The Joe Rogan Experience - February 04, 2016


Joe Rogan Experience #756 - Kyle Kingsbury


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 54 minutes

Words per Minute

188.36075

Word Count

32,825

Sentence Count

3,130

Misogynist Sentences

67


Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we have a special guest, Kyle Kingsbury, join us to talk about a new fanny pack he got from Roots, a company that specializes in making bulletproof outerwear. We also talk about bulletproof pants, bulletproof vests, and bulletproof jackets, and how to protect yourself in the event of a carjacking or mugging. We hope you enjoy this episode, and stay safe out there! Peace, Blessings, Cheers, and Cheers. -The Crew -Jon Sorrentino Hosts: & Produced by Theme Song: "Goodbye Outer Space" by Zapsplat Music: "Space Junk" by Fountains of Wayne Art: Mackenzie Moore Editor: Will Witwer Logo by Ian Dorsch Music: Hayden Coplen Mixing by Jeff Kaale (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 47, 44, 45 , 47, 48, 51, 49, 50, 56, 54, 51 , 56, 56 , 51, 57, 58, , 54, , and , and we are joined by our good friend, Kyle King Kingsbury. Thank you for listening to us! We really appreciate you! Thank you so much for being here, Kyle, thank you for being a good friend and supporting us, you're a great friend of the pod, and we appreciate you, you are a wonderful human being and a great human being! Love ya, bye bye, bye, Bye Bye, bye Bye Bye Bye! -Jon & Good Luck, bye! -P.S. -Jon, Caitlyn -PSA - Jon & KYLE Thanks Jon & Jake, EJ - - SONGS! - EJ & KEVY! -Sue, BONUS EPISODCAST -JACOBY - Mike and KEVIN -RADIO - KELLY


Transcript

00:00:04.000 Thank you.
00:00:11.000 All right, Kyle Kingsbury.
00:00:13.000 How are you, brother?
00:00:14.000 I'm doing great, brother.
00:00:14.000 I have a present for you.
00:00:16.000 This is a legit fanny pack.
00:00:17.000 Look at that, because you're a fanny pack enthusiast.
00:00:20.000 He's one of the few manly men that I could count upon to almost always be wearing a fanny pack.
00:00:24.000 Oh, wow.
00:00:24.000 Look at that, baby.
00:00:25.000 That's a higherprimate.com special.
00:00:27.000 Oh, this is phenomenal.
00:00:28.000 You know, I wanted to get one of these back in the day, and you were out of stock for quite some time.
00:00:33.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:00:33.000 Because I fucking sell out of these things, believe it or not.
00:00:36.000 I believe it.
00:00:37.000 These are made by Roots, and the pocket has a higherprimate.com thing stamped into it, but it's fucking high-level, baby.
00:00:47.000 I found out about that one from Dice Clay.
00:00:50.000 Dice Clay came in.
00:00:51.000 He's another fanny pack enthusiast.
00:00:52.000 I love Dice.
00:00:53.000 And he had sweatpants on, and he was wearing this beautiful leather fanny pack, and I was like, Where did you get that?
00:00:59.000 Oh, it's a Roots one.
00:01:00.000 It's the best.
00:01:01.000 And he took it off and showed it to me.
00:01:03.000 You know how girls would look at each other's purses?
00:01:06.000 That's what we were doing.
00:01:06.000 Oh, yeah.
00:01:07.000 You inspected the pockets.
00:01:08.000 You wanted to see this is where my wallet and my cell phone can go.
00:01:12.000 This is where my chapstick will go.
00:01:13.000 So I bought one.
00:01:14.000 It's legit as fuck.
00:01:15.000 And then after I bought it, I was so in love with it.
00:01:19.000 I was like, could they make these for me and put my stamp on it?
00:01:22.000 And they said yes.
00:01:24.000 So the zip-up pocket, if you look at it, it has the higher primate stamp of the chimp with the light bulb above his head.
00:01:30.000 Pretty sweet, huh?
00:01:31.000 Yeah.
00:01:32.000 This is amazing.
00:01:32.000 Yeah, look at the one you're wearing, bro.
00:01:34.000 It screams hiker.
00:01:36.000 It screams hitchhiker.
00:01:37.000 It is.
00:01:38.000 I got this.
00:01:39.000 Pack safe.
00:01:40.000 I got this before going to Central and South America because you can lock the zippers so people can't get into it.
00:01:46.000 They can't pickpocket.
00:01:47.000 They have cables on the...
00:01:49.000 On the band there, like, steel cables so they can't cut them.
00:01:52.000 Really?
00:01:52.000 They do, like, a lot of slash-and-grab stuff over there, I guess.
00:01:54.000 Jesus Christ.
00:01:55.000 Let me see this thing you've got.
00:01:56.000 I need to change bands.
00:01:59.000 Survival pack here.
00:02:00.000 It's packed.
00:02:00.000 This is my travel weight.
00:02:02.000 First of all, bro, you can do curls with this fish.
00:02:04.000 This is the travel weight.
00:02:05.000 And this has cords in it?
00:02:07.000 Oh, it does.
00:02:08.000 You can feel two of them.
00:02:08.000 Steel cords.
00:02:09.000 You can't cut it.
00:02:10.000 This is incredible.
00:02:12.000 Oh, my goodness.
00:02:13.000 And when you click that in there, there's three buttons to open it up.
00:02:17.000 Not your normal two-button action.
00:02:20.000 Oh yeah, one, two, and three.
00:02:23.000 This is legit.
00:02:24.000 They got the RFD card, like radio frequencies.
00:02:31.000 So if you're passing by and some little hacker's on his laptop, you can't steal all your Apple Pay information from your iPhone and shit like that.
00:02:37.000 Someone can do that?
00:02:38.000 Fuck yeah.
00:02:39.000 Just walking by you?
00:02:41.000 Haven't you seen Rogue Nation?
00:02:42.000 I try not to.
00:02:44.000 I try to stay as far out of the loop with all these fucking hacker whippersnappers.
00:02:49.000 What is this bad boy?
00:02:51.000 So that's where you click all those three together and you put a lock on it.
00:02:56.000 I see.
00:02:57.000 Dude, this is impressive stuff.
00:02:59.000 If they made it out of Kevlar, it'd be even better.
00:03:02.000 Cover your dick.
00:03:02.000 You know, they make clothes now out of Kevlar.
00:03:05.000 They look like regular clothes, but you can take a bullet with them.
00:03:09.000 Like how?
00:03:10.000 The bullet would penetrate you slightly and then come out?
00:03:14.000 It's not going to feel awesome.
00:03:15.000 Yeah, but it's going to keep the bullet from going through into your body.
00:03:19.000 It'll hurt.
00:03:20.000 What do you think that would feel like?
00:03:22.000 Depends on the round, but it wouldn't feel good.
00:03:26.000 I've talked to people that have been shot with bulletproof vests.
00:03:29.000 They say it's like getting punched.
00:03:31.000 So are these plates like in pants and shit like that, or is this like some type of material that's movable?
00:03:35.000 It's both.
00:03:36.000 They have some of them.
00:03:37.000 They even have some that prevent you from knife attacks.
00:03:40.000 They have like a thick mesh Kevlar.
00:03:43.000 That seems more real.
00:03:44.000 Kind of like the chain mail the bad guy wears in Commando.
00:03:48.000 Yeah, there was a Vice documentary or a Vice piece on this guy who is known for making bulletproof clothes.
00:03:57.000 He's a tailor.
00:03:58.000 I want to say Colombia.
00:03:59.000 I think he's in Bogota.
00:04:00.000 But he's known for making really nice clothes that just happen to be bulletproof.
00:04:07.000 Like the whole deal.
00:04:08.000 Underwear, everything.
00:04:10.000 That's pretty badass.
00:04:11.000 It's pretty badass.
00:04:12.000 It's like the Kingsman guy.
00:04:13.000 Is this it?
00:04:13.000 Yeah, here you go.
00:04:14.000 Israeli reporter testing a knife-proof vest ends up getting stabbed.
00:04:18.000 Well...
00:04:19.000 Well, that's not good.
00:04:22.000 He actually got stabbed all the way through, or just a little bit?
00:04:25.000 Oh, Jesus Christ.
00:04:28.000 This is a commando knife, and he's just gonna fucking stab him with his thing?
00:04:32.000 Is this guy doing sign language in the lower left?
00:04:35.000 Yeah, he actually is.
00:04:36.000 Oh, that's hilarious.
00:04:39.000 We wouldn't pick up the stab here, penetrating through.
00:04:48.000 I missed, he said?
00:04:50.000 Yeah.
00:04:50.000 The fucking dude's gonna be bleeding.
00:04:52.000 That dude downplayed it pretty well for getting stabbed.
00:04:56.000 Yeah, he took it quite easily.
00:05:00.000 Jesus Christ.
00:05:03.000 I guess it works.
00:05:03.000 I guess it works a little bit.
00:05:04.000 I mean, it's definitely better than not having that on.
00:05:06.000 He would be dead.
00:05:07.000 Works sometimes.
00:05:08.000 It works a little bit.
00:05:09.000 It's like, stab me like this, that living color.
00:05:13.000 You're doing it wrong.
00:05:14.000 Stab me like this.
00:05:15.000 Well, you've seen those martial arts demonstrations where those guys do that.
00:05:18.000 They come at you with a knife.
00:05:20.000 And then the other guy has to grab your wrist.
00:05:22.000 That's the stabbing technique.
00:05:23.000 Always.
00:05:24.000 Yeah.
00:05:24.000 They say that the best way to knife fight is actually to put your arm forward, you wrap your clothes around your arm, and put a knife in your backhand.
00:05:32.000 Meanwhile, why the fuck do I know what the best way to knife fight is?
00:05:35.000 What are the odds you're ever going to get in a knife fight, like you and another guy on the beach, like circling each other with a knife and your jacket wrapped around your forearm?
00:05:43.000 And Beat It starts playing.
00:05:44.000 No, no, [...
00:05:47.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:05:48.000 They were switchblades, right?
00:05:49.000 Mm-hmm.
00:05:50.000 They had a little knife fight.
00:05:51.000 They were tied together.
00:05:52.000 People used to do knife fights in the movies.
00:05:54.000 Remember those?
00:05:55.000 That was like a big thing in movies.
00:05:56.000 Even back in the old musicals.
00:05:58.000 What was that, West Side Story?
00:06:00.000 They had the knife fights.
00:06:01.000 Did Saturday Night Fever have a knife fight?
00:06:03.000 Mm-hmm.
00:06:04.000 It did, right?
00:06:05.000 They had a knife fight, too.
00:06:06.000 What the fuck is wrong with people back then?
00:06:09.000 All the cocaine.
00:06:10.000 Is that what it was?
00:06:11.000 I don't know.
00:06:11.000 Why did the cocaine kick in?
00:06:12.000 It was in the 80s, right?
00:06:14.000 I think it was around in the 70s and it just got giant in the 80s.
00:06:17.000 Have you watched Narcos?
00:06:19.000 No, but I hear it's awesome.
00:06:21.000 Actually, Eddie Bravo always talks about how it's just...
00:06:24.000 Yeah.
00:06:25.000 He's hooked.
00:06:26.000 He got me.
00:06:26.000 He got me hooked, and now I'm hooked.
00:06:28.000 I'm trying to spread the world.
00:06:30.000 Spread it to the world.
00:06:31.000 We're looking for new shows.
00:06:32.000 It's a fucking awesome show, man.
00:06:34.000 It's incredible.
00:06:34.000 It's really, really nuts.
00:06:36.000 So is it documentary style, or...?
00:06:38.000 No, there's some real footage of the actual Medellin cartel, and there's some real footage of Like the different busts and some murder footage, some bodies that they really, like some of the horrible atrocities they committed.
00:06:55.000 They show you real footage of that.
00:06:57.000 But for the most part, it just is the story of Pablo Escobar and his rise to power.
00:07:01.000 That's right.
00:07:02.000 It's fucking badass, dude.
00:07:04.000 It's so dope.
00:07:04.000 They just did such a good job.
00:07:06.000 Netflix just did such a good job.
00:07:07.000 It's on Netflix.
00:07:07.000 Yeah.
00:07:08.000 Okay.
00:07:08.000 They have so much fucking money, man.
00:07:10.000 They can put together these things and make them like ten movies.
00:07:14.000 It's like ten one-hour movies.
00:07:16.000 That's the best.
00:07:17.000 I can't really...
00:07:18.000 We have trouble watching regular TV now.
00:07:20.000 Like, I think HBO kind of spoiled us.
00:07:23.000 You watch a show.
00:07:24.000 I mean, even though the beauty of Netflix is that you get it all at once.
00:07:27.000 Yeah.
00:07:27.000 So the whole season.
00:07:28.000 But even still, like, we're watching Dexter back in the day or...
00:07:32.000 And there was really only a few good seasons there.
00:07:34.000 But, you know, whatever show that's on that that you can watch straight through with no commercials and no fast-forwarding...
00:07:40.000 Yeah.
00:07:40.000 Night and day better than having to use the DVR and...
00:07:43.000 Or sit through the commercials.
00:07:44.000 That's just...
00:07:45.000 That's caveman shit.
00:07:46.000 It's terrible.
00:07:47.000 It's old days.
00:07:47.000 It's terrible.
00:07:48.000 Those are the old days.
00:07:49.000 We're done with the commercials.
00:07:50.000 They need to come up with a new way to sell you shit.
00:07:52.000 You know?
00:07:53.000 Like, interrupting TV shows just makes me not want to buy their stuff.
00:07:56.000 There was some new comedy on TBS. I don't know why we were watching it.
00:08:00.000 But they kept showing Ford ads during the show.
00:08:03.000 And they would make, like, a little chime.
00:08:06.000 Like, bong!
00:08:07.000 And then they would have this giant Ford.com on the bottom.
00:08:10.000 Like, they were trying to do it so blatant that it was humorous.
00:08:13.000 But at the same time, it was like...
00:08:15.000 Fucking irking me.
00:08:17.000 Like, this is ridiculous.
00:08:18.000 It was some new comedy on TBS, some cheese dick cop show.
00:08:24.000 So while the show was on, the commercials playing over the dialogue and all this stuff, like distracting you?
00:08:29.000 It would just go boom, and then you'd see this thing like superimposed over the bottom of the screen.
00:08:33.000 And it was repeated, though.
00:08:35.000 Like, I mean, after the commercials, you'd see this just pop up on there.
00:08:40.000 Like, if this is the future of TV, then we're not watching this.
00:08:44.000 We're killing TV like that.
00:08:45.000 Well, that's what they're doing to try to counter DVRs.
00:08:48.000 Just stick it even more in your face.
00:08:51.000 It's fucking gross, man.
00:08:52.000 Just over the top with it.
00:08:54.000 It's just so stupid.
00:08:55.000 It's such a dumb way to advertise.
00:08:57.000 They just have to figure out a better way to let people know about their shit.
00:09:00.000 You know, just some cool way.
00:09:02.000 That's not the way to do it.
00:09:04.000 But that's neither here nor there.
00:09:05.000 No.
00:09:06.000 I love saying that.
00:09:07.000 I never get to.
00:09:08.000 It's neither here nor there.
00:09:09.000 It's neither here nor there.
00:09:11.000 So dude, I'm on that diet.
00:09:12.000 I'm on the ketogenic diet now or trying to get into it.
00:09:16.000 And you talking about it with me sort of inspired me a little bit because one of the big things a lot of people are saying, you can't do explosive activities.
00:09:25.000 Bullshit.
00:09:26.000 Kyle Kingsbury has spoken, you fucking nerds!
00:09:29.000 Oh, you nutrition nerds!
00:09:30.000 I'll tell you what, man, if you get into any sort of a diet online or tell people you're gonna try something, the fucking experts come crawling out of the woodwork.
00:09:38.000 I've had so many people.
00:09:39.000 That's why I deleted my Facebook account.
00:09:41.000 I just couldn't stand, like, over the years in the UFC, I just would say, oh, sure, yeah, I'd allow you to be friends, allow you to be friends, that kind of thing.
00:09:47.000 And then over time, you've got 5,000 people that think they're your pals.
00:09:52.000 At least on Twitter, I follow who I want to follow.
00:09:54.000 That's that.
00:09:55.000 I'm not subscribed to any of their shit.
00:09:57.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:09:57.000 I'm sure with 1.7 million people following you online on Twitter alone, you post, you're going to do this, and people come up to woodwork about it.
00:10:06.000 I would write about like, oh, I just read this book.
00:10:08.000 It's phenomenal.
00:10:09.000 Check it out.
00:10:10.000 And then everybody's got to come up with this.
00:10:12.000 Well, here's an article I found online.
00:10:14.000 I'll send you the link, and this guy's a total whack job.
00:10:16.000 He's an idiot.
00:10:17.000 This one paragraph somebody wrote is going to totally dispel and throw out the window what this guy spent years researching and putting together in his book.
00:10:25.000 Yeah, it's always like vegannews.com.
00:10:28.000 You're like, oh, Jesus, it's not a real source.
00:10:30.000 How dare you?
00:10:31.000 But this diet, I've been on it now only for four days.
00:10:36.000 Today, I think it's the third or fourth day.
00:10:39.000 Let's call it the third day.
00:10:40.000 Third day, 100%.
00:10:42.000 And I had headaches somewhere around the second day I started getting a little bit of headache.
00:10:47.000 I read that on your Instagram.
00:10:49.000 But it's gone.
00:10:49.000 I got the fix for it.
00:10:50.000 What's the fix?
00:10:51.000 So a lot of people, when they transition low-carb, there's a window before you start producing ketones on your own.
00:10:57.000 Right.
00:10:58.000 You can jumpstart that window with fasting, which is a total pain in the ass, especially if you're Carbohydrate dependent.
00:11:04.000 Or you can cheat it by using MCT oil.
00:11:08.000 So if you up your MCTs the first three days, kind of borderline where you might shit yourself, then you totally negate any of that really feeling like groggy, like I don't have energy, or fuck man, I can't move.
00:11:20.000 You can eliminate that completely with MCTs.
00:11:23.000 Why does MCT oil make you shit yourself?
00:11:25.000 Because it does.
00:11:27.000 It does.
00:11:27.000 And I'm not going to lie, I've shit myself at least five times in the past two years as an adult.
00:11:36.000 And not being drunk?
00:11:37.000 Nope.
00:11:38.000 I don't drink anymore.
00:11:40.000 What was it?
00:11:41.000 The MCTs.
00:11:42.000 I got a little cocky.
00:11:43.000 Over time, I measure everything out religiously now.
00:11:48.000 Everything's fine-tuning.
00:11:49.000 It's all personal process.
00:11:51.000 I had to start with a teaspoon.
00:11:53.000 Now I'm up to four tablespoons per pot of coffee.
00:11:56.000 I make a whole pot, blend it up with...
00:11:59.000 Two to one ratio of Kerrygold butter to the MCT oil.
00:12:03.000 Then I have my little Stevia drops, that kind of thing.
00:12:05.000 If I'm on the road, I got other stuff.
00:12:07.000 But I used to, if I was on the road and I'm having coffee, I would just take a gulp of MCT next to it.
00:12:12.000 What do you got, whipping cream?
00:12:12.000 You bring your own whipping cream here?
00:12:14.000 What is that?
00:12:14.000 Heavy cream, yeah.
00:12:15.000 You got to get on it, bro.
00:12:16.000 What?
00:12:17.000 Unless you don't have a...
00:12:18.000 If you don't have a lactose...
00:12:20.000 That should be a meme right there.
00:12:22.000 Heavy cream, you got to get on it, bro.
00:12:24.000 You got to get on it, bro.
00:12:25.000 You got to.
00:12:26.000 And I got my stevia drops here, just like Jim Carrey does.
00:12:29.000 Just like Jim Carrey?
00:12:31.000 Jim Carrey has stevia drops?
00:12:33.000 You gotta check out the coffee in cars with comedians.
00:12:37.000 Oh, he brings stevia drops with them?
00:12:39.000 Yeah, he does it when he's on Seinfeld.
00:12:41.000 It's an awesome, awesome episode.
00:12:43.000 So tell me why you have heavy whipping cream?
00:12:47.000 Well, this is, first of all, this marks this on detail earlier.
00:12:50.000 This is grass-fed, free-range, all good stuff.
00:12:52.000 I don't have a lactose intolerant or a dairy intolerance.
00:12:55.000 So let's iron that out right now.
00:12:57.000 I don't recommend this to anybody who does.
00:12:59.000 But this is an easy way to get more fat.
00:13:01.000 And that's really what you're trying to do.
00:13:04.000 We, as natural people, from a primal standpoint, went in periods of ketosis, no matter where we were on planet Earth.
00:13:12.000 So I know you were talking about the other day, like...
00:13:14.000 What is this ancestral diet stuff?
00:13:16.000 That kind of stuff.
00:13:17.000 Well, that's based on where you lived.
00:13:19.000 So if you had ancestors from the poles, then you likely had big game and fruits and vegetables and things that grew in colder climates, you know, like kale and shit like that.
00:13:29.000 If you were by the equator, smaller stuff, smaller live animals like chicken, fish, those kind of things, and then much more carbohydrate.
00:13:36.000 But both, no matter where you were from, you had periods where you didn't eat.
00:13:40.000 So that's when you'd produce your own ketones.
00:13:42.000 To remain in a ketogenic state, You really do have to have a much higher level of fat than people think, like way more.
00:13:50.000 It's counterintuitive, especially with cholesterol and things like that, but the research is out.
00:13:55.000 I mean, these guys are putting together things.
00:13:56.000 Dr. David Perlmutter wrote Grain Brain in 2013. He had research from 2013 and 2012 and 2011 all in the book.
00:14:03.000 In 2015, he followed up with BrainMaker.
00:14:06.000 Brand new studies are being put in that book.
00:14:08.000 So this is like the very latest, and what they're showing across the board is for All the mental disorders like Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, they all have to do with really high blood sugar levels over time.
00:14:22.000 So one person might manifest as type 2 diabetes, another person might get Alzheimer's.
00:14:27.000 It's just your genetic coding.
00:14:28.000 That's the genetic difference.
00:14:30.000 Eating like shit is going to get you to have that disease, you know, manifest itself.
00:14:35.000 It's just sugar itself seems to be just really, really bad for you.
00:14:38.000 It's a bad deal, yeah.
00:14:40.000 But as you'll find, it's really easy to eat too much protein on the diet, and that can knock you out of ketosis.
00:14:47.000 Really?
00:14:47.000 Eating too much protein knocks you out of ketosis?
00:14:49.000 There's a process the body does called gluconeogenesis, and this is kind of where Atkins failed.
00:14:55.000 A lot of people, even my dad would say, oh, I did Atkins, I lost weight, and I felt like shit.
00:14:59.000 You know, I had this pain across my chest, and they call it like Atkins fever, right?
00:15:03.000 You can feel like flu symptoms, right?
00:15:05.000 Right.
00:15:05.000 That comes from, what's your energy source?
00:15:08.000 So if people do a low-carb diet, and they think, well, I don't want to have too much fat because that's not healthy.
00:15:17.000 Mm-hmm.
00:15:35.000 So if you can keep protein moderate, that's why now, modified Atkins or ketogenic diets, they'll tell you it's high fat, moderate protein, low carb.
00:15:44.000 So when you say moderate, how many grams of protein do you get in a day?
00:15:48.000 That's all individual for anybody, if you're working out, how you work out, high intensity.
00:15:52.000 But for you, what are you about, 220, something like that?
00:15:54.000 I weigh 225 right now.
00:15:56.000 I probably have...
00:15:59.000 Definitely under 140 a day, grams of protein.
00:16:02.000 Really?
00:16:03.000 That's interesting.
00:16:04.000 Because the bodybuilder method was one gram per pound?
00:16:10.000 At least.
00:16:11.000 And they were doing six, seven meals a day.
00:16:13.000 Look, for putting on size, I'm not going to tell Dorian Yates how to put on size.
00:16:18.000 They eat that way specifically for gains, and that is scientifically proven to help with gains.
00:16:23.000 You're eating like a child, basically.
00:16:25.000 You have a newborn.
00:16:26.000 They eat every two hours.
00:16:27.000 And they're eating everything, carbohydrates, protein, and fat, right?
00:16:31.000 So when you want to gain size, that's the way to do it.
00:16:34.000 But for this, you don't necessarily need that.
00:16:36.000 And you can employ different methods like intermittent fasting, where they talk about skip breakfast and just eat between 12 and 7. That protein window of, oh, my nitrogen balance is lowering.
00:16:48.000 I'm going to lose muscle mass.
00:16:49.000 It's total crap.
00:16:50.000 Everybody would tell you, oh, you skip a meal, you're going to get weak, bro.
00:16:53.000 Total crap.
00:16:54.000 All the hormones that give us...
00:16:57.000 Recovery, anything like that, IGF-1, growth hormone, they all go through the roof when we don't eat.
00:17:02.000 So the longer we fast, the higher our ketone production is, the higher our anti-catabolic hormones are, so they're muscle-preserving.
00:17:10.000 Now, you could do a fast incorrectly and you go run a long race or Or if you did high-intensity stuff fasted, then yeah, you'd be running into problems there.
00:17:20.000 Well, that's because that's autolysis, right?
00:17:22.000 Your body starts to break down muscle tissue.
00:17:24.000 Is that what it's called?
00:17:25.000 Autolysis?
00:17:25.000 Because you're working glycolytic.
00:17:27.000 This is all right in there in the Primal Endurance book by Mark Sisson.
00:17:30.000 I picked that up right after he was on the show on the old Kindle show.
00:17:34.000 I really enjoyed talking to that guy.
00:17:36.000 He's awesome.
00:17:37.000 Yeah, that was a really cool conversation and very eye-opening.
00:17:40.000 You know, one thing that really opened my eyes or really had me thinking was they've shown on studies recently on children that have epilepsy that putting them in a ketogenic state seems to stop epileptic seizures or significantly reduce them.
00:17:56.000 That's how the diet was developed in the 1920s.
00:17:59.000 I think it was John Hopkins University, or Hospital, not University, Johns Hopkins, whatever, put together.
00:18:06.000 They had a team of guys there that figured it out.
00:18:08.000 And there's actually a guy...
00:18:13.000 Who was on the Tim Ferriss podcast, Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, who is awesome.
00:18:18.000 You gotta check him out.
00:18:19.000 I heard that one.
00:18:21.000 He's out of South Florida.
00:18:21.000 He's the guy who fasted for seven days and then lifted 500 pounds for 15 reps, did 585 for a single, then gave a lecture to 300 plus people on fasting and ketogenic diets.
00:18:31.000 That guy's a trip.
00:18:33.000 He's really fascinating.
00:18:35.000 Super fucking intelligent.
00:18:36.000 You know, like you're listening to him talk about it and how he travels with his own exogenous ketones that he throws into his food.
00:18:43.000 Have you tried those yet?
00:18:44.000 No.
00:18:45.000 How nasty.
00:18:46.000 Yeah, the rocket fuel stuff.
00:18:49.000 When they first came out with it, the liquid, it is jet fuel.
00:18:53.000 I mean, it'll make you quiver.
00:18:54.000 I mean, I think that stuff tastes worse than...
00:18:56.000 The ayahuasca.
00:18:58.000 But now the new stuff, they make it with stevia.
