Dynamic Dialogue with Danny Matranga - 6 - The FIVE Things I'm Doing To Stay Productive While Quarantined (5 must do things)

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

In this episode, Danny talks about the 5 specific things he is doing while on "shelter in place" orders in California.Also, a bit of motivation for these tough times + NFL Free Agency + Book recommendations, podcast recommendations + MORE!For more information check out Danny on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danny.matranga/For coaching, programs, free guides, and more, check on the website: https://www.coachdannymatranga.com Support the Show.

Welcome in guys. It's Wednesday or Tuesday night as I record this. 17th of March. And if it kind of sounds like I'm reading from a diary, in a lot of ways I am. I wanted to talk fitness. I wanted to talk about topics that are related to health and wellness, and I'm sure we'll get into that at some point. But I put a little feeler out there on Instagram and I said, you know, I'm going to record tonight. What do you guys want me to talk about? And the majority of the response was actually people saying, I want you to talk about what's going on right now, this COVID-19 thing, the coronavirus situation. And I can kind of understand why. I think that a lot of people are going through this right now and starting to become real. For example, today, I did the least sessions I've done as a personal trainer in a long time. And I did the least sessions because my clients are afraid to come to the gym.

It's an incredibly unique situation. And, you know, you're watching the economy crumble around you and society kind of fall into this weird space where nobody really knows what to do. And a lot of us seek solitude in the gym or seek solitude in our work. And both of those things kind of got taken from me today because, one, all the gyms are closed in town. And then, two, I can't train my clients. too. I can't train my clients. Additionally, I mean, I had a few clients to train, but I can't train them now because as of recording this, my county essentially goes into a lockdown in five hours, which would be at midnight. And so at midnight, they're going to lock everything down except for non-essential things. And that of course means the gym. So, you know, having access to a space where I can

train clients to the degree I want to train them is not necessarily in the cards right now. And that's really hard to stomach. It's hard to stomach for somebody who for the past seven years has done this professionally. And it's been a huge part of my life. I'm super grateful that my clients are going to be working out from home. We're going to be finding ways that we can continue to work together. And my online clients are doing the same. And I'm unbelievably grateful for everybody staying on board and staying committed to their health. I think it's so important at this time.

And that goes for everybody who's listening too. Now's not the time to let your health get away from you as we deal with these stressors. And I do expect them to get worse, not from a negative standpoint, not from a pessimistic standpoint, purely from a scientific and analytical standpoint, watching the news, watching the experts, doing my own research. It doesn't look like this is going to get a whole lot better anytime soon. We're probably in this for a while. As much as I want to say to my clients or to the people around me, hey, let's just reevaluate next week. It's looking like it might take a little longer than that. And that's a scary place to be

for me as a professional. You know, I'm somebody who's so, so, so fortunate to be able to do what I love for a living on multiple fronts and make a good living doing that. And I'm blessed to be able to keep myself afloat with essentially the economy getting rocked and a lot of our livelihoods getting rocked. I'm thankful that I have the means to get by. But I look around at the people in my circle and I see that they're probably hurting a lot worse than me. A lot of them don't have a job. Their gym just closed. How are you going to work if your gym just closed? Your clients came to see you if your gym just closed? You know, your clients came to see you at that gym. That's no different than, you know, being a construction worker

and there not being any houses to build or, you know, being a stylist and there's not any hair to cut. Salons are close to, ironically enough. It's hard to come up with analogies right now because I'm on the back end of an edible. But today was a tough day for me and I expect it was a tougher day for a lot of people. A lot of people had a tough day today. I think about people that are in situations like where not everything is as secure as it is for me. And I know that the stress is high for those people too, most likely higher. 40% of Americans are one $400 bill away from being broke. And the average individual here, over 50% lives paycheck to paycheck. Given that so many of America's service workers, people in restaurants, salons, trainers, for example, are now essentially

