Josh Fremd | Discussion Combustion | 266

[00:00:00] We'll have this discussion. Discussion? What discussion? This is a discussion Coming to you from Danver, Colorado This is discussion combustion podcast with your hosts Kevin Batstone and Arthur Rawe Yep, it's been a couple weeks for a DCPC

[00:00:19] But we say yeah because you were you were recording like a sports show Yeah, I think in the weekend a week radio spot and now yeah and Then you've been on like a bunch of podcasts. Yeah. Yeah as of recently So your recent mom podcast vet

[00:00:35] I would like to think so doing the tour so how many how many podcasts would make you a podcast that do you think? I don't know the operational definition is but I would guess over 10 Oh, I would say 10's got to be the bench

[00:00:48] Okay, that's fair and there's probably a lot of like media that goes into it with your fight They had who was on the 13th on the 13th

[00:00:54] So all the the promo is be building up to it and all that kind of stuff you got to do TV and radio I've done radio spots podcast spots different things like that. It was a good bit, but it was fun

[00:01:05] That's good. Yeah, I guess we had in my shell because that's how I like started doing that with Jordan over at my highs because like I'm Introverted I'm not really like that super outgoing and talkative

[00:01:16] So this has kind of gotten me out of my shell if you okay, so it's been the last couple years It's been a lot. Yeah. Yeah, it's um

[00:01:24] It can test you in different ways like because not everybody wants to do a podcast or even record a show and like listen to themselves back

[00:01:32] Yeah, so so like not only are you like embodying this like confidence of like, you know chasing something physically and go and like do it Doing a major physical sport, but then you're also getting yourself out there and like this mental level

[00:01:45] Yeah by talking about it and having because I would I've listened your you have good like Conversation good mic presence not and some people could come off awkward, but I wouldn't have guessed that with you

[00:01:56] Yeah, see that's what that's what's so shocking because like even right now how I'm like speaking to you in my head I'm like alright. Don't be awkward don't be awkward

[00:02:04] Then I'll go back and I hear my car wasn't that bad. Yeah, but also yeah, I'm the type person I don't really like to listen to myself So I'll do something and I used to listen back and try critique it

[00:02:14] But now I'm like all right, it's out there just full send it let it go full send letter-riptator chip That's how I always been to yeah, well listen into it back

[00:02:21] You start to overthink it oh, I should you know do it this way or that way and now I just don't let's do it at all Yeah, just do it and send it can't do it just send it out

[00:02:28] That's kind of like how I like to treat my social media anymore because I'm not a big social media guy Yeah, like just post and go don't even look at it. Yeah, it's so easy to overthink

[00:02:37] I will say that one thing I learned by listening and this was earlier on is that I was interrupting too much Okay, like I was I wasn't being a good listener is what I listen is what I found out by listening to myself

[00:02:50] And so that's the only critique that I got back for myself was like just shut up and listen more Yeah, you know and I mean I know that there's benefits to it

[00:03:00] I know people who go back and try and figure out their cadence and like what's more entertaining like how I speak What is the timing them in which you say everything?

[00:03:09] So there's benefits to it if you can get past the cringiness. That's true. Yeah, that's a good point Benefits even get past the cringiness. I mean everyone's gonna have some you know factor of cringe to it to them

[00:03:19] Yeah, yeah, especially when you're listening to yourself, you know, and if you don't have any of that You're either crazy or really good at it Or are you truly on it and truly? Care you just don't care. Yeah when you're cranking them out all the time

[00:03:32] And it's like your day gig, you know like Joe Rogan. He's doing three four five shows a week Yeah, he's just chillin. He's smoking weed. He's doing this thing. He didn't give a shit

[00:03:39] He's like two thousand something in the books. That's insane how many shows that guy's done and that's just that's just his Pod then he's got you know the fighter companion with Brendan Schaub and those guys

[00:03:47] Then he's flying to Vegas to commentate, you know, do you have sea nights? So he's a busy guy But it sounds like a fun schedule though. He's doing things. He enjoys Yeah, and that's all he's doing now

[00:03:57] And if it doesn't make him happy or give him enjoyment, he's not doing it And that's the kind of level that we all hope to get to That's a yeah, that's a good point

[00:04:05] It's kind of underlines my goal of controlling time and money right and doing making money and controlling my time doing things I want to do this being one of them. I was enjoy sitting down and chatting with folks So it's just kind of fun. It is fun

[00:04:18] So well so diving into the fight and stuff because I got some questions for I don't know anything about fighting It's not my wheelhouse. So how'd you get into it? Where'd you start? What does it look like? Let's see short story would be

[00:04:30] Basically in college, you know, well in high school I was getting into fights all the time, you know outside of in between Football practices. I found the UFC on spike TV one day and I was like, oh that looks really cool

[00:04:45] Me being a really skinny kid by nature just you know getting picked on I was playing football playing baseball But like still didn't really come across as that tough kid You know so I found MMA found the UFC and I told one person just a friend in confidence

[00:05:01] I'm a charm be a UFC fighter. That'd be cool. It wasn't like eighth grade next You know everyone starts hearing about it, you know, and they start out you want to fight tough guy You want to fight? You know so

[00:05:12] I was like yeah sure so after school after eighth period I would Fight club. I would fight club literally out During the day I'd figure out who wants to fight yada yada And we'd go scrap before football practice like with gloves on nope

[00:05:27] Nope, no bear knuckle be a knuckle. Okay. Okay. That's a real shit first one to quit is it's over It's like not super long because we only have a certain amount of time to get to the field house and change and everything

[00:05:37] But I started beating people up and I mean if we really really want to dive into it I was dating a senior girl as a freshman Okay, and there's this dude in my high school who kept failing on purpose And he had a t-shirt with a hundred girls

[00:05:53] I slept with in high school is weird thing where I'm okay And he was hinting towards trying to sleep with my ex at time I was like, oh we'll get into a fight and I beat the kid up

[00:06:04] We met after school beat him up and I was like oh like I'm pretty good at this Let me let me get into wrestling. Let me get into boxing and then I went to college to play football

[00:06:14] Got a little trouble transferred back home up to Pittsburgh went to slippery rock and then found Steve Mallory who got me into Boxing which funny enough is in Butler, Pennsylvania. Okay where Trump was just all that's right

[00:06:30] I'm did to be assassinated. So I have very big ties to there Once I started boxing I was like oh I kind of like this will do jiu-jitsu because I wrestled a bit

[00:06:39] And then instead of trying to play football for slip rock. I went and fought I had my first smoker kickboxing One and I was like all right This is what I'm gonna do it's like a smoker like you smoked the opponent smokers looks like a in a gym

[00:06:54] Where they have all the students compete. Okay, it was a kickboxing match with headgear. Okay So it's like a spa event. Yeah, it's a spa event if you and then from there

[00:07:04] I just took my whole entire four or five years of college and just was an amateur MMA fighter and just grew from there and Decided to go pro give it a chance, you know, that's awesome. It takes it takes balls

[00:07:19] But there's also like that because not myself personally, but I know friends where it's like they feel like To make sure that they're still like man and like contested like they go like go get in fights

[00:07:30] Yeah, you know and it's like it's super primal super primal super primal Those guys I would recommend just go to the gym find a fight cuz going out I think I was a bartender for a long time

[00:07:42] I want to move here and those guys who like to go out drink and look for fights Yeah, it doesn't usually end up the way they want it. Yeah, the bar brawls. No good No, not fun. You get all dirty like I'm there to flirt with chicks

[00:07:54] I'm not there to fight like you're gonna ruin your clothes You're gonna get alcohol spilled all over you just doesn't make sense to me So like actually pick a gym. I I did Muay Thai kickboxing maybe for a month

[00:08:05] So I can't really claim that I was like a Muay Thai kickboxer. Yeah, like practice But you at least went and yeah, and it would my ass and like snake blocker

[00:08:15] I don't know if you heard of that dude. That's who I was like training with he was on like that that history show where they had like the different Historical like warriors fight each other. Oh, I know you I can't think of the name