00:19:00.000 It's all natural, flavored like orange, ketocanna.
00:19:03.000 It's awesome stuff.
00:19:04.000 You love it.
00:19:04.000 What's the thought process behind eating exogenous ketones?
00:19:09.000 How does that work?
00:19:10.000 Well, here's what I've noticed.
00:19:12.000 If I'm in a ketogenic state and keto-adapted and I'm producing my own ketones, I feel a huge bump from a product like that.
00:19:21.000 Exogenous in addition, right?
00:19:23.000 If I'm in a carbohydrate...
00:19:26.000 Necessary energy system, and I haven't been in ketosis for a while, and then I have, like, oh, okay, well, I'm going to get low sleep tonight, so I want ketones.
00:19:33.000 I might feel like a slight difference, but it's not going to be nearly as dramatic as if I'm already in ketosis.
00:19:40.000 Really?
00:19:41.000 Yeah, which is odd to me.
00:19:42.000 I don't know the mechanism of how it works or if my body's just more in tune to use them when there's no carbohydrates there, but...
00:19:49.000 It's night and day.
00:19:50.000 I think the product is, they're expensive, like 75, 85 bucks for 15 servings probably.
00:19:56.000 Really?
00:19:56.000 So I wouldn't use it every day, but I'd use it for like a big race.
00:20:02.000 Tasha and I are doing a 50k in Zion coming up in April.
00:20:05.000 I'll be using them for that for sure.
00:20:07.000 And so you would do it the morning of the race?
00:20:09.000 During the race?
00:20:11.000 Like 15 minutes beforehand and then every couple hours in for sure.
00:20:15.000 And now how long have you been doing a ketogenic diet?
00:20:19.000 Oh, man.
00:20:20.000 At least a year and a half I've been in and out.
00:20:22.000 Obviously, I'm not going to...
00:20:24.000 There is no point where I'll never eat carbs again.
00:20:26.000 There's just too many good carbs.
00:20:28.000 Yeah, they're phenomenal.
00:20:29.000 But there's periods of times where I'll do like a 12-week block of strict ketosis or 16 weeks in a row, strict ketosis.
00:20:36.000 And what do you find when you do that?
00:20:38.000 Like, what's the difference?
00:20:38.000 The biggest thing that I feel is a cognitive boost.
00:20:42.000 Really?
00:20:42.000 It's night and day.
00:20:43.000 The sharpness I have mentally is...
00:20:47.000 I mean, that's really what keeps me coming back to it is the mental clarity and focus.
00:20:54.000 And then you lose a little bit of water weight because glycogen holds water in the muscles.
00:20:59.000 So you don't lose any strength, but you lose some of that water weight.
00:21:03.000 And I just feel more flexible.
00:21:05.000 So when I do yoga and things like that, I can get into postures I can never get into when I eat carbs.
00:21:10.000 I can't get into lotus when I'm eating carbs.
00:21:13.000 Even if it's only five pounds difference in my overall body weight, I can get into lotus now.
00:21:18.000 But you can when you're in ketosis.
00:21:19.000 Oh, yeah.
00:21:19.000 What the fuck?
00:21:20.000 Yeah.
00:21:21.000 So where is it binding?
00:21:22.000 In your knees, in your hips?
00:21:23.000 Like, what's holding you back?
00:21:25.000 Well, you're holding water in, for every gram of glycogen, you hold four grams of water in the muscle cell.
00:21:30.000 So it makes sense if you're loading on carbohydrates and things, even if you're not carb loading, but if you're carb dependent, your muscles are going to hold more water I think?
00:21:57.000 We're good to go.
00:22:14.000 You simply aren't going to be able to outperform somebody who has carbohydrates.
00:22:17.000 Right.
00:22:17.000 But they weren't looking at somebody that was keto adapted.
00:22:19.000 So it does take six to eight weeks to make your body prefer fat.
00:22:24.000 Okay.
00:22:25.000 So what they were doing was just trying it on people.
00:22:27.000 They put them in a state of ketosis for like a couple of weeks and then try it.
00:22:30.000 Yeah.
00:22:30.000 Two weeks.
00:22:31.000 Exactly.
00:22:31.000 Two weeks.
00:22:32.000 Six to eight weeks.
00:22:33.000 Six to eight weeks.
00:22:34.000 And other people will tell you, the longer the better.
00:22:36.000 So if you were, like, these guys that are winning the Western States 100, it's a 100-mile race, they're in it for years.
00:22:44.000 You know, you do pretty strict for a year and a half, and then you see some significant jumps in fat oxidation rates.
00:22:50.000 So how much can I break down in an hour while I'm under stress?
00:22:55.000 That changes dramatically the longer you stay in it.
00:22:58.000 Now, when you do that, is it beneficial to put on some body fat for a long race like that?
00:23:03.000 Because if you're in a ketogenic state, your body can burn off that fat?
00:23:07.000 You would have...
00:23:09.000 I can't write off numbers off the top of my head, but I mean when they talk about how much calories you can hold from glycogen pre-stored in the liver and all the carb loading you can do versus how much fat you have in your body, you could run for days.
00:23:22.000 That's why we can fast.
00:23:24.000 That's another thing.
00:23:25.000 To dispel a bodybuilder's myth on muscle, if we lost muscle dramatically from fasting, Then how would we chase down the herd three, four, five days into not having food?
00:23:38.000 We for sure evolved to be able to do this.
00:23:42.000 So we could go long periods of time and still have our explosiveness when we needed it.
00:23:47.000 And they weren't jumping on treadmills and doing stupid shit like we have to do now.
00:23:51.000 But at the same time, it was important for human beings to be able to have energy still in a fasted state for that long.
00:23:57.000 And what you're talking about, for people who are unaware, it's called persistence hunting, and it's one of the first methods of hunting that ancient people used to do and still do in parts of Africa, where they will run and chase down.
00:24:09.000 An animal like an antelope, they run very fast for short periods of time, but they overheat.
00:24:14.000 They get hot, and they get tired, and they can't run like we can.
00:24:18.000 We can run at a slower pace for way longer.
00:24:20.000 We could run all day.
00:24:21.000 Because we sweat.
00:24:22.000 And they don't sweat.
00:24:23.000 So they overheat.
00:24:24.000 And so what ancient hunters would do is just chase them literally until they dropped and they would stab them.
00:24:29.000 There's some pretty fucking trippy videos of guys doing that today in Africa.
00:24:33.000 That sounds badass.
00:24:34.000 It's pretty crazy.
00:24:35.000 They just chase these animals down until eventually they just give up and then they stab them.
00:24:39.000 I can't imagine the runner's high of chasing prey that long.
00:24:42.000 And that's your food.
00:24:44.000 It's not like, oh, hey, let's spend five grand and go on a safari.
00:24:48.000 That's your food.
00:24:49.000 That must be a thrill.
00:24:51.000 It must keep you alive.
00:24:51.000 Yeah.
00:24:53.000 I'm going to bring this back for my family.
00:24:54.000 This is not something you did while you were fighting.
00:24:57.000 No.
00:24:59.000 You know, in fighting, the way I like to word this is, I used to play video games and love to do shit.
00:25:06.000 And I'm not knocking video games.
00:25:07.000 I'm in a video game coming up here.
00:25:09.000 It's going to be awesome.
00:25:10.000 You're in a video game?
00:25:11.000 Yes.
00:25:12.000 What is it?
00:25:13.000 Mafia 3 by 2K Games.
00:25:15.000 Awesome.
00:25:15.000 Do you play like a Hitman or some shit?
00:25:17.000 I'm the dude.
00:25:18.000 You're the dude?
00:25:19.000 Yeah, I'm the dude.
00:25:20.000 It's a one-player game.
00:25:21.000 It's a game that's like Grand Theft Auto.
00:25:25.000 But you don't beat up hookers after banging them.
00:25:28.000 It's a revenge game.
00:25:29.000 I'm trying to come after these guys for killing my family.
00:25:32.000 The whole thing is motion capture.
00:25:35.000 So if a guy farts, it's me in a suit doing it.
00:25:38.000 Anything he does, it's me doing it.
00:25:41.000 Wow, so how long did you have to do that for?
00:25:43.000 We're still working on it.
00:25:44.000 It's coming out this summer.
00:25:45.000 I've been doing that since I retired, last year and a half.
00:25:49.000 It's crazy how intensive video games are.
00:25:51.000 You really think about people working?
00:25:53.000 We think about the money behind it now.
00:25:55.000 Grand Theft Auto V. Grand Theft Auto V had...
00:25:59.000 This is it right now.
00:26:00.000 Oh, this is the trailer.
00:26:03.000 Mafia III. Let's see here.
00:26:06.000 Dun-dun-dun-dun.
00:26:07.000 Ooh.
00:26:32.000 I'm gonna watch that.
00:27:01.000 Fucking graphics.
00:27:07.000 How long is it?
00:27:12.000 So is this you here with the backpack?
00:27:14.000 This is me the whole way.
00:27:16.000 I had to do all that shit.
00:27:17.000 Even at the end here, I kicked this guy into the creek.
00:27:20.000 The face is different.
00:27:22.000 It's an actor named Alex from New York.
00:27:23.000 He's awesome.
00:27:24.000 So the facial scan and the voice...
00:27:31.000 This fucking video- the video is incredible!
00:27:41.000 Whoa!
00:27:51.000 Does it feel bizarre having some dude's face on your body?
00:27:55.000 No, because I've met him and he's awesome.
00:27:57.000 If he was a douche, then I would look at it totally different.
00:28:00.000 But I love the guy.
00:28:01.000 He's awesome.
00:28:02.000 That would suck.
00:28:04.000 The fucking video graphics are insanely good.
00:28:08.000 This is really downplayed too, just because it's the YouTube.
00:28:11.000 When I go in the studio and see what they've done with it, and you get to play the game, the end game, they have whole teams that do the environment, whole teams that do buildings, everything you can go into.
00:28:22.000 There's not a door in the game that you can't walk into and have some type of...
00:28:25.000 Environment to play with.
00:28:27.000 Just like the hair and the grass when they were in NAMM, when they were flying with the helicopters.
00:28:32.000 Like this.
00:28:33.000 Like, look at the fucking grass.
00:28:34.000 The shadows and the grass.
00:28:35.000 This is incredible.
00:28:36.000 The facial recognition is the same stuff that Robert Zemeckis was using in his movies when they would scan in.
00:28:42.000 We flew to LA to do it.
00:28:44.000 It's pretty...
00:28:45.000 Yeah.
00:28:50.000 It's got a dope soundtrack.
00:28:51.000 Yeah, well, it's late 60s, early 70s.
00:28:53.000 Obviously, there's some good music to choose from.
00:28:56.000 This is awesome, man.
00:28:59.000 Wow.
00:29:00.000 And we get fucking some nice, gory kills for people that are into that sort of thing.
00:29:06.000 Hmm.
00:29:09.000 Wow.
00:29:11.000 Yeah, it's amazing.
00:29:12.000 If you want to talk about people that work hard, nobody works like, well, I don't want to say nobody, but they work some insane fucking long hours, man.
00:29:19.000 Putting together a video game, some really time-intensive stuff.
00:29:22.000 Yeah, and it's around the clock.
00:29:24.000 You see these guys when I go to the mocap studio, it's real laid back.
00:29:28.000 It's the same place they do the WWE game and the basketball game, that kind of thing.
00:29:33.000 But when you go in and you see the guys that write the code and actually make the game, you can tell they're on a deadline.
00:29:40.000 They're having to fix bugs and do all kinds of things, and it's just a grind.
00:29:44.000 They're definitely putting in extreme hours.
00:29:47.000 Yeah, it's horrific.
00:29:50.000 But what I was getting to before I jumped off on the side there was in...
00:29:56.000 In fighting, I had an idea of what I could do with my time.
00:30:01.000 And if I had a fight coming up, And I'm playing video games.
00:30:05.000 There's nothing like a deadline of this guy's gonna try to knock me out in six weeks, five weeks, four weeks, three weeks.
00:30:14.000 Every day you start to look at that day at the end of the day and say, what did I do today to make myself better?
00:30:19.000 How did I spend my time?
00:30:20.000 And if my pie chart had three hours of entertaining myself when I could have been learning about something else, I don't know.
00:30:44.000 Yeah, that really instilled in me a love and a thirst for knowledge.
00:30:48.000 And that's when I started reading about...
00:30:49.000 I read more books in my fight career than I ever did in college.
00:30:52.000 That's interesting.
00:30:54.000 Ever.
00:30:54.000 I mean, I'd have these camps where that's really how I'd spend my time, is just trying to figure out how to better myself for the fight.
00:31:02.000 Well, you were in a strange position, too, because you were a guy who came to martial arts sort of late in life.
00:31:08.000 So you came into it late in life as a great athlete who's learning all the different aspects of MMA, all the different martial arts techniques, and then competing in the highest level of the sport pretty much right away.
00:31:21.000 Yeah, that was pretty dumb.
00:31:24.000 It could have gone a lot smarter.
00:31:27.000 It could have gone a lot more intelligently, planning a career and things like that.
00:31:32.000 But really, it just all happened by storm.
00:31:35.000 I agree that that's not the way to do it.
00:31:38.000 But some people can Jon Jones it.
00:31:41.000 There's a few guys that can do it.
00:31:43.000 I talk about Jon Jones or a guy like Daniel Cormier.
00:31:47.000 You look at their wrestling background, it's not like they were doing something totally different.
00:31:50.000 They were in martial arts the whole time, whether you want to call it that or not.
00:31:53.000 They were in martial arts their whole lives.
00:31:55.000 And now they can focus on...
00:31:58.000 Look at Cormier's striking, because he didn't have to focus on...
00:32:03.000 He didn't have to spend time dividing up that pie chart into wrestling practice and other things, right?
00:32:08.000 Just a little bit will keep him sharp there, but I can really learn these other things and dive into them.
00:32:13.000 Well, it's also when you're a master at one of those things, like sort of how Damian Maia is with jiu-jitsu, he's such a master at it, that all those other things, you know, he just has to be proficient enough so he can get you in a position where he can use his mastery.
00:32:27.000 Even look at Verdum, his striking has really improved over the years because he always had jiu-jitsu in his back pocket.
00:32:33.000 Exactly, exactly.
00:32:33.000 And had it on such a high level that anybody he gets to the ground with is pretty fucked.
00:32:38.000 You're in a real bad spot.
00:32:40.000 But your path was the path of the ultimate fighter.
00:32:45.000 That TV show, and not just people that are on the TV show, but people that do well in the smaller circuit, smaller shows, and then they get a couple fights under their belt, and they start looking good, and then they get the call.
00:32:59.000 Hey, we need a fight.
00:33:01.000 Someone needs to fight this guy on...
00:33:04.000 Three weeks notice.
00:33:05.000 You're willing to do this.
00:33:06.000 That's how a lot of guys get into the UFC. Fallouts.
00:33:09.000 Someone from another organization looks attractive.
00:33:12.000 They've got something going on.
00:33:13.000 This guy's got potential.
00:33:15.000 But to engineer a career correctly, you would do it sort of the same way they did with Floyd Mayweather in boxing or someone along those lines.
00:33:24.000 You would take them slowly through the amateur ranks.
00:33:27.000 Develop their skills and then test them a little bit more every fight.
00:33:32.000 A little bit more.
00:33:33.000 Give them some fights where they can work on some things.
00:33:35.000 Give them a guy who's a brawler.
00:33:37.000 Give them a guy who's a boxer but he's feather fisted.
00:33:39.000 Give them a guy who, you know, he hits really hard but he fades after two or three rounds.
00:33:45.000 And there's all these different sort of tests that you can give a boxer and know when they're ready for those tests.
00:33:51.000 And the whole time they're getting their cage or ring time in.
00:33:54.000 They're getting all the butterflies out.
00:33:56.000 They're spending more time in the pocket and inside the old telephone pole booth.
00:34:00.000 Meanwhile, with you, they just fucking put your ass in a catapult and launched you to the deepest part of the ocean.
00:34:08.000 It was quick.
00:34:09.000 Yeah.
00:34:12.000 That was never a plan though, right?
00:34:14.000 It was like something that sort of came along.
00:34:16.000 No, I didn't.
00:34:16.000 Well, football ended at ASU and I was pretty depressed.
00:34:19.000 I didn't know what I wanted to do.
00:34:20.000 I knew I didn't want to have a fucking desk job.
00:34:23.000 And athletics were really my outlet in life.
00:34:26.000 You know, I hadn't discovered psychedelics or meditation or any of that stuff.
00:34:30.000 Sorry.
00:34:30.000 Is that you?
00:34:31.000 Inappropriate.
00:34:32.000 No worries.
00:34:32.000 I had turned it up just so I could hear you.
00:34:36.000 So, what led you to...
00:34:38.000 I started training in mixed martial arts just because I was tired of being a rat on the wheel.
00:34:43.000 You know, treadmills and lifting weights wasn't doing it for me.
00:34:46.000 And how old were you?
00:34:48.000 26. Wow.
00:34:50.000 No martial arts at all before that?
00:34:53.000 I mean, I wrestled in high school.
00:34:55.000 So, high school wrestling background.
00:34:56.000 All four years?
00:34:57.000 Three years and two years in junior high.
00:34:59.000 Okay, that's a little something.
00:35:00.000 I was decent.
00:35:01.000 Not great.
00:35:02.000 But...
00:35:04.000 But yeah, so I got into it, and then as I was learning, there was a local guy down in Arizona, and he ran a little sleazy organization down there, and he was like, hey, you're big, and you look good, and I know you played football at ASU. Why don't you get in there and fight for me?
00:35:20.000 And I was like, I don't know, man.
00:35:21.000 I fought a lot growing up, but it's different.
00:35:24.000 It's different when you are in the moment, and you want to destroy someone versus some guy who's trained for you you've never met before.
00:35:29.000 Right.
00:35:30.000 It's like, do it.
00:35:31.000 Get your feet wet.
00:35:32.000 If you like it, do it again.
00:35:34.000 If you don't like it, never do it again.
00:35:35.000 But at least try it one time, right?
00:35:37.000 I was like, okay.
00:35:37.000 So my first fight was a 29-second victory.
00:35:41.000 Second fight was a 19-second victory.
00:35:43.000 Both knees to the stomach.
00:35:46.000 Awful, like, three months of Muay Thai training.
00:35:48.000 And then from there I was hooked.
00:35:49.000 Like, you knock a guy out, you know.
00:35:51.000 That is fucking...
00:35:52.000 There's no drug like that.
00:35:54.000 I mean, you're just like...
00:35:55.000 Just lit up on fire.
00:35:57.000 And then I started training and really...
00:36:00.000 Trying to get more serious about it, but I fought a lot of fights quickly, so there was no development in between.
00:36:06.000 I got to 5-0 inside five months.
00:36:09.000 6-0, I signed with the King of the Cage after that, and then I was getting $100 a fight in my first five fights.
00:36:16.000 Wow.
00:36:17.000 And then I got $1,000 a fight in King of the Cage.
00:36:21.000 And after I took my first loss, I was still training out, kind of doing my own thing in Arizona.
00:36:26.000 It's before Bader and those guys had their own gym.
00:36:28.000 And so Kane was at AKA, and I'm from the Bay Area.
00:36:32.000 I was born and raised there, so it just made sense.
00:36:35.000 I knew Kane from college, but we weren't pals or anything.
00:36:38.000 I just knew him when I was playing football and he was wrestling.
00:36:41.000 I was like, oh, that's the heavyweight wrestler right here.
00:36:42.000 He's a bad dude.
00:36:53.000 Wow.
00:37:07.000 Do you ever think of it like, man, if I had to do it all again differently, I would do it slower, I would take my time more.
00:37:14.000 Yeah, there's a million changes I could have made to it, but in the end...
00:37:19.000 I'm really happy with what fighting gave me.
00:37:23.000 Fighting brought me...
00:37:25.000 I mean, I can't say, I give this all the credit here, but that doorway opened up other doorways, and those doorways opened up other doorways to me.
00:37:33.000 And that really, that was a catalyst for me having just deep peace inside.
00:37:38.000 And all these things came from...
00:37:42.000 That one little bead in fighting, you know, like wanting to do better for myself because a guy was going to punch me meant learning about meditation, learning about breath work, learning about just getting more to life, you know?
00:37:54.000 And then, oh, okay, hey...
00:37:57.000 Psychedelics can be a teacher as well.
00:37:58.000 You know, these kind of things all kind of came to me in that same timeline.
00:38:04.000 So it was sort of like the, not necessarily anxiety, but the urgency of knowing that you had to prepare for combat.
00:38:12.000 That you're constantly trying to better yourself because the consequences of not doing that are so grave that it sort of ignited this fuel for improvement in you.
00:38:20.000 Yeah.
00:38:21.000 It was like, what the fuck did I do today?
00:38:23.000 You look back at the end of the day like, what did I do today?
00:38:25.000 Did I do anything to make me better?
00:38:29.000 A lot of guys are like, I went to the gym twice.
00:38:32.000 I trained hard.
00:38:33.000 I got a massage.
00:38:34.000 That was my recovery.
00:38:35.000 I'm good.
00:38:36.000 I'm good with watching TV and just vegging out and doing whatever.
00:38:38.000 And that's fine.
00:38:38.000 I mean, when you're beat...
00:38:40.000 Sometimes you just need to entertain yourself and relax.
00:38:42.000 That's fine too, but...
00:38:44.000 That just fueled reading.
00:38:47.000 That really became where I'm going to read and meditation.
00:38:50.000 But meditation, I was like a lot of people.
00:38:52.000 I didn't get it for a very long time.
00:38:54.000 I just kind of forced myself to do it.
00:38:56.000 And over time it got a little easier, but it wasn't until ayahuasca that I really understood meditation.
00:39:02.000 And now with Wim Hof, I mean, he's just added a whole other layer to meditation for me that I didn't have before.
00:39:09.000 Same thing with my wife.
00:39:11.000 I mean, the Wim Hof breathing techniques are just...
00:39:13.000 They're phenomenal.
00:39:14.000 Yeah, that guy's...
00:39:15.000 He's incredible.
00:39:16.000 I can't say enough good stuff about that guy.
00:39:18.000 He's a fascinating character too.
00:39:20.000 You know, just what he's been able to do is like the swimming underwater under blocks of ice in the frozen ocean, a hundred yards.
00:39:28.000 He was supposed to swim 50 and he missed the hole and he doubled his distance and then...
00:39:32.000 Frozen retinas.
00:39:33.000 Fucking gee, couldn't see because his eyeballs froze.
00:39:36.000 Like what?
00:39:37.000 God damn it.
00:39:39.000 He's incredible.
00:39:39.000 He's a very unusual human, but a lot of people use that method now, that method of breathing.
00:39:44.000 I use it before I go on stage.
00:39:45.000 I take these big, crazy Wim Hof breaths before I go on stage.
00:39:50.000 There's something to it.
00:39:51.000 All the way in, let it go.
00:39:52.000 Yeah.
00:39:53.000 All the way in, let it go.
00:39:55.000 Yeah, he's quite a character, man.
00:39:57.000 He's quite an inspirational guy, too.
00:40:00.000 There's a lot of people that have really gravitated towards him.
00:40:03.000 His story was amazing.
00:40:05.000 And I've heard him on Ferris.
00:40:06.000 I've heard him on Ben Greenfield's podcast.
00:40:09.000 When you had him on...
00:40:11.000 And you cracked beers.
00:40:12.000 He opened up.
00:40:13.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:40:13.000 Like, you could tell.
00:40:14.000 He got comfortable.
00:40:15.000 Yeah.
00:40:15.000 And you could get more from him than the Vice documentary.
00:40:18.000 And I love Vice, but I thought the Vice documentary was shit.
00:40:21.000 It's 40 minutes.
00:40:21.000 This guy's fixing his fucking hair.
00:40:23.000 And I can't tell if people are following him because he's so charismatic or not.
00:40:26.000 He's like, no, dude.
00:40:28.000 Yeah.
00:40:29.000 But he said, feeling is believing, right?
00:40:31.000 The second you feel that charge in your hands, three, four, five rounds deep, you know, like, he's not full of shit.
00:40:37.000 Like, you're feeling chi.
00:40:38.000 You're feeling energy.
00:40:39.000 You're feeling what...
00:40:40.000 You can label it whatever you want, but I mean, do you feel good inside?
00:40:44.000 That's undeniable.
00:40:45.000 Well, inspiration is a type of fuel, right?
00:40:49.000 I mean, when you get inspired, you fire up, you literally can feel yourself getting pumped, right?
00:40:55.000 Well, what is that?
00:40:56.000 If you hear a great song where you're working out and you're like, and you just get fucking pumped, that's a real thing, whatever that is.
00:41:03.000 Like, whatever the feeling that you get that comes along with inspiration, like, Whether it's a great movie or a great song or something that just really gets you, that energy is real.
00:41:15.000 It is real.
00:41:16.000 100%.
00:41:16.000 Where the fuck is it coming from?
00:41:18.000 Well, that's thousands of years people have discussed it.
00:41:22.000 Some people, oh, that's woo-woo shit, or what are you going to tell me what my fucking aura looks like?
00:41:27.000 No, I can't see your fucking aura, but I do believe we have this energy field.
00:41:31.000 In fact, there's books and there's science that back in this now.
00:41:35.000 Valerie Hunt wrote Infinite Mind.
00:41:37.000 She was a professor at UCLA, and they actually have a place in UCLA where they can conduct studies on the human energy field.
00:41:43.000 And they've mapped this out by changing things, the electromagnetism, they can make people have emotional breakdowns, lose complete loss of motor control, like they have just all of a sudden they have to sit, they can't even stand, they can't even keep themselves up.
00:41:58.000 But how are they doing it?
00:42:00.000 They're manipulating through ions.
00:42:02.000 No, no, no.
00:42:02.000 It's like a giant metal room, some type of special room that they have them go in.
00:42:08.000 And they just change this thing on a dial.
00:42:10.000 And the field influences your human energy field.
00:42:14.000 Whoa.
00:42:15.000 And it's fucking verified.
00:42:17.000 They did this a while ago, too.
00:42:18.000 That's as crazy as it's like they've known about this 70s, 80s.
00:42:23.000 For sure.
00:42:23.000 This is an incredible Radiolab podcast where they put electrodes on this woman.
00:42:31.000 They sent her through this sniper training video game thing that they do where you have like a rifle and there's a video game in front of you and presented with all these different scenarios like a hostage takeover.
00:42:42.000 These terrorists show up.
00:42:43.000 They start shooting at you and you try to shoot the terrorists under duress.
00:42:46.000 You know, you're stressed out.
00:42:47.000 And so they take her through this thing.
00:42:49.000 She does terrible.
00:42:51.000 Everything's off, just panicky.
00:42:54.000 And then they do it when they attach these electrodes to her and stimulate with electricity parts of her head just on the outside, like transdermally.
00:43:05.000 I think it's called transdermal electrical stimulation.
00:43:08.000 Were they doing certain frequencies?
00:43:08.000 Were they trying to manipulate frequency or was they just trying to work like on frontal lobe or things like that?
00:43:13.000 I don't know.
00:43:13.000 I don't know the exact science behind it.
00:43:15.000 Okay.
00:43:16.000 But she then did it and went like 10 for 10. Like killed everybody.
00:43:21.000 Like it was insane.
