick in the teeth there for Americans as she
walked out the door, was making sure jose E Barra
doesn't get executed. So the response to this MSNBC article
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was exactly what you think it would be. Notable moderate,
outspoken centrist and former Democrat Joe Rogan said, what the
F is this?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
S It's a good question.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Donald Trump Junior said, you literally can't make up this
level of depravity. These people are sick. The guy is
a murderer, He's an illegal alien that killed an innocent
young woman. But MSNBC would rather go to bat for him.
However much you hate MSNBC, it is not enough. Representative
Diana Harshberger said, Lake and Riley's family gets justice for
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their daughter's death and MSNBC paints the killer as the victim,
an all time low for the legacy. Media Representative Andy
Biggs said woke. MSNBC sympathizes with illegal aliens who murder
young Americans. Do they know who actually never stood a chance?
Lake and Riley never stood a chance. She was targeted
by a vile criminal and fought for her life for
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seventeen agonizing minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's a repulsive headline.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Since the controversy exploded, MSNBC has proved itself corrupt once
again by changing the headline and the subheadline without noting
the change. Isn't that interesting when they change an article
without telling you why they changed the article? No wonder
MSNBC is up for sale right now. They changed the
headline to quote the guilt of Lake and Riley's killer
was never in doubt. For all the political controversy surrounding
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jose O Barrow, the case against him was always a
simple one. Well, they really changed that, didn't they. Their
parent company is Comcast. Comcast recently announced they want to
sell MSNBC and a bunch of other cable networks because,
let's face it, this stuff is all complete trash. Now,
no matter how much you try to hate the corporate media,
you will never hate them half as much as they
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probably hate you. And that's the real lesson here, free
specialies on.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Right here on proceeds Unhappiness Radio, JD.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I play this music when I livestream because it's royalty free.
Because I have access to it, I can legally play
this during a live stream without getting a flag for
a trademark violation. Can we move you over just a little.
It's kind of dark in here too. Would one of
you go over there and turn up the TV the
light to the right of the TV. Just tap it.
It's very delicate. Yeah, your finger, you're right there. Yeah,
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that's it, right there, Just tap that. Give me a
couple of those. That's good. Now we could see JD fantastic.
Hi everybody. I'm Kenny Webster and we are live on
KPRC Radio, but we are also live streaming on the
internet right now with my strength training coaches here JD
from Starting Strength Houston.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And when I.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Tell people that I lift, sometimes they don't believe me.
But then I point to you. I'm like, this is
the guy I lift with. They're like, oh, yeah, that
guy definitely lifts. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
JD.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You are a professional strength training coach, a business m entrepreneur.
You are a Christian, You were recently baptized. You are
a father of many children, some of whom are in
the studio right now. Can we see them on camera?
These cameras aren't even set up right. No, we can't
see them on the cameras are all pointing down at
the ground, unfortunately. But there are children in the room
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with us. So we're gonna be a little more careful
than we usually are about what we say. Not a lot,
but just a little bit, because generally what we say
isn't that provocative. No, No, there's a news story today.
You are a health and fitness guru. That's what you do.
You train people, You understand muscular strength, and right now
RFK Junior is all over the news giving people health
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advice and it's kind of controversial. Liberals are very mad
at RFK Jr. For some of the things he's saying,
and I am not sure why because when you read
what he's actually interested in, this sounds like stuff that
the left would be interested in. RFK Junior will cut
prescription drugs and increase access to marijuana and psychedelics.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Then't that sound like something liberals would have wanted? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Absolutely does, So why are they mad because Orange Man, Evil,
red hat bad.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Is that it? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Maybe maybe it's taking them out of loop and now
they can't make money off of it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know, have you been to a farmer's market in
the Houston area recently?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Not recently, No, it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We have something really interesting happened over the past few years.
Our district attorney is Kim Ogg, and she doesn't prosecute
people for that. So now when you go to the
farmers market, they're selling that there, which is weird because
I thought the farmer's market was where you go to
get like kambucha tea and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I did not. I did not know it was like
a cucumbers selling weed at the farmer's market. Apparently they are,
and mushrooms and not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I will tell you this, kids, don't When people talk
about holistic medicine, I always assumed that meant like like
milk a magnesia or whatever it like.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You know what I mean, herbal tea right, answer with
herbal tea, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I didn't think that they just meant like the kind
of thing you buy in a parking lot at the
Greatville Dead concert. How did we come from one thing
to the other so quickly, Jada.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I don't know, it's all it's got to be whiplash. Maybe.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I mean, we're going from one, you know, from from
one extra to the other. But I don't know about you.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But I'm excited to see what changes come up me too.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Look, I will say this all jokes aside, all objective.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It shouldn't be controversial to suggest the food we're eating,
the drugs were consuming, contain things we don't understand, and
we don't often know what the long term consequences are
of eating this stuff. I do know that when you
look at Americans today, have you ever seen a photo
or a video of what Galveston, Texas looked like back
in the sixties of the seventies. No, it's like a
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bunch of people at the beach in the seventh you
look this up online, they're just Galveston in the sixties.
And then it's a photo of all these skinny people
walking around. Well, why are they so much skinnier? Okay,
probably a couple reasons. Number one, they were smoking. That's
probably part of it, right. But then on the other hand,
they're also eating very different food than us. Their food
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back then, even if it was unhealthy food, it just
had sugar in it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It didn't contain all this corn syrup and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I you don't know. Yeah, well, we don't know. Well
that's the thing. Don't feel bad, JD. No one knows
what's in the food. That's why this is so confusing
to people. We've got twenty different kinds of cancers that
didn't exist thirty years ago, and now now we have
all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Sixty years with the processed food that yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And we didn't know what the long term consequences are.
What's interesting about you, JD. Is Starting Strength, which is
created by Mark Rippittou, one of the most controversial health
and fitness gurus in America. And you're one of the
guys that runs this company, runs runs the You owned
the starts, you owned the gyms in Houston, and essentially
run the brand for him in this part of the country.
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It shouldn't be controversial at all, and yet it is
the only thing that makes it controversial is you guys
tell people eat food and lift.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Weights and that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And nowadays, in this day and age where we tell
people to starve themselves and inject themselves with drugs and
all that you eat food, eat bread, eat meat, eat cheese,
lift weights. That's essentially the gist of this witness program, right.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's gist of it.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I mean, most most people are actually under eating uh
in in in general overall. But but what they are
eating is is absolute crap. And then you know, we've
we've gotten away from hard work and so so that's
replaced by bus string training.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I've made a list of some of the stuff I've
learned since joining your gym, and I didn't bookmarket.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So let me see if I could just find it
real quick. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Uh, fitness is ninety percent mental, ten percent physical. It's
a lot about up here, the physical, the actual bought
that's actually people all think, oh, it's just no, it's
actually a lot about in your brain. When I tell myself,
I can't lift three hundred pounds when I'm doing the
rack pull, I.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Can't lift it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But if I don't actually think about how much it weighs,
I don't have any problem lifting it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Why is that? Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I think I think people get in their heads about
about what you know, what there is to do. And
the way, so the way, the way you get stronger
is you add a little You add a little bit
every time, and so it has to go up and
it has to get heavy. And so you know you're
gonna you're going to be faced with these with these
mental challenges. And and nowadays, you know a lot of people
are hunched over a computer and there's not much there's
not much of a mental challenge in their days. And
so this this just you know, progressively makes makes that easier.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Here's another one.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm really proud of this one when I wrote this
down because I've always been obsessed with how fat I am,
like a lot of Americans. Right, Carbs don't make you fat. Fat,
fats really don't make you fat. The thing that makes
you fat is having too many calories. And if you're
lifting weights all the time, there's really no such thing
as too many calories.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I mean, you can, you can get to to too
many calories, but but too many calories when when you're
when you're lifting weights is is can be a lot
more than what you were you're logistically able to consume.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I see a lot of these people online talking about
how to eat healthy this holiday season. How to make
sure you don't gain twenty pounds this holiday season? I
got to think the way to do that is by
lifting heavy is by lifting heavyweights.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Right, that's exactly right. I have a I have.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I have a big, big sweet tooth. I have never
met a candy bar that I had that I did
not like. Sure, and and uh, you know, one of
the one of the reasons why I train the way
I do is so that I can so that I
can eat the stuff that I that I want to
eat and not feel, you know, not worry about about
being a being a giant double lard and so you know,
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you can't outtrain a bad diet.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
You know that is going to have its consequences, But
at the same time, it does cover a lot of sins.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It does help.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Right, here's another one. I'm really I'm really proud of this.
