Rob Regish
Viewer questions were answered about performance enhancing drugs, nutrition, training and much more.
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[00:00:00] Doesn't even look like he lifts. He's got a nice pot belly on them and he's fart wearing shirts that say things like built not born that's guys completely delusional and it's reflected in his training because he moves very slowly between one exercise on the next and those exercises are almost always tricep pushdowns tricep kickbacks.
[00:00:30] Concentration curls every little move, you know Cable Crossovers every little movement in the book what this man needs and what I would submit to you that virtually everyone needs that as a match their genetics out. His to take that time and energy and put it into compound lifts. Now. There's one other thing in gyms today that has been kind of clouding this issue.
[00:00:56] I don't know what it's like at all gyms. But at my one of the [00:01:00] two gems that I go to I would say 50% or more of the guys are probably using some performance-enhancing drug AKA steroids and I'll base that on the fact they tell me they're not exactly shy about it. The problem is this. some of these guys actually have a fairly decent physique despite not working their legs at all.
[00:01:23] In performing isolation movements for 95% of their training look when you're on growth drugs almost anything is going to help grow the muscle including moving the weight from the weight stack or the tree Barb him back. All right, when you take the drugs away out goes the safety net what they will find out very quickly.
[00:01:50] Is that these workouts that feature almost entirely isolation movements don't do jack for building muscle now. [00:02:00] I will say there are Exceptions. There may be times when you use that isolation movement as a finishing exercise to flush blood into a muscle, but be under No, Illusion Cable Crossovers flies.
[00:02:19] It's caught dumbbell concentration curls tricep kickbacks these things do not stimulate muscle tissue. Unless you have genetically maxed out everything that God gave you. I would say take that time and energy and put it into big compound lifts. That's that's about a succinct as I can make it. The only caveat I would offer is isolation movements can work after you've done all your heavy load lifting.
[00:02:46] So Kickbacks can work if your your triceps are already super fatigued from heavy work and then you decide okay. So I'm going to do is I'm going to I'm going to really burn them out. Now. I'm going to go over to that [00:03:00] rack. I'm a lean over me to do them. Right because most people do Kickback standing up that's not doing anything for you unless you are upper body is.
[00:03:10] And and your arm upper arm is held against your upper body, which that means your upper arm is horizontal and you're literally forcing the tricep to straighten the elbow out horizontally. You're not doing Kickbacks. You know, I see I see guys literally they're leaning forward 15 degrees and they're just swinging their arms It Go Whoa, man, I'm doing these Kickbacks look at me.
[00:03:34] I'm doing now. That's out of. That's how big that's how baby birds learn how to learn how to fly so so so, you know, but yes, I think that these isolation movements have a place if in fact you do them after all the heavy lifting has been done. So I do agree with you there. I do agree with you there.
[00:03:52] Yeah, and when guys ask me I'll generally offer this advice if you have the time and energy have at it [00:04:00] if you can recover from it if you can God bless you, where do you know? When it comes to me, I just keep things so the compounds and that's it. I don't train my arms at all believe it or not. I don't quite believe it or not.
[00:04:14] You've paid they look at to my arms. Do not look like they belong with the rest of my body, but I don't care. I don't I don't have the time to train my arms. I'm not vain. So let's go ahead and answer Marcus May Gerdes question. Hope I pronounce that Croc properly. It's a good question to he said, If you were in charge of a team of hockey, rugby or another contact sport players, that would be what would be your go-to protocol when concussion happens rest supplements, etcetera, and he said we should bring Lars Silverback Thorn home.
[00:04:50] I communicate with large regular on the show and we will do that. Okay. So what do you think? What would you do for concussion? And you know you rattle you grapple. [00:05:00] There's concussion and rickets. Yep. So number one. I would it look if you're dealing with a concussion get prompt medical attention because you might think it's a concussion but it might be something entirely different like a headache.
[00:05:16] Yeah, I mean it's like, you know can do rest and supplements help absolutely. Can you modify the training protocol? Absolutely, but look when you're dealing with a head injury, it's not like a hangnail. I would say Seek appropriate medical treatment and then if they come back and say you know what?
[00:05:36] Yeah, you your bill did get wrong little that. You got a concussion. It's not a huge one. Now. Let's talk about things that have been proven to help. There's I think there's a pretty healthy body of literature on Creatine being beneficial for head injuries. All right, so that would be your your supplementation tip certainly rest.
[00:05:58] Um in modifying the [00:06:00] Athletes Training such that can minimize those things so it concussions are serious business and especially if it's you know, more than one you need look no further right than the NFL these days and wrestlers and other sport to your point you Jutsu. I've never had a concussion.
[00:06:19] Not that I know of anyway, have you not that I know of I thought I felt nauseous after hitting my head a couple times. When I was younger and they say that like the primary I think some people are able to function with concussions and some people aren't that's what I think happens. Yeah, I guess it depends on the severity the severity of the concussion tool right obviously, right?
[00:06:41] You know, I can recall seeing stars in the gym and I can recall and I've been put to sleep in Jiu-Jitsu, you know, they cut the blood supply often. Yeah, the Roderick right right, and that's the nice choke. Um and believe it or not that is you know, [00:07:00] the doesn't hurt. It's just it'll incapacity you so but that's entirely different right than a concussion concussion is a high impact injury and we just want to make sure there's nothing serious going on swelling on the brain is a big deal.
[00:07:16] You know and it's not something that you want to look at and say well try a little creatine. But but if you have determined that it truly is a concussion there are things you can do. So the first thing you could do as you pointed out as creatine that's been shown to help people who have actually had ischemic events stroke recover faster, but then the other things that you can look at we just did a show on nootropics.
[00:07:42] And there are a couple nootropics see like C-Max and and die. Hexa most specifically have been shown to help recover from traumatic brain injury because they actually cause collateral changes in new neurons sprouting and. [00:08:00] And neuroplasticity so because they they all three upregulate in a different way bdnf.
[00:08:07] So those would be go to for me if I suffered a concussion personally creatine would be go to for me fish oil supplements would be go to for me and making sure that my testosterone is in a safe range because with men testosterone aromatase is in the brain to estradiol to suppress. Inflammation from blunt force trauma.
[00:08:31] So those are the things that I'd pay attention to personally and I think that MMA fighters need to pay attention to their testosterone level specifically for that reason, that's a great point and you know, most people would not equate testosterone levels with that. So, you know for bringing Muhammad Ali developed something called parking Sona pugilistica, which is the part a form of Parkinson's disease that boxes.
[00:08:56] When they've had their Bell rung too much and [00:09:00] he got it when he fought. Oh man, who did he fight that he was really in bad shape already. He this is before he started to develop Parkinson's type symptoms. He was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Frazier and. Anytime you have hypothyroidism. You have your testosterone levels tank.