not working, it's going to take a toll on the economy and it's going to take a toll on our psyche and well-being. We're typically people who we would describe as extroverts or ambiverts. We're people who like to communicate, who like to engage, and who like to create and add depth to the relationships we already have through communication. And that's going to be a lot harder the next couple of days, particularly as we move to a point where we aren't really doing things on our normal schedule. We're not doing things on our normal routine. We're going to try to create routine in what is now a very new reality for a lot of people. For myself and for the people in the neighboring six counties I live next to. It's a 21-day, essentially, shelter-in-place

quarantine. They said, hey, enough is enough. We can't afford this to spread any more than it already has. When we look at the numbers, we're looking like we're worse off than Italy, and we're behind how they were managing it. They wanted us to manage it the way South Korea did, but we didn't. And so, as it stands right now, you can expect this bubble to pop. And I don't want to sound pessimistic, but the first thing we can do as we move to forming new routines and accepting where we are is to do just that, is to accept where we are. If we don't make the necessary changes in our mind and don't shift the way we look at this and we continue to deny that it's here, that it's going to go away next week,

it's going to be a long road to tow. But the minute you get to this place where you can accept, okay, it is here, things are going to be different. How different? I have no idea. But people made it through 1929. They made it through 2008. They've made it through financial crises before. And we've made it through financial crises before. And we've made it through pandemics before, but we've never had a lot of the tools we have now. So things could be better. We have social media, we have ways to stay connected, but we have to get to a place where we're just all on board and understand what's going on. And once we get there, I think it's going to really make it a lot easier. But my first piece of advice to you

in all of this would of course be to one, accept where we are, accept where we're at, particularly if you live in California, one of the biggest, bigger cities around the world. We're not doing a whole hell of a lot for at least the next three weeks as it stands. And that's okay. It's going to be tough, but it presents us with an opportunity to create a new routine, to work on some new things, and to improve as individuals. While we might be isolated physically, we don't have to be isolated spiritually or emotionally. We can reach out to friends and families, but again, it all starts with simply accepting where we are at. And then once we've done that, we can look to integrate new routines. at. And then once we've done that, we can look to integrate new routines. And that's kind of one of the things I wanted to talk about today is how to integrate health and fitness routines and things

like that into this craziness to try to share some insights with you from where I'm, you know, my strong suit, my gift, which is health and fitness, but also like, what good is all of this expertise if we can't bend it and move it? And, you know, it's not malleable enough for unique times like this. And, you know, that's one of the things that makes a good trainer, a good trainer is they can write out an entire workout and one client, a client can walk in and be like, oh, my hip hurts. And then you have to throw the whole workout out, but you still have that session. So you have to execute on the fly. You have to learn to be creative. You have to learn to help. You have to learn to put things

together when things aren't going well. And thankfully, I think I can help you guys find some alignment in these times by sharing some of that creativity and some of the things that I'm going to be working on in the most transparent way possible. So number one, it's not recommended that we leave our house for a lot of frivolous stuff. And almost all restaurants are going to be doing takeout. And even if you're in a part of the country where the coronavirus has not affected you to this degree, there's still a really, really big push for national social distancing and keeping space. So a lot of people will be living in a kind of unique draconian-esque world where things are a little bit distanced and people are far away and there seems to be a reliance on staying home. So one of the things you can do

is you can work on becoming a better, healthier home cook, right? Probably the biggest contributor to the obesity epidemic, outside of, of course, the behaviors we have around food, the advertising we have around food, the food availability, is the pure number of times Americans eat out on a week-to-week basis. Americans eat out a lot, and we tend to overeat when we eat out a lot. The average restaurant dish has anywhere between 12 to 1500 calories. And if you want some more information on that, I wrote a blog on this a while back on the website, www.coachdannymetrenga.com. You can check that out as well. But moving away from eating out and eating these really high calorie meals in favor of staying home,

trying to promote this social distancing effect that's so important for flattening the curve of this virus, we can learn to hone the skill that is cooking, that is creating good tasting, healthy cuisine. And right now there's a lot of food being brought into grocery stores. Don't get me wrong, it's hard to find some of what we want, but the supply chain is very much open, and they are encouraging people, at least in my community, to go get the things they need, and they're leaving stores as one of the more essential places. So learning to improve your cooking skills could act as a two-fold benefit here, because one, it's going to get you out of the house to go to the store more often,