B m I is BS. We've convinced ourselves your body
bm I. What is that body measurement and body mass index?
It's BS. There's plenty of people out there with a
low BMI that are not healthy, and there's plenty of
people with a high b m I that are very healthy.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Most people don't get that.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, my my BMI puts me at obese and I
think at my heaviest, at my heaviest, which you know, yeah,
it puts me, puts me squarely in the in the
obese category.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
What do you like? And so six ft three two
eighty roughly twenty percent body fat? What do your deadlift? Middle?
Five hundreds, middle, five hundred, five sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay, an unhealthy person can't lift five hundred and fifty pounds,
that would know, that would be crazy, right, So if
we're using BMI as a way to exclusively measure how
healthy someone is, that's a lie. Then it's like, all right,
an unhealthy person can't lift five hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
What's even worse is is, uh, you know, medical professionals
are using that to try to you know, target where
where people need to be in terms of giving giving
you know, giving people weight loss advice, and and uh,
you know it's shooting, it's it's putting people in with
goals that are you know, extremely unhealthy, you know, unhealthy
low body weights to get to right exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, So people don't get it. And I think that's
a really important one. I tell myself this too. Don't
drink your calories. Cutting alcohol intake makes a big difference. Yep,
that's a really important one. Here's another great one. If
you're if you're trying to lose weight and you're not
losing weight, you're eating too much. If you're trying to
gain weight and you're not gaining weight, you're not eating enough.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's so simple, and yet that seems to confuse so
many people.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well with the with the with the losing weight part,
there's a there's a lot it's a lot more uh
complex than that, is that than than than that. Unfortunately,
people have been trying to uh to to lose weight
for you know, for for years and unfortunately you know
it it h Well, it's it's not quite that simple.
The best place to start, though, is with a with
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a strength training program. Uh that's gonna help you build muscles,
canna help help to you know, to to to raise
your your your your base metabolic rate and burn the
calories that you know, burn more calories that you would
just just just sitting around.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
All right, I recently had a good day at the
gym and you told me, Hey, you're having a good
day at the gym, and I told you, yeah, I
did some pre workout today, and you laughed at me.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Like that was not why.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
But actually, the best pre workout is getting a full
night sleep, getting some sun, eating some nutritious food.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
That's the best pre workout, right, Yes, yeah, so that's
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
The best thing that you can do is to is
to recover in between workouts so that you're ready for
for the next one. And so what I what I've
noticed over the last uh not not just a few months,
the last last several months, right, I've I've seen you
come in and and and struggle with some weights and
and then uh, you know what what it looks like
is you've you've prioritized your diet. You've you've prioritized your
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your lifestyle that's outside the gym, right, You've you've put
on put on a few pounds that that have facilitated
you moving past those uh you know, past whatever those
those weights were. And uh and uh you know now
we're moving moving heavier weights even even easier.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So that's that's that's really where the where the effect is.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I was overweight and then I lost weight right when
I started your program because I was doing a lot
of cardio and lifting weights with you guys once or
twice a week. At some point I switch that I
quit doing tons of car I still do cardio. I
run about three miles a day, but I'm not running
six or nine miles a day. I eat more, but
now I'm lifting more weights and I'm gaining weight. But
I feel like I look better, And that's that's the difference.
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That's not what you expect, Like you don't expect to
look better when you gain weight.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
But then being a guy is different from being a girl. Well,
I mean so, so this is gonna apply to both.
But what you know, what you're doing is you're you're
putting on muscle, right, You're you're you're putting on muscle,
muscles more than fat. So even though you are heavier, right,
you know, the muscle looks the way you know the
way it should look. And so your your shoulders are wider,
your back is your your back's got the you know
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that v right, you know, you just your neck is
your neck is bigger, and so you like you look
the way you look the way you should look, and
so it looks better.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's just it's the same with a woman.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Right, A woman's not gonna put on a whole lot
of weight and she she's she's not gonna get bulky.
She's gonna get shapely where she'd be where she should
be shapely, and and uh, you know she's gonna look
like she should look.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, let me ask you a question. God is a
big part of your fitness journey?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Right? That's here, je Did you ever talk about that?
Do you explain that to people? I have before?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It sounds it sounds cooky, So you know it?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I guess I should not be ashamed of the of
the gospel, or I should not be ashamed of ashamed
of my story.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But you know I uh uh, well, you grew up
Catholic and then but now you're more non denominational Christian.
That's fine whatever. Going to church is the most important thing.
You got baptized recently. Why did you decide to do that?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Well, I I had never gotten baptized. And you know
baptism is a public Uh I guess a public uh
confirmation of of of your faith.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And so I initially didn't want to. It was I
had some hesitation.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
My pastorate had had talked to me about it, and
I said, you know what, if I get up on
that stage, get up on that stage, I'm gonna do
something to make it about me, like tell a joke
or something. And one of the uh my, uh the
uh men's ministry pastor at the at the church that
I go to, came up to me and said, well,
if you don't, if you if you're hesitanting for you know,
for doing it right, you're worried about about about doing
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it because of you, then you know, uh, do it
because you're called to be obedient, nothing else.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And that was like a that was like a you know,
a big.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Not stabbing the heart, but that was that was convicting, right,
he realized.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So it's that's exactly exactly right.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
And so yeah, if you're just turning on your radio,
if you're just connecting with us, I'm Kenny Webster. I'm
here right now with my strength training coach j d
from the Starting Strength in Houston. They got a location
in Houston, they got a location in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Stick around, We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Love America, the Government, Listen alive.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Listen now to proceed to Happiness Radio. It's Kenny Webster.
Junior producer Kenny. All right, we're back. That's how that works. Everybody. Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster and I'm here right now.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
J D.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Shipley no connection to the doughnut franchise.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not unfortunately, but unfortunately just name. But it's okay to
eat donuts and go to the gym. That's okay. It
is it is.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Just make sure that you get more meat than donuts.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
It's important to have. That's another thing on my list.
Eat your protein first. I was just reading my things
I've learned about fitness from the last couple of years
of working out at Starting Strength, and one of them
is eat your protein first. Have protein with every meal.
Eat your protein first, and you're less likely to overeat
if you eat carbs first.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
We do things in a weird way as Americans.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
First we have soup, salad, Italians eat a bawl of pasta.
Then they finally bring you a protein. That is probably
not the order we should be eating in, is it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
No, protein's expensive. Start with the chicken breast. Protein is expensive, right,
so good, Well.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I was gonna say, eat the chicken breast, eat the salad,
then maybe a bowl of soup. Then finally you have
some carbs that would probably be and then if you
get full on that, great, you've already had all the
good stuff first.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
But that's not the order we do things.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, well, I think as far as the restaurant industry goes,
and you know, this is speculation on my part, right,
I don't know a whole lot about this, but I
suspect because it's it's expensive, right, you know, fill up
on the on the cheap stuff first, right, right, and
then breads yeah, yeah, and then you know, then you know,
you know, get the piece of meat that you're you
know that you pay for it. It's it's not gonna
fill you up, but you're already full on other stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So, if you think about it, JD, that's actually a
bad business model. If people come into your restaurant and
you give everyone cheap bread to fill up one and
then you ask them to order entrees and stuff, they're
less likely to order a second steak because they're all
filled up on cheap bread that you gave them for free.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
That's a terrible business model. Yeah, I never really thought
of it that way. Why would we do that?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That'd be like if someone showed up to your gym
and you have them work out across the street for
free first and then when you're done, you.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Come on over. Well, so that's the reason why I
don't own a restaurant. So you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
All right, we're gonna do something on this radio show
I have never done before. This has never happened. I've
been doing this radio show now. This radio show has
probably existed since twenty fourteen. Ever interviewed me before. I've
interviewed a lot of people on this radio show, Ted
Cruz and Jeff Landry and Ken Paxton, Yeah, Charlie Daniels.