[00:09:22] That's any any endocrinologist knows that hypothyroid causes a drop in production of testosterone, hyperthyroid High causes hyper androgyny Mia. I rise in testosterone production. So his brain was. Unprotected at a time where he was in a fight. I can't think of who was with but he did the rope-a-dope the whole thing.
[00:09:46] He just took pounding and pounding and he won the fight, but after the other guy wore himself out pounding on his face. Yeah, I bet it was Frazier, but I thought it was Joe Frazier, but I didn't want to say for sure because there were a couple fights that [00:10:00] that rope-a-dope cost him his brain. It really did but testosterone is critical critical.
[00:10:09] Yeah, good answer all I hope that helps. All right, we have another question here. The next question comes from. Bear with me here. I scroll down to it Alan buescher. I guess that's is it buescher of butcher? What do you say push it? Push a I think was having pronounced. Okay. So there you go Alan Boucher.
[00:10:29] He says I got his name up now. I'm going to. He says I've heard it said before that heavyweights don't build muscle and High Reps don't build muscle really but that that it takes it takes heavy weights and High Reps to build muscle. Is that really true? Interesting question and I think though the you know, what we need to First is Define our terms.
[00:10:56] What is heavy heavy for me? [00:11:00] Great is not going to be heavy for somebody else or it's going to be an astronomical figure right for somebody that isn't the strongest me, but generally speaking if you're going to put a stick in the ground, I think you need to talk about the weight that you're using as a percentage of your one rep max.
[00:11:22] So, let's go. Let's go with that theory. If you are one rep max to say 300 pounds than I think we can agree using 90% of that figure or 270 pounds would be considered heavy if that is truly your one rep max. And that is truly 90% of your one rep max. The chances of you being able to do that for High Reps is pretty low.
[00:11:49] So. Now that we've defined heavy we kind of need to Define High Reps High Reps to me are anywhere between 10 and 20? [00:12:00] Okay. Now that may be because I train for strength and most of my work is done in the 3 to 7 rep range maybe but nobody is taking 90% of their one rep max and doing 20 repetitions.
[00:12:14] It just isn't is. Unless you never know maybe some genetic freaks can do it but not me what people I think are really saying when they say it takes heavy weight and High Reps is that you need to be working extremely hard on money movements and this gets back to my answer in the prior question big compound movements that overtime.
[00:12:45] Respectable if not big numbers and I'll give you an example. I went into the gym the other day and I deadlifted trap our deadlift 320 pounds for 20 repetitions [00:13:00] 320 pounds to most people on the street would represent a lot of weight and even some of the people in the gym would look at that and say, you know, that's a pretty good deadly.
[00:13:13] For me, it's 20 rep work. And so that's a lot different again getting back to my prior answer then going on the cable crossover machine, you know, maybe using the whole stack. In doing 20 repetitions, I don't care how much weight you use on the cable crossover machine. It's not going to stimulate much muscle growth what they're really talking about.
[00:13:41] I think our big lifts that work a lot of muscle mass aka the squat or the deadlift performed four repetitions above 10 and I would say upwards of 20 so we get again back to percentages. How much weight am I using as [00:14:00] a percent of my 1 rep max? Well three twenty four twenty on the calculator to the eye I use gives me a 1 rep max of 520 pounds.
[00:14:10] 320 pounds is roughly what 60% of that so really if you're talking about High Reps, you're usually using somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 65, maybe seventy percent. Of your one rep max and you're working it for anywhere between 15 and 20 repetitions. One other point that I'll make relative to this question.
[00:14:37] If you're working at your limit you you can only perform one maybe two of these big movements for that much weight and that many repetitions it is used therefore as a driver. For gains in the rest of your movements whatever you do after that either in that workout or the [00:15:00] next should be stronger as a result.
[00:15:02] Think about it. If you move your trap are dead lift from 200 pounds for 22300 420. You think you're going to be carrying more muscle mass? Absolutely. You're going to be stronger. So use it as a driver, but let's see High Reps and heavy weight for what it is. They're really talking about gut-busting gut-wrenching work on big compound movements with as much weight as you can handle in those references.
[00:15:31] I agree. The next question comes from Amanda Costello. He says, I've been training for around four years now and I really like what it's done for my body. But what do you think? What do you think about how important diet is is it really 80% of how you look interesting question and in particular the last three words how [00:16:00] you look so I'm going to run through a couple scenarios.
[00:16:05] They're going to be extreme examples, but hopefully it gets my point across so you can take someone that's eating the perfect diet. The perfect amount of calories. The perfect amount of protein carbohydrates fat macronutrient ratios water, etc, etc. But that person eating that perfect diet is laying on the couch.
[00:16:31] They are not going to. Stimulate muscle growth. because they're not training. It's very simple. You can still eat that perfect diet. You're not growing muscle. Now, you might be able to lose some fat if that person is dying. Now, let's take the other end of that Spectrum. You can take someone who's training very intensely and each [00:17:00] workout is going to stimulate muscle growth.
[00:17:03] But they're not eating enough or they're not eating enough protein and consequently what happens they will not grow significant amounts of more muscle tissue. However, they will in some cases get stronger primarily due to the central nervous system recruiting more muscle simultaneously right to contract simultaneously to lift greater way.
[00:17:29] So what I'm trying to tell you is this. given those two extreme examples I believe training is at least 50% of the picture. diet and rest or the other 50% depending upon what you want, you know how much percentage of each to attain now, there's also something there's an old saying in this business abs are made in the kitchen and I would agree wholeheartedly with.
[00:17:58] You can do all of the hanging leg [00:18:00] raises planks crunches, whatever you want to for your midsection. You're never going to see your abs if you're reading a thousand calories above maintenance. Okay, it's that simple. So from a cosmetic perspective diet probably makes up more of a percentage than you know what it typically does.
[00:18:20] From a strengths perspective. It's not as much Louis the years ago. Louis Simmons had a Roundtable with his lifters about how important diet was and of course they were a Bob Evans where they go for breakfast every morning and Lewis picks up the tabs these men are the strongest in the world and there were probably eight of them sitting around that table 7 of them could not tell you how many grams of protein they eat every day.
[00:18:50] They couldn't tell you they hate when they got hungry and they eat a hell of a lot and for their sport. Which doesn't dictate that they need [00:19:00] to look a certain way only performance that works for them. That same attention or lack thereof to diet is going to bring down a bodybuilder whose primary objective is to look big cut symmetrical, etc, etc.
[00:19:18] So long story short, I think for the general population training is more important. It's at least 50% and then dye it rest make up the rest.
[00:19:33] Your thoughts car. Yeah, I'm doing two things at one time here. So hold on a second. So I actually I actually have the server back up. So I was just testing it off camera. And in fact, we can run commercials which we need to do right now, and when we come back, we have more questions, and we even have a question that was just sent to me via Facebook Messenger from Al Reves in the UK.