[00:08:27] Yeah, he was he was like the Mayan fucking warrior that was fighting like a spartner or something Yes, Nate snake blocker. He was cool But I'll always remember there was some fun moments in there cuz like they're all like okay

[00:08:40] Like he actually can move around a little bit and then like I was still getting my ass kicked but like there is one cool moment where I like threw a sweet jab and

[00:08:47] Like it knocked the sweat off of the guys face and like that was a movie moment for me, right? That was cool But I will say when when I did that just for like the two or three weeks that I did a thing I dropped like five pounds

[00:09:01] It permanently changed like my fighting stance if I was ever to get into a fight Yep And it shows you how to get some defense because when you're getting kicked and punched and getting an air knocked out of you

[00:09:11] And stuff like you will start defending yourself after that So I think it's a crucial skill like people should at least try it for a little bit or like I Do something I go a bit further. I don't think it's all I should all be mandatory

[00:09:24] Okay, I think jiu-jitsu mostly jiu-jitsu But some for men some type of boxing or kickboxing should be mandatory not forever But like just like you said you got your ass kicked you learn how to defend yourself you

[00:09:37] There are things that that's gonna teach you that words can that's no And I'm surprised that you didn't get addicted to that feeling because I remember my first like boxing Class or the first time I sparred and I cracked dude. I was just like oh, this feels great

[00:09:52] It's like hitting home run and baseball it is making a touchdown catch I guess that feeling of just like damn. I did something cool Yeah addiction, you know you get a little taste of it and you run with it Yeah Yeah Yeah

[00:10:05] You're the second person that I've heard say like men should be mandatory taught how to fight Yeah, at the very least like some basic self-defense skills kickboxing like you said something like that

[00:10:13] I'd be fun. I'd be down to take something now. I quit drinking alcohol. So I need something to fill the void now That's good. That might be something. Yeah, cuz that's I mean it just teaches you a lot

[00:10:21] Like when I was playing football, I was that typical loudmouth receiver I was cocky and all that but like when you get punched in the mouth. It's just way different You know you could hit me in football, but I always defenseless. I didn't even have a chance like

[00:10:35] Mono and mono you get punched in the face. You learn like okay, maybe I shouldn't say that Maybe I don't need to do that. We can go about this a different way. Just turns you into a more respectful person

[00:10:45] Yeah, everyone should probably take a couple blasts to the face. Yeah, I think Bill Burr's got a joke about that Oh, yeah, he does. He's like man my face was stinging. He's like, you know what?

[00:10:52] I was kind of being a dick back there. Yeah, he's like that punch actually sent me straight It's it's humbling right because until until you get dominated a little bit like you feel like I'm the shit

[00:11:04] Yep, and it's like any anyone could get taken. Yeah, that's the thing like and so you have to like be humble Yeah, and and like kind of staying in your lane and no one to be like or when to stand up

[00:11:14] Like like fighting will teach you that and then it'll kind of keep you on the path too cuz you're like Oh, I got to go on for this training So I'm not gonna drink the night before like I'm not gonna go there and there and get smoked

[00:11:25] You know, it gives you that just confidence really like you go into certain places a lot of reasons why you'll see a lot of Fights outside of bars or things like that is guys are insecure. They have had a lot of alcohol

[00:11:39] They don't have an outlet so once you have an outlet once you have that confidence Well, if something were to happen I can defend myself you're kind of more laid back You don't really feel the need to prove that anyone, you know because you already have the skills

[00:11:52] You have it. Yeah No, that makes sense I mean so there's one thing you know defend yourself on the streets and the way you do it professionally The training and I'm sure that the extreme routines and eating and everything is probably

[00:12:03] You know, you got a catalog everything. So like leading up to the fight that you just had What did that look like like the training and eating? Oh man? Locked in really the training the nothing really changes about my training except the amount of I

[00:12:19] Guess you would say The word I'm trying to look for but the only thing it changes is my strength conditioning Like I'm building aerobic capacity or I'm getting ready for you know put out to a mountain effort for 15 minutes

[00:12:33] My diet definitely changes, you know, I try and keep the same diet more of a lifestyle if you will I just cleaned it up. No more beer. No more bad food. I cut out the gummy worms

[00:12:44] I'm a huge gummy worm fan. I'm sour gummy worms are my shit So like I cut those out and just lock it in you know But I usually try and keep the same diet like steak sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts is like my go-to for every day

[00:12:59] Steak potatoes and Brussels sweet potatoes. That's good stuff. Yeah sweet potatoes Yeah, cuz then you got your cruciferous vegetable Yep, you got and that's like a gut healing vegetable like broccoli Brussels that kind of stuff good shit too

[00:13:11] I like Brussels it took me a while to like them. How you cook? Do you steam them do you fry them in bacon grease? Oh bacon grease? No Sometime it depends on feeling it sounds amazing. Yeah, when I'm what I'm not locked in

[00:13:24] I'll have Brussels sprouts like at With bacon and all that but that's like I say I try and keep it all the same I just clean it up a little bit, but uh air fryer Steam them any any type of way. I like all types away

[00:13:37] Yeah, I think those things Brussels people like oh, it's gross They have like that childhood memory like oh mom made me eat the shit so now I don't like it

[00:13:44] You just got a season right I feel like I can cook them up all Sonic some parm on there Like my ex taught me the best way to eat them I used to hate him never touch them, but like balsamic like you said

[00:13:56] Get it real hot fry them on the outside and crispy on the inside. Yeah crispy It's very nice get those leaves will burn crispy on the edges. I do that with the bacon grease

[00:14:03] Mm-hmm, you know in like a cast iron fry them up get that sizzle on there We're always recording around dinner time so I get hungry. I know right? Yeah, it doesn't help that I like have had some edibles today. That's what I'm saying

[00:14:14] Yeah, you know like a couple vitamins here and there everything's always say everything's always sounding good Yeah, but it's nice to have that simple like because I've been doing fasting instead of trying to lose weight and like been on this health journey, right?

[00:14:27] So I found that one of my most simple reliable meals that I can go with is just like You know some sliced meat with cheese pickles mustard tortilla and just like lettuce And so like you could do that cold

[00:14:42] I can I could oh yeah, I could almost eat that like every single day What type of slice meat are we talking here? I should go more top shelf on this but it's like you know your deli meat Which is which isn't the best for you

[00:14:53] Yeah, you know so if like I could get some like some like homemade chicken in there or something better than that Would level it up. It's like I have the foundation for this solid clutch everyday meal But maybe my ingredients could improve

[00:15:07] Yeah, you know yeah, cuz a lot of stuff is like nitrates and fillers and shit in it Yeah, you know those meet they're good And isn't like almost all deli meat that you can buy pre-packaged like proven to give you colon cancer

[00:15:16] So that's what I've always heard. Yeah, I'm not I'm not like yeah, that's what Clint was saying too He was calling cancer. Yeah, I eat a lot of that shit

[00:15:23] One of my like easy ones is I've had my nutritionist look over this for me because I'm constantly on the go I basically live out of my truck sometimes like I'm I leave my apartment

[00:15:34] Six in the morning don't get back to like eight at night sometimes a long day So I'm driving here there and the other I'll either stop it my fit foods are different things like that But if I don't Chipotle, Kedoba, Kava, they're all the same thing

[00:15:48] You got your protein you got your carbs, which is rice and you got veggies And if you can just which is hard sometimes get the cheese and the queso out Yeah, it's healthy right there. Like that's all you need, you know get the hot sauce on spicy

[00:16:02] Well, it's it's fat right it's just like saturated fat Yeah, it's not like bad bad, but when I'm personally trying to Clean it up and get to a certain weight to where I can make 185 pounds because it's not the easiest

[00:16:14] I have to cut out little things like that. Yeah, so 185. That's the middle weight because I was middle weight Yeah, okay. Is there a window there? Is it like 185 on the button? I have to be well

[00:16:23] I get one pounds. I think I get to be 186 anywhere from 185 26 in that range Okay, okay, and then weigh in happens how many hours before the 24 hours? Okay before the fight because like you can fluctuate quite a bit right? Yeah, I was probably