We've had some big guests on this radio show over
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the years. I have never actually been interviewed.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
So you JD.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Shipley, owner of Starting Strength Houston is Starting Strength Katie.
You're going to ask me questions? Yeah, yeah, I thought it.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I thought it'd be good for you know, for for
this segment, for for you to talk about, uh, you
know what what strength training has done for you. It's uh,
I guess before. Instead of me getting into it, I'll
just uh, I'll just ask you how did you get
started with us?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Okay, So I wanted to take a strength training program
and I wanted to start lifting weights. I didn't know
if I wanted to be in a program. I had
this ski injury, right uh, And so for about a year,
anytime I it wasn't even a serious injury, it just
lingered like it would only bother me when I was
sleeping on my left side, and I love sleeping on
my left side. That's the best side from I don't
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know why we all have a different I like sleeping,
so I couldn't do that. And eight nine months into it,
you actually met my buddy Robberies, who works here at
the radio station, and Rob was like, you know this
guy JD as a gem. He's looking for people in
your line of work that might want to come train
there and learn about fitness and maybe spread the gospel
of starting strength. And when he asked me this question,
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I don't think he thought I would seriously say yes,
but I was like, well, absolutely, it was actually something
I wanted to go do, and it turned out to
benefit me for so many unexpected reasons. The most important
is now I'm probably, as a forty two year old man,
in the best shape of my life. I'm probably healthier, stronger,
my blood pressure, cholesterol, all that stuff. He's probably at
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a healthier level now than it was when I was
thirty or probably even twenty five, I would wager, given
my lifestyle of like staying awake for a long time,
caffeine consuming things I probably ought not consume.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I probably had high blood pressure when I was in
my twenties, and now in my forties, I don't, and
I don't think for most Americans that's how it works.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
So to me, I got it. That was how I got.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Into it, and then immediately, I mean it was probably
a few months of being in the program before I
realized how healthy it was making me. And I'll add
this to that, not nearly as much work as I
was expecting it to be. I thought I was going
to have to work out like crazy all the time,
and you don't. But then the funny thing about that
is once you get into the program, you end up
enjoying it so much.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Now I do work out a lot and.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I and I didn't really figure out I enjoyed doing
that until I was forty, which I gotta think is
the opposite of what happens to most people. Most people
probably get sick of doing this stuff as they get older,
they don't want to lift weights is when they when
they get older.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And that's probably when you should be doing it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
That's that's that's that's exactly when you know, as you
get older, you you you know, you lose you lose
muscle mass, you get you know, you get less fit,
and so it actually means the most to you. I
want to go back to uh to to your your
shoulder injury. Yeah, tell us a little bit more about how,
like what that was, like, what training with it was, like,
(32:59):
how how long until until things started feeling better?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Just give us some more information on that.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Have you ever had a health problem where you knew
something was wrong but you didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
That's what this was like.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
You know, you're like, oh, it clicks when I go
like this, or it's fine unless I run and then
my ankle hurts. I bet there's a lot of people
listening to us talk right now that has one of
those things. It's fine as long as I don't lift
my arm like this, or it's like, well don't you
want to just live your life? And so for me,
I got used to having this pain. I mean it
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wasn't even a serious injury.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I was skiing.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I fell down. Once you get about halfway through your
life JD. I went skateboarding this weekend and I fell
and I haven't done that in twenty years. I fell
down on my butt and it hurts right now. It
didn't used to hurt when I would fall down. I
made a joke. I bought a skateboard this weekend, and
I said, you know, it's funny. When I was fifteen
years old, I could afford to fall down, but I
couldn't afford to buy all this equipment. Now I can
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walk in here in any upgrade any We got these
special ball bearings, the extender, the riser for the trucks.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Whatever you want as yeah, go ahead, throw it all in.
I don't care. He's like, it's an extra thirty bucks,
that's an extra.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I don't care. I can afford it. I can't afford
to fall down. So to me, I had this ski injury.
It was uncomfortable to lay on it. When I wanted
to start taking the program, I asked my doctor. The
first I was like, Hey, I don't know, is this
a good idea? And she was like, honestly, it probably is.
Why don't we do some X rays. We did some
X rays. There's nothing wrong with you your in terms
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of bones or whatever. She's like, you're having a muscular issue.
You had a sprain and it never quite fully healed,
and so honestly, being in the program might be the
best thing for you, going into your gym probably twice
a week, once or twice a week. After about a month,
I forgot I had the injury. And then a couple
months after that it occurred to me somebody was like,
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why'd you take the program? And I had to think
about it. Oh, that's right, I had a ski injury.
That's funny, the whole reason I took the program. I
don't even think about that anymore. The problem just went
away and here we are.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah, that's that's fairly that's fairly common. We have. We
have older you know, older members that come.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
In with with some level of of a you know,
back tweak or you know, back injury that after after
three four weeks of deadlifting, report the report the exact
same thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, yeah, it feels great.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It's you know, it's just funny when you're unhealthy, even
if you're just a little like I was just a
little unhealthy. I would jog and run. I would do
some light workout ski in the winter, you know, get
get out on a nice day, go run around the park.
So it's not like I was doing nothing, yep, but
I wasn't as healthy as I could be. And it's
funny when you reach that point where you're just healthy.
(35:45):
You're healthy, You're not healthy with an asterisk next to it,
or healthy except this one thing. It's funny how much
that changes your life. And we didn't even get into
the mental health stuff. I mean, you know this about me.
I went through a divorce while I was in this
program and there was probably a few weeks there where
I feel like going in and lifting weights was the
only thing convincing me that life was was worth it
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was worth the trouble, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Man, I was I was hesitant to to do this
because I wanted to talk about that, but I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I wasn't quite sure where you know, where you were
on on.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Talking about this stuff. But but since you bring it up, yeah,
let's let's talk about it a little bit. Because I
think people don't realize the the.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
The mental light.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Like you mentioned that the mental aspect of of of
of strength training, right, So so stronger is better, right,
But but you know, people think physical. People think you know, well,
they think physical, and that's all well and good, but
people don't realize that the secondary benefit of getting stronger
is actually one of the one of the primary benefits.
So tell us a little bit more about how I mean,
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did this help you work through what you were going
through with your divorce?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
It was, it was two parts, right.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
You learn a lot about yourself when you're holding hundreds
of pounds above your head. Now, no, granted there's this
there's say fifty mechanisms in place, and it' not like
if I drop it, I'm gonna die, But there's still
something very scary about that of knowing that I have
I have more weight above me right now that I
am holding up than my body.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It's a greater amount of weight than what I.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Am composed of, right, Like, I weigh up like two
hundred pounds buck ninety five yep, and I'm lifting three
hundred and fifty pounds. So there's that, right, the fact
that this is heavier, and that changes you. If you
do that enough times, it changes you. You become not
just a stronger person physically, but a more strong willed person.
You realize, what does Mark Rippittot say, Often, whatever you
think your limitations are, that's not you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Your limitations go well.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Beyond, seldom further further, you know, further than what you
you think they are.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
The other thing I got from the gym was this,
I have friends and i have family, and I'm very
close with all of them. But your friends and your
family are emotionally connected to your marriage.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
They are well, they are, they're in vested in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
And there were times when I and so more often
than not, if you tell them something wrong in your life,
they're going to try to take a neutral position on it,
you know. And there were times at the gym when
I would talk about what was going on with my
personal life with just the couple people that were at
the gym with me that day, lifting weights, friendly people,
like minded individuals, in no way at all emotionally connected
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to what my personal problems were in my life.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
And why, And I articulated it out loud.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Instead of giving me the answer they thought I wanted
to hear, they gave me the answer I needed to hear.