[00:19:57] So here we go. We're going to take a quick commercial break. We'll be right [00:20:00] back with more of the blueprint power hour. If you post your questions on our Facebook live feed, we will answer your question. Thank you. Welcome back. So we have a question that actually came to me. On Facebook's messenger, and unfortunately, I can't I tried posting the picture.
[00:20:21] To Today's show but wasn't able to so I'm going to have to read this to you. Have you ever heard of a product called Oscar Oscar rage from muscle rage? It's apparently an austere mean sarm. Have you ever heard of it the rage? Yeah, you've heard of Austrian before right. Isn't that like a common?
[00:20:41] Sorry? Stirring stirring. Oh, Rob, your camera has frozen if you can hear me. anyway, Al Reves. says he'll come back. He'll [00:21:00] come back. So Al Reves wants to know if there's. a question for Robbie says, what's your. Opinion on Psalms like this and it's called hasta rage. We need to Rob have right.
[00:21:13] I'm going to go ahead and tell you my opinion which most of the audience probably knows already. And that is here. He comes my opinion on Psalms is why why even bother with Psalms? That's my opinion. We're going to let we're going to let Rob step in here in just a second. But my opinion on Psalms is why even bother with Psalms we can get real testosterone.
[00:21:34] You never going to build any real muscle with so arms if they even work and even what you're getting is legit isn't there a populist arm Rob called of stirring Austrian or something like that? Australia I thought even gets it this is an Austrian sarm supplement. Yeah. I'm sorry. You broke up when the read the question.
[00:21:54] I heard something about austere rage. Yeah, he asked if what what we are [00:22:00] opinion was of a prodigal ostrich, which is a sarm sold in the UK. I have tried way back when Oscar een. I have also communicated with a large number of people that have used. I don't think personally it did Jack for me. The people that I've spoken with if it has done something discernible for them.
[00:22:26] They were not able to quantify it for me. You will hear some people here and there about how you know, I leaned out I feel Fuller look that's a very subjective thing. I do not think Farms with very few exceptions. Work the ones that do quote-unquote work have the same side effects or at least some of them as steroids.
[00:22:51] They shut you down. They raise your liver enzymes and they don't grow muscle like the real thing. So in my [00:23:00] mind why bother and that and that's and that's really the testosterone is so cheap by prescription through the black market. It's going to run you about six dollars a week to do 250 milligrams.
[00:23:12] And and and it works and it works and it belongs in your body. Like yeah, we don't we don't we don't know we don't one date. So so the the Androgen receptor just like the estrogen receptor think of it as an upside-down mushroom, right? It's Kant it's concave but it has it's made up of a mosaic of domains.
[00:23:35] And the hormone that is designed to dock in it is designed to activate all of those. Domains. as the name implies selective Androgen receptor modulator. It does not activate all of the domains. Now modern medicine has determined that some of those domains are bad for you. No, we evolved activating those domains without but no [00:24:00] no though.
[00:24:00] They're going to give you some undesirable side effects, like what? Oh prostate cancer. Well now we know that prostate cancer is not caused by testosterone because dr. Samuel Den meat is curing prostate. Irrational and this notion that activating some of the domains of the receptor and leaving the other ones alone is counter to our human physiology.
[00:24:24] So if anything that's going to be a problem and so why even fool with this crap when you can use real testosterone, it's going to the austrians going to shut you down. Anyway, you can have to do a PCT after you come off it anyway. Yeah, listen nature very seldom screws up. All of those domains are there for a reason and like you said selectively activating some at the expense of others for my money that's going to have worse long-term consequences and short-term then something that belongs in your body like testosterone.
[00:25:00] [00:25:00] And I want to go a step further with something that you just said because I can hear it in some of the listeners had well nature screwed up when it created cancer nature didn't create cancer when the things that people like to look at like oh well nature really screwed up genetic true know if you're doing something.
[00:25:18] Can your body that you're not supposed to do to your body you're going to develop diseases? That's not Nature's problem. That's your dumb ass is problem. I mean, it's just like it's just like the guy who jumps in the ocean and says I want to breathe water and he gets down they take the big deep breath and he dies so we don't go.
[00:25:36] Oh he was genetically. We dispose not to be able to breathe water exactly. So don't get in the water and try to breathe. It don't do stuff to your body that's not designed to do and nature is perfect. But when you do stupid stuff to your body nature is going to punish you. Yeah, we are a long way from what's arms proclaimed to be don't even walk.
[00:25:59] Don't even waste your [00:26:00] money. Don't even waste your money. So, okay. Let's see. Let me go to my agenda here the next question. We got Al Reves taking care of that I put his name up. I hope I did I thought okay good. I the next question comes from Phil Barry. Let me get to the question now. So Phil says I have a son who's just getting into the weights.
[00:26:22] He just turned 13. Is that too young? I thought I heard you say you started your son with calisthenics, but not weights. I'd appreciate your opinion. Yeah, you know what's interesting now that I have to some actual practical experience training young children. For let's see my son. I've been training him for a little more than two years now.
[00:26:44] So so here's what I've learned. I started him two years ago. And really the reason at the time was that the gym. Allowed them at age whatever 11 [00:27:00] or so over the doctor's note or what have you I would tell there is long men this notion that if young boys exercise our girls are going to do damage to their joints.
[00:27:13] You're going to see in some form or fashion. You know hurt them. I don't believe that as a matter of fact, if I had to do it over again, I would have started training him around age 7 to 9. And as I looked I did some more research this weekend on this the former Soviet teams. Would those these kids and I do mean to say kids were started at an extremely early age.
[00:27:44] Look as long as you're not doing dumb things like having a Praying to squat a lot of weight heavy the first time out of the gate. There's a lot of upside to starting young, but I want to get away from the physical for a moment. I want to talk about the [00:28:00] mind because young people have impressionable minds and it's important to make the right Impressions.
[00:28:08] Here's what I'm talking about. I announce to my son that we were going to the gym and then we're going to start training. I did not ask him if you wanted to go. I told him and so I don't know what preconceived notions he may have had in his mind. But his first workout lasted all of about two minutes.
[00:28:29] I had him perform one set of push-ups against a wall for 10 repetitions and I had him perform one set of vertical poles. 10 repetitions for his back and then I packed everything up and I said, okay Nick workouts over let's go I did that obviously on purpose to make a point and the point was this whatever preconceived notions that he had got blown out of the water because he was done with his work out [00:29:00] before he knew it when he walked out of that gym.
[00:29:04] I guarantee you he was thinking number one. Gee that took almost no time into that wasn't that bad? I guess I can work out and so twice a week every week we go to the gym and obviously over time you start to expand the volume and number of exercises that you're using. I would strongly encourage parents to.
