Mark Bell's Power Project - Why Is America's Obesity Spreading World Wide? || MBPP Ep. 951

Episode Date: June 27, 2023

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Andrew had a jujitsu tournament and I went to Iceland. What were some cool things that were different there? You posted a lot of your food. Yeah, I was just trying to show people just because you're going on vacation, you don't have to gain 10 pounds. It doesn't matter if it's 2 a.m. or 2 p.m. It's like kind of the same. And there's a picture of me in the mountain.

Tap Thor Bjornsson. He's not like actively doing anything, which I think is kind of dope. No one cares. You know, it's not like the U.S. where in the U.S. we're always worried about people suing us. There, they don't give a fuck. You know, they're like, hey, just try to keep up.

You were talking about an airport thing. In traveling, people are so fat and people are so sick. It's completely unbelievable. I think the times where we can get away with not lifting, I think they're over. We don't understand how sick we really are. I just saw that everywhere.

I think physical education, as David Weck has said, it is the education. And I think in this country, it needs to move to the fucking front of the line. I think it's more important than math. I think it's more important than spelling and reading and everything else, because if you don't have your health, what do you got? When I got up, I seen stars everywhere. I was like, holy shit, wins and losses. Like, of course, wins will be cool. But my goal is just to be better at jujitsu. I really think in your sport, who kind of gives a fuck if you win or lose?

Hopefully, you're continuing to make progress. And eventually, if you are legitimately making progress, there's no possible way that you could always lose, right? Hi, Project Family. Welcome to the podcast. We are 900 plus episodes deep. We're bringing tons of different experts in fitness, health, nutrition, and business. And we thank you all for your support. And we're also glad to be bringing these individuals to you.

Now, if you've enjoyed this podcast and it's brought benefits to your life, we'd really appreciate it if you left a five-star review on Spotify or Apple. As that helps the podcast grow and thrive, and we can continue bringing you amazing content. Thank you for your support and enjoy the episode. Yeah, a lot of work to do today. I'm slammed. Yep, slammed right in the butthole. Here we go. Are we rolling?

You want to pull up the video? Oh, yeah. Let's pull it up. Everybody needs this release right here. You know how big we are on myofascial release. And, hey, sometimes it's important to get to that pelvic floor whatever way you can. This is the craziest shit I've ever seen. Dude, I think Andrew sent it, right?

Yeah. So Andrew sent it, and I'm watching it kind of casual, and I'm like,'s just it's not possible that they're gonna like show that much in this clip like he's just gonna talk about it and talk about where you know and how you would do it on your own and but I was I was I was blown away I was flabbergasted that guy was blown away too oh yeah yeah you gotta start from the beginning just all the way over yeah you gotta start from the beginning just all the way over yeah you gotta start from the beginning with the sound oh this is great our peeps over at human garage

they got great information but just one is that basically we're a tube within a tube of pressurized so this is all pressurized so this tissue here on my left is actually the exact same tissue as the one on my buttock. And the tube goes all the way down the esophagus, through the stomach, all the way through the intestines, large intestine, all the way to the rectum. And it's the same tube. This guy's all into it. It actually should work its way all the way back up to the neck. Now, this is a special device.

A special device? And we want to get the tissue, so we actually have to go right in here. Yeah, it's called a dildo. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn it counterclockwise. It looks like he's using a stump. And why counterclockwise? It just seems like it's a distraction because of the way it is. So I'm going to hold it, and you're going to breathe through it, right?

Oh, yeah, just breathe right through it. It's really comfortable. Really comfortable. It does feel really comfortable. And even the front of my thighs. This is actually going to unloosen the hips. Oh, yeah, just breathe right through it. Really comfortable. It does go really comfortable. This is actually going to unloosen the hips. To change a tailbone, often the practice would be a rectal insertion. Or if you do pelvic floor, for women, it would be vaginal insertion. But this one here, I'm on the outside, really, and I'm just torquing it.

This feels so good. That's great. Not in a sexual way. The guy just came all over the fucking pad. Oh, my God. Oh, Gary. I was in disbelief when I saw that. What I'm wondering is why didn't he show us when he was here?

Like, what's wrong with us? I mean, I know we don't have long hair, but. I don't think he thought we were ready for that one. No, he knew for sure we were not ready. We're not even ready just to see it on Instagram and be adults. God damn. You know, if we're being real, though, he does have a point there, you know? Like, there is.

Ben Greenfield, right? I mean, he was talking about showing the sum of his ass. Yeah. You know? You know, as funny as it is, it's super fucking funny. It's a special release in my sphincter. Can you help me? Jill Miller had us sitting on those balls too, right?

Yeah, she had us put one right there to help for release. Kind of open up the cheeks a little bit. You're so comfortable. Not in a sexual way. not in a sexual way not in a sexual way but hey you know can you picture that guy going home to his like wife how was it he's all his arms are like close to each other and his like heads down he's like it was okay he's all shamed like he's in the car he. Yeah. Like, but one of the funniest things though is he's like, I'm not sure what happened, but I kind of liked it. If we think about it here,

I think human garage, they collaborated with the guy that he stuck his thumb up his booty hole. Like, I think that post went pretty viral. It's like, of course, so many people have just, you know,

we just gave it a bump right now. Yeah. Hey, but if you do have lower back pain and booty tightness, this might be the release for you. Might have to go in that ass. Or in the vagina. Hey, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, potentially.

No, don't women, like when they have to do that pelvic floor stuff, like I think. I think so. Who was that came? I have no idea. I know Sturetz talked about it a lot. Yes. It was the people that moved super crazy. The guy that could walk on his toes and his wife. Wealth. Wealth.

Yes. Katie from Wealth. She talked about like a lot of that. Caterpot. Yeah, yeah. Caterpot. And then some people talk about it with incontinence where you can't, and I'm not sure if I'm saying that right, but that's where you don't have control over your pee or whatever. And that happens with a lot of women, you know, when they deadlift and things like that.

Or women that have had babies and so forth. So, yeah, maybe you got to do some unconventional shit. Pelvic floor control is a real thing. Yeah, to get your stuff back together. Pelvic floor control is a real thing. Yeah, to get your stuff back together. Anyway, Andrew had a jiu-jitsu tournament, and I went to Iceland with my wife,

celebrating our 23rd wedding anniversary. I think it was 23. It'll be our 23rd wedding anniversary, August 26th. So we celebrated a little early. We were actually trying to go like two years ago, but then all that stuff happened with the masks and all that stuff. I don't know if you guys remember that situation. Oh, that one thing. That's right. Yeah, that one thing that happened. Would that have been

year 21 or 20? Like, were you guys planning on trying to do a 20-year wedding anniversary? Yeah, I think it was going to be 20, yeah. Okay, okay. Because I was like, 23? What an interesting celebratory year. Yeah, right? Yeah. So, yeah, it just kind of worked out that way.

There we are. There's a picture of us at the Blue Lagoon, and Iceland is super interesting. I didn't know anything about it beforehand. Dude, so what was weird about Iceland? What were some cool things that were different there? You posted a lot of your food. Yeah. Lots of food.

Yeah, I was just trying to show people, too, like, you know, you don't have to, just because you're going on vacation, you don't have to gain 10 pounds. You know, that would be really easy to do, especially if you're visiting a place like New Orleans. Have you guys ever been to New Orleans before? I haven't been anywhere. When I was young. New Orleans is a great place to gain weight. So if you're going to New Orleans, with the exception of that place, then you don't have to gain a lot of weight. But, yeah, I was just packing in the protein.

And in Iceland, they're not really known for, like, their food necessarily, but they do have a lot of meat. They have a lot of stuff that's smoked. They have a lot of stuff that's fermented. They had smoked salmon, fermented herring, which I've never had before, and I really like that a lot. It comes with onions. Yeah. That shit was delicious. That was delicious.

And, yeah, the cod liver oil. Why do they do the cod liver oil thing? Well, because they end up with an uneven amount of sunlight and an uneven amount of darkness. So we were there during the sunlight, and it's light all day, all day and all night. It's just it doesn't matter if it's 2 a.m. or 2 p.m. It's like kind of the same. Wow. It's just it's just bright out the whole day.

And then as it gets to be more like wintertime for them, it ends up it ends up being dark the entire time, which that would be, having it be dark the entire time, that would be tough. And Iceland, interestingly enough, is not really that cold, depending on, I guess, what you think cold is. But it gets to be around 30 degrees,

which can be kind of cold. But what they're known for is it's actually really windy. So it being 30 degrees and then having 10, 15, 20, 30 mile an hour winds, then it's going to be rough. But yeah, you can see like I got the countryside kind of in the background. And the only really thing that kind of grows there is moss. You'll see like that kind of green shit in the background there that grows kind of through some of the lava rocks. But it's an interesting country. I enjoyed it a lot.

And probably the highlight of it, I guess there's two main things. One is the lagoons. Those are really cool. I'll explain that in a second. And then also we got to go inside a glacier. And there's a picture of me in the mountain. Hap Thor Bjornsson. I went to his gym.

He's just like, he's so nice. And he's like just a sweet guy. Yeah. And he's like this giant polar bear that can just, you know, rip your arms off. He's just kind of like hanging out. And his dad was there and his dad's actually like same height, if not taller. Damn. And his, I think father-in-law was there and his dad's actually like same height, if not taller. And his, I think, father-in-law was there too. And they're just walking around like holding boards and hammers and shit.