00:43:22.000 Like her accuracy went through the roof.
00:43:24.000 Now they got kids doing this shit where they try to make their own out of like battery packs.
00:43:28.000 Yeah.
00:43:28.000 And they're like, hey, this is all new science.
00:43:31.000 Nobody's been doing this for decades.
00:43:32.000 We don't know what the ramifications are.
00:43:34.000 Yeah.
00:43:34.000 That was the Radiolab podcast sort of focused on some of those people.
00:43:37.000 Like, oh, well, I went deaf for a couple days.
00:43:39.000 Like, what the fuck?
00:43:40.000 Fuck you doing your head man because they're just taking like nine volt batteries and like taping wires to their skull and Juicing themselves no fucking clue what they're doing But there's something going on and they the researchers that are working on it think that they can accentuate learning They can accentuate flow states where you get into some sort of a zen moment guaranteed you're familiar with binaural beats,
00:44:03.000 right?
00:44:04.000 Yes, so Explain that for people that don't know what.
00:44:09.000 I think that came out in the 1950s.
00:44:10.000 They wanted to see what sound wave therapy could do and things like that.
00:44:16.000 So you would wear headphones or earbuds, and the basic concept, the premise would be...
00:44:23.000 I can play something at 8 hertz through your left and 12 hertz through your right, and your brain will match them in the middle at 10 hertz.
00:44:30.000 Well, 10 hertz is the frequency of alpha waves.
00:44:33.000 So our brain produces a wide variety of different waves from 0.5 delta when you're in deep sleep all the way up to beta state, which we're in right now drinking coffee and thinking.
00:44:45.000 In between that, you have an alpha state, which is closer to the Earth's resonance, the Earth's magnetic field.
00:44:50.000 Where that's like a meditative state.
00:44:53.000 So you could have a flow state there.
00:44:55.000 I know Aubrey Marcus has spoken about this.
00:44:57.000 That is the flow state range between like 7.8 to 11. Somewhere in there.
00:45:03.000 Then below that, deep meditation, theta state, pre-sleep.
00:45:06.000 And then delta.
00:45:07.000 And there's other things in there.
00:45:09.000 But basically through binaural beats, you put on these headphones.
00:45:12.000 You can listen to whatever.
00:45:14.000 The ocean or rain or any of these things.
00:45:17.000 And you would have these different...
00:45:20.000 Frequencies playing through your ears.
00:45:21.000 And in that, you basically trick your brain into producing these brain waves.
00:45:25.000 And within minutes, you feel like, oh, I just took a really nice nap.
00:45:29.000 Like, I feel good.
00:45:30.000 I feel refreshed.
00:45:31.000 That kind of thing.
00:45:32.000 Wow.
00:45:32.000 That would probably be great if you were in, like, a pool tournament or something like that.
00:45:35.000 Like, something where you wanted to relax and get in the zone.
00:45:38.000 Mm-hmm.
00:45:39.000 I would think, like, archery or darts or something where you just, like, or three-pointers, you know, shooting three-pointers, where you just get to that feel.
00:45:47.000 Mm-hmm.
00:45:49.000 Whatever that is.
00:45:50.000 Whatever that flow state is.
00:45:51.000 Well, you're thoughtless, basically.
00:45:53.000 When you're in the beta state, that's your thinking.
00:45:55.000 Your mind's racing.
00:45:56.000 I was in the beta state two nights ago when I had three hours of sleep thinking of all these possible rabbit holes we'd go down, conversation-wise.
00:46:06.000 Yeah, that state of the lack of sleep state is my shittiest thinking state.
00:46:13.000 I come up with my worst thoughts when I'm exhausted.
00:46:16.000 You can't turn the mind off.
00:46:17.000 A lot of people have that issue.
00:46:21.000 There's also some silly creative ideas, though, that come up when you're exhausted.
00:46:27.000 Sometimes when I'm exhausted, I'll say the most ridiculous shit and it'll turn out to be funny.
00:46:31.000 Like, I have to write it down.
00:46:33.000 Like, where I'm like, you know, the writers on news radio, the sitcom I was on back in the day, they used to stay up late on purpose.
00:46:39.000 They wouldn't start writing until 2 or 3 in the morning.
00:46:41.000 And they would, like, get themselves into, like, an exhausted stupor.
00:46:44.000 And then they would start writing.
00:46:46.000 Because all their writing would be, like, really hilariously silly.
00:46:49.000 Because they were just fucking falling asleep.
00:46:51.000 They were just out of it.
00:46:52.000 Like, there's a state that you get that a lot of writers would try to trick themselves into just by, like, getting exhausted.
00:47:00.000 Yeah, that makes sense.
00:47:02.000 So when you're fighting, what was the first sort of improvement path that you started upon?
00:47:09.000 Diet and nutrition, right off the bat.
00:47:11.000 That was the one where I was like, hey, this is something I can control.
00:47:13.000 It'll help me.
00:47:15.000 Just recovery.
00:47:16.000 How do I recover faster?
00:47:18.000 How do I flush metabolic waste?
00:47:20.000 Yeah.
00:47:22.000 Yeah, that really was it.
00:47:23.000 I mean, I've always been into supplements.
00:47:24.000 I read the Muscle Mag since I was a little kid, that kind of thing.
00:47:28.000 And certain stuff works, a lot of stuff doesn't.
00:47:31.000 But really, what you put in your body has a huge impact.
00:47:35.000 I mean, anybody who's ever cleaned up their diet and felt differently from it.
00:47:39.000 I mean, even listen to Red Van talking about the weight loss and how he has the energy now.
00:47:43.000 He just feels happy, right?
00:47:45.000 Well, that's in Brain Maker also.
00:47:46.000 He talks about 80% of our serotonin is made in our guts.
00:47:51.000 By bacteria.
00:47:51.000 80% of our feel-good hormone is made in our guts by bacteria.
00:47:55.000 Isn't that great?
00:47:56.000 That's just insane.
00:47:57.000 Yeah.
00:47:57.000 Do you think food doesn't impact that?
00:48:00.000 We know every cell of our body is made from what we put in, so a lot of people don't think, oh, I eat this donut and my body will change it into what it needs to be changed into.
00:48:08.000 Bullshit.
00:48:09.000 No.
00:48:09.000 And on top of that, you influence the microbiome by what you put in your body.
00:48:13.000 If you put in good stuff, it's easy to see, like, yeah, of course you feel better.
00:48:16.000 Yeah, we like to think of ourselves as independent from our food, but we're actually made out of our food.
00:48:22.000 Completely.
00:48:23.000 Yeah.
00:48:23.000 I had salmon the other night at a restaurant, and I said to my friend, I said to Tony, Tony Hinchcliffe, I was like, I don't think this is wild salmon.
00:48:31.000 And he said, why?
00:48:32.000 I said, because it's too light.
00:48:33.000 It's too light-colored.
00:48:35.000 They said it's wild, line-caught salmon.
00:48:37.000 I'm like, eh, not really buying it.
00:48:40.000 And I said, you know, when you see wild salmon, it's like more of a dark orange.
00:48:44.000 And he said, well, why is that?
00:48:46.000 I said, well, it's actually because of what they eat.
00:48:48.000 It's from bugs.
00:48:49.000 Like certain bugs that they eat.
00:48:50.000 Or shrimp?
00:48:51.000 What the fuck is it?
00:48:52.000 Shrimp or bugs?
00:48:53.000 Find out why salmon are red.
00:48:56.000 Ask Jamie.
00:48:58.000 Ask Astanthin.
00:49:00.000 I know I'm fucking butchering this.
00:49:02.000 Astanthin?
00:49:03.000 It's like A-X-A-N-T-H-I-N. It's sold in supplements.
00:49:08.000 Sockeye salmon.
00:49:10.000 Salmon flesh due to their diet.
00:49:11.000 Salmon gain 99% or more of their body mass in the ocean.
00:49:14.000 The foods they eat.
00:49:15.000 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
00:49:18.000 The food they eat in the ocean is high in carotenoids, the same pigment that gives carrots color.
00:49:23.000 These pigments are stored in their flesh as salmon approaches their spawning grounds.
00:49:27.000 They begin to absorb their scales.
00:49:34.000 How weird.
00:49:37.000 They get mushy.
00:49:38.000 Have you ever caught a salmon when it's dying, when you're spawning?
00:49:42.000 I had a bachelor party.
00:49:44.000 My buddy goes up every year to Alaska, so we went fishing off the Kenai River.
00:49:48.000 But we just fitted in before his wedding.
00:49:51.000 So we were about a month or two late to the party, and it was a feast for seagulls.
00:49:58.000 All these old-timers had spawned, and they're like...
00:50:01.000 Swimming along, just full layers of skin and scales just floating off them, ready to die.
00:50:08.000 Yeah, they become mushy.
00:50:09.000 Their flesh is difficult to eat, too.
00:50:11.000 It's disgusting.
00:50:12.000 Yeah, it's nasty.
00:50:13.000 You can eat it if you have to, if you want to stay alive, but they're literally breaking down.
00:50:17.000 We had a little sashimi, and that was a mistake, for sure.
00:50:20.000 You should never eat salmon sashimi.
00:50:22.000 Really?
00:50:22.000 Yeah.
00:50:23.000 Ever?
00:50:23.000 Yeah.
00:50:24.000 It's not a smart move because they have parasites.
00:50:27.000 Ocean fish are much better in regards to being...
00:50:31.000 So if you caught salmon in the ocean, you're cool to do it then?
00:50:34.000 Even then, because they go back and forth.
00:50:37.000 I think it's something about freshwater fish are much more susceptible to parasites.
00:50:42.000 The nasty shit we put in there?
00:50:45.000 Probably.
00:50:45.000 I don't even know if it's nasty shit we put in there.
00:50:48.000 I think that's just nature.
00:50:49.000 I think fish in the ocean naturally have a less likelihood of contracting any sort of parasites.
00:50:59.000 Or you have a higher likelihood of getting it from freshwater fish.
00:51:04.000 You should never eat largemouth bass like sashimi.
00:51:08.000 You shouldn't eat that, I don't think.
00:51:10.000 I don't think I'm talking out of my ass here.
00:51:13.000 I'm pretty sure I've read that you're not supposed to eat salmon sushi.
00:51:17.000 But people do.
00:51:19.000 Yeah.
00:51:19.000 People do.
00:51:21.000 But anyway, point being, this fish was really kind of pale.
00:51:25.000 And then we were talking about how weird it is that your food actually changes the color of your skin.
00:51:32.000 And we were talking about black bears that eat blackberries and blueberries.
00:51:39.000 It's like certain hunters will go after bears that are in the fall because the fall bears, they gorge on blueberries.
00:51:47.000 And their flesh is just supposed to be unbelievably delicious, like some of the best tasting meat you can get.
00:51:53.000 And their flesh and then their fat itself is like a purple color.
00:52:00.000 From all the blueberries.
00:52:01.000 It changes their actual physical flesh and it makes it absorb.
00:52:07.000 It just makes you think, what about all these people that are eating McDonald's and Twinkies and shit?
00:52:11.000 What is their flesh?
00:52:13.000 It's just high fructose corn syrup and trans fats and just dog shit just pumping through your tissues.
00:52:20.000 That was me in college.
00:52:20.000 Just any calories I could get a hold of.
00:52:22.000 Just brutal.
00:52:24.000 Well, you know, ultimately that stuff breaks down to protein and water and all the various aspects of it, but if that's all you eat...
00:52:34.000 No wonder why so many people are depressed.
00:52:35.000 If you look at the modern American diet, you look at the modern American diet, the sedentary lifestyle, and then you look at the fact that people feel like shit.
00:52:42.000 And what is depression?
00:52:43.000 Well, there's all sorts of different kinds of depression.
00:52:46.000 There's some depression that's absolutely caused by a chemical imbalance.
00:52:49.000 Your brain's sick.
00:52:50.000 You know, just like your liver can get sick and your lungs can get sick, your brain can get sick.
00:52:55.000 But there's a whole lot of depression that I guarantee has to do with people with sedentary lifestyles, shitty diet, and just no real pushing of the body, where your body never gets to flush it out, never gets to blow those hormones up,
00:53:11.000 never gets to get that blood pumping.
00:53:13.000 I'd argue the brain gets sick because you let it get that way.
00:53:17.000 You stop moving, you stop putting good things in your body, and then you have this downward spiral that just snowballs into deep depression that your buddy coming over is going to cheer you up.
00:53:28.000 Whatever it is, you're not going to snap yourself out of that just overnight, and you're definitely not going to get it from popping a pill.
00:53:34.000 You've got to get off your ass and move and start getting back out in nature.
00:53:38.000 Yeah.
00:53:39.000 The pill thing is a weird one because I know for some people it's been very beneficial.
00:53:43.000 I know people that were severely depressed, they got on antidepressants, and they eventually weaned themselves off, but they got happy first.
00:53:51.000 So it's like, did they need the pills?
00:53:53.000 No, but the pills did help them.
00:53:55.000 And I wonder, I'm not going to negate that at all, but I wonder what...
00:53:59.000 What lifestyle choices did they make during that process as they started feeling better?
00:54:03.000 Like, oh, I feel a little bit better.
00:54:05.000 Sure, let's go for a hike.
00:54:07.000 Whatever it is.
00:54:08.000 What did they do in addition to that?
00:54:10.000 Right.
00:54:11.000 That helped them so they don't have the pills now, right?
00:54:13.000 Because they're off the pills now, right?
00:54:15.000 So how do you get to that point where you can be like, I don't need this anymore.
00:54:19.000 Well, two dudes that I know, one of them, he got married, fell in love, started his own business.
00:54:25.000 His business became very successful, started doing really well in life, started feeling better about himself.
00:54:30.000 And then it all sort of fell together.
00:54:32.000 And then he said, you know what, I'm going to get off these fucking pills.
00:54:34.000 And he slowly weaned himself off and he's still happy.
00:54:36.000 And the other one got successful and got more confident and then realized that the pills were probably like dulling his senses in some sort of a way and then slowly weaned himself off.
00:54:48.000 But he hasn't really got into exercise.
00:54:51.000 The other thing he did was he got off Propecia.
00:54:54.000 That Propecia shit that dudes do to keep their hair.
00:54:56.000 I took that in college.
00:54:58.000 Ooh!
00:54:58.000 Yeah.
00:54:59.000 That stuff killed my dick.
00:55:00.000 It's like a sniper.
00:55:01.000 DHT blocker, right?
00:55:02.000 Yeah.
00:55:02.000 It's not good.
00:55:03.000 DHT makes you a man.
00:55:04.000 Yeah.
00:55:05.000 So it makes you bald, makes you have body hair.
00:55:06.000 Yeah.
00:55:07.000 You don't want to get rid of that.
00:55:08.000 You don't want to get rid of that.
00:55:10.000 Well, it can depress people.
00:55:12.000 It can cause severe depression in some people.
00:55:14.000 It didn't in me, but it definitely killed my dick.
00:55:18.000 Like a gun.
00:55:18.000 That would make me depressed just right then.
00:55:20.000 That's depressing.
00:55:21.000 I mean, it doesn't totally kill it, but it's definitely what beats the fuck out of it.
00:55:26.000 Come on, what are you doing?
00:55:27.000 Why are you doing this to me?
00:55:29.000 Yeah, well, they say that, you know, there's a balance that your hormones achieve.
00:55:34.000 And any time you fuck with that balance with something like Propecia that, you know, that blocks dihydrotestosterone, your body's like, all right, well, what the hell's going on here?
00:55:43.000 Why is this blocked?
00:55:44.000 Like, what is our issue here?
00:55:46.000 And it can cause a cascade of issues.
00:55:50.000 Like, to treat the body as anything other than a holistic approach.
00:55:55.000 If you have a holistic approach, you look at it, oh, this guy's depressed.
00:55:58.000 Okay, well, let's look at his diet.
00:55:59.000 No, no, no, no, no.
00:56:00.000 We need to get him on a pill.
00:56:01.000 Well, that doesn't make any sense.
00:56:02.000 You need to look at the whole thing.
00:56:04.000 Like, what's his diet like?
00:56:05.000 How often does he sleep?
00:56:06.000 Does he drink a lot of water?
00:56:08.000 Does he have something to get over?
00:56:10.000 Yeah, yes.
00:56:10.000 Something to fucking his wife die.
00:56:12.000 Maybe his diet's clean as shit, but he's, you know?
00:56:15.000 What's going on there?
00:56:16.000 Sometimes you just have to overcome.
00:56:18.000 You just have to overcome periods of life that just suck.
00:56:21.000 That's real, too.
00:56:22.000 You know?
00:56:23.000 I mean, people want to fix for that.
00:56:24.000 Like, give me a pill.
00:56:26.000 I gotta get past this stage of life.
00:56:28.000 Only you're gonna sleep through it.
00:56:29.000 That's everything, though, with the Western medicine.
00:56:32.000 It's just the, I'm broken.
00:56:33.000 Fix me.
00:56:33.000 Let me go.
00:56:34.000 You're the professional.
00:56:35.000 Fix my knee.
00:56:36.000 Fix my hip.
00:56:36.000 Western medicine is the shit, though, if you break your arm.
00:56:39.000 They fixed my shoulder when I was a dumbass and had a torn labrum.
00:56:43.000 I love it for that.
00:56:44.000 What happened to your shoulder?
00:56:45.000 What did you do?
00:56:46.000 I was overtraining and decided to try to max out on barbell snatch and missed it.
00:56:57.000 I didn't feel anything there.
00:56:58.000 Then I waited a minute and reattempted the same weight and then I felt it.
00:57:02.000 It just felt like no strength at all.
00:57:05.000 So it was a full slap tear.
00:57:07.000 Kane had the same thing.
00:57:09.000 It takes four...
00:57:10.000 You're right.
00:57:10.000 You talk to people that have shoulder surgery.
00:57:12.000 I thought I had this dumbass idea in my head, like, oh, you know, I'll be able to run still.
00:57:17.000 And I'm like, no, you can't do any of that.
00:57:18.000 I couldn't even walk.
00:57:19.000 Like, I had to be very careful with my arm in a sling for at least the first six weeks.
00:57:24.000 Then, you know, at six months, I could start rehab.
00:57:27.000 It took me a whole year.
00:57:28.000 Wow.
00:57:28.000 It really did.
00:57:29.000 And really, I give a ton of credit to Kelly Starrett for getting full range of motion back, becoming a supple leopard guy.
00:57:36.000 Like, I had...
00:57:37.000 For a long period of time, I thought, like, this is as far as my arm's gonna go.
00:57:41.000 Like, not quite the...
00:57:42.000 Not quite Hail Hitler, but, you know, like, I had no full range of motion.
00:57:45.000 I couldn't get my bicep...
00:57:46.000 Yeah.
00:57:46.000 Couldn't get my bicep to my ear.
00:57:48.000 And I knew it was short in certain positions.
00:57:50.000 Like, if you get in...
00:57:52.000 Grappling, jujitsu, wrestling, things like that.
00:57:54.000 A guy sprawls while you're holding a single leg.
00:57:56.000 That three inches makes all the difference in the world.
00:57:59.000 From feeling like, hey, this guy's putting pressure on me.
00:58:02.000 I should change positions or my arm's going to snap.
00:58:04.000 That's the difference.
00:58:05.000 What about if you're defending a head and arm choke on the right side and someone tries to straighten your arm out?
00:58:09.000 What is that like when it presses up against your head?
00:58:12.000 Everything's fine now, but initially it was a nightmare.
00:58:14.000 I couldn't get biceps to ear while I'm talking to you.
00:58:17.000 So for sure, if someone's trying to do that to me, then it's going to feel like something's going to tear.
00:58:23.000 Six months before you could start doing rehab.
00:58:26.000 And that was a process.
00:58:28.000 It was, you know, just nasty.
00:58:30.000 So I know now, listen to my body.
00:58:34.000 Don't push the envelope.
00:58:36.000 When you say a slap tear, what does that mean?
00:58:38.000 It's an acronym.
00:58:39.000 It's the placement of the...
00:58:43.000 What is it the placement of?
00:58:45.000 Well, the labrum is like the...
00:58:46.000 It holds this ball in place, right?
00:58:49.000 So slap is the position of it.
00:58:51.000 It's on the front side.
00:58:53.000 If I remember correctly, it was a few years ago.
00:58:55.000 But, um...
00:58:57.000 Yeah, it's all placement.
00:58:58.000 They do it all arthroscopic?
00:58:59.000 Yeah, there's four incisions.
00:59:00.000 So they just go in there and sew it back up?
00:59:02.000 Is that what they did?
00:59:03.000 Yeah, I have very, very minimal scarring there.
00:59:05.000 But, yeah, it's basically what it is.
00:59:07.000 They just go in, they do everything through the vision of the little cameras and...
00:59:13.000 It's easy fix for them.
00:59:14.000 I had a great guy.
00:59:15.000 He's worked on tons of NFL guys.
00:59:17.000 And I'm grateful that I have full recovery.
00:59:19.000 But really, it's a nasty deal to have to go through.
00:59:22.000 Yeah, Tate Fletcher just went through something.
00:59:25.000 Like, this weekend, he went through something.
00:59:27.000 He just texted me about it.
00:59:29.000 Hold on a second.
00:59:31.000 It's something called...
00:59:32.000 This is really interesting shit, man.
00:59:35.000 It's...
00:59:35.000 Okay.
00:59:37.000 It's called...
00:59:39.000 Hylinex.
00:59:41.000 Hylinex injections.
00:59:42.000 They're site injections where there are impediments to movement.
00:59:46.000 And anything they have with sliding tissue.
00:59:49.000 Oh, there it is.
00:59:51.000 Hylinex.
00:59:52.000 And he was saying that it's an enzyme.
00:59:55.000 And that they're testing it on people that have joint issues.
00:59:59.000 And somehow or another it's supposed to mitigate the issues of mobility in joint problems.
01:00:06.000 I think I need to get my dad in on that.
01:00:10.000 He can't open his arms.
01:00:11.000 This is as far as his arms go.
01:00:13.000 How come?
01:00:13.000 So you can arm bar him like that.
01:00:14.000 He's got, like, calcium deposits and shit in his elbows.
01:00:17.000 He's had surgery on both of them.
01:00:18.000 Damn.
01:00:19.000 From what?
01:00:21.000 You know, he's eating cleaner now, but for years he ate whatever the hell he wanted, and he still did.
01:00:28.000 I mean, he got his black belt a year ago, so he's on the mat all the time.
01:00:32.000 He does a lot of jujitsu.
01:00:35.000 How old's your dad?
01:00:36.000 64. That's amazing.
01:00:38.000 Gets his black belt at 63. What a stud.
01:00:41.000 He started at 56. What a stud.
01:00:44.000 He was a fat loser with a super, super stressed job, you know, sales.
01:00:49.000 Really?
01:00:49.000 Yeah, oh yeah.
01:00:50.000 That's amazing.
01:00:51.000 When I started fighting, he got into jujitsu.
01:00:54.000 He did full contact karate, boxing, wrestling.
01:00:56.000 So he understood striking, understood wrestling.
01:00:58.000 But the second he hit the mat, he was like, I don't know what the fuck these guys are doing.
01:01:01.000 Like, I have to learn.
01:01:03.000 And once he started...
01:01:05.000 He immediately became addicted.
01:01:06.000 Like anybody who does jujitsu, you know the feeling you get when you first start.
01:01:09.000 And he lost 50 pounds without even changing his diet in the first six months.
01:01:13.000 So it's been a life changer for him, for sure.
01:01:17.000 That's fucking great.
01:01:18.000 I love hearing that.
01:01:20.000 Like Anthony Bourdain keeps saying he'll never get his black belt.
01:01:23.000 Bullshit.
01:01:24.000 That guy will get his black belt.
01:01:25.000 He started when he was, I think, 57. And he's got his blue belt now at 58. He'll get it, for sure.
01:01:31.000 He'll get it.
01:01:32.000 Yeah, he's a maniac.
01:01:33.000 He takes one private and one full class, one regular class a day.
01:01:38.000 Every day.
01:01:39.000 Every day?
01:01:40.000 Every day.
01:01:40.000 Yeah, he's got the cheese, yeah.
01:01:42.000 Why not, right?
01:01:43.000 Yeah, he's got the cheese.
01:01:44.000 And he's also got the obsession.
01:01:45.000 And, you know, it's funny, I talked to BJ Penn about this.
01:01:49.000 BJ Penn was hilarious about this.
01:01:51.000 He was talking to this guy, and the guy was like, you know, he told, you know, because BJ famously got his black belt in three years and won the Mundiales three years in, and this guy had gotten his black belt somewhere, I think, around four years.
01:02:04.000 And BJ was like, well, he goes, man, you must be really talented.
01:02:08.000 And he goes, no, man.
01:02:10.000 He goes, I'm obsessed.
01:02:11.000 He goes, I'm addicted like you.
01:02:13.000 I'm addicted.
01:02:14.000 And BJ started laughing.
01:02:15.000 He goes, I realized, yeah, I was addicted.
01:02:17.000 I was addicted to jiu-jitsu.
01:02:19.000 You can get addicted to good things, too.
01:02:21.000 Oh, yeah.
01:02:23.000 Yeah, no question.
01:02:24.000 I mean, that is runner's high.
01:02:25.000 That's why people would sign up for a race that's not healthy for you to run that far.
01:02:30.000 But it feels good, training and preparing and getting your body ready for that.
01:02:34.000 And that keeps you coming back for more.
01:02:35.000 Yeah, like 100 mile runs.
01:02:38.000 Those are fucking terrible.
01:02:40.000 Destroy you.
01:02:40.000 They've got to be bad for you.
01:02:42.000 They've done blood work on people, even just after a marathon, which is ridiculous in its own right.
01:02:47.000 But they would see, like, borderline kidney failure.
01:02:50.000 Like, your kidneys can barely keep up with removing metabolic waste.
01:02:53.000 Yeah, you piss after those things, and your piss looks like Coca-Cola.
01:02:58.000 Well, I'm out.
01:03:00.000 I'm out.
01:03:00.000 No.
01:03:01.000 No, I never want to get to a point where my pee looks like coke.
01:03:04.000 That's fucking terrible, man.
01:03:06.000 But people, like, they also get addicted to pushing themselves.
01:03:09.000 That's a big one, you know?
01:03:11.000 Like my friend Cameron Haynes, he's a bow hunter, but he also does ultra marathons, a lot of marathons.
01:03:17.000 He started getting in shape just so he could, you know, get up the mountains easier.
01:03:21.000 Like, because in bow hunting, there's two things that come into play.
01:03:25.000 One, you have to be fit in order to get up the mountains because all that hiking, it's exhausting, especially at high altitude.
01:03:30.000 And two, you have to be strong to be able to pack out.
01:03:33.000 Like, you carry an animal, you kill it, and you have to get it down the mountains.
01:03:36.000 It's a lot of work.
01:03:37.000 So those two things led him down this road of starting to do marathons and lifting a lot of weights and doing all these different things.
01:03:44.000 But now he's doing, like, ultra-marathons.
01:03:47.000 He's doing something called the Bigfoot Challenge.
01:03:49.000 It's 200 miles.
01:03:50.000 It's like 100 miles a day and the next day another 100 miles.
01:03:55.000 Damn, I wonder what the cutoff is for that because sometimes they're right around like 22 hours.
01:04:00.000 What do you do?