And that was a very sobering experience. But It also
helped me figure out where I needed to be in life,
what I needed to do sure, and how to get
past the problems I was having.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
My life is better in it.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I am healthier, I am happier physically, mentally, all and
you know, God was the biggest part of it. You know,
obviously the support system around me, my friends and all that.
But I got to think, right after those two things,
the close third was starting strength Houston, was lifting weights,
my brothers of Iron and Steel.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
It changed my life, you know what I mean? And
then thank you man.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
So I would I would attribute I would attribute that
last part to to I guess the you know, the
the culture that's that's that's curated at the gym right there.
You know, it's not it's not, uh, coming into the
gym is about the coaching, Yeah, it's it's it's about
it's about getting, you know, getting getting having somebody help
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you through through you know, whatever whatever it is. The
the program is for that day. But a lot of
people at the gym would would be fine training elsewhere,
but they choose not to because because of the community
that that's that that's been developed right right, so that
you know, it's not it's not your meat market. It's
not your you know mirrors with with with people flexing
(39:41):
and you know flexing and flexing in them or you
know posing or stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's right, it's not that kind of jem here. It's
not the kind of gym where you see people in
the mirror. There's no mirrors in your gym. That's the
first thing that blows everyone. Well, why would there.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Be a mirror?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Would distract you? You're supposed to be focusing on the exercise.
Your coach will tell you what to do. Hey, before
we run out of time. There's a lot else to
say about this, but I really want people to emphasize, Uh,
you got stuff going on at Starting Strength Houston and
Starting Strength Katie.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Right now we do for the holidays. What's that we do?
Speaker 4 (40:13):
We have Uh, so we're we're doing the gift of
strength leading into the holidays.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
So if you.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
If you have a loved one that that you know,
you feel what you know this would be great for
then check out the website. Uh, you can google us
on you can google us Starting Strength Houston or Starting
Shrink Katie and uh and uh, you know, get some
gift cards. Uh, get excuse me, get some gift cards there.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Okay, So if people are watching online and they don't
live in the Houston area, they could still take a
class with it.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, that's it. You could do it online. Yep. We
do online coaching as well, Like we have listeners and
you know Carthage.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Or we've uh, we have we have members outside the country.
Yeah right, we've get in Europe, Asia, you know, all
over the place.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
And then of course Starting Strength isn't everywhere in America,
but it's all over Texas. It's all over Florida, Chicago, Memphis, Boston.
What am I leaving out? Oh my gosh, Denver, Denver's
got one.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Denver, Colorado, Springs, Boise, Portland, Portland, of all places, Cincinnati, Columbus,
Birmingham is coming, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta. I love that,
all sorts of also Boston, all sorts of places, Miami. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Hey, I'm Kenny Webster. I want to think my guest
Jadi Shipley, thanks so much for watching. Everybody or listening. Obviously,
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Remember kids, a public water fountain is also a homeless
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turning on your radio today. A unique week of broadcasting
because it's a holiday week. We're gonna do things a
little differently this week than what we normally do. And
as a matter of fact, my guest at the bottom
of the hour today is my strength training coach. We're
(00:48):
gonna talk a little bit about health and fitness and
RFK Junior. In this new incoming administration, what actually means
for Americans who want to live long enough to you know,
see their kids graduate from high school, that kind of
things to stick around for that. We'll get to all that,
but before we start with anything else, I feel like
I have to begin the show with this Breitbart dot
Com today reporting on something Kamala Harris did that is
(01:11):
both good and bad. Apparently it's what she's speculating she
wants to do now here's the bad news. Kamala Harris
is apparently very seriously considering running for president again in
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But the good news is.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Kamala Harris is apparently very seriously considering running for president
again in twenty twenty eight. With the early primary polls
on her side, Democrat party insiders say she is actually
not kidding about this.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
She's gonna try to run again.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The Daily Mail has a report that says this all
is courtesy of well connected Democratic strategists, adding that Kamala's
ambition is the only one thing driving this decision. Despite
some hesitation, Harris has generated a lot of sympathetic reactions
from professional Democrats in Washington. They describe her campaign as
being near flawless. Say she struggled to separate herself from
(02:02):
Joe in his record. Yeah, you think he kept telling
everyone she gets credit for all my accomplishments. When they
did that, I don't think they considered that he was
going to suck and that was going to hurt her.
Or maybe that's exactly what the plan was. One strategist
compared her to the backup quarterback called in to win
the football game after they are already down. In the
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fourth quarter, he said she did the best she could. Look,
there are pluses and minuses on her side. I'll admit
just being objective here. On the plus side, the Democrat
Party bench is pretty weak right now. Kamala did win
more reported votes than any presidential candidate in history, they claim,
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except for Joe in twenty twenty and Donald Trump in
twenty twenty four, if you believe that, right. So, there's
also the fact that we live in a fifty to
fifty country, and anyone who wins the nomination as a
fifty to fifty chance of winning the presidency.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kamal already came pretty close.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Now on the minus side, idea is I guess everything
else about her, basically.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Her obvious lack of political skills.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
When it comes to anything off scrip, she never improved,
not even a little bit. Repetition did nothing to elevate
her ability to answer questions or deal with an unscripted situation.
It was like watching someone throw a football at a cat.
No matter how many times you throw a football at
a cat, the cat will never get better at catching
that football. I've never seen a human being incapable of
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getting better at something through repetition, but then there was Kamalum.
Now some Democrats seem to understand this. One Democratic communicator
in this report said that her rapid rise from a
district attorney to the Senate and the Vice President of
the United States was partially to blame for her struggle
as a candidate. This is someone who had a meteoric rise.
Her achilles heel has been not having her own political identity.
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It created this blanket of caution that really screwed things
up for her. That's not the word he used, but
you get what I'm driving out. For Harris to win again,
should we need to finally define herself outside of her
ambition and put to rest any questions about what she
really believes in? What does she believe in? Nobody actually knows.
I think another sticking point would be her primary process.
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No one is going to hand her the nomination in
twenty twenty eight like they did this summer. She never
got any primaries the last time there was a Democrat
Party primory, she never got a single vote. Okay, she
earned forty one percent of the Democrat primary support. According
to a Pole She's thirty three points ahead of second
place Gavin Newsom according to a pole, but she flamed
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out in her twenty twenty presidential run before even a
single voter voted. I don't see her making it through
the twenty twenty eight primary. She might very well walk
in as the favorite, but the moment she's challenged, she'll
fall apart again, and primary voters will be reminded of
what a lowsy candidate she is, and they're probably not
going to want to take that risk. Can she improve
(04:56):
between now and twenty twenty eight? Guys, She's sixty years
old and she hasn't improved yet, so I seriously doubt it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It would be fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
At the very least she could, I don't know, maybe
like adopt a fake British accent. Isn't that the only
accent she didn't adopt during this last election cycle. That way,
she could spew all the same word salad stuff but
actually sounds somewhat intelligent. You ever noticed how when a
British person says something, even when it's stupid, it sounds
kind of smart. Live from Texas Broadcasting across the People's
(05:28):
Retropic of America.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
This is perceives of how it is Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
With Ken Webster Junior Akay producer Kenny keep it here.