[00:16:37] 210 when I got into the cage the other day the next day so yeah, I just have to be 185 for like an hour That's it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but so you went from 185 to 210. Mm-hmm. What? Yeah So it's all water for me

[00:16:50] Okay, like normally when I'm walking around them somewhere in the range of 210 to 215 But I'll cut down to 200 like just cleaning up my diet Okay, dieting, you know a little bit and then from the day before way ends leading up to it

[00:17:06] I just drained myself of water and I carry about 10 pounds of water Okay, so it makes it pretty easy to get down. So you just don't drink water for 24 hours 24 hours And then I like sauna

[00:17:18] Sweated out. Yeah, I didn't realize 10 pounds. It's a lot of water. Yes, basically all your water Yeah, I mean that makes sense like in the NASCAR world, which is my sport. I'm a huge NASCAR guy Okay, okay these guys they did an ESPN sports science

[00:17:30] You know what was his name Jim something brooner or whatever the guy that used to do the sports science He had Denny Hamlin swallow a sensor and they kind of monitor what happened

[00:17:38] And they determined that each drive will lose 8 to 12 pounds of water weight per race in that three and a half hour Race because it's sweating so much and constantly. Yeah That's why he said NASCAR is my family sport

[00:17:48] Is it like my uncle was a race car driver back where I'm from in Pennsylvania? Oh wow I just remember going on the track all the time with him helping him push his car on and off the thing And my whole family's NASCAR NASCAR

[00:18:00] I never was yeah, I like driving. It was fun to go to the track and drive with them But I just never got into it, you know But I grew up my mom Tony Stewart my aunt Denny Hamlin, you know just all of those guys love Tony Stewart

[00:18:12] Yeah smoke smoke. He's an NHRA now. He's drag racing. Oh really he's going 300 in the top field dragster now I can drive anything how's force doing John force. I'm sure you know that name legendary drag racer

[00:18:23] He he was in a really bad wreck in Richmond about four weeks ago went to ICU He hit the wall doing 300 no parachute at 75 years old Oh, so I mean cuz force is like the legend of legend. He was eating for like top

[00:18:35] He was second point still at 75 years old That's crazy. And so he was in a trauma unit for 30 days like brain injury, you know cognitive issues and shit

[00:18:45] But they yesterday just let him out. He's good to go home. So I don't think we're gonna see him race again Yeah, that's a big injury man. Enjoy your enjoy the rest of your life

[00:18:52] I mean, that's that's a way to leave this sport like you know, you're competing and You know you hit the wall like that. I mean, yeah, that's your whole life. That's how our heart went You just went away go blink of an eye. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah for sure

[00:19:07] So Pennsylvania that's kind of area at your stopping grounds. Did you ever go up to Pocono? No never made it to Pocono. Okay. I'm uh West Coast Pennsylvania, so like closer to Ohio. Oh, hi. Oh, yeah, it's like a 45 minute drive where I live to

[00:19:23] WU and all that University, okay, so did you grow up like a Steelers fan? Huge Steelers. All right, huge deal still I'm assuming still still Yeah, I don't know if that leaves you black. I mean, I'm a new one guy Yeah, I all Pittsburgh sports

[00:19:37] No matter what Penguins I'm going home next month for my sister's wedding Okay, I'll be there for a couple days already bought all my pirates tickets like I'm making sure I'm gonna stop the ballpark See them before nice. How they doing this year?

[00:19:51] Awesome. Are they awesome? They're doing great with uh, I'm say they we need a definitely need a big hitter But the lineup that we have for pitchers. Oh goodness man. They're amazing Yeah, there's a chance that we can make a run in the playoffs really that's pretty exciting

[00:20:06] The Rocky's are and they're gonna do that however they just smoked the red sauce 20. Yeah, that's crazy 20 to 7 that's a high score game especially, you know the Rockies in the red 20 20 20 runs

[00:20:15] That's course field. That's why that place cranks runs runs. Yeah, it just does the ball just flies because that's in here It's just like mile high stadium having the longest field goal Okay, that makes sense

[00:20:26] But yeah, that's something the Rockies can brag about because they don't have much to be real excited about right now Oh, no, they do not Which it's a I mean this town, you know outside of the oh seven run that they made against the socks

[00:20:36] You know the World Series which they got smoked four games The Rockies haven't really done much no, you know and it sucks because Denver has had so many so much success recently and all their sports and basketball and hockey

[00:20:48] You know, I mean football there's hope for it, but there is no hope for the baseball team It sucks. I mean at least we got some like super balls and stuff. Yeah Rockies have never I've never even seen them like they went to the World Series

[00:21:02] I guess they did. I lost once. Yeah, it was like once in my whole lifetime The year I moved here. Yeah, and I grew up in New England

[00:21:09] So Red Sox is kind of where I grew up and they smoked him so that'll give something to brag about today 27 What I know about the Rocky Stadium right now course field is that my friends sent me a picture of an a dessert item that they have and

[00:21:23] It actually it looks like an entree. It looks like spaghetti, but really it's like vanilla ice cream I saw that with like donut holes is like the meatballs

[00:21:34] So it looks like spaghetti and meatballs, but it's really like a vanilla ice cream with donut holes and like a strawberry sauce to look Like the red sauce I have to get to course

[00:21:43] Wow, that sounds amazing. Yeah, so they're running that and he's like you got to get that and like I don't know man I'm like battling with the sweets recently I want to eat the ice cream right now like it's been hard. It's been a little difficult

[00:21:56] It's tough, especially ice cream Like it's so fattening which are you like a vanilla bean type of guy? Pennsylvania vanilla gotta be like the I don't know about the vanilla Pennsylvania like the dog. I don't know if you're Dutch the Dutch

[00:22:11] You'll see it if you go to like Target or others like the vanilla bean the really white Yeah, you get the yellowish vanilla. Okay. I've had a darker one. That's the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania kind

[00:22:21] Then I like to treat it with like chocolate sauce. It's a treatment any kind of fruit I'll put in or if I'm going I like cookies and cream I don't like Oreos by those but I'll eat Oreos

[00:22:35] You ever you ever crack fresh cookie cookies and cream on it. No, I've ever cracked the fresh ones on it Oh, that sounds like a fat boy move. I might do that You get a couple fat boy moves a month is how I look at yeah

[00:22:47] Like I could do a fat boy move like twice a month and and and like maintain where I'm at See like during football season it gets a little tough because me my roommate from college moved out here as well

[00:22:57] And I have a couple of my boys from college out here And we just have these things called five fat boy specials during football season Okay, where each Sunday when we get together and watch the games wherever we go

[00:23:09] Whether it's at my place their place or whatever or we go say to Jackson's to watch the games or something We all always have to each week bring something someone has to bring it and feed us

[00:23:18] Okay, so we always come up with these great plans of fat boy specials like giant burgers or oh And it gets it gets kind of crazy. Yeah, but I get I get those allowances when I don't have a fight

[00:23:30] Okay, you can just garbage gut as I college see what I want. It's football Yeah, so what was the last like most epic fat boy special? Oh, I remember like it was cheese steaks That cheese steaks my buddy. He had cheese steaks and just had all the feaks

[00:23:45] You know, okay crazy. Oh, that's not a good bomb. You know these called the bomb I went to this place in Philly Jenny was called Gina's and they had a bomb Philly cheese steak I had like mushrooms peppers geno salami. Yeah, what works? That's one thing

[00:23:59] I don't I used to frequent Philly a lot because of my job rate out of school College was I was working at a halfway house with these kids It was like an overnight treatment facility with them

[00:24:09] And I'd have to drive them the Philly to do court hearings and everything And they would give me money to take these kids out to eat and everything

[00:24:16] Yeah, they would show me all the best spots in Philly for any type of cheese steaks ice. Wooter, you know all that BS Oh nice. What was the go-to? What was your favorite? Oh, I think Angelo's on it. It was pretty good

[00:24:27] Um, and then there was also like places. I wasn't allowed to go that obviously they're like, oh, hey, mr. Josh take us here. I was like, I know I can't go down that road. So what oh just those kids