[00:29:30] Start with calisthenics bodyweight only exercise not just because it's the most authentic form. I think of exercise not just because it is one of the safest but also if you can't move your body weight around then you have no business demonstrating your strength on external objects. A lot of people go including myself.
[00:29:55] What about this all the wrong way when I started training. I would [00:30:00] have done if I had to do it over again. I would work on calisthenics until I was at the point where I could perform one-arm push-ups handstand push-ups 10 solid chin-ups, you know without Kipping bodyweight squats, etc, etc. Before I ever tackled the wait, we are also.
[00:30:20] Starting to introduce weights in the way. I did that. Well was in his body weight movements. So the other day just as an example. He performed a one-legged squat with seventy seven and a half pounds of added weight in the form of a weight vest and also holding a dumbbell and at the end of that workout.
[00:30:43] I walked with him into the back and I said I'm sat on one end of the bench and he said on the other end facing me and I slid his logbook over to her and I said look Nick. Do you remember your very first workout her legs? We came to [00:31:00] the gym and I had him performed ten body weight squats with his hands out of bed.
[00:31:06] To number one assist him and balancing if he needed it and number to assist him and standing back up. I said you perform one set of 10 two years later. You're doing one legged body weight squats with seventy seven and a half pounds. I can't do that. Nobody in my gym can do that and he doing it with a pause.
[00:31:28] No less the point. I'm making is this. Once you build the habit of going to the gym and working hard, you need to show them every single workout that they are making progress. Look you did five more pounds. You did one more rep, you did a more demanding version of the exercise that is motivation.
[00:31:53] And that is important. Because again those young minds are very impressionable. You want to leave them with a [00:32:00] high every time they leave the gym. He is very excited as to where this thing's going right? I had him start trap are dead lifts the other day just the bar 20 repetitions. I said now Nick if you had five pounds a week where you going to be in 20 weeks hundred pounds right where you going to be 20 weeks after that 200 pounds?
[00:32:25] Nick you still got 12 weeks left in the year. Dan's doing trap are dead lifts with 300-plus pounds 20 reps, you know, it's not always going to be linear, but he got the point. Oh my God, if I keep this up, I'm going to be lifting more weight than Dad and oh, by the way, I told him it's taken me 35 years to figure this out.
[00:32:52] He's got a chance of doing that matching it even exceeding it within the next two to three years. [00:33:00] That's motivating. That's powerful. That's what you need to do when training young athletes. Godfrey clock makes a great Point here that farm kids are strong kids who grow up on farms. They're required to work.
[00:33:13] They got a lift. They got to carry the Mennonite family that we buy produce from. The other son we watch them grow. He's ripped to shreds and muscular. Yeah, I bet I mean Eliza that last time we were there we were this is last summer actually will picking up tomatoes and Eliza said to me look at him.
[00:33:37] I mean, he looks like one of you know, he's got the he's got the straw hat on he had his shirt on but you could see his arms. You could see your shoulders. You can see his at he had flat abs. I mean he was there was nothing but muscle and bone there. That's all it was. It's a great example of how functional strength can build lots of muscle and I'll tell you this [00:34:00] also, this generation of kids needs this more than you can possibly know.
[00:34:04] I read something the other day these kids and this is true. My son. They don't have the grip strength that we did. Because they're not outside climbing tree now because you don't need any grip strength to do this, right? Exactly. This is did, you know, they got down they got this strength here, right?
[00:34:21] They can play they can play thumb wrestling like Champions. They can't they can't hold on to something to save themselves from falling down the stairs. My thanks for your back up there Darcy. It really is true. You got to show these kids how they progress from session to session. Otherwise, why would you go to the gym what to run the clock for an hour or two?
[00:34:41] Yeah, exactly. So we're going to pick would be merged. We're going to take a quick commercial break. We have a question from Andrew battles when we come back you're watching. And listening to the blueprint Power Hour with Coach Rodriguez. Go to Coach Rodriguez.com today. We'll be right back they can.
[00:35:00] [00:35:00] My own camera disappeared. That's bizarre. I can see it. I'm wondering if anybody else can see it too. That's okay. We'll just leave your mug up there for. But that's a great I can see my camera on the left. I just can't see it on the screen. It's just been one of those days. So Jason Lulu says not accurate Carl that they thumb wrestle like wussies to and Tammy nesland ifbb Pro is watching and says that she loves this what you're talking about with children so true.
[00:35:34] So there's a lot of people out there who feel the same way. Thank you. Tammy Okay, so. The next question comes from Andrew battles. He says I bought into the hype that Vector. What is Vector? Okay, and to be totally honest, I think it was entirely Placebo. Is there anything that will really help me get bigger and stronger faster versus just food alone.
[00:35:58] It is the great question. So [00:36:00] let me let me give you some background here for people that are unfamiliar. Every month sometimes every other month, we all know there's a new supplement right new super something that's going to work. Like we all want it to work which is to say is it's going to work like steroids vector.
[00:36:22] Was the last hot one on the boards that I can see it's time predictably has come and gone. It consisted of three or four Kevin very obscure herbal extract Japanese beetle something or I don't know what it was but suffice it to say most people have learned that it's largely Placebo. So. the question the question comes up.
[00:36:52] Is there anything I can use this going to grow muscle faster other than training hard eating right and getting a good [00:37:00] night's sleep. And the answer to that question is a resounding. Yes, and I'll back that up with the fact that creatine monohydrate now has dozens. If not more right published studies showing people that use it.
[00:37:17] Gain, muscle faster yet stronger. And in fact are healthier than those that don't use it. So what does that tell us that tells us that it's possible that a natural legal product can accelerate muscle growth so we know. It's within the realm of possibility. It still doesn't work to the extent that we wanted to like testosterone and Dianabol and decada rambling and everything else.
[00:37:44] But but those do work exactly exactly well they work. So this is actually very interesting because I was listening to a podcast Rick Bruner who long ago was the [00:38:00] CEO of Atlético that came out with some of the most. I would say Innovative for the time formulas that are still cutting edge that he was the first to come out with a report from carcinoid extract.
[00:38:13] I stare own the product name was read of all he was the first to do a low molecular weight proteins. You know for intra workout used it tasted like dog vomit and to his credit. He told you that I'm front but man that of the bottle said the flavor was dog vomit, right? Yeah. I mean, he really he laid it out there man.
[00:38:36] It was it was actually really cool for the time. So so the possibility is there. We need to break this down though. I think in the two areas number one hormones testosterone and Associated growth agents. And let's just for the time being assume those are legal and everything else. And so Rick Brunner's point was.
[00:39:00] [00:39:01] The degree to which you grow muscle and the rate at which you grow muscle is not entirely mediated by the former meaning testosterone binding to the steroid receptor DNA transcription does message to the cell nucleus to turn on protein Machinery. He was looking at the other side of the coin so not DNA transcription, but rather.