and I think something a lot of people are going to face is they're going to be worried about how much time they're spending indoors because we're not going to gyms, most likely, many of us, or we're minimizing that. We're not going to friends' houses. We're trying to minimize that. I mean, where I'm at, you'll get in legal trouble for doing these things. So one of the best options we have is actually going to the store, like getting out of the house and going to the store. It's a place we're allowed to be. And you can go shopping for healthy foods if you can afford them. Or even if you can't, you can go shopping for foods that you can get creative with. So one of the things I'll try to work on, and I can't promise it, but I'm going to try to work on improving my cooking game and using this time to find recipes that I can use to hit my

calorie goals or to hit my protein macro goals, whatever I might be working on, but also to kind of bring some spice back, no pun intended, into the foods I make on a regular basis. If I can become a better cook in these next couple weeks, I'll be in a lot better shape. And a lot of us are going to be working with less funds and less revenue streams than we have before. A lot of people are out of work or a lot of people aren't going to be able to make the type of money that they're used to making. I mean, we're in a place right now where the president of the United States, as of one o'clock today, was debating sending out a $1 trillion stimulus package to Americans that's literally just printing checks for $1,000 because they know that there's so many people not working that this economy could get

hammered. And of course, he doesn't want that. We won't dive into why he wants to write a hot economy all the time because I don't want to make this political. But just understand that one of the best ways we go about saving money in today's lifestyle is by actually cooking from home because eating out is quite expensive. And while I don't like the idea of leaving our restaurant patrons completely hung out to dry here, then I do think we should support them and support the other small businesses in our neighborhoods and communities as much as possible. I think that improving your cooking game over the next couple of weeks, regardless of where you're at, right? Whether you're completely quarantined or self, what do they call it? Sheltering in place here, like us out in central and Northern California, or you're just trying to do your part. The first thing you should be doing is looking to improve your cooking game. Okay. Here's the second thing I would work on. The second one is your mobility. Now I poo-pooed mobility a little bit a while back because I think a lot of coaches really like to point the finger

at every problem every potential client has is mobility related. And the reason we like to do that is because like I said in the podcast before, if you look hard enough, you can find a mobility problem anywhere. And it really adds value in some people's eyes when you can point out things that are wrong, kind of like how a mechanic can find out things that are wrong with a car that you might not otherwise notice. So trainers got really streaky on the lookout for these kind of mobility problems. And it got a little bit out of hand, in my opinion, but I still, I just want to clarify that I think overall mobility is a really important thing and we can do mobility work like FRC. I'm FRC certified, but for many of you who are not, there's plenty of fantastic FRC content

available online. And kin stretch as well. FRC and kin stretch are two principal movement modalities based from the functional range conditioning system. And both of them work to create mobility, not just tissue elasticity and flexibility, but real mobility. That's to say flexibility with neurological control, something that lifters and fitness fanatics alike can use. And maybe you schedule in a 15 minute mobility session every day to break up the monotony of working from home or perhaps the monotony of gaming.

But do yourself a favor, set some time aside to do some quality cooking and some mobility. The third thing, obviously, and I'm going to keep this one short because I think we all know that it's on here, is fitness. You need to do some type of working out. If you're allowed to leave your home, go for a run. Download the bodyweight workouts on my website, www.coachedannymentrenga.com. All the free guides are there. If you are one of my online clients, do the workouts we've been working together to create. Whoever you are, do some type of movement and whatever feels good. And I actually went by a couple of my clients' houses today because this was kind of the last day I could. And they're in their 70s, 76 and 79. And they're some of my favorite people to train. And one of the things I recommended to

them, they have a little weight equipment and you might, was breaking up your workouts into smaller, less intense bouts so that you can spread them out throughout the day even, meaning maybe in the morning you wake up, you do 15 minutes of mobility and 100 heavy kettlebell swings. And then maybe in the afternoon, you do a little bit of mobility and you finish with like 100 kettlebell Turkish get-ups for time with a light kettlebell or something. You could split it into two unique training stimuli that are both relatively low impact, or you could do a couple TRX rows every time you walk by the door. We want to do things to keep our activity up, right? The first thing we want to work on, maybe cooking, increasing