[00:24:38] They're like gang affiliated everything so like I had a specific you're like I can't like I date I know where I'm supposed to go and I can't deviate much, you know

[00:24:47] They're trusting me with kids the vehicle and like so that's true lose my job over potentially go get jacked Yeah, yeah, or have these kids meet someone. They're not supposed to pick up something

[00:24:58] Yeah, back to the because then like because that's happening. Yeah many times and it's we're all we're all the way over in Pittsburgh I'm driving them the Philly so like it's a long process. They're pretty good driving. It's a decent drive. Yeah, it's an all-day thing

[00:25:09] Yeah, yeah, that's me is pretty I've never done the Philly to Pittsburgh drive But I can imagine probably four or five hours. Yeah, it's pretty you know You can see across the state and it's pretty nice

[00:25:18] But yeah, just had to be very careful but good food out that way Yeah, it's crazy how many people are like struggling with like addictions Like whether if it's like hard drugs or like alcohol is obviously everywhere

[00:25:33] And then food that's the biggest huge one it is because everyone has to eat you have to eat Yeah, and like I completely understand all of it like I could empathize with whether it's the feeling of hard drugs or food or alcohol or anything like that like

[00:25:47] You especially the food being a wrestler and like I grew up with a different type of mindset when it comes to food and It wasn't until I got into college and someone was teaching me how to do it that I had a bad relationship with food

[00:26:00] And I could imagine just how was it bad back then no one taught me how to do it I used to refuse to eat during lunch and I would go play basketball or take an extra gym class

[00:26:12] I would spit in a cup at night. I would eat just salads all day Like no one taught me my parents weren't my dad was a baseball player. My mom was a volleyball player They didn't know nothing about wrestling or anything like that

[00:26:24] So I kind of just learned by messing up all the time, you know cutting weight wrong doing all that but now Because of going back to that when I would eat when I was allowed to eat and even the first couple amateur MMA fights before

[00:26:38] I learned how to actually cut weight. I would die it so bad and then binge food Just eat until I couldn't eat and sometimes I would eat my emotions and I'm like oh, I Understand now like it's emotionally involved, you know with addiction like with food

[00:26:53] Especially drugs and alcohol So like I can empathize with the people who do fall into that addiction But we got to find a good way to get them out

[00:27:02] Yeah, that's the key right because everyone's chasing some sort of dope mean they want to feel something so like food makes them feel Right or they make some not think about their horrible day or whatever it is next thing

[00:27:11] You know you're a pine of hog and does down in a bag of those neon gummy worms I've done that on a Saturday night. That's it. That's so easy to do man Even house a whole pizza like I don't have to control

[00:27:23] I'm better up not bring it into my apartment because if I have it up there. I'm gonna eat it I'm gonna eat it. I see I'm like well. I got some sprees up there. I'm about to demolish them I know

[00:27:31] So I've been like cuz I love the pizzas of course like who doesn't love a good pizza But I've been doing the like cauliflower crust frozen pizzas So I get those I make them extra crispy and now I'm kind of like craving those a little bit more

[00:27:45] And I get way less bloat like I don't feel as bad after I eat that So I'm trying to like trend into a more healthy and healthy diet If you can do that, that's the best thing to do instead of these fat diets, you know

[00:27:59] Oh, yeah, like I said just I try to make mine more of a lifestyle. Yeah, so you're not really changing up Yeah, it's dumb. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people always ask you how do you do it?

[00:28:08] What do you not eat? I'm sure you get that a lot and you're right There's I keep seeing that guy on I'm sure everyone's seeing him on social media That's like oh, yeah, I eat donuts and burgers. I eat whatever I want

[00:28:16] He's super ripped. He's been on Rogan and all those shows and it's like our king is that we're talking about? Not liver King. He that dude's using Roy's for sure. Yeah, I think he's just righted out

[00:28:24] I mean, he's entertaining to watch and I will say that but I'm like the students full of shit But no you can probably know him time I like dr. Drew was on one like talking about him. He's like this is a metabolism killer

[00:28:33] He's going through all this shit and this dude still like hammering donuts and show You know, you can eat whatever you want. It's kind of like what you're saying. I guess that's probably what it is No, I mean I there's some level of

[00:28:47] Like scientific to back that but honestly, I just tell my friends like don't be a fat ass You know, I know it's hard. I know it's hard trust me. I get it

[00:28:55] But it's just more of like you have to make that decision to not it's it's gonna be hard either way It's gonna be hard It's hard to be diligent and like stick to the new lifestyle and it's also difficult to be

[00:29:08] Overweight and like feeling cumbersome while you move around, you know, which one would you rather be like? Oh, I can't oh All my friends are eating this. I can't eat that. I have to eat this like chicken and rice or

[00:29:20] Oh man, I have to buy two seats when I fly down I'd rather have this trouble than to have all the health problems that comes with a shape So true and we live in a country where obesity is just ridiculous. I think we're like the most obese

[00:29:33] Country in the world have to be you know I mean we were joking they used to like in the late 1800s They would have the fat guy people would pay to see them

[00:29:41] Like it was like that rare that you pay to go see the fat guy now you go to Walmart. You see 15 of them Yeah, it's kind of sad ease. That's why I don't go to Walmart a good target, but Yeah, even my even my heart is a

[00:29:54] No, there's something about the talent and Tarja good-looking men and women got the hot mom's they go Oh, no, that's my lane right there. I like them cougars

[00:30:02] But like I'm even I'm even hard on my friends like my close friends my college buddies who are with me like I Don't have to do so much obviously for my teammates or my friends that are athletes

[00:30:12] But like my friends that aren't athletes that are I'm just always on them like now you don't want to eat that Hey, come train with me come run with me come do something because like I want the people around me to have the same vision

[00:30:23] I do like I want to be 75 still drag race and I want to be 75 just doing cool shit and now I have to worry about Okay, my heart handle this chemical joints handle this, you know, it's true. Yeah, it's true controlling what you can control

[00:30:37] I mean at the end of the day, it's having self-discipline It is not eating all of it. This is for freedom Discipline give you freedom. Yeah controls you control because like in your world

[00:30:45] You're also dealing with potential CTE and yeah a lot of that kind of stuff, right? I mean that's just a result of you know being blasted in the head. Yeah

[00:30:51] Yeah, and that's that's a place I play football in my life. I've boxed. I've done this and I've done my best To keep myself, you know very articulate. I can speak well, you know if there's any So like obviously not right now

[00:31:05] But like if there's any sign in the immediate future that there's something going on done, you know, like I want to have kids I want to be able to speak but it just the healthier I can keep myself the better

[00:31:15] Yeah, control what you can control now my advice up to anyone who's trying to overcome like some sort of addiction because All the listeners know this but I've gotten opiates. I took care of that free off of opiates for three years fucking eased up on alcohol

[00:31:33] No more like it at a roll and shit like that So and I lost 70 pounds so I've like been on this health journey for real and like there is a point in the beginning where it's just kind of like boring yeah, and

[00:31:47] Like you have to get in whatever it is diet wise maybe your diet gets boring Maybe drug wise like you're not as entertained like whatever it is like there is just that point where you have to accept that It's just a little doll. It's a little boring

[00:32:01] But if you stick in that in that for like a couple months then all of a sudden you start to appreciate Little things that have been there the whole time these little things have been there the entire time

[00:32:12] But you just never noticed it you never noticed that that was actually something good there or something like when we were looking at The caterpillar right before we came in to record we were like outside doing our promo walking inside

[00:32:24] There's a caterpillar there and like we all both stopped to like look at this caterpillar And we're like oh look at it like Kevin's poking it's like doing weird shit, you know We're having fun with living in the moment. So yeah, yeah, and that's like a small moment

[00:32:41] My friend the other day we were on a walk and and like there was like a new fence that they had laid out And it was like that fresh cedar smell. Hmm. And like so we both went over there

[00:32:50] We're both smell on this fence and we're just on the fence. Yeah, we're like Cedar these guys are not on drugs You know I do still mess with Bob Marley. Yeah, but like Colorado. It's it's color