[00:39:27] RNA translation which occurs in the ribosome of the cell the structural assembly. of the essential and other amino acids to form a new contractile protein string. He was looking at accelerating that process and how to go about it. For my money, he succeeded better than anybody else has before or sense and [00:40:00] he did it by bringing a pretty novel array of not just supplements, but also training.
[00:40:07] Loading and deloading in the context of not like pure strength training loading patterns, but more so for muscle growth, so he would have blocks of periods that listed. Let's say ten days that we're extreme loading way up here in the total tonnage liberal use of adaptogens like that Guist are owned and intra workout.
[00:40:31] Amino acid formulas and then periods longer periods of anywhere from 12 to 21 days of kind of deloading and then boom back up again. He really made this a science. So we get to food food is unquestionably the most anabolic substance you can put in your body and and I just want to make a comment here because a coach Wade Johnson is watching and pizza works best.
[00:40:58] And you know what now [00:41:00] people will laugh at that statement, but it is a hundred percent accurate and I'm going to tell you why you show me the guy that's getting 4,000 calories a day and liberal amounts of pizza and maybe 200 grams of. And I'll show you a guy every time that has more muscle and is stronger than a guy that's eating no pizza 2,000 calories a day and three or four hundred grams of protein and he got his other comment was about his son Wes who.
[00:41:34] I want to say West was well, he was a very young teenager. I think he squatted like six or seven hundred pounds back then so he was always very strong, but that's because Wade started him at a very very early age. I had to sayings and I think anybody that's interested in muscle needs to remember.
[00:41:51] These number one calories are our friends. They are not the enemy and number two calories [00:42:00] in and of themselves are in a balsamic and there are actually studies showing that in lieu of no training and just over feeding these people actually made some gains now. I don't know if that's because they were training before and they were just it was seen as a deload but look nobody ever got bigger or stronger eating like a bird.
[00:42:22] It's that simple you might not like the fact that you can't see your abs. You might not like the fact that you're holding more water than you normally do but you will never achieve your potential in terms of building lean body mass if you have not overfed. It's that simple so I would tell you this calories are King.
[00:42:49] Unless you're eating 20 times your body weight and calories. You are shortchanging yourself. And yes, there are certain things you can use to accelerate that process [00:43:00] the herb and a cyclist pyrethrin increases your appetite. There's no question about it. It helps store carbs as glycogen rather than being the deposited as fat creatine obviously helps.
[00:43:17] It's going to hitch a ride with insulin. Okay from all those carbs that you're eating a smidgen of disodium phosphate or a few shakes of the Shaker on your food is also beneficial because creatine transport to the muscle cell is more dependent on sodium to cross that gradient than even insulin if you're eating enough and you're using both you'll have both working for you.
[00:43:47] Are the are isomer of alpha lipoic acid will also help you in terms of glucose disposal and jamming more creatine into the cell. And personally, I feel that adaptogens [00:44:00] like for Apotheca MacArthur modes and other things like erotic acid that increase nucleotides and the amount of RNA that's necessary to grow new muscle.
[00:44:11] All of those things can be very beneficial. You will never know. Your potential though until you're eating 4,000 calories a day. And if you need to eat a pizza day to get their due. And I'm not kidding Marcus May guard has another question. He said what's your opinion on your manafort? I don't think I know what you might afford is Humana Ford if I recall correctly was chicken embryo extract.
[00:44:39] And I don't know what they were standardizing it for follow Staten maybe for the for the myostatin angle or other growth factors. Look it's been on the market for a long time. Some people find Value in it, but the reality is nobody that I know [00:45:00] has ever come to me and said hey I put on a ton of muscle with Humana for.
[00:45:06] so that would be my two cents, you know, if you eat fertilized chicken eggs, if you get your eggs from a farmer who has a rooster and eat fertilized chicken eggs, you are getting a lot of foolish that in the egg. Right, and that's you don't you don't need to spend a lot of money on fancy supplements, right Vince gironda knew this.
[00:45:26] He didn't know it was false that but he knew that fertilized chicken eggs put more muscle on guys then regular store-bought eggs. Yep. I'll tell you if you live next to a farm and you can get raw milk unpasteurized milk and the in those farm fresh eggs you have access to some growth agents that other people don't and I'm a hundred percent sincere about that.
[00:45:47] True. Hi, this is one more question before we go to the blueprint tip of the day come from Ricky Brown Excuse me. So Ricky says. That was
[00:45:59] [00:46:00] an interesting discussion last week about steroids. What I'm wondering is if the side effects a really that bad. I read so many conflicting stories one says their way overblown then douse McCarver drops dead and autopsy wasn't pretty. I gotta I gotta jump on that one. What determines if you have terrible sides and not Dallas McCarver died.
[00:46:24] Not of steroids two things asphyxiation and he had a he had a heart problem that was congenital that other people in his family have see this is the problem. This is what's going to happen to me someday. Someday. I'm going to get hit by a car and killed. And people are going to remember all of my admissions about using anabolic steroids.
[00:46:45] They say, oh we Carlton would die. He must have died of anabolic steroids, you know, just because a guy so so everyday fat people died. Nobody ever says they died because they were fat know it was a heart attack. It was [00:47:00] kidney failure with yeah. I mean we have to stop broad stroke painting.
[00:47:06] People's deaths and saying, oh it was because of this when there's no evidence that it was that no one has ever died. From steroid use no and don't tell me 10 years later. They developed the hard problem because they could have been declared buter all that. They use that did it most likely. Yeah, so so to your point if we take if we take all of the politics, right?
[00:47:32] And all of the hysteria away from the topic at hand and we look at evidence in the way that scientists do just strict based solely on case studies and the medical facts around them. The fact of the matter is this steroids as a class of drugs are remarkably safe. If you in fact if you [00:48:00] go to the PD PD our reference guide right Physicians Desk Reference and you look at the granddaddy of all right testosterone, there is no overdose about no, they don't there's no ld50.
[00:48:17] There's no lethal dose where 50% of the the mice died and 50% of them didn't die. The same can be said of decada rambling and many other quote unquote series. I want you to think about this if I went out and I got a leader full of testosterone and I inject in that entire leader today. And wait because I know people can say oh you're gonna get an abscess and you did it in multiple spots and you read it out around your body.
[00:48:48] You didn't put a leader into your glute and died of an abscess. Okay, good, right. The fact is there is no overdose threshold that's going to kill you. All [00:49:00] right, that's number one. number two. Like a lot of other things in life, it depends and what do I mean by that well? If you take someone that has pre-existing heart disease and pre-existing high blood pressure and compromised kidney function and psychiatric issues.
[00:49:25] And then you load them up on Trend and a bomb. Then yes, I imagine you might have some issues. Okay, however to take someone without any of those issues using the same Trend and a bombs. They will likely not have any of those same issues. Now again, if you take someone that takes copious amounts of drugs never comes off.