our healthy food intake, being smart there, work in some mobility. But that third piece that we really are all trying to root, trying to find some ground for it to root into is the fitness, the working out, the actual training. What is this going to look like now that I don't have my gym, right? This is what a lot of us are thinking. Oh, you know, I know everybody says do bodyweight training, but I don't do a lot of bodyweight training. Oh man, you know, I know bodyweight's easy. You can do it from home, but I just so much rather lift. Well, remember the fact that a novel stimulus can be somewhat beneficial. Okay. It's not bad to change things up and body weight training is going to present a unique stimulus and you're not going to be hyper attuned to it if you're

a normal typical weightlifting resistance trainee. So you might find ways to make it creative and you can split it up throughout the day in a way that you keep your neat high, you keep yourself preoccupied, and you keep those healthy habits going moving forward, because that's going to be important for all of us as we move through this. You know, big shout out to FDR and Ramit Sathe. FDR, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who kind of led the United States out of the Great Depression and through most of World War II. And then Ramit Satie, who's the author of one of my favorite books. The reason I'm bringing it up is because number four is going to be reading. But Ramit Satie is one of the authors of my favorite books, I Can Teach You To Be Rich. And both of them, FDR first,

of course, was famous for doing these things that he liked to call fireside chats. And fireside chats were, basically, this was back only when they had radio. But during these fireside chats, FDR would hop on the radio at the time and have a kind of informal conversation with the entire nation, encouraging them, keeping them motivated, keeping them positive. And Ramit, who's one of my favorite finance authors, is doing the same thing on his Instagram Live. And it inspired me a little bit to just kind of share where I'm at with these things because a lot of people want to know. And I think a lot

of people want to know because it's something that we're all going through and it's something that's scary to talk about. And I think just lowering that barrier and just saying, hey, here's where I'm at, gives people the opportunity to kind of say, okay, I'm not the only one in this because we can feel incredibly alone, even though people are saying we're all going through this or it's tough on everybody. It doesn't really feel like you are until you actually have a conversation with somebody. And not everybody has the ability to do that. So these are two people who I was kind of inspired by when I made this. I was like, you know, I know I want to talk about things you can do during this situation to improve your health and stay on track. But I also want to sound like a human. I don't want to sound like a robot who's perfect and is doing all these things

because that's not the case. It's the farthest thing from the case. I'm struggling on many fronts, too, to try to manage how this is going to go. uh, book form, but definitely read Ramit Satish's I Can Teach You To Be Rich. It's probably the best, um, finance book I've ever read, period. And it's probably the single most influential piece of literature I've ever implemented into my own finance routine. And if it wasn't for Ramit, I wouldn't be able to get through this however long it's going to be, without some financial security. So shout out to him. But that leads me to number four. Number four is pick up a book. There's something that this generation does that a lot of people never did before.

And it's kind of funny when you really think about it. We buy a lot of books. Matter of fact, we probably buy the most books ever, whether it's a digital form or hard copy. But one of the things we don't do is we don't read a lot of books. We buy a lot of books, but we don't read them. It's a joke I do when I talk to trainers a lot of times. I say, hey, why don't you do me a favor? Raise your hand if you bought a book in the last six months. And every hand in the room goes up. And then I go,

okay, now keep your hand up if you actually finished it. And then everybody laughs and all their hands go down. Because what a lot of people do is they pick up a book and they read the first few pages, but they never finish it. And one of the things that I've learned from one of the people who I look up to in this space, and that's Michael Matthews, CEO of Legion, is you have to read. You have to read. Reading is one of the most incredible things you can do for your brain.