[00:33:04] Yeah, I saw this one hilarious show where this lady was like you gave my daughter drugs and like handed this guy a joint She's sweet. It's not a drug like yeah, you can consider whatever Like at the end of the day we does not

[00:33:19] Won't make you do anything else, you know that gateway that people always consider even with booze like booze makes you like a yes Man like you've talked about this. Yeah alcohol would just everything sounds like a good idea Yeah, this would be the gateway

[00:33:32] I get it's the starter because it gets you you're like you're easily You know influenced to do stupid shit or at least I was yeah, I was drinking someone call me up 11 like let's go

[00:33:40] Do this? I'm like that sounds great. Yeah, now that I'm sober 11 p.m. I'm like no way man I'm already my PJs. Yeah, you know I'm done half time. I'm not even answering the phone. Yeah

[00:33:47] Yeah, it's on do not disturb. Mm-hmm. That's that's the pro move right there is to do not disturb Yeah, there's not the worst of waking up to meaningless texts and just bullshit

[00:33:55] I mean right because we're already addicted to our phones enough we have to look at enough throughout the day just to get through Day-to-day, I don't want to be you know getting woken up to that nonsense So that has nothing to do with you

[00:34:04] Yeah group chat that is pretty good all the group chat I turn all notifications off on your chats Yeah, just I have to go in there to see what's going on like I'm not getting notified

[00:34:14] But then I also miss a lot of text. I'm not good at it because yeah, call me well That's how I do I do call you know, but that's how it is like I've told all my friends this

[00:34:22] I'm like, you know cuz I'm not always looking at this shit like if you want to talk to me Just hit me up. Yeah, and like let's talk on the phone

[00:34:30] You know that that's the way to communicate. I think so but I do like to do not disturb That's clutch. I got mine from 10 p.m. Till 7 a.m. Every single day now after I learned that from Kevin

[00:34:41] So I said I set it on a time. Yeah, you have to worry about it. Yeah, if all sleep earlier something Yeah, cuz I hate it. It's just auto setup like like smart. You're just like up past 10 p.m. No

[00:34:54] Yeah, I mean that's the first thing people usually do is look at their phone, right? That's the first thing they do in the morning. I try not to do that

[00:34:59] Can't say I do it don't every day. Yeah, try to get up get breakfast going and then maybe check the phone Yeah, you know because if that's the first thing you're doing like that's your essentially your first dope mean hit of the day

[00:35:08] Right is just so many year. Why am I opening Facebook? It's usually negative Mm-hmm You know people are bitching about politics and this and that and the others happen around the world

[00:35:16] There's a lot of bad news. Oh, it's like we're filling our heads with that to start the day I've been having a hard time with that because I've just moved into a new apartment about a month ago and You know not setting my

[00:35:31] Wi-Fi to move with me at the correct time and then now I won't say which one but there I'm having some problems and like they've been coming to set up my Wi-Fi and then rate when they're supposed to be here

[00:35:42] Oh, hey cancel reschedule like no one shows up So I haven't had Wi-Fi in over a month and a half. That's so I'm always major like watching TV on my phone

[00:35:52] Trying to go to bed. I'm playing cuz like I am the type of person that I can't sleep in total darkness I have something playing at some type of noise. I'm like a fan. No, not that type of noise

[00:36:01] I need the office or parks and rack. Oh, yeah, it's always something I used to watch More of like sitcom shows okay, I'm the same or Rick and Morty. I'll do Rick and okay

[00:36:15] Okay, like something. I know that's what's gonna happen so I can just kind of drift off I watched all of them so many times sucked in yeah, it's not I don't have to pay attention to it

[00:36:23] I can't watch like if I'm going to bed. I can't watch like something new or a new movie Yeah, I'm gonna be up watching catch your interest something I know that I can just let play in the background and I can drift off

[00:36:33] So I do it King of Queens is usually my go-to. Yeah love King of Queens, you know old sitcom the office for sure Offes that's a good one. They're seeing all King Queens

[00:36:41] But I hear he's kind of like a acts kind of like a beta male. I'm not sure. Oh, yeah Kevin James I it's that trend has started very early. It's been going on for too long

[00:36:50] Yeah, it's conditioned men to behave that way and turn women off from it Yeah from their natural instincts from it It's unfortunate those programs and movies have done that to men though. Yeah, you know, it's okay to act this way It's not okay

[00:37:03] Like back in the 40s 50s when they were doing those movies those were like masculine men in those movies things were different then There was different things were a little bit more simple and traditional. That's nothing wrong with that

[00:37:12] Yeah, I don't think I think it's okay for men to act like that Certain times but it's not like, you know, Phil dumpy on modern family Like oh, yeah, that's like a goof non-stop and there's not really many times in that show or series where he's a masculine

[00:37:31] Man so yeah, I think sometimes is good because it shows that you have Different levels to you but yeah consistently looking stupid. Yeah, I think that's why all the ladies love Jim Halpert

[00:37:43] Right because he's like he's like smooth, you know, he knows he's got his sales dialed in Pam's into him You know, he was dating Karen in like season three and he's just kind of like an easy-going guy He does act pretty alpha. He's pretty cuz he's like yeah

[00:37:53] We got this, you know, he doesn't overreact good. Yeah, it's not overreacting. He's calm cool collected most times Yeah centered see like there like people get triggered when you say alpha beta alpha or beta males

[00:38:06] Like so Kevin I we like to joke about beta stuff because it is it's funny. It's funny But if I'm talking about being like alpha I'll more talk about like staying centered right and not being as reactive

[00:38:19] But the whole thing with this and I feel like there might also be a misconception is that like it's fluid You could be alpha one minute and then beta the next minute, right? So it's it's about really like Recognizing how you're feeling understanding your own emotions

[00:38:37] Understanding if you're reacting to a situation Are you being centered and your own thought process and sticking to your guns on what your moral checklist is? You know, and so it's like, you know catching your beta bottom

[00:38:48] You basically catch the beta bottom before it it happens, but we're like the beta baits out there So so we have like this ongoing joke about it You know the girls got the beta bait in the water

[00:38:59] They're trying to test your basic beta and then and then you beta bottom if you take the bait Yeah, you take the bait you bait a bottom

[00:39:05] But then you got your bounce back and that's when you get back centered and then you hop back in that alpha mentality You got your bounce back It sounds like something you should not Google at all

[00:39:20] Yeah, you might you might get into some some of our LGBT friends over there Yeah, if you search that but it is kind of funny to joke about it Just seeing you know because again the movies and the TV shows they've kind of conditioned men to be

[00:39:31] I don't want to I guess weak is kind of the word but like weak needy insecure Mm-hmm right over pursuing Pedestalizing women like those are the consistency. Yeah, you know, I mean just it's funny because we're on this subject I went and saw

[00:39:43] Twisters last night, okay, too. No last night last week great solid not a remake standalone sequel Yep, but I loved the first one and this one was absolutely amazing and It kind of has a different tone if you will you know for Glenn Powell and everything

[00:40:00] Like it's more of a masculine role and he does all the things that you don't see You do see like in modern family or that like it's more of a masculine Roll for a man. So I think that maybe we're getting over that home

[00:40:13] I hope so because that was a right because even going back to Bill Paxton who I didn't think was the best actor But he crushed it and then the original twister like he was he was pretty alpha

[00:40:21] I feel like you know, he had that one gal that was he was like, alright, you know She's like I'm gonna leave and then he ends up with Helen Hunt But like he always was like all right, we're gonna act. We know what to do

[00:40:28] He had answers I didn't feel like he came off super beta, but yeah, I thought Glenn did a good job in this new film I think the whole cast was really gotta see it. I haven't seen Twisters

[00:40:36] Oh, man, you know obviously saw the first one like a bunch of times growing Yeah, and there was only a couple throw like no spoilers here So if anyone's watching this, you know, we're not gonna give anything away

[00:40:45] But there's a couple throwbacks to the original not as many as I was hoping for I will say that like I was hoping For cameos and shit, but okay cameo would have been cool like Helen Hunt or something. Yeah, cool but I thought overall