And I'm like, what are those guys doing? He's like, oh, he's extending my gym. He's like, we're knocking down a wall and they're building out the other side of it. And I'm like, yeah, of course, you guys are doing real man shit around here. Yeah. How's he doing with that injury? he he's he's doing great um it's actually really cool to hear him there we are inside the glacier i'll explain some of that in a second too but uh he's he's doing really well and when i kind of asked him like what he's doing or what he's up to he's not like

actively doing anything which i think is kind of dope because I was like I kind of feel the same way like I'm working on stuff and there's always stuff in the works I'm not saying he's not doing anything but he has potential movie roles he has potential things kind of cooking in the background but he just came off that peck tear and he's just kind of chilling and he's just enjoying time with his family he's joining uh some time at his gym and i thought like to myself like that's a great place to be in because i've known hapthor for probably almost 10 years now and he's always been on the chase you know he's always been like on the hunt he's been hunting down being the best in the world he was hunting down an 1100 pound deadlift, which he successfully did.

He was hunting down, uh, being the world's strongest man. He was like Iceland's strongest man. He won all these competitions over and over and over again. But the world's strongest man eluded him for a while until he finally won it. And his story is so cool because he had, uh, the game of Thrones going on and he he won the World's Strongest Man. Kind of all at the same time. And all kind of while he had some other shit going on. He got like a divorce. And then he got remarried.

And now he's got a kid that's like two or three. So I really admire that. Like this guy had a lot of other stuff going on. I don't even know how you do that because in strongman a strongman is not like hey i just need some weights at a bar no you need like these weird implements uh to be able to compete in strongman so i don't know how he did that as he was like traveling and acting and all those things but he was at his biggest and at his best uh when he was in game of thrones and half my hat goes off to him because that must have been challenging. That's a massive amount of work.

That is a massive amount of work. He's a big boy too. I think back in the day he was like 440 pounds, 450 pounds. Strongman, it's kind of funny. When Brian Shaw I think was at the Arnold Sports Festival giving out those awards to the bodybuilders.

Funniest pictures because these guys are big bodybuilders and then Brian Shaw just I think, was at the Arnold Sports Festival, giving out those awards to the bodybuilders. Funniest pictures because these guys are big bodybuilders. And then Brian Shaw just comes up. I think he patted the back of a 212 bodybuilder's head while he was giving them an award. And it just looked like he was giving something to his child. He patted him on the back of the head like, good job. I'm sure after they did that, they're like, let's never do that again. Let's never have that arrangement again. He's doing good.

So he's working on trying to come back from that pec injury. I sent him a slingshot. So hopefully he'll get an opportunity to use it. Oh, yeah, there you go. Look at it. Yeah, I look like little babies. Jesus. Brian puts his hands over his head to try to raise their arm and they come off the ground.

Yeah. The guy's like, oh, shit. try to raise their arm and then they come off the ground yeah the guy's like oh shit that's it looks like when i was trying to get my son to start walking you know because if i extend too much it'll just fall over yeah yeah yeah strongman's something different but all right how about this glacier or whatever this is yeah so a glacier this looks fake again i don't i don't know anything about any of this stuff, really. So to see it for the first time was really interesting. So you get in this vehicle that looks like a tank kind of.

Looks like a tank slash truck slash something you would see in like a movie where they're like going through Siberia or some shit like that. Really cool looking badass vehicle that we took to go up here. And I got to go super slow because once they get to the snowy area, it's actually pretty much just ice. And so they keep driving and driving. And then you finally get to the glacier and a glacier. I'm going to say some of this wrong, but a glacier is basically a giant mountain of ice that is on top of a ice that is on top of a

mountain that is on top of a lake or ocean or wherever where some body of water okay so it's kind of complicated and the glacier um it moves a lot because the ice will melt um the snow inside of it and the ice inside of it will become different temperatures. And sometimes it will liquefy because it will get soft and it will get like mushy. And other times it will be colder and it will be harder. And then plus there's like the weight and the mass of it. And plus it is on a body of water. So it's actually moving through the water as well. That's really

pretty bizarre. But as you're going through there, this is obviously carved out. Um, a lot of this stuff is, a lot of it is done with machines, but they also do it by hand as well, because they're trying not to, uh, they don't want to mess up the glacier. They don't want to have some sort of, you know, catastrophic catastrophic thing happen have something crack or whatever so they use machines and they do a lot of this by hand they dig out like maybe like a mile or two mile tunnel and it was just amazing being in there it was actually the only time that we were there that we were cold because it was like 60 degrees there but being inside this big block of ice just feels like you're you're in a giant freezer it was actually really challenging to walk through here so they give you um they what was kind of cool was like i was kind

of worried about like the footwear so i didn't know exactly what to wear footwear wise but they give you uh basically like a boot to put over top of whatever shoe that you have and then they give you these metal spikes to put on but even with the metal spikes and even with the boots and everything it was crazy to try to walk in there like you got to kind of walk around like a little penguin the whole time little tiny steps because uh luckily no one fell i was kind of there's some older people on the uh tour as well and so i was trying to watch out for some people because i'm like man man, somebody get hurt. And no one cares. It's not like the U.S.

where in the U.S. we're always worried about people suing us. There, they don't give a fuck. They're like, hey, just try to keep up. And you're like, man, you're walking through here pretty fast but this is some dangerous shit. Did a lot of people, did everybody speak English? Because I don't know shit about anything.

Yeah, so they're superior humans to us. They're taller and they're smarter. They learn English and they're like seven years old or something like that. They teach it to them when they're very, when they're very young. Yeah. And we were like, uh, Andy and I, when we were going through this like lagoon area, we passed, uh, by some of the, uh, some Asian asian people and you know they were speaking their thing which sounds so crazy to us we're like we have no idea what they're saying and they just

turned to us and they started asking us questions and you know speaking perfect english yeah and i was like don't you just feel so inferior like we're so stupid like they probably know three or four languages and we i barely can figure out one of them you know dude it's just amazing it's worth it like i downloaded pimsleur recently because i like pimsleur pimsleur yeah yeah pimsleur p-i-m-s-l-e-u-r got it pimsleur um i downloaded that recently because i'm just like i started like you know it's it's dumb to speak one language i know so many people like from Nigeria and so many people that don't live in the US that are like English is just one of the languages

they speak. So I'm just like, okay, I got to start trying to learn something else. Pimsleur is really cool because like you download the app and then you just like, you let it play and it like, you just pronounce it.

You listen to it. You can pronounce stuff as it, and go through it. And you're just learning by trying to speak. Does it go by like subject or topic or anything? It goes by, yeah, it goes by language. So it starts like, you can pick whatever language you want to start learning just learning by trying to speak. Does it go by like subject or topic or anything? Yeah, it goes by language. So it starts like you can pick whatever language you want to start learning.

I'm trying to learn Portuguese because I do jiu-jitsu. So I feel like Portuguese has good overlap with a lot of other languages too. So it's the first one I'm going to try to learn. I did Spanish in high school. So like there are some things I can learn. Japanese too, right? I want to in the future, but I'm not going to go to Japan for a few years anyway. So I want to become bilingual because if everybody else in the world can do it and us u.s peasants choose not to we can do it too yeah you know yeah you just got to

engulf yourself which i don't do anymore with spanish because english is everywhere you're pretty much bilingual though but i wonder if owen speaks spanish because he went to like a spanish immersion school oh really oh maybe i wonder if he does yeah all he went to like a Spanish immersion school. Oh, really? Oh, maybe. I wonder if he does. Yeah. All I do now is I listen to Tom Segura's podcast in Spanish. It's really funny. And it's just for some reason it being in Spanish, it makes it even funnier.

So pretty much where were the ones that are not bilingual? You, cause you, if you were, you could pretty much speak. I'm like a halfie. Like, cause I can understand pretty much everything in spanish but i just like i can't there's like i just can't get off the blocks you know when it comes to speaking it i started started getting choked up and i can't do it do you uh like short circuit every once in a while imagine it'd be like oh yeah like your brain would be like in a knot no absolutely that's exactly that's a perfect example because like i'll be saying something and i'll be like uh

you know the thing how How do you say? Yeah, yeah, yeah. ¿Cómo se dice? ¿Cómo se llama? Is it ¿Cómo se llama? That'd be like, what's it called? But it would be ¿Cómo se dice? There we go.

Like, how do you say it? It's probably good for the brain too, dude. Oh, it has to be. You know, learning how to communicate in another way, it's got to be good

for your brain longevity and shit. There's so many languages. There's so many. Pick the one you're most interested in. How many? Is there like five longevity and shit there's so many languages so many pick the one you're most interested in how many is there like five yeah there's english there's spanglish you know what's fun is uh c-3po he knows like i don't know like a couple thousand languages and then there's like two scenes in in star wars where he doesn't know what they're speaking it's like what

the fuck good are you that's how your whole point. You're supposed to be a translator, and you failed miserably. What a piece of shit robot that is. But he doesn't even speak. It just makes, like, sounds, right? No, it's R2-D2. Oh, my bad. R2-D2 is the old one. Okay.

Yeah, R2-D2 just makes the... I was like, well, that guy sucks. Okay, got it. That's what I'm saying. He's shitty. Yeah. But yeah, for all you guys, got it. That's what I'm saying. He's shitty. Yeah. But yeah, for all you guys, Pimsleur's a pretty good one. Duolingo's cool, but Pimsleur's cool because you could do it like an audio book.