Did y'all know fourteen percent of Americans plan to consume
over three thousand calories this Thanksgiving, or, as Jelly Roll
calls them, slackers. Welcome back, my speaking of fitness and health,
(05:52):
and we're going.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
To talk about that. Coming up. My buddy Jad's coming
here in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He's actually one of my coaches at Starting String, which,
for whatever it's worth, people often when they see me,
we'll say, Kenny, you look very different than you used
to back before you were married or before you were
divorced years ago, three years ago, four years ago, I
was very out of shape and now I'm not. And
so people often, what's your secret. Well, the short answer
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is get divorced. No, I'm just kidding with the but
all jokes aside, divorce does do something people makes people
get a little more serious about the fact that maybe
they're not going to live forever. And I don't know
if it's because of desperation or loneliness or just a
reminder of your own mortality, but that's the thing that
seems to happen to a lot of people. So for me,
what I did was I went to this gym on
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Shepherd here in Houston called Starting Strength, and I completely
transformed myself. I started lifting weight to getting real serious
about it. And after I did that for a few months,
I found that I was starting to see big gains.
And then after a couple of years, I've become a
completely different person. So we'll talk about that coming up.
Stick around. I promise it won't be boring. Even if
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you're not into fitness stuff, that's okay. Apparently MSNBC is
very interested in making you believe that that person that
murdered Lake and Riley is a victim. Jose Obara, I
just read this report from John Nolty detailing how the
illegal alien murderer, the guy that murdered twenty two year
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old nursing student Lake and Riley, poor guy just never
stood a chance. According to MSNBC, they describe it as
political controversy. Now, just so everyone understands what happened and
why any sane person would see this as a legitimate
political controversy.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
The now convicted.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Murderer is an illegal alien and a member of a
notorious street king called Trenda Arragua. This murderer crossed the
US Mexico border near El Paso, Texas September of twenty
twenty two, and at the time, Biden and Kamala Harris
released Ibarra into the US with parole, citing a lack
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of available detention space.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
At the time, there were eight thousand detention beds available. Later,
Ebarra ended up in the sanctuary city of New York City.
He requested and was granted a humanitarian flight to Georgia.
A few months later. While in Georgia, he murdered Lake
and Riley. So Obarra applied for a work permit. It
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was granted in December, even though in July of twenty
twenty three, before securing the work permit, he reported Immigration
and Customs and Enforcement's agent for the ICE agency for
a biometric appointment where he was fingerprinted. The result of
those fingerprints showed a Barra had a prior criminal history,
and on September fourteenth, twenty twenty three, he was arrested
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again for acting in a manner that could injure a child.
Despite all this, he was not prosecuted. His arrest was expunged,
and then in February of twenty twenty four, this monster
brutally stalked and murdered an innocent nursing student.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Out for a run. Guess what her name was. Here's
about a line.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
This guy's a gang member, he's a murderer, and he
was allowed into our country by Democrats. Now he wasn't
a murderer at the time, but at least not that
we know of. But he certainly was a gang member.
He was allowed into the country, he was allowed to
stay in the country, and then he was flown to
his desired location. Democrats let him in, Democrats let him stay.
Democrats let him tour around the country. On your dying taxpayer,
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you paid for this guy to fly to Georgia. Sof
our government's own depraved indifference to the safety of its
citizens is not a political controversy. Nothing is. But this
isn't about jose Oh Barro. It's about MSNBC. Because MSNBC
sees Lake and Riley as a necessary broken egg in
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the social justice Omblin. They are dedicated to flying millions
of unvetted illegals into swing states to create future Democrat voters.
Georgia happened to be one of those places. So here's
MSNBC's had line. On the news that Jose Barra had
been convicted. They said headline. The headline was this quote
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Lake and Riley's killer never stood a chance. End quote.
There's a sub headline too, sub headline quote. For all
the political controversy surrounding Jose Abara, the outcome of the
trial was never in doubt.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's interesting with her own government conspiring against her, the
only person who never stood a chance was I think
Lake and Riley. To even imply this murderer was convicted
for reasons other than the fact that he is guilty
of murder is outrageous. That is staggeringly cruel towards the family.
The family is still dealing with this tragedy. They're still
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trying to heal from it. They'll probably never get better.
If there is any room to point to political shenanigans
in this case, it worked to this murderer's benefit. By
way of Democrat Deborah Gonzales, do you know who that is?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Thank you for asking. Deborah Gonzalez is the local district
attorney guests who helped fund her campaign. She's an elected official. Obviously,
turns out that would be George Soros. She refused to
push for the death penalty in this case because it
might cause anti quote collateral consequences to undocumented defendants.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Wow. Thankfully.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Earlier this month, that heartless sociopath lost her reelection bid
by twenty points to her Republican challenger, so she didn't
get to return to work as the DA but her
last kick in the teeth there for Americans as she
walked out the door, was making sure jose E Barra
doesn't get executed. So the response to this MSNBC article
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was exactly what you think it would be. Notable moderate,
outspoken centrist and former Democrat Joe Rogan said, what the
F is this?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
S It's a good question.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Donald Trump Junior said, you literally can't make up this
level of depravity. These people are sick. The guy is
a murderer, He's an illegal alien that killed an innocent
young woman. But MSNBC would rather go to bat for him.
However much you hate MSNBC, it is not enough. Representative
Diana Harshberger said, Lake and Riley's family gets justice for
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their daughter's death and MSNBC paints the killer as the victim,
an all time low for the legacy. Media Representative Andy
Biggs said woke. MSNBC sympathizes with illegal aliens who murder
young Americans. Do they know who actually never stood a chance?
Lake and Riley never stood a chance. She was targeted
by a vile criminal and fought for her life for
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seventeen agonizing minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's a repulsive headline.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Since the controversy exploded, MSNBC has proved itself corrupt once
again by changing the headline and the subheadline without noting
the change. Isn't that interesting when they change an article
without telling you why they changed the article? No wonder
MSNBC is up for sale right now. They changed the
headline to quote the guilt of Lake and Riley's killer
was never in doubt. For all the political controversy surrounding
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jose O Barrow, the case against him was always a
simple one. Well, they really changed that, didn't they. Their
parent company is Comcast. Comcast recently announced they want to
sell MSNBC and a bunch of other cable networks because,
let's face it, this stuff is all complete trash. Now,
no matter how much you try to hate the corporate media,
you will never hate them half as much as they
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probably hate you. And that's the real lesson here, free
specialies on.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Right here on proceeds Unhappiness Radio, JD.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I play this music when I livestream because it's royalty free.
Because I have access to it, I can legally play
this during a live stream without getting a flag for
a trademark violation. Can we move you over just a little.
It's kind of dark in here too. Would one of
you go over there and turn up the TV the
light to the right of the TV. Just tap it.
It's very delicate. Yeah, your finger, you're right there. Yeah,
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that's it, right there, Just tap that. Give me a
couple of those. That's good. Now we could see JD fantastic.
Hi everybody. I'm Kenny Webster and we are live on
KPRC Radio, but we are also live streaming on the
internet right now with my strength training coaches here JD
from Starting Strength Houston.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
And when I.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Tell people that I lift, sometimes they don't believe me.
But then I point to you. I'm like, this is
the guy I lift with. They're like, oh, yeah, that
guy definitely lifts. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
JD.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You are a professional strength training coach, a business m entrepreneur.
You are a Christian, You were recently baptized. You are
a father of many children, some of whom are in
the studio right now. Can we see them on camera?
These cameras aren't even set up right. No, we can't
see them on the cameras are all pointing down at
the ground, unfortunately. But there are children in the room
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with us. So we're gonna be a little more careful
than we usually are about what we say. Not a lot,
but just a little bit, because generally what we say
isn't that provocative. No, No, there's a news story today.
You are a health and fitness guru. That's what you do.
You train people, You understand muscular strength, and right now
RFK Junior is all over the news giving people health
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advice and it's kind of controversial. Liberals are very mad
at RFK Jr. For some of the things he's saying,
and I am not sure why because when you read
what he's actually interested in, this sounds like stuff that
the left would be interested in. RFK Junior will cut
prescription drugs and increase access to marijuana and psychedelics.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Then't that sound like something liberals would have wanted? Exactly?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Absolutely does, So why are they mad because Orange Man, Evil,
red hat bad.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Is that it? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Maybe maybe it's taking them out of loop and now
they can't make money off of it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know, have you been to a farmer's market in
the Houston area recently?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Not recently, No, it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
We have something really interesting happened over the past few years.