[00:40:57] Haven't been that excited to see like I wasn't excited to see the movie I was like, oh yeah, I'm gonna go see it look cool But I left that thinking wow like that was actually a good movie

[00:41:07] Except when I see movies and there's just lame in a northeast days. Yeah, but this one was like alright It's pretty good in the storyline was good story lines great. Yeah, yeah

[00:41:15] I mean again it kind of like the way they filmed it reminded me a little bit of the 90s The way they would like follow the vehicles into the tornadoes and stuff which all this is in the trailer

[00:41:23] But there was the things that I thought were done really well It looks like there's a lot of practical effects to there wasn't the first one too though You know you're dealing with essentially a disaster film of tornadoes ripping through

[00:41:32] There's like that movie theater scene in the end, you know, I mean just a good film I think so if anyone hasn't seen it I recommend it. Yeah, and I don't have I don't have much knowledge about tornadoes and Midwest but

[00:41:43] Does it really hit that often? I don't know me. I feel like is it that big of a Scenario I feel like the way the movie portrays it it makes it seem like there's like five or six in a day

[00:41:53] Yeah, you know, it's like a lot. Yeah, like they you know, they got the chaos happening and then they go get a bite to eat There's more chaos happening. I don't know if I think that might be a little exaggerated

[00:42:01] Yeah, but you go to like Oklahoma and some of those places. They're getting blasted I feel like this time of year. Yeah severe thunderstorm season pretty sure there's a good amount I was at a wedding recently and the groom's family was from Nebraska

[00:42:13] So I got into some tornado talk. Oh, yeah, and and we're all talking about like the the demolisher There's like some kind of F-150 truck that they have like all waited out that can like screw itself

[00:42:25] Yeah, there's one of those in the film. Yeah, okay, so yeah that kind of stuff is cool And then they're talking about how you know with how the like how there could be one big

[00:42:37] Like tornado but then within that tornado there could be up to five like many cyclones within One tornado and that's so like you could see a whole tornado run through a neighborhood But then only specific houses are messed up because like the five

[00:42:52] Many like tornadoes within the bigger cycle of a tornado. So I guess that's like newer I haven't like peer review like I haven't double checked any of that info, but that's some of the stuff they were telling me I don't know man is

[00:43:06] Who knows if weather is even real anymore? So That's a good point crazy to think of that. Yeah, there has to be reason to believe that Weather manipulation happens. Yes and the reason to believe that I feel like it's cloud seeding

[00:43:20] Like we already know factually they can cloud see it which is weather manipulation like that You know, there's got to be a way I don't know how it's above my knowledge But like to control some of these low pressure systems and I don't know

[00:43:32] I just feel like there's a way they've probably been controlling weather to a certain extent like since The late 50s I could imagine. I mean if we're getting people like in doing lunar stuff Yeah, you know

[00:43:44] Wait, so do you did do you think we landed on the on the moon Kev? I question it I have no idea no idea. I I question it as you always should question everything but

[00:43:57] Man, I just don't know. Yeah. Well, what's the point if we've been there once? What why haven't we went back? See that's that's what I say. Yeah, why why's it been so long? To think in 1969 that you know, we got Buzz Aldrin

[00:44:10] Up there in Lance and then brought him back like getting him there. Okay, but then they got back Yeah, you know, I don't know I don't want to be one of those tin foil hat guys You know throw back to one of our old episodes

[00:44:21] But when I it's fun to go down the rabbit hole when I have too many vitamins And I'm just scrolling through X at night. Yeah, I go through the tin foil hats on Yeah, it's fun though sometimes it is fun and it's also freaky dude

[00:44:33] It's like it's like why you question everything I question everything like I used to think a couple and I feel like I can say this because like my grandfather's from Israel

[00:44:40] But a few years ago. I always thought all the Jewish people were good people or good kind of people Nowadays, I'm like wait, what if I've been lied to? What if we're not the greatest people, you know, like what if that we are the ones controlling everything and

[00:44:55] Messing everything up. So it's just like America like we're we're the baddies We're yeah, we're like the British Empire, but without colonization It's like done a different way But since we're we are like the world's most

[00:45:09] biggest superpower and we have the biggest influence in the most military bases and all those other stuff like like globally We're the bad guys. Yeah, but we look at ourselves like how propaganda paints it

[00:45:20] Like you think just because it's a democracy and like that it's there's no propaganda in this country, right? Like like we're still getting tricked. Oh There's a lot there's a lot going on I mean we just this last week and we won't get too political

[00:45:32] But like, you know the whole Joe Biden dropping out. Yeah, that's like where is he where is he? I feel like he's been dead for 10 years see that's I'm starting to hear this shit though minute What like they got like robots?

[00:45:43] Like the face masks and everything like there's people like you see all these effort like special effects people Yeah, like you have people who can put on masks and you can't really tell anymore a good example of that is

[00:45:56] Johnny Knoxville remember when he did all like the grandpa Transition him into Irving Zestman and you're like this dude looks like a legit grandpa And you can if it's cameras, you're not up close a person

[00:46:06] Camera you're just seeing and that's all he does a camera. That's no AI manipulation because like the AI Fake is getting yeah the deep faking and like so you have prosthetics like they could totally get away with doing stuff like that

[00:46:17] Yeah, they could but it's just like I don't know like I feel like when it comes to the conspiracies And we've touched on this before but like I feel like it's fun to think about But I never want to go too far that like I'm obsessing about that

[00:46:30] And then and then like maybe I say the wrong thing and then and then the right people heard the right people Yeah, and then they're all like hey man. Yeah, you can't be talking this goodness van We can't talk about that shit bro

[00:46:41] I know like here's your mom's address. Mm-hmm can't talk about that We know we know the pandemic was a touchy subject and it even is on this on this network I have to be careful with what I say regarding what happened during the pandemic

[00:46:52] Yes, just just questioning or having conversations about it has resulted in us being kicked off you yeah times Question anything it just seems odd to me. I've been labeled as you know medical misinformation by just quoting an article

[00:47:04] Yeah, it's like why can't we talk that's that's concerning why is that getting silenced? It's I think the next few months are gonna be so fun and so interesting. I'm glad you're optimistic about it

[00:47:14] Well, I mean fun in a sense of like I should say like I was listening to a couple things today Like you know guys the past two weeks like a lot a lot has happened It feels like everyone's just so nonchalant like oh that happens

[00:47:27] It's the last thing I heard literally the last thing I heard before I walked out in my fight Someone tried to shoot Trump and I was like Let's go like No, that was crazy When I went like over 50 years since an attempt has happened 81. Yeah

[00:47:47] Well, I feel like it's been a long time since that we've known about something this obvious We've known about I feel like there's been so many attempts Every single president has had attempts on them. It's just ones that we I mean we obviously saw that one on TV

[00:48:00] Yeah, ones that we know about yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah since Reagan 81 I think was last time that they actually succeeded with the shot or whatever But yeah, and I think it's probably gonna happen again

[00:48:11] I don't know if they'll take a shot at him per se poison poison something I mean how they do it in Russia, right? Like that's how Russia they're like always poison

[00:48:18] That's an easy quiet way to do it. You're not really make kind of big noise and he can just get sick You know the food. Oh, he got COVID or that's what I thought he's an old man

[00:48:28] Like you know so it's gonna be interesting to see what happens and like especially with all you know The immigrants that are coming in and everything like the that hole

[00:48:39] What's that one conspiracy where they're trying to bring in so many people and let them vote for the Democrats, right? like It's just it's gonna be a very interesting time to be an American

[00:48:49] It's a very important election for sure and you know most people, you know some vote some don't I think it's important to vote The problem is when I say that the people that do vote don't know what's going on. Yeah, right?