You just play it in your car and just do that each day. So have some fun with it. I can dig it. What else, dude? Did you notice anything about the people in Iceland? I don't know, like the people walking around. It's so hard to tell because I don't know who's from where. The towns are really small. It's a country of 300,000 people, which is about the

size of Sacramento. Um, and it's, it's a huge, you know, if you look at it on the map, it's, it's fricking massive. So they got 300,000 people there. So it's not a lot in the, um, the villages or the towns. They're just not that big either. So when you go to a main town, you would have to assume that there's probably a lot of tourism there. There's a lot of tourists there. And I think, um, one thing that was really interesting was that they had these, uh, places called summer homes. And it seems like a lot of the population has a summer home, not, not just, uh, necessarily people that are like wealthy. But I would imagine they'd still be more well off than some.

But it seemed like it was really common. And a summer home is just out in the middle of nowhere. And you're like, as an American, you're like, well, I don't get it. What do you do there? And they're like, we do nothing. And they absolutely love it. They love that they have an opportunity to not do nothing.

There's nothing to do other than just chill. Read a book. Just sit there and they relax. A lot of them put their phones away. They are very like, at least my understanding in my short time there, so forgive me if I'm saying some of this stuff wrong. Very communal. Very family oriented. my short time there so forgive me if i'm saying some of the stuff wrong uh very communal very

family oriented and uh at least from what hapthor was saying he's like we put our phones away we you know spend time with each other and i'm sure there's probably just like here there's people that won't put their phone away but uh for the most part it seems like it's that way it also seems really calm so if you're like a young person and you want to go like party and have a good time, like this is just like this is too laid back probably for you. This is too chill. They don't really kind of care that much about like when they start their work. They just, you know, when's the work start?

10. Yeah. Around 10. Well, it's not like the sun's gonna go down they just they're they're a little cat they're a little casual with a lot of stuff at least from what i kind of observed yeah and obviously if there's certain places that kind of need to be more punctual with when they open up some of the businesses and stuff but it seemed like uh so like people are casual seem like they really respect their sleep. You know, sleep is like a big deal.

And it's actually kind of difficult to figure out how to sleep when the sun's out 24-7. So, I mean, they got like blackout curtains and all that, but it's still kind of weird. Can I ask you a question real quick? When it came to the fermented foods you were eating, did you find that – did you get fuller faster eating those foods? Did you notice anything when it came to that or no? So fermented foods are amazing. One of the things that's amazing about it is they really don't have – they don't yield much calories at all, especially something like pickles. Some jars of pickles, it will actually say zero calories, which it's obviously not zero calories,

but it just doesn't measure all that much. So you can fill up on stuff like that. Like that's kind of an advantage. And then also I think, you know, we hear all this stuff about vegetables. Now they're tougher to digest and stuff, but a fermented vegetable is going to be much easier to digest. So I think it's a good way to get nutrients in. It's a good way to take up some volume without, and they also taste good. Yeah. Some of it,

you know, might take some people a little bit getting used to, but I really liked it a lot. How about the pickled? And I also meant, how about the pickled and cured meats? Did you notice anything with your appetite when it came to those? Cause it's very salty.

So did you notice anything? Cause yeah, I mean, you just, you're automatically probably going to eat a little bit less. Yeah. Because, you know, it's like the pickled herring. It's like a lot, you know?

So good, yes. It's really good, but it's not the same as like, you know, if you get some like 85-15 ground beef. You could eat two pounds of that very easily. But a pickled herring, like, it'd be harder for you to maybe eat like a pound of it just because it's different, different flavor than most Americans are used to. I would – like this is a hack for some of you guys. I think some of you guys might really enjoy this and want to try it because after I saw that picture of the herring on your Instagram, I used to date someone that was Ukrainian. And like that's how I got introduced like pickled herring salted cured pork probiotics like yeah and that's when i got like i discovered the russian and eastern european markets and at

these markets that's where you can buy pickled herring uh like uh all these different meats that are cured and whatever and literally what i did is i just cut up a full onion i put a bunch of pickled herring i put a bunch of pork herring. I put a bunch of pork belly, salted cured pork belly, and some of this like Asian chili vinegary sauce or whatever. And that shit fills me up so much, even though like, yeah, it's probably a decent amount of calories, but it's like, because there's so much salt,

because like of the way the meat is cooked, you eat that and you feel oddly full for not eating much food. And it's very satisfying if your palate likes it. My palate likes that type of pickled and cured stuff. But I think it could be a cool thing to add to your diet for some variability. And it is pretty healthy. Sauerkraut.

Yeah, I was going to say any like GI distress or anything though? I mean, I pooped a bit, but like I'm good now. I mean, let's put it this way. I don't usually eat onions. And within the past three days, I've eaten three full white onions. Because when I prepare it, I cut up a full onion, chop up a full onion. But you're eating a raw onion. It's a raw onion. I don't cook it. So I chop up a full onion. I put in the herring. I put in the pork belly. And then I put in some of the chili sauce and I just mix it up. I sent you guys a video of it yesterday and it's so good. And it's

like filling and it tastes really good. So it could be something to try out. Yeah. I think the stuff that I had, I think, uh, everything was like fermented. I think the herring was fermented along with the onions as well. Cause it was, uh, like the onions were soft. Okay. Yeah. Um, and that's again, going to be a little bit easier to digest. I didn't notice any, uh, didn't have any major blowouts or anything like that. yeah it was it was a lot of fun and uh yeah i love to travel and it's always fun to travel with my wife um i'll send you a picture andrew of us we were we were uh i was explaining earlier that there's um you know uh iceland is just a giant volcano basically.

And there's these natural hot springs and there's areas that where it's, you know, boiling, the water's boiling and there's geysers. It's just like occasionally the fucking water just, it'll just like make these like weird noises and it will like bubble up just like your stomach sometimes does. It'll like bubble up and then all of a sudden like just water will just shoot you know 20 30 feet in the air and that water is like you know it's very very hot so there's areas where it tells you not to walk there but if you do walk there um some people don't list don't listen to the signs or don't see like the ropes or whatever and if they'll take a step and their foot will go through the surface and they'll get burned really bad because it's like boiling water.

But that water will meet up with the glacier water. It kind of comes together naturally in some areas. And in other areas, it's just a way for them to get more tourists there. They make it happen on purpose basically. But the cold water and the hot water coming together makes for like a lagoon, makes for something that you can kind of bathe in basically. And when all that's going on and all those minerals are coming together, it also produces this like kind of white foamy type stuff, which is silica, which is in a lot of healthcare products, a lot of skincare products rather. And so people used to think like this, it's like the fountain of youth.

You know, you go in here and get regenerated and you do feel amazing when you come out of there. Yeah. And there's definitely something to it. Cause like if it gets on your hair, your hair gets like fried in some weird, crazy way. Like your hair is like tingly and it's just like, it's just like sticking up. It's like, uh, almost feels like, almost feels like static or something like electric, like your hair got electrocuted or something. Yeah. It's a little,

it's a little bit, uh, a little bit weird, but it was was super super relaxing and super calming and it was a lot of fun i just feel like it would be so weird to just rely on nature's thermostat for those hot springs what do you mean um well because like he said like the it's boiling water mixing with glacier water and we're just going to be like yeah it's going to continue with the exact same temperature like the boiling water is not just going to like one day like we're going going to be like, yeah, it's going to continue with the exact same temperature. Like the boiling water is not just going to like one day like we're going to quadruple the amount. And all of a sudden now everyone's cooked. That's why you dip your toe in.

Okay. Is this good? Like some of them are huge too. Like so they're massive and they are like they're controlled. Like they have like, you know, pumps that, you know, get some of the water to move around and stuff like that. But yeah, it was incredible. So you've gotten your labs done, whether it's six months ago or a year ago, and you want to know where things are at, but you don't want to get a full panel again. That's why I've partnered with Merrick Health owned by Derek from More Plates, More Dates. And we have something called the Checkup Panel.

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podcast show notes. You mentioned, I don't know if you want to mention it. You were talking about an airport thing a little bit. I'm just curious what exactly happened. If you want to mention that. Yeah. You know what? Just in traveling, just people are so fat and people are so sick. It's completely like, it's completely unbelievable. I mean, I understand. I mean, we hear the stats, we hear the information, but we the information. But we're in our own little pocket here. And because we're in fitness and you guys are into jiu-jitsu, it's like, what's our feed on Instagram? It's girls with big asses and jiu-jitsu and— Muscular men?

Yeah. Did I say girls with big asses? I didn't mean that. It seeps in every now and then yeah i'm not sure how that's uh like that's the silica stuff that you put on so oh wow dude you look like you have kind of like an afro at least in this picture your, your hair looks kind of nappy for some reason. Because it got wet. I was like, well, what's it going to do to your hair? I'm like, oh, let's try it. Oh, man.

Yeah, it makes it crazy. All right, there we go. Less afro-y. But, yeah, we had an awesome time. But, yeah, people are just – people aren't just – people don't just have excessive body fat. They don't, people don't just have excessive body fat. They, you know, we're living in a time where people need to figure out a way to like manufacture some type of exercise that gives them some sort of resistance of some sort. So it's either you're either like walking hills or you're doing some sprints or using an assault bike or you're lifting. Like I don't, I think the time,

I think the times where we can get away with not lifting, I think you're lifting. Like I don't, I think the time, I think the times where we can get away with not lifting, I think they're over. They're completely, I think they're completely gone in the United States for most people. Cause most people aren't carrying around like sheet rock. They're not like building shit. Um, people aren't really looking for those jobs anymore. Maybe some people out there that do have manual labor jobs and they, they, uh, use their body physically. Those people can just get away they, uh, use their body physically, those people can just get away with, uh, some simple changes in their diet and maybe going on a walk here and there. But from what I saw, it's, uh, it's kind of heartbreaking in a way. Cause

you're like, I'm not sure. I don't, I don't know if I don't believe that there's anything we can do for some of these people. I think that, I think they're kind of gone. I think their time has sort of passed. Now anyone can pick up a habit and anyone can improve. And all of us here are evidence of that. Like we've all switched and done different things and, you know, gone different ways with fitness and jujitsu and running and things like that. But these people are just very stuck. And I think that in our society today where there's the pharmaceutical companies stepping in and there's the government and there's just like a lot of conflicting information on like what's –

I think some people sometimes think that lifting in some ways or trying to lift heavy is like unhealthy. Trying to get lean is unhealthy. Like, oh, you don't look good. Like your face is getting skinny. Like that's not good, you know. And I think that we don't understand how sick we really are. And I just saw that everywhere. And then once you see it, it's hard to like – it's hard to unsee it.