It's great for retention. It makes you a better writer. It focuses you. It creates a learning environment where if you're not all in, reading is not all in. But if you are all in and you're focused, reading is as rewarding an educational medium as it is. And one of my favorite quotes out there is that readers are leaders. And I very much believe that. And I

think it speaks to beyond reading just books. It speaks to the idea that those who pursue knowledge are naturally going to be better leaders because they stay sharp. And so that's something I think we can work on. There's something incredibly peaceful about reading. And do not get me wrong. I definitely think you guys can do your fair share of gaming and TV watching while you're stuck in this shelter in place or whatever rules you're following. But I think that there's a lot to be gained from, like I said, trying to create a routine right now when it might be easier to get some reading in. Because as things do get back to normal, and they will get back to normal as we do go back to work, and we will go back to work. We will. We will make it through this. How nice would it be to say,

you know, had a couple months there where I didn't make the money I wanted, which kind of sucked, and things were a little tough, and maybe I ran out of toilet paper, and I had to wipe my ass with a sock because my neighbor across the street bought 69 rolls at Costco, but I made it. How nice would it be to make it through that and go, well, now that I'm back working again and the money's coming in, I'm actually feeling like I'm making more because I have these habits that I actually put in place during that crazy stuff and I'm cooking more, I'm doing more mobility at work and my back hurts less. I can get more out of my workouts in less time because I learned how to be a little more creative. Oh, and I'm reading more and I'm, you know, enjoying the personal development that

comes with that. Like there's a lot of things we can create during this time that can come with us while we leave the bullshit in the past. Because right now we're in the bullshit, knee deep in the bullshit and it sucks. It's not fun. But when you're in the mud, you can come out of the mud. But what you come out with, you can either take it with you or can leave it behind. And you can leave the bullshit behind, but you can take the good stuff with you. So I think while we have the time to implement some habits, those are some of the ones I really, really like. Another one, and this was actually number one when I kind of outlined this list in my head,

but number one is to just have some good conversations. Seriously, have some quality conversations. Just randomly call people you have not talked to in a while. It's not going to be weird because guess what? The first thing they're going to say is, hey, hello? And you're going to be like, dude, how crazy is this shit, right? And they're going to be like, oh my God, I know. You're going to immediately go full sync mode, and you're going to be right next to each other because you're feeling the same thing. So call a friend you haven't called in a while. Call a relative. Call a friend you just haven't seen in a few days. And just have a good conversation. Improve your ability to communicate with other human beings without having to be, you know, on social media comments.

Don't get me wrong. Texting is great, but like memes and group chats and kind of meaningless all day, really surface layer conversation we have with our friends. That's not like, that's not what we need right now. Right? I mean, it's definitely going to help, but what we need right now is like, call up a friend and be like, Hey man, how's it going? How are you feeling? Everything good? Are you scared too? You struggling with this? Like, just call up your homie and have a good conversation with him. You know, for real,

it sounds so simple and it sounds so like cheesy, but ask yourself, when was the last time I actually called one of my friends when I was going through it and we had a quality conversation? Probably not that often because one of the things we do is we tend to get into a situation where we guard and we put a mask up and we don't want to share. And this is not the time for that. This is the time where we can improve how we communicate about our stressors and our emotions. And if we create those friendship networks now where I say, hey, you know, I was really going through it. And I talked to one of my boys who I haven't talked to in a while, and it really revived our relationship. Or I talked to one of my friends who normally all we talk about

is sports, and he broke down and said how scared he was. But it brought us closer together because instead of continuing to only have surface conversations with the people in our lives about things like memes and sports and stuff that's fun to pass the time with, stuff that really matters, we actually got a little bit deeper to that stuff that matters to the soul more than it matters to the brain or to what's going on around us. And we got a little deeper and we got to a level of our friendship where had we not had that conversation, we might not have built this trust. And so nothing brings people together quite like hardship. And that's why I'm so big on right now, just doing what you can. I texted a friend today. I said, Hey, you know, I've been trying to be as strong

as I can for as long as I can for all the people that I know and care about. But I am totally gassed right now. Like I am exhausted from trying to hold it together and try to act like everything's normal because it's not. And they were like, hey, look, this is what you need to know. You are XYZ and you are ABC. And I'm not going to say what they said because it was private, but those are the things that are going to get you through this. And it was like, oh, my gosh, you know, had I just sat on that and been like, no, continue to just be stoic and not share these, these feelings, these frustrations, these fears, whatever you want to call it. And I really don't want this to turn into a podcast. It's like my diary, I'm really not