Our district attorney is Kim Ogg, and she doesn't prosecute
people for that. So now when you go to the
farmers market, they're selling that there, which is weird because
I thought the farmer's market was where you go to
get like kambucha tea and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I did not. I did not know it was like
a cucumbers selling weed at the farmer's market. Apparently they are,
and mushrooms and not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I will tell you this, kids, don't When people talk
about holistic medicine, I always assumed that meant like like
milk a magnesia or whatever it like.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You know what I mean, herbal tea right, answer with
herbal tea, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I didn't think that they just meant like the kind
of thing you buy in a parking lot at the
Greatville Dead concert. How did we come from one thing
to the other so quickly, Jada.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I don't know, it's all it's got to be whiplash. Maybe.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I mean, we're going from one, you know, from from
one extra to the other. But I don't know about you.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But I'm excited to see what changes come up me too.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Look, I will say this all jokes aside, all objective.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It shouldn't be controversial to suggest the food we're eating,
the drugs were consuming, contain things we don't understand, and
we don't often know what the long term consequences are
of eating this stuff. I do know that when you
look at Americans today, have you ever seen a photo
or a video of what Galveston, Texas looked like back
in the sixties of the seventies. No, it's like a
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bunch of people at the beach in the seventh you
look this up online, they're just Galveston in the sixties.
And then it's a photo of all these skinny people
walking around. Well, why are they so much skinnier? Okay,
probably a couple reasons. Number one, they were smoking. That's
probably part of it, right. But then on the other hand,
they're also eating very different food than us. Their food
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back then, even if it was unhealthy food, it just
had sugar in it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It didn't contain all this corn syrup and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I you don't know. Yeah, well, we don't know. Well
that's the thing. Don't feel bad, JD. No one knows
what's in the food. That's why this is so confusing
to people. We've got twenty different kinds of cancers that
didn't exist thirty years ago, and now now we have
all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Sixty years with the processed food that yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And we didn't know what the long term consequences are.
What's interesting about you, JD. Is Starting Strength, which is
created by Mark Rippittou, one of the most controversial health
and fitness gurus in America. And you're one of the
guys that runs this company, runs runs the You owned
the starts, you owned the gyms in Houston, and essentially
run the brand for him in this part of the country.
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It shouldn't be controversial at all, and yet it is
the only thing that makes it controversial is you guys
tell people eat food and lift.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Weights and that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And nowadays, in this day and age where we tell
people to starve themselves and inject themselves with drugs and
all that you eat food, eat bread, eat meat, eat cheese,
lift weights. That's essentially the gist of this witness program, right.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's gist of it.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I mean, most most people are actually under eating uh
in in in general overall. But but what they are
eating is is absolute crap. And then you know, we've
we've gotten away from hard work and so so that's
replaced by bus string training.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I've made a list of some of the stuff I've
learned since joining your gym, and I didn't bookmarket.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So let me see if I could just find it
real quick. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Uh, fitness is ninety percent mental, ten percent physical. It's
a lot about up here, the physical, the actual bought
that's actually people all think, oh, it's just no, it's
actually a lot about in your brain. When I tell myself,
I can't lift three hundred pounds when I'm doing the
rack pull, I.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Can't lift it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But if I don't actually think about how much it weighs,
I don't have any problem lifting it.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Why is that? Uh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I think I think people get in their heads about
about what you know, what there is to do. And
the way, so the way, the way you get stronger
is you add a little You add a little bit
every time, and so it has to go up and
it has to get heavy. And so you know you're
gonna you're going to be faced with these with these
mental challenges. And and nowadays, you know a lot of people
are hunched over a computer and there's not much there's
not much of a mental challenge in their days. And
so this this just you know, progressively makes makes that easier.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Here's another one.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm really proud of this one when I wrote this
down because I've always been obsessed with how fat I am,
like a lot of Americans. Right, Carbs don't make you fat. Fat,
fats really don't make you fat. The thing that makes
you fat is having too many calories. And if you're
lifting weights all the time, there's really no such thing
as too many calories.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I mean, you can, you can get to to too
many calories, but but too many calories when when you're
when you're lifting weights is is can be a lot
more than what you were you're logistically able to consume.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I see a lot of these people online talking about
how to eat healthy this holiday season. How to make
sure you don't gain twenty pounds this holiday season? I
got to think the way to do that is by
lifting heavy is by lifting heavyweights.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Right, that's exactly right. I have a I have.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I have a big, big sweet tooth. I have never
met a candy bar that I had that I did
not like. Sure, and and uh, you know, one of
the one of the reasons why I train the way
I do is so that I can so that I
can eat the stuff that I that I want to
eat and not feel, you know, not worry about about
being a being a giant double lard and so you know,
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you can't outtrain a bad diet.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
You know that is going to have its consequences, But
at the same time, it does cover a lot of sins.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It does help.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Right, here's another one. I'm really I'm really proud of this.
B m I is BS. We've convinced ourselves your body
bm I. What is that body measurement and body mass index?
It's BS. There's plenty of people out there with a
low BMI that are not healthy, and there's plenty of
people with a high b m I that are very healthy.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Most people don't get that.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, my my BMI puts me at obese and I
think at my heaviest, at my heaviest, which you know, yeah,
it puts me, puts me squarely in the in the
obese category.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
What do you like? And so six ft three two
eighty roughly twenty percent body fat? What do your deadlift? Middle?
Five hundreds, middle, five hundred, five sixty.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay, an unhealthy person can't lift five hundred and fifty pounds,
that would know, that would be crazy, right, So if
we're using BMI as a way to exclusively measure how
healthy someone is, that's a lie. Then it's like, all right,
an unhealthy person can't lift five hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
What's even worse is is, uh, you know, medical professionals
are using that to try to you know, target where
where people need to be in terms of giving giving
you know, giving people weight loss advice, and and uh,
you know it's shooting, it's it's putting people in with
goals that are you know, extremely unhealthy, you know, unhealthy
low body weights to get to right exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, So people don't get it. And I think that's
a really important one. I tell myself this too. Don't
drink your calories. Cutting alcohol intake makes a big difference. Yep,
that's a really important one. Here's another great one. If
you're if you're trying to lose weight and you're not
losing weight, you're eating too much. If you're trying to
gain weight and you're not gaining weight, you're not eating enough.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's so simple, and yet that seems to confuse so
many people.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well with the with the with the losing weight part,
there's a there's a lot it's a lot more uh
complex than that, is that than than than that. Unfortunately,
people have been trying to uh to to lose weight
for you know, for for years and unfortunately you know
it it h Well, it's it's not quite that simple.
The best place to start, though, is with a with
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a strength training program. Uh that's gonna help you build muscles,
canna help help to you know, to to to raise
your your your your base metabolic rate and burn the
calories that you know, burn more calories that you would
just just just sitting around.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
All right, I recently had a good day at the
gym and you told me, Hey, you're having a good
day at the gym, and I told you, yeah, I
did some pre workout today, and you laughed at me.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Like that was not why.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
But actually, the best pre workout is getting a full
night sleep, getting some sun, eating some nutritious food.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
That's the best pre workout, right, Yes, yeah, so that's
exactly right.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
The best thing that you can do is to is
to recover in between workouts so that you're ready for
for the next one. And so what I what I've
noticed over the last uh not not just a few months,
the last last several months, right, I've I've seen you
come in and and and struggle with some weights and
and then uh, you know what what it looks like
is you've you've prioritized your diet. You've you've prioritized your
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your lifestyle that's outside the gym, right, You've you've put
on put on a few pounds that that have facilitated
you moving past those uh you know, past whatever those
those weights were. And uh and uh you know now
we're moving moving heavier weights even even easier.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
So that's that's that's really where the where the effect is.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I was overweight and then I lost weight right when
I started your program because I was doing a lot
of cardio and lifting weights with you guys once or
twice a week. At some point I switch that I
quit doing tons of car I still do cardio. I
run about three miles a day, but I'm not running
six or nine miles a day. I eat more, but
now I'm lifting more weights and I'm gaining weight. But
I feel like I look better, And that's that's the difference.