Yeah. And it's hard to like stop talking about it. But that's all Andy and I could talk about. And then you feel like so judgmental. You're like, I'm just sitting here like judging people. This is not productive. But at the same time, I'm just thinking, can these people be helped or assisted? And I think the answer is to maybe just go back a couple generations or to go to the most recent generations rather and just try to teach

this stuff to our kids it's i think it's super important i think physical education as david weck has said it is the education i think in this country it needs to move to the fucking front of the line like it's time it's time for it to like i'm i'm being 100 serious it's time for it to – like I'm being 100 percent serious. It's time for it to move right into the front of the line of it being first and foremost the thing that you learn and the thing that you absorb and the thing that you improve upon as you go through your scholastic career here in the United States. I think it's more important than math. I think it's more important than spelling and reading and everything else because if you don't have your health, what do you got? You don't have your faculties together. You're sick. You're unhealthy. Or, you know, someone could challenge that and say, well, hey, it's at least equal, right? Okay, fine. They can be even, but they're not even at all because in this country, we don't really have, we're not providing, I don't think, enough opportunity. I'm not saying that schools should do this exclusively.

Never a great idea to rely on government for really much of anything. They never make, you know, in terms of our school system, it's very rare for them to make changes that are really big and impactful that move the needle. It takes a long time. So I think we need to figure out ways to get this into our own homes, the dads and the uncles and aunts and the grandmas, grandpas, and all the people that can encourage their young kids to throw a ball around, to move around, to play sports when they're young. So that way activity is bred into your lifestyle. I'm not talking about like just getting kids into a gym,

although some of that would be smart as well, because it'd be great to teach them, you know, what some of their exercise might look like years from now when it's not as easy to get together, you know, 10 people on this side and 10 people on that side to play a football or soccer game or baseball game or whatever it might be. You might have to have, you know, artificial exercise, which is you going to the gym and throwing around some weight. So I would love to see, you know, some changes like that happen or more of us try it because again, people are, what they said about COVID was that people had up to four core morbidities, which is insane. You know, people have four things that are leading them to be so sick that it was easier, it left them more susceptible to getting ill, to getting sick, and to having COVID be more impactful on them. It's speculated

that it's like, I think maybe 15% of the population has like full metabolic health, meaning just you have full access to what your body's supposed to do in reaction to the foods that you eat. So like if Encima wants to just eat a giant bowl of cereal, it's not going to have any negative impact because he's got, you know, his metabolism is good. It's going to handle it in a particular way. But some of these people that we saw, you know, and I think it's unfair too that we give, again, I don't think it's healthy to like sit there and judge people, but I think certain age groups get a pass and I don't think they should.

I don't think just because you're 65 that you get a pass that you're not fat. It's like, no, you're, you still are over fat and under muscled tremendously. And that is why it might be normal for people that are 60, 65, 70 to be very ill and to not be able to move around really well because that is the norm because people don't take care of themselves, but it doesn't have to be the norm. It doesn't have to be, we should be able to push that off a lot further. And the people that I saw that were in shape, that were, um, it was just like, I don't know, it was like one out of like a thousand people, you know, it was like, so it was just, it was just like mind numbing. I was like, this is insane. And, and I'm aware of it. I've seen it before. I know this, but

I just saw it more so than I've ever noticed it even before. And I think the older crowd, our kids as well, but the older crowd is a lot fatter than we're paying attention to. And so, and that, that really has, it puts a lot of pressure on our healthcare system. It puts a lot of pressure on our pharmacies and it puts, it leads everyone to kind of think and be hopeful that there's going to be some

sort of magic pill at some point that's really going to help. Oh, a Zampik is going to help. And hopefully those things things i really hope those things do help that would be awesome but it's not just a problem of people being fat it's not just a problem of people overeating it's people just not having they have they have no muscle none and it just sucks because you're like that guy probably can't even do a push-up. It's like, man, could you make it to 60? Could you make it to 70 and still be able to do a couple push-ups?

I think you could. Absolutely. I think you fucking can. I think you can do it. And with the focus, and it's great that nowadays people are really focusing on their mental health more and doing all of that, but some people talk about mental health, physical health, and doing all of that. But, you know, people, some people talk about like mental health, physical health and spiritual health. But the thing is, is when you're physically healthy, that feeds into your mental health. Like a lot of people have had physical activity

help and potentially get rid of their depression and their mental health issues because they're able to start doing something and exerting themselves a bit and getting out of their mind. That's so many people do that. But you know, if you can just get, just get yourself to handle your physicality and your kids can learn that and that can just become a habit. Cause everything we talked about on the show, isn't about just going to the gym and working out or going to a jujitsu class and working out. It's trying to build this into your life and the corny shit about it's a lifestyle like adding some of those things into your life so that it's not something you think about and then your physical health is just part of the way you

live a lot of things become so much easier for the the people that you were you were noticing were you able to tell like are, are they from Iceland or Americans? I'm pretty sure. But, like, I mean, was it just across the board, like from every corner of the globe coming? You know what? I think it's everywhere now. I think it's, you know, I think it's hit so many countries. Maybe countries that have less, probably not because they don't have so much abundance

and they have to, like, you know, if you've got like hunch of food or, um, so in certain areas, I think it, it hasn't, you know, really, uh, hit them as hard. But I would say, um, like, like when, you know, traveling through like Europe and Italy and, uh, a bunch of other countries over the last couple of years, it just seems like it's prevalent everywhere. I mean, in England, more recently, they put some taxes on, you know, what they consider to be junk food, which is like kind of cool. But then also it's like, I don't know what we consider to be junk food. And that makes some sense, though. You know, like it just causes a weird chain reaction that I don't even know how. I don't know how to digest that because like let's just say you said, okay, cereal is basically crap, right?

Jack the prices of cereal up. But does that like mess up people that don't have money? Does that fuck them up really bad? Like maybe it does. up people that don't have money does that fuck them up really bad like maybe it does um but maybe you elevate the money there and then maybe there's some money on the back end to help some of those people still get some of those foods or something like that i'm not sure yeah yeah i got a picture i'm sending you that is the rough thing i mean a lot of these foods do have the uh there's the benefit of it being calorically dense.

So for individuals who don't have enough money, like they can buy a lot of these processed foods and get in the calories that they need to be able to survive. But survive, it's tough. Well, and then people are getting fatter when they're getting older. Again, it's because they don't have the muscle mass. Like they're not moving as much as when they were young, and they don't have the muscle mass. So what's the difference between someone who's 20 and 30 years old versus someone who's 55, 65 years old?

It's not just that they gain some weight, although that does happen. It's that they progressively, we hear all the time, like over the age of 40 you lose one percent of strength you don't have to who who loses one percent of strength who does studies on they didn't study me you know and i think you need to be a little stubborn about that i mean they say i'm gonna i'm gonna hold on to this shit for a while let me see you know can i um you know uh can i run can i still run a mile at 60 like it doesn't have to the standards don't have to be wild they don't have to be crazy

um i remember years and years ago i was like you know i want to when i'm 50 and 60 i'll still be able to squat 315 for a couple reps if i want to you know if i want to work my way to that or just have the capacity to be able way to that or, uh, just have the capacity to be able to do that. And who knows? I don't know. I'm not quite there yet, but we'll see. Uh, with like in, in any of the various countries that you visited, um, are you getting any like different reactions in certain, in certain ones? Um, meaning, cause like you're a big dude and you're jacked, but then also like some of the foods you order, you know, like majority protein, are you getting any weird responses from anybody like for like because i

know like here like if we go to in and out and i order 10 flying dutchmen they're just like try to give me like five forks i'm like no i just need one you know they look at me weird but like is it the same like everywhere you visited in uh in some countries they're like super accommodating you know like uh like in mexico for example a few times i've been there like it's they'll just do whatever like they're down to help whatever way they can um you say oh i want you know two steaks and the salmon and they'll be like do you want anything else with that you're like nope And it comes out perfect. Iceland was kind of the same way. They were like, you know, I just, I wasn't sure how much food I was getting.