going to continue to do this. This was just something that a lot of people asked for. And it seems like the most authentic and transparent way to deliver it. But in reaching out to that person in my time of frustration, they were able to put my mind at ease and it deepened our relationship. And when we are sitting in a situation like this, where we don't maybe have the money that we had before, we don't have the routine that we had before and things seem foreign. Relationships become the most valuable thing we have. When we have nothing, we realize that true wealth is with the people in our lives. And right now we need to really double down on that investment and continue to enrich these relationships because these are the things that are going to get us through it.

And it's important to remember that this isn't going to last forever, but we can take these positive things with us. So to wrap it up, guys, the things I will be working on during COVID-19 gate, coronavirus gate 2020 are improving my cooking skills by cooking more and making an effort to continue to stay involved with my clients on as many fronts as possible. Another thing I'm going to be working on is my mobility, trying to do more direct mobility work throughout the day just to break things up because I'll probably be on the computer a lot. Another thing, of course, is going to be getting in my fitness, my body weight training, all the stuff that I've been working on and trying to implement. I did build out a garage gym,

which really helps. And then working on doing more reading and having more conversations. Five simple things, five simple things. Cooking and eating more whole foods, getting some mobility, getting some training in and building a better routine around reading and communicating. foods, getting some mobility, getting some training in and building a better routine around reading and communicating. And I'm going to be doing a ton of podcasts, creating a ton of blog writing, a ton of workout writing, a ton of communicating. But at the core of it, those are the five things I'm going to be working on creating my what I like to call COVID-19 routine now to kind of make things bring a little levity to it. I figure we might actually go into some sports and talk a little bit about what is going on right now in the NFL during free agency. Because we have had some crazy stuff the last two days.

But today in particular, we had Amari Cooper, the big name wide receiver, probably the best wide receiver in this year's free agent class. I mean, you could argue A.J. Green's probably a better all-around wide receiver, but he can't stay healthy and he doesn't make the same big plays. He's also a lot older, but Amari got a five-year, $100 million deal. That's big money, 20 mil a year, basically, the way that breaks out. Teddy Bridgewater signed with the Panthers, which isn't too big of a deal, but they also gave Cam Newton, former MVP Cam Newton,

the ability to seek a trade even though he did not request it. So probably going to see some quarterback change there. Stephon Diggs was traded to the Bills in a surprise trade that kind of happened in the wake of that DeAndre Hopkins trade yesterday that nobody really saw coming, and he kind of slid under the radar. But Buffalo's got a scary offense when you think that now they have Stephon Diggs, who in my opinion is a top 10 talent in this league. The problem with Stephon Diggs is he cannot stay healthy, but Stephon Diggs

has elite tools and playmaking ability. Pair him with Cole Beasley and Devin Singletary, and you've got a nice little offense to build around a guy like Josh Allen who has the big arm and who, oh, of course, John Brown is there too, but a guy who really has the big arm and can extend plays and make plays with his legs. Mariota went to the Raiders. He's probably going to compete with Derek Carr. Byron Jones going to the Dolphins and signing with what is now the highest cornerback deal in the league was a little bit of a shocker to me, but it makes sense that the Dolphins have money to spend and they need help

at that position, but he should pair nicely across from Xavier and Howard, and that's going to give them a pretty nasty one-two corner punch. That might be the best corner tandem in the league, if you ask me. I mean, I can't really think of anything close. I mean, Chris Harris and A.J. Bouye are pretty solid, but that's new, and I don't think that's going to last. But, I mean, that's a good one. Austin Hooper to the Browns. I actually liked this move. I think Austin Hooper is one of the better tight

ends in the league. And you've now got a situation again, the Browns are a weird team. They should be better than they are, but you have Baker Mayfield who is competent at times and a fantastic receiver duo, no matter how you slice it in Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. Pair that with the best running back tandem in the league. I mean, listen, don't get me wrong. There's a lot of good one-two punch backs, but Kareem Hunt is a legit running back in the NFL. And if he wasn't kicking women, he would be a starter on almost any other NFL team. And he's backing up an absolute stud in Nick Chubb. So you have Hooper, Landry, Beckham, Chubb, and Kareem Hunt,