01:04:01.000 You take an hour nap and then go right back to running?
01:04:03.000 I guess.
01:04:03.000 I don't even know if you sleep.
01:04:05.000 I mean, you're probably in so much fucking agony after 24 hours of running.
01:04:10.000 200 miles.
01:04:11.000 So stupid.
01:04:13.000 100 wasn't enough, guys.
01:04:14.000 Let's weed out the pussies here and make it 200. Some lady in my neighborhood did it.
01:04:19.000 She did 200 fucking miles.
01:04:21.000 She did 100 miles one day, 100 miles the next day.
01:04:25.000 This bitch is crazy.
01:04:26.000 Yeah.
01:04:27.000 I say bitch with all due respect.
01:04:30.000 And admiration.
01:04:31.000 I mean, damn.
01:04:32.000 Yeah, I don't mean like...
01:04:34.000 Beastly.
01:04:34.000 ...anything wrong with her.
01:04:35.000 She's just tough as shit.
01:04:36.000 But they get addicted to, like, pushing themselves.
01:04:39.000 Like, there's a thing that comes to some people when they get involved in these heavy endurance races where part of the addiction is one more hour, five more miles, ten more miles, push.
01:04:51.000 Just push yourself through it.
01:04:52.000 Well, you do get into a flow state, and it does...
01:04:54.000 The longer you go...
01:04:56.000 The better it feels.
01:04:57.000 I mean, obviously, you can deal with ticky-tack injuries and things like that or whatever you got to deal with in the race, but at a certain point in time, the mental chatter quiets down and you just find your rhythm and you find your breathing.
01:05:09.000 And that can be meditative completely.
01:05:12.000 And the longer it goes, the better for people like that.
01:05:15.000 Once you're in that state, you know, I mean, I've felt that in half marathons on the last six miles.
01:05:21.000 And finish stronger in the end than I did in the first half.
01:05:25.000 You know, I'm sure runners will be like, oh yeah, of course.
01:05:27.000 If you ran more, you'd know that dummy.
01:05:30.000 But I get that.
01:05:31.000 So that's why we sign up for this 50k coming up, just for the fact, like, alright.
01:05:36.000 Kelly started at a 50k at 230 pounds.
01:05:38.000 It can be done.
01:05:39.000 Right.
01:05:39.000 And I'm not saying I'm going to make a regular habit of this.
01:05:42.000 I don't think it's healthy by any means, but I do want to do it.
01:05:45.000 A 50k is like a marathon, right?
01:05:47.000 A marathon is what?
01:05:48.000 It's a little bit longer.
01:05:49.000 I think a marathon is 26.2 miles and a 50k is right around 33 maybe.
01:05:55.000 Oh, okay.
01:05:56.000 That makes sense.
01:05:57.000 I'm sure Jamie would know.
01:05:59.000 The powers of Google.
01:06:01.000 The powers of Google.
01:06:02.000 It's 31 miles.
01:06:03.000 31. Jamie's a runner too.
01:06:05.000 So is that what fuels your competitive desires now?
01:06:13.000 I like doing different things.
01:06:16.000 I'm working out with Jesse Burdick.
01:06:18.000 He's the guy who does power wad.
01:06:19.000 He's a beast.
01:06:22.000 So training once a week, I'll go up and train with him in Dublin at CSA, and we do some heavy lower body.
01:06:28.000 It could be anything.
01:06:29.000 So we'll squat heavy one day.
01:06:30.000 We'll do heavy sumo deadlift, heavy conventional, whatever.
01:06:34.000 There's just...
01:06:36.000 It's good to train with guys that are way better than you at whatever their respective thing is.
01:06:43.000 And I feel like I can go in there and learn from him and the guys they got working out there.
01:06:47.000 That does me a lot of good.
01:06:48.000 And I love lifting.
01:06:49.000 Who doesn't want to be stronger?
01:06:51.000 Once you get a taste for that, that is an addictive thing.
01:06:54.000 And I love lifting heavy weight because I feel better throughout the week.
01:06:58.000 I just feel better as a person doing that.
01:07:00.000 When I'm in shape...
01:07:02.000 I feel better being in shape.
01:07:04.000 So going for longer distance runs and having something, you know, if there's light at the end of the tunnel, like April 9th, I'm running this 50K. That makes it easy for me to come home when I'm tired and say, I gotta get at least three miles in today.
01:07:15.000 That kind of thing.
01:07:15.000 You know, like I know this event's coming up, so I'm going to put in some road work today.
01:07:19.000 And it doesn't fuck with your shoulder at all, all this heavy lifting?
01:07:22.000 No, no, the shoulder's 100% now.
01:07:24.000 Wow.
01:07:24.000 And I give full, I can't, I mean, it's not like I'm blowing the guy, but Kelly Start, really, I have everything to thank from that guy.
01:07:31.000 What did you do that he prescribed?
01:07:34.000 All of his banded mobility, and you can look on mobilitywad.com.
01:07:38.000 He posted 500 videos on YouTube.
01:07:41.000 He's got a shoulder one that's, I think, five minutes long.
01:07:44.000 It's not even that long.
01:07:45.000 But he shows eight different stretches for the shoulder using one of those rogue bands, right?
01:07:50.000 And you spend two minutes in a stretch, minimum.
01:07:53.000 So this 20, 30-second hold shit is out the window.
01:07:56.000 He talks about fascia.
01:07:57.000 In order to release, it really has to have some time under tension, and you distract things.
01:08:03.000 So I wouldn't get the same experience if I put my hand on a wall and tried to stretch my chest, right?
01:08:08.000 But if I... Can pull on this band.
01:08:11.000 It distracts the impingement in my shoulder.
01:08:13.000 And now the fascia from the palm of my hand to my thumb will go all the way to my earlobe and open up.
01:08:20.000 So I'll feel everything.
01:08:21.000 The same way a foam roller can relax my IT band, right?
01:08:25.000 Right, right.
01:08:26.000 Now I can get that from my shoulder and all these different positions.
01:08:29.000 And that's what gives me my mobility back.
01:08:30.000 So the basic idea is that, hey, I can...
01:08:33.000 I need to be able to get in this position cold.
01:08:36.000 Why would you name his book that?
01:08:38.000 Supple leopard.
01:08:39.000 Well, leopards, you don't see them getting up and, hey, I'm going to do a five-minute warm-up, guys, and catch up with you in a second.
01:08:44.000 You might do downward dog, upward dog, and then boom, they're going.
01:08:48.000 So I have that ability on my shoulder now because of putting in that work over time.
01:08:53.000 Well, that's what a lot of fighters are realizing now, the importance of softness and flexibility and just to be pliable.
01:08:59.000 You have to be mobile.
01:09:00.000 Yeah, you have to be mobile.
01:09:02.000 And to be rigid and stiff, it impedes movement.
01:09:05.000 Like, I see it a lot from people when they're trying to kick.
01:09:08.000 When I see guys kicking and I see, like, stiffness and, like, a sort of general lack of fluidity in the way they move, I can tell immediately, I'm like, this guy's just not flexible enough.
01:09:18.000 They're throwing these kicks and there's all this resistance from their supporting leg, there's resistance from their kicking leg, and then there's resistance from their torso.
01:09:26.000 You can see it all as they start throwing kicks and then the kick will come up instead of go across.
01:09:31.000 The hip won't be high enough.
01:09:33.000 There won't be as much forward movement with the hip.
01:09:36.000 Definitely could be mental, too, though.
01:09:38.000 Looking back, honestly, on my career, I fought stiff.
01:09:41.000 I fought stiff as fuck.
01:09:43.000 Like, really stiff.
01:09:44.000 I never sparred.
01:09:45.000 I never fought the way I sparred.
01:09:47.000 I look at Luke Rockhold, and I'm like, that guy fights the way he spars.
01:09:51.000 Like, he doesn't give a fuck what's coming at him.
01:09:53.000 He kicks beautiful, and everything he's thrown is with power, right?
01:09:57.000 So he mentally...
01:09:59.000 Got to that point where he was just like, I know I'm going to destroy you and I'm not worried about what you...
01:10:03.000 How much difference was there with you with how you performed in the gym versus how you performed inside the Octagon?
01:10:11.000 I think it was a fairly big difference.
01:10:14.000 Like a 30% difference?
01:10:15.000 20% difference?
01:10:16.000 I don't know if I could put a number on it.
01:10:17.000 I just feel like, you know, I mean, there's...
01:10:21.000 Hmm.
01:10:21.000 I mean, it's hard to gauge with a guy like Kane because Kane destroyed everyone.
01:10:25.000 You know, it's not gonna be like, oh, you know, there's this time I sparred Kane and I got him.
01:10:28.000 Like, no.
01:10:29.000 Kane whipped my ass every time we sparred.
01:10:30.000 Right.
01:10:31.000 But there was a point in time where I did well with Dana Cormier, or times where I did well with Luke Rockhold, times where I did well with Mike Kyle and Paul Montello.
01:10:40.000 And, you know, even in my best fights in the UFC, like with Ricardo Romero, I think that was the only time I got to get interviewed by you afterwards.
01:10:50.000 It took me...
01:10:52.000 The only reason the fight turned out that way and I was able to get in the zone was because I was so sick the night before.
01:10:58.000 I fought at like 2.08.
01:11:00.000 I had fucking sweat the bed.
01:11:01.000 I was rolling around in my sweat, just soaked the bed.
01:11:03.000 This worst fever I've ever had.
01:11:06.000 And in the fight, I'm walking out and I was gassed after two minutes of warming up.
01:11:10.000 I stopped warming up in the locker room.
01:11:12.000 Completely gassed.
01:11:13.000 And I thought, like, I'm fucked.
01:11:15.000 If this thing goes longer than a minute, I'm done.
01:11:17.000 And then I realized right then, right when they shut the cage door, I have to fight.
01:11:21.000 There's nothing I can do here but fight.
01:11:25.000 And right when I made that realization, that put me in the zone because there was no thought.
01:11:30.000 That's why the fight is 23 seconds, whatever it was.
01:11:33.000 It felt like it was in slow motion.
01:11:35.000 And I could never get back to that point because I didn't have...
01:11:39.000 The technical skills mentally to do it or just the know-how of how I got there.
01:11:44.000 I knew I can look back in hindsight and say, yeah, this was the catalyst.
01:11:48.000 I had my back against the wall and I just completely let go.
01:11:52.000 I know from...
01:11:54.000 The ayahuasca ceremonies and things like that, there's a big lesson in letting go and surrendering to the process.
01:12:00.000 Don't fight it.
01:12:01.000 Just fucking go with it.
01:12:03.000 But those things didn't transfer the way I had hoped.
01:12:06.000 I talked about that before my last fight.
01:12:07.000 I hoped that the lessons I learned from ayahuasca of surrender would transfer and I would have this, like, I don't give a fuck mentality.
01:12:15.000 We're going to do this.
01:12:17.000 And looking back on that fight, I was still nervous as shit.
01:12:20.000 Even though I look at photos online, you know, Pat's going to punch me.
01:12:23.000 I wasn't afraid of getting punched.
01:12:25.000 No offense to Pat Cummins.
01:12:26.000 I wasn't afraid of getting punched by him.
01:12:29.000 Not after Glover and Manawa.
01:12:31.000 And I'm still like, eh, like I'm squeezing a loaf out, you know, right as he's about to hit me.
01:12:37.000 Like, I'm stiff, rigid, tense.
01:12:40.000 So there wasn't a transfer there of skills from the beauty of ayahuasca into the cage.
01:12:46.000 Do you think that it was because you didn't have enough time to process it, or you needed more of those experiences, or...
01:12:54.000 There was a really, there's a number, you know, there's a large, there's a, everything kind of goes together with that.
01:13:00.000 I think, really, you know, Spending time developing yourself longer, right?
01:13:10.000 There's no eight-week camp where I'm going to be as good a wrestler as that guy.
01:13:13.000 Period.
01:13:14.000 It doesn't matter who I'm working with.
01:13:17.000 That said, obviously, you can build a game plan and work on takedown defense.
01:13:21.000 And you look at Ovin St. Pru, he did great against him.
01:13:23.000 It was an excellent fight.
01:13:26.000 In hindsight, maybe I could have done it like that.
01:13:29.000 Maybe I could have had better footwork and done these things and worked on whatever.
01:13:32.000 I don't know.
01:13:33.000 I don't really put too much thought into how I could have done that better now because I have really accepted the fact that I'm done doing that.
01:13:41.000 The more I would put thought into how I could have done it better, the more it makes me want to do it.
01:13:46.000 Does that make sense?
01:13:48.000 What was the big deciding factor to make you want to retire?
01:13:52.000 It really, really was a number of things, but, you know, I had a second job the whole time I was in the UFC, even with the Fight of the Knights.
01:14:02.000 I had two Fight of the Knights.
01:14:03.000 I got to train full-time for maybe six months.
01:14:08.000 Wow.
01:14:08.000 And then the first loss, I had to go right back to work.
01:14:10.000 So I'm bouncing at the titty bar, you know, bartending, managing that kind of stuff.
01:14:16.000 And you need sleep for recovery.
01:14:18.000 And I had that just felt that window of I can sleep and train full time and know what it's like to have full recovery.
01:14:25.000 Now it's yanked back away from me.
01:14:27.000 Why was it yanked back away?
01:14:28.000 Because when you lost, you made less money?
01:14:31.000 Is that what it is?
01:14:31.000 Yeah.
01:14:32.000 And well, with the fracture too, like even take, for example, when I had a...
01:14:38.000 One of those fights, I got fight of the night with Maldonado.
01:14:42.000 That was my only fight that year.
01:14:43.000 So I got an extra 40 grand, and I was getting 10 and 10. That's 60 grand, 10% coaches, 10% to management, pay the IRS. That's not a lot spread over the year, and it's less than a teacher.
01:14:55.000 So I needed to work, you know, and then that's kind of how it goes.
01:15:01.000 If you get hurt in a fight and you only fight that once that year, that could be the difference.
01:15:07.000 Yeah.
01:15:08.000 It's ridiculous when you think about how much risk versus reward there is in the sport of fighting.
01:15:15.000 At the very high levels, like when you're Conor McGregor or Ronda Rousey, yeah, you're going to make millions of dollars.
01:15:20.000 But on the way up to that, like, fuck.
01:15:23.000 Can you break through?
01:15:25.000 That's really what it comes down to.
01:15:26.000 And at the same time, I was...
01:15:29.000 You know, becoming familiar with ayahuasca, I was having ceremonies where A lot of shit was getting uncovered.
01:15:36.000 And I don't mean like, oh, I worked through all this baggage and all that.
01:15:39.000 No, there was...
01:15:40.000 I had many, many great visions and each ceremony has its own...
01:15:46.000 It's its own thing.
01:15:48.000 It's completely unique from another...
01:15:49.000 Same thing with DMT. That is its own fucking thing.
01:15:53.000 And it helped me grow as a person.
01:15:56.000 I can't say which ceremony made me not have that spark, but over time...
01:16:02.000 That spark went away.
01:16:03.000 The spark to want to destroy another person slowly left me.
01:16:07.000 And it doesn't matter what a fighter tells you on, I fight because of this, I fight because of that.
01:16:12.000 They all, inside them, want to destroy another person Deep down inside, they want to destroy something.
01:16:19.000 Well, that's what victory is.
01:16:20.000 Yeah.
01:16:20.000 The ultimate victory is you submit someone or you KO them.
01:16:24.000 That's the ultimate victory.
01:16:25.000 You stop them.
01:16:26.000 And that's really difficult to do.
01:16:29.000 So the challenge is extremely high.
01:16:32.000 And then the reward, the endorphins, the rush, the feeling of accomplishment, all those things.
01:16:37.000 But at the end of the day...
01:16:39.000 I think probably what Ayahuasca and what DMT would show you is that you're causing damage.
01:16:49.000 It's just this destructive thing.
01:16:52.000 There's no way around it.
01:16:54.000 Even if you both sign up for it, even if the guy talks shit before the fight, it doesn't matter what he does.
01:17:02.000 I bet it would be really hard to handle if it was a mismatch.
01:17:07.000 Like, say, if you took ayahuasca and you had this vision, and then you're supposed to fight somebody who you know, like, in your heart, was really fucked.
01:17:15.000 Like, maybe they had bad stand-up or something like that, and you knew they weren't going to be able to take you down.
01:17:19.000 Like, this guy's going to get lit up.
01:17:21.000 Like, sorry, dude.
01:17:23.000 You're under a false illusion of your abilities, you know?
01:17:28.000 That would make it very difficult, I would imagine.
01:17:32.000 Yeah.
01:17:34.000 Well, I mean, you still see guys know, like, they kind of snap out of it when they have the opportunity to crush someone who's lifeless and the referee still hasn't stopped them, and then they pull back.
01:17:43.000 So there's moments there, and there's also moments where you're just, you know, you got the blinders on, and it's like, finish this guy, you know, and I don't give a shit when the ref comes in.
01:17:52.000 Yeah.
01:17:53.000 So, it was ayahuasca, you think, that started you off on this trip of retiring?
01:17:58.000 How old are you now?
01:18:00.000 33. 33. So you're still, athletically, you're still in your prime.
01:18:05.000 I feel better than I've ever felt in my life.
01:18:07.000 Physically, mentally, emotionally.
01:18:09.000 Does it ever, like, fuck with you every now and then?
01:18:11.000 Is there ever, like, a little thing inside you?
01:18:13.000 Like, come on, girl.
01:18:14.000 If I watch...
01:18:16.000 That's why I stopped striking.
01:18:17.000 You sharpen the blade.
01:18:18.000 You want to test it.
01:18:20.000 I'll do jiu-jitsu the rest of my life, but I can't strike.
01:18:23.000 If I strike, I know I'll have that itch.
01:18:25.000 Really?
01:18:26.000 I'll have the itch to spar.
01:18:27.000 And then from sparring, I'll have a couple good days.
01:18:31.000 And who am I testing that against?
01:18:34.000 World champions.
01:18:35.000 So if I can hang, and I certainly should be able to apply this to guys that don't have a belt wrapped around their waist.
01:18:43.000 But...
01:18:45.000 You know, the more I've learned on, even listening to like Dr. Rhonda Patrick and people like that, I've had my face broken twice.
01:18:53.000 To act like that doesn't have permanent effects, I mean, it's ridiculous to think like, oh, you know, it's just an orbital fracture.
01:19:01.000 No, I fucking smashed my face.
01:19:03.000 Like, there's for sure long-term damage there that I'm not, maybe not feeling it right now.
01:19:09.000 But that's an issue I have to address.
01:19:10.000 And seeing guys only a couple years older.
01:19:13.000 I'm 33. You guys are 35, 36. And they start to slow down a little bit.
01:19:19.000 Sorry, I was getting audio in just one ear now.
01:19:22.000 Did it pop off?
01:19:23.000 Sometimes that thing disconnects a little bit.
01:19:26.000 See where the connection is?
01:19:27.000 There we go.
01:19:28.000 Okay.
01:19:28.000 Yeah, that was my knee.
01:19:31.000 Yeah, you see, if I can notice it in other people who are just a couple years older than me, then I know that's what's going to happen.
01:19:37.000 Because it's not...
01:19:38.000 I mean, you watch a guy like Randy Couture fight, and you're like, oh, he's in everyone's face.
01:19:42.000 It's grinding on dudes.
01:19:44.000 He...
01:19:45.000 Even though he's been knocked out and things like that, he didn't stand and bang with a lot of people.
01:19:49.000 I can't think of many fights.
01:19:53.000 Even when Bonner crushed me for 15 minutes and laid on me and didn't attempt much, I still took a beating in that fight.
01:20:01.000 When I fought Glover, I had no broken bones, but that's the only fight where I was lost leaving the octagon.
01:20:08.000 Bob left, and I didn't know how to get back to the locker room.
01:20:12.000 And I didn't want to ask anyone because I didn't want a longer suspension, a medical suspension.
01:20:17.000 I mean, he fucking buried two hooks after slipping my left-right combo, one, left hook.
01:20:23.000 Then I threw it again, he slips, buries the same exact spot in the temple.
01:20:29.000 And I mean, that's the only fight where I literally did not know where the locker room was.
01:20:33.000 And I just wandered around, talking to people, making small talk.
01:20:37.000 Oh, hey, how's it going?
01:20:38.000 Yeah, that was a tough fight.
01:20:39.000 Oh, yeah.
01:20:40.000 Wow.
01:20:40.000 And I didn't know.
01:20:41.000 I didn't know where anything was.
01:20:42.000 And then I finally made it back.
01:20:43.000 I was like, oh, fuck, dude.
01:20:44.000 That's bad.
01:20:45.000 That's really bad.
01:20:46.000 So you didn't want to ask anybody because you didn't want a longer medical suspension.
01:20:51.000 Yeah.
01:20:52.000 Whoa.
01:20:53.000 So I felt the effects there on the brain.
01:20:56.000 I didn't feel the effects from the orbital fractures, but I could see the effects, right?
01:21:01.000 And then, you know, you see guys just a couple years older slowing down a little bit, and you learn about health and being holistic and nutrition and what am I doing for myself to be a better person?
01:21:13.000 How can I get more out of life?
01:21:15.000 Where's my quality of life, right?
01:21:17.000 Well, if I'm doing that, and then that's why I could drink in.
01:21:22.000 If I want to alter my consciousness, there's a better way to do it than with that shit.
01:21:25.000 Right.
01:21:26.000 And it shouldn't be a double-edged sword.
01:21:30.000 When did you quit drinking?
01:21:33.000 January 6th is the last time I drank.
01:21:34.000 Of this year?
01:21:35.000 Last year in Peru.
01:21:36.000 Oh, last year.
01:21:37.000 I did a ceremony in Colombia.
01:21:42.000 The guy was talking about addiction to things, and I never felt addicted at all to drinking, but I definitely drank like an asshole, for sure, many, many times.
01:21:52.000 But he had mentioned, next time you drink, ask what you're feeding.
01:21:57.000 Everything we put in our body is feeding something.
01:21:59.000 Ask what you're feeding.
01:22:00.000 And it didn't hit me then, but later on in the ceremony, it really stuck in.
01:22:04.000 I could see all the destructive behavior of, Oh, yeah, let's party.
01:22:08.000 Let's go balls to the wall.
01:22:09.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:22:10.000 Slapping five and just, you know, college spring breaker, ASU type, jock, meathead, you know, more, more, more, more, more.
01:22:17.000 And then just the destruction, the toll it was taking on me.
01:22:20.000 You know, especially as you get older.
01:22:21.000 Like, you can drink like that when you're young.
01:22:23.000 But you get to 30...
01:22:25.000 Something stops working.
01:22:26.000 Your hangovers last a little longer, you know, everything, it's harder to keep up.
01:22:30.000 Well, don't you think it's also you're aware?
01:22:32.000 I think when you're young, like, I remember being hungover when I was young, but I was so unaware of how that, like, what I put in, how it affected my body.
01:22:44.000 I just thought of myself as, like, I was in such a fog of confusion when I was young, just trying to get through life, that I don't think I was aware of my body like I am aware of now.
01:22:55.000 Now if I do things, like just changing my diet, I'm really tuned in to what kind of effect is happening, if any.
01:23:02.000 I'm trying to figure it out.
01:23:03.000 I'm much more aware.
01:23:04.000 When I was in my 20s, I don't know if I necessarily recovered from hangovers better, but I didn't notice it as much because I was just dumb.
01:23:14.000 Yeah.
01:23:15.000 What are we doing now?
01:23:17.000 Let's get pizza or crack another beer.
01:23:19.000 It'll get rid of it.
01:23:20.000 Whatever.
01:23:21.000 I'm with you on that.
01:23:22.000 I do feel like there are...
01:23:24.000 As you age, your organs just don't keep up the same.
01:23:27.000 And I feel like that was a big...
01:23:29.000 But really, just the reflection for me of seeing how I behaved with that versus...
01:23:34.000 If I want to feel different, thanks to the wonderful people in California that allow medical cannabis, I can feel different.
01:23:43.000 I can sleep like a baby and I can wake up with zero hangover.
01:23:46.000 Yeah.
01:23:47.000 And I'm not going to get fat from it.
01:23:48.000 I'm not going to feel like shit.
01:23:49.000 I'm not going to underperform the next day, mentally or physically.
01:23:52.000 You also get benefits from it.
01:23:55.000 Many benefits.
01:23:56.000 Yeah.
01:23:56.000 The anti-inflammatory benefits, the mental benefits of it, the sensitivity benefits, the camaraderie that it sort of stimulates.
01:24:04.000 There's a lot of sense of community that comes with smoking cannabis.
01:24:08.000 It makes you like a more generous and nice person in a lot of ways.
01:24:12.000 But alcohol...
01:24:16.000 Man, it has its place.
01:24:18.000 I mean, I think it's fun in a lot of ways, but boy, it's so abused.
01:24:23.000 But in this culture, in our culture, it's so commonly abused by so many people.
01:24:29.000 And they don't even consider it.
01:24:31.000 They just pound them.
01:24:33.000 Just fucking...
01:24:34.000 And you can abuse pot, too.
01:24:36.000 There's no doubt about that.
01:24:37.000 When I was in college, I abused pot.
01:24:39.000 Actually, hearing Graham Hancock talk about his relationship on your podcast with cannabis and how ayahuasca showed him that, and he quit for a while until coming back on the podcast and spoken with you, which I thought was great.
01:24:49.000 That was evil of me.
01:24:55.000 With weed that way, it actually reversed it, but it showed me my relationship with alcohol that way, and now I don't need it.
01:25:02.000 But it also showed me, like, hey, cannabis is a plant.
01:25:06.000 Dan Hardy said in one of his visions when he asked Ayahuasca about cannabis, cannabis is my sister, was the answer.
01:25:13.000 Like, this is another teacher.
01:25:15.000 This is another tool.
01:25:16.000 This is here for you.
01:25:16.000 Use it.
01:25:17.000 Right.
01:25:18.000 And I think that...
01:25:20.000 If you treat it with respect and you have an intention and a reason why you're doing it.
01:25:25.000 There's a time and a place for, man, I just want to get bombed and feel out of this world or I'm going to push the envelope and maybe do a mega dose and jump into a float tank, which I still need to try.
01:25:34.000 But, you know, for the most part, you can have relatively small amounts of things like that and completely improve your quality of life with zero repercussion.
01:25:44.000 Because you put in the time and you have the right intention of, this is what I want to use it for.
01:25:48.000 Right.
01:25:49.000 Yeah, repercussions.
01:25:50.000 It is something you have to weigh.
01:25:52.000 Action versus repercussion.
01:25:54.000 And with alcohol, the repercussions are just fucking devastating over time.
01:25:58.000 It's just such a fucking unfortunate one.
01:26:01.000 They think they figured out a way to create alcohol without any hangover.
01:26:04.000 There's been some new research.
01:26:06.000 It's something that gives you an alcohol-like effect, but it doesn't give you a hangover.
01:26:12.000 I hope it's not like synthetic weed or some of these weirdo knockoff shit.
01:26:16.000 I always wonder what effects on internal organs fighting has.
01:26:21.000 Not just on the kidneys, which we know get really fucked up over weight cutting.
01:26:25.000 It's really bad for you.
01:26:27.000 Kidney stones are one side effect that some people seem to suffer from dehydration from weight cutting.