You're not always sure what's on the menu. Like half of it's English and half of it's like Icelandic. And you're kind of, you're like, I'd rather have more food than less food. So I'm like, I'm going to order the salmon. I'm going to order an appetizer. I'm going to order a salad. I'm going to order an appetizer. I'm going to order a salad and I'm going to order some steak. Then hopefully that's enough, you know, but that's kind of the way it worked out. And that's kind of the stuff I'm trying to show people that your diet can be pretty easy. You just have to know like, you know, kind of how much food you just kind of, you, you do have to kind of learn the ropes of how to order food. This is,

uh, uh, I think Joan, right. We've had her on the podcast before, but this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. I mean, um, obviously like she's in tremendous shape on the right, you know, and I'm not asking or saying that everyone needs to like, look like her,

have this outstanding transformation. But I would say the way that she is on the left, I think anybody that kind of gets themselves in that, uh, condition on the left, somebody that gets themselves out of shape, it's not about necessarily like getting ripped or getting strong. It's about – and then look, she's tan as well because she probably enjoys being outside. The smile is a little bit deeper. But what everybody can do is everyone can improve. Everyone can get like a little bit deeper you know um but what everybody can do is everyone can improve everyone can get like a little bit better so rather than you know every single year you know weighing a little bit more and getting a little bit weaker and getting a little bit you kind of

view it as like getting a little bit sicker and just sweeping these things under the rug and continuing to drink and continue to eat too much sugar and too much processed foods and just, you just keep sleeping under the rug and just pay no attention to it. Eventually at some point you're going to have to move. You're gonna have to move that rug and there'll be all that shit there. You're going to, you know, not, not feel the way that you need to feel. And it's, it's not a wonder that people will say all the time that they're not motivated. They're not motivated or excited. Well, if you don't feel good, of course you're not motivated or excited.

So I think you need to try to get a hold of it. People need to try to figure out. They should be motivated by people like her, by people like Joan, who have been able to, like she was able to figure it out. I don't think she's like some genetic freak. She went through her own hard times. A lot of other people have. A lot of people have transformed.

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kind of sucked because i didn't see any cars at all. And on the last day, I got a glimpse of like a truck. It was like delivering something to a store or something. And I was like, man, I wish I didn't see that because the whole time I didn't see a car. But they walk and bike everywhere. They say the same thing about France. Some people think it has to do with the food and the food quality but I disagree I think that when people go to these countries they end up doing what a lot of Europeans do and that's walk and so while you might feel like you're just enjoying these foods all day I think people

tend to wake up a little bit later so the breakfast maybe isn't as heavy they eat later in the day they maybe do enjoy some of the foods from whatever country they're in. But again, they got a lot of walking. People that aren't in good shape, they probably kind of get their ass kicked when they go on vacation because you might walk like four, five, six miles and for a lot of people are not used to that. It's also not perceived as exercise. It's literally just part of what you do. Again, it just uh something that you do each day to get from point a to point b you're walking everywhere it's a lot here sedentary lifestyles you can get everything door dashed you can drive everywhere sitting a lot you're not moving much and then but like um i have read that they're like um their laws for what can be in the food is are a lot stricter in other

countries than they are here but after what you just said that does make sense that people just move more and then you when americans go visit it's like they're kind of forced to kind of live that same lifestyle too yeah because some people will swear like oh i went there and i think they have better ingredients stuff i i don't know like i i think that i think we do some stuff here really really well and i think food is one of them but i don't i don't think our i don't know. Like, I think that, I think we do some stuff here really, really well. And I think food is one of them, but I don't, I don't think our, I don't think all our food is like toxic by any means. I don't think, I don't think when you eat healthy here, I don't think that's going to potentially make you fatter than the food from somewhere else. Um, I think, I think, uh,

I don't know. I think that people are just prideful and they're patriotic towards their country. So they're gonna be like, Australia, you can't even, you can't even mess with the meat in Australia. It's like, Hey, well, I don't know. Does Australia have Piedmontese beef? Cause that's pretty good. I have had the meat in Australia before and it is really good. I've had the lamb in, uh, Iceland and in Iceland and enjoyed great dishes in a lot of places.

But to tell you the truth, like spaghetti and meatballs is spaghetti and meatballs. I know some people are going to flame me for it. Like not my mama's cooking or homemade spaghetti or whatever. I get it. Yes, I get it. When someone does something homemade, can't really fuck with that. That's on the next level.

But when you travel somewhere like Italy where they're trying to serve portions to, who are they going to make the most money off of? Americans. So they're going to kind of Americanize everything a little bit. So you're not even really getting those. A lot of times you're not even getting like the real authentic taste unless you really know where to go.

I know there's a lot of pride in being an American, but maybe, maybe we need to concede on the food side of things and try to be a little bit European. Maybe that's where they win, right? Portions and stuff. Yeah, portions and then like just how much you eat because everything is bigger here. People will get so upset though. Well, I mean, they won't have fucking, they won't be obese. Get upset.

You know, like it just, it makes a difference, right? Your portion size is trying to move a little bit more. That's where a lot of places are ahead. But everywhere where we've managed to dip our toes and then like add McDonald's, they all like, I don't know if you've seen like a of in over in Mexico, like with all the McDonald's and stuff that's going on there. Now, a lot of people are starting to have a lot of issues that Americans have. Right. Once we inject ourselves there.

So maybe we should be a little bit less American when it comes to our food. Yeah. America is so interesting. Like if you go into like, I went into a Safeway like a couple months back cause I was like, this other store that I was in. It didn't have like a good variety of like drinks and we're having some people over just like soft drinks like sodas and shit like that. I could not believe it.

It was it was two two full aisles of drinks and there were so many different like nit nitro ice coffee things i just couldn't even believe it and then i i turn around i'm looking like there's all this different tea there's tea without sugar there's tea with sucralose there's uh plain tea there's black tea there's green tea like it just goes on and on and on and there's fermented drinks and there's kombucha and there's pepsi and coke and sprite and just it just goes on and on and on. You will not see that normally in other countries, like at least some of the places I've been. They'll have variety. They'll have a little bit of stuff.

It'll be like they got like two, three things, you know, a couple, a combination of things. Yeah. But here, I mean, oat milk. The fuck is oat milk? Like people think they're healthy drinking oat milk oats don't fucking produce milk like how the fuck does that happen i wonder how oat milk is made oat milk almond milk all with just junk ingredients and people think this is like some healthy practice like those things couldn't be worse for you i don't think i like cashew milk because it's

thick and low in calories because you're a heathathen. I am. How about, like, is carnivore or, like, you know, veganism anything? Like, other countries go heavy on that stuff as well, or is that just our dumb asses over here? Yeah, I think, you know, again, I think these countries are running into a lot of the same problems. Like, especially when it comes to like England. They're running into like an abundance issue and people there are getting much heavier than what they would like to see. People are getting unhealthy and so they have to take more action. So gyms are becoming more popular in a lot of other countries. But there's so many countries that don't have nearly the amount of problems that we do.

We're like a consumer-based country and people love having the different flavors, like literally. And people love to just eat whatever they want whenever they want in whatever portion sizes they want. And that's – when I posted some stuff on like, Hey, this is the way I'm eating. Even though I'm traveling, people were like, come on,

bro, live a little, you know, they're like, but I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything. And it's not like, um, I mean,

we had some like dark chocolate and we had like a dessert here or there. Like I do, I'm doing a 75 hard thing, but nowhere does it say that you can't just says like, stay on a diet. So I'm like, I'm on, I'm on a diet and, uh, eating, uh, you know, 5% of my meals that are slightly off plan is part of my diet. Um, having a drink or something like that. I don't have an issue with alcohol, so I'll have a drink here and there. It's not, it's not a big deal. So I think that,

you know, what one person interprets as like being fun, another person might, like if I, if I was to eat a bunch of junk, I'm not going to, I'm not going to really even enjoy the flavor of it that much. There's certain things that I would break for. Like there's, like if I was in Italy and I had opportunity to eat pizza, like I'm going to eat the pizza. Like I'm not that much of a hard ass about it. I'm going to eat what they have. But I also might order some chicken or I might order some steak or something to have something that gives me like a little bit more substance and something that I know is going to kind of make me feel good.

And then I'll just have a couple slices of pizza so I don't have to just engorge myself with pizza while I'm hungry because I'm going to eat like 14 slices of pizza so i don't have to just engorge myself with pizza while i'm hungry because i'm going to eat like 14 slices of it probably yeah it's all upside down when you when you don't drink and eat right and people think you're weird right it's so yeah it's it's fucked up it's upside down yeah it's a little weird but yeah that was my trip now we need to get to you oh me yeah i had a little competition you got into a fight. Two fights. Two fights. Yeah. It's actually cool how they ran that.

Can you explain that? Yeah, yeah. So my division actually had quite a bit of people, so we had two brackets. But with Jiu-Jitsu World League, you're basically guaranteed two matches. And depending on how many you win, you can either go for gold or you can fight for silver or bronze. So in my case, I lost to the guy that got silver, and I think I lost to the guy that got bronze. So spoiler, lost both. But no, the event itself, they do a really good job.

It's held at the Stockton Arena. I've had friends that have competed at the Santa Cruz IBJJF event, and they're like, that one was all over the place. Jiu-Jitsu World League is legit, so don't think that you're going at some low-rent league. JJWL runs extremely good tournaments. They're very comparable to IBJJF. It's a good place to compete.

And thousands of athletes. They sell out every single time. So hell of people. A shit ton of kids you know which is really cool to see but like adults and then you know master's classes they're they're stacked and then so yeah so basically so yeah so like i said mine i i knew i was going in guaranteed two matches but you know in my head i'm like i'm gonna have three because i'm gonna get a win you know here and you know go from there um but my my inexperience and, you know, just everything, you know, being new,

definitely shined, you know, it showed through. Um, so in seeming please like in, you know, interject wherever you see fit. But, um, my first match on my game plan was I was going to go for a single leg, go for the takedown, get on top, stay on top as basic as possible. And that, that was it. And, uh, he sniffed out my single leg pretty quickly and he just basically, you know, held on and stood back and stayed there and waited for me to make a mistake. Um, so good on him, but because I was like, this is the plan, this is the plan. And, you know, it's so easy when you see, you know, fighters have their game plan and it's not working. I'm like, dude, don't you have a plan B have a plan b it's like well fuck there's a lot going on so it's really really easy to judge but hard to execute

and so the plan b should have been to pull guard but i just i didn't do it and i wanted to but everyone kept telling me no just you know get on top stay on top um so i wasn't able to and um he got uh i think it was somewhat of a like a judo throw type of a takedown and so he scored two points and i just kept him in my guard and i couldn't sweep um so that's something that i'm going to work on within sema get some tips on basically building a better guard game um which i have been working on all week already and uh i just yeah i do like the way you i like the way you put it you know you're saying like develop a really strong guard game so that way you can be lethal. Because if you get on top, cool.