[00:49:57] Over a period of 30 40 [00:50:00] years. Yeah II have problems. They're going to have a great he's going to have problems but by but there's guys out there that have been on HRT for 15-20 years. They have no problem. So what your to your point there is reckless use of a bottle of water a girl died in California drinking an entire gallon of water in under three minutes to win her son and Xbox.
[00:50:23] The radio station was find the DJ's were fired because she died of something called hyponatremia. So does that mean that drinking water is associated with death. Well, I guess if you do it in a stupid manner, yeah, you know the other thing and I don't want to I want to answer your question respectfully.
[00:50:43] When we talk about side effects in anabolic steroid use. We're not talking about the things that short life we're talking about the uncomfortable feeling of being on all these drugs. You have to understand that very powerful androgens like tremble [00:51:00] own something. I'm fooling around with right now.
[00:51:02] Nandrolone phenyl propionate. I'm actually playing around with it. I've been playing around with it the past couple weeks. These androgens are very powerful and they have an excitatory effect. On the body and some people's blood pressure goes up in some people's does it some people's heart rate speeds up in some people's doesn't some people get terrible night sweats and some people don't so to your point.
[00:51:28] The real issue is what dosages can you tolerate and pro bodybuilders tend to be of the ilk where they can tolerate 6 grams a week 7 grams a week of combined oral and oil. And and sleep good at night and feel fine and be oblivious and their blood pressure doesn't go up and they don't have any untoward effects that make them feel horrible when a guy like me could to do those I'd feel horrible.
[00:51:55] I feel sick all the time. I'd so those side effects that we talk [00:52:00] about when we talk about performance enhancing drug use have more to play a role in metabolic processes, like heart rate and blood pressure. Water retention those type things and the difficult and uncomfortable feeling of living with those now if steroids caused death, we would be surrounded by death because according to.
[00:52:27] But I can't think of his name now. But according to a study that we talked about on my show seven years ago about performance enhancing drugs and who's actually using them. He's got a strong German last name. I wish I could think of. The there is an estimated average. This is not HRT people. Now.
[00:52:45] There's an estimated average that at any given time in the United States. Are you ready for this? Are you ready? Really ready for this? There are like three million men on a steroid cycle at any given time now think about that for a second [00:53:00] if steroids equals Death. If steroid equals heart attacks, if steroid equals all of these death type diseases wouldn't you think that at least 10,000, you know a year would die from out of direct from anabolic steroid use.
[00:53:16] I mean we can we know 400,000 people a year in the United States Alone died from complications due to smoking cigarettes. Yep, like shouldn't we have some number where we could point out and go wowed all these guys died from steroids. Here's why they steroids cause their heart to beat so fast, they just died everybody's doing so when we look at these things, you got to you got to use critical thinking say wow if steroids cause death, where are all the dead people?
[00:53:45] Yeah. Let me say this I'll leave you with this last classic example could talking about dangers of steroid. If I take a bottle of the most popular steroid Dianabol and next to that I [00:54:00] lined up a bottle of aspirin a bottle of caffeine pills a big bottle of vodka and a and a box of nicotine patches and I said to you which one could you swallow the entire bottle of right now and be absolutely certain you wouldn't die.
[00:54:20] I picked the D ball and so would any good doctor at most you would might have an upset stomach and you might get a little flushed and itchy the aspirin forget it you burn a hole in your stomach and die the caffeine the nicotine forget it you'll overdose death drink enough vodka. We know where that goes every year to.
[00:54:43] Those are the relative dangers. Those are also things that you're not going to hear the media discuss despite the fact that the reality because it doesn't suit the agenda. And and to Darcy clocks [00:55:00] Point here. These are all most of these a naturally occurring in our body. Okay? Nandrolone phenyl propionate not so much Trend ballon and Anthony not so much but they are derivatives of testosterone.
[00:55:14] Having too little in your body could cause death. So, you know, that's a very very interesting idea. These are not poisons, but they can be used inappropriately and they can have effects on your body. What will they will you die from those effects? Probably not probably never so you can look at the examples Lewis Simmons Hulk Hogan Arnold Schwarzenegger.
[00:55:39] You know, I mean you can go down the list those guys have all been on for decades and no small amounts and look at them. They're still so alive and kicking most are in their 60s and 70s, you know, I cruise most of the year at about 250 300 mg of testosterone a week, but then as I'm getting [00:56:00] ready now to get serious again and.
[00:56:04] I'm walking. I'm going to be walking more than anything else. I'm going to be training to three days a week with weights and the rest of the time I'm going to be walking. But I've been so so my current cycle my current HRT, whatever you want to call it the all these semantics people use. Oh, I'm on HRT and and they're like 20 years old line are you're not a traitor, but what I'm using right now is 400 milligrams of testosterone.
[00:56:32] Sippy innate 200 milligrams of Master on and nth 8 and I just added 50 milligrams a day of. It's called durable. And actually it's the precursor the decade or bone, but it's a it's an angel on phenyl propionate. I'm already seeing my body get leaner, and I haven't changed anything. That's the nandrolone the [00:57:00] nandrolone if you take it in low enough doses you don't get any side effects from it.
[00:57:06] Some people who take very high doses tend to say that it's akin to Trend. I believe that there's low doses of trend that are effective in HRT. I think maybe 10 or 15 milligrams a week of trend and Anthony. Could actually be a powerful additive to testosterone better than Deca Deca has some worrisome side effects like crushes your libido you develop erectile dysfunction.
[00:57:35] I think that's all tied to anxiety nandrolone tends to increase anxiety levels in men. That's why I'm taking very low doses of this clip fast clearing one, but you know, I couldn't take a lot of trends. Lot of trend gave me unwanted effects. I didn't feel good. I always felt like I was on the verge of getting sick.
[00:57:59] It [00:58:00] was like that one ad stuff one ad made me to feel the same exact way. I always felt like I was about to get sick when I use one a day and don't don't don't think one ad wasn't a legit out of moloch steroid just because it was over the counter because it was. I think it was intrinsically active to I don't think it necessary I needed her.
[00:58:17] Yes. Yes. That was the big secret. But anyway, you know, we're going to be talking about anabolic steroids for another 30 or 40 years only because when not allowed to truly study them the way we want to study them because it's considered Reckless and dangerous and also those drugs are not supposed to be used in those doses.
[00:58:37] But they'll load you up with so arms all day long and write a study about it Jesus. We're gonna take our last commercial break when we come back. We have the blueprint tip of the day stay with us. We'll be right back. So Rob, I got to post this up here for a second. So eight years ago. I came out with this idea for a t-shirt.
[00:58:55] Yeah. I don't know if you can see it there today to your [00:59:00] right or your lawyer and it was it was well here. Let me solo it for a. Spare an animal eat a vegan and it's got to robust healthy-looking people wearing t-shirts that say omnivore and then the guy who has the pita sign. He looks like a emaciated individual and when I came out with this idea for a t-shirt eight years ago.