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That's not what you expect, Like you don't expect to
look better when you gain weight.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
But then being a guy is different from being a girl. Well,
I mean so, so this is gonna apply to both.
But what you know, what you're doing is you're you're
putting on muscle, right, You're you're you're putting on muscle,
muscles more than fat. So even though you are heavier, right,
you know, the muscle looks the way you know the
way it should look. And so your your shoulders are wider,
your back is your your back's got the you know
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that v right, you know, you just your neck is
your neck is bigger, and so you like you look
the way you look the way you should look, and
so it looks better.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's just it's the same with a woman.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Right, A woman's not gonna put on a whole lot
of weight and she she's she's not gonna get bulky.
She's gonna get shapely where she'd be where she should
be shapely, and and uh, you know she's gonna look
like she should look.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, let me ask you a question. God is a
big part of your fitness journey?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Right? That's here, je Did you ever talk about that?
Do you explain that to people? I have before?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It sounds it sounds cooky, So you know it?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I guess I should not be ashamed of the of
the gospel, or I should not be ashamed of ashamed
of my story.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But you know I uh uh, well, you grew up
Catholic and then but now you're more non denominational Christian.
That's fine whatever. Going to church is the most important thing.
You got baptized recently. Why did you decide to do that?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Well, I I had never gotten baptized. And you know
baptism is a public Uh I guess a public uh
confirmation of of of your faith.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And so I initially didn't want to. It was I
had some hesitation.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
My pastorate had had talked to me about it, and
I said, you know what, if I get up on
that stage, get up on that stage, I'm gonna do
something to make it about me, like tell a joke
or something. And one of the uh my, uh the
uh men's ministry pastor at the at the church that
I go to, came up to me and said, well,
if you don't, if you if you're hesitanting for you know,
for doing it right, you're worried about about about doing
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it because of you, then you know, uh, do it
because you're called to be obedient, nothing else.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And that was like a that was like a you know,
a big.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Not stabbing the heart, but that was that was convicting, right,
he realized.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So it's that's exactly exactly right.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
And so yeah, if you're just turning on your radio,
if you're just connecting with us, I'm Kenny Webster. I'm
here right now with my strength training coach j d
from the Starting Strength in Houston. They got a location
in Houston, they got a location in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Stick around, We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
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Speaker 3 (27:42):
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Junior producer Kenny. All right, we're back. That's how that works. Everybody. Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster and I'm here right now.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
J D.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Shipley no connection to the doughnut franchise.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not unfortunately, but unfortunately just name. But it's okay to
eat donuts and go to the gym. That's okay. It
is it is.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Just make sure that you get more meat than donuts.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
It's important to have. That's another thing on my list.
Eat your protein first. I was just reading my things
I've learned about fitness from the last couple of years
of working out at Starting Strength, and one of them
is eat your protein first. Have protein with every meal.
Eat your protein first, and you're less likely to overeat
if you eat carbs first.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
We do things in a weird way as Americans.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
First we have soup, salad, Italians eat a bawl of pasta.
Then they finally bring you a protein. That is probably
not the order we should be eating in, is it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
No, protein's expensive. Start with the chicken breast. Protein is expensive, right,
so good, Well.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I was gonna say, eat the chicken breast, eat the salad,
then maybe a bowl of soup. Then finally you have
some carbs that would probably be and then if you
get full on that, great, you've already had all the
good stuff first.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
But that's not the order we do things.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, well, I think as far as the restaurant industry goes,
and you know, this is speculation on my part, right,
I don't know a whole lot about this, but I
suspect because it's it's expensive, right, you know, fill up
on the on the cheap stuff first, right, right, and
then breads yeah, yeah, and then you know, then you know,
you know, get the piece of meat that you're you
know that you pay for it. It's it's not gonna
fill you up, but you're already full on other stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So, if you think about it, JD, that's actually a
bad business model. If people come into your restaurant and
you give everyone cheap bread to fill up one and
then you ask them to order entrees and stuff, they're
less likely to order a second steak because they're all
filled up on cheap bread that you gave them for free.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
That's a terrible business model. Yeah, I never really thought
of it that way. Why would we do that?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That'd be like if someone showed up to your gym
and you have them work out across the street for
free first and then when you're done, you.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Come on over. Well, so that's the reason why I
don't own a restaurant. So you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
All right, we're gonna do something on this radio show
I have never done before. This has never happened. I've
been doing this radio show now. This radio show has
probably existed since twenty fourteen. Ever interviewed me before. I've
interviewed a lot of people on this radio show, Ted
Cruz and Jeff Landry and Ken Paxton, Yeah, Charlie Daniels.
We've had some big guests on this radio show over
(30:11):
the years. I have never actually been interviewed.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
So you JD.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Shipley, owner of Starting Strength Houston is Starting Strength Katie.
You're going to ask me questions? Yeah, yeah, I thought it.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I thought it'd be good for you know, for for
this segment, for for you to talk about, uh, you
know what what strength training has done for you. It's uh,
I guess before. Instead of me getting into it, I'll
just uh, I'll just ask you how did you get
started with us?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Okay, So I wanted to take a strength training program
and I wanted to start lifting weights. I didn't know
if I wanted to be in a program. I had
this ski injury, right uh, And so for about a year,
anytime I it wasn't even a serious injury, it just
lingered like it would only bother me when I was
sleeping on my left side, and I love sleeping on
my left side. That's the best side from I don't
(30:56):
know why we all have a different I like sleeping,
so I couldn't do that. And eight nine months into it,
you actually met my buddy Robberies, who works here at
the radio station, and Rob was like, you know this
guy JD as a gem. He's looking for people in
your line of work that might want to come train
there and learn about fitness and maybe spread the gospel
of starting strength. And when he asked me this question,
(31:18):
I don't think he thought I would seriously say yes,
but I was like, well, absolutely, it was actually something
I wanted to go do, and it turned out to
benefit me for so many unexpected reasons. The most important
is now I'm probably, as a forty two year old man,
in the best shape of my life. I'm probably healthier, stronger,
my blood pressure, cholesterol, all that stuff. He's probably at
(31:40):
a healthier level now than it was when I was
thirty or probably even twenty five, I would wager, given
my lifestyle of like staying awake for a long time,
caffeine consuming things I probably ought not consume.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I probably had high blood pressure when I was in
my twenties, and now in my forties, I don't, and
I don't think for most Americans that's how it works.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
So to me, I got it. That was how I got.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Into it, and then immediately, I mean it was probably
a few months of being in the program before I
realized how healthy it was making me. And I'll add
this to that, not nearly as much work as I
was expecting it to be. I thought I was going
to have to work out like crazy all the time,
and you don't. But then the funny thing about that
is once you get into the program, you end up
enjoying it so much.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Now I do work out a lot and.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I and I didn't really figure out I enjoyed doing
that until I was forty, which I gotta think is
the opposite of what happens to most people. Most people
probably get sick of doing this stuff as they get older,
they don't want to lift weights is when they when
they get older.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
And that's probably when you should be doing it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
That's that's that's that's exactly when you know, as you
get older, you you you know, you lose you lose
muscle mass, you get you know, you get less fit,
and so it actually means the most to you. I
want to go back to uh to to your your
shoulder injury. Yeah, tell us a little bit more about how,
like what that was, like, what training with it was, like,
(32:59):
how how long until until things started feeling better?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Just give us some more information on that.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Have you ever had a health problem where you knew
something was wrong but you didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
That's what this was like.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
You know, you're like, oh, it clicks when I go
like this, or it's fine unless I run and then
my ankle hurts. I bet there's a lot of people
listening to us talk right now that has one of
those things. It's fine as long as I don't lift
my arm like this, or it's like, well don't you
want to just live your life? And so for me,
I got used to having this pain. I mean it
(33:29):
wasn't even a serious injury.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I was skiing.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I fell down. Once you get about halfway through your
life JD. I went skateboarding this weekend and I fell
and I haven't done that in twenty years. I fell
down on my butt and it hurts right now. It
didn't used to hurt when I would fall down. I
made a joke. I bought a skateboard this weekend, and
I said, you know, it's funny. When I was fifteen
years old, I could afford to fall down, but I
couldn't afford to buy all this equipment. Now I can
(33:54):
walk in here in any upgrade any We got these
special ball bearings, the extender, the riser for the trucks.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Whatever you want as yeah, go ahead, throw it all in.