01:26:33.000 I know Aldo's had some kidney stones.
01:26:35.000 A lot of fighters have had kidney stones.
01:26:37.000 They're really common for guys who cut a lot of weight.
01:26:39.000 But also, I just wonder just body kicks and knees to the body and punches.
01:26:44.000 I mean, how many times can you get kicked in the liver before it does damage to your liver?
01:26:49.000 I mean, if alcohol is bad for your liver, what does a shin do to it?
01:26:53.000 What is a fucking vicious left hook to the liver?
01:26:56.000 Just getting blasted.
01:26:58.000 Yeah.
01:26:59.000 Yeah, I wonder.
01:27:00.000 I don't know if there's any...
01:27:02.000 I mean, we constantly consider the stress on the brain and the damage to the brain from head impacts and brain trauma.
01:27:09.000 But what about body trauma?
01:27:10.000 I always wonder about that.
01:27:13.000 Because I've seen guys get fucking blasted.
01:27:16.000 It ain't good.
01:27:16.000 We know that.
01:27:17.000 It's not like you watch a guy eat a liver shot and the fight's over from a body kick.
01:27:22.000 And you're like, oh, he's, yeah, rub some dirt on it.
01:27:25.000 He's fine.
01:27:26.000 No.
01:27:26.000 Just ended the fight.
01:27:27.000 No.
01:27:30.000 So when you look back at your career and you look back at all these wars and all these crazy fights that you got in, do you think about the damage?
01:27:40.000 Is it something you just put aside and you know that there probably was some done and just move forward and stay positive and be healthy from here on out?
01:27:52.000 Here's one thing that I... I disagree with people when they say, like, you know, when we grew up, they said, oh, hey, you have a set number of brain cells, and whatever you lose, you're not going to get back.
01:28:03.000 So we now know that's bullshit.
01:28:06.000 Like, our brain can create new cells.
01:28:08.000 Neurogenesis happens.
01:28:09.000 And the more you do, the more new stuff you do, whether it's learning an instrument or a new language or taking a different trail to hike, whatever, that helps strengthen these new pathways, right?
01:28:19.000 And make you smarter and just keep your brain young.
01:28:21.000 Yeah.
01:28:22.000 I don't think for one second that anything that I've done in my career can't be overcome or that I can't really feel like from diets like this and supplementing with MCTs and different things like that, I feel quicker now and sharper now than I ever have in my life mentally.
01:28:37.000 So that's good.
01:28:38.000 But that said, I don't look back and say, oh, this did this to me.
01:28:41.000 I look back and say, I don't want to do more of that.
01:28:44.000 Right.
01:28:44.000 Yeah, that's a good way of looking at it.
01:28:48.000 I've talked about this in the podcast.
01:28:49.000 I don't know if you've heard about it.
01:28:50.000 Bill Romanowski created that Neuro One supplement specifically because of his football career, because of all the head impacts that he had.
01:28:56.000 He's having memory issues, a bunch of issues with his brain.
01:28:59.000 I wonder what's in it.
01:29:00.000 Do you know what the product has?
01:29:01.000 I don't have it here, but he sent me a couple tubs of it because I talked about it a bunch of times.
01:29:07.000 And it's not something that we sell at Onnit.
01:29:09.000 It's just something I love.
01:29:10.000 It's just good.
01:29:13.000 It's the first nootropic I've ever tried before we created AlphaBrain.
01:29:17.000 Do you stack them now?
01:29:19.000 No.
01:29:20.000 I rarely try Neuro-1, but I like to do different things.
01:29:24.000 I like to occasionally try Paracetam.
01:29:27.000 Yes!
01:29:28.000 I'm way into nootropics.
01:29:30.000 Have you tried Aniracetam or Oxiracetam?
01:29:33.000 Yes, I have.
01:29:33.000 How do you like the difference?
01:29:35.000 It's hard to tell.
01:29:37.000 I had a conversation with a dude last night at the Comedy Store.
01:29:40.000 It was really funny because it was hilarious because the dude was hammered, right?
01:29:45.000 He's like, man, I fucking tried Alpha Brain, but shit, I don't know if it worked.
01:29:51.000 I go, okay, define worked.
01:29:55.000 Like, what are you doing?
01:29:56.000 I was just fucking, you know, I'm just hanging out, man, but it didn't feel any difference.
01:30:01.000 I go, okay.
01:30:03.000 It's not going to make you smarter.
01:30:05.000 The idea behind it is, if you're involved in a task, like for me, Alpha brain and nootropics are really critical for me because I rely on my memory a lot.
01:30:16.000 Like when I'm doing the UFC, it's a big factor.
01:30:19.000 I'm constantly bringing up past fights and I'm constantly talking about different situations and transitions and, you know, this happens when you do that or that.
01:30:28.000 And there's all these like connections that I have to make in my brain.
01:30:30.000 So verbal memory, recalling fights, things like that.
01:30:34.000 Nootropics are critical for that kind of thing.
01:30:36.000 But if you don't have anything that requires your memory, How do you know if it's working?
01:30:40.000 If you don't have anything that requires you to form sentences on the fly, how do you know if it's working?
01:30:46.000 So I think he just had a silly idea.
01:30:48.000 I think he thought that he was going to take this stuff and all of a sudden he's like, man, I know what I'm doing with my life!
01:30:54.000 Like the fucking light bulb goes off.
01:30:55.000 He just got uploaded from the Matrix with the...
01:30:57.000 Dude!
01:30:59.000 I get it.
01:30:59.000 I get it all.
01:31:00.000 Man, I didn't feel it.
01:31:01.000 But it was hilarious because he was fucking hammered.
01:31:04.000 The dude was hammered.
01:31:05.000 He's like, I don't know if I felt it.
01:31:06.000 I'm like, okay, dude.
01:31:08.000 First of all, How shit-faced are you right now?
01:31:11.000 He's like, I'm pretty drunk.
01:31:14.000 So I'm like, well, this conversation is going to be weird anyway.
01:31:17.000 You're probably not going to remember what I'm saying.
01:31:18.000 But if you had to do something, it was important.
01:31:21.000 And I explained all the different things that's been shown clinically in double-blind, placebo-controlled studies to improve on.
01:31:29.000 These are statistics.
01:31:32.000 When you can show it with 60 people and you can show that the people that take it have these effects versus the people that don't take it, this is where it will help you.
01:31:40.000 But it's not going to just make you smarter.
01:31:42.000 But for someone who relies on their mind a lot, whether it's for creativity or...
01:31:46.000 For me, I like to take it now even before I work out.
01:31:49.000 I started doing it before I work out now.
01:31:51.000 And I'm noticing less fatigue.
01:31:53.000 My mind stays fresh longer.
01:31:55.000 Like in grueling long-term workouts...
01:31:58.000 Like a long series of pad workouts.
01:32:00.000 I can maintain my concentration like deep into the 7th, 8th, and 9th round of hitting pads.
01:32:06.000 I don't fade off as much.
01:32:08.000 Like where I can't remember the combinations.
01:32:10.000 You know how you get so tired, you're like, okay, what is it again?
01:32:13.000 Double jab, right hand, left hook, right kick, step knee.
01:32:16.000 Got it.
01:32:17.000 And then, you know, you're into the left hook and you're like, what the fuck is next?
01:32:20.000 Because you're so tired.
01:32:22.000 Your brain doesn't work that good.
01:32:23.000 So I think mental fatigue can contribute to physical fatigue.
01:32:28.000 100%.
01:32:29.000 That's in Sassan's book also.
01:32:30.000 They talk about how ketones are pretty much the steady fuel.
01:32:33.000 So your brain doesn't bonk because there's an unlimited stream of energy coming in at all times.
01:32:38.000 You don't hit the window where you run out of glycogen and your brain, as the master regulator, says, wait a minute.
01:32:45.000 No, no, no, no.
01:32:45.000 We have a very low supply here.
01:32:47.000 It's finite.
01:32:48.000 Nothing else is coming in.
01:32:50.000 So we're going to downregulate everything and make you perform like shit right now in an effort to hold on to what we have.
01:32:56.000 You know, you don't ever hit that wall with the ketones present in the blood.
01:33:01.000 Well, I've never been in a ketogenic state, I don't think.
01:33:05.000 You ever fasted for anything?
01:33:08.000 Yeah.
01:33:09.000 How long?
01:33:10.000 Maybe like 12 hours.
01:33:11.000 I've never done it like several days.
01:33:13.000 No, that wouldn't work.
01:33:13.000 No.
01:33:14.000 I mean, even like fasting is just deciding I don't feel like eating right now.
01:33:17.000 You know, I've never like consciously decided to fast.
01:33:20.000 It's pretty cool.
01:33:21.000 Yeah, this is an interesting experiment because I just said, well, you know, there's nothing to lose here.
01:33:27.000 There's nothing that's going to fuck me up.
01:33:28.000 I'm just going to give this a shot and see what happens.
01:33:30.000 I was a little flat yesterday, like trying to push through an elliptical workout.
01:33:35.000 It was a little flat, but nothing huge.
01:33:38.000 Just required a little more grit, you know, just required me to dig down what I would rather just get off that fucking thing.
01:33:46.000 And around the 35-minute mark, like the last 10 minutes were pretty rough.
01:33:51.000 But other than that, my brain doesn't seem too foggy.
01:33:53.000 That was one of the things I was concerned with, that I'd go on stage and I'd just be stupid.
01:33:57.000 Like, my brain wouldn't work that good.
01:33:59.000 I'd forget what I was talking about.
01:34:00.000 Well, do you blend?
01:34:01.000 I mean, do you do bulletproof style where you blend butter and MCTO? Yeah, that's what this is.
01:34:06.000 Okay.
01:34:06.000 Yeah.
01:34:08.000 So you probably have at least some help.
01:34:09.000 I want to check you out, actually.
01:34:11.000 Check me out?
01:34:12.000 I want to check you out, bro.
01:34:13.000 What are you doing, bro?
01:34:14.000 I know I told you about this briefly here.
01:34:16.000 Yes, you did.
01:34:16.000 What is it?
01:34:16.000 Explain it.
01:34:17.000 If you're not checking, you're guessing.
01:34:20.000 So one of the things about these ketogenic diets is you've got to act like you're diabetic.
01:34:24.000 You get a blood ketone monitor.
01:34:26.000 Hmm.
01:34:27.000 What do you do?
01:34:29.000 Do you strip my finger or something?
01:34:30.000 Yeah, I'll give you a fresh one here.
01:34:33.000 Ew, can I get AIDS from you?
01:34:35.000 Maybe.
01:34:36.000 From Jenny High Five?
01:34:42.000 Alright, so what he's got here is some little thing that you...
01:34:47.000 A little pricker.
01:34:48.000 So, what is it, like a needle or something?
01:34:50.000 I think I'm enjoying my little prick.
01:34:51.000 It's a...
01:34:52.000 Does it matter which finger you need?
01:34:53.000 It's a lancet, I think is what they call it.
01:34:55.000 Doesn't matter, no.
01:34:56.000 So what we have here is a blood ketone strip.
01:35:04.000 Oh yeah, you're nice and hot.
01:35:06.000 Whoa, what?
01:35:08.000 You want there to be warmth in your hands, otherwise it's a motherfucker.
01:35:12.000 Did that make blood?
01:35:13.000 I didn't even feel that.
01:35:14.000 That's so weird.
01:35:16.000 I didn't feel it, bro.
01:35:18.000 So tough I am, bro.
01:35:19.000 A little blood?
01:35:19.000 I don't even fucking feel that, bro.
01:35:20.000 Well, you're going to have to feel another one here.
01:35:22.000 God damn it.
01:35:23.000 I'm going to feel this one now.
01:35:24.000 I was talking shit.
01:35:26.000 So what he's got is this little punch thing, almost like a little stapler.
01:35:29.000 Rookie move.
01:35:32.000 That one I didn't feel at all.
01:35:34.000 Like the other one, I felt it touch my finger.
01:35:36.000 That one didn't work.
01:35:37.000 That's why.
01:35:38.000 Let me give you a brand new one here.
01:35:39.000 What the fuck kind of...
01:35:41.000 Yo, my skin's too thick, bro.
01:35:43.000 I got double skin thick.
01:35:45.000 It's not, you know, all those years of hard training and the makiwara board...
01:35:50.000 I do a lot of makiwara work.
01:35:53.000 You know what makiwara is, folks, if you don't know?
01:35:55.000 Karate guys, they take a board and it's like sort of nailed to the ground or dug into the ground and sort of locked in place.
01:36:05.000 And the board will give a little bit and then they wrap the board up with a rope so it's really hard.
01:36:10.000 And then they punch it and develop these calluses, these thick calluses on their knuckles.
01:36:16.000 And then they would go from that to brickwork.
01:36:19.000 My friend John Lee, back in Boston, he used to have his index finger and his fuck you finger, the knuckles to those fingers were fused.
01:36:30.000 It was one big fat rhino knuckle.
01:36:34.000 And it was all just from him punching shit.
01:36:36.000 One big moose knuckle.
01:36:36.000 Yeah.
01:36:37.000 It was all from him punching shit.
01:36:39.000 That is the last guy you wanted punching you.
01:36:41.000 He was punching through bricks and shit.
01:36:44.000 Yo, your pussy little needle things are not working on my fucking savage skin.
01:36:50.000 Is it working this time?
01:36:51.000 God damn it.
01:36:52.000 Well, you got some bitch ass needles.
01:36:54.000 You need to go deeper here.
01:36:56.000 Manly needles, bro.
01:36:58.000 I have to figure this out.
01:36:59.000 Sorry.
01:37:00.000 So does it work different on different people?
01:37:02.000 Is that what's going on?
01:37:03.000 For real?
01:37:04.000 Like, no bullshit.
01:37:04.000 Do people have thicker skin?
01:37:07.000 Well, we can go deeper, but I'm trying not to be a dick and put it on the highest setting and punch this thing through your finger.
01:37:12.000 Put it on the highest setting!
01:37:13.000 I'm gonna flex while you do it.
01:37:19.000 It's actually the stress of you holding onto my hand and shoving that thing over and over again with no pain.
01:37:26.000 I'm like, eventually I'm gonna feel pain.
01:37:28.000 So it's like, if I just felt pain the first time, it'd be very minimal.
01:37:33.000 What do you got now?
01:37:33.000 You got a razor blade?
01:37:34.000 What's in there?
01:37:35.000 I'm putting in a new test strip just to double check here.
01:37:39.000 And explain to me what this thing is testing for.
01:37:41.000 There's a little blood on my fingers.
01:37:44.000 Yeah, we want more.
01:37:46.000 Did you feel that?
01:37:48.000 Barely.
01:37:49.000 Damn.
01:37:50.000 Go deep, son.
01:37:52.000 Don't be scared.
01:37:53.000 I do have double-thick rhino skin, Jamie.
01:37:55.000 I'm just gonna fucking jab it in there.
01:37:56.000 Whoa, hey.
01:37:58.000 I don't like that phrasing.
01:38:02.000 This is not working, huh?
01:38:04.000 God damn, son.
01:38:05.000 Alright, I'm gonna allow you to just fucking tap this thing.
01:38:08.000 Okay.
01:38:10.000 What do you do?
01:38:10.000 I want you to just tap it.
01:38:12.000 Well, what is it?
01:38:13.000 It's a fucking little needle.
01:38:14.000 Alright, I'm gonna just shove it in there.
01:38:16.000 There you go.
01:38:17.000 Shove it in there.
01:38:17.000 Pull it out.
01:38:18.000 Now make yourself bleed a bit.
01:38:20.000 Give me a drop.
01:38:22.000 Put it on this bad boy.
01:38:23.000 Is that good?
01:38:24.000 It could be.
01:38:30.000 Man.
01:38:31.000 I shoved that all the way in.
01:38:33.000 Yeah, I want you to...
01:38:35.000 You did?
01:38:35.000 Oh, there we go.
01:38:36.000 That's what I want.
01:38:39.000 Don't worry, folks.
01:38:40.000 Okay, now we got some sweet blood.
01:38:42.000 Now we got a countdown here.
01:38:44.000 10 seconds.
01:38:45.000 It's going to tell us your blood ketones.
01:38:46.000 So basically, you want to be between 0.5...
01:38:51.000 What does it say?
01:38:52.000 Low.
01:38:53.000 Low?
01:38:54.000 What does that mean?
01:38:55.000 Low battery?
01:38:56.000 Low battery or low ketones?
01:38:58.000 Low ketones.
01:38:59.000 Me?
01:38:59.000 Yeah.
01:39:00.000 Really?
01:39:00.000 That doesn't make sense.
01:39:02.000 Let's do another strip.
01:39:03.000 Bitch, I'm bleeding.
01:39:04.000 I know, we got you.
01:39:05.000 I got some good blood here.
01:39:06.000 Another strip.
01:39:06.000 Keep the bloodline open.
01:39:09.000 I'll squeeze this bitch.
01:39:11.000 Some fucking junk science here.
01:39:13.000 Here we go.
01:39:14.000 Is this pro science, bro?
01:39:15.000 Bro science, bro.
01:39:16.000 Bro science, bro.
01:39:19.000 Alright, one more test here.
01:39:20.000 Okay.
01:39:25.000 Three, two, one.
01:39:30.000 0.1.
01:39:31.000 What is that?
01:39:32.000 Pathetic.
01:39:32.000 That's terrible?
01:39:33.000 You want to be between 0.5 and about 3.0.
01:39:38.000 And you can go higher than that if you're in a really extended fast.
01:39:41.000 Okay.
01:39:42.000 Or if you take exogenous ketones, then you can go above 3.0.
01:39:46.000 But basically, 0.5, you're in nutritional ketosis.
01:39:49.000 Give it one more test just to be sure that this thing isn't bullshit because I'm not trying to believe your fucking stupid machine.
01:39:58.000 If it varies, that's a problem, right?
01:40:00.000 If you do it again, and you get a different reading?
01:40:03.000 Yeah, that would be a problem.
01:40:08.000 I don't know that I'm going to get it.
01:40:10.000 Why not?
01:40:11.000 What about all that blood?
01:40:12.000 You might have to stab.
01:40:12.000 Well, because it's got to come in a little dry.
01:40:24.000 Should I stab it again?
01:40:28.000 What's the negative of being where he's at at.1?
01:40:32.000 Most out of the game?
01:40:33.000 Well, he's in no man's land, so he doesn't have carbohydrates coming in, right, to fuel his body, and he's not producing ketones.
01:40:39.000 So did you work out beforehand?
01:40:41.000 Yeah.
01:40:42.000 That's why.
01:40:42.000 Oh.
01:40:43.000 That just fucking saw.
01:40:43.000 I should have asked beforehand.
01:40:45.000 So whatever ketones you have from the MCTs, your body's using.
01:40:49.000 Oh.
01:40:49.000 That's why your blood ketones aren't high.
01:40:51.000 I worked out right before I got here.
01:40:53.000 That's exactly...
01:40:53.000 Yeah, it's going to confirm it here, but that's exactly why.
01:40:56.000 So I've tested...
01:40:58.000 I've been in ketosis for a while and tested...
01:41:01.000 And seeing like 0.3 and I'm like, what the fuck?
01:41:04.000 And then I listen to Dominic D'Agostino talk about that.
01:41:06.000 Your body will use the ketones.
01:41:09.000 That's why you're producing it.
01:41:11.000 It's an energy source.
01:41:12.000 Right.
01:41:12.000 So you work out.
01:41:13.000 That's going to go to fill your body the way that blood glucose would have...
01:41:17.000 Prior to that.
01:41:18.000 What does it say?
01:41:20.000 E4. It means it's cold.
01:41:22.000 You know what I'm saying?
01:41:23.000 Cold?
01:41:23.000 Yeah.
01:41:24.000 What does that mean, machine?
01:41:24.000 I don't know.
01:41:27.000 It's too cold, I guess.
01:41:29.000 It's too cold?
01:41:30.000 What do you mean?
01:41:31.000 The machine is cold?
01:41:31.000 The machine is cold.
01:41:32.000 So, what do you do?
01:41:34.000 Do you heat it up?
01:41:35.000 Put it in the microwave?
01:41:36.000 I stick it in my armpit when I'm getting ready.
01:41:38.000 The machine?
01:41:39.000 Yeah, just right here.
01:41:40.000 Boom.
01:41:41.000 Okay.
01:41:41.000 Makes it warmer.
01:41:42.000 But I just pricked myself for nothing?
01:41:44.000 You did prick yourself for nothing.
01:41:46.000 What are all these things that you're sticking in there?
01:41:47.000 What are all those things?
01:41:48.000 These are all the...
01:41:50.000 This is your trash, actually.
01:41:52.000 That's your little, I don't know where you've been, basket.
01:41:55.000 What are those things in there?
01:41:56.000 Those are the lancets that poked you, and then the test strips.
01:42:00.000 Okay.
01:42:01.000 But anyways, you would do this at night, usually before dinner.
01:42:04.000 You're going to have the highest ketones then.
01:42:06.000 If you have a night workout, then wait at least a couple hours.
01:42:10.000 Do yourself right now so I can see what you get.
01:42:11.000 I'm out.
01:42:12.000 You're out of ketones?
01:42:13.000 I put the last one, the last trip to you.
01:42:15.000 Oh, sorry.
01:42:15.000 No, it's all good.
01:42:17.000 I got more at the house.
01:42:19.000 So you carry these around and you just do it once a day?
01:42:21.000 Or how many times a day do you do it?
01:42:22.000 They're a few bucks a piece, so I usually just do them at night when the ketones are highest just to make sure that I'm nutritionally there.
01:42:31.000 MCT oil is usually worn off by that point, so I can tell like am I producing my own ketones as opposed to just getting it artificially raised from the MCTs.
01:42:38.000 Mm-hmm.
01:42:39.000 Oh, I see.
01:42:40.000 Okay.
01:42:40.000 It doesn't need to be 3.0.
01:42:43.000 If it's 0.5, I'm good.
01:42:45.000 But I will feel the difference when I reach the 1.0 between 1.0 and 2.0.
01:42:50.000 1.0 and 2.0.
01:42:52.000 What was I? 0.1?
01:42:53.000 0.1, yeah.
01:42:54.000 That's dog shit.
01:42:55.000 But it doesn't mean anything because you just worked out.
01:42:57.000 I'm depressed.
01:43:01.000 Okay, so what I'm shooting for, though, is...
01:43:05.000 0.5 or higher.
01:43:06.000 0.5 or higher.
01:43:07.000 But you've gotten to 1 or 2?
01:43:09.000 I've been above 3.0 from fasting or from exogenous ketones.
01:43:14.000 But if I'm on a daily basis between 1.0 and 2.0, then I'm doing good.
01:43:19.000 And that means the foods I'm putting in my body, I haven't, you know, exceeded my protein limits and caused gluconeogenesis or any of these things.
01:43:27.000 I've dialed in my nutrition over time.
01:43:29.000 And that's what it is.
01:43:30.000 It's just fine tuning.
01:43:31.000 Right.
01:43:32.000 Like women can process much more carbohydrates than we can on a ketogenic diet.
01:43:37.000 Really?
01:43:37.000 Way more.
01:43:37.000 Yeah, way more.
01:43:38.000 I don't know if it's because of the hormones and the menstrual cycle or...
01:43:41.000 It's because they're evil.
01:43:42.000 I have no idea.
01:43:42.000 But they can get away with way more.
01:43:45.000 Could be evil.
01:43:45.000 Just some voodoo.
01:43:48.000 That's interesting.
01:43:49.000 I wonder what that is.
01:43:49.000 I wonder if it's because they have to maintain a higher body fat to make milk and to feed the baby and grow titties.
01:44:00.000 Yeah, Tosh was in ketosis the whole time during the pregnancy, and she still had plenty of carbohydrates.
01:44:06.000 That's interesting.
01:44:08.000 So it was a conscious decision to reach that state during the pregnancy?
01:44:12.000 Not at all.
01:44:13.000 No, no, no.
01:44:13.000 She asked me, like, oh, hey, see where I'm at.
01:44:16.000 And I'm like, I'm going to waste $3.
01:44:18.000 On you right now, you're at 0.0.
01:44:21.000 I just told you what you're at.
01:44:22.000 She's like, no, seriously, I want to see.
01:44:24.000 I feel good.
01:44:25.000 I was like, okay.
01:44:26.000 So we did it, and she was higher than I was.
01:44:28.000 Whoa.
01:44:29.000 I was like, what the fuck?
01:44:30.000 But it makes perfect sense.
01:44:31.000 I mean, if you're sending resources to build a human, and you want that steady flow, it makes sense the body would produce that in a situation like that, just in case you ran out of carbohydrates.
01:44:42.000 It is interesting because women oftentimes when they're pregnant, they crave really fatty foods like they crave ice cream and things along those lines.
01:44:49.000 But that's not ketogenic, right?
01:44:50.000 Because it has a lot of sugar in it.
01:44:52.000 Well, there's sugar in that, yeah.
01:44:54.000 Cravings are cravings, but If there's a calling to have more fat, you want more fat.
01:44:59.000 That doesn't necessarily mean it's going to put you in ketosis.
01:45:02.000 Right, right.
01:45:03.000 Now, say if you're in this ketogenic state and you eat some carbohydrates, you eat like a big bowl of pasta, how much does it whack you out of that ketogenic state?
01:45:13.000 Three to four days is typically what it would take to get back in.
01:45:16.000 Whoa!
01:45:17.000 But if you've been, put it this way, I mean...
01:45:21.000 Because I've been in and out of it for as long as I have and because I work out the way you work out, you know, high-intensity stuff with kettlebells or I'll go for a distance run, whatever, and then still train on the mat.
01:45:29.000 That's high-intensity when you're grappling.
01:45:34.000 I had a Saturday, we went off the deep end.
01:45:37.000 I had like two gluten-free pizzas with Tosh and we had a bunch of gluten-free cookies and a freaking liter of this awesome grass-fed milk.
01:45:46.000 Loaded with carbs.
01:45:47.000 I mean, I probably had 500 grams of carbohydrates.
01:45:49.000 Grass-fed milk is loaded with carbs?
01:45:52.000 Milk?
01:45:52.000 For sure.
01:45:53.000 Milk is loaded with carbs.
01:45:54.000 All milk, period.
01:45:54.000 It doesn't matter if it's grass-fed.
01:45:55.000 It matters if it's grass-fed or grain-fed, but not from a carbohydrate standpoint.
01:45:59.000 Nobody would think that milk would be a source of carbohydrates.
01:46:02.000 9 to 12 grams per cup.
01:46:04.000 So if you have a liter and you have four cups, which is easy to do when you're eating cookies, then you just had 50 grams of carbs just from the milk.
01:46:12.000 Whoa, how many grams of carbs are you supposed to have a day?
01:46:15.000 In a ketogenic diet, between 30 and 50 during the keto adaptation phase, which is 6 to 8 weeks.
01:46:21.000 And then after that, you can play.
01:46:22.000 But that's the whole reason you check.
01:46:24.000 Because if you're doing 50 grams a day thinking, hey, I'm within my limit, and you're still at 0.3, 0.4, Fuck what somebody else tells you.
01:46:32.000 That's when it's time to dial it down a bit.
01:46:34.000 Or maybe my carbohydrates are fine, but I'm still not in ketosis.
01:46:38.000 That means you're eating too much protein.
01:46:40.000 Or maybe I need to add more fat to my meals so the ratio is there.