[00:59:25] I had so many people say I would not wear that that's insulting you're going to hurt people's feelings and I have friends who have Egan's let's make you make this clear. My friends who are vegans are sensible vegans who don't try to make everybody else around them be vegan. It's their choice and they don't they don't go out there saying oh, if you're not a vegan you're destroying the world and beef is destroying the planet which is a lie, and you know, all this other nonsense and so I thought that this would be a fun shirt.
[00:59:54] I want to show it again because I want to ask the audience would you wear a shirt that says spare an [01:00:00] animal eat a vegan that was kind of funny and cartoonish like that or is it still? Taboo to say how you really feel when it comes to the vegan diet. What do you think Robin? I like it. I'm good. I would wear it myself.
[01:00:15] I think and enjoy I would enjoy seeing people triggered by it. I've never got into it with somebody over, you know being vegan I frankly. I've never tried it. I have no desire to I do know when things get dropped from my diet like red meat and eggs. I can feel it in the gym. So take that for whatever it's worth Chad Jared who I have to have on the show.
[01:00:42] He's a Facebook friend. He's a superhuman in every aspect of the definition posted on Facebook yesterday. that Youmans are. For producing seven trillion pounds and I say this already earlier at the show seven trillion pounds of [01:01:00] CO2 a year seven trillion pounds of CO2 year more than cow farts one in California.
[01:01:09] So if in fact we did adopt this approach and we did start eating vegans, we would not only save animal lives but we we remove we would reduce the. Carbon footprint of the human population on the world because we be eating people and plus I bet you people is the best appropriate protein source for humans.
[01:01:33] I just have a feeling that we'll find out it's the most anabolic protein source. Have I gone too far have I gone too far? And I didn't know any pop. I didn't smoke any pot today either. No, you wish you made my wife. Laughs that's for sure. How could she see Improvement? So there you go. That's it.
[01:01:50] Would you wear that shirt? Let me know email me at on are at superhuman radio dotnet and if you would wear it send your your shirt size and will make them up will make them up [01:02:00] true. Very true. So what is the blueprint tip of the day coach Rob? Well, unfortunately, we're going to talk again about the pressure.
[01:02:11] But more importantly we're going to talk about making sure bad things like suicides don't happen for you your family and hopefully your friends too. So just to recap, you know, a couple of weeks ago. I went up to see my cousin who does my taxes and this is the same cousin very generous man.
[01:02:37] Generous is. Can't say it enough. He took me in. Yo, give me a place to stay for a time during my divorce and obviously helped me out a lot. I can tell you this. I wasn't the only one he had also attempted to help out another cousin who was staying with him. [01:03:00] But unfortunate and he was suffering from depression, unfortunately.
[01:03:07] He never showed up to work one Monday morning. And he worked in a hardware store for decades the owners by all counts considered him family. And even the customers were coming in some of them crying when they heard that he was missing. So. they looked for his cell phone which they found in his house.
[01:03:32] He left it there. His car was also parked at the house. So as far as anyone knew he was on foot and according to the papers. There was an intensive door-to-door search made over the neighborhood. A state police tracking dog was called in even a state police helicopter. now. what the papers didn't report [01:04:00] was that he left a note.
[01:04:02] Which basically said he had made decisions in his life? Bad decisions that couldn't be undone and you know how the rest of those notes go. The next thing I heard was that he was cited by someone walking down a street at 2:30 a.m. With no shoes. This is on a night up here in the Northeast when I was 17 degrees.
[01:04:31] Unfortunately.
[01:04:36] Someone found him dead in a barn not 50 yards from my cousin's house where he was staying. This is the same Barn that I had my home gym in when I lived there. I still have parts of my power right there and so my cousin also owns. Real estate pieces of real estate [01:05:00] that he rents out and he's so he has a hand in me.
[01:05:03] He's 85 years old. He's a machine but you know, obviously 85 he has a handyman he went in there to retrieve a table to help furnish one of these places couple days ago. And found him. so. Patrick lost his battle with depression, unfortunately. And as I stated last week. It can't be undone. There are decisions everybody.
[01:05:35] Everybody makes bad decisions. Unless somebody's dead. You can do something about those decisions. Unfortunately in this case now somebody is dead and there's no bringing them back. And as I stated last week. If you think you know by killing yourself, you're going to end the pain think again [01:06:00] because the pain just gets magnified and it gets passed on to all your friends and family.
[01:06:06] And unfortunately, I've seen how that goes and God help you if you have that experience in your family. So let's talk now about how to make sure that doesn't happen. I have my son with me here Sunday as I got that news and so for father-son talk time. I had to Broach this topic which obviously is not an easy one to discuss but he's 13 years old.
[01:06:37] He's not a little kid. He understands. It is an issue for whatever reason in my family. I've had my issues with depression. Um, and when that's the case, I think you have a responsibility, especially if you have young children to [01:07:00] talk about it, right? So we talked about what Depression was and what it wasn't I explained to necklace that just like everybody else.
[01:07:13] You're going to have bad days. You're going to be sad. That's. What is not normal? Is being sad for weeks and months and months and in particular and you said this last week and I'm glad you did. What is not normal is not having any hope? Okay, especially for a young person not having hope feeds into this nonsense.
[01:07:44] That depression will magnify whatever problems you have that they are insurmountable and nothing can be done. Okay, there's always something that can be done. You can always. Reconcile things or [01:08:00] fix them or at least be forgiven for them or ask for forgiveness? Okay. I don't know what Patrick was struggling with.
[01:08:09] I know what I was struggling with. In the difference. is that one of us kept fighting and I'm not going to tell you it was easy. It was years of Hell on Earth. And with the help of some wonderful people including my wife who is sitting here by my side. I don't suffer from depression anymore, but I only got there by keep fighting and so I explained to Nicholas.
[01:08:38] It is important. If you're ever sad for an extended period of time or you don't have any old come talk to me talk to your mother talk to someone talk to anyone because there is a real help in real Hope from people suffering from depression. [01:09:00] If it's if it if depression is in you or it's around you or.
[01:09:06] Friends or family or struggling with it? You need to talk about it. Do not sweep this stuff under the rug do not be ashamed about it. Talk about it and help someone. There's always resources to get help always. So that's my two CC's on the issue. Unfortunately, he's gone. There's nothing any of us can do to bring him back.
[01:09:36] But as I thought there was something I could do to make sure this never happens at least with my son and that was a scary conversation. I have to be totally honest, you know, I've thought about suicide. Everybody I was just going to say and I'm sure that everybody listening to this is thought about it to what extent do you think about it?