If you can't, pull guard and then still fuck them up. So that's going to be the plan. I can pull up this video really quick. So this was just a quick highlight reel from the day. So nothing too special. But I did ask my boy Shaw to just film a bunch of stuff. So I got some cool angles. But this was the first match um this right here so right there that was my like introduction to competition um it was that first exchange it was that first you know oh shit you you i felt it

my vision got jarred it was like it literally shook. Like I could see the black bars of the, you know, the cinema screen, right? They were doing this and I'm like, whoa, where the fuck am I? When I got up, I seen stars everywhere. I was like, holy shit. Like I need to regain my composure because this is not good. I have a question for you, dude, because like, like we're going to go through this video, for you, dude, because like, like we're going to go through this video, but man, the strides you've made in the past few years, like Andrew, like two years ago, a year ago, a year ago, like the way you were moving around and you're still doing stuff that you're doing stuff from Gota, you're

doing a bunch of stuff, but watching this, the way that you're moving around, the way that like you're hitting the ground, coming up, getting thrown, coming up. Doug. Thanks, dude. I appreciate that. Yeah, no, dude, it's, it is wild. You know, I, in this post, I said like a year ago, I would have been like, no, you're, you're crazy if you think I'm going to even train jujitsu, let alone compete. And yeah, dude, I, I, my, my goal was like really deep down was like just to try to stay as calm as possible because I knew it was going to be like a huge like like holy shit. Here we go. But when I like I said Mark like on Saturday school like when I touched the mat like I won like I was so happy. I had a big old smile on my face.

I just like I looked up and like dude I can't believe I'm here right now like like this is so cool. And then you know the match started and, you know, that first exchange happened. It was like, whoa, like this is different because I've never gone that hard in a role. You know, like, I mean, yeah, I've pushed it, but I've had nobody that can like push back this way, you know, because like I've only pushed hard against like upper belts and they kind of they can they can maintain composure. But this was like different, you know, like I thought you're struggling and they're struggling. You're both like a shake weight. Yes. Right. Both shaken. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, like that weird jarring feeling of like, I'm going to reach, reach for my hand here and have somebody at full speed, slap your hand like, Whoa, all right, here we go. We're doing this. Like they were doing the damn thing.

And so I did kind of like a cheap move. like i bumped his forehead and i tried to go for the single leg just to try to draw his attention away from it um so that but yeah like it's a long story short i couldn't take him down but i'm really happy what happened after this is he pretty much did get the takedown but i understanding jujitsu rules like oh just because he kind of threw me down, doesn't mean he's going to score points unless he gets on top of me. And so like, I just like right here. So he got the same kind of ones, the backend throw, but I just kept fighting, fighting, fighting, and I got them off me. So he didn't score any points right there. And so like doing that, like that made me feel really confident moving forward. Cause I'm like, I kept my head in the game um I was faced with some adversity and I didn't just like oh fuck you know and crumble now uh after that he kind of did the

same thing again and I had him in my guard and looking at the the full length footage like I did a lot of things right I just missed a couple things you know I got his arm across my body so all I had to do was kind of shift out this way to either go for a back take or some some form of like a flower sweep or something but it just wasn't clicking you know like he's like ah i gotta get more reps amounts of pressure it's a different pressure going into a competition yes you're thinking about a lot of things you're thinking about potentially losing potentially you might be thinking about that but it's but you you know more reps of it yeah it's gonna be easier yeah yeah and that's yeah that's how would i feel and that's why i've been like okay the next one's in two months and you know my neck's a little banged up right now my thumbs i can almost close my thumb we're getting

there so isn't it weird no matter how much you like kind of prepare and visualize, like once you get there, it's so different. And the moment the guy like put his hands on you, it just changed everything, right? Yeah. Almost feels like you can't see and like almost feels like you're almost like, I don't know, like an out-of-body experience in some weird way. A little bit. It goes by a lot. It goes by super fast, right? Yeah.

It goes by a lot. It goes by super fast, right? Yeah. So when I was warming up with my buddy Chris, who was cornering me the whole time, well, the first round and then Sean Wright, my instructor, he coached me the second time. But they were both kind of almost like a dual corner. I was warming up with him. There was a second where like I couldn't get oxygen. Like, what the fuck?

Like, come on, man. And i had to slow down and like really just like but i couldn't get it to go into my belly just it stayed up here and that's when i recognized i'm like oh dude like just chill out like you're fine so i put my headphones on threw on some like slow r&b music and then that was good but any of the breathing stuff since i did yeah i did afterwards and it's so weird that what like when when I do box breathing or anything where I'm focused on my breath, it builds anxiety. I'm not sure what that is. I don't know. But when I do box breathing, that's the worst for me. I start getting very, very antsy. Interesting. Yeah, I did a lot of visual stuff. I did, you know, a ton of it. And it's, yeah, no, it's, I think an out-of-body experience is pretty accurate because in that moment, like, colors are different, like, than his breathing, my breathing, and then my coach. Like I was able to just kind of shut everything else out and then just hear that. But then the second that the match was over and I put my power sandals back on, I heard everything all over again.

It was such a strange thing. It was like whoosh and it all came back. Being in a gym like that too where there's no like – there's not like a wall. Normally when you're training, right, there's like a bunch of you're that's a great point you're in like a box right you're like a rectangle or a box a square box of some sort and there's um and there's not as you know there's not people like sitting and like so the all the visual everything's just different right the lights but yeah it's super bright yeah what you're mentioning is like if you know i'm rolling with somebody in front of me i i can focus on them and I see a blurry wall or something.

Here I'm focusing on my opponent and it's just fucking endless. It's just like an abyss, right? Like it just goes forever it seems like. So, yeah, that is definitely it. Yeah. It's like scary. Like in a power theme meet you go out and you like just go and squat in front of everybody. You're kind of like, this is kind of weird yeah yeah and then so my second match and shout out

to origin for this amazing pearl weave their gays are amazing but my second match was dope um this guy was super nice he uh it was funny because we were talking beforehand and uh he has like a brazilian accent so that just added more like oh this guy knows what he's talking about but then he goes like oh first competition and i'm like yeah and so we're going back and forth and he's telling me some pointers and da da da and then he's like oh what mat are you on i'm like 15 and he's like oh wait a second and then we noticed that we were competing against each other and so like i don't know i felt kind of weird because I'm like, oh, I just explained to him this is my first event. And, like, I'm nervous and da, da, da.

I was like, and now I was like, damn, did he just do that on purpose? Like, is this his tactic to, like, you know. But he was just a super nice guy. But it was just funny that we were talking and I had no idea that we were actually going to eventually compete against each other. But this was not his first event. each other but this was not his first event and the consensus that I got from everybody because like the first guy not so much a back-end comment but he was like dude when I felt how strong you were I started to panic a little bit and I was like okay well that's cool I'll take it and then he's like how long have you been training and I was like it'll be about eight months and he's like

how often are you training and I was like about three times a week, but sometimes a little bit more, sometimes less. I got hurt. So like I took like a month off. And he just kind of walked away. So I don't know how long he had been training, but I'm assuming a lot more than eight months. And then everyone else had multiple stripes on their belts. And so it felt cool being the underdog also because it helped with like the expectations. But also being the least

experienced first event i felt like i belonged amongst these other guys so that was like a huge win for me personally because i didn't want to go out there and just get totally smoked and that didn't happen so i was really happy about that and then so uh the takedown worked on this guy um i was able to take him down and got right into my headquarters position, which I really enjoyed. Restart the video again. Again, like it's just like the little movements that you do there. Again, it's like it's shocking that like you're super nimble. Oh, dang.

This was all the first. This is all the same video. Okay. Yeah. It's okay. It doesn't take long. Yeah. Yeah.

Again, just happy I didn't get any points scored on me right there. That's my boy Chris. Right here where you get thrown and then you just like. Yeah, because I got thrown off balance, but then I'm like. Yeah. Right back into it. There's a good go to right there. Yeah.

Yeah, dude, dude, I did a lot of go to stuff right before all of the, like my warmups and stuff. That's what I was doing. And there's Sean Wright coaching me up. And so this situation right here, I had never been in, a deep half. So it was tough because I'm getting instruction on something I didn't even know was happening. It's sort of like I think it's a multiplication problem and they're giving me subtraction. I was like, that's not making sense because I didn't even recognize that he had his arm cupped around my leg right there.

So I couldn't figure out how to get out of this situation. And so it was kind of frustrating. But again, the experience will come. Looks to me like you got him in a situation. Yeah. Well, for the most part, I do because I'm on top. So I'm up to zero right here and if I just stayed there for another 30 seconds I would have got a w yeah he managed to sweep in the last what 25 seconds yeah yeah and I actually show that here because another thing that I was really happy

about is that I didn't let him get to mount you know uh again this was another look at that strength sign wham happy about that because he almost got over on me but i didn't let him go um sean kept telling me to grab my collar just to lock his arm in but right here so he he did get on top of me but i didn't let him get points for the mount so he only got uh the two points for the. He didn't get points for the mount. Unfortunately, I ended up grabbing his pant leg, and I think that's why I got a penalty, and that's why he ended up winning.