[00:49:00] So then it's like a catch-22 it's like okay vote But now you don't know you're just doing a popularity contest Yeah, you know whether that's for the guy that you watched on the apprentice or it's Kamala Harris the first woman president

[00:49:09] Right that people are gonna vote on just that alone and that's a problem So it's like what you don't know where to draw the first black woman which is interesting to be like

[00:49:17] If you don't vote for her your sexist and your racist not good. It's it's gonna be a lot It goes we were just talking about this on the elevator like it's mountain if you know Matt Walsh is

[00:49:28] Yeah, he's got a show coming out so free plug for him called am I racist and it's kind of Piggybacks kind of what we're saying It's like oh because you didn't cast your vote you're immediately then put into this box of oh sexist racist

[00:49:39] Mm-hmm. Just because of that one thing and it's like how did we end up here? Right? How did we end up so far divided I guess would be the word like this country is so divided and it's terrible

[00:49:50] It is and I mean I feel like it seems divided especially on TV and on your phone and everything That's where the propaganda that's where it's all out But man you go I mean yeah, you're gonna find outliers for sure you always do but like

[00:50:03] Most of the time when I talk to people outside Had a bar at a gym a gas station or something like there's normal people out here Yeah, like it just seems like we're so far on one side

[00:50:15] But it's just a minuscule percentage of people on each side. I feel like I know what it is It's because on average more Americans spend more time on their screen Yeah, they do this interacting with other people and because anytime I've interacted with anybody live-action

[00:50:32] If I had different political views than them like we usually kept a conversation and it normally doesn't get Repted yeah, yeah So it's usually pretty chill and then you realize like actually I have like 20 things in common with this person and like the two subjects that I

[00:50:49] Thought we disagreed on we actually kind of see things somewhat similar But I actually have more in common with this person than I disagree with them Yeah, but if you're just looking at the main like the propaganda points then it's like you feel really divided

[00:51:03] But honestly you're probably a lot more similar than like media is trying to make it the whole situation And cuz like look if tiktok is like a china company then they have That they they will gain from creating disruption in America by putting propaganda onto tiktok

[00:51:22] Which if that's the most popular one everyone's looking at it Yeah, and then so that's like Chinese propaganda and then that's why America wants to like you know not allow it to exist

[00:51:31] And they want American companies to own it so then they can which I have their propaganda on it But then we got Facebook propaganda like out in other countries and like Instagram like that's all American

[00:51:41] That's the American propaganda that so there's there's all this shit going on here propaganda And so it's like I guess what I'm getting to with this is like get off the phones a little bit And I should go talk to people and you realize that we're pretty similar

[00:51:55] Pretty similar, you know, it's true You know and then and then if you do interact with certain people in person you can kind of get the hint of Their mental illness and you're like all right. Well you aren't educated You don't know what I'm talking about

[00:52:09] You're getting offended because you just don't have any other comebacks so then we can just stop this conversation Let's change it a lot. Hey do you like you know?

[00:52:18] You just completely forget it and like I think I like that too because then you get stuck on the internet not so not me so much Because I just don't mess with it

[00:52:27] But people who just sit there constantly are you in back and forth to each other and they're like I Have a degree in mental health like I know what I'm talking about if I don't know what I'm talking about

[00:52:37] I don't say anything because I know that I don't know Like that's it's just annoying sometimes it is and that's one of the biggest downfalls of social media

[00:52:46] Especially when it comes to that you know these big elections and stuff is the everyone has is a master of everything right? Everyone has all the answers, you know just just by by merit of followers or whatever this person said so so it must be right

[00:52:58] You read some of these tweets you read some of these things that people say and I just laugh and I'm like There's no way your vote counts as much as my vote like there is no way like cuz it's just so

[00:53:12] Many uneducated people out here giving their opinions and I know I'm not the most educated But at least I know that I stick in my lane

[00:53:20] You know yeah, and I try and do the best I can with learning about what is going on and not being emotionally attached to something And that's that's the untied quality is like and you said it a couple sentences ago, too

[00:53:34] If you know you don't know about something you don't you don't you admit that you don't know a lot of people are like too proud To say I don't know that and like so they try to like act like they they understand and know everything

[00:53:47] So like even to just have that emotional intelligence Like puts you on a different scale of like Owning life and seeing it for what it is Right, so not everybody is willing to even look in the mirror like that. No no, I'll be the first time a dumbass

[00:54:03] I don't know shit about shit. I'm just some guy You know that you still like to drink beer and get to know people You know and I think that that's what I like doing this is normalizing having conversations with people

[00:54:12] Yeah, gotten away from that. I think as a society. Oh, yeah, no one wants to have a conversation They just want to spit their facts spew their beliefs and hatred and then go about their day Yeah, I don't want to rebuttal put you in a box

[00:54:23] So this guy's just you know racist Nazi whatever the hell else I've been called all the fun things You know just by merit of taking a stance on not getting a

[00:54:34] Jab or something like that immediately puts me in all these other categories. Yeah, that was that was a whole that was a whole Situation there. That's hilarious that that wasn't an experiment No, not at all call it an experiment a social experiment. Yeah, and I mean I

[00:54:51] Growing up like my dad was a doctor and Just any time I got sick here's a shot is a shot You know long story short eventually my dad wasn't in my life anymore and my grandparents I was living with my grandparents and anytime I would get sick

[00:55:07] Grandma are you gonna take me to shot? No, go throw up in the garbage can lay down Here's some sleepy medicine like let it work your way through your system, you know And I feel like that is how it should have went

[00:55:19] Yeah, yeah, like I'm not afraid to say I didn't get it because like I'm an athlete I'd make sure I know what goes in my body. That's not tested. That's not proven

[00:55:28] I got COVID got COVID twice. Mm-hmm wasn't that bad? Yeah, I couldn't taste my pizza bagels for two weeks That's sucked better shut the country down better shut the country down not have anyone, you know like yeah

[00:55:40] Did some people die over it? Yeah, a lot of people did respect to them You know, but that wasn't that was because of many other factors You know if they would have gotten the flu if they would have gotten sick some other way

[00:55:52] They still could have died, you know, it's also natural selection. So like that's just the way the world works If you're unhealthy if you're unfit, you're gonna die. Yeah, you know sooner. Yeah sooner rather than everyone's gonna die

[00:56:05] But it's how you take care of yourself. Yeah, that's such a doing the biohacking We talked about biohacking a little bit on this program a while back And I like that idea rather than just pharmaceuticals is the answer everything

[00:56:16] Yeah, if you can biohack it like so I was taking beetroot and garlic to combat blood pressure and cholesterol work like a charm Mm-hmm. It showed results consistent I mean, it's not like you'll just take it for a weekend, right?

[00:56:26] But it works so like instead of the big pharma thing and I'm not saying I'm not an expert I'm not scientist doctor any of this stuff. I'm just saying biohacking. I think is a good option Yeah, I don't know how much of that's you know for the athletes

[00:56:36] I know a couple people have talked to like man we biohack the shit out I have such a regimen for supplements I have I to take beetroot and matcha and different things like that. I have my own personal red light

[00:56:48] I have a sauna I got to ice baths when I can Just anything and everything that you can to help, you know, like you said biohack The ice baths. That's the one I still haven't done. I've had a few folks on here like man

[00:57:00] You got to do it. They're great. They're great. I'm not gonna sit here and say it's oh my god It's gonna fix everything in your life

[00:57:05] But it is worth it whether it's if you don't like getting into ice baths and getting wet and having to do all that Cryo is just as good, you know, but any type of cold immersion therapy is gonna be beneficial

[00:57:17] Is it you do it first thing in the morning? I do it whenever I can whenever you can. Yeah, it's not like I don't have my own ice bath I still live in an apartment complex, but eventually one day I will

[00:57:28] But whether it's cryo or if I get to it after practice I'll go and get Nicole tub once to once sometimes three times a week It depends on you know my availability to do but I definitely think it's beneficial for Inflammation and all that

[00:57:43] That's nice. We got to work it in I mean, it's it's all these little things like if you can Like so if you're removing back things from your life

[00:57:51] And then you're looking at all these little good things that you can do like you can stay busy all day Doing good things for yourself. Yeah, and like you can you can completely fill up your schedule with that

[00:58:02] and I feel like that's kind of like the benefit of Getting more mental clarity is then you start to realize like I don't like doing that So I'm not gonna do that anymore