and you can kind of cycle through those guys as you see fit. We are going to 100% see some points put up by the Cleveland Browns. And then you had Kirk Cousins. He just got extended two years, 66 mil. Big deal, $33 million deal deal um 61 million guaranteed at signing so that means he got 61 of his 66 up front which is just this dude's deals are insane uh and then eric armstead went five years with an incentive rich deal up to 85 um to stay on the niners but they did lose to forrest buckner to the Colts, which is kind of tough. That being said, I'm pretty surprised with some of these moves.

Phillip Rivers went to the Colts. That's the big one. But the most surprising move of the day for me, and it should be, I guess it shouldn't have been, and it was the biggest move of the day, was Tom Brady to the Buccaneers. For some reason, I had this feeling he was going to go to the Raiders or the Chargers but things started to clarify this morning and it looked like he was going to the Bucs so what you've got now with the Buccaneers is a very very very quiet beast offense with OJ Howard and Cameron Brate who are both prolific and everybody knows Brady

loves two tight ends and then you have two of the best wide receivers in the entire league, probably the best tandem from a productivity standpoint, and Godwin and Evans, and a really solid young running back in Ronald Jones, who came on late last year. The Buccaneers are going to be, I think the Buccaneers are going to be a quietly effective team in an NFC South that's kind of slipping. The Panthers don't have it. The Falcons are kind of reeling. And even the Saints, as good as they are, they can't finish. And they haven't been able to for years, so it'll be really interesting to see the fallout in that division. in that division. Now, as far as what I have been listening to, I've been really, really enjoying a few podcasts. And so I wanted to share those with you guys right now,

so that you guys have stuff in addition to my podcast to listen to. But the first one is Stronger by Science with Eric Trexler and Greg Knuckles. I really like it. It's really dense. If you're not a science buff, you might not like it as much. Um, but I really liked that. And I like iron culture as well. So that's another lifting podcast. Um, and that's with Eric Helms and Omar Isaf, but those are both really, really good, really, really entertaining. Um, and I've been listening to those a lot more and I have actually quite liked them. As far as what I am listening to on Audible, not much has changed, kind of just going through my traditional science nerding books, but Power Sex Suicide by Nick Lane is a book about mitochondria, insanely dense. Nutrition Made Clear by Roberta H. Anding.

That's the, I believe, head nutrition PhD for Baylor's medicine program. She also works with the Texans. And I believe she works with the one, I think the NBA team out there, maybe the Rockets, but it's one of the teams in Texas, but she's brilliant. And she put together an audible book called nutrition made clear. It's actually one of the great courses, but you can get it with an audio token, audible token. And it's like 20 hours long of essentially undergraduate nutritional coursework. And it's absolutely fantastic. Like I couldn't recommend it any more highly than I do. And then as far as streaming, I'm not doing much, just working my way through Star Wars Rebels right now, which is kind of a

kid's ish show, but some of it's canon. So I'm trying to stick up with that, but not a whole hell of a lot, but guys, this is kind of how I am working my way through COVID-19 one day at a time, just like you try to understand that we are going to make it through this. And I am very, very hopeful that we change the direction of the American political spectrum with how we do that. We are in such a unique situation that it's requiring our Congress to come together and work together in a way that I have not seen them do since before Barack Obama was president. The gridlock between Republicans and Democrats is softening and they realize that now we have to come together to save essentially what is the American way of life, or at least the economy. And a lot of this country, a lot of the little

pockets of this country are affected. And we are seeing our politicians take charge and come together in a way that hopefully they will remember how to do when this is all said and done. Because the way they've been leading this country for the last couple of years, I think has been subpar. And I think they do not work together to serve the people as well as they could. And it is encouraging to see them doing that to some capacity. So guys, that's it. That is probably the last Dear Diary entry. Moving forward, we will have something a little more stable, but this was kind of me hopping on the mic tonight based on some of the feedback I got from you

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