01:46:44.000 When they talked about it at John Hopkins, they were talking about for the kids with epilepsy, a 4 to 1 ratio of fat to protein and carbohydrates combined.
01:46:52.000 Now that's pretty hard to do.
01:46:55.000 If you think of how many...
01:46:55.000 You eat a steak, there's 50 grams of protein and there's equal amount of fat, let's say.
01:47:01.000 Now I have to multiply that by four.
01:47:03.000 And if there's any carbohydrates to add to that, then I add that to the total for the four to one ratio.
01:47:07.000 So you're going to have just ridiculous amounts of fat to accomplish that.
01:47:12.000 What is that device called that you just used?
01:47:15.000 It's a blood ketone meter.
01:47:17.000 I use the Novamax one as the cheapest.
01:47:19.000 There's a couple other ones that are five or six dollars a strip.
01:47:22.000 You can get that on Amazon.
01:47:24.000 The meter itself is only like 20 bucks, and then the strips are a little bit more.
01:47:28.000 And so the strips, you have to use blood.
01:47:31.000 Is there another way to do it?
01:47:32.000 There is a piss test, which doesn't work at all.
01:47:36.000 The problem with that is once your body becomes keto-adapted, it learns how to better use these things so they're not excreted in the urine.
01:47:43.000 So when it tests for acetone, I think is...
01:47:46.000 Acetoacetate, something like that.
01:47:47.000 It's one of the less prominent ketones to begin with.
01:47:51.000 So when we convert fat into ketones, we have three major ketone bodies.
01:47:55.000 Beta-hydroxybutyrate is the one that you test for with the blood strip.
01:47:59.000 That's the most 80% most abundant in the blood.
01:48:02.000 If you do the urine strip and your body's becoming keto-adapted, well, you're not going to piss anymore out.
01:48:07.000 So you could be completely in nutritional ketosis and use a strip and be like, hey, man, I'm not in ketosis.
01:48:12.000 What's going on?
01:48:13.000 And it's not that at all.
01:48:15.000 It's just that your body's not wasting any out of the urine anymore.
01:48:18.000 And they have breath strips or breath meter you can blow into.
01:48:22.000 And I can't stand this thing.
01:48:24.000 I used it for a while.
01:48:24.000 I tried to get into it because obviously you can reuse it 100,000 times and it's still going to be the same cost.
01:48:31.000 But It shows, like, on a gliding scale, like an LED light.
01:48:37.000 So green is not in ketosis, red is in ketosis, whatever.
01:48:41.000 And then in between you have, like, green-yellow and yellow-orange.
01:48:44.000 And it's all, it's so fucking hard to read.
01:48:47.000 And then you're trying to figure out, well, I feel, you know, it's, no, no, no, no, no.
01:48:51.000 Just do the blood.
01:48:52.000 Tell me to the tent exactly where I'm at.
01:48:54.000 And then you get to all the guesswork out.
01:48:56.000 And what exactly is it measuring?
01:48:59.000 Like when you say blood ketones, what does the number represent?
01:49:02.000 Like 0.1?
01:49:03.000 The millimolar is a measurement of the beta-hydroxybutyrate ketone.
01:49:08.000 Millimolar?
01:49:09.000 Millimolar.
01:49:10.000 Hmm.
01:49:11.000 Wow.
01:49:12.000 And so you've been doing this for a while.
01:49:14.000 Yeah.
01:49:14.000 I've read a ton of books on it.
01:49:16.000 And the thing is, you know, most diets, people, I've tried a ton of different diets.
01:49:20.000 This one, you feel good because you can eat as much as you want.
01:49:23.000 Like when Dave Asprey talks about eating 4,500 calories a day and working out, whatever he said, 15 minutes a fucking month or whatever, some nonsense.
01:49:29.000 Yeah.
01:49:30.000 You are going to lose weight.
01:49:33.000 A better example, in The 4-Hour Body, Tim Ferriss talks about the study they did on calories in, calories out.
01:49:38.000 I love this study.
01:49:39.000 Three groups of people had 2,000 calories a day.
01:49:44.000 Group A, 90% carbs.
01:49:46.000 Group B, 90% protein.
01:49:47.000 Group C, 90% fat.
01:49:49.000 You know how it shaked out?
01:49:52.000 Carbohydrate group gained one and a half pounds a day.
01:49:55.000 Protein group lost a quarter pound a day.
01:49:58.000 Fat group lost a pound a day.
01:49:59.000 90% fat in their diet and they lost a pound a day.
01:50:02.000 A pound a day?
01:50:03.000 On the same 2,000 calories.
01:50:05.000 Think about that.
01:50:07.000 2,000 calories is not a lot.
01:50:08.000 So if you had 2,000 calories of carbohydrates and you're going to gain weight from that, you can gain weight from 2,000 calories a day?
01:50:14.000 Yeah.
01:50:15.000 That's incredible.
01:50:16.000 So there's other factors and things like that, but that just dispels this concept of...
01:50:22.000 Count calories.
01:50:23.000 They're all the same.
01:50:24.000 They're not the same.
01:50:24.000 They're not the same at all.
01:50:25.000 How they impact hormones is not the same.
01:50:29.000 Hormonal function, insulin response.
01:50:31.000 What does insulin do?
01:50:33.000 Well, it stores.
01:50:34.000 It shuttles things, right?
01:50:35.000 So if we are constantly inundating ourselves with carbohydrates and in this store mode, any excess is getting put on.
01:50:42.000 Right.
01:50:43.000 How do you tell your body to burn fat?
01:50:44.000 It's a longer, harder process when you have this easy, super rapid thing it can break down and then use glycolytically.
01:50:51.000 It doesn't make sense.
01:50:52.000 But when you talk to the Instagram wizards, these dieticians in training, they'll tell you, bro, you need fucking carbohydrates to operate your brain, bro.
01:51:03.000 Yeah, all the science.
01:51:04.000 I love this too.
01:51:05.000 You talk about science and...
01:51:07.000 Eddie Bravo would probably like this too, the Mr. Conspiracy Theory guy.
01:51:11.000 I love him.
01:51:12.000 Who pays for that fucking carbohydrate research?
01:51:15.000 Right.
01:51:16.000 Gatorade.
01:51:16.000 Gatorade Sports Science Institute.
01:51:18.000 Gatorade Sports Science Institute has done a majority of these studies.
01:51:22.000 Yeah.
01:51:22.000 Gatorade?
01:51:23.000 Nestle.
01:51:24.000 No, it's Gatorade.
01:51:26.000 It's Gatorade that's doing a lot of the studies on carbohydrate performance.
01:51:29.000 They're the guys that also proved, oh, this is the tipping point for fat oxidation in an hour, even though they use people that have been in ketosis for two weeks instead of two years.
01:51:38.000 So when you talk about guys like Jeff Finney and Steve Volok, who've been doing this research now since the 80s, I think?
01:52:01.000 Way less sleep.
01:52:03.000 But there's some type of thing that ketones do with the brain where you actually are more rested even if you were sleep deprived.
01:52:10.000 So if you had five or six hours of sleep, you could still wake up feeling refreshed and have your sharpness in the morning.
01:52:16.000 Rather than being on a heavy carbohydrate intensive diet.
01:52:18.000 Exactly.
01:52:19.000 Wow.
01:52:20.000 And they're not sure the mechanism for that yet.
01:52:22.000 That's why you got these geniuses studying these things.
01:52:25.000 But I think that there's nothing more important than when you try something and you actually feel a difference.
01:52:30.000 And that's not me saying, oh, you know...
01:52:34.000 If you're vegan, whatever.
01:52:35.000 If you're vegan and you feel awesome, fucking awesome, dude.
01:52:39.000 I'm not going to tell you to change.
01:52:40.000 I'm not going to say, well, you should add this to it.
01:52:41.000 No, dude, you've dialed it in.
01:52:43.000 Everyone's different.
01:52:44.000 But this, for me, has worked wonders.
01:52:46.000 Well, there's also awesome, and then there's better than awesome.
01:52:49.000 You know, like some people say, like, hey, I've been on this kind of diet and I feel fantastic, so I'm just going to keep it the way it is.
01:52:55.000 Well, meanwhile, if you added a certain thing to your diet or added a little bit more vitamin D or added a little bit more, you might feel actually better.
01:53:03.000 Like, your idea of what awesome is.
01:53:05.000 I think a lot of times it's like, have you ever had water in your ear and you think everything's okay?
01:53:09.000 Like, oh, this is how I hear.
01:53:10.000 And then, you know, it pops and you go, oh, I could hear like this.
01:53:14.000 Like, you weren't even considering that you were hearing like shit.
01:53:18.000 That's what cracks me up about when people talk.
01:53:21.000 By no means am I some type of psychedelic pusher or anything like that, but when I first did ayahuasca, it consumed my mind.
01:53:29.000 Holy shit, I want to stand on a mountaintop and tell people about this.
01:53:32.000 I want every one of my friends to know about it, my family.
01:53:35.000 I want them to try this.
01:53:36.000 I want them to see what I've seen.
01:53:37.000 I want them to experience this.
01:53:38.000 And then over time, you realize, oh...
01:53:42.000 You listen to people talk like, you know what, life's just so good right now.
01:53:47.000 I don't really need to change anything.
01:53:49.000 Are you a fucking finished product?
01:53:51.000 You can't improve your life?
01:53:52.000 Are you Mr. Perfect?
01:53:53.000 I'm Mr. Manhattan.
01:53:54.000 I'm Dr. Manhattan.
01:53:56.000 There's no room for getting better.
01:53:58.000 There's no room for enjoying life more, improving, whatever.
01:54:01.000 And that was just funny to me.
01:54:05.000 That dynamic.
01:54:06.000 There are a lot of people that just say to themselves, I'm comfortable.
01:54:10.000 Why change?
01:54:11.000 Yeah, well, people don't like feeling like shit, and they don't like feeling like their house is in disarray.
01:54:19.000 And so if they get to a state where they go, I'm happy right now.
01:54:22.000 Everything's good.
01:54:23.000 I'm happy right now.
01:54:24.000 Like, I'm happy being chubby.
01:54:26.000 Like, I've heard that before.
01:54:27.000 There's nothing wrong with being chubby.
01:54:29.000 I'm happy.
01:54:29.000 I'm happy right now with the way I am.
01:54:33.000 Some people will convince themselves.
01:54:35.000 I oftentimes read things that people write and I go, God damn it.
01:54:39.000 I wonder if this person is expressing themselves honestly or if they're trying to get other people to be convinced that they're okay.
01:54:47.000 I would lean towards that.
01:54:48.000 Yeah.
01:54:50.000 I've brought this article up more than once, but I read this article written by this woman who's 70 years old, struggled with weight her whole life, and she was promoting fat acceptance, and that people are prejudiced towards people that are overweight, but in fact,
01:55:05.000 she's incredibly healthy, and she's so active, and she does all these things.
01:55:09.000 She's just always been heavy, and I'm like, mm.
01:55:12.000 See, scientifically, that doesn't make any sense.
01:55:15.000 It just doesn't.
01:55:15.000 Like, if you're eating healthy foods and your body's healthy, you shouldn't be storing that much extra fat.
01:55:21.000 It just doesn't make any sense.
01:55:22.000 But she's promoting it in this article, like, if you didn't know any better and just took this article, it's like, well, this is this one woman's account of her life, and by her accounts, she's incredibly healthy.
01:55:33.000 She's hiking, and she's so active, and she's eating healthy, but she's just fat.
01:55:39.000 Not really makes sense, doesn't it?
01:55:41.000 No.
01:55:42.000 Something's missing there.
01:55:43.000 Yeah.
01:55:43.000 What is it?
01:55:45.000 Well, I mean, I actually had this as one of my first breakthroughs in my very first ceremony.
01:55:55.000 I was hearing people violently puke around me, and I thought I was like in a war zone.
01:56:01.000 And this is just starting to kick in inside me.
01:56:04.000 I've taken my second cup of ayahuasca, and it sounds like people are dying.
01:56:08.000 And I realized, oh, they're puking.
01:56:10.000 And then I thought, oh...
01:56:13.000 That's because these fuckers didn't do the dieta.
01:56:15.000 They didn't eat clean.
01:56:16.000 Like, you have to eat a certain way prior to it.
01:56:18.000 And I thought, oh, I eat clean.
01:56:19.000 I take care of myself.
01:56:21.000 These people don't take care of themselves.
01:56:23.000 And, like, all the...
01:56:23.000 It kind of snowballed into this feeling that I had about fat people in general.
01:56:29.000 Like, they didn't...
01:56:29.000 You're not taking care of yourself.
01:56:30.000 What are you doing?
01:56:31.000 Why would you do that to yourself?
01:56:32.000 Why would you do that to your body?
01:56:33.000 You know, like, I've always been thin and athletic and...
01:56:37.000 It was easy for me to do these things.
01:56:39.000 So when I'm feeling this and I just started to notice, like, holy shit, why do I feel this way?
01:56:45.000 Damn, this is getting worse and worse.
01:56:47.000 And then I jumped up and grabbed the bucket and puked my brains out like I'd never puked before.
01:56:53.000 And it came out of me, this feeling, this animosity towards people.
01:56:58.000 And I understood right then, like, they don't know any better.
01:57:01.000 I don't know how they got there, but I do know that they don't know any better.
01:57:07.000 They don't know how to get out of that.
01:57:09.000 Even if they do know intellectually, they haven't internalized it.
01:57:14.000 They haven't put it into action.
01:57:14.000 It hasn't been digested.
01:57:15.000 There's plenty of things that you can take at face value.
01:57:18.000 You hear and it resonates with you and you're like, oh yeah, that makes perfect sense.
01:57:22.000 But you don't assimilate it.
01:57:24.000 You don't put it into action.
01:57:25.000 And I think for that, I don't know, maybe every time their mom and dad fought, They took them to get ice cream cones at McDonald's.
01:57:31.000 Oh, it's okay.
01:57:32.000 You know, come on.
01:57:33.000 We'll go for a car ride.
01:57:34.000 It'll be fine.
01:57:35.000 Here's an ice cream cone.
01:57:35.000 And then now, anytime they're under stress, fuck, I need ice cream.
01:57:39.000 And they don't even think about it.
01:57:40.000 Or maybe they do know and they still say, I don't care.
01:57:42.000 I know this ice cream cone is going to make me feel better.
01:57:44.000 Whatever it is, I don't know.
01:57:46.000 That's not my place to be like, hey, you fat fuck.
01:57:48.000 You know, like that helped me grow from that.
01:57:51.000 And that was a huge, that was like, how could puking be good?
01:57:55.000 That puking is amazing when you're getting rid of something like that.
01:57:59.000 Right, like you're letting go of a thought that you had, like this attachment that you had.
01:58:03.000 Yeah, I mean, there's a certain holier-than-thou attitude that certain people with great metabolisms and active lifestyles will have towards people that maybe they just, when they grew up, they weren't led towards athletics.
01:58:17.000 Maybe they were bullied.
01:58:19.000 Maybe they had poor diets in the home, they didn't know any better, and now here they find themselves X amount of years later, a product to a whole series of things.
01:58:29.000 Yeah, think of the impact it would have.
01:58:30.000 You always get picked last for kickball or handball or any of that stupid, those dumb playground games.
01:58:36.000 You're always picked last.
01:58:38.000 You don't want to play them anymore.
01:58:39.000 You're not interested in that.
01:58:40.000 You associate them with bad feelings.
01:58:43.000 I was having a conversation about this with a friend of mine.
01:58:46.000 She was talking about how there's women that are angry feminists that truly don't like men.
01:58:56.000 They hate men and they don't like masculinity.
01:58:58.000 She was trying to figure out what that's all about.
01:59:01.000 And I was like, well, the parallel's gotta be there's certain men that I know that don't like women.
01:59:08.000 They hate women.
01:59:08.000 And one of the reasons why is because they've been rejected by women their whole life.
01:59:11.000 So they associate women with a negative feeling.
01:59:14.000 They associate women with rejection.
01:59:16.000 They associate women with the women, like, is cold-hearted, leaves them, goes with another guy.
01:59:21.000 Humiliation.
01:59:22.000 Like, how could she fucking do that to me, that bitch?
01:59:24.000 Well, she doesn't owe you.
01:59:26.000 She's not attracted to you.
01:59:27.000 Like, you've got, for whatever reason, the universe dealt you an extremely shitty deck of cards.
01:59:32.000 And that's just the way it is.
01:59:34.000 But, so, forever, this person that I know that has this issue, his association with women is of women, they use him, they want things from him, his money, they don't want him, and they treat him badly, and he feels like shit and hateful.
01:59:50.000 Whereas...
01:59:51.000 I have friends that are good looking guys that there's no reason.
01:59:57.000 They were just born good looking.
01:59:59.000 They just got great bone structure, and they happen to look good.
02:00:03.000 And women are attracted to them.
02:00:04.000 And their ideas of women are totally different.
02:00:07.000 Their ideas of women are, hey, chicks are fun.
02:00:10.000 They're great.
02:00:10.000 Don't get tied down, though, bro.
02:00:12.000 Keep it open.
02:00:13.000 Move free.
02:00:14.000 You know, like, their ideas of women are much more light and, like, women are, they're a gift.
02:00:20.000 They're a great thing in life.
02:00:21.000 They're not this evil...
02:00:23.000 So this, like, this association can often be correlated by what kind of a relationship do you have with the opposite sex.
02:00:32.000 Like if you're a woman and you're overweight and you've always been fat, your whole life has been like a series of drunken moments with men who felt sick after they were with you and you were rejected and any man that you were attracted to wanted to have nothing to do with you.
02:00:48.000 So your feelings about men are just this, ugh!
02:00:52.000 They're angry, these assholes, these bros, these douchebags.
02:00:57.000 Not taking into consideration like, well, what is this relationship you have with him and what's the root cause of it?
02:01:03.000 Some of it is outside of your, if it's just genetics, completely outside of your control.
02:01:08.000 There's nothing you can do about the way your face looks or how tall you are or how short you are or how big your feet are.
02:01:15.000 You know, there's nothing you can do about that.
02:01:18.000 The relationship between how what you look and how physically attractive you are sexually like people's desire to reproduce with you it really comes down to that in a lot of ways like what is the relationship you have with the opposite sex because boy When you go and really pay attention to,
02:01:38.000 like, hardcore feminists, what you find is a lot of older, successful women and women that are overweight and not attractive.
02:01:47.000 And you find, you know, all sorts of different people in between there.
02:01:51.000 But there's an overwhelming number of people that have not had good success with the opposite sex, both from women-hating men and from men-hating women.
02:02:01.000 And it's, like, extremely unfortunate.
02:02:04.000 If you look at it that way, it's extremely unfortunate.
02:02:07.000 Taking out gender inequality, financial issues, all sorts of issues that also come with being a male men's rights advocate or a woman's rights advocate, a feminist, there's an overall attitude that people have an issue with when it comes to someone who identifies with one gender or another gender and despises the other gender.
02:02:29.000 Oftentimes, it's because their associations and relationships with that gender have been negative due to the fact that they're not desired.
02:02:37.000 Well, really, it comes down to them.
02:02:39.000 What are you doing for yourself?
02:02:43.000 What is your relationship with the opposite sex?
02:02:46.000 Certainly has to do with that, but what is your relationship in life?
02:02:48.000 Do you have this assumption that all dudes are dicks and they all behave the same way?
02:02:55.000 Your mindset can keep you stuck in that hole just the same.
02:03:00.000 If you're always thinking this is exactly how they are, it's going to reciprocate itself over and over and over again.
02:03:06.000 So you're always correct.
02:03:08.000 Yeah, there's that.
02:03:09.000 But then there's also the reality, like my friend who doesn't like, well he's not my friend anymore, but who doesn't like women.
02:03:15.000 He's an ugly dude.
02:03:17.000 He's always going to be an ugly dude.
02:03:19.000 Does he like porn?
02:03:20.000 Does he like anything?
02:03:21.000 What do you mean?
02:03:21.000 Does he not like women?
02:03:22.000 No, he gets angry.
02:03:25.000 He gets angry.
02:03:26.000 He never has a girlfriend.
02:03:27.000 He's never been married.
02:03:29.000 He's just always dating and drifting around.
02:03:31.000 That sounds to me like a guy who needs to work on himself.
02:03:34.000 Well, he definitely does.
02:03:35.000 But it's also, the girls that he likes, they never really were into him.
02:03:40.000 Just not attractive.
02:03:42.000 He got a shit roll of the dice.
02:03:44.000 Yeah.
02:03:44.000 His roll of the dice sucks.
02:03:47.000 I don't know where I'm going with this.
02:03:49.000 But what I'm trying to say is...
02:03:52.000 I'm not trying to say anything.
02:04:22.000 You've read horrible shit that people write about you online, like after fights.
02:04:27.000 Dude, I mean, look, the kind of hate that is available to fighters is some of the most fucking vicious and personal and emotional hate.
02:04:37.000 The people that go after them, like quote-unquote fans.
02:04:41.000 Yeah.
02:04:42.000 Every one of them's a loser.
02:04:43.000 Every one of them.
02:04:44.000 Every one of them.
02:04:45.000 Every fucking evil, nasty douchebag that seeks you out to say mean shit to you after a loss and tweets at you.
02:04:55.000 I mean, I've seen some horrific shit that guys write to fighters directly after a loss, both on Facebook and on Instagram, Twitter, everything.
02:05:05.000 Those people are all unsuccessful.
02:05:07.000 They're all failures.
02:05:08.000 All of them.
02:05:09.000 That's the only reason why they would do that.
02:05:11.000 It's one thing to say, man, that fucking guy, he got killed.
02:05:14.000 Or, man, that guy got tapped quick.
02:05:16.000 Or, how good is this guy?
02:05:18.000 Man, I can't believe he ran through that guy like this.
02:05:20.000 Those are almost analytical discussions that you have with people where things happen and you didn't see it coming.
02:05:27.000 Like, okay, Ryan Bader versus Rumble Johnson.
02:05:30.000 Like that fight.
02:05:31.000 Without saying anything horrible about...
02:05:33.000 Ryan Bader, you'd go, fuck man, Rumble Johnson, Jesus Christ, you just ran him over, man.
02:05:38.000 Fuck, who can take that guy's shots?
02:05:40.000 And you, that's like a non-asshole-ish way of approaching it.
02:05:45.000 But good Lord, I read some shit online that people tweeted to him, to Bader, and like, you fucking, you should be in a jail somewhere.
02:05:53.000 You're a monster.
02:05:54.000 You're looking at this guy like here's a downed, wounded thing, and I'm gonna just piss on him.
02:06:00.000 I'm gonna find a spot, a soft spot, and I'm gonna jab him with sticks.
02:06:03.000 I'm gonna see if I can fuck with his head.
02:06:06.000 Anybody who does that, those people that are doing that, those haters, they're all losers.
02:06:10.000 It's the saddest thing about it.
02:06:12.000 It's like they're looking at this one person, this one thing, this object that they can attack, and they're externalizing all the issues they have with themselves, the imbalances they have.
02:06:26.000 And this new ability that we have to reach people and communicate with people that really don't want to have anything to do with you.
02:06:32.000 In the real world, Ryan Bader doesn't give a fuck about this guy's opinion.
02:06:35.000 He doesn't know him.
02:06:36.000 And in the real world, nobody's saying shit to his face.
02:06:38.000 He's like, oh my god, I think that's Ryan Bader.
02:06:40.000 And they run up to him and just blow him right there.
02:06:43.000 Oh, you're so fucking awesome.
02:06:44.000 You know?
02:06:45.000 Same exact guy.
02:06:47.000 Same exact guy.
02:06:48.000 Boy, there's some hateful people out there, man.
02:06:50.000 I know so many fighters that just don't go on social media now because of it.
02:06:54.000 You know?
02:06:55.000 You think, fighters are tough, they should fucking toughen up.
02:06:58.000 Maybe you're just a cunt.
02:07:00.000 Maybe it's not fighters are tough, and they should just toughen up.
02:07:04.000 Maybe it's like, what you're doing, you're being shitty to someone you don't even know.
02:07:10.000 Again, where am I going with this?
02:07:11.000 I don't know.
02:07:12.000 I completely agree.
02:07:13.000 Even when we...
02:07:15.000 I forget who it was.
02:07:16.000 Greenflower Media did a thing on me talking about cannabis and CBD and how many guys in the sport use and just not naming names and Jose Canseco-ing it, but talking about a lot of a smoked pot.
02:07:27.000 It helps us sleep at night.
02:07:29.000 It helps turn off our brain when we're overthinking shit.
02:07:31.000 And you got something big coming up.
02:07:35.000 More than, obviously now with USADA and things like that, there's a lot less.
02:07:39.000 But back in the day, yeah, there was a lot of us.
02:07:41.000 But even with USADA, out of competition, you can smoke pot.
02:07:46.000 And in competition, you can smoke pot up until the week of the fight and still be okay.
02:07:51.000 This is good news for me to tell people.
02:07:53.000 Yeah.
02:07:54.000 But yeah, we did that video, and then sure enough, I didn't know it was going to get decent.
02:07:59.000 Not that it went big, but BJPenn.com ran it, and it made it bigger than it was.
02:08:04.000 And of course, at the bottom of the video, everyone's comments, I got like two or three comments like, oh no, this is an MMA site.
02:08:13.000 Oh, no.
02:08:14.000 It didn't help him when Jimmy Maniwa smashed his face in, did he?
02:08:19.000 He wasn't smoked in that.
02:08:20.000 It was like, oh, God.
02:08:21.000 How does this have anything to do with what we're talking about here?
02:08:24.000 It's nothing to do with anything.
02:08:25.000 But it's funny.
02:08:26.000 It's like, allow me to...
02:08:29.000 Allow me to knock you down here a couple pegs while we're talking.
02:08:33.000 Well, there's also people that don't recognize what they're doing and they're just talking.
02:08:39.000 They're just making noises and they're not even evil.
02:08:42.000 They just don't realize what they're saying is hurtful or stupid or idiotic because they've been given this access to people that's unprecedented.
02:08:51.000 There's no training for this.
02:08:53.000 No one had anything like social media in our parents' days.
02:08:55.000 It just didn't exist.
02:08:57.000 So they never taught us about it.
02:08:59.000 That's a weird thing, thinking about having kids.
02:09:02.000 Like, I look at Bear now, and I'm like, fuck, dude.
02:09:05.000 We grew up when you had wired telephones.
02:09:08.000 And then we saw giant Zack Morris cell phones come into play.
02:09:12.000 And we had the car phone and things like that.
02:09:15.000 And then just this evolution over time.
02:09:17.000 They're born.
02:09:18.000 They're not knowing a world...
02:09:20.000 Without internet, without instant access.
02:09:22.000 Yeah, but you know what?
02:09:22.000 Our grandparents, same thing.
02:09:24.000 They were like, I remember when you had to take a boat to get here from Europe.
02:09:28.000 And then, you know, we grew up in a much more technologically advanced era, but our kids are going to grow up in an era that's mind-blowing to us, but their kids are going to grow up in an era of virtual reality that makes this look like a joke.
02:09:42.000 It makes our video games look stupid.
02:09:44.000 You know, yeah, my dad's always bragging about how awesome Mafia 3 was.
02:09:48.000 Listen, you know, You had to sit in front of a box like I'm in the fucking Star Trek room surrounded by killers right now.