[00:58:13] and then you find out something that you do like and it's just like creating this lifestyle and Like the dieting stuff too. Like I don't like diet Like I just don't like that word because it seems it sounds temporary It's it's temporary

[00:58:25] And so it's like, you know, you're not doing something like you're not fully committing to it Mm-hmm, you know, it's like the diet stuff. I don't know I'm I'm just kind of spitballing over here I feel like it's a proponent of also like

[00:58:36] You have to at least what I've come to the conclusion is you have to have something or someone you love That makes you get out of the shit that you're in, you know

[00:58:46] Because there's times where like I'm going down a bad path like I don't hands or the devil's playground You know if I don't have a fight booked. I don't have anything lined up I don't have anything coming up. I tend to get off track

[00:58:57] But what always brings me back what always gets me back is my love for what I'm doing I have always wanted to do this since I was a little kid besides being a professional baseball player

[00:59:07] This is what I've wanted to do and it gives me a purpose to get up every morning, you know And also my grandma is still in my life. So like I love my grandma. I cannot let myself fall off this ledge

[00:59:18] I can't she's put so much work in to help me out It would be a disservice to her if I were to fall off the rails, you know

[00:59:24] I mean and I don't think a lot of people have that they don't have something in their life that they're driven to To do or a goal that they're ready to achieve. They're just kind of floating is how I'll put it and when I'm just floating

[00:59:37] Getting into this getting into that drinking when I should land anywhere. I'm not I'm just I could land anywhere It's three in the morning. What am I still doing here? You know, so if you have I think if people find something that it's something

[00:59:49] Want to chase they want a goal that they want to attain or just someone they want to prove that What they did was worth it then it gets them out of their stuff But if you don't have that then you kind of get lost. That's true

[01:00:01] Kind of having that accountability. Yes Confiliate is huge holding yourself accountable And then I think it helps to have others too like you know, we both push each other in this industry

[01:00:10] Podcasting and showing up prepared and doing our you know all that stuff having somebody that's gonna be there You're fucking up. You're slipping. Yeah folks don't have that You know, I know for me if I didn't have it

[01:00:19] I feel like with my addiction tendencies I probably wouldn't do so well Yeah, you know having the family and the friends there at a drop of a hat is huge Yeah So I guess unfortunate

[01:00:27] But that kind of segues into the question that we like to ask our guests about if you had one piece of advice You could give humanity that if everyone hears this they'd be better off tomorrow

[01:00:34] I think you kind of just touched on it if you wanted to add anything to it Yeah, I mean yeah find find something that motivates you find something that like lights a fire under you It could be anything mine just so happens to be

[01:00:47] Physical altercation with another human like it's weird. It is what it is But like that's what fires me up to be a better person a better human like If you can find that then I think you're good Mm-hmm solid No, it is great advice and and it's

[01:01:04] It can change like like our passions can change and they can kind of be fluid, but it's about doing that work Like the podcasting like this helped me get off opiates

[01:01:14] Like because I was like when I would go and listen back to an episode where I knew I took some shit before Like that shit was noticeable Yeah, and then like while you're high like you're like no

[01:01:23] I got this like no one can tell but like it's actually pretty fucking obvious And when I see it myself and then I want to you know perform better like it's an accountability tool

[01:01:33] So find what you love find some some ways to make it accountable and like with goals I think it's really healthy to share them with people that You know want to see you succeed

[01:01:43] Yes, but sometimes when you share your goals with everybody like you get some negativity people want to see you fail Yeah, so I'm kind of selective on who like Any major goals that I'm working on?

[01:01:53] I kind of keep that to only select few that I talk about but it's important to let them know because then you do have some kind of You put it out there in the universe. It just wasn't a thought like you spoke it out loud

[01:02:03] You said you said it somebody there's some belief manifestation is a real thing, you know And I I mean on that point like I know me personally

[01:02:11] I want everyone to know and then I want you to tell me I'm not gonna make it like I don't doubt me I want you to do that because that's just how I am. That's how I'm hardwired like I've been told my entire life

[01:02:22] I wasn't gonna be shit. So if you tell me I'm not gonna chug that whole water in 10 seconds bet watch Dudes about the hydrate it. Yeah, it just doesn't matter what it is like I just how I'm wired

[01:02:33] So it's good that you know how you're wired to where you can set yourself up for success Yeah, I'm kind of same way I'm gonna hold your beer to hold my beer kind of person

[01:02:43] So I'm like yeah, I can't do that no way no way this guy's gonna quit drinking grand I did that for myself, but there's a lot of people out there like there's no way

[01:02:49] No, but you been holding strong. Yeah, that's beautiful and I feel amazing to feel great Yeah, I sleep everything when I get ready for a fight and I have like a decent amount of time like this last one

[01:02:58] I had like seven weeks dude seven weeks not touching anything. Yeah, still Cali sober I smoke like sober like no alcohol and then often like I felt like that I was like I'm never gonna go back and I had that first cold beer after the fight

[01:03:13] I'm like, all right, maybe a couple But like I'm still I'm back on that train of like I don't I don't need to drink as much as I need to you know I used to like every once in a while with my friends cool

[01:03:23] But yeah, there's a period of time where I was just just doing too much Yeah And recognizing that dialing it back some people can just have a couple beers with their buddies on the Sunday football game

[01:03:32] And maybe someday I'll get there, but I want to take a significant amount of time away No, and that's good. That's good. Yeah, cuz I know people who can't I don't know how much I can say on this

[01:03:40] But I have friends who can't have a beer unless and once they have a beer When are we getting back? When are we doing this? When are we doing that? Hey, it just goes crazy

[01:03:47] Oh, and that's why a lot of people do stop drinking because they can't they can't control it And that's okay because you recognize that you know, it's not gonna be okay like oh

[01:03:56] I I can't do this so I'm gonna do it and just keep falling and keep falling. Yeah Interesting stat and then we'll end here shortly. I'm in the alcohol business in the daytime

[01:04:06] So I have some interesting information here that I learned in that 3.2 percent of the trend is down on alcohol consumption So that's an overall American consumer average 3.2 percent were down

[01:04:18] 21 year olds aren't drinking as much coming into the market and then just in general people are cutting out booze From the data that we're collecting now there is factors with that right marijuana is becoming more widespread legal

[01:04:27] So people are doing that we're kind of in a recession if you will times are hard everything's expensive So there is that but alcohol is actually trending downward on an overall consumption level

[01:04:35] Yeah, I wouldn't really guess that I'm I've been seeing that trend go a little bit more and more because Just people are starting to understand what it does to them and how it affects them and some people like I have a friend who

[01:04:48] Just doesn't like to go drink because he makes an ass out of yourself. Yeah, some people the way alcohol affects him It's just different than others me. I'm flirty. I'm gonna go talk to chicks. I'm gonna go have a good time

[01:05:00] I'm gonna be funny some people sit in the corner and cry other people's want to fight other people like it's just Good it affects everyone differently And if you can figure out how it affects you and if it's negatively

[01:05:12] And if you have the ability to understand that and cut it out then that's what you should do and that's a good thing Yeah, it is. Yeah, I think so. I mean awesome conversation I feel like we easily keep this going this could have been a great insight

[01:05:24] It's awesome to like hear the inside of an athlete and you know, everybody's basically the same We're all the same like we're all working toward our own things and like working and fighting our own battles

[01:05:35] So anybody out there that's fighting a battle, you know, put on your armor today fight for the right reasons get it done You know because like Josh is saying Idol hands is like the work of the devil. You know, so keep it moving

[01:05:48] You know, don't just stop if you if you mess up a little bit Don't just stop like keep it going keep it moving Kim That's a good one. I gotta keep moving. I can't let the grass grow under my feet Yeah, yeah, keep it moving for sure

[01:06:00] What do they say a body in motion stays emotion a body arrest? Let's keep it moving people. Yeah, awesome episode. We're gonna get you back again, man Oh, yeah, it was awesome to have you on the couch everyone tuning in

[01:06:10] Check out everything that Josh does. He's an epic athlete You're honored to have him in Share your thoughts and your mind with us man. Yeah, and on that note be good to yourselves. You deserve it