[01:09:59] I think is [01:10:00] really the definitive factor between people who are at the precipice and who aren't everybody's thought about suicide some people think of it inquisitively. Like, what would it feel like I've done. I've done a lot of thinking about death over the past couple years, but not the way you think about death.
[01:10:19] I actually think that addressing my own death is has made my life Fuller. It's made my life more important to me. I've actually imagine dying the way my father died on that bed. What is it going to feel like this is it like the world is going to close in on you? There's nothing you can do. You can't get out of this.
[01:10:40] This is not something you can change your checking out and when you. I realize it's kind of like snow day. You know snow day if you have children you watch the news in the morning. All the schools are closed. Nobody can make it into work. Everybody stays home. It's like snow day. You just you can't [01:11:00] be frustrated that you had to get to the bank that day to make your mortgage payment.
[01:11:03] Yeah, the bank is closed. You can't be upset because your kid worked all night on this project and knocked that now isn't going to get to deliver it today. You just have to kind of sit back and go up. There's nothing I can do. It's no day. I'm stuck. There's nothing I can do. Except go with the flow and that's that's what death is going to be like so you need to think about it.
[01:11:27] Now you need to think about death now now if you thought about taking your own life just to see what it feels like to think about it. We've all done these things. That doesn't mean you're suicidal. It doesn't mean you're broken. Everybody thinks about you know, you're at a point in your life where you just feel like the stress you can overcome it and it's like a wonder what it would feel like I you know, I carry a gun with me everywhere I go and I usually try to color coordinate my grunting you see this one has a red handle to match my red hoodie, but it's like if I thought I was done.
[01:11:57] I take me two seconds pick up the gun put it to my temple pull the trigger and I'm [01:12:00] done. Yeah, but the reality is I can think of death intellectually, but making the connection where I believe that my own demise would somehow benefit. Others and myself. That's the Thin Line That's The Thin Line because I know that it's not going to I'm going to destroy my children.
[01:12:24] I'm going to give them a legacy of pain and sorrow to live with for the rest of their lives that will change who they are. I would destroy Lisa and give her a legacy to finish her life out with asking herself. Was it something she did and this is this is the this is the part of the suicide. That's very selfish very selfish.
[01:12:48] I don't care. How painful your life is. But offloading your pain to other people by doing something like killing yourself. That's all you're doing. Yeah. Sure. You won't feel anything [01:13:00] anymore. You have to worry about making your mortgage payments your alimony payments the stress that you're dealing with that work all the people that are crapping on your life.
[01:13:07] Yeah, you're right you have to deal with them anymore. But the good people in your life will have a cloud over their heart for the rest of their lives. Asking themselves the question, what could I have done differently? And if that's what you want if your objective is to hurt those people passively aggressively then kill yourself.
[01:13:30] But the reality is that that shouldn't be what you want because if your goal is just to hurt them then you need to ask yourself. Why are you blaming all these other people for the situation that you've gotten yourself into? And I was hurt I once heard a story hit when one minute and I'll give it to you.
[01:13:48] I once heard a story. I think it was Tom bill you that said this and it really is true, but we don't want to believe this if you're sitting in the building and that building gets hit by a [01:14:00] plane. It was still your fault. Because you were in that building by your own choice. At that moment in time.
[01:14:09] No one put you in that building and said sit here until this plane comes and hits you you chose maybe not to get out of get out of the house early and go to work early or go to the gym. You decided to stay home and drink another cup of coffee and watch the news and the house got hit. So ultimately you're being there had something to do with you.
[01:14:29] And so when you realize that then you can free all those other people out there that you want to blame for your sadness. And own it yourself. And once you own it yourself, you realize oh, I own it myself so I can do something with it. I can transmute it. I can change it the fact that you don't kill yourself means that you want to live and that you recognize this fact.
[01:14:53] I'm sorry good. No, it's okay. I was going to say look life is about choices, right? [01:15:00] And you know how the old saying goes is not how many times you get knocked out. It's how many times you get back up. You need to make the choice of getting back up. Nobody is going to look at you if you make the other choice and say wow.
[01:15:18] What a brave guy. No, it's how many times you get back up folks. Keep getting up never give up. Now you guys say three times like Winston Churchill. Never give up never give up never give up. But one night were his most famous. Speech Darcy. I appreciate your comments. Yeah, this is as real as it gets folks.
[01:15:42] It's not easy to talk about it's in fact, it's incredibly painful and there's more pain on the way because I'm gonna have to go to the funeral and see the rest of the family. Thank you Marcus. I appreciate your concern if there's one thing that comes out of this. [01:16:00] Choose hope folks. Yeah back up, you know something magnificent could be waiting for you that could happen to you that that is just one day away.
[01:16:14] You don't do that. See I'm I'm an eternal optimist. I am I use this exact analogy once to describe myself. I'm like a junkyard dog. I'm stuck out there. It's freezing cold. It's snowing and it's raining and every single night. I go to sleep in that doghouse shivering believing that maybe tomorrow they're going to let me in the house.
[01:16:36] So I'll I'll wait for tomorrow morning. Now tomorrow me turn out exactly like today. I may be out here shivering and freezing, but when I go to sleep at night, I always think to myself maybe tomorrow. They're going to let me in the house. You got it. And that's it. Tomorrow can change everything.
[01:16:54] People go to sleep broken they hit lottery tickets and they worth 70 million dollars the next day crazy stuff [01:17:00] happens. Why can't it happen to you one night. I had no one the next night. I went on a date with my wife and we've been Inseparable ever since now look at that. Look at that. And now your challenge is don't seem so bad because you have someone that you love walking standing next to you and it's like those things.
[01:17:20] Well, who cares about that? I come home to her. I get to come home to her every night every night. Whatever it is that can motivate you you need to keep that in front of you in dark times because Dark Times pass my mother used to say to me every time something crappy had in my life. She said something that played out in his is true this too shall pass when I look back at times that I thought was so tough.
[01:17:49] Going through my divorce the threat of being thrown in jail for things that I didn't do. I was I felt like the world wanted to crap on me. Yeah, but you know what? I look [01:18:00] back at that now and I can't even relate to the the sadness I felt then anymore because my life is so much better. It's incredible.
[01:18:07] Once you get time and distance away from those awful times. Yes, you don't realize how you know, the Depression was making it seem like there was no way out but look where you are today. I mean my God, it's obviously night and day when they say your day, you know, your life can change in an instant the cantilever and believe this it can change for the better in an instant to and that is what you have to hold on to contemplate your own death because it'll make your life Fuller but death is not an option to fix problems in your life because death is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
[01:18:49] Sorry, ma'am. That's it for today. Boy, we went off on her unattended. We went from ranting about steroids to ranting about suicide. Alright, [01:19:00] well, thank you for having me and we actually have music to close the show. How do you like that? The computer Gods like me. I've been out say oh, no, it worked.
[01:19:09] See you tomorrow.
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