But either way, I was just super stuck with how this match ended because I did eventually get him back in my guard. Yeah. So you signed up for a competition in about two more months, right? It's like exactly two months. What got you like that that's a good thing you did but why did you choose to sign up so i haven't i haven't signed up yet okay but um i'm probably gonna do it uh the the biggest reason that i want to sign up is because well one it's this sped up my my progress big time um but, I don't want the next event to be a super nerve wracking thing

the way this one was. I want it to be just like, I'm going to train on Monday, right? Like, yeah, I'm definitely trained on Monday. Like, okay, this next, this next competition, like, yeah, you're going to do it. I just want it to be a normal thing for me to where the next company, yeah, of course I'm in, you know, I don't want it to be this big event, you know, mon monumentous thing. I just want to be able to be a competitive jujitsu athlete and I want to get better at it. And, uh, wins and losses, like of course wins will be cool, but just my goal is just to be better at jujitsu. from what i noticed is that a competition really really sped up my progress and two things too is like i had told my buddy because he was like hey like

don't leave it off the table like i know you're like you're just coming off of that first comp but like just start thinking about the next one in two months and i was like ah dude i kind of want to enjoy summer and when i said that i was like what the fuck dude, I kind of want to enjoy summer. And when I said that, I was like, what the fuck? What is that all about? Because I'm thinking. Why wouldn't you be able to enjoy summer? Because I'm like, well, I'll be thinking about the competition. So I might be a little bit more nervous just whenever it comes up.

Like I won't be able to just chill out. I'll have to make sure I maintain weight, which again is like, well, shit, why do I want to get out of shape? You know, when I, when I, when I weighed in, I weighed in at 179 with the Gion. So I was a little bit underweight, but like, I looked fantastic with my shirt off. Like I was looking really good. I'm like, why do I want to let go of that? Why would I say no to that? It's like, okay, well, that's not the answer. know like i i should do this because it it makes me better and it makes me feel better now granted the the nerves and all that stuff isn't the most comfortable thing but what did i say i want this to be normal and so if it's normal

i won't get so you know amped up for uh i guess i just won't get so nervous and anxious about the next one and then the next one and the next one. You know what I mean? So that's the main reason why I want to compete again so soon. It's amazing what you can learn off of just two matches. I don't know, each match, how long was it? How long were they? They're five-minute matches.

Yeah, so 10 minutes of work basically. Yeah. A lot leading up to it and everything too, but it's amazing what you can get out of that, what you can extract out of that. And then I think, you know, for people that are kind of on the bubble in terms of competition for anything, I really encourage people to sign up. That's the way I used to end all of my powerlifting seminars. I used to tell people all the time, maybe this isn't something you gravitate towards. Maybe you don't love powerlifting. You know, maybe you're so new to it that you're embarrassed by the

numbers or whatever it might be, but go sign up for something, you know, go sign up for a 5k, uh, go, go sign up for a powerlifting meet, a weightlifting competition, a CrossFit thing, whatever. Cause once you sign up for it, you're now, you know, you're putting your ass on the line. And you have to be accountable for that. And then you're accountable to like training partners. And it just helps put a whole system in place. Now, I'd also say that you shouldn't necessarily need that, you know. And you didn't need that in the beginning.

You were just going to get better, you know. But now it turns into something slightly different. And I think once you compete a couple times, you get some of those nerves out of your system and you get your first win. It's like a win is going to feel great. But like a win is interesting because if you can – like let's just say someone does jiu-jitsu for a year and they do like 10 matches. They lose all of them. Like it kind of matters that you lost, but it also kind of matters who you lost to. And what matters even more is did you actually improve?

Like, you know, that's the hard thing I think about the sport that you guys are in. I think there's some sports where, you know, with like running or swimming, you know, it's you against like the clock. That's what it should be. It should be you against the clock. When you lift weights, when you power lift, weightlifting, those sports should be you against the weight. And then eventually it's kind of you against some of the other people. If you go on a state level, national level, international level, it's you against some other people. But you guys are one-on-one against someone that you're pretty much fighting. And it makes it a little harder to try to interpret the wins and losses, I think. And so you come out with, you know, you come out with a loss, but I don't just don't, I don't think it means anything. I think

everyone loses, right? But it's probably hard to, because who typically says that? Like someone that loses all the time. Like, ah, it's not whether you win or lose. It's kind of how you play the game, and it's if you improve. But I really think in your sport, it's got to be a hard thing to keep perspective on. Who kind of gives a fuck if you win or lose? Hopefully you're continuing to make progress. And eventually, if you are legitimately making progress, it's just there's no possible way that you could always lose.

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Is the difference going to be like, oh, I got one under my belt. And so now I'm going to be a little bit more calm the way I was on the second match. Because the first match I was pretty tense. You know, my buddy Chris was like, Andrew, you're too tense. Calm down. And so I did and then went a little bit better the second match I was very calm and that one went way better so now I'm like okay is that enough and then if not like okay what else can I do but then also on top of that

like what else is everyone else doing right now you know like and I know you're not supposed to compare yourself but like what you just said like it's hard to gauge how good you are like you know and you know the for this first one I wanted to obviously I was trying to win but I wanted to make sure that I belonged there you know and I definitely did with this next one I don't really even have like a goal in mind so that's also part of the reason why I'm having like I'm hesitating to sign up right now because I don't know what I would be going for other than what I said earlier, which is the progress and trying to normalize this very, very difficult thing

that not that many people do. It would be nice to just walk in there and have confidence and not almost shit myself and be able to breathe right before the match. Competing is a skill in and of itself because there's a challenge in being able to be relaxed in training.. Competing is a skill in and of itself because there's a challenge in being able to be relaxed in training.

When you're a white belt, first off, being able to be relaxed in training is tough because you don't have many answers for a lot of things. It takes you a while until you have some tools that you can lean on to be able to roll but not everything's forced. But now when you're competing,

this person's really trying to beat you. They're not just training with you. Like they're going to go for submissions really hard and they won't, you know, even if they know they have it, some people aren't going to be nice. They might pull an armbar really hard. They might do certain things. Like when that guy did an esteem lock on my foot, he was going for the break. If I didn't tap, I would have a broken ankle. These are things that can cause a little bit of anxiety because your opponent's not trying to be nice. This is different. But you still need to kind of learn how to keep a level head. And by competing more, you'll get better at learning how to keep that level head in those types of pressure situations.

But for you, man, like if you want to do it to build the skill of competing, do it. But like if you know what you want to improve upon and you got to think like when the next competition you do, do you want to have those tools as like they're now cemented into your game and then you compete? Or are you going to kind of like just do the next one with maybe the same tools? And that's not a bad thing necessarily because you're building the skill of competing. necessarily because you're building the skill of competing, but it's like, okay, do I want to compete again with, with the new, with the new tools? Or am I going to go to what I was doing the last competition? Maybe a little bit better. That's, that's a dilemma for yourself, but. Yeah, no, I would definitely want to, to build upon what I already have right now, but I now know that it's like not a finish line, it's just another thing um another another step another

chapter whatever you want to call it um because i'll never feel like oh yeah my my collar sleeve guard game is like really really good now it's like no i'm always gonna be like oh fuck that one guy got right past me like uh you know like it's never gonna feel that way so that's definitely not it um maybe fine tuning what i already have now but because i lost twice like i don't i think i need something else to mix in along with that because it was very obvious that i couldn't get a takedown and then that was kind of it you know and then the second match was just i think more experience but yeah dude i i definitely i need to add a better guard game yeah that's for sure that's i'm already been working on it you know this week since monday

for any of you guys who are interested in like just like competing in jiu-jitsu competition go for it it's again it's like there's a difference with competing like i know exactly what you're talking about like when you go train again after a competition, it's like, um, you never watched Dragon Ball Z, but there are these things called Zenkai boosts when Saiyans, when they're defeated in battle, they like have this boost in power when they come back. And literally after every single competition,

like, I feel like I got a little Zenkai boost. Like training is just easier, you know, because like there's a, again, there's a different level that people are coming out to you in competition. And when you get better at dealing with that, when you go and train with people, it's not like you're necessarily going harder,

but it's like, you know how to handle a level of aggression that people aren't going to give you on the training floor. Did you ever, cause like the way I've been feeling this week is almost like I got so amped up and then all this adrenaline dump just, you know, it went everywhere. And so when I did everywhere, just all over the place. Yeah. When I go to train now, it's almost like, all right, cool. Now let's kind of get amped up again. I'm having a hard time not feeling too monotone about training this week. You're having a problem not feeling?

I'm having a problem feeling monotone this week. I'm not as excited as I was getting ready for the comp now. Oh. I get what you're saying, then you mean this, like, I get what you're saying, but you know, you just need to, again, it depends on who you're training with. So you're probably training with some people like you're, you mean you're new. So most people that are upper belts or have been training longer are going to be a challenge for you, but you want to find those people that you can maybe relax a little bit and then train those people that are going to give it to you. And this is the thing too.

Now maybe you want to start asking your training partners, your upper belt training partners, hey, I know you're usually being pretty nice to me. Give it to me. Like ask them too because most people, again, knowing where you are, they're going to be chill with you. And that's a good thing. And that will allow you to work more things. But now if you want to see if the things you're doing will actually work, you've got to ask some of your training partners, can you up the level of what you're doing right now? Because I want to see if any of this is really going to be much that effective. And then you're not going to be able to be so chill.

Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. You'll be forced to up your game a little bit. I think it might be important for you too, Andrew, to – I think what you'll get from more competitions is the ability to listen to yourself. You'll hear a lot from a lot of different people. But ultimately, you'll need to listen to yourself. You'll need to have like gut intuition.

And for myself, for Powerlifting, I just – I knew the numbers. But it's because I competed for so long that i just knew what numbers i i could do i knew what numbers to start with and i'd have people tell me like dude what are you doing like you can't do that i was like i'm going to that's what's going to work for me i'm going to squat 500 in the warm-up room and i'm going to do 800 and i'm going to open with a thousand on the platform they're like how i'm like I don't know watch me and I did it and it worked out like each time it was like very you know the more I did it the more precise it got and every once in a while I was like a little bit off but if I was off because of when you

start lifting those bigger weights then you're like way off you know and I could I could kind of feel it and then sometimes you compete too much and then you have to kind of learn like oh shit i'm i'm frying myself out like i'm too worried about this i'm too concerned about this i need to you know but you can get yourself to a point where you're very calm and relaxed and your coach is going to tell you this or that you're gonna be like fuck you like, fuck you. Like, now you're not going to say it out loud because you're being kind, you know, but you're thinking, fuck you, I'm going to do this this way. Like, watch what I'm going to do.

I'm going to do something that you are not going to even expect me to do because I've been training my mind, I've been training my body to do this, and I've competed enough to where I'm confident enough that I'm going to be able to do this. So I think that's a tough spot to get to, and I don't know what you guys, you know, doing jujitsu is a different thing,

but when you're, when you're competing like that, I think that's the, like the biggest benefit is the fact that you get to start to understand and learn how to really listen to yourself. Yeah. Yeah. What Mark said there.

And then, you know, pay attention to who really pays attention to you. Because, again, you'll get a lot of advice from different guys who believe that they know more about your game, especially since you're a white belt. And it's good to listen to that advice. But have they seen you? Have they watched you? Have they been around you a lot? Have they been paying attention to what you are trying to develop?

Or are they telling you things that maybe just worked well for them? Right? So pay attention to that. That's why I mean with Casio the other day, like I told him certain things that I'm going down the rabbit hole of, and I was like, do you think this is a good idea for me? Do you think I should start trying to focus on adding this guard? It's my game and this is my game. And he's like, yeah, that would be really good. Don't, don't let go of your a game, but go down that rabbit hole. And this is something else that I think you should build a habit of and get better at.

And now I have, I have for the next few weeks i know things that i'm going to be able to keep in mind when i'm training right so the people that watch you and know what you're trying to do the advice from them is going to be much better than the advice of just kind of random people are like oh yeah do this dude do this and they don't know what you know or what you're trying to develop yeah yeah and so like in my first match my my buddy chris like i worked with him more than anybody so he was like i wanted to tell you to pull guard he's like but in training you were struggling uh fighting from the bottom and he's absolutely true because i've been focused so much on get on top stay on top that everything you know

fell off with with my guard game and so i think it was i think it i mean who knows if it was the right call because maybe he would have sniffed out me pulling guard and then passed my guard even faster you know who knows but um you guys are absolutely right you know there's there's like two or yeah there's two people that would pay attention to my stuff the most and then third would be my main instructor, Sean Wright, which he would kind of understand because he does show me the most because he's my instructor. Um, but yeah, other than that, yeah, that's a very small circle. Did you go to black bear diner? I did. Yeah. Yeah. I took a picture. I should have posted that. Uh, yeah, no, I got a volcano.

No, I almost, I almost went nuts with it, but I was like, nope, you know what? I'm just going to get the, uh, Bob's big bear burger. And I was going to get an extra Patty, but I was like, nah, it's kind of late already. I'm like, I'm just going to get the deluxe and get bacon and cheese all over it. So that's what I had after. And it was great. And so I've gained like four pounds since then. That's the best burger you ever had probably. gained like four pounds since that best uh best burger you ever had probably yeah yeah i think so the fries were perfect ketchup was perfect shit tastes so much better after after putting yourself through something hard yeah awesome yeah and like i didn't have to cut weight but like i was monitoring my diet and um i i misjudged how much weight was going to come off. So the last, I think, two weeks, instead of having seven eggs for breakfast, I had six.

And I just made sure that I just like didn't have anything in the middle of the day. And I just ate dinner. And then whether it be a protein shake or that amazing ice cream from a Ninja Creamy. And the last three nights, I had really, really good sleep like all in a row. Like I slept in. I did freaking great. And the weight just kept coming off, coming off. So I hit, like, 175.

And so with the Gion, I weighed 179. That's actually really impressive, dude, because it's like, you know, you got guys like, oh, I'm going to go to the sauna. They're fucking, they're doing all these wild things. And you're just like, I'm just going to take a few things out here and there. You just dropped where you need to be. That's something that most people cannot do. But you know what the fuck to do. We got to do a Ninja Creamy podcast, dude.

Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Man, I've been making it with the PB Fit protein powder and then just literally throwing Reese's cereal in it with the mix-ins. It's so good. Buy a Ninja Creamy, everybody. What else are you putting there?

So it's so good buy a ninja creamy what else are you putting there um so it's made with uh i got this from my boy nick uh exercise for cheat meals amazing youtube channel um so it's made with like uh whole milk fair life and then like they're two percent so it's like a mixture of the two and then some xanthan gum some swerve so it's like the artificial sweetener some vanilla extract and then that's like the base and then from there you just go nuts with all the all the mix-ins and stuff it's phenomenal i've been going like with i use this uh banana cream steak shake that i have right here to the left of me on the table um i will throw in a little collagen in there as well from Bubz, a little extra cause

it's already in the steak shake product as well. But, uh, I throw a little bit of that in there and it makes it, um, it makes it like a little bit gummy. It's kind of cool. Like it, it was like stretch a little bit and then you can kind of like chew it. Um, I'll use a cottage cheese. I use a packet of, uh, chocolate electrolytes from my brand as well, from the hydration packets from Within You. And the base of it is like a fair life protein. So by the time I get done with that bastard, it's like I had one last night. It's like 100 grams of protein.

And it has like nothing else in it. It doesn't have hardly any carbs in it it's mainly just yeah it's mainly just straight protein there's hardly any fat in there if you if you want it to taste amazing you got to bring the fat calories up you need to like use like a little bit of cream or milk or something like that just throw an egg yolk in there yeah something like that so good really yeah oh yeah interesting okay yeah it makes it more like a actual i like super duper thick ice cream yeah dude i think um and this isn't it will fill you up though like it's like a will you have like a it's not a bowl of ice cream you end up with a

fucking bucket yeah and i mean this isn't to like ego stroke or anything or whatever because you know we do technically work with within you. But like, I seriously believe that within you, Steak Shake and this fucking Ninja Creamy can solve literally like all the obesity problems, because I think a lot of people have a hard time with the sweets. And oh, my God, dude, those two things have been I mean, I've fucking lost a lot of weight. I know I'm like pretty like eating ice cream every night. And exactly preparing for my first jiu-jitsu competition i ate ice cream every night leading up to it ninja creamy in your pants i did my girl does the same thing because i haven't been eating as much ice cream recently but she's been having like she's been having it every day so she has

she'll have it been in the freezer she'll make it then she'll have one like with the uh she likes like projects and stuff too so i can picture her like being really diligent about exactly what she puts in there oh yeah no she weighs everything she puts in like she weighs everything but like yo it's if you guys get an ninja creamy get some different fucking protein have some fun with it because the ice cream you can make tastes like and it has the consistency of ice cream the consistency is huge it's not like some like it's better than the fucking health ice creams that they try to sell at the stores what are those brands yeah like halo it's better than that yeah that's just like ice yeah it's hard to eat it's kind of weird uh-uh this is not that buy it it's worth your money it's incredible totally worth it is a little bit of a process

you have to like blend a shake first also i didn't realize this but there is a blend function on the creamy so it's like what what i try to do from uh what you mentioned is i blended my ninja blender and then did that thing but the creamy has a function where it blends it but it blends it's like for like a long time so the consistency is different it's like it gets to be thicker the longer it goes yeah exactly yeah so then when you when you make it into ice cream the ice cream's better the ice cream's way better it tastes different from when you blend it in the ninja blender so use the creamy blend function yeah because a lot of times i gotta do the re-spin yeah yeah yeah if you do it the ninja way we why don't you fucking sponsor us ninja fuck you we're making you money

but seriously yeah if you do it the ninja way and you let it blend in the creamy it'll be super fucking foamy and shit and you put in the freezer and then you only have to spin it once and it ends up perfect but if you so like i'll purposefully it looks good when it comes out perfect it's got a little swirl in there yeah but i will do it again just because i also like the soft serve consistency. Do you blend it in the Ninja Creamy or do you blend it in the blender? I use an emulsion blender. Okay, so that's the thing. Emulsive blender?

Oh, I don't know how to fucking pronounce it. Immersion blender, yeah. Immersion blender. There you go. You push it down the top. Blend it in the Ninja. It will be different. You could still re-spin it after, but I guarantee that you probably won't need to spin it again after.

Yeah. Okay, I'll give it a go. Just give it a shot. Yeah. Don't fight guys. I don't want to. Andrew's like I'm too tired. Andrew take us on out of here buddy. Alright thank you everybody for checking out today's episode. Please drop those comments down below. Let us know what you guys think about today's conversation

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