02:09:55.000 Yeah, we're probably gonna go to places just like those old Schwarzenegger movies or any of those movies.
02:09:59.000 You're gonna probably go to a place, you're gonna lie down, they're gonna clamp some shit down on the side of your head and you go, are you ready, Mr. Kingsbury?
02:10:07.000 Give me the thumbs up if you're ready to launch.
02:10:09.000 You give the thumbs up and you're in the Avatar world and you're riding a fucking dragon.
02:10:14.000 That's gonna happen inside of the next hundred years.
02:10:18.000 It's 100% gonna happen.
02:10:21.000 It's just a matter of time.
02:10:22.000 If they keep going, we don't blow ourselves up, we don't get hit by an asteroid, they're gonna come up with artificial reality that's indistinguishable from this reality.
02:10:30.000 And all of our entertainment is going to be a joke.
02:10:32.000 Like, why would you actually jump out of a plane and go skydiving when you can get the skydiving experience with this thing on your head that's going to make you feel like you did?
02:10:43.000 What was that movie?
02:10:46.000 Total Recall?
02:10:47.000 Strange Days.
02:10:48.000 Oh yeah, that's right.
02:10:49.000 Right?
02:10:49.000 You could video, and they had like snuff videos where a guy would actually kill somebody and you felt what he felt when he killed another person.
02:10:56.000 Like you felt all the neurotransmitters, everything was going through your brain, the heart racing feeling of actually ending someone's life.
02:11:03.000 And you know, that was the illegal portion of it.
02:11:05.000 And they had the legal portion would be like sex with your loved one or whatever, those kind of things.
02:11:10.000 But you could actually tap into the consciousness of someone's memory as long as that was recorded.
02:11:16.000 I think that's going to happen.
02:11:18.000 I think it's definitely going to happen.
02:11:20.000 It's just a matter of time.
02:11:22.000 If they keep going, it's a matter of one invention and one discovery makes way for another invention and another discovery.
02:11:31.000 They compound on each other.
02:11:33.000 They build on each other.
02:11:34.000 And next thing you know, reality is unrecognizable.
02:11:37.000 Like the reality that we experience today, you know, we're talking about these primitive diets.
02:11:42.000 Primal existence.
02:11:45.000 The idea behind all of this is obviously that our bodies It takes thousands of years.
02:11:50.000 They say about 10,000 years for your genes to totally change and adapt to new diet, new environment, new lifestyle.
02:11:57.000 And so we're dealing with bodies that are primarily adjusted to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
02:12:03.000 And all this other stuff that we've added into it over the last 10, 20,000 years or whatever, agriculture, grains, growing different foods.
02:12:10.000 You keep them in storage bins and things like that, like grain silos.
02:12:15.000 That's all fairly recent.
02:12:17.000 And yes, you can live like that, for sure.
02:12:20.000 Yeah, grains are fun.
02:12:21.000 Yeah, you can eat it.
02:12:22.000 But what is your body optimized for?
02:12:25.000 What does your body exist with the least amount of hiccups?
02:12:29.000 Well, it's probably the stuff that's super clean and normal.
02:12:34.000 Like fish, vegetables, chicken, meat, things along those lines.
02:12:39.000 Your body knows exactly.
02:12:40.000 And the stuff that we haven't fucked with.
02:12:41.000 Not farm-raised this and that.
02:12:43.000 No farm-raised fish.
02:12:45.000 Eating genetically modified soybeans and whatever.
02:12:49.000 What's the most realist food we can put in our body?
02:12:52.000 Well, you probably go camping and shit too, right?
02:12:54.000 Hell yeah.
02:12:55.000 Yeah.
02:12:56.000 You know that feeling that you get when you're out in the woods when you don't have any cell phone signal?
02:13:00.000 With a gang of mushrooms.
02:13:02.000 That too.
02:13:03.000 Well, that's extreme.
02:13:05.000 But just even being alone, like you hear the...
02:13:08.000 nothing.
02:13:10.000 You hear nothing.
02:13:11.000 You hear the real nothing.
02:13:12.000 The real nothing of the woods.
02:13:14.000 It's almost like, scary.
02:13:16.000 Because you realize, like, this forest doesn't give a fuck about me.
02:13:21.000 If a tree falls in your head and you die right there, the forest doesn't skip a beat.
02:13:25.000 The squirrels and the chipmunks keep running around.
02:13:28.000 The birds keep flying.
02:13:29.000 The deer keep running.
02:13:30.000 It's all the same.
02:13:31.000 It literally does not matter.
02:13:33.000 It's been like this before you.
02:13:35.000 It will be like this unless we fuck it up.
02:13:36.000 It'll be like this after you.
02:13:38.000 This is just the way...
02:13:39.000 Even if we fuck it up, it'll go back to that at some point.
02:13:41.000 Or something different.
02:13:42.000 It'll become something different.
02:13:44.000 Some new form of nature.
02:13:46.000 But...
02:13:47.000 You go from that to, like, cities.
02:13:50.000 And cities are this bizarre, strange, different kind of life.
02:13:53.000 Like, I was in Manhattan last weekend.
02:13:55.000 It's fucking awesome!
02:13:56.000 It's awesome to visit.
02:13:58.000 You go there, you're like, you're going from one place to another, and this restaurant, that building, and look at this view, and holy shit, and get on the subway, and you're fucking cruising along under the buildings, and it's awesome!
02:14:11.000 But it's awesome in a completely different way.
02:14:13.000 It's awesome in this new way, this new bizarre way that we're sort of adapting to.
02:14:18.000 And this new way is available to us and wasn't available to people 10,000 years ago.
02:14:24.000 This is like a mind blower.
02:14:25.000 If you took someone from 10,000 years ago and brought them to Manhattan and just put them in the 72nd floor of one of those apartment buildings with a crazy view and just look out.
02:14:35.000 Look out at the city and be like...
02:14:37.000 What in the fuck am I seeing?
02:14:39.000 You know?
02:14:40.000 Like, you've been to Vegas.
02:14:41.000 You ever been to, like, the top of the Mandalay Bay?
02:14:44.000 That bar that's up there that has the crazy view and the glass floor?
02:14:48.000 Oh, yeah.
02:14:48.000 Fuck!
02:14:49.000 You just look out at the top of that building and you're like, God, this is insane!
02:14:55.000 This is like some Blade Runner shit.
02:14:57.000 Yeah.
02:14:59.000 We're experiencing something that no culture's ever experienced.
02:15:03.000 We're experiencing something that no generation's ever experienced.
02:15:06.000 It's the technological heights that we're living in.
02:15:09.000 And this ain't shit compared to what our kids are going to experience.
02:15:12.000 Well, hopefully there are intelligent people like Marxists on and other guys that continue to push the envelope to reconnect.
02:15:20.000 There is a reason.
02:15:22.000 That we feel amazing at the beach.
02:15:24.000 Not everyone has access to the beach, but there's a reason we feel amazing at the beach.
02:15:28.000 And scientifically, they're showing now with negative ions and the energy of the earth, it has an impact on how we feel.
02:15:35.000 The beach does.
02:15:36.000 The ocean does, for sure.
02:15:38.000 The wind coming off the ocean does.
02:15:40.000 So even if you were on a boat over the water, you're going to feel better just from doing that.
02:15:45.000 What does it do?
02:15:46.000 What specifically does it do to you?
02:15:49.000 From what I read and I understand, there are an abundance of negative ions.
02:15:53.000 So from an electrical standpoint, you're talking again about the human energy field and auras and woo-woo shit.
02:15:59.000 Chakras.
02:16:00.000 Chakras, bro.
02:16:01.000 Feel my chakra.
02:16:02.000 You're just going to feel more alive.
02:16:05.000 Every part of you...
02:16:06.000 I can't describe from a feeling standpoint.
02:16:10.000 Everyone has their experiences at the ocean.
02:16:11.000 But from an electrical standpoint, you would say you're clearing out blockages from your chi, from a Chinese medicine standpoint, from...
02:16:19.000 From a kundalini and yoga standpoint, you're going to clear out blockages the same way.
02:16:23.000 What are those blockages?
02:16:25.000 Is there really a blockage or are you just experiencing energy from the ocean and it feels good?
02:16:32.000 Maybe both.
02:16:33.000 Maybe there is no blockage.
02:16:34.000 But I'm willing to bet from somebody who sits too long or has stress, you know, and different things like that, like, there very much can be a physical attachment to emotion.
02:16:44.000 And if you've ever had, like, bodywork done and somebody, you have a, you know, somebody's working through a knot and you all of a sudden start thinking of this thing that's been bothering you.
02:16:53.000 In your head.
02:16:54.000 Relationship, whatever.
02:16:56.000 There is physical attachments to mental and emotional things that go on in your head.
02:17:01.000 So when you get a massage and you have a knot and they work through it, you think there's emotions tied up in that knot?
02:17:09.000 Not always, but sometimes.
02:17:10.000 Really?
02:17:11.000 Yeah.
02:17:11.000 How does that work?
02:17:13.000 I don't know how it works.
02:17:14.000 I don't know why it would manifest there.
02:17:17.000 I don't know why we have an electrical field.
02:17:21.000 We do.
02:17:22.000 I don't believe that there's emotions tied up in knots in your body.
02:17:27.000 I think when you get rid of those knots, it relaxes you and that helps you deal with emotions better.
02:17:32.000 Okay, maybe I went down the wrong path there.
02:17:34.000 Does that make sense?
02:17:35.000 Yes, I agree with that.
02:17:36.000 From a feel-good standpoint, feeling better at the ocean might just be the view.
02:17:40.000 But from an electrical standpoint, there are, and this goes back to the studies done at UCLA, there very much is an electrical standpoint that changes from the ionic energy coming from the waves, coming from the water, coming from the wind that's above the water.
02:17:53.000 Right.
02:17:54.000 Because like yoga talk, they'll say shit to you like, this hip opener is going to make you feel better about your childhood.
02:18:01.000 It's going to open up emotional blockages.
02:18:03.000 And you're like, I'm pretty sure we're just stretching.
02:18:06.000 Yeah.
02:18:06.000 Well, that's talking about root chakra and exactly how the different chakras work, what they correlate to and things like that.
02:18:12.000 I don't know necessarily...
02:18:15.000 In a visionary state, I can see energy.
02:18:18.000 I don't see colors.
02:18:19.000 I don't see like, oh, here's my heart chakra or anything like that.
02:18:22.000 But I have seen trees communicate to one another.
02:18:25.000 Really?
02:18:26.000 Vibrations coming from the treetops as they were talking to one another.
02:18:29.000 What does it look like?
02:18:32.000 Like ripples in water.
02:18:34.000 Wow.
02:18:35.000 But it's the air that's rippling.
02:18:37.000 And you could see perfect circles coming from the tops of the treetops.
02:18:40.000 There was something I tweeted the other day.
02:18:42.000 They found that Venus flytraps do calculations.
02:18:47.000 They count.
02:18:50.000 From some study.
02:18:52.000 They figured out some method of measuring the fact that they actually count things.
02:18:58.000 They're doing calculations.
02:19:01.000 The idea that they're not smart.
02:19:03.000 There is an intelligence in plants.
02:19:05.000 I laugh at the argument from vegans, from a consciousness standpoint.
02:19:11.000 Whatever spark we have, call it soul, call it whatever, plants have it.
02:19:16.000 Whatever animates us and gives us...
02:19:20.000 Us.
02:19:21.000 It's in them too.
02:19:22.000 Yeah.
02:19:22.000 For sure.
02:19:23.000 It is.
02:19:23.000 For sure is.
02:19:24.000 They can't communicate in a way that we can clearly understand.
02:19:28.000 They don't bark at us.
02:19:29.000 They don't look at us with sad puppy dog eyes.
02:19:31.000 But there's something alive in them.
02:19:33.000 Some strange way that they communicate and that they absorb energy and life.
02:19:39.000 And that you get that from them.
02:19:41.000 Life eats life.
02:19:42.000 But that said, I know many people that have had visionary experiences and became vegan afterwards.
02:19:48.000 Yeah, that's actually a That's actually really common, especially in people that do multiple ayahuasca ceremonies.
02:19:57.000 And I had a vision, my only vision I've ever had of bears, I had a vision of seeing a panda bear eat bamboo.
02:20:03.000 And then I saw a black bear eating berries, and I was like, oh, fuck, am I gonna be vegan?
02:20:07.000 And then I saw a grizzly snatching salmon out.
02:20:10.000 And I was like, oh, and it was just eat the natural, whatever it is.
02:20:14.000 There's no right or wrong, but eat, take from me.
02:20:17.000 This was Mother Earth talking to me, take from me.
02:20:20.000 Yeah.
02:20:21.000 So that's what it was.
02:20:22.000 It wasn't, this is right, that's wrong.
02:20:23.000 Every animal eats different things, you know?
02:20:25.000 There's always these...
02:20:27.000 I made fun of Aaron Simpson for...
02:20:29.000 I think he posted a giant gorilla, and he's like, not enough protein in my diet, bro?
02:20:35.000 You know, and it's like this 800-pound gorilla, you know, and it's like, hey, look...
02:20:40.000 There's no right or wrong here.
02:20:42.000 You're not going to go to the lion and say, oh, you're doing this all wrong, lion.
02:20:46.000 Here, eat some grass instead.
02:20:47.000 Come on.
02:20:48.000 No.
02:20:48.000 It's fine, as long as it's from nature.
02:20:51.000 Whether it provides, take it.
02:20:52.000 Gorilla's a totally different animal.
02:20:54.000 It's not a person.
02:20:55.000 People are omnivores.
02:20:57.000 From a chemical standpoint, they're going to break down things we can't break down without digestive enzymes added to our diet.
02:21:02.000 Yeah.
02:21:02.000 But people love that argument.
02:21:04.000 Look how strong gorillas are, bro.
02:21:06.000 They just eat roots and shit.
02:21:08.000 Why don't you go pull shit out of a swamp and eat the stem?
02:21:12.000 Like, they chew on stems.
02:21:14.000 What else do they do?
02:21:14.000 They also have one-inch dicks.
02:21:16.000 How about that?
02:21:17.000 There's a lot of bad things about being a gorilla.
02:21:21.000 I don't know.
02:21:21.000 I just think that factory farming is something that people recognize a lot when they have psychedelic experiences.
02:21:28.000 The connection between the suffering of their food, and that's real.
02:21:33.000 I've had multiple visions of that, for sure.
02:21:36.000 That's as real as it gets, man.
02:21:38.000 And that's not fun.
02:21:39.000 It's not like you watch that and you're like, oh, like you're watching a movie.
02:21:42.000 It's not like watching The Cove.
02:21:44.000 And watching The Cove is hard enough.
02:21:45.000 But I mean, you experience it.
02:21:47.000 You feel what it's like.
02:21:48.000 You embody that consciousness.
02:21:50.000 Yeah.
02:21:50.000 And you know.
02:21:51.000 They know.
02:21:52.000 They're fucking aware.
02:21:53.000 They're not just these dumb things like, well, go around and eat some whatever they provide for me.
02:21:58.000 No, you know.
02:21:59.000 My buddy's on the chopping block.
02:22:01.000 I'm stuck here shoulder to shoulder.
02:22:02.000 You can feel that and tap into that.
02:22:05.000 And I don't know how that's going to stop.
02:22:07.000 That seems to be ingrained in our idea of feeding cities.
02:22:13.000 It seems like the only way they can produce enough meat to feed all these fucking people in these cities, the way they're doing it now, is to continue this factory farming method.
02:22:25.000 It's just horrific.
02:22:28.000 The movie Food Inc.
02:22:29.000 Awesome documentary.
02:22:30.000 Yeah.
02:22:31.000 And the end is, hey, like, yeah, it's fucked.
02:22:34.000 What do we do?
02:22:34.000 What do we do now?
02:22:35.000 You do vote with your dollar.
02:22:37.000 So every time you say, I can't even taste the difference between free range eggs and these caged eggs, I'm going to save a few bucks.
02:22:45.000 You vote with your dollar.
02:23:04.000 And Costco, a mass-produced, wide-scale for cheap because there's a demand for it.
02:23:09.000 You go there in Arizona or Nevada, maybe not the same.
02:23:12.000 Whole Foods is going to have Whole Foods, but from giant companies like that, they're listening.
02:23:19.000 And it's just a matter of money.
02:23:21.000 If people are willing to spend it and this is what they want, they're going to supply it, period.
02:23:25.000 Yeah, but there's also those ag-gag laws that keep people from filming factory farms where they pack these chickens into these horrible living conditions and you can't film it.
02:23:37.000 If you film it, you can get in deep trouble.
02:23:39.000 They did a drone video.
02:23:41.000 The pig farm?
02:23:42.000 Yeah, the pig farm in Carolina.
02:23:43.000 That was a mindfucker.
02:23:46.000 Nasty.
02:23:46.000 And they show the people there.
02:23:47.000 That ocean of shit and piss that they had next to it.
02:23:49.000 Yeah, and they interview the people that are living by there, and they just smell it constantly.
02:23:54.000 Oh, yeah.
02:23:54.000 This funk.
02:23:55.000 Death.
02:23:56.000 Just death and methane.
02:23:57.000 I mean, that river of piss and shit that comes out of the bottom of that place and settles into that little lake that they had in front of them.
02:24:05.000 And that's not normal piss and shit.
02:24:06.000 That is the worst, most diseased...
02:24:09.000 You know, piss and shit.
02:24:11.000 Imagine just living there, like working there rather, like someone who works in there, like the sadness you feel every day and the smells that you take in through your nose every day.
02:24:21.000 PETA was showing a video, probably one of the worst that I actually had the balls to watch, of how faux gras is made in France.
02:24:27.000 You ever seen this?
02:24:28.000 Yeah, I have seen it.
02:24:28.000 Just brutal.
02:24:29.000 Like people are working there and they're tossing in the chicks.
02:24:34.000 That's their job, throw them in the meat grinder.
02:24:36.000 Oh.
02:24:36.000 So they have humans that actually have to be a part of that process.
02:24:39.000 So the ones that they don't...
02:24:41.000 That they don't want.
02:24:42.000 ...turn into, like, what is it, males or something like that?
02:24:43.000 I don't know.
02:24:43.000 They get rid of the males or they get rid of the females.
02:24:45.000 One or the other.
02:24:46.000 But it's, yeah.
02:24:47.000 The foie gras.
02:24:48.000 You know what's interesting about foie gras is they actually gravitate towards that feeder.
02:24:53.000 It's really strange.
02:24:53.000 I had a farmer explain it to me before.
02:24:55.000 Like, they actually want to be fed.
02:24:57.000 Like, they go to that feeder and you can grab them and stick it in their mouth and...
02:25:01.000 It looks awful when they force feed them.
02:25:04.000 Tump them up.
02:25:04.000 Yeah, they force feed them with grain.
02:25:06.000 They just pour it down their throat.
02:25:07.000 But apparently it's not that bad for them.
02:25:10.000 It's perception as far as like we're fattening them up for slaughter.
02:25:14.000 And what if that was you and they put your mouth around this metal pipe?
02:25:18.000 It's quality of life, you know?
02:25:20.000 But seeing these guys go through the meat grinder and some of them don't die.
02:25:23.000 The grinding up of the chicks?
02:25:25.000 They get ground up and some of them come out the other side still alive.
02:25:28.000 Yeah.
02:25:28.000 That's not foie gras, though.
02:25:30.000 They do that with a lot of roosters.
02:25:32.000 That's just a fact.
02:25:34.000 They just grind them up.
02:25:35.000 Yeah, it's a fuck deal.
02:25:36.000 It's a fuck deal.
02:25:37.000 You know, I was on the highway once and I passed this truck and it was stuffed with chickens.
02:25:41.000 It was just madness.
02:25:43.000 I was looking at this truck.
02:25:44.000 It was like, you know, there were some openings where the chickens could breathe, like some small holes in the side of the truck, and you're just realizing this is like a thing that's packed with life that's being treated like a commodity, like stacked rocks, you know?
02:26:00.000 It's bizarre.
02:26:01.000 It's bizarre to see a truck just driving down the road, just stacked bottom to top with living things that are just...
02:26:10.000 It's going to get either ground up or chopped up or, you know...
02:26:15.000 It doesn't matter.
02:26:16.000 They're going off to death.
02:26:18.000 Well, it's what happened when we made these city things.
02:26:21.000 This is also something that didn't exist 10, 20,000 years ago.
02:26:24.000 When they had any kind of agriculture back then, you grew some livestock, you killed those animals, you knew where they lived, you knew what they ate, or you knew the guy who raised them.
02:26:33.000 And it was real simple.
02:26:34.000 And then somewhere along the line, someone said, we need like a Costco of farming.
02:26:40.000 We need to get a big place and stuff everything in there and close it to the general public so nobody can see and jab these fuckers with needles and fill them up with antibiotics so they don't get sick from all this crazy food we're giving them.
02:26:54.000 Boy, the change from that...
02:26:56.000 People are much more aware now and they're asking for free-range food and antibiotic-free food and grass-fed meats and things along those lines, but most people can't afford it.
02:27:07.000 A lot of people can't afford it.
02:27:08.000 There's a difference between...
02:27:10.000 I think I spent a shit ton of money on that.
02:27:13.000 I really do.
02:27:13.000 A lot of money goes there.
02:27:15.000 I think knowing...
02:27:17.000 Where to get your food from.
02:27:18.000 There's certain things you've got to go, like, okay, hey, I can't afford...
02:27:21.000 To this day, I don't buy grass-fed filet mignon.
02:27:25.000 It's $25 a pound.
02:27:26.000 But I can afford grass-fed burger and free-range chicken.
02:27:30.000 They sell free-range organic chicken at Costco now.
02:27:33.000 So I can get it for $3.99 a pound.
02:27:35.000 What does that mean, though, when they say free-range organic?
02:27:38.000 Are they on a field having a great time?
02:27:40.000 They're allowed to go around.
02:27:41.000 Now, there's varying levels of that, obviously.
02:27:44.000 And certainly on a mass scale, it's probably not going to be the same as Farmer John down the street who's doing it all natural.
02:27:52.000 Organic is still going to be organic feed.
02:27:54.000 They can't do any antibiotics and they can't feed them GMO food from what my understanding is.
02:28:00.000 Well, what's interesting to me is that we're having these conversations now very frequently.
02:28:04.000 There's a lot of these documentaries where it's Food, Inc.
02:28:06.000 or King Corn or Cowspiracy.
02:28:08.000 There's a bunch of these documentaries where people are examining how food is made and prepared and where it's coming from and how they're growing it.
02:28:15.000 And we're more aware of it now than ever before.
02:28:17.000 So some people, at least, some people, there's a movement to make more conscious choices.
02:28:22.000 And this wasn't around when our parents were around.
02:28:26.000 I don't think factory farming was around when they were around either.
02:28:29.000 There's also the difference in the amount of people.
02:28:31.000 I mean, I've read something about the 1970s.
02:28:34.000 There was like a hundred million plus less people in America in the 1970s.
02:28:40.000 I mean, that's inside my life.
02:28:42.000 A hundred million plus more people just here in the United States.
02:28:47.000 Go research that, Jamie.
02:28:49.000 Pull that up.
02:28:51.000 Jamie's a wizard with this shit.
02:28:54.000 1970. 1970 was around 203 million.
02:28:57.000 Yeah.
02:28:58.000 So it's a hundred million difference.
02:29:00.000 That's crazy.
02:29:02.000 Boy, do we fuck the fuck.
02:29:03.000 We just love making babies.
02:29:05.000 Baby boomers, all the baby boomers, kids, having kids.
02:29:08.000 You're part of the problem now too, pal.
02:29:09.000 Me too.
02:29:11.000 Yeah.
02:29:11.000 Well, the good news is we were like, oh, you know, three, four, who knows.
02:29:16.000 Right.
02:29:17.000 Then you do that first six months and you're like, he might be an only child.
02:29:20.000 Right.
02:29:21.000 What the fuck did we do?
02:29:23.000 What do we get ourselves into?
02:29:24.000 We were talking about this before the podcast.
02:29:26.000 Once they start talking, man, it's a totally different world.
02:29:29.000 It all gets way better.
02:29:31.000 It gets way more easy.
02:29:32.000 But when they start talking, they become like your little friends.
02:29:36.000 It becomes like, I can't wait to see my kids.
02:29:39.000 After this podcast, I'm going to go hang out with them.
02:29:41.000 Yeah.
02:29:41.000 And it becomes amazing.
02:29:42.000 It is amazing.
02:29:43.000 They run, and they hug you, and they talk to you about school.
02:29:46.000 And my daughter had this thing today at school.
02:29:47.000 She had this little, you know, like, what do they call them?
02:29:52.000 I want to say a recital.
02:29:54.000 Assembly.
02:29:54.000 Assembly.
02:29:54.000 Thank you very much, Jamie.
02:29:56.000 They had a little assembly, and all the kids do their little thing.
02:29:58.000 And she had this big thing that she was, like, really proud of.
02:30:01.000 She had to announce something and say part of this little thing that they were going to do, part of this song.
02:30:06.000 They're doing a song about...
02:30:07.000 Different languages and speaking French and speaking Spanish.
02:30:10.000 And so she has to go up and do this little thing.
02:30:13.000 It's just like this little proud moment.
02:30:15.000 And afterwards, she's like beaming and she's so happy.
02:30:18.000 She's five, you know, and she runs up to me and jumps in my arms and gives me this big hug.
02:30:22.000 The love that you get from that, the feeling that you get of warmth and of love and of connection with this little tiny beautiful human, boy, it's like nothing else like it.
02:30:31.000 And then you also recognize, and this was one of the big ones for me, as my children got older and I started...
02:30:37.000 Putting it all, sort of trying at least to put the pieces of it all together.
02:30:42.000 I started looking at people like they're babies.
02:30:46.000 Like, oh, this fucked up dude who's all angry at the world and just devastated and just emotionally a wreck.
02:30:52.000 That was a baby.
02:30:54.000 That was a baby that just didn't get the love that he needed.
02:30:58.000 Or a baby that was abused, or a baby that was neglected, or a baby that was rejected, like, whatever it was, this fucked up person, now, in my mind, became a baby.
02:31:09.000 Like, crazy people.
02:31:11.000 Like, I'd see a girl, you know, on top of a bar with a fucking top off.
02:31:15.000 Fuck yeah!
02:31:16.000 Woo!
02:31:17.000 That's a baby.
02:31:18.000 That's a baby that became that.
02:31:20.000 Any asshole guy, you know, is fucking screaming at people in traffic and pointing out, I'll follow you to your fucking house.
02:31:28.000 That's a baby.
02:31:29.000 That's a baby that became this asshole.
02:31:31.000 It's just this developmental process that goes off the rails and into the forest and it's fucked up.
02:31:41.000 To get it back on track is insanely difficult.
02:31:44.000 Insanely.
02:31:45.000 And the work that's required, most people are not willing to do DMT. Most people are not willing to, you know, to change their diet and to take yoga every morning and to fucking get up early and meditate for 20 minutes every day to try to be mindful.
02:32:00.000 Most people are just acting on momentum, just scrambling and...
02:32:04.000 Yeah, how can I distract myself?
02:32:06.000 What can I put in front of my face that'll make me think of something else than what I have to deal with?
02:32:11.000 That's why I like talking to people like you.