I don't care. He's like, it's an extra thirty bucks,
that's an extra.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I don't care. I can afford it. I can't afford
to fall down. So to me, I had this ski injury.
It was uncomfortable to lay on it. When I wanted
to start taking the program, I asked my doctor. The
first I was like, Hey, I don't know, is this
a good idea? And she was like, honestly, it probably is.
Why don't we do some X rays. We did some
X rays. There's nothing wrong with you your in terms
(34:29):
of bones or whatever. She's like, you're having a muscular issue.
You had a sprain and it never quite fully healed,
and so honestly, being in the program might be the
best thing for you, going into your gym probably twice
a week, once or twice a week. After about a month,
I forgot I had the injury. And then a couple
months after that it occurred to me somebody was like,
(34:51):
why'd you take the program? And I had to think
about it. Oh, that's right, I had a ski injury.
That's funny, the whole reason I took the program. I
don't even think about that anymore. The problem just went
away and here we are.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah, that's that's fairly that's fairly common. We have. We
have older you know, older members that come.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
In with with some level of of a you know,
back tweak or you know, back injury that after after
three four weeks of deadlifting, report the report the exact
same thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, yeah, it feels great.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It's you know, it's just funny when you're unhealthy, even
if you're just a little like I was just a
little unhealthy. I would jog and run. I would do
some light workout ski in the winter, you know, get
get out on a nice day, go run around the park.
So it's not like I was doing nothing, yep, but
I wasn't as healthy as I could be. And it's
funny when you reach that point where you're just healthy.
(35:45):
You're healthy, You're not healthy with an asterisk next to it,
or healthy except this one thing. It's funny how much
that changes your life. And we didn't even get into
the mental health stuff. I mean, you know this about me.
I went through a divorce while I was in this
program and there was probably a few weeks there where
I feel like going in and lifting weights was the
only thing convincing me that life was was worth it
(36:06):
was worth the trouble, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Man, I was I was hesitant to to do this
because I wanted to talk about that, but I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I wasn't quite sure where you know, where you were
on on.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Talking about this stuff. But but since you bring it up, yeah,
let's let's talk about it a little bit. Because I
think people don't realize the the.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
The mental light.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Like you mentioned that the mental aspect of of of
of strength training, right, So so stronger is better, right,
But but you know, people think physical. People think you know, well,
they think physical, and that's all well and good, but
people don't realize that the secondary benefit of getting stronger
is actually one of the one of the primary benefits.
So tell us a little bit more about how I mean,
(36:48):
did this help you work through what you were going
through with your divorce?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
It was, it was two parts, right.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
You learn a lot about yourself when you're holding hundreds
of pounds above your head. Now, no, granted there's this
there's say fifty mechanisms in place, and it' not like
if I drop it, I'm gonna die, But there's still
something very scary about that of knowing that I have
I have more weight above me right now that I
am holding up than my body.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It's a greater amount of weight than what I.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Am composed of, right, Like, I weigh up like two
hundred pounds buck ninety five yep, and I'm lifting three
hundred and fifty pounds. So there's that, right, the fact
that this is heavier, and that changes you. If you
do that enough times, it changes you. You become not
just a stronger person physically, but a more strong willed person.
You realize, what does Mark Rippittot say, Often, whatever you
think your limitations are, that's not you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Your limitations go well.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Beyond, seldom further further, you know, further than what you
you think they are.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
The other thing I got from the gym was this,
I have friends and i have family, and I'm very
close with all of them. But your friends and your
family are emotionally connected to your marriage.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
They are well, they are, they're in vested in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
And there were times when I and so more often
than not, if you tell them something wrong in your life,
they're going to try to take a neutral position on it,
you know. And there were times at the gym when
I would talk about what was going on with my
personal life with just the couple people that were at
the gym with me that day, lifting weights, friendly people,
like minded individuals, in no way at all emotionally connected
(38:18):
to what my personal problems were in my life.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
And why, And I articulated it out loud.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Instead of giving me the answer they thought I wanted
to hear, they gave me the answer I needed to hear.
And that was a very sobering experience. But It also
helped me figure out where I needed to be in life,
what I needed to do sure, and how to get
past the problems I was having.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
My life is better in it.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I am healthier, I am happier physically, mentally, all and
you know, God was the biggest part of it. You know,
obviously the support system around me, my friends and all that.
But I got to think, right after those two things,
the close third was starting strength Houston, was lifting weights,
my brothers of Iron and Steel.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
It changed my life, you know what I mean? And
then thank you man.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
So I would I would attribute I would attribute that
last part to to I guess the you know, the
the culture that's that's that's curated at the gym right there.
You know, it's not it's not, uh, coming into the
gym is about the coaching, Yeah, it's it's it's about
it's about getting, you know, getting getting having somebody help
(39:20):
you through through you know, whatever whatever it is. The
the program is for that day. But a lot of
people at the gym would would be fine training elsewhere,
but they choose not to because because of the community
that that's that that's been developed right right, so that
you know, it's not it's not your meat market. It's
not your you know mirrors with with with people flexing
(39:41):
and you know flexing and flexing in them or you
know posing or stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's right, it's not that kind of jem here. It's
not the kind of gym where you see people in
the mirror. There's no mirrors in your gym. That's the
first thing that blows everyone. Well, why would there.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Be a mirror?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Would distract you? You're supposed to be focusing on the exercise.
Your coach will tell you what to do. Hey, before
we run out of time. There's a lot else to
say about this, but I really want people to emphasize, Uh,
you got stuff going on at Starting Strength Houston and
Starting Strength Katie.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Right now we do for the holidays. What's that we do?
Speaker 4 (40:13):
We have Uh, so we're we're doing the gift of
strength leading into the holidays.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
So if you.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
If you have a loved one that that you know,
you feel what you know this would be great for
then check out the website. Uh, you can google us
on you can google us Starting Strength Houston or Starting
Shrink Katie and uh and uh, you know, get some
gift cards. Uh, get excuse me, get some gift cards there.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Okay, So if people are watching online and they don't
live in the Houston area, they could still take a
class with it.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, that's it. You could do it online. Yep. We
do online coaching as well, Like we have listeners and
you know Carthage.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Or we've uh, we have we have members outside the country.
Yeah right, we've get in Europe, Asia, you know, all
over the place.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
And then of course Starting Strength isn't everywhere in America,
but it's all over Texas. It's all over Florida, Chicago, Memphis, Boston.
What am I leaving out? Oh my gosh, Denver, Denver's
got one.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Denver, Colorado, Springs, Boise, Portland, Portland, of all places, Cincinnati, Columbus,
Birmingham is coming, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta. I love that,
all sorts of also Boston, all sorts of places, Miami. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Hey, I'm Kenny Webster. I want to think my guest
Jadi Shipley, thanks so much for watching. Everybody or listening. Obviously,
to those who listen to the radio, hit the retweet button,
hit the share button, and come lift weights with us.
It's Starting Strength Houston. You won't regret it. It's one
of the best things I ever do. You are listening
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