02:32:13.000 Because I know that you're on this constant search for improvement and this constant search for growth.
02:32:18.000 And I think that talking to people like you and talking to people that are filling themselves with knowledge and...
02:32:23.000 And constantly trying to evaluate their perspective and maybe enhance their perspective.
02:32:29.000 That's inspiring.
02:32:30.000 And it also, it gives fuel to other people that want to do the same.
02:32:36.000 You know, like people will hear this podcast and they'll go, fuck man, I want to try some of that shit that Kyle Kingsbury tried.
02:32:42.000 Maybe I want to do ayahuasca.
02:32:44.000 Maybe I want to read some of the books that he read.
02:32:45.000 Maybe I want to try some of the meditation techniques that he's tried.
02:32:48.000 Maybe I want to do this.
02:32:49.000 Maybe I want to do that.
02:32:50.000 And I think in doing that, like in...
02:32:53.000 Like one person like you who's seeking these things, you can start like this cascade.
02:32:59.000 You start this effect.
02:33:02.000 You started the cascade.
02:33:04.000 I've listened to so many podcasts where I was like, fuck, that guy.
02:33:09.000 Alright, let me do that.
02:33:10.000 Even just Wim Hof, just in that.
02:33:12.000 Eight weeks.
02:33:13.000 I heard him, I don't know, maybe a couple weeks after he was on.
02:33:16.000 I was doing breath work at the beach and my buddy was like, man.
02:33:19.000 Well, we also had a little laser disc, we'll say.
02:33:23.000 We watched a laser disc.
02:33:26.000 You watched the Laserdisc?
02:33:27.000 How do I put this?
02:33:31.000 I'm trying to figure out what you're saying.
02:33:33.000 Can we read between the lines here?
02:33:34.000 Syllables.
02:33:35.000 I'm trying.
02:33:35.000 Syllables.
02:33:37.000 Laser.
02:33:38.000 Oh, LSD. Sir.
02:33:39.000 Disc.
02:33:40.000 There we go.
02:33:40.000 Why don't you say LSD? Okay.
02:33:41.000 You're talking about mushrooms and ayahuasca.
02:33:43.000 You're like, this is all the shit we've got to keep under wraps.
02:33:45.000 All right, that's true.
02:33:47.000 Laserdisc.
02:33:47.000 I get it.
02:33:47.000 I didn't understand that.
02:33:49.000 That's something I've never done.
02:33:50.000 See, you know what?
02:33:51.000 I've never done the LSD. Yeah, well...
02:33:55.000 People keep telling me.
02:33:56.000 Some woman was yelling at me at a show the other night.
02:33:59.000 Go do LSD! Do it!
02:34:02.000 Do LSD! Woo!
02:34:04.000 I was listening to you and Red Band talk about this and mescaline and things like that and peyote and I was like, man, I can't believe with having tried other things that you didn't try that.
02:34:13.000 Yeah, there's a bunch of shit I haven't tried.
02:34:14.000 I heard...
02:34:17.000 Jim Fadiman, who wrote The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide, I heard him on Ferris' podcast, got his book, read it, and then I saw that MAPS was doing the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, was doing a presentation in Palo Alto down the street from me, and Rick Doblin, the head of MAPS, was going to be there presenting with Jim Fadiman.
02:34:34.000 I was like, oh, this is amazing, I gotta go.
02:34:38.000 Once you've had a breakthrough psychedelic experience, it's amazing.
02:34:42.000 It can be life-changing or it can fuck your mind up, whatever.
02:34:44.000 You can take that for what it is.
02:34:46.000 A large portion of his book was on microdosing.
02:34:49.000 And in microdosing, they were talking about taking a sub...
02:34:54.000 Sub-perceptual breakthrough level.
02:34:57.000 So, meaning, like, I don't see shit, I just feel and think differently.
02:35:01.000 Right?
02:35:01.000 And he said that's really the future of psychedelic research, and that's exactly what Hoffman was doing until he died at 102 years old, the guy who developed LSD. So we went and I listened to these guys speak, and since then I have tried microdosing with LSD,
02:35:18.000 and it is phenomenal.
02:35:19.000 It's almost like a smart drug in itself, but you feel good.
02:35:22.000 You have energy.
02:35:23.000 You can see why people might do it at a festival or a concert.
02:35:27.000 Everything sounds a little more clear.
02:35:29.000 Music sounds better.
02:35:30.000 I could see myself running on it.
02:35:33.000 You can still interact.
02:35:35.000 I could talk to cops on it.
02:35:36.000 You're fine to communicate and to be, but you do think differently.
02:35:40.000 You are connected in a different way.
02:35:42.000 That's all the rage in Silicon Valley.
02:35:44.000 Yeah, exactly.
02:35:46.000 And I thought of you right when I was here and I was like, oh man, not down with the mescaline, not down with the LSD, huh?
02:35:53.000 Not that I'm not down.
02:35:54.000 The problem with acid is the people that want to do acid with you, you don't want to do acid with them.
02:35:59.000 Yeah, I gotta go dude.
02:36:01.000 It's all these weird people that are pushing it and they want it like Duncan is the only guy that I know that gets real acid and we've sort of made a loose Commitment to me and him getting together and doing it one day.
02:36:11.000 I want to hear about that.
02:36:12.000 That's awesome.
02:36:13.000 I'll definitely talk about it, but The thing that I've been really into that I get these big breakthrough objective moments introspective moments is edible pot And flotation chambers.
02:36:31.000 There's something about sensory deprivation with the edible pot.
02:36:35.000 It creates this bizarre Sort of hallucinogenic state, visionary state, that's very unusual.
02:36:45.000 From a visionary standpoint, when you see, obviously you're in pitch black, so anything you see in your mind's eye is what you're seeing.
02:36:53.000 Would you say you see more of the sacred geometry or the kaleidoscope of shapes and things that you do from DMT? Or do you just see a memory?
02:37:02.000 Or you relive something, or maybe you see something from...
02:37:06.000 That's been on your mind and you live that moment for a second and then pull back out of it.
02:37:10.000 Well, that's one of the fascinating things about it is the experience is incredibly flexible.
02:37:14.000 Whereas, like, the experience of DMT, although it varies, it's also very DMT. Like, when you do DMT, you're like...
02:37:26.000 Oh, reality dissolves and you're there.
02:37:28.000 Like, the last one that I had was very strange.
02:37:30.000 Like, there was these jesters that were giving me the finger.
02:37:33.000 They kept giving me the finger.
02:37:34.000 I'm like, what is this about?
02:37:35.000 And then I was trying to figure out, like, what are they trying to tell me?
02:37:38.000 And one of the things they were trying to tell me is...
02:37:41.000 It was almost like a reaction to not worrying...
02:37:47.000 What other people think of you or not worrying about people fucking with you or not.
02:37:53.000 It was almost like, what do you care?
02:37:55.000 What do you care?
02:37:56.000 I'm doing this to you too.
02:37:57.000 What do you care?
02:37:57.000 What do you care?
02:37:58.000 Like, why are you tripping about this?
02:38:00.000 And then I kind of got it in the trip and then they're like shaking their head.
02:38:04.000 Yeah.
02:38:05.000 And there's this weird fractal thing that's constantly going on.
02:38:10.000 But every time I do it, it seems like these lessons that are wrapped up in these visions with communicating entities, whatever the fuck they are, whether they're figments of your imagination or whether they're real, there's always lessons in there.
02:38:24.000 And these lessons are always pertaining to either a personal history That I got going on or something that I'm struggling with or trying to overcome or something that I'm constantly focusing on and trying to understand better.
02:38:38.000 So it's like, let me help you out there, dude.
02:38:40.000 Fuck you!
02:38:41.000 And these gestures were all going, fuck you.
02:38:44.000 I was like, why are they going fuck you?
02:38:45.000 I was trying to figure out what it is.
02:38:47.000 It's almost an inoculation to hostility.
02:38:52.000 They're letting you, like, why are you even taking this in?
02:38:55.000 Like, you know, why are you even concentrating on that?
02:38:58.000 This is pointless.
02:38:59.000 There's so much more.
02:39:00.000 And then when you get past that level of the experience, it blossoms into some new level of the experience.
02:39:07.000 So the DMT state is very DMT-like.
02:39:10.000 But the cannabis, the edible cannabis, the 11-hydroxymetabolite state that you get from edible cannabis, which is dose per dose five times more psychoactive than THC. That's why people, when they eat it, they trip out and they go, oh my god, I think somebody laced it with something.
02:39:26.000 No, it's very much like an intense psychedelic when you eat it.
02:39:31.000 That's why you've got to be careful and not eat too much.
02:39:34.000 People that fucking freak out and have panic attacks, it's because it's strong as shit when you eat it.
02:39:39.000 But in the tank, Sometimes I go on these journeys that I'm in the forest and I can hear other languages and I understand them and I don't know what the fuck they are.
02:39:51.000 And sometimes I'm a part of a ball of yarn that the universe is made out of.
02:39:57.000 And each individual fiber that's in this gigantic strand that's a part of this wrapped up ball of yarn is all the individual atoms that make up being a person or a tree or a book or a rock and all these different things are intertwined and it shows you the fractal nature of reality from the lowest Subatomic particle to the the biggest planet in the solar system to the biggest galaxy in the universe and it just goes out
02:40:27.000 there in this very strange and humbling and bizarre like a Vulnerable like vulnerability inducing state and then it'll go from that to cartoons fucking like it'll go like neon cartoons Banging each other and producing a bunch of other neon car.
02:40:44.000 You had me at cartoons fucking Dude, there's not just cartoons fucking, but they're like neon.
02:40:49.000 They're like made out of like neon lights.
02:40:52.000 And they're banging each other and they're becoming other ones.
02:40:55.000 Having that goddamn thing in my basement is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
02:41:00.000 Because it's a blessing in that it's great that I can go in there anytime I want.
02:41:05.000 But sometimes one crazy trip will just leave me like baffled for days.
02:41:13.000 But the relaxation aspect of it, too.
02:41:15.000 Sometimes I'll go in there on the natch and just chill out and just float, and I get out of there, man.
02:41:21.000 I feel good.
02:41:21.000 I'll be in there, and while I'm in there floating, I'll push down my hips, and my back will go pop, pop.
02:41:28.000 Everything's loosening up because of all the Epsom salts in it.
02:41:32.000 It has magnesium, and that magnesium is great for your body.
02:41:35.000 It's one of the best ways to absorb magnesium is through the skin.
02:41:38.000 That's why an Epsom salt bath is so good for your muscles.
02:41:42.000 But no Epsom salt bath can fuck with the tank.
02:41:45.000 Not even close.
02:41:46.000 Thousand pounds of salt in there.
02:41:48.000 No massage can fuck with the tank.
02:41:50.000 I've had amazing massages, but when you come out of the tank, you do feel like you're floating for hours after.
02:41:55.000 You just feel high.
02:41:57.000 So you've been in the tank, you just haven't been in the tank on anything?
02:41:59.000 I haven't done anything in the tank.
02:42:01.000 Not yet.
02:42:02.000 And that's like...
02:42:03.000 Just smoke a little...
02:42:04.000 Just a little...
02:42:05.000 I'd rather have a good...
02:42:07.000 Now there's places available in the Bay Area.
02:42:10.000 See, back in the day, there was a lady in Los Gatos that wasn't far from me.
02:42:13.000 And she sponsored me for fight camps.
02:42:15.000 So I would go in once a week or twice a week leading up to a fight.
02:42:18.000 Oh, really?
02:42:19.000 Interesting.
02:42:19.000 And it was amazing.
02:42:20.000 That really got me into flotation.
02:42:23.000 And then she ended up moving down to Santa Cruz, which is a little hike for me.
02:42:29.000 So I've been to Oakland, different places.
02:42:31.000 They have them set up now.
02:42:32.000 And there's a couple places that allow the midnight run.
02:42:36.000 So you can go in at midnight and stay overnight.
02:42:39.000 So you do an overnight float all the way until 6 a.m.
02:42:42.000 or 8 a.m.
02:42:43.000 Yeah.
02:42:43.000 And someone's in there with you?
02:42:45.000 Oh, they have someone working there, but you can go in there and just sleep in it, basically.
02:42:49.000 Fucking crazy hippies.
02:42:50.000 I think they know what's up.
02:42:52.000 I think they know what time it is.
02:42:53.000 Oh, yeah.
02:42:54.000 I guarantee you.
02:42:54.000 It's just a matter of what...
02:42:58.000 That's why I was curious.
02:42:59.000 I wanted to ask you about that.
02:43:01.000 When you say visionary state, what are you getting from that?
02:43:03.000 Well, when you say sometimes I'm in the woods or this, that's all the answer that I need.
02:43:07.000 That's for sure going to happen.
02:43:09.000 I've done mushrooms in them, and that's pretty intense too.
02:43:12.000 How many grams?
02:43:13.000 Not that many.
02:43:14.000 Like three?
02:43:15.000 Okay.
02:43:16.000 See, I found like...
02:43:17.000 I mean, that's a lot, but it's not like...
02:43:19.000 Yeah.
02:43:20.000 I feel like between a one gram to four gram dose, I get a lot of feeling from it, but I don't necessarily get to a visionary state.
02:43:32.000 But five grams?
02:43:33.000 But do you do it in silent darkness?
02:43:35.000 Like, where are you doing it?
02:43:38.000 Yeah, I guess it would be different there.
02:43:41.000 The visionary state, to me, occurs with the eyes closed.
02:43:45.000 That's where the real visions come.
02:43:46.000 And most of the time when people are doing it, they're out in nature.
02:43:49.000 The first time I ever did mushrooms, we did it in the woods.
02:43:53.000 It was beautiful, man.
02:43:54.000 It felt like the vibrations of the earth as if it was loving you and breathing.
02:44:00.000 You felt connected to it in a way that I never felt before.
02:44:04.000 But there was not much visions because you're out there.
02:44:08.000 I mean, it seemed alive and everything seemed strange.
02:44:11.000 It was kind of pixelated and everything sort of had a geometric pattern to it in a weird way that you never experience.
02:44:19.000 Tasha and I have had him at the beach, and we had a monster dose one time after ayahuasca has really kind of improved other psychedelic experiences for both of us.
02:44:30.000 Because you didn't let go?
02:44:31.000 Yeah, like some of those lessons of not trying to control it, you know, just going with the flow and...
02:44:37.000 And then also from a stomach standpoint, like a lot of people that eat mushrooms, it fucks their stomach up.
02:44:42.000 It used to fuck my stomach up.
02:44:43.000 But after you've purged from ayahuasca, it's nothing for me to have a bunch of mushrooms in my stomach.
02:44:48.000 It's never did that to me, to my stomach.
02:44:50.000 I don't know why.
02:44:51.000 It's hit or miss.
02:44:51.000 It really is.
02:44:52.000 I think it's a very personal deal.
02:44:54.000 But we had seven grams each.
02:44:56.000 On the beach.
02:44:57.000 And that's the most we've ever taken.
02:44:58.000 And I went, when I was face up, she's 110 pounds too, so she's the real trooper.
02:45:04.000 But when I was face up, you could see things that I wouldn't normally see, like seagulls in a V formation.
02:45:10.000 I could see, like, laser beams connecting their wings.
02:45:14.000 And then it was like fractal, like you would from a DMT trip.
02:45:17.000 But every color of the light spectrum was connecting their wings as they flowed through air.
02:45:22.000 And then the sound of the ocean is different.
02:45:25.000 But then when I went face down and just buried my face in the sand, then I had complete visionary state, just like DMT or ayahuasca even.
02:45:34.000 Yeah, I would imagine.
02:45:35.000 It'd probably last a long-ass time, too.
02:45:37.000 A long time.
02:45:38.000 A long day.
02:45:39.000 That was a long day at the beach.
02:45:42.000 I bet it was probably a couple solid hours of visions then, right?
02:45:46.000 With that kind of dose?
02:45:47.000 Yeah, on and off.
02:45:48.000 There were some...
02:45:49.000 Yeah.
02:45:50.000 I kept seeing...
02:45:51.000 Initially, I kept seeing...
02:45:54.000 Like a group of people kind of eyeballing us.
02:45:56.000 And I was thinking, are they going to take our shit?
02:45:59.000 Are they going to try to steal?
02:46:00.000 Are they going to have to fight someone?
02:46:01.000 This is weird.
02:46:03.000 This is a place not a lot of people go to.
02:46:05.000 And I kept seeing that.
02:46:06.000 And then I had to take a deep breath.
02:46:09.000 And Toshka was like, feel me.
02:46:11.000 Feel my energy.
02:46:12.000 She could feel what's going on.
02:46:13.000 She's like, are you okay?
02:46:14.000 I'm like, is somebody going to come?
02:46:16.000 She's like, no.
02:46:17.000 What are you talking about?
02:46:18.000 She's playing with fucking sea turtle bugs and shit, whatever.
02:46:21.000 She's in heaven.
02:46:23.000 She's looking over at me.
02:46:24.000 I'm like, am I okay?
02:46:25.000 She's like, seriously, you're fine.
02:46:27.000 Don't worry.
02:46:28.000 You're fine.
02:46:28.000 I was like, okay.
02:46:29.000 And I put my head back down.
02:46:31.000 And I kept seeing.
02:46:32.000 Then this young kid kind of comes through the crowd.
02:46:34.000 He's going to challenge me.
02:46:36.000 And he walks down.
02:46:37.000 I'm like...
02:46:38.000 Oh, fuck, I gotta defend us.
02:46:39.000 I gotta fight.
02:46:40.000 And I know how fucked up I am.
02:46:41.000 I can't believe I gotta defend myself.
02:46:42.000 And I'm like, it's playing out in my mind all the ways that I'm gonna have to fight this guy.
02:46:47.000 And I realized right then, like, I stand up, open my eyes, like, oh, fuck, it's just a vision.
02:46:51.000 And I was like, my heart's racing.
02:46:53.000 I'm like, why would I think that?
02:46:55.000 And then I realized every fucking day of my life since I was a little kid, I play that out.
02:47:02.000 Anytime someone gives me a dirty look or says, like, whatever, being picked on as a kid, bullied, that kind of shit, like, I always play that out, like, am I gonna have to fight this guy?
02:47:11.000 Am I gonna have to fucking defend myself?
02:47:14.000 How's it gonna play out?
02:47:15.000 Oh, he's...
02:47:16.000 He's got a long fucking neck.
02:47:18.000 I'm gonna take his back and choke him out.
02:47:19.000 Whatever, you know what I'm saying?
02:47:21.000 But it just showed me how silly this dumbass mind game that I would play, and I would go down the rabbit hole on a fucking daily basis sometimes.
02:47:28.000 Like, just playing into this thought of negativity that had no space for me.
02:47:33.000 And it does me no good to play that out.
02:47:35.000 Like, well, that's fine, because then I'll do this.
02:47:37.000 No, no, no.
02:47:38.000 None of that shit.
02:47:38.000 I'm wasting time, and I'm becoming emotionally attached to those thoughts.
02:47:43.000 It's not just, oh, I'm thinking about this.
02:47:45.000 I'm feeling like I'm in a fight right now.
02:47:48.000 That fucks you up.
02:47:49.000 That turns you into not your best version of yourself.
02:47:52.000 So that vision from Mushrooms was just a fucking game changer.
02:47:56.000 It doesn't stop me from having those thoughts, but it allows me to catch myself.
02:48:01.000 I'm aware of it.
02:48:02.000 The pattern still exists.
02:48:04.000 You just don't entertain it anymore.
02:48:05.000 I don't entertain it.
02:48:06.000 I can see it and let it go.
02:48:07.000 Like when they talk about meditating, oh, if you have a thought, just recognize the thought and let it go.
02:48:10.000 That's easier said than done.
02:48:12.000 Now I've had time to digest and assimilate that.
02:48:15.000 And especially bouncing or bartending and guys being a dick or whatever.
02:48:19.000 It's very easy, much easier for me to be like, I don't have to entertain.
02:48:22.000 If the guy swings at me, then it happens.
02:48:24.000 That's what I worry about.
02:48:25.000 You're not going to not know when it's getting ugly.
02:48:29.000 I always say that about cops.
02:48:32.000 Sometimes I bet certain people, whether it's the people that deal with the cops or certain people that are cops, things happen that don't need to happen because people have these ideas or have these patterns that are playing on in their head.
02:48:47.000 And for a cop, I would imagine it's got to be incredibly difficult because you're dealing with all these people that are constantly breaking laws and violating things and you're supposed to enforce them and you're constantly worried about getting shot and getting home to your family.
02:48:59.000 You're constantly worried about pulling some guy over and he's got fucking 20 pounds of coke in the back and a machine gun in his front seat.
02:49:04.000 You don't know because his windows are tinted.
02:49:06.000 And you're like, sir, roll down your window, and you get your hand on your gun, and you're like, what the fuck am I getting into here?
02:49:10.000 And then these patterns that people have, whether it's as a police officer or as a person getting pulled over by cops, they can change the way you interact with people and change the circumstances of the day and turn a tragedy into a nothing or a nothing into a tragedy.
02:49:26.000 Yeah, that's the lens.
02:49:27.000 That's the filter you see through.
02:49:29.000 Yeah.
02:49:29.000 All your interactions come out of that.
02:49:31.000 Patterns, man.
02:49:33.000 And sometimes the beautiful thing about psychedelics is that it allows you to get outside of you and look at the ridiculousness of you.
02:49:40.000 That's one of the biggest, yeah.
02:49:42.000 When you talk about change and transformation and things like that, that's been my biggest catalyst in seeing the way I behave.
02:49:50.000 And that doesn't mean that I'm Mr. Perfect and that I don't get angry or I'm not a, like, yeah.
02:49:55.000 Yeah.
02:49:56.000 No sleep, first six months with a child.
02:49:59.000 Tasha and I have had...
02:50:00.000 Anybody who's had a kid knows that's fucking a real struggle.
02:50:04.000 There's no perfect people, man.
02:50:06.000 It doesn't exist.
02:50:08.000 This idea that there's a perfect person, this is an enlightened being.
02:50:12.000 There are people that choose to go down certain paths that will lead to them making better decisions, lead to them living a more harmonious life.
02:50:22.000 But you're just a monkey.
02:50:24.000 You're just some fucking talking ape that's on this planet filled with contradictions and chaos, and you're trying to get through, like all of us are.
02:50:32.000 And there's gonna be interrelationship drama, and work drama, and fucking community drama, and neighborhood drama, and sometimes you'll be too stressed out, or too tired, or too distracted, or too overworked, or whatever the fuck it is,
02:50:48.000 and you're gonna have a bad reaction to those things.
02:50:49.000 It doesn't define you.
02:50:51.000 That's a real problem that people have, though, is one bad reaction, like you yell at your neighbor, and your neighbor, fuck you, and the cops come.
02:50:57.000 You piece of shit, I'm gonna slash your tires and fuck you.
02:50:59.000 And these things that happen, I got a buddy of mine last night explaining to me something that he got into with his neighbor, and he accused his neighbor of slashing his tire, and he fucking yelled at his neighbor, and then he got his car picked up by AAA, they changed his tire,
02:51:15.000 they go, you hit a curb.
02:51:18.000 So he had hit a curb and deflated his tire and he was blaming his neighbor.
02:51:22.000 Pulled a spare out of your mouth right now.
02:51:24.000 He created this whole...
02:51:26.000 And he was like...
02:51:26.000 And I was like...
02:51:27.000 He's a comic.
02:51:28.000 I was like, are you going to talk about this on stage?
02:51:29.000 He was like, I can't.
02:51:30.000 I'm too embarrassed now.
02:51:32.000 I'm not ready to like...
02:51:33.000 This isn't funny to me yet.
02:51:34.000 He's like telling me because we're friends and we're both laughing.
02:51:36.000 I'm like, fuck, man.
02:51:37.000 Did you apologize to him?
02:51:38.000 He was like, not yet.
02:51:40.000 He was like, god damn it.
02:51:41.000 I don't know what to do.
02:51:42.000 Like, because his neighbor would get pissed because he parked in front of his house, and the guy had trash cans, and he's like, you're parking too close to my trash cans, I can't get my trash cans out.
02:51:51.000 I was like, what?
02:51:52.000 And so he goes out, he finds this note on his car, and his tire's flat, and he assumed that the guy wrote the note flat in his tire.
02:52:01.000 He's a good guy, but he fucked up.
02:52:04.000 Fuck-ups.
02:52:05.000 But if you took those fuck-ups and it's all you concentrate on your whole life, all the times you fucked up.
02:52:10.000 You're like, oh my god, I'm a fuck-up.
02:52:12.000 No, you're just a person, man.
02:52:14.000 That shit will repeat itself.
02:52:16.000 You will fucking fall into the path of that instead of having the humility or at least...
02:52:21.000 Getting a little help from an outside source that allows you to take a step back, pull the blinders off and see what's going on and be like, you know what, man, I fucked up.
02:52:29.000 That's also why objectivity is so important and introspective thought is so important because sometimes people just make excuses for everything they do.
02:52:38.000 Everything they do, they have a fucking excuse for.
02:52:40.000 So you never get the lessons.
02:52:41.000 You never get the growth.
02:52:43.000 You never learn.
02:52:44.000 You just constantly repeat.
02:52:47.000 Constantly repeat.
02:52:48.000 And then one day you're a bitter old man yelling at these kids to stop with their fucking rock and roll music and your goddamn car driving down my street with your loud muffler.
02:52:59.000 That's...
02:53:00.000 It's the same shit.
02:53:01.000 You know, just patterns.
02:53:02.000 They fall into these patterns and then they die.
02:53:05.000 And they just never, never corrected enough.
02:53:08.000 Never, never just, never got it.
02:53:09.000 Never got it right.
02:53:10.000 No introspection if there's no quiet time.
02:53:12.000 Yeah.
02:53:13.000 We're running out of time.
02:53:14.000 That's it.
02:53:14.000 It's over.
02:53:15.000 Kyle Kingsborough, you bad motherfucker.
02:53:17.000 This is fun, man.
02:53:17.000 Fuck yeah.
02:53:18.000 Glad we did this.
02:53:19.000 I loved it.
02:53:19.000 So I gotta get one of those bad boys and get my millimolars, millimolars?
02:53:23.000 What is it?
02:53:24.000 Millimolars checked.
02:53:25.000 Millimolars checked.
02:53:26.000 The blood ketone meter.
02:53:29.000 So let's do this again, man.
02:53:30.000 I think we could probably do this for fucking hours and hours and hours.
02:53:33.000 I would love to.
02:53:33.000 Come back again.
02:53:34.000 We'll do it one more time.
02:53:36.000 Kingsboo on Twitter, if you want to get a hold of Kyle.
02:53:39.000 I put that on my Twitter.
02:53:41.000 And that's it.
02:53:42.000 Thanks, brother.
02:53:43.000 Appreciate it, man.
02:53:43.000 Thank you very much, brother.
02:53:45.000 All right, my friends, that's it for the week.
02:53:47.000 Oh, we'll be back with a fight companion Saturday night.
02:53:50.000 Brendan Shaw, Brian Callen, Eddie Bravo, and me.
02:53:54.000 So that's Saturday night.
02:53:55.000 We'll be here for the UFC fights.
02:53:57.000 All right, my friends.
02:53:58.000 Bye-bye.
02:54:15.000 If